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20110161280 - System, method, and computer-readable medium that facilitate in-database analytics with supervised data discretization: A system, method, and computer-readable medium that facilitate in-database supervised discretization mechanisms which improve data classification are provided. The disclosed mechanisms provide an efficient, automatic, and repeatable way to perform data discretization without human intervention. Efficient processing of large and complex unknown data is provided that advantageously does not require... Agent:

20110161281 - Distributed transaction management in a distributed shared disk cluster environment: Systems, methods, computer program product embodiments are provided for maintaining transaction consistency for distributed transactions in a distributed shared disk cluster environment. An embodiment includes utilizing broadcast messaging among the plurality of instances to identify at least one of a transaction and a transaction owner instance for a transaction request.... Agent: Sybase, Inc.

20110161282 - Systems and methods for distribution of data in a lattice-based database via placeholder nodes: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for the distribution of data in a lattice-based database via placeholder nodes. A data store can store data in a lattice-based database or other three-dimensional hierarchical format. Higher-level data, such as yearly profit, may be desired to be spread from parent nodes at different... Agent:

20110161283 - Network operating system and method for managing a changing entity in a computer system: The invention provides a system and method for a network operating system. The system includes a complex data medium that enables the continuous reconciliation of the collaborative information process and product. The system generally increases productivity by enabling a network dynamic among knowledge workers. The system unifies e-mail and shared... Agent: Coral Networks, Inc.

20110161285 - Method and apparatus for providing automatic controlled value expansion of information: An approach is provided for automatic controlled value expansion of information. A value expansion controller detects a request at a device to perform an information operation on a set of data elements of an information space, wherein the request identifies the set by a name and the information operation applies... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20110161284 - Workflow systems and methods for facilitating resolution of data integration conflicts: Exemplary data management, data integration, and workflow systems and methods are disclosed. An exemplary method includes a data integration subsystem maintaining data representative of a set of one or more workflow rules configured for use by a workflow engine within the data integration subsystem to screen one or more data... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing, Inc.

20110161286 - Identifying corrupted data on calendars with client intent: Identification of corrupted event data may be provided. Calendar events, such as appointments and meetings, may be created and copied to a plurality of attendee calendars. Changes to the event may be logged and, if the change results from a user interaction with a user interface, a user intent identifier... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110161287 - Middleware filter agent between server and pda: A content server provides content to a first network device during a data synchronization between the two devices. A middleware filter selectively filters content provided by the content server such that selected content is provided to the first network device. The middleware filter is included within a second network device... Agent: Sony Electronics, Inc.

20110161288 - Method and system for data update synchronization by two-phase commit: In an integrated management database system having a plurality of element databases holding the configuration information about an information system and an integrated database for integrally managing the element databases, an element database which cannot return a reply while maintaining a secure state in response to an update request is... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110161289 - Data replication across enterprise boundaries: Systems and methods for synchronizing verification data in a distributed database including client and server databases. The server database may exchange verification data regarding one-time passwords to multiple client databases. An update to the server database may be initiated based on information stored in the client database by pushing updated... Agent: Verisign, Inc.

20110161290 - Data caching for mobile applications: Systems, methods, computer program product embodiments and combinations and sub-combinations thereof for data caching and cache synchronization are described herein. An embodiment includes comparing data in a cache with data stored at a data source and determining database operations needed to synchronize one or more partitions of the cache with... Agent: Sybase, Inc.

20110161291 - Wan-optimized local and cloud spanning deduplicated storage system: A spanning storage interface facilitates the use of cloud storage services by storage clients. The spanning storage interface presents one or more data interfaces to storage clients at a network location, such as file, object, data backup, archival, and storage block based interfaces. The data interfaces allows storage clients to... Agent: Riverbed Technology, Inc.

20110161292 - Method for parallel editing data item of database: Computers duplicate all or part of the data in DB originals, hold the duplicates therein, and parallel edit the duplicates (alteration edit). Data defining the items of the data, in addition to the data recorded in DBs, is parallel edited. When the result of edit of an item table is... Agent:

20110161293 - Distributed storage system with web services client interface: A distributed, web-services based storage system. A system may include a web services interface configured to receive, according to a web services protocol, a given client request for access to a given data object, the request including a key value corresponding to the object. The system may also include storage... Agent:

20110161294 - Method for determining whether to dynamically replicate data: The disclosed embodiments provide a system that determines whether to dynamically replicate data segments on a node in a computing cluster that stores a collection of data segments. During operation, the system identifies a data segment from the collection that is predicted to be frequently accessed by future tasks executing... Agent: Sun Microsystems, Inc.

20110161295 - Systems and methods for analyzing snapshots: This application describes techniques for creating a second snapshot of a first snapshot of a set of data, modifying the first snapshot, and reverting the modifications to the first snapshot. For example, portions of one or more transaction logs may be played into a database to put the database in... Agent:

20110161296 - Applying a policy criteria to files in a backup image: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for applying a policy criteria to files in a backup image. A backup image of files in a file system is maintained. A policy is applied to the files in the backup image to determine files satisfying a policy criteria. A... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110161297 - Cloud synthetic backups: Synthetic backups are created without accessing previous backup data or retrieving backup data from a cloud storage service. A backup system provides two or more backup data sets to a cloud spanning storage interface for storage in deduplicated form as label maps and data segments in a cloud storage service.... Agent: Riverbed Technology, Inc.

20110161300 - Dual access to concurrent data in a database management system: Various embodiments include one or more of systems, methods, software, and data structures that allow dual access to concurrent data in a database management system including uncommitted updated data. Some embodiments include a dual snapshot of data in a multi-version concurrency control style database, but the embodiments described herein are... Agent:

20110161298 - System and method for opportunistic re-imaging using cannibalistic storage techniques on sparse storage devices: In some embodiments, the invention involves a system and method for instant re-imaging of a computing device using a sparse storage partition of dynamically variable size to hold re-imaging data. An embodiment uses a solid state storage device to hold the binary image, or re-imaging personality. An embodiment uses copy... Agent:

20110161299 - Systems and methods for performing data management operations using snapshots: A system and method for using a snapshot as a data source is described. In some cases, the system stores a snapshot and an associated data structure or index to storage media to create a secondary copy of a volume of data. In some cases, the associated index includes application... Agent:

20110161301 - Methods and systems for optimizing a process of archiving at least one block of a virtual disk image: A system for optimizing a process of archiving at least one block of a virtual disk image includes a file system analysis component and an archiving component. The file system analysis component executes on a first physical computing device and identifies a plurality of blocks storing data comprising a file... Agent:

20110161302 - Distributed file system and data block consistency managing method thereof: A distributed file system and a data block consistency managing method thereof are disclosed. The method comprises: a file location register generates the values of the counters corresponding to CHUNKs and the values of the counters are simultaneously stored in file access servers and a file location register; when writing... Agent: Zte Corporation

20110161303 - System and method for analyzing official notices of electronically filed patent applications: A system and method for analyzing official notices of an electronically filed patent application are based on a file server that connects to patent office websites, a database, and client computers. An official notice of the patent application is downloaded from one of the patent office websites according to a... Agent: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

20110161304 - Deployment and compliance manager: A system includes a first database configured to store agreement information corresponding to terms of an agreement between a service provider and a third party. A second database is configured to store records related to the agreement. A computing device is configured to compare the records to the agreement information... Agent: Verizon North Inc. (sj)

20110161305 - Method and apparatus for information retrieval based on partial machine recognition of the same: A system and method for capturing and recognizing at least a portion of a source document, whether written or audible, then searching for information, or other documents, that correspond to the captured and recognized portion of the source document. Various techniques for adding translation and/or searching are also disclosed. In... Agent:

20110161306 - Method and apparatus for role grouping by shared resource utilization: Role search apparatus for grouping nodes according to relationships with other nodes, the apparatus comprising: an input for receiving an arrangement of nodes said arrangement comprising at least two partitions of said nodes and with predetermined relationships between nodes across said partitions, and a pattern recognition unit associated with said... Agent: Computer Associates Think, Inc.

20110161307 - Method, system, and device for searching for information and method for registering vertical search engine: In the field of communications, a method, a system, and a device for searching for information, and a method for registering a vertical search engine are provided. The method for searching for information includes the following steps. A first search request sent by a user is received. A logic node... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20110161308 - Evaluating preferences of content on a webpage: Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that facilitate evaluation of digital content preferences are provided. A user is presented with items of digital content and permitted to manipulate the arrangement of the digital content items in the context of a layout area. Based on the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110161309 - Method of sorting the result set of a search engine: A method is disclosed wherein the webpages listed in the result set of a search engine is sorted according to the relevance of the webpages to a list of prioritised search terms. Search terms which are phrases that are delimited by prepositions are considered search terms with high priority. Search... Agent: Lx1 Technology Limited

20110161310 - Database query plan analysis and difference processing: Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to retrieve at least a portion of a first database query plan comprising a first tree and at least a portion of a second database query plan comprising a second tree. Further activities may include comparing relations and operations in the first tree and... Agent:

20110161311 - Search suggestion clustering and presentation: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for clustering and presenting search suggestions. A segment of text is obtained via a search query section of a user interface, the segment of text being a portion of a search query. A set of suggestions is obtained, each suggestion in the set of suggestions... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20110161312 - Integration of web information architecture taxonomy and web metrics taxonomy: Mechanisms are provided for integration of Web information architecture taxonomy and Web metrics taxonomy. When the author creates source content, the mechanism classifies the content using a rich taxonomy. The mechanism also adds unique identifiers into the source content pages as tags. The mechanism may then transform the source content... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110161313 - Method and apparatus for automated end to end content tracking in peer to peer environments: A method, computer readable medium and system for automatically tracking content in a peer-to-peer environment are disclosed. For example, the method monitors a number of times each content title of a plurality of content titles are downloaded in the peer-to-peer environment, adds one or more content titles of the plurality... Agent:

20110161314 - Method and system for managing resources for providers: A system for transmission, reception and accumulation of the knowledge packets to plurality of channel nodes in the network operating distributedly in a peer to peer environment via installable one or more role active Human Operating System (HOS) applications in a digital devise of each of channel node, a network... Agent:

20110161315 - Pattern searching methods and apparatuses: A computer-based method for identifying patterns in computer text using structures defining types of patterns which are to be identified, wherein a structure comprises one or more definition items, the method comprising assigning a weighting to each structure and each definition item; searching the computer text for a pattern to... Agent:

20110161316 - Method, system, and graphical user interface for alerting a computer user to new results for a prior search: A method, system, and graphical user interface for alerting a computer user to new results for a prior search are disclosed. One aspect of the invention involves a graphical user interface on a computer that includes a plurality of links recommended by a search engine for a computer user. The... Agent:

20110161317 - Document retrieval system: A document retrieval system includes a document server and mobile phones. A user may enter search criteria on a search criteria input screen of the mobile phone and transmit them to the document server through a certain network, e.g. the Internet. The document server retrieves documents according to the search... Agent: Fujifilm Corporation

20110161318 - Method and apparatus for assigning tags to digital content: A method and apparatus for assigning topical tags to content on a page stored within a searchable digital document environment is provided. An activity log is created for a document including data indicating search queries resulting in the location of the document by a search engine. Keywords are determined from... Agent: Cbs Interactive Inc.

20110161319 - Method and system for requesting social services from group of users: A system for transmission, reception and accumulation of the knowledge packets to plurality of channel nodes in the network operating distributedly in a peer to peer environment via installable one or more role active Human Operating System (HOS) applications in a digital devise of each of channel node, a network... Agent:

20110161321 - Extensibility platform using data cartridges: A framework for extending the capabilities of an event processing system using one or more plug-in components referred to herein as data cartridges. Generally speaking, a data cartridge is a self-contained unit of data that can be registered with an event processing system and can store information pertaining to one... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20110161322 - Image forming apparatus, information processing apparatus, data processing server, and information processing method: An image forming apparatus includes a reading unit configured to read watermark information including information for search from an electronic document, and a pre-processing unit configured to execute a process for extracting feature amount or text information as information for search from the electronic document if the reading unit does... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20110161320 - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for geocoding data: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for geocoding data for use by a mapping utility. A method may include accessing a data record from a data set. The data record may include proprietary data and address data associated with the proprietary data. The method may additionally include formatting... Agent: Mckesson Financial Holdings Limited

20110161324 - Community-based parental controls: According to a general aspect, a method includes maintaining rating groups, each rating group providing a rating for content compiled based on information received from a user evaluating the content. The method also includes receiving, from a first user, a selection of a first rating group, from among the rating... Agent: Aol LLC

20110161323 - Information processing device, method of evaluating degree of association, and program: There is provided an information processing device including: a storage unit that stores information element data defining a plurality of information elements; an information acquisition unit that acquires an information set having a referential relationship with each other from an information source accessible through a communication network; a classification unit... Agent:

20110161327 - Asynchronous methods of data classification using change journals and other data structures: Aspects of the present invention are generally concerned with systems and methods for generating a database of metadata that describes system data and storage operations. The database of metadata may be referred to herein as a “metabase.” For example, to generate a metabase, a data agent may traverse a file... Agent:

20110161326 - System and method for serving search results of textual data in response to a query as it is typed: A system and a method provide in memory two level of indices to a data set, respectively referred to as an instance layer and an entry layer. The instance layer is brought from disk into memory when an application is initialized to allow insertion of new data into the data... Agent:

20110161325 - System, method and computer-readable storage medium for generation and remote content management of compiled files: An apparatus is provided that includes a processor configured to perform or cause the apparatus to perform at least a number of operations. The operations include receiving a compiled media file including a plurality of objects, where the compiled file is received via a remoting gateway configured to post the... Agent: Ego7 LLC

20110161328 - Spatial data cartridge for event processing systems: Techniques for extending the capabilities of an event processing system to support the processing of spatial data. In one set of embodiments, this extensibility can be provided via a plug-in extension component referred to herein as a spatial data cartridge. The spatial data cartridge can enable the event processing system... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20110161329 - Tag cloud buddy list for messaging contacts: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for tag cloud buddy lists. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for tag cloud buddy list management can be provided. The method can include loading a list of contacts in a messaging system executing in... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110161330 - Calculating global importance of documents based on global hitting times: A calculate importance system calculates the global importance of a web page based on a “mean hitting time.” Hitting time of a target web page is a measure of the minimum number of transitions needed to land on the target web page. Mean hitting time of a target web page... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110161331 - Incremental update of long-term and short-term user profile scores in a behavioral targeting system: A behavioral targeting system determines user profiles from online activity. The system includes a plurality of models that define parameters for determining a user profile score. Event information, which comprises on-line activity of the user, is received at an entity. To generate a user profile score, a model is selected.... Agent:

20110161332 - Method and system for policy driven data distribution: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for controlling the distribution of data. Data stored in a datastore is filtered according to a data release policy to generate filtered data. A data release policy agreement, corresponding to the data release policy, is generated. The filtered data and the data... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110161333 - System and method of making unstructured data available to structured data analysis tools: A system and method of making unstructured data available to structured data analysis tools. The system includes middleware software that can be used in combination with structured data tools to perform analysis on both structured and unstructured data. Data can be read from a wide variety of unstructured sources. The... Agent:

20110161338 - Dynamic tasking-masking server apparatus, system, and method for dynamically configuring adaptive agents in wireless devices: A method for operating a dynamic tasking-masking server comprising a circuit to receive a package of metrics recorded at an adaptive server, coupled to a circuit to search an event register for package elements, coupled to a circuit to generate a replacement profile for transmission to the agent, wherein a... Agent: Carrier Iq, Inc

20110161335 - Locating the latest version of replicated data files: A list of servers known to a client is compared with lists of servers stored on the servers. An instance of content (e.g., a data file) can be accessed from a server on the list if at least a simple majority of the servers have the same version of the... Agent: Symantec Corporation

20110161336 - Search supporting device and a method for search supporting: A search supporting device includes an accepting unit for accepting an input word and a URL, a log obtaining unit for obtaining from a search log storing unit in which a log including a search word having been used for every URL of viewed data for a search of the... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110161337 - Server apparatus, method of inspecting logs for the same, and storage medium: An inspection server receives a search condition for print logs accumulated in a print log database from an inspection client PC, and an associated log setting for associating print jobs searched based on the search condition with logs managed by a log management server. The inspection server obtains a search... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20110161334 - Translating and geocoding addresses: A device may include a memory and a processor. The memory may be configured to store a regular address database and store a translated address database. The processor may be configured to perform a lookup, in the regular address database, of a regular address that corresponds to a working address.... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing, Inc.

20110161339 - Pending state management for mobile business objects: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for invoking an operation to change a current data row of a table in a local database. As a result, a pending change data row is inserted in the table, distinguished by a primary key comprising a common key value and... Agent: Sybase, Inc.

20110161340 - Long-term query refinement system: A system for providing long term query refinement. Low level information may be stored based on user feedback. There may be equivalence classes in an archive or memory which contain items from a query search which are labeled positive or negative by a user. Labels may be stored in class... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20110161341 - System and method for an iterative disambiguation interface: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for an iterative disambiguation interface. A system practicing the method receives a search query formatted according to a standard XML markup language for containing and annotating interpretations of user input, the search query being based on a natural language spoken query... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20110161348 - system and method for automatically creating a media compilation: A media creation system enabling the automatic compilation file by combining a plurality of different media source files. A media processor automatically initiates a search of media files stored in the repository based on the received criteria data and the metadata associated with the file to produce a list of... Agent:

20110161350 - Application server and method for collecting machine data: An application server and method collects and stores machine data from one or more machines. The application server sends a data acquisition command to a sensor of the searched machine to acquire the machine data of the searched machine, in response to a determination that the machine has been found... Agent: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

20110161342 - Business object node access management for search services in a service-oriented architecture: A system may include a database comprising stored data and a business process platform including business object metadata defining business objects representing the stored data. The business process platform may receive a query from a user to retrieve data from a first business object node of a business object, the... Agent:

20110161357 - Computer product, information processing apparatus, and information search apparatus: A recording medium stores an information processing program that causes a computer having a storage unit storing therein a file group in which character code strings are described, to execute generating combined identification information by dividing into two portions, at least one among identification information for a preceding character code... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110161360 - Data retrieval in a network of tree structure: A method for retrieving data from a network having network elements in a multi-level hierarchical tree includes providing a data exchange interface defining formats for requesting and delivery of types of data to be retrieved, generating a request at the data exchange interface to define the data to be retrieved,... Agent: Packetfront Systems Ab

20110161346 - Data storage and access in multi-core processor architectures: Technologies are generally described for a system for sending a data block stored in a cache. In some examples described herein, a system may comprise a first processor in a first tile. The first processor is effective to generate a request for a data block, the request including a destination... Agent:

20110161362 - Document access monitoring: A method of monitoring access to a set of documents stored on one or more document servers distributed across a network to which is coupled one or more document access logging databases for logging each access to each of the set of documents is disclosed. The method comprises: a) receiving... Agent:

20110161344 - Enhancing soft file system links: A method for determining whether a soft link of a target file is pointing to a correct file system is provided. A unique identification number for a mounted file system is retrieved from a storage device in response to receiving a request to access a target file in the mounted... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110161352 - Extensible indexing framework using data cartridges: A framework or infrastructure (extensibility framework/infrastructure) for extending the indexing capabilities of an event processing system. The capabilities of an event processing system may be extended to support indexing schemes, including related data types and operations, which are not natively supported by the event processing system. The extensibility is enabled... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20110161356 - Extensible language framework using data cartridges: A framework for extending the capabilities of an event processing system using one or more plug-in components referred to herein as data cartridges. In one set of embodiments, the data cartridge framework described herein can enable an event processing system to support one or more extension languages that are distinct... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20110161353 - Management device and management method: A management device includes a memory unit for storing configuration item information regarding configuration items to be managed and relationship information regarding relationships between the configuration items to be managed, an extracting unit for extracting, based on the information stored in the memory unit and based on predetermined constraint conditions,... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110161354 - Matrix view of items: Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to present a plurality of searched items by a plurality of points in a matrix view, which includes a first axis and a second axis, respectively representing a price attribute and one of other attributes of the plurality of items. Additional apparatus, systems, and... Agent: Ebay Inc.

20110161349 - Message based synchronization for mobile business objects: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for executing a notification query derived from a download cursor for a business object to identify an updated subscription in order to provide updates to a client device in an import message. Additional systems, methods, and computer program products are provided... Agent: Sybase, Inc.

20110161359 - Method and apparatus for searching for subjective analysis according to mental status: A method and system for writing and searching for subjective definitions, opinions, and feelings about a predetermined issue such as a word and a phrase. The method includes receiving from a first user who access a server system a selection about a predetermined issue, receiving a selection about at least... Agent:

20110161361 - Method and system: A method and system, for modelling atomic or molecular level structures or the atomic or molecular energies or forces in such structures is disclosed. The method and system use a Gaussian Process to estimate properties at the atom or molecular level in such structures.... Agent:

20110161343 - Method and system to dynamically create queries to find related records in a database: A system that generates display objects in a graphical user interface that enable the user of an application which accesses a data repository through result sets to dynamically construct a new query to show all database records having the same contents as a specified set of fields in a currently... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110161358 - Mobile phone apparatus, confirmation information displaying program, confirmation information displaying method and transmitting method of mobile phone apparatus: A mobile phone apparatus 10 has a RAM (RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY) 34 to which address book data (1040) is stored, and the address book data (1040) is made up of address data, such as “YAMADA *ROU” and “YAMADA #ROU”. When a user performs a phone call or a mail sending... Agent: Kyocera Corporation

20110161365 - Object identification system, wireless internet system having the same and method servicing a wireless communication based on an object using the same: An objection identification system includes a virtual object database (DB) in which a plurality of virtual objects is stored and a target virtual object. The virtual objects includes an attribute data set including an attribute value of a real object and a service data set including a service data related... Agent:

20110161363 - Organizing pointers to objects: The invention may be a method and apparatus of organizing pointers. The pointers may identify addresses where objects are stored. The pointers may be stored in arrays so that at least two key entries are required from an input device for determining a byte and comparing the byte with bytes... Agent: Zi Corporation Of Canada, Inc.

20110161347 - System and method for an n-best list interface: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for providing an N-best list interface. A system practicing the method receives a search query formatted according to a standard language for containing and annotating interpretations of user input, the search query being based on a natural language spoken query from... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20110161364 - System and method for providing a normal file database: The present invention relates to a system for providing a normal file database, including a database server in which a normal file database constructed for different operating systems is stored, and a file providing server for searching a normal file database corresponding to operating system information on the basis of... Agent: Ahnlab, Inc.

20110161345 - System and method for retrieval of information contained in slide kits: A slide kit contains slides having citations. The slides are loaded into memory, and the citations are automatically parsed. The system automatically connects to external databases to obtain and download texts associated with the citations, so that the user can review the slides together with such texts. The system also... Agent: Blue Grotto Technologies, Inc.

20110161351 - System and method for retrieving data using agents in a distributed network: A method and apparatus for data retrieval by a computing system and a plurality of agent computers in a distributed network is disclosed. The computing system sends a request to each agent computer to perform a search at a node. The agents perform the searches. The agents thereupon send the... Agent: Yapta, Inc.

20110161355 - Terminal device based on content name, and method for routing based on content name: In a network system based on a content name, a terminal device may generate and transmit a block query requesting a plurality of segments, and may receive segments corresponding to the block query based on a transmission direction of the block query.... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110161366 - Media content notification via communications network: The notification system identifies media content based on personal preferences of individual users and provides notification of identified media content to the users. In one embodiment, the system includes a number of user nodes that communicate with a registration site and a notification site via the interne. The notification site... Agent: Registrar Systems LLC

20110161367 - Text mining apparatus, text mining method, and computer-readable recording medium: A text mining apparatus, a text mining method, and a program are provided that enable the influence that computer processing errors have on mining results to be reduced during text mining performed on a plurality of text data pieces including a text data piece generated by computer processing. A text... Agent: Nec Corporation

20110161368 - Text mining apparatus, text mining method, and computer-readable recording medium: A text mining apparatus 1 to be used performs text mining using, as targets, a plurality of text data pieces including a text data piece generated by computer processing. Confidence is set for each of the text data pieces. The text mining apparatus 1 includes an inherent portion extraction unit... Agent:

20110161370 - Apparatus, program, and method for file management: In a file management apparatus, upon receipt of an access request from a file access device, a device access rights determination unit determines whether to grant the file access device access to a file. In addition, a user access rights determination unit determines whether to grant the user who made... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110161369 - Data backup, storage, transfer and retrieval system, method and computer program product: A file storage and retrieval system, method and computer program product connects an account user's computer to a remote, secure, redundant system computer via the Internet. The system operates to copy selected data between the account user's computer and the system computer including, documents, music files, image files, and email... Agent:

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20110161372 - Block compression algorithm: A method for compressing a data stream based on a combination of two digests is used. Each combination of digests that occurs multiple times is assigned a codeword. When the first digest matches, a data structure of second digests occurring with the same first digest is built, associating each combination... Agent:

20110161373 - User interface for establishing mappings from internal metadata to external metadata: A solution is provided that allows a user to provide an alternate set of metadata for any number of data points within a report, while in a report design environment. They may lay down a grid on the work area and specify the data by placing the relevant dimensional metadata,... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20110161374 - Systems and methods for conditioned distribution of data in a lattice-based database using spreading rules: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for the conditioned distribution of data in a lattice-based database using spreading rules. A data store can store data in a lattice-based database or other three-dimensional hierarchical format. Higher-level data, such as yearly profit, may be desired to be spread from parent nodes at... Agent:

20110161376 - Automated file merging through content classification: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for the automated merger of content in progeny of a primary file in a version control system. In one embodiment of the invention, the method can include establishing different segments of content in a primary file in... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110161377 - System and method for correlating a first title with a second title: The present invention relates to a system and method for interacting with digital media that permits creating, editing, combining, producing, and using digital media content. In one aspect of the invention, these features are implemented using a “virtual container” or unit that contains structured information. This structured information includes the... Agent: Ingram Dv LLC

20110161375 - Systems, methods and articles for template based generation of markup documents to access back office systems: An abstraction layer is provided between databases of back office systems and a markup language based interface, which may allow Web access to data in the databases of the back office systems. Schemas, metadata and validation files are generated from an intermediary representation of the database, which may be flat,... Agent:

20110161379 - Lifecycle-based horizontal partitioning: The invention relates to a computer-implemented method for dynamically and horizontally partitioning a table of a relational database, wherein the table comprises records, wherein the records are mapped to a plurality of states, wherein the table is horizontally partitioned into a plurality of partitions, and wherein the plurality of states... Agent: Hasso-plattner-institut Fur Softwaresystemtechnik Gmbh

20110161380 - System and method for storing performance data in a transit organization: The present invention relates to systems and methods for storing performance data in a transit organization. Sets of performance data for runs over a plurality of routes are stored. The routes are divided into links. Associations between the sets of performance data and the links are also stored.... Agent: Trapeze Software Inc.

20110161378 - Systems and methods for automatic propagation of data changes in distribution operations in hierarchical database: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for the automatic propagation of data changes in distribution operations in a hierarchical database. Higher-level data, such as yearly profit, may be desired to be spread from parent nodes to lower nodes in the store, such as quarters. Parent nodes can be associated with... Agent:

20110161381 - Methods and apparatuses to optimize updates in a file system based on birth time: Methods and apparatuses that maintain birth time for a file system to optimize file update operations are described. The file system can include a plurality of snapshots or clones of data stored in one or more extents of blocks allocated in a storage device. Each extent may be associated with... Agent:

20110161382 - Managing the backlog of undelivered publications for durable subscriptions: In managing the backlog of undelivered publications for durable subscriptions, a maximum quantity of publications stored in connection with a durable subscription to publications of a particular topic can be established on behalf of a particular subscribing end user. A new publication published for the particular topic subscribed to by... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110161385 - Data analysis based on data linking elements: A computer controlled method for automatically segmenting an ensemble of data. The method starts by acquiring an ensemble of data and data is segmented by identifying a first subset of sequences of Linking Data Elements based on a repository of Linking Data Elements. A second subset of sequences of Information... Agent: I. Know Nv.

20110161383 - Message based mobile object with native pim integration: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for synchronizing data within a native PIM data store in a device an enterprise data. Data modifications generated by mobile applications on the device, or by an enterprise server, are identified and reflected into the native PIM data store. Additionally, a listener... Agent: Sybase, Inc.

20110161384 - System and method for storing item attributes in an electronic catalog: An electronic catalog is provided that stores items and attributes associated with the items. One or more of the attributes may have more than one value. Items are stored in an item table with different attributes for items stored in different rows in an attribute table. Additional items may be... Agent:

20110161386 - Semiconductor device with a plurality of write conditions and memory system: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor memory device and a memory controller. The semiconductor memory device is capable of holding data. The memory controller controls write operation to write data received from a host unit into the semiconductor memory device. The memory controller includes a logical... Agent:

20110161387 - Computer-implemented method for operating a database and corresponding computer-system: The invention relates to a computer-implemented method for operating a database comprising the step of updating a binary status of a tuple in the database. The binary status field either contains a null value or a time stamp. The update can be done in-place or by using an insert-only approach.... Agent: Hasso-plattner-institut Fur Softwaresystemtechnik Gmbh

20110161388 - Information processing apparatus and method of controlling same: An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes an acquisition unit for acquiring the name of a file to be transmitted to a server; a determination unit for determining, in a case where the server has received a file having a name identical with that of a file... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20110153548 - Optimizing data transfer time on graphics processor units: Disclosed are methods and systems for optimizing data transfer time in a graphics processor unit. The methods and systems involve receiving a user request to perform online analytical processing computation, the user request comprising axes dimensions and filter dimensions associated with a visualization for an online analytical computation cube, identifying... Agent:

20110153549 - Diverse route adjustment tool: A system for and method of analyzing the diversity of a set of voice network circuits is disclosed. The system and method compile identifying information representing voice network circuits and store this information in a database. The system and method analyze the database, which represents a set of voice networks,... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing, Inc.

20110153551 - Identifying and changing personal information: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for analyzing information about a user are presented which include obtaining at least one search result based on at least one search terms describing the user; presenting the at least one search result to the user; receiving an indication from the user of the desirability of... Agent: Reputationdefender, Inc.

20110153550 - System and method for determining an event occurrence rate: Described are a system and method for determined an event occurrence rate. A sample set of content items may be obtained. Each of the content items may be associated with at least one region in a hierarchical data structure. A first impression volume may be determined for the at least... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20110153553 - Coordinated location aware brokering of social networks: Social networking has become a significant aspect of many people's lives as they communicate with others who are members of the same social networking application. In many instances members who have joined these social networks to find other individuals with similar interests are unaware that people who have these same... Agent:

20110153554 - Method for summarizing data in unaggregated data streams: A method for producing a summary A of data points in an unaggregated data stream wherein the data points are in the form of weighted keys (a, w) where a is a key and w is a weight, and the summary is a sample of k keys a with adjusted... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I. L.p.

20110153552 - System and method for standardizing ip transactions: A comprehensive platform for merchandising intellectual property (IP) and conducting IP transactions is disclosed. A standardized data collection method enables IP assets to be characterized, rated and valuated in a consistent manner. Project management, workflow and data security functionality enable consistent, efficient and secure interactions between the IP Marketplace participants... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.

20110153555 - Adapting a workflow: A method for adapting a workflow of a content management system comprises setting an allowed action for a user, creating at least one information item depending on the allowed action for the user, in which the at least one information item comprises content to be published and a first information... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110153558 - Configuration item reconciliation: Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media or provided for reconciling an input configuration item (“CI”) with one or more existing CIs, each CI representing an entity on a computer network. An existing CI may be identified as a potential equivalent to the input CI where a first attribute of the... Agent:

20110153559 - Mechanism for deprecating object oriented data: Techniques are described to allow the deprecation of classes in an object-oriented data model, such as a CDM for a CMDB. When a class is deprecated and replaced by another existing or new class, data associated with instances of the deprecated class may be migrated to the replacement class. A... Agent: Bmc Software, Inc.

20110153557 - Migration of versioned data between configuration management systems: Described is a method for migrating versioned data from a source configuration management system to a target configuration management system. The method includes determining, for at least one historical period having versioned data items to be migrated from the source to target systems, an earliest versioned data item based on... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110153556 - Multiple field boundary data sets in an automated crop recordkeeping system: A method includes defining a plurality of crop field boundaries such that an area of land falls within each of the plurality of field boundaries. The method further includes maintaining the plurality of crop field boundaries within the crop recordkeeping system, using a first of the crop field boundaries in... Agent: Mapshots, Inc.

20110153560 - Apparatus, method and article to manage electronic or digital documents in networked environment: Systems and methods of electronic or digital document management allow satellite offices, sites or facilities to replicate some documents in a shared or common electronic document repository, while storing other documents only locally, while allowing document management functions seamlessly across an enterprise independent of whether the electronic or digital documents... Agent:

20110153561 - Multi-phase file system restore with selective on-demand data availability: A selective restore technique for restoring file systems within computer systems provides on-demand access during the restore process, while preventing users from slowing the restore process by generating random accesses to files that have not yet been restored, early in the restore process. The restored files are grouped into multiple... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110153562 - Error prevention for data replication: A method and system for preventing error during data replication is provided. A replication entity model is used to represent data in a source and data in a target. One or more of a logical model, a directed relationship model or a state model may be provided to prevent error.... Agent:

20110153563 - Enhanced replication of databases: A server for replicating a database update operation. Responsive to an update request received at an supplier server that affects more than one database entry at the supplier server, a single replication request is built that contains an expression identifying the affected database entries to be replicated and the respective... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110153564 - Error-sensitive electronic directory synchronization system and methods: A system and method is provided for synchronizing related entries in different electronically stored directories. In one implementation, the method includes the steps of: storing first entries in a first directory, one of a plurality of directories, the first entries having first fields for different types of information and each... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20110153565 - Configuration information management device, distributed information management system and method: A configuration information management device includes a storage unit for storing a configuration item and an item relationship. The configuration information management device controls to cause the storage unit or the different configuration information management device to store the item relationship. The configuration information management device also controls to cause... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110153566 - Optimistic serializable snapshot isolation: The subject disclosure relates to a concurrency control technique that ensures isolation among concurrently execution transactions optimistically in a multiversion database by applying two optional tests at the end of a read-write transaction: validating the visibility of the read set of the read-write transaction(s) and phantom detection by re-scanning and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110153567 - Restore of full system backup and incremental backups using multiple simultaneous device streams: A technique for restoring file systems by applying full and incremental backups together while streaming them from multiple devices provides a faster system restore from a full backup where incremental backups must also be applied. A first storage device streams the full backup while at least one second storage device... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110153568 - High volume, high speed adaptive data replication: System, method, computer program product embodiments and combinations and sub-combinations thereof for data replication in a database system environment are described. In an aspect, the data replication includes grouping, in-memory, a plurality of transactions to be replicated as a single transaction from a source database system to a target database... Agent: Sybase, Inc.

20110153569 - Systems and methods for providing nonlinear journaling: In one embodiment, systems and methods are provided for nonlinear journaling. In one embodiment, groups of data designated for storage in a data storage unit are journaled into persistent storage. In one embodiment, the journal data is recorded nonlinearly. In one embodiment, a linked data structure records data and data... Agent:

20110153570 - Data replication and recovery method in asymmetric clustered distributed file system: Disclosed herein is data replication and recovery method in an asymmetric clustered distributed file system, which divides the storage space of a data server into main partitions and sub-partitions, and separately manages main chunks and sub-chunks in the main partitions and the sub-partitions, thus efficiently processing chunk replication and recovery.... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20110153571 - Analyzing server copies of client files: One embodiment of a system for analyzing client file systems in accordance with the present disclosure comprises a backup repository storing backup data of file systems of client computers remote from the backup repository. The system further comprises a backup server that analyzes the file systems of the client computers... Agent:

20110153572 - Document archival system: An archival computer system for receiving digital documents from document source computers, archiving such digital documents, and providing the digital documents to client computer systems. The archival computer system is provided with a document database, a supplemental digital media database, a document input device, an archival computer, and a server.... Agent:

20110153574 - Method for safeguarding the integrity of a relational database in case of structural transaction execution: A method enables an administration of resources (content) in web packages. By automatically adding a prefix to a resource name causing a name conflict, even resources having the same name can be handled when installing a new web package by a virtual file system mapping the resources to which a... Agent: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

20110153573 - System and method for valuing an ip asset based upon patent quality: A comprehensive platform for merchandising intellectual property (IP) and conducting IP transactions is disclosed. A standardized data collection method enables IP assets to be characterized, rated and valuated in a consistent manner. Project management, workflow and data security functionality enable consistent, efficient and secure interactions between the IP Marketplace participants... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.

20110153575 - System and method for rule-driven constraint-based generation of domain-specific data sets: A data generation system provides for generating domain-specific, context-sensitive data collections as synthetic data for testing the performance of data processing systems. Within the data generation system, a composition module defines a data generation template containing a plurality of fields each capable of holding one or more values according to... Agent: Exactdata, LLC

20110153576 - Multi-client generic persistence for extension fields: Access to a networked application can be provided to multiple users while allowing user-specific extension fields to be created and maintained for exclusive access by the user creating the extension field. A user-customized data object that includes a standard field value of a standard field of a standard data object... Agent:

20110153577 - Query processing system and method for use with tokenspace repository: A search engine server system receives from a client system a search query and identifies a set of documents in accordance with the search query. A content snippet corresponding to content in a respective document of the identified set of documents is generated, the content snippet associated with at least... Agent:

20110153579 - Method and apparatus for policy distribution: A computer apparatus and computer implemented method for policy distribution provides a Records Management System (RMS) that is configured for setting up and maintaining local record classification and disposition policies. An Enterprise Retention Management (ERM) application comprises a centralized workflow configured for managing retention policies for an entity. An application... Agent:

20110153578 - Method and apparatus for propagation of file plans from enterprise retention management applications to records management systems: Integration between Enterprise Records Management systems (ERMs) and Records Management Systems (RMSs) is provided, thus providing a robust record classification and retention schedule enforcement process in large enterprises. Typically, ERMs have been designed from the ground up to be highly scalable across multiple national and regional jurisdictions, whereas RMS's were... Agent:

20110153580 - Index page split avoidance with mass insert processing: A technique is disclosed that avoids index page splits when inserting large numbers of rows into a table of a relational database. Keys in index pages are moved to successive index pages to make room to insert keys on the original index page. Where no room is available on successive... Agent: Bmc Software, Inc.

20110153581 - Method for providing connections for application processes to a database server: The invention relates to a method for providing connections for application processes to a database server. Each application process is allocated a virtualizing driver. The method comprises an application process requiring a connection to a database server and a virtualizing driver providing a virtual database connection interface to the application.... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110153582 - Handling of classification data by a search engine: Methods and systems are described herein that involve handling of classification data in a search engine, where classification applies to data models, where attributes differ among the instances of an object type, or where the definitions of an object type's attributes are subject to frequent change. The search engine enables... Agent:

20110153587 - Indexing system: This invention relates to an indexing system, and to a method of operating an indexing system, the method comprising receiving a request from a user by way of a receiver module, the request including at least a unique identifier; accessing a database, by way of an association module communicatively coupled... Agent:

20110153584 - Method, system, and engine dispatch for content search: The present invention discloses a method, system, and engine dispatch unit for content search, wherein the engine dispatch unit connects to at least a processor and two search engines, obtains objects from the processor(s), and selects search engines to perform content search according to the load of each search engine;... Agent: Hangzhou H3c Technologies Co., Ltd.

20110153586 - Mobile search method and system, and search server: A mobile search method and system are provided. The method includes the following steps. receiving, by a local search server, a first search request sent by a client, wherein the first search request carries a search keyword; acquiring a member search engine by selecting from a meta index stored locally... Agent:

20110153585 - System and method for providing vector terms related to instant messaging conversations: The method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises retrieving one or more terms or phrases comprising an instant messaging conversation in which one or more users are participating. One or more term vectors comprising one or more vector terms associated with the one or more retrieved terms... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20110153583 - Url proxy method and apparatus: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method for mapping complex and simple URLs, including navigating a database storing an electronic catalog of product records, wherein the catalog comprises a taxonomy of product categories and products within the categories, receiving a webpage request corresponding to a product record in... Agent: Cbs Interactive, Inc.

20110153588 - Creation of ad hoc social networks based on issue identification: As part of the creation of the social network, a template can be created that contains the issue, sub-issues associated with the issue, a ranking of the issues/sub-issues, and a form that allows the experts to interact and address the issue/sub-issues. In addition, the identified experts can be refined based... Agent: Avaya Inc.

20110153589 - Document indexing based on categorization and prioritization: Disclosed are methods and systems for improving indexing throughput. The methods and systems involve receiving one or more documents for indexing, categorizing the one or more documents based on a document type, a document size and a processing priority, assigning buckets to the categorized one or more documents according to... Agent:

20110153590 - Apparatus and method for searching for open api and generating mashup block skeleton code: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for searching for an open API and generating a mashup block skeleton code. A method for searching for an open API and generating a mashup block skeleton code includes: storing metadata of web services and open APIs according to an... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20110153592 - Dividing a travel query into sub-queries: Techniques for dividing a travel query into sub-queries for execution by a travel planning system is described. The techniques can divide the travel query according to some optimization such as by taking query processing difficulty into consideration or loading on the travel planning system.... Agent: Ita Software, Inc.

20110153591 - Method and system for improving information system performance based on usage patterns: Usage patterns of structure model are utilized to determine a personalized structure model associated with a user. The personalized structure model is constructed such that retrieval of data associated with the personalized structure model is expected to improve performance of retrieving data from the data provider. The personalized structure model... Agent: Sap Ag

20110153594 - Apparatus and method for analyzing query optimizer performance: A method of analyzing the performance of a query optimizer includes identifying an event trigger. A reproduction object characterizing operational parameters of the customer computer at the time of the event trigger is populated. The reproduction object is transported from the customer computer to a test computer. The reproduction object... Agent: Greenplum, Inc.

20110153593 - Exploiting partitioning, grouping, and sorting in query optimization: An optimizer uses comprehensive reasoning regarding partitioning, sorting, and grouping properties for query optimization. When optimizing an input query expression, logical exploration generates alternative logical expressions. Physical optimization explores physical operator alternatives for logical operators. Required partitioning, sorting, and grouping properties of inputs to physical operators are determined. Additionally, delivered... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110153595 - System and method for identifying topics for short text communications: A system and method for identifying topics for short text communications is provided. Tokens are extracted from a short text communication. A query is generated using the extracted tokens. The query is applied to a set of documents. Those documents in the set that match the query are identified as... Agent: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated

20110153601 - Information analysis apparatus, information analysis method, and program: An information analysis apparatus 1 that executes information analysis on a document set including documents to which time information is attached, the apparatus includes: a corresponding section selection unit 30 that mutually compares a plurality of time-series data generated and selects two or more sections that change corresponding to each... Agent:

20110153598 - Information processing apparatus and method: An information processing apparatus includes a correction unit configured to correct item feature quantities representing, as an item, features of a recommendation target item for which a recommendation process for recommending an item having features resembling those of the recommendation target item is performed by using user preferences representing preferences... Agent:

20110153599 - Meta-web: In one aspect, a system includes an information server, operable to perform operations comprising: receiving a search query from a user device; receiving search results responsive to the search query from a search engine; determining from a registry that user annotations or other metadata are associated with the received search... Agent: Google Inc.

20110153600 - Method and web platform for brokering know-how: A method for brokering of know-how in various formats between users on an electronic Web service platform includes the following steps: allowing users access to the electronic Web service platform, requesting registration data from a user on the platform, managing interest area categories, receiving user offers for know-how in at... Agent:

20110153596 - Scenario, call, and protocol data unit hierarchical comparator: A system, method and computer program product monitors the operation of a telecommunications network and receives source metadata at a metadata comparator. The source metadata is associated with data captured from a source in a telecommunications network. Target metadata associated with target data is also received at the metadata comparator.... Agent: Tektronix Inc.

20110153597 - System and method for ontology-based location of expertise: An expertise locator enables user defined correspondences between experts and respective certain objects. Each object inherits from classes in a hierarchy. Using the correspondences, a locator processor routine finds a candidate expert about a particular subject area. The candidate expert may be in a correspondence with a certain object whose... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110153602 - Adaptive image browsing: A method for browsing a collection of multimedia assets on a soft-copy display comprising: receiving a collection of multimedia assets, each multimedia asset having a set of associated metadata; defining an interest criterion; using a processor to analyze the metadata associated with the multimedia assets and rank the multimedia assets... Agent:

20110153606 - Apparatus and method of managing metadata in asymmetric distributed file system: Provided are an apparatus and a method which can be easily implemented with flexibility enabling distributing all metadata of trees and files in an asymmetric distributed file system. The apparatus includes: a metadata storage unit storing metadata corresponding to a part of partitions of a virtual metadata address space storing... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20110153607 - Community-driven approach for solving the tag space littering problem: In order to provide an improved tagging-based search method, the method includes one-click actions for searching as well as an “one view” indicator telling the user which search would be the most effective or most important search—by displaying a “search cloud”, called search bag.... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110153604 - Event-level parallel methods and apparatus for xml parsing: Embodiments of techniques and systems for parallel XML parsing are described. An event-level XML parser may include a lightweight events partitioning stage, parallel events parsing stages, and a post-processing stage. The events partition may pick out event boundaries using single-instruction, multiple-data instructions to find occurrences of the “<” character, marking... Agent:

20110153605 - System and method for aggregating and curating media content: A method and system for aggregating and curating a plurality of media content pieces. The method including the steps of aggregating a plurality of media content pieces from various sources and curating each of the plurality of media content pieces to determine metadata associated with each of the plurality of... Agent:

20110153603 - Time series storage for large-scale monitoring system: Methods and apparatus are described for collecting and storing large volumes of time series data. For example, such data may comprise metrics gathered from one or more large-scale computing clusters over time. Data are gathered from resources which define aspects of interest in the clusters, such as nodes serving web... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20110153608 - Implementing service oriented architecture industry model repository using semantic web technologies: A method for implementing topic map meta models of a service oriented architecture (SOA) industry model repository (IMR) comprising a meta model service associated with a physical asset repository. The meta model service includes at least one topic map meta model with data specific to a particular topic or industry... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110153609 - System for determining content topicality, and method and program thereof: A system for determining content topicality comprises a feature value extracting means which extracts feature values of a plurality of contents from the contents; a content grouping means which compares the feature values of the plurality of contents extracted by the feature value extracting means, obtains identical contents and derived... Agent: Nec Corporation

20110153610 - Temporal scope translation of meta-models using semantic web technologies: Implementation of a meta-model service of a service oriented architecture industry model repository into a web ontology language representation of at least one topic map meta-model into a plurality of temporal scope topic map meta-models representing states of the at least one topic map meta-model at different times. The implementation... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110153615 - Data classifier system, data classifier method and data classifier program: A data classifier system of the present invention selects a plurality of classifications correlated to data groups so as to output classification axes based on hierarchical classifications and data groups. The data classifier system includes a basic category accumulation means, a classification axis candidate reduction means and a priority calculation... Agent:

20110153611 - Extracting data from a report document: Disclosed are systems and methods for extracting data from a report document for analysis. A report document is retrieved from a group of report documents. Data present in the report document may include fields and associated metadata. The fields and the associated metadata present in the report are categorized as... Agent:

20110153613 - Information search apparatus and method using locational/societal relation-based automatic category generation: Disclosed herein is an information search method using automatic category generation, which automatically generates a category related to a keyword entered by a user, constructs an ontology for processing menu information based on the searched results, and provides a customized menu suitable for the use of the keyword. More particularly,... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20110153614 - Inventory control system process: The inventory control system process includes storing product information in a database. Location information is also accepted and stored in the database in association with the product information. The system receives a command associated with the database and analyzes the command for an instruction and one or more keywords. Next,... Agent: Worthwhile Products

20110153612 - System and method for providing customized applications on different devices: A method for providing a customized application on different requesting device types of a user is provided. The method enables, firstly, receiving requests made by the user using the different device types over multiple communication channels. Secondly, the method enables assigning a rank to the user based on requests received... Agent: Infosys Technologies Limited

20110153617 - Method and system for describing and organizing image data: The present invention is directed to methods and systems for describing and organizing image data. An analysis system includes a sensor, a processing unit, a machine, a database, and/or a display. The analysis system is connected to an electronic device. The sensor generates sensor data which is imported by the... Agent: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.

20110153616 - System and method for providing access to log data files: A system and method for providing a user with efficient access to a log data file. The system takes a computer generated log data file and applies a user defined filter criteria to the log data file. The indexed and filtered log data file is then displayed to the user... Agent: Benchworkzz LLC

20110153620 - Method and apparatus for improving the transcription accuracy of speech recognition software: A virtual vocabulary database is provided for use with a with a particular user database as part of a speech recognition system. Vocabulary elements within the virtual database are imported from the user database and are tagged to include numerical data corresponding to the historical use of the vocabulary element... Agent:

20110153619 - Personalized content links: Content with personalized content links are published at a server. The content and specified content characteristics of the content are received at the server. In addition, potential reader's personalization indicators are received by the server. The content is linked with the specified content characteristics and the potential reader's personalization indicators.... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110153618 - System and method for managing media advertising enterprise data: A system and method for managing media advertising enterprise data. An enterprise data management (EDM) module can be configured to include a set of rules at an enterprise level to manage disparate and disconnected records. A scoring function with respect to each record can be computed based on the rules... Agent: Clear Channel Management Services, Inc.

20110153622 - Method, apparatus and software for differentiating two or more data sets having common data set identifiers: A method, apparatus and software are disclosed which enables the differentiation of two or more data sets having common data set identifiers.... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110153621 - Program and syndicated content detection: Content from multiple different stations can be divided into segments based on time. Matched segments associated with each station can be identified by comparing content included in a first segment associated with a first station, to content included in a second segment associated with a second station. Syndicated content can... Agent: Clear Channel Management Services, Inc.

20110153623 - Compressing massive relational data: A relational dependency transform is introduced as a way to exploit information redundancy in conditioning data in a relational database for better compressibility. An optimum relational dependency transform of the relational database is first computed. Fields of the relational database are then sorted topologically based on a weighted, directed graph... Agent:

20110153624 - Data model access configuration and customization: Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to publish one or more stored back end data models accessible to a user interface and a development environment; to receive a configuration context; to generate derived model attributes by filtering, according to the configuration context, back end data attributes associated with the stored... Agent: Sap Ag

20110153625 - Retrieval device, retrieval system, retrieval method, and computer program for retrieving a document file stored in a storage device: To provide a retrieval device, a retrieval system, a retrieval method, and a computer program capable of completing retrieval in a short time for presenting a retrieval result of a document file, which satisfies a retrieval condition, to a user having the authority to perform predetermined processing. A retrieval device... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110153626 - Device and method for performing mapping of data of network device: A data mapping device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a system-information collecting unit configured to collect information on any one or more of a transmission device and a reception device connected through a network, a rule extracting unit configured to extract a data mapping rule... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20110153632 - Apparatus and method for allocating a current measurement value for a geographical position to a map object: An apparatus for allocating a current measurement value for a geographical position to a map object of a geographical map, wherein the current measurement value originates from a series of adjacent measurement values for adjacent geographical positions, having a processor for determining a first probability measure indicating whether the current... Agent: Fraunhofer-gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.v.

20110153629 - Computer implemented method for allocating drivers and passengers sharing a trip:

20110153631 - Methods and systems for detecting broken links within a file: A method for detecting broken links using a computer coupled to a database is described. A plurality of links including valid links and broken links are embedded within data files stored in the database. The method includes receiving, at the computer, a selection of at least one directory that includes... Agent:

20110153628 - Process and workflow for enterprise data matching: A method and system for managing a media advertising enterprise including process and workflow capabilities for enterprise data matching. An EDM (Enterprise Data Management) module can be configured to include a set of rules at an enterprise level to manage disparate and disconnected records associated with an entity. A number... Agent: Clear Channel Management Services, Inc.

20110153633 - Searching for handwritten annotations appearing a given distance from document content: A method of searching a database containing documents with handwritten annotations stored in association with document content is disclosed. The method receives as inputs a handwritten annotation as a handwritten search input and a content element as a content search input. A search is then performed of the database for... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20110153627 - System and method of generating reusable distance measures for data processing: In one embodiment the present invention includes a computer-implemented method of analyzing data. The method includes storing, by a computer system, a column definition that includes metadata that defines a column. The method further includes generating, by the computer system, a distance measure for the column. The method further includes... Agent: Sap Ag

20110153630 - Systems and methods for efficient xpath processing: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for efficient Xpath matching of a document comprising Extensible Markup Language (XML) or JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). A Xpath engine identifies an Xpath expression for processing values in the document, which is represented by a stack of nodes. The device may... Agent:

20110153634 - Method and apparatus for locating services within peer-to-peer networks: A capability is provided for supporting a service location capability in a peer-to-peer network (P2P), such as a Chord network or other P2P network. In one embodiment, a method for locating a service within a P2P network is provided. The P2P network includes a plurality of nodes, including a target... Agent:

20110153635 - Interactive visualization of sender and recipient information in electronic communications: An approach is provided that visually distinguishes between entity types in a communication system. A Data store with entities is queried, with entities connected to one another as senders and receivers, resulting in a query result. A node data structure corresponding to each of the entities is created and an... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110153643 - Analyzing data within a data report: Described are methods and systems related to analyzing data within a data report. The data report, including a result set and metadata associated with the result set is retrieved. The result set is analyzed to identify one or more fields. Dimensions and measures within the result set are inferred. Based... Agent:

20110153651 - Apparatus and method for remotely monitoring terminal: An apparatus for remotely monitoring a terminal is provided which includes an analyzer to map terminal information regarding at least one management target terminal, a collection period, a cycle setting value, or an analysis item, to group the at least one management target terminal, and to store the grouped at... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20110153647 - Auto-population of a table: Automatically generating and/or populating a table is described. In some embodiments, in response to receiving an indication to include data from a set of documents in a table, each of at least a subset of documents included in the set of documents is parsed to identify a set of one... Agent: Apple Inc.

20110153649 - Automatic search and transfer apparatus and automatic search and transfer system: It is an object of the present invention to provide an automatic search and transfer apparatus, in which a condition for finding data that is desired is specified beforehand, and that continuously monitor data created in network-connected computers, automatically collect data that matches the condition, and put the data into... Agent: Thomson Licensing

20110153642 - Client relationship management: Managing a relationship between an organization and clients of the organization based on data stored on a server by the organization includes determining that data stored on the server represents a prospective interaction between a member of the organization and a client of the organization, searching the server for additional... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110153650 - Column-based data managing method and apparatus, and column-based data searching method: Disclosed are a column-based data managing method and apparatus, and a column-based data searching method. The column-based data managing method includes determining whether the size of the column-group data file exceeds a partitioning threshold, dividing the column-group data if the size exceeds the partitioning threshold, and generating divided column-group data... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20110153638 - Continuity and quality of artistic media collections: A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for generating a playlist is presented. A first media file, which is from an artistic media collection and has at least one feature described by first text data, is added to a playlist. An analytics resource is searched for at least one... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110153648 - Dynamic tasking-masking server and method for dynamically configuring adaptive agents for persistent query of mobile apparatus: A method for operating a dynamic tasking-masking server comprising a circuit to receive a package of metrics recorded at an adaptive server, coupled to a circuit to search an event register for package elements, coupled to a circuit to generate a replacement profile for transmission to the agent, wherein a... Agent: Carrier Iq, Inc

20110153657 - Fsa extension architecture for programmable intelligent search memory: Memory architecture provides capabilities for high performance content search. The architecture creates an innovative memory that can be programmed with content search rules which are used by the memory to evaluate presented content for matching with the programmed rules. When the content being searched matches any of the rules programmed... Agent:

20110153653 - Image search using text-based elements within the contents of images: A mobile device searches for electronic content. The mobile device captures an image from a rendered document, and searches for an electronic version of the image using characteristics of the image and using text within the contents of the image. The mobile device receives a result for the search based... Agent: Exbiblio B.v.

20110153640 - Indexing documents using internal index sets: Provided are techniques for retrieving a document that includes for each page an area that is ignored by applications that process the document and that includes a different internal index set associated with each subset of pages of the document, wherein each different internal index set is associated with an... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110153637 - Integrated firearm information system: System and method for collecting, storing, and providing information related to firearms. More specifically, an embodiment tracks ownership and/or possession of a firearm from its manufacture onward (i.e., from cradle to grave) between and among registered firearm manufactures, firearm sellers/dealers, individual gun owners, pawn shops, law enforcement agencies, government agencies,... Agent:

20110153658 - Integrating user interfaces from one application into another: The invention discloses a system and method for integrating user interfaces (UI) within an application. The invention can be configured to display an UI of a second application within a first application in a manner that the user cannot identify that the second application's UI is displayed on top of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110153639 - Method and apparatus for semantic just-in-time-information-retrieval: A computer-based method and system for just-in-time semantic information retrieval is disclosed. A user interface detects user interaction with a displayed semantic entity. In response, a search member uses semantic information about the displayed entity and automatically searches for information about the subject entity. The search employs system and/or external... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110153644 - Method and apparatus for utilizing a scalable data structure: An approach is provided for utilizing a scalable data structure. A query specifying an entity identifier and requested content is received. A search is caused, at least in part, the search based on the entity identifier of a profile index of data structures, each specifying a profile field that is... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20110153652 - Method for transmitting vehicle information: A method for a vehicle information collecting device installed in a vehicle to transmit vehicle information includes: generating a vehicle information identifier list including a plurality of vehicle information and a plurality of vehicle information identifiers respectively mapped on the plurality of vehicle information; transmitting the vehicle information identifier list... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20110153660 - Method of searching for key semiconductor operation with randomization for wafer position: A method of searching for the key semiconductor operation with randomization for wafer position, comprising: recording the wafer position and the wafer yields of a plurality of wafer ID respectively corresponding to a plurality of semiconductor operations; establishing a matrix model which describes the matrix set for wafer yields of... Agent: Inotera Memories, Inc.

20110153654 - Natural language-based tour destination recommendation apparatus and method: Disclosed herein is a natural language-based tour destination recommendation apparatus and method. The natural language-based tour destination recommendation apparatus includes a query analysis unit, a tour destination search unit, and a tour destination recommendation and provision unit. The query analysis unit performs linguistic analysis on a user's tour-related query and... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20110153655 - Server-sensor network cooperative spatial query processing method and server using the same: Disclosed herein are a server-sensor network cooperative spatial query processing method and a server using the method. The server-sensor network cooperative spatial query processing method includes the server detecting supplementary information for selecting sensor nodes to be excluded from among a plurality of sensor nodes by performing a preliminary spatial... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20110153636 - Service oriented architecture industry model repository meta-model component with a standard based index: A method of searching a service oriented architecture industry model repository comprising a meta model service associated with a physical asset repository, the meta model service comprising: at least one topic map meta model with data specific to a particular topic or industry vertical included within an information model repository... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110153659 - System and method for centralized management and monitoring of healthcare services: A method of operating a centralized healthcare management system that includes a data translation map database and a central interpolation server computer interconnected to a computer network. The central server references a data translation map database for a desired translation map that enables the central interpolation server to translate data... Agent:

20110153645 - System and method for facilitating a selective location-based interactive campaign in a wireless environment: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are disclosed that facilitate providing and managing location-based interactive campaigns. With respect to facilitating providing location-based interactive campaigns, a geographic location is defined within a virtual fence, and associated with an interactive campaign. Location data identifying a current location of a wireless device is... Agent: Mozes Incorporated

20110153641 - System and method for regular expression matching with multi-strings and intervals: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for matching a regular expression in an input string. A system configured to practice the method first identifies a number of substrings (k) in a regular expression of length (m). The system receives a stream of start states for each of... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20110153646 - System and method for triaging of information feeds: A system and method for triaging of information feeds is provided. A plurality of information feeds are received. At least one topic is identified from each information feed. At least one topic is presented to a user in topic facet including a plurality of identified topics. A selection of one... Agent: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated

20110153656 - User-request-initiated transmission of data files: A computer node (100) connected to a network (N) is associated with a collection of data files (F1, . . . , Fm) adapted to be supplied to user terminals (T1, T2) for playback/display therein. The node (100) receives user requests (R) from user terminals (T1, T2) via a request... Agent:

20110153661 - Navigation device and database update program: A navigation device that is provided with reference databases that include search databases that are referenced when the navigation device performs a location search for a location on a map, that accepts provided update data, and that performs update processing for the reference databases is provided with a priority processing... Agent: Aisin Aw Co., Ltd.

20110153662 - Managing queries: Managing queries performed on one or more data sources includes: storing at least a first query in a storage medium; selecting the first query for processing; instructing a query engine to process the first query on a first portion of data in the one or more data sources for a... Agent: Ab Initio Technology LLC

20110153665 - Apparatus for providing social network service using relationship of ontology and method thereof: Provided are an apparatus for providing a social network service using the relationship of ontology and a method thereof. The apparatus includes: an ontology storage unit storing social ontology defining relationship information between a user and a social network subscriber, service ontology defining position and relationship information of services, and... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20110153663 - Recommendation engine using implicit feedback observations: Systems and methods to provide a recommendation engine that uses implicit feedback observations are provided. A particular method includes receiving accessing data comprising a plurality of implicit feedback observations for a plurality of users. The plurality of users includes a first user that requested a recommendation. Each implicit feedback observation... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20110153664 - Selective storing of mining models for enabling interactive data mining: Computerized methods, data processing systems, and computer program products for storing of data mining models (DMMs) are provided. A new DMM is created having at least one of the following characteristics: quality and complexity. The new DMM is handled as a candidate for storing in a storage device if a... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110153666 - Query-based tree formation: The structuring of data items in a hierarchical structure. A user interface permits a user to define, for each generation of a hierarchical tree, the child characteristics for child data items of particular nodes in the hierarchical tree. Then, a query, or a query template, may be formulated using the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110153667 - Managing record format information: Data is prepared for processing in a data processing system using format information. Data is received that includes records that have values for fields over an input device or port. A target record format for processing the data is determined. Multiple records are analyzed according to validation tests to determine... Agent: Ab Initio Technology LLC

20110153668 - Accessing a data item stored in an unavailable mobile communication device: A method of retrieving a data item from a database synchronized with the contents of an unavailable mobile communication device. The owner of the unavailable mobile communication device uses a telephone such as a landline telephone, a cell phone or a VoIP telephone to call the number of the unavailable... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20110153669 - Online dating with private support groups: Various embodiments of computer systems, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for sharing information in an online dating platform. One embodiment is an online dating computer system comprising a server, an online dating matching component, and a dater support component. The server is configured to communicate with one or more... Agent: True Union, LLC

20110153670 - Method, system, and computer program product for dynamic field-level access control in a wiki: A method, system, and computer program product for dynamic field-level access control in a Wiki. The method comprises: inserting a virtual field in a Wiki using delimiters; and assigning sole ownership of the virtual field to a user who first inserts the virtual field, where the owner of the virtual... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110153671 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method and computer readable medium: An information processing apparatus includes a creation unit and a registration unit. The creation unit acquires first limited use information which is associated with a designated object and stored in an object storage unit from the object storage unit in accordance with an instruction to specify the designated object, and... Agent: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

20110153672 - Systems and methods for freezing data: In one embodiment the present invention includes a computer-implemented for determining whether or not a data object is frozen. The method comprises accessing, by a user on a computer, a first data object of a plurality of data objects in one or more computer software applications. The plurality of data... Agent: Sap Ag

20110153673 - Semantic matching using predicate-argument structure: The invention relates to topic classification systems in which text intervals are represented as proposition trees. Free-text queries and candidate responses are transformed into proposition trees, and a particular candidate response can be matched to a free-text query by transforming the proposition trees of the free-text query into the proposition... Agent: Raytheon Bbn Technologies Corp.

20110153674 - Data storage including storing of page identity and logical relationships between pages: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media of data storage that include storing page identities of individual pages and logical relationships between pages are disclosed. A particular system includes a plurality of data storage devices. A storage manager is configured to store data as pages at the data storage devices. Each page... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110153677 - Apparatus and method for managing index information of high-dimensional data: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for managing the index information of high-dimensional data. The apparatus for managing the index information of high-dimensional data includes a plurality of data service devices and a control unit. Each of the plurality of data service devices is configured such that user data... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20110153675 - Common connection definitions for database clients: A system and method for connection of an application program to its corresponding database in a relational database system environment. Rather than embedding connection configuration information or properties in an application program, connection configurations are stored in a connection configuration repository. The connection configuration repository is likewise stored in a... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110153678 - Configuration information management system, configuration information management method, and distributed information management device: A system includes FCMDBs managing IPROP among attribute information from MDRs managing the attribute information of each configuration type regarding a CI. The DCMDB includes a determining unit that, when a CI registration request is detected, determines whether multiple types of IPROP are contained in the request; an entity ID... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110153676 - Mobile recommendation systems and methods: A mobile recommendation system for an exhibition space is provided. The mobile recommendation system includes a wireless communication module, a tracking module, a preference correlation module, and a recommendation module. The wireless communication module receives location information corresponding to a plurality of users. The tracking module stores the location information... Agent: Industrial Technology Research Institute

20110153680 - Automated document classification and routing: A system for classifying documents receives parsable data that defines an information object associated with a document. The information object defines an ID and document characterization information. The system determines a database record associated with the ID by searching through a database for a record associated with the Id. The... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20110153682 - Method and apparatus for generating media-exchangeable multimedia data and method and apparatus for reconstructing media-exchangeable multimedia data: A method of generating multimedia data is provided. The method includes generating a scene tree by allocating at least one piece of object information to each of a plurality of nodes and then linking the nodes based on the relationship between a plurality of pieces of object information allocated to... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110153679 - System and method to for implementing unique primary keys across enterprise databases: A method and system for implementing virtual primary keys in databases of an enterprise network system includes generating virtual primary keys indexed to respective native primary keys. An enterprise application may reference a virtual primary key in a database query. The virtual primary key may be translated to a native... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20110153681 - Updating ip address database based on transaction information: Updating an Internet Protocol (IP) address database includes: obtaining transaction address data from a transaction information database, the transaction address data including IP address information and geographical address information received during user transactions; processing the transaction address data to identify specific transaction address data that have overlapping geographical address information... Agent: Alibaba Group Holding Limited

20110153683 - Method and system for generating visual representations of data: A computer-implemented method for generating visual representations of data. The method aggregates data from multiple data sources, where the data sources are organized in multiple data formats. The data is converted to a predetermined format and stored in a centralized database. The data is analyzed by associating data elements and... Agent:

20110153684 - Systems and methods for automatic provisioning of a user designed virtual private data center in a multi-tenant system: Systems and methods for a multi-tenant and fully automated Virtual Private Data Center (VPDC) provisioning. Examples include user interfaces for drag-and-drop configuration of a customer/user/tenant's network, validation checks on design choices, and automated provisioning of validated designs. The tenant may specify certain Quality of Service (QoS) choices along with the... Agent:

20110153685 - Enterprise multi-program process development and integration process: Tools and methods allow an enterprise to define a set of processes and create scenarios which link and integrate combinations of processes. In addition, both processes and scenarios can be categorized, enabling re-use of existing definitions and easing subsequent scenario building. Processes and scenarios both allow variations which are stipulated... Agent:

20110153686 - Consolidating input messages for social activity summarization: Social activity content is aggregated for summarization and reporting by obtaining a plurality of input messages that each characterizes a corresponding time limited social activity, such as a sporting event, competition, etc. Each received message is associated with a corresponding social activity, information is extracted from the received messages describing... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110153687 - Determining a storage location based on frequency of use: Aspects of the invention provide a solution for determining a storage location for a data item from among a set of persistent storage locations having varying access speeds. Each data item is associated with a score that is based on the frequency with which the data item has been accessed,... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110153688 - Information recording device and information recording method: An information recording device includes storage units and a storage-unit manager for managing the storage units, wherein the storage-unit manager includes a storage-unit-identifier manager for managing each storage unit by use of an identifier and a stored-content manager for associating the contents stored in each storage unit with the identifier... Agent: Buffalo Inc.

20110153689 - Confirming the sensitivity of a data object in a managed object heap: A method, system and computer program product for confirming the sensitivity of a data object in a managed object heap software runtime environment based on a determination that the object is accessible only via other objects known to be sensitive.... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110153691 - Hardware off-load garbage collection acceleration for languages with finalizers: A memory allocation message for each primary memory allocation in a primary memory made by a primary processor is received at a hardware memory management module, including an indication of whether a finalizer routine is associated with each primary memory allocation. A representation of each primary memory allocation is allocated... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110153690 - Hardware off-load memory garbage collection acceleration: A memory allocation message for each primary memory allocation in a primary memory made by a primary processor is received at a hardware memory management module. A representation of each primary memory allocation is allocated within a second memory in response to each memory allocation message. A determination is made,... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110153692 - Computer system preventing storage of duplicate files: Arrangements including a duplication determination unit that determines whether identical contents intrinsic values are contained in a plurality of contents intrinsic values; a change control unit that changes an access destination of a first file corresponding to a first contents intrinsic value from identical contents intrinsic values, to a position... Agent:

20110153693 - File management information storage apparatus and method and program for controlling the same: When an input-output request for file management information is inputted to a file management information storage apparatus, the input-output request is accepted by a file management section. A fixed-length area management section then inputs and outputs basic management information for managing a file corresponding to the input-output request to and... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110153694 - Receiving device, data file recording method, and program: A receiving device includes a communication unit receiving at least one data file from another device via a communication connection; and a control unit controlling recording of the data file received from the communication unit in a recording medium. The control unit creates one data recording folder for one communication... Agent: Sony Corporation

20110153697 - Automated filer technique for use in virtualized appliances and applications: Various techniques are disclosed for facilitating manipulation of virtualized storage volumes and/or file systems of one or more different types of operating systems (OSs) implemented on distributed computer systems. According to different embodiments, various aspects may be directed to different embodiments of virtualized filer appliances and/or filer applications which may... Agent: Computer Assoicates Think, Inc.

20110153698 - Content distribution system: A contents distribution system distributes contents to the reproduction terminals (103). A contents distribution system comprises a first contents distribution server (101) and one or more contents storage servers (102). This system makes it possible that the CM contents recorded in each of CM distribution servers (101) is distributed to... Agent:

20110153696 - Data storage aggregation on a mobile device: Software, running on a mobile platform, aggregates file structures from one or more remote file servers into a virtual, unified file structure. The local storage of the mobile platform is also containing in the virtual unified file structure. The virtual, unified file structure is presented to a user as though... Agent:

20110153695 - Method for making usb storage of file system and remote connection, and system thereof: Provided are a client computing terminal including: a client user setting unit receiving connection setting information of a host computing terminal to be communicated and file system conversion setting information for converting a predetermined file system into a USB file system from a user, and storing the corresponding information; a... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20110145186 - Online access to database snapshots: An executing database instance includes a first plurality of database pages associated with a previous state of the database instance, a cache storing a current converter of the executing database instance, the current converter not representing the first plurality of database pages, and a database management system. The database management... Agent:

20110145187 - Conflict framework for guided structure synchronization: A system and method for handling conflicts during structure synchronization. Conflicts are identified as the structure moves through the synchronization process. An intermediate structure is generated on a format of a target structure. A proposal for resolution of the identified conflicts is created. The conflicts and proposed resolutions are presented... Agent: Sap Ag

20110145188 - Providing data structures for determining whether keys of an index are present in a storage system: Keys of an index are associated with corresponding data chunks in a storage system. In response to a request for a particular key, a particular location is accessed in a first data structure which is maintained in a first storage using a first portion of the particular key. In response... Agent:

20110145189 - Reducing latency of access requests in distributed storage systems having a shared data set: Described are methods and apparatus for reducing latency of read and write requests for a set of storage system sites having a shared data set. An owner site may directly write to the shared data set and contains current data regarding the shared data set. The remote sites may experience... Agent:

20110145191 - Proxy-based, distributed computer-aided dispatch system: In one embodiment, a computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system includes a database for storing data originated at a plurality of CAD stations; a first manager that manages access to the data stored in the database; one or more second managers communicatively connected with the first manager; and the CAD stations. Each... Agent: Interact911 Corporation

20110145190 - Public inspection system and method for fcc licensed media outlet: A kiosk system facilitates compliance with FCC-mandated Public File requirements for licensed media outlets such as radio and television stations. The system intelligently routes Public File documents to the appropriate field entity (kiosk) without human intervention. These documents are categorized, tagged and made available to the public satisfying the federal... Agent:

20110145192 - Systems and methods to provide server side profile information: Systems and methods to provide server side profile information. An LDAP server is provisioned for each user of a plurality of users. Profile information is received. The profile information is stored in a database associated with the LDAP server. Via the LDAP server, a suggestion from the profile information is... Agent: Xobni Corporation

20110145193 - Apparatus and method for creating a real time database replica: A method of processing data includes identifying a capture redo byte address, initiating a capture process at the capture redo byte address, creating a clone of a source database to a logical change number, and initiating an apply process at a target database.... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20110145194 - Method and system for notes for business objects: A system and method for creating notes for business object instances are described. In various embodiments, a system includes modules to receive note data and bind notes to business object instances. In various embodiments, the system saves notes to a database via a dedicated database connection in a dedicated transaction.... Agent:

20110145195 - Systems and methods for accessing and updating distributed data: Systems and methods are disclosed that provide an indexing data structure. In one embodiment, the indexing data structure is mirrored index tree where the copies of the nodes of the tree are stored across devices in a distributed system. In one embodiment, nodes that are stored on an offline device... Agent: Isilon Systems, Inc.

20110145196 - System and method for providing a backup/restore interface for third party hsm clients: Performing a backup of a stub object located on a file system managed by a hierarchical storage manager configured to migrate data objects from the file system to a migration storage pool. The stub object includes information for recalling a migrated data object and is configured to determine whether a... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110145197 - Storage system and method for operating storage system: By considering a device life and time needed for data migration, data stored in a storage apparatus is securely preserved until a retention term of each of the data. Multiple disk devices 40A to 40C that store a data file generated by a service server apparatus 30 are included. A... Agent: Hitachi Ltd.

20110145198 - Contextual and semantic differential backup: A backup system that utilizes contextual and semantic concepts is described. The backup system provides for the ability to create a version changes log for listing and tracking all the changes in the different versions of the file. The version changes log creates a contextual description around the changes, deletions... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110145200 - Precedence based storage: Techniques for precedence based storage are presented. Storage for a database is organized into storage pools; collections of pools form storage classes. The storage pools within a particular class are organized in a precedence-based order so that when storage for the database is needed, the storage pools are used in... Agent: Teradata Us, Inc.

20110145199 - System and method of storing backup image catalog: A system and method for managing backup and restore operations associated with a backup system. Metadata associated with files/directories of one or more file systems associated with one or more resources may be received. A virtual catalog image associated with the metadata may be created in a virtual file system... Agent: Computer Associates Think, Inc.

20110145201 - Database mirroring: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media of database mirroring are disclosed. A particular method includes initiating a transaction that modifies one or more pages of a first database. Each page includes a structure modification operation (SMO) bit and initiating the transaction includes setting the SMO bit of each of the one... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110145202 - Archiving system: An archiving system for enabling searching for collections of items is disclosed. A processing unit displays an archived items collection management template in respect of a particular collection of items and prompts a user to complete the template fields with data obtained by the user from manually reviewing that collection... Agent:

20110145203 - Method, system, and apparatus for archiving networked data: A method for archiving networked data includes repeatedly transmitting an interrupt message to at least one controller, wherein each transmission of the interrupt message includes a data collection command, and wherein a portion of the transmissions of the interrupt message includes the data collection command and a time synchronization command.... Agent:

20110145204 - Transaction recovery in a transaction processing computer system employing multiple transaction managers: A technique for transaction recovery by one transaction manager of another transaction manager's transactions in which each transaction manager is adapted to manage two phase commit transactional operations on transactional resources and to record commit or rollback decisions in a transaction recovery log. The recovery transaction manager detects apparent unavailability... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110145205 - Packet boundary spanning pattern matching based at least in part upon history information: An embodiment may include circuitry to determine, at least in part, based at least in part upon history information, whether one or more reference patterns are present in a data stream in a packet flow. The data stream may span at least one packet boundary in the packet flow. The... Agent:

20110145206 - Atomic deletion of database data categories: A device maintains, in a database, a plurality of data items, each data item of the plurality of data items being associated with a respective category. The device associates, in the database, a first counter value with each data item, the first counter value indicating a number of times the... Agent: Juniper Networks Inc.

20110145207 - Scalable de-duplication for storage systems: A method for performing storage system de-duplication. The method includes accessing a plurality of initial partitions of files of a storage system and performing a de-duplication on each of the initial partitions. For each duplicate found, an indicator comprising the metadata that is similar across said each duplicate is determined.... Agent: Symantec Corporation

20110145208 - Policy driven distributed data resiliency: A data resiliency layer provides manageable data resiliency policy options for email related applications. Through one or more APIs such applications are enabled to query whether a data resiliency policy is satisfied for a given mailbox or database at a given point in time. Email related applications may consume this... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110145209 - Atomic deletion of database data categories: A device may maintain, in a database, a plurality of data items, each data item of the plurality of data items being associated with a respective category and supplemental information relating to deletion of the data item. The device may associate a group of counters with at least one of... Agent: Juniper Networks, Inc.

20110145213 - Configurable plug-in architecture for manipulating xml-formatted information: A method and system is described for building a document using a configurable plug-in architecture. In one example, a configuration file containing information of building the document with one or more components is received. The one or more components execute to modify or manipulate the document. The document may further... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110145212 - Method and system for providing media service: In a method for providing a media service, the media service providing system retrieves an index file corresponding to a requested broadcast service after receiving a request for the broadcast service from the terminal. The media service providing system provides the retrieved index file to the terminal. Here, the index... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20110145211 - Network based audience measurement: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for providing network-based audience measurement are provided. Data packets are intercepted between a client computer and a content server. Unique subscribers and content names are identified based on the data packets. One or more audience measurement metrics are computed based on the unique subscribers and... Agent:

20110145210 - System and method for managing one or more databases: A system and method for managing one or more databases. A computing device includes a processor and memory device having stored therein a plurality of instructions which, in response to execution by the processor, cause the processor to connect to a first database, retrieve first metadata from the first database... Agent: Negti Systems, Inc.

20110145214 - Voice web search: A search system will receive a voice query and use speech recognition with a predefined vocabulary to generate a textual transcription of the voice query. Queries are sent to a text search engine, retrieving multiple web page results for each of these initial text queries. The collection of the keywords... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20110145216 - File change detector and tracker: A method for detecting changes in a computing environment. In an example embodiment, the method includes observing a file system of the computing environment during a predetermined time interval and providing a signal when a predetermined change to the file system is detected during the predetermined time interval; employing the... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20110145215 - Method for analyzing web space data: A method for analyzing data from the web that determine the importance that a chosen subject has in society, e.g., subject matter relating a concert, a scientific discovery, a football match, a person, a corporation, a brand, or a car, and analyze such data that can represent the entire society... Agent: Scuola Normale Superiore Di Pisa

20110145219 - Objective and subjective ranking of comments: A system may receive a request for comments associated with a particular document, identify a comment associated with the particular document, generate an objective score for the comment that is independent of a user associated with the request, identify the user associated with the request, generate a subjective score for... Agent: Google Inc.

20110145218 - Search service administration web service protocol: The embodiments described herein generally relate to a method and system for enabling a client to configure and control the crawling function available through a crawl configuration Web service. A client is able to configure and control the crawling function by defining the URL space of the crawl. Such space... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110145217 - Systems and methods for facilitating data discovery: A system for facilitating data discovery on a network, wherein the network has one or more data storage devices. The system may include a crawler program configured to select at least a first set of files and a second set of files, each of the first set of files and... Agent:

20110145221 - Apparatus and method for processing a data stream: An apparatus and method for processing data stream are provided. A query execution plan for processing data stream is shared between the server and the terminal. The server builds a query execution plan and determines a part of the built query execution plan to be executed in the terminal. The... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110145220 - System and method for executing a query: There is provided a computer-implemented method of executing a query. An exemplary method comprises optimizing the query. The query may specify multiple operations on corresponding multiple column sets of a table in a database. The exemplary method further comprises partitioning data of the table based on the operations within a... Agent:

20110145222 - Abstracting information from a device: Requesting from a device to a source. In a device comprising a datastore, the datastore comprising a plurality of records, each record comprising a plurality of fields, retrieving a common set of fields from each of the plurality of records. The technology abstracts at least one of the retrieved fields... Agent:

20110145225 - Customizable ordering of search results and predictive query generation: In a computerized search system, a document corpus is searched according to a query and results of the search are presentable as an ordered search result set comprising one or more search hits, a search hit being a document of the document corpus or reference thereto. Based on content of... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20110145223 - Methods and apparatus for representing probabilistic data using a probabilistic histogram: Methods and apparatus for representing probabilistic data using a probabilistic histogram are disclosed. An example method comprises partitioning a plurality of ordered data items into a plurality of buckets, each of the data items capable of having a data value from a plurality of possible data values with a probability... Agent:

20110145224 - System and method for speech-based incremental search: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for receiving a user's spoken search query that the system will incrementally recognize and identify search terms. After the query has been incrementally recognized, the system will use the search terms to retrieve a portion of the search results that are... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I.l.p.

20110145228 - Computer-implemented methods and systems for multi-level geographic query: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method is provided for processing a query for points of interest (POIs) using a hierarchical grid structure representing a geographic area. The method includes receiving a query for POIs; defining a query footprint for the query based on a location... Agent: Mapquest, Inc.

20110145227 - Determining preferences from user queries: A query may be received at a computing device through a network. One or more attribute values that are preferences for a subset of the one or more terms of the query may be identified by the computing device. One or more products or services having associated attributes that have... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110145229 - Indexing and searching product identifiers: A system, method and computer program product for processing a search query is presented. The method according to one embodiment includes receiving a search query containing one or more terms; processing the query to add one or more bi-words as terms to the query; searching a search index having product... Agent: Retrevo Inc.

20110145226 - Product similarity measure: Queries submitted by users looking for products and/or services are monitored and collected over a time period. Webpages corresponding to products and/or services bought by the users in response to submitting the queries are also monitored and collected over the time period. Attributes are extracted from the webpages and the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110145231 - Method and a system for ranking of employment candidates according to external databases: A method for automatically calculating a job applicant's relevance rating. The method includes retrieving the new applicant's data from data previously stored on an applicants' search engine database and retrieving obsolescence curve data from an obsolescence curve database containing graphic information. The method also includes calculating a new applicant's relevance... Agent: Niloos Software Ltd

20110145230 - Needs-based mapping and processing engine: A mechanism is disclosed that dramatically minimizes the time it takes to gather needs, dramatically minimizes the expense it takes to gather those needs, and ensures those statements are formulated in manner that comply with a set of rules designed to ensure the right inputs are used in downstream strategy... Agent: Strategyn, Inc.

20110145234 - Search method and system: A search method provides a search client user with personalized search that may provide related search results according to the interest model of the search client user. The search method includes: receiving a search request from a search client, where the search request includes one or more search key words;... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20110145232 - System and method for dynamically and interactively searching media data: The disclosed subject matter is directed to systems and methods for searching a database of media content wherein the user can dynamically and interactively perform searches and navigate search results. One or more search anchors are received, and at least one of the search anchors is associated with an anchor... Agent: The Trustees Of Columbia University In The City Of New York

20110145233 - User interface methods and systems for selecting and presenting content based on user navigation and selection actions associated with the content: A user-interface method of selecting and presenting a collection of content items based on user navigation and selection actions associated with the content is provided. The method includes associating a relevance weight on a per user basis with content items to indicate a relative measure of likelihood that the user... Agent: Veveo, Inc.

20110145235 - Determining core geographical information in a document: A method determines core geographical information in a document by computing a score for each geographical name found in the document. The computation of the score uses the appearance frequency of the respective geographical name and positional weights assigned to various types of appearance positions of the geographical name in... Agent: Alibaba Group Holding Limited

20110145236 - Apparatus and method for managing messages: In a client, an input receiver receives utterance data inputted through the client and utterance data inputted through a different client and received by a receiver, and then stores the utterance data in a past log storage as a past log. When the input receiver receives new utterance data, a... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110145246 - Desk-top, stream-based, information management system: A steam-based document storage and retrieval system accepts documents that are in diverse formats and come from diverse application, automatically creates document model objects describing these documents in a consistent format and associating time stamps with the documents to automatically create a main stream in chronological order. The stream, or... Agent: Mirror Worlds, LLC.

20110145245 - Electronic device and method for providing information using the same: An electronic device and method for providing information using the same are provided. According to an embodiment, the electronic device acquires relationships between or among people or assigns relationships between or among people and manages data regarding the people based on the relationships.... Agent:

20110145239 - Grouping of computers in a computer information database system: A computer information database system manages computer profile data for a set of computers. A profile group managing server coupled to the database manages the database such that there is a multiple node tree structure of groups for the set of computers in which each node is a group level... Agent:

20110145242 - Intelligent redistribution of data in a database: Embodiments of the present invention include methods, systems and computer program products. The embodiments of the present invention intelligently distribute data files within a database based upon predetermined conditions. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a computer-implemented method including, classifying a data set in response to metadata corresponding to... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110145247 - Interpreting local search queries: A search query may be interpreted as a number of possible interpretations, and each interpretation may be explored before the results of the search are sent to a user. In one embodiment, a device may split the search query into partitions. Each of the partitions may be submitted, as a... Agent: Google Inc.

20110145237 - Method and system for merchandise hierarchy refinement by incorporation of product correlation: System, method and computer program product for adjusting a representation of a merchandise hierarchy associated with an entity such as a retailer or wholesaler of products. Product correlation information discovered in that entity's customers' shopping records are obtained and incorporated into an existing merchandise hierarchy with a constraint on the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110145244 - Multi-dimensional histogram method using minimal data-skew cover in space-partitioning tree and recording medium storing program for executing the same: The present disclosure relates to a multi-dimensional histogram method using a minimal data-skew cover in a space-partitioning tree, which is used to estimate the selectivity of queries, that is, the sizes of query results, and a recording medium storing a program for executing the multi-dimensional histogram method. In the multi-dimensional... Agent: Korea Advanced Institute Of Science And Technology

20110145240 - Organizing annotations: A method, a system and a computer program of organizing annotations are disclosed. The method includes receiving an annotation, accessing an annotation repository and accessing a reference repository. The annotation repository includes stored annotation units. The reference repository includes stored references corresponding to the stored annotation units. The method further... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110145241 - Reducing overheads in application processing: A method, a system and a computer program of reducing overheads in multiple applications processing are disclosed. The method includes identifying resources interacting with each of the applications from a set of applications and grouping the applications from the set of applications, resulting in at least one application cluster, in... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110145243 - Sharing of data across disjoint clusters: Methods and devices are provided for sharing data across two or more different clusters. An operating system (OS) in a cluster checks a metadata record of a file system of a shared device to retrieve path group identifiers (PGIDs). A control unit list of the shared device is checked to... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110145248 - System and method to determine the validity of an interaction on a network: A computer implemented method classifies a user interaction on a network. User interaction data relating to a user interaction on a network is accessed. The user interaction data comprises an aggregate measure data or a unique feature data. The user interaction data is processed to generate a score for the... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20110145238 - Technique for fast and efficient hierarchical clustering: A fast and efficient technique for hierarchical clustering of samples in a dataset includes compressing the dataset to reduce a number of variables within each of the samples of the dataset. A nearest neighbor matrix is generated to identify nearest neighbor pairs between the samples based on differences between the... Agent:

20110145249 - Content grouping systems and methods: A method of grouping a plurality of media content is provided. The method includes converting at least a portion of the media content into at least one document object model (“DOM”) using a processor. The DOM can include a plurality of block elements, each comprising at least one content object.... Agent: Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

20110145253 - Domain independent system and method of automating data aggregation: A computer automated method and system of presenting data. The method may include the steps of inputting a set of user-defined instructions into a remotely located computer database system via a public network connection, inputting a user query into the computer database system via the public network connection, mining the... Agent: Execue, Inc.

20110145254 - Domain independent system and method of automating data aggregation: A computer automated method and system of presenting data. The method may include the steps of inputting a set of user-defined instructions into a remotely located computer database system via a local network connection, inputting a user query into the computer database system via the local network connection, mining the... Agent: Execue, Inc.

20110145250 - Method and system for automatically identifying related content to an electronic text: The exemplary embodiments provide methods and systems for automatically identifying content related to an electronic text. Aspects of exemplary embodiments include linking topic categories, psychological states, demographic profiles, and additional content using one or more databases; in response to receiving content of an electronic text, analyzing by a software component... Agent: Expert System S.p.a.

20110145252 - Shopping context engine: A system receives context data associated with a context and a user. The system then associates the context data to a user identifier and retrieves data associated with the context. The system then filters the data according to the context data to create result data. In another embodiment, the system... Agent: Ebay Inc.

20110145251 - System and method for constructing named entity dictionary: A system and method for constructing a named entity dictionary are disclosed. The method includes analyzing a structure of collected Web text, extracting tabulated or listed information from the Web text, extracting a named entity from the tabulated or listed information, categorizing the extracted named entity, and registering the categorized... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20110145255 - Systems and methods for distribution of data in a database index: Systems and methods consistent with the invention may include storing, in a memory device of the computer system, a node including existing data values stored in a sequence, including in the node an insert position value and an append count value, the insert position value providing a position in the... Agent: Sap Ag.

20110145257 - Video processing system generating corrected geospatial metadata for a plurality of georeferenced video feeds and related methods: A video processing system may include a video ingest module for receiving a plurality of georeferenced video feeds each including a sequence of video frames and initial geospatial metadata associated therewith, and each georeferenced video feed having a respective different geospatial accuracy level associated therewith. The system may further include... Agent: Harris Corporation, Corporation Of The State Of Delaware

20110145256 - Video processing system providing overlay of selected geospatially-tagged metadata relating to a geolocation outside viewable area and related methods: A video processing system may include a display, at least one geospatial database, and a video processor. The video processor may cooperate with the display and the at least one geospatial database and be configured to display a georeferenced video feed on the display and defining a viewable area, and... Agent: Harris Corporation

20110145258 - Method and apparatus for tagging media items: An approach is provided for tagging media items based on spatiotemporal data. A request to tag a media item having spatiotemporal data is received, wherein the request corresponds to a user. A determination is made whether the spatiotemporal data satisfies a predetermined criterion, and a tag specified by another user... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20110145260 - Search device, a search method and a program: At the time of registration, the search device stores an inputted registered pattern, generates one or more set of a first character string which has a length of a multiple of a predetermined number of characters and a remaining second character string by dividing the registered pattern into two, obtains... Agent: Nec Corporation

20110145259 - System and method for identifying data fields for remote address cleansing: A system and method for identifying data fields for remote address cleansing, whereby a plurality of address file hash values are stored and associated with a plurality of known address data file profiles. An uploaded address file is received at the processing site from a sender who wishes to have... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc.

20110145263 - Content recommendation system, content recommendation method, content recommendation apparatus, program, and information storage medium: A content recommendation system includes: an attribute value storage means which stores one or more attribute values of attributes for each content; a preference distribution storage means which stores a user preference degree for each attribute value; an attribute value acquisition means which acquires an attribute value of at least... Agent:

20110145261 - Efficient calculation of node proximity on graphs with side information: In a computerized data mining context, user input relating to positive and negative information is incorporated into node proximity measurements on a weighted, directed graph. Random walk results are updated without a full matrix inversion by using selective update to a low rank approximation and to inversion results.... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110145262 - Measuring node proximity on graphs with side information: In a computerized data mining context, user input relating to positive and negative information is incorporated into node proximity measurements on a weighted, directed graph. Starting from a source node, links are added to nodes for which positive feedback is received. Where negative information is received, a sink node is... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110145264 - Method and apparatus for automatically creating allomorphs: A method of automatically creating allomorphs of a keyword, includes creating allomorph candidates of a search keyword using a user log and/or user session information when the search keyword is input; and extracting a related word for verification from a web document using a related word patter from to verify... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20110145265 - Video search method using motion vectors and apparatus thereof: A video search method and an apparatus thereof are provided. In the video search method, the bit streams of a query video file and a plurality of video files to be searched are parsed to obtain a plurality of corresponding motion vectors (MVs). A plurality of corresponding MV maps is... Agent: Industrial Technology Research Institute

20110145266 - Feed for expecting entities for address books: A feeding module for an address book includes a processor and a memory. The processor receives at least one search parameter. The processor accesses information sources to find existing entities and expecting entities that match the at least one search parameter. The memory stores the found existing entities and the... Agent:

20110145267 - File presence detection and monitoring: There is described a module for detecting an electronic file, the module embodied on a computer readable medium and configured for: receiving a portion of a file and extracting content from the portion; applying an initial hashing function numerous times to the content, the initial hashing function being applied to... Agent:

20110145268 - Systems and methods to generate and utilize a synonym dictionary: Systems and methods to identify synonyms are described. The system generates demand information based on a first plurality of queries. Further, the system identifies a second plurality of queries as a first cluster of queries from the first plurality of queries based on the demand information, and identifies a first... Agent:

20110145269 - System and method for quickly determining a subset of irrelevant data from large data content: The present invention is directed to a system and method for quickly searching for all irrelevant data items in a data set based on a logical expression of an issue of interest to a user, which describes what the user is searching for. By performing this search, the size of... Agent: Renew Data Corp.

20110145272 - Adaptive virtual environment management system: Systems for providing a virtual user environment are disclosed. One such system includes an environment server that includes a memory configured to store a plurality of data blocks and a programmable circuit operatively connected to the memory. The programmable circuit is configured to execute program instructions which, when executed, cause... Agent:

20110145276 - Apparatus and method for parallel processing data flow: Provided is a data flow parallel processing apparatus and method. The data flow parallel processing apparatus may include a flow discriminating unit to discriminate a flow of input first data, a processor allocating unit to allocate, to the first data, a processor that is not operating among a plurality of... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20110145274 - Exemplary data guidance in a multi-modality data viewer: Systems, methods and mediums with instructions for viewing medical data are provided. A system for viewing medical data can include a computer processor, a database and a user interface. The database can include numerous entries from numerous clinical modalities. Each entry can include image data and/or non-image data. Each entry... Agent: General Electric Company

20110145271 - Methods and apparatuses for reducing power consumption in a pattern recognition processor: Apparatuses and methods are provided for reducing power consumption in a pattern-recognition processor. A power control circuit may be coupled to a block of programmed state machines to enable selective activation and deactivation of the block during a pattern search. The block may be deactivated if the pattern search is... Agent: Micron Technology, Inc.

20110145278 - Methods and systems for generating metadata describing dependencies for composable elements: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for generating metadata describing dependencies for composable elements. The method includes maintaining a database of composable elements. Each composable element may have associated metadata to describe dependencies for the composable elements. The method may further include receiving a request to compose two... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20110145281 - Portable application registry: This document describes techniques that enable an application to operate as if the application were running on its native computing system when it is actually running on another computing system. The techniques may do so by building a portable database having metadata particular to the application, which can be stored... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110145270 - Service personas for address books: Systems and methods according to these exemplary embodiments provide for service personas to be added to network address books, in addition to personal contacts. Address book functionality can be leveraged by service providers to distribute their services and/or service updates to users. Users can leverage address book functionality to search... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20110145279 - System and method for dynamically generating a survey result(s) and utilizing survey data for customization, personalization and configuration of human operating system (hos): A system for transmission, reception and accumulation of the knowledge packets to plurality of channel nodes in the network operating distributedly in a peer to peer environment via installable one or more role active Human Operating System (HOS) applications in a digital devise of each of channel node, a network... Agent:

20110145280 - System for inquiring about fitness of beverage as battery fuel: Disclosed herein is a system for inquiring about fitness of a beverage as battery fuel, including a search request receiving section configured to receive an input of beverage information regarding a beverage as a search request, a storage section having stored therein a reference database in which search requests and... Agent: Sony Corporation

20110145277 - Systems and methods for performance monitoring and identifying upgrades for wind turbines: A method for indicating a performance of a wind turbine is provided. Target performance data are created based at least in part on performance data for one or more wind turbines of interest. Baseline performance data are calculated based at least in part on performance data for a plurality of... Agent: General Electric Company

20110145275 - Systems and methods of contextual user interfaces for display of media items: Some aspects relate to systems and methods of tagging to enhance contextualization of media items and ease of use. Tag data structures provide an extensible platform to allow description of a concept from multiple points of view and in multiple contexts, such as locations, activities, and people. Individual application instances... Agent: Moment Usa, Inc.

20110145282 - Utilizing virtual folders: A system and method utilizing virtual folders. The virtual folders expose regular files and folders to users in different views based on their metadata instead of the actual physical underlying file system structure on the disk. The virtual folders contain collections of items. The system includes a folder processor that... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110145273 - Verifying network delivery of information to a device based on physical characteristics: A device may include a network interface configured to receive verification requirements and a message from a source device. In addition, the device may include a processor configured to receive a request from a destination device to send the message to the destination device, validate a logical address provided in... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing, Inc.

20110145283 - Intelligent mechanism for identifying ontological hypertext and pre-fetching and presenting the target information: A computer implemented method for identifying ontological hypertext and pre-fetching and presenting the target information may include receiving an original query by a database server. The method may also include searching the database server to locate an ontological mapping record. The ontological mapping record may represent an association between information... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110145284 - Presenting skills distribution data for a business enterprise: Systems and techniques to present graphical representations of skill needs versus skill availability in a business organization. Skill needs and skill availability across multiple categories can be represented as geometric objects that overlap on a two-dimensional chart. Overlapping of the geometric objects indicates one or more relationships between skill needs... Agent: Sap Ag

20110145285 - System and method for intent mining: A method for intent mining is provided. The method includes performing a preliminary search of a constrained source using one or more seed phrases to generate multiple preliminary search results representing different ways of expressing a desired intent. The method also includes identifying each of the plurality of preliminary search... Agent: General Electric Company

20110145286 - Distributed platform for network analysis: The present disclosure describes an apparatus and methods for performing data analysis, in particular network analysis. Specifically it provides a framework and user interface whereby raw data may be imported into a data model with entities, attributes, and relationships between the entities and multiple data analysis algorithms may be pipelined... Agent: Chalklabs, LLC

20110145288 - Methods, apparatus, and computer program products for quantum searching for multiple search targets: A first iterative Grover Search process is performed by causing at least one quantum computer to perform a first series of Grover Searches according to a characteristic function for varying numbers of iterations to identify a first search target. The characteristic function is modified according to the identified first search... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, Lp

20110145287 - Predictive resource identification and phased delivery of structured documents: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request for a target structured document. In a first response phase, the method includes accessing a data structure comprising an entry for the target structured document and one or more first resources associated with the target structured document, generating a first response... Agent: Facebook Inc.

20110145290 - Route searching apparatus and route searching method: A route searching apparatus includes a travel route accumulation unit, an algorithm selection unit to select route searching algorithms to meet the preference of a user based on the accumulated travel routes, and a route searching unit to perform a route search up to a destination by using the selected... Agent: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

20110145289 - System and method for generating a pool of matched content: A method of generating a pool of matched content pieces from an available pool of content pieces based on a selected sample, including providing at least one consumer database containing a plurality of consumer profiles with consumer preference identifying data stored on a data storage device, providing at least one... Agent:

20110145291 - Statistical quality monitoring and enhancement: A method and computer system for monitoring and controlling the quality of tests performed upon a database. A statistical quality layer is provided, which for each new test to be executed on the database, provides recommendations as to a confidence level to be applied to the test and to a... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110145292 - Delegated and restricted asset-based permissions management for co-location facilities: At least one user is designated to manage assets including management delegations, access restrictions, and access permissions. Management responsibilities are applied based on business rules and based on a hierarchical model. The hierarchical model enables a well-defined logical flow of delegations and restrictions with pruning capability. User groups, asset groups,... Agent: Equinix, Inc.

20110145294 - Device description framework information reporting and updating method, device and system: A method for reporting and updating device description framework information. The device description framework information reporting method implements that the terminal device reports the updated device description framework information to DMS, which includes: updating the local device description framework information based on the changed structure of the device management tree;... Agent: China Mobile Communications Corporation

20110145293 - Methods, systems, and products for creating sharable objects: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for producing SCORM-conformant training materials. Exemplary embodiments create extensible mark-up language (or “XML”) content required by the SCORM specification, and exemplary embodiments appropriately name graphics and resources as the SCORM specification requires. Exemplary embodiments may also output metadata in the SCORM format. These features... Agent:

20110145295 - Representation of a set of numeric values in a computerized environment: A set of numeric values may be represented using a data structure. The data structure is a graph having a root and leaves. A route in the data structure may represent a mask that represents a set of values. A mask may represent a term in a DNF representation of... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110145296 - File system active symbolic link: Data stored on a storage medium can be referenced by multiple independently addressable active symbolic links, with each active symbolic link representing the data through a different transformation. The active symbolic links can be in the form of file system objects, such as files or directories. A single active symbolic... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110145300 - Database system, server apparatus, terminal apparatus, and database updating method: According to one embodiment, a database system includes first and second storing units, a detecting unit, an acquiring unit, a generating unit, and an updating unit. The first storing unit stores a first data table that describes plural first data records respectively including information concerning plural information fields. The second... Agent: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

20110145298 - Guide structure synchronization: Method and apparatus for enabling the user to guide the synchronization of a source data structure with a target data structure. The guided synchronization stores the operations defined by the user and reapplies them to future synchronizations.... Agent: Sap Ag

20110145299 - Offline gadgets ide: The present invention provides methods and systems for running a gadget application without using a network connection to a remote server. A method for running a gadget application without using a network connection includes receiving a gadget XML file associated with the gadget application on a local server. The method... Agent: Google Inc.

20110145297 - System and method for enhanced user interactions with a grid: Methods and systems that implement enhanced user interactions with a grid are described. A method may include generating a grid of cells arranged in a number of rows and columns. Each row may correspond to a data record of a database. The grid may be displayed to a user while... Agent: Teradata Us, Inc.

20110145301 - Apparatus and method for producing a virtual database from data sources exhibiting heterogeneous schemas: A computer readable medium includes executable instructions to define an individual publication schema for each heterogeneous source of a set of heterogeneous sources. Each individual publication schema specifies mapping rules between data from a heterogeneous source and a non-permanent structured instance of data. A non-permanent structured instance of data as... Agent: Business Objects Software Ltd.

20110145302 - Apparatus and method for transporting business intelligence objects between business intelligence systems: A computer readable medium includes executable instructions to create a first export file that defines attributes and relationships associated with a first business intelligence object. A second export file that characterizes a second business intelligence object associated with the first business intelligence object is formed. The first export file and... Agent: Business Objects Software Ltd.

20110145303 - Method and apparatus for recycling information fragments in information spaces: An approach is provided for recycling information fragments in information spaces. An information management system detects a plurality of information management processes occurring in an information space. The information management processes retrieve one or more information fragments from the information space. The information management system then determines a sequence of... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20110145304 - Efficient garbage collection and exception handling in a hardware accelerated transactional memory system: Handling garbage collection and exceptions in hardware assisted transactions. Embodiments are practiced in a computing environment including a hardware assisted transaction system. Embodiments includes acts for writing to a card table outside of a transaction; handling garbage collection compaction occurring when a hardware transaction is active by using a common... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110145305 - Content storage processing system, content storage processing method, and semiconductor integrated circuit: n

20110145306 - Method for trimming data on non-volatile flash media: A method for trimming data on non-volatile flash media is generally presented. In this regard, in one embodiment, a method is introduced comprising allocating a temporary file that occupies free space on a flash memory, determining specific blocks of the flash memory that the temporary file occupies, generating TRIM commands... Agent:

20110145307 - Directory traversal in a scalable multi-node file system cache for a remote cluster file system: Directory traversal in a scalable multi-node file system cache for a remote cluster file system, is provided. One implementation involves maintaining a scalable multi-node file system cache in a local cluster file system, and caching local file data in the cache by fetching file data on demand from a remote... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110137854 - System for the management of files: The invention concerns a system and a procedure for the administration of files by using electronical data processing equipment that are connected with each other by a network. In order to provide a unitary system to solve all modern office- and communication tasks instead of using a multitude of programs,... Agent:

20110137857 - Image processing apparatus, control method, and storage medium: An apparatus includes a creating unit that creates a plurality of files different in file format from identical setting information stored in a storage unit of the apparatus, a receiving unit that receives at least one of the created plurality of files, a determination unit that determines a file to... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20110137856 - Method and apparatus for aggregating and translating real-time user information to update social network profiles: A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for automatically updating social network profiles are disclosed. For example, the method receives one or more inputs from a subscriber, processes the one or more inputs in accordance with a policy defined by the subscriber to produce an update about the subscriber and... Agent:

20110137855 - Music recognition method and system based on socialized music server: A music recognition method and system for retrieving metadata based on content associated with a media file. The system includes a music recognition plug-in module associated with a music management unit that communicates with a centralized music repository. The unknown media file may be scanned for collecting a snippet and... Agent: Xerox Corporation

20110137858 - Harmonizing webpage information: A descriptive webpage about an entity is harmonized with other electronically published information about the entity. A descriptive webpage, which includes an entity profile about an entity, is located. Other electronically published information about the entity is retrieved. The descriptive webpage is harmonized with the other electronically published information by... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110137860 - Method for providing managing function of storage service: A method for providing a managing function of the storage service is disclosed. In accordance with the present invention, since a console database is synchronized with at least a portion of a catalog database, both a function that is provided by a storage manager and an additional function that is... Agent: Korea I.o. Tech

20110137859 - Staged data conversion: A device to convert data from a first format to a second format includes a conversion module and a synchronization module. The conversion module converts first production data from the first format to the second format. The synchronization module incrementally loads second production data to the first production data to... Agent:

20110137861 - Methods for achieving efficient coherent access to data in a cluster of data processing computing nodes: A coherency manager provides coherent access to shared data by receiving a copy of updated database data from a host computer through RDMA, the copy including updates to a given database data; storing the copy of the updated database data as a valid copy of the given database data in... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110137862 - Method and apparatus for parallel edit to editable objects: Apparatus holds a replica of the original object that is editable by apparatuses equivalent to a computer. The apparatus creates a packet of editorial contents to the replica, send the packet to a server or other apparatuses, and receives a packet of editorial contents to another replica held by another... Agent: Athena Telecom Lab, Inc.

20110137863 - Storage system, nas server and snapshot acquisition method: A storage system including: a storage device for storing a file; a plurality of file systems for managing the file; and a plurality of NAS servers that control access from a client to the file systems via a global namespace formed by grouping local namespaces for the one or more... Agent:

20110137864 - High throughput, reliable replication of transformed data in information systems: Provided are techniques for, in response to a source object being changed by a local transaction, generating log records, wherein each of the log records includes a sequence identifier, a source system entity modification timestamp, a target key, a target partition identifier, and values of source properties, wherein the source... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110137866 - Method for generating backup script: A method for generating a backup script is disclosed. In accordance with the present invention, since the backup script is generated using a backup script generating logic, errors in the backup script may be reduced, and the backup script may be easily modified or complemented even if administrative policies or... Agent: Korea I.o. Tech

20110137865 - Method for managing storage service: A method for managing a storage service wherein checking and updating a result of a backup task are facilitated by analyzing a backup end log. In accordance with the method, the result of the backup task is determined by comparing the parameter of the backup end log with that of... Agent: Korea I.o. Tech

20110137867 - Storage system and control method for the same: When updating the data in each generation's logical units, the snapshot processing unit writes the update data in accordance with the update as forward differential data 221 to the base volume, and saves the old data that existed in the base volume before that update data was written as backward... Agent:

20110137868 - Storage switch and storage area size change method: A storage switch includes: a section 2 that creates a destination virtual disk having a capacity larger than that of a source virtual disk; a section 3 that creates a first area in the destination storage area, creates a mirror area for performing control so that processing corresponding to a... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110137869 - Flexible data archival using a model-driven approach: The present invention provides a system and methods for flexible data archival using a model-driven approach. The data archive system and method of the present invention provides the operation of moving data from original data repository into archive data repository. Users can specify archive conditions describing which portions of the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110137870 - Optimizing data storage among a plurality of data storage repositories: Machines and methods for optimizing data storage among a plurality of data storage repositories are provided. The method comprises processing a data request submitted for storing data on one or more data storage mediums; determining whether duplicate copies of the data are to be maintained on more than one storage... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110137872 - Model-driven data archival system having automated components: The present invention relates to a method or system of data archival using model-driven and automated components. It provides a data archiving solution by using model-driven, automated components, such as a transformation component, for a flexible, generic data archive solution. Other components may include a testing component for testing the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110137871 - Pattern-based and rule-based data archive manager: The present invention relates to a method or system of data archival using a pattern-based and rule-based data archive manager for a flexible, generic archive solution. The method and system allow for the user to create rules and allow for the system to archive based upon those rules input by... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110137873 - Systems and methods of profiling data for integration: The present invention is generally directed to systems and methods for gathering information about nonnative data, comparing nonnative data elements to information defining nonnative data, comparing native data elements to information defining native data, establishing transformation rules, and integrating the nonnative and native data.... Agent:

20110137874 - Methods to minimize communication in a cluster database system: An ordering of operations in log records includes: performing update operations on a shared database object by a node; writing log records for the update operations into a local buffer by the node, the log records each including a local virtual timestamp; determining that a log flush to write the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110137875 - Incremental materialized view refresh with enhanced dml compression: An incremental refresh of a materialized view may be simplified, and therefore made more cost efficient, by reducing the number of DML operations being merged with the materialized view during the incremental refresh. Specifically, subsequences of sequences of data manipulation language operations that have been recorded for a particular row... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20110137877 - Apparatus and method for creating and managing personalized services in communication system: An apparatus for creating and managing personalized services includes: a pre-processing unit for converting vendor- and device-specific sensor data into a normalized form; an analysis unit for determining a current state of entities being managed based on the normalized sensor data to thereby determine whether current services and/or resources that... Agent: Postech Academy-industry Foundation

20110137876 - Data quality enhancement for smart grid applications: A method, in one embodiment, can include encoding knowledge about a topic domain into a data modeling technique. Additionally, a set of candidate conditional functional dependencies can be generated based on a data set of the topic domain. Moreover, the set of candidate conditional functional dependencies and the data modeling... Agent:

20110137878 - Data consistency validation: m

20110137879 - Distributed lock administration: Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to grant a renewable lease synchronization lock to a node for a file having copies distributed among a group of nodes that is unsynchronized and for which no write lock has already been granted. The synchronization lock disables modification of the file, and enables... Agent:

20110137881 - Location-based searching: In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and programs for providing location-based information. A geographical location of a mobile computing device is received at a server system. A request for content is received at the server system and from the mobile computing... Agent:

20110137880 - System and method for searching a database: A GUI (Graphical User Interface) is used to display items at a user terminal. Each item is user selectable and representative of a search category. A user selects one of the items to generate a query with no other user input required to generate the query. The query includes an... Agent:

20110137883 - Comparative web search system: A system and method for a comparative web search engines, search result summarization, web snippet processing, comparison analysis, information visualization, meta-clustering, and quantitative evaluation of web snippet quality are disclosed. The present application extends the capabilities of web searching and informational retrieval by providing a succinct comparative summary of search... Agent:

20110137882 - Search engine device and methods thereof: A search engine is operable to receive keyword information and semantic information that gives meaning and context to the keyword information. The search engine searches a keyword database with the keyword information to determine a set of links to web pages. The search engine also searches a semantic database with... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20110137884 - Techniques for automatically integrating search features within an application: Techniques for automatically integrating search features within an application are provided. Text is collected and used as a background search while a user enters the text into an application for purposes of acquiring related results. The related results are obtained from previous information entered by the user or received by... Agent:

20110137885 - Adaptive selection of a search engine on a wireless communication device: A wireless communication device communicates with a web site over an established communication link. The device includes a controller that automatically detects whether the website provides a search engine for use by a user. If the web site provides search engine, a controller at the device configures an adaptive, context-sensitive... Agent: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Ab

20110137886 - Data-centric search engine architecture: Described is a data-centric web search engine technology/architecture, in which document metadata, including offline-extracted metadata, is used as part of a search indexing and ranking pipeline. A web data management component receives crawled documents and extracts document metadata from the documents. An indexing component uses the document metadata to build... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110137887 - Constraint processing: Constraint processing for a relational database generates primary (e.g., based on primary key values) and constraint index records (e.g., based on foreign key values) during table load operations that are then sorted in a manner that rapidly and unambiguously identifies rows that fail the specified constraint test. Rows so identified... Agent: Bmc Software, Inc.

20110137888 - Intelligent caching for requests with query strings: An intelligent caching system is described herein that intelligently consolidates the name-value pairs in content requests containing query strings so that only substantially non-redundant responses are cached, thereby saving cache proxy resources. The intelligent caching system determines which name-value pairs in the query string can affect the redundancy of the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110137889 - System and method for prioritizing data storage and distribution: Various systems and methods for prioritizing data storage and distribution by a data prioritizer device are provided. For example, the data prioritizer device may receive from a consumer a registration that includes one or more record identifiers, which identify one or more data records in which the consumer is interested.... Agent: Ca, Inc.

20110137890 - Join order for a database query: In an embodiment, a portion of the execution plan is executed to produce a portion of records in a partial result set. If a first join of a table is performed that eliminates more than a first threshold number of records from the partial result set, a determination is made... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110137891 - Client and database problem determination and monitoring: Provided are techniques for collecting client information for client applications running on a client computer, wherein the client information includes a client application identifier for each client application that issues queries to a database along with text of each of the queries that the client application issues; collecting database monitoring... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110137892 - Process, program and apparatus for displaying an assembly of objects of a plm database: This invention is directed to a process, computer program and apparatus for displaying an assembly of objects of a product lifecycle management database. The method according to the invention aims at providing an access to the database, selecting the assembly of objects in the database, identifying a plurality of viewpoints... Agent: Dassault Systemes

20110137894 - Concurrently presented data subfeeds: When presenting a news feed (e.g., statuses of contacts in a social media network), it may be inefficient to display the data items in a single column according to a single filter, such as a designated group of contacts. Rather, from the data feed, a set of at least two... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110137893 - Custom ranking model schema: A customizable ranking model of a search engine using custom ranking model configuration and parameters of a pre-defined human-readable format. The architecture can employ a markup language schema to represent the custom ranking model. In one implementation, the schema developed utilizes XML (extensible markup language) for representing the custom ranking... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110137895 - Hybrid use of location sensor data and visual query to return local listings for visual query: A visual query is received from a client system, along with location information for the client system, and processed by a server system. The server system sends the visual query and the location information to a visual query search system, and receives from the visual query search system enhanced location... Agent:

20110137896 - Information processing apparatus, predictive conversion method, and program: Provided is an information processing apparatus including an input portion, a metadata acquiring portion, a data forming portion, and a predictive converting portion. The input portion receives selection of content from a user. The metadata acquiring portion acquires metadata including a word indicative of information concerning the content whose selection... Agent: Sony Corporation

20110137897 - Systems and methods for data analysis: A method for data analysis according to various aspects of the present invention generally includes selecting a conclusion from a plurality of conclusions for one or more test data sets by generating discriminators from one or more threshold indicators associated with the conclusion, selecting a portion of the discriminators, ranking... Agent:

20110137901 - Method for enhancing fast backward performance and associated electronic device: A method for enhancing fast backward performance includes: with regard to a plurality of offsets of a multimedia file, respectively storing corresponding cluster numbers into a first buffering region/buffer, where the offsets respectively correspond to different playback time points, and the cluster numbers respectively represent a plurality of clusters belonging... Agent:

20110137900 - Method to identify common structures in formatted text documents: A computer implemented method, computer program product and data processing system, for identifying common structures shared across a plurality of formatted text documents. The common structure is presented as a sequence of landmarks, each of which has a starting and ending marker to describe the borders of text. The common... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110137903 - Optimization and visual controls for regionalization: In accordance with certain embodiments of the present disclosure, a regionalization method is disclosed. The method includes inputting a data set into a computer. The method further includes utilizing the computer to perform contiguity-constrained hierarchical clustering on the data set to generate two regions and performing a fine-tuning procedure on... Agent: University Of South Carolina

20110137899 - Partitioned list: Initial items can be partitioned into a plurality of partitions. The partitions can be stored in a partitioned list in computer storage. An index to the partitions can be generated. One or more initial items can be invalidated, and additional items can be appended to the partitioned list in a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110137902 - Search and retrieval of objects in a social networking system: i

20110137898 - Unstructured document classification: A document classification method comprises: (i) classifying pages of an input document to generate page classifications; (ii) aggregating the page classifications to generate an input document representation, the aggregating not being based on ordering of the pages; and (iii) classifying the input document based on the input document representation. A... Agent: Xerox Corporation

20110137908 - Assigning into one set of categories information that has been assigned to other sets of categories: Techniques are described for assigning, to target categories of a target scheme, items that have been obtained from a plurality of sources. In situations in which one or more of the sources has organized its information according to a source scheme that differs from the target scheme, the assignment may... Agent:

20110137904 - Clickstreams and website classification: One embodiment is a method that receives a seed Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that represents a category for website classification. Clickstream data generated from the seed URL and additional URLs are analyzed to determine whether the additional URLs belong to the category. The method selects one or more of the... Agent:

20110137907 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method outputting information on movement of person: In a position history analysis unit for analyzing a position history to acquire movement history information such as places of stay, a speed history computation unit refers to the position history to determine a speed occurring at each point of time and to obtain a speed history. A categorization unit... Agent: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

20110137906 - Systems and methods for detecting sentiment-based topics: A method for analyzing sentiment comprising: collecting an object from an external content repository, the collected objects forming a content database; extracting a snippet related to the subject from the content database; calculating a sentiment score for the snippet; classifying the snippet into a sentiment category; creating sentiment taxonomy using... Agent: International Business Machines, Inc.

20110137905 - Use of inference techniques to facilitate categorization of system change information: Methods, systems, and articles for receiving, by a monitor server, change data associated with a change captured on a target host, are described herein. In various embodiments, the target host may have provided the change data in response to detecting the change, and the change data may include one or... Agent: Tripwire, Inc.

20110137914 - Custom caching: Methods and systems are presented for custom caching. Application threads define caches. The caches may be accessed through multiple index keys, which are mapped to multiple application thread-defined keys. Methods provide for the each index key and each application thread-defined key to be symmetrical. The index keys are used for... Agent: Ebay, Inc.

