Data processing: database and file management or data structures inventions

20080109396 - It automation appliance and user portal: A method of providing a customized information technology (IT) portal to a user is disclosed. The method comprises receiving an input that identifies the user, using the input to determine an attribute of the user based on pre-stored information about the user, and determining which of a plurality of IT... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080109395 - Method and system for reinserting a chain in a hash table: A method and system for reinserting a chain into a hash table of a computer system are described. The chain includes a plurality of keys. The hash table includes a key fields and link fields associated with the key fields. The hash table utilizes an initial collision resolution scheme that... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080109394 - Virtual deletion in merged file system directories: An element of a file system is virtually deleted by creating a deletion marker for the element. Two or more separate physical file system directories are presented as one merged (virtual) file system directory to a process running in a silo. The operating system provides the merged view of the... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080109399 - Document summarization: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with automatically summarizing a document are described. One method embodiment includes computing term scores for members of a set of terms in a document to be summarized and computing sentence scores for sentences in a set of sentences in the document. The method embodiment... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, Llc

20080109409 - Brokering keywords in radio broadcasts: In one embodiment, a method is illustrated as comprising receiving a selected advertising keyword, wherein the selected advertising keyword is associated with an advertisement transmitted across a network, monetizing the selected advertising keyword, and storing the selected advertising keyword in a database. This method may include monetizing based upon at... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080109402 - Device control system employing extensible markup language for defining information resources: A device control system including at least one device operable by the system, at least one processor, software executing on the at least one processor for receiving message data and determining a corresponding XML document type, software executing on the at least one processor for generating a XML document based... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, Llc

20080109405 - Earmarking media documents: A media object being played by a user may be marked by creating a mark object comprising the playback time when the mark was created. The time may be used to reference metadata with information about the media object at the time referenced. The metadata may be used to launch... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080109406 - Instant message tagging: A messaging system having a portion for receiving a message, a portion for associating a context tag with the message, and a portion for providing the message with the associated context tag if the message is transferred to a client during a messaging exchange. In one embodiment, the system may... Agent: Thorne & Halajian Applied Technology Center

20080109404 - Location dependent music search: A portable device may perform a location dependent music search. During the search, the portable device determines location information that identifies a location of the portable device, makes a request that includes the location information to a database, obtains a list of music sources associated with the location information from... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.l.p.

20080109407 - Method and system for an electronic embedded book index: A method for implementing an electronic embedded book index within a printed book. A device powered by one or more power cells is attached to the back cover of a hardback book. The device includes a display, an input device, a memory device, and a processor unit. The memory device... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080109403 - Method of describing the structure of graphical objects.: The proposed technical solution allows processing of machine-readable forms of unfixed format. It comprises a method of specifying the logical structure of a document characterized by: preliminary specification of the list and descriptions of varieties of elements which may be present in the form, specifying an algorithm of setting the... Agent: Abbyy Software Ltd. Attn. Sergey Platonov

20080109408 - Phone book group management method for mobile terminal: A phone book group management method includes: providing a display field for entering a contact name and a group name of a phone book; receiving a contact name and at least one group name consecutively in the display field; analyzing the received contact name and at least one group name;... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, Plc

20080109415 - Preference extracting apparatus, preference extracting method and preference extracting program: A preference extracting apparatus includes a text information obtaining section that obtains text information having correspondence with a scene being currently played when video contents having text information having correspondence with each scene is played, a keyword extracting section that extracts a keyword for measuring user's preference based on the... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. C/o Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080109401 - Presenting predetermined search results with query suggestions: A system, method, computer-readable media, and related techniques are disclosed for presenting one or more search queries and at least one search result corresponding to at least one of the queries. In an embodiment, the method may include receiving a portion of a search query. In response to receiving at... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080109421 - Apparatus for processing integrated query from various sensor networks and method thereof: An apparatus for processing an integrated query from various sensor networks and a method thereof are provided. The apparatus includes an integrated query parser for parsing an integrated query and analyzing a syntax of the parsed integrated query; an integrated query execution plan generator for analyzing meaning of the parsed... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, Plc

20080109423 - Apparatus and method for database partition elimination for sampling queries: A database query partition elimination mechanism collects historical information when a sampling query is first run against a partitioned database table, then uses the historical information for subsequent executions of the same sampling query to perform partition elimination so the sample query is run on less than all of the... Agent: Martin & Associates, Llc

20080109425 - Document summarization by maximizing informative content words: Document summarization is performed by scoring individual words in sentences in a document or document cluster. Sentences from the document or document cluster are selected to form a summary based on the scores of the words contained in those sentences.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080109428 - Efficient top-k query evaluation on probabilistic data: A novel approach that computes and efficiently ranks the top-k answers to a query on a probabilistic database. The approach identifies the top-k answers, since imprecisions in the data often lead to a large number of answers of low quality. The algorithm is used to run several Monte Carlo simulations... Agent: Law Offices Of Ronald M Anderson

20080109426 - Method and system for generating scored recommendations based on scored references: A computer method includes receiving a query from a user system; searching a plurality of data objects of a first type for data objects that substantially match the query; generating a first-relevance score for each data object of the second type that is associated with at least one data objects... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080109424 - Method of querying relational database management systems: Database management systems and methods for searching a database are disclosed. In one embodiment, an inspector examines a plan cache or a program containing embedded queries. A plurality of similar queries is identified, and an alias is generated that satisfies the plurality of queries. The alias may be executed on... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ss/roc) C/o Streets & Steele

20080109422 - Personalized search: Systems and methods have been developed for performing an advanced or detailed search based on information previously collected about a searcher's interests. In response to a search request, the searcher's interests are retrieved and inspected. In an embodiment, the interests may be obtained from multiple systems including those not associated... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080109427 - Trimmed and merged search result sets in a versioned data environment: Architecture for security trimming results in a document version environment. Versioned documents are stored with metadata that includes associated access rights. All versions are searched using multiple user accounts of varying levels of access that correspond to the document versions. Result sets are returned for each user account and trimmed... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080109433 - Internet-based real estate searching system and process: An internet-based real estate searching process dynamically serves and delivers relevant contextual content to the user. In a preferred embodiment, the process includes the steps of obtaining user profile information, presenting a real estate search interface to a searching user, obtaining search criteria from the searching user, searching a real... Agent: Stephen E. Clark

20080109429 - Method and system for electronic communication: A method and system for facilitating electronic communication between two or more people is described. In one implementation, a first encounter description is received from a first user, the first encounter description including content describing an encounter between the first user and a second user. A search query is formulated... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080109430 - Method for detecting regularly appearing patterns: Methods for detecting regularly appearing pattern without excessive memory. The method comprises providing a matrix, and each row of the matrix comprises a location index and a count value. The count value is associated with the location index for indicating the number of the predetermined value that appears at certain... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080109431 - String machining system and program therefor: Furthermore, the string matching system comprises a state transition table generator for generating a state transition table based on matching conditions described in a regular expression, and an automaton that makes a transition according to the state transition table generated by the state transition table generator; if no next-transition destination... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080109434 - Determining sort order by distance: Included are embodiments for determining sort order. At least one embodiment of a method includes determining a plurality of search results associated with at least one search criteria. Some embodiments of a method include determining a first distance between at least one of the search results and a home page... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080109435 - Determining sort order by traffic volume: Included are embodiments for determining a sort order. At least one embodiment of a method includes determining at least one search result from received search criteria, the at least one search result being related to a first web page and determining web page traffic data associated with the first web... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080109436 - Finalize sequencing for objects: Systems, methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for saving a plurality of objects to persistent storage as part of a finalize sequence. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method may include, receiving a request to instantiate a plurality of objects; sorting the plurality of objects based on a... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.c. Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64280

20080109437 - Method and system for data mining of very large spatial datasets using vertical set inner products: A system and method for performing and accelerating cluster analysis of large data sets is presented. The data set is formatted into binary bit Sequential (bSQ) format and then structured into a Peano Count tree (P-tree) format which represents a lossless tree representation of the original data. A P-tree algebra... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.a.

20080109438 - Selling keywords in radio broadcasts: In one embodiment, a method is illustrated as comprising receiving selected advertising keywords, wherein the selected advertising keywords are taken from an advertisement transmitted across a network, the selected advertising keywords are stored into a database, and the selected advertising keywords are activated, wherein the network is selected from the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080109439 - Apparatus and method for a collaborative semantic domain and data set based on combining data: A computer readable storage medium includes computer executable instructions to provide a semantic domain with a plurality of semantic definitions associated with one or more subject areas to a community of users. A data input is received from a user within the community of users. A portion of the data... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080109440 - Recording/reproducing apparatus: A recording/reproducing apparatus, comprises a recording/reproducing portion, which is configured to record contents data coded on media, being same in a copyright protection regulation that is applied by the media differing in formats thereof, and to reproduce the contents data on the media, and a coding processor portion, which is... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080109443 - Information management method, information management program and information management apparatus: An information management method of the invention is implemented using a computer on which a predetermined information management program is installed. Information stored in a node unit as information to be managed includes node number, page number, parent node number, node label, node display attribute information, variable information, script for... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080109442 - Integrated management computer, storage apparatus management method, and computer system: Exercising integral management of storage apparatuses even when SANs are integrated or when the scale of a SAN expands. In response to an operation request from a management terminal, an integrated management computer collects the management information for storage apparatuses from management computers; selects, based on the collected management information,... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080109446 - Peer-to-peer file download system for ims network: A server application is interconnected with a number of client/peer terminals, as part of an IMS network. For peer-to-peer transfer of a selected data file, a client terminal establishes and accesses a secure account on the server application. From the server application, the client terminal obtains the network locations of... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080109444 - Systems and methods of enhancing leads: A lead enhancement module transmits to one or more data sources an enhancement list requesting additional data items associated with a lead record. The enhancement list may comprise one or more data bundles, each comprising indicators associated with one or more additional data items. A personalized data bundle may be... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080109445 - Systems and methods of enhancing leads: A client transmits one or more lead records to a lead enhancement module that is configured to enhance the received lead records and return enhanced lead records to the client. The lead enhancement module may return a contactability score for each lead record, indicating a likelihood that the individual identified... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080109441 - Topic map for navigational control: Included are embodiments for providing a topic map. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving a plurality of web pages, the web pages including metadata, extracting at least a portion of the metadata from the web pages, and creating at least one topic associated with the web pages,... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080109397 - Automatic detection and aggregation of demographics and behavior of people: The present invention is a system and framework for automatically measuring and correlating visual characteristics of people and accumulating the data for the purpose of demographic and behavior analysis. The demographic and behavior characteristics of people are extracted from a sequence of images using techniques from computer vision. The demographic... Agent: Rajeev Sharma Videomining Corporation

20080109398 - Mapping tool and method of use thereof: The present invention provides a mapping tool and method of use thereof to map, assess and improve the nature and dynamics of situations and relationships between people on an interpersonal and intrapersonal level and across a variety of fields, particularly, but not limited to, those relationships or situations that result... Agent: Duane Morris, LLP Ip Department

20080109400 - Method and device for configuring a variety of medical information: A method and a device for configuring a variety of medical information formats are described. The method is used to incorporate a variety of medical information so as to output documents in a certain format and search for information of the patient's medication history. Thus, the device and the method... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080109413 - Associative database scanning and information retrieval: A method and device are disclosed for an associative and approximate, analog or digital scanning of databases that allows for the asynchronous accessing of data from a mass storage medium. The invention includes providing dedicated analog and digital circuitry and decision logic at the mass storage medium level for determining... Agent: Thompson Coburn LLP Attn: Richard E. Haferkamp

20080109419 - Computer apparatus, computer program and method, for calculating importance of electronic document on computer network, based on comments on electronic document included in another electronic document associated with former electronic document: A computer program, method and computer apparatus for calculating the total importance of an electronic document on the basis of (i) a plurality of electronic documents chained to each other in a relation of referencing and being referenced, from a start electronic document which is not referenced by other electronic... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.c.

