Data processing: database and file management or data structures inventions

20090276393 - Implementing aggregation combination using aggregate depth lists and cube aggregation conversion to rollup aggregation for optimizing query processing: A process combines multiple grouping sets into single rollup sets with depth lists defining the levels of grouping that must be performed. Grouping sets are identified that are contained within other sets and combined into single rollups with depth lists. Cube aggregation conversion to rollup aggregation is provided for optimizing... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20090276397 - Method for analyzing, deconstructing, reconstructing, and repurposing rhetorical content: A system and method are disclosed for analyzing, deconstructing, reconstructing, and repurposing rhetorical content. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a content management system (400) having a database (404), and a controller (402) for managing the database. The controller can be programmed to... Agent: At&t Legal Department - As Attn: Patent Docketing

20090276394 - Obtaining a plan for executing a query in a relational database: A plan for executing a query in a relational database is obtained. A query for accessing data in the relational database is received. The query specifies N tables in the relational database from which data is to be retrieved. A determination is made whether a syntax of the query matches... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20090276395 - Query optimization in a multi-tenant database system: More efficient querying of a multi-tenant database using dynamic tuning of database indices. A layer of meta-data associates data items with tenants, e.g., via tags, and the meta-data is used to optimize searches by channeling processing resources during a query to only those pieces of data bearing the relevant tenant's... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090276396 - Systems and methods for natural language communication with a computer: A system for natural language communication with a computer, comprising a database configures to store at least one table the table configured to store associations between concepts in a text string and associated concept identifiers; and a builder interfaced with the database, the builder configured to construct a concept defined... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090276400 - Knowledge base search utility: A method is disclosed. The method includes performing a first search in response to initiating a communication session between an agent and a customer. The first search is performed using first data, attributes of a service interaction, and second data. The first data represents a second search requested by the... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20090276406 - Litigation-related document repository: A litigation-related document repository for management and exchange of documents independent of courts or other tribunals. Users can upload litigation-related documents for on-line case folders in order to exchange documents with other parties to a dispute or other users. The repository maintains the documents in a common format in a... Agent: Andrews Kurth LLP

20090276401 - Method and apparatus for managing associative personal information on a mobile communication device: A method and apparatus that manages associative personal information may include determining associative properties, receiving an item to be associated to the determined associative properties, indexing the received item based on the determined associative properties, storing the received item and the associated indexing information, receiving at least one of a... Agent: Prass LLP

20090276404 - Method and system for efficient data structure for reporting on indeterminately deep hierarchies: A method, system, and medium related to a data structure having hierarchies based on a leaf node entity, the method including determining a reverse bridge table data structure for the hierarchical data, the reverse bridge table data structure including an association of all ancestor node entities of the hierarchical data... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090276403 - Projection mining for advanced recommendation systems and data mining: A method for projection mining comprises performing a first projection on a first data object of a first type comprising a plurality of data entries and a second data object of a second type comprising a plurality of data entries to create definitions of attributes of the first data object... Agent: Hanify & King, P.C.

20090276399 - Ranking documents through contextual shortcuts: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to ranking and/or indexing of documents based at least in part on user interaction with contextual shortcuts.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP

20090276398 - Search server: A search server 14 comprises a plurality of search target databases 24, 26 each storing search target information and task IDs to indicate classifications according to the search target information in correspondence to each other; a user action database 22 storing searching information and task IDs in correspondence to each... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090276402 - Search system using media metadata tracks: Real-time metadata tracks recorded to media streams allow search and analysis operations in a variety of contexts. Search queries can be performed using information in real-time metadata tracks such as closed captioning, sub-title, statistical tracks, miscellaneous data tracks. Media streams can also be augmented with additional tracks. The metadata tracks... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090276407 - Server architecture and methods for storing and serving event data: An event history server system stores event data descriptive of user-specific events that occur in browsing sessions of users. A query interface of the event history server system enables applications to selectively retrieve the event data based on various event parameters such as event type, event time of occurrence, and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090276405 - System, method and computer program product for generating a set of instructions to an on-demand database service: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for generating a set of instructions to an on-demand database service. These mechanisms and methods for generating a set of instructions to an on-demand database service can enable embodiments to generate instructions capable of operating on objects, without having any... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20090276408 - Systems and methods for generating a user interface: Systems and method for generating a user interface described. In one described system, an aspect associated with an article is identified. Next, an insert comprising a search result is generated based, at least in part, on the aspect. The insert is then caused to be output in association with the... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20090276409 - Shareable information system: According to one embodiment, a shareable information system includes a number of organizations having a database communicating with one another through a network. Each database stores data objects with a structured metatag. Each structured metatag uniquely identifies its respective data object and has fields structured according to a common architecture.... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20090276410 - Shareable information system: A relational database management system (RDBMS) for servicing query statements through one or more client machines. The RDBMS comprises a query interface adapted to receive query statements from the client machines. The query handling mechanism (i) receives each request from the query interface, (ii) extracts a set of dimensions associated... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski , Esq., P. C.

20090276422 - Apparatus for matching subject data sets with query data sets: r

20090276416 - Comparing anonymized data: Systems, methods and computer program products for the comparison of anonymized data entries are disclosed. In one embodiment the present invention is a computer-implemented method for comparing anonymized data entries, including separately processing data entries in a query list and a search database by: normalizing, generating variants, scoring, and anonymizing.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090276423 - File management apparatus and method, and storage system: The present invention provides a file management system and method, and a storage system that can prevent file-multiplexing in a storage apparatus, and efficiently use the storage capacity of the storage apparatus. The storage apparatus stores first management information for managing two or more kinds of classification list, each classification... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20090276418 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program and recording medium: An information processing apparatus is disclosed which determines, based on fitness to a specified condition, an order of displaying multiple to-be-searched information items which are pre-stored. The apparatus includes a specifying-condition information obtaining unit, an index-information obtaining unit, a population-limiting information obtaining unit, an index-information modifying unit, and a fitness... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090276411 - Issue trend analysis system: A system of analyzing a large document-based propensity over a query language is disclosed. In the system of analyzing the large document-based propensity over the query language, the correlated words and sentences on the query language inputted by the user are searched on the basis of large on-line or off... Agent: Schmeiser Olsen & Watts

20090276413 - Managing electronic data with index data corresponding to said electronic data: An improved approach for managing and sending electronic data which allows one to access electronic data corresponding to a hardcopy document is provided. For example, when the hardcopy bearing a visible image is output, an identification image corresponding to identification data identifying the document is added to the visible image.... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090276417 - Method and system for database query term suggestion: A method for automatically providing a plurality of additional database query terms to a user is provided. The method comprises receiving a query term from a user, receiving a plurality of characters from the user in addition to the query term, and selecting a set of records from a database... Agent: Setter Roche LLP

20090276420 - Method and system for extending content: The present invention provides a method and system for extending content based on the semantic meaning of content. It divides content into multiple content regions and finds words and/or phrases that are semantically relevant to the current content region and appends these words and/or phrases to the current content region... Agent: Gang Qiu

20090276419 - Method and system for improvement of request processing: A system and method of processing a request including improving usage and/or performance of resources is disclosed. Information relating to a user request may be provided to one or more resources which process the information and provide a result. A result and/or other information may be provided to a human... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090276424 - Method and system for keyword management: A keyword management system for managing keywords used when a user terminal connected to a network accesses contents, includes a Burst value calculating unit that calculates a Burst value indicating an increase per unit time of a keyword, an overall Burst value calculating unit that calculates an overall Burst value... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090276421 - Method and system for re-ranking search results: A method for re-ranking search results, includes: generating the search results from a data source based on a search query from a user; retriving a re-ranking expression; re-ranking all or part of the documents in the search results based on the re-ranking expression; and displaying all or part of the... Agent: Gang Qiu

20090276412 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for providing usage analysis: An apparatus for providing usage analysis may include a processor. The processor may be configured to receive a plurality of usage attributes from a plurality of platforms, where the plurality of platforms may be associated with a user. In this regard, the plurality of usage attributes may have associations with... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090276414 - Ranking model adaptation for searching: Search results provided by a search engine (e.g., for the Internet) are improved and/or made more accurate by addressing the limited availability of human labeled training data for certain domains (e.g., languages other than English, within certain date ranges, corresponding to queries over a certain length, etc.). More particularly, a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090276415 - System and method for automatically processing candidate resumes and job specifications expressed in natural language into a common, normalized, validated form: Systems and methods for automatically processing candidate resumes and job specifications expressed in natural language into a common, normalized, validated form. Candidate resumes and job specifications are received in electronic form and expressed in natural language. The natural language expression of the candidate resumes and job specifications are analyzed to... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20090276425 - Encoding search results as a search permanent link uniform resource locator: A method, system, and computer program product for encoding search results as a search permanent link Uniform Resource Locator (URL). The search result permanent link URL allows a user to distribute a search query that ensures that a set of search results will be the same (known as a fixed... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090276427 - Method of extracting sections of a data stream: A method of extracting sections of a data stream, the sections including a set of sequences. Each sequence is encoded separately and coupled together to define a section. The method involves determining a combination of at least two sequences of the set, comparing the combination of sequences with sequences in... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090276426 - Semantic analytical search and database: A system and method for of identifying a semantic meaning of searchable elements are provided. In one implementation, a system includes an adaptive machine-learning module including a pattern recognition processor. The pattern recognition processor is configured to recognize searchable elements in source information and identify a semantic meaning of the... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20090276428 - Sorting method and algorithm called high speed sort: s

20090276429 - Systems and methods for improving the ranking of news articles: A system ranks results. The system may receive a list of links. The system may identify a source with which each of the links is associated and rank the list of links based at least in part on a quality of the identified sources.... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090276431 - Java virtual machine having integrated transaction management system: A computing system includes at least one computing device is configured to execute computer program instructions to accomplish a fully transactional application, including managed objects. The managed objects are persisted in a shared memory of the computing system, such that a scope of the objects is global to the transactional... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20090276430 - Record-level locking and page-level recovery in a database management system: Disclosure of approaches for processing database transactions against a database. In one approach, a first transaction is received that specifies an operation for changing state of a first record stored in a first database page. In processing the operation, the state of the record is changed, and information is stored... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20090276432 - Data file storing multiple data types with controlled data access: A method and apparatus for efficiently storing multiple data types in a computer's register or data file. A single data file can store data with a variety of sizes and number formats, including integers, fractions, and mixed numbers. The register file is partitioned into fields, such that only the relevant... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler PC

20090276433 - Electronic submission of application programs for network-based distribution: An improved system and method for submitting, distributing and/or managing digital products with respect to a product distribution site are disclosed. The submission of digital products to the product distribution site is able to be performed by numerous submitters in a uniform and computer-assisted manner. The submitted digital products can... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20090276434 - Media/data card: The media/data card is a computer readable medium for storing data files, and in particular, media files. The device may be a flash media memory card or other conveniently sized, portable storage device. The media/data card stores a data structure for controlling access to data files stored on the computer... Agent: Litman Law Offices, Ltd.