20110137910 - Lazy evaluation of semantic indexing: A method for searching a database of digital media assets, comprising: designating a database of digital media assets, wherein the database of digital media assets has been indexed according to a set of general indexers; receiving a search query; defining specialized search conditions by identifying one or more elements of... Agent:

20110137909 - Location independent execution of user interface operations: This disclosure relates to systems, methods, and software that involve location-independent execution of user interface operations. This execution can include identifying a user interaction through a client-side user interface that is communicably coupled with a server-side computer. It is then dynamically determined whether to process the identified user interaction on... Agent: Sap Ag

20110137911 - System and method for providing integrated management of electronic information: A system and method for managing electronic information using a computer system for one or more users, comprising creating an electronic folder and storing the folder in an electronic folder management system, creating files for the electronic folder, maintaining a collection of electronic folders and the files stored therein, and... Agent:

20110137912 - System, method and computer program product for documents retrieval: The invention provides a system and method for retrieving documents from a collection of documents that match a word search query. A word index is generated for each document in which each entry is an enriched-term string built from the stemmed form of the word to be searched and a... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110137913 - Systems and methods for interest-driven stock market segmentation and stock trading: Systems and methods for indexing and searching companies for use in a stock trading application are provided. Indexing may assign a scoring system based on the several pre-determined factors as well as the data source from which the data has been received. Additionally, the indexing methodology supports the creation of... Agent:

20110137917 - Retrieving a data item annotation in a view: A method of retrieving an annotation associated with a data item in a view generated by an information management system querying a data source, includes receiving an output of a query; analyzing the output of the query to identify one or more data items having a data value and an... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110137915 - Single parse, diagram-assisted import into a unified modeling language based meta-model: Systems and methods for conversion and importation of models that describe system behavior into a UML meta model-based representation, include parsing through the textual model for the plurality of elements, searching for an element semantic definition, element view definitions corresponding to a semantic definition, or an element view containing diagram... Agent:

20110137916 - System and method for synchronized content directories on cluster devices: According to embodiments of the invention, a system, method and computer program product for a computer program product for synchronizing content directories on cluster devices are provided. Embodiments generate a binary tree for each device in a cluster of devices, the binary tree representing the locations of all copies of... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110137919 - Apparatus and method for knowledge graph stabilization: A method for stabilizing a knowledge graph includes: generating a knowledge graph in which same entities in a semantic relation list between entities provided as an input are represented as a single node based on names and types of the entities; computing, on the knowledge graph, semantic similarities between all... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20110137920 - Method of mapping songs being listened to at a given location, and additional applications associated with synchronized lyrics or subtitles: The invention pertains to song-related software applications. More specifically, the invention describes mapping songs being listened to in a given area, identifying users listening to those songs, and optionally selecting to follow the songs listened to by a specific second user. The invention allows charting the most popular songs according... Agent: Tunewiki Ltd

20110137918 - Methods and systems for customized content services with unified messaging systems: Profile information and other information about users are received from information sources into a unified messaging platform. Multimedia messages and files for users are converted to text using approximation algorithms. Text and multimedia messages and files for users are analyzed using confidence scores and thresholds. Profile information, file keyword information... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20110137921 - Method, computer system, and computer program for searching document data using search keyword: Techniques provide for searching pieces of document data using a search keyword. The technique includes: calculating, as a first vector, respective first scores at which or respective probabilities that each of the pieces of document data belongs to clusters or classes; calculating, as a second vector, respective second scores at... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110137922 - Automatic generation of a query lineage: A method of generating a query lineage is provided. The method includes, performing on a processor, evaluating at least one of query tree information and operations performed on a query tree, where the query tree includes one or more nodes; identifying a lineage rule based on the at least one... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110137923 - Xbrl data mapping builder: A method and computer program for automatic mapping of Extensible Business Reports Language (XBRL) Data to corresponding locations in an initial business document. The program takes XBRL filing, together with text of the initial report, and starts a data mapping engine based on Evolutionary Optimization. The engine searches for the... Agent: Evtext, Inc.

20110137924 - Cluster processing of an aggregated dataset: Using a computer, a database comprising a field is identified. A query relating to the field is identified. Prior to processing the query, the field is dynamically altered to conform to a desired bit size. The query is processed. The results of the query are returned.... Agent:

20110137925 - Systems and methods for identification and reporting of ad delivery hierarchy: Systems and methods for determining delivery hierarchical information for an Ad unit. In an example method performed at a server, location information is received from a user computer system via a network. The location information is associated with an Ad unit presented on a webpage accessed by the user computer... Agent: Mpire Corporation

20110137926 - Translating a search query into multiple languages: A computer-implemented method can include translating a search query from a first language to a second language, comparing the translated query with content in the second language, and identifying content in the second language relevant to the translated query based on the comparing. Also, a computer-implemented method can include translating... Agent: Google Inc.

20110137927 - Method and apparatus for automatically incorporating hypothetical context information into recommendation queries: A system facilitates automatically determining the hypothetical context information or the distribution of hypothetical contexts. During operation, the system receives a request from a user for one or more recommendations. The system also receives a current context substantially associated with the request. The system then determines a hypothetical context for... Agent: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated

20110137929 - Computer implemented method for integrating services in a calendar application via web services: s

20110137939 - Data supervision based on the configuration rule of all operational indicators: Using the way of destruct, the complex system is split into several different qualitative elements (the definition of indicator, the definition of database, the definition of scheduling, the definition of check way, etc.). Each element has its special concept. Combing different elements organically, a completely certain meaning indicator-checked incident is... Agent: Linkage Technology Group Co., Ltd.

20110137938 - Database system, server device, terminal device, and data presentation method: According to one embodiment, a database system includes a first and second storage unit, a reading unit, and a generating unit. The first storage unit stores a first data table in which first data records, each including information about information fields, are described. The second storage unit stores a second... Agent: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

20110137930 - Method and apparatus for generating a shape graph from a binary trie: A capability is provided for representing a set of data values using data structures, including converting a binary trie data structure representing the set of data values to a shape graph data structure representing the set of data values. The shape graph data structure is generated from the binary trie... Agent:

20110137940 - Methods and apparatus for selecting updates to associated records to publish on an information feed in an on-demand database service environment: Disclosed are systems, apparatus, methods, and computer readable media for selecting updates to associated records to publish on an information feed in an on-demand database service environment. In one embodiment, one or more updates associated with a data record are accessed. The one or more updates are stored in a... Agent: Salesforce.com, Inc.

20110137933 - Resource search operations: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying query-relevant content in a resource identified by a search result in response to the query. In one aspect, a method includes identifying resource search tidbits for a resource, each resource search tidbit being eligible for... Agent: Google Inc.

20110137931 - Search strategy capture and retrieval method: A system that improves searching based on a search term by first capturing successful search strategies and then offering them in the results of a subsequent search based on the same search term. In the illustrative embodiment of the present invention, a search engine collects successful search sequences based on... Agent: Avaya Inc.

20110137932 - Second-order connection search in a social networking system: s

20110137937 - Semantic verification of multidimensional data sources: An illustrative embodiment provides a computer-implemented process for semantic verification of multidimensional data sources that receives a trusted output from a trusted multidimensional expression engine, receives an un-trusted output from an un-trusted data source and determines whether a query produces a correct semantic result, wherein the correct semantic result is... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110137935 - Server system and method for exporting digital assets in enterprise information systems: Member objects of a computer system part(s) in an Enterprise Information System (EIS) are identified and categorized for export to a packaging process or to another computer system over tiers of network(s). An intermediate representation of the part(s) is made while applying context rule(s) to determine a standard specified context... Agent:

20110137934 - System and method for distributing assets to multi-tiered network nodes: Provided are methods and systems for distributing an asset to a multi-tiered network node. A pending notice is received from a distribution server. If the notice indicates that at least one asset is pending, i.e., awaiting deployment, an asset descriptor manifest is received from the distribution server. The asset descriptor... Agent:

20110137928 - System and method of matching financial transaction records to merchant records of a merchant profile database: A system and method for matching transaction records to merchant records of a merchant profile database is provided, the transaction records containing transaction data of financial presentation devices that are presentable to a plurality of merchants, the transaction data including merchant identifying data that identifies the merchant for the transaction.... Agent: Visa U.s.a. Inc.

20110137936 - Systems and methods for managing database authentication and sessions: Systems and methods enable remote (or “off-campus”) users complete authorized access to full-record content of 3rd-party databases subscribed to by the user's institution. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and system that acts as a transparent conduit between the user and a remote database, managing relevant session/context... Agent:

20110137941 - Segmentation and profiling of users: The formulation of a profile group of users by defining segments using a function as applied to a single attribute, and combining them with set operations. The segments may be populated by applying the selected function against the selected attribute against multiple users. Then, the profile groups build upon the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110137943 - Apparatus for deciding word-related keywords, and method and program for controlling operation of same: A word for which a keyword is desired to be decided is input, and a web page related to the input word is found by a search. Keywords (“programming language”, “object-oriented”, “education”, “seminar”), which are described in a meta tag of the found web page, are extracted. The extracted keywords... Agent:

20110137944 - Method and system for matching between a tissue donor and a tissue recipient: A system and method are presented for identifying a suitable tissue donor for an intended tissue recipient. A database of individuals is provided that comprises, for each individual, genetic data parameters comprising hereditary parameters that play a role in tissue-typing for matching between donor and recipient and comprises genealogical data... Agent: Famillion Ltd.

20110137942 - Scheduling for fast response multi-pattern matching over streaming events: A query pattern handler may be configured to determine at least one query pattern to be matched against a stream of events, and may be configured to determine a plurality of run-time patterns representing active instances of the at least one query pattern which are currently available for matching, and... Agent: Sap Ag

20110137945 - System and method for accessing building information: A system and method for accessing building information, and a processor configured to control access to building information. In one broad aspect users and buildings form a network creating a building database comprising building related data for physical real world buildings. The processor is configured to determine the level of... Agent:

20110137946 - Individualized data sharing: Granting permissions for attributes in a distributed data store involves implementing a federated control system. The system can include dynamic permissions granted to content blobs. Acknowledgment of dynamic permissions facilitates identification of users that receive content to enable restoring data on a machine following data loss. Acceptance of dynamic permissions... Agent: Younite, Inc.

20110137947 - Dynamic access control for documents in electronic communications within a cloud computing environment: The present invention provides a solution to manage and control document transmission and electronic communication. Specifically, the present invention solves the problem of having control over data (documents, image files, and attachments hereafter referenced as “documents”) that are associated with multiple types of data communication. Along these lines, the present... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110137948 - Dynamic content presentation: A computer-implemented method includes receiving, at a computing device, a request from a user device to access requested data. Based on the request, a reader object is selected that specifies data access information associated with accessing data from a particular data source. Computer-implementable access code is dynamically instantiated to access... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property, L.p.

20110137949 - System, method, and data structure for packaging assets for processing and distribution on multi-tiered networks: The present invention provides a system, method, and data structure for packaging assets for processing and distribution over a multi-tiered network. An asset may represent network and/or application components (e.g., data, objects, applications, program modules, etc.) that may be distributed among the various resources of the network. In an embodiment,... Agent:

20110137950 - Contextual support for publish-subscribe systems: A method for providing contextual support for a publish-subscribe system includes the steps of receiving a user-defined objective of subscription relating to a topic provided from a subscriber to the publish-subscribe system, and determining one or more topics related to the subscriber provided objective of subscription. The method also includes... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110137951 - System and method for the automated notification of compatibility between real-time network participants: The present invention is a method and system for using predetermined preferences/characteristics to ascertain personal compatibility between network or chat room participants based upon profile information. When the system determines that these preferences are favorable for interpersonal compatibility, the system will automatically notify or page the participants so as to... Agent:

20110137952 - Method and apparatus for improving the performance of object-oriented queues: A method for managing object-oriented queues by reusing queue entry objects instead of creating and destroying each queue entry object inserted into and removed from the queue. Inserting a queue entry object into the queue involves changing the status of the queue entry object from available to in-use, adding the... Agent:

20110137953 - System and method for transactional and fault-tolerant distribution of digital assets over multi-tiered computer networks: Provided herein is a system and computer program product for distributing at least one infrastructure description record (IDR) over at least one tier of a network. The system includes at least one network interface that receives the infrastructure description records (IDRs) and the IDRs being enqueued on at least one... Agent:

20110137955 - Apparatus and method for creating can data file for test: An apparatus and method of creating a Controller Area Network (CAN) data file for test are provided, in which a setting value of a travelling variable of a vehicle is received, a piece of standard CAN data for communication control between control parts of the vehicle is updated by reflecting... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20110137954 - Method and apparatus for adjusting reminder data stored in a calendar database: A method and apparatus for adjusting reminder data stored in a calendar database when a third calendar event is inserted between two existing calendar events is provided. Third calendar event data is received, representative of a third calendar event occurring between the first calendar event and the second calendar event,... Agent: Research In Motion Corporation

20110137956 - Method for canceling impact of physical property variability on image quality performance of digital imaging system: A method for canceling the impact of the physical property variability on the image quality performance of a digital imaging system, obtained during quality control (QC) analysis using a serial numbered quality control (QC) target by applying physical property deviation controlled behaviour model corrections to the raw image quality performance.... Agent: Agfa Healthcare N.v.

20110137957 - Techniques for managing data relationships: Techniques for managing data relationships are presented. A database element from a first database table is linked with a database element of a second database table via a Graphical User Interface as directed by a user. The link establishes a data relationship having attributes and properties. The relationship along with... Agent: Teradata Us, Inc.

20110137958 - Implementation method of datacom data command platform: Implementation method of DATACOM Data command platform, taking the characteristic of data business into account, DATACOM system working on the data command platform, which is both data processor and data general converter, completes both command protocol conversion and command contents conversion, after the conversion of the opening command of data... Agent: Linkage Technology Group Co., Ltd.

20110137960 - Apparatus and method of creating and utilizing a context: The described aspects include an apparatus or method of context-aware communication comprises obtaining, by an access terminal, a plurality of terminal data from a plurality of access terminal subsystems, one or more terminal applications, or a combination of both. Further, the aspects include determining at least one context corresponding to... Agent:

20110137959 - Representing relational schema information using generic meta schemas: In an embodiment, a computer system defines a generic relational meta-schema (GRMS), where the GRMS describes a generic representation for relational schemas and where the GRMS includes metadata indicating how a relational schema is to be stored as data in the data store. The computer system also defines describes a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110137961 - Techniques for cross referencing data: Techniques for cross referencing data are presented. A first database object and a second database object are linked together. The linkage is automatically cross referenced to a third database object. Access to any of the database objects can be achieved via any of the remaining database objects and vice versa.... Agent: Teradata Us, Inc.

20110137962 - Applying limited-size hardware transactional memory to arbitrarily large data structure: A technique for applying hardware transaction memory to an arbitrarily large data structure is disclosed. A data updater traverses the data structure to locate an update point using a lockless synchronization technique that synchronizes the data updater with other updaters that may be concurrently updating the data structure. At the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110137964 - File system manager using tagging organization: A data processing system includes a file system manager that organizes content into albums using a tagging technique. The file system manager comprises a filename utility that sets a unique filename for each file of uploaded files across a plurality of albums and an album manager utility that manages an... Agent:

20110137963 - Performing an action in response to a file system event: A method and apparatus for performing an action in response to a file system event is provided. According to one aspect, sets of “event listeners” are associated with a file hierarchy and/or the nodes thereof. Each event listener contains a set of “event handlers.” Each event handler corresponds to a... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20110137965 - File system managing method and recording medium: In a recording medium including stacked recording layers, management data requiring reliability is recorded in the recording layer far from the surface of the recording medium and data bodies are recorded in the recording layer close to the surface of the recording medium. Thus a data file can be read... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20110137966 - Methods and systems for providing a unified namespace for multiple network protocols: A network storage server system includes a presentation layer that presents multiple namespaces over the same data stored in an object store, allowing users to simultaneously access data over multiple protocols. The system supports object location independence of the stored data objects by introducing a layer of indirection between directory... Agent: Netapp, Inc.

20110131173 - Compensating for unbalanced hierarchies when generating olap queries from report specifications: Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for generating an online analytical processing (OLAP) query against a cube. The cube may have dimensions, each dimension having a hierarchy of members. A report specification may be received against a hierarchy of the cube. An OLAP query may be generated from... Agent: Internation Business Machines Corporation

20110131174 - System and method for an intelligent storage service catalog: A method and system relate to data storage, and more particularly, to an intelligent storage service catalog. A method is implemented in a computer infrastructure having programming instructions. The programming instructions are operable to receive at least one definition of storage requirements for an organization for at least one data... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110131175 - Document management system, document management method, and computer readable medium storing program therefor: A document management system includes a memory and a controller. The memory stores access privilege information configured to define, for each display style of a document element displayed in an electronic document, privileges of users or user groups regarding access to a document element having a display style. In response... Agent: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

20110131179 - Data control device, data control method, and computer-readable medium: A data control device includes: an execution unit that executes, as an active runtime environment, one of a plurality of runtime environments each provided with an individual clipboard used for data reading and writing; a switching unit that switches the active runtime environment; a decision unit that, when the active... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20110131178 - Managing data in markup language documents stored in a database system: Methods and systems are disclosed for storing, propagating, and searching for data stored in markup language documents, such as a data hierarchy defined by an XML schema. Each node in the data hierarchy may include an XML document representing an instance of the thing being categorized at that level of... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110131177 - Method and system for providing rapid updating of services in an ims environment: A method and a system for creating or updating a plurality of user profiles in an IMS network are disclosed. For example, the method generates a service profile, wherein the service profile comprises a new service profile or an updated service profile having a service profile type identifier. The method... Agent:

20110131176 - Systems and methods for generating iterated distributions of data in a hierarchical database: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for generating iterated distributions of data in a hierarchical database. A data store can store data in a hierarchical format, for instance, in a tree. Higher-level data, such as yearly profit, may be desired to be spread from parent nodes to lower nodes, such... Agent:

20110131181 - Information processing device and computer readable storage medium storing program: An information processing device includes a storage to store a plurality of original files and a processor to execute a first process including obtaining an acquisition request to request an acquisition of a first file descriptor assigned to a first file specified among the original files, the acquisition request being... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110131180 - Method and apparatus for configuring a content object: An approach is provided for configuring a content object. A service receives a request, from a user, to configure a content object at a device. The service then causes, at least in part, a change to a state of the content object based on the request. The content object is... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20110131182 - Automatic comparison of roaming data or routing data: Method for comparing network data, particularly roaming data and/or routing data, between at least two databases (3, 4), wherein a first database (3) is connected to a first data processing system (2) and the first data processing system (2) is associated with a first communication network (1). A second database... Agent:

20110131183 - Using a data protection server to backup and restore data on virtual servers: A virtual machine may be discovered through a directory service or via an agent that is installed on the host operating system that is running the virtual machine. If the agent is installed on the virtual machine, the agent monitors changes to a set of protected volumes on the virtual... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110131184 - Focused backup scanning: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for performing data backup of a file system. A monitoring process is configured to include a file system representation (FSR) representing the file system, the FSR comprising a plurality of nodes, each node corresponding to a respective one of a plurality of... Agent:

20110131185 - Hdag backup system with variable retention: A storage system efficiently allocates storage space for data backup. An illustrative storage system comprises a storage and backup logic that manages data backup in the storage and converts a file to a hash-based directed acyclic graph (HDAG) so that a hierarchy of nodes of the HDAGs contain a hash... Agent:

20110131186 - Extending a database recovery point at a disaster recovery site: A DBA may pre-generate database recovery jobs on a convenient schedule at a local site, then recover a database at a disaster recovery site. Archive log files for the database that are generated in the interim between recovery job generation and recovery job execution are automatically incorporated into the recovery... Agent: Bmc Software, Inc.

20110131187 - Snapshot storage and management system with indexing and user interface: A system and method of managing stored data in a storage management system. The storage management system includes a storage manager, a media agent connected to the storage manager, and a primary volume connected to the media agent. A plurality of snapshots are taken of the primary volume. The snapshots... Agent: Commvault Systems, Inc.

20110131188 - Method and system for real time system log integrity protection: A method and system for managing integrity of system log file data. The system comprises a first component which, using a hook in a kernel of an operating system, allows interception of a write operation by a file system on at least one log file; then the first component detects... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110131189 - Method and device for managing queues, and corresponding computer program product: A method for managing a queue, such as for example a FIFO queue, and executing a look-ahead function on the data contained in the queue includes associating to the data in the queue respective state variables (C1, C2, . . . CK), the value of each of which represents the... Agent: Stmicroelectronics S.r.i.

20110131190 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing a generic database security application using virtual private database functionality with a common security policy function: Methods for providing a generic database security application using virtual private database (VPD) functionality are provided. The methods may include inserting rows into a user security table in a database providing VPD functionality, each row comprising a user ID for which database access is to be controlled, the name of... Agent:

20110131191 - Observing and reporting changes in complex software dependencies: An observation system includes mechanisms for efficiently tracking the state of source components, which include functions, arguments, or values, etc. In one implementation, an observing component requests that a source component processes a request. The observation system then identifies all possible components in a dependency chain for the request, and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110131192 - Approaches to reducing lock communications in a shared disk database: Lock communications in a shared disk database system is reduced by several approaches: sending a single message to a lock manager for locks required for an operation and locks that will be required in the future, the operations may include row update, row delete, large scan, and row insert; performing... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110131193 - On demand locking of retained resources in a distributed shared disk cluster environment: Systems, methods, computer program product embodiments are provided for locking retained resources of database information in a distributed shared disk cluster environment. An embodiment includes providing a request on demand for physical access to a page by a task of a node among a cluster of nodes, managing selective bypassing... Agent: Sybase, Inc.

20110131194 - Creating a service mashup instance: A method for creating a service mashup instance comprises recording at least two services being selected by a user during an exploration procedure, obtaining a relationship between the at least two services, and generating the service mashup instance based on the relationship. Additionally, a method of using content retrieved from... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110131195 - Network search method for providing search window during execution of application program: The present invention pertains to a network search method for providing a search window during running an application program. The network search method includes displaying a search tool 42 and 46 in a title bar 42 of a current on-going main application program widow among at least one application program... Agent:

20110131196 - Fsa context switch architecture for programmable intelligent search memory: Memory architecture provides capabilities for high performance content search. The architecture creates an innovative memory that can be programmed with content search rules which are used by the memory to evaluate presented content for matching with the programmed rules. When the content being searched matches any of the rules programmed... Agent:

20110131197 - Optimizing caching period of location data for network based location services: A system and associated method for optimizing caching period of location data for network based location services. A location caching server receives a location request from a mobile device. The location caching server calculates, pursuant to a predefined calculation rule, a caching period of a location cache entry for the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110131200 - Complex path-based query execution: Systems, methods, computer program product embodiments are provided for executing a function in a path-based query when extracting data from a markup language document for return as a relational table, the markup language document organized hierarchically into nodes. An embodiment includes receiving a path-based query including a complex row pattern... Agent: Sybase, Inc.

20110131198 - Method and apparatus for providing a filter join on data streams: A method and apparatus for processing at least one data stream are disclosed. For example, the method receives at least a join query for the at least one data stream, wherein the join query specifies a lifetime for keeping a tuple as a marker for a beginning of a sequence... Agent:

20110131199 - Query plan reformulation: Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to receive an original query plan, to transform the original query plan into an equivalent executable compact query plan, and to store the compact query plan on a machine readable device. Further activities may include computing maximal source sub-queries associated with the compact query... Agent: Business Objects Software Ltd.

20110131201 - Supply chain digital map management system and integrating method therefor: The present invention discloses a supply chain digital map management system, which comprises a site database comprising basic records of vendors and an environment database comprising geographical features and atmosphere conditions that correspond to locations of the vendors. The supply chain digital map management system further comprises a processor which... Agent: Universal Carbon Control Technology Co., Ltd.

20110131202 - Exploration of item consumption by customers: A method, system and computer program product for exploration of item consumption by customers are provided. The method includes profiling each customer with self attributes and related attributes in the form of consumed items; profiling each item with self attributes, first order related attributes in the form of customers of... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110131203 - Determining website relevancy at the time of asset usage using location based services: An embodiment of the invention includes a method for searching for mobile assets in accordance with location. A monitoring module monitors usage of assets in a plurality of mobile devices to identify assets used in different locations. For each usage of an asset, the monitoring module identifies the location of... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110131204 - Deriving asset popularity by number of launches: An embodiment of the invention includes a method for searching for mobile assets (e.g., mobile telephone applications and/or web applications) based on popularity. The popularities of the mobile assets are determined by monitoring usage of the assets, e.g., downloading of assets and/or launching of assets. Popularities of the mobile assets... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110131205 - System and method to identify context-dependent term importance of queries for predicting relevant search advertisements: An improved system and method for identifying context-dependent term importance of queries is provided. A query term importance model is learned using supervised learning of context-dependent term importance for queries and is then applied for advertisement prediction using term importance weights of query terms as query features. For instance, a... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20110131206 - Methods and apparatus for presenting search results with indication of relative position of search terms: Methods and apparatus are provided for presenting search results with indication of relative position of search terms. According to one aspect of the invention, search results are displayed for a search query comprising a plurality of search terms. A search query is received, for example, from a user and at... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110131207 - Text messaging hot topics: A device includes a memory to store instructions; and a processor to execute the instructions to implement a data collector to collect text messages, a keyword extractor to extract keywords or key phrases from the collected text messages, and a user interface to present one or more of the extracted... Agent: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Ab

20110131208 - Systems and methods for large-scale link analysis: Systems and methods for accepting relationship indications based on interaction among entities, where each relationship indication specifies that a respective pair of the entities may be related. A single entity record may be constructed that indicates all the linked entities that have been identified as being related to the entity.... Agent: Verint Systems Ltd.

20110131209 - Knowledge discovery tool relationship generation: A system for managing a knowledge model defining a plurality of entities is provided. The system includes an extraction tool for extracting data items from disparate data sources that determines if the data item has been previously integrated into the knowledge model. The system also includes an integration tool for... Agent:

20110131210 - Guided navigation system: A navigation system is used in combination with a data retrieval system to more effectively locate the correct answers or information in search content. The navigation system provides taxonomies that identify different information categories and sub-categories (facets). Classifiers automatically classify the search content by identifying the content corresponding with associated... Agent: Inquira, Inc.

20110131213 - Apparatus and method for mining comment terms in documents: This invention discloses a method for mining a comment term in a document. The method comprises, first, to build a document database and a keyword database, wherein the document database includes at least one digital document, the keyword database includes at least one keyword. Then, a language of the digital... Agent: Institute For Information Industry

20110131212 - Indexing documents: A document to be indexed is initially indexed in dependence upon language-specific rules of a single language. A success metric is used to assess the effectiveness of the single language indexing. If a threshold level of success is not attained, the document is identified as multi-lingual. In response to identifying... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110131214 - Information retrieval method, computer readable medium and information retrieval apparatus: According to an aspect of the invention, a computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process for retrieving information. The process includes an extracting process, an executing process, a first creating process, a second creating process, a determining process. The extracting process extracts, from a... Agent: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

20110131211 - Methods and systems for visualizing topic location in a document redundancy graph: Methods, systems, and computer program products can visualize topic location in a document redundancy graph. Document subcomponents such as, for example, document paragraphs of a document or document set can be searched for user interface specified search data and a determination can be made as to which document subcomponents contain... Agent: Xerox Corporation

20110131216 - Automatically linking documents with relevant structured information: A method of associating a given text document with relevant structured data is disclosed. The method receives as inputs a text document, and structured data in the form of a relational database. The method then identifies terms in the text document, and searches and queries the structured data using the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110131215 - Process apparatus, data scheduling method, and computer readable medium thereof for a data schedule: A process apparatus, a data scheduling method, and a computer readable medium thereof for a data schedule are provided. The process apparatus comprises a storage, a receiving interface, and a microprocessor. The microprocessor is respectively electrically connected to the storage and the receiving interface. The storage is configured to store... Agent: Institute For Information Industry

20110131217 - Computer program and computer system for producing test flow: A program executed on a computer including storage, processing, output, and input units, the storage unit storing test-difficulty-calculation-elements-database, test-menu-database, and test-flow-database, for each test-menu-record, the program causing the processing unit to execute: calculating test-difficulty for each test-menu-record based on test-difficulty-calculation-formula by using at least one among pieces of information indicative... Agent: Silicon Test Technologies Inc.

20110131218 - Dynamic content sorting using tags: A data processing system facilitates organization of content such as digital photographs, video files, audio tracks, and the like. The data processing system comprises a content manager that manages a content database and includes a content database initialization or creation utility and a content database search utility. The a content... Agent:

20110131219 - System and method for managing multiple external identities of users with local or network based address book: A method and system for managing multiple external identities of users with a local or network based address book having the steps of: creating a set of address book field and value information, the set of address book field and value information being one or more external identities; and forwarding... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20110131221 - Method and system for providing context aware communication: A method for processing a message received by a client device over a mobile communication network is provided. The method enables, firstly, applying one or more predetermined rules on the message. The one or more predetermined rules facilitate modifying the message by removing unwanted words therefrom. Secondly, the method enables... Agent: Infosys Technologies Limited

20110131220 - Systems and methods for generating an optimized output range for a data distribution in a hierarchical database: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for generating an optimized output range for a data distribution in a hierarchical database. A data store can store data in a hierarchical format, for instance, in a tree. Higher-level data, such as yearly profit, may be desired to be spread from parent nodes... Agent:

20110131222 - Privacy architecture for distributed data mining based on zero-knowledge collections of databases: A system and method for privacy-preserving distributed data mining are presented. The system comprises clients, servers, and a distributed database comprising databases each residing on a server, wherein original data in each database is changed into masked data using a masking function based on a query template generated by one... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20110131225 - Automated straight-through processing in an electronic discovery system: Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for automated straight-through processing in an electronic discovery system. Further, the embodiments described herein provide for electronic discovery processes, such as, but not limited to, data collection, barcoding, source-to-processing, quality control, third-party network data transfer and data analysis... Agent: Bank Of America Corporation

20110131223 - Detecting spam documents in a phrase based information retrieval system: An information retrieval system uses phrases to index, retrieve, organize and describe documents. Phrases are identified that predict the presence of other phrases in documents. Documents are the indexed according to their included phrases. A spam document is identified based on the number of related phrases included in a document.... Agent: Google Inc.

20110131224 - Methods for creating a recommended device list from metrics: An embodiment of the invention provides a method for creating a recommended device list from metrics. Device metrics of a plurality of mobile devices are accumulated, wherein the device metrics include device attributes of the mobile devices. The device attributes include user tags and/or user quality ratings of the mobile... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110131226 - System and method for abstraction of objects for cross virtual universe depolyment: A system and method for abstracting objects in a virtual universe (VU) deployment is provided. The system and method abstracts VU objects for editing in a common abstraction utility and for deploying to one or more VU grids containing one or more VU architectures and/or platforms (servers). The method can... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110131228 - Method & apparatus for identifying a secondary concept in a collection of documents: A Methodology for identifying secondary concepts that are included in one or more documents in a collection of documents is disclosed. Training information is manually created from a subset of a collection of documents and used by a primary concept identification function to process textual information contained in the documents... Agent: Emptoris, Inc.

20110131227 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing an integrated knowledge management system: Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing an integrated knowledge management system are provided. A method includes configuring access interfaces between a knowledge management system and each of respective external domains serviced by a service provider entity. The knowledge management system includes a knowledge engine and a source of... Agent: At&t Mobility Ii, L.L.C.

20110131229 - Query generating apparatus,query generating method and database search system: According to one embodiment, a query generating apparatus includes a query storing unit, a detecting unit, and a query generating unit. The query storing unit stores, in association with query identification information for identifying a database query, a query character string in which a portion of a parameter as a... Agent: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

20110131235 - Actionable search results for street view visual queries: A server system receives a visual query and information about the current location of the querying device. The server system sends the query and location information to a visual query search system and receives one or more search results in accordance with the visual query and the location information. From... Agent:

20110131234 - Information process system, and program: The present invention provides a technology to shorten the time required for a process extracting a portion of the information from a database including a large amount of information indicating each of element combinations. In order to accomplish the above object, an information process system includes a first database in... Agent: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.

20110131239 - Media playlist construction for virtual environments: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for generating song playlists for use in an immersive virtual environment. Generally, playlists may be generated based on stored music preference data. The music preference data may be generated by storing user interactions with specific songs. The user interactions may be associated with characteristics... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110131231 - Method to efficiently locate meta-data structures on a flash-based storage device: Flash memory systems and methods for efficiently locating meta-data structures on solid-state devices, such as, flash-based memory devices, which allows for fast reconstruction of metadata structures are provided. These systems and methods place checkpoints, which identify the location of metadata structures, intelligently on the device so as to permit a... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110131240 - Personalized nutrition advisor: The instant invention describes various computer program products and methods of using the same in order to provide personalized nutritional advice to end users.... Agent: Personal Remedies LLC

20110131237 - Searching for mobile content: Methods and apparatus, including computer systems and program products, for searching for mobile content. A method includes receiving, via a user interface, at a computer system independent of the mobile device, information identifying the mobile device to receive computer data; receiving, at the computer system, information identifying the computer data... Agent: Single Touch Interactive, Inc.

20110131232 - Selecting and annotating well logs: Well logs are selected, annotated and correlated. In one example, a display of a well log showing logged information and well depths corresponding to the information is presented. Data related to the well log is searched to find a named formation near a selected depth and a name of a... Agent:

20110131238 - Smart road-toll-system: The main advantage of the smart client and method is that it delegates in a secure and privacy-preserving way the costly operations to the external toll server proxy. Thus, storage of digital maps in the client is not required, and tariff updates are only transmitted when necessary in a way... Agent: Nxp B.v.

20110131236 - Speech retrieval apparatus and speech retrieval method: Disclosed are a speech retrieval apparatus and a speech retrieval method for searching, in an audio file database, for one or more target audio files by using one or more input search terms. The speech retrieval apparatus comprises a related document obtaining unit configured to search, in a related document... Agent:

20110131230 - System and method for accessing potential damage to infrastructure items after natural events: Systems and methods for responding to a risk of damage caused by a natural event are presented. A method presented includes checking a sensor system database on a regular period for an occurrence of a natural event. If the natural event has occurred, a determination can be made as to... Agent:

20110131233 - Using symbols to search local and remote data stores: An approach is provided that uses symbols to represent search criteria. In this approach, a symbol is received from a user in a search request. Search criteria that corresponds to the received symbol is retrieved from a computer accessible data store. Data stores are searched for the plurality of search... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110131241 - Actionable search results for visual queries: A server system receives a visual query and identifies an entity in the visual query. The server system further identifies a client-side action corresponding to the identified entity and creates an actionable search result element configured to launch the client-side action. Examples of actionable search result elements are buttons to... Agent:

20110131242 - Persistent querying in a federated database system: Methods and systems are provided, for persistent querying in a federated database system. A federated database system has a plurality of connectable database management system nodes, each database node having at least one database. Persistent querying includes: receiving a query at a first database node and propagating the query from... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110131243 - Data acquisition apparatus, data acquisition system and method of acquiring data: A data acquisition apparatus includes a processing resource operably coupled to an input unit and an output unit. The processing resource is arranged to provide an execution environment for supporting a user interface. An enquiry module is provided and supported by the execution environment. In at least one embodiment, the... Agent:

20110131244 - Extraction of certain types of entities: Certain types of entities may be extracted from a document. In one example, the entities to be recognized are cultural entities, such as the names of movies, video games, books, etc. For each such entity, a concept graph may be built that shows the relationship between the entity itself and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110131245 - Identifying a group of products relevant to data provided by a user: A method for using a rule-based system implemented by at least one physical processor to identify from a set of available products a group of products relevant to data provided by a user includes creating with the rule-based system a number of rules based on the data provided by the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110131246 - System for integrating content from external corpora into primary search engine results: A computer implemented method, computer-readable medium and system for deciding which external corpora, such as verticals, to integrate into primary Internet search engine results in response to a query is disclosed. Offline query-related data and user feedback data is incorporated. A probabilistic estimate is formed of the relevance of the... Agent:

20110131247 - Semantic management of enterprise resourses: Semantic management of enterprise resources including identifying a plurality of disparate enterprise resources including physical resources of the enterprise and data resources of the enterprise, wherein the disparate enterprise resources are under the direction of a plurality of different management entities of the enterprise; creating for each enterprise resource a... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110131248 - Analysis groups for semantic layer: A system may include a database of physical data tables including stored data, and an abstraction layer associated with the stored data. The abstraction layer may include a measure object associated with a measure, a plurality of dimension objects associated with respective dimensions, a first analysis group object linked to... Agent:

20110131249 - Automated generation of modeling language profiles: A database of data can be leveraged to automatically generate profiles for use in modeling. The data may be specific to one or more domains and/or general to multiple domains. A mapping scheme is established to map structure of the database to a structure of a profile. The mapping scheme... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110131250 - Computer systems and methods for the query and visualization of multidimensional databases: In response to a user request, a computer generates a graphical user interface on a computer display. A schema information region of the graphical user interface includes multiple operand names, each operand name associated with one or more fields of a multi-dimensional database. A data visualization region of the graphical... Agent:

20110131251 - Smart containers: Smart containers are disclosed. A definition is received of a logical structure configured to manage associated content. A policy or operation specified by the definition is applied to an item of content associated with an instance of the logical structure.... Agent: Emc Corporation

20110131252 - Method and apparatus for physical/logical relationship mapping between resources: Disclosed is a method for dynamically mapping a physical/logical relationship between resources. The method for physical/logical relationship mapping between resources includes: abstracting heterogeneous environments of physical resources; expressing the physical resources by a resource instance of a predetermined format to generate logical resources which are grouped and managed in accordance... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20110131254 - Strongly typed tags: In one or more embodiments, a tag is provided and includes a property that associates a strongly typed variable with the tag. Strongly typed variables can include any suitable types. For example, in at least some embodiments, the strongly typed variable is a people type that allows the tag to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110131253 - System and method of schema matching: In one embodiment the present invention includes computer-implemented method of performing schema matching. The method includes storing, by a computer system, a schema mapping that includes nodes. The schema mapping indicates a relationship between a first schema and a second schema. The method includes displaying, at a first node of... Agent: Sap Ag

20110131255 - Wireless base station device and operation information collection method for the same: A wireless base station device connected to a network and communicating with an external device includes: a control management unit to store operation information in a database and manage the operation information, and the control management unit includes an operation information read portion to read operation information from the database,... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110131257 - File management device: An image quality correction process of an image file which is stored in a memory card is performed and the processed image is stored in the memory card. In addition, referents of the image file are changed from places storing bodies of the original files to places storing bodies of... Agent: Seiko Epson Corporation

20110131256 - Memory card changer, method for reading or writing data in memory card changer: A memory card changer is disclosed. The memory card changer can include a connection unit, which interchanges the data with the host device, a slot unit, which attaches and detaches a plurality of memory cards and a processing unit, which controls the host device to recognize individual storage capacities of... Agent: Chungbuk Technopark

20110131258 - Nas-based multimedia file distribution service: A network attached storage (NAS) device 104 for multimedia file 110 distribution, the device 104 comprising: a processing device 202; a network interface 106 connected with the processing device 202; and a storage device 210 connected with the processing device 202. The storage device 210 comprising: a set of predetermined... Agent: Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p

20110131259 - File location naming hierarchy: Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and/or systems for a file location naming hierarchy are disclosed.... Agent: Robert T. And Virginia T. Jenkins As Trustees For The Jenkins Family Trust Dated February 8, 2002