Data processing: database and file management or data structures inventions

20100023476 - Location/event based dictionaries to facilitate communication in a virtual world location: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to jargon usage in a location in a virtual world and provide a method, system and computer program product for location and event based dictionaries to facilitate communication in location in a virtual world. In an embodiment of... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20100023481 - Computer-implemented method for deriving, translating, and using definitional expressions for data in a database: A computer-implemented method is disclosed for deriving definitional expressions for data in a database from membership abstractions, and for deriving membership abstractions from definitional expressions. Definitional expressions may be partially in a natural language. By automating the translation among definitional expressions and membership abstractions, definitional expressions may then be used... Agent: David Mcgoveran

20100023479 - Hexadecimal file fast decompression method: A computer implemented method of selectively accesses a set of subdivisions of a compressed file, wherein the compressed file is a hex dump file. A request to access a first data byte string is received. The first data byte string has a first address from within the compressed file. The... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20100023480 - Indexing method of database management system: A database management system has a plurality of database servers and data can be transferred between them by partitioning a data area into small areas and altering allocation of the small areas to the database servers. After altering the configuration, there occurs degradation in processing speed that accompanies re-creation of... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20100023477 - Optimized bulk computations in data warehouse environments: A method including extracting data spanning a computational interval from a plurality of database tables in an optimized manner, creating an array of each column of data that is extracted, accessing each array via a standardized programmatic interface to manipulate the data, if needed to perform computations, normalizing the accessed... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Austin

20100023478 - Utilizing path ids for name and namespace searches: In a database system, names and namespace of XML nodes are computed from path ids. The path ids are constructed from tokens, each of which represents a particular name or namespace-name pair.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20100023494 - Human resource networking system and method thereof: A Human Resource Networking System, which is a novel Method establishing a business system for locating, identifying, promoting and assisting in the employing of career project workers in the non-career workforce, includes a Relational Database comprising an Industry Credit Inductive Lineage Construct Matrix containing People Elements, Places Elements, Projects Elements,... Agent: David And Raymond Patent Firm

20100023492 - Inventions: The present invention relates to: an automatically adjusting seat, methods of playing video games by inputting a code that controls at least one aspect of the game, method of packaging cooking ingredients, methods and devices for providing gate and other travel information to passengers, a lid for a container and... Agent: John M. Lucas

20100023491 - Method and apparatus for network storage access rights management: A method for network storage access rights management operates storage access rights of network storage directories or network storage files that an authorizing user sets for an authorized user. Authorization may be set for an authorized user in the network storage access rights metadata of the authorizing user according to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100023483 - Method and system for post processing trace data: A system and method for storing a plurality of trace records in a memory and searching, by a hardware processor, the plurality of trace records for specific trace data from the trace records, the searching including feeding the trace records back into a hardware real time event processor that collected... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20100023489 - Method of distributing contents and system: A method of distributing contents including steps of: calculating feature quantities of contents written in a plurality of files by using a common calculation operation; allotting a common ID to feature quantities which are equivalent to each other among the calculated feature quantities; associating the plurality of files with the... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100023485 - Method of generating audiovisual content through meta-data analysis: To provide fast, robust matching of audio content, such as music, with visual content, such as images, videos, and text, a keyword is extracted from either the audio content or the visual content. The keyword is then utilized to match the audio content with the visual content, or the visual... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100023490 - Method of, and apparatus for, controlling the transportation of articles, and arrangement for transporting a plurality of articles: A method and apparatus for controlling transportation of a plurality of articles include providing each article with the specification of a destination to which the article is to be transported. Each article passes through a sorting installation at least twice. During both passages through the sorting installation, a respective image... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20100023493 - Methods, systems & products for generating web pages: Methods, systems, and products generate web pages using elidable links to additional content. When a link is selected in a web page, elision is used to automatically remove a URL and its associated content from the web page, thus reducing previously visited material. When a user selects an elision-enabled link,... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Sz Attn: Patent Docketing

20100023486 - Static typing of xquery expressions in lax validation content: Systems and methods that extend static typing rules/algorithms of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) rules, with a more precise static typing algorithm that supplies knowledge for types occurring in the Lax validation section. The Lax validation can be identified, and associated expressions known with particularity, wherein types can be... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100023487 - System and method for automatically linking data sources for providing data related to a query: A computer-implemented method of linking a predefined set of electronic data sources comprises electronically identifying a query data item and one or more query dimensions based on a query statement, electronically determining first data sources in which at least one of one or more source fields is equivalent to the... Agent: Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

20100023484 - System and method for generating personalized emergency plans: A system and method is provided, that manages, and tracks substantial, detailed information related to prescribed users, to include information gathering from users as well as gathering information from third parties or other publically available sources. With this information, the system provides users detailed and relevant emergency plans without overwhelming... Agent: Tsircou Intellectual Property Law

20100023488 - System and method for integrating interactive video service and yellow page service: Provided is a method for providing the integration service of an interactive video and a yellow page, which includes receiving a video request message of a client, selecting multimedia data corresponding to the received message, and transmitting the selected multimedia data to the client, receiving a search message of the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20100023482 - Systems and methods for the management of information to enable the rapid dissemination of actionable information: Methods, systems and media are provided for turning large volumes of globally distributed data into actionable information by building a distributed semantic graph and maintaining such graph with up to date changes in data and client needs are provided. The semantic graph can be used to run subscriptions over interconnected... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20100023496 - Processing data from diverse databases: Method, system and computer usable medium are provided for processing information items from first and second databases, wherein information items in the first database are related in first way, and information items in the second database are related in a second way. The method comprises providing a semantic relationship between... Agent: Sughrue Mion PLLC Uspto Customer No With Ibm/svl

20100023498 - Relationship management in a data abstraction model: A method, system and article of manufacture for managing relationships in a data abstraction model abstractly describing data in a database. One embodiment provides a method of linking logical branches of data in a database based on the relationships. The method includes accessing a data abstraction model abstractly describing the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20100023495 - System for suggesting keywords based on mobile specific attributes: A system is described for suggesting keywords to users based on mobile specific attributes. The system may include a processor, a memory and an interface being operatively connected. The memory may store a search query. The processor may be operative to communicate with a user on a mobile device. The... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20100023497 - Using an id domain to improve searching: Methods which use an ID domain to improve searching are described. An embodiment describes an index phase in which an image of a document is converted into the ID domain. This is achieved by dividing the text in the image into elements and mapping each element to an identifier. Similar... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20100023506 - Augmenting online content with additional content relevant to user interests: A method of gathering information relevant to the interests of a user includes receiving activity history associated with the user from a network data source, where the activity history includes a description of a user action initiated by the user, generating a first metadata item based upon the activity history;... Agent: Yahoo C/o Mofo Palo Alto

20100023511 - Data file correlation system and method: A method for correlating data from a data source representing a single data file to a data target containing a plurality of data files is provided. The method includes normalizing the data from the data source, such as by removing white space and replacing data strings. One or more data... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20100023502 - Federated community search: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to web searching protocols.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP

20100023512 - Methods and systems for content access and distribution: Distribution of content between publishers and consumers is accomplished using an overlay network that may make use of XML language to facilitate content identification. The overlay network includes a plurality of routers that may be in communication with each other and the publishers and consumers on the Internet. Content and... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Lna Attn: Patent Docketing

20100023509 - Protecting information in search queries: A method of protecting information in search queries uses a search apparatus with a user interface that is configured for connection to a computer network that comprises a plurality of search engines on a plurality of servers. The method includes receiving a search query comprising a plurality of keywords; dividing... Agent: Ibm Corporation C/o: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20100023508 - Search engine enhancement using mined implicit links: An implicit links enhancement system and method for search engines that generates implicit links obtained from mining user access logs to facilitate enhanced local searching of web sites and intranets. Embodiments of the implicit links search enhancement system and method includes extracting implicit links by mining users' access patterns and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100023505 - Search method, similarity calculation method, similarity calculation, same document matching system, and program thereof: Same document group creation means (11) acquires a ratio of common words and characters between documents in order to obtain a predetermined similarity greater than a predetermined threshold value between the documents. According to the ratio, words or characters are selected with a common priority in all the documents to... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20100023507 - Search system using images: A search system using images is provided in which when a user does not know a relevant URL or search keyword correctly while surfing the Internet, he or she can search a desired website using only an image. The search system using images according to the present invention comprises an... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20100023499 - System and method for a content fingerprint filter: A system and method for a content fingerprint filter. Various embodiments include receiving content and a preference from a user. The content is encoded without any available identifying information. A technical analysis of the encoded content is performed for one or more technical attributes. The available identifying information is paired... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20100023501 - System and method for automatically selecting a data source for providing data related to a query: A computer-implemented method of prioritizing a predefined set of electronic data sources, including the steps of: providing a database containing metadata related to the predefined set of electronic data sources, the metadata comprising, for each electronic data source, one or more source data items and one or more source dimensions;... Agent: Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

20100023503 - System and method for automatically selecting a data source for providing data related to a query: A computer-implemented method of prioritizing a predefined set of electronic data sources includes a step of identifying one or more second data sources corresponding to one or more first data sources if it is determined that the first data sources do not have the ability to provide data related to... Agent: Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

20100023504 - System and method for automatically selecting a data source for providing data related to a query: A computer-implemented method of prioritizing a predefined set of electronic data sources includes the steps of electronically determining data sources in which at least one of one or more source fields is the same as a query data item of a query statement, electronically and dynamically ranking the data sources... Agent: Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

20100023500 - System and method for collecting, storing, managing and providing categorized information related to a document object: A method and system for enabling users of a network to create, store, and provide access to relationships between document objects stored on the network. The method may include the steps for allowing a user of the network to create a link relationship between a first document object and a... Agent: Andrews Kurth LLP

20100023510 - Terminal device and system for searching personal information: An information terminal of a user B who permits a user A to search the person B calculates a calculation result G(Pa′, Pb) by using information Pa′ related to the user A and information Pb of the user B, both Pa′ and Pb being stored in the information terminal of... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20100023513 - User-sensitive pagerank: Techniques are described for generating an authority value of a first one of a plurality of documents. A first component of the authority value is generated with reference to outbound links associated with the first document. The outbound links enable access to a first subset of the plurality of documents.... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson - Yahoo!

20100023515 - Data clustering engine: A method of managing a plurality of records, in which each record comprises a plurality of fields, involves determining a match signature for each record by evaluating a deterministic cluster definition against each record. The deterministic cluster definition comprises a logical association of the fields and defines at least one... Agent: Heenan Blaikie LLP

20100023516 - Information handling: An information handling apparatus in which textual metadata is generated in respect of a current information item in an ensemble of information items including: a mechanism that detects one or more predetermined properties of the current information item; a mechanism that detects a subset of information items from the ensemble... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100023517 - Method and system for extracting data-points from a data file: The present invention provides a method, system and computer program product for extracting data-points from a data file. A data-point is extracted in a data-base by pointing at a portion of computer recognizable text in the data file by a pointing device. The data-point associated with the pointed portion of... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20100023514 - Tokenization platform: A tokenization platform and method is described for accurately tokenizing character strings, including but not limited to non-delimited character strings of the type commonly used in Internet domain names and computer filenames, to accurately identify words and phrases occurring therein. In one embodiment, a phased tokenization approach is used in... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Cpa Global

20100023518 - Ordering telemetry messages: A method for ordering telemetry messages containing attributes individually not sufficient to establish total ordering is provided. An initial rank value is assigned for a first telemetry message. For a subsequent telemetry message, it is determined if an attribute of the subsequent telemetry message indicates an ordering of the subsequent... Agent: Honeywell/ifl Patent Services

20100023520 - Encapsulated file management systems: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for processing element access requests in a computing environment having a plurality of applications, by managing versions of elements of a first set of applications as belonging to respective application execution groups of a first group type, each application execution group of... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20100023519 - Feature based data management: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for data structure locking. In one aspect, a proper subset of variables of a set of variables in a data structure are received. An access privilege to modify variables in the data structure to administrator accounts is assigned. A first administrator access... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100023521 - System and method for managing locks across distributed computing nodes: A method and system for managing locks for one or more resources in a distributed system including multiple distributed computing nodes, is provided. One implementation involves maintaining a database as a shared storage accessible by plural participating nodes for storing shared lock information, each participating node locally managing a local... Agent: Ibm - Eu C/o Myers Andras Sherman LLP

20100023522 - Dynamically controlling permissions: A high level of computer security can be achieved by controlling read/write/execute access to files, controlling incoming or outgoing network connections, controlling incoming or outgoing network traffic and controlling privileged operations based on states of Application Security Environments and/or based on states of users or groups of users and/or based... Agent: George Madat-h-ilparambil George

20100023523 - Method and apparatus for managing data having access restriction information: A method and an apparatus for managing data for providing a predetermined piece of information according to access restriction information established with regard to each piece of data are provided. The method includes: establishing the access restriction information with regard to the data when the data is stored; and determining... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100023524 - Block based access to a dispersed data storage network: A block-based interface to a dispersed data storage network is disclosed. The disclosed interface accepts read and write commands from a file system resident on a user's computer and generates network commands that are forwarded to slice servers that form the storage component of the dispersed data storage network. The... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison (cs)

20100023528 - Emergency medical information service and health records system: A method for accessing a person's medical information in an emergency, the medical information stored in a database of a medical records system includes calling an emergency telephone number; entering an access code to access the medical records system; receiving a prerecorded message reciting the medical information; in response to... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20100023525 - Media container file management: The invention teaches a media container file comprising media data organized into media source blocks. Forward error correction (FEC) redundancy data is pre-calculated for the different source blocks and organized into the container file as different FEC reservoirs. The container file also comprises meta data providing an association between the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100023529 - Metadata management system for an information dispersed storage system: An apparatus includes a processing module and a network interface. The processing module is operably coupled to obtain; a data storage transaction request regarding a file; determine identity of a user based on the data storage transaction request; access file level metadata based on the identity of the user to... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison (cs)

20100023530 - Method and apparatus for providing rich media service: A method is provided for providing a received rich media service by a terminal. The method includes receiving and decoding service content, searching for reference information using representation information of the reference information in the received service content, and composing the received service content in a form that can be... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100023531 - Method and system for real time records from aggregated mobile data: A method and system for providing real-time display of data collected and submitted via mobile devices. An example method includes collecting data in a data record by the mobile device. The collected data record is submitted to a remote server. At least some of the data in the collected data... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20100023526 - Method, a computer system, a computer readable medium and a document management system for repairing references of files: The invention relates to a method, a computer system, a computer readable medium and a document management system for repairing references of files. The computer system comprises a first location and a second location and one or more files stored in the first location. A command is received to transfer... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20100023527 - Provider-consumer web portal: A system, comprising a processor, a database, a memory, and a communications interface, all operationally coupled to the processor, wherein the memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to receive data associated with a unique data value representative of an identification of a first service... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100023532 - Remote file system, terminal device, and server device: A remote file system includes a terminal device and a server device, communicably connected via a network. Data handed over from an application executed in the terminal device is written in a storage device connected to the server device. The terminal device includes a managing unit that manages, when storing... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20100023535 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product thereof for storing a data and data storage system comprising the same: An intermediary apparatus, an intermediary method, and a computer program product thereof for storing data in a storage apparatus, and a data storage system comprising the same are provided. The storage apparatus has a storage zone with a signature field, and the signature field stores a first signature value. The... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20100023536 - Automated data entry system: The present invention is a novel system and method for providing automated data entry of information. The system may include a processing subsystem capable of processing extensible markup language documents, a predicting subsystem capable of reviewing entered data of an input document and providing a suggestion to the input document,... Agent: Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20100023534 - Computer-aided safety logic certification: A method is provided for certifying safety logic code in a manufacturing automation system. A plurality of safety related test scenarios is provided for testing the safety logic code in the manufacturing automation system. A processing unit is configured for communication with the logic controller. The processing unit generates logic... Agent: Macmillan, Sobanski & Todd, LLC One Maritime Plaza

20100023533 - Embedded change logging for data synchronization: Embodiments of the present invention provide for embedded change logging for data synchronization. In an embodiment of the invention, an embedded change logging data processing system can include a change embedded database (EDB) disposed in a pervasive device. The EDB can store entries for notified changes in data for multiple... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20100023537 - Utilizing and maintaining data definitions during process thread traversals: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for traversing a process tree in a digital video editing system. A process tree is loaded into a digital video-editing system. The process tree has parent nodes that are dependent on output data from child nodes. Each parent node and each child node... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP

20100023542 - Converting physical aspects of common warehouse model to elements of relational database: A method and a system for converting physical aspects of a common warehouse model (CWM) to corresponding database management system (DBMS) items in a relational database by processing in a hierarchical manner the physical aspects and creating the corresponding DBMS items. The physical aspects comprise relational catalogs. The relational catalogs... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20100023538 - Disclosure booth: Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for facilitating the disclosure of information from a disclosing party. Such a system may comprise a computing device including an operating system executing within the computing device; a software application operating in conjunction with the operating system, the software application prompting the disclosing party... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Wk Attn: Patent Docketing

20100023540 - Editing device and editing method using metadata: A waiting time until editing starts is shortened. Metadata that are a part of metadata are transferred from an optical disc set in a disc unit to an HDD in an editing device. The metadata are text data including a clip ID and continuing time information of material data, and... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100023541 - Universal data management interface: A universal data management interface (UDMI) system includes a processing system generates a visual interface through which a user can access, manage, and manipulate data on plural different types of remote databases. The UDMI connects to multiple standard database management systems and to allow multiple users to access, manage, and... Agent: Sadler, Breen, Morasch & Colby, Ps

20100023539 - Xml/database/xml layer analysis: An automated method for testing XML/Database/XML layers. To the extent that XML is the de facto communication standard for today's middleware products, most of the middleware products need to produce/accept XML data at some interfaces. This data either comes from or needs to be persisted into DB (database). Two end... Agent: Sughrue Mion PLLC Uspto Customer No With Ibm/svl

20100023547 - Automatic user interface generation for entity interaction: Architecture that allows a developer to create an application quicker by providing an engine that automatically creates pieces of an application user interface (UI). The engine can take as input an instance of an entity or any entity type, and create as an output a user interface (UI) that allows... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100023545 - Data logging system and method thereof for heterogeneous data: The present invention provides a data logging system and a data logging method for heterogeneous data. The record file and the index file according to the present invention are constructed in such a way that the data from the log record corresponding to a given target visual data line are... Agent: Venable LLP

20100023549 - Method and apparatus for social tagging using property field of ontology object: A method for social tagging using a property field of an ontology object includes: selecting an object in an ontology database storing therein objects in forms of classes; selecting a property field in a class corresponding to the selected object; and adding a social tag by storing user's input as... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100023548 - Method and system for defining a pseudo-world: A method for creating a pseudo-world that includes identifying a first pseudo-world file system, wherein the first pseudo-world file system includes a plurality of folders and a plurality of attribute files in a file system hierarchy, wherein the file system hierarchy defines a plurality of parent child relationships between the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20100023551 - Method for accessing and updating data in a database using membership abstractions and logical representations: This is a computer-implemented method for accessing and updating data in a database that preserves relationships among data, including derived data. Data need not be stored in a tabular form. The method incorporates and integrates membership abstractions, relation predicates, and logical predicates of data with relationships among data so as... Agent: David Mcgoveran

20100023543 - Method for supporting unchecked classification within a service registry: During synchronization of data between service registries, certain unchecked classification and taxonomy data may not synchronize correctly leaving valuable data unused in the source registry. The present application provides for the creation of a generic object in the destination service registry to enable the synchronization to correctly map the taxonomy... Agent: Ibm Corporation (accsp) C/o Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20100023544 - System and method for adaptive media playback based on destination: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer readable-media for adaptive media playback based on destination. The method for adaptive media playback comprises determining one or more destinations, collecting media content that is relevant to or describes the one or more destinations, assembling the media content into a program, and outputting... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ndq

20100023546 - System and method for aggregating raw data into a star schema: A method for aggregating raw data into a star schema comprises receiving data from a data source. The data is aggregated into star schema objects, based on a user-defined metadata schema. The star schema objects are stored into a star schema database.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100023550 - System for handling meta data for describing one or more resources and a method of handling meta data for describing one or more resources: A system for handling meta data for describing one or more resources, wherein the one or more resources are deliverable to a common group of users at one or more user terminals, the system including: a resource server for storing the one or more resources for delivery to at least... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100023552 - Serializable objects and a database thereof: A technique to communicate data between two objects in a computing environment includes invoking a write method of a first object. A converter associated with a second object having a second format for storing the data is then invoked. The converter converts field values associated with first fields of the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100023554 - Apparatus, program, and method for map data update: In map data having link information, each of the links has reference information regarding a start point node of the link, a next link in a series of links, and an upper link. Further, links are memorized in a form of link list, and the position of the link in... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20100023556 - Medical image management apparatus: An image file reception unit receives order information data files concerning studies. An order information reception unit receives records concerning the studies, the records including medical images and supplementary information data files associated with the medical images. A discrimination unit compares items of a specific order information data file of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100023555 - System and method for associating a file with one or more other files in an online storage system: A method for associating images stored a memory associated with an online server. The method includes receiving a first file having a first file format and a second file having a second file format, where the first file is associated with a file size that is smaller than a file... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20100023553 - System and method for rich media annotation: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer readable-media for rich media annotation, the method comprising receiving a first recorded media content, receiving at least one audio annotation about the first recorded media, extracting metadata from the at least one of audio annotation, and associating all or part of the metadata... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ndq

20100023558 - Method for managing objects accessible to users and computer device involved for implementation of the method: s

20100023557 - System and method to extend a file manager user interface: Systems and methods are presented for extending a file manager user interface to create, edit and organize meta information for files. According to a method embodiment, a file manager is provided to manage files stored in a computer-readable medium. The file manager is adapted to provide a directory view of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20100023559 - Optimizing grace period detection for preemptible read-copy update on uniprocessor systems: A technique for optimizing grace period detection following a data element update operation that affects preemptible data readers. A determination is made whether the data processing system is a uniprocessor system or a multiprocessor system. Grace period detection processing is performed using a first grace period detection technique if the... Agent: Walter W. Duft

20100023560 - Method and apparatus for concurrently updating a database: A method and apparatus for concurrently updating a database is provided. An exclusive copy of a record is created in the database, the exclusive copy for exclusive use by a first entity of a first class. First proposed changes to the record from the first entity are posted to the... Agent: Mitel Networks Corporation Michelle Whittington, Esq.

20100023561 - Data restoration in a storage system using multiple restore points: A data restoration method comprising determining whether a restoration process is in progress, in response to receiving a read request to read contents from a track on a source volume (ST[i]); reading data from ST[i], in response to determining that the restoration process is not in progress; determining whether the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20100023562 - Extended system for accessing electronic documents with revision history in non-compatible repositories: Methods, apparatus, and articles for creating a document revision history for a document imported into a first Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) from a second EDMS. Metadata and content from the second EDMS is “mirrored” within the first EDMS to create an artificial or mirrored revision history of a document... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ibm Svl

20100023563 - Copying files from one directory to another: An aspect of the present invention stores files of a source directory in a target directory. In an embodiment, a unique identifier is generated for each of the files and a new location and a new name are generated for the file. The new location represents the specific sub-directory of... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20100023565 - Separate swap files corresponding to different virtual machines in a host computer system: A swap space is provided for a host computer system, where the swap space includes a plurality of swap files with each individual swap file for swapping data only for a single corresponding virtual machine (VM). The per-VM swap space is used solely by the single, corresponding VM, such that... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20100023564 - Synchronous replication for fault tolerance: Subject matter disclosed herein relates to data management of multiple applications, and in particular, to fault tolerance for such management.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP

20100023566 - Method for allocating logical unit inside storage system to logical volume and storage controller: A storage controller comprises a creation module that creates a logical volume, a management module that manages a plurality of types of logical units inside a storage system, a measurement module that measures an access characteristic, which is a characteristic related to an access to the logical volume, a decision... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100023567 - Recording device: In the case of recording pieces of cache data stored in a cache information management unit 103 onto a recording medium 109, a recording device pertaining to the present invention records, according to designation of a recording area by a file management unit 101, pieces of data that are to... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100017361 - Hierarchical categorization of media assets and user interface for media player: An improved hierarchical user interface for a handheld media player is disclosed, which classifies media assets that an on-line merchandiser intends to sell to the user as hidden files. The files are invisible to a user without a user's intended and persistent interaction with a user input device of the... Agent: Yang Pan

20100017360 - System and method to control email whitelists: A system and method to control email whitelists by collecting one or more website email addresses parsed from a web page, detecting whether one or more of the user's email addresses are included in a webform of the web page, confirming whether the collected one or more website email addresses... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20100017363 - Efficient evaluation of sql pivot operations: Techniques are described herein for supporting efficient evaluation of pivot operations. In an embodiment, a pivoting query on a data table is received. The query identifies pivot columns, measure columns, and grouping columns. In response to receiving the query, a staging table that comprises new pivot columns, aggregated columns, and... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20100017362 - Simplifying access to documents accessed recently in a remote system: Simplifying access to documents accessed recently on a remote system. In one embodiment, the list of documents accessed by a user using a first instance of an application in a first/remote system is maintained. The list of documents is provided/displayed to the same user when using a second instance of... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20100017364 - Systems, methods, and software for distributed loading of databases: The present inventors have devised one or more systems, methods, and software for distributed loading of information retrieval systems. One exemplary system includes two or more (at least two) load monitor servers that not only monitor and ensure completion of load tasks by individual load servers in a set of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20100017367 - Accessing data associated with one application from another application: A method involving: automatically identifying a string in a portion of text; extracting, from a calendar application database, data for a portion of the calendar corresponding to the identified string; and enabling display of the extracted calendar data.... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20100017372 - Apparatus and method for providing user interface service in a multimedia system: An apparatus and method are provided for providing a User Interface (UI) service in a multimedia system. The method includes receiving UI data from a UI server; abstracting UI data that is structuralized on an object-by-object basis, and corresponds to an input from a UI client; creating adaptive UI data... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100017374 - Approching control system to the file server: A system for controlling access to a file server is disclosed. The system for controlling access to a file server includes a management server, a plurality of client terminals for communicating with the management server, and a file server for storing one or more documents shared by the plurality of... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20100017369 - Database system and its handling method for ideogram: The present invention relates to a database system for ideograms and a processing method thereof. The database system includes an ideogram database having fields in which shapes of characters constituting the ideograms are separated into Chinese radicals comprised of dots and strokes, each Chinese radical comprising one stroke count, a... Agent: Christopher Paul Mitchell

20100017373 - Encoder, decoder, their methods, programs thereof, and recording media having programs recorded thereon: In encoding for putting one or more files and/or one or more files in a folder into a single archive file, original hierarchy information and standard hierarchy information generated by converting characters in a special character coding in each file name to characters in a standard character coding are recorded... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100017377 - Finite-state machine augmented for multiple evaluations of text: A process performs multiple evaluations of text simultaneously. There are multiple counters, each with pattern-amount pairs. The pattern-amount pairs are accumulated into a single finite-state machine, with each state having a list of (counter, value) pairs instead of a single value. While the finite-state machine is applied to text, a... Agent: Avaya Inc. Margaret Carmichael, Docketing Specialist

20100017365 - Leveraging multilevel hierarchical associations to find cross-boundary issues: A mechanism for locating information about a target entity in disparate multilevel hierarchical knowledge repositories. Upon occurrence of an event associated with a target entity comprising an information technology solution, disparate multilevel hierarchical knowledge repositories are searched for metadata about the target entity. A determination is made from the metadata... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20100017376 - Method and system for detecting accessing host contained in network, and statistic and analyzing server: A detecting method is provided, which includes extracting an Internet Protocol Identifier value from an obtained data packet. The detecting method may further include searching in a record table containing a correspondence relationship between an Internet Protocol Identifier value and a terminal serial number to determine whether the record table... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100017368 - Service registry and relevant system and method: The present invention discloses improvements in a service registry in the SOA and relevant improvements in service propagation, query, and service selection and routing methods during service invocation. Said service registry is connected with a local service domain and a remote service registry and comprises: a local service information manager... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20100017366 - System and method for performing contextual searches across content sources: A request is received from a user to perform a contextual search based on a media file or metadata for the media file. A type of the media file is determined. A contextual search menu is presented to the user. A selected contextual search query type selected from the contextual... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP. (pa)

20100017375 - System and method for providing a search feature in a network environment: An apparatus for providing a feature in a network environment is provided that includes a central web site operable to interface with one or more end users and to manage information related to one or more of the end users. The central web site is operable to populate a queue... Agent: Patent Capital Group

20100017370 - T cell epitope databases: The invention relates to databases of T cell epitopes, especially helper T cell epitopes, for rapid interrogation of protein sequences for the presence of T cell epitopes. The invention includes full or partial databases and data structures of T cell epitopes including epitopes identified especially by ex vivo T cell... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20100017371 - Web based interactive meeting facility: A computer program product helps organize an in-person gathering of users of topic-related interest to help maintain ongoing local interest groups by providing meeting management resources through a web-based meeting facility, where the meeting management resources may enable a meeting group organizer to manage a meeting group. The meeting facility... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20100017378 - Enhanced use of tags when storing relationship information of enterprise objects: A computing system provided according to an aspect of the present invention stores tags associated with relationships specified among objects. The tags can then potentially be used to search for objects of interest. In an embodiment, a search request is received indicating a first object, a second object and a... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20100017380 - Systems and methods to create continuous queries associated with push-type and pull-type data: A system, method, means, and/or computer program code may be provided to facilitate query creation and a presentation of information to a user. According to some embodiments, continuous query definition parameters are received from a user via a graphical user interface. Moreover, semantic layer information associated with an event processing... Agent: Sap Ag C/o Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20100017379 - Systems and methods to create continuous queries via a semantic layer: A system, method, means, and/or computer program code may be provided to facilitate a presentation of information to a user. According to some embodiments, continuous query definition parameters are created by a user via a graphical user interface. Moreover, semantic layer information associated with an event processing engine may be... Agent: Sap Ag C/o Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20100017382 - Transliteration for query expansion: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for identifying candidate synonyms of transliterated terms for query expansion. In one aspect, a method includes identifying multiple transliterated terms in a target language. For each transliterated term of the multiple transliterated terms in the target language, the transliterated term is mapped... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100017381 - Triggering of database search in direct and relational modes: Modern portable electronic devices are commercially available with ever increasing memory capable of storing tens of thousands of song, hundreds of thousands of images, and hundreds of hours of video. The traditional means of selecting and accessing an item within such devices is with a limited number of keys and... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20100017395 - Apparatus and methods for transforming relational queries into multi-dimensional queries: A query processor operative to accept queries with respect to data and to formulate responses to the queries and a data system comprising a query analyzer operative to perform breakdown analysis of queries thereby to generate a hierarchical representation of queries and a hierarchical query storage unit operative to store... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100017390 - Apparatus, method and program product for presenting next search keyword: Described is a next search keyword presentation apparatus, method and program for the presentation of the next recommended search keyword for use in conjunction with the search results. There is provided an apparatus of presenting relevant next search keywords, including an input unit for inputting a search keyword. A search... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20100017400 - Classification-expanded indexing and retrieval of classified documents: A system for the indexing and retrieval of classified documents inserts keywords, titles or definitions of previously applied classifications into the document record and provides the resulting record to a search engine. Searchers are able to retrieve documents by searching on keywords from the classification system without looking up class... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20100017389 - Content based image retrieval: A content based image retrieval system that extracts images from a database of images by constructing a query set of features and displaying images that have a minimum dissimilarity metric from images in the database. The dissimilarity metric is a weighted summation of distances between features in the query set... Agent: Holland & Hart, LLP

20100017385 - Creating and managing reference elements of deployable web archive files: In some embodiments a method includes creating a bookmark of a deployable web archives In some embodiments, the bookmark includes deployment and runtime information of current and prior invocations of the deployable web archive, at least one user- and/or author-defined external specified tag describing the deployable web archive, and/or reference/link/access... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20100017397 - Defining a data structure for pattern matching: An information processing apparatus according to the present invention comprises a generation section configured to generate an ordered tree structure by defining transition edges between nodes using, as transition conditions, respective constraints from one or more constraint pattern each including plural constraints, a search section configured to search for a... Agent: Ibm Corporation-raleigh Swg C/o Thomas, Raring & Teague, P.c

20100017398 - Determining relevancy and desirability of terms: A system and method to sort search results based upon a desirability value is illustrated. This desirability value may be based upon the difference between a demand value and a supply value. Demand may be based upon user activity such as click-throughs, purchases, price, or location. Supply may be based... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20100017393 - Entry selection from long entry lists: A method, device, and computer program product for locating a desired entry in a list containing multiple list entries for use with a limited text display is described. A list of entries is partitioned into a number of sub-parts such that the desired entry is contained in one of the... Agent: Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP

20100017392 - Intent match search engine: Method and apparatus for a query based search engine that searches a database of linked documents. In some embodiments, the method and apparatus computes reliability degrees of the documents, abstracts each document to generate its abstracts, provides a search query interface so that a user can use to enter a... Agent: Jianwei Dian

20100017386 - Method and system for self-adapting classification of user generated content: A self-adapting classification system (“SACS”) generates an evolving classification for content. The classification may start with a seed review process, which generates a level of trust for initial reviews of the content. Once the seed review is completed and distributed, users may submit content reviews to the self adapting classification... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20100017402 - Method, apparatus, and data processor program product capable of enabling management of athleticism development program data: Various aspects of one or more methods, apparatuses and data processor program products capable of enabling management of data associated with an athleticism development program are disclosed herein. These various aspects include maintaining a database including subscriber performance data for a plurality of athleticism development program subscribers and facilitating preparation... Agent: Nike, Inc. C/o Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

20100017391 - Polarity estimation system, information delivery system, polarity estimation method, polarity estimation program and evaluation polarity estimatiom program: An evaluation polarity of reputation information with an unknown evaluation polarity is estimated by utilizing reputation information with a known evaluation polarity. The present polarity estimation system is a polarity estimation system for estimating an evaluation polarity indicating whether reputation information is positive or negative, and includes a reputation information... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20100017401 - Recording medium storing system analyzing program, system analyzing apparatus, and system analyzing method: A system analyzing apparatus obtains a message group including a message ID, a protocol, a type, and a transmission time of messages transmitted/received in a system where a hierarchical structure of protocols is defined. The apparatus detects pairs of a request message and a response message of the same message... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20100017396 - Related information presentation system, related information presentation method, and information storage medium: In order to give a presentation of related information that unexpected a user, while maintaining some relevance to certain information, a method includes: a link information application step of applying any one of a plurality of link information items stored in a link information storage section for storing the plurality... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20100017387 - System and method for performing advanced search in service registry system: A system and associated method for searching a service registry system with a service name. The present invention receives a request to search a service description with the service name. If conventional search does not find a match for the service name in a registry, the present invention parses the... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20100017383 - System and method for publication website subscription recommendation based on user-controlled browser history analysis: A method receives user restrictions and establishes a list of recognized publication websites. The publication websites comprise websites that provide, for example, research papers and research articles. The method periodically scans Internet browser history files located on different user's computers (as limited by the user restrictions) to identify publication websites... Agent: Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20100017403 - System and method for scoping searches using index keys: A set of index keys is included in an index search system that are associated with the scope of the search rather than the content of the documents that are the target of the search. These scope related index keys, or scope keys allows the scope of the search to... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20100017388 - Systems and methods for performing a multi-step constrained search: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for performing a user search query are provided. A search definition profile having one or more domain constraints and one or more vertical constraints, specified by a site owner, is obtained. A first search for documents is executed with the search query for a first... Agent: Jones Day

20100017384 - Systems and methods to provide business information via a push model: A system, method, means, and/or computer program code may be provided to facilitate a presentation of business information to a user. According to some embodiments, a request from a client is received at a server, and the request is associated with a query. The server also receives notifications associated with... Agent: Sap Ag C/o Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20100017399 - Technique for recycling match weight calculations: Disclosed is a system for, and method of, recycling field value weights as computed for database linking purposes. Such field value weights may be used for a search operation. In some embodiments, such weights may be used for a search operation prior to their values stabilizing during an iterative linking... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100017394 - Web page providing apparatus and method for interlocking web page with ranking: A Web page providing apparatus provides a Web page on a Network. The Web page providing apparatus includes a search word collection part that accesses a Web site on a network and collects search words from the Web site, an acquisition part that acquires ranking information of the search words... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20100017406 - Document processing device and program: A switching information acquiring unit 110 acquires information of switching from a screen displayed by a first application program to a screen displayed by a second application program. A character string extracting unit 104 detects character strings from a document file displayed on a screen by the first application program... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20100017404 - Method and apparatus to elegantly and automatically track emails and its attachments for enhanced user convenience: An automated, embedded & intelligent E-mail Attachment Document manager automatically tracks email and their associated attachments and assists users in locating an email message (email-chain/thread) that is the original source from where the email attachment document. The present invention can perform the tracking action using the given name of the... Agent: Ibm Corporation C/o Darcell Walker, Attorney At Law

20100017405 - System and method for improving non-exact matching search in service registry system with custom dictionary: A system and associated method for searching a service registry system with a service name. The service registry system receives a request to search a service description with the service name. The service registry system first searches a registry for a service identifier that matches the service name in the... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20100017407 - Three-dimensional object recognition system and inventory system using the same: A system recognizes an arrangement of an object and counts the number of objects, comprising: a sensor for measuring a distance between the sensor and an object; a moving mechanism for moving the sensor; and a computer that is connected with the sensor and includes an object information database, an... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20100017408 - Automatic email consolidation for multiple participants: The invention is a data processing means wherein human perceptible elements of electronic information are gathered, prepared, formatted, or otherwise processed in forming a unified collection of such information storable as a distinct entity. In particular, the invention is a process for composing and displaying a consolidated message document. The... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20100017409 - Hybrid locking using network and on-disk based schemes: A method of acquiring a lock by a node, on a shared resource in a system of a plurality of interconnected nodes, is disclosed. Each node that competes for a lock on the shared resource maintains a list of locks currently owned by the node. A lock metadata is maintained... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20100017411 - Apparatus for processing information and a method for setting environment thereof: The invention provides an information processing apparatus and a system environment setting method thereof capable of changing over profiles flexibly and preventing failure to return to the original profile if the time zone desired to change over the profiles of the information processing apparatus is irregular or if the schedule... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20100017410 - Techniques for extending and controlling access to a common information model (cim): Systems and methods for extending and controlling access to a Common Information Model (CIM) are presented. According to an embodiment, access requests for a CIM object manager (CIMOM) pass through a CIM file system (CIMFS) where each access requested is authenticated. The CIMFS maintains and manages a hidden file system... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20100017415 - Data access control method and data access control apparatus: A data access control apparatus and method acquires a user identification (ID) of a user who uses a client device based on a login request received from the client device, and a tenant ID for the user ID from a tenant ID management storage unit that associates user IDs with... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100017412 - Method and apparatus for sharing concurrent ad hoc web content between users visiting the same web pages: A method and apparatus are provided for sharing concurrent ad hoc Web content between users visiting the same Web domain, sub-domain, section or page. In one example, the method includes associating a user with a current uniform resource locator and Web domain, sub-domain, section or page being browsed by parsing... Agent: Stattler - Suh PC

20100017414 - Search activity eraser: A system and method of data processing receives a query at a server computer system. The system and method utilizes the query to extract a search result from a data source. The system and method receives at least one search activity record and a user preference from a client computer... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100017417 - Secure downloading of a file from a network system and method: A download processor for secure downloading of a digital product file when ordered by a user. The order includes a file identifier related to the file and an order identifier related to the order. The download processor performs security checks related to the file, the order, and the user. The... Agent: North Oaks Patent Agency

20100017416 - Serializable objects and a database thereof: A technique to communicate data between a management layer and an interface layer of a network device having traffic modules and compute modules includes using a converter to convert a serializable object between file formats. The management layer is executed on at least one of the compute modules and the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100017413 - Systems and methods for transferring value: Systems and methods are provided for transferring value from a first user to a second user by using substantially random codes that are associated with the values to be transferred. A trusted authority enables users to create user accounts used to store value. A first user may request a payment... Agent: Law Office Of James Trosino

20100017421 - Document management apparatus, method and medium storing program: The current position of each node in a hierarchical structure is held, and the past position of each node in the hierarchical structure is held. The current position is displayed in correspondence with the past position in a first user interface. The past position is displayed in correspondence with the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20100017418 - Method of presenting a topology, using a visual object: The invention relates to a method of presenting a topology comprising a reference with at least one sub-reference, and an apparatus for presenting the topology. The method comprises the steps of: (110) obtaining topology data representing the topology, —(120) processing the topology data so as to represent the topology by... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100017420 - Performing an all-to-all data exchange on a plurality of data buffers by performing swap operations: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for performing an all-to-all exchange on n number of data buffers using XOR swap operations. Each data buffer has n number of data elements. Performing an all-to-all exchange on n number of data buffers using XOR swap operations includes for each rank value of... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20100017419 - Systems and methods for distributed asset management having tagging capabilities: Distributed asset management may be achieved as described herein by representing within a computer database system a collection of distributed assets, and logging within the computer database system time-series data sent from different ones of the distributed assets. Input from authorized users is accepted and stored in the form of... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20100017424 - Data compression and decompression: Data decompression apparatus is disclosed which is arranged to act on compressed data comprising: an ordered stream of references to groups of previously decoded data items; an ordered stream of direct representations of data items to be decoded; and an ordered stream of flags indicating whether each successive decompression operation... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20100017422 - File system interface for cim: Systems and methods for managing systems using common information models (CIM) are presented. According to a method embodiment, CIM functions are provided, and a file system interface for the CIM functions is provided. An embodiment of a method receives file operation commands through a client interface and performs CIM functions... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20100017423 - Method and system for transformation of logical data objects for storage: A method and system for transforming a logical data object for storage in a storage device operable with at least one storage protocol, creating, reading, writing, optimization and restoring thereof. Transforming the logical data object comprises creating in the storage device a transformed logical data object comprising a header and... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20100017433 - Apparatus and method for creating, addressing and modifying related data: A method for creating a structured data collection comprising collecting at least two data components using a data capture device assigning the same unique identifier to all of the data components whereby the items of data identified by the same unique identifier form a bundle of data.... Agent: Stikeman Elliott LLP

20100017425 - Efficient identity mapping with self-correction for cascaded server systems: A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and apparatus for identity mapping with self-correction for cascaded server systems is provided. A request to perform a business transaction is received. Responsive to performing a first server process of the business transaction, the servers necessary to perform the business transaction are identified, forming... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20100017426 - Form attachment metadata generation: Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, a data processing system, and a computer program product for form attachment metadata generation. In one illustrative embodiment, the computer implemented method receives a request to attach an attachment to a document, and calls an attachment metadata generator to extract metadata from the... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20100017429 - Method and apparatus of distributing data in partioned databases operating on a shared-nothing architecture: The invention relates to a method and apparatus of distributing data in portioned databases operating on a shared-nothing architecture. The invention provides two independent streams of data, where a first stream sends table data, and the second stream sends LOB data, to a receiving partition. The receiving partition re-couples the... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (ibm Corp)

20100017431 - Methods and systems for social networking: Provided are methods and systems for social networking.... Agent: Ballard Spahr LLP

20100017427 - Multilevel hierarchical associations between entities in a knowledge system: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for managing multilevel hierarchical structured information in disparate knowledge repositories. An association data structure is created for an entity as metadata in a metadata repository. The association data structure is populated with association information about the entity. A process... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20100017430 - System and method for document processing job management based on user login: The subject application is directed to document processing job management. Login data is first received corresponding to an associated user. Electronic documents are then associatively stored with a user identifier in an associated data storage. A default menu is generated on a user interface associated with a document processing device,... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20100017428 - System, method, and computer readable media for identifying and rating virtual universe objects: A system, a method, and a computer readable media for identifying and rating a VU object in a virtual universe are provided. The method includes displaying first and second VU objects in a region of the virtual universe on a display device at a first time for a first user.... Agent: Ibm - End Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20100017432 - Systems and methods for community exchange: Systems and methods for computer-based community networking to facilitate the trade and exchange of goods and/or services between registered users are disclosed. In the disclosed systems and methods, a first registered user affiliated with a set of one or more community groups searches for an invitation to buy or sell... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20100017435 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: A document management apparatus performs a first process to delete an object that is not to be presented to a user from document information registered in a database. The document management apparatus then performs a second process to determine whether a vacant block created as a result of the deleting... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20100017434 - Mechanisms to share attributes between objects: Mechanisms for sharing attributes between objects are provided. An object includes a special designation for at least one component, which is identified as a shared attribute. Data associated with the shared attribute is populated and managed from a central location within a processing environment. Multiple instances of a same object... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20100017436 - Method and apparatus for extracting information from a database: Information is extracted from a database using a computer-implemented method that involves a sequential chain of main calculations, in which a first main calculation (P1) operates a first selection item (S1) on a data set (R0) that represents the database to produce a first result (R1), and a second main... Agent: Williams Mullen

20100017438 - Adaptive display for enhancing audio playback: An audio playback device and method searches initiates a web search for images related to music or other audio files being played, downloads images from selected web pages returned by the search engine, and outputs one or more images from the selected web pages on a display to enhance the... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20100017440 - Digital image file display system and method: A digital image file display system includes a storage device and a DPF. The storage device includes a marking module, a first sending module, and a first receiving module. The DPF includes a display module, a second sending module, and a second receiving module. The marking module assigns digital image... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20100017437 - Information management and entertainment system: An information management and entertainment system (1) comprises user terminals (2), and a switching system (5, 40-43) having interfaces (21, 23, 31) for receiving media streams and for routing the streams to the terminals. The system (1) comprises at least one management server (15) for routing control signals to components... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20100017439 - Multimedia data streaming system and method thereof: A multimedia data streaming system and a method thereof are disclosed. The multimedia data streaming system is used for transmitting multimedia data to a receiver by means of a streaming server through a dynamic streaming process. The multimedia data streaming system includes a converting module and a scheduler module. The... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20100017441 - Methods, apparatus and computer programs for managing persistence: Described are methods, apparatus and computer programs for managing persistence within a data processing system such as a messaging system, database system or file system. The method for managing persistence includes a deferred evaluation (230,330,430) of at least one criterion associated with costs and/or benefits of saving to persistent storage,... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20100017442 - Information management server, information processing system, communication method and program: An embodiment of the invention includes an information management server with a registration unit that registers a status change condition of a database and a notification action so that they are associated with each other. Also, the information management server includes a communication unit that receives an acquisition request for... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20100017443 - Method, terminal, and system for soft-deleting, restoring, and synchronizing data: A method, terminal, and system for soft-deleting, restoring, and synchronizing data are provided. The method for synchronizing data includes: synchronizing, by a server and a terminal, server data not marked as soft-deleted during data synchronization. The method for soft-deleting data includes: receiving, by a server, a soft deletion request from... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100017445 - Backup control method and backup control device: A backup control unit controls a normal backup process of backing up a file stored in a NAS device at file system level according to a task schedule set in advance, and controls a forcible backup process of forcibly backing up the file stored in the NAS device at file... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20100017444 - Continuous data protection of files stored on a remote storage device: Technologies are described herein for providing file-level CDP of files stored on a remote storage system. A client module executing on a client computer monitors for modifications made at the client computer to files or folders stored on a virtual storage volume provided by the remote storage system. Upon detecting... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC Michael J. Baldauff, Jr.

20100017446 - File system configuration method and apparatus for data security and for accessing same, and storage device accessed by same: Provided are a file system configuration method and apparatus for data security, a method and apparatus for accessing a data security area formed by the same, and a data storage device accessed by the same. A method of configuring a file system comprising a general area in which general data... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100017447 - Managing garbage collection in a data processing system: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing garbage collection. Monitoring is performed for a garbage collection state in a virtual machine. Responsive to detecting the garbage collection state, a priority for a set of garbage collection threads is increased.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20100010958 - Content item selection: A content item, e.g., an icon or advertisement content, is selected for placement in a display environment (e.g., on a map or adjacent to a map) in response to a request for the display environment based on a probability that the content item is relevant to a user that is... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100010962 - Deferred compilation of stored procedures: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for compiling a stored procedure in a database. The compiling includes the steps of invoking the stored procedure, the stored procedure comprising one or more statements, substituting run-time values for one or more variables in the statements, and creating an access... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20100010961 - Distributed directories: Disclosed is a method for improving performance of distributed directory servers, which includes identifying directory servers configured to serve a partition index; monitoring the directory servers to identify whether a primary directory server has reached a maximum number of allowable entries in the partition index; and dynamically allocating a secondary... Agent: Carpenter & Associates

20100010960 - Operations of multi-level nested data structure: Multiple sets of data are obtained from different sources. Each data set is represented using a different format having a different syntax and organized in a multi-level nested data structure. Each data set is reformatted into a standardized table format using a depth-first recursive algorithm without relying on the syntax... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100010959 - Systems and methods for query expansion in sponsored search: The present invention is directed towards systems, methods and computer program products for providing query-based advertising content. According to one embodiment, a method for providing query-based advertising content comprises receiving a web query and generating an ad query associated with the web query, wherein the ad query is generated on... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20100010964 - Customer pre-selected electronic coupons: Embodiments presented herein generally relate to novel systems and methods for managing electronic coupons. In embodiments, the user uploads one or more coupons into a mobile device. While shopping, the mobile device receives communications from one or more NFC sensors/transmitters associated with one or more products in one or more... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100010966 - Document management system for building maintenance and operational documents: A document management system separates building information into a variety of data sets. Each data set has at least one common attribute that links it to all other types of data sets for the building. The information for maintaining the building is stored in a manner allowing users to retrieve... Agent: Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, LLP Intellectual Property Group

20100010970 - Document searching device, document searching method, document searching program: A document retrieval apparatus holds: index information in which data and an entity document are associated, with respect to a group of entity documents that are XML documents including entity information; and index information in which data and an annotation document are associated, with respect to a group of annotation... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100010972 - Image processing apparatus, control method thereof, program, and storage medium: An image processing apparatus for recording and reproducing an image, comprises: a recording unit that records the image; a search unit that searches file data recorded in the recording unit when the apparatus is started; an operation unit that designates a predetermined operation to the apparatus; and a control unit... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20100010969 - Method and system for automatic detection of multimedia settings: Provided is a method for transferring multimedia content from the first device to a second device. The method includes scanning a memory associated with the second device to identify transcoding parameters associated and stored therein. The method also includes transcoding the multimedia content from the first device based upon the... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20100010971 - Method and system for visual network searching: An embodiment provides for conducting searches on a network. A search request is signaled over the network to a search engine. A search result is received that identifies a plurality of network addresses. Multiple pages are automatically rendered, each page being located by a corresponding network addresses in the search... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20100010963 - Process and apparatus for selecting an item from a database: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for selecting database items from a database, where the database items are indexed by a list of item identifiers. The item identifiers may be in the form of text. An initial display is generated which includes one or more parts of... Agent: Jones Day

20100010965 - Query management systems: Methods and computer program products are presented for managing a query result set in response to a search, including: generating a user request corresponding with a portion of the query result set, responsive to the portion of the query result set being resident on a client cache, returning the portion... Agent: Kali Law Group, P.C.

20100010967 - System and method for a log-based data storage: Embodiments of the invention provide a high-performance content management system with a log-based data storage. To speed data operations, updates and deletes are appended to log-based data files. Seek operations are not needed as old data is not overwritten or removed at the time of write operations. Instead, the log-based... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100010968 - System and method to identify, classify and monetize information as an intangible asset and a production model based thereon: The method and system identifies and classifies and monetizes intangible asset (I.A.) unstructured digital data in a computer system by ownership characterizations and intellectual property (I.P.) classifications. Enterprise and non-enterprise data collections are searched based upon an expanded project specification (of descriptive functions, characteristics and objectives). Primary search terms from... Agent: Robert C. Kain, Jr.

20100010974 - Apparatus and method of semantic service correlation system: A correlation-based service mediator consists of Semantic Query Generator, Service Query Manager, Service Invocation Flow Generator, Service Invocation Manager, Expression Interpreter and Service Invocation Result Cache. The Semantic Query Generator handles service requests. It generates Semantic Query statements. Basically, the generator converts service request to Semantic Query based on input/output... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20100010980 - Context sensitive term expansion with dynamic term expansion: Methods, articles of manufacture and systems for searching collections of data using context sensitive expanded term searching using dynamic term expansion are provided. The collection of data may be a relational database, text document, or any other type of searchable collection of data. In either case, a query including a... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20100010977 - Dictionary suggestions for partial user entries: In accordance with some embodiments, a server receives a partial search query from a client device that is located remotely from the server, and predicts from the partial search query a set of predicted complete queries relevant to the partial search query, where the predicted complete queries comprise previously submitted... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP/google

20100010978 - Method and system to search for travel products: Method of searching for travel products related to trip components of a trip includes building a search request by inputting search criteria for a plurality of trip components in a single search window of a user interface of a user device; sending the search request to an application server for... Agent: Young & Thompson

20100010975 - Methods and systems for resolving a query region to a network identifier: A method for resolving a query region to a network identifier includes receiving, at a multicast server associated with a domain region, a network identifier identifying a node having a node region at least partially present in the domain region. The method includes receiving a query identifying a query region.... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20100010979 - Reduced volume precision data quality information cleansing feedback process: This invention provides methods and computer program products for a reduced volume precision data quality information cleansing feedback process. More specifically, a method according to one embodiment of the invention receives a request from a user for information from an electronic information warehouse. In response to the request, the information... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20100010976 - Relocated joins in a distributed query processing system: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for performing a join operation between a local table at a local server and a remote table at a remote server. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a query instruction to join the local table and the remote... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20100010973 - Vector space lightweight directory access protocol data search: A computer-implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for performing a search for data. In one embodiment, the process converts each character of the search query into a phonetic variant to form an inflected search query. The process then identifies a set of inflected data fields of a vector space... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20100010983 - Automated dicom pre-fetch application: Systems, methods, and computer readable medium for pre-fetching patient information using a DICOM protocol. A DICOM pre-fetch application communicates with a patient appointment application to retrieve upcoming patient appointment information. An external DICOM database server is queried, directly or indirectly, by the DICOM pre-fetch application to determine any medical image... Agent: Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP

20100010988 - Entity representation identification using entity representation level information: Disclosed is a system for, and method of, searching for and identifying one or more entity representations using comprehensive search criteria built from known entity representations. The comprehensive search criteria are permitted to include inconsistent field values, that is, multiple different field values corresponding to the same field. The system... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100010991 - Host-level policies for global server load balancing: In a network, a user can configure host-level policies usable for load balancing traffic to servers of a domain. A global server load balancing (GSLB) switch provides load balancing to the servers, and is configured with the GSLB host-level policies. Users can define a host-level policy (alternatively or additionally to... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt P.C.

20100010986 - Information presenting device, information presenting method, information presenting program, and integrated circuit: An information presenting device for narrowing down information such as contents beneficial for users and stimulating interest in users from various viewpoints, and presenting the information to users in an easily ascertainable manner. A content recommending device 1 displays an image 1100. A commonality map image 1121 includes a title... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100010987 - Information presenting device, information presenting method, information presenting program, and integrated circuit: A system has a primary server storing search data sets (“staks”) and a linked social network server. Interaction with the server is via a client and a Web site. There is a software agent code executing on the client. The software agent component provides full integration with underlying search engines... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20100010984 - Method and system for dynamically generating a search result: There is provided a method for dynamically generating search results from a dataset. The method comprises receiving a first search keyword from a user and searching for a first content object that is identified by the first search keyword. The method further comprises building a metadata pool using metadata associated... Agent: Disney Enterprises C/o Farjami & Farjami LLP

20100010989 - Method for efficiently supporting interactive, fuzzy search on structured data: A method to support efficient, interactive, and fuzzy search on text data includes an interactive, fuzzy search on structured data used in applications such as query relaxation, autocomplete, and spell checking, where inconsistencies and errors exist in user queries as well as data. It utilizes techniques to efficiently and interactively... Agent: Law Offices Of Daniel L. Dawes Dawes Patent Law Group

20100010990 - Progress information output method, medium storing progress information output program, and progress information output apparatus: A progress information output method executed by a computer includes acquiring a set of similar applications, the contents of which are similar to the contents of a given application, by searching a first database that stores the contents of each application using information regarding the contents of the given application... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20100010985 - System and method for detecting and analyzing pattern relationships: In its broad aspect, the invention provides a method for analyzing relationships among patterns within a data set having a set of samples and associated attribute values defining each attribute of each said sample. The method comprises receiving at an input at least two patterns; defining a data cluster within... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20100010981 - Technique for enhancing a set of website bookmarks by finding related bookmarks based on a latent similarity metric: A method and system for enhancing the quality of a bookmark or a set of bookmarks that have been organized by topic and contain information related to that topic. The method and system analyzes documents accessible by the bookmark or set of bookmarks and performs a search using key terms... Agent: Ibm Corporation (accsp) C/o Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20100010982 - Web content characterization based on semantic folksonomies associated with user generated content: The present invention is directed towards a method and system for characterizing web content based on capturing semantics of folksonomies relating to content entities of user generated content. The method and system includes determining a plurality of tags that describe a plurality of content entities and determining a co-occurrence of... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20100010993 - Distributed personal information aggregator: A method of aggregating personal information available from public sources over a network. The method includes the steps of receiving at a computer server, data associated with a person, the data being publicly available over a network, and including at least a first name and a last name; using a... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20100010996 - Method for the allocation of data on physical media by a file system that eliminates duplicate data: The present invention is a method for the allocation of data on physical media by a file system that eliminates duplicate data. Efficient searches are employed using a unique algorithm when a compare on hash is used to achieve realtime operation of the file system. The in memory feature of... Agent: Barlow, Josephs & Holmes, Ltd.

20100010992 - Methods and systems for resolving a location information to a network identifier: Methods and systems are described for resolving location information to a network identifier. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving information identifying a geospatial query region. The method also includes generating a query message including an outside-scope, unicast identifier identifying a zone corresponding to a zone region at least partially... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20100010995 - Methods of coding and decoding, by referencing, values in a structured document, and associated systems: t

20100010994 - Mobile application discovery through mobile search: A social mobile network enables discovery of application programs running on the mobile devices. A search for partial or full matches to a group of alphanumeric characters is performed on the data stored on the first mobile communication device on which the search is initiated. The search is also performed... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100010997 - Method and system for rescoring a playlist: A method and system are provided for rescoring media items in a playlist in response to associated user events. In one embodiment, media items in a playlist are scored based on user preferences of an associated user, and the playlist is sorted based on the scores of the media items.... Agent: Withrow & Terranova Ct

20100010999 - Data access in distributed systems: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products for receiving a request for access to a first item of content stored on resources of a storage environment, the request for access being initiated by a first user, identifying an existing resource allocation arrangement associating elements of the first item of... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20100011001 - Data approval system and method: A data approval system is provided. The system comprises a transaction model comprising program code for implementing one or more computer-implemented methods for use in an approval process, the approval process comprising an approval operation; a plurality of differentiated data-handling modules adapted to provide different methods for managing data during... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20100010998 - Document storage access on a time-based approval basis: Systems and methods of the present invention allow a file owner to upload and store a file to a File Storage Area. The file owner may set a time-based approval period during which the file owner may grant or deny requests by a file requestor for permissions to access the... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20100011000 - Managing the creation, detection, and maintenance of sensitive information: A method, information processing system, and computer program storage product for managing information within an electronic file are provided. A plurality of information sets within an electronic file is analyzed. At least one of the information sets is compared to at least one statistical classification model. The statistical classification model... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20100011006 - Communication device: A communication device includes a storing unit, a first determining unit, a rejection unit, and a communication unit. The storing unit stores a database structured to have collection of records. Each record is configured from a plurality of fields including a contact name field for entry of a name of... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20100011008 - Customized multi-media services: Content files such as photographs, video, graphics and/or music are indexed to identify subjects captured in them. Indexed content files are scanned to identify content files that match certain criteria. Content files that satisfy the selection criteria are directed to appropriate output devices for display such that related files are... Agent: Vedder Price PC

20100011003 - Distributed data storage and access systems: A distributed system for content storage and access includes a storage platform having at least a first storage component, and an access platform having one or multiple access components. Each access component is associated with at least one access service. The access service may be an administrative service for receiving... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20100011002 - Model-based resource allocation: A computer-implemented method includes receiving a description of a pattern of access to a first group of items of content; and partitioning a storage space based at least in part on the description of the pattern of access. The description of the pattern of access is a function of at... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20100011005 - Process of import/export of data of a database: The present invention relates to a system to implement a method of importing exporting data originating from a database by way of an XML file. The export method includes the steps of: selecting data from the database; requesting an export of the selected data; verifying that the selected data are... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20100011007 - Secure high performance multi-level security database systems and methods: In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, systems and methods described herein provide for transferring data over one or more networks. A storage area network is adapted to communicate with the one or more networks. A first component is adapted to route data to and from... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20100011004 - Service identification optimization: A network element comprising a storage configured to maintain downloaded service profiles; a data base configured to maintain a list of identifiers of downloaded service profiles; and a correspondence processor configured to check the availability of a downloaded service profile by referring to the list of identifiers.... Agent: Nokia, Inc.

20100011010 - Method and mechanism for efficient storage and query of xml documents based on paths: A method, mechanism, and computer program product for storing, accessing, and managing XML data is disclosed. The approach supports efficient evaluation of XPath queries and also improves the performance of data/fragment extraction. The approach can be applied to schema-less documents. The approach is applicable to all database systems and other... Agent: Oracle International Corporation C/o VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20100011009 - System and method for monitoring document conformance: A system and method for monitoring document conformance is disclosed. The method may include populating a database with data indicative of contents of a plurality of documents, the plurality of documents including a first document associated with a first supplying entity located at a first facility and a second document... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20100011011 - Systems and methods of directory entry encodings: In general, the invention relates to supporting multiple different character encodings in the same file system. In one embodiment, a method is provided for filename lookup that supports multiple character encodings. The method comprises storing filename data in a first character encoding into an indexed data structure. The method further... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100011014 - Adaptive storage system transcoder: A system and method are disclosed for the transcoding of data from a first format to a second format. A data format transcoder receives a request for data from a requester. The desired format of the requested data is determined. A descriptor file containing formatting information describing the requested format... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20100011013 - Operations on multi-level nested data structure: Multiple sets of data are obtained from different sources. Each data set is represented using a different format having a different syntax and organized in a multi-level nested data structure. Each data set is reformatted into a standardized table format using a depth-first recursive algorithm without relying on the syntax... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100011012 - Selective compression based on data type and client capability: A method and apparatus are provided for generating virtual channels to selectively compress and deliver different data streams over a communication medium to a thin client receiving device by selecting a compression technique for each data stream that takes into account the data stream type, the bandwidth/latency characteristics of the... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP - Amd

20100011015 - Simplifying complex data stream problems involving feature extraction from noisy data: Methods, systems and computer program products for simplifying complex data stream problems involving feature extraction from noisy data. Exemplary embodiments include a method for processing a data stream, including applying multiple operators to the data stream, wherein an operation by each of the multiple operators includes retrieving the next chunk... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20100011017 - Content data managing apparatus, content data managing method, and content data managing program: A content data managing apparatus includes: timing means for measuring time, not allowed to correct measure time by an operator; content-data storing means for storing data of content and recording time of the content measured by the timing means; content recording means for recording the content to cause the content-data... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100011018 - Custom database system and method of building the same: A master application is installed on an organizational computer system to guide organizational personnel through the steps of constructing a customized database. Upon selecting a computer server and platform to host the database, organizational processes are divided into building blocks having well-defined input-output relationships. The application provides a list of... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20100011019 - Database business components code generator: In a method for generating components for accessing a data source, input is received from a user interface, allowing access to the data source. A list of structural elements employed in the data source is created. A data object corresponding to the structural elements employed in the data source is... Agent: Bryan W. Bockhop, Esq. Bockhop & Associates, LLC

20100011016 - Dictionary compilations: Apparatus, systems, and methods operate to obtain data from a first array constructed from a directed acyclic graph formed as a prefix tree having key strings associated with a plurality of interconnected nodes, including branch nodes coupled via branches to sibling nodes and child nodes. Reference numbers are assigned to... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/adobe

20100011020 - Recommender system: A method for providing individualized recommendations to a user on a multi-user device is provided. During operation anonymous user preferences of similar program content will be grouped to form clusters of similar preferences. Context information for each cluster is determined and the clusters are grouped to form larger clusters. The... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100011023 - Contents information reproducing apparatus, contents information reproducing system, contents information reproducing method, contents information reproducing program, recording medium and information processing apparatus: A content information reproducing apparatus, a content information reproducing system, a content information reproducing method, a content information reproducing program, a recording medium storing the program, and an information processing apparatus facilitate introductory comment creators creating introductory information while creating introductory information reflecting the intent of the content distributor. A... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20100011022 - Map information management system and map information distribution system: A map information management system has a map to be updated DB for storing map data to be updated that is used to update and maintenance, a map to be provided DB for storing map data to be provided that is distributed, an updated data DB for storing updated data... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20100011024 - Playback apparatus and display method: A playback apparatus is able to present song categories to the user that are suited to the current environmental noise. An audio pickup picks up noise data of the surrounding environment. A noise analyzer analyzes the noise data, and then extracts characteristic quantities expressing the characteristics of the noise data.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20100011021 - System and method for context map generation: Personalized services and targeted services demand the exploitation of context—say, context of an environment, context of a product, context of a service, and context of a customer or user or individual. In order for the personalized and targeted services to have a greater impact, the identified context used by a... Agent: Venable LLP

20100011028 - Lookup table arrangement and related management method for accommodating concurrent processors: A system and methods of managing entries in a cuckoo hash table that is subject to manipulation by a plurality of concurrent processors are provided. The cuckoo hash table is used to maintain a plurality of keys, along with their data items, in a plurality of entries. In accordance with... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (symbol)

20100011029 - Malware detection: According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided a method of detecting malware in a mobile telecommunications device 101. In the method, maintaining a database 109 of legitimate applications and their respective expected behaviours, identifying legitimate applications running on the device 101, monitoring the behaviour of... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20100011026 - Method and system for dynamically collecting data for checkpoint tuning and reduce recovery time: A system and method for checkpoint tuning in a computer environment comprising a processor coupled to a statistical database and at least one database or table manager and data log files. The data log files store data relating to the operations of the database or table manager. The processor executes... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20100011027 - Policy rule conflict detection and management: A system, method, and information processing system manage policy rules. A first unique identifier (121) associated with a first policy rule (120) is compared to at least a second unique identifier (130) associated with a second policy rule (202) in a set of policy rules (128). The first policy rule... Agent: Fleit, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20100011030 - Statistics collection using path-identifiers for relational databases: Disclosed are a system, method, and computer readable medium for collecting statistics associated with data in a database. The method comprises determining an amount of memory needed to collect statistics for data associated with a defined data type in a relational database. The defined data type is based upon a... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20100011025 - Transfer learning methods and apparatuses for establishing additive models for related-task ranking: Exemplary methods and apparatuses are provided which may be used to establish a ranking function or the like, which may be used by a search engine or other like tool to search a related-task search domain.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP

20100011031 - Storing log data efficiently while supporting querying: A logging system includes an event receiver and a storage manager. The receiver receives log data, processes it, and outputs a column-based data “chunk.” The manager receives and stores chunks. The receiver includes buffers that store events and a metadata structure that stores metadata about the contents of the buffers.... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20100011032 - Document management apparatus, document management system, and document management method: In an apparatus, a receiving unit receives a request for batch registration of versions associated with a document from a client terminal apparatus. A determination unit determines whether there is a file to be registered as a version of the document, based on the request. If there is the file... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20100011034 - Method and system for copying a file: A file is stored in a memory of a system, where the file is associated with a location identifier of the memory. In response to a user interaction with a user interface of the system, a location identifier of the removable memory is associated with the file, where the user... Agent: Palm C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20100011035 - Method and system for handling reallocated blocks in a file system: A system for managing a file system. In response to a user selecting an image of the file system to perform a rollback operation, each data block in the file system that is owned by the image is searched for. Then, it is determined whether a data block owned by... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20100011033 - Method for mailbox migration: A method for mailbox migration includes creating a message ID map for the source and destination mailboxes, and storing the message ID map in a migration cache file that can also hold message ID persistence and message state indicator data. A precopy operation is performed while the source mailbox is... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20100011038 - Distributed storage managing apparatus, distributed storage managing method, and computer product: A computer-readable recording medium stores therein a distributed storage managing program that causes a computer to execute obtaining a quantity M, the quantity M being a quantity of classes to which files are to be allocated; allocating, according to a predetermined algorithm, the files to the classes of the quantity... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20100011036 - Document storage access on a per-approval basis: Systems and methods of the present invention allow a file owner to upload and store a file to a File Storage Area. Through a series of communications, a file requestor may request access to the file. The file owner may grant or deny permissions to access the file and notify... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20100011037 - Media aware distributed data layout: A storage system comprises a plurality of vdisks, with each vdisk containing a plurality of storage segments, and each segment providing a specific class of service (CoS). Each vdisk stores files with data and meta data distributed among its storage segments. A storage system comprises a memory having multiple classes... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz Attorney At Law

20100005052 - Complementing location as metadata: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for complementing data with spatial data. According to one embodiment, a method of complementing data with spatial data can comprise capturing the data with a device. The spatial data for the device can also be captured. For example, the spatial data can... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20100005053 - Method for enabling discrete back/forward actions within a dynamic web application: A method, system and computer program product for managing a browsing history for a web browser. The web browser is configured to display web page content. A web page is addressable by a Uniform Resource Locator. New page content from a server is received at the web browser. A subset... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (aus)

20100005056 - Batch entity representation identification using field match templates: Techniques may be used to match records of a batch file to an entity representation in a universal database. Inputs may include, but are not limited to, a batch file and a universal (or other) database. The technique may compare the records of the batch file to the records of... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100005058 - Computer product, information retrieving apparatus, and information retrieving method: A computer-readable recording medium stores therein an information retrieving program that causes a computer to execute acquiring a document to be searched and having a hierarchical structure; generating a path schema related to the acquired document; receiving input of a retrieval keyword, a retrieval condition for the retrieval keyword, and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100005055 - Multi-tenancy data storage and access method and apparatus: A method, apparatus, and a computer program product for storing and accessing multi-tenancy data. The method includes the steps of: creating a plurality of table sets in one or more databases, wherein each table set is used to store data of a group of tenants selected from a plurality of... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20100005054 - Querying joined data within a search engine index: Techniques and systems for indexing and retrieving data and documents stored in a record-based database management system (RDBMS) utilize a search engine interface. Search-engine indices are created from tables in the RDBMS and data from the tables is used to create “documents” for each record. Queries that require data from... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20100005057 - Statistical measure and calibration of internally inconsistent search criteria where one or both of the search criteria and database is incomplete: Disclosed is a system for, and method of, searching for and identifying an entity representation. Some embodiments permit search criteria that are internally inconsistent. Such internally inconsistent criteria may include, for example, a maiden last name and a married last name. Certain embodiments account for such criteria in an intelligent... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100005059 - Cascaded address books on mobile phones within a social network: Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, a data processing system and a computer program product for locating contact information in a mobile phone network within a social network. In one embodiment, the computer implemented method permits reciprocal access between a first user's contact information and a second user's contact... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20100005062 - Determining an ambient parameter set: An ambient controller system and a method of determining an ambient parameter set associated with a textual description are described. A database (19) comprises a plurality of files having content in the form of a picture, video, or even sound. Furthermore, each file comprises information related to a file content,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100005065 - Icon processing apparatus and icon processing method: The invention discloses an icon processing apparatus, which includes an icon database, a user interface, and a processing module. The icon database stores a plurality of default icons and a plurality of vocabularies corresponding to the default icons. The user interface is connected to the icon database and used for... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20100005061 - Information processing with integrated semantic contexts: A system and method for generating a frame of reference for a plurality of information, the plurality of information containing text data and obtained by a user through interaction with one or more information sources. The method and system include receiving selected information for analysis, the information including a plurality... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20100005075 - Inventions: The present invention relates to: an automatically adjusting seat, methods of playing video games by inputting a code that controls at least one aspect of the game, method of packaging cooking ingredients, methods and devices for providing gate and other travel information to passengers, a lid for a container and... Agent: John M. Lucas

20100005063 - Link generation system to allow indexing of dynamically generated server site content: A link generator generates links to servable data to allow the servable content of a network server to be accessed using the links. Encoded links in a form suitable for an indexing agent are generated and used to access dynamically generated data in a database of the network server and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100005064 - Link generation system to allow indexing of dynamically generated server site content: A link generator generates links to servable data to allow the servable content of a network server to be accessed using the links. Encoded links in a form suitable for an indexing agent are generated and used to access dynamically generated data in a database of the network server and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100005070 - Metadata editing apparatus, metadata reproduction apparatus, metadata delivery apparatus, metadata search apparatus, metadata re-generation condition setting apparatus, and metadata delivery method and hint information description method: Multimedia content containing moving pictures and audio is divided into multiple scenes and metadata is generated for each of the scenes obtained as a result of the division. It is possible to generate metadata containing scene structure information metadata that describes the hierarchical structure of the content in addition to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100005069 - Method and system for enhancing information accessibility via a global communications network: A computer implemented method for displaying a plurality of web pages within a single web browsing display area includes determining a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for each of the plurality of web pages to be displayed. Each of the URLs may be determined from user inputs or predefined settings. The... Agent: Zies Widerman & Malek, P.l.

20100005073 - Methods for searching forensic data: In one aspect of the present invention, a software component for conducting digital forensic searches is described. The software component has a header; one or more search markup language programs, and a data features section. The software component, also referred to as a search pack, enables a first entity, such... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20100005072 - Nomadic file systems: Objects contained within enormous geographically distributed virtual file servers are each assigned globally unique object identifiers. For any given global scope object identifier, the file system containing the identified object can be quickly located even when the file system is frequently unmounted from one DDS file server and mounted on... Agent: Gard And Kaslow LLP

20100005071 - Organizing resources into collections to facilitate more efficient and reliable resource access: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for organizing resources into collections to facilitate more efficient and reliable resource access. Namespace managers communicate with one another to form a federation namespace infrastructure. The infrastructure can efficiently route, migrate, and process namespace requests, such as, for example,... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20100005074 - System and method for accessing data: A method is disclosed for accessing data stored in at least one database, comprising: accessing: model data, representing a model defining the structure of the data, metamodel data, representing a metamodel defining the structure of the model, and rule data, representing at least one rule for accessing the data, said... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20100005066 - System and methods for the retention of a search query: A computer implemented method for the retention of a search query, the method comprising selecting a media search source via a user interface; providing a form-based interface that allow the entry of inputs to form a first media search query; submitting the first media search query to the media search... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20100005067 - System and methods for the retention of a search query: A computer implemented method for the retention of a search query, the method comprising selecting a media search source via a user interface; providing a form-based interface that allow the entry of inputs to form a first media search query; submitting the first media search query to the media search... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20100005068 - System and methods for the segmentation of media: A computer implemented method for the collection and segmentation of media, the method comprising selecting a media search source via a user interface; providing a form-based interface that allow the entry of inputs to form a media search query; submitting the media search query to the media search source; receiving... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20100005060 - Systems and methods for providing hi-fidelity contextual search results: Systems and methods for providing hi-fidelity contextual search results are described. In one described embodiment, a method for providing hi-fidelity contextual search results includes receiving a query comprising a search term, determining a location on a page that is responsive to the query, wherein the page has a native appearance,... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP- Adobe Systems, Inc. 58083

20100005077 - Methods and systems for generating query plans that are compatible for execution in hardware: Embodiments of the present invention generate and optimize query plans that are at least partially executable in hardware. Upon receiving a query, the query is rewritten and optimized with a bias for hardware execution of fragments of the query. A template-based algorithm may be employed for transforming a query into... Agent: MonumentIPLaw Group

20100005080 - System and method for analyzing data records: A method and system for analyzing data records includes allocating groups of records to respective processes of a first plurality of processes executing in parallel. In each respective process of the first plurality of processes, for each record in the group of records allocated to the respective process, a query... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP/google

20100005078 - System and method for identifying entity representations based on a search query using field match templates: Disclosed is a system for, and method of, identifying a universal entity representation in an electronic universal database that corresponds to a foreign entity representation in an electronic foreign database, each entity representation including a plurality of linked records, each record including a plurality of fields, each field capable of... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100005079 - System for and method of partitioning match templates: Disclosed is a system for, and method of, identifying an entity representation. In some embodiments, a match template is used to partition a search criteria so that an expected number of matching records does not exceed a desired threshold. In such embodiments, the match template may limit the number of... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100005081 - Systems for natural language processing of sentence based queries: Systems are disclosed for responding to text-based queries. The systems use natural language routines to identify word phrases present in a user query. The natural language routines may also consider the context of the user query, and may load one or both of appropriate grammars or dictionaries based on the... Agent: Patentbest

20100005076 - Translating search strings into physical locations: This description provides tools and techniques for translating search strings into physical locations. These tools may provide methods that include retrieving search strings, and requesting translation of the search strings to one or more corresponding physical locations. These methods may also receive representations of the corresponding physical locations, and provide... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hbh Attn: Patent Docketing

20100005094 - Apparatus and method for analyzing patent claim validity: A computer system, method, and storage medium with embedded code automate analysis of validity of patent document claims. In embodiments, the computer system receives an identifier of the patent document and a claim, retrieves text of the patent document, parses the text to identify contextually important key terms of the... Agent: Anatoly S. Weiser

20100005085 - Creating relationship maps from enterprise application system data: Systems and methods are provided that create a relationship map using enterprise application system (EAS) data. Relationship data is automatically collected from EAS modules. The EAS modules may be enterprise resource planning (ERP) modules. A relationship map is then generated from the collected relationship data. Thus, a representation of formal... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. Oracle International Corporation

20100005087 - Facilitating collaborative searching using semantic contexts associated with information: A method and system include sending a search context to a collaboration server for use in determining another user of the collaboration server that is associated with similar subject matter, the search context including at least one first context definition such that the first context definition has one or more... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20100005083 - Frequency based keyword extraction method and system using a statistical measure: Frequency based keyword extraction method and system utilizing a statistical measure is disclosed which generates keywords within a page and/or document that can distinguish the document from an average document. A simple frequency threshold parameter can be utilized to determine a number of common stop words if a word in... Agent: Xerox Corporation C/o Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20100005093 - Knowledge filter: A method and system for sharing knowledge is disclosed. The method and system comprises receiving information input into a database and organizing items of information in the database. The method and system further includes collecting ratings and comments associated with each item of information and allowing users to access and... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20100005084 - Method and system for prefetching internet content for video recorders: A method and system for providing information related to content accessed by a user of an electronic device is provided. An implementation involves determining content of interest to the user for access via an electronic device; obtaining metadata for said content; prefetching information related to said metadata; upon detecting availability... Agent: Myers Andras Sherman LLP

20100005089 - Performing a collaborative search in a computing network: Method for performing a collaborative search in a computing network. In one implementation, the method may include receiving a search criteria from a user, identifying one or more agents who have performed a search using the search criteria, the agents and the user belonging to the computing network, identifying one... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100005086 - Resource locator suggestions from input character sequence: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, in which an input method editor receives Roman character inputs, identifies keywords for candidate sets of a non-Roman character, and identifies an associated resource location. Upon identifying an associated resource location, associating the resource location with the candidate set of non-Roman characters.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100005092 - Search result sub-topic identification system and method: A method and apparatus for sub-topic identification from a search result that matches a query, said method including the steps of receiving a search result, extracting snippets from said search result that contain said query, truncating snippets on an instance of a boundary token, identifying phrases within said snippets that... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20100005082 - Single-tap input remote server access: A method for searching a remote server using a portable device including an ambiguity keyboard, the ambiguity keyboard having a plurality of keys where at least one key corresponds to more than one symbol, includes: according to a single-tap input of at least one key of the ambiguity keyboard, generating... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100005091 - Statistical measure and calibration of reflexive, symmetric and transitive fuzzy search criteria where one or both of the search criteria and database is incomplete: Disclosed is a system for, and method of, searching for and identifying an entity representation. Some embodiments utilize a reflexive, symmetric and transitive function to allow for non-identical matches between field values. The function may be used to generate field value codes, which are associated with a portion of a... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100005090 - Statistical measure and calibration of search criteria where one or both of the search criteria and database is incomplete: Disclosed is a system for, and method of, identifying an entity representation. In some embodiments, search criteria are used to identify an entity representation in a universal database, and this identification is then used to identify a corresponding entity representation in a foreign database. Certain embodiments provide assurance, with a... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100005088 - Using an encyclopedia to build user profiles: Described are various embodiments which enable organizations to track and use knowledge and expertise of their associated individuals. An organization can use exemplary embodiments to automatically summarize the expertise of each individual from documents available from internal or external web sites. For example, a web crawler crawls a computer network... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100005096 - Document type identifying method and document type identifying apparatus: A document type identifying apparatus includes in advance a database storing therein keywords used as keys that identify document types in association with each document type. The document type identifying apparatus aligns word strings written on a document and generates partial keyword strings for each keyword by using the keywords... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100005095 - Method and apparatus for defining data of lnterest: Some embodiments of the invention include tools for extracting data of interest from the world wide web (WWW). The extraction is accomplished using descriptions of data of interest. The descriptions of data of interest can include computer programs comprising a sequence of instructions and extractor patterns. The extractor patterns can... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20100005097 - Capturing and restoring database session state: Techniques are described herein for capturing and restoring database session state. Production database server components save the session state of each of a plurality of database sessions. The components store workload units that are processed in these sessions. The components store updated session states in response to certain events. Thus,... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20100005098 - Combined directory of personal and enterprise application system data: Systems and methods are provided that combine private contact information and Enterprise Application System (“EAS”) data in a directory. An embodiment includes receiving private contact information regarding a first employee from a second employee, storing the private contact information regarding the first employee on an EAS server, and displaying the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. Oracle International Corporation

20100005099 - System and method for socially derived, graduated access control in collaboration environments: A method for socially derived, graduated access control to a collaboration environment includes calculating a variable reputation score for a user based on a user's actions within a collaboration environment; and dynamically enabling graduated access control to the collaboration environment based on the reputation score.... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20100005100 - Data management system and method: A system, computer-implemented method, and a computer program product for defining a plurality of rental properties within a reporting datastore. A report template is defined and data is extracted from the reporting datastore. At least a portion of the report template is populated with at least a portion of the... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20100005103 - Distributed application management software: A system and method is provided for remote administration and management of a computer network, by installation of distributed software agents in remote network components, such as software agents implemented using encapsulated reusable interfaces such as COM or CORBA interfaces. Remote network management is effected by communication with the distributed... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20100005102 - Method and apparatus for managing document/message content for distribution to subscribers: A method for managing the document/message content for distribution to subscribers is disclosed. The method may include receiving documents/messages from sources, downloading the documents/messages to intended subscribers' remote devices, uploading any documents/messages from subscribers remote devices' that have been identified for uploading, and downloading the uploaded documents/messages to intended subscribers'... Agent: Prass LLP

20100005104 - Method and system for media navigation: A method and system for media navigation. A descriptor hierarchy may be accessed. The descriptor hierarchy may include at least one category list. One or more media descriptors may be accessed for a plurality of media items. The plurality of media items may be accessible from a plurality of sources.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20100005101 - Security method and system for storage subsystem: According to the present invention, techniques for performing security functions in computer storage subsystems in order to prevent illegal access by the host computers according to logical unit (LU) identity are provided. In representative embodiments management tables can be used to disclose the Logical Unit in the storage subsystem to... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20100005106 - Assisting users in searching for tagged content based on historical usage patterns: A tagging event can be detected where a software entity is associated with a tag resulting from a user interaction. At least one situational attribute relating to the tagging event can be automatically determined. The one or more situational attribute can be stored in a data repository so that the... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20100005109 - Memory controller, nonvolatile storage device, and nonvolatile storage device system: A memory controller, a nonvolatile storage device and a nonvolatile storage device system are provided, in which the matching check between content data and meta data can be simplified, a starting time can be shortened, and further, a host device side can provide users with a common GUI without being... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20100005107 - Method and apparatus for continuous compliance assessment: Methods, systems, and articles for receiving, by a compliance server, change data associated with a change captured on a target host, are described herein. In various embodiments, the target host may have provided the change data in response to detecting the change, and the change data may include one or... Agent: Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20100005108 - Method and system for generating indexes in an xml database management system: b. storing each of the at least one computed results from the at least one indexing function (20) as a key (11) of the corresponding index (10) and a reference to the input XML document (30) as a value (12) of the index (10).... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100005105 - Method for facilitating social networking based on fashion-related information: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for facilitating social networking based on fashion-related information. During operation, the system receives fashion-related information from a user. Next, the system extracts the user's fashion preferences from the received information and compares the user's fashion preference with other users' fashion preferences.... Agent: Pvf -- Parc C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20100005110 - Method of displaying traffic information on a web page: A method of displaying traffic information on a web page is provided. The traffic information includes traffic conditions of one or more specified roads. A web browser requests a web page that includes programming code related to some traffic information. The web browser interprets the programming code and requests at... Agent: Navteq North America, LLC

20100005111 - Systems and methods for correlating meta-data model representations and asset-logic model representations: Systems and methods for correlating meta-data model representations and asset-logic model representations in a system model.... Agent: Crain, Caton & James

20100005114 - Efficient delta handling in star and snowflake schemes: In one aspect there is provided a method for handling deltas being posted to a repository, database, or other Business Information Warehouse (BW). The method includes receiving, at a delta handler, absolute data without an indication of a change between the received absolute data and data posted to a repository... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20100005113 - Function in a relational database: A method of retrieval and presentation of data in denormalized format may include accessing a relational database of CHARACTER or VARCHAR data types in normal form, applying a database command SUMTEXT(column name, delimiter string) to the relational database, retrieving related sets of text strings from the relational database, truncating leading... Agent: Ibm Corporation (accsp) C/o Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20100005112 - Html file conversion: A computer-implemented method for converting a hypertext markup language (HTML) file to a new file format may include cleaning a source hypertext markup language (HTML) file to produce a modified HTML file, parsing the modified HTML file using one or more rules to mark content within the modified HTML file,... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20100005115 - Method and system for generating documents usable by a plurality of differing computer applications: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, computer-readable medium and a method for maintaining data in a format usable by a plurality of different computer applications. Data is input into a first application document having a first format and received by the system. The data is parsed from the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100005116 - User preference information structure having multiple hierarchical structure and method for providing multimedia information using the same: A user preference information structure having a multiple hierarchical structure in which an information is provided to a user according to a user preference in a multi-media environment consisting of an information provider and an information user, comprising user use information by using information desired by the user; user preference... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20100005118 - Detection of patterns: A method of detecting patterns in a plurality of data blocks, comprising generating a first database comprising a first subset of patterns of a set of selected patterns, generating a second database comprising a second subset of remaining patterns of the set of selected patterns, receiving the plurality of data... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20100005117 - Distributed shared data space for personal health systems: A system for data acquisition, storage, and access includes a plurality of electronic devices (10, 12, 14, 150, 154) having storage. Interfacing software defines setup instructions (70) for establishing on each electronic device a shared data space (30, 130) configured to store one or more data streams (32, 34, 132,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100005122 - Dynamic information systems: This invention discloses the concept of a dynamic metasystem managing a dynamic system, achieved through the use of, and an environment (i.e., tools and ontologies) supporting dynamic artifacts. A system for generating a dynamic information system comprises a persistent dynamic repository of data and an integration metasystem. The repository forms... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20100005120 - Method and apparatus for generating media file having media information compatible between media files having same format, and method and apparatus for executing the media file: Provided is a method of executing a media file including at least one media resource, the method including: importing the media file including the media resource and media information that includes at least one digital item about the media resource, at least one template, and at least one application; and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100005121 - Multimedia integration description scheme, method and system for mpeg-7: The invention provides a system and method for integrating multimedia descriptions in a way that allows humans, software components or devices to easily identify, represent, manage, retrieve, and categorize the multimedia content. In this manner, a user who may be interested in locating a specific piece of multimedia content from... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ndq

20100005119 - System and methods for the cluster of media: A computer implemented method for the cluster of media, the method comprises, selecting a media search source via a user interface; providing a form-based interface that allow the entry of inputs to form a media search query; submitting the media search query to the media search source; receiving a media... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20100005124 - Automated method for identifying and repairing logical data discrepancies between database replicas in a database cluster: A method and system for monitoring and maintaining the consistency of replicated databases in a shared-nothing database cluster architecture is presented. The method involves the continuous monitoring of the database transaction logs that are maintained by the autonomous database managers that manage the individual database replicas in the cluster. In... Agent: Dimock Stratton LLP

20100005123 - Tracking manufacturing test changes: A process methodology and application for change control monitoring and identification used with a circuit board testing platform. This methodology uses “baselines” to track an approved collection of changes for testing a circuit board. An approver is an authorized user or a user that have permission to modify board-test parameters.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20100005125 - System and method for globally and securely accessing unified information in a computer network: A client stores a first set of workspace data, and is coupled via a computer network to a global server. The client may be configured to synchronize portions of the first set of workspace data with the global server, which stores independently modifiable copies of the portions. The global server... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100005127 - File operation apparatus: A file operation apparatus connectable with a storage medium is disclosed. The storage medium stores therein multiple files. Each file contains a category information item defining a prescribed category of the file. The prescribed categories of the multiple files are independent of a directory structure. The file operation apparatus includes:... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20100005126 - Record level fuzzy backup: A method, system, and computer program product for performing a backup operation in a computing environment is provided. A list of keys identifying a plurality of locked records is created at a start of the backup operation. If a first locked record of the plurality of locked records is obtained... Agent: Griffiths & Seaton PLLC (ibm)