20080109414 - Information storage medium for storing metadata supporting multiple languages, and systems and methods of processing metadata: An information storage medium for storing metadata supporting multiple languages and a method of processing the metadata are provided. The information storage medium is provided to store: contents; and at least one metadata file in which information regarding the contents is recorded in at least one language. The metadata file... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080109418 - Intergenerational interactive lifetime journaling/diary and advice/guidance system: An interactive system provides journaling and life coaching. Storage of information, images and the like is provided. Users can request referrals to product and service vendors providing appropriate advice, goods and services as may be desired at specific stages of life. The system can be divided into life phase portions,... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20080109417 - Method and device for monitoring and analyzing signals: A method and system for monitoring and analyzing at least one signal are disclosed. An abstract of at least one reference signal is generated and stored in a reference database. An abstract of a query signal to be analyzed is then generated so that the abstract of the query signal... Agent: Scott A. Moskowitz

20080109416 - Method of searching and retrieving synonyms, similarities and other relevant information: A method and system for searching and retrieving associated information such as synonyms, antonyms, similarities, conclusive information, deductive information, suggestive information, and probable information, and phrases is described. In one embodiment, an initial query is “expanded” to include at least one said associated information, involving different types of querying information... Agent: Frank John Williams

20080109410 - Methods for facilitating application development: Application development is facilitated by initializing a page token in response to receiving a request. The page token comprises an abstract model component containing a specification for obtaining data designated to be sent in a response to the request or a specification for updating data obtained from the request, and... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080109411 - Supply chain discovery services: A discovery server is provided for tracking an object in a supply chain in accordance with a plurality of predefined events. The object is identifiable by an object identifier. The discovery server comprises the following elements. A communication interface is configured to communicate with each of a plurality of partners... Agent: Jonathan Pollack Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20080109412 - System and method for community-based needs for communication and fulfillment: At least one aspect of this invention relates to a system and method for providing an online community by which subscribers communicate one or more need requests, arising from personal catastrophe or medical illness, to a plurality of members of the online community, who offer to fulfill the user's need... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20080109420 - Methods and apparatus for querying a relational data store using schema-less queries: The invention provides, in one aspect, a method of searching an RDF triples data store of the type in which the triples are maintained in accord with a first storage schema. The method includes inputting a first query specifying RDF triples that are to be identified in the data store.... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20080109432 - Communication terminal having a predictive test editor application: A method of searching for records in a database matching the string of ambiguous key strokes received by the input means, said database includes a plurality of records containing at least two words, and comprises reception of information representing a string of ambiguous key strokes, searching in said records for... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080109449 - Information storage medium for storing metadata supporting multiple languages, and systems and methods of processing metadata: An information storage medium for storing metadata supporting multiple languages and a method of processing the metadata are provided. The information storage medium is provided to store: contents; and at least one metadata file in which information regarding the contents is recorded in at least one language. The metadata file... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080109451 - Method and system for evaluating trustworthiness: Disclosed are a method and system for evaluating the trustworthiness of a target person by a user. The method and system include providing a network comprising a plurality of nodes connected by a plurality of directed links, wherein each node in the plurality of nodes is associated with a person... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c.

20080109452 - Queuing model for a plurality of servers: The current invention provides a system and method for queuing and distributing requests to one or more query servers. The system contains a first tier queue associated with a server based mechanism for directing service requests to a second tier queue associated with each of the one or more query... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080109448 - System and method for managing data across multiple environments: The present invention discloses a system and method for data management whereby a data management application manages data across a managed service environment, a mail server environment, and a client environment. The present invention allows a customer to optimize data management functions such as archiving, recovering, monitoring, authenticating, synchronizing, transferring,... Agent: Dubois, Bryant, Campbell & Schwartz, LLP

20080109450 - System and program for maintaining a namespace of filesets accessible to clients over a network: Provided are a system and program maintaining information on a namespace comprised of filesets shared by clients over a network. Zone information is maintained on at least one zone, wherein each zone associates at least one client system, at least one fileset, and at least one storage pool. For one... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080109447 - System for the processing of information between remotely located healthcare entities: Systems and methods for reconciling healthcare data between multiple distributed computing nodes that enable an individual node, a topic object, or an intelligent agent to determine synchronization with other nodes, comprising sending source node data to a payload generator, the source node data including difference data, an encapsulated topic object,... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080109457 - Image forming system, groupware server, image forming apparatus and computer-readable storage medium: An image forming system has an image forming apparatus configured to function as a groupware terminal, and a groupware server of a groupware having a document database configured to store document data and attribute information corresponding to the document data, and an attribute database configured to store the attribute information.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080109453 - Method and system for web-based grade book: An electronic grade book is described. The method includes electronically receiving from a student enrollment management system student information and class information wherein the student information includes student names and wherein the class information includes a name of a class and student identifiers for students within the class, receiving from... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20080109455 - System and method for assessing data quality during clinical trials: The present invention relates to a system and methods for facilitating the improvement of data quality generated during drug and medical device clinical trials. In one embodiment, the invention includes a system and method for generating an ideal subject suitability score for one or more interaction points of a clinical... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080109459 - Systems and methods for improving the linkage and security of records: A system and method for improving the linkage and security of records is provided. Generally, the present invention can be viewed as providing methods for selecting an ideal identifier, from a series of test identifiers, for linking more than one associated record. In this regard, one embodiment of such a... Agent: Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, Pa C/o Peter Nieves

20080109456 - Systems and methods for structured variable resolution information dissemination and discovery: Techniques are provided for efficient information dissemination and discovery in large scale networks such as ad-hoc networks, sensor networks, vehicle networks, virtual networks and the like. The spatial information for a plurality of network elements within a network is determined and an interesting node identified. A variable resolution communication structure... Agent: Pvf -- Parc C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080109454 - Text analysis techniques: One embodiment of the present invention includes means determining a concept representation for a set of text documents based on partial order analysis and modifying this representation if it is determined to be unidentifiable. Furthermore, the embodiment includes means for labeling the representation, mapping documents to it to provide a... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20080109458 - Hierarchical reference data management system and method: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods of managing hierarchical reference data. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a hierarchical data management program can maintain a master set of reference data corresponding to the reference data being managed. From the master set of reference data, the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080109460 - Information storage medium for storing metadata supporting multiple languages, and systems and methods of processing metadata: An information storage medium for storing metadata supporting multiple languages and a method of processing the metadata are provided. The information storage medium is provided to store: contents; and at least one metadata file in which information regarding the contents is recorded in at least one language. The metadata file... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080109461 - Parallel data processing architecture: A tree-structured index to multidimensional data is created using naturally occurring patterns and clusters within the data which permit efficient search and retrieval strategies in a database of DNA profiles. A search engine utilizes hierarchical decomposition of the database by identifying clusters of similar DNA profiles and maps to parallel... Agent: Powell Goldstein LLP

20080109464 - Extending clipboard augmentation: Systems, methods, and data structures for the augmenting of data placed on the clipboard with additional data are disclosed. Such systems, methods, and data structures may transform the data to produce data in other formats using, for example, transform specifications or executable code. In addition, such systems, methods, and data... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080109463 - Method and system for translating an order's stock keeping unit hierarchy to an order fulfillment structure: A method and system for translating a stock keeping unit (SKU) hierarchy in a customer order to a type-model-feature (TMF) structure in a vendor's order fulfillment system. A translation table relating the SKU hierarchy and TMF structure is defined. The table structure includes a hierarchy of configurable features and special... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080109462 - System and method of message compression: A system and method for packaging electronic messages for delivery to a communication device is provided. Where the electronic message comprises at least one quoted parent message, the quoted parent message is identified by means of delimiters within the body of the electronic message, and the quoted message thus identified... Agent: Dimock Stratton LLP

20080109465 - Variable length file header apparatus and system: Ensuring that a user obtains a correct version of a file, wherein the file includes a file header section and a data section, is disclosed. Expiration information is inserted in the file header by a first application. The expiration information is extracted from the file header by a second application.... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080109469 - Automated method for historical analysis of a memory state: An automated method for historical analysis of a memory state, including tracking all memory write accesses by an application under test. Then, recording a directed graph having values in a plurality of memory locations, such values derived from values previously stored. The method further includes displaying a portion of the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Lotus

20080109467 - Data entity centric approach for designing workflows: A designer tool is provided to assist a user in creating and modifying business process workflows. The user can select a data entity as a focal point for a workflow and a user friendly design experience is provided that takes advantage of semantic relationships between the entity and other elements... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080109468 - Method and apparatus for creating an offline service- oriented architecture based application from an online service-oriented architecture based application: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for automatically creating an offline enterprise application from an online enterprise application by importing the data from the online enterprise application to an offline system, including importing user interface (UI) metadata, enterprise services repository (ESR) data and application data from the online enterprise application... Agent: Sap Ag

20080109470 - Method to enable the heartbeat beacon for homeland security and homeland defense interoperability: See diagram 1, diagram 2, diagram 3, and table 1 of this document. Different scenarios and different situations stimulate different work flow logic and filter logic activation as well as different message sets that are impractical to represent in a single document. Military systems of systems testing comprise hundreds if... Agent: Steven James Mcgee

20080109471 - Presenting data flow in legacy program: Disclosed herein is a method for presenting data flow in legacy programs from one device to another by representing the relation between blocks of code in the legacy program and multiple data variables present in the program. The method and system disclosed herein defines the grammar of the legacy language... Agent: Ashok Tankha, Lipton, Weinberger & Husick

20080109466 - Virtual deletion in merged registry keys: An element such as a Registry key or value is virtually deleted by creating a deletion marker for the element. Two or more separate sets of physical Registry keys/values are presented as one merged (virtual) Registry to a process running in a silo. The operating system provides the merged view... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080109476 - Human relationships registering system, method and device for registering human relationships, program for registering human relationships, and medium storing human relationships registering program and readable by computer: To provide a human relationships registering system, a method and a server for registering human relationships, a program for registering human relationships, and a medium storing human relationships registering program and readable by a computer, all of which are used to establish wide and close relationships with members having a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080109474 - Logic arrangement, data structure, system and method for multilinear representation of multimodal data ensembles for synthesis recognition and compression: A data structure, method, storage medium and logic arrangement are provided for use in collecting and analyzing multilinear data describing various characteristics of different objects. In particular it is possible to recognize an unknown individual, an unknown object, an unknown action being performed by an individual, an unknown expression being... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080109477 - Method and apparatus for adapting web contents to different display area dimensions: A method is disclosed to generate, while preserving text, image, transactional and embedded presentation constraint information, a minimum set of simplified and navigable web contents from a single web document that is oversized for targeted smaller devices. The method includes a parser, a content tree builder, a document tree builder,... Agent: Vincent Wen-jeng Lue

20080109472 - Method and apparatus for generating a link to a presented web page: A technique for generating links to a web page by: presenting a web page; defining one or more other web pages to include a link to the presented web page; and placing a link on at least one of the other web pages linking to the presented web page. A... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080109475 - Method of creating a requirement description for an embedded system: The invention relates to a method of creating a requirement description for an embedded system, including but not only a motor vehicle electronic control unit, in which a vocabulary of natural-language, selectable text segments is stored in a data processing system, said text segments being combinable with one another to... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20080109473 - System, method, and computer program product for presenting an indicia of risk reflecting an analysis associated with search results within a graphical user interface: A system, method, and computer program product comprise presenting a plurality of search results within a graphical user interface. Further, an indicia of risk is presented that reflects an analysis in association with at least one of the plurality of search results within the graphical user interface.... Agent: Zilka-kotab, Pc

20080109478 - Digital-content retrieval apparatus, digital-content retrieval method, and computer product: A collective retrieval function of a DMC (or DMP) device requests a DMS device having a “sufficient search capability” to conduct retrieval using a retrieval function provided in the DMS device, whereas the DMC (or DMP) conducts retrieval from a DMS device not having the “sufficient search capability” by using... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080109479 - Advanced versatile layout and rendering system, method and product: Provided herein is a system, method and computer program product for effectively arranging and rendering multimedia information using for example, Macromedia's Flash™ technology, the Extensible Markup Language (XML) language and the Mathematical Markup Language (MathML). The invention utilizes question data (301), possible visual aids (305), possible descriptive solutions (307), and... Agent: Richard L. Samuels Goodwin Procter

20080109484 - Computational systems for biomedical data: Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out accepting an input providing innate determinant data from at least one sample, accessing a dataset to identify, based on the innate determinant data, at least one innate allergy determinant in the at least one sample; accessing an... Agent: Searete Llc Clarence T. Tegreene

20080109481 - Context based network search: A network-based publish/subscribe model wherein a subscription request is received over the network from a subscriber and a community of interest is identified based on at least one of the subscription request and a network parameter related to the subscription request. The community of interest plus other related information, like... Agent: Thorne & Halajian Applied Technology Center

20080109482 - Digital asset management data model: A digital asset management system effectively provides full control of compound media assets and their specific components. The digital asset management data model supports the creation and management of multiple levels of granularity or metadata enrichment, and different sets of file types or renditions used throughout the digital asset processing... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080109491 - Method and system for managing reputation profile on online communities: A method and a system for evaluating the quality of a contribution made by a user in a distributed online community framework are disclosed. The quality of contribution is assessed by creating a reputation profile of the user across multiple online communities. The reputation profile contains a reputation score indicating... Agent: Louis Ventre, Jr

20080109489 - Method for generating reports: Disclosed herein is a method of generating a report comprises a contacting step, a receiving step, an input string storing step, a reviewing of the input string step, a combining step, a report storing step, and a report delivering step.... Agent: Mark L. Cooper Esq

20080109480 - Relationship management for marketing communications: Techniques are presented for managing relationships during communications of marketing activities. Contacts associated with a target of a communication during a marketing activity are expanded in accordance with contact rules. The manners in which the communication is handled with respect to the target and the expanded contacts are driven by... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20080109486 - Knowledge archival and recollection systems and methods: A method of timing and recording user activity in a knowledge archival and recollection system, the method comprising: configuring an activity tracking module; logging into the knowledge archival and recollection system; prompting the user with a task identifier input interface upon opening an application user interface; initiating a timer upon... Agent: Meredith & Keyhani, Pllc

20080109487 - List building system: A system implementable using a programmable processor includes a plurality of pre-stored commands for building an inventory of audio, musical, works or audio/visual works, such as music videos. A plurality of works can be collected together in a list for purposes of establishing a play or a presentation sequence. The... Agent: Eugene M. Cummings, P.c.

20080109488 - List building system: A system implementable using a programmable processor includes a plurality of pre-stored commands for building an inventory of audio, musical, works or audio/visual works, such as music videos. A plurality of works can be collected together in a list for purposes of establishing a play or a presentation sequence. The... Agent: Eugene M. Cummings, P.c.

20080109483 - Mash-up service system: Provided is a mash-up service system including: a data processing module installed in a communication terminal which makes wired/wireless Internet communications, and transmitting multimedia data created by a user of the communication terminal and basic information provided by the communication terminal; and a mash-up server receiving the multimedia data and... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080109485 - Methods and apparatus for enterprise application integration: A method for enterprise application integration that uses “connectors” that can be instantiated via downloading (e.g., using Java® or other such technologies) to provide interfaces to respective disparate database systems. The databases systems may comprise any variety of now or heretofore known systems, e.g. SAP, Oracle, and so forth. The... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20080109490 - Oilfield operational system and method: Techniques relating to an oilfield application for performing at least one oilfield operation are provided. The oilfield application is provided with a plurality of oilfield application modules, an application shell for defining an oilfield application, an adapter for encapsulating at least one of the oilfield application modules for compatibility with... Agent: Osha . Liang L.l.p. / Slb

20080109492 - Portable content player, content storage device, and method of synchronizing content state lists between portable content player and content storage device: A portable content player, a content storage device, and a method of synchronizing content between the portable content player and the content storage device, the method including: generating a first content state list for content stored in the content storage device and a second content state list for content stored... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080109493 - Method and apparatus for managing hierarchical collections of data: A method and system provide for management of a collection of data records. The data records have associated therewith an identifier or code that indicates the most coarse level of granularity with which the data record is associated in a hierarchy of sampling subsets created across a range of granularity... Agent: At&t Corporation

20080109494 - Anchor for database synchronization excluding uncommitted transaction modifications: Described is a technology in which an anchor value is determined, for example to synchronize a destination database or data store with modifications made to a source database. The new anchor value is determined in a manner that excludes modifications corresponding to any uncommitted transactions. The new anchor value may... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080109495 - Application-specific intelligent backup and restore system: There is provided herein an application-oriented backup and restore system, which leads the user through a plurality of different selectable steps to repair specific application errors/problems. The preferred embodiment minimizes the loss of user productivity and because of its easy and accessible layout and presentation it may eliminate the need... Agent: Fellers Snider Blankenship Bailey & Tippens

20080109497 - Synchronization of plural databases in a database replication system when replication is slower than the synchronization process: A target database is synchronized with a source database and the source database is replicated to the target database in a database replication system. The source database is on-line during the synchronization. The source database is located at a first node of the system, and the target database is located... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080109496 - Synchronization of plural databases in a database replication system with simultaneous synchronization and replication: A target database is synchronized with a source database and the source database is replicated to the target database in a database replication system. The source database is on-line during the synchronization. The source database is located at a first node of the system, and the target database is located... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080109498 - Method to efficiently use the disk space while unarchiving: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for efficiently using disk space when unarchiving files in the same file system. An archive file is read to identify a total number of data files in the archive file. The number of headers in the archive file is... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080109499 - Adjusting log size in a static logical volume: A method, system, and program for adjusting the size of a file system and an inline file system log housed in a static logical volume. A computer system includes a logical volume allocated between an file system and its inline file system log. A request is received to adjust the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20080104012 - Associating branding information with data: A platform for associating branding information with data is provided to allow a manufacturer of a data device, or other company, to be recognized for its data contribution to a centralized platform, for example. In this regard, companies have incentive to provide data services to users of the platform as... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080104008 - Common data broker method, system, and program product: The present invention provides a common data entity broker method, system, and program product. Specifically, under the present invention, a common data broker is provided that includes an administrative module, a common data broker interface, a common data key mapping, and a common data database. In general, common data entities... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080104010 - Configuring initialized rfid readers using rfid tags: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for configuring a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader using an RFID tag are described. A RFID tag is read by the reader to obtain reader configuration information from the RFID tag. A registry of the reader is modified to include the reader configuration information. A management... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080104011 - Retrieval system and retrieval method: When an image of a subject including a retrieval-source printout (1) is acquired by a digital camera (10), the digital camera (10) extracts a region corresponding to the retrieval-source printout (1) from the acquired image data, extracts a feature value of the extracted region, accesses a storage (20) in which... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080104009 - Serializable objects and a database thereof: The invention is a method to detect adulterated specimens submitted for substance abuse. It is concerned with testing a sample of the submitted urine, and in a parallel test analyzing a sample of the submitted urine to which has been added known amounts of the suspected substances. A control artificial... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080104015 - Database system workload management method and system: An improved workload management system and method for a database system. The improved workload management system evaluates certain workload management rules dynamically at key points during database query execution rather than relying on enforcement prior to query activation. In the case of product join operations, the workload management system evaluates... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20080104016 - Method and system for comparing data: A system for comparing data. In response to retrieving data from a plurality of files according to file information, temporary files are generated for the plurality of files from the retrieved data using mapping information and at least one of a plurality of comparison rules. Then the temporary files are... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20080104017 - Method of assembling composite structure: A method of assembling a composite structure is disclosed. An illustrative embodiment of the method includes receiving and positioning at least two composite structure subassemblies on a structure assembly table by operation of at least one first device and at least one second device and compacting the at least two... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20080104013 - Query restriction for timely and efficient paging: Systems and methods are presented for retrieving records from a database and presenting them to a user through a timely and efficient query restricting process. The query request is then modified through the use of a determined partitioning field and a modified query which partitions the field relative to a... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20080104014 - Refreshing an execution plan for a query: An improved system and method for storing, reusing and recompiling execution plans for SQL database queries. The system. The system validates the performance of a newly compiled plan prior to replacing a currently stored execution plan and compares the resource cost of the recompiled plan with the cost of the... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20080104019 - Associating geographic-related information with objects: Techniques for associating geographic-related information with objects are described. In one implementation, a search is conducted on a keyword string of one or more keywords descriptive or otherwise representative of a geographically-relevant object. If a location is identified, geographic-related semantic information of the location is associated with the geographically-relevant object.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080104033 - Contents searching apparatus and method: A contents searching apparatus and method are provided. The contents searching apparatus includes a screen forming unit which forms a screen to display search words used to search for contents on at least one shaft located at a perimeter of a three-dimensional manifold; and a controller which searches for the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080104022 - Document indexing and delivery system: A document indexing and delivery system is disclosed. Embodiments of the present invention provide an agent-based delivery platform to supply financial document images in a variety of formats to fulfill requests from various clients of an image processing system at a financial institution. Workflows can be created using extensible markup... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Bofa

20080104020 - Handwritten query builder: Implementations of a handwritten query builder are described. Digital ink objects entered by a user are interpreted to generate multiple search terms. The search terms are ordered based on relationships between the digital ink objects to create a query string. For example, relative position (vertical and/or horizontal), relative height, relative... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080104024 - Highlighting results in the results page based on levels of trust: A technique is provided for highlighting specific website information in a results page of a query that is submitted by a user. A plurality of webpages is identified that each satisfies the query. A subset of the plurality of webpages is identified based on Web activity of the user or... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080104035 - Information processing method and system: There is disclosed a technique that facilitates a search for a service and use of the service available on a network. To accomplish this, steps of inputting information about a service (S100 to S102) and steps of searching a network for service providing devices capable of implementing the service about... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080104023 - Method and apparatus for reading documents and answering questions using material from these documents: A method and apparatus that provides the reading of text from documents and the extraction of key information from this text along with the use of this key information to answer questions posed by a user by presenting the most relevant sentence in the text in reply to the user's... Agent: Dennis R. Haszko Patent Law Office Of D.r.haszko

20080104025 - Method and system for efficient execution and rendering of client/server interactive applications: A method and apparatus for reducing network and processor bandwidth overhead when a client device fetches a Web page from a server. Presentation code is provided to mark view identifiers as well as indicate target areas of the Web page to be updated upon occurrence of selected events. The presentation... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080104032 - Method and system for organizing items: An organisation system (5) for organizing items (11), the system (5) comprising: a data structure (10) associating at least one semantic metadata (12) with an item (11) to define a directional relationship between a concept and the item (11); and a user interface (20) to express the at least one... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080104034 - Method for scoring changes to a webpage: The present invention provides for a system and method for evaluating changes to internet content wherein content is harvested from Internet sources and the harvested content includes changed content. The harvested content is filtered and analyzed using one or more keyword analyses based on a predetermined list of one or... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080104036 - Mobile phone capable of building a quick launch item according a search result and related method: A mobile phone includes a memory module for storing an index table and a search database, an input interface for inputting a search datum and a quick launch datum, a search unit stored in the memory module for searching function items corresponding to the search datum in the search database,... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080104028 - Nested queries with index: Values for virtual recursive attributes are generated for distinguished name entries in a lightweight directory access protocol directory by navigating through the directory tree starting at the distinguished name entry specified by an input value. An attribute list of the values for the virtual recursive attributes may be cached or... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080104026 - Optimization of targeted advertisements based on user profile information: A system and method to facilitate optimization of targeted advertisements based on user profile information are described. A set of event keywords associated with an event or action performed by the user or an agent of the user is identified in a data storage module. User profile information, if available,... Agent: Stattler - Suh PC

20080104018 - Personalized virtual reality home screen for mobile devices: A system comprising a display, a processor, and a storage device is provided. The storage device is operable to store instructions that, when executed by the processor, display on the display as a home screen a portion of a virtual world. The virtual world includes a plurality of objects sharing... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20080104029 - Reverse attribute pointers: Values for virtual reverse attributes are generated for distinguished name entries in a lightweight directory access protocol directory by navigating through a list of distinguished name values for an input virtual recursive attribute. An attribute list of the values for the virtual reverse attributes may be cached or indexed. In... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080104027 - System and method for dynamically retrieving data specific to a region of a layer: A method for retrieving data from a data source by querying the data source with data points of a layer. The data points may be encompassed within a determined region of the layer. The steps of the method may include: determining the region of the layer, dynamically querying the data... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080104030 - System and method for providing customized information based on user's situation information: An intelligent information providing system for searching and providing customized information relevant to physical situations of a user in wired/wireless networks is disclosed. The intelligent information providing system includes a recommendation database for storing recommendation information on applicable conditions representing a plurality of possible user situations, a personalization server for... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080104021 - Systems and methods for controlling access to online personal information: Systems and methods are disclosed for controlling access to online personal information in an online search. In one embodiment of the invention, a method is provided for controlling access to personal information in an online search. The method comprises receiving a search term regarding an individual from a device. The... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20080104031 - Web advertising management method: The invention relates to a method, system and computer program for management of paid advertisements displayed in response to a search query entered into a search engine. A vendor's inventory is discovered by reading from an inventory database. Search terms are determined for item categories in the inventory database, reading... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080104045 - Collectively enhanced semantic search: A search system analyzes a user's search requests and identifies prior semantically-similar search requests that have provided well-received results. Each search request is classified, based on the semantics of the search request, and the user's satisfaction with the effectiveness of the search request is monitored and recorded within the determined... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20080104042 - Personalized search using macros: A system, a method and computer-readable media for personalizing a user search. Information is maintained that indicates a set of content selected by a user. A search macro is generated by utilizing this information. A user input defining a search query is received, and the search macro is utilized to... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080104043 - Server-side match: Systems and techniques for converting numeric queries into substantially equivalent textual queries are described. In general, the systems and techniques discussed use search query logs to accurately select a most probably mapping for a numeric-to-text conversion. This mapping can occur when a system (e.g., a server-side search system) receives a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080104044 - System and method for the remote operation and management of networked multi-function peripheral (mfp) devices via web feeds: A web feed notification system and method for multi-function peripheral devices (MFPS) is disclosed. A notification condition is detected in a multi-function peripheral having a communications interface. A notification web feed indicative of the notification condition is assembled. Subscribed client devices detect the updated web feed and download the web... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080104053 - Apparatus and method for categorical filtering of data: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to retrieve a dataset from a data source, where the dataset includes a first set of categories. A data structure that represents the dataset is built. A first set of merit values for the first set of categories is calculated. The first... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080104051 - Apparatus and method for filtering data using nested panels: A computer implemented method includes receiving a data filter from a first panel of filtering categories. The data filter is applied to a dataset wherein a resulting data subset is created. One or more further data filters is displayed within a nested second panel of filtering categories.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080104056 - Distributional similarity-based models for query correction: A distributional similarity between a word of a search query and a term of a candidate word sequences is used to determine an error model probability that describes the probability of the search query given the candidate word sequence. The error model probability is used to determine a probability of... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080104054 - Document clustering based on cohesive terms: A method and a storage medium, that includes instructions for causing a computer to implement the method, for document categorization is presented. The method includes identifying terms occurring in a collection of documents, and determining a cohesion score for each of the terms. The cohesion score is a function of... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Tuscon Division

20080104049 - Document ranking utilizing parameter varying data: The relevancy of search results are improved by exploiting changes in data related to information access. Parameter varying aspects of parameter varying data associated with document access are leveraged to provide enhanced ranking of document. As an aspect of the parameter varies, a rank can be accomplished, producing multiple ranks... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080104052 - Implicit, specialized search of business objects using unstructured text: A method and system for providing business context corresponding to unstructured documents is provided. A business context correlation system analyzes the contents of a user's unstructured document, identifies the business context of the unstructured document from the analyzed contents, and presents the business context along with the unstructured document to... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080104047 - Intelligent search with guiding info: Every presence has needs. A need could be consumer electronics, loans, autos, or knowledge, etc. The presence uses search engines to become knowledgeable about the need. The current search engines are not intelligent. The idea of the invention is to provide more accurate results and semantically linked results through an... Agent: Mr. Nagendra Nagarajayya

20080104061 - Methods and apparatus for matching relevant content to user intention: Methods and apparatus for a new approach to the problem of matching relevant content to user queries. Instead of looking for the exact keyword, the invention expands it into groupings of concepts and phrases, where each such group represents one possible user intention (as implied by the query phrase or... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080104057 - Presenting media guidance search results based on relevancy: Systems and methods for presenting search results based on relevancy in an interactive media guidance application are disclosed. After performing a user-initiated or automatic search for media content, the interactive media guidance application determines which of the hits are most relevant to the user. The guidance application then displays, or... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080104058 - Presenting media guidance search results based on relevancy: Systems and methods for presenting search results based on relevancy in an interactive media guidance application are disclosed. After performing a user-initiated or automatic search for media content, the interactive media guidance application determines which of the hits are most relevant to the user. The guidance application then displays, or... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080104055 - Restaurant review search system and method for automatically providing links to relevant reviews of selected restaurants by use of the internet: A system and method for automatically providing a user with links to relevant reviews of restaurants in a given location by use of the Internet. The system generates a webpage arranged to receive inquiries from a user and utilizes an algorithm to automatically generate a search string of specialized criteria... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20080104059 - Restaurant review search system and method for finding links to relevant reviews of selected restaurants through the internet by use of an automatically configured, sophisticated search algorithm: A system and method for providing a user with an automatic and highly efficient method to find links to relevant reviews of restaurants in a given location by use of an automatically configured, sophisticated search algorithm, The system generates a webpage arranged to receive inquiries from a user and utilizes... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20080104050 - Time-based analysis of related keyword searching: Disclosed are apparatus and methods for displaying related search terms in a time sequence format. In example embodiments, a user search database, for retaining search terms that were used during specific times, may be available. The user search database may be searched to find which users have searched on a... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP/yahoo

20080104048 - Tracking storylines around a query: The claimed subject matter relates to a system and method that effectuates queryline tracking by constructing and utilizing incremental aspect models that employ probabilistic and/or spectral techniques to discover themes within documents delivered in a stream over time. The system and method upon discovery of a theme or enhancements to... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080104065 - Automatic generator and updater of faqs: Automatically generating and updating of frequently asked question (FAQ) lists are described herein. User inputs requesting information are matched to stored question and answer pairs, and values associated with the stored question and answer pairs are manipulated. An FAQ list may be generated and updated by selecting relevant question and... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080104069 - Deriving cross-organizational relationships from ldap source data: Alternative views for a selected distinguished name entry in current view are identified through subviews. Each subview corresponds to an attribute defined by a dynamic view object in a schema for a lightweight directory access protocol directory. The subviews are searched to find those that have entries that match the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080104064 - Electrospray ionization mass spectrometer interface: t

20080104067 - Location based large format document display: A method (203) for using electronic large format location dependent documents can include the steps of determining (200) a location of a remote user terminal (110) and accessing (210) at a server a document database having document information related to the plurality of documents. The document information includes at least... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080104071 - System and method for converting a natural language query into a logical query: Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer readable media for converting a natural language query into a logical query. The method embodiment comprises receiving a natural language query and converting the natural language query using an extensible engine to generate a logical query, the extensible engine being linked to the toolkit... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20080104068 - System and method for naming dimension members in a data analyzing system: A member naming system is provided for naming members of a dimension in a data analyzing system having a receiver for receiving a pattern. One example of the dimension is a time dimension containing time periods. The pattern has a sequence of pattern components for defining a name. A time... Agent: Stephen B. Salai, Esq. Harter, Secrest & Emery LLP

20080104066 - Validating segmentation criteria: Segmentation criteria are validated relative to a plurality of items organized according to a dimensionally-modeled data space. Each criterion nominally characterizes a segment comprising an area of interest of the dimensionally-modeled data space. The items are mapped to the segments. The mapping is processed. Based on the mapping, the validity... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP/yahoo

20080104074 - Cascading sort interface: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a sort specification may be defined to sort a record array by one or more sort criteria.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080104075 - Distribution list navigator: A method is provided of automatically generating and updating e-mail distribution lists including e-mail addresses of persons of an organization. The method uses an arrangement of the persons in one or more groups according to an organizational relationship. The one or more groups are stored in an organizational database system.... Agent: Robert Popa, Esq. C/o Ladas & Parry

20080104079 - Cross-population of virtual communities: Systems and method for cross-population of virtual communities are provided. An exemplary method comprises providing a plurality of virtual communities, each of the virtual communities related to other virtual communities by a cross-population relationship. A user associated with a first virtual community of the plurality of the virtual communities is... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080104078 - Method for creating sketches of sets to permit comparison: Provided is a method for creating sketches of sets to permit comparing set members selected from a universe. The method includes selecting a size for the sketch and providing a randomizer. In addition, a set is provided as a subset of the universe. The set is processed with the randomizer... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104083 - Dynamic data access and storage: Dynamic data access and storage. A master dynamic configuration directory can store connection strings and data adapters for data entities based on a routing identifier and a business entity identifier. The information can be stored in multiple data stores, each of which can have a different data type. A data... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20080104080 - Method and apparatus to access heterogeneous configuration management database repositories: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for accessing information in repositories. A determination is made as to whether a connector from a plurality of connectors may be used to retrieve the information for the item from the repositories for the request, wherein the connectors are reusable... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080104081 - Tiered storage system with single instance function: In a tiered storage system, unintended degradation of performance, reliability and security caused by applying a single instance function to the data in the storage system is avoided. When multiple identical files are stored in the storage system, the storage system determines whether the single instance function should be applied... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080104037 - Automated scheme for identifying user intent in real-time: An intent guessing system receives partial user queries as they are entered by the user. The partial user queries are compared with different intents derived from previously logged queries. Guesses are made as to which of the intents are associated with the partial user query. The intent guesses are then... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080104038 - Methods and apparatus for performing structural joins for answering containment queries: Techniques are provided for performing structural joins for answering containment queries. Such inventive techniques may be used to perform efficient structural joins of two interval lists which are neither sorted nor pre-indexed. For example, in an illustrative aspect of the invention, a technique for performing structural joins of two element... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080104041 - Searching queries using database partitioning: A computer-implemented method and apparatus of searching a plurality of queries against at least one database containing a plurality of records. The plurality of queries is partitioned into a set of smaller subsets of queries. The at least one database is portioned into a set of smaller subdatabases. Searching tasks... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080104039 - System and method for resource management: A method for creating and maintaining a search knowledge-based system with respect to company, product and service resources within an industry, using a knowledge base data content structure having categories, rule sets, search parameters, data sources, and data content input from the plurality of data sources. The method assigns an... Agent: Linda M. Lowson

20080104040 - Visually intuitive search method: A method and system for re-arranging the search results based on user-defined attributes for various search objects is disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the system and method for re-arranging search results according to user stylized search terms. The user can stylize the search terms in various ways so as... Agent: Louis Ventre, Jr

20080104046 - Tracking changing state data to assist in computer network security: A session table includes one or more records, where each record represents a session. Session record information is stored in various fields, such as key fields, value fields, and timestamp fields. Session information is described as keys and values in order to support query/lookup operations. A session table is associated... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080104060 - Apparatus and method for assessing relevant categories and measures for use in data analyses: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to receive a relevancy parameter. The relