Data processing: database and file management or data structures inventions 08/09

20090216707 - File resource usage information in metadata of a file: Resource utilization information for accessing a file is stored in metadata associated with the file. In response to a command to access the file, the resource utilization information is compared to pre-established warning criteria to determine if the resource utilization for accessing the file meets the criteria for generating a... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.c.

20090216711 - Method and system for implementing multiple web services for a service query: In a system and method for fulfilling a service query for a user, a processor may parse the query into a set of operations, identify a set of service providers that each provides functionality for performing at least one respective operation of the set of operations, and, for each of... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090216712 - Methods for calculating a combined impact analysis repository: One non-limiting embodiment of the invention comprises the steps of accessing at least two impact analysis repositories, calculating a combined impact analysis repository from the at least two impact analysis repositories, and utilizing the combined impact analysis repository for supplying better quality impact analysis results.... Agent: Active Knowledge Ltd.

20090216709 - Optimized collection of just-in-time statistics for database query optimization: A system and method are provided for updating database statistics for use in generating query execution plans. A first query for a database is received, for example by a compiler, and the compiler accesses statistics associated with the first query for optimizing a query execution plan for the first query.... Agent: Sughrue Mion Pllc Uspto Customer No With Ibm/svl

20090216710 - Optimizing query rewrites for keyword-based advertising: A system and method are disclosed for rewriting queries. The queries may be rewritten and evaluated based on an end benefit, such as an optimum advertising benefit. Queries may be associated with advertisements and the benefit of those advertisements may be used in selecting query rewrites for an original user... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090216708 - Structural clustering and template identification for electronic documents: Subject matter disclosed herein may relate to clustering electronic documents, such as, for example, web pages, and may also relate to template identification for electronic documents.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP

20090216714 - Automatic creation of pre-condition queries for conflict detection in distributed processing systems: Disclosed are a method, information processing system, and computer program storage product for managing Resource Description Framework (“RDF”) graphs in a distributed system. At least one modification request for modifying an RDF graph in a shared data store is received. The modification request includes a query set, an expected result... Agent: Fleit, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090216723 - Directory partitioned system and method: This disclosure relates in general to the field of directory information systems and/or services. In a method embodiment, a method of arranging objects in a directory information system includes providing a plurality of objects to a computer-readable medium having a directory information structure. Each object may have one or more... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p.

20090216728 - Graphic representations of data relationships: Presenting a diagram indicating relationships among data items stored in a data management system includes: receiving a request that identifies a first data item stored in the data management system from a user interface; retrieving stored configuration information that includes a plurality of selection specifications for selecting data items in... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20090216721 - Image file sorting method, image file sorting device, and computer program product: An image file sorting method is executed by an image file sorting device, including a storage unit, a control unit, and an image reading unit, wherein the storage unit includes a sorting condition storage unit that stores a sorting condition to specify a sorting destination of an image file. The... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090216722 - Method and apparatus for querying digital records: Provided is a method of querying digital records based on a map. The digital records querying method includes receiving a user input for selecting a query range from the map, interpreting the user input, and selecting the query range and a query processing method according to the result of the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090216720 - Method and system for providing accurate location service for internet applications: A method and system for providing location information is provided wherein the sender of a message sends a location ID with the message, after obtaining the location ID from a location server. The location ID includes the location information relating to the sender and the sender's IP address. On receipt... Agent: Fasken Martineau Dumoulin, LLP

20090216716 - Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for providing a search form: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for retrieving and utilizing customized vertical search forms. The customized vertical search forms can be customized by various service providers and stored in a customizable forms service to be made available for use by various entities. The customizable forms service can... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090216724 - Network resources structuring system: A system is disclosed for structuring access to Internet resources which comprises a data storage device arranged to store information indicative of a plurality of Internet resources and information indicative of navigation paths between the Internet resources so that the Internet resources are organised in a hierarchical structure. The system... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20090216725 - Populating and managing (pam) contact information in the network address book (nab): This paper proposes a new method and architecture for populating, updating and managing the NAB. It also proposes user's Contact Information Discovery (CID). In context of populating the NAB; since the NAB of each individual subscriber will be stored in the network in future, the paper proposes CI to flow... Agent: Watchstone P+d, Pllc

20090216726 - System and method for facilitating business communications: A system and method for facilitating business communications are disclosed. The method may include receiving a plurality of business transaction records from an accounting module; each business transaction record including an amount and a date. The method may also include providing a customer user interface configured to allow a first... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p.

20090216729 - System and method of monitoring and controlling application files: A system and method for updating, monitoring, and controlling applications on a workstation. The workstation includes a workstation management module configured to detect the launch or request to access a network by an application. A workstation application server receives data associated with the application from the workstation. The application server... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090216718 - System for query scheduling to maximize work sharing: A system of query scheduling to maximize work sharing. The system schedules queries to account for future queries possessing a sharability component. Included in the system are operations for assigning an incoming query to a query queue based on a sharability characteristic of the incoming query, and evaluating a priority... Agent: Stattler - Suh Pc

20090216717 - Systems and methods of profiling data for integration: The present invention is generally directed to systems and methods for gathering information about nonnative data, comparing nonnative data elements to information defining nonnative data, comparing native data elements to information defining native data, establishing transformation rules, and integrating the nonnative and native data.... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090216715 - Systems and methods of semantically annotating documents of different structures: A computer retrieves a document from a data source, wherein the document has a structure type. The computer generates a customized data model for the document in accordance with its structure type. The computer identifies one or more candidate chunks within the customized data model in accordance with a set... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP. (pa)

20090216719 - Systems, methods and computer program products for generating metadata and visualizing media content: The exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a method for generating metadata for media content that includes a digital media file and includes retrieving a media content subset from a media content source, saving the received media content subset at a computing system, and generating metadata by processing the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090216713 - Using federated mote-associated logs: Systems and related methods utilizing one or more mote-related content logs.... Agent: Constellation Law Group, Pllc

20090216727 - Viewer user interface: Systems and methods for displaying media and associated information are disclosed. A hybrid user interface may include aspects of push and pull interfaces. In some embodiments, media may be characterized by parameters and values for the parameters. Parameters and values may be associated with a user's interests, and a user... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090216730 - Computer method and apparatus for parameterized semantic inquiry templates with type annotations: A computer method and system generates inquires. The method and system provide a plurality of templates. Each template outlines a respective inquiry and is associated with one or more semantic types or contexts. Each template has one or more parameters for defining a query instance of the respective inquiry. User... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds

20090216731 - Enhanced process query framework: An enhanced process query framework, including receiving a user input defining behavioral and static aspects of a target process artifact, and automatically defining a query specification including an axiom component expressing the static aspect using a logical expression, and a process definition component expressing the behavioral aspect using ontologized π-calculus.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.c.

20090216732 - Method and apparatus for navigation system for searching objects based on multiple ranges of desired parameters: A method and apparatus for a navigation system enables to search and display candidate objects by arranging them in a plurality of ranges of desired parameters. The method includes the steps of searching and retrieving candidate entries in a type of object specified by a user from a corresponding database,... Agent: Muramatsu & Associates

20090216751 - Attribute extraction processing method and apparatus: A machine-executable attribute extraction method comprising: extracting, vis-à-vis a plurality of documents in the archival memory (that also stores registration dates and attributes of the documents) having registration dates falling within a desired time period, feature words for each attribute value of the corresponding attributes of the plurality of documents;... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090216739 - Boosting extraction accuracy by handling training data bias: Methods and apparatus are described for use with information extraction techniques based on sequential models. Additional statistics are maintained during inference and employed to boost the accuracy of the extraction algorithm and mitigate the effects of training bias.... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson - Yahoo!

20090216753 - Electronic data retrieving apparatus: An electronic data retrieving apparatus is provided that increases the retrieval accuracy without deteriorating the retrieval efficiency by reflecting differences between the numbers of word appearances due to genres of electronic data in the setting of the retrieval words. The electronic data retrieving apparatus according to the present invention sets... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090216750 - Electronic profile development, storage, use, and systems therefor: Examples of the present invention include profiling systems that store, manage, and utilize profile information to take predictive or deterministic action. Embodiments of the invention allow the profiling system to be used as a trusted intermediary where the profile owning entity controls access to their profile information across their network... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090216733 - Geo-trip notes: A user may use a mobile device to request information related to a selected topic or a point of interest. A location of the mobile device may be determined in order to provide the user with informational content related to the selected topic or point of interest in close proximity... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090216744 - Graphical/rich media ads in search results: A method and system for mixing rich media content with textual listing on a webpage includes receiving a plurality of advertisement parameters associated with an advertisement from an advertiser. The advertisement parameters define the advertisement and are used for booking the advertisement. Additional media content associated with the advertisement is... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20090216749 - Identity based content filtering: A system for determining the context in which a content filtering decision is made makes use of user identity information and user usage patterns. This decision making process can be downloaded to the user to allow the user of detailed identity information that the user prefers not to release to... Agent: Perley-robertson, Hill & Mcdougall LLP

20090216755 - Indexing method for multimedia feature vectors using locality sensitive hashing: A computer implemented method for indexing multimedia vectors and for searching and retrieving a query vector using a locality sensitive hashing. Indexing is performed by calculating hash codes from the multimedia vectors using several hash functions. Each hash code is a different subset of the entries in the hash vector.... Agent: The Law Office Of Michael E. Kondoudis, Pc

20090216748 - Internet data mining method and system: A method for automatically acquiring a set of data opens a searchable Internet database; initiates an automated timed search of each one of a plurality of records, each record in the plurality of record includes common criteria with the other records; retrieves information associated with the searched record; and provides... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090216762 - Just in time wiring information system: A just in time wiring information system, which includes an aircraft wiring information system module, a technical reference module, an interactive computer aided cable repair system module, and an e-suite. The e-suite communicates with the aircraft wiring information system module, the technical reference module, and the interactive computer aided cable... Agent: Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Office Of Counsel Bldg 435

20090216758 - Method and apparatus for an application crawler: A computer-implemented method is provided for searching for files on the Internet. In one embodiment, the method may provide an application crawler that assembles and dynamically instantiates all components of a web page. The instantiated web application may then be analyzed to locate desired components on the web page. This... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090216759 - Method and vector analysis for a document: The inventive method detects terms that occur in the input document, segments the input document into document segments, each segment being an appropriately sized chunk and generates document segment vectors, each vector including as its element values according to occurrence frequencies of the terms occurring in the document segments. The... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090216740 - Method for indexing for retrieving documents using particles: An information retrieval system stores and retrieves documents using particles and a particle-based language model A set of particles for a collection of documents in a particular language is constructed from training documents such that a perplexity of the particle-based language model is substantially lower than the perplexity of a... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090216746 - Method, system, and apparatus for aggregation system for searchable travel data: The system may be configured to actively obtain or passively receive charter data objects. The data objects may include information like available charter equipment (e.g., aircraft), availability location and/or time information. The system may be configured to process either a variety for object formats from a variety of data sources.... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20090216741 - Prioritizing media assets for publication: Methods and apparatus are described by which media assets may be prioritized and published in accordance with current topics of interest derived from a dynamic data set representing the online activity of a relevant population of users.... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson - Yahoo!

20090216756 - Recording medium carrying data search program, data search apparatus, and data search method: A data search apparatus searches for target data based on a keyword included in the target data, and classification information indicating classification of the target data.... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090216734 - Search based on document associations: A method and a processing device are provided. A group of documents may be selected from multiple documents of a search result. Associations among the selected group of documents may be determined and indicated. An indication of ones of the associations that are of interest and/or others of the associations... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090216760 - Search engine with webpage rating feedback based internet search operation: The system and methods herein provide feedback of a web page quality/legitimacy factor, various user interaction parameters, a contact address correlation factor, and an explicit web page rating on the reverse path from the client to the severs for Internet search operations. This operation facilitates to improve the quality of... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090216752 - Search engine, search system, search method, and search program product: A search system can include a server, a token assignment unit for assigning types of tokens based on different kinds of character string analysis methods, an index generating unit for generating an index list that associates the tokens assigned with the token assignment unit, a type identification value for identifying... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.a.-ibm Svl

20090216761 - Signature based system and methods for generation of personalized multimedia channels: A system for generating personalized channels of multimedia content. The system comprises an interface to one or more multimedia sources, wherein the multimedia sources provide multimedia content to the personalized channels of multimedia content; and a server for receiving multimedia content from the one or more multimedia sources through the... Agent: Myers Wolin, Llc

20090216747 - System and method for detecting, collecting, analyzing, and communicating event-related information: A system and method involves detecting operational social disruptive events on a global scale, assigning disease event staging and warnings to express data in more simplistic terms, modeling data in conjunction with linguistics analysis to establish responsive actions, generating visualization and modeling capabilities for communicating information, and modeling disease propagation... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20090216757 - System and method for performing frictionless collaboration for criteria search: A criteria search performed by a search engine comprises associating each of a plurality of users with at least one knowledge domain, associating a user's query to at least one subject area in the at least one knowledge domain, and generating search results based on the user's query and the... Agent: Steven J. Shattil

20090216754 - System and method of distribution for geospatial data: In accordance with one or more embodiments, a method comprises receiving a query comprising geospatial attributes, displaying at least one image indicative of at least one geospatial data set matching the query, receiving a request for the at least one geospatial data set, and transmitting the at least geospatial data... Agent: Jeffrey R. Ambroziak

20090216736 - Systems and methods of displaying document chunks in response to a search request: A computer displays a portion of a document to a user. Upon receiving a user-specified text string that includes multiple search keywords, the computer identifies a chunk within the document that satisfies the search keywords and displays the identified chunk to the user, wherein terms in the identified chunk that... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP. (pa)

20090216738 - Systems and methods of identifying chunks within inter-related documents: A computer receives a request to search one or more secondary documents. At least one of the secondary documents is associated with a primary document. The computer searches at least a subset of the secondary documents for documents that satisfy the search request and identifies at least one secondary document... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP. (pa)

20090216735 - Systems and methods of identifying chunks within multiple documents: A computer identifies multiple resource identifiers, each resource identifier corresponding to a document at a respective data source. For at least one of the resource identifiers, the computer retrieves the corresponding document from the respective document source, identifies within the retrieved document a chunk that satisfies one or more user-specified... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP. (pa)

20090216737 - Systems and methods of refining a search query based on user-specified search keywords: After receiving a search keyword provided by a user, a computer selects an archetype for the search keyword. The computer identifies one or more search results in accordance with the archetype and returns at least one of the search results to the user. After selecting the archetype, the computer identifies... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP. (pa)

20090216742 - Systems, methods and computer program products for indexing, searching and visualizing media content: The exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a method for searching a metadata repository and visualizing the results of the search, wherein the metadata in the metadata repository is associated with a plurality of media content, and wherein each media content including at least one audio track. The method... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090216743 - Systems, methods and computer program products for the use of annotations for media content to enable the selective management and playback of media content: The exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a method for searching an annotation repository and visualizing the results of the search, wherein the annotation in the annotation repository is associated with a plurality of media content. The method includes retrieving the media contents used to generate the metadata terms... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090216745 - Techniques to consume content and metadata: Content and metadata associated with the content may be provided to a number of users. The content may be displayed on a display device while the metadata may be transmitted to a remote device corresponding to a receiving user. The user may further request desired information or metadata pertaining to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090216765 - Systems and methods of adaptively screening matching chunks within documents: A computer identifies within a document multiple matching chunks in response to a search request from a user. The search request includes one or more search keywords and each of the multiple matching chunks matches at least one of the search keywords. The computer partitions the matching chunks into multiple... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP. (pa)

20090216764 - Systems and methods of pipelining multiple document node streams through a query processor: A computer identifies a first candidate document at a first data source and a second candidate document at a second data source in response to a request from a user, wherein the request includes one or more keywords. The computer generates a first node stream for the first candidate document... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP. (pa)

20090216763 - Systems and methods of refining chunks identified within multiple documents: After receiving a first user request including a first set of search keywords, a computer identifies a first set of chunks within multiple documents, wherein each chunk includes terms matching the first set of search keywords, and displays at least a portion of the first set of chunks, including highlighting... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP. (pa)

20090216766 - Hierarchical table: Various example embodiments are disclosed. According to one example embodiment, a method may include storing a plurality of database records, storing a value associated with each database record, receiving a request to sort the database records, sorting the database records, and sending a response message.... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090216767 - Method and device for data management: A method for data management and an electronic device comprising a memory for storing data items are provided. The device comprises a controller configured to determine a data set comprising a set of data items, determine the number of data items in the set, select the type of a display... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090216768 - Database sandbox: Systems and methods that qualify and/or restrict access of codes associated with a database to objects located outside thereof and in other databases—even though a person executing such code does in fact have permission to interact with the object that the code is attempting to access. A sandbox component can... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090216769 - Digital rights management of captured content based on criteria regulating a combination of elements: When captured content is detected, the captured content is analyzed to determine whether any portion of the content is subject to digital rights management protection specified for content captured. Responsive to determining that the captured content is subject to a first digital rights management protection, a database is queried to... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20090216770 - System and method for controlled access to up-to-date contact information: A method and system for controlling a recipient's access to a user's information. The method includes receiving a plurality of contact information, registration information and access information from the user. Only person's knowing the user's registration information can update the contact and access information of the user. The contact information... Agent: Bose Mckinney & Evans LLP

20090216772 - Conversational question generation system adapted for an insurance claim processing system: A conversational question generation system dynamically generates conversational questions for insurance claim processing. The conversational question generation system includes various modules and graphical user interfaces that provide a streamlined mechanism for creating new conversational questions for insurance claim processing. The conversational question generation system may include various levels of usability... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090216773 - Device, system, and method of creating virtual social networks based on web-extracted features: Device, system, and method of creating virtual social networks based on web-extracted features. For example, a method for creating virtual social networks based on web-extracted data includes: accessing through a global communication network a first content item and a second content item, wherein each one of the first and second... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090216771 - Map update system, methods, and programs: Systems, methods, and programs store navigation map data divided into a plurality of partitions, each partition having a corresponding partition file. The systems, methods, and programs identify a partition file corresponding to a partition that is to be updated. The partition file has an update-targeted road class The systems, methods,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20090216776 - Methods and systems for managing data: Methods and systems for managing an index database. In one exemplary method, an index database is stored on a machine readable volume with an operating system and the files which have been indexed, and then the volume is, after the storing, made available for distribution to licensees or customers. In... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090216775 - Platform for real-time tracking and analysis: An apparatus in one example has: at least one of an identification tag and a video feed associated with at least one asset; at least one real time location server that operatively interfaces with the at least one of the identification tag and the video feed; and real-time data analysis... Agent: Carmen Patti Group , Llc

20090216774 - Virtualization of metadata for file optimization: Mechanisms are provided for optimizing files while allowing application servers access to metadata associated with preoptimized versions of the files. During file optimization involving compression and/or compaction, file metadata changes. In order to allow file optimization in a manner transparent to application servers, the metadata associated with preoptimized versions of... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090216778 - Accessing different application data via a common data structure: A common data type structure can be used to correlate access requests between applications that implement data in accordance with different types or type structures. In one implementation, a common data structure includes schemes for operations, sequences, records, and atoms (i.e., undefined). The system can then map any type structure... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090216780 - Efficient method for clustering nodes: Methods and computer storage media for clustering nodes are provided. An input file is received that is comprised of primary nodes, secondary nodes and metrics that relate to the association between the primary nodes and the secondary nodes. Upon receiving the input file, the input file is abridged to reduce... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090216783 - Hierarchical system operation in an adaptive computing environment: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for controlling the state of components of a system. In one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method. The method may include receiving a request to place a system into a state. The system may include one or more components of... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.c.

20090216785 - Image processing apparatus, image processing system, and method of processing image: An image processing apparatus having a processing function of an image includes a communication unit for communicating image data using certificate data; a certificate data storage unit for storing the certificate data; a corresponding status output unit for outputting a correlation between the certificate data and the processing function; and... Agent: Kubotera & Associates, Llc

20090216786 - Managing service processes: Computer systems, methods and computer program products for managing a service process that includes a plurality of service steps. A repository holds, for each of at least one configuration item, a set of data that represents at least one predetermined attribute of the configuration item and a relation between the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ibm Austin Iplaw)

20090216777 - Multiphase topology-wide code modifications for peer-to-peer systems: Systems and methods that supply changes on-the-fly and without breaking execution of codes for schema changes in a peer-to-peer environment. The modification component supplies changes to peers or nodes in a topology by initially identifying dependencies (e.g., multiple level) of that can be affected by the schema change, followed by... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090216782 - Observing and reporting changes in complex software dependencies: An observation system includes mechanisms for efficiently tracking the state of source components, which include functions, arguments, or values, etc. In one implementation, an observing component requests that a source component processes a request. The observation system then identifies all possible components in a dependency chain for the request, and... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090216784 - System and method of storing probabilistic data: A method of storing probabilistic data in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes capturing a first instance of a probabilistic data sample, storing the first instance of the probabilistic data sample as a probabilistic data record, collecting a second instance of the probabilistic data sample, refining... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Rochester Division

20090216781 - Technique for dynamic creation of a user catalog for a storage system: A technique for operating a storage system includes determining, based on a response (e.g., return and reason codes from catalog services) from a storage operating system, that a desired user catalog is unavailable for storage of a new dataset. A new user catalog is then dynamically created, when the desired... Agent: Dillon & Yudell, LLP

20090216779 - Transferring messages to a directory: A method, system, and computer usable program product for transferring messages to a directory are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A listing of message templates that is stored in a computer usable storage medium is received. A list of messages is received. The listing of message templates is loaded in... Agent: Ibm Corp. (gig)

20090216787 - Indexing large-scale gps tracks: Described is a technology by which uploaded GPS data is indexed according to spatio-temporal relationships to facilitate efficient insertion and retrieval. The indexes may be converted to significantly smaller-sized data structures when new updates to that structure are not likely. GPS data is processed into a track of spatially-partitioned segments... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090216789 - Management of time-variant data schemas in data warehouses: A system, method, and computer readable medium for preserving information in time variant data schemas are disclosed. The method includes determining if at least one modification request associated with a database schema has been received. In response to the modification request being received, a metadata table associated with the database... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090216788 - Multiple file compaction for network attached storage: Mechanisms are provided for optimizing multiple files in an efficient format that allows maintenance of the original namespace. Multiple files and associated metadata are written to a suitcase file. The suitcase file includes index information for accessing compressed data associated with compacted files. A hardlink to the suitcase file includes... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090216793 - Consistently signaling state changes: A signaling system of the present invention provides a synchronized approach to delivering, reporting, and/or otherwise processing status changes in a software dependency chain. In a first phase, the signaling system identifies all dependencies between software components, and further sets a binary indicator of each node in a first representation.... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090216791 - Efficiently correlating nominally incompatible types: A nominal type framework can be configured to efficiently correlate different nominal types together based on a minimum set of common type shapes or structures. In one implementation, a developer identifies a number of different nominal types of interest (source types), and identifies the minimum set of common type shapes... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090216792 - Embedded work process item management: Apparatus, systems, and methods that operate to automatically extract metadata from information objects are disclosed. Activities may include displaying a journal comprising a plurality of consolidated items, wherein at least some of the plurality of consolidated items have been created based on detecting a first pre-selected operation associated with an... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20090216794 - Method and system for accessing a group of objects in an electronic document: A method and system for accessing a group of objects in an electronic document is disclosed herein. The method comprises: selecting at least one object from an electronic document and grouping a plurality of objects in the electronic document based on characteristics of the selected object. The method further comprises:... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20090216795 - System and method for detecting and blocking phishing attacks: A system and associated method for preventing at least one credential from being submitted to an unauthorized web location. The system comprises 1) a credential blocker for communicating with a database, and 2) the database for storing the at least one credential and an associated set of approved URLs. The... Agent: Stites & Harbison Pllc

20090216790 - Systems and methods of searching a document for relevant chunks in response to a search request: A computer identifies a document in response to a search request from a user, wherein the document includes content data and metadata and the search request includes one or more search keywords. The computer generates a hierarchical semantic model of the content data of the document by applying heuristics to... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP. (pa)

20090216798 - Configuring a data protection system: A computer-implemented system configured to describe the relationship between a first Namespace and a second Namespace is provided. The system includes a containment relationship identifying a direct relationship between a first object of the first Namespace and a second object of the first Namespace. Moreover, the system includes a junction... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, Pllc

20090216796 - Relational objects for the optimized management of fixed-content storage systems: A system and method is described for managing data objects in a fixed-content storage system. Metadata is provided for each variable size packet and may include offset information, packet size data, reference content blocks, and the like. Using this information, intelligently decomposed objects, consolidated objects, differenced objects, and composite objects... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090216797 - Utilizing reference/id linking in xml wrapper code generation: Utilizing reference/identification (ID) linking in extensible markup language (XML) wrapper code generation in a data processing system. A code generator receives a type document and reference/ID constraints document and accesses the reference/ID constraints document to translate between XML structures and object structures.... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090216799 - Discovering topical structures of databases: A system and method for automatically discovering topical structures of databases includes a model builder adapted to compute various kinds of representations for the database based on schema information and data values of the database. A plurality of base clusterers is also provided, one for each representation. Each base clusterer... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, Llc

20090216800 - Method and software for facilitating interaction with a personal information manager application at a wireless communication device: Software executable by a wireless communication device may include instructions for receiving at least one markup language document containing a markup language definition defining a query of a notional database table. The notional database table may be characterized by a set of notional fields, each corresponding to a field of... Agent: Smart & Biggar

20090216801 - Service registry document loader: A method, system and computer program product comprising: locating an import target statement in a service document; locating a generic object associated with the service document; locating import target references; loading, when a unique import target reference is located, the located target object into an address in the repository; and... Agent: Steven E. Bach Attorney At Law

20090216808 - Data exploration system: An improved data exploration system and method for analyzing and exploring complex data sets involving multiple data dimensions and multi-variable data presentations. The system can generate visual representations of complex data sets in a map format, in which symbols representing the complex data sets are plotted based on data underlying... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20090216802 - Data processing system: A data processing system includes a data processing unit which processes data acquired and a plurality of data retaining units which store databases used to process the data. Each of the plurality of data retaining units stores a primary database in common and stores the respective shares of a secondary... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p.

20090216806 - Digital assets internet timeline aggregation and sharing platform: Personal digital assets are collected, managed, shared and archived on a social network using a client interface for registering a user and performing tasks. User sources are defined and assets are collected and organized chronologically as eternal Time-lines. Permission level rules are associated with each asset and Time-line and a... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, Pc

20090216807 - Medical data evaluation and distribution: Systems and processes may facilitate evaluating medical data and distributing the results. In particular implementations, systems and processes may guide appraisers through the process of identifying medical articles regarding medical issues (e.g., medical reports on disease and/or treatment topics) for appraisal, and then through the process of critically appraising medical... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20090216803 - Rule generation system adapted for an insurance claim processing system: A rule generation system facilitates the dynamic generation of rules for an insurance claim processing computer system. The rule generation system includes various modules and graphical user interfaces that provide a streamlined mechanism for creating new rules for the insurance claim processing architecture. The rule generation system may include various... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090216804 - System and method for using manufacturing states of vehicle products for display of a manufacturing process: A system and method of using manufacturing states in a manufacturing process is provided in which manufacturing states for an article of manufacture are defined at different time periods of a manufacturing process for display as manufacturing contexts relating to an installation plan. The manufacturing states for the article of... Agent: Rozenblat Ip Llc And The Boeing Company

20090216805 - Systems, methods and computer program products for the creation of annotations for media content to enable the selective management and playback of media content: The exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a method for generating an annotation for media content, that includes retrieving a media content subset from a media content source, saving the received media content subset at a computing system, and generating an annotation for association with the media content subset... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090216810 - File structure analyzing apparatus, file structure analyzing method, and program: The present invention provides a file structure analyzing apparatus for analyzing a file including a group of structured data formed into a tree structure by having a plurality of distinct element packets referenced externally, each of the distinct element packets including a unique identifier for identifying the distinct element packet... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090216809 - Method for updating databases: Techniques for batch-updating batch-updating one or more SQL statements in a database are provided. The techniques include identifying a set of one or more data types, wherein the set comprises one or more columns that are each updated, respectively, by a SQL statement, identifying a set of one or more... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090216811 - Dynamic composition of an execution environment from multiple immutable file system images: A virtual file system is formed configured to enable the dynamic composition of immutable file system images. A file system containing a software distribution is divided into a plurality of mutually exclusive sub-trees. Each sub-tree includes a portion of the software distribution. An immutable file system image is formed for... Agent: Sun Microsystems, Inc C/o Marsh Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20090216812 - Method and system for updating announcement and playing apparatus for playing announcement: A method for updating includes: using a playing apparatus, downloading a multimedia file to be played from a file server to a local storage location, and playing multimedia based on the old local multimedia file; setting a storage area for new multimedia files on the file server, where a new... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090216813 - Method and system for generating a transaction-bound sequence of records in a relational database table: A method for generating a transaction-bound sequence of records in a database table is disclosed. In response to a transaction attempting to insert a record to a database table within a relational database, an identification (ID) of the transaction and the name of the associated database table are initially obtained.... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090216815 - Conflict management during data object synchronization between client and server: A client stores client metadata entries corresponding to a plurality of data objects. During a first phase of a synchronization process, the client sends one or more client metadata entries to a server. Each client metadata entry sent corresponds to a data object for which at least one metadata parameter... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP/google

20090216814 - Image scaling arrangement: Methods and system for transferring images between devices is disclosed. For example, differently scaled images by a host device may automatically and/or selectively be transferred to a media player for display. In turn, appropriately scaled images may be transferred automatically and/or selectively to another display device for example a TV,... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/apple Inc.

20090216816 - Method for application backup in the vmware consolidated backup framework: Systems and methods for backing up applications executing on a virtual machine are provided. The method comprises submitting a first notification to a remote computing system to prepare an application running on a virtual machine for backup, such that application data consistency is maintained during the backup process; receiving a... Agent: Century Ip Group, Inc. [ibm Us]

20090216818 - Method and apparatus for managing folder: A method and apparatus for managing a folder is provided. The method includes: setting a drive correspondence table showing a correspondence relation of first location information including location information of an apparent drive allocated to the folder in the operating system and second location information including location information of a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090216817 - System and method for utilizing generational file names for diagnostic data files: A system and associated method for utilizing file names for diagnostic data files generated by a runtime environment. The method employs a file counter base that defines a predefined maximum number of files permitted in a file system, a generation number that indicates an instance of the runtime environment, and... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090210379 - Dynamic multiple inheritance method dispatch and type extension testing by frugal perfect hashing: Apparatus, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for constructing and using member dispatch tables for Object-Oriented programming environments.... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090210390 - Asset adviser intelligence engine for managing reusable software assets: A computer implemented method, system and computer program product for managing reusable software assets based on software requirements. A topic map can be expressed utilizing semantic web technology in order to model a relationship between a software requirement and a reusable software asset. The relationship includes the software assets needed... Agent: Ibm Corporation (endicott) C/o Ortiz & Lopez

20090210383 - Creation of pre-filters for more efficient x-path processing: A system and method is provided for XML query processing includes an execution compiler for transforming an XML query into an executable XML query plan. A query rewrite processor performs query transformation on the XML query, the query transformations including transforming an XPath within said XML Query into a pre-filter.... Agent: Law Office Of Donald L. Wenskay

20090210397 - Data search device and gateway device in communication apparatus: A data search device that is provided in a communication apparatus detects a memory area storing data to be transmitted from a memory unit having memory areas defined by IDs allotted to data. The data search device includes: a first flag that is provided for each of the memory areas... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090210380 - Data search system, method and program: The present invention provides a data search system having Means of Free Search (9) including Means for Selecting Higher Search Item (9A) for selecting a higher search item for type items, and lower search condition means (9B) for selecting a lower search condition on the basis of the selected higher... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090210396 - Document management method, document management apparatus, and computer-readable medium storing a document management program product: A document management apparatus includes a registration unit to register an electronic document together with property information, a document storage unit to store at least one electronic document registered by the registration unit in a database, a calculation unit to digitize a quantifiable feature of the electronic document, a retrieval... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090210388 - Efficiently discovering and synthesizing maps from a large corpus of maps: Intent of a user is determined with respect to mapping information. A search is performed for relevant maps from a plurality of disparate sources. A subset of maps from a superset of available maps are identified that correlate to the determined intent, and the subset of maps are fused or... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090210394 - Enterprise entity for use in a call center: A call center application program allows a call center administrator to access, view, and edit data across multiple applications used by multiple customer interaction systems of the call center. The application program is adapted to retrieve data from a plurality of different applications and systems, consolidate redundant data, and display... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders, LLP Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP Welsh & Katz

20090210385 - Hybrid advertising campaign: Keywords and placement criteria related to a campaign are received. An advertisement request that specifies a web property, e.g., a web page, is received, and keywords and placement criteria that are satisfied by the web property are identified. Based on the identified keywords and placement criteria, an advertisement to be... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090210399 - Method and apparatus for presenting, searching, and viewing directories: A directory shell references one or more directories. Each directory comprises a plurality of directory objects each having object attributes and attribute data. One or more categories in the directory shell is associated with one or more directory objects and at least a portion of the associated object attribute. A... Agent: Michael T. Sanderson, Esq. King & Schickli, PLLC

20090210391 - Method and system for automated search for, and retrieval and distribution of, information: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to automated information-search and information-retrieval systems that provide information, on a continuous or periodic basis, to users or subscribers. In one embodiment of the present invention, information is gathered from a user's computer, or from computers accessible from the user's computer, on an... Agent: Olympic Patent Works PLLC

20090210382 - Method for priority search using a tcam: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for searching prioritized content using a ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM). Data strings and corresponding priorities are stored at indexed storage locations in a TCAM. The priorities for the corresponding data strings are unsorted with respect to the indices of the indexed storage locations. The TCAM... Agent: Larry Mennemeier Intel Corporation

20090210386 - Methods and apparatus to create process plant operator interfaces: Methods and apparatus to create process plant operator interfaces are disclosed. A disclosed example method to create a process plant operator interface comprises receiving a search criterion, identifying a user interface module based on the search criterion, and adding the identified user interface module to the process plant operator interface.... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20090210395 - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for dynamically searching and presenting factually tagged media clips: The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for dynamically searching and presenting factually tagged media clips. According to one aspect, a method for providing dynamic user access to factually tagged media portions of a media presentation is provided. The method includes dividing a media presentation... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20090210381 - Search result abstract quality using community metadata: A system and method is described herein that uses community-based metadata to improve the manner by which a search engine generates an abstract for a document, such as a Web page. The community-based metadata may comprise, for example, tags or descriptors associated with the document by users of a Web... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Cpa Global

20090210393 - System and a method for identifying events using a table: A system for identifying one or more events, each event being characterized by information relating to one or more parameters, the system comprising a means for holding or accessing a table having a plurality of columns and rows, each of one or more columns representing one of the parameters, each... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090210398 - System and method for complex document drafting using an authenticated outline table: A system and method for complex document drafting using an authenticated outline table is provided. A collection of outlines, user authorization lists, and preference lists are maintained. Identification information is received from a user. One of the user authorization lists and one of the preference lists are selected based on... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20090210387 - System and method for providing a common instruction table: A system includes a storage device including a human readable common instruction table (CIT) stored as a text file. The system also includes CIT access software for performing a method including receiving a request from a first user for all or a subset of the CIT table relating to logic... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090210392 - System and method for providing search engine-based rewards: A system for enhancing search engine-based search results comprises an application programming interface configured to add value to selected search engine-based web search, a tag indicative of the value-added capacity that is appended to one or more links; a client that accepts a search request and enables an integrated view... Agent: Ater Wynne LLP

20090210389 - System to support structured search over metadata on a web index: Systems, methods, and computer storage media for performing a structured search using metadata in a search index. A search index is augmented with meta words that are traditionally not found in the documents indexed. Documents to be indexed in the search index are analyzed to determine if a meta word... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090210384 - Visualization of code units across disparate systems: A visualization tool that provides visibility of the functionality implemented with each system used by an institution(s) at code unit granularity can be used to overcome a variety of challenges that can occur in an environment with disparate systems. The visualization tool discovers and graphically displays functions/procedures/methods (“code units”) that... Agent: Ibm Austin Iplaw (dg)

20090210402 - System and method for contextual association discovery to conceptualize user query: A method and system for contextual association discovery to conceptualize a user query. The system includes a user input unit receiving an input of a user query from a user, an attribute extraction unit extracting one or more attributes that materialize the meaning of the input query, a related attribute... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090210401 - System and method for efficient remote data access for server management: A system and method for efficient data access are described. A method for efficient remote data access for use by server management applications, includes transferring server schema from a service processor on a server to an application machine, receiving a request for server data on application machine, processing the request... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090210403 - System and method for extended structured searching architecture: A system and method which provides a structured search that can be optimized according to one or more parameters of the user. The one or more parameters may optionally be set before the search or during the search, for example to refine the results, or a combination thereof. According to... Agent: Dr. D. Graeser Ltd.

20090210400 - Translating identifier in request into data structure: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to translating an identifier in a request into a data structure. In aspects, a client sends a data access request that includes a URI formatted according to the HTTP protocol. The data access request may include a request to create, change, retrieve,... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090210414 - Bit string searching apparatus, searching method, and program: Bit string searching apparatus using a coupled node tree with a root node and a node pair stored in adjacent areas that is formed by a branch node and a leaf node, branch nodes, or leaf nodes; the branch node including a discrimination bit position in the search key and... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090210404 - Database search control: Identifying a search engine user's preference for handling quotations, using easily remembered variations for enclosing a quote, simplifies the user interface. An example is enclosing the quote in either single or double quotation marks to indicate search options for the quote. A method of controlling a database search comprises receiving... Agent: Kelce Wilson

20090210409 - Increasing online search engine rankings using click through data: A method for providing keywords for a web page so as to increase online search engine rankings of the web page is provided. The method includes detecting click-throughs to the web page from a link in a search result list of an online search engine. The method further includes collecting... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul LLP Attn: Steven M. Greenberg, Esq.

20090210411 - Information retrieving system: A user speech analyzing component poses, to a user, question sentences for respective ones of a plurality of attributes, and analyzes an attribute value for each of the attributes from an answer sentence from the user to the sentence question. A user data holding component, as a result of analysis,... Agent: Moss & Burke, PLLC

20090210413 - K-nearest neighbor search method, k-nearest neighbor search program, and k-nearest neighbor search device: Provided is a k-nearest neighbor search method of searching for a query number k of nearest points to an arbitrary point in a DBMS for creating a spatial index from multidimensional points, comprising setting a search conditions, judging which of a lowest branch and an intermediate branch of the spatial... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20090210415 - Mediaset generation system: Disclosed are various embodiments of systems and methods for generating composite mediasets from mediasets, each comprising media items, associated with a plurality of users. In some embodiments, individual and/or group recommendations are provided for creating a group playlist by aggregating user taste data for a plurality of users in a... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20090210407 - Method and system for adaptive discovery of content on a network: A method is provided for identifying documents that include a searchable form relevant to a topic. A document is received. If the received document comprises a form is determined. A form includes a field presented to a user requesting information from the user. If the received document is determined to... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090210406 - Method and system for clustering identified forms: A method is provided for organizing a plurality of documents that include forms. An initial set of clusters is defined for the plurality of documents. The initial set of clusters is reclustered based on similarity values calculated in multiple feature spaces. For example, a first feature space may be associated... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090210408 - Method and system for role based situation aware software: A method for role based situation aware software includes: mapping one or more users to one or more communities of practice (CoP); aggregating a series of tags from the one or more CoP to form an initial set of role-based tags; filtering the initial set of role-based tags based on... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Endicott

20090210412 - Method for searching and indexing data and a system for implementing same: A system and method for processing a plurality of data to identify and search words contained with the plurality of data, wherein prior knowledge of the data format is unknown, is provided. The method includes identifying words within the data, wherein indentifying includes, processing the data to identify words, prior... Agent: Tobin, Carberry, O'malley, Riley, Selinger, P.C.

20090210405 - Method, system, and apparatus for providing advice to users: In one embodiment of this invention, one can record and provide answers to users problems. When a user selects a command (e.g., Show Tips) on the user interface (UI), the mouse pointer is changed, so when the user clicks on an aspect of the UI, a web window displays all... Agent: Maxvalueip Consulting LLC

20090210417 - Search engine feedback for developing reliable whois database reference for restricted search operation: A system and method monitors and weeds out illegitimate/illegal websites during search engine indexing and domain name registration. The whois database generated during domain name registration is used as a reference database for correlation with a database generated by the search crawler on a search engine server. A whois analyzer... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090210416 - Search engine using world map with whois database search restrictions: A search operation can provide geographically restricted and verified information to a user. A two-step approach is used to perform these searches. The first step is to obtain high relevance search results by searching only in a specific region defined for a search operation. The second step further improves the... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090210410 - Storage method and search method for mark event on two-dimensional space: A storage method and a search method for mark events on two-dimensional space are provided. First, an event and a corresponding coordinate thereof are retrieved. Next, calculation on the coordinate of the event is performed to generate an index representing a bucket position in a storage device. Next, whether or... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090210419 - Method and system using machine learning to automatically discover home pages on the internet: A method for automatically determining an Internet home page corresponding to a named entity identified by a specified descriptor including building a trained machine-learning model, generating candidate matches from the specified descriptor, wherein each candidate match includes an Internet address, extracting content-based features from websites associated with the Internet addresses... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090210418 - Transformation-based framework for record matching: A transformation-based record matching technique. The technique provides a flexible way to account for synonyms and more general forms of string equivalences when performing record matching by taking as explicit input user-defined transformation rules (such as, for example, the fact that “Robert” and “Bob” that are synonymous). The input string... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090210420 - Methods, systems and computer applications for real time data processing: Methods, systems and software applications are provided for real time data processing. In one implementation, a method is provided for locking data objects in a computer system. The method may comprise requesting, with a first processing module, a lock service module to lock one or more (n) data objects for... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20090210421 - Access control decision method and system: An access control method and system. The method includes enabling, by a computing system for a requester, access to the computing system. The computing system comprises group based access control data and computing resource data organized based on an XML schema that comprises a recursive format used to support a... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090210424 - Authentication apparatus and authentication method: According to one embodiment, an authentication apparatus comprises a storage module configured to store permission information unique to a type of an apparatus which is permitted to access a database, a reception module configured to receive a data-acquisition request from a terminal apparatus, a check module configured to check unique... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090210423 - Methods and systems for maintaining personal data trusts: Methods and systems are provided that may be used to maintain personal data trusts in a computing environment. An exemplary system may include a repository adapted to store personal data, an identification agent adapted to identify at least one computing resource that may have personal data, a collection agent adapted... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP

20090210422 - Secure database access: Secure database access may be provided. First, a first schema associated with a database having a second schema may be defined. Next, a user type may be defined. The user type may comprise a user type that does not require a log-in. The defined user type may then be associated... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090210430 - Creating pivot tables from tabular data: System and method of simultaneously creating and managing a plurality of OLAP cubes in real time, each from a different tabular data source, comprising, for each cube, defining the table columns as either dimensions or measures of the cube using at least one of predefined semantics and data formats, generating... Agent: Brux Software Solutions Ltd.

20090210432 - Data management system, method, and software: A data management system and method for updating and aligning a plurality of management components, wherein the data management system is accessible to various users from a remote location, is disclosed. The data management system includes a user system having a web browser, a database including a plurality of management... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC

20090210431 - Load sharing cluster file systems: Load sharing clusters in which each node is responsible for one or more non-overlapping subset(s) of the cluster namespace and will process only those requests that access file or directory objects in the partitioned namespace that the node controls while redirecting requests designated for other nodes. A non-overlapping subset may... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP (f5 Patents) Gunnar G. Leinberg

20090210425 - Method for sending dynamic content and dynamic content delivery server: A method for sending dynamic content and a dynamic content transmission server are disclosed. The method for sending dynamic content includes: storing an original dynamic content subscribed to by a user; creating and storing a corresponding relationship between the user and the subscribed original dynamic content; and obtaining the corresponding... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090210427 - Secure business continuity and disaster recovery platform for multiple protected systems: A data processing system, comprising a plurality of customer premises equipment (CPE) servers located at a plurality of different active sites, each of the CPE servers comprising a local storage unit, wherein each of the CPE servers is configured to collect one or more copies of one or more servers,... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090210429 - System and method for asynchronous update of indexes in a distributed database: An improved system and method for asynchronous update of indexes in a distributed database is provided. A database server may receive the request to update the data and may update the data in a primary data table of the distributed database. An asynchronous index update of the indexes may be... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20090210426 - System and method for efficient management of distributed spatial data:

20090210428 - System and method for writing data dependent upon multiple reads in a distributed database database: An improved system and method for writing data dependent upon multiple reads in a distributed database is provided. A client may read several data records and may then send a request to a database server to perform a transaction to write a data record dependent upon multiple data records read.... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20090210435 - Configuration item management tool: A computer system is presented for managing a plurality of configuration items. A first computer may be connected to a second computer over a network. The first computer may manage configuration items conforming to a first specification, while the second computer may manage configuration items conforming to a second specification.... Agent: Ibm Corp. (austin)

20090210433 - Parallelizing data manipulation by data set abstraction: A first request to access a first set of items is received, wherein each item is associated with one or more properties. A second request to access a second set of items is also received. A determination is made as to whether items from the first set are in the... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20090210434 - Storage and retrieval of variable data: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for managing data items. A data store includes at least two copies of each data item. Each copy of a data item is used for a unique set of operations performed on the data item. An application programming interface... Agent: Mollborn Patents, Inc.

20090210438 - Apparatus and method for positioning user-created data in olap data sources: A computer readable storage medium comprises executable instructions to receive user-created data for user-specified positions in an OLAP hierarchy. The OLAP hierarchy is reorganized according to the user-created data. Data manipulation statements are generated to evaluate a set of members of the OLAP hierarchy according to the user-specified positions.... Agent: Sap GlobalIPC/o Cooley Godward Kronish LLP William S. Galliani

20090210436 - Encoding a hierarchical multi-layer data package: A hierarchical encoder is operable to create a hierarchical multi-layer data package. The hierarchical multi-layer data package includes a plurality of layers and one or more subpackages in each layer. The layers include one or more subpackages. A subpackage in an outer layer is related to a subpackage in an... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090210439 - Method for efficient data transformation: A digraph including a plurality of ordinary nodes, at least one of a composition node and a decomposition node, and a plurality of arcs interconnecting any of said nodes.... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman Intellectual Property Law Dept.

20090210437 - System, method, and computer program product for saving and restoring a compression/decompression state: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for saving and restoring a compression-decompression state. In operation, data is processed, the processing including compressing or decompressing the data. Additionally, a state of the processing is saved. Further, the state of the processing is restored.... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC- Rmi

20090210442 - Collaborative categorization system: A collaborative categorization system for efficiently allowing communities of users to record and share observations and events. The collaborative categorization system generally includes making an observation, providing a software platform, wherein said software platform is connected to at least one network, recording said observation as an event upon said software... Agent: Neustel Law Offices, Ltd.

20090210441 - Integration of static and dynamic data for database entities and the unified presentation thereof: A method is disclosed for presenting static and dynamic data corresponding to an entity within an application on a mobile device. An entity object is created as part of a data model within the application such that the entity object has a plurality of fields with the plurality of fields... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090210440 - Method authoring method: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to method authoring and provide a method and computer program product for method authoring according to an inception phase, an elaboration phase, a construction phase and a transition phase. In an embodiment of the invention, a method authoring... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090210443 - Method and apparatus to facilitate the creating and altering of index objects on tables: A method for facilitating creation and managing of partitioned table indices of a table object of a first partitioning type includes steps of: automatically looking up a table and its partitioning type definition; retrieving the table index and all indices defined for that table object, and their definitions; presenting to... Agent: Michael J. Buchenhorner

20090210445 - Method and system for optimizing data access in a database using multi-class objects: Methods for optimizing data access in a row-oriented relational database containing data sets having attributes using a computer are presented the method including: causing a computer to analyze a database workload to determine an access frequency for each of the attributes; causing the computer to assign each of the attributes... Agent: Kali Law Group, P.C.

20090210446 - Method for efficient association of multiple distributions: An association method for analyzing a dataset and grouping its objects in homogeneous groups. Multiple grouping algorithms of the art are performed against the dataset, each producing its own grouping results. All the distributions (groupings) are ordered in a matrix, where each distribution suggested by a specific algorithm and/or parameters... Agent: The Law Office Of Michael E. Kondoudis, PC

20090210444 - System and method for collecting bonafide reviews of ratable objects: A method for providing a computer-based service to automatically evaluate and determine authenticity of a rating. The computer system receives (a) input with rating information that includes a rating and identification data for a specified ratable object and (b) rater profile information including identification information and usage information associated with... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20090210447 - Processing and analyzing hyper-spectral image data and information via dynamic database updating: Processing and analyzing hyper-spectral image data and information via dynamic database updating. (a) processing/analyzing representations of objects within a sub set of the hyper spectral image data and information, using a first reference database of hyper spectral image data, information, and parameters, and, a second reference database of biological, chemical,... Agent: Edward Langer C/o Shiboleth Yisraeli Roberts Zisman & Co.

20090210450 - Clinically intelligent parsing: A method, a device and a system for correlating medical information of a first format to medical information of a second format are provided. The method includes parsing an input sequence representing textual information into plural terms; searching a medical database to associate each term with a medical diagnosis; and... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090210451 - Content realization engines: A method for creating Web pages with a content realization engine embodied in a computer includes the steps of creating and storing primary content that is generally applicable, and inserting shims in the primary content, each shim being a placeholder for secondary content. The method creates and stores secondary content... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090210448 - Fast search in a music sharing environment: A method, apparatus and system of method and system of directory sharing and management in a group communication environment is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a fast-search server includes processing a character of a query of music data, referencing the character with a reverse index of a music... Agent: Raj Abhyanker LLP C/o Intellevate,

20090210449 - Maintenance of group shared inventories in a virtual universe: Generally speaking, systems, methods and media for maintenance of group shared inventories in a virtual universe are disclosed. Embodiments of the method may include receiving usage information for one or more inventory items each shared by a group having a plurality of users and storing the received usage information. Embodiments... Agent: Ibm Corporation (end Ny) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20090210452 - Method of substituting process in storage system: There is provided a computer system comprising: a storage system for storing data; and a management server coupled to the storage system. The storage system comprises a first interface, a first processor and a first memory. The management server comprises a second interface, a second processor and a second memory.... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20090210455 - Continuously available program replicas: A method for replicating a program and data storage according to one embodiment comprises sending program replication data from a first program to a second program, the second program having an application program that is a replica of an application program of the first program; sending data storage requests from... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC- Arc

20090210454 - File system watcher in the presence of different file systems: The claimed subject matter is directed to a file system watcher in the presence of different file systems to allow synchronization of replicated files distributed among different file systems without compromising the features of each file system. To synchronize the distributed replications, a platform independent synchronization manager creates a file... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090210453 - Service for verifying consistency of replicated data: e

20090210456 - Methods, systems and media for tpm recovery key backup and restoration: A method of trusted platform module (TPM) activation and recovery in an information handling system (IHS). The method includes providing a first virtual recording medium associated with a first recording medium, wherein the first recording medium is coupled to a management console. Further, a TPM recovery key is stored on... Agent: Andrea E. Tran Pramudji Wendt & Tran, LLP

20090210458 - Tag based backup and recovery: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with selective tag-based file backup and recovery are described. One example method includes selectively tagging a file for inclusion in a snapshot-based backup image by associating a tag with the file. The associating may include encoding file metadata with a tag. The method may... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC - Oracle

20090210457 - Transactional memory with dynamic separation: Strong semantics are provided to programs that are correctly synchronized in their use of transactions by using dynamic separation of objects that are accessed in transactions from those accessed outside transactions. At run-time, operations are performed to identify transitions between these protected and unprotected modes of access. Dynamic separation permits... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090210459 - Document synchronization solution: A method for synchronizing a database with displayed data, includes providing a data feed to receive data from the database to provide displayed document data, detecting a database change to the data within the database by a database synchronizer to provide a change event, polling the database synchronizer using an... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow Ltd.

20090210463 - Computer system and file storage/read-out method: When storing data (D1), spread on a memory (10), into a file storage unit (50), a user α assigns a meaningful filename-for-user, such as “sales book for April.” Storage control unit (35) converts this “sales book for April” to a meaningless filename-for-storage, such as “RST123.” The correspondence between the two... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20090210462 - Methods and apparatus to control transition of backup data: Disclosed is a system incorporating a management computer, host computers, a backup server and at least one storage system. Backup data generated in the system are stored in various storage system such as disk array, tape library and VTL (virtual tape library) with various methods such as continuous data protection... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090210461 - Network attached storage system and method: A network attached storage system comprising: a computer; a network in signal communication with the computer; a network attached storage device in signal communication with the network, and not physically connected to the computer; an internet in signal communication with the network; a storage server remotely located from the computer,... Agent: Law Office Of Michael A. Blake, LLC

20090210460 - Organization of archival elements for analog/digital hybrid data on film: A system and method for archiving films includes a film feature including analog film content on a reel for archival storage. N parts of the film content are created based on criteria. The N parts include digitally stores metadata such that the film includes a hybrid of analog and digital... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090210465 - Comparing process sizes: A system to compare process sizes is described. In one example embodiment, the system comprises memory and one or more processing devices. The memory may be configured to store executable instructions. The one or more processing devices may be configured to execute the instructions. The instructions may cause the one... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20090210464 - Storage management system and method thereof: A storage management system includes a storage unit with first and second partitions with consecutive physical addresses. The control unit manages the storage unit and has a measurement unit, arrangement unit, and reallocation unit. The arrangement unit arranges currently stored files in the two partitions. The measurement unit measures the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090204567 - Customization syntax for multi-layer xml customization: Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for customizing aspects of a metadata-driven software application. In particular, embodiments of the present invention provide (1) a self-contained metadata engine for generating customized metadata documents from base metadata documents and customizations; (2) a customization syntax for defining customizations; (3) a customization creation/update... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090204565 - Data management for data aggregation: The invention provides a method, system, and program product for managing data for data aggregation, including data mining and reporting.... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090204568 - Decoding device and semiconductor device: When an external recording medium connected to an interface is removed therefrom and a new external recording medium is connected to the interface, a processor selects either first file analysis information read from a memory or second file analysis information generated based on analysis of data recorded on the new... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090204566 - Processing of deterministic user-defined functions using multiple corresponding hash tables: A deterministic UDF processing mechanism processes user-defined functions (UDFs) using multiple hash tables. Data access patterns for a UDF are collected, and an appropriate hash table set is then determined for the UDF from the data access patterns. If a UDF accesses some similar columns and some disjoint columns, the... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20090204571 - Distributed directory server, distributed directory system, distributed directory managing method, and program of same: There is provided a distributed directory server to be used in a plurality of distributed directory servers connected to one another through a network and in a distributed directory system made up of a plurality of user devices, which includes a transmitting/receiving section to transmit or receive messages between user... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090204570 - Method and apparatus for performing multi-stage table updates: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates performing multi-stage table updates. During operation, the system receives a query at a query processor, wherein executing the query causes an update to an entire table in a database. Next, the system estimates an amount of transaction log space... Agent: Pvf -- Oracle International Corporation C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090204569 - Method and system for identifying companies with specific business objectives: A method for identifying companies with specific business objectives that includes using existing sources of company firmographic data to identify a broad set of companies and associated websites, crawling the websites associated with the identified companies and indexing web site content for each of the identified companies with the specific... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090204573 - Computer-based method of measuring the usability of a web site: Computer-based method of detecting the guidance performance of an information driven web site for a user seeking a desired content, wherein a transition value is assigned to each click based on the effectiveness and efficiency of transition between web pages of such web site, and an indicator value is determined... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090204576 - Constructing a domain-specific ontology by mining the web: A method, apparatus, and program product is provided for constructing a domain-specific ontology for interpreting a policy. A phrase assumed to be associated with a policy is received. An indefinite term in the phrase is identified. Internet searches are performed on a plurality of terms from the phrase. A plurality... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20090204589 - Document management apparatus, method, system, medium storing a program thereof: A document management apparatus that searches at least one document group saved in advance for a document group having attributes that correspond to a search condition. The apparatus includes an updating unit configured to update the attributes of the document group in accordance with an operation performed by a user... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090204585 - Document management system, document management apparatus, document management method and program: A document management system includes a registration unit that, for each of a plurality of document data pieces, registers information in a partial area constituting the document data piece and comment information added to describe content of the partial area information, in a storage unit in association with each other,... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090204586 - Document management system, document management method, and search apparatus: A document management system includes a reception unit that receives a designated document that has been designated by a user, an extraction unit configured to extract signature information from the received designated document, a search unit configured to search a database for another document having signature information that matches the... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090204579 - Indexing explicitly-specified quick-link data for web pages: Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for permitting webmasters to explicitly specify links or other web pages that the webmaster believes visitors to the web site or web page are interested in viewing are provided. Systems and methods for identifying explicitly-specified site-link data upon crawling... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090204572 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program: A configuration is provided that allows secure data management to be performed on subsequently acquired data associated with content management units. When subsequently acquired data, such as information subsequently generated or downloaded by a user in association with content stored on an information recording medium, is recorded to a hard... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090204584 - Information search method and apparatus: Names of pieces of information to be searched are arranged in a predetermined order, and a range display bar that is divided into sections is formed on a screen. A detailed-name-of-information display section is formed adjacent to the range display bar to display detailed information associated with the names in... Agent: Alpine/bhgl

20090204588 - Method and apparatus for determining key attribute items: A computer program, method, and apparatus for determining key attribute items and search keywords for use in analysis of incident records. Master tables provide a collection of registered text strings which may appear in incident records. Upon entry of a specified keyword, a master table search processor searches the master... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090204581 - Method and apparatus for information processing based on context, and computer readable medium thereof: A method and apparatus for context based information processing, and a computer recording medium including the same, the information searching method including: analyzing a query input by a user; searching information based on personal context with reference to the analysis result; searching information based on neighbor context with reference to... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090204591 - Method and arrangement for test case creation: The invention concerns a method for assigning a value to at least one data item of a test case instance. The invention is characterized in that the method comprises steps of selecting an input data item from a test design library, the library comprising a plurality of input data items... Agent: Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver Attorneys At Law

20090204587 - Method for determining a data set for diagnostic use from among multiple stored data sets: In a method to determine one or more data sets (in particular radiological data sets) generated at an earlier point in time—which data sets are to be considered in the framework of a medical diagnosis, which data sets contain text information generated in the framework of earlier evaluations—from a data... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090204583 - Method for providing access to data stored in a database to an application: Access to data stored in a database within a data processing system is provided to an application in the following manner. At least one criterion for providing data is determined based at least on a service level agreement. A provisioning and deployment description identifying at least data units of a... Agent: Law Office Of Donald L. Wenskay

20090204575 - Modular web crawling policies and metrics: A web crawler loads a policy from a customizable stored module that is separate and distinct from the web crawler's source code. The web crawler follows these policies in determining the order in which the web crawler will visit and index web pages in an index used by an Internet... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090204582 - Navigation for large scale graphs: In one example embodiment, a method is illustrated as retrieving a plurality of search queries and defining relationships between search queries in the plurality of search queries based on semantic data associated with the search queries. A visual representation of the of the plurality of search queries may be generated... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090204592 - Query rewriting with entity detection: A system receives a search query, determines whether the received search query includes an entity name, and determines whether the entity name is associated with a common word or phrase. When the entity name is associated with a common word or phrase, the system generates a link to a rewritten... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090204577 - Saved search and quick search control: A computer-implemented method for facilitating a unified search comprising: providing a first user interface element with which a user can select a search type from a plurality of search types, wherein the search types comprise searches saved by a user and a plurality of standard searches; providing a second user... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090204580 - Selectively obscuring the presentation of restricted data items: A computerized method and system for obscuring adult advertisements are provided. Example embodiments may include receiving a search criterion and locating multiple data items using the search criterion. The method may include determining that a subset of the multiple data items has determinable characteristics. The multiple data items may be... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090204590 - System and method for an integrated enterprise search: Methods and systems allow integrated search in an enterprise environment that stores information in data silos. Entity type metadata, relations between entity types and other information related to entity types is extracted from the data silos. Metadata information extracted from multiple data silos is combined to construct a global data... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090204574 - Systems and methods for computation of optimal distance bounds on compressed time-series data: There are provided a method and a system for computation of optimal distance bounds on compressed time-series data. In a method for similarity search, the method includes the step of transforming sequence data into a compressed sequence represented by top-k coefficients of the sequence data and a sum of the... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20090204578 - Targeted queries using an oma dm protocol: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for extending the functionality of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Device Management (DM) protocol. An addition is made to the OMA DM protocol that enables the server to specify node filtering criteria as part of a query to a target node on a mobile... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090204593 - System and method for parallel retrieval of data from a distributed database: An improved system and method for parallel retrieval of data from a distributed database is provided. A parallel interface may be provided for use by a cluster of client machine for parallel retrieval of partial results from parallel execution of a database query by a cluster of database servers storing... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20090204598 - Ad retrieval for user search on social network sites: In this invention, systems and methods for providing keywords for advertising are provided. After a user searches for another user in a social network, the webpage or blog of the queried user is retrieved, and keywords are extracted from this webpage. The keywords may be extracted from the user's profile... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090204602 - Apparatus and methods for presenting linking abstracts for search results: Disclosed are apparatus and methods for providing linking abstracts for a plurality of search results. In certain embodiments, an abstract of a listed search result is revised to include links to locations within the associated search result document that are proximate to one or more abstract portions. When the user... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson - Yahoo!

20090204610 - Deep web miner: Systems, computer implemented methods and computer program products are provided for selectively capturing and/or evaluating information including content and metadata from across a network such as the “wide world web” (WWW), or more generally, the Internet. A deep web mining tool may be utilized to exploit the deep web by... Agent: Stevens & Showalter, L.L.P.

20090204609 - Determining words related to a given set of words: In one embodiment, display of a user entry window of a graphical user interface is initiated. Search terms entered into the user entry window to initiate a first search are received. One or more first search results from a corpus of documents are determined according to the search terms. Display... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090204607 - Document management method, document management apparatus, information processing apparatus, and document management system: When registering a document, pieces of index candidate information to be assigned to the document to be registered are created and output based on user characteristic information acquired from login information of a user and document information acquired from the document to be registered. Index information selected by the user... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090204606 - File management system, file management method, and storage medium: A file management apparatus which makes it possible to cache a file registered in a file server from an initial stage of registration thereof. When a file is newly registered in the file server, the file server extracts the feature elements of the file, and searches for an registered file... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090204611 - Information display apparatus, information display program and information display system: The interest of a user of an information terminal is extracted by a file operation and information suited to the interest is provided. When a system call for file access is issued from an application program, an access processor 104 selects from a file storage unit 102 a file designated... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090204595 - Method and apparatus for tracking a change in a collection of web documents: A method and an apparatus for tracking changes in a collection of web documents, for example, provided by a web site. The web documents are retrieved at a first assigned point in time and a second assigned point in time. Then a similarity measure for a combination of a retrieved... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090204604 - Method and device for online dynamic semantic video compression and video indexing: A technique for semantic video compression is shown in block (120). Uncompressed video data (210), including a plurality of video data segments (S1, S2, . . . Sn), are organized into two or more buffer slots (220), such that each of the two or more buffer slots is filled with... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090204600 - Mobile recommendation and reservation system: Apparatus and methods are described for assisting a requester to identify and reserve a resource that meets the need of the requestor's request. For example, a request can be augmented using augmentation data, such as current position and requester preferences, and resources are located and ranked according to their match... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle, Anderson & Citkowski, P.C.

20090204603 - Multi-channel content modeling system: A service delivery platform receives a request for a catalogue. The system obtains subscriber-specific multi-media catalogue entries based on profile information stored with the service delivery platform. The system sends the subscriber-specific catalogue entries along with service details of the subscription back to the subscriber.... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090204608 - Product placement engine and method: A product placement engine and method for automatically identifying products for association with a document, the engine including a parser, an analysis module adapted to determine word scores and to adjust the word scores of the words by predetermined weightings, a keyword constructor module adapted to construct a keyword query... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090204594 - Recommendation system for assisting mashup developers at build-time: A recommendation system exploits a repository of mashups to provide design-time assistance to the user through relevant suggestions as to what outputs can be generated along with the best plans to generate those outputs. An output ranker ranks the outputs of the system base on their popularity scores, and a... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20090204596 - Semantic compatibility checking for automatic correction and discovery of named entities: A computer implemented system and method for processing text are disclosed. Partially processed text, in which named entities have been extracted by a standard named entity system, is processed to identify attributive relations between a named entity or proper noun and a corresponding attribute. A concept for the attribute is... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090204605 - Semantic search via role labeling: A method and system for searching for information contained in a database of documents each includes an offline part and an online part. The offline part includes predicting, in a first computer process, semantic data for sentences of the documents contained in the database and storing this data in a... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090204601 - Social network search: A device, system and method to enable communications over a network wherein a user may conduct a search directed to target contacts within a social network. A knowledge base of prior social search responses may be searched for responses from the target contacts with the results being presented to the... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090204597 - System and method for preferred services in nomadic environments: A method of locating preferred services includes searching an augmented spatial index, which is based on a user's determined preferred services. Additionally, the method includes indicating a location of a currently-sought preferred service.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090204599 - Using related users data to enhance web search: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates generating a personalized query result for a specific user. An interface can receive at least one of a portion of a text query to be searched or a portion of personalized content related to a user that submits... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090204612 - Apparatus and method for dynamic web service discovery: An apparatus and method is provided to dynamically search for available Web services by persistently searching a distributed multi-level UDDI registry chain, interrogating their published technical specifications and enabling the consumer to find, bind, and invoke the desired Web service in real-time and without intervention by the consumer. The search... Agent: Bae Systems

20090204613 - Pattern detection apparatus, pattern detection system, pattern detection program and pattern detection method: A pattern detection apparatus includes a pattern DB which stores pattern information corresponding to a file type, a management unit which receives data belonging to a file which is transferred between an information processing apparatus and an external apparatus connected thereto and is divided into the data, and an arithmetic... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090204614 - Searchable electronic records of underground facility locate marking operations: Methods and apparatus for generating a searchable electronic record of a locate operation in which a presence or an absence of at least one underground facility within a dig area may be identified using one or more physical locate marks. Source data representing one or more input images of a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090204616 - Access controller using tree-structured data: A method for controlling access to a data source includes steps of: storing a plurality of access control policies in a database; generating a plurality of tree-structured data from the policies; merging the plurality of tree-structured data; determining that a user is attempting to access part of the data source;... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20090204615 - Persistent cross platform collection of audience data: Previous attempts to measure content and/or advertising consumption treat each category as a unique silo of information. A method, system, and method of doing business generate a profile by obtaining at least a first and second data measurement from a user impression of a linear source of content and a... Agent: The Marbury Law Group, PLLC

20090204617 - Content acquisition system and method of implementation: A system is provided which solves content acquisition issues by providing an automated method to acquire content in mass and maintain an association between available meta-data and the actual content, e.g., video file. The system includes a first component configured to log network traffic. The system also includes a second... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090204619 - Device capable of automatically downloading files and method thereof: The present invention relates to a device capable of automatically downloading files comprises, a printed circuit board; a micro controller; a memory provided with a program; an internet interface for connecting to an internet; and a connecting interface coupled with a hub; when a card reader is coupled with the... Agent: Guice Patents PLLC

20090204618 - Storage system: Operation logs 3005 concerning the operations of volumes are associated with a time and stored in storage apparatuses 1400 and 1500, and a management computer 1100 collects information about these operation logs 3005, restores the status history of the operation logs 3005, sets, as an audit range, the operation logs... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20090204620 - Systems and methods for collaborative note-taking: Techniques are provided for determining collaborative notes and automatically recognizing speech, handwriting and other type of information. Domain and optional actor/speaker information associated with the support information is determined. An initial automatic speech recognition model is determined based on the domain and/or actor information. The domain and/or actor/speaker language model... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090204621 - Data wedge profile switching: Systems, devices and/or methods that facilitate automatic data wedge configuration profile switching are presented. An automatic data wedge configuration profile switching system can improve productivity and reduce errors associated with manually switching data wedge configuration profiles. The automatic data wedge configuration profile switching system can automatically switch profiles based in... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090204623 - Generating a value associated with one of a plurality of leaf nodes by implicitly randomly climbing an implicit tree having the leaf nodes: Provided are a method, system and article of manufacture for generating a value associated with one of a plurality of leaf nodes by implicitly randomly climbing an implicit tree having the leaf nodes. A determination is made of an ancestor node of a current node, wherein each ancestor node at... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20090204622 - Visual and non-visual cues for conveying state of information cards, electronic wallets, and keyrings: A user desires to select information about himself. The system uses policies applicable to the display of the user's information and metadata about the user and the information to determine modified presentations of the user's information. The modified information can include visual and non-visual cues (such as aural, olfactory, or... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C. - Novell

20090204625 - Electronic manifest of underground facility locate operation: Methods and apparatus for generating a searchable electronic record of a locate operation performed by a locate technician, in which a presence or an absence of at least one underground facility within a dig area is identified. An image of a geographic area comprising the dig area is electronically received,... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090204624 - Method and system for preferences-based mail distribution and digital postal services: A system and method for collecting and storing communications preferences of recipients and delivering communications to a recipient in accordance with the recipient's preferences is disclosed herein. Preferably, the communications preferences consist of at least one mail formatting preference and at least one sending preference. The system automatically formats a... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C.

20090204626 - Systems and methods for information compression: Systems and methods for information compression. In a first method embodiment, a computer implemented method for compressing information includes finding a closest match entry of a dictionary to a data block, the dictionary stored in computer usable media. A logical exclusive OR combination of the closest match entry and the... Agent: Murabito, Hao & Barnes, LLP

20090204629 - Caching and memory optimizations for multi-layer xml customization: Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for customizing aspects of a metadata-driven software application. In particular, embodiments of the present invention provide (1) a self-contained metadata engine for generating customized metadata documents from base metadata documents and customizations; (2) a customization syntax for defining customizations; (3) a customization creation/update... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090204630 - Digital video apparatus and related method for generating index information: A digital video apparatus includes a media receiver, a first storage device, and an index information generating module. The media receiver is used for receiving a media stream. The first storage device is coupled to the media receiver for storing the media stream received by the media receiver. The index... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090204633 - Dynamic creation of an application's xml document type definition (dtd): The system, method and program of the invention enables a new DTD to be dynamically created during runtime from a preexisting DTD. A next document is processed and validated according to the new DTD. An interface is provided that enables plug-in providers to provide fragments of DTD information for at... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20090204627 - Finite harmonic oscillator: A dictionary at least partially spans a set of discrete q-length signals. The atoms of the dictionary are eigenvectors of a representation of a commutative subgroup of a finite symplectic group. The dictionary may be used for interpreting a radar signal, denoising a signal, compressing data, finding a sparse representation,... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20090204631 - Method and system for masking data in a consistent manner across multiple data sources: A method and system for data masking a series of interrelated data records is disclosed. A lockable translation matrix repository resource is provided to contain both masked data as well as appropriate key information that provides links between respective copies of respective interlinked databases and maintains the data integrity of... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20090204628 - Shared inventory item donation in a virtual universe: Generally speaking, systems, methods and media for managing donations of shared inventory items in a virtual universe are disclosed. Embodiments of the method may include receiving a request to make available for donation a shared inventory item list that can be borrowed simultaneously by a plurality of users of a... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20090204632 - Triangulated irregular network: Methods and other embodiments associated with performing an in-memory triangulation of an arbitrarily large data set are described. One example method for performing in-memory triangulation of an arbitrarily large data set includes striping a data set into multiple stripes, selecting a first stripe to triangulate, and then performing an in-memory... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC - Oracle

20090204635 - Database data type creation and reuse: Embodiments are provided for creating and reusing custom data types in a database. A selection of a field or group of fields may be received from a database table in the database by a database software application executing on a computer system. Each selected field may include a set of... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090204634 - Information-processing apparatus, information-processing method, and computer-readable storage medium: An information-processing apparatus includes: a link information-generating portion that reads two or more pieces of operation information having a user identifier and an object identifier for identifying an object on which a user has performed an operation, detects two or more object identifiers linked via a user identifier contained in... Agent: Cermak Kenealy Vaidya & Nakajima LLP

20090204636 - Multimodal object de-duplication: Various object de-duplication techniques may be applied to object systems (such as to files in a file store) to identify similar or identical objects or portions thereof, so that duplicate objects or object portions may be associated with one copy, and the duplicate copies may be removed. However, an object... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090204642 - Apparatus and methods for determining and processing medical outcomes: A data processing system is provided for determining clinical outcomes of medical data gathered by the system. The system can allow a person to define a medical study and can then administer the medical study and can collect and analyze data from potentially geographically diverse doctors, patients and other people... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090204638 - Automated client sitemap generation: Methods and computer-storage media for automated generation of domain sitemap files are provided. A universal resource locator (URL) for a web site having a plurality of web pages associated therewith is received. Log files and permission controls are analyzed to ascertain whether each web page has been previously crawled and... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090204637 - Real-time computerized annotation of pictures: A computerized annotation method achieves real-time operation and better optimization properties while preserving the architectural advantages of the generative modeling approach. A novel clustering algorithm for objects is represented by discrete distributions, or bags of weighted vectors, thereby minimizing the total within cluster distance, a criterion used by the k-means... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20090204639 - Selective content replacement for media players: A network- and/or client-side media content replacement system/service (“MCRS”) facilitates identification and replacement of media content on media content players when defects associated with the media content players could negatively affect play of the media content. In one exemplary scenario, a media content player transmits a first message, which uniquely... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090204640 - System and method for advertisement transmission and display: The disclosure herein provides systems and methods for a media enhancement system configured to associate a secondary media signal (for example, the secondary media signal can comprise an advertisement) to a primary media signal (for example, a radio broadcast). The disclosure herein additionally provides systems and methods for a media... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090204641 - Techniques to associate media information with related information: System, apparatus, method, and article for techniques to associate media data with related information. A mobile computing device includes a media manager module. The media manager module processes a media file including metadata. The media manager module retrieves a first content from a metadata field in the metadata. The media... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC 4500 Brooktree Road

20090204643 - System and method for conflict resolution: A method for conflict resolution includes converting a first plurality of transactions into a first plurality of derivative objects in a first derivative model wherein each of the first plurality of derivative objects comprises a corresponding first type indicator and converting a second plurality of transactions into a second plurality... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090204644 - system and method for on-demand generation of a selectable input for enacting a previous document processing device control sequence: The subject application is directed to a system and method for on-demand generation of a selectable input for enacting a previous document processing device control sequence. User identification data is received, and a document processing session is opened. A sequence of instructions is then received, and data associated with the... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090204645 - System, method, program, and system implementation method for transaction process logging: A system is provided to log a transaction process performed based on a service level agreement concerning the response time of the transaction process. The system includes a logging policy table, a transaction process monitoring unit, and a storage device. The logging policy table records one or more logging policies... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090204646 - Data processing system and method of grouping computer files: A method of operating multiple files includes creating a group of computer files using a single container, and opening multiple files of the group and associated application software by opening a single file corresponding to the group of computer files.... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090204647 - Methods and systems for creating and saving multiple versions of a cimputer file: The present invention generally encompasses methods and systems for creating and saving multiple versions of a computer file in a computing environment, such as within a central processing unit. According to certain embodiments of the present invention, the methods generally comprise (a) instructing a central processing unit to detect a... Agent: Gregory Bentley

20090204651 - Accessing file data stored in non-volatile re-programmable semiconductor memories: File data for an operating system may be stored in a compressed format in a re-programmable semiconductor memory. The memory may be provided with a header and data for one or more file systems all stored in a compressed format. A device driver also stored in the memory may be... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090204650 - File deduplication using copy-on-write storage tiers: A method and apparatus for removing duplicated data in a file system utilizing copy-on-write storage tiers. A synthetic namespace is created via file virtualization, and is comprised of one or more file systems. Deduplication is applied at the namespace level and on all of the file systems comprising the synthetic... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP (f5 Patents) Gunnar G. Leinberg

20090204649 - File deduplication using storage tiers: A method and apparatus for removing duplicated data in a file system utilizing the concept of storage tiers. A synthetic namespace is created via file virtualization, and is comprised of one or more file systems. Deduplication is applied at the namespace level and on all of the file systems comprising... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP (f5 Patents) Gunnar G. Leinberg

20090204652 - System and method for controlling the storage of redundant electronic files to increase storage reliability and space efficiency: A storage control system including an overlap retrieval arrangement for retrieving overlap files, which are stored in at least one storage area of a plurality of storage areas, and which overlap one another, and a storage controlling arrangement for storing data of at least one overlapped part of the retrieved... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090204648 - Tracking metadata for files to automate selective backup of applications and their associated data: A computer implemented method, a data processing system, and a computer program product backup an application and a file for the application. A set of backup parameters is received. The backup parameters include an indication of the application to be backed up. Responsive to receiving the backup parameters, a metadata... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090204653 - Apparatus having data installed and method of upgrading data: In an apparatus having data installed therein, the apparatus includes a data storage part for storing a (n+1)th-order file obtained by bundling an nth-order file and (n+1)th data corresponding to an (n+1)th function level into one file, wherein n is an integer, an identifier storage part for storing an identifier... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090204654 - System and method for asynchronous parallel garbage collection: A system and method for asynchronously graying and blackening objects in the marking phase of parallel garbage collection. The system and method use a matrix to control a series of linked list of work to be grayed and blackened. The threads of the garbage collector are each assigned entries within... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20090204567 - Customization syntax for multi-layer xml customization: Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for customizing aspects of a metadata-driven software application. In particular, embodiments of the present invention provide (1) a self-contained metadata engine for generating customized metadata documents from base metadata documents and customizations; (2) a customization syntax for defining customizations; (3) a customization creation/update... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090204565 - Data management for data aggregation: The invention provides a method, system, and program product for managing data for data aggregation, including data mining and reporting.... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090204568 - Decoding device and semiconductor device: When an external recording medium connected to an interface is removed therefrom and a new external recording medium is connected to the interface, a processor selects either first file analysis information read from a memory or second file analysis information generated based on analysis of data recorded on the new... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090204566 - Processing of deterministic user-defined functions using multiple corresponding hash tables: A deterministic UDF processing mechanism processes user-defined functions (UDFs) using multiple hash tables. Data access patterns for a UDF are collected, and an appropriate hash table set is then determined for the UDF from the data access patterns. If a UDF accesses some similar columns and some disjoint columns, the... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20090204571 - Distributed directory server, distributed directory system, distributed directory managing method, and program of same: There is provided a distributed directory server to be used in a plurality of distributed directory servers connected to one another through a network and in a distributed directory system made up of a plurality of user devices, which includes a transmitting/receiving section to transmit or receive messages between user... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090204570 - Method and apparatus for performing multi-stage table updates: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates performing multi-stage table updates. During operation, the system receives a query at a query processor, wherein executing the query causes an update to an entire table in a database. Next, the system estimates an amount of transaction log space... Agent: Pvf -- Oracle International Corporation C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090204569 - Method and system for identifying companies with specific business objectives: A method for identifying companies with specific business objectives that includes using existing sources of company firmographic data to identify a broad set of companies and associated websites, crawling the websites associated with the identified companies and indexing web site content for each of the identified companies with the specific... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090204573 - Computer-based method of measuring the usability of a web site: Computer-based method of detecting the guidance performance of an information driven web site for a user seeking a desired content, wherein a transition value is assigned to each click based on the effectiveness and efficiency of transition between web pages of such web site, and an indicator value is determined... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090204576 - Constructing a domain-specific ontology by mining the web: A method, apparatus, and program product is provided for constructing a domain-specific ontology for interpreting a policy. A phrase assumed to be associated with a policy is received. An indefinite term in the phrase is identified. Internet searches are performed on a plurality of terms from the phrase. A plurality... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20090204589 - Document management apparatus, method, system, medium storing a program thereof: A document management apparatus that searches at least one document group saved in advance for a document group having attributes that correspond to a search condition. The apparatus includes an updating unit configured to update the attributes of the document group in accordance with an operation performed by a user... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090204585 - Document management system, document management apparatus, document management method and program: A document management system includes a registration unit that, for each of a plurality of document data pieces, registers information in a partial area constituting the document data piece and comment information added to describe content of the partial area information, in a storage unit in association with each other,... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090204586 - Document management system, document management method, and search apparatus: A document management system includes a reception unit that receives a designated document that has been designated by a user, an extraction unit configured to extract signature information from the received designated document, a search unit configured to search a database for another document having signature information that matches the... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090204579 - Indexing explicitly-specified quick-link data for web pages: Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for permitting webmasters to explicitly specify links or other web pages that the webmaster believes visitors to the web site or web page are interested in viewing are provided. Systems and methods for identifying explicitly-specified site-link data upon crawling... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090204572 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program: A configuration is provided that allows secure data management to be performed on subsequently acquired data associated with content management units. When subsequently acquired data, such as information subsequently generated or downloaded by a user in association with content stored on an information recording medium, is recorded to a hard... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090204584 - Information search method and apparatus: Names of pieces of information to be searched are arranged in a predetermined order, and a range display bar that is divided into sections is formed on a screen. A detailed-name-of-information display section is formed adjacent to the range display bar to display detailed information associated with the names in... Agent: Alpine/bhgl

20090204588 - Method and apparatus for determining key attribute items: A computer program, method, and apparatus for determining key attribute items and search keywords for use in analysis of incident records. Master tables provide a collection of registered text strings which may appear in incident records. Upon entry of a specified keyword, a master table search processor searches the master... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090204581 - Method and apparatus for information processing based on context, and computer readable medium thereof: A method and apparatus for context based information processing, and a computer recording medium including the same, the information searching method including: analyzing a query input by a user; searching information based on personal context with reference to the analysis result; searching information based on neighbor context with reference to... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090204591 - Method and arrangement for test case creation: The invention concerns a method for assigning a value to at least one data item of a test case instance. The invention is characterized in that the method comprises steps of selecting an input data item from a test design library, the library comprising a plurality of input data items... Agent: Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver Attorneys At Law

20090204587 - Method for determining a data set for diagnostic use from among multiple stored data sets: In a method to determine one or more data sets (in particular radiological data sets) generated at an earlier point in time—which data sets are to be considered in the framework of a medical diagnosis, which data sets contain text information generated in the framework of earlier evaluations—from a data... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090204583 - Method for providing access to data stored in a database to an application: Access to data stored in a database within a data processing system is provided to an application in the following manner. At least one criterion for providing data is determined based at least on a service level agreement. A provisioning and deployment description identifying at least data units of a... Agent: Law Office Of Donald L. Wenskay

20090204575 - Modular web crawling policies and metrics: A web crawler loads a policy from a customizable stored module that is separate and distinct from the web crawler's source code. The web crawler follows these policies in determining the order in which the web crawler will visit and index web pages in an index used by an Internet... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090204582 - Navigation for large scale graphs: In one example embodiment, a method is illustrated as retrieving a plurality of search queries and defining relationships between search queries in the plurality of search queries based on semantic data associated with the search queries. A visual representation of the of the plurality of search queries may be generated... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090204592 - Query rewriting with entity detection: A system receives a search query, determines whether the received search query includes an entity name, and determines whether the entity name is associated with a common word or phrase. When the entity name is associated with a common word or phrase, the system generates a link to a rewritten... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090204577 - Saved search and quick search control: A computer-implemented method for facilitating a unified search comprising: providing a first user interface element with which a user can select a search type from a plurality of search types, wherein the search types comprise searches saved by a user and a plurality of standard searches; providing a second user... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090204580 - Selectively obscuring the presentation of restricted data items: A computerized method and system for obscuring adult advertisements are provided. Example embodiments may include receiving a search criterion and locating multiple data items using the search criterion. The method may include determining that a subset of the multiple data items has determinable characteristics. The multiple data items may be... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090204590 - System and method for an integrated enterprise search: Methods and systems allow integrated search in an enterprise environment that stores information in data silos. Entity type metadata, relations between entity types and other information related to entity types is extracted from the data silos. Metadata information extracted from multiple data silos is combined to construct a global data... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090204574 - Systems and methods for computation of optimal distance bounds on compressed time-series data: There are provided a method and a system for computation of optimal distance bounds on compressed time-series data. In a method for similarity search, the method includes the step of transforming sequence data into a compressed sequence represented by top-k coefficients of the sequence data and a sum of the... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20090204578 - Targeted queries using an oma dm protocol: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for extending the functionality of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Device Management (DM) protocol. An addition is made to the OMA DM protocol that enables the server to specify node filtering criteria as part of a query to a target node on a mobile... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090204593 - System and method for parallel retrieval of data from a distributed database: An improved system and method for parallel retrieval of data from a distributed database is provided. A parallel interface may be provided for use by a cluster of client machine for parallel retrieval of partial results from parallel execution of a database query by a cluster of database servers storing... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20090204598 - Ad retrieval for user search on social network sites: In this invention, systems and methods for providing keywords for advertising are provided. After a user searches for another user in a social network, the webpage or blog of the queried user is retrieved, and keywords are extracted from this webpage. The keywords may be extracted from the user's profile... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090204602 - Apparatus and methods for presenting linking abstracts for search results: Disclosed are apparatus and methods for providing linking abstracts for a plurality of search results. In certain embodiments, an abstract of a listed search result is revised to include links to locations within the associated search result document that are proximate to one or more abstract portions. When the user... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson - Yahoo!

20090204610 - Deep web miner: Systems, computer implemented methods and computer program products are provided for selectively capturing and/or evaluating information including content and metadata from across a network such as the “wide world web” (WWW), or more generally, the Internet. A deep web mining tool may be utilized to exploit the deep web by... Agent: Stevens & Showalter, L.L.P.

20090204609 - Determining words related to a given set of words: In one embodiment, display of a user entry window of a graphical user interface is initiated. Search terms entered into the user entry window to initiate a first search are received. One or more first search results from a corpus of documents are determined according to the search terms. Display... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090204607 - Document management method, document management apparatus, information processing apparatus, and document management system: When registering a document, pieces of index candidate information to be assigned to the document to be registered are created and output based on user characteristic information acquired from login information of a user and document information acquired from the document to be registered. Index information selected by the user... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090204606 - File management system, file management method, and storage medium: A file management apparatus which makes it possible to cache a file registered in a file server from an initial stage of registration thereof. When a file is newly registered in the file server, the file server extracts the feature elements of the file, and searches for an registered file... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090204611 - Information display apparatus, information display program and information display system: The interest of a user of an information terminal is extracted by a file operation and information suited to the interest is provided. When a system call for file access is issued from an application program, an access processor 104 selects from a file storage unit 102 a file designated... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090204595 - Method and apparatus for tracking a change in a collection of web documents: A method and an apparatus for tracking changes in a collection of web documents, for example, provided by a web site. The web documents are retrieved at a first assigned point in time and a second assigned point in time. Then a similarity measure for a combination of a retrieved... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090204604 - Method and device for online dynamic semantic video compression and video indexing: A technique for semantic video compression is shown in block (120). Uncompressed video data (210), including a plurality of video data segments (S1, S2, . . . Sn), are organized into two or more buffer slots (220), such that each of the two or more buffer slots is filled with... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090204600 - Mobile recommendation and reservation system: Apparatus and methods are described for assisting a requester to identify and reserve a resource that meets the need of the requestor's request. For example, a request can be augmented using augmentation data, such as current position and requester preferences, and resources are located and ranked according to their match... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle, Anderson & Citkowski, P.C.

20090204603 - Multi-channel content modeling system: A service delivery platform receives a request for a catalogue. The system obtains subscriber-specific multi-media catalogue entries based on profile information stored with the service delivery platform. The system sends the subscriber-specific catalogue entries along with service details of the subscription back to the subscriber.... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090204608 - Product placement engine and method: A product placement engine and method for automatically identifying products for association with a document, the engine including a parser, an analysis module adapted to determine word scores and to adjust the word scores of the words by predetermined weightings, a keyword constructor module adapted to construct a keyword query... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090204594 - Recommendation system for assisting mashup developers at build-time: A recommendation system exploits a repository of mashups to provide design-time assistance to the user through relevant suggestions as to what outputs can be generated along with the best plans to generate those outputs. An output ranker ranks the outputs of the system base on their popularity scores, and a... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20090204596 - Semantic compatibility checking for automatic correction and discovery of named entities: A computer implemented system and method for processing text are disclosed. Partially processed text, in which named entities have been extracted by a standard named entity system, is processed to identify attributive relations between a named entity or proper noun and a corresponding attribute. A concept for the attribute is... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090204605 - Semantic search via role labeling: A method and system for searching for information contained in a database of documents each includes an offline part and an online part. The offline part includes predicting, in a first computer process, semantic data for sentences of the documents contained in the database and storing this data in a... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090204601 - Social network search: A device, system and method to enable communications over a network wherein a user may conduct a search directed to target contacts within a social network. A knowledge base of prior social search responses may be searched for responses from the target contacts with the results being presented to the... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090204597 - System and method for preferred services in nomadic environments: A method of locating preferred services includes searching an augmented spatial index, which is based on a user's determined preferred services. Additionally, the method includes indicating a location of a currently-sought preferred service.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090204599 - Using related users data to enhance web search: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates generating a personalized query result for a specific user. An interface can receive at least one of a portion of a text query to be searched or a portion of personalized content related to a user that submits... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090204612 - Apparatus and method for dynamic web service discovery: An apparatus and method is provided to dynamically search for available Web services by persistently searching a distributed multi-level UDDI registry chain, interrogating their published technical specifications and enabling the consumer to find, bind, and invoke the desired Web service in real-time and without intervention by the consumer. The search... Agent: Bae Systems

20090204613 - Pattern detection apparatus, pattern detection system, pattern detection program and pattern detection method: A pattern detection apparatus includes a pattern DB which stores pattern information corresponding to a file type, a management unit which receives data belonging to a file which is transferred between an information processing apparatus and an external apparatus connected thereto and is divided into the data, and an arithmetic... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090204614 - Searchable electronic records of underground facility locate marking operations: Methods and apparatus for generating a searchable electronic record of a locate operation in which a presence or an absence of at least one underground facility within a dig area may be identified using one or more physical locate marks. Source data representing one or more input images of a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090204616 - Access controller using tree-structured data: A method for controlling access to a data source includes steps of: storing a plurality of access control policies in a database; generating a plurality of tree-structured data from the policies; merging the plurality of tree-structured data; determining that a user is attempting to access part of the data source;... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20090204615 - Persistent cross platform collection of audience data: Previous attempts to measure content and/or advertising consumption treat each category as a unique silo of information. A method, system, and method of doing business generate a profile by obtaining at least a first and second data measurement from a user impression of a linear source of content and a... Agent: The Marbury Law Group, PLLC

20090204617 - Content acquisition system and method of implementation: A system is provided which solves content acquisition issues by providing an automated method to acquire content in mass and maintain an association between available meta-data and the actual content, e.g., video file. The system includes a first component configured to log network traffic. The system also includes a second... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090204619 - Device capable of automatically downloading files and method thereof: The present invention relates to a device capable of automatically downloading files comprises, a printed circuit board; a micro controller; a memory provided with a program; an internet interface for connecting to an internet; and a connecting interface coupled with a hub; when a card reader is coupled with the... Agent: Guice Patents PLLC

20090204618 - Storage system: Operation logs 3005 concerning the operations of volumes are associated with a time and stored in storage apparatuses 1400 and 1500, and a management computer 1100 collects information about these operation logs 3005, restores the status history of the operation logs 3005, sets, as an audit range, the operation logs... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20090204620 - Systems and methods for collaborative note-taking: Techniques are provided for determining collaborative notes and automatically recognizing speech, handwriting and other type of information. Domain and optional actor/speaker information associated with the support information is determined. An initial automatic speech recognition model is determined based on the domain and/or actor information. The domain and/or actor/speaker language model... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090204621 - Data wedge profile switching: Systems, devices and/or methods that facilitate automatic data wedge configuration profile switching are presented. An automatic data wedge configuration profile switching system can improve productivity and reduce errors associated with manually switching data wedge configuration profiles. The automatic data wedge configuration profile switching system can automatically switch profiles based in... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090204623 - Generating a value associated with one of a plurality of leaf nodes by implicitly randomly climbing an implicit tree having the leaf nodes: Provided are a method, system and article of manufacture for generating a value associated with one of a plurality of leaf nodes by implicitly randomly climbing an implicit tree having the leaf nodes. A determination is made of an ancestor node of a current node, wherein each ancestor node at... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20090204622 - Visual and non-visual cues for conveying state of information cards, electronic wallets, and keyrings: A user desires to select information about himself. The system uses policies applicable to the display of the user's information and metadata about the user and the information to determine modified presentations of the user's information. The modified information can include visual and non-visual cues (such as aural, olfactory, or... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C. - Novell

20090204625 - Electronic manifest of underground facility locate operation: Methods and apparatus for generating a searchable electronic record of a locate operation performed by a locate technician, in which a presence or an absence of at least one underground facility within a dig area is identified. An image of a geographic area comprising the dig area is electronically received,... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090204624 - Method and system for preferences-based mail distribution and digital postal services: A system and method for collecting and storing communications preferences of recipients and delivering communications to a recipient in accordance with the recipient's preferences is disclosed herein. Preferably, the communications preferences consist of at least one mail formatting preference and at least one sending preference. The system automatically formats a... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C.

20090204626 - Systems and methods for information compression: Systems and methods for information compression. In a first method embodiment, a computer implemented method for compressing information includes finding a closest match entry of a dictionary to a data block, the dictionary stored in computer usable media. A logical exclusive OR combination of the closest match entry and the... Agent: Murabito, Hao & Barnes, LLP

20090204629 - Caching and memory optimizations for multi-layer xml customization: Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for customizing aspects of a metadata-driven software application. In particular, embodiments of the present invention provide (1) a self-contained metadata engine for generating customized metadata documents from base metadata documents and customizations; (2) a customization syntax for defining customizations; (3) a customization creation/update... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090204630 - Digital video apparatus and related method for generating index information: A digital video apparatus includes a media receiver, a first storage device, and an index information generating module. The media receiver is used for receiving a media stream. The first storage device is coupled to the media receiver for storing the media stream received by the media receiver. The index... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090204633 - Dynamic creation of an application's xml document type definition (dtd): The system, method and program of the invention enables a new DTD to be dynamically created during runtime from a preexisting DTD. A next document is processed and validated according to the new DTD. An interface is provided that enables plug-in providers to provide fragments of DTD information for at... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20090204627 - Finite harmonic oscillator: A dictionary at least partially spans a set of discrete q-length signals. The atoms of the dictionary are eigenvectors of a representation of a commutative subgroup of a finite symplectic group. The dictionary may be used for interpreting a radar signal, denoising a signal, compressing data, finding a sparse representation,... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20090204631 - Method and system for masking data in a consistent manner across multiple data sources: A method and system for data masking a series of interrelated data records is disclosed. A lockable translation matrix repository resource is provided to contain both masked data as well as appropriate key information that provides links between respective copies of respective interlinked databases and maintains the data integrity of... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20090204628 - Shared inventory item donation in a virtual universe: Generally speaking, systems, methods and media for managing donations of shared inventory items in a virtual universe are disclosed. Embodiments of the method may include receiving a request to make available for donation a shared inventory item list that can be borrowed simultaneously by a plurality of users of a... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20090204632 - Triangulated irregular network: Methods and other embodiments associated with performing an in-memory triangulation of an arbitrarily large data set are described. One example method for performing in-memory triangulation of an arbitrarily large data set includes striping a data set into multiple stripes, selecting a first stripe to triangulate, and then performing an in-memory... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC - Oracle

20090204635 - Database data type creation and reuse: Embodiments are provided for creating and reusing custom data types in a database. A selection of a field or group of fields may be received from a database table in the database by a database software application executing on a computer system. Each selected field may include a set of... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090204634 - Information-processing apparatus, information-processing method, and computer-readable storage medium: An information-processing apparatus includes: a link information-generating portion that reads two or more pieces of operation information having a user identifier and an object identifier for identifying an object on which a user has performed an operation, detects two or more object identifiers linked via a user identifier contained in... Agent: Cermak Kenealy Vaidya & Nakajima LLP

20090204636 - Multimodal object de-duplication: Various object de-duplication techniques may be applied to object systems (such as to files in a file store) to identify similar or identical objects or portions thereof, so that duplicate objects or object portions may be associated with one copy, and the duplicate copies may be removed. However, an object... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090204642 - Apparatus and methods for determining and processing medical outcomes: A data processing system is provided for determining clinical outcomes of medical data gathered by the system. The system can allow a person to define a medical study and can then administer the medical study and can collect and analyze data from potentially geographically diverse doctors, patients and other people... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090204638 - Automated client sitemap generation: Methods and computer-storage media for automated generation of domain sitemap files are provided. A universal resource locator (URL) for a web site having a plurality of web pages associated therewith is received. Log files and permission controls are analyzed to ascertain whether each web page has been previously crawled and... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090204637 - Real-time computerized annotation of pictures: A computerized annotation method achieves real-time operation and better optimization properties while preserving the architectural advantages of the generative modeling approach. A novel clustering algorithm for objects is represented by discrete distributions, or bags of weighted vectors, thereby minimizing the total within cluster distance, a criterion used by the k-means... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20090204639 - Selective content replacement for media players: A network- and/or client-side media content replacement system/service (“MCRS”) facilitates identification and replacement of media content on media content players when defects associated with the media content players could negatively affect play of the media content. In one exemplary scenario, a media content player transmits a first message, which uniquely... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090204640 - System and method for advertisement transmission and display: The disclosure herein provides systems and methods for a media enhancement system configured to associate a secondary media signal (for example, the secondary media signal can comprise an advertisement) to a primary media signal (for example, a radio broadcast). The disclosure herein additionally provides systems and methods for a media... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090204641 - Techniques to associate media information with related information: System, apparatus, method, and article for techniques to associate media data with related information. A mobile computing device includes a media manager module. The media manager module processes a media file including metadata. The media manager module retrieves a first content from a metadata field in the metadata. The media... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC 4500 Brooktree Road

20090204643 - System and method for conflict resolution: A method for conflict resolution includes converting a first plurality of transactions into a first plurality of derivative objects in a first derivative model wherein each of the first plurality of derivative objects comprises a corresponding first type indicator and converting a second plurality of transactions into a second plurality... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090204644 - system and method for on-demand generation of a selectable input for enacting a previous document processing device control sequence: The subject application is directed to a system and method for on-demand generation of a selectable input for enacting a previous document processing device control sequence. User identification data is received, and a document processing session is opened. A sequence of instructions is then received, and data associated with the... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090204645 - System, method, program, and system implementation method for transaction process logging: A system is provided to log a transaction process performed based on a service level agreement concerning the response time of the transaction process. The system includes a logging policy table, a transaction process monitoring unit, and a storage device. The logging policy table records one or more logging policies... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090204646 - Data processing system and method of grouping computer files: A method of operating multiple files includes creating a group of computer files using a single container, and opening multiple files of the group and associated application software by opening a single file corresponding to the group of computer files.... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090204647 - Methods and systems for creating and saving multiple versions of a cimputer file: The present invention generally encompasses methods and systems for creating and saving multiple versions of a computer file in a computing environment, such as within a central processing unit. According to certain embodiments of the present invention, the methods generally comprise (a) instructing a central processing unit to detect a... Agent: Gregory Bentley

20090204651 - Accessing file data stored in non-volatile re-programmable semiconductor memories: File data for an operating system may be stored in a compressed format in a re-programmable semiconductor memory. The memory may be provided with a header and data for one or more file systems all stored in a compressed format. A device driver also stored in the memory may be... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090204650 - File deduplication using copy-on-write storage tiers: A method and apparatus for removing duplicated data in a file system utilizing copy-on-write storage tiers. A synthetic namespace is created via file virtualization, and is comprised of one or more file systems. Deduplication is applied at the namespace level and on all of the file systems comprising the synthetic... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP (f5 Patents) Gunnar G. Leinberg

20090204649 - File deduplication using storage tiers: A method and apparatus for removing duplicated data in a file system utilizing the concept of storage tiers. A synthetic namespace is created via file virtualization, and is comprised of one or more file systems. Deduplication is applied at the namespace level and on all of the file systems comprising... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP (f5 Patents) Gunnar G. Leinberg

20090204652 - System and method for controlling the storage of redundant electronic files to increase storage reliability and space efficiency: A storage control system including an overlap retrieval arrangement for retrieving overlap files, which are stored in at least one storage area of a plurality of storage areas, and which overlap one another, and a storage controlling arrangement for storing data of at least one overlapped part of the retrieved... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090204648 - Tracking metadata for files to automate selective backup of applications and their associated data: A computer implemented method, a data processing system, and a computer program product backup an application and a file for the application. A set of backup parameters is received. The backup parameters include an indication of the application to be backed up. Responsive to receiving the backup parameters, a metadata... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090204653 - Apparatus having data installed and method of upgrading data: In an apparatus having data installed therein, the apparatus includes a data storage part for storing a (n+1)th-order file obtained by bundling an nth-order file and (n+1)th data corresponding to an (n+1)th function level into one file, wherein n is an integer, an identifier storage part for storing an identifier... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090204654 - System and method for asynchronous parallel garbage collection: A system and method for asynchronously graying and blackening objects in the marking phase of parallel garbage collection. The system and method use a matrix to control a series of linked list of work to be grayed and blackened. The threads of the garbage collector are each assigned entries within... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20090198643 - Apparatus and method for utilizing density metadata to process multi-dimensional data: A computer readable storage medium includes a data analyzer to build population sets for dimensions of a multi-dimensional data source and to identify intersections of population sets so as to form density metadata. A query processor accesses the density metadata while processing a query.... Agent: Sap GlobalIPC/o Cooley Godward Kronish LLP William S. Galliani

20090198644 - Learning query rewrite policies: A blended query rewrite provider takes as an input a search query and produces a list of query rewrite suggestions. The blended query rewrite provider generates suggestions by applying a number of individual query rewrite providers in series to a query. The sequence in which query rewrite providers are applied... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090198647 - Apparatus and method for identifying locale-specific data based on a total ordering of supported locales: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to extract a first language from a first target locale in response to failing to match the target locale to a list of supplied locales, where the list of supplied locales includes all supported locales for which locale-specific data is available. The... Agent: Sap GlobalIPC/o Cooley Godward Kronish LLP William S. Galliani

20090198657 - Coordination server, data allocating method, and computer program product: In a structure where a table is partitioned into multiple databases according to a certain partitioning method, a coordinator server changes allocation information that is used to determine a database into which each of data records should be registered when an allocation change command is issued. The coordinator server stores... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090198654 - Detecting relevant content blocks in text: A system that facilitates detecting a targeted topic in a document is described herein. The system includes a receiver component that receives a document. The system additionally includes a topic model component trained using a plurality of training documents including the topic and a plurality of training documents that do... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090198649 - Extensible data provider querying and scheduling system: Embodiments provide an independent layer between an application user interface and various data sources so that both the user interface and data sources can be added to, removed, or modified without affecting the other. The independent layer provides scalability to allow data sources and data providers to be plugged into... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090198656 - Iptv collecting content information from content providers, and method and system for providing iptv with content information: An Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) which collects content information from content providers and a method and system for providing the IPTV with the content information are provided. The IPTV includes a connection unit which enables the IPTV to be connected to the Internet for data transmission or reception over the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090198650 - Media library monitoring system and method: Embodiments of methods and systems comprise collecting data associated with a library or library components and storing the collected data in repository. By collecting data associated with a library or library components and storing the collected data in a repository, the degradation of library components can be monitored and the... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20090198651 - Method and system for analyzing data related to an event: A system and method for analyzing data from a plurality of computer environments. A user may search for computer environments that meet a certain criterion. The computer environments are authenticated and data is copied from the computer environments to a memory location. The data may be marked so that a... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090198652 - Method and system for selecting a communication means: A method and system for selecting communication means are provided. The method includes receiving a request for communication (102) by a current user (101) with a target contact and searching data of prior communication attempts (105) by prior users with one or more prior target contacts using different communication means,... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090198645 - Method for exploitation of social networks to derive a location of employees: A method is provided for exploitation of a social network to derive a location of an employee in a corporation utilizing instant messaging or automatic telephone calls. A search request is received for a location of an employee. A social network or acquaintance list of the employee is looked up... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Boca Raton

20090198658 - Method for generating data enabling the search for content, system, terminal, and server complements to implement the method: m

20090198659 - Methods and systems for fast scan location identification: An unknown named territory encloses a known physical target location that is specified by a target longitude and a target latitude. An operation is performed to identify a number of rectangular-shaped terrestrial areas that each enclose both the target longitude and the target latitude. Each of the identified rectangular-shaped terrestrial... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20090198655 - Semantic client, semantic information management server, method of generating semantic information, method of searching semantic information, and computer program recording medium for performing the methods: A semantic client, a semantic information management server, a method of generating semantic information, a method of searching semantic information, and a computer program recording medium for performing the methods, the semantic client including: an identification (ID) generator to generate an ID of a target content; and a descriptor generator... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090198648 - System and method for adaptively retrieving parameter trend data from a supervisory control manufacturing/production database: A database client for retrieving and presenting steams of time stamped data points for tagged variables is disclosed herein that supports a set of retrieval styles that are adaptively applied within a trending application in accordance with a pre-specified configuration of the trending application that supports assigning a retrieval style... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20090198653 - System and method for device profiling using cascaded databases: A system for device profiling using cascaded databases includes a client configured to deliver data to a device, and a plurality of databases accessible by the client, each of the plurality databases containing information relevant to the device, such that the plurality of databases are queried in a prioritized order... Agent: Michael J. Tempel Smith Frohwein Tempel

20090198660 - System and method for improved media identification in a storage device: Systems and methods are provided for improved identification of removable storage media. A scanner may be used to read an identifier, such as a barcode, on a removable storage media. In the event that the scanner reads the identifier incorrectly due to a defect in the barcode, such as a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090198646 - Systems, methods and computer program products for an algebraic approach to rule-based information extraction: Systems, methods and computer program products for an algebraic approach to rule-based information extraction. Exemplary embodiments include a method for rule-based information extraction, the method including specifying an annotator using algebraic operators, wherein each algebraic operator describes annotations identification from text documents.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20090198662 - Techniques for crawling dynamic web content: An automated form filler and script executor is integrated with a web browser engine, which is communicatively coupled to a web crawler, thereby enabling the crawler to identify dynamic web content based on submission of forms completed by the form filler. The crawler is capable of identifying web pages containing... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090198661 - Time-shift image distribution system, time-shift image distribution method, time-shift image requesting apparatus, and image server: A time-shift image distribution system includes an image server and a time-shift image requesting apparatus. The image server includes a first communication unit configured to carry out communications with the time-shift image requesting apparatus, an image database configured to store image data of captured images in association with meta information... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090198663 - Defining sub-cube scope based upon a query: Technologies are described herein for defining the scope of a sub-cube based upon a database query. A request is received to perform a query of a multi-dimensional database, such as a cube, stored at a server computer. In response to the request, the scope for a sub-portion, called a sub-cube,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090198665 - Information processing method: Method for generating information processing Systems wherein informative Containers and Contents are created, identified, stored, modeled, communicated, modified and deleted by creating, modifying or deleting Links (1). The whole information entered by the users and the information for describing the System takes the form of Links having identical sizes and... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090198664 - Method and system for merging disparate virtual universes entities: A migration tool for merging disparate virtual universes by selecting a source region or source account, selecting a destination edge or destination account, retrieving and storing virtual universe information for the source region or account, inserting the virtual universe resources of the source region or account into the destination region... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20090198666 - Affinity matching system and method: An affinity matching system and method for identifying nearby users with shared affinities including a data processing system comprising a computer program tangibly embodied on a memory device. The computer program includes an affinity user group preprocessing module configured to define at least one affinity user group, each affinity user... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090198685 - Annotation system for creating and retrieving media and methods relating to same: The invention described herein is generally directed to a method and apparatus for creating and retrieving audio data. In one implementation the invention comprises an annotation system configured to record, store, and retrieve media. The annotation system contains a set of client-processing devices configured to capture media for subsequent playback.... Agent: Fox Rothschild LLP New York

20090198668 - Apparatus and method for displaying documents relevant to the content of a website: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to identify a user of a website, retrieve one or more keywords describing content on the website, and search for reports corresponding to the one or more keywords. The reports are filtered based on data access permissions associated with the user. A... Agent: Sap GlobalIPC/o Cooley Godward Kronish LLP William S. Galliani

20090198669 - Configuration-based search: A system that tunes search results is presented. During operation, the system receives content to be searched. The system then iteratively performs the following operations until search results meet specified criteria. The system generates an index of the content based on a set of configuration parameters. Next, the system performs... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090198672 - Context-sensitive query expansion: A method for processing a search query having a plurality of search terms for searching for documents includes segmenting the query to identify two or more units, expanding the query by selecting one or more substitutable units for at least one unit in the query, and calculating a substitution probability... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090198677 - Document comparison method and apparatus: A document comparison and identification method comprises the steps of: identifying (S210), in a source document, words of a predetermined number of characters or greater; generating a list containing the identified words (S220), and excluding (S220) identified words occurring with a predetermined frequency or greater throughout a set of documents... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090198680 - Document management method, document management apparatus, and document management system: User characteristic information acquired from the login information of a user is stored as attribute information associated with the document information of a registered document. In accordance with login of the user, a document associated with the acquired user characteristic information is acquired based on the acquired user characteristic information... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20090198683 - Fast adaptive document filtering: Data structures, stored on various types of computer-readable media, include information related to user profiles and/or to various documents. The information included in these data structures is arranged and stored in manner that allows for rapid user profile updating to be performed as new or changed documents are processed in... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090198673 - Forum mining for suspicious link spam sites detection: An anti-spam technique for protecting search engine ranking is based on mining search engine optimization (SEO) forums. The anti-spam technique collects webpages such as SEO forum posts from a list of suspect spam websites, and extracts suspicious link exchange URLs and corresponding link formation from the collected webpages. A search... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090198667 - Generating search result summaries: Embodiments are configured to provide a summary of information associated with one or more search results. In an embodiment, a system includes a summary generator that can be configured to provide a summary of information including one or more snippets associated with a search term or search terms. The system... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090198676 - Indexing documents for information retrieval: Information retrieval systems such as web search systems locate documents amongst millions and even billions of possible documents on the basis of query terms. In order to achieve this document indexes are created. We propose creating new fields in the documents to store feedback information. This information comprises query terms... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090198674 - Information-retrieval systems, methods, and software with concept-based searching and ranking: To improve traditional keyword based search engines, the present inventors devised, among other things, systems, methods, and software that use word co-occurrence probabilities not only to identify documents conceptually related to user queries, but also to score and rank search results. One exemplary system combines inverse-document-frequency searching with concept searching... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090198670 - Method and system for collecting and organizing data corresponding to an event: A system and method for analyzing data from a plurality of computer environments. The computer environments are authenticated and data is imported to a memory location. The data is converted into a uniform format to enable expedited searching by one or more authenticated users. The data may be marked so... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090198686 - Method and system for indexing information about entities with respect to hierarchies: Systems and methods for indexing, associating or compositing data records and hierarchies from various information sources are disclosed. Embodiments of the present invention may provide the ability to link data records and thus to link data records to known hierarchies of data records. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20090198682 - Method and system for restricting access rights on user profile information using a new notion of peer: s

20090198688 - Methods and systems for dynamically rearranging search results into hierarchically organized concept clusters: Methods of and systems for dynamically rearranging search results into hierarchically organized concept clusters are provided. A method of searching for and presenting content items as an arrangement of conceptual clusters to facilitate further search and navigation on a display-constrained device includes providing a set of content items and receiving... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20090198675 - Methods and systems for using community defined facets or facet values in computer networks: A database search method and system utilize user community defined facets and facet values for refining searches. The system provides access to a database having a plurality of records in respective categories of information. Each record has one or more facets to the respective category of information. The system enables... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090198687 - Plan solver: Systems and methods for supply chain management and identification of feasible plans. Identification of feasible plans includes simultaneous breadth and depth satisfaction of demands. Demands are satisfied using multiple sources of supply, consideration of substitute items, generation of supply, and/or reallocation of supply previously pegged for satisfaction of a lower... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090198681 - Real property evaluation and scoring method and system: A method for evaluating a parcel of real estate includes recording a location and intended use of the parcel, generating a geocoded graphic of an area including the parcel, and defining a trade area. Boundaries of the trade area are demarcated on the graphic, and databases are accessed to determine... Agent: Quinn Law Group, PLLC

20090198684 - System and method for determining semantically related terms: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for determining semantically related terms. Generally, one or more seed terms are received from a user. A system searches a first index comprising a plurality of terms and one or more webpages associated with each term of the plurality of terms... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090198671 - System and method for generating subphrase queries: A system for generating subphrase queries. The system includes a sequence label modeling engine and a regression modeling engine. The sequence label modeling engine generates a plurality of subphrase queries by indexing through each token in a search phrase and labeling each token based on an association to other tokens... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090198679 - Systems, methods and software for evaluating user queries: The present inventor devised, among other things, an information retrieval system that determines whether a query is ambiguous or not and based on this determination either continues or aborts a search process. One query evaluation extracts word pairs from an input query and uses features of the extracted word pairs,... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090198678 - Systems, methods, and software for entity relationship resolution: To facilitate access to public records, the present inventors devised, among other things, an entity resolution system. The exemplary system includes master records database of 300 million entities, which is partitioned into multiple distinct portions. The exemplary system extracts entity information from input public records and constructs one or more... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090198691 - Device and method for providing fast phrase input: A user interface for receiving text in a device adapted to receive key input, the device having access to a dictionary database and including a controller arranged to match the key input against the dictionary database to find matching input candidates, wherein the key input corresponds to at least one... Agent: Perman & Green

20090198690 - Information comparison method: An information comparison method, suitable for a server, is provided. The server is connected to clients. The method includes following steps. First, assign at least two comparing objects among the server and the clients. Next, set a comparing information. Then, obtain the set comparing information from the comparing objects through... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20090198692 - Methods, systems and computer program products for analogy detection among entities using reciprocal similarity measures: Analogies among entities may be detected by obtaining associative counts among the entities and computing similarity measures among given entities and other entities, using the associative counts. First and second entities are then identified as being analogies if the first entity has a strongest similarity measure with respect to the... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20090198689 - System and method for data preservation and retrieval: A system and method for searching for computer environments, authenticating the computer environments, and copying data from the authenticated computer environments to a memory location. The data is marked or bound to the computer system it was copied from which provides a user with assurance that the data was obtained... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090198693 - Method and apparatus for ordering items within datasets: Methods and apparatus permit displaying items of datasets resulting from executing queries on a database in an order specified by a hierarchy. The hierarchy has a number of categories arranged in an order. Each item is associated with one of the categories. The items in a dataset can be ordered... Agent: Oyen, Wiggs, Green & Mutala LLP 480 - The Station

20090198695 - Method and apparatus for supporting distributed computing within a multiprocessor system: A locking mechanism for supporting distributed computing within a multiprocessor system is disclosed. A lock control section and a stage control section are assigned to a data block within a system memory. In response to a request for accessing the data block by a processing unit, a determination is made... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090198694 - Resolving conflicts in a transactional execution model of a multiprocessor system: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for resolving conflicts, including receiving data access requests from multiple requestors at a home agent that owns the data, determining whether any of the requests are transactional requests, any of the requestors obtains the data forwarded from another agent, and a... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090198696 - Emergency medical record: A system and retrieval of an emergency medical record of a patient comprising the step of receiving the emergency medical record of the patient and an online database. The system further comprises the step of storing the emergency medical record in the online database and providing access to the online... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20090198697 - Method and system for controlling access to data via a data-centric security model: A method and system for controlling access to data via a data-centric security model. A business data classification scheme is defined as a hierarchy that includes data types aligned with business operations. A data element is labeled with a data label. The data label includes multiple attributes associated with a... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090198698 - System and method for adding multi-leval security to federated asset repositories: A system and method for adding multi-level security to federated asset repositories is provided. A multi-level security (MLS) manager receives normalized taxonomies from repository managers, which manage repositories that include assets assigned various security levels. In turn, the MLS manager integrates the taxonomies into a composite taxonomy. When a portal... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20090198701 - Dynamic webcast content viewer method and system: A data accessing method and system. The method includes receiving by a computing system from a first user, a first user profile comprising user preference data associated with the first user. The computing system receives and stores Webcast data associated with a Webcast that has been broadcasted for an entity.... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090198703 - Intelligent data storage system: An intelligent data storage system, comprising: one or more intelligent storage devices each comprising one or more processors, a memory, and a storage medium configured to store source data; and one or more application hosts each comprising one or more processors and a memory, communicatively coupled to said one or... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090198700 - Method and system for improving the quality of deep metadata associated with media content: Methods and systems verify and control the quality of metadata associated with a media data file. The metadata may be used, for example, by media content recommendation systems. In one embodiment, a first attribute is selected from metadata associated with a media data file and an attribute dependency corresponding to... Agent: Realnetworks, Inc. C/o Stoel Rives LLP

20090198704 - Method for automated network file and directory virtualization: A system and method for managing the locations of files in a network such that application programs in client computers that need access to those files do not need reconfiguration when those locations are changed. Further, the system and method allows the resolution of the ‘virtual’ location known to the... Agent: Devine, Millimet & Branch, P.A.

20090198699 - Remote space efficient repository: A method for storing data includes establishing a space efficient storage system including a virtual repository, a staging repository and a remote repository. The virtual repository includes a first pointer to the staging repository, and the staging repository includes a second pointer to the remote repository. The method further includes... Agent: Dale F. Regelman Quarles & Brady, LLP

20090198705 - Server, data transfer method, and recording medium: A receiving unit receives a processing request from a client, requesting acquisition of data including a plurality of elements from a database. An acquiring unit acquires first data and data structure information from the database in response to the first processing request. A generating unit replaces a first element with... Agent: Gregory Turocy Amin & Turocy, LLP

20090198702 - Synchronization infrastructure for networked devices, applications and services in a loosely coupled multi-master synchronization environment: The subject disclosure relates to an efficient multi-master synchronization infrastructure is provided enabling loosely coupled networked client and server devices, applications and services to efficiently convey and receive synchronization knowledge across interconnecting network(s). A set of synchronization methods and standardized interfaces are also provided that enable rich offline application experiences... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090198709 - Application tier data dictionary: A method of tracking dependencies in an application file, including analyzing the application file to identify at least one dependency in the application file, extracting information from the application file related to the dependency to allow identification of an entity to which the application file has a dependency from the... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C. - Oracle (oracle)

20090198713 - Communication apparatus and communication method: When stored stream data is deleted/edited, the packet sequence completely included in a deletion range is deleted from the stream data, and the stream data is segmented into first stream data before the start point of the deletion range and second stream data after the end point of the deletion... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090198712 - Metadata for software aircraft parts: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for creating a data structure residing on a computer recordable medium for verifying whether a software aircraft part can be loaded. The data structure comprises a set of aircraft identification objects. An aircraft identification object within the set of aircraft... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090198708 - Method and apparatus for managing metadata associated with entities in a computing system: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates managing metadata associated with entities and entity types in a computing system. During operation, the system initializes a global static metadata cache containing global static metadata at the computing system. Next, the system initializes a global dynamic metadata cache... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090198710 - Remote space efficient repository: A method for storing data includes establishing a space efficient storage system including a virtual repository, a staging repository and a remote repository. The virtual repository includes a first pointer to the staging repository, and the staging repository includes a second pointer to the remote repository. The method further includes... Agent: Dale F. Regelman Quarles & Brady, LLP

20090198706 - System and method for managing facility location data: The present disclosure provides a method for managing facility location data. The method includes receiving a location data record from a first client application, validating the location data record by applying one or more validation rules to the location data record, and standardizing the location data record by converting one... Agent: Docket Clerk, Dm/eds

20090198707 - System and method for managing firewall log records: The present disclosure provides a method for managing communication records that includes receiving a plurality of firewall log records from at least a firewall system, consolidating the plurality of firewall log records by filtering out a plurality of duplicate records, and associating the plurality of firewall log records with a... Agent: Docket Clerk, Dm/eds

20090198711 - User-targeted advertising: Structured data sets including one or more attributes are identified, each structured data set associated with, for example, a particular user. Values corresponding the at least one of the one or more attributes in each structured data set are identified. A condition established by a content provider, for instance, an... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090198714 - Document processing and management approach for reflecting changes in one representation of a document to another representation: A method of propagating changes from a DOM tree. The method comprising watching a subset of the DOM tree, the subset matching a template. A change is made in the watched subset of the DOM tree. A representation of the DOM tree is automatically updated to reflect the change in... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090198715 - Method and apparatus for pseudo-conversion of table objects: A method for converting a table object from a first partitioning type to a second partitioning type includes steps or acts of gathering information including a definition of a clustering index of the table object; converting the table object of the first partitioning type into a virtual table object of... Agent: Michael J. Buchenhorner

20090198717 - Method for clustering automation and classification techniques: A method and system for use in an information retrieval system that provides related informational items that can be automatically classified and summarized in a hierarchical manner. The system comprises the steps and means for the presentation and analysis of mined data through the application of four distinct processes, namely,... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20090198716 - Method of building a compression dictionary during data populating operations processing: A system and method for synchronously building a Ziv-Lempel dictionary during online insert processing. In one embodiment the invention includes a method for processing information that includes the steps of initiating a process for adding data to a data object including a table and determining if a predetermined condition exists... Agent: Law Office Of Donald L. Wenskay

20090198718 - Methods and apparatus for parallel execution of a process: One embodiment of the invention is directed to executing a computer program that manipulates data stored in a distributed manner on a parallel server. At least one portion of the computer program treats the data from a global perspective, wherein commands to the parallel server are not specific to the... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090198721 - Computing resource selection method and system: A selection method and system. The method includes enabling, by a computing system for a requester, access to the computing system. The computing system comprises a memory system. The memory system comprises group based access control data and computing resource data organized based on an XML schema that comprises a... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090198726 - Method and apparatus for organizing contents: A method and apparatus to organize content, which can systematically and efficiently organize and manage contents. The method includes creating a content list and providing the content list to a user; providing a user interface to the user to organize content included in the content list in units of time... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090198720 - Method for creating a process nomenclature: Techniques for creating a nomenclature to represent one or more groups within a process are provided. The techniques include obtaining a process, wherein the process comprises one or more groups, and creating a nomenclature to represent the one or more groups, wherein the nomenclature facilitates usability of the process in... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090198719 - Methods and appartuses for assisting the production of media works and the like: Systems and methods for assisting one or more users in the production of a media work from a plurality of recordings are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, digital versions of the recordings are stored on a file-storage server accessible over a communications network. A media-library server provides an organized way... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20090198724 - System and method for conducting network analytics: A log file from a server is analyzed and entries in the log file are deleted, combined, or condensed to create a list of page views that more accurately reflects traffic to a server. The list of page views may be added to a database for searching, sorting, and analyzing... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090198722 - System and method for deriving the minimum number of bytes required to represent numeric data with different physical representations: For individual data items described by XML Schema elements and attributes of simple type, the type definitions are capable of defining the range of numeric data. Once the range is known, it is possible to deduce the number of bytes required for a given physical representation (primitive or inherited). A... Agent: Maxvalueip Consulting LLC

20090198723 - System and method for web-based data mining of document processing information: The subject application is directed to a system and method for web-based data mining of document processing device information. User identification data corresponding to an identity of multiple users is first received at each of a plurality of document processing devices. Device status data is then received corresponding to document... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090198727 - Trace-based database schema evolution method and system: A method, system, and computer program storage product perform an integrated trace-based database schema evolution. An original design model is imported. The original design model is edited. A set of alterations of the original design model resulting from editing the original design model is traced. The set of alterations is... Agent: Fleit, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l

20090198725 - Visualizing tree structures with different edge lengths: A system described herein includes a receiver component that receives multiple data elements, wherein each of the data elements has a common attribute, and wherein the several data elements are hierarchically related. The system may further include an assignor component that independently assigns each of the multiple data elements to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090198728 - Generating, and updating calendar events from non-calendar sources: Calendar events are pulled from an information source, such as a website, having listed events. A user subscribes to an information source where information containing time-stamped events appears. Alternatively, a user specifies a keyword for searching on the information source. If there are any changes on the information source in... Agent: Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., L.p.a.

20090198729 - System and method of obtaining interrelated data in a database: A system and method are provided for obtaining interrelated data for a database. The method can include the operation of calculating a data row set for a driving table in the database using at least one archive policy. A further operation is obtaining explicit and implicit application relationships between a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090198733 - Healthcare resource locator: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates identifying a medical facility for an emergency medical situation. An interface can receive a portion of data related to an emergency medical incident and a corresponding location. A match component can evaluate the portion of data to select... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090198735 - Method and apparatus for managing user registration on ce device over network: A method and an apparatus for managing device users over a network are provided. The method of managing users of a device in which network communication is possible, includes: inputting a request of a device user to manage a device user list; providing a user identifier candidate list including at... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090198732 - Method and system for deep metadata population of media content: Methods and systems generate deep metadata associated with media content. The deep metadata may be used, for example, by media content recommendation systems. In one embodiment, a database includes a plurality of media files that are each associated with respective data models and metadata sets. A new media file is... Agent: Realnetworks, Inc. C/o Stoel Rives LLP

20090198730 - Method and system for managing the lifecycles of media assets: There is provided a method for managing the lifecycles of one or more media assets. The method comprises importing the one or more media assets into a system for managing the lifecycles of the one or more media assets, determining one or more metadata tags for association with the one... Agent: Disney Enterprises C/o Farjami & Farjami LLP

20090198731 - Method and system for modularizing windows imaging format: A method and system may include capturing a computer system in a file-based manner that promotes single-instancing of files and thus prevents the occurrence of duplicate files, separating the captured computer system into primary file resources and ancillary file resources, and creating a parent image and a child image that... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090198734 - System and method for performing object association based on interaction time using a location tracking system: A system is provided for associating an object with a locale or a second object based on interaction time. The system includes and object identifier linked with an object for providing data identifying the object and a location determining module for determining the location of the object. The location determining... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090198739 - File management method and system for image capturing device: A file management system for managing a number of files stored in an image capturing device includes a classifying unit, a calculating unit, a selecting unit, and a processing unit. The classifying unit is configured for classifying the files in a storage unit of the image capturing device into different... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090198738 - System and method for an adaptive list prefetch: A method, system, and computer program product are provided for retrieving records into a main memory. A first number of gaps and a first total gap size are received for a list of records from a database subsystem. A determination is made of a first average gap size using the... Agent: Walder Intellectual Property Law PC

20090198737 - System and method for archive verification: Embodiments provide systems and methods for archive verification of media in a library. A method of archive verification may comprise loading a specified media into a drive at intervals, sending one or more commands to the drive, wherein the drive attempts to read the specified media or data on the... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20090198736 - Time-based multiple data partitioning: A method, computer program product and computer system for dynamic data partitioning in a database system, which partitions data in a database system using at least one time-base data-partitioning scheme, maintains multiple time and data partitioning schemes, and utilizes database operations that work with partitions from time-based multiple data-partitioning schemes.... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090198743 - Data repair method and system: A data repair method and system. The method includes enabling by a computing system for a user, access to the computing system. The computing system comprises a database. The computing system retrieves from the database, first data associated with the user. The computing system generates a first data object from... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090198740 - Data sharing: A system is provided for sharing data over a network. The system includes a plurality of portable electronic devices among which data may be shared, and a data share server through which data to be shared between the plurality of portable electronic devices is routed via the network. The data... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090198744 - Electronic file managing apparatus and electronic file managing method: An electronic file managing apparatus and an electronic file managing method, which are intended to manage electronic files in units of conceptual folders and to facilitate the visual recognition of management status, are provided. The electronic file managing apparatus for managing files or folders includes a file change detecting unit... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090198742 - Method and system for obtaining files from a set of sources: A method and a system are described that involve obtaining information about a plurality of inbox objects, wherein each inbox object is linked to another inbox object via a set of operations, each operation having a priority. The set of operations are executed on a subset of the plurality of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090198741 - Video game title profile awards: Techniques for recognizing the accomplishments of a game player are disclosed herein. In particular, a user identification profile is provided so that digital items awarded to the user for meeting specified performance criteria in a video game or some other event may be associated with such user identification profile. The... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090198745 - Virtualization switch, computer system, and data copy method: A virtualization switch connected to a host computer and a plurality of physical storage devices includes a plurality of communication line connection terminals and storage virtualizing unit allowing the host computer to recognize a storage area generated by combining some or all of storage areas of the plurality of physical... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090198746 - Generating anonymous log entries: Assigning session identifications to log entries and generating anonymous log entries are provided. In order to balance users' privacy concerns with the need for analysis of the log entries to provide high quality search results, non-user-specific data fields, such as a user's location (e.g., city, state, and latitude/longitude) and connection... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090198747 - Memory card reader device for recovering memory card: Disclosed is a memory card reader recovering memory card. The memory card reader recovering memory card according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise a first interfacing unit interfacing with a memory card, a first storing unit storing a recovery program for recovering any deleted or impaired data... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20090198748 - Apparatus, system, and method for relocating storage pool hot spots: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for relocating storage pool hot spots. An identification module identifies a hot spot on a first storage pool if accesses to the first storage pool exceed an access threshold. The first storage pool is part of a plurality of storage pools. Each storage... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090198749 - System and methods for efficiently managing incremental data backup revisions: A system and methods for building an efficient incremental data backup system capable of managing high frequency backups sessions, and capable of efficiently expiring backup revisions and locating the useless data elements is disclosed. A reduced set of data elements that have a non-zero probability of becoming redundant when a... Agent: Dalina Law Group, P.C.