Data processing: database and file management or data structures

20100217746 - Dynamic workflow documentation system: The dynamic workflow documentation system is a computer implemented process comprising the following steps: The dynamic workflow documentation system starts a workflow manager program, a class loader program in a computer memory and creates an instance of a workflow program in the computer memory. The dynamic workflow documentation system extracts... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20100217745 - Universal knowledge information and data storage system: A system is provided for storing knowledge, information and data (KID). The system includes a plurality of sources of KID, at least one receiver of KID from the plurality of sources, a universal knowledge, information and data store and an interface coupling the receiver and the UKIDS. The interface provides... Agent: Michaud-kinney Group LLP

20100217747 - Transparent virtual machine for mobile applications: The inclusion of metadata within an application description file allows a virtual machine to create an application descriptor file that may be registered with the mobile device operating system so that an icon associated with the application description file may be displayed in the main ribbon. Execution of an application... Agent: Smart & Biggar

20100217748 - Library device: It is required that setting information and mechanical correction information of a preceding device can be automatically carried over only by replacing a unit, to implement reduction in the maintenance cost and prevention of human operational mistakes. Library device control firmware 11 updates, if drive identification information kept in a... Agent: Young & Thompson

20100217749 - Method and system for optimizing the storage of different digital data on the basis of data history: The present invention relates to optimized storage of data in digital memories (11), such as in magnetic disks (hard disks). This is possible since different versions of data often have the same or similar content, despite their form or size having been changed. The occurrences of data repetitions that have... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100217750 - Archive apparatus, conversion apparatus and conversion program: An archive apparatus including a plurality of recording media and a processing unit for executing writing into and reading from the plurality of recording media includes an electronic data storage unit, a data format storage unit, an unusable information storage unit, and a conversion destination determining unit. The electronic data... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100217751 - Method and system for safely deleting information from a computer: The present invention comprises a method and system for safely deleting files and registry keys from the operating system. The process works by having a file system filter or registry monitor intercept commands to delete information. Instead of deleting the file or registry key, the system monitor places the information... Agent: Richard Rowley Suite 1400

20100217752 - Data integrity validation in storage systems: Data validation systems and methods are provided. Data is recorded in N data chunks on one or more storage mediums. A first validation chunk independently associated with said N data chunks comprises first validation information for verifying accuracy of data recorded in said N data chunks. The first validation chunk... Agent: CenturyIPGroup, Inc. [ibm Us]

20100217753 - Multi-stage quantization method and device: The invention discloses a multi-stage quantization method, which includes the following steps: obtaining a reference codebook according to a previous stage codebook; obtaining a current stage codebook according to the reference codebook and a scaling factor; and quantizing an input vector by using the current stage codebook. The invention also... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20100217754 - Method and apparatus for managing bookmark information for content stored in a networked media server: A method and apparatus for managing bookmark information of a media server through a network based on the UPnP AV standard is disclosed. If a request for bookmarking a content item is made, a bookmark item is created and the created bookmark item is linked to the content item by... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100217755 - Classifying a set of content items: A method of classifying a set of content items, each content item including at least one signal (11) for rendering in perceptible form on a presentation system (1,2) of content items, includes obtaining an at least one-dimensional feature vector for each content item comprised in the set, at least one... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100217756 - Programmable search engine: A programmable search engine system is programmable by a variety of different entities, such as client devices and vertical content sites to customize search results for users. Context files store instructions for controlling the operations of the programmable search engine. The context files are processed by various context processors, which... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100217757 - System and method for defined searching and web crawling: A computerized search engine for use in association with one or more networked social sites is disclosed. The computerized search engine includes a widgetized avatar representative of a user of at least two of the networked social sites, a crawler that crawls each of the at least two networked social... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20100217758 - Method, system, and computer program product for optimizing a database query: More efficient querying of a multi-tenant database using dynamic tuning of database indices. A layer of meta-data associates data items with tenants, e.g., via tags, and the meta-data is used to optimize searches by channeling processing resources during a query to only those pieces of data bearing the relevant tenant's... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20100217759 - System, method, and progam product for database restructuring support: A storage cost estimate unit 112 calculates storage cost before and after restructure by using catalog information included in a database 122. In the case of calculating the storage cost of the restructure, tuples of a new schema is calculated and the storage cost is calculated by using the tuples.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20100217761 - System and method of enhancing decoding performance of text indexes: The present invention provides a system for enhancing the decoding performance of text indexes of an indexed collection of text documents. The posting list includes a plurality of list entries being of variable size depending on the value stored in each posting list entry. The inventive system is based on... Agent: International Business Machines Corp Iplaw Dept

20100217760 - Systems and methods for providing multi-directional visual browsing: Systems and methods for multi-directional visual browsing on an electronic device are described. In example embodiments, a primary result and a peripheral result associated with a user of a client device are determined. A display layout based on attributes associated with the primary result and the peripheral result is generated.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20100217762 - Information providing system, information signal processing device, information signal processing method and recording medium: According to the present invention, a remote control device 200 which have a plurality of commands corresponding to a plurality of functions and which performs data communication with a server 300 includes an command display/input unit 17 which displays text blocks corresponding to the commands and generates, when an operation... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100217763 - Method for automatic clustering and method and apparatus for multipath clustering in wireless communication using the same: An automatic clustering method using an Average-linkage algorithm and a KPower Means algorithm, and a method and apparatus for multi-path clustering required for a spatial channel modeling (SCM) in a wireless communication environment are provided. The automatic clustering method, including: a first step of obtaining an initial cluster centroid using... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100217764 - Generating a dictionary and determining a co-occurrence context for an automated ontology: According to one embodiment, generating a dictionary and determining a co-occurrence context includes accessing a domain corpus comprising articles. Each article corresponds to a particular topic and comprises one or more terms that link to one or more other articles corresponding to one or more other topics. Each topic is... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100217765 - Community health system: A system of machines, databases, user interfaces, graphical displays and data input systems produces comparisons of community health conditions, recommendations to achieve community health improvements and other tangible outputs. The creation, selection and evolution of promising health practices and best health practices is facilitated and continuously reported.... Agent: Steven A. Nielsen Allman & Nielsen, P.C.

20100217766 - Mapping courses to program competencies: A mapping device configured to map accreditation data to curriculum data. A mapping device may include an accreditation module, a curriculum module and/or a mapping module. An accreditation module may be configured to retrieve accreditation data. A curriculum module may be configured to retrieve curriculum data. A mapping module may... Agent: George Mason University Office Of Technology Transfer, Msn 5g5

20100217767 - System and method for analyzing remote traffic data in a distributed computing environment: A system, method and storage medium embodying computer-readable code for analyzing traffic data in a distributed computing environment are described. The distributed computing environment includes a plurality of interconnected systems operatively coupled to a server, a source of traffic data hits and one or more results tables categorized by an... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20100217768 - Query system for biomedical literature using keyword weighted queries: An information retrieval system for biomedical information uses a supervised machine learning system to identify keywords to improve search efficiency. The supervised machine learning system may be trained using a set of clinical questions whose keywords have been extracted, for example, by trained individuals. Weighting of search terms in the... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20100217769 - Related content display device and system: A keyword extraction program is automatically executed when a content being created is displayed on an LCD of a client terminal. Keywords are extracted from the content and sent with a signal requesting a retrieval of related contents to a server. In the server, contents including the same or analogous... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20100217770 - Method for automatically sensing a set of items: A method for automatically sensing a set of elements in a computer system, wherein each element in the set has an associated character body from a plurality of character bodies, and each character body comprises character strings which characterize a respective element, the performance of the method involving a search... Agent: Shlesinger, Arkwright & Garvey LLP

20100217775 - Apparatus and method for reproducing storage medium that stores metadata for providing enhanced search function: An apparatus and method for reproducing a storage medium that stores metadata are provided for an enhanced search function using various search keywords of audio-visual (AV) data. The apparatus includes: a search unit for searching for scenes matching a search keyword by conducting an enhanced search function on the AV... Agent: North Star Intellectual Property Law, PC

20100217772 - Commodities framework: Various embodiments are directed to methods and systems for presenting an interface to a user. For example, a computer may receive a request for content originating from a browser application executing on a client machine in electronic communication with the at least one server. The request may identify a first... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20100217773 - Method for web-based exploration of network infrastructure: In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a method of data drilling is presented. A network database is deployed in a network, such as the Internet, for broad-based user access. Network information is stored in the network database and is organized in layers. A graphical user interface with... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20100217771 - Resource access filtering system and database structure for use therewith: A database structure (400) stores data representing a plurality of resource identifiers (200) such as URLs in a computing system. The URLs (200) are each associated with a respective category code (310). Each of resource identifiers (200) is hashed to provide a hash value (300) which is divided into at... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100217774 - System and method for determining user response to wireless messages: A system and method for determining user response to wireless messages, comprising means for generating a wireless message including first content to be transmitted, means for adding second content to the message, the second content including a link to third content and means for transmitting the message to the user,... Agent: Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20100217776 - Anonymous types for statically typed queries: Anonymous types for a programming language. Non-denotable anonymous types are types that a compiler generates on behalf of a programmer and can then be used as nominal types. Insofar as anonymous types do not have a name, they can be used only inside a method in which they are created.... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20100217777 - System for automatic arrangement of portlets on portal pages according to semantical and functional relationship: The present invention relates to the field of network computing, and in particular to method and system for designing a Web Portal comprising a hierarchical structure of portal pages and portlets for accessing Web contents accessible via the Portal. A typical larger enterprise's portal contains large numbers, e.g., thousands of... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20100217778 - Methods for providing a unified view of a domain model to a user: Techniques for providing a unified view of a domain model to a user are described herein. In one embodiment, in response to a first search query received from a client via a first search mechanism (e.g., outside of the relational DB) for a list of persistent objects representing data entries... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100217779 - Using a calculation expression to define and control access rights for records in a database: Techniques for providing limited access to data stored in records of databases are disclosed. The techniques can be implemented in a database program operating on a computer system. The database program can provide a Graphical User Interface that can be used to conveniently define calculation expressions that limit operations on... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/apple Inc.

20100217780 - System, apparatus and method for creating service accounts and configuring devices for use therewith: Systems and methods for facilitating creation of service provider accounts and configuration of devices associated therewith. Device parameters (306) are transmitted (700) from a device (302). In response, a service activation server (206) provides (308) a list of available service providers for that device (302), where the list is derived... Agent: Nokia, Inc.

20100217781 - Optimized method and system for managing proper names to optimize the management and interrogation of databases: Optimized method and system making it possible to manage named entities or proper names that are presented in a different graphical or syntactic form and contained in a database (3), characterized in that it comprises, in combination, the implementation of the Levenshtein method by using a measurement of similarity from... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20100217782 - Service discovery and publication: A system and methods for service discovery and publication are disclosed. Application programs write requests for service discovery, publication, and subscription to a service discovery application programming interface. The service discovery application programming interface invokes one or more lower-level protocols to satisfy the discovery, publication and/or subscription request. Service information... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20100217783 - Communicating with data storage systems: In some aspects, a method includes connecting over a network to a data storage system, the data storage system storing data objects. A dataflow graph that includes nodes representing data processing components connected by links that represent flows of data access an interface of the data storage system. The interface... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20100217784 - Information viewing system: According to one embodiment, an information viewing system includes an ontology viewing engine coupled to a client and a knowledge store that stores records organized according to a domain ontology. The ontology viewing engine receives requests for records from the client, filters the domain ontology according to a display ontology,... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20100217785 - Metadata structure for storing and playing stereoscopic data, and method for storing stereoscopic content file using this metadata: Provided is a metadata structure for storing and re-producing stereoscopic data and a method for storing a stereoscopic content file based on the metadata structure. The stereoscopic content file storing method includes storing streams of the stereoscopic contents; and, when the stereoscopic content has more than two elementary streams, storing... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100217786 - Apparatus and method of driving loadable device component: An apparatus for driving a loadable device component, the apparatus including: the loadable device component providing an application with a loading mechanism that is classified according to a load type property; a core framework module component defining a kind of the load type property; at least one eXtensible Markup Language... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100217787 - Controller, information recording device, access device, information recording system, and information recording method: In a file system such as an FAT file system, clusters are linked only in the forward direction. To perform seeks to clusters in the reverse direction, links need to be followed from the beginning side of the file data in every seeking operation. When a large amount of data... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (pan) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20100217788 - Storage system format for transaction safe file system: A transaction safe file system uses two sets of file allocation tables and bitmap images to perform file modifications on one of the sets while the other set remains a last known good set. After a modification is complete, a pointer is changed to the newly modified set, and the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100211539 - System and method for building a data warehouse: There is disclosed a system and method of building a data warehouse. In an embodiment, the method comprises: receiving extract input parameters for extracting data from a source data file; building a communications channel to a selected one of a plurality of source database management systems containing the source data... Agent: Fasken Martineau Dumoulin LLP

20100211540 - Efficient reporting of information in a wireless communication system: Techniques for efficiently sending reports in a wireless communication system are described. Reports may be sent repetitively in accordance with a reporting format. A terminal receives an assignment of a control channel used to send reports and determines a reporting format to use based on the assignment. The reporting format... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100211541 - Security erase of a delete file and of sectors not currently assigned to a file: Secure erase of files and unallocated sectors on storage media such that any previous data is non-recoverable. The database contains sets of data patterns used to overwrite the data on different physical media. The software programs manage the overwriting process automatically when a file has been deleted. When de-allocated sectors... Agent: Law Office Of Scott C Harris Inc

20100211542 - Methods and systems for halting synchronization loops in a distributed system: The present provides for consistent resolution of data conflicts when synchronizing data between two or more devices in order to reduce the likelihood of an infinite synchronization loop within a distributed computing system. More particularly, example embodiments provide for a conflict resolution algorithm capable of generating unique values for properties... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20100211543 - Synchronizing metadata and document content across client systems using different communication channels: Tools and techniques for synchronizing metadata and document content across client systems using different communication channels are provided. These tools may define logical communication channels between client software components, and may allocate one of these channels to synchronizing updates to the contents of documents shared between these client components. These... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100211544 - System with session synchronization: A computer-readable medium having computer-executable modules is disclosed. The computer-executable modules include a first session database for storing multiple sessions indicating information interchange between at least two communicating devices. The computer-executable modules further include a controller operable for selecting a session from the first session database according to a session... Agent: Patent Prosecution O2mirco , Inc.

20100211545 - Context-aware management of shared composite data: Embodiments provide information composition management features and functionality to manage composite information, but are not so limited. In an embodiment, a computing system can include functionality to provide a composition of informational data that can be used to identify and manage aspects of shared and other data that can be... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20100211546 - System and method to backup data about devices in a network: A system to backup data about a device in a network is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, the system includes a storage system for the data about the device in a controller, a first subsystem for determining that the data should be transferred to the device, and a second subsystem... Agent: Roger L. Maxwell PC

20100211547 - File sharing system, file server, and method for managing files: In the HSM function, when supporting the file system snapshot function, a differential data volume is required for both a high-speed volume and a low-speed volume. Accordingly, when supporting the snapshot function by using a file system provided by the HSM function, a large amount of differential data volume is... Agent: Juan Carlos A. Marquez C/o Stites & Harbison PLLC

20100211548 - Tenant management of a hosted multi-tenant application: A hosted multi-tenant application is provided that permits a tenant to self-manage aspects of the operation of the application. A tenant may be permitted to upgrade the multi-tenant application on-demand or according to a schedule, to place the multi-tenant application into a read-only mode of operation, to create a shadow... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100211549 - System and method for archiving to a single database table information located across multiple tables: A method for archiving to a single database table information located across multiple database tables. The method begins by monitoring at least one data value residing in the multiple database tables. After monitoring, the method continues by identifying at least one archival data value where each archival data value corresponds... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20100211552 - Apparatus, method and system for tracking information access: An apparatus, method and system to track information access over a communications network. The present disclosure teaches how to associate access credentials with content accesser in a global and persistent manner. Both content and people are registered with a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) handle system (1603). Furthermore, security and other... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20100211550 - Method allowing validation in a production database of new entered data prior to their release: A method of insuring the integrity of a plurality of updates brought in real-time to a production database concurrently used by one or more software applications is described. The production database includes a plurality of products participating to the definition of objects. The method first includes requesting the issuance of... Agent: Young & Thompson

20100211551 - Method, system, and computer readable recording medium for filtering obscene contents: The present invention relates to a method and a system for filtering the harmful content (s) which includes a filter group for providing an optimized filter for each category; a matching engine for monitoring harmfulness of the content by matching it with existing lewd contents recorded in a pornographic content... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20100211553 - Method and apparatus for simplifying the decoding of data: The various methods and devices described herein relate to devices which, in at least certain embodiments, may include a method of decoding data or a data stream in a file, which may include checking for a first data portion of a plurality of data portions in the file, the first... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100211555 - Efficient integration between an external workload manager and an rdbms: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system, method and computer program product is provided for integrating an external workload manager with a database system. The method according to one embodiment includes a method comprises: receiving a request in a database component, the request including a cross component... Agent: Law Office Of Donald L. Wenskay

20100211554 - Transactional record manager: Transactional record management methods and systems enabling multiple independent servers (such as database servers) using shared storage to initiate transactions in parallel without inter server communication and without locking the records used by the transaction. The in-flight transactions can be included in a shared transaction log without a final determination... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100211556 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: An information processing apparatus includes an application execution unit configured to generate data to be recorded onto a medium that records data or reproduce data from the medium, a file system unit configured to manage data recorded on the medium using a file system, and a file conversion unit configured... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100211558 - Methods and apparatus for interactive searching techniques: Methods and systems for searching comprise presenting a first information set to a user, receiving feedback, applying an evolutionary algorithm based on the feedback to generate a search query, causing the search query to be executed to generate a second information set, and presenting the second information set to the... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20100211557 - Web search system and method: A web search system, network, plug-in and method are disclosed. An interface having a primary non-web browsing function is arranged to accept entry of text. A control subsystem is triggerable on demand to submit at least a portion of said entered text to a predetermined web search engine, the search... Agent: Leason Ellis LLP

20100211559 - System and method for exposing both portal and web content within a single search collection: A portal having one or more associated data sources is defined, the portal including one or more portlets for displaying information associated with the one or more associated data sources. An index of the one or more associated data sources is generated. A search query is transmitted to a search... Agent: Holland & Knight

20100211560 - Efficient evaluation of xquery and xpath full text extension: Techniques are provided for efficiently evaluating XML queries that conform to an extension of an XML language (e.g., XQuery or XPath). The extension allows XML queries to have full-text search capabilities. Such an XML query is compiled to generate a tree of nodes that correspond to one or more conditions... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20100211563 - Cross community invitation and multiple provider product information processing system: A telecommunications system implements a cross platform invitation mechanism. The system receives a search query from a subscriber, retrieves location information of the subscriber, and retrieves a search result from multiple information sources based on the search query. The system returns the search result to the subscriber, receives a search... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20100211564 - Generating a file with integral dynamic reports from queries to an external database: Records in databases or unstructured files are enriched with metadata and are indexed for retrieval by a search engine. In response to a search request, a graphical user interface (GUI) control based on the metadata associated with the search hits is constructed and displayed with the search results in a... Agent: Levine & Mandelbaum

20100211562 - Multi-part record searches: A method and apparatus are provided for enhancing search results generated by a search engine. A graphical user interface may display search results, which may include at least one multi-part record comprising a plurality of independent documents. Upon receiving a selection of the multi-part record from the search results a... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ibm Svl

20100211561 - Providing representative samples within search result sets: Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that provide representative samples among search result sets are provided. Upon receiving a query, it is recognized whether to present a representative sample, or an indication thereof, along with a search result that relates to the query. Search results... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (microsoft Corporation)

20100211565 - Method for searching for multimedia content items on the internet: A method is provided for searching for multimedia content items on the internet. According to the method, a search page of a search provider is loaded, search text is transmitted from the client to the search provider, an application is executed at the search provider to detect multimedia content items... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20100211566 - Entity-based search results and clusters on maps: Techniques are described for providing geographically-related search results in map interfaces that are derived with an understanding of the intent behind the user's query, and the abstract entities to which the query maps.... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson - Yahoo!

20100211567 - Word association method and apparatus: A method for creating and using a cross-idea association database that includes a method for associating words and word strings in a language by analyzing word formations around a word or word string to identify other words or word strings that are equivalents or near equivalents semantically. One method for... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20100211568 - Personalized recommendations on dynamic content: This disclosure describes systems and methods for selecting and/or ranking web-based content predicted to have the greatest interest to individual users. In particular, articles are ranked in terms of predicted interest for different users. This is done by optimizing an interest model and in particular through a method of bilinear... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20100211569 - System and method for generating queries: The system utilizes (gets) training data that comprises a plurality of training documents. Each of the plurality of training documents comprises a training token(s). The plurality of training documents are clustered into a plurality of clusters based on at least one training token in the plurality of training documents. Each... Agent: Avaya Inc. Margaret Carmichael, Docketing Specialist

20100211570 - Distributed system: The present invention relates to distributed systems in which resource utilisation decisions depend upon the semi-automatic categorisation of resource descriptions stored in the distributed system. In the principal embodiment, the resource descriptions are web service descriptions which are augmented with tags (i.e. descriptive words or phrases) entered by users and/or... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100211571 - Systems and methods for classifying and transferring information in a storage network: Systems and methods for data classification to facilitate and improve data management within an enterprise are described. The disclosed systems and methods evaluate and define data management operations based on data characteristics rather than data location, among other things. Also provided are methods for generating a data structure of metadata... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20100211572 - Indexing and searching json objects: Disclosed is a method of encoding JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) documents in an inverted index, wherein a tree representation of a JSON document is first generated, and, next, the JSON document is shredded into a list of <value, path, type, jdewey> tuples for each atom node, n, in the tree,... Agent: Ip Authority, LLC Ramraj Soundararajan

20100211573 - Information processing unit and information processing system: A recording medium stores a program that causes a processer to execute a procedure. The procedure includes: calculating registration positions of data based on a total amount of data of existing tables and a hash method, and registering the data at the registration positions, when registering the data in a... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center Fujitsu Management Services Of America, Inc.

20100211574 - Method and apparatus for obtaining forensic evidence from personal digital technologies: A system and method for personal digital technology forensics. The system and method can provide for the forensic identification, preservation, acquisition, analysis, presentation, exportation, and correlation of evidence obtained personal digital technologies including that obtained from cellular phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and smart phones.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20100211576 - Method and system for similarity matching: A method and system for similarity matching are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises calculating a data point value by a server related to one or more of a client creating a data point, editing facts about the data point, providing an opinion about the data point,... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20100211575 - System and method for automatically presenting a media file on a mobile device based on relevance to a user: A system and method for automatically presenting a media file on a mobile device based on an analysis of metadata associated with the media file. The system evaluates a media file's metadata to determine whether the media file is relevant to a mobile device user based on time, date, location,... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20100211577 - Database processing system and method: Provided is a database system in which sorting of query results is sped up. The database system stores storage location information in which storage locations of the pieces of data are recorded in a given order. When there is no second task, which is executed based on data that is... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20100211578 - Patent connection database: In an embodiment, a computer system includes a plurality of inventor profile records stored on one or more storage devices, the plurality of inventor profile records each recording a name of a living person in a name field. The system further includes a plurality of patents represented by a plurality... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20100211579 - System and method for providing expert search in a modular computing system: The present invention provides an apparatus, system and method for a dedicated function, modular computing solution. The apparatus, system and method include a base microprocessing unit, at least one peripheral interconnective with the base microprocessing unit, wherein the at least one peripheral alone imparts the dedicated function to the base... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20100211583 - Method and system for exchanging digital documents: A device for transmitting digital documents, comprising a receiving module for receiving a transfer file, which in turn comprises a document body and a header that identifies the sender and the recipient, the transfer file being encoded in a first digital format; a selector module, which is adapted to identify,... Agent: Modiano & Associati

20100211581 - Open architecture vehicle information module and system and method thereof: A module, system, and method for presenting vehicle data to a client. A vehicle information module (VIM) is configured to interpret, store, and communicate to interested clients the status of a vehicle. Interested clients or end-users may include a GUI, a database, an Interrogative Diagnostics & Prognostics System and other... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20100211582 - Open architecture vehicle information module for vehicle and trailer, and system and method thereof: A module, system, and method for presenting vehicle and trailer data to a client. A vehicle information module (VIM) is configured to interpret, store, and communicate to interested clients the status of a vehicle and/or a trailer. Interested clients or end-users may include a GUI, a database, an Interrogative Diagnostics... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20100211580 - Semantics-based data transformation over a wire in mashups: A method of sharing data between wired properties associated with disparate data types includes receiving a first specification for dividing data items having a first data type published by an output property of a first service task into a first set of sub-units and a second specification for dividing data... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Lotus

20100211585 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: A information processing apparatus including an inquiry section configured to make an inquiry to a server about desired search information on the basis of setting information preliminarily input by a user operation, the server being connected to a network, a receiving section configured to receive the search information about which... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100211584 - Method and apparatus for providing a program guide having search parameter aware thumbnails: A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and a memory structure for presenting a program guide for a video-on-demand system describing a plurality of media programs, each media program having a plurality of video frames. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of accepting a search request from a user,... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP Howard Hughes Center

20100211587 - Application launching via indexed data: Application launching on a computer via indexed data. Based on a search term entered by a user, the computer searches an index containing metadata representative of one or more applications installed on the computer. A user interface on the computer's display has a window for displaying the results of searching... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20100211586 - Data model simplification through field fallout: Methods, articles of manufacture and systems are provided for simplifying a query building process by limiting the number of fields presented to a user for building queries. The number of fields presented to the user may be limited by hiding one or more logical fields from the user based on... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20100211588 - Context-aware query suggestion by mining log data: Techniques described herein describe a context-aware query suggestion process. Context of a current query may be calculated by analyzing a sequence of previous queries. Historical search data may be mined to generate groups of query suggestion candidates. Using the context of the current query, the current query may be matched... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20100211589 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus sets a search condition of image data so as to contain a condition that image data to be searched is created between a latest send image data that has most recently been sent among pieces of image data, which are read from a storage unit and sent... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20100211597 - Access request management: A method for managing an request on a communication resource for a user terminal. In the method for an access request access request settings that comprise a user-specific set of one or more selection criteria for determining applicability of a communication resource for the re-quested access are determined. Communication resources... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20100211591 - Apparatus for processing strings simultaneously: An exemplary string processing method for specific byte string processing with word-related instructions includes: loading a plurality of first predetermined strings; comparing a specific string with the loaded first predetermined strings simultaneously, thereby generating a plurality of comparison results corresponding to the specific string; and generating a string processing result... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100211592 - Email response time expectation system: An email client adapted to include an expected response time field in an email being sent is described. The email client also adapted to display the expected response time field of a received email that includes an expected response time field. An email including an expected response time is also... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20100211599 - File transfer system, device and method: A file transfer system including: a file sender, a file receiver, an Instant Messaging (IM) server, a file relay policy server and a file relay server. Also disclosed are the internal structures of the above file relay policy server and IM server and a file transfer method. If the file... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100211595 - Information search system, information processing apparatus and method, and information search apparatus and method: The present invention relates to an information search system, an information processing apparatus and method, and information search apparatus and method. A PC extracts, from the mail document transmitted/received by a user, words corresponding to the user's interests and records the interest data. In steps S121 and S122, upon logged... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100211590 - Method and system for unit level military administration: The present invention provides a system for providing administrative support for a military unit. The invention includes a server-side database containing information about the military unit and a client-side browser application that provides a secure network connection to the database. Unit members can access the application to retrieve and edit... Agent: Groover & Associates

20100211594 - Method of and system for sensor signal data analysis: A method and system for sensor signal data analysis are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes acquiring sensor signal data from a plurality of sensors. Signal processing is performed on the sensor signal data to extract one or more features of the sensor signal data. The features are signal... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100211598 - Sharing a single instance of a user defined type: Methods, systems and apparatus for implementing behavior of a user defined type (UDT) in a database by providing a data table with multiple rows and generating a UDT table having only a single row. An instance of a UDT is created and stored in the single row of the UDT... Agent: Law Office Of Delio & Peterson, LLC.

20100211593 - System, method and software for providing persistent business entity identification and linking business entity information in an integrated data repository: The present invention provides a system, method and software for linking persistent and unique business identifiers, associated with business entities, for associating corresponding business records without a loss of historical records, regardless of subsequent changes, updates, and mergers. In the various embodiments, a first business record, of the plurality of... Agent: Gamburd Law Group LLC

20100211596 - Systems for replacing the default cursor image displayed on a client computer or terminal: Provided herein are, among other things, systems for transmitting and displaying a custom-designed digital or cursor image on at least one screen or video monitor or display of a remote or client computer or an electronic terminal. The systems may override or replace the default cursor image on the client... Agent: Jones Day

20100211601 - Education credentials management method and system: A system and method for online storage and distribution of educational credentials and related documents of student and job seeker applicants comprising, a centralized education credentials document management database that receives and securely stores resumes, transcripts, letters of recommendation, military records, professional certificates, rental and credit history, and related documents... Agent: Angelo Gaitas

20100211600 - Method, system and computer readable medium for addressing handling from an operating system: A method, system and computer readable medium for information handling within an operating system, including providing a record retrieval program; providing an input device within a window or screen of the operating system and configured to enter an execute command which initiates a record retrieval from local and remote information... Agent: Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP

20100211602 - Method and system for image matching: The present invention provides a method and system for image matching. The method includes receiving a query image at a query-server. Further, the method includes, sending a request to one or more image-matching servers of a set of distributed image-matching servers to conduct an image-search corresponding to the query image.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100211603 - Computer-aided methods and systems for pattern-based cognition from fragmented material: A method for obtaining and analyzing information objects including generating, collecting or discovering information objects. The information objects are signified at least in part using deliberately ambiguated signifier prompts, for example, linear scale opposing negatives or positives, and/or multi-dimensional signifier prompts. The information objects may comprise text or non-text fragments,... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20100211605 - Apparatus and method for unified web-search, selective broadcasting, natural language processing utilities, analysis, synthesis, and other applications for text, images, audios and videos, initiated by one or more interactions from users: Apparatus and method for unified web-search, selective broadcasting, natural language processing utilities, analysis, synthesis, and other applications for text data, image data, audio data, video data, data referenced by Universal Resource Identifier, or a combination thereof, initiated by just one required submit interaction from users with a central controller including... Agent: Subhankar Ray

20100211604 - Facilitating arrangement in a communication system: A method for determining the availability of at least one target user for a specific type of communication is described. The method comprises: retrieving contact information of at least one target user from a memory of a requesting user terminal; sending a request for communication status information of the at... Agent: Von Simson & Chin

20100211606 - Apparatus and method to perform a version pre-check of a storage controller command: A method to perform a version pre-check of a storage controller command, wherein the method extracts a plurality of objects from a storage controller command, and determines, without querying the storage controller, if each object comprising a method or a method parameter is enabled on that storage controller. If each... Agent: Dale F. Regelman Quarles & Brady, LLP

20100211607 - Information updating apparatus, information updating method and information updating program: Additional point information indicating additional points to be added to point searching information recorded in a predetermined recording medium is obtained. Display information for displaying information indicating the additional points on a display is extracted from the additional point information. After the display information is extracted, a point addition processing... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100211608 - Apparatus and method for generating a database that maps metadata to p2p content: Various exemplary embodiments disclose an apparatus and method for generating a database that maps metadata to peer-to-peer (P2P) content and, more particularly, to a database that an Internet Service Provider (ISP) can build to correlate metadata with P2P traffic. The database may collect metadata having a key that uniquely corresponds... Agent: Terry W. Kramer, Esq. Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20100211614 - Identification scheme: In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products. An identification scheme that is to be used for generating at least one identifier for an object is identified. A scheme entity that represents the identification scheme and includes at least one... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20100211611 - Method and an apparatus for detecting and evolving of a structure for storage, analysis, and exchange of information data between domains and organizations: A method and an apparatus are disclosed for detecting and evolving of a structure for storage, analysis and exchange of information data between domains and organizations. In at least one embodiment, the schema of all relevant domains of the organizations is determined on the basis of the meta-schema which includes... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100211610 - Method and system for managing financial transaction data: The information related to a journal entry is gathered in a predefined format and a journal entry request is generated. The journal entry request is processed and the journal entry is recorded in a journal. Each individual associated with the journal entry request is automatically notified about any change in... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (amex)

20100211609 - Method and system to process unstructured data: A system to process unstructured data is provided. An example system to process unstructured data comprises a receiver to access a source of unstructured data, an entity extractor to extract entity instances from the source of unstructured data and organize the extracted entity instances into an entity instance table, a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20100211613 - Operating method for a computer with data management: A storage area can be accessed by a computer. Files are stored in the storage area, in which application-related files are stored. Each of the files stored in the storage area is alternatively stored as protected or unprotected file. In at least one embodiment, as a function of commands, which... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100211612 - Utilization of radio station metadata to control playback of content and display of corresponding content information: A system for recording and playing back a data stream includes an internet radio receiver, a decoder, a recorder, and a player. The internet radio receiver is configured to receive a data stream of internet radio. The decoder is configured to decode the data stream into an audio stream and... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20100211615 - Database system and program: The present invention aims to provide a technique enabling an information added by another user to be referenced and enabling the range of the information the user references from a database to be customized A related information database in which a plurality of elements are accumulated is prepared, and an... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20100211619 - Distributive storage techniques for multi-tenant databases: The present invention provides techniques for managing information on a multi-tenant database system. In one embodiment a method comprises storing the information on the database among a plurality of tables. The plurality of tables is arranged in columns and rows. Each of a subset of the plurality of tables has... Agent: Law Office Of Kenneth C. Brooks

20100211618 - Efficient storage of data allowing for multiple level granularity retrieval: Data series are stored at multiple resolutions in a computer-readable data storage medium. In particular, time series data values of the data series are received with associated timestamps. Corresponding storage elements in the computer-readable data storage medium are identified based on the time stamps. Aggregate values are determined by summing... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20100211616 - Performance by avoiding disk i/o for deduplicated file blocks: A computer having deduplicated data stores files comprised of file blocks in a volume. File blocks are copied from the volume to memory as needed by processes. An operating system searches a memory index for physical attributes associated with a deduplicated file block to determine whether a copy of the... Agent: John R Ley, LLC

20100211617 - Projects containing media data of different types: A method comprises receiving, across a network at a computing device, media data. The method further comprises determining to which project associated with a user and hosted on the computing device to save the media data. The method further comprises saving the media data to the project. The project is... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100211620 - Storage system, volume management method, and management computer: A storage system for optimizing volume capacity among file management computers of sharing a storage apparatus is provided. A capacity management computer acquires statistical information such as access history information from the file management computers and the storage apparatus. The capacity management computer executes a capacity optimizing process for the... Agent: Juan Carlos A. Marquez C/o Stites & Harbison PLLC

20100211621 - Web-based organization of online advertising content: A system, method, and computer program product are provided that enable organization of online advertising content, such as online ads, creatives, and templates, using a Web-based hierarchical folder structure. The hierarchical folder structure includes a plurality of folders among which the online ad content may be organized. The hierarchical folder... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Cpa Global

20100205141 - method, system and computer program product for data collection and retrieval for medical research: A method, system and computer program product for data collection and retrieval for medical research includes selecting at least one group of medical documents, from a plurality of medical document groups, to retrieve documents from. Search criteria is supplied for a search in the at least one group and a... Agent: Indu Rekha Meesa

20100205142 - Apparatus, method, system and computer-readable medium for storing and managing image data: An apparatus, method, system and computer-readable medium store and manage image data with automatic labeling of image data corresponding to body slices, such as obtained by a computed tomography scanner. The labels include a body coordinate value along the body axis. The respective body coordinate value can be determined by... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20100205143 - System for ordering acquisition of frequency domain components representing mr image data: A system orders acquisition of frequency domain components representing MR image data for storage in a storage array (e.g., k-space). A storage array of individual data elements stores corresponding individual frequency components comprising an MR dataset. The array of individual data elements has a designated center and individual data elements... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100205144 - Creating searchable revisions of a resource in a repository: A method of creating searchable revisions of a resource for a resource repository is disclosed where a first revision of a resource is generated in the resource repository. The first revision of the resource can be approved, but the first revision of the resource is not accessible to a consumer... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100205145 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: An information processing apparatus includes a controller that reads data by outputting, to a storage device having a data-recordable medium, a request for reading data recorded to the medium. Using file system management information corresponding to the data recorded to the medium, the controller generates, and outputs to the storage... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20100205146 - Methods for utilizing the resources of a digital display device by a computer: A method for utilizing the resources of a digital display device (“DDD”) for use by a computer comprises the steps of: connecting the DDD to the computer; displaying one or more images on the DDD, wherein the images are transmitted from the computer to the DDD; updating and storing PIM... Agent: Venture Pacific Law, PC

20100205147 - Data communications system: For each of a number of users (11, 12, 13), a network-based server (14) maintains a respective data set (141, 142, 143) of each data file currently stored on the user device, such as scheduling details, electronic mail, documents, etc. Each data set comprises a master copy (161) indicative of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100205148 - Method and system for pushing content to mobile devices: A method of pushing content, such as eLearning packages, to mobile devices is disclosed. The content push stores the content locally on the user's mobile device so the content can be viewed offline.... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP- Rim

20100205149 - Mobile electronic apparatus and data management method in mobile electronic apparatus: A data memory of an IC card serving as a mobile electronic apparatus stores a record file which stores record data. The data memory has a record area which stores the record data and a data saving area which stores backup data to the record data stored in the record... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20100205150 - Systems and methods for classifying and transferring information in a storage network: Systems and methods for data classification to facilitate and improve data management within an enterprise are described. The disclosed systems and methods evaluate and define data management operations based on data characteristics rather than data location, among other things. Also provided are methods for generating a data structure of metadata... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20100205151 - Data processing device and data processing method: When a failure occurs in data matching processing, a quick data backup processing is required. For such an object, the data processing apparatus includes a data distribution part which stores a file data group in a normal data holding area of the j-th matching node and performs a backup processing... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100205152 - Managed file backup and restore at remote storage locations through multi-services gateway at user premises: The disclosed examples of a system for providing and managing backup and restore services of one or more endpoint devices comprise at least one gateway device at a user premises and a service management center. The gateway device has a first interface for enabling bi-directional communications with one or more... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20100205153 - Data system architecture to analyze distributed data sets: Methods, computer-readable media, and apparatuses support data transfer through electronic and secured channels, in which manual intervention for collecting, collating, or posting reporting results is reduced. Consistent data sets over different data sources may be collected for different accounts. Data entries in a data set may be further audited in... Agent: Accenture C/o Murabito, Hao & Barned LLP

20100205154 - System and method for storing and retrieving deleted files: A system and method for storing deleted files from a plurality of computers so that the deleted files are available to be retrieved from a single location. This includes identifying one or more files flagged for deletion by a user on a local computer, updating a database with metadata describing... Agent: Gregory Beliczynski #3a

20100205155 - System and method for content management and determination of search conditions: A system, method and article of manufacture for managing, e.g., extracting and displaying, search condition result data, which has been modified since a previous search. Embodiments of the present invention associate search conditions and modification programs with unique identifiers (e.g., a keyword) and log every use of thereof. Thereafter, contextual... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20100205157 - Log data store and assembler for large objects in database system: A mechanism works in conjunction with a DB2® Log and an analysis tool, such as BMC's Log Master™, to handle logged data for Large Objects (LOBs) stored in tables of a DB2 database system. A plurality of controls track data logged for the LOBs. The mechanism reads log records from... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20100205156 - Remote access agent for caching in a san file system: A system and method is disclosed for maintaining, in a Storage Area Network (SAN), the consistency of a local copy of a remote file system sub-tree obtained from a remote source. Directory structure of the remote file system sub-tree is mapped to a remote container attached to the SAN and... Agent: Ip Authority, LLC Ramraj Soundararajan

20100205158 - File creation utility for deduplication testing: A method, system, and computer program product for facilitating deduplication product testing in a computing environment is provided. At least one deduplication test file is generated. The at least one deduplication test file is adapted for, when processed through the deduplication product testing, exhibiting a predefined deduplication factor. A definition... Agent: Griffiths & Seaton PLLC (ibm)

20100205159 - System and method for managing data: A system and method for managing data are presented herein. The system includes a plurality of data sets, a plurality of data access policies, and a policy enforcer. The plurality of data sets can be stored in a data store on a server. The data access policies can each be... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100205160 - Updating an inverted index in a real time fashion: Systems and methods for regularly updating portions of a merged index are provided. Initially, upon receiving an indication that modifications have occurred to content of web-based documents, dynamic update of index (DUI) objects that identify the documents and expose the modified content are composed by ascertaining relative positions of the... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (microsoft Corporation)

20100205161 - Transitive file copying: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide an alternative mechanism for copying files. A request to copy a first file from a first source location to a first target location is received. A first checksum value of the first file is determined and used in a query to find... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP

20100205162 - System and method for quality assured media file storage: There is provided a system and method for quality assured media file storage. There is provided a method for use by a processor to verify quality of a new media file by transcoding a master media file into a first media file, determining a quality of the first media file,... Agent: Disney Enterprises C/o Farjami & Farjami LLP

20100205163 - System and method for segmenting a data stream: A method of limiting redundant storage of data comprises receiving a data stream and partitioning the data stream into a series of data chunks. At least one content hash value for a set of data chunks is generated based on data content of the set of data chunks. One or... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100205164 - Maintaining data integrity: Data integrity is maintained in an environment in which multiple instances of a software component each can include multiple processes capable of accessing a shared resource. Each instance of the software component can be either an “active” instance (which is allowed to update data) or a “standby” instance (which is... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20100205166 - Internet radio and broadcast method: Data streams are generally selected according to user preferences and transmitted to the user in general alignment with expressed preferences of the user. Such data streams may be audio, video, or other works, such as popular music or the like, or other works, including music videos. Using a large database... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20100205165 - System, method and computer program product for querying data relationships over a network: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for querying data relationships over a network. These mechanisms and methods for querying data relationships over a network can enable embodiments to provide the capability to query for more than a single entity at a time. The ability of embodiments... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC - Sfc

20100205167 - Local business and product search system and method: Computer implemented systems and methods are described that enable customers to search for a product, and obtain a list of retail locations that are likely to provide that product without any need for any specific information about the stock or products held by that retailer.... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20100205168 - Thread-based incremental web forum crawling: The incremental web forum crawling technique described herein is a web forum crawling technique that employs a thread-wise strategy that takes into account thread-level statistics, for example, the number of replies and the frequency of replies, to estimate the activity trend of each thread. To extract such statistical information, the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100205169 - System and methods for providing content using customized rss aggregation feeds: A system and methods are provided for aggregating content and sending the same using customized RSS aggregation feeds. The method is implemented on a computing infrastructure. The method includes indexing items from at least one of multiple RSS sources and non-RSS sources and aggregating two or more of the items... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20100205170 - Distribution of join operations on a multi-node computer system: A method and apparatus distributes database query joins on a multi-node computing system. In the illustrated examples, a join execution unit utilizes various factors to determine where to best perform the query join. The factors include user controls in a hints record set up by a system user and properties... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20100205171 - Method and computer program for evaluating database queries involving relational and hierarchical: A method and apparatus for resolving conjunctive queries, comprising relational predicates and external predicates, such as XML predicates. The method and apparatus obtain results from a relational engine or from an external engine, and then use the obtained results as input for the other engine, so as to optimize the... Agent: Soroker-agmon Advocate And Patent Attorneys

20100205172 - Method for using dual indices to support query expansion, relevance/non-relevance models, blind/relevance feedback and an intelligent search interface: A method for using dual indices to support query expansion, relevance/non-relevance models, blind/relevance feedback and an intelligent search interface, comprising using a computing device (89) to: access (101) an inverted index (103) to obtain an initial retrieval of results in response to a query, and to generate a rank list... Agent: Kauth , Pomeroy , Peck & Bailey ,llp

20100205173 - Query string matching method and apparatus: In one implementation, a method is provided for increasing relevance of database search results. The method includes receiving a subject query string and determining a trained edit distance between the subject query string and a candidate string using trained cost factors derived from a training set of labeled query transformations.... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20100205174 - Audio/video fingerprint search accuracy using multiple search combining: A method for use in identifying a segment of audio and/or video information comprises obtaining a query fingerprint at each of a plurality of spaced-apart time locations in said segment, searching fingerprints in a database for a potential match for each such query fingerprint, obtaining a confidence level of a... Agent: Dolby Laboratories Inc.

20100205175 - Cap-sensitive text search for documents: A capitalization-sensitive (“Cap-sensitive”) search is a feature that provides the ability to specify as search criteria both a term and a capitalization characteristic or signature of the term. There are conventional approaches that enable a capital-sensitive approach to be performed from within a document.... Agent: Mahamedi Paradice Kreisman LLP

20100205178 - Data management system and method to host applications and manage storage, finding and retrieval of typed items with support for tagging, connections, and situated queries: A data management method to host applications and manage storage, finding and retrieval of typed items with support for tagging, connections, and situated queries is provided.... Agent: Dla Piper LLP (us )

20100205176 - Discovering city landmarks from online journals: A blog-based city landmark discovery framework is described to discover and summarize popular scenes and their representative views from blog photos to provide online personalized tourist suggestions. First, a location extraction algorithm is implemented to infer geographical associations of blog photos from their contextual descriptors, thus providing the ability to... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20100205177 - Object identification apparatus and method for identifying object: An object identification apparatus includes an image data input unit configured to input captured image data including an object, an object identification data generation unit configured to generate data for identifying the object by extracting a feature vector from a partial area of the input image data to convert the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20100205180 - Method and apparatus for identifying and classifying query intent: Linguistic analysis is used to identify queries that use different natural language formations to request similar information. Common intent categories are identified for the queries requesting similar information. Intent responses can then be provided that are associated with the identified intent categories. An intent management tool can be used for... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20100205179 - Social networking system and method: A social networking system allows users to upload information about themselves to a remote database, preferably over the Internet. Users are able to connect to other users thus establishing links. These links may be categorized based on the relationship between the users, e.g., family, friends, co-workers, etc. The uploaded information... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC

20100205181 - Average case analysis for efficient spatial data structures: A computer performed method models a spatial index having n spatial regions defined in a multidimensional space using a tree-based model representing an infinite number of arrangements of n spatial regions in the multidimensional space allowable by the spatial index using a finite number of tree representations, computes an average... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20100205182 - Methods and devices for mapping data files: A method of mapping interconnections between a plurality, of data files, such as files of the world wide web. The method comprises a step of, for a first file, in a display area displaying a first region. Then, according to a first distance scale, displaying one or more second regions,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100205183 - Method and system for performing selective decoding of search result messages: Methods and systems are provided that may be used to selectively decode results in messages received from child nodes for a particular search query.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP

20100205184 - Using specificity measures to rank documents: A method of ranking documents by specificity values includes specifying a reference set of documents, each document including one or more terms, and specifying a first document that includes one or more terms that are included in the reference set of documents. The method includes determining, from the reference set... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20100205185 - Method for automatic sequential imaging of selected computer produced dialog boxes with fields for optional entry of data to aid visual retrieval: Method for automatic imaging of a plurality of dialog boxes that create computer records of text data objects displayed on data tables, in order to visually discover meaningful interrelations of data on said dialog boxes. The dialog boxes contain parametric data, other data related to the text data object, and... Agent: Robert Listou

20100205186 - System and method for filtering and organizing items based on common elements: A system and method for filtering and organizing items from computer memories based on common elements is provided. Filters can be provided for manipulating the items, which serve as tools for narrowing down a set of items. The filters can be dynamically generated based on the properties of the separate... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (microsoft Corporation)

20100205188 - Information processing apparatus and computer readable medium having information processing program: An information processing apparatus includes: an encoder configured to encode target information using encoding information so as to generate encoded target information; a first storage unit configured to store a target information group including the encoded target information. The information processing apparatus further includes: an input unit configured to receive... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20100205187 - System and method for processing location data: A novel system and method for processing location data are disclosed. An exemplary method includes receiving location data from a remote device, associating the location data with a particular subscriber, augmenting the location data in one of a plurality of predetermined ways based on information associated with the particular subscriber... Agent: Henneman & Associates, PLC

20100205189 - Data masking and unmasking of sensitive data: A server is configured to receive an input file or table that includes a number of data elements, where the data elements include some sensitive data elements of different types; identify each of the different types of sensitive data elements; identify a subset of the sensitive data elements that corresponds... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100205192 - Employing associate memory learning agent for enhanced lifecycle management: A non-conformance analysis system may have an associative memory subsystem populated with information involving a plurality of entities defining different attributes of a component, with each entity being categorized under a user defined entity type, the entities and entity types forming an associative memory. A user input device may be... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20100205195 - Methods and apparatus for associating a virtual white line (vwl) image with corresponding ticket information for an excavation project: Methods and apparatus for facilitating detection of a presence or an absence of at least one underground facility within a dig area. Source data representing one or more input images of a geographic area including the dig area is electronically received at a first user location, which may be remote... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20100205193 - Simplifying determination of the groups to which users belong when using dynamic groups: A search tool provided according to an aspect of the present invention maintains a cache data indicating which users are members of which dynamic groups. When a membership request is received requesting a set of dynamic groups to which a user belongs, the search tool examines the cache data to... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20100205190 - Surface-based collaborative search: The claimed subject matter relates to architectures that can provide rich features associated with information-based collaborative searches by leveraging a multi-touch surface computing-based display. In particular, a first architecture can include a multi-touch surface configured to support interactivity with multiple collocated users simultaneously. Based upon such interaction, the first architecture... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20100205194 - System and method of identifying relevance of electronic content to location or place: A system and method for processing electronic information that includes generating a plurality of identifier codes each of which corresponds to a location and/or a place, receiving a plurality of electronic information, wherein each electronic information has a relevancy to one or more locations and/or places, associating each of the... Agent: Dla Piper LLP (us )

20100205197 - Two-valued logic database management system with support for missing information: A two-valued logic relational database system handles missing information in a consistent way, such that query performance optimization and other techniques that break down in a three-valued logic relational database systems, can be applied. This database system introduces a NOT FOUND value to designate empty or missing information. The NOT... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20100205191 - User access time based content filtering: A system and method for user access time based content filtering for Internet materials. A user access time distribution pattern of one or more known offensive Internet files may be compiled and stored as a model. The user access time distribution pattern of a target Internet file may be calculated... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Cpa Global

20100205196 - Virtual file system for the web: Uniform access to files across multiple Web services, each of which hosts files and optionally folders but which have different paradigms, different user accounts, and different APIs is provided. In one embodiment the uniform representation is responsive to a uniform API; and an adapter functionality arranged to adapt commands of... Agent: Simon Kahn - Pyi Tech, Ltd. C/o Landonip, Inc

20100205198 - Search query disambiguation: Disclosed herein is a system and method of query disambiguation. At least one model is generated using training data, which model can be used to score, or rank, possible interpretations identified for a query, which can be used to select an interpretation from a number of possible interpretations. A selected... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20100205199 - Intent driven search result rich abstracts: Techniques for providing useful information to a user in response to a search query are provided. Based on the search query, one or more potential intents of the user are identified and a plurality of matching resources are identified. For at least one matching resource, a particular abstract template is... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20100205200 - Method and system for instantly expanding a keyterm and computer readable and writable recording medium for storing program for instantly expanding keyterm: A method for instantly expanding a keyterm is provided. According to the query term, a data search process is performed by several search engines. Several document snippets related to the query term are obtained from the search engines. A related term table containing several keyterms corresponding to each snippet is... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20100205201 - User-guided regular expression learning: A method, device, and computer program product are provided for regular expression learning is provided. An initial regular expression may be received from a user. The initial regular expression is executed over a database. Positive matches and negative matches are labeled. The initial regular expression and the labeled positive and... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20100205202 - Visual and textual query suggestion: Techniques described herein enable better understanding of the intent of a user that submits a particular search query. These techniques receive a search request for images associated with a particular query. In response, the techniques determine images that are associated with the query, as well as other keywords that are... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20100205205 - Computing platform based on a hierarchy of nested data structures: Embodiments of the invention may provide a computing platform, a business rules engine, a method, a system, and a user interface for building a computing platform, where each is based on a hierarchy of nested data structures and an application programming interface defining functions. The functions comprise at least one... Agent: Bereskin And Parr LLP/s.e.n.c.r.l., S.r.l.

20100205204 - Homology retrieval system, homology retrieval apparatus, and homology retrieval method: A homology retrieval can be performed with higher accuracy than conventional technologies when comparing a query sequence with a target sequence, and retrieving a similar location in the target sequence. The sequence information of a query sequence and a genomic-scale target sequence is acquired, the acquired information is compressingly converted... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20100205206 - System and method for displaying data on a thin client: A thin-client user interface includes a user interface and an application server. The user interface is executed on a client device, such as a personal computer having a display. The user interface includes a client application for displaying data. The application server is coupled with the user interface and with... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20100205208 - System and method for regulatory intelligence: A system and method are disclosed for locating, collecting, collating, analyzing, and reporting on summarized data that is generated from regulatory compliance matter data. Data is collected and compiled from multiple sources, including government databases, web pages, and regulatory documents. These collected data are consolidated and reconciled. A single topic... Agent: Lewis And Roca LLP

20100205203 - Systems and methods for video analysis: Embodiments of systems and methods for video analysis are given. A method for providing a video analysis includes four steps. A target is identified by a computing device and is displayed from a video through a display of the computing device. A query related to the identified target is received... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20100205207 - User interface and geo-parsing data structure: A method to allocate memory, in response to application requests, for a compact data structure having location data and a trailer section is provided. The trailer section of the compact data structure is checked to determine an offset for listings and indices representing the location data. Upon determining the offset,... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (microsoft Corporation)

20100205209 - Method and system for monitoring a personal intake: An identifier comprising readable ID information related to the identifier is associated to a product or product type so that when selecting said product the corresponding identifier ID is read and transferred to a server as a query by a user related communication device, which may be e.g. a mobile... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20100205210 - System and method for hierarchical information retrieval from a coded collection of relational data: A system for information retrieval from a collection of hypermedia data over a distributed network is presented. The system includes a data storage system that is a collection of hypermedia data. The collection of hypermedia data also has a number of hyperlinks to items of hypermedia content, and the hyperlinks... Agent: BoswellIPLaw

20100205211 - System and method for generating a user profile: A system and method is disclosed for generating a user profile. The method discloses: receiving a user profile request from a profile requester; identifying profile fragments with a profile mediator, from existing profiles in a profile corpus which are responsive to the user profile request; aggregating the identified profile fragments... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100205212 - Non-conformance analysis using an associative memory learning agent: According to an embodiment, a non-conformance analysis system may include at least one information storage tool that stores previously generated non-conformance information; a data mining tool that retrieves specific attributes of the previously generated non-conformance information stored in the at least one information storage tool; an associative memory subsystem that... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20100205214 - Method for creating virtual compound libraries within markush structure patent claims: A machine-implemented method creates collections of chemical structures exhibiting a certain degree of structural similarity with exemplified compounds. Specific examples are extracted from a patent. Molecular structure fingerprints are calculated for the specific examples. Markush structure topology information is obtained from a patent database. Virtual libraries are enumerated using the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20100205213 - Non-exact cache matching: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to returning cached object results based at least in part on a non-exact comparison with a query key.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP

20100205215 - Systems and methods for enforcing policies to block search engine queries for web-based proxy sites: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for systems and methods that enforce policies with respect to proxy communications.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20100205216 - Techniques for changing perceivable stimuli associated with a user interface for an on-demand database service: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided techniques for providing perceivable stimuli in an interface of a multi-tenant on-demand database system. These techniques for providing perceivable stimuli facilitate collaborative efforts of groups of users of a multi-tenant on-demand database system while maintaining access constraints amongst users associated with a common... Agent: Law Office Of Kenneth C. Brooks

20100205217 - Web-enabled database access tools: This description provides tools and techniques for Web-enabled database access tools. These tools may provide systems that include database access tools that provide at least one level of abstraction between external databases and users of the access tools. The systems may also include one or more internal databases maintained by... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hbh Attn: Patent Docketing

20100205219 - Method and system for locating a stem of a target tree: A method for locating a stem of a target tree is disclosed. The target tree is identified from a sensing dataset. At least one slice is created from the sensing dataset. The at least one slice includes at least a portion of the target tree. A tree stem location of... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20100205220 - Method of determining influence of a member within a dataset: A method of determining influence of a member within an overall dataset may include functions which capture, aggregate, analyze and visually present the relationships and influence that members of a dataset or collection, such as individual persons, websites, applications and/or machines, exercise over one another based on interaction, behavioral and... Agent: Charter Ip, LLC

20100205218 - Navigation device: A navigation device for a vehicle, in particular for a motor vehicle, has a hierarchical database containing a data tree with hierarchically arranged data and at least one geographic database containing data that are arranged in geographic subregions. A reference to at least one geographic database is provided in the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100205221 - Digital media sharing system in a distributed data storage architecture: At least certain embodiments of the invention disclose a digital media sharing system for providing online album hosting services including receiving, at a web-album server, low-resolution versions of digital images from a client over a network instead of full-resolution versions of the digital images, wherein the full-resolution versions of the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20100205227 - Custom entities and fields in a multi-tenant database system: Systems and methods for hosting variable schema data such as dynamic tables and columns in a fixed physical database schema. Standard objects, such as tables are provided for use by multiple tenants or organizations in a multi-tenant database system. Each organization may add or define custom fields for inclusion in... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100205225 - Method and apparatus for transforming a process: A method and an apparatus for transforming generic processes of a domain into executable processes. The method includes the following steps: selecting from a list of generic processes stored in a process repository at least one generic process for a context of the respective domain, performing an operationalization of process... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20100205222 - Music profiling: A method of creating a profile of a library having a plurality of audio files and a method of recommending audio-based content to a user based on a library profile. The audio-based content may be, for example, music or songs. A method of creating a profile of a library having... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20100205224 - System and method for creating and managing universally unique identifiers for services: A method is provided for creating a Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) for a web service. The UUID is stored in service metadata associated with the web service. The UUID can then be used to track services and correlate service information between multiple systems. In accordance with an embodiment, a method... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20100205223 - System for broadcast information database: A database system includes a processor configured to receive broadcasts according to a plurality of broadcast formats. The processor determines broadcast information associated with each received broadcast. The processor stores a database entry for each received broadcast within a database stored in the memory. Each database entry is indicative of... Agent: Harman - Brinks Hofer Indy Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20100205226 - Unique referencing scheme identifier for location: System and method for processing electronic information that identifies a location relevant to electronic information, and associates a location ID code with the electronic information that defines the identified location using a computing device. The location ID code includes a first component that includes version information, a second component that... Agent: Dla Piper LLP (us )

20100205228 - System and method for creating user customized instructional media: A method of providing a user customized instructional media file from a database containing a plurality of instructional media files is disclosed. The method includes identifying a plurality of the instructional media files based at least in part on a plurality of parameters selected by the user and stitching the... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20100205229 - System and method for instances registering based on history: A system for registering instances based on history is disclosed. An instance registration setting unit reads ontologies and storing them in memory, and provides an interface capable of editing one or more instances included in each of classes. The instances are provided through an ontology viewer for visualizing relationships between... Agent: Lrk Patent Law Firm

20100205230 - Method and system for inspecting memory leaks and analyzing contents of garbage collection files: A system and method is provided to inspect memory leaks and analyze contents of garbage collection files. In one embodiment, a garbage collection file is selected from a plurality of garbage collection files at a file system. The garbage collection file includes histograms. Each histogram is compared with other histograms... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20100205231 - Transaction-based storage system and method that uses variable sized objects to store data: Aspects of the innovations herein are consistent with a storage system for storing variable sized objects. The storage system may be a transaction-based system that uses variable sized objects to store data. The storage system may be implemented using arrays disks that are arranged in ranks. Each rank may include... Agent: Dla Piper LLP (us )

20100205232 - File server, file management system and file relocation method: There is provided a file server which is capable of suppressing power consumption of a storage apparatus. When a file sharing program receives a file access from a client, the program makes reference to a mapping table. Then, the program addresses the access to the target file in the volume... Agent: Juan Carlos A. Marquez C/o Stites & Harbison PLLC

20100198777 - Sequence online analytical processing system: A sequence online analytical processing (S-OLAP) system 50 for analysing an event database (41) storing events (12), the system (50) comprising: an S-OLAP engine (53) to compute an S-cuboid (49) for a query on the event database (41); a sequence query engine (54) to form part of the S-cuboid (49)... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100198778 - Method and system for collecting and distributing user-created content within a data-warehouse-based computational system: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to data-warehouse-based computational systems that provide for collection and distribution of user-created content among users of the data-warehouse-based computational systems. User-created content is initially stored in a semantic-model-based data-storage facility, for efficient and rapid access to other users, and migrates to storage according... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100198779 - Data processing system and method for supply chain management: The data processing system has an online transactional processing (OLTP) system for receiving of reporting data from work centers of a production line. The production line is logically divided into shop areas. At the exits of each shop area where an intermediate product is completed one reporting point serves as... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20100198780 - Comprehensive coordinated electronic document system: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for providing a comprehensive coordinated electronic document functionality by storing and providing access to at least one non-personalized electronic document and at least one personalized document, enabling at least one action with regard to the non-personalized document and the personalized... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Bofa

20100198781 - Plc having communication function: A networking PLC core comprising a program for uniting a programmable logic controller function to a fourth transport layer and a fifth session layer in compliance with network communication specifications in an OSI reference network model embedded therein, and a single or plural ICs or modules for exclusive use which... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20100198784 - method and system using reusable state information for synchronization and maintenance of data: A system for synchronization whereby metadata repository maintains information regarding the history and status of data items in a data repository. Data items are associated with states and such states changes (e.g. increment) in response to changes to the data items. History statements associated with the same states describe the... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20100198782 - Information processing apparatus and control method thereof: This invention is directed to reduce errors which may occur upon moving link data referring to another electronic data. To accomplish this, an information processing apparatus includes a designating unit which designates electronic data to be moved or copied, a data type determining unit which determines whether the designated electronic... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20100198783 - Method, system, and device for data synchronization: A method for data synchronization (DS) is provided, which includes comparing data fingerprints in databases of two parties in need of DS, determining data that needs to be synchronized, and DS is then performed on the data that needs to be synchronized. A system and two devices for DS are... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20100198785 - Selectively transmitting transaction data: A last transaction for a business object may be identified. Transactions related to that occur prior to the last transaction and subsequent to a last upload event are associated with the last transaction. Data describing the last transaction and the associated transactions may be transmitted over a communications network. Related... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20100198786 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program product: An information processing apparatus includes: a generating unit that, based on schema information defining a structure of an object, generates the object that has a duplicating function for generating a clone as a copy of self; a receiving unit that receives a generation request for generating the object; a requesting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100198788 - Method and system for no downtime resynchronization for real-time, continuous data protection: A data management system or “DMS” provides an automated, continuous, real-time data protection service to one or more data sources associated with a set of application host serves. To facilitate the service, a host driver embedded in an application server captures real-time data transactions. When a data protection command for... Agent: Winstead PC

20100198787 - Visualization as input mechanism: A visualization input system is provided. The system includes a visualization component that receives input gestures from a user (or users) and translates the gestures into one or more data manipulation commands. A distribution component receives the data manipulation commands and propagates data modifications across one or more databases in... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20100198789 - Database contradiction solution method: Provided is a database operation method which modifies references among database records. A record is fetched (0301), a reference destination record that is set to the record is specified (0302), “changing reference destination modification” that is set to the reference destination record is specified (0303), a reference destination modification process... Agent: Kunio Kamimura

20100198790 - Updating elements in a data storage facility using a predefined state machine, with serial activation: A technique for updating elements in a data storage facility, including a single server or a multi-server system, such as by providing updated internal code packages to the elements. The update is performed using a fixed state machine, where the elements are updated in a coordinated manner within the constraints... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy, & Presser, P.C.

20100198791 - System, method, and computer program product for allowing access to backup data: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for allowing access to backup data resulting from performance of one or more recovery point backup operations and one or more full backup operations. This is accomplished by associating recovery point backup operations with full backup operations and allowing access to... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20100198792 - Data processing apparatus and method of processing data: Data processing apparatus comprising: a chunk store having a plurality of chunk sections, each operable to store specimen data chunks, the apparatus being operable to: process an input data set into one or more input data chunks; identify a specimen data chunk in one of said chunk sections which corresponds... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100198793 - Methods of multi-server application synchronization without stopping i/o: A method according to one embodiment includes receiving a request to perform a backup of data associated with an application running on multiple servers; calculating a time value based on communications with the servers, the time value calculation including at least one of a latency of at least one of... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC- Ibm

20100198794 - Method and device for data recovery using bit logging: A method and apparatus for data recovery in a multitasking or multithreading environment is provided. The method includes creating a log record by performing bit-by-bit logging with respect to a lowest level bitmap of a multilevel bitmap, recovering the lowest level bitmap using the log record, and correcting a higher... Agent: North Star Intellectual Property Law, PC

20100198795 - System and method for restoring a virtual disk from a snapshot: A method and apparatus are disclosed for restoring a virtual disk (vdisk) in a data storage system as the vdisk was at an earlier time. Pointers are maintained to point to data represented by the vdisk. The pointers are saved to persistent storage at the earlier time. The data at... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20100198796 - Treemap visualizations of database time: Particular embodiments generally relate to displaying database time using a treemap. A set of database time values is determined for a set of dimensions. The database time values measure performance of one or more databases by the time the database takes to respond to a request. The set of database... Agent: TrellisIPLaw Group/oracle

20100198797 - Classifying data for deduplication and storage: In a method of classifying data for deduplication, data to be classified is accessed. The data is classified into a deduplication classification in accordance with a data content aware data classification policy such that classified data is created. The data classification policy includes a plurality of deduplication classifications.... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay

20100198798 - Apparatus and method for storing and reading a file having a media data container and a metadata container: A concept is disclosed for outputting a file having a media data container and a metadata container, the concept including providing an error information related to a data sample and storing the error information together with a sample number related to the data sample in the metadata container.... Agent: Schoppe, Zimmermann , Stockeler & Zinkler C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20100198799 - Method and apparatus for software simulation: A software simulation method and program storage device for software defect detection and obtaining insight into software code is disclosed, where simulation consists of executing target software program code for multiple input values and multiple code paths at the same time, thus achieving 100% coverage over inputs and paths without... Agent: Rahman LLC

20100198800 - Allocation locks and their use: Systems and methodologies are provided that employ an allocation lock, which permits only a single transaction to acquire space on a particular page at any one time. The allocation lock of the present invention facilitates operations of concurrent transactions at a subpage level (e.g., a row level), and in conjunction... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20100198801 - Storage device and recording medium: There are provided a storage device and a computer-readable medium capable of efficiently storing keywords contained in description information and efficiently retrieving the keyword. A list producing portion (6) extracts the keywords from the description information and produces a keyword list correlating the keywords with the scene information containing the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20100198803 - Image management apparatus, and control method and a computer-readable storage medium storing a program therefor: The present invention is directed to searching for image files based on shooting times thereof from among image files which are managed in each of folders and preventing a user from misunderstanding search results due to displayed contents when the search results are displayed for each of the folders. An... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20100198804 - Security management for data virtualization system: Methods and systems allow access to information in an enterprise environment that stores information in data silos. Entity type metadata, relations between entity types and access control information is extracted from the data silos and represented in a data virtualization system. Metadata information representing security information extracted from multiple data... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20100198802 - System and method for optimizing search objects submitted to a data resource: A system and methods for optimizing search objects submitted to a data resource is provided. These techniques are advantageous in reviewing vast collections of content data or documents to identify relevant data or documents from the collections. The advanced search techniques are based on query terms, which isolate relevant content... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20100198805 - Method and apparatus for generating and displaying image: Provided is a method of generating image files, the method including: obtaining a first web page; extracting, from the first web page, link information, through which moving a second web page from the first web page is performed; downloading the second web page according to the extracted link information; and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100198808 - Database system implementation prioritization using robustness maps: Computer-implemented systems and associated operating methods take measurements and landmarks associated with robustness maps and perform tests evaluating the robustness of a database engine's operator implementations and/or query components. The illustrative computer-implemented system comprises logic that receives one or more robustness maps of measured database system performance acquired during database... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100198809 - Database system testing using robustness maps: Computer-implemented systems and associated operating methods take measurements and landmarks associated with robustness maps and perform tests evaluating the robustness of a database engine's operator implementations and/or query components. The illustrative computer-implemented system comprises logic that receives one or more robustness maps of measured database system performance acquired during database... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100198806 - Evaluation of set of representative query performance using robustness mapping: Computer-implemented systems and associated operating methods use atomic query maps to identify and evaluate database query plan robustness landmarks. The computer-implemented system comprises logic that evaluates robustness of a selected atomic query by measuring performance of atomic query execution in a predetermined range of runtime conditions that include data characteristics.... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100198807 - Workload management using robustness mapping: Computer-implemented systems and associated operating methods use performance maps created by evaluating robustness of a database operator, query plan, or query to analyze health of a currently-executing query. The computer-implemented system comprises logic that receives one or more robustness maps of measured database system performance acquired during database execution in... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100198810 - Evaluation of database query plan robustness landmarks using operator maps or query maps: Computer-implemented systems and associated operating methods create and use an operator map to identify and evaluate database query plan robustness landmarks. The computer-implemented system comprises logic that creates a map evaluating performance of an implementation of a database engine operator during execution under actual operating conditions. The logic measures and... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100198811 - Query plan analysis of alternative plans using robustness mapping: Computer-implemented and associated operating methods evaluate robustness of a query plan by measuring performance with regard to a range of runtime conditions and producing a map of relative performance of the given query plan when compared with alternative plans for a range of conditions. The computer-implemented system comprises logic that... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100198812 - Automated search: A system and method for automated search which may allow users to program their mobile devices to automatically bring up search results when a user or his mobile device meets a certain set of spatial, temporal, activity, or social context conditions.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20100198815 - Search and presentation engine: A contents display and search system for navigating and searching and exploring a collection of objects includes a database of Attributes; each of the Attributes being associated with one or more objects, and a database of Kinds, each Kind being associated with one or more Attributes. When a user enters... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20100198814 - System and method for filtering and creating points-of-interest: Systems and methods are provided for filtering and/or creating Points-of-Interest (POIs). In one embodiment, a list of POIs is obtained and then filtered based on crowd data related to the list of POIs to provide a filtered list of POIs. In another embodiment, one or more crowd-sourced POIs are created... Agent: Withrow & Terranova Ct

20100198813 - Systems and methods for a search engine results page research assistant: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for performing search engine research. The method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises receiving a search query from a user and determining if a user is performing research. The method then generates a research set associated with the... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20100198818 - Dynamic identification of a new set of media items responsive to an input mediaset: Systems and methods are disclosed for creating a list of media items that are similar to an input mediaset comprising at least one input media item, optionally together with at least one input parameter that constrains the output in scope or number of items. Media items include music, videos, pictures... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20100198820 - Method and apparatus for internet-based human network brokering: Matches between search queries and potential targets of such search queries are automatically brokered by (i) comparing search criteria specified in the search queries with profile criteria describing the potential targets, and (ii) reporting instances of acceptable correspondence between the search criteria and the profile criteria, provided that access controls... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100198817 - Method for checking and/or determining user data, a computer program product, and an apparatus: The present invention relates in summary to a method for checking and/or determining user data of a spectacle lens user comprising the steps of:—providing (S1) subjective data of a spectacle lens user, wherein the subjective data comprise at least subjective refraction data;—providing (S2) objective refraction data of the spectacle lens... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20100198819 - System and method for extracting and managing message addresses: A system and method is disclosed for extracting and maintaining in a virtual address book one or more electronic mail addresses from one or more of the various address fields (e.g., “From,” “To,” “Cc,” “Bcc”) of one or more e-mail messages either transmitted from or received at a predetermined network... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP C/o Susan Trader

20100198816 - System and method for presenting content representative of document search: A system and method for selecting content that is representative of one or more documents is provided. Aspects provide for a fully automated machine-learned system that does not require costly manual selection and supervision of content. The system enables search engines to leverage existing news feeds and content bases to... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20100198821 - Methods and systems for creating and using an adaptive thesaurus: Methods and systems are provided for creating an adaptive thesaurus. A term pair including an index term and an expansion term is received. A recall gain, an expansion independence, and a semantic similarity of the term pair are calculated using a processor. Whether to store the term pair is determined... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100198822 - Methods and techniques for adaptive search: A method and apparatus for an adaptive search user interface is provided. An interface is provided that returns search results upon receiving each alphanumeric character of a search query term. Correlations of prefixes of alphanumeric characters and search results selected from previous searches are stored in a correlation matrix. Based... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP

20100198824 - Image keyword appending apparatus, image search apparatus and methods of controlling same: A keyword or the like effective for conducting a search is appended to an image. Subjects contained in an image are detected. The subject names and positions of the respective subjects that have been detected are detected. Keywords representing broader concepts of the detected subject names and the positions of... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20100198825 - Method and system for providing targeted documents based on concepts automatically identified therein: A system and method for providing a graphical document are provided. A graphical document is processed to identify one or more ideas associated with the graphical document. The identified ideas may be used to determine concepts to associate with the first electronic document and suggest those concepts for association with... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100198823 - Systems and methods to automatically generate enhanced information associated with a selected web table: According to some embodiments, a system, method, means, and/or computer program code are provided to facilitate use of a data sharing web server remote from a user device. According to some embodiments, information from a remote web resource server may be received at the user device (and the received information... Agent: Sap Ag C/o Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20100198826 - Maintaining a historical record of anonymized user profile data by location for users in a mobile environment: A system and method are provided for maintaining a historical record of anonymized user profile data for mobile device users. In one embodiment, a central system, which includes one or more servers, operates to obtain current locations and user profiles for users of mobile devices. The central system processes the... Agent: Withrow & Terranova Ct

20100198828 - Forming crowds and providing access to crowd data in a mobile environment: A system and method are provided for forming crowds of users and providing access to corresponding crowd data. In one embodiment, a central system, which includes one or more servers, operates to obtain current locations for users of mobile devices. The central system forms a crowd including a number of... Agent: Withrow & Terranova Ct

20100198827 - Method for finding text reading order in a document: A method for finding text reading order in a document such as a scanned newspaper or magazine includes the steps of pruning unnecessary text zones using semantic analysis (40), using text correlation measures to cluster zones (41), and then finding a reading order within each of the clusters (42).... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100198832 - Data processing apparatus and method of processing data: Data processing apparatus comprising: a chunk store configured for containing specimen data chunks, a discrete manifest store, configured for containing at least one manifest that represents at least a part of a data set and that comprises at least one reference to at least one of said specimen data chunks,... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100198830 - Dynamic data distribution aggregation: Systems and methods reduce a time to calculate an aggregate of data values associated with a range of index entries. The system manages aggregate values within data stored in the entries of an index during insertion, modification, and deletion operations, and provides new index operations to generate aggregate values associated... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20100198831 - Knowledge annotation result checking method and system: The present invention discloses a knowledge annotation result checking system and method. The knowledge annotation result checking system comprises: a receiving unit for receiving a knowledge annotation result; and a checking unit, for comparing the received knowledge annotation result with information within a tag registration database to obtain comparison information.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100198829 - Method and computer-program product for ranged indexing: A method for generating and searching a ranged index provides a computer-readable medium which is adapted to store a database including a data chunk, and a ranged index including a data chunk index; generating the data chunk index by determining a high value in the data chunk and a low... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100198833 - System and method for social networking: A method of social networking including the step of providing a networking system with a website on a web network. The method further includes the steps of receiving from a claimant entering the website an agreement to the terms of service and thereafter receiving the claimant as a member, receiving... Agent: Robert A. Parsons

20100198834 - System for creating and maintaining a database of information utilizing user options: A system for automatically creating and maintaining a database of information utilizing user opinions about subjects, particularly exceptional experiences. Described is an Internet system assisting/motivating a population of users interested in information about certain categories of subjects to automatically maintain the database content and to improve the usefulness and quality... Agent: Stephen E. Zweig

20100198835 - Annotating content with context metadata: s

20100198837 - Identifying query aspects: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for generating aspects associated with entities. In some implementations, a method includes receiving data identifying an entity; generating a group of candidate aspects for the entity; modifying the group of candidate aspects to generate a group of modified candidate aspects comprising combining... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100198838 - Managing add-ons: One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for providing recommendations for an add-on to a base program operating on a computing device, thus allowing a user to make a more informed decision as to whether to allow the add-on to be installed or not. To make the recommendation, collection... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100198836 - Systems and methods for calculating a just-in-time reputation score: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating a just-in-time reputation score. The method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises receiving a user generated content item from a user, calculating an initial reputation score and retrieving a plurality of rules. The method then analyzes... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20100198840 - Rank-order service providers based on desired service properties: Candidate service providers for a desired service are ranked. Terms describing service requirements for a desired service are determined. Service capability documents describing the services of the candidate service providers are determined using the terms describing the service requirements. Using singular value decomposition (SVD) and a metric, similarities between the... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100198839 - Term extraction from service description documents: Terms are extracted from service description documents describing desired services, and the terms are used to search for candidate service providers operable to provide the desired services. A matrix of terms and documents are determined from the service description documents. Singular value decomposition (SVD) is used to decompose the matrix.... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100198841 - Systems and methods for automatically identifying and linking names in digital resources: The present invention provides systems and methods for automatically identifying name-like-strings in digital resources, matching these name-like-string against a set of names held in an expertly curated database, and for those name-like-strings found in said database, enhancing the content by associating additional matter with the name, wherein said matter includes... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20100198842 - Method and apparatus for filtering peer-to-peer network searches for limited capability devices: A method and apparatus for filtering a peer-to-peer (P2P) search query in a P2P network (100) is provided. A P2P-enabled device (102) generates a P2P search query (404) and appends device capability information to the P2P search query to generate a device-specific P2P search query (412). The device-specific P2P search... Agent: Motorola Inc

20100198843 - Software title discovery: In a computer system that has no single place to discover all installed software applications, a software title discovery technique uses a combination of techniques to discover installed software. One of the combined techniques is an operating system predefined interface for obtaining information about installed software application; other techniques that... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20100198844 - Automatic code generation: According to one embodiment, a method for generating code includes receiving a database file describing a database and a database schema. The database includes a plurality of database records. A metadata tag is received, the metadata tag describing a business relationship between two or more database records. The database file... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20100198845 - Selective construction of data search result per search request specifying path information: A system and associated method for selectively constructing a search result for a data requested by a search request specifying path information of a data node comprising the data. A template tree represents a hierarchy of the search result with expandable nodes which initially do not have actual data. A... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts LLP

20100198846 - Method for order invariant correlated encrypting of data and sql queries for maintaining data privacy and securely resolving customer defects: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for debugging a computer system is provided. According to one embodiment of the invention, a method includes encrypting data and query program instructions using correlated order invariant encrypting, the data and query program instructions operating in a customer computer system.... Agent: Law Office Of Donald L. Wenskay

20100198848 - Intelligent label for cosmetic product: The invention relates to a method for determining a cosmetic product suitable for a user. In order to facilitate for the user the determination and selection of a cosmetic product suitable for him/her, the method has a step of storing first data in a memory element, the first data representing... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20100198849 - Method and apparatus for fault-tolerant memory management: A device and method for providing a fault-tolerant file system. The fault-tolerant file system attempts to minimize the number of writes used when updating file system data structures. In one embodiment, file system data, including file system metadata, is stored in a fault-tolerant tree including a working state and a... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20100198851 - Method and apparatus for retrieving data representing a postal address from a plurality of postal addresses: A method for retrieving a desired postal address from a plurality of postal addresses. The invention can feature receiving input data having input terms for finding the desired postal address from a first database of postal addresses where each postal address is formed of a plurality of postal address elements,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100198850 - Method and device for high performance regular expression pattern matching: Disclosed herein is an improved architecture for regular expression pattern matching. Improvements to pattern matching deterministic finite automatons (DFAs) that are described by the inventors include a pipelining strategy that pushes state-dependent feedback to a final pipeline stage to thereby enhance parallelism and throughput, augmented state transitions that track whether... Agent: Thompson Coburn LLP

20100198847 - Methods and systems for assessing project management offices: Systems and methods consistent with the present invention assess and evaluate project management offices (“PMOs”). Information relating to the current project management capabilities of a PMO is obtained. The information is compared with industry best practices information and consolidated knowledge and experience. Based on the comparison, the maturities of the... Agent: Accenture/finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

20100198852 - Search device and search method: A search device used to search for a search keyword from an object to be searched based on an automaton generated in accordance with the search keyword, includes: a first memory region; a second memory region; an information generation part that generates third information from first information and second information;... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100198853 - Storage device and recording medium: There are provided a storage device and a computer-readable medium capable of efficiently storing keywords contained in description information and efficiently retrieving the keyword. A list producing portion (6) extracts the keywords from the description information and produces a keyword list correlating the keywords with the scene information containing the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20100198854 - System and method for searching multiple contact information sources in a network-based address book system: Methods are provided for searching at least one directory that is external to an address book architecture including a client and a server. In one embodiment a client may communicate a contact search request that specifies an external directory which does not support a standard search format, the request causing... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20100198855 - Providing parallel result streams for database queries: A system and method for providing parallel result streams for database queries is provided. The system includes a network including a client, a server, and a database. The client executes an application and sends a query to the server. In response, the server compiles the query to produce a query... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100198856 - Method to assist user in creation of highly inter-related models in complex databases: A computer-implemented method is provided to facilitate creation of linked inter-related models in a database. The method comprises obtaining a search text and match criteria from a user, and determining whether a prequery exists. If not, a list of all destination items is obtained. If yes, a determination is made... Agent: Honeywell/fogg Patent Services

20100198857 - Rare query expansion by web feature matching: A method is disclosed for expansion of rare queries to improve advertisement results, including receiving a query from a user by a search engine; determining that the query does not match an entry in an ad query lookup table coupled with the search engine; retrieving one or more expanded queries... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20100198863 - Career authentication system, career authentication method using the same, and recording medium having program stored therein to execute career authentication method: The present invention relates to a career authentication system, a career authentication method using the same, and a recording medium. The career authentication system includes at least one corporation server that performs career verification for an experienced man according to a career verification request from the experienced man and outputs... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20100198866 - Dynamic linking in sharepoint (tm): Provided is a data management system, computer-readable medium and method including extensions to SHAREPOINT™. The system includes a computer processor operatively associated with a computer memory and one or more I/O device, in which the processor and memory are configured to operate one or more SHAREPOINT™ process. The method includes... Agent: Fox Rothschild LLP Princeton Pike Corporate Center

20100198862 - Handling crowd requests for large geographic areas: A system and method are provided for processing a request for crowd data for a large geographic area. In one embodiment, a central system, which includes one or more servers, operates to obtain current locations for users of mobile devices and form crowds of three or more users based on... Agent: Withrow & Terranova Ct

20100198867 - Information processing apparatus and method, information processing system, and providing medium: The invention enables users to virtually attach information to situations in the real world, and also enables users to quickly and easily find out desired information. An IR sensor receives an IR signal transmitted from an IR beacon, and supplies the received signal to a sub-notebook PC. A CCD video... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20100198868 - Method and apparatus for information transformation and exchange in a relational database environment: A method and apparatus is disclosed for transforming hierarchical information into a rowset and for transforming a rowset into hierarchical information. In transforming hierarchical information, such as an XML data file, into a rowset, a parser parses the XML data file to form an active store. A query processor, after... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20100198860 - Method and system for content delivery: The present invention provides a system and method for providing a presentation to a user. The system comprises a framework arranged to provide a time based primary media element and at least one secondary media element to the user, wherein the at least one secondary media element is arranged to... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20100198861 - Method and system for processing measurment data for website statistics: A method and a system for processing measurement data for website statistics are provided. The measurement data is processed in parallel bucket writers and stored in buckets. Upon receiving a report request the buckets are processed in parallel bucket queriers to obtain report data.... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20100198864 - Method for organizing large numbers of documents: A computer product including a data structure for organizing of a plurality of documents, and capable of being utilized by a processor for manipulating data of the data structure and capable of displaying selected data on a display unit. The data structure includes a plurality of directionally interlinked nodes, each... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100198859 - System and method for avoiding duplication of effort in drafting documents: A system and method is provided for avoiding duplication of effort in drafting documents and, in particular, to a system and method for avoiding duplication of effort in preparing patent related submissions. The method is implemented on a computer infrastructure comprises storing disclosure information related to non-public proprietary innovation and... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20100198865 - System and method for detecting, managing, and preventing location inference in advertising over a communications network: A method and apparatus for preventing inference of at least one unique identifier associated with a subscriber in an advertising communication network. The method comprises providing targeting criteria from an advertising server to a matching database; providing the at least one unique identifier from a subscriber database to the match... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20100198858 - System and methods for linking multiple events involving firearms and gang related activities: Methods for linking multiple events involving firearms submit event information data and firearms information data to a system that includes a database for multiple firearms events and generate a query map that correlates data in the system database with a preselected geographical grid based upon one or more preselected matching... Agent: Roy Anderson

20100198869 - System and method for communal search: A system and method which may allow a requester to post a search query and get time-sensitive responses from other users who are best suited to respond to the search query. The system may find out such best suited responders based on their location, activity and time affinity/proximity to the... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Cpa Global

20100198870 - Serving a request for data from a historical record of anonymized user profile data in a mobile environment: A system and method are provided for maintaining a historical record of anonymized user profile data for mobile device users and serving historical requests. In one embodiment, a central system, which includes one or more servers, operates to obtain current locations and user profiles for users of mobile devices. The... Agent: Withrow & Terranova Ct

20100198871 - Intuitive file sharing with transparent security: A file sharing system includes authorization-based security to control access to shared files; and a synchronizer which uses the authorization-based security to monitor the shared files for changes and propagating the changes according to sharing relationships. A method for file sharing includes using authorization-based security to control access to a... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100198874 - Data management method and apparatus: In a data management method using a hierarchical folder structure where an item such as data or a folder can be registered in multiple folders, attribute information is appended to each relational data piece that represents a pair of a child item that is either data or a folder registered... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20100198873 - Method for protecting product data from unauthorized access: In a method for protecting at least parts of product data, which are stored on at least one server and/or in at least one database and associated with a product identified by an RFID tag, from unauthorized access, an authentication and authorization check of an accessing party is performed upon... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20100198872 - 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: Dr.-ing. Thomas Walter

20100198876 - Apparatus and method of embedding meta-data in a captured image: Methods and apparatuses generate and render data embedded with associated meta-data in a human or machine recognizable format. The apparatus includes an obtaining device to acquire first data in a predetermined format and associated second data comprising information of the first data, and to output the first data and the... Agent: Honeywell/hiscock Patent Services

20100198875 - Incremental concurrent processing for efficient computation of high-volume layout data: Some embodiments of the present invention overcome I/O bottlenecks of an EDA work flow by keeping layout data distributed during handoffs among different processing stages. Specifically, some embodiments leverage a concurrent computation paradigm where data is propagated incrementally between stages, and where data processing among consecutive stages and the I/O... Agent: Pvf -- Synopsys, Inc C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20100198878 - Storage device and recording medium: There are provided a storage device and a computer-readable medium capable of efficiently storing keywords contained in description information and efficiently retrieving the keyword. A list producing portion (6) extracts the keywords from the description information and produces a keyword list correlating the keywords with the scene information containing the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20100198877 - System, method, and computer program product for importance sampling of partitioned domains: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for importance sampling of partitioned domains. In operation, a domain is partitioned into a plurality of sets. Additionally, a probability is assigned to each of the plurality of sets. Furthermore, samples are generated from the plurality of sets, the samples being... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC- Nvid

20100198879 - Automatic tracking of usage of a software application having different versions: A method for automatically tracking application and content usage is disclosed. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method first recites the step of accessing an application interface (API) call with a parameter specifying a first portion of content to be measured. For example, the amount of time... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20100198881 - Method of data storage and management: The present invention relates to a method of electronic data storage, integration, management, retrieval and organization that mimics the physical filing system through the use of account-centric non-table driven methodologies. The method of the present invention stores data related to the same account in an account-centric ledger file, where such... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20100198880 - Music diary processor: A music diary processor for generating an electronic music diary. The music diary processor receives a plurality of event identifiers from a user, wherein each event identifier identifies a respective life event associated with the user. The user can also provide a date identifier identifying a date associated with the... Agent: Withrow & Terranova Ct

20100198882 - Systems and methods for creating multiple logbooks in a computer application.: Systems and methods for creating multiple logbooks in a computer application. Entities that make up the components of a logbook are defined. The logbook is customized by further extending the entities and defining the relationship between the entities. Using the entities and their extensions and relationships, multiple logbooks can be... Agent: Roshan Shrestha

20100198883 - Computer readable medium and information processing apparatus: selecting one piece of management object information corresponding to the location information with reference to history information which is registered with the location information and the management object information being associated with each other; and sending back a result of a process that is executed for the selected management object... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20100198884 - Storage device and recording medium: There are provided a storage device and a computer-readable medium capable of efficiently storing keywords contained in description information and efficiently retrieving the keyword. A list producing portion (6) extracts the keywords from the description information and produces a keyword list correlating the keywords with the scene information containing the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20100198885 - Method and system for executing a task and medium storing a program therefor: A method of executing a task includes executing, by using a processor, a first task including a low-frequency task in which garbage is collected using a garbage collector, initializing a second task including a high-frequency task by constructing an instance of a class that implements a standard runnable thread interface,... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20100198886 - Method and apparatus for tracking device management data changes: A method and apparatus for tracking device management data changes comprising storing information related to modification to device management data wherein the device management data is stored in an Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) compliant device management tree of Managed Objects (MO).... Agent: Research In Motion Corp./cr Attn: J. Robert Brown

20100198887 - Scalable video coding (svc) file format: The currently existing ISO/AVC file format is modified by providing extensions to store and access video content currently being defined by the SVC standard. Specifically, extensions to the AVC file format are made to provide a new SVC file format that enables the storage and access of scalable video data.... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20100198889 - Client application program interface for network-attached storage system: Methods and apparatus for providing a network attached storage system which does not require specialized hardware to operate. In one embodiment, a downloadable software package is provided via a web interface. After a user has downloaded and installed the software package, a sharable volume is created upon a host system.... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20100198890 - Method and apparatus for multimedia data management on mobile devices: A method and apparatus for managing multimedia files of a mobile device is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of managing captured images of a mobile device having an optical image sensor includes storing metadata associated with each of the captured images in an over-the-air server. The stored metadata is... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100198888 - System for managing distributed assets and medadata: A system for managing distributed digital assets and related metadata in a network, including several interconnected nodes, each of the interconnected nodes providing accessibility to the distributed digital assets via user controlled stores and caching subsystems such that the management of the assets and related metadata is based on predetermined... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff