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Data processing: database and file management or data structures April category listing, related patent applications 04/10

20100106680 - Vendor portfolio management in support of vendor relationship management analysis, planning and evaluation: Various examples include a system and methods in support of vendor relationship management, analysis, planning and evaluation including dealing with collections of vendors called vendor portfolios. In various examples the system includes a database, vendor portfolio definer, a vendor portfolio populator, and a vendor portfolio analyzer. The database houses vendor... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20100106681 - Identifying files associated with a workflow: To determine files associated with one or more workflows, a trace of accesses of files in at least one server is received. The files are grouped into at least one set of files, where the files in the set are accessed together more than a predetermined number of times in... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100106682 - Database index: A method of maintaining a database index. The index comprises a hierarchical structure of conclusion sets arranged in a series of levels. The method comprising: inserting an “Insert” conclusion set entry into a high level conclusion set; migrating the “Insert” conclusion set entry from the high level conclusion set to... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100106683 - Computer system and replication method for the computer system: A streaming server program delivers the content from an original content storage area in a storage apparatus, and a server computer monitors the content delivery status and creates, in a pool storage area, replicated data of the content that satisfies replicated content creation and deletion standards. Upon delivery of the... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20100106684 - Synchronization of a conceptual model via model extensions: A method of synchronizing data between multiple endpoints each storing a copy of the data in accordance with different underlying schemas. An application model that provides a logical representation of an underlying schema is extended with a synchronization model that provides a logical representation of changes made to the data.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20100106685 - Method and system for data synchronization: The present invention relates to data backup, and specifically to an apparatus, method, and computer readable medium to manage and automate the backup and synchronization of data on client machines and servers. For example, the system includes a user computer that contains local files and a data repository to which... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100106686 - Data management system: A data management system for managing the storage of data on primary and secondary storage from a primary information source having original file content to be stored including: a data file stub stored on primary storage; a data file stored on secondary storage; and wherein: the data file stub comprises... Agent: Williams Mullen

20100106687 - N-way synchronization of data: The invention relates to the use of history information as an aid to synchronization in a peer-to-peer system. In particular, node trees are used to represent portions of files systems designated for synchronization. The nodes in the node tree embody history information regarding associated objects. The history information includes version... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20100106688 - Computer system storage device and date updating method: A computer system includes a computer that provides a plurality of storage areas and a storage device that stores data read and written in the storage areas. The storage device provides a first volume that stores data shared by the storage areas respectively and a second volume that stores data... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100106689 - Methods, computer program products, and systems for file retention: File retention is performed based on a retention attribute. Information indicating creation of an electronic file is received, and a retention attribute is generated for the electronic file. The retention attribute indicates how long the electronic file should be retained. Retention of the electronic file is monitored based on the... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Pk Attn: Patent Docketing

20100106690 - System and method for user-driven data archiving: A system and method for providing cost-effective user-driven data archiving. An end-user utilizes a file selection for data archiving application to select certain specific files and/or file folders to be archived. The file selection for data archiving application invokes a translation software engine to translate the intended actions into instructions... Agent: Bourque & Associates Intellectual Property Attorneys, P.A.

20100106691 - Remote backup and restore: In one embodiment of the present invention, a data-backup method includes partitioning a fingerprint namespace among a cluster of backup servers, the fingerprint namespace comprising fingerprints for representing units of data, each backup server of the cluster of backup servers managing units of data having fingerprints corresponding to an assigned... Agent: Winstead PC

20100106692 - Circuit for compressing data and a processor employing same: The present application addresses a fundamental problem in the design of computing systems, that of minimising the cost of memory access. This is a fundamental limitation on the design of computer systems as regardless of the memory technology or manner of connection to the processor, there is a maximum limitation... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20100106693 - Image appliance system and method: Systems (and corresponding methodologies) that provide an image appliance which alleviates enterprises from custom designing each appliance for specific business processing purposes are disclosed. Enterprises and organizations can easily capture, consolidate, organize and process image files and electronic documents/content from a variety of input sources such as facsimile, electronic mail,... Agent: Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo

20100106694 - Method for autonomic large file marking: A method is disclosed for autonomic large file marking. A threshold module sets the file size threshold. An identification module identifies each file with a file size that exceeds the file size threshold and that is unmarked with a limited backup status. A marking module marks with the limited backup... Agent: Kunzler Needham Massey & Thorpe

20100106695 - Scalable blob storage integrated with scalable structured storage: Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems, methods and computer storage media for facilitating the structured storage of binary large objects (Blobs) to be accessed by an application program being executed by a computing device. Generally, the structured storage of Blobs includes a primary structured storage index for indexing... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (microsoft Corporation)

20100106696 - File management method: The invention relates to a file management method that comprises a first step of organising the data file base that comprises creating a tree structure of directories with M levels of N directories each, M being an integer higher than 1, and the steps of storing data files including: applying... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20100106697 - System for accessing shared data using multiple application servers: A system including multiple application servers for accessing shared data and a centralized control unit for centrally controlling a lock applied to the shared data by each of the application servers. Each application server includes a distributed control unit for controlling a lock applied to the shared data by the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20100106699 - Client apparatus, server apparatus, document management system, document management method, and medium storing program thereof: A client generates a list associating a document, an operation for the document, and a user and transmits the list to a server. When an operation for the document is received from a user, the client acquires information including a document, an operation for the document, and a user and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20100106700 - Software system for entering food into a diet log where the dieter submits a photo of the food and another person records the food log data: Keeping a food diet log has been shown to significantly improve diet quality and weight loss efforts. Keeping a diet log is generally tedious. To facilitate that, an image can be recorded of what the dieter is going to eat. This image is then sent to another person for diet... Agent: Kevin Galligan

20100106698 - User terminal device and method for controlling the same: A method is provided that automatically saves data on a user terminal of a thin client system to a file server or to the user terminal by appropriately and efficiently sorting the data. System update data such as a patch for the user terminal and confidential data that should be... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20100106703 - Dynamic search engine results employing user behavior: A method and apparatus for dynamically modifying search results “on the fly” based on the behavior of the user currently conducting a search. In one embodiment, data regarding user behavior is gathered from virtually any activity, including clicks on links, dwell times, downloads, transactions and cursor movements. Subordinate keywords are... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100106701 - Electronic document retrieval system: An electronic document retrieval system is disclosed. It has particular utility to World-Wide Web searching. The system requires webmasters to put forward categories into which the pages on their web-site might sensibly be divided, and to provide a list of those categories together with a list of popular keywords associated... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100106702 - Systems and methods for analyzing, integrating and updating media contact and content data: A computer implemented system for integrating, updating, and searching media related databases and building media lists and reports comprising a first server for receiving digital content from multiple sources, a second server for receiving queries from multiple user computing devices; and a database access layer being utilized by the first... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100106704 - Cross-lingual query classification: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to cross-lingual query classification.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP

20100106706 - Method and apparatus for identifying related searches in a database search system: A method of generating a search result list also provides related searches for use by a searcher. Search listings which generate a match with a search request submitted by the searcher are identified in a pay-for-placement database which includes a plurality of search listings. Related search listings contained in a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20100106705 - Source code search engine: In an embodiment, a method of operating a software search engine is provided. The method includes populating a software code database from one or more sources of source code. The method also includes receiving a search query for a software code search engine (525). The method further includes searching the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20100106707 - Indexing and searching according to attributes of a person: An approach that indexes and searches according to a set of attributes of a person is provided. In one embodiment, there is an extensible indexing and search tool, including an extraction component configured to extract a set of attributes of a person monitored by a set of sensors in a... Agent: Keohane & D'alessandro

20100106708 - Eliminating unnecessary statistics collections for query optimization: A method and system for eliminating unnecessary statistics collections for query optimization in a database stored on a computer. Statistics are unnecessary when a re-generated query execution plan that does not use the statistics is equivalent to an original query execution plan that uses the statistics. To determine this, an... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20100106709 - File search system and file search server device: Provided is a mechanism that, when presenting a search result to a user while reducing the load on a file server, sets a file to be accessible to the user only when the user is authorized to access the file and folders of all hierarchical levels. In the case of... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20100106710 - Stream data processing method and system: Stream data is provided for realizing precise calculation processing to keep a constant memory usage of a query including a time-based window, and to take all of input data into consideration. A stream data processing server sections the time-based window into sub-windows each with a smaller width by a query... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20100106711 - Combined join: Computer-implemented systems and associated operating methods perform a combined join. A computer-implemented system comprises a processor that performs query processing in a relational database by receiving inputs of a variety of cases and sizes, and performing a combined database join of two of the received inputs using an index in... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100106712 - Search system: Documents, which have typically been searched for using multiple search engines based on the access rights of multiple accounts on multiple authentication servers, are searched for using a single federated search engine via a single log in. A host system having an account correspondence database is provided with a function... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20100106713 - Method for performing efficient similarity search: Given a query object and the request for the k nearest neighbors, the search functionality of the invention uses the prefix tree to quickly identify a set of candidate objects. The organization of the data storage is then used to efficiently retrieve the information relative to the candidate objects. Such... Agent: Andrea Esuli

20100106714 - Method and apparatus for automatic configuration of meta-heuristic algorithms in a problem solving environment: A methodology is presented to address the need for rapid generation and optimization of algorithms that are efficient in solving a given class of problems within the framework of a software environment. The environment incorporates an evolutionary learning methodology which automatically optimizes the configurations of procedural components of the algorithm.... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20100106715 - Method and system for offering banner advertising with index function, and computer readable media for recording the advertising method program: Disclosed is a method for offering banner advertisement with a search function. The method for offering banner advertisement with the search function includes loading a search input window with a search function, and exposing the loaded search input window to a banner advertising window including banner advertisement.... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20100106717 - Apparatus and method for search and retrieval of documents: A system for the support and management of search for documents is presents. The system includes knowledge-database, query interface and communication to a database of documents to be searched. Information generated during a search session is collected by the system and is added to the knowledge-database. The information is ranked... Agent: Haim Melman

20100106716 - Determining method of indication order of search results, system, program, recording medium: When user requests internet search with some keywords, score is calculated for each site to which keyword is hit according to a predetermined algorithm and each site is indicated according to the calculated score. At a predetermined timing the indicated order is shuffled irrespective of the score. The timing is... Agent: Teru Matsuda

20100106718 - Methods and apparatus to extract data encoded in media content: Methods and apparatus to extract data encoded in media content are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a media content signal, sampling the media content signal to generate digital samples, determining a frequency domain representation of the digital samples, determining a first rank of a first frequency in the frequency... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20100106719 - Context-sensitive search: A method for performing a search based on a query term and a context document is described herein. The method involves receiving a search request comprising a query term and a context document, and identifying a target document of a plurality of documents based on a relationship of the context... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20100106720 - Method for identifying a remote pattern: For clearly identifying a product recorded in an image file provided by a client terminal, a method for identifying a remote pattern method is provided for preventing disputes between consumers and shopping websites. Such disputes are often caused when a conventional shopping website just searches products required by a consumer... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20100106721 - Information processing apparatus and staple attribute setting method: An information processing apparatus includes an attribute setting unit configured to set a continuous staple attribute as chapter information of document data having a hierarchical structure that includes document information, chapter information, and page information, based on a user's setting entered via a screen, wherein the continuous staple attribute is... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20100106722 - Synthetic audiovisual description scheme, method and system for mpeg-7: A method and system for description of synthetic audiovisual content makes it easier for humans, software components or devices to identify, manage, categorize, search, browse and retrieve such content. For instance, a user may wish to search for specific synthetic audiovisual objects in digital libraries, Internet web sites or broadcast... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ndq

20100106724 - Fuzzy data operations: A method for clustering data elements stored in a data storage system includes reading data elements from the data storage system. Clusters of data elements are formed with each data element being a member of at least one cluster. At least one data element is associated with two or more... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20100106723 - Method and system of clustering for multi-dimensional data streams: A method for clustering multi-dimensional data streams includes: when data elements are input, determining 1-D subclusters and assigning identifiers to the determined 1-D subclusters; (b) generating a matching set that is a set of identifiers of the 1-D subclusters where each dimensional value of the data elements belongs to the... Agent: Ampacc Law Group

20100106725 - Storage appliance object oriented system and method: The present invention involves a storage device system and method which receives and stores complex data. The storage device includes a bulk storage for storing the complex data, a descriptor storage for storing descriptive data relating to the complex data, and a service module with a processor and software. The... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20100106726 - Hierarchy modification: A hierarchy of nodes is created, each node being one of associated with an item retrieved according to a condition and associated with a category of information including the item. It is determined whether at least one of the nodes is redundant in the hierarchy. The at least one of... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100106727 - System and method for enhancing keyword relevance by user's interest on the search result documents: A system and method are provided for enabling a user to search for documents that the user has previously viewed on its local machine. The system includes three main components: the desktop integration module, the index module, and the graphical user interface module. The desktop integration module is an application... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20100106728 - System and method for indexing, searching and presenting technical concepts: A data processing system and method are provided to index, search and present information about defined, “fuzzy” concepts across language, chemical and product identity, composition, biological classification and legal reference. The database system and method permits the use of combinations of concepts, such as labeling, health claims and/or nutritional claims,... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20100106729 - System and method for metadata search: A system, a method, and a computer readable article of manufacture for metadata searching. The system includes: a receiving module for receiving a search query with respect to a plurality of metadata resources; a query module for parsing the search query and searching related metadata resources and the structural information... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20100106731 - Determining alternative textual identifiers such as for registered domain names: A method, system, and computer-readable medium is described that determines alternatives to a specified textual identifier, such as a domain name, by identifying and using words and phrases that are related to the identifier. A variety of types of related words can be used, such as synonyms and translations, and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100106730 - Method of intermediation within a social network of users of a service/application to expose relevant media items: The present invention relates to a method where consumers, using an electronic networked terminal, play an active and crucial role in detecting, promoting, popularizing, accessing, performing financial transactions for and consuming content media items and/or their creators and/or any other linked information. In one embodiment, the invention relates to a... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20100106732 - Identifying visually similar objects: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for finding similarities between visual objects using keywords and computerized visual image analysis are provided. A visual object may be provided as an input. A group of visual objects sharing keywords with the visual object may be generated for further analysis. The visual similarity of... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (microsoft Corporation)

20100106733 - System and method for augmenting digital media with custom content: A system and method for enhancing the number of page views of a web site or other digitally distributed interactive medium. A custom content hosting service allows a publisher to augment the contents of its own site with additional pages. The custom content hosting service provides content based on a... Agent: King & Spalding

20100106734 - Blob manipulation in an integrated structured storage system: Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems, methods and computer storage media for facilitating the structured storage of binary large objects (Blobs) to be accessed by an application program being executed by a computing device. Generally, the manipulation of Blobs in a structured storage system includes receiving a request... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (microsoft Corporation)

20100106735 - Image apparatus and image contents searching method thereof: Disclosed are an image apparatus connected to an external device in which image contents are stored, and including a display unit on which the image contents are displayed, and an image contents searching method of the image apparatus, the image apparatus including: a pattern information storage unit which stores image... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100106736 - Method and device for monitoring and analyzing signals: A method and system for monitoring and analyzing at least one signal are disclosed. An abstract of at least one reference signal is generated and stored in a reference database. An abstract of a query signal to be analyzed is then generated so that the abstract of the query signal... Agent: Scott A. Moskowitz

20100106739 - Authenticated database system: This invention is a generically constructed and authenticated relational database, the main aim of which is to manage data, records and logistics information and the tracing of said data and typically applied to a variety of workflow processes in e.g., but not restricted to, science and industry. To this end... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100106740 - Search device, search method, and computer-readable medium that stores search program: Search devices, methods, and programs store information that pertains to a search object in association with a first character string and a second character string that are used to search for the search object. When a search for the search object is performed, the devices, methods, and programs read from... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100106738 - System and method for providing representation for pro bono opportunities: The disclosure describes systems and methods for providing representation to pro se litigants or other pro bono opportunities. The system includes a central database of current pro bono opportunity information. Information to populate the database may be automatically retrieved from individual electronic sources, such as individual court dockets and court... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20100106737 - System and method for recommending next commands when using a software application: One embodiment of the invention sets forth a mechanism for recommended commands to a designer of a graphics design application. Each time a command is executed within the graphics design application, a resource module receives command use information associated with the executed command. In response, the resource module generates and... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20100106741 - Method and device for searching for music file of mobile terminal: A method and device for searching for a music file of a mobile terminal are provided. The method of searching for a music file of a mobile terminal includes, receiving at least one input key signal in an idle state of the mobile terminal, setting a search word by combining... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100106742 - System and method for discovering assets and functional relationships in a network: A discovery system (and corresponding method and computer program product) for automatically discovering assets and their roles and functional relationships in a network system is described. In one aspect, the discovery system interrogates known assets through protocol messages, normalizes response messages, and contextually analyzes the normalized response message to identify... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20100106743 - Method for predicting treatment classes using behavior informatics: A system and method used to assess animal behavior includes a module having sensors that collects a variety of physical and biological data from a test subject. Interpretation of the data is provided to assess the test subject's behavior, neurology, biochemistry and physiology. The module is useful in observing the... Agent: King & Spalding

20100106744 - Conflict prevention for peer-to-peer replication: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to conflict prevention. In aspects, a peer that seeks to modify a data structure first determines whether it is the owner of the data structure. An owner of the data structure has rights to update the data structure. If the peer is... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100106745 - Method and apparatus for generating fingerprint database for wireless location: Provided is a fingerprint database generating method and device for wireless location. Signal strength is estimated by using access points on a numerical map, position coordinates of grid points, and a radio wave attenuation model so as to generate a fingerprint database. A simulation error is computed based on actual... Agent: Jae Y. Park

20100106746 - Modular interface for database conversion: A system, method and article of formatted information and data exchange for universal, modular, data conversion from one relational database to another, while bypassing any formatting on the source database.... Agent: Computer Patent Annuities North America, LLC C/o Cpa Global

20100106750 - Disambiguation of tabular data: Creating data tables by identifying paths in a tree of data entities and relationships, the tree including data entities and relationships between the entities, where each of the paths originates from the same data entity, includes a terminal data entity that is at the to-many end of a one-to-many or... Agent: Kali Law Group, P.C.

20100106747 - Dynamically building and populating data marts with data stored in repositories: Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for constructing and populating data marts with dimensional data models from a set of data repositories that contain factual and association information about a set of related assets are disclosed. An intermediate data warehouse is generated to process the facts and associations for each... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ibm Svl

20100106751 - Information processing apparatus, method, program and storage medium: An information processing apparatus comprises: a receiving unit adapted to receive designation of a plurality of types of attribute values, which indicate characteristics of data, from a user; a presenting unit adapted to selectably present data having a characteristic that matches at least any one of the attribute values for... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20100106748 - Method and system for logging and storing heterogeneous communication sessions: An approach is provided for creating a workspace for automatically logging and storing heterogeneous communication sessions and for accessing this workspace from a user-designated environment.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100106749 - Reorganizing table-based data objects: The present invention generally relates to reorganization of table-based data objects. In a typical embodiment, the present invention utilizes SQL based scripts to run and manage online “reorgs” on DB2® table data. Such reorgs can occur synchronously or asynchronously and typically include: defragmenting the data objects to reclaim free space;... Agent: Keohane & D'alessandro

20100106752 - Method and apparatus for selecting, analyzing, and visualizing related database records as a network: A method and apparatus for selecting and converting database records or sets of related documents into network data and presenting that data in a network visualization system that enables users to select among, and move between various network displays by selecting one or more attributes of the data to be... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20100106753 - Cyclic commit transaction protocol: A cyclic commit protocol is used to store relationships between transactions and is used by the technology to determine whether a transaction is committed or not. The protocol allows creation of a cycle of transactions which can be used to recover the state of a storage device after a host... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20100106754 - Hardware and operating system support for persistent memory on a memory bus: Implementations of a file system that is supported by a non-volatile memory that is directly connected to a memory bus, and placed side by side with a dynamic random access memory (DRAM), are described.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20100106755 - Method for preserving virtual filesystem information across high availability takeover: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for preserving a virtual file system. Data for a virtual file system is received. The data include file handle information, vnode information, and gnode information. The data is saved to a storage device. The saved data can be used to... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20100100522 - Interactive real estate contract and negotiation tool: Term negotiation can utilize centralized systems accessed via web interfaces for purposes such as mediation of communications between buyers and sellers, maintenance of a history of negotiations, and notification of parties regarding changes suggested during negotiation. Changes to terms proposed by parties using centralized systems can be stored in a... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20100100523 - System and method for grouping a collection of documents using document series: A system and method that allows a publisher to create a document series, associate a document with a document series and present to an end-user a series nugget displaying at least one document associated with the document series. Document series information may be inherited by each document in the document... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20100100524 - Approval system in network for the data preservation: The present invention relates to an approval system in a network for data security. The approval system includes a management server (10), a plurality of client terminals (30, 30′ end 30″), having first and second client terminals, and a file server (20). The first client terminal includes a first approval... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20100100526 - Business logic device and processing method: A business logic device and processing method is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes i) receiving a request message for performing a biz template from the open interface processing unit, ii) analyzing the received biz template performing request message and performing the biz template by cooperating with a legacy... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100100525 - Method and arrangement for mediating web services using uddi: The present invention relates to a UDDI server and method in a UDDI server for mediating Web services provided by a number of service providers to a number of service requesters. The UDDI server according to the present invention is adapted to provide support for taking dynamic quality of service... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100100527 - Forgetting items with knowledge based synchronization: Systems and methods that enable removal of data from an endpoint, while not propagating such removal to other endpoints when synchronizing data sources associated therewith. A designation component can indicate items as forgotten items, wherein such items are being known to an endpoint and deleted therefrom—yet, reintroduced therein and reappearing... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100100529 - Rolling cache configuration for a data replication system: Performing data management operations on replicated data in a computer network. Log entries are generated for data management operations of an application executing on a source system. Consistency point entries are used to indicate a time of a known good, or recoverable, state of the application. A destination system is... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100100528 - Stored data reverification management system and method: A system and method are provided for verifying data copies and reverifying the copies over the life span of media according to a verification policy. Characteristics of media and use of media are tracked to provide metrics which may be used to dynamically reevaluate and reassign verification policies to optimize... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100100530 - Save set bundling for staging: Backing up data blocks is disclosed. An indication that a first set of one or more backed up data blocks are related at an application level to one or more other sets of one or more backed up data blocks is received. An associating data that associates the first set... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Emc Corporation

20100100531 - Electronic device and method for managing medias: A method for managing medias of an electronic device is provided. The method includes: detecting whether a communication connection between the electronic device and the computer is established; searching a first type of medias of electronic device if yes; moving the first type of medias from the electronic device to... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20100100532 - Method and apparatus for managing synchronization configuration files: A method and apparatus for managing synchronization configuration files at a computing device is provided. It is determined that at least one configuration file has expired, the at least one configuration file associated with a second computing device and comprising data for synchronizing the second computing device with the computing... Agent: Perry + Currier Inc. (for Rim)

20100100533 - Cascade delete processing: A time-efficient means for identifying and processing cascading deletes due to referential constraint violations includes: logging, to an error file, all primary key (“PK”) errors detected during table load operations; building a foreign key (“FK”) index for each child table; recursively probing each relevant FK index to identify all loaded... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20100100534 - Ticker uploader for ebay®: A method for automatically uploading information to an eBay® server includes the steps of: (a) receiving in a parsing server a formatted electronic file containing information about at least one of product information including event ticket information and other product information, and service information; (b) translating the formatted electronic file... Agent: Monir Sider

20100100535 - Enterprise application platform: The present invention is an improved ERP system which provides for complete integration of systems across an enterprise in an infinitely expandable and easily deployable platform offering a vast reduction in overhead and learning curve, as well as extensive authoring, search, security and automation features.... Agent: Neil J. Coig

20100100536 - System and method for evaluating network content: A system and method for evaluating network content over a communications network include at least one storage unit operable to store and/or maintain a plurality of forum facilities that are each independently associated with a network location containing network content, a processor operable to execute software maintaining and controlling access... Agent: Patent Group Macdonald, Illig, Jones & Britton LLP

20100100537 - System and method for identifying trends in web feeds collected from various content servers: Systems and methods for identifying trends in web feeds collected from various content servers are disclosed. One embodiment includes, selecting a candidate phrase indicative of potential trends in the web feeds, assigning the candidate phrase to trend analysis agents, analyzing the candidate phrase, by each of the one or more... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20100100538 - Method and apparatus for optimizing queries under parametric aggregation constraints: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for optimizing queries. The present invention discloses an efficient method for providing answers to queries under parametric aggregation constraints.... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100100539 - Identifying geographic-areas based on change patterns detected from high-resolution, remotely sensed imagery: A method, system, and medium are provided for identifying terrestrial objects that have changed in a certain manner. One embodiment of the method includes receiving a query that includes one or more inputs, which are related to 1) a first terrestrial object (“first object”) and 2) source change-detection information that... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100100540 - Revising imagery search results based on user feedback: A method, system, and medium are provided for revising a first set of search results related to high-resolution satellite imagery. One embodiment of the method includes receiving a query that seeks high-resolution, remotely sensed images of geographic areas that have changed consistent with a given change signature; returning indications of... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100100541 - Information retrieval apparatus: An information retrieval apparatus, which can present to a user only a related word matching a user search intent, includes: an associative dictionary storage unit (102A) for storing words included in plural pieces of text to be searched and relevance degrees between the words; an appearance frequency storage unit (102B)... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100100543 - Information retrieval using user-generated metadata: System, device and method for using user-generated metadata to arrive at a modified search index that emphasizes a relationship between documents selected by a user during a prior search session and salient terms of those documents. An initial search index is modified by adding a synthetic term and a synthetic... Agent: Meredith & Keyhani, PLLC

20100100542 - System and method for rule-based content customization for user presentation: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to present a script of content comprising one or more content items to a user online, wherein such content is not only relevant to addressing a problem raised by the user, but is also customized and tailored based on a... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Attn: Patent Administrator

20100100544 - Document searching device, document searching method, and document searching program: The present invention relates to a document retrieval apparatus for retrieving the desired data from a structured a document file. The apparatus holds index information in which a tag set including tags that are in a hierarchical relation with each other, is associated with one or more of positions of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100100545 - Editorial related advertising content delivery system: A content management and delivery system that works with a publisher website to deliver access to advertising content within Microsites relevant to content accessed by the user on the publisher website. The system includes a computer program product for determining relevance of the advertising content with regard to a selected... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20100100546 - Context-aware semantic virtual community for communication, information and knowledge management: A method for creation of a semantic information management environment, said method comprised of steps of: providing said semantic information environment consisting of an architecture partitioned according to the classification of the use of natural language by information scale, dynamical properties, or semantic classifications; detection, classification, and storage of semantic... Agent: Steven F. Kohler

20100100547 - Method, system and apparatus for generating relevant informational tags via text mining: A method and system for generating information tags from product-related documents. The system includes an accessible storage storing text documents, wherein the text documents are related to a plurality of products. The system includes a memory access module for retrieving a document from the accessible storage related to a specified... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20100100550 - Apparatus, system and method for providing contents and user interface program: A character folder generator generates one or more character folders, each of which corresponds to a specific character, at each layer of a hierarchical folder structure, and provides a terminal with information of said one or more character folders generated at each layer. A folder ID obtainer obtains identification information... Agent: Gibson & Dernier LLP

20100100549 - Contents space forming apparatus, method of the same, computer, program, and storage media: A space providing server analyzes content to generate meta data. Further the space providing server generates contents space information defining the coordinates of a plurality of main bodies of contents data on a network according to the amount of features thereof, based on the meta data. The terminal apparatus displays... Agent: Gibson & Dernier LLP

20100100548 - Storing change features detected from high-resolution, remotely sensed imagery: A method, system, and medium are provided for identifying facilitating storage and retrieval of information associated with high-resolution, remotely sensed imagery. In one embodiment, a data structure includes information derived from change-detection information associated with remotely sensed imagery, which change-detection information is useable by the application program, and wherein the... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100100551 - System and method of dynamically generating index information: A system and method of generating index information for electronic documents. The system includes a client, one or more information retrieval (IR) engines, such as a search engine, which are each in communication with each other via a network. In one embodiment of the invention, the server maintains a plurality... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20100100552 - Routing xml queries: A vast amount of information currently accessible over the Web, and in corporate networks, is stored in a variety of databases, and is being exported as XML data. However, querying this totality of information in a declarative and timely fashion is problematic because this set of databases is dynamic, and... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hb Patent Docketing

20100100553 - Method and apparatus for ranked join indices: A method and apparatus for ranked join indices includes a solution providing performance guarantees for top-k join queries over two relations, when preprocessing to construct a ranked join index for a specific join condition is permitted. The concepts of ranking join indices presented herein are also applicable in the case... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100100554 - Techniques for measuring the relevancy of content contributions: Techniques for measuring the relevancy of content contributions are provided. Relevancy measurements for components of a collection of content are obtained. The relevancy measurements, the components to which they relate, and the collection of content as a whole are organized into a graphical presentation for subsequent analysis of the components... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20100100555 - Systems and methods for changing symbol sequences in documents: A computer-readable medium includes instructions for causing at least one processor to perform a method. The method may include receiving a symbol sequence into a document, identifying another symbol sequence in the document whose probability of matching the received symbol sequence is above a threshold, and replacing the received symbol... Agent: John E. Harrity

20100100557 - Receiving apparatus and method, information distribution method, filtering and storing program, and recording medium: It is possible for the content distribution side to control the conditions of target viewers for distributions without depending on the functions specific to a receiver. Content which is broadcast, a content profile, and a program are received. In an initial step of the program, prestored viewer profile information is... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20100100556 - System and methods for facilitating a linear grid database with data organization by dimension: Systems and methods for retrieving data within a linear grid management system are disclosed. Data having multiple dimensions is associated with physical locations, where a first dimension of the data is associated with a set of nodes and a second dimension of the data is associated with a set of... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP 5200 Bank Of America Plaza

20100100558 - Method of servicing query statements from a client machine using a database management system (dbms) employing a relational datastore and a multi-dimensional database (mddb): A method of serving query statements from one or more client machines using a database management system (DBMS) employing a relational data store and a multi-dimensional database (MDDB). A query interface is adapted to receive query statements from the client machines, and generate one or more query requests. A query... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski , Esq., P. C.

20100100559 - Searching device, searching method and recording medium: A searching device includes a history storing unit storing a search target obtained by a search and a search date in a storage unit; a relevancy storing unit storing in the storage unit a previous searching keyword including a plurality of date-related words as well as the search target and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100100561 - Benefits management for enterprise-level human capital management: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a human resource management platform that includes applications targeted to solve a variety of human resource and benefits administration management problems. Applications of the human resource management platform include business applications such as benefits administration that may provide a... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20100100560 - Learning anatomy dependent viewing parameters on medical viewing workstations: The invention relates to a data processing apparatus and a method for providing visualisation parameters controlling the display of a medical image (12). The data processing apparatus comprises a mapping component (16). The mapping component (16) is arranged to receive a current dataset (15) corresponding to the medical image and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100100562 - Fully parameterized structured query language: A method for selectively creating a chart and dynamically displaying the chart is disclosed. The method comprises retrieving dimensions from a database, retrieving metrics from said database, retrieving dates from said database, creating user selectable menus, dynamically generating a query based on user selections in said user selectable menus, receiving... Agent: Kleinberg & Lerner, LLP

20100100563 - Method of computing a cooperative answer to a zero-result query through a high latency api: An information retrieval system including a user operated computer having a display and a storage facility, a search back-end containing an index into a collection of documents, the index defining results sets of queries relative to the collection of documents, and a search application stored in the storage facility which... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20100100564 - System and method for spam identification: A system and method are provided for improving a user search experience by identifying spam results in a result set produced in response to a query. The system may include a user interface spam feedback mechanism for allowing a user to indicate that a given result is spam. The system... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (microsoft Corporation)

20100100565 - License management system and control method for the license management system: According to this invention, it is possible to collect device information when a license of software is no longer valid, and process device information collected when the license is no longer valid. According to this invention, it is possible to issue a new license that enables processing of device information... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20100100566 - Methods and systems for identifying the fantasies of users based on image tagging: Systems and methods for receiving uploaded images from users depicting people. Users are allowed to tag the images as depicting certain attribute(s). Users are allowed to share the user uploaded content with other users, which may search and/or filter based on the provided tags. A preference profile is maintained for... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100100567 - Processing of a generalized directed object graph for storage in a relational database: Creating transaction instructions is disclosed. A description of a set of objects is received. For each of at least a subset of objects in the set of objects, a description of one or more associated relationships is received. The description of the set of objects and the descriptions of the... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Emc Corporation

20100100568 - Method for automatic prediction of words in a text input associated with a multimedia message: The invention is in the technological field of digital imaging. More specifically, the invention relates to a method for automatic prediction of words when entering the words of a text associated with an image (6). The object of the invention is a method whereby a terminal (1) connected to a... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20100100569 - Method of accelerating the shortest path problem: The solution to the shortest path between a source node and multiple destination nodes is accelerated using a grouping of nodes, where the nodes are grouped based on distance from the source node, and a corresponding set of memory locations that indicate when a group includes one or more nodes.... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Group LLP

20100100571 - Creating and dynamically maintaining relationships between operational data and output data: A data-processing apparatus is provided. The data-processing apparatus creates and dynamically maintains relationships between operational data and output data. The data-processing apparatus has first line items for storing operational data. The first line items have operational attributes and at least one treatment attribute. The treatment attribute specifies qualifiers used to... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100100570 - Document set with workflow binding ability on each element and the whole set: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for executing workflow via one or more workflow components to enable particular workflow components while fully supporting the execution of a complete workflow by selecting an element of a first document set, selecting an element of a second document set, and establishing a binding relationship... Agent: Michael Blaine Brooks, PC

20100100572 - Computerized legal case management system incorporating reconcilation feature: A method for docketing and reporting activities related to a legal case by first establishing a database in a computer memory for storing case data comprised of a plurality of docket records associated with the legal case. The database is then populated with one or more docket records. A court... Agent: Feldman Law Group

20100100573 - Source and destination determination system and method: In a first general aspect, a computer program product tangibly embodied in an information carrier is described. The computer program product includes instructions that, when executed, perform operations for identifying a source or destination for stock. The operations include receiving an electronic request to determine a source or destination for... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20100100574 - File management system and apparatus, and computer readable recording medium storing program: By having a file data storage section that stores file data of a file; a management information storage section that stores management information identifying the file, the management information being related to the file data; a control information storage section that stores control information on a file to be blocked... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100094803 - Data management apparatus, method and program: Disclosed is a data management apparatus comprising a message transfer/analysis unit that receives an object data access request from a client and returns a response; an object metadata storage unit that stores, as metadata, a set of ancillary information on data for an object and a data area corresponding to... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100094802 - Method and a system for replicating databases: A method for replicating databases, in which method at least two databases are replicated, each database comprising of one or more tables, and each table having data and a unique tree index comprising index keys and hierarchical sums of cyclic redundancy check values calculated from the data on each tree... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20100094804 - Method and device for updating a database, and computer program product: A database system includes a database management system and a database. The database comprises at least one file to be updated (OLD_FILE) which is stored on a storage device. To update the database, the file to be updated (OLD_FILE) is deleted. A new file (NEW_FILE) from the database with current... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20100094805 - User interface apparatus and methods: In one aspect, the invention provides a digital data processing system for information storage and retrieval that includes a first digital data processor (e.g., personal computer, workstation, server, mainframe, etc.) coupled to a second digital data processor and a data store (e.g., a RDF data store, relational database, etc.). The... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20100094806 - File storage system, cache appliance, and method: A file storage system for storing data of a file received from a client includes a back-end file server in which the data is stored. The system includes a cache appliance in communication with the file server, such that the appliance stores portions of the data or attributes of the... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz Attorney At Law

20100094807 - Traversing data in a repeatable manner: Data is processed by receiving a list of one or more file system elements in a level of a file system or a portion thereof. The list is sorted based at least in part on whether a file system element is a file or a directory. A sorted list is... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Emc Corporation

20100094808 - Pathname translation in a data replication system: Performing data management operations on replicated data in a computer network. Log entries are generated for data management operations of an application executing on a source system. Consistency point entries are used to indicate a time of a known good, or recoverable, state of the application. A destination system is... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100094810 - Information processing apparatus, process control method, and computer program product: A storage unit stores flow definition data defining process flow of at least one process for data input from a data input apparatus. A communication unit controls transmission/reception of data between the data input apparatus and an arbitrary apparatus connected via a network. A flow-execution control unit controls execution of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100094809 - Techniques to manage retention policy tags: Techniques to manage retention policy tags are described. A system may comprise a tagging component operative to tag a message with an expiration tag to form an expiration tagged message, the expiration tag having expiration information used to expire the expiration tagged message in accordance with a retention policy. The... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100094811 - Apparatus, system, and method for virtual storage access method volume data set recovery: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for Virtual Storage Access (VSAM) Volume Data Set (VVDS) recovery. A store module stores a data set name and data set characteristics for a data set in a recovery table when the data set is defined under a Z/OS® operating system. The recovery... Agent: Kunzler Needham Massey & Thorpe

20100094812 - Dynamically defining and using a delete cascade trigger firing attribute: A method, computer program product or computer system for dynamically controlling the firing of a trigger for a DELETE CASECADE referential constraint in a database management system, which includes defining a DELETE CASCADE Trigger Fire Attribute (DCTFA) for each dependent file of the DELETE CASCADE referential constraint in a database,... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20100094813 - Representing and storing an optimized file system using a system of symlinks, hardlinks and file archives: A data de-duplication system is used with network attached storage and serves to reduce data duplication and file storage costs. Techniques utilizing both symlinks and hardlinks ensure efficient deletion file/data cleanup and avoid data loss in the event of crashes.... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20100094814 - Assessment generation using the semantic web: This invention is a method of generating an assessment items. It comprises configuring an assessment generation engine running on a database or an information network such as the Web to produce when a topic is specified a) an incomplete statement or a question about said topic, which are called the... Agent: George S. Levy

20100094815 - Method and apparatus for performing type-aware change tracking in a document: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates performing type-aware change tracking in a document. During operation, the system receives from a user a command which changes a content of an object in the document. In response to the command, the system determines a type of the... Agent: Pvf -- Apple Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20100094816 - Safety-critical data checking in object-oriented systems: Methods for detecting the corruption of vital data during the execution of object-oriented programs are disclosed. In accordance with the illustrative embodiments, code is generated at run-time for computing a checksum of vital data in an object, and the code is inserted into the object. When the object is created,... Agent: Lockheed Martin C/o Demont & Breyer, LLC

20100094817 - Storage-network de-duplication: Techniques are provided for de-duplication of data. In one embodiment, a system comprises de-duplication logic that is coupled to a de-duplication repository. The de-duplication logic is operable to receive, from a client device over a network, a request to store a file in the de-duplicated repository using a single storage... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20100094848 - Adding attributes and labels to structured data: A method and system associating labels and attribute values with items in a collection of data. Providers can associate attributes and labels with their data or attributes and labels can be added to existing data. A preferred embodiment allows a content provider to upload data and to attach their own... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100094825 - Apparatus, system and method for caching writes by multiple clients to a virtualized common disk image: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for storage write caching. A storage address translation table is used to overlay a user image and a common image. A storage driver stack module receives a storage access call and generates a storage access request with a requested file path and a... Agent: Kunzler Needham Massey & Thorpe

20100094843 - Association of semantic objects with linguistic entity categories: A system includes determination of a name of a semantic object associated with a semantic layer, determination of a linguistic entity category associated with the name, and storage, in association with the semantic layer, of an association between the semantic object and the linguistic entity category. Also included may be... Agent: Sap Ag C/o Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20100094835 - Automatic query concepts identification and drifting for web search: Techniques are described for automatically determining which terms in a search query may be augmented by contextually similar terms such that more relevant results can be displayed to a user. Contextually similar words are determined based on training data, including a web corpus and a query log. Once contextually similar... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20100094834 - Bridging in a media sharing system: A system and method for providing a bridging process for a media sharing system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a user device of a user joins a media sharing system including the user device of the user and one or more other user devices of a corresponding one or more... Agent: Withrow & Terranova Ct

20100094833 - Caching and synching process for a media sharing system: A system and method for caching and/or synching shared media items in a media sharing system are provided. In one embodiment, a user device of a user joins a media sharing system including the user device and one or more other user devices connected via a network such that the... Agent: Withrow & Terranova Ct

20100094832 - Catalog performance plus: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for managing an integrated catalog facility (ICF) catalog. An ICF catalog is monitored by a contention detection module. Information related to a detected catalog resource contention is used by the contention detection module to generate a contention event. Information related to the... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Tucson

20100094838 - Compatibility server for database rehosting: A system and method describing a compatibility server for rehosting database applications written for a specific vendor's database on the database of a second vendor, without the need of rewriting the application to take into account differences in the application programming interfaces between the first vendor's database and the second... Agent: Fox Rothschild, LLP Pittsburgh

20100094819 - Concurrent collaborative process for data management and retrieval: In one embodiment the present invention includes a plurality of processes for storing data. The processes may include identifiers for specifying other processes representing other resources. In one embodiment, the processes store link types for specifying a relationship type between the resource represented by the process and other resources represented... Agent: Fountainhead Law Group P.C. Chad R. Walsh

20100094845 - Contents search apparatus and method: Provided is a contents search apparatus and a method thereof. The contents search apparatus includes a query word preprocessing module expanding an inputted query word; and a search module searching for contents of a tag corresponding to the expanded query word. The contents search method includes expanding an inputted query... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100094839 - Coordinated notification: A method for providing coordinated notification comprises storing a plurality of service profiles in a network-accessible repository. Each profile includes data relating to a service, a user, and data relating to identifying the user by the provider of the service. When a notification request relating to a change of status... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20100094829 - Database query profiler: A query profiling system and associated operating methods implement a database query profiler. The illustrative database system comprises a parser, a query model, a catalog manager, a binder and view rewriter, and a query analyzer. The parser parses statements by checking syntax of a statement according to a structured query... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100094844 - Deduction of analytic context based on text and semantic layer: A system includes reception of text, extraction of a plurality of linguistic entities and associated linguistic entity categories based on the text; determination of one or more semantic objects of a semantic layer based on the linguistic entity categories, and generation of a query of the semantic layer based on... Agent: Sap Ag C/o Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20100094818 - Dissemination, acquisition, discovery and use of people-oriented folksonomies: In a method of and system for discovering people with attributes, users tag people in their respective contact lists with attribute tags. The method aggregates in a folksonomy database the people tagged in the contact lists. A user may request a list of people tagged with an attribute. In response... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20100094823 - Enhanced linear presentation of search results based on search result metadata: In some aspects, a search result is received that is associated with a first value of a first type of metadata and a second value of a second type of metadata, and a view is created comprising a graphical indication of the search result at coordinate A1 of axis A.... Agent: Sap Ag C/o Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20100094846 - Leveraging an informational resource for doing disambiguation: A method and apparatus for disambiguating a word or phrase is provided. Keywords are detected in a text. The keywords are each associated with one or more objects, and the objects are each categorized into one or more categories. Correlation values are retrieved from a correlation matrix to determine the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20100094847 - Method and apparatus for multiple-protocol access to object-based storage: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a storage presentation module and a mapping module in communication with the storage presentation module and an object pool module. The storage presentation module is operable to provide a first storage interface and a second storage interface via a network interface. The first storage... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20100094830 - Method and system for detection of counterfeit goods using modified standard marking protocols: A system and method for coordinating identification of an object transported between a sender and a receiver includes the object. The object is one of a plurality of similar objects. An object identifier is associated with the object. The object identifier is an element in a non-repeating, non-linear series of... Agent: Hayes Soloway P.C.

20100094841 - Method and system for producing customized content: There is provided a method for producing a customized content, comprising identifying a customizable content from which to produce the customized content, identifying a base content in the customizable content, and receiving at least one customizing criterion as input. The method further comprises determining a plurality of content modifiers for... Agent: Disney Enterprises C/o Farjami & Farjami LLP

20100094820 - Method for affecting the score and placement of media items in a locked-to-top playlist: Methods and systems are disclosed for affecting a score of a media item in a playlist of scored media items. In one embodiment, a playlist of scored media items that is sorted based on score is provided. An associated user is enabled to adjust the score of a media item... Agent: Withrow & Terranova Ct

20100094840 - Method of searching text to find relevant content and presenting advertisements to users: A method of locating relevant documents wherein documents are given a fingerprint comprising weights associated with particular topic categories of a classification system, each weight representing a degree to which the document relates to the particular topic category. Documents whose fingerprints have a predetermined degree of mathematical overlap with the... Agent: Steven Horowitz, Esq.

20100094824 - Methods, program product, and system of data management having container approximation indexing: Systems, program product, and methods of data management are provided. The system can include a computer having memory, a dataset including a relatively large number of records, and container approximation indexing program product stored in the memory of the computer and adapted to cause the computer to sort the dataset... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20100094831 - Named entity resolution using multiple text sources: An arrangement for resolving ambiguity among named entities in web based text documents is provided in which multiple documents are utilized that are of different genres and will thus typically use different degrees of precision when referring to named entities. When an ambiguous named entity is located in a document,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100094842 - Quantum-based oblivious transfer and private data sampling protocols and systems for performing the same: Various embodiments of the present invention relate to oblivious transfer protocols and to system for performing oblivious transfer. Embodiments of the present invention include a private data sampling protocol that is designed to balance the competing privacy interest of a database user and a database owner. Protocol embodiments enable the... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100094828 - Query scheduler: A mixed workload management system and associated operating method modify a shortest job first (SJF) by service levels. The workload management system comprises a scheduler configured for scheduling mixed workloads. The scheduler comprises an analyzer that determines query execution time, assigns scheduling priority to a query in order inverse to... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100094827 - Query stream execution using priority gradient multiprogramming: A workload management system and operating method are configured for query stream execution using priority gradient programming. The workload management system comprises a database system that executes queries at a priority gradient wherein no more than a predetermined number of queries execute at a particular priority, and a scheduler that... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100094850 - Radiographic image detection apparatus: An actual-past-radiography position database stores, as actual-past-radiography positions, the position of a radiographic image detector and the position of a radiation source when radiography was actually performed, associating the position of the radiographic image detector and the position of the radiation source with information about a subject. When the radiation... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20100094837 - Relationship management for contact staleness: A contact management data processing system can be provided. The system can include a contact manager coupled to a list of contacts and stored staleness criteria stored in connection with the list of contacts. The system also can include stale contact management logic. The logic can include program code enabled... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20100094836 - System and method for data quality assurance cycle: A system and method for automated quality assurance including a quality assurance application server for managing quality assurance. The quality assurance application server includes an application configuration module which has a data configuration module configured to define configurable reference fields to be captured and reviewed during the processing of the... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20100094822 - System and method for determining a file save location: A system to suggest a directory location in which to save a file. The system includes a client computer and a folder storage locator. The client computer initiates a file save operation. The folder storage locator communicates the suggestion of the directory location in which to save the file. The... Agent: HolmanIPLaw/ibm Rsw

20100094821 - System and method for inserting a pdf shared resource back into a pdf statement: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for inserting a PDF shared resource back into a PDF statement is provided. The method includes storing a set of statements, wherein each statement has been extracted from a document and each statement contains indirect objects. A set of resources... Agent: Kunzler Needham Massey & Thorpe

20100094826 - System for resolving entities in text into real world objects using context: A method and apparatus for establishing a degree of confidence that a real world object correctly represents a string is provided. The method includes receiving a string in a context. The string can then be related to a real world object with a degree of confidence based on a click... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20100094849 - Systems and methods for creating user generated content incorporating content from a content catalog: Systems and methods for creating user generated content incorporating content from a content catalog are described. One embodiment of the invention includes a user generated content creation system, which includes a database, and is connected to a network, and a plurality of user devices that are connected to the network.... Agent: Kauth , Pomeroy , Peck & Bailey ,llp

20100094857 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: The present invention relates to a method for easily finding target data even when a plurality of data having similar data information satisfy a search condition. An information processing apparatus includes a matched data information acquisition unit configured to search for data stored in a storage device based on a... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20100094858 - Method and system for high performance integration, processing and searching of structured and unstructured data using coprocessors: Disclosed herein is a method and system for integrating an enterprise's structured and unstructured data to provide users and enterprise applications with efficient and intelligent access to that data. Queries can be directed toward both an enterprise's structured and unstructured data using standardized database query formats such as SQL commands.... Agent: Thompson Coburn LLP

20100094851 - Node-level sub-queries in distributed databases: A database query is received that includes a logical query indicator at a distributed database node within a distributed network of databases. The logical query indicator includes at least one physical database query and at least one database node identifier that allows at least one distributed database node to identify... Agent: Lee Law, PLLC IBM Customer Number

20100094852 - Scheduling queries using a stretch metric: A query scheduler orders queries in a queue. Each query is executed based on its position in the queue. When a new query is received, the new query is inserted in the queue. A position in the queue for inserting the new query is determined based on a stretch metric... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100094856 - System and method for using a list capable search box to batch process search terms and results from websites providing single line search boxes: System and method for querying multiple websites using keywords entered into a search box on a browser. The search box can receive a list of keywords that are placed into multiple websites. After a process receives its start command, each process can work on retrieving information from a number of... Agent: Weiss & Moy PC

20100094853 - System and methodology for a multi-site search engine: Techniques for query processing in a multi-site search engine are described. During an indexing phase, each site of a multi-site search engine indexes a set of assigned web resources and each site calculates, for each term in the set of assigned web resources, a site-specific upper bound ranking score on... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20100094854 - System for automatically categorizing queries: A system and method is provided for recognizing a pattern in queries and using the recognized pattern to categorize queries under existing query categories. An entity text that represents a real-world object is detected in a query. The entity text is categorized into an entity category. The query is then... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20100094855 - System for transforming queries using object identification: A system and method is provided for rewriting a query sent from a user to a search provider. The search provider displays results from content providers through modules associated with the content providers. The search provider predicts whether the query would be successful for one or more modules using information... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20100094859 - Folksonomy-enhanced enterprise-centric collaboration and knowledge management system: An enterprise search system includes a server coupled to a data repository storing information specific to persons engaged in the enterprise, including enterprise-related activity and data related to such activity, and a search application executing on the server from a digital media accessible to the server. The search application, in... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20100094860 - Indexing online advertisements: In one embodiment, a method for a detection server in communication with each of multiple web pages of multiple websites on multiple web servers, the detection server in communication with an ad indexing server, includes automatically accessing from the detection server a file for rendering the web page from a... Agent: Google Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik, LLP

20100094861 - System and method for application session tracking: A system and method for application session tracking includes activating an application component for execution using an application session tracking facility (ASTF) and intercepting resource requests by the ASTF acting on behalf of this application. Resources are managed by allocating or releasing resources in accordance with resource usage profiles determined... Agent: Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20100094862 - Automated query path reporting in distributed databases: A database query comprising a logical table definition and at least one route tracing indicator is forwarded to at least one distributed database node within a distributed network of databases. At least one query response is received including distributed route tracing information associated with each distributed database node that processed... Agent: Lee Law, PLLC IBM Customer Number

20100094864 - Data storage and fusion layer: and wherein two or more of the collections of data contain equivalent, and preferably identical, identifying data values, or the identifying values determined by their locations relative to other collections are equivalent, and preferably identical, and have attribute identifiers which correspond to, and data values belonging to, second attributes that... Agent: Law Office Of James Trosino

20100094863 - Intentionality matching: A series of methods, systems and objects are disclosed permitting a person to judge their intentionality against a particular object or set of objects. This is achieved through the use of an object profile of a choice point including at least a set of discrete markers representing attributes of users;... Agent: Gray Robinson, P.A.

20100094866 - Method and system for providing 'what's next' data: A system and method for generating a list of content is disclosed. A processor may store in memory at least one content preference of a user, may store at least one non-user content preference of at least one entity other than the user, may associate the at least one non-user... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100094865 - Systems and methods for distributing and maintaining product or service information: Computer-executed methods, systems, and media provide a first webpage, responsive to a user request, prompting for a query. A search for products or services that match the query yields a search results schema, comprising a hit description for the results of the search. A plurality of result details layout schemas,... Agent: Jones Day

20100094867 - Time-multiplexing documents based on preferences or relatedness: A system and method for time-multiplexing the display of a plurality of electronic documents are provided. Time-multiplexing criteria for displaying a plurality of selected documents associated with a concept on a time-multiplexed basis is determined. The plurality of selected documents are caused to be displayed at an output device in... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100094868 - Detection of undesirable web pages: A system for detecting artificial promotion of a resource, including a search engine operative to index a set incoming links (“inlinks”) which reference the resource, a log module coupled with the search engine and configured to store log data associated with the set of inlinks, a partitioning module coupled with... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20100094869 - Method of presenting search results to a user of a social network site: Method of presenting search results to a user of a social network site on the Internet, in which each user of the social network site has a user profile with information regarding the user, includes obtaining content items satisfying a search of information on the Internet by a first user.... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20100094870 - Method for massively parallel multi-core text indexing: There is provided, in a parallel pipelined structure on a multi-core device, a method for parallel pipelined multi-core indexing. The method includes generating one or more single document indexes respectively corresponding to one or more single documents of a given data stream. The method further includes generating one or more... Agent: Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20100094872 - Method and system for identification of objects: Objects are identified on the basis of location and one or more characteristics by a user device and a service product. The service product provides a service, with which objects can be identified. The object to be identified is positioned, the user device is connected to the service and the... Agent: Fasth Law Offices (rolf Fasth)

20100094873 - System and method for augmenting content in electronic documents with links to contextually relevant information: An electronic document and associated system, methods and apparatus is described. The electronic document is loaded in a user device configured to communicate with an external device that generates instructions for augmenting content contained in the electronic document with links to contextually relevant information. The content can be augmented with... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20100094871 - System and method for providing global informtion on risks and related hedging strategies: The present invention provides a system and method for information and data aggregation and analysis which provides risk managers, benefits managers, brokers, insurers and other insurance professional to have access to information resources, knowledge management tools, and powerful analytical models needed to increase their value and productivity. In accordance with... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20100094874 - Method and an apparatus for retrieving additional information regarding a patient record: A method and an apparatus retrieve additional information regarding a patient record. Applying the subject-matter of the present invention clinical experts, such as doctors, can be provided with domain specific background knowledge, and can, hence, be supported in making decisions regarding the treatment of patients. Said additional information can be... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100094875 - Method and system for classifying text: A content classification system, method and computer product is presented. In connection with the invention, a data structure is created by identifying a plurality of words and mapping each word to one or more categories. The data structure is indexed. An item of content is identified and classified based on... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

20100094876 - Method, apparatus and system of searching and downloading mobile telephone file: A method of searching and downloading mobile telephone file, a server of the locality domain of a mobile terminal receives a keyword information of a searching request, searches the resource in the mobile communication network, and returns the searched resource list to the mobile terminal, the mobile terminal receives data... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20100094877 - System and method for distributed index searching of electronic content: There are provided methods and systems for efficient search in a peer-to-peer network topology. In various embodiments, search methods and systems provide for response times and network traffic that are independent from the number of query terms, thereby producing constant run-time searches and bandwidth hits in a P2P network search... Agent: Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP

20100094878 - Contextual targeting of content using a monetization platform: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for using a monetization platform server to associate sponsored content with contextual information relating to mobile content, and storing the sponsored content-contextual information association in a data facility for future use in optimizing the delivery of a sponsored content to... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20100094879 - Method of detecting and responding to changes in the online community's interests in real time: A method of locating relevant documents wherein documents are given a fingerprint comprising weights associated with particular topic categories of a classification system, each weight representing a degree to which the document relates to the particular topic category. Documents whose fingerprints have a predetermined degree of mathematical overlap with the... Agent: Steven Horowitz

20100094880 - Media list management: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for managing a playlist on a portable media device including generating a random order of media items based on a seed, receiving an instruction to power down the portable media device, saving the seed in a storage, and powering down the portable... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

20100094881 - System and method for indexing sub-spaces: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for identifying compatible advertisement contracts to satisfy an advertisement opportunity. The systems and methods include receiving a number of attribute values associated with a user accessing a network-based location. The systems and methods include sorting an index of lists for a... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20100094882 - Automated data conversion and route tracking in distributed databases: A determination is made as to whether a data type associated with a received logical table definition associated with a database query within a distributed database system differs from a data type associated with a local logical table definition. A data conversion is performed on data retrieved from a locally-stored... Agent: Lee Law, PLLC IBM Customer Number

20100094883 - Method and apparatus for integrated entity and integrated operations of personalized data resource across the world wide web for online and offline interactions: Embodiments of the invention provide a method and apparatus for integrated entity of personalized data resource across the WWW with integrated operations. Such embodiments can reside on premises (or service side) as an integrated personalized data resource which is constructed from each of a number of web applications over the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20100094884 - Representational state transfer (rest) service import editor: In an embodiment of the invention, a method for REST service importation in a distributed application development data processing system can be provided. The method can include the specifying a sample uniform resource locator (URL) in a graphical user interface to a REST service importation editor and invoking the REST... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20100094885 - Method and/or system for performing tree matching: Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and/or systems for performing tree matching are disclosed.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20100094888 - Method and system for acquiring data from machine-readable documents: In a method for acquiring data from a machine-readable document for assignment to fields of a database, individual data are extracted substantially automatically from the document and entered into the corresponding database fields. If data cannot be extracted from the document with a desired degree of reliability for one or... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20100094887 - Method and system for determining junk information: The present invention is a method and a system for determining junk information related to the fields of information filtering, and can solve the problem of improperly predefined junk information. The method includes: pre-defining junk information keywords in data samples; computing keyword scores for each of the keywords; simulating filtering... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20100094886 - Method and system for managing learning materials presented offline: Managing offline presentation of learning material may include associating identification strings with various portions of the learning material. When a learner is presented with the learning materials, identification strings associated with the learning materials may also be presented to the learner. The progress of the learner with respect to the... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20100094889 - System, method and computer program for non-binary sequence comparison: A system and method for performing non-binary comparison of biological sequences includes a new measure ω0, which is a non-binary counting measure that is used in a stand alone module called VaSSA-1. This measure obtains substantially more information about sequences and comparisons between them than is gathered by conventional bioinformatics... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20100094891 - Client-server system for multi-resource searching: Systems and methods for searching multiple resources via a communications network, such as the Internet, are disclosed. The systems use a client-server approach in which search clients formulate search requests for a plurality of resources in a generalized format. The search requests are sent to a server, and specific uniform... Agent: Patentbest

20100094890 - Url virtual naming and metadata mapping: Mapping of a universal resource locator (URL) to a virtual world location may include receiving a URL for access to an entity, accessing a mapping of the URL to coordinates of a location of the entity in a virtual world, and providing access to the entity in the virtual world.... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Ibm

20100094892 - Automated propagation of non-conflicting queries in distributed databases: A logical table definition is received in association with a database query within a distributed database system. A determination is made as to whether the received logical table definition matches a local logical table definition. The query is processed in response to determining that the received logical table definition matches... Agent: Lee Law, PLLC IBM Customer Number

20100094894 - Program invocation from a query interface to parallel computing system: Techniques are disclosed for invoking an analysis routine running on a parallel computer system to analyze query results. An interface used to build and execute a database query may be used to invoke a complex analysis routine on a parallel computer system to analyze query results obtained by executing the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20100094893 - Query interface configured to invoke an analysis routine on a parallel computing system as part of database query processing: Techniques are disclosed for invoking an analysis routine running on a parallel computer system to analyze query results. An interface used to build and execute a database query may be used to invoke a complex analysis routine on a parallel computer system to analyze query results obtained by executing the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20100094895 - Method and apparatus for providing a media object: In accordance with an example embodiment of the invention, an apparatus comprising a processor configured to receive information related to a media object, and automatically select at least one supplemental media object based at least in part on a competency of a user related to the media object is disclosed.... Agent: Nokia, Inc.

20100094898 - Image processing apparatus, control method therefor, computer program, and computer-readable storage medium: In this invention, when images, in image files managed according to photographing dates, which match a search condition are to be displayed, the images matching the search condition are sequentially displayed such that the positions or distribution of the image files, of all image files, which match the search condition... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20100094896 - Program retrieval support device and its method: The program retrieval support device includes the following units. A program-information-accumulation unit (102) accumulates pieces of program information. A program-search-criterion-input unit (101) receives from a user a search criterion. A program-information-search unit (103) searches the pieces of program information accumulated in the program-information-accumulation unit (102) using the received search criterion.... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100094897 - Unified format for digital content metadata: A method and system to provide a unified format for digital content metadata are described. The system may include a module to obtain source data associated with media content; a module to identify, based on the source data, the media content; an extractor to obtain metadata associated the identified content;... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20100094900 - Content package for electronic distribution: Defining a content package having media files and table of contents (TOC) data. The content package includes physical representation data and logical representation data for the media files (e.g., stored in the TOC data). Computing devices store, download, and play back the media files based on the data in the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100094899 - System for assembling and providing problem solving frameworks: A system is described for assembling and providing problem solving frameworks. The system may include a processor, a memory and an interface. The memory may store a template for solving a problem. The template may include several tasks, each task associated with an attribute indicating whether the task should be... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20100094901 - Method and system to combine keyword results and natural language search results: A search query is received from a single input field of a user interface. A keyword search is performed based on the search query to generate keyword search results. A natural language search is performed of a frequently-asked question (FAQ) database based on the search query to generate FAQ search... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Toler Attn: Patent Docketing

20100094902 - Automated data source assurance in distributed databases: A database query is received including a logical table identifier, a data element, and at least one data source assurance indicator at a distributed database node within a distributed network of databases. The data element is encrypted based upon the at least one data source assurance indicator. A data portion... Agent: Lee Law, PLLC IBM Customer Number

20100094904 - Green's function formulations for pagerank algorithm using helmholtz wave equation representations of internet interactions: A novel approach to determining PageRank for web pages views the problem as being comparable to solving for an electromagnetic field problem. This view of ranking web pages enables appropriate entries for a matrix G of the web (or a subset), so that fast-solver techniques can be employed to iterate... Agent: Law Offices Of Ronald M Anderson

20100094903 - Representing the allocation of integers: Methods and arrangements of representing the allocation of integers are discussed. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic to represent the allocation of integers. An embodiment may involve representing a first allocation of integers via a set of nodes of a tree. In the representation, a data structure... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20100094905 - Method for manipulating objects in a soa registry: t

20100094908 - Method and/or system for manipulating tree expressions: Embodiments of methods and/or systems of manipulating tree expressions are disclosed.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20100094909 - Methods, programs, storage media and systems for recording and compiling a music section: This disclosure relates to a method for recording and compiling a music section, wherein multiple takes of the music section are recorded; and wherein the method uses a take folder to store the multiple takes. The take folder may belong to a single track. Sections of one or more takes... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100094906 - Modular forest automata: Modular forest automata (MFA) provide a unified description of partially-ordered regular tree patterns. MFAs provide simple methods for determinization, sub-typing, intersection, and complementation of these patterns. MFAs support high-performance pattern analysis and matching. Modular forest transducers, in conjunction with modular forest automata, enable compilers to place semantic actions on any... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20100094907 - Preservation aware fixity in digital preservation: A computer based method for the preservation of a digital information in a data set includes receiving a data set to be preserved, the data set including a plurality of preservation objects; creating a fixity table, the fixity table including one or more data types corresponding to preservation data types... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20100094910 - Method and system for linking and delinking data records: Disclosed herein are various exemplary systems and methods for linking entity references to entities and identifying associations between entities. In particular, a method for delinking one or more entity references linked to a same entity is provided, where the one or more entity references having at least one common data... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100094911 - Automated application discovery and analysis system and method: An object oriented design for an automated modeling system for mapping and monitoring the business roles and impact of elements within an IT Infrastructure that make up specific applications or business processes, spanning not only network elements, hosts, servers and programs but also users, company structure and processes. The design... Agent: Wesley W. Whitmyer, Jr. St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens LLC

20100094914 - Data processor: A data processor writes a content data stream on a storage medium, on which a data storage location is defined based on a file allocation table (FAT). The processor includes: a control section for determining the amount of data to be read continuously until a portion of the data stream,... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (pan) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20100094912 - Preserving user intention in distributed data systems: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for preserving user intention in distributed data systems. Embodiments of the invention preserve user intention when different copies of the same data are independently edited at different locations. User intent can be preserved without centralized locking or other coordination.... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20100094913 - Web services response templates: Provided is a Web Services Response Template (WSRT) that addresses the problems of efficiency and robustness to change in Web Services response by allowing a requestor to explicitly specify, in a response template what information is to be returned by the request. A requestor of a web service gets just... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20100094915 - Quick-creating objects in an application: A palette of representations that can be generated by an application for database, spreadsheet, word processing, and the like, is provided in response to a request for a new object within the application. If the application already has one or more objects open at the time of the request, the... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20100094916 - Service level management system: A method for controlling and maintaining a level of service of web applications is disclosed. The method includes generating a context for each request sent from a client to a web server and for each reply sent from a web server to a client. Then it is determined whether the... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20100094917 - Apparatus for classifying or disambiguating data: A computing system has a data storage device (4, 5, 6) for storing a database consisting of a classified vocabulary of terms. A processor (1) of the apparatus is arranged to associate each term with one of a number of different categories of data and to associate all terms falling... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100094918 - Image pickup apparatus and control method therefor: This invention allows a user to easily classify and manage image files by recording an image file obtained by image capture and an image file obtained by being received from an external apparatus in different folders. For this purpose, a system control unit which controls an overall digital camera determines... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20100094919 - Method and system for managing data transaction requests: In one embodiment, a method is provided for processing data transactions in a data store that includes databases. In this method, a data transaction request is received from a requesting computer. Different databases are then identified from the databases using a data access layer that defines an abstraction layer. The... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20100088270 - Data versioning concept including time dependency and active and inactive states: In one embodiment, the system includes an application that supports a versioning mode, an object with a set of versions, and a database to store the set of versions of the object with versioning information, wherein the versioning information includes a validity period, a timestamp, and a version state. The... Agent: Sap Ag

20100088269 - Dispersal and retrieval of data fragments in a peer-to-peer data backup and archival network: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to data backup and archival tools and provide a method, system and computer program product for the dispersal and retrieval of fragments in a peer-to-peer data backup and archival network. In an embodiment of the invention, a method... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20100088268 - Encryption of data fragments in a peer-to-peer data backup and archival network: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to data backup and archival tools and provide a method, system and computer program product for securing fragments in a peer-to-peer data backup and archival network. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for securing fragments in... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20100088271 - Hsm two-way orphan reconciliation for extremely large file systems: One aspect of the present invention provides an operation for recovering lost space and maintaining data consistency in a storage environment by providing a two-way orphan reconciliation method for extremely large file systems, such as a Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) system which manages billions of files. This highly scalable and... Agent: Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly, LLP

20100088273 - Real-time visualization of user consumption of media items: A computer implemented method for displaying real-time computer mediated user consumption data, comprising: accessing consumption data corresponding to real-time computer mediated user consumption behavior; parsing the consumption data to identify one or more events comprising one or more instances of consumption data and wherein each event is associated with a... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20100088272 - Systems and methods of managing location of media in a storage system: A system and method for operating a storage library. The system comprises a management server, a media agent connected to the management server, a library connected to the media agent and a database connected to the management server. The management server controls the media agent to monitor for the addition... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100088275 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program, information providing apparatus, information providing method, information providing program and information processing system: An information processing apparatus acquires and transmits content identification information stored in the storage unit to the other apparatus, determines whether the information processing apparatus has received the content analysis results from the other apparatus and if it is determined that the content analysis result acquisition unit has received the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20100088274 - System and method for synchronizing a repository with a declarative defintion: The subject disclosure relates to a method and system for synchronizing a repository with a declarative definition. The method and system includes receiving the declarative definition in which the declarative definition represents a constraint-based execution model. A script is also created that translates the declarative definition into machine code. At... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20100088276 - System and method for implementing personalization and mapping in a network-based address book: A system and method for implementing personalization, mapping and status management in a network-based address book. A subscription function (SF) subscribes to personal contact information of specific users to personal contact card (PCC) servers and receives updates to the contact information of the subscribed user(s). The SF retrieves the personalization... Agent: Nokia, Inc.

20100088277 - Object deduplication and application aware snapshots: Embodiments deploy delayering techniques, and the relationships between successive versions of a rich-media file become apparent. With this, modified rich-media files suddenly present far smaller storage overhead as compared to traditional application-unaware snapshot and versioning implementations. Optimized file data is stored in suitcases. As a file is versioned, each new... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20100088278 - Network file update mechanism with integrity assurance: An approach is provided that receives a file request and maintains a set of file versions of the requested file on a network-accessible storage media. The file versions are retrieved from the network accessible storage media along with expected hash values corresponding to each of the file versions. The retrieved... Agent: Freescale - Jvl C/o Vanleeuwen & Vanleeuwen

20100088280 - Computer system for hierarchically managing a journal and method therefor: Provided is technology in which a first storage system includes a first logical volume and a second logical volume, the second logical volume stores therein a first differential data item representing a differential between data that was stored in the first logical volume at a first time instant and data... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100088279 - Information processing apparatus and operation method thereof: An information processing apparatus includes a remote copying processing part 214 copying, at predetermined time intervals, difference data of a D-VOL 72 onto a different D-VOL 72 via a communication interface; and a failover processing part 215 acquiring the number of other auxiliary volumes 74 provided to be added to... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100088281 - Zero downtime maintenance using a mirror approach: The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for providing software updates. In one aspect there is provided a method. The method may include copying an application to a shadow system, the application used to upgrade the shadow system rather than a production system; copying... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20100088282 - Information processing apparatus, and operation method of storage system: A server apparatus performs data I/O processing on a P-VOL in response to a request from a client apparatus and includes a file system which receives data write and read requests in units of files from the client apparatus. The server apparatus stores, into a D-VOL, differential data generated by... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20100088284 - Archiving system for massive databases using pre-computed data lifecycles: An enterprise management system includes transaction/analytic applications and an archiving system in which data object lifecycles are pre-computed when the data object is created by the transaction application or analytic application. Having pre-computed the data lifecycle via the transaction/analytic applications, an archiving system need not re-determine whether the criteria for... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100088283 - System and method for managing database applications: The subject disclosure relates to a method and system for managing a database application. The method and system include receiving a deployment package, which includes deployed objects of a declarative execution model and defining a plurality of data structures extracted from the deployment package such that at least one data... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100088286 - Deployment manager for master data management: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to deploy a data management application to a target computer system. Metadata for a master data management (MDM) application is stored in a deployment database. The metadata is representative of business rules and process workflows that manage business data from... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20100088285 - Ndma scalable archive hardware/software architecture for load balancing, independent processing, and querying of records: A system for storing NDMA data is scalable to handle extreme amounts of data. The system allows components to be added or deleted to meet current demands. The system processes data in independent steps, providing processor level independence for every subcomponent. The system uses parallel processing and multithreading within load... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20100088287 - Information system, method and recording medium having program recorded thereon relating to collectively registered data: An information system has a primary and a secondary system. The primary system includes a unit for processing data on a record; a unit for recording a processing result in a log; a unit for transferring the log recorded to the secondary system; a unit for collectively registering data of... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20100088288 - Apparatus and method for resolving security association database update coherency in high-speed systems having multiple security channels: An apparatus and method for updating security association database entries in a system having multiple security channels by selectively granting access to the entries by a plurality of the multiple security channels that may need to update the same entry using a first-come, first-served scheme. The apparatus includes a controller... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20100088289 - Transitioning clone data maps and synchronizing with a data query: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed for transitioning clones and clone data access maps in response to node or media failure without blocking queries. In a system, a data request interface is configured to receive a query to access data at a storage device. Data management logic is configured... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100088293 - Apparatus, methods and computer products for selection of content based on transcript searches: An apparatus, methods, and computer program products for selection of content. The content search method includes receiving a search request having search data including search terms, utilizing the search request to query against databases comprising transcripts of programs yet to be released, and returning results to the search request.... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Cc Attn: Patent Docketing

20100088299 - Autonomic summarization of content: Autonomic summarization of content may include receiving information regarding an action, generating metadata content related to the action, storing the metadata content, and performing a search of the stored metadata content to find information on the performed action. Also included is an apparatus for autonomic summarization of content including a... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Ibm

20100088295 - Co-location visual pattern mining for near-duplicate image retrieval: Described is a technology in which image near-duplicate retrieval is performed using similarities between patterns of query image words and patterns of database image words. In general, the image retrieval problems resulting from visual polysemy are reduced by using such visual patterns. Visual word vectors and visual pattern vectors are... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100088292 - Collaborative transcoding: A method of collaborative transcoding includes discovering capabilities of devices within a network; exchanging information about content stored within the network; anticipating a request for a content item in a target format; identifying a location of the content item by referencing the information about content stored within the network; and,... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20100088294 - Information processing method and system of the same: An information processing method is implemented by an information processing system. The system has a media file generator, a GPS recorder and a data processing system. The data processing system obtains media files and creation times from the media file generator and geographical items from the GPS recorder. Since each... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20100088291 - Method, system and computer-usable medium for early notification of a pending digital video recorder deletion event: A method, system and computer-usable medium for early notification of a pending deletion event by a digital playback device. Programs associated with the digital playback device can be scheduled for deletion in advance by a digital playback device interface manually and/or automatically. A deletion event can be notified through a... Agent: Ibm Corporation (endicott) C/o Ortiz & Lopez

20100088297 - Packaging and bulk transfer of files and metadata for synchronization: An arrangement for packaging and transferring files such as content items and metadata in synchronization operations. Files are packaged in a concatenated fashion in order to optimize usage of the transfer channel, while maintaining an ability to keep track of how many files have been transferred. Metadata associated with the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100088300 - Resource tracking: Clients may subscribe to resources for the purpose of receiving notifications of changes in the resource (e.g., a file is added to a shared folder). Storing subscriptions within persistent storage provides data security in the event of a service failure, at the cost of high latency in accessing subscription data.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100088296 - System and method for organizing data to facilitate data deduplication: A technique for organizing data to facilitate data deduplication includes dividing a block-based set of data into multiple “chunks”, where the chunk boundaries are independent of the block boundaries (due to the hashing algorithm). Metadata of the data set, such as block pointers for locating the data, are stored in... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20100088298 - System, method, and computer-readable medium for optimization of multiple parallel join operations on skewed data: A system, method, and computer-readable medium that facilitate management of data skew during a parallel multiple join operation are provided. Portions of tables involved in the join operation are distributed among a plurality of processing modules, and each of the processing modules is provided with a list of skewed values... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20100088290 - User-specific contact apparatus and method: An apparatus and method are disclosed for detecting online activity by a user and contacting the user in conjunction with a preferred response plan.... Agent: Utah Valley Patent Services, LLC

20100088302 - Associating system requests with sms user responses: A messaging system can initiate a communication with one or more users through via cell phone text messages, for example using the short message service protocol. These systems often need a way to correlate user responses with system requests or queries. This problem can present challenges because the email mailbox... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20100088305 - Detection of confidential information: Among other aspects disclosed are a method and system for detecting confidential information. The method includes reading stored data and identifying strings within the stored data, where each string includes a sequence of consecutive bytes which all have values that are in a predetermined subset of possible values. For each... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20100088306 - Method, computer apparatus and computer program for identifying unusual combinations of values in data: In a method of identifying unusual combinations of values in data (1) that is arranged in rows and columns, the data is pre-processed to put it into a form (4, 5) suitable for application of a search method thereto. Using said search method, the pre-processed data is searched (8) to... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20100088303 - Mining new words from a query log for input method editors: Described is a technology in which new words (including a phrase or set of Chinese characters) are mined from a query log. The new words may be added to (or otherwise supplement) an IME dictionary. A set of candidate queries may be selected from the log based upon market (e.g.,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100088307 - Search condition designation apparatus, search condition designation method, and program: A search condition designation apparatus includes an attribute value presentation unit configured to present a list of an attribute value selectable for each attribute, an attribute value designation accepting unit configured to accept designation of the attribute value from the list of the attribute value presented by the attribute value... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20100088301 - Synchronization of uddi registries and service registries: A first UDDI registry is queried for at least one entity contained within the first UDDI registry. At least one attribute of the at least one entity contained within the first UDDI registry is compared with an entity attribute record associated with a service registry. If the at least one... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20100088304 - System and method for dynamically managing data centric searches: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer readable-media for dynamically managing data-centric searches. The method includes receiving information associated with an event related to domain-specific searches to a database, identifying data at a first memory location in the database, the data being data identified in response to the domain-specific searches,... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20100088308 - System and method for automated discovery, binding, and integration of non-registered geospatial web services: A method and computer system for identifying internet web pages containing documents that comply with a predetermined XML schema. The method includes searching the internet with a search engine for web pages using initial search terms and identifying a first set of HTTP URLs, web crawling at least the first... Agent: Naval Research Laboratory Associate Counsel (patents)

20100088309 - Efficient large-scale joining for querying of column based data encoded structures: The subject disclosure relates to querying of column based data encoded structures enabling efficient query processing over large scale data storage, and more specifically, with respect to join operations. Initially, a compact structure is received that represents the data according to a column based organization, and various compression and data... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20100088311 - Enhanced database scheme to support advanced media production and distribution: An enhanced database system and method for media production and distribution enables the aggregation of assets using external unique IDs. The use of the external IDs allows the searching of Media Asset Management database to be performed without any prior knowledge of the actual database. The search configuration defines a... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100088310 - Method and system for automating data queries during discontinuous communications: In accordance with one embodiment, a method includes receiving a query request comprising geospatial filter criteria. The query request may be received from a mobile client computing system capable of displaying query results as overlays on a digital map. The digital map may be stored at the mobile client computing... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100088312 - Real-time radio station audio content search and delivery: Disclosed are systems and methods distributing and/or recommending real-time radio. More specifically, it relates to methods for providing information of real-time radio songs and methods for recommending at least one real-time radio songs to a particular user. Methods are provided for switching to a real-time radio song based on the... Agent: Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati

20100088313 - Data source attribution system: A data attribution system uses a unique identifier (UID) that uniquely identifies a particular individual. A search is conducted of different data sources and, different types of profile information associated with the UID is extracted from the data sources. The different types of profile information associated with the same UID... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20100088314 - Method and system for searching on internet: The present invention provides methods and systems for presenting users a search results with choices to display the results in a different sorting or ranking orders. The two or more sets of search results in a different sorting or ranking orders are displayed in the same page. The present invention... Agent: Shaobo Kuang

20100088315 - Efficient large-scale filtering and/or sorting for querying of column based data encoded structures: The subject disclosure relates to querying of column based data encoded structures enabling efficient query processing over large scale data storage, and more specifically with respect to complex queries implicating filter and/or sort operations for data over a defined window. In this regard, in various embodiments, a method is provided... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20100088317 - Method and apparatus for harvesting file system metadata: A harvester is disclosed for harvesting metadata of managed objects (files and directories) across file systems which are generally not interoperable in an enterprise environment. Harvested metadata may include 1) file system attributes such as size, owner, recency; 2) content-specific attributes such as the presence or absence of various keywords... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20100088316 - Method and system for managing recent data in a mobile device linked to an on-demand service: Systems and methods for managing recent data items in a database. A method typically includes determining whether a data object managed by an on demand service is designated as able to be accessed by a user at a mobile device and storing locally at a mobile device a plurality of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100088318 - Information search system, method, and program: Disclosed is a system in which an index registration unit registers an index, which will be used for search processing, as a partitioned index which is partitioned on a time series basis, and a search means reads indexes older than a specified point in time, which is used as a... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100088319 - System and method for efficiently storing information related to a telephone number: Information related to telephone numbers is efficiently stored and retrieved by generating an index based on a portion of a telephone number for which information is to be stored or retrieved. For example, the portion of the telephone number can be a prefix of the telephone number. Information related to... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hbh Attn: Patent Docketing

20100088320 - Adaptive hybrid reasoning decision support system: A method for indexing a plurality of nodes using a computer system is provided. The computer system includes data storage and a processor coupled to the data storage. The method includes acts of storing the plurality of nodes in the data storage, each of the plurality of nodes having a... Agent: Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20100088321 - Method and a system for advertising: A method for selecting an advertisement to be presented to a network user. The method comprises identifying a reference to a specific product in a document, reviewing an advertisement database to select an advertisement related to the specific product, and delivering an indication to the advertisement, thereby allowing the advertisement... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20100088322 - Real time query trends with multi-document summarization: A list of “hot topics” may be provided to a user to indicate information that is currently popular. A topic may be deemed popular when a large number of search queries related to the topic are entered by users. A search system may receive and analyze an electronic source of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100088323 - Method and apparatus for visualization of interaction categorization: A method and apparatus for visualization of call categorization, comprising steps and components for: defining or receiving a definition for one or more categories and criteria for each category; receiving or capturing interactions; categorizing the interactions into the categories; determining relations between the categories; determining layout for the categories and... Agent: Soroker-agmon Advocate And Patent Attorneys

20100088324 - Refining collections of entities in a service registry environment: A method for factorizing a property metadata filter in a service registry includes receiving a user's request for factorizing a property metadata with a specific name and value in a registry; generating a new filter for the property metadata with the specific name and value; applying the new filter to... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rsw

20100088326 - Service oriented architecture aggregation: A method, system and computer program product for identifying one or more niche services to combine into a common service, wherein the niche service is a part of a service oriented architecture (SOA). The extensible markup language (XML) schema of the one or more niche services is aggregated into a... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20100088325 - Streaming queries: The described implementations relate to recursive streaming queries. One technique processes a recursive streaming query through a query graph. The technique also detects when output produced by executing the query graph advances to a specific point.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100088329 - Communication device and method of displaying content titles: A communication device is configured to access, based on summary location data, content summary data, which includes at least titles of a plurality of pieces of content, location data representing locations of the plurality of pieces of content and description data representing a part of each of the plurality of... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy &presser, P.C.

20100088327 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for identifying media item similarities: An apparatus for identifying media item similarities may include a processor. The processor may be configured to receive a modified playlist. The modified playlist may include representations of original playlist media items and a representation of a target media item. The modification to the playlist may involve the introduction of... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20100088330 - Mobile information terminal, information processing method and information processing program: A mobile information terminal includes a battery, an external power supplier configured to be supplied with external power, a data processer configured to perform a predetermined processing regarding first data to convert the first data into second data, a recording section configured to record at least one piece of data,... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20100088328 - Namespace mapping to central storage: A file management system includes a host computer having one or more virtual machines, a switching layer computer configured to manage a namespace map for the virtual machines in the host computer, and a central storage unit. The host computer is connected indirectly to the central storage unit through an... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20100088331 - Domain expertise determination: A user's domain expertise may be estimated through several factors by monitoring different aspects of a user's interaction with a web browser. Based on the user's domain expertise, search results may be presented to the user that is commensurate with their expertise, resulting in a more efficient and productive on... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100088332 - Interactive system for internet information retrieval and exploration: A system and method for bringing potentially interesting web content to a user's attention in a faster and more interesting way. Embodiments are directed towards selecting for display at a client device news or facts that are relevant to a user's categorization of topics of interest or historical topics of... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20100088333 - Computer-readable media, communication apparatus, and communication system: A computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions that control a communication on a communication apparatus that obtains a content summary information having at least content location information from a server. The instructions cause the communication apparatus to perform steps. The steps include receiving a delivery source information inputted through a user... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20100088334 - Hierarchy manager for master data management: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture is configured to define a structured view of data in a computer system. A relational database management system (RDBMS) stores information in the computer system. As part of a process and framework, a series of business rules and process workflows that manage data... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20100088335 - Method and apparatus for improving file access performance of distributed storage system: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatus for improving the performance of file transfer to a client from a distributed storage system which provides single name space to clients. In one embodiment, a system for providing access to files in a distributed storage system comprises a plurality of storage... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20100088338 - Red flag identification verification system and method: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for verifying an individual's identify and preventing identify theft. The system comprises at least one input device, third party databases, network and processing unit. The input device is used to enter an individual's consumer identity information, while the third party databases stores identity data.... Agent: Cardinal Law Group

20100088336 - Searchable health events directory: Searchable directories of health events are described. In many embodiments, a health event directory platform is provided that enables health providers to upload events to database of health events. The health event directory platform captures data from the health provider in a structured way that facilitates the searching of the... Agent: Kauth , Pomeroy , Peck & Bailey ,llp

20100088337 - System and method for performing local searches across user defined events: The instant invention presents a system and method for performing local searches across one or more events created by one or more users. The system of the present invention comprises an event data structure comprising one or more user defined events, each event associated with a zip code. A zip... Agent: Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP Susan Formicola

20100088339 - Method and device for selecting an irradiation plan and irradiation facility: A method and device for selecting an irradiation plan, and irradiation facility is provided. The method may include, in a first phase, detecting a plurality of planning data records in which a target volume for irradiating and with varying position is represented in a target object, and creating an irradiation... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20100088340 - Access to electronic social networks: A method comprising, defining a social network U={u, u′, . . . }, defining a set of relationships between users O⊂U×U, defining a set of attributes of the social network A={a1, a2, . . . }, defining a set of contacts of the user u, defining a user profile of... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20100088341 - Computing data security settings in a multi-dimensional system: Disclosed is a method and system for computing data security settings in a multi-dimensional system. The method includes receiving a query from a user to access a dataset, retrieving a membership tree of the user and determining a set of minimal branches of the membership tree. A minimal data security... Agent: Sap Ag

20100088343 - Customized context menu for files based on their content: Techniques are disclosed for customizing a context structure such as a context menu based on content associated with an object such as a computer file. For example, a computer-implemented method for customizing a context structure associated with an object comprises the following steps. A content analysis is performed on the... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20100088342 - Incremental feature indexing for scalable location recognition: Described is a technology in which an image retrieval system is updated incrementally as new image data becomes available. Updating is incrementally performed and only triggered when the new image data is large enough or diverse enough relative to the image data currently in use for image retrieval. Incremental updating... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100088344 - System and method for ontology and rules based segmentation engine for networked content delivery: There is provided a system and method for an ontological and rules based segmentation engine for networked content delivery. There is provided a segmentation engine for use by a network accessible computing device providing customized content for a user on the network, comprising a user context regarding the user, a... Agent: Disney Enterprises C/o Farjami & Farjami LLP

20100088345 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing system, and information processing program: An information processing apparatus includes: a storage unit storing content data and first group identification information for identifying first groups in which the content data are arranged in a predetermined unit; a parameter output unit outputting a parameter representing an amount of displacement of an operating object in response to... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20100088347 - Custom data display: Method and system for providing an open-ended and modifiable ability to customize the display of data for current viewing of the display for purposes such as, but not limited to, Contact Center administration and management.... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders, LLP Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP Welsh & Katz

20100088346 - Method and system for attaching objects to a data repository: A method for attaching one or more objects to a data repository is presented. The method includes creating a link corresponding to each of the one or more objects. Furthermore, the method includes attaching the link corresponding to each of the one or more objects to the data repository. Systems... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20100088348 - Method and system for providing a clarity grade for a gem: A method and system for generating a clarity grading look-up table includes collecting actual inclusion parameter data for a plurality of gems, where the actual inclusion parameter data includes an actual clarity grade and an actual inclusion parameter data combination. A mathematical relationship between a clarity grade and a particular... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20100088349 - Virtual file system stack for data deduplication: A data virtualization storage appliance performs data deduplication transformations on the data. The original or non-deduplicated file system is used as shell to hold the directory/file hierarchy and file metadata. The data of the file system is stored by a separate data storage in a transformed and deduplicated form. The... Agent: General - Law Office Of Jonathan Hollander PC

20100088351 - Import and merge of categorization schemas: Methods and systems for merging a updated schema and a customized schema both derived from the same schema are presented. The schemas may be used by application programs as decision trees. The schemas may have categories with linked business objects. The categories may be organized by a hierarchy which defines... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100088350 - Packaging system to facilitate declarative model-driven development: The subject disclosure relates to a method and system for packaging a post-processed definition of a programming module. Contents of a constraint-based and/or order-independent execution model are received, in which the contents include a declarative source code. The contents are stored into an extensible storage abstraction such that the source... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20100088352 - Web-scale data processing system and method: A web-scale data processing system and method are provided herein.... Agent: Axios Law Group. PLLC

20100088353 - Migration apparatus which convert database of mainframe system into database of open system and method for thereof: Provided are a migration apparatus and method for converting a database of a mainframe system into an appropriate database for an open system. The migration apparatus includes: a data extraction module connected with a database of the mainframe system and extracting data composed of Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20100088354 - Method and system for log file analysis based on distributed computing network: The present invention discloses a method and a system for log file analysis based on distributed computing network. The method includes: storing user identifiers and related log information into a log file; dividing the log file into target files each including the log information having the same user identifier; separately... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20100082524 - System and method for processing and/or analyzing olap based data according to one or more parameters: A system and method for processing a base vector derived from data stored in an OLAP cube. The system comprises a component configured for defining a base vector and a comparison vector, wherein the comparison vector comprises one or more dimensions corresponding to dimensions of the base vector. The system... Agent: Bennett Jones LLP

20100082525 - Apparatus, system, and method for processing mdx post-order hierarchize expressions: Disclosed are an apparatus, system, and method for generating a post-order set of members referenced by an MDX query statement invoking a post-order function. The apparatus includes an input module that receives the MDX expression specifying the relevant data set. A pre-order module generates a set of the members in... Agent: Kunzler Needham Massey & Thorpe

20100082527 - Dated metadata to support multiple versions of user profiles for targeting of personalized content: Profiles are maintained that are usable by a behavioral targeting service. A profile engine processes event indications that are both indicative of interaction by users generally with at least one online service and are specifically indicative of events usable for generating profile data for behavioral targeting to provide personalized content.... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson - Yahoo!

20100082526 - System and method for determining website popularity by location: Internet websites that are popular for users in a specific location are determined and displayed to a user of an electronic device. The popularity information may be of benefit to users in the location or to users of inherently portable devices, such as a mobile telephone or a laptop computer,... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20100082530 - Log management server: A log management server enables an administrator to manage a log with a lighter load without compelling a client to bear any load in a log management processing. The log management server receives a log from a client 11 and stores the log in a log management database 13. Among... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20100082531 - Log managing apparatus, log managing system, log managing method and log managing program: A log managing apparatus includes a collecting unit that receives a log from at least one collecting object that acquires the log including time information, a management unit that manages log format information set for each the collecting object, and a conversion unit that converts the log with reference to... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100082529 - Log structured content addressable deduplicating storage: A log structured content addressable deduplicated data storage system may be used to store deduplicated data. Data to be stored is partitioned into data segments. Each unique data segment is associated with a label. The storage system maintains a transaction log. Mutating storage operations are initiated by storing transaction records... Agent: General - Law Office Of Jonathan Hollander PC

20100082528 - Method and apparatus for optimizing lead time for service provisioning: A method for optimizing lead time for service provisioning for a request from a customer includes storing a record of installation and configuration times for each hardware and software configuration in a database, and then calculating success rates and failure rates for each hardware and software configuration. A manual installation... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Endicott

20100082532 - Techniques for performing etl over a wan: Techniques that enable data extraction, transfer, and load (ETL) operations to be performed asynchronously over communication networks including a Wide Area Network (WAN).... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP/oracle

20100082533 - Update method for database: A user can register and update information in the database even through a terminal having no authority to access the database server. A method of updating a database for using an e-mail received by a mail server to update information stored in a storage means of a database server is... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100082537 - File system for storage device which uses different cluster sizes: A file system for managing files in a storage device in a more optimal way by providing allocation units or clusters with non-uniform sizes. Clusters of at least two different sizes are allocated in a common partition of a storage device, such as a hard disk drive, other magnetic media,... Agent: Vierra Magen/sandisk Corporation

20100082535 - Method and system for uploading advertisement content: A method and system is disclosed for receiving advertisement content files within a digital advertisement platform operating on a server computing system. Data defining a compressed file is received at the server. The compressed file includes a hierarchical structure of folders and a number of advertisement content files disposed within... Agent: Mpg, LLP And Yahoo! Inc.

20100082534 - Method and system of managing conflicts for a set of synchronized folders: Depending on the local file system, the described system and process may perform additional fix ups for file name, attributes, etc. In this case, the described system and process may be configured not to update a main replication feed since the updates are local or node application specific. Resolution may... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20100082536 - Universal data management interface: A universal data management interface (UDMI) system includes a processing system generates a visual interface through which a user can access, manage, and manipulate data on plural different types of remote databases. The UDMI connects to multiple standard database management systems and to allow multiple users to access, manage, and... Agent: Sadler, Breen, Morasch & Colby, Ps

20100082538 - Isolated replication of shared objects: Methods, techniques, and systems for providing replication mechanisms in distributed computer environments executing database applications are provided. The mechanisms provide for replication of application objects between clients in the distributed computer environment as well as between an application server and a database server in the distributed computer environment, wherein the... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20100082539 - Method and apparatus for displaying updated contacts: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an electronic device, server or service may update at least one contact widget in real time. Further, the electronic device, server or service may display the at least one contact widget.... Agent: Nokia, Inc.

20100082540 - Scalable relational database replication: A relational database replication system includes a client, at least one primary database, a plurality of secondary databases and replication agents which coordinate database transactions. The system provides a high level of performance, reliability, and scalability with an end result of efficient and accurate duplication of transactions between the primary... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20100082541 - Systems and methods for performing replication copy storage operations: A system and method are provided for performing storage operations relating to a first secondary copy of electronic data. A storage policy or storage preferences may dictate that a replication copy should be used in storage operations performed to a particular client, sub-client, data, media or other item. Based on... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100082542 - Comparison of online advertising data consistency: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to initiating a comparison of a source snapshot including current source advertising data with a destination snapshot including current destination advertising data taken at the same logical time as such a source snapshot.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP

20100082544 - Methods, systems, and products for restoring media: Methods, devices, and products restore damaged or corrupt media files. A user's media catalog is received and stored in a database of media catalogs. When restoration is desired, the user's media catalog is retrieved that describes an identity of a media file to be restored. The database of media catalogs... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Sz Attn: Patent Docketing

20100082543 - Semantic data migration: Migrating data within a storage area network is disclosed. A migration plan is created, the migration plan to move data stored in the storage area network, wherein each element of data is to be moved from a source location to a destination location according to a mapping therebetween. A virtual... Agent: Barry W. Chapin Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20100082545 - Compression of sorted value indexes using common prefixes: A method, information processing system, and computer program storage product for compressing sorted values is disclosed. At least a first prefix and a second prefix in a plurality of prefixes are compared. Each prefix comprises at least a portion of a plurality of sorted values. A respective prefix comprises a... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20100082546 - Storage tiers for database server system: A technique is described for storing data from a database across a plurality of data storage devices, wherein each data storage device is capable of being accessed only by a corresponding computer system in a group of interconnected computer systems. In accordance with the technique, an identifier of the database... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100082547 - Log structured content addressable deduplicating storage: A log structured content addressable deduplicated data storage system may be used to store deduplicated data. Data to be stored is partitioned into data segments. Each unique data segment is associated with a label. The storage system maintains a transaction log. Mutating storage operations are initiated by storing transaction records... Agent: General - Law Office Of Jonathan Hollander PC

20100082548 - Flexible electronic records management: This disclosure describes techniques of managing electronic documents as electronic records that do not require moving the electronic documents to a different repository. As described herein, an electronic document is stored at a first repository prior to a time when the electronic document is declared to be an electronic record.... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20100082549 - Data-tier application component fabric management: Systems and methods for managing database applications are disclosed. A system includes a fabric that identifies a set of data-tier application components. Each of the data-tier application components includes a logical representation of a collection of database elements. The fabric identifies a set of database runtime resources hosting the set... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100082550 - Aggregation of write traffic to a data store: A method and a processing device are provided for sequentially aggregating data to a write log included in a volume of a random-access medium. When data of a received write request is determined to be suitable for sequentially aggregating to a write log, the data may be written to the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100082552 - Backing up and restoring security information for selected database objects: A mechanism to selectively restore portions of a monolithically backed up database, while maintaining security relationships associated with the restored portions of the database is provided. Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer-readable storage medium for receiving a request to restore a selected object from among... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20100082551 - Data placement transparency for high availability and load balancing: A method of updating a clone data map associated with a plurality of nodes of a computer system is disclosed. The clone data map includes node identification data and clone location data. A node failure event of a failed node of the computer system that supports a primary clone is... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100082553 - Backing up and restoring selected versioned objects from a monolithic database backup: A mechanism to selectively restore a version of an application object stored in a monolithic backup of a database, while maintaining hierarchical and other metadata relationships of the restored portion of the database, is provided. Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer-readable storage medium that provide... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20100082554 - Restoring selected objects from a monolithic database backup: The present invention provides a mechanism to selectively restore portions of a monolithically backed up database, while maintaining hierarchical relationships and other metadata relationships of the restored portions of the database. Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer-readable storage medium that provides for receiving a request... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20100082555 - Management device and computer system: A management device connected to a file server providing a computer with file data stored in a storage subsystem, and collects information about access to the file data. In the management device, a log of access to the file data stored in the storage subsystem is collected as access data,... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100082556 - System and method for meta-data driven, semi-automated generation of web services based on existing applications: Techniques for reusing logic implemented in an existing software application such that the logic can be exposed as a Web service or in any other service-oriented context. In one set of embodiments, a design-time technique is provided that comprises, inter alia, receiving program code for an existing software application, generating... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP/oracle

20100082558 - Policy-based sharing of redundant data across storage pools in a deduplicating system: One aspect of the present invention includes enabling data chunks to be shared among different storage pools within a storage management system, according the use of deduplication and storage information kept at the system level, and applied with policy-based rules that define the scope of deduplication. In one embodiment, the... Agent: Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly, LLP

20100082557 - System and method for enabling communication sessions in a network environment: A method is provided in one example implementation and the method includes receiving a query for a policy (e.g., a multi-media session) that pertains to a selected one of first and second endpoints. Each endpoint interfaces with their respective session initiation protocol entity, which interacts with a session border controller... Agent: Patent Capital Group - Cisco

20100082562 - Managing storage of data in a data structure: To manage storing of data in a data structure, a particular data value is represented as a group of segments stored in corresponding entries of the data structure. Additional data values represented by corresponding groups of segments are written into the data structure. A probability of overwriting segments representing the... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100082559 - Method of managing a schedule-based software package update: A method of managing the updating of a vehicle software configuration includes establishing a temporal period, identifying a software package, determining if that vehicle does not have the identified software package, wirelessly sending the software package from a central facility to the vehicle during the temporal period, and storing the... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20100082561 - Methods and apparatus for reconciling versions of media context lists in communications networks: Methods, systems, devices, apparatus and computer-program products are defined for reconciling different versions of media content lists that concurrently exist in a communication network. Aspects herein disclosed merge media content lists based on foreseen user expectations, taking into account typical user behavior. In one particular aspect the merge of media... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100082560 - Software change management, configuration substitution and remote administration of datacenters: Change management in a relational database may be implemented by indexing changes by copying the database to a new revision when a change is made to one or more items in the database. The new revision may be committed as a single unit and all changes stored together under a... Agent: Joshua D. Isenberg Jdi Patent

20100082569 - Automated system and method for notifying a service provider of the arrival of a vehicle: A system, method, and computer readable medium for notifying a service provider of the arrival of a vehicle is disclosed. The system includes an RFID reader that determines a unique vehicle code that is embedded with an RFID tag secured in or on the arriving vehicle and that transmits the... Agent: Gardner Groff Greenwald & Villanueva. PC

20100082566 - Evaluating the ranking quality of a ranked list: The ranking quality of a ranked list may be evaluated. In an example embodiment, a method is implemented by a system to access log data, ascertain which entries of a ranked list are skipped, and determine a ranking quality metric from the skipped entries. More specifically, log data that reflects... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100082568 - Method and apparatus for generating integrated metadata: A method of generating integrated metadata. The method includes receiving metadata about second contents including content access information for accessing the second contents from one or more content providers, which provide the second contents generated by changing at least one of quality, viewing cost, viewing time, and content providing method... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100082565 - Method and system for profile typing in batch loading documents into a service registry in a computing environment: A method and system for profile typing in batch loading document files into a service registry module in a computing environment, is provided. One implementation involves loading document files into a service registry by profile typing document files for loading into a service registry of a service oriented architecture (SOA)... Agent: Ibm - Eu C/o Myers Andras Sherman LLP

20100082564 - Spatial index for locating geographic data parcels stored on physical storage media: A spatial index for locating geographic data parcels stored on physical storage media is disclosed. A geographic database for advanced driver assistance systems is subdivided based on a grid of fixed size tiles that span the entire globe. Each tile is assigned a tile identification. The geographic database is organized... Agent: Navteq North America, LLC

20100082567 - System and method for placeshifting media playback: Systems and methods of placeshifting media playback between two or more devices are provided. For example, a method for placeshifting media may include downloading onto a first device an index of files accessed or modified on a second device via a data storage server, at least one of the files... Agent: Apple Inc. C/o Fletcher Yoder, PC

20100082563 - System impact search engine: A method of applying a tag cloud to systems management resources to visualize components which are related to an event includes automatically creating initial tags for information technology (IT) resources in an enterprise system or data center based on usage or access information, specifying, in a user interface, a specific... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20100082587 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for searching structured document: A structured document searching apparatus that stores structured document data each including hierarchized elements stores a data stream in which the elements included in the structured document data are arranged in the order of the syntactic analysis result, and stores while at least one index stream in which the elements... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20100082576 - Associating objects in databases by rate-based tagging: Embodiments of the present invention provide automatic systems and methods for associating objects in databases of a web site by rate-based tagging. The frequencies of users entering specific tag terms for objects stored in the databases of the web site are used to determine hard associations between objects and tag... Agent: Mpg, LLP And Yahoo! Inc.

20100082575 - Automated tagging of objects in databases: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for automatically generating tag terms (or tags) for objects in databases of a web site. The metadata of the objects (or data) of the web site are processed and parsed to automatically generate tag terms for the corresponding objects. Information (or... Agent: Mpg, LLP And Yahoo! Inc.

20100082583 - Automatically tagging software resources with search terms: A user can enter terms into a search engine, which produces a set of results. The results can include links to software resources. In one embodiment, when a user selects one of these links, the associated resource can be automatically tagged with one or more of the search terms. In... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20100082582 - Combining log-based rankers and document-based rankers for searching: Log-based rankers and document-based rankers may be combined for searching. In an example embodiment, there is a method for combining rankers to perform a search operation. A count of query instances in log data is ascertained based on a query. A search for the query is performed to produce a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100082589 - Computation apparatus and method, quantization apparatus and method, and program: A computation apparatus includes a range table creation unit configured to create a range table in which a discrete value of a computation result obtained by applying a nonlinear computation on an input value corresponds to a range of the input value which may take the discrete value, and a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20100082570 - Context aware search document: While creating a document in a document editing application, a user may wish to locate more information on a particular topic to add more detail to the document. For example, a user begins creating an outline of topics for a research paper. Functionality can be implemented in a document editing... Agent: Ibm Austin Iplaw (dg)

20100082586 - Database system, access application and method for controlling access to contents of an external database: i

20100082573 - Deep-content indexing and consolidation: Methods in computer-readable media for searching a large volume of documents is provided. In embodiments, the plurality of related documents are consolidated by a web host into a synthetic search document. The synthetic search document includes a set of descriptive information for each web page consolidated into the synthetic search... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (microsoft Corporation)

20100082579 - Identification of data objects within a computer database: Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for identifying matching objects in a computer database. In one representative technique, a set of attribute-value pairs corresponding to a query data object are input, with individual ones of the attribute-value pairs including an identified attribute and a value for the... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100082572 - Item matching: Methods and system for item matching are described. In one embodiment, compatibility-based text for an item may be accessed. A compatibility identifier may be identified based on the compatibility-based text. The compatibility identifier may be associated with an item cluster. The compatibility identifier may be used to identify a plurality... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20100082591 - Locator management device, locator terminal, loss prevention system, and recording medium that records locator management program: A locator management device include a search object locator specifying unit that receives specification of a search object locator terminal by a user; a location information request mail generating unit that generates a location information request mail as an e-mail that requests the search object locator terminal to transmit location... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20100082592 - Mapping item records to product records: An item record in an item database contains an item description generated by a seller of an item. A server machine is configured to access the item database, analyze the item description, and extract descriptive information by inferring an attribute and a corresponding attribute value from the item description. The... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20100082578 - Method and system for benchmarking rfid data against sla data: A system and method to capture and analyze data from an EPCIS repository and an SLA repository is described. The data is captured from both repositories according to predefined criteria. The data from the EPCIS repository is mapped to the data form the SLA repository. Further, the data is combined... Agent: Sap Ag

20100082588 - Method for performing a database query in a relational database: A method performs a database query in a relational database, the query being carried out by a database engine and being based on user-defined search criteria. The method includes retrieving a number N of properties of a record within a main database table, the number N being higher than zero,... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20100082574 - Method for song credit search and discovery: The present invention relates to a computer method and system for maintaining and delivering data, text, and graphics relating to musical and voice recordings over the Internet to end users operating personal computers and portable electronic devices in an inter-connected manner. The Database of Music related information (Song for Song)... Agent: White-welker & Welker, LLC

20100082577 - Multidimensional data space queries with expression evaluation: A system and techniques for executing queries of a sparse multidimensional data space in the presence of expressions. A dimension is associated with a set of data references, which reference stored data items. A query expression has dimension or a data reference as an operand. A result space with one... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100082580 - System and method for applying deltas in a version control system: A system and method that efficiently maintains multiple versions of a dataset using recursive calls is provided. The method may include fully storing one or more versions of the dataset and storing only changes, called deltas, that occurred from one version to another. Using recursive techniques eliminates the need to... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20100082585 - System and method for visual search in a video media player: There is provided a system and method for visual search in a video media player. There is provided a computing device for performing a visual search in video files comprising a display, a memory, a video media player application in the memory, and a processor configured to store into the... Agent: Disney Enterprises C/o Farjami & Farjami LLP

20100082584 - System, device and method for inquiring position information: A computing system and method for inquiring position information are provided. The system includes a push database and a portable electronic device for transmitting a query message including a keyword regarding a navigation destination to the push database. The push database conducts a search with the query message to obtain... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20100082581 - Systems and methods for efficient data transfer: Systems and methods are provided for transferring data. In one implementation, a method is provided for transferring data between a sending device (e.g., a server) and a receiving device (e.g., a client). The method may include sending, from the receiving device, a data query to request data from the sending... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20100082590 - Systems and methods for enhancing web-based searching: A system for enhancing web-based searching is provided. Categorizing and clustering techniques are used to optimize searching. Businesses are classified using a control group of predetermined categories. The predetermined categories may be SIC codes or headings that are used to describe business activities. The website addresses for a business listed... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20100082571 - Text conversion: Methods and system for text conversion are described. In one embodiment, free-form text associated with an item may be received. The item may be identified based on the free-form text. The item may be compatible with a parent item. The parent item may be identified based on the free-form text.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20100082594 - Building a topic based webpage based on algorithmic and community interactions: Methods and system for generating a topic page for a search query on a search webpage includes receiving a search query at the search engine on a server from a search webpage on a client. The search engine examines the query and categorizes the query along one or more dimensions.... Agent: Mpg, LLP And Yahoo! Inc.

20100082593 - System and method for ranking search results using social information: An improved system and method for ranking search results using social information is provided. A social information ranking engine may be provided to rerank a list of URLs of web pages in search results from a search engine using social information. To do so, the search query may be applied... Agent: Law Office Of Robert Bolan

20100082595 - Data retrieving and using method and device thereof: A data retrieving and using method includes following steps: linking a designated website to obtain a corresponding webpage data, retrieving a specific key information of the corresponding webpage data by an information integrating module and/or an information integrating application software, and integrating the specific key information as an information demo... Agent: Hdls Patent & Trademark Services

20100082597 - Methods and apparatus for automated true object-based image analysis and retrieval: The present invention is an automated and extensible system for the analysis and retrieval of images based on region-of-interest (ROI) analysis of one or more true objects depicted by an image. The system uses a Regions Of Interest (ROI) database that is a relational or analytical database containing searchable vectors... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20100082596 - Video-related meta data engine system and method: A engine for use with a display is disclosed. The engine includes a presenter that presents at least two audio/visual works, at least one software application capable of at least one metadata-related interaction with the at least two audio/visual works, communication points over which the audio/visual works are received, and... Agent: Gibbons P.C.

20100082598 - Engine, system and method for generation of brand affinity content: An advertising engine, system and method of using is described. The engine includes at least one vault including a plurality of media assets, a recommendation engine that matches at least one media asset from the vault with at least one requested creative, a delivery engine that integrates the requested creative... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20100082599 - Characterizing queries to predict execution in a database: One embodiment is a method that obtains query plans for queries in the workload. The query plans include a tree of operators and estimated cardinalities for nodes in the tree. The method then groups the operators for the queries and characterizes the workload in terms of grouped operators to predict... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100082601 - Method, database system and computer program for joining temporal database tables: A method, database system and computer program are disclosed for performing a temporal join between two temporal database tables. The method includes determining a selected table intersection between a period of interest and a time period value for a selected table row, scanning an inner table for a row that... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20100082600 - System, method, and computer-readable medium for optimizing the performance of outer joins: A system, method, and computer-readable medium for optimizing the performance of outer joins in a parallel processing system are provided. Predicates involving only attributes of a left table of a left outer join are pushed down to the outer relation for left outer joins having join predicates involving left table... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20100082602 - Predicting performance of multiple queries executing in a database: One embodiment is a method that generates query vectors from query plans and performance vectors from data collected while executing multiple queries in a database. A machine learning technique (MLT) computes distances between two query vectors and two performance vectors and then predicts performance of plural queries executing in the... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100082603 - Managing execution of database queries: One embodiment is a method to manage queries in a database. The method identifies a query that executes on the database for an elapsed time that is greater than a threshold and then implements a remedial action when the query executes on the database for an execution time that is... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100082604 - Automatic search query suggestions with search result suggestions from user history: Suggested search results are provided with suggested search queries as a user incrementally enters characters of a search query. At each incremental user input, a query portion is received and suggested search queries are identified based on the query portion. Suggested search results associated with the suggested search queries are... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (microsoft Corporation)

20100082605 - System and method for deducing user interaction patterns based on limited activities: The present invention is directed to a method and system for determining user interaction patterns. The method and system comprises generating a plurality of atomic sessions by grouping search events related to a user and a query string using a search engine. The method and system includes using the atomic... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20100082606 - Directly optimizing evaluation measures in learning to rank: The present invention provides methods for improving a ranking model. In one embodiment, a method includes the step of obtaining queries, documents, and document labels. The process then initializes active sets using the document labels, wherein two active sets are established for each query, a perfect active set and an... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20100082610 - Query refinement based on user selections: To adapt search results to a user's needs, the search results display is modified based on the user's selections within the search results. Based on the user selections within the search results, the original search results may be ranked and/or ordered based on relevance to the selected search results. Based... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20100082607 - System and method for aggregating a list of top ranked objects from ranked combination attribute lists using an early termination algorithm: An improved system and method for aggregating a list of top ranked objects from ranked combination lists using an early termination algorithm is provided. Ranked lists of individual object attributes may be aggregated into ranked lists of combination object attributes. The ranked lists of object attributes, including ranked lists of... Agent: Law Office Of Robert Bolan

20100082609 - System and method for blending user rankings for an output display: A method and system for blending ranking for an output display includes receiving a first list of content items having a first ranking determined by first ranking parameters, the first ranking providing for a sequential ordering of the content items of the first list. A second list of content items... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20100082608 - System, method, or apparatus relating to determining search results based at least in part on one or more context features: Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with determining search results are disclosed.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP

20100082612 - Determining relevance between an image and its location: Method for determining a relevance between an image and information pertaining to the image, including receiving information about a geographical region, displaying the image related to the geographical region, receiving an estimated location information of the image, and determining the relevance between the image and the information based on the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100082611 - Trajectory data surfacing system: surfacing useful and relevant entity annotations: Multiple entities are tracked over periods of time and information concerning these entities are collected. For each entity, the entities associated with the entity and the types of associations are determined. One or more entities of interest is/are identified. Different weights are assigned to the entities on the trajectories connecting... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100082614 - Bayesian video search reranking: A general framework for video search reranking is disclosed which explicitly formulates reranking into a global optimization problem from the Bayesian perspective. Under this framework, with two novel pair-wise ranking distances, two effective video search reranking methods, hinge reranking and preference strength reranking, are disclosed. Experiments conducted on the TRECVID... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20100082613 - Optimizing ranking of documents using continuous conditional random fields: The present invention provides an improved method for ranking documents using a ranking model. One embodiment employs Continuous Conditional Random Fields (CRF) as a model, which is a conditional probability distribution representing a mapping relationship from retrieved documents to their ranking scores. The model can naturally utilize features of the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20100082616 - Apparatus for music retrieval, method for music retrieval, and program for music retrieval: An apparatus for retrieving music that matches with a user preference across a plurality of music is provided. The apparatus comprises a feature vector generating device for generating feature vectors of each of the music, a clustering device for clustering the music into a plurality of clusters according to the... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20100082615 - Cross-media similarity measures through trans-media pseudo-relevance feedback and document reranking: A multimedia information retrieval system includes a storage and an electronic processing device. The latter is configured to perform a process including: computing values of a pairwise similarity measure quantifying pairwise similarity of documents of a multimedia reference repository; storing the computed values in the storage; performing an initial information... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20100082617 - Pair-wise ranking model for information retrieval: The present invention provides techniques for generating data that is used for ranking documents. In one embodiment, a method involves the step of extracting data features from a number of documents to be ranked. The data features extracted from the documents are established in conjunction with a first feature map... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20100082618 - Clustered search processing: Methods and apparatus for searching data and grouping search results into clusters that are ordered according to search relevance. Each cluster comprises one or more data type, such as images, web pages, local information, news, advertisements, and the like. In one embodiment, a search term is evaluated for related concepts... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100082619 - Filter extraction in a service registry environment: A method for filter extraction in a service registry includes receiving a user's request in a registry for a list of items in the registry; generating a set of item results by the registry; passing the item results from the registry to a framework; retrieving a list of filter providers... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rsw

20100082621 - Mechanism for enabling new task types to be added to a system for managing distributed nodes: A mechanism is disclosed for enabling new task types to be added to a management server without changing the source code of the management server. To add a new task type, a descriptor file is provided. This descriptor file specifies all of the particulars of the new task type. Any... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20100082622 - Metadata collecting device, method and computer readable medium: A device of the invention includes a search inputting unit inputting a search object service and a search condition of content; a first search processing unit, when an accumulation method corresponding to an inputted search object service is a preliminary accumulation method, searching the metadata coincident with an inputted search... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100082620 - Method for extracting signature from problem records through unstructured and structured text mapping, classification and ranking: The structure attributes and unstructured attributes of a ticket are used to generate a problem signature. For structured attributes, correlation between field values is determined and fields with the highest weight are identified. For unstructured attributes, data mining techniques are applied to generate a plurality of keywords with a ranking... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20100082623 - Item clustering: Methods and system for item clustering are described. In one embodiment, compatibility data may be accessed for an item. The compatibility data may include a plurality of parent items with which the item is compatible. A particular parent item within the compatibility data may be identified. An item cluster for... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20100082626 - Method for filtering out identical or similar documents: A method for filtering out identical or similar documents includes storing a plurality of documents to be filtered as a pat tree (PT) data structure profile based on a pat tree data structure, searching for all string nodes with a consecutive character length reaching a lower threshold in the PT... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20100082625 - Method for merging document clusters: A method for merging document clusters includes the following steps. An association graph among document clusters is established. The association graph is an oriented graph. Each document cluster is represented by one node in the association graph, and each node is searched in a pair-wise manner. An oriented edge is... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20100082624 - System and method for categorizing digital media according to calendar events: System and method for categorizing digital media based on correspondence between characteristics of individual digital media items and characteristics associated with one or more calendar events is disclosed. Data is acquired and processed for each of a plurality of digital media items that is representative of characteristics of each of... Agent: Apple Inc.

20100082627 - Optimization filters for user generated content searches: Embodiments are directed towards filtering from a user generated content (UGC) search result those documents determined to have insufficient subject matter specificity as defined by a training of a classification filter. The training comprises selecting a set of UGC that is definable as having sufficient subject matter specificity (a good... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100082628 - Classifying a data item with respect to a hierarchy of categories: To classify an input data item, a hierarchy of categories is provided. A classifier is used to identify, from a set of data items, neighboring data items of the input data item. According to metric values relating the neighboring data items to the input data item, it is determined whether... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100082635 - Audio/video archiving system and method: A method of archiving audio/video content is presented. In the method, a plurality of audio/video content streams is received. Each of the received audio/video content streams is indexed according to time. Each of the indexed audio/video content streams is transferred to a data storage system for storage. A request for... Agent: Setter Roche LLP

20100082633 - Database index and database for indexing text documents: m

20100082630 - Persisting external index data in a database: Systems, methods, and computer program products to persist external index data in a database are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method includes maintaining a database including a first data table that is configured to store data in a database format and a second data table that is configured to store... Agent: Ibm Corp Svl (jgt) C/o Toler Law Group

20100082631 - System and method for dynamically configuring content-driven relationships among data elements: A computer system configures data elements based on textual sources by identifying subunits of a textual source, indexing the subunits into a sequence comprised of terms, identifies based on a target a base subsequence of the sequence, and stores the terms in such a way that they can be expanded... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20100082629 - System for associating data items with context: A system is described for associating data items with context. The system may include a processor, a memory and an interface. The processor may identify an action performed by a user and may determine the spatial, temporal, social and topical attributes of the action. The spatial attribute of the action... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20100082634 - System, method, and user interface for organizing and searching information: A computer-implemented system, method, and user interface for searching and organizing information, particularly large information sets such as those found on the Internet and World Wide Web. Information is organized and searched according to content, and this organization is reflected directly in the user interface provided to users for searching... Agent: Axios Law Group. PLLC

20100082632 - Systems and methods for handling performance monitoring data: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for handling performance monitoring (PM) data in a database in a manner that supports different PM data sets from different network element (NE) device types in an integrated manner. The present invention defines a single database structure that can be utilized to store,... Agent: Clements Bernard PLLC

20100082636 - Methods and apparatus for content-defined node splitting: A region of a node is searched to find a content-defined split point. A split point of a node is determined based at least in part on hashes of entries in the node and the node is split based on the determined split point. The search region is searched for... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20100082641 - Analyzing content to be displayed: First content configured for generating a media item is identified; a portion of the first content as being configured to obtain second content for presentation on the page is identified; and at least one parameter associated with the identified portion is identified, including determining whether the presentation of the plurality... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100082640 - Guiding user moderation by confidence levels: Methods for guiding user moderation at a topic page by confidence levels includes presenting a topic page in response to a query. The topic page includes a plurality of modules with content that match the query. The topic page is associated with a confidence level and with one or more... Agent: Mpg, LLP And Yahoo! Inc.

20100082638 - Methods and systems for the determination of thresholds via weighted quantile analysis: Methods and systems for determination of thresholds for time-series data. Data is transformed by reducing outliers, dividing the time series data into discrete time intervals, and taking parts of the data corresponding to the range that the thresholds will bound. If data cycles are known, they may be applied to... Agent: Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP

20100082639 - Processing maximum likelihood for listwise rankings: The present invention introduces a new approach to learning systems. More specifically, the present invention provides learned methods for optimize ranking models. In one aspect of the present invention, an objective function is defined as the likelihood of ground truth based on a Luce model. In another aspect, techniques of... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20100082637 - Web page and web site importance estimation using aggregate browsing history: Particular embodiments of the present invention are related to estimating the importance of web sites based on the aggregate browsing history of one or more users.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100082642 - Classifier indexing: Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for document-based processing. In one implementation, a document is input; features are extracted from it; an index is queried using at least a subset of the extracted features and, in response, identifications for selected document classifiers are received from a larger... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100082643 - Computer implemented method and program for fast estimation of matrix characteristic values: A term-by-document (or part-by-collection) matrix can be used to index documents (or collections) for information retrieval applications. Reducing the rank of the indexing matrix can further reduce the complexity of information retrieval. A method for index matrix rank reduction can involve computing a singular value decomposition and then retaining singular... Agent: King & Spalding

20100082644 - Implicit information on media from user actions: The exemplary embodiments relate to a new interactive method and system to implicitly enrich any multimedia content effortlessly by combining multiple pieces of information on media content. The new solution consists of logging implicit user actions (e.g., display, modify, remove, copy, classify, send) on media from their terminals (e.g., PC,... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20100082647 - Method for creating image file and method for sorting file systems: A method for creating an image file and a method for sorting file systems are disclosed. First, a plurality of file systems is accessed respectively so as to create a plurality of access messages. Next, the access messages are sorted by using a sorting algorithm. Finally, the locations in an... Agent: J C Patents

20100082645 - Sorting records based on free text field content: Disclosed are a method, system and computer program product for sorting records based on content in a free text field. A request is received by a sort function to sort a free text field. The sort function request is intercepted. The content in the free text field is analyzed. One... Agent: Law Office Of Jim Boice

20100082646 - Tracking constraints and dependencies across mapping layers: Techniques for object relational mapping (ORM) are provided. A dependency graph generator receives a combination of object level custom commands and store level dynamic commands. Each store level dynamic command is generated from at least one object level dynamic command. An identifier is assigned to each entity present in the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100082648 - Hash join using collaborative parallel filtering in intelligent storage with offloaded bloom filters: Processing resources at a storage system for a database server are utilized to perform aspects of a join operation that would conventionally be performed by the database server. When requesting a range of data units from a storage system, the database server includes join metadata describing aspects of the join... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20100082649 - Automatic search suggestions from server-side user history: Suggested search queries are provided to a user as search assistance while a user is entering a search query but before the user submits a completed search query for a search to be performed. The suggested search queries are selected and ordered based on the user's personal search history stored... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (microsoft Corporation)

20100082651 - Language extensions for creating, accessing, querying and updating rdf data: A method for processing a graph structure includes providing a graph as a set of triples, each triple having a subject node, a predicate, and an object node, the predicate defining a relationship between a respective subject node and an object node. One of more triples in the set of... Agent: Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20100082652 - Method and system for managing user interaction: A system and method are described for managing user interaction(s) and information of user(s). The system may select activities which are associated with a user system and may inform content providers of user systems which have received content from the system. User actions are detected and responses associated with the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100082650 - Method, system, and apparatus for ranking media sharing channels: Ranking media sharing channels involves determining content contributors to a channel. Activity metrics for other channels associated with the content contributors are determined. An initial ranking for the channel is provided based on the activity metrics for the other channels. The initial ranking is independent of activity metrics associated with... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk

20100082653 - Event media search: In response to a request to search for media items, one or more gather terms and one or more filter terms are determined. Based on the one or more gather terms, a first set of media items is identified. A set of metadata associated with media items that belong to... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20100082654 - Methods and apparatus using range queries for multi-dimensional data in a database: Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for using range queries in multidimensional data in a database. One embodiment is a method that defines a query box from a search for multidimensional data in a database. The method examines an intersection between a Z-interval and the query box by decomposing the... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100082655 - Parallel execution of range query: A method comprises receiving a range query from a requestor. The range query requests a range of sequential items in a database that is distributed among a plurality of storage devices or partitions. The range query is divided into R sub-range queries, where R is an integer. Each sub-range query... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson - Yahoo!

20100082656 - Methods and apparatus for generating dynamic program files based on input queries that facilitate use of persistent query services: A method includes receiving a request for information from a relational database, translating the received request to at least one of an object and a relational persistent query, parsing the query to determine one or more of table names, attributes and attribute types, and generating at least one set of... Agent: John S. Beulick (24691) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20100082657 - Generating synonyms based on query log data: An approach is described for generating synonyms to supplement at least one information item, such as, in one case, a set of related items. The approach can involve an expansion phase, a clean-up phase, and a reduction phase. In the expansion phase, the approach identifies, for each related item, a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100082659 - Information module recommendation: A method of information module recommendation is provided. The method comprises collecting a first set of user information associated with a user from an electronic device that is associated with the user, and identifying an information topic associated with the first set of user information. The method further comprises accessing... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100082658 - Systems and methods for surfacing contextually relevant information: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for providing contextually relevant suggestions and content in response to user queries. The method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises receiving a request from a user and retrieving refinement data associated with the request. The method identifies one... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20100082660 - Systems and methods for aggregating user profile information in a network of affiliated websites: A plurality of affiliated network of websites may be configured to log user interactions thereon. The respective logs may comprise user identification information to allow a profile aggregation service to correlate user interactions across the plurality of websites and to generate respective user profiles, which may be used to configure... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Slc

20100082665 - File search apparatus, printer and file search method: When a process of searching for assets stored in a memory card is selected, a controller of a printer sets searching icons associated with previously set searching-keywords as current searching icons (S110), and each time a memory card is installed in a reader/writer, acquires all keywords associated with assets, which... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20100082662 - Information retrieval system user interface: A user interface for an information retrieval system is described. In an embodiment an output region for showing retrieved documents is displayed on an interactive surface. One or more movable user interface items, such as digital buttons or tangible objects, may be positioned in an active region. Each movable user... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20100082661 - Linking search queries to rich media themes: Methods, systems and computer-readable media for providing a rich media themed search results webpage are provided. A search query entered by a user into an internet search engine is analyzed based on one or both of the search query terms and user data communicated to a theme configuration module to... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (microsoft Corporation)

20100082663 - Method and system for identifying equivalent digital media assets: Improved management of digital media assets within an on-line media repository are disclosed. In one embodiment, the management includes methods and systems for identifying distinct digital media assets that are equivalent to one another. In one implementation, a plurality of digital media assets described and/or stored in a media storage... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20100082664 - Method for searching a tree structure: A method, apparatus, and computer readable article of manufacture for tracing, on the basis of a key, an index created using a tree structure to access data. The method includes: searching the tree structure to reach a target node that can be associated with the key without acquiring a lock... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20100082666 - Methods and devices for generating xml expressed management transactions: New XML management transaction requests including XPath expressions are used, for example, to forward configuration changes on to a data network device. The generation and use of these new requests helps reduce the costs associated with designing or upgrading data network devices. These new requests may be generated in a... Agent: Capitol Patent & Trademark Law Firm, PLLC

20100082668 - Data processing method and system capable of reducing required memory: A data processing system is disclosed. The system includes a processor, a transformer, a first memory buffer, a second memory buffer, a first filter, and a second filter. An obtained transmission signal symbol is first transformed to first data. The first memory buffer stores the first data. The processor obtains... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20100082671 - Joining tables in multiple heterogeneous distributed databases: A method for joining tables in multiple heterogeneous distributed databases implemented by at least two data sources accessible to a federal database server over a network includes: transmitting from the federated database server a sub-command to a first of the data sources responsive to the federated database server receiving a... Agent: Ibm Corporation C/o: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20100082670 - Multiple searching in a web browser interface: Input is received from a user that indicates a selection of a hierarchical group of websites from a bookmark hierarchy in a web browser. In response, a modal dialog is opened to allow text input from the user. Text input is received via the modal dialog. The text input is... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100082669 - System and method for retrieving and storing industrial data: The invention provides a system and method for retrieving and storing industrial data, the system comprising a data retriever that includes a data retrieval manager and one or more watchers for monitoring data associated with one or more industrial devices, wherein if the data associated with the one or more... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc. / Whd Attention: Susan M. Donahue

20100082672 - Systems and methods for managing single instancing data: Described in detail herein are systems and methods for managing single instancing data. Using a single instance database and other constructs (e.g. sparse files), data density on archival media (e.g. magnetic tape) is improved, and the number of files per storage operation is reduced. According to one aspect of a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20100082667 - Utilizing a social network for locating a target individual based upon a proximity search: A method of utilizing a social network for locating a target individual based upon a proximity search can be provided. In one embodiment of the invention, a method of utilizing a social network for locating a target individual based upon proximity search can include identifying a geographic location for a... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20100082673 - Apparatus, method and program product for classifying web browsing purposes: A web browsing purpose classification apparatus, including a display unit which displays a webpage and a document retrieval unit which retrieves document data from the displayed webpage. A keyword extraction knowledge unit stores knowledge necessary for keyword extraction. This knowledge is used by a keyword extraction unit to extract keywords... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20100082674 - System for detecting user input error: A system is described for detecting user input error. The system may include a processor, a memory and an interface being operatively connected. The memory may store an item, existing items, and a match score of each existing item. The processor may receive the item input by the user, and... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20100082675 - Method and apparatus for enabling wide area global name space: Described are methods and apparatus for establishing a wide area GNS. The key points for implementing the wide area GNS are GNS information sharing among sites and maintaining cache consistency. In a system having the wide area GNS functionality, NFS clients may need to gain access to remote file systems,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100082676 - Method and apparatus to define and justify policy requirements using a legal reference library: A computer-implemented system and method for defining and justifying policy requirements includes: a hierarchical regional mapping (HRM) module provides a common language and a hierarchical model for geography and for jurisdictions; a legal references library (LRL) module contains applicable legal references; a legal references policy mapping (LRPM) module maps legal... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20100082678 - Aggregation server with industrial automation control and information visualization placeshifting: A method and system for facilitating viewing visualization data is provided. At least one visualization dataset is aggregated from within a protected network and converted into a web-based file. Each of the at least one dataset and web-based file are securely stored within the protected network and are inaccessible outside... Agent: Rockwell Automation For Turocy & Watson LLP

20100082677 - Content access and annotation system and method: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for controlling access to content, and/or regions thereof, as well as controlling access to annotations to the content, or regions thereof. An audience can be specified for a region of content and one or more associated annotations. In response to a request for a... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20100082679 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing object privilege modification: An apparatus for providing object privilege modification may include a processor. The processor may be configured to receive an indication to modify at least one privilege associated with an object. The processor may be further configured to modify the at least one privilege associated with the object based at least... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20100082680 - Methods and systems for providing easy access to information and for sharing services: Methods and systems for providing easy access to information and sharing are provided. Embodiments of the present invention enable a host to grant access to published content to one or more users in a manner in which the user(s) can scan small portions of information to decide which information is... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

20100082681 - Method and apparatus for organizing and bookmarking content: An approach is provided for creating user-defined folders for organizing content accessible through a set-top box and for creating multiple bookmarks per set-top box program for use during programming playback.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100082684 - Method and system for providing personalized web experience: A system and method which may generate and/or maintain a signature profile for a user. The signature profile may be a representation or a symbol of a user which may yield to different kinds of searches. A signature processor server may generate an initial signature profile with user-supplied materials, including... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20100082683 - Visitor-assisted user profile creation: A visitor to a profile page is invited to modify a user profile associated with the profile page. If the visitor elects to provide a suggested modification to the profile page, a message is transmitted to the user that owns the profile page requesting authorization to perform the suggested modification.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100082682 - Web contents archive system and method: System and method for archiving web content. The Intranet Web Contents Archive System incorporates one or more of the following modules: ID Management System for managing authentication and authorization information of each user; Data Archive Storage configured to directly access a web service and capture a web page using identification... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100082686 - Methods for storing data: A method for storing data includes the steps of receiving a metadata parameter from a first user, the parameter being associated with a property in a database containing a plurality of data records, and storing the parameter. The method also includes the step of providing a second user with access... Agent: Air Products And Chemicals, Inc. Patent Department

20100082685 - System and method for evaluation and presenting authorization rights in an organization: A system and method for evaluating instances of authorization authority or segregation of duties in an organization against criteria for such authorizations, storing results of such evaluations and presenting such results to a user through queries of the stored results.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20100082687 - Document management system, document producing apparatus, document use managing apparatus, and computer readable medium: A document management system includes: a document producing apparatus including a protected document producing unit; and a document use managing apparatus including: a document information storage; a document information registering unit; a use restriction information storage; and a use restriction information registering unit.... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20100082688 - System and method for reporting and analysis of media consumption data: A system and method for reporting and analysis of media consumption data. A request is received over a network from a requesting user for consumption data relating to at least one media object, the request comprising an identification of the media objects. Spatial, temporal, topical, and social data available to... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20100082689 - Adapter services: In one example, a system to integrate a first application with a second application may associate a component type in the first application with an engine object type in the second application. The component type and the engine object type may be program object types. The system may determine a... Agent: Accenture Indy 33391 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20100082690 - System and method for recording files of data: A method for recording files of data is disclosed. A file identifier indicative of a file is received. The file identifier is compared to a file conversion value. The file conversion value is determined to be a static file or a dynamic file. Static files are saved as the conversion... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100082691 - Universal customer based information and ontology platform for business information and innovation management: A system constructed using one or more of the techniques described includes a collective set of data structures, uniquely designed entities, information tools, and computational and machine methods useful to store, append, interact with, retrieve, process, and present data and information in a fashion that enables associations to be made... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20100082692 - Method and apparatus for classification of coronary artery image data: A polyline tree representation of a coronary artery tree imaged in a volume data set is obtained, and its topology is extracted to give a topological representation indicating the relative positions of vessels in the tree. The topological representation is compared with a set of topological rules to find possible... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20100082695 - Enterprise social graph and contextual information presentation: A system for aggregating social graph information uses both social networking and social media sites as well as optional access to enterprise data so that a detailed and comprehensive social graph can be generated. The social graph information is provided to users when contextually appropriate. Other contextually appropriate information can... Agent: Perley-robertson, Hill & Mcdougall LLP

20100082693 - Organization of a contact list based on social network context: The method includes determining a social network weighting for one or more contacts in a contact list, and arranging the contact list as a function of the social network weighting for the one or more contacts. The social network weightings may be determined as a function of social network context,... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20100082694 - Query log mining for detecting spam-attracting queries: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for detecting spam-attracting queries. In one embodiment, one or more graphs are generated using data obtained from a query log, where the one or more graphs include at least one of an anticlick graph or a view graph. Values of one or more syntactic features... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson - Yahoo!

20100082697 - Data model enrichment and classification using multi-model approach: The present invention provides a method and system for classifying data items using enriched data models, and more particularly using multiple number of small sized data models for achieving higher percentage of classification. The present invention is particularly directed to data model building and classification technology. The training set used... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20100082699 - Information processing apparatus and its control method and data processing system: In order to provide a technology which allows efficient understanding of images of a disease locus and diagnosis supporting information for the images, an information processing apparatus comprises: an input unit which inputs object identification information for identifying an object; an acquiring unit which acquires one or more schemas related... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20100082698 - Information processing apparatus, control method thereof, computer program, and storage medium: An information processing apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises an association unit configured to divide input image data into regions and to associate each region with one or more types of objects; an addition unit configured to add metadata to each object based on the type of each object; and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20100082696 - System and method for inferring and visualizing correlations of different business aspects for business transformation: A system and method for inferring and visualizing correlations of different business aspects for business transformation are provided. Business models, for instance, that may include business component model, business process model, value drivers and metrics model, application model, organization model, and solutions model are organized into a model topology data... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20100082702 - Dynamic vehicle information management: A method for dynamically managing data changes to a vehicle health monitoring system (VHM) by a datacenter using an external agent is provided. The external agent is operational on, or in communication with, a vehicle. One of updating or modifying a vehicle configuration file is performed to add or delete... Agent: Honeywell/ifl Patent Services

20100082703 - Octree construction on graphics processing units: An octree GPU construction system and method for constructing a complete octree data structure on a graphics processing unit (GPU). Embodiments of the octree GPU construction system and method first defines a complete octree data structure as forming a complete partition of the 3-D space and including a vertex, edge,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100082704 - Real-time kd-tree construction on graphics hardware: Described is a technology for constructing kd-trees on GPUs, in a manner that is sufficiently fast to achieve real-time performance by exploiting GPU-bsaed parallelism during the kd-tree construction. Tree nodes are built in breadth-first search order, e.g., to use a thread for each node at each level. For large nodes... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100082700 - Storage system for data virtualization and deduplication: A data virtualization storage appliance performs data deduplication transformations on the data. The original or non-deduplicated file system is used as shell to hold the directory/file hierarchy and file metadata. The data of the file system is stored by a separate data storage in a transformed and deduplicated form. The... Agent: General - Law Office Of Jonathan Hollander PC

20100082701 - System and method for using a configuration management database: A method comprises storing one or more configuration items in a local data cache, wherein a user may access the one or more configuration items from the local data cache without retrieving the one or more configuration items from a configuration management database. Modifications made, by the user, to the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100082705 - Method and system for temporal aggregation: A method, database system and computer program are disclosed for optimizing a SQL query, in which the SQL query seeks to aggregate temporal database information. The method includes determining whether two rows of information have a common grouping value, and if so, determining both temporal overlap and temporal non-overlap components... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20100082706 - Configurable transformation macro: A system for transforming source input data using a configurable transformation macro. A transformation macro script is executed by a configurable transformation macro. One or more transformation templates are read by the transformation macro script. Input data is read by the transformation macro script from one or more source files.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20100082707 - Method and system for archiving biomedical data generated by a data collection device: A method for archiving biomedical data generated by a data collection device, includes the steps of automatically determining a data format in which the collection device is configured to store the biomedical data onto a computer-readable storage medium, based on the data format, extracting the biomedical data from the storage... Agent: Air Products And Chemicals, Inc. Patent Department

20100082709 - Document processing system and control method thereof, program, and storage medium: This invention is directed to a document processing system and control method thereof. The system stores a plurality of items of document data each containing metadata pertaining to the contents of each item of document data, and relation information representing the relations between the plurality of items of document data.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20100082708 - System and method for management of performance fault using statistical analysis: A system includes: at least one managed resource having an agent for collecting and transmitting performance information; an integrated management server for receiving the information and managing it in an integrated manner; a statistical information generating module for extracting previously set performance items and automatically generating statistical information for each... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20100082710 - System and method for optimizing write barrier in garbage collection: A system and associated method for optimizing a write barrier in garbage collection. The method marks a bit in a bitmap corresponding to a slot when the slot content is modified to refer to a new object. The method also logs the address of the slot when the object referred... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20100082711 - Systems and methods for sideband communication between device and host to minimize file corruption: Communications systems and methods for minimizing file corruption when communicating between a device and a host are provided. To initiate a file transfer section, a host can transfer data to a device on a primary communications channel. The device can then temporarily store the received data in a memory circuit... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

20100082712 - Location and time based media retrieval: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media provide for location and time based media retrieval. A media file of an event recorded through a multimedia recording device is retrieved. The location of the multimedia recording device is determined. A temporal measurement associated with the event is also determined. The location and the... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hbh Attn: Patent Docketing

20100082713 - Method and system for attaching files to e-mail from backup copies remotely stored: The technology disclosed relates efficient handling of e-mail attachments. In particular, it relates to automatic and efficient matching of a selected local file to an archived file for attachment of the archived file or a link thereto to an e-mail, without requiring uploading of the local file when initiating the... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20100082714 - Nested file system support: A processing device and a machine-implemented method may be provided for tracking file system dependencies with respect to a volume residing on a storage device and guest volumes residing on virtual storage devices nested within the volume. A shim driver may receive an indication of a virtual storage device being... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100082715 - Reduced-resource block thin provisioning: A computer-executed method reduces a storage array's physical spindle requirements, leading to reduced power and resource costs, as compared to block thin provisioning. A computer-executed method for managing access of a plurality of applications to a storage array comprises monitoring storage space usage in a file system, and modifying size... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100082716 - Method, system, and apparatus for file server resource division: Provided is a method including the steps of: storing multiple IP addresses and resource management information including correspondence relationships among the multiple IP addresses, multiple file cache regions and multiple virtual file servers; processing multiple file requests transmitted from a client computer in accordance with the resource management information, by... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500