Data processing: database and file management or data structures inventions 10/09

20090248610 - Extending media annotations using collective knowledge: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for extending media annotations using collective knowledge. The method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises receiving a plurality of content items and associated annotations. The method further normalizes the plurality of associated annotations and calculates pair frequencies for... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20090248613 - Method for accessing files in a management system: A method for accessing files in a management system, including a control device, a managed device, and a system management device, includes simulating a physical storage device of the control device to the managed device, to form a virtual storage device in the managed device, outputting a request command to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090248612 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing prior values of a tuple element in a publish/subscribe system: Methods and systems are described for providing prior values of a tuple element in a publish/subscribe system. In one aspect, access to a history of prior values associated with the tuple element in the publish/subscribe system is maintained, wherein the history of prior values includes a plurality of values associated... Agent: Scenera Research, Llc

20090248614 - System and method for constructing targeted ranking from multiple information sources: Embodiments of the invention provide a system and method for determining preferences from information mashups and, in particular, a system and method for constructing a ranked list from multiple sources. In an exemplary embodiment, the system and method tunably combines multiple ranked lists by computing a score for each item... Agent: Van N. Nguy Ibm Corporation, Almaden Research Center

20090248611 - Trace collection for a virtual machine: One embodiment is a computer-implemented method of trace collection for a virtual machine that includes: executing a sequence of instructions from an initial state of the virtual machine; accessing an event log of data relating to nondeterministic events, which data includes an execution point; making at least a portion of... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20090248623 - Accessing digital identity related reputation data: Systems and processes of the present invention allow for tracking and publishing digital identity related reputation. In an example embodiment, a Digital Identity Provider maintains a database with reputation data that can be accessed by Requesters. The Digital Identity Provider may update reputation data based on a variety of events... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20090248618 - Database query processing with dynamically activated buffers: A method, apparatus and program product dynamically activate and/or deactivate buffers during execution of a database query. The dynamic deactivation and activation is based on the monitoring of information associated with the consumption of data by a plurality of threads during execution of an access plan for the database query.... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.l.p. (ibm)

20090248616 - Indexing technique to deal with data skew: A method for facilitating join operations between a first database table and a second database table within a database system. The first database table and the second database table share at least one common index column. The method includes creating a new index column in the second database table that... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20090248620 - Interacting methods of data extraction: Extraction methods can interact on a common data source using identifiers that correspond to events or other actions. These identifiers can be updated, whenever appropriate, once the corresponding data has been summarized, in order to provide for multiple extraction methods to operate only on the data of interest, and obtain... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090248622 - Method and device for indexing resource content in computer networks: A method and device index resource content in a computer network. The computer network includes at least a first computer as a search engine and at least a second computer as a resource content site where a resource content of a user is stored. A determination is made as to... Agent: Fleit, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l

20090248621 - Method and mechanism for out-of-the-box real-time sql monitoring: Methods, systems, and computer program products for monitoring database queries and executions is disclosed. The query syntax may conform to the structured query language (SQL). The approach supports various performance statistics to be monitored at each step of the query statement's execution plan and for each row processed in order... Agent: Vista Ip Law Group LLP

20090248615 - Method and system for folder recommendation in a file operation: A method and system for folder recommendation in a file operation are provided. The method includes: receiving (325) information relating to the file operation; providing history data (321) of one or more previous operations, the data including details of information relating to a previous operation and a folder on which... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090248617 - Optimization technique for dealing with data skew on foreign key joins: A method for determining when a database system query optimizer should employ join skew avoidance steps. The method includes dynamically calculating the worst-case anticipated frequency distribution for a particular relation along a particular set of join column(s) at query execution time. The calculated frequency distribution value is compared to a... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20090248619 - Supporting unified querying over autonomous unstructured and structured databases: Methods, systems and computer products perform cost estimate to determine an efficient approach to answer a query according to one of several unified query plans. One unified query plan involves querying an unstructured database, referencing a unified index, and probing a structured database based on matches discovered in the unified... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, Llc

20090248639 - Content management system and content management method: A content management system includes a content acquisition device that acquires content; and a management device. The content acquisition device performs the following operations including: transmitting the content; receiving a content ID for identifying the content and a plurality of keyword candidates associated with the content; displaying the keyword candidates;... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090248643 - Crime information coordination system and method: Entities with crime media content, such as closed circuit television videos of crimes being committed, upload the crime media content to a network based crime information coordination system. The entities are prompted to select appropriate data tags for the uploaded crime media content, which are associated with the crime media... Agent: Herbert L. Allen Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.a.

20090248640 - Device for indexing all words in books: A search engine and a display system are combined together and utilized in a book or document; and, used to carry out a digital search in the book or document, to retrieve information from any place in the book. It comprises a combination of a digital search engine, memory and... Agent: Edward Langer C/o Shiboleth Yisraeli Roberts Zisman & Co.

20090248645 - Device, method and computer readable medium for management of time-series data: There is provided a device for managing time-series data, comprising: a storage unit configured to store time-series data and related information; a designation unit configured to designate a time delimiting point to be set to the time-series data; a setting unit configured to set the time delimiting point to partial... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090248637 - Device, method, and computer-readable recording medium for notifying content scene appearance: An extracting unit extracts keywords from metadata extracted from played scenes. An attaching unit attaches a semantic class to the keywords. A semantic class determining unit determines whether the semantic class is a should-be-played class. When there is a keyword with the should-be-played class attached, an acquiring unit acquires at... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090248646 - Digital asset data type definitions: Data definitions for digital assets, such as, for example, audio, video, photographs, graphics, and electronic documents, are provided that allow these different asset types to be stored in a single database. The definitions are preferably in XML and can be used as a standardized dictionary to more efficiently and economically... Agent: Jones Day

20090248625 - Displaying concept-based search results: Methods and systems of the present invention allow for displaying suggested concept-based results. An exemplary method may comprise the steps of receiving search terms, determining from ontological calculations suggested search results related to the concept of the search terms and displaying the suggested search results.... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20090248624 - Functional updates for tree processing: An API for functionally updates to data represented in trees, such as XML trees, is provided. Functional updates can be implemented using an update combinator to search for matching nodes and apply an indicated function to those matching nodes. This API can be used in non-functional languages, such as procedural... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090248626 - Information repository search system: A computerized method and system for compiling and presenting popular searches in an information repository are provided. Example embodiments may include receiving a number of search criteria from one or more users, respectively. The search criteria may be applied to a common information repository. Source and category information may be... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090248641 - Method and apparatus for detecting anomalistic data record: A method and apparatus for detecting an anomalistic data record. The method includes the steps of mining a data rule from a verified data record set in accordance with a mining rule, checking data records in an unverified data record set in accordance with the mined data rule and determining... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090248644 - Method and apparatus for generating user attribute information: A method for generating user attribute information includes: receiving event information which carries a time range, a space range and an event ID of an event; collecting users compliant with preset conditions according to the time range and space range in the event information to form a user collection; obtaining... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.c.

20090248634 - Method and system for a metadata driven query: A computer program is provided. The computer program product includes a computer useable medium having a computer readable program. The computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to receive a query. Further, the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to generate... Agent: Patent Ingenuity, Pc

20090248630 - Method and system for communicating local content over a network: The invention provides a communications system for communicating local content over a network, including storing a plurality of primary local content entries on a local content provider computer system, storing an account total for each of a plurality of customers, storing a plurality of added local content entries relating to... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090248636 - Method for generating a robust software signature: A method and a corresponding system and computer-usable medium for discovering software products on a plurality of one or more computers. The discovering method, system and/or computer-usable medium can populate a software catalogue without the manual intervention of an administrator. Such an approach reduces the cost of producing and maintaining... Agent: Ibm Corporation, (olp) C/o Ortiz & Lopez, Pllc

20090248635 - Method for providing credible, relevant, and accurate transactional guidance: A computer-related method is presented for providing credible, relevant, and accurate guidance to a user via an interactive computer network, the method including searching for at least one affiliated network object and/or at least one network sale being at least partially related to web content requested by or displayed to... Agent: Malloy & Malloy, P. A.

20090248628 - Methods and apparatus for optimizing keyword data analysis: Techniques for analyzing keyword data for quality management purposes are provided. One or more keywords are selected. Each of the one or more keywords represent a category of quality management. A keyword time series is prepared for each of the one or more selected keywords. A set of fixed form... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090248632 - Remote printing system using federated identity web services: A data processing system comprises a print-enabled identity server. The print-enabled identity server comprises an identity provider operative in a federated identity system that authenticates a user, and stores profile information and payment information. The print-enabled identity server further comprises a Federated Print Search Responder (FPSR) and a discovery service... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090248629 - Search engine configured to minimize performance degradation under high load: A search engine is operated to handle a plurality of queries. In particular, in response to each of the plurality of queries presented to the search engine, the search engine provides an indication of at least one document responsive to that query. An indication is determined of an amount of... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20090248638 - Simply querying across time: A temporal relational database includes a relational database framework that allows for all the capabilities of a standard relational database with the addition of the concept of time. Transactions, which can be modifications of attribute values or changes to the database schema, can be stored with temporal histories. Through the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090248631 - System and method for balancing workload of a database based application by partitioning database queries: A method and system for processing complex long running queries with respect to a database in which the database workload is determined in terms of quality of service (QoS) requirements of with respect to short running queries, which can be of a transactional type, in which long running queries are... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20090248633 - System and method for direct display of coupons within search result sets: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems and computer program products for the direct display of coupons within a search result set. The present invention includes receiving a search query comprising one or more terms from a user and parsing the search query into one or more constituent terms.... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20090248627 - System and method for query substitution for sponsored search: A system and method are disclosed for rewriting queries. The queries may be rewritten into a bid phrase for identifying search results and/or advertisements. The bid phrase may be a keyword that is purchased for sponsored searching. A mapping between potential queries and bid phrases may be generated. The mapping... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090248642 - System, method, and computer program product for organizing and accessing websites: A system includes server and client computers communicating over a network. The server includes a database of websites. A user logs into one of the client computers and is presented with a stand-alone application for organizing and accessing websites that is separate from a web-browser. The application presents the alphabet... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys Pllc

20090248651 - Apparatus and method for maintaining metadata version awareness during set evaluation for olap hierarchies: A computer readable storage medium comprises executable instructions to receive a query referencing a set of members of an OLAP hierarchy. The query is parsed into a syntax tree. Changes to the OLAP hierarchy metadata are received. The syntax tree is refined in response to the changes. The query is... Agent: Sap Global Ip C/o Cooley Godward Kronish LLP William S. Galliani

20090248649 - Efficient functional representation of result shaping: A result shaping methodology is part of a bridge (translation layer) between an entity provider and an underlying store provider. The bridge accepts command trees and parameter values from a consumer (e.g., the entity provider), reshapes the trees as necessary for its underlying store provider to execute, executes resulting commands,... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090248648 - Method for evaluating a conjunction of equity and range predicates using a constant number of operations: Methods are described to simultaneously apply conjugates of equality, range, and in-list predicates. A first set of methods are described for the simultaneous application of equality predicates. A second set of methods are described for the simultaneous application of a mixture of range and equality predicates. A third method is... Agent: Ip Authority, Llc Ramraj Soundararajan

20090248650 - Storage and retrieval of concurrent query language execution results: Methods, systems, and articles for receiving, by a computing device, execution results of a plurality of query language expressions are described herein. In various embodiments, the plurality of query language expressions may be concurrently executed, and the receiving may be contemporaneous with production of the execution results. Also, in various... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.c.

20090248647 - System and method for the quality assessment of queries: A computer system coupled to a database is configured to receive a database query, and evaluate a set of records from a database based on the database query. The database comprises a plurality of records, and each record comprises text translated from audio. The system then determines a plurality of... Agent: Setter Roche LLP

20090248652 - System or program for searching documents: In document search for searching a document by use of a query formula composed of a Boolean formula of keywords, a plurality of query formulas arriving at about the same time from a plurality of users are efficiently processed. A system or a program for searching documents includes: a query... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.c.

20090248657 - web searching: Mislabeled URLs are identified and corrected based upon a click relevance ranking computed from user data comprising user click information. The click relevance ranking is formed by applying a set of relevance ordering rules to user log data aggregated by query and URL and by mapping the results of the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090248664 - Apparatus, system, and method for identifying time-based information with historical events: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for identifying time-based information. A detection module detects time-based information. A selection module monitors events in an information stream. The information stream is of interest to a target user. In addition, the information stream is not related by content to the time-based information.... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090248660 - Bundling of query-related context for sponsored search: A sponsored search auction system is configured to receive bids for queries from advertisers. Each bid on a particular query relates to a particular context, such as an age, sex, or location of a user that may submit the query to a search engine. A valuation is provided for each... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Cpa Global

20090248653 - Construction and use of a database: A method for constructing a database, comprises permitting a plurality of users to enter individual-associated data bits (IDBs) into a computerized system, each of the IDBs comprising at least one personal identifier relating to the user and relationship data comprising data on one or more related individuals and the nature... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20090248676 - Content management device, content management system, and content management method: A content management device for managing acquired content in a searchable manner, includes a storage device that stores a search database in which a plurality of keywords and content are registered; a registration unit that registers new content in the search database; and a search unit that searches content registered... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090248670 - Content search engine: Search constraint specific searching for content from a mobile device is disclosed. Following a mobile device generated request for content, a content server provides for the search of content on a network service or personal computer. The search for content may occur directly through the content server or via a... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090248661 - Identifying relevant information sources from user activity: A relevant information source identification technique that exploits a combination of searching and browsing activity of many users to identify relevant resources for future queries. The technique relies on such data to identify relevant information sources for new queries. In one embodiment, the technique is term-based: past queries are decomposed... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090248671 - Information classification system, information processing apparatus, information classification method and program: An information classification system includes a server that includes a knowledge base that receives classification information to be classified, conducts language analysis of the classification information to acquire a plurality of keywords and classify the plurality of keywords into elements made up of a classification target word and a related... Agent: Hoffman Warnick Llc

20090248679 - Information device and information presentation method: An information device and an information presentation method are disclosed. The neighboring environment in which a device is located or the behavior of the device user is recognized based on sensor data thereby to determine the situation data. The plural object information are acquired in accordance with the situation data.... Agent: Ohlandt, Greeley Ruggiero & Perle, L.l.p

20090248681 - Information processing device, content management system, method, and computer readable medium for managing contents: An information processing device includes a content database storing contents with metadata and a keyword associated with each content, the metadata which accompanies each content and includes a plurality of items of data, a user database storing user identifiers with a specific item of the metadata associated with each user... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090248678 - Information recommendation device and information recommendation method: A document set, and history documents including documents, etc., browsed by a user are input. The document set and the history documents are each analyzed to obtain characteristic vectors. A plurality of topic clusters and a plurality of sub-topic clusters are obtained by clustering the document set. A transition structure... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.l.p.

20090248666 - Information retrieval using dynamic guided navigation: An apparatus and method for providing relevant search result and query terms are disclosed herein. Natural language processing of the documents and previous search session history are used to dynamically determine document relevance, queries relevant to search categories prior to start of a search session, and query to query correlations.... Agent: Yahoo C/o Mofo Palo Alto

20090248667 - Learning ranking functions incorporating boosted ranking in a regression framework for information retrieval and ranking: Embodiments of the present invention provide for methods, systems and computer program products for learning ranking functions to determine the ranking of one or more content items that are responsive to a query. The present invention includes generating one or more training sets comprising one or more content item-query pairs,... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20090248668 - Learning ranking functions incorporating isotonic regression for information retrieval and ranking: Embodiments of the present invention provide for methods, systems and computer program products for learning ranking functions to determine the ranking of one or more content items that are responsive to a query. The present invention includes generating one or more training sets comprising one or more content item-query pairs... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20090248665 - Media object query submission and response: Methods and systems for submitting media object queries and receiving suggested answers for the media object queries. In one aspect, a method includes receiving from a first user a first media object and a first query relating to content in the first media object, presenting the first media object and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20090248683 - Method and apparatus for enhancing electronic reading by identifying relationships between sections of electronic text: An apparatus, method and article of manufacture of the present invention detects the presence of references to the same concept in separate sections of text, and, with no input required from the reader, presents the reader with information concerning the detected references to the concept. The information provided may comprise... Agent: Philip R Krause

20090248655 - Method and apparatus for providing sponsored search ads for an esoteric web search query: A method and apparatus are included for providing sponsored search ads for an esoteric Web search query. In one example, the method includes receiving search results and a request for placement of sponsored ads onto a search results page, retrieving bidder term vectors associated with every search result URL of... Agent: Stattler - Suh Pc

20090248684 - Method and apparatus for searching metadata: Methods and apparatuses for searching metadata are described herein. In one embodiment, an example of a process for search metadata includes, but is not limited to, in response to a search query for metadata stored in one or more of metadata stores, the search query is partitioned into multiple search... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090248672 - Method and apparatus for selecting related content for display in conjunction with a media: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for selecting related content for display in conjunction with a media. One embodiment of a method for selecting related content for display in conjunction with a media, where the media includes a primary media and a secondary media that... Agent: Wall & Tong, LLP Sri International

20090248669 - Method and system for organizing information: A system and method to process data having a module stored on the server computer system for receiving a query over a network from a client computer system. A search engine utilizes the query to extract a search result from a data source. A query decomposition module decomposes the query... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090248675 - Method and system for supporting document evaluation: A document evaluation support system narrows the search for related terms in a document, evaluates a search result, provides information of the evaluation, and further searches the search result for a related paragraph in the document so as to support evaluation and determination of the document. The system includes a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090248673 - Method of sorting web pages, search terminal and client terminal: A method of sorting web pages includes the steps of acquiring a plurality of forbidden keywords, receiving information of a list of web pages provided by a search engine, separating the web pages into valid web pages and invalid web pages according to forbidden keywords, rearranging the information of the... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090248677 - Methods for generating a personalized list of documents associated with a search query: A method for generating, by a monitoring program, a list of relevant documents, related to a search query, comprising tracking activities of first user pursuant to retrieval of a first list of primary documents resulting from a first search query; assigning a user interest score to a secondary document whose... Agent: Amiram Grynberg

20090248663 - Online target location detection: Documents are provided that are geographically relevant to a user or a request. Information describing the online activity of a user is received and location identifiers are obtained. The plurality of location identifiers provide geographic location information defining the geographic intent of the information describing the online activity of the... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090248662 - Ranking advertisements with pseudo-relevance feedback and translation models: Methods, computer products, and systems for selecting advertisements in response to an internet query are provided. The method provides for receiving an internet query that includes query terms, retrieving and then ranking a first set of advertisements in response to the internet query using a query likelihood model. The method... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20090248656 - Search engine relevance tuning based on instant messaging (influence search results using ims): To provide up-to-date search results containing Internet addresses that have become extremely popular very recently, search engines fine-tune search result rankings using communications sent by users of real-time messaging systems to each other. Instant messaging systems are one type of real-time messaging systems. Search engines use a URL found in... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090248674 - Search keyword improvement apparatus, server and method: A search keyword improvement apparatus includes a unit extracting a word as an additional keyword candidate from a new document, number of times of appearance of the word in the new document being greater than number of times of appearance of the word in each of a first documents except... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.l.p.

20090248659 - System and method for maintenance of questions and answers through collaborative and community editing: Systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for asking and searching for the answer to given questions, retrieving answers to such questions, as well as presenting such answers in a user-generated content style framework on a search engine. The system of the present invention comprises a question processor, operative... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20090248682 - System and method for personalized search: A system and method is disclosed for profiling a subject's search engine keywords and results based on relevancy feedback. Because the system is based on the search behavior of the user, the profiling is language independent and balances the specificity of search terms against the profiled interests of the user.... Agent: Richard D. Clarke Law Office Of Richard D. Clarke

20090248654 - System and method for processing mail using sender and recipient networked mail processing systems: Systems and methods for allowing the sender of a mail piece to obtain an accurate recipient address for the mail piece when the mail piece is being prepared are provided. The mail processing systems of the sender and recipient businesses are networked such that communication can occur between them. When... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc.

20090248680 - System and method for sharing anonymous user profiles with a third party: The invention provides a system and method for sharing anonymous user profiles with a third party. In one aspect of the invention, the system shares user profiles with content servers on a mobile data network so that they may select content responsive to the user's profile. The system provides a... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20090248658 - Using embedded metadata to improve search result presentation: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for using metadata to improve search result presentation. The method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises receiving a search query from a user and parsing the search query and retrieving a ranked list of search results. The method... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20090248687 - Cross-domain matching system: A computer implemented method for analyzing a listing object to define a match to a candidate object among many possible candidate objects is disclosed. The method includes an operation to receive a listing object as an input. The method also includes an operation to generate a set of candidate objects... Agent: Mpg, LLP And Yahoo! Inc.

20090248685 - Method, system and apparatus for matching job applicants with job openings: A networked system for matching job applicants to employers and jobs is provided.... Agent: Gordon & Jacobson, P.c.

20090248686 - System and method for retrieving information from the internet by means of an intelligent search agent: A system and associated method for retrieving information from the Internet by an end user through use of an Intelligent Search Agent. Creating an index comprising a least one data structure corresponding to a respective forum. Next, submitting a query to at least one search engine located on a respective... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090248689 - Generation of suggestions to correct data race errors: A method of removing a first data race condition by generating a list of suggested solutions is provided. The method comprises detecting the first data race condition involving a shared resource that is accessed first by a first thread and then by a second thread; suggesting one or more solutions... Agent: Century Ip Group, Inc. [intel]

20090248688 - Heuristic event clustering of media using metadata: Even clusters are created based n a first metadata and second metadata of the electronic document. The event clusters are associated with an event id and each electronic document is associated with the event identifier of it corresponding event cluster. A user may then browse or otherwise access the electronic... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20090248690 - System and method for determining preferences from information mashups: A system and method for determining preferences from information mashups and, in particular, for determining preferences from cross-modality information based on a social welfare function is disclosed. An exemplary embodiment of the invention uses a social welfare function (SWF) to identify a vote computing method from among a group of... Agent: Van N. Nguy Ibm Corporation, Almaden Research Center

20090248691 - Interacting methods of data summarization: Summarization methods can interact on a common data source using identifiers that correspond to events or other actions. These identifiers can be updated, whenever appropriate, once the corresponding data has been summarized, in order to provide for multiple extraction methods to operate only on the data of interest, and obtain... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090248692 - Saving device for image sharing, image sharing system, and image sharing method: The saving device for image sharing includes an image acquiring unit configured to acquire the images offered by a sharer of the images, a sharee information storing unit configured to store sharee information with respect to at least one sharee, a subject assessing unit configured to assess whether or not... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090248697 - Cache optimization: A system and method for management and processing of resource requests at cache server computing devices is provided. Cache server computing devices segment content into an initialization fragment for storage in memory and one or more remaining fragments for storage in a media having higher latency than the memory. Upon... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090248700 - Content provision system and content provision method: This content provision system includes a creation unit for associating the first content data and the second content data, assigning a common content ID to the first content data and the second content data, and creating management information of all content data configured from the first content data and the... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.c.

20090248698 - Managing consistent interfaces for internal service request business objects across heterogeneous systems: A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.c.

20090248693 - Managing data transfer between endpoints in a distributed computing environment: A file fetcher manager provides commonly-utilized management and resource allocation for multiple file fetchers that each implement a different type of mechanism or protocol for transferring data files between peer endpoints in meshes associated with a cloud-computing service. Each file fetcher is configured with both client-side and server-side components to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090248696 - Method and system for detecting restricted content associated with retrieved content: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for receiving contextual information relating to a client request for content, determining that content delivered in response to the client request is restricted content through a scanning facility, and communicating the contextual information to a central repository for use in... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20090248695 - Online and offline applications: Systems and methods for implementing online and offline applications are described. Such systems and methods may in some cases provide the same programming interface, regardless of whether the application is online or offline. Such systems and methods may also or instead in some cases provide additional or other possible capabilities,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090248701 - Redirecting file access through a http web server: The present invention provides for a system configured to redirect file access through a web server through the use of a symbolic link file. This symbolic link file is modified to include connection and authentication information of a file stored on a remote file system but is accessible through a... Agent: Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP

20090248703 - Saving device for image sharing, image sharing system, and image sharing method: The saving device for image sharing saves images offered by a sharer of the images for image sharing and accessibly shares in an album form among at least one share. The device includes a sharee layout storing means configured to store first layout information of a sharee's album, a shared... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090248694 - System and method for addressing communications: The disclosure describes systems and methods for utilizing data collected and stored on multiple devices in order to improve the performance of the network via a markup language for addressing and delivering communications. The markup language invokes W4COMN operations through a free-form, natural language syntax which enables completely personalized user-defined... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090248702 - System and method for managing, controlling and/or rendering media in a network: A system and a method manage, control and/or render media in a network. The system utilizes a media management application that manages, controls and/or renders digital media files in the network. A user browses, searches, manages and/or consumes content from multiple storage devices and servers in the network. The user... Agent: Patents+tms, P.c.

20090248699 - System to delegate virtual storage access method related file operations to a storage server using an in-band rpc mechanism: A method is disclosed that places data-intensive subprocesses in close physical and logical proximity to the facility responsible for storing the data, so that high efficiencies at reduced cost are achieved. In one specific example, new computer programs, termed adjuncts, are added and placed in a logical partition on a... Agent: Ip Authority, Llc Ramraj Soundararajan

20090248704 - Alternative work space assignment portal: An alternative work space assignment system, method and apparatus are disclosed. This system accesses a plurality of databases, including a workspace database, a building database, and a corporate database, to better select a suitable temporary workspace. In addition, the system can also select a suitable temporary workspace based on a... Agent: Law Offices Of Eugene M. Cummings, P.c.

20090248718 - Applying the use of temporal data and temporal data models to roles and organizational structures: A temporal relational database includes a relational database framework that allows for all the capabilities of a standard relational database with the addition of the concept of time. Transactions, which can be modifications of attribute values or changes to the database schema, can be stored with temporal histories. Through the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090248712 - Collecting and aggregating data using distributed resources: A hierarchial tree is provided to harvest data from data sources. The hierarchial tree includes multiple tree node entities arranged in multiple levels. In one case, leaf node entities of the hierarchial tree are used to collect data from the data sources. The hierarchial tree includes storage resources for storing... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090248710 - Database part table junctioning: Embodiments are provided to define relationships for merging template or database part tables with one or more database tables in a computer system. A database application may utilize a schema to receive metadata associated with a target database part table in one or more markup language elements. The database application... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090248709 - Evaluating associations among entities: A method for monitoring associations between a plurality of entities comprises representing a relationship between a first entity and a second entity as an edge that connects a first node to a second node, wherein the first node and the second node respectively represent said first entity and said second... Agent: Century Ip Group, Inc. [ibm Il] C/o Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090248719 - Future modeling: A temporal relational database includes a relational database framework that allows for all the capabilities of a standard relational database with the addition of the concept of time. Transactions, which can be modifications of attribute values or changes to the database schema, can be stored with temporal histories. Through the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090248720 - Generalised self-referential file system: Embodiments of an unrestricted binary unambiguous file or memory mapped object are disclosed along with descriptions of corresponding reading and writing processes. The file or object may be used to store data of any type. ‘Binary unambiguous’ refers to a quality whereby the binary data stored within the datastore (file... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20090248716 - Hierarchy creation and management tool: A computer-implemented method of building an integrated hierarchy from hierarchy components is disclosed. The method includes receiving a hierarchy structure having at a node element, extracting hierarchy attribute information associated with the node element, and building an integrated hierarchy based on the received hierarchy structure and the extracted hierarchy attribute... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.l.p.

20090248708 - Method and apparatus for mobility agent recovery: Techniques for recovering Mobile Internet Protocol (IP) session(s) of a mobility agent in a Mobile IP network are described herein. In one embodiment of the invention, for each mobility session associated with a mobility agent, the mobility agent distributively backs up mobility agent specific information to the mobility agent peer... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090248713 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing metadata and media based on upnp protocol: A method and apparatus to synchronize multiple UPnP content directory services without using CDS tracking or content synchronization service is disclosed. The method may include discovering mediaservers coupled to a network, comparing respective metadata fields from the discovered mediaservers, updating the metadata fields based on the comparison. A control point... Agent: Prass LLP

20090248715 - Optimizing hierarchical attributes for olap navigation: OLAP navigation is simplified by optimizing the displayed hierarchies. An OLAP navigation user interface displays the hierarchies that are navigable and can be drilled down into. In this way, a user is shown the items within the OLAP data that may be drilled down into instead of being shown every... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090248706 - Schema for federated searching: Embodiments of the present invention provide a schema to describe the structure of a data store that may be used to query the data store. The schema may include a property description describing static and contextual attributes of a property of the data store. The schema may also include a... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090248714 - Selective mapping of integrated data: In one of many possible implementations, an exemplary system includes a plurality of data subsystems configured to store local data associated with an external party, the data subsystems configured to be maintained by an internal party. The system further includes a data integration subsystem configured to store global data and... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090248707 - Site-specific information-type detection methods and systems: Methods and systems are provided herein that may allow for pertinent information-type(s) of data to be located or otherwise identified within one or more documents, such as, for example, web page documents associated with one or more websites. For example, exemplary methods and systems are provided that may be used... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP

20090248711 - System and method for optimizing the storage of data: The disclosure describes systems and methods for optimizing the storage of data collected from a plurality of communication channels including social data, spatial data, temporal data and logical data. Based on user data collected from past interactions with the network, clusters of objects that include common information are combined into... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090248705 - System and method to validate consistency of component business model maps: A system and method is described for using descriptive logic (DL) representations to validate consistency in component business model (CBM) maps. Semantic constraints are generated from a semantic model of a component business model meta-model and inconsistency conditions of CBM maps. The semantic model of the CBM meta-model is applied... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.c.,

20090248717 - Temporal class loader: A temporal relational database includes a relational database framework that allows for all the capabilities of a standard relational database with the addition of the concept of time. Transactions, which can be modifications of attribute values or changes to the database schema, can be stored with temporal histories. Through the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090248722 - Clustering analytic functions: A method, system, and computer usable program product for clustering analytic functions are provided in the illustrative embodiments. Information about a set of analytic function instances is received. Information about a set of time series is received. A subset of time series may be a set of input time series... Agent: Ibm Corp. (gig)

20090248725 - Compressability estimation of non-unique indexes in a database management system: A method, information processing system, and computer readable storage product estimate a compression factor. A set of key values within an index are analyzed. Each key value is associated with a record identifier (“RID”) list comprising a set of RIDs. The index is in an uncompressed format and includes a... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090248724 - Method and apparatus for encoding list of variable length structures to support bi-directional scans: Techniques are disclosed for encoding a variable length structure such that it facilitates forward and reverse scans of a list of such structures as needed. While the techniques are applicable to a wide variety of applications, they are particularly well-suited for use with structures such as those found in compressed... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090248723 - Method and apparatus for selecting an optimal delete-safe compression method on list of delta encoded integers: Techniques are disclosed for selecting a delete-safe compression method for a plurality of delta encoded data values (e.g., delta encoded integers or deltas). For example, a computer-implemented method for selecting an optimal delete-safe compression algorithm from among two or more compression algorithms for use on a plurality of delta encoded... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090248726 - Method and system for performing data manipulations associated with business processes and operations: A method and apparatus for accessing, processing and manipulating data in an OLAP database. According to one aspect, the present invention comprises a user interface configured for accessing, processing and manipulating data in an OLAP cube. According to another aspect, the present invention comprises a calculation engine for manipulating and... Agent: Bennett Jones LLP

20090248721 - System and method for stack crawl testing and caching: A method for extracting static information from user code, analyzing the static information to determine location expressions for program information and comparing the location expressions to reference location expressions of the user code. In addition, a system having a reading module configured to read and extract static information from user... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20090248727 - Temporal relational database management system: A temporal relational database includes a relational database framework that allows for all the capabilities of a standard relational database with the addition of the concept of time. Transactions, which can be modifications of attribute values or changes to the database schema, can be stored with temporal histories. Through the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090248728 - Aggregating schema data from multiple sources: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for aggregating schema data from two or more schemas are provided. Embodiments 1of the present invention include receiving schema definitions for two or more schemas. An aggregated property description for an individual property that is common to the two or more schemas may be created.... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090248732 - Apparatus and method for generating report data in a multi-user environment: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to receive a report request and perform a query operation corresponding to the report request to produce report results. The report results are then cached to produce cached report results. The computer readable storage medium further includes executable instructions to respond to... Agent: Sap Global Ip C/o Cooley Godward Kronish LLP William S. Galliani

20090248730 - Data binding for xml schemas: A user interface may be generated from an XML schema. For a data object definition in an XML schema, a user interface object may be defined, and a memory store for the data object may be created and bound to the user interface object. The user interface component may be... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090248729 - Online application platform and user communities: A method and a system provide an online application platform in which an entity may create applications to be shared among users of a user community. The online application platform may provide the users of the user community with information regarding applications and entities and may provide the users with... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090248733 - Process information structuring support method: A process information structuring support system includes a first acquisition part configured to acquire a process information showing a flow of a plurality of processing elements and containing a plurality of related elements associated with the plurality of processing elements respectively, a holding part configured to hold structured information obtained... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090248731 - Related content storage and retrieval systems and methods: In an exemplary method, content instances and metadata associated with the content instances are maintained, a request for content is received, one of the content instances is identified based on the request, at least one other of the content instances is identified as being related to the one content instance... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090248737 - Computing environment representation: A computing environment typically comprises a large set of diverse objects, such as files, user profiles, executable binaries, configuration information, and data caches, wherein such objects are typically stored and managed by an aggregation of systems, such as a file system, a system registry, and an assembly cache. An alternative... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090248740 - Database form and report creation and reuse: Embodiments are provided for creating and reusing database forms and reports. A selection of an object may be received from a database by a database software application executing on a computer system. The object may include a form or a report. The application may further receive an input to initiate... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090248736 - Displaying concept-based targeted advertising: Methods and systems of the present invention allow for displaying suggested concept-based results. An exemplary method may comprise the steps of receiving targeted advertising information, determining from ontological calculations suggested keywords related to the concept of the targeted advertising information and displaying the suggested keywords.... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20090248734 - Suggesting concept-based domain names: Methods and systems of the present invention allow for displaying suggested concept-based results. An exemplary method may comprise the steps of receiving a domain name, determining from ontological calculations suggested domain names related to the concept of the domain name and displaying the suggested domain names.... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20090248735 - Suggesting concept-based top-level domain names: Methods and systems of the present invention allow for displaying suggested concept-based results. An exemplary method may comprise the steps of receiving a combination domain name and top level domain (TLD), determining from ontological calculations suggested TLDs related to the concept of the combination and displaying the suggested combination of... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20090248738 - System and method for modeling relationships between entities: The disclosure describes systems and methods for modeling relationships between entities on a network using data collected from a plurality of communication channels including social data, spatial data, temporal data and logical data within a W4 Network. The W4 Network personalizes and automates sorting, filtering and processing of W4COMN communications... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090248739 - System and method to support runtime model extension in an object relational mapping (orm) system: A system and method to support runtime model extension in an Object Relational Mapping (ORM) System. The system includes a relational data storage subsystem for storing and retrieving objects in form of relational data, a tuple storage subsystem for storing and retrieving objects in form of tuple, and a dispatcher/assembler... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090248743 - Fry cycle monitoring: In one embodiment, the method comprises operating one or more commercial fryers and establishing an event count each time an operational event is carried out in the commercial fryer. The method further comprises communicating each event count to a database and maintaining event count information at the database. The method... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090248746 - Merging data from survey devices: Tools for synchronizing survey data between one or more survey devices and a surveying office application. The disclosed tools can help to ensure that each of the devices, and the office application, have consistent data. An exemplary tool might detect a change to data in an office application, identify any... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090248745 - Metadata management apparatus: A link table (28) showing a link relation between video data which are time reference data and log data which are number reference data is disposed. When the video data are deleted from a video recording ring buffer (23) or when the log data are deleted from a log recording... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090248748 - Method and system for applying beauty treatments to an individual by generalizing their features: Method, process, and apparatus for beautifying an individual. The method relates to fitting the perfect cut, color, style, makeup and dress to an individual using five pillars based on the outer and inner lines of a person. The first pillar includes determining information about the individual's body shape and head... Agent: Cislo & Thomas LLP

20090248741 - Method and system for integrating an external service: A method and system for integrating an external service are provided. A first definition of a service for integration with an application floorplan is generated. A semantic type data having a second definition of a global data type used in the application floorplan is generated. A semantic type mapping having... Agent: Sap Ag

20090248742 - Method and system for mobile publication: Methods and system for mobile publication are described. A captured image may be accessed. A bar code may be decoded from the captured image. An item associated with the bar code may be identified. An item listing of the item may be generated in accordance with the identifying of the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090248747 - Removable memory information management: A method and structure manage a database. A first device that includes data is coupled to a second device that includes metadata relating to the data. The second device is removed from the first device and the metadata is modified. The second device is again coupled to the first device... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20090248750 - System and method for producing medical image data onto portable digital recording media: This application discloses a system for recording medical image data for production on a portable digital recording medium such as CDs and DVDs. This system includes a receiving module, a processing module and an output module, with viewing program for viewing medical image data stored on the portable digital recording... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090248749 - System and method for scalable processing of multi-way data stream correlations: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for processing multi-way stream correlations. Stream data are received for correlation. A task is formed for continuously partitioning a multi-way stream correlation workload into smaller workload pieces. Each of the smaller workload pieces may be processed by a single host.... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090248744 - Transactional storage system for healthcare information: Managing healthcare information data includes, on a computer, representing a state of a system based on the healthcare information, receiving a transaction representing a change to the system, changing the representation of the state of the system according to the transaction, and storing the transaction.... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20090248751 - Destroyable instant message (im): Systems and methods for processing instant messages by destroying them are disclosed. Setting a time for destroying a destroyable instant message is provided. Destruction of a message can be accompanied by visual effects. A destroyable instant message can be made not printable and not retrievable savable. Methods and systems for... Agent: Diehl Servilla Llc

20090248752 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus, even when power supply to the apparatus is stopped, it is possible to let the user recognize that an electronic file to be used has been erased, and that a necessary electronic file will be erased when the apparatus is to be used after next... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090248753 - Database management system risk assessment: A method of evaluating an implementation of a DBMS is provided. The method comprises collecting data associated with the implementation of the DBMS and accessing a database comprising problems and their associated solutions, wherein the solutions are configured to remedy at least one of the problems. The method further comprises... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090248754 - Providing resumption data in a distributed processing system: An approach for providing a user with resumption data before pausing or terminating a partially-processed job that is processing in a distributed system. Certain applications, when paused, are not able to resume processing data at precisely the point where it was paused. As a result, users surrender some, or all,... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/apple Inc.

20090248755 - System and method for data backup using log records: To generate backup data based on a log while a power consumption of a standby system is reduced, provided is a method for data backup in which a first computer system transmits a data update record, a second storage system of a second computer system receives and then stores the... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.c.

20090248757 - Application-managed file versioning: In accordance with one or more aspects of the application-managed file versioning, a request to store a new version of a file is received from an application, the request having been generated by the application. A filename for the new version of the file is generated, derived from a standardized... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090248758 - Map update data supplying apparatus, version table, map data updating system, and map update data supplying method: Map updating systems, methods, and programs that extract update requiring sections with respect to an update requesting section that is one of the sections being a target of an update request requesting that the target map data should be updated, obtain the information related to the guaranty versions respectively corresponding... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20090248756 - Systems and methods for a read only mode for a portion of a storage system: In general, embodiments of the invention relate to reading data from and writing data to a storage system. Specifically, embodiments of the invention relate to a read only mode for a portion of a storage system. In one embodiment, a selective read-only mode for a portion of a storage system... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090248759 - Backup management method in a remote copy environment: Provided is a computer system which is capable of backup operation with a minimum count of volumes in a remote copy environment when a disaster or the like causes a storage system to stop working normally. The computer system has a host computer, a first storage system, a second storage... Agent: Juan Carlos A. Marquez C/o Stites & Harbison Pllc

20090248760 - Backup method of computer system: A backup method of a computer system capable of recovery independently by a backup center alone, even if reorganization of a DB cannot be completed due to a disaster of some kind.... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090248761 - File control system, information processing device, host device, and recording medium that stores program: A file control system according to the present invention includes a host device and an information processing device that is connectable to the host device via a network, the host device including: a comparator that compares first file information stored in a first storage unit of the information processing device... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090248763 - System and method for reclaiming unused space from a thinly provisioned data container: A method for operating a computer storage system maintains a client computer interacting with the storage system, the client computer storing data on a data storage device of the computer storage system. Locating, by a client-side agent executing on the client computer that examines metadata of the client computer, one... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20090248762 - Systems and methods for performing storage operations using network attached storage: Systems and methods for performing hierarchical storage operations on electronic data in a computer network are provided. In one embodiment, the present invention may store electronic data from a network device to a network attached storage (NAS) device pursuant to certain storage criteria. The data stored on the NAS may... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090248764 - Implementing dynamic processor allocation based upon data density: Dynamic processor allocation is implemented based upon bitmap data density. A bitmap index is used to process the query. A bitmap is created for the query. The bitmap is partitioned into single I/O operations. A variable partition size is provided based upon data density. Data density for each partition is... Agent: Ibm Corporation Rochester Ip Law Dept 917

20090248765 - Systems and methods for a read only mode for a portion of a storage system: In general, embodiments of the invention relate to reading data from and writing data to a storage system. Specifically, embodiments of the invention relate to a read only mode for a portion of a storage system. In one embodiment, a selective read-only mode for a portion of a storage system... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090248766 - Method and apparatus for improving parallel marking garbage collectors that use external bitmaps: A method for performing garbage collection involves obtaining a first reference bitmap including a block address and a set of mark bits, obtaining a first reference, identifying a mark bit of the set of mark bits based on the first reference, comparing an address associated with the mark bit with... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p./sun