20090276435 - Variably controlling access to content: A software module is presented that enables a person to determine the relevance of a document while preventing the person from making a copy of the entire document. In one embodiment, this is accomplished by programmatically controlling which portions of a document will be presented to a user and which... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20090276440 - Embodiments of practical distributed computing: A practical distributed computing system with almost perfect scalability is realized by distributed has table like search and lookup algorithm implemented in a hardware P2P (peer-to-peer) overlay with multiple P2P software overlays. Each software overlay is implemented as an active database. Each hardware overlay node is any IP device, fixed... Agent: Wei Kang Tsai

20090276436 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for providing service invitations: An apparatus for providing service invitations may include a processor. The processor may be configured to receive user contacts associated with a user. The user contacts may be received from a server, a mobile terminal, or the like. The user contacts may also be received in response to an invitation... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090276441 - Methods, systems, and products for searching interactive menu prompting systems: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for searching a searchable listing of an interactive menu prompting system. A search request is received, and the search request includes a search term. A query is sent to determine whether the search term occurs within in the searchable listing. A search result is... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Sz Attn: Patent Docketing

20090276437 - Suggesting long-tail tags: Technologies are described herein for suggesting long-tail tags. A first group of tags and a second group of tags are identified from a plurality of tags. The first group of tags includes frequently-assigned tags having a higher frequency of being assigned to an asset. The second group of tags includes... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090276438 - System and method for a data dictionary: In accordance with one or more embodiments, a system for facilitating transfer of data and information over a network includes a database component for storing data and information related to a machine and at least one part thereof, a communication component adapted to communicate with a user via a user... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090276439 - System and method for simplified data transfer: Systems and methods of performing a simplified data transfer are provided. For example, a method of simplified data transfer may involve downloading an index of files accessed or modified on a home computer onto a handheld device from an online data storage server, displaying on the handheld device a user... Agent: Apple Inc. C/o Fletcher Yoder, PC

20090276444 - Adaptive methodology for updating solution building block architectures and associated tooling: Provided is a method for the adaptive updating of building block architectures and designs in the event of a change to a component of the building block architecture. When a specific component of the architecture, or SBB, is replaced or modified, the metadata associated with the new or modified component... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20090276443 - Adaptive methodology for updating solution building block architectures and designs: Provided is a method for the adaptive updating of building block architectures and designs in the event of a change to a component of the building block architecture. When a specific component of the architecture, or SBB, is replaced or modified, the metadata associated with the new or modified component... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20090276445 - Dynamic multi-scale schema: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates organizing and presenting data within a database. A data store can store a portion of data accessible to a user. A real time monitor component can dynamically track an amount of access for the portion of data within... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090276447 - Formats for database template files shared between client and server environments: Tools and techniques are described for formats for database template files shared between client and server environments. Systems provided by these tools may include client subsystems that include client-side database management applications that instantiate tables within a database, and instantiate client-specific database template files corresponding respectively to the tables. These... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090276446 - Process and method for classifying structured data: A system and method for classifying structured data by automatically suggesting classification labels. The system comprises a taxonomy configured to provide one or more normalized labels and a classification tool configured to automatically classify data across an enterprise system using the one or more normalized labels. The method comprises extracting... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090276442 - State buckets: Techniques involving state buckets are described. In an implementation, a plurality of axes are defined, each corresponding to a proposed separation or unification of state for software. For each of the axes, one or more scenarios are determined that are enabled by the defined separation or unification of the state... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090276449 - Apparatus and method to transform an extract transform and load (etl) task into a delta load task: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to support the definition of an Extract Transform and Load (ETL) task. An evaluation of source table structures, source data change indicators, and target table structures is performed. The ETL task is converted to a delta load task in accordance with the... Agent: Sap GlobalIPC/o Cooley Godward Kronish LLP William S. Galliani

20090276451 - Method and apparatus for processing messages: An apparatus and a method for transforming Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) messages is provided. The method comprises receiving and transmitting Extensible Markup Language (XML) format SOAP messages by using an application protocol and TCP/IP, a message comprising message elements and receiving and transmitting binary messages comprising binary message elements.... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20090276450 - Method and system for establishing a spatial street address data set: A method for establishing a spatial street address data set including: (a) in no particular order: (1) providing street address data; (2) providing postal data; (3) providing community translation data; and (4) providing a spatial layer base map; (b) establishing a first data base containing once-translated address entries, each relating... Agent: Michelle A. Zarinelli C/o West Corporation

20090276448 - Parallel transformation of files: A message brokering system includes a file input node configured to receive a file and divide the received file into a plurality of file portions for processing in the message brokering system, a plurality of transformation nodes configured to transform the plurality of file portions independently and in parallel, and... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Europe

20090276452 - Super-object in administering system: Method and system maintaining “super-objects” in a central administering system, where each super-object is associated with corresponding objects in target systems so that editing of that super-object or of one of its associated objects results in conforming edits for all of the associated objects.... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders, LLP Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP Welsh & Katz

20090276453 - Modification of brand representations by a brand engine in a social network: A brand engine receives a request from a user device operated by a first user to display user information of a second user. User information of the first user is mapped to at least the user information of the second user by the brand engine. The mapping may map the... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Cpa Global

20090276454 - Performing de-duplication for at least one computer file in a computer system: The present invention provides a method and system of performing de-duplication for at least one computer file in a computer system. In an exemplary embodiment, the method and system include (1) tuning a rolling-hash algorithm for the de-duplication, (2) chunking the data in the file into chunks of data by... Agent: Leonard T. Guzman IBM Corp., Law Dept., C4ta/j2b

20090276455 - Sharing information about a document across a private compuer network: Technologies are described herein for providing an improved interface for interacting with a document within a private computer network. A flag interface, a tag interface, and a comment interface are provided within a document viewer. The flag interface enables a user of the private computer network to flag a document... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090276456 - System and method for managing binary large objects: The invention regards a system (10) and method for managing BLOBs. The system combines a file subsystem (20) and a database subsystem (30), wherein the database subsystem (30) comprises relations between file names of files (40) comprising a BLOB (50) and BLOB names. In the event of modification of a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090276458 - Adaptive workflows derived from updates to solution building block architectures and designs: Provided is a method for the adaptive testing, updating and verification of a building block architecture and design, such as a solution building block (SBB) architecture design, in the event of a change to the building block architecture and or a component of the architecture. Typically, an on-demand, custom solution... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20090276464 - Image processing system and method: An image processing system and method receives one or more digital images in the form of image data, including selected object data of a digital image, and determines, by an electronic recognition process, if a recognition match is available between the selected object data of the digital image and image... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price P.C.

20090276462 - Information processing apparatus, control method, control program, and name mapping information: An information processing apparatus includes a local storage in which a virtual file system is created, the virtual file system supporting an information recording medium on which encrypted content on which an encryption process has been performed is recorded, the encrypted content being managed for each of content management units... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090276457 - Method and system for maintaining profiles of information channels: A method and system are provided for maintaining profiles of information channels available on the Web, wherein the information channels are accessed via pull-only protocols. The method includes monitoring one or more channels by a channel pull action at a monitoring rate, wherein the monitoring rate is determined for the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090276459 - Modification of content representation by a brand engine in a social network: A brand engine receives a request from a user device operated by a first user to display user information of a second user. User information of the first user is mapped to at least the user information of the second user by the brand engine. The mapping may map the... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Cpa Global

20090276461 - Role-based operational communications directory: A role-based operational directory capable of facilitating identification of and communication with key contact personnel during an operation is disclosed. Role-specific directory instances are created in the directory. The role-specific instances are created by a system operator and list the roles involved in an operation and the associations between the... Agent: Motorola Inc

20090276460 - System and method for automatically processing candidate resumes and job specifications expressed in natural language by automatically adding classification tags to improve matching of candidates to job specifications: Systems and methods for automatically processing candidate resumes and job specifications expressed in natural language by automatically adding classification tags to improve matching of candidates to job specifications. Methods and systems process candidate resumes and job specifications to match candidates with job specifications. Candidate resumes and job specifications are received... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20090276463 - System for electronically recording and sharing medical information: A system for electronically recording and sharing medical data is provided, the system comprising an electronic source document, wherein the electronic source document comprises a database. In one particular embodiment, the medical data comprise clinical study data, and in another the medical data comprise patient specific data. In some embodiments,... Agent: Adams And Reese LLP

20090276465 - Information recording/reproducing device, information recording/reproducing method, information recording/reproducing program, and computer-readable recording medium containing the information recording/reproducing program: A single entity of contents information is recorded across plural recording media, and seamless reproduction is enabled by ensuring a reproduction sequence. A contents control unit 616 records a part of contents information into a first recording medium and records the rest part of the contents information into a second... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090276468 - Method for media fingerprinting: A method of checking whether a content aggregator's content matches a content owner's content involves generating a fingerprint of the content and looking for a matching fingerprint from the content owner through a service provided by the content owner. In one aspect, the fingerprints are generated from an intermediate digest... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20090276467 - System and method for near and exact de-duplication of documents: A system, method and computer program product for identifying near and exact-duplicate documents in a document collection, including for each document in the collection, reading textual content from the document; filtering the textual content based on user settings; determining N most frequent words from the filtered textual content of the... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20090276466 - System and method of data processing for a communications operation: A data processing system comprises an interface configured to communicate with a data source, a memory, and a reference data module. The data processing system comprises a processor which is configured to communicate with the memory, the interface, and the reference module. The processor is further configured to request a... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090276470 - Data processing system and method: A method of rotating a current log file, comprising associating a first file system data structure associated with the current log file with a backup log file, and associating a second file system data structure associated with the backup log file with the current log file.... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090276469 - Method for transactional behavior extaction in distributed applications: A method of analyzing log data related to a software application includes: selectively collecting data log entries that are related to the application; agnostically categorizing the data log entries; and associating the categories of the data log entries with one or more operational states of a model.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090276471 - Automatically capturing and maintaining versions of documents: Tools and techniques are described for automatically capturing and maintaining versions of documents. These tools may provide methods that include receiving documents from a server, and receiving indications of revisions to the documents at client systems. The methods may also automatically determine whether to capture representations of states of the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090276472 - Data processing system and method: A method of interpreting data in a first version of a data structure, the method comprising determining if the first version of the data structure is different to a currently used version of the data structure; and if the versions are different, then for each field of the currently used... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090276473 - Method and apparatus for maintaining consistency between database and virtual table: A method and system for maintaining consistency between a view of a virtual table and the database. The method includes: First, selecting a discard candidate instance from a discard candidate list table in accordance with an LRU algorithm if it is judged that there is less free space for adding... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090276474 - Method for copying protected data from one secured storage device to another via a third party: A method is used by a third party to copy digital data from a source secured storage device to a destination secured storage device, the method including establishing, by the third party, a virtual secure channel between the source SSD and the destination SSD, over which the third party reads... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/sandisk

20090276476 - Peer-to-peer data archiving and retrieval system: A peer-to-peer system for the archiving and retrieval of data, and associated methods, are provided. One associated method comprises the steps of, at an archive server: receiving a data record over a network from a data generating system, assigning the data record to a storage segment, calculating a signature for... Agent: Igoe Intellectual Property, LLC

20090276475 - Secure data access and backup: In accordance with one or more embodiments, data on a mobile device may be secured by receiving mobile device data to be secured from a personal computer in communication with the mobile device, securing the mobile device data with the personal computer, and backing up the secured mobile device data... Agent: Cool Patent P.C.

20090276477 - Method of partitioning a database: The invention is directed towards a method of partitioning data in a database. The database is configured to be accessed by an entity. The method comprises the steps of defining a first partition within the database, defining a second partition within the database and assigning selected data in the database... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090276478 - Method and system for hybrid garbage collection of multi-tasking systems: In general, the invention relates to a method for garbage collection. The method includes examining old regions to obtain a mark bitmap, a connectivity matrix, and fragmentation information, where the mark bitmap describes marked words and unmarked words for the old regions. The method further includes identifying a fragmented region... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20090271363 - Adaptive clustering of records and entity representations: Disclosed is a system for, and method of, determining whether records and entity representations should be linked. The system and method include assigning to each pair of entity references a match value reflecting the likelihood that the entity references are related. Based on the match values, each entity reference may... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090271360 - Assigning plan volatility scores to control reoptimization frequency and number of stored reoptimization plans: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for improving the processing of database queries. Some embodiments include generating volatility scores for various plans for executing similar database queries. Different embodiments may utilize: database statistics, the variable values being selected for, and/or historical run time data, to generate the plan... Agent: Craig F. Taylor

20090271362 - Method for controlling a relational database system: A method for controlling a relational database system, wherein a query statement to be processed, which consists of keywords, is first analyzed by applying a recursive transition network (RTN) and then converted into control commands by the following steps: defining the RTN in a presetting step by forming independent RTN... Agent: Paul And Paul

20090271361 - Non-repeating random values in user specified formats and character sets: Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with producing non-repeating random values for use in data masking are described. One example method includes accessing data describing a mask for a value in a database table column to be masked. The example method may also include identifying a number of distinct... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC - Oracle

20090271364 - Optimized storage and access method for a historian server of an automated system: Exemplary embodiments of the disclosure relate to a method and a system for the storage and processing of process values of a technical process or a technical installation in a historian server which can be integrated into a process control system of a technical installation or of a technical process.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090271381 - Annotations for electronic content: Embodiments are described for capturing, displaying, and navigating text annotations in a non-modifiable document. In some embodiments, a determination is made that a text annotation is to be created and a system determines the file position of the selected object. The file position of the selected object can be stored... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090271375 - Combination treatment selection methods and systems: Methods, computer program products, and systems are described that include accepting at least one attribute of at least one individual, querying at least one database at least partly based on the at least one attribute, selecting from the at least one database at least one prescription medication and at least... Agent: Iv - Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20090271369 - Computer method and system of visual representation of external source data in a virtual environment: An external source data provider provides separable lists of external data in a virtual environment. The external source data provider and method particularly represent a query for external data in the virtual environment. The query is executed against external sources resulting in a plurality of items collectively forming search results.... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds

20090271370 - Discovery of friends using social network graph properties: Embodiments are directed towards providing a list of potential friends to a user based on an analysis of friends' contact lists. The user may provide a subset of friends within a contact list for analysis, along with a degree of separation over which to perform the analysis, and/or a minimum... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090271373 - Email rating system and method: What is disclosed is a novel email rating system and method which enables a user to rate an email based on characteristics selectable from several categories. Cumulative global email ratings for senders given by other receivers are stored in a centralized database accessible over a network. Cumulative local email ratings... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090271366 - Methods and systems for improving hash table performance: Methods and systems for generating a hashcode for a hash table are provided to improve the hash table performance. A particular method includes receiving an input of a key; applying a hash function to the key to generate an incoming hashcode of the key; encoding a key type into the... Agent: Ibm Corp. (jgt) C/o Toler Law Group

20090271365 - Methods and systems of generating 3d user interface for physical environment: One embodiment of the application provides a method of generating a 3D user interface (UI) in a controller for an appliance in a physical environment. The method includes: abstracting the appliance to obtain to a appliance functionality description having variables of the appliance, operations of the state variables, and relationship... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090271378 - Point to multi-point medical communication matrix: A method including at least one processor coupled to a computing device and linked to a plurality of databases on which records are stored for contacting a medical professional by a user of the computing device comprises the steps of: activating a service software program by operating an icon on... Agent: Michael Ries

20090271367 - Product line extraction: Methods, systems and computer readable media for extracting product lines from a plurality of product titles are provided. In one embodiment, the plurality of product titles are broken into tokens. Association rules are calculated for individual tokens and pairs of tokens. Brand specific terms and product class specific terms within... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090271379 - Relational database management system (rdbms) employing a relational datastore and a multi-dimensional database (mddb) for serving query statements from client machines: A relational database management system (RDBMS) for servicing query statements from one or more client machines, using a relational data store and a multi-dimensional database (MDDB). The RDBMS includes a query interface which is adapted to receive query statements from the client machines, and to generate one or more query... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski , Esq., P. C.

20090271371 - Search customization by geo-located proxy of user segment: 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 associates the search result with a geographically distributed population. The system and method associates a... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090271376 - Search device and search program: Where destination candidates that are selected by a search are arranged in a specified display order, the candidates are divided into two subgroups, based on a median value, and a first destination candidate, a median destination candidate, and a last destination candidate are displayed. Where a desired candidate is included... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090271368 - Search query scoring and popularity monitoring and systems and methods therefor: A method of indicating the popularity of the subject of a search query comprising receiving a search query from a user, the search query being received by a search server; determining whether the search query is likely to be related to a particular thing; obtaining popularity information for the particular... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090271372 - Service provider framework: Providing a dynamic data translation service in a framework that encapsulates other valuable service functions is disclosed. An information technology infrastructure operates in different environments, uses different formats and accesses complex and frequently changing data schemas. The service provider framework provides core computing process automation and dynamic data translation functionality... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (amex)

20090271374 - Social network powered query refinement and recommendations: Embodiments of the present invention enhance the search experience of a user by looking at the search history of one or more buddies to provide search enhancements to the user. Examples of search enhancements include an annotation or graphic adjacent to a search result indicating the search result has been... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090271380 - System and method for enabling search and retrieval operations to be performed for data items and records using data obtained from associated voice files: A method and system are provided for using the contents of voice files as a basis for enabling search and other selection operations for data items that are associated with those voice files. Voice files may be received having associations with other data items, such as images or records. A... Agent: Mahamedi Paradice Kreisman LLP

20090271377 - System and method for medical episode recreation: A system for recreating point-in-time medical episodes is provided. The system can comprise one or more electronic data processors and a network interface connected with the one or more electronic data processors for communicatively linking the one or more processors with a plurality of databases containing patient data corresponding to... Agent: Gregory A. Nelson Novak Druce & Quigg LLP

20090271382 - Expressive grouping for language integrated queries: Standard group operators afford expressive grouping across collections of various types for employment by a number of programming languages. The operators can leverage positional information to facilitate grouping of sequential/ordered input data. Groups can also include more than one input element. Additionally or alternatively, the operators can enable multi-level grouping... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090271383 - Method for deriving context for data disclosure enforcement: Techniques for deriving a context for enforcing a data disclosure policy while accessing a database are provided. The techniques include receiving a request for database access with met a information, parsing the meta information to identify a context, receiving a user query, formulating a query equivalent to-the user query, wherein... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090271384 - Relational database management system having integrated non-relational multi-dimensional data store of aggregated data elements: Improved method of and apparatus for joining and aggregating data elements integrated within a relational database management system (RDBMS) using a non-relational multi-dimensional data structure (MDD). The improved RDBMS system of the present invention can be used to realize achieving a significant increase in system performance (e.g. deceased access/search time),... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski , Esq., P. C.

20090271385 - System and method for parallel query evaluation: A method and system for parallel query processing is provided. The method includes estimating a number of sub-queries that may be formed corresponding to an input query. The method further includes fragmenting the input query into a plurality of sub queries by adding one or more filter predicates to the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090271388 - Annotations of third party content: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to creating a search query based on content and subject of a web page, for example. In one particular example, such a search query may be established by a selection of one or more keywords in a web page. Consequently, the search query may... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP

20090271394 - Determining the degree of relevance of entities and identities in an entity resolution system that maintains alert relevance: An entity resolution system and alert analysis system configured to process inbound identity records and to generate alerts based on relevant identities, entities, conditions, activities, or events is disclosed. One process of resolving identity records and detecting relationships between entities may be performed using a pre-determined or configurable entity resolution... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ibm Svl

20090271387 - Extraction method of interview relation by optimal condition and record medium recording thereof: A method of selecting the most suitable partner for a date for the purpose of marriage and a recording medium storing the method are provided. A system for arranging the date comprises a member client management unit for managing registration of clients, an account unit for managing membership fees and... Agent: Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP

20090271386 - Iterative search with data accumulation in a cognitive control framework: Searching hypotheses for locations of objects in a playback image corresponding to a recorded image generated by a graphical user interface (GUI) of an application program may be accomplished by capturing the playback image, detecting at least one active object in the recorded image, searching subsets of hypotheses from the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090271395 - Media file searching system and method for a mobile phone: A media file searching system for a mobile phone is disclosed. The system comprises: a capturing module configured for capturing a section of rhythm sung by a user; a character calculating module configured for calculating a characteristic parameter of the section of the rhythm by using a levinson-durbin recursion arithmetic;... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090271396 - Method and apparatus for media content provision: Disclosed is a method of providing relevant media content to a user, comprising: storing static data relating to the user's personal profile; providing a choice of media items to the user and allowing the user to select at least one media item from the choice for inclusion in a single... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090271391 - Method and apparatus for rating user generated content in seach results: Generally, a method and apparatus provides for rating user generated content (UGC) with respect to search engine results. The method and apparatus includes recognizing a UGC data field collected from a web document located at a web location. The method and apparatus calculates: a document goodness factor for the web... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20090271398 - Method and system for recognition of video content: A method and system is provided for recognizing video content represented by temporally segmented video content. An example system includes a communication module and a search and match module. The communications module may be configured to receive a source table of contents (TOC) related to a temporally segmented video content.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090271399 - Method and system for searching content at a primary service provider through a partner service provider: A method and system for generating a search includes a user device, a partner service provider in communication with the user network device, and a primary service provider in communication with the partner service provider. The user device generates a search request for search data at the user device and... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20090271400 - Point of interest search device and point of interest search method: A point of interest (POI) search device includes: a static POI data storage means for storing therein a static POI data registered in advance; an added POI data storage means for storing therein an added POI data added or changed; a deleted POI data storage means for storing therein a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090271389 - Preference judgements for relevance: The claimed subject matter provides a system that trains or evaluates ranking techniques by employing or obtaining relative preference judgments. The system can include mechanisms that retrieve a set of documents from a storage device, combine the set of documents with a query orjudgment task received via an interface to... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090271390 - Product suggestions and bypassing irrelevant query results: A computer system, computer media, and computer-implemented method for generating product suggestions and providing product information are provided. The computer system includes a relevance engine, a product database, and a graphical user interface to respond to user queries and to provide product details associated with one or more products included... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090271397 - Statistical record linkage calibration at the field and field value levels without the need for human interaction: Disclosed is a system for, and method of, calculating parameters used to determine whether records and entity representations should be linked. The system and method apply iterative techniques such that parameters from each linking iteration are used in the next linking iteration. The system and method need no human interaction... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090271393 - System and method for utilizing organization-level technology demand information: A plurality of subtechnologies may be identified in which each of the plurality of subtechologies is characterized by a common granularity level. The organization-level demand and/or expertise for each of the identified plurality of subtechnologies may also be identified. Thereafter, a corresponding plurality of subtechnology profiles may be generated, which... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090271392 - System and method for utilizing technology interconnectivities: A plurality of subtechnologies is identified in which each of the plurality of subtechologies may be defined or characterized by a common granularity level. Thereafter, a plurality of subtechnology interconnectivities, relating to two or more of the identified plurality of subtechnologies, may correspondingly be identified. In one embodiment, a plurality... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090271401 - System for software source code comparison: A system for analyzing similarities between a first and second corpus or between a set of concepts and a corpus uses natural language processing and machine intelligence methods to replace terms or phrases in the corpus with concepts, determine the frequency of each concept in the corpus, and convert the... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090271402 - Deduplication of data on disk devices based on a threshold number of sequential blocks: Deduplication of data on disk devices based on a threshold number (THN) of sequential blocks is described herein, the threshold number being two or greater. Deduplication may be performed when a series of THN or more received blocks (THN series) match a sequence of THN or more stored blocks (THN... Agent: Stattler-suh PC

20090271403 - Information processing apparatus and presenting method of related items: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus including; a first similarity degree calculating section for calculating the degree of similarity between a predetermined item and a calculation target item: and a related item determining section for determining a predetermined quantity of the calculation target items as the related items... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090271407 - Integrated handheld computing and telephony system and services: Disclosed is an integrated handheld computer and telephony system. Integration of the handheld computer and telephony system is at the physical and operational level. For example, the integrated handheld computer and telephony system physically integrates a handheld computer with a mobile (e.g., cellular) telephone. In addition, the handheld computer is... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090271406 - Sequential pattern data mining and visualization: One or more processors (22) are operated to extract a number of different event identifiers therefrom. These processors (22) are further operable to determine a number a display locations each representative of one of the different identifiers and a corresponding time. The display locations are grouped into sets each corresponding... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20090271404 - Statistical record linkage calibration for interdependent fields without the need for human interaction: Disclosed is a system for, and method of, calculating parameters used to determine whether records and entity representations should be linked. The system and method take into consideration interdependent fields, e.g., fields whose constituent field values may be positively or negatively correlated. The system and method apply iterative techniques such... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090271405 - Statistical record linkage calibration for reflexive, symmetric and transitive distance measures at the field and field value levels without the need for human interaction: Disclosed is a system for, and method of, calculating parameters used to determine whether records and entity representations should be linked. The system and method use a symmetric, transitive and reflexive function to allow for linking records and entity representations whose field values differ. The system and method apply iterative... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090271408 - Hierarchical locking in b-tree indexes: Portions of a B-tree index in a database are locked for concurrency control. In one example, hierarchical lock modes are provided that permit locking a key, a gap between the key and the next key, and a combination of the key and the gap. In another example, key range locking... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090271409 - Hierarchical locking in b-tree indexes: A receiving user receives an electronic message from an originating user such that the electronic message contains a data directive that requests a data transfer to/from the receiving user and the originating user. In response to receiving the electronic message, access privileges for the originating user are determined at the... Agent: Samir Ghosh

20090271411 - Binding unit manifest file: An information processing device including: a storage unit for storing a data file including readable content, and a control file including control information corresponding to the data file; and a data processing unit configured to use a filename conversion table, which stores filename conversion information, to convert the filename of... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090271412 - Peer-to-peer redundant file server system and methods: Peer-to-peer redundant file server system and methods include clients that determine a target storage provider to contact for a particular storage transaction based on a pathname provided by the filesystem and a predetermined scheme such as a hash function applied to a portion of the pathname. Servers use the same... Agent: Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP

20090271410 - System and a method for handling co-operation files: e

20090271413 - Trial listening content distribution system and terminal apparatus: The present invention provides a content distribution system capable of improving user convenience and effectively distributing content for trial listening. A terminal apparatus includes: a content database that stores plural kinds of content data for trial listening received from a content distribution server; a usage history information recording unit that... Agent: Mitchell P. Brook Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP

20090271414 - Use of browser cookies to store structured data: A system and process are disclosed for encoding selected data structures in browser cookies. The data structures may contain a variety of different types of data elements, including N-bit integers and other non-character elements. A version tracking scheme provides forward and backward compatibility between client and server software. The process... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090271418 - Computer file system with path lookup tables: A namespace is provided in a file system that employs logical volumes. With the namespace, the file system can withstand data storage units going offline without compromising accessibility of the files in the data storage units that remain online. The files in the online data storage units remain accessible through... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20090271419 - Dynamic database schemas for highly irregularly structured or heterogeneous data: One or more data items of one or more types are received, wherein each data item is associated with one or more attributes, and wherein each attribute is associated with an attribute name and an attribute value. A key is calculated for each attribute, and a determination as to whether... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20090271417 - Identifying user relationships from situational analysis of user comments made on media content: In one embodiment, a method comprises detecting a first comment that is input by a first user at an instance coincident with the first user having been supplied a first identified position of a content asset; detecting a second comment that is input by a second user at an instance... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20090271416 - Method and system for retrieving and organizing web media: A system and method which may allow a user to drag and drop a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of a web page onto a media sink on the desktop of the user's computer to download media which may be embedded in or linked to from the web page, so the... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20090271415 - Storage area network management modeling simulation: A method, system and computer program product are disclosed for simulating a storage area network including a set of correlated devices, each of the devices having a device agent. The method comprises the step of forming a set of simulation agents representing said device agents, including the steps of, (i)... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20090271426 - Converting between software objects: A computer program product is provided. The product comprises a computer usable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method for converting between data objects constructed according to different software technologies. The method comprises providing a... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20090271420 - Data clustering system, data clustering method, and data clustering program: An object of the present invention is to perform data clustering while preventing the processing speed from decreasing while maintaining accuracy. A block division section 3 divides a block received from a DB access section 2 into sufficiently small blocks. A block storage section 8 stores blocks supplied from the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090271424 - Database systems and methods for linking records and entity representations with sufficiently high confidence: Disclosed are a system for, and method of, determining whether records correspond to the same individual. The system and method provide such a determination with a known minimum level of confidence. That is, the system and method provide an indication that records correspond to the same individual along with an... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090271425 - Formatted intellectual property data exchange over a network: A system, method and article of formatted information and data exchange that extends and replaces certain protocols for intellectual property data exchange using extensible markup language (XML) over a network is disclosed. Information and data is converted and transmitted between various applications and databases using flexible XDS schema fields designed... Agent: Computer Patent Annuities North America, LLC C/o Cpa Global

20090271423 - Hla to xml conversion: A method includes establishing a connection and subscribing to at least one channel of a High Level Architecture (HLA) federation and an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). The method further includes receiving a text file defining the format of an HLA message; a first extensible Markup Language (XML) document conforming to... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20090271427 - Method for defragmenting indexes in a relational database and system for performing the method: A method and a system defragment indexes in a relational database. The relational database contains a set of tables, in which each table contains a set of indexes, in which, for each index, a fragmentation parameter is associated indicating the fragmentation level of the index. The method includes the following... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090271422 - Object size modifications based on avatar distance: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for modifying objects. In one embodiment, tracking data is obtained which identifies a location of a set of avatars in relation to a range of the object. The range of the object includes a viewable field. In response to determining that... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090271421 - System and method for maintaining and utilizing bernoulli samples over evolving multisets: One embodiment of the present invention provides a method for incrementally maintaining a Bernoulli sample S with sampling rate q over a multiset R in the presence of update, delete, and insert transactions. The method includes processing items inserted into R using Bernoulli sampling and augmenting S with tracking counters... Agent: Law Office Of Donald L. Wenskay

20090271428 - Tracking digital identity related reputation data: Systems and processes of the present invention allow for tracking and publishing digital identity related reputation. In an example embodiment, a Digital Identity Provider maintains a database with reputation data that can be accessed by Requesters. The Digital Identity Provider may update reputation data based on a variety of events... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20090271429 - Data recording system, data recording method and data recording program: A data recording system 1 includes: a file generating part 3 for dividing digital data so as to generate a plurality of data files and recording the plurality of the data files sequentially into a recording medium 5; a management file judging part 6 for determining one management file for... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20090271430 - System and method for collaborative information development: A system and associated method for collaboratively developing information. An information delivery system for information regarding rapidly evolving software products builds an initial information set and a vocabulary. The initial information set is released for annotations on the information set by contributing users. The vocabulary defines a group of terms... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090271431 - System and method for providing and managing technology-based information: A predetermined set of technology attributes is defined, where the technology attributes correspond to set of predetermined traits for a particular subtechnology. A plurality of subtechnologies may then be identified, where each of the plurality of subtechologies may be defined or characterized by a common granularity level. In one embodiment,... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090271432 - Template-based development of servers: A server instance, which is a collection of LUNs, containing an operating system, any applications and data storage. A processing element is the physical hardware. The combination is a server as normally understood. Templates are used to define server instances and server types to simplify deploying a server instance to... Agent: Wong Cabello Lutsch Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20090271433 - Clustering using non-negative matrix factorization on sparse graphs: Object clustering techniques are disclosed. A nonnegative sparse similarity matrix is constructed for a set of objects. Nonnegative factorization of the nonnegative sparse similarity matrix is performed. Objects of the set of objects are allocated to clusters based on factor matrices generated by the nonnegative factorization of the nonnegative sparse... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090271435 - Data management method, data management program, and data management device: Provided is a data management method. Data corresponds to an entry including a reference to another entry and is managed in a set which is a collection of pieces of the data. The set corresponds to a linked list where the entry corresponding to the data is linked in order... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20090271434 - Method and system for storing trace data: A method includes capturing a plurality of trace capture records and storing the plurality of trace capture records in a trace acquisition protocol record. The trace acquisition protocol record further storing a single timestamp record and a plurality of flag records. A number of flag records corresponds to a number... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20090271436 - Techniques for providing a virtual-world object based on a real-world object description: A technique for building a virtual-world (VW) object based on a real-world (RW) object description includes receiving, at a VW toolshed, a message to create a new VW object. In this case, the message uniquely identifies RW object description data that is to be accessed by an RW object management... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090271441 - Detailed data aggregation apparatus and method: A detailed data aggregation apparatus holds detailed data of a plurality of events and a transcription and replenishment rule. In the rule, a plurality of common items, which are common to different events as a minimum unit of aggregation, are defined, and a transcription instruction (for instructing to transcribe a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090271437 - Determining computer information from processor properties: Described is a technology by which directly ascertainable properties of a processor are collected, and used as a key to access other information about the processor, such as age-related information maintained in a separate lookup table. If a matching entry is not found, the property information may be added to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090271440 - Personal address book communication service: A communication service is provided for establishing via a communication network a communication from a first party to a second party. The service receives from the first party data including a first identifier for identifying the first party to the service, and a second identifier for identifying the second party... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20090271438 - Signaling correspondence between a meeting agenda and a meeting discussion: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for signaling correspondence between a meeting agenda and a meeting discussion that include: receiving a meeting agenda specifying one or more topics for a meeting; analyzing, for each topic, one or more documents to identify topic keywords for that topic; receiving meeting discussions among... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20090271439 - Systems to implement business processes in computing environment: A system to identify a markup language file describing a business process, create a mapping of dimensions of the business process to dimensions of a target computing environment, and implement the business process in the target computing system based on the mapping and the markup language file.... Agent: Sap Ag C/o Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20090271444 - Data processing system and method: A method of evaluating effectiveness of usage of a file system by a plurality of files, comprising calculating a ratio A:S, wherein A is the sum of results of a function carried out in respect of each of the files, the result of the function in respect of a file... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090271443 - Method for detecting data attribute dependencies: A method for detecting data attribute dependencies including obtaining at least one data attribute pair of a dataset to analyze for dependency, obtaining at least one query feedback record related to the data attribute pair, obtaining at least one observation of the data attribute pair from the query feedback record... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20090271442 - Selectively modifying files of a container file: A stub directory is written out to a storage device for multiple files in a container file, the stub directory including identifiers of the multiple files but excluding data of the multiple files. In response to a request to access one file of the multiple files, the data of the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090271445 - Storage system and method of changing monitoring condition thereof: The management burden of a replication administrator is alleviated and the monitoring burden is reduced in a storage system. In a large-scale storage system configured across a plurality of sites, a management computer managing the storage system collects configuration information of a volume group such as the copy pair status... Agent: Juan Carlos A. Marquez C/o Stites & Harbison PLLC

20090271446 - Method and system for modification of an unlocked record of a database by interacting processes: In a method for modifying an unlocked record of a database by interacting processes, a first process accesses the record and locks it, then checks if the record is marked for post-processing. In case the record is not marked for post-processing the first process proceeds to the following actions: performs... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090271447 - Method for synchronizing contents file and device for employing the same: A method and device for synchronizing a contents file are discussed. An embodiment is directed to a method for synchronizing data using a target device, the target device including a target contents file, the method comprising: receiving file information of a reference contents file from a reference device; comparing the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090271448 - System, method, and computer readable media for identifying a user-initiated log file record in a log file: A system, a method, and a computer readable media for identifying a user-initiated log file record in a log file are provided. The log file has a user-initiated log file record and a repeating pattern of log file records automatically generated by a software program. The system allows a user... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Austin

20090271449 - Work support apparatus for information processing device: To provide a work support apparatus capable of allowing an operator to safely and easily perform work requiring all or a part of a privilege, and concisely confirming the contents of the work later, a work support apparatus 100 includes: an application processing unit 101 for accepting a work application;... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090271450 - Collaborative document versioning: A method, system, and computer usable program product for collaborative document versioning are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A document is received for versioning and stored in a data storage associated with a data processing system. A group of users is requested to collaborate in performing a pre-commit processing on... Agent: Ibm Corp. (gig)

20090271452 - Document management apparatus, document management method, and computer-readable encoding medium recorded with a computer program: A document management apparatus is disclosed. Document storing instruction information is acquired to instruct to store a second document information including a second information element, which is generated by copying a first information element included in a first document information. The second information element included in the second document information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090271451 - On-demand access to container file directories: One or more levels of a stub directory from a container file are written out to a storage device. The stub directory initially includes identifiers of one or more directories in the one or more levels of the stub directory but not identifiers of additional directories in the one or... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090271457 - Backup of media libraries: The disclosed embodiments support the backup of the contents of a media library, or a portion thereof, on one or more storage mediums. More particularly, the contents of the media library may include one or more media items and/or playlists. Once backed up, the contents stored on the storage mediums... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20090271455 - Content migration tool and method associated therewith: The instant disclosure describes techniques and devices for facilitating migration of files between a source system and a target system. A system for facilitating migration of files between a source system and a target system includes an extraction component and an injection component. The extraction component includes at least one... Agent: Vedder Price PC

20090271456 - Efficient backup data retrieval: Information is retrieved by receiving a list of one or more files to be restored. It is determined whether to obtain: (1) a contiguous group of blocks that includes a first segment of one or more blocks associated with the one or more files to be restored, a gap of... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Emc Corporation

20090271454 - Enhanced method and system for assuring integrity of deduplicated data: The present invention provides for an enhanced method and system for assuring integrity of deduplicated data objects stored within a storage system. A digital signature of the data object is generated to determine if the data object reassembled from a deduplicated state is identical to its pre-deduplication state. In one... Agent: Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly, LLP

20090271453 - Network intrusion blocking security overlay: A database security overlay that identifies each network and local access gateway to a database, and monitors each access path from the identified gateways to analyze each connection to the database and block any connections determined to transport unauthorized or undesirable content. Access gateways that establish connections are identifiable by... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20090271458 - Data storage system and storing method thereof: A data storing method includes providing a storage space, receiving a data stream, establishing a cluster link when the data stream is stored into the storage space, and before the data stream is completely stored in the storage space, storing a cluster number of a specific node in the cluster... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090271459 - Method and system for responding to file system requests: A system for responding to file system requests having file IDs comprising V, a volume identifier specifying the file system being accessed, and R, an integer, specifying the file within the file system being accessed. The system includes D disk elements in which files are stored, where D is greater... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz Attorney At Law

20090271460 - Memory management method and system: A memory management method and a system for performing garbage collection. The method includes the steps of providing in a memory space a heap partitioned into a plurality of areas including an area for object allocation and a To area for future object allocation. In garbage collection, an object reachable... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090265301 - Database object update order determination: In one embodiment, a computer system receives an indication that a portion of data at a first node in a first database table is to be modified according to a received update command. The computer system assigns the first database table a base height value indicating that the first database... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090265302 - Techniques to support disparate file systems: Techniques for supporting disparate file systems are provided. A native file system is managed so as to be capable of supporting a protocol associated with access attempts to files of the file system, wherein the protocol is associated with a non-native and disparate file system. The files are managed, maintained,... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20090265303 - Identifying superphrases of text strings: Methods and apparatus are described by which “superphrases” of “seed phrases” representing basic concepts may be identified without having to compare all possible pairs of seed and candidate phrases. According to one class of embodiments, a data structure similar to an inverted index is used for indexing phrases. The elimination... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson - Yahoo!

20090265306 - Index maintenance in a multi-node database: Embodiments of the invention enable a database spread over multiple nodes to allow each node to have different indexes over the data in tables, depending on how each node would benefit (or not benefit) from having the index(es). When a database table is spread across the nodes of a multi-node... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090265304 - Method and system for retrieving statements of information sources and associating a factuality assessment to the statements: A system and method for providing a factuality assessment of a retrieved information source's statement are disclosed. The method includes receiving a user's query which identifies an information source whose statements are to be retrieved, retrieving documents which refer to the information source, mapping statements in the retrieved documents to... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090265305 - Partial indexes for multi-node database: Embodiments of the invention enable a database spread over multiple nodes to allow each node to have different indexes over the data in tables, depending on how each node would benefit (or not benefit) from having the index(es). When a database table is spread across the nodes of a multi-node... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090265308 - Software and method for teaching, learning, and creating and relaying an account: A method of relaying to a user an account regarding characters, where the account includes one embodiment of a branching story, includes: generating a plurality of electronic communicative entities, each expressing a communication of at least one character, and displaying the electronic communicative entities to the user. The method includes... Agent: Andrew F. Knight

20090265307 - System and method for automatically producing fluent textual summaries from multiple opinions: A system and method for automatically generating fluent textual summary from multiple opinions. The opinion summarization system comprises a feature extractor, a text generator and a feature analysis storage. The feature extractor retrieves textual opinions from an opinion database relevant to a predetermined topic and analyzes retrieved textual opinions relevant... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20090265323 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for characterizing user-defined areas: A method of specifying a boundary for an area is provided, which includes receiving a first input from a first user regarding a first configuration of a boundary of an area. The first input may serve to establish an area of arbitrary and possibly irregular configuration, such as an area... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090265313 - Automatically extracting data from semi-structured documents: This description provides tools and techniques for automatically extracting data from semi-structured documents. A computer-readable storage medium may contain computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to receive a request for data representing an inferred structure of an input document. For the request, the computer may... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC

20090265317 - Classifying search query traffic: A method for classifying search query traffic can involve receiving a plurality of labeled sample search query traffic and generating a feature set partitioned into human physical limit features and query stream behavioral features. A model can be generated using the plurality of labeled sample search query traffic and the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090265310 - Data retrieval from a plurality of distinct storage devices using an index value: A first processor receives a request for records from a requester. The records include an index field and the records are stored in a plurality of storage devices associated respectively with a plurality of second processors. Individual storage devices of the plurality of storage devices are physically distinct from one... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20090265319 - Dynamic personal privacy system for internet-connected social networks: Systems and methods of obtaining or providing search results in a computer-based social network in a manner that allows users to maintain a certain level of control over their privacy, and systems and methods of controlling undesired unsolicited communications between users in a computer-based social network. Users enter privacy settings... Agent: Bryan Cave LLP

20090265322 - Information managing method, information managing apparatus and substrate processing system: An information managing method for managing information, based upon an electronic message containing apparatus information or event information transmitted from a substrate processing apparatus, comprises: storing the apparatus information of the substrate processing apparatus at the transmission time of the electronic message containing the apparatus information in a first apparatus... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20090265311 - Intellectual property subscribe and publish notification service: Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, an apparatus in the form of a data processing system, and a computer program product for an intellectual property subscribe and publication notification service. In one illustrative embodiment the computer implemented method comprises obtaining an intellectual property source and creating a list of... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090265321 - Internet book marking and search results delivery: A method of enhancing search results provided over the Internet may include providing a service over the Internet to members of a group of service users, the service resulting in multiple selections of each of a plurality of web pages by different members of the group, maintaining a first database... Agent: Irell & Manella LLP

20090265312 - Lead management: Systems and methods for lead management. Lead management systems can collect contact information and service information associated with a user and store the contact information to a contact data store. The lead management system can submit an the service information and obfuscated contact information to a provider on behalf of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090265309 - News supplying system with a global timepiece and the method thereof: A news supplying system linked with a global timepiece, which can display a map of an area where news occurs, time and news (information) together. The news supplying system includes: (A) a subscriber information managing part for storing and managing a subscriber's identity information, information on interested region, information on... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090265318 - Port location determination for wired intelligent terminals: Locations corresponding to ports of a wired intelligent terminal may be determined. In an example embodiment, an intelligent terminal includes multiple ports, a location association data structure, and a location association handler. The multiple ports provide ingress and egress for communications being received at and transmitted from the intelligent terminal.... Agent: Law Office Of William J. Tucker

20090265320 - Scalable high speed relational processor for databases and networks: A relational processor (RP) is described for storing relational instances and processing queries using a unique mapping to an associate. The associate may contain one or more semantic tokens. The RP comprises an input means for receiving and processing input query packets, at least one associate processor (AP) for retrieving... Agent: James Madison Kelley

20090265314 - Secure file searching: Apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed that operate to receive file search criteria and at least one security identifier, each associated with a user identity. Operations include identifying a set of authorized files as an intersection between a first group of files meeting the file search criteria and a second... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20090265315 - System and method for classifying tags of content using a hyperlinked corpus of classified web pages: An improved system and method for classifying tags of content using a hyperlinked corpus of classified web pages is provided. An anchor text index may be searched to find anchor texts that may match text of the tag, documents referenced by the matching anchor texts may be found, and the... Agent: Law Office Of Robert Bolan

20090265316 - System and method for facilitating access to de-identified electronic medical records data: A system for providing access to data. The system comprises at least two data centers. Each data center including a processing computer effective to receive first data, the first data including patient identification data. The processing computer further effective to de-identify the first data to produce de-identified data. A database... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090265325 - Adaptive multi-channel content selection with behavior-aware query analysis: Systems and methods for selecting content from a plurality of channels in response to a received query are described. The systems and methods optimize content selection based on received queries and an identification of the user together with analysis of historical data.... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090265326 - Dynamic personal privacy system for internet-connected social networks: Systems and methods of obtaining or providing search results in a computer-based social network in a manner that allows users to maintain a certain level of control over their privacy, and systems and methods of controlling undesired unsolicited communications between users in a computer-based social network. Users enter privacy settings... Agent: Bryan Cave LLP

20090265324 - Query processing visualization system and method of visualizing query processing: A query processing visualization system comprises a visualization module. The visualization module visualizes logging information of query processing events occurring during processing of a client query requesting data from one or more data sources by analyzing the logging information to identify dependency of the query processing events, formatting visual presentation... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A.

20090265327 - System, device and method for carrying out policy-based routing mode: A system, device and method for carrying out policy-based routing mode are provided; the system in this invention contains database, for storing multiple routing policies set by user, and storing one of the routing policy as current routing policy; communication server, inquiring current routing policy of the user in the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090265335 - Automated latent star schema discovery tool: A method, computer program product, and data processing system for computer-aided design of multidimensional data warehouse schemas are disclosed. A preferred embodiment of the present invention provides a software tool for identifying a latent star schema structure within an existing database. This software tool performs a heuristic analysis of the... Agent: Ibm Corp. (mrn) C/o Law Office Of Michael R. Nichols

20090265342 - Avoiding masked web page content indexing errors for search engines: Multiple non-host client sites provide cached user copies of web pages and/or web content, or summaries thereof, to a server. Obtaining data from non-host sources for indexing purposes avoids masked web page content indexing errors for search engines. The server aggregates, summarizes and indexes the web pages and/or web content... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090265330 - Context-based document unit recommendation for sensemaking tasks: Techniques for locating information in a document relevant to an interest of a user are provided. Information defined by the user of a document browser is collected. A context model is generated using the collected information. A document selected by the user is obtained. The document is divided into one... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090265338 - Contextual ranking of keywords using click data: Techniques are provided for ranking the entities that are identified in a document based on an estimated likelihood that a user will actually make use of the annotations. According to one disclosed approach, usage data that indicates how users interact with annotations contained in documents presented to the users is... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090265331 - Creating business value by embedding domain tuned search on web-sites: Domain specific topics, and optionally uniform resource locators (URLs) can be received from a user, and from those domain specific topics and URLs, domain tuned search definitions are generated for a given domain. The domain tuned search definitions are saved and the user is provided with a definition of a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090265344 - Document processing device and document processing method: An object of the present invention is to provide a document processing device and document processing method that can provide a search result satisfactory to a user with respect to WWW documents in which a number of links among WWW documents is low and a number of accesses by users... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090265334 - Image querying with relevance-relative scaling: Queries may be issued against an image store to produce a set of image instance relating to images in the image store that relate to the query. The relevance of the images to the query may be depicted by scaling the image instances according to the predicted relevance of the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090265339 - Method and system for facilitating rule-based document content mining: A system for facilitating rule-based content mining to extract content from structured or unstructured data receives a file that contains structured or unstructured data, or a mixture of both. The system then generates a processable extensible markup language (pXML) file based on the received file. The system further extracts content... Agent: Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090265336 - Method of detecting a reference sequence of events in a sample sequence of events: A method of detecting a reference sequence of events in a sample sequence of events, wherein each event is of a certain event type and holds a set of data attributes, includes the steps of: picking candidate combinations of events from said sample sequence so that the event types within... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20090265333 - Pre-purchase device interoperability validation: An interoperability assessment between two or more devices can be based on the devices' specifications and on empirical evidence of interoperability. Comparisons between the devices' capabilities can provide an initial assessment of interoperability, which can be further supported, or contradicted, by empirical evidence. Interoperability determinations can leverage existing data collection,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090265328 - Predicting newsworthy queries using combined online and offline models: Methods and apparatus are described for identifying newsworthy search queries employing a machine learning approach which combines offline and online modeling to achieve a high level of accuracy as well as timeliness and scalability.... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson - Yahoo!

20090265340 - Proximity search for point-of-interest names combining inexact string match with an expanding radius search: A point-of-interest mapping search system that combines inexact string searches with a proximity search to provide an extremely high probability of return of a set of search results in an initial search response that are useful to the user. Relevance of any particular point-of-interest item in a combined inexact string/proximity... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20090265341 - System and method for assisting user searches in support system: The invention concerns a method for assisting user searches in a support system and a system for performing the method which comprises the steps of providing a support data structure with nodes comprising support information of a support database, and providing at least one behavioral data structure comprising information about... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090265346 - System and method for retrieving and organizing information from disparate computer network information sources: A computer implemented method for accessing information from a set of searchable information sources includes analyzing a search query to determine subject matter of the query. A subset of information sources is selected from the set of information sources based upon the subject matter of the query. Analyzing utilizes at... Agent: Sap GlobalIPC/o Cooley Godward Kronish LLP William S. Galliani

20090265329 - System and method of data caching for compliance storage systems with keyword query based access: A method of data caching for compliance and storage systems that provide keyword search query based access to documents computes a value for each data document based on a document information-retrieval relevancy metric for user keyword queries and a recency, frequency of each query. The values are adapted to changing... Agent: Gregory Smith

20090265332 - System and methods for evaluating feature opinions for products, services, and entities: A system for evaluating a review having unstructured text comprises a segment splitter for separating at least a portion of the unstructured text into one or more segments, each segment comprising one or more words; a segment parser coupled to the segment splitter for assigning one or more lexical categories... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20090265343 - Systems and methods for creative works registration and ownership determinations: Systems and methods for creative work registration are described. In one aspect, a processor may perform various steps. An upload of a creative work may be received at the processor. The processor then may create a digital fingerprint for the creative work. The processor then may associate the digital fingerprint... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20090265345 - Systems and methods for generating user specified information from a map: An embodiment relates generally to a method of generating user-specified information. The method includes receiving a plurality of points selected on a map to form a first continuous line having one or more vertices. The method also includes generating a closed polygon having a plurality of edges, where at least... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group, LLP

20090265337 - Trail-based exploration of a repository of documents: Techniques that support trail-based exploration by a user of a repository of documents are described herein. In one embodiment, trail definition data that specifies a trail is received. The trail includes an ordered series of waypoints including a trailhead, intermediate waypoints, and one or more trailends. In some embodiments, deadends... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090265349 - Method for improving local descriptors in peer-to-peer file sharing: A method for improving searches in a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing system that includes a plurality of server computers. A content file, identified by a descriptor including at least one metadata term and a mathematical identifier that uniquely identifies the content file in one of the server computers, is selected... Agent: Pauley Petersen & Erickson

20090265350 - Method, system and key extractor for correlating advertisements in a vertical search engine: An advertisement correlation method in a vertical search engine, a vertical search advertisement system, and a key extractor are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a search key input by a user; obtaining the search result information according to the search key; selecting correlation keys from the search result information; searching... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090265348 - System and methods for detecting rollback: In an embodiment of a method of and system for detecting rollback of usage data, the usage data is recording in a database. A sequence value in the database is repeatedly advanced. A copy of the sequence value is repeatedly saved to protected storage. The copy of the sequence value... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20090265347 - Trail-based exploration of a repository of documents: Techniques that support trail-based exploration by a user of a repository of documents are described herein. In one embodiment, trail definition data that specifies a trail is received. The trail includes an ordered series of waypoints including a trailhead, intermediate waypoints, and one or more trailends. In some embodiments, deadends... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090265351 - System and method for accelerating editorial processes for unsafe content labeling using cbir: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for filtering unsafe content items within a multimedia repository. The method of the present invention comprises automatically identifying a first plurality of unsafe content items from the content items and automatically identifying a second plurality of unclassifiable content items from the... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20090265352 - Methods for ensuring fair access to information: Locks placed on corresponding objects held in a plurality of databases located at different nodes in a network during replication are released in accordance with fairness criteria. Propagation delays are determined between a transaction initiating node and one or more other nodes in the network. An object is locked during... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090265353 - Method and system for extending role based access control across network file systems: A method and system are disclosed for managing access to files in a data processing network including a server computer, a client computer, and a network file system. The network file system is used to mount the files on the server computers, and a defined group of privileges are available... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20090265354 - Method for electronic database manipulation: A method and system for remotely modifying a database uses an electronic form stored on a remote computer. The electronic form is filled out by a user and submitted to the database. Once the database determines that the user is authorized, the database is updated to match the information contained... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20090265356 - Automatic meta-data sharing of existing media to create streamable collections: A method, system, and/or apparatus of automatic meta-data sharing of existing media to create streamable collections are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a server device includes analyzing a media data of a client device to determine at least one meta-data identifier associated with the media data and automatically... Agent: Raj Abhyanker LLP

20090265360 - Dynamically quantifying and improving the reliability of distributed data storage systems: Data is stored in a distributed data storage system comprising a plurality of disks. When a disk fails, system reliability is restored by executing a set of reconstructions according to a schedule. System reliability is characterized by a dynamic Normalcy Deviation Score. The schedule for executing the set of reconstructions... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090265361 - Master management system, master management method, and master management program: A master management system includes a duty master creating part that counts the number of users in each group of same-attribute users who desire to use each of the applications, that identifies the applications each of which the number of users desiring to use is equal to or larger than... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090265359 - Method and system enabling identification of information content having enhanced desirability to a user: There is provided a method of enabling identification of information content having enhanced desirability to a user comprising collecting content into an information database, updating the collected content according to one or more updating schedules, s filtering the updated content by reference to at least one theme, associating each of... Agent: Disney Enterprises C/o Farjami & Farjami LLP

20090265358 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for accessing metadata associated with a network-accessible resource: e

20090265357 - System and method for generating maintenance release information: A method for creating a maintenance release (MR) record containing operational status information for a mobile platform. The method may involve electronically accessing a database to acquire operational items relating to operational worthiness of the mobile platform, displaying the selected operational items to the user; and performing a synchronization check... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20090265355 - Systems, methods and computer program products for automatic network-based persistent xml storage and management: Systems, methods and computer program products for automatic network-based persistent XML storage and management. Exemplary embodiments include a method including loading an XDM widget having internal XML, sending an XCAP GET request via an XCAP URI parameter, retrieving an existing XML document at a location associated with the XCAP URI... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rsw

20090265362 - Verification of net asset values: Disclosed herein is a system for verifying financial data, such as a Net Asset Value (“NAV”), received from a third party. A new NAV for a fund may be supplied to the system, along with other data, for storage in a database of financial data. Upon receiving the new NAV,... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20090265365 - Apparatus and method for providing online content service for product warranties: A data-processing system including an information inputting device for inputting one or more information; a transmitting/receiving device for transmitting/receiving the one or more information; and a processing device for processing the one or more information, the processing device including: an image processing module; a data extraction module; a data storage... Agent: Xerox Corporation (cdfs)

20090265363 - Forum web page clustering based on repetitive regions: Described is a technology by which forum web pages are processed into clusters for classification purposes, including by determining repetitive regions between pages and associating pages that have similar repetitive regions into a common cluster. Patterns corresponding to the regions are determined, and a feature set based at least in... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090265364 - Method and process for automatic generation of symptom codes from textual problem descriptions to enable problem classification, early warning trend prediction, and fast recall of prognostic/diagnostic solutions: A system and method for converting text related to vehicle service to symptom codes. The method includes typing into work orders and service reports statements that describe the various symptoms and problems of a vehicle that is being serviced. The work orders and service reports are then transmitted to a... Agent: MillerIPGroup, PLC General Motors Corporation

20090265366 - Opportunistic opinion score collection on a mobile device: Opportunistic transmission of voting and/or opinion data can occur from a user's mobile device to a server. The user can be presented a form to complete, where the form is designed to facilitate gathering of opinion information. Opinion data gathered from the form can be opportunistically transmitted to a server,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090265368 - Automatic generation of user interfaces: A communications schema is captured into a service-neutral interface schema created by inspecting metadata received from an object and creating from it an abstract user interface model. A transform is applied to the abstract user interface model to generate a user interface that targets a particular user interface technology. Any... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090265375 - Business intelligent architecture system and method: The present disclosure describes a standardized logical model architecture, for use in building a business intelligent systems, and a system and method of using the logical model architecture to populate a data repository (e.g., a data mart/warehouse) with the data to satisfy reporting and data analysis needs.... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090265376 - Data entry systems and methods utilizing data entry messages: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for entering data into a database configured to store a plurality of database records, each record having a set of predetermined data fields. The method includes the steps of: (a) creating a data entry message, wherein the data entry message includes... Agent: Bereskin And Parr LLP/s.e.n.c.r.l., S.r.l.

20090265372 - Management of document attributes in a document managing system: The present invention relates to a method of storing attributes describing documents in a document management system software application which is configured to be run on a computer with an operating system and a file system, wherein the documents to be managed are stored in said file system and said... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20090265373 - Method and apparatus for rapid tagging of elements in a facet tree: A tagging application (TA) is disclosed that comprises a web interface program (WIP) and a tagging program (TP). The WIP presents the facet tree by displaying elements of the facet tree selected by the user along with a known activation method for the user to select a facet element and... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090265374 - Method for generating access statistic data on individual visitor to web site: A method for generating access statistic data on each visitor to a web site includes (a)when a visitor terminal accesses the web site, reading unique ID from userdata file of xml in which data can be stored and retrieved by using userData Behavior; (b) when access history of the visitor... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090265369 - Playable music library building in a streaming media environment: A method, system, and apparatus of a playable music library building in a streaming media environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a server device includes, creatin a streamable playlist associated with a user, determining that the streamable playlist is associated with an artist, and determining that a... Agent: Raj Abhyanker LLP

20090265370 - Query authoring by modifying a view of the results of the query: Technologies and concepts are described herein for authoring a database query through the modification of a view of the data to be returned by the query. A user interface is provided for authoring a database query through the modification of a view of the data to be returned by the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090265371 - System and method for providing a permanent data record for a creative work: System and method for providing a permanent data record for a creative work. In one embodiment, a process is provided to include receiving a request for a permanent data record to be issued for the creative work. The request can indicate a type of data record to be issued. Data... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090265367 - Systems and methods for accelerated playback of rich internet applications: Embodiments of systems and methods for accelerated playback of rich internet applications are disclosed. For example, one embodiment of the present invention includes a method having the steps of determining a frame rate associated with a rich internet application, the rich internet application comprising a plurality of frames; determining at... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP- Adobe Systems, Inc. 58083

20090265378 - Managing data systems to support semantic-independent schemas: A method of maintaining data described in a plurality of data models. An ontology is used to describe the data models. The data models are managed using the ontology and using a validation schema to validate object(s) governed by the ontology and derived from data-centric component(s) of content that has... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20090265377 - Method and system for identifying a unit to be tested in a multi-array test apparatus: A method for identifying a unit to be tested in a multi-array test apparatus comprises uploading into a database an identification of at least one unit to be tested and at least one test protocol associated with the unit. The method further comprises receiving the unit; reading digital information from... Agent: Hitachi C/o Wagner Blecher LLP

20090265379 - Method of processing a source set of raw events to a target set of typed events: A method of processing a source set of raw events of unknown event types to a target set of typed events, each raw event being a package of data items containing data values of detectable data types, includes the steps of: providing a library of event type objects each of... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20090265380 - Systems and methods for tables of contents: To address problems related to use and formation of tables of contents, the present inventors, devised among other things, an exemplary table-of-contents (TOC) data structure and related systems and methods. One exemplary method entails associating a node from one TOC with a node of another TOC and then assigning a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090265381 - Allergy prevention method and system: An allergy prevention method and system. The method includes retrieving, by a computing system from a fidelity card, a user profile comprising information specifying first elements known to cause a user to have an allergic reaction. The computing system retrieves data associated with an item for purchase. The data comprises... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20090265388 - Discovering co-located queries in geographic search logs: Described is a technology by which co-located query patterns are mined from a data space such as a geographic search log. An overall data space (basic) approach and/or a lattice-based approach may be used when mining. The data space contains objects, each comprising associated type and location information. The location... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090265385 - Insurance document imaging and processing system: According to some embodiments, an insurance document is received at a document conversion system. The received document may be converted to a document image, and document identification data may be assigned to the document image. The assigned document identification data may be automatically matched to (and/or associated with) insurance information.... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20090265389 - Learned cognitive system: Systems, methods, and computer-program products for detection of explicit video content compare pixels of a possible explicit video content with a color histogram reference. Areas of the video content are analyzed using a feature extraction technique using a cognitive learning engine, while multiple levels of weighted classifiers are used to... Agent: Venable LLP

20090265386 - Library generation for detection and identification of shielded radioisotopes: A method, logic and system are provided for generating data representing all possible materials that may be present when monitoring a region or space for a radioisotope of interest. All possible materials with which a radioisotope material may interact are grouped or categorized into one of a plurality of material... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20090265382 - Method and apparatus for sending messages on behalf of dead persons to live recipients: Messages are automatically sent on behalf of dead persons to live recipients. An administration computer receives and stores message information from a plurality of live customers. The message information for each customer includes identity data of the customer, identity data of one or more recipients who are to receive one... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090265387 - Method and system for entering items into a gift registry: Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that enters items into a gift registry. During operation, the system photographically captures images of items at stores containing the items. Moreover, the images include a set of barcodes identifying the items. Next, the system obtains a set of product codes... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090265384 - Methods and apparatus for improving backward seek performance for multimedia files: A multimedia player application is adapted to process multimedia data of one or more multimedia files (e.g. MPEG-4 files) to produce multimedia output data at an audio/video output device. A file allocation table (FAT) system is adapted to manage storage of these multimedia files. An interface process is adapted to... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. LLC One Magnificent Mile Center

20090265383 - System and method for providing image labeling game using cbir: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for improving image labeling using content-based image retrieval. The method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises selecting an image query and identifying a first image related to the image query. The method then selects a plurality of second... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20090265391 - Apparatus and method for managing network storage: A method for managing a plurality of network storages on a computer device includes: receiving login commands in response to the users' operations; simultaneously transmitting a first access request to get read/write authority with respect to the first network storage, and a second access request to get read/write authority with... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090265392 - Data verifying device, data verifying method, and data verifying program: A data verifying device collects various types of detailed data for each work processing unit (e.g., for each processing unit such as order acceptance and shipping), normalizes the collected various types of detailed data, and registers the detailed data into a defined work detailed database or a work procedure record... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090265390 - Event management system, event management method and event management program: An event management system for executing the management regarding the event that includes an event plan making means for constructing the event plan or an event plan component by a structured document and making an feasible event plan by means of combination thereof and an event execution means for executing... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090265393 - System and method for synchronizing databases: A method for synchronizing information shared by a subsystem on-board a mobile platform and a subsystem remote from the mobile platform. The method may involve designating one of the subsystems as a first system having a first database, and designating one of the subsystems as a second system having a... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20090265394 - File storing method, file storage system, and computer readable recording medium stored with computer program executable on master file combination device: A coordinated application server acquires a specific file and an additional information concerning the specific file to be stored, identifies type information that indicates a type of contents of the specific file from the additional information, and makes a judgment as to whether or not a master file corresponding to... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090265395 - Distributed databases for a well control drilling system: An apparatus to update data in a well control system includes a central control unit in communication with a communications network, the central control unit comprising a first display database, an end device in communication with the communications network, the end device comprising a local hardware database, and an operator's... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20090265396 - Method, system, and program for personal data management using content-based replication: The present invention provides systems and methods for efficient data storage, management, and back up. In particular, the present invention provides devices, software, and processes for efficient replication of data.... Agent: Casimir Jones, S.c.

20090265398 - Adaptive buffering of database server response data: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to buffering database server response data. In aspects, a database driver receives a request for data from a requester such as an application. Based on the request and information associated with a query, the database driver determines whether the requester is allowed... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090265397 - Apparatus and method for partitioning data blocks: A method and apparatus for increasing the speed at which a block of data can be partitioning into variable-length subblocks is provided. The method combines a relatively high-speed partitioning algorithm (that can only partition a block into relatively small mean-length subblocks) with a relatively low-speed algorithm (that can partition a... Agent: Ross N. Williams

20090265400 - Extensible file system: An extensible file system format for portable storage media is provided. The extensible file system format includes the specification of primary and secondary directory entry types that may be custom defined. The primary and secondary directory entry types can be further classified as critical and benign directory entries.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090265401 - Method, system and computer program product for shrinking a file system: Computer implemented method, system and computer program product for shrinking a file system in a data processing system. A computer implemented method for shrinking a file system in a data processing system includes designating an amount by which a file system comprised of a plurality of contiguous blocks is to... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090265399 - Space recovery with storage management coupled with a deduplicating storage system: Provided are techniques for space recovery with storage management coupled with a deduplicating storage system. A notification is received that one or more data objects have been logically deleted by deleting metadata about the one or more data objects, wherein the notification provides storage locations within one or more logical... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20090265402 - Efficiently marking objects with large reference sets: Adding references to objects to a mark stack. A limited number of references to objects referenced by an object with a large number of object references are added to the stack. An object is accessed. A determination is made that references in the object should be added to a mark... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090265403 - File system: At step S1, file reconfiguration starts. At step S2, a block is fetched, and at step S3, a determination is made as to whether or not the fetched block is a valid block. If the block is not a valid block (NO), the process proceeds to step S8. If the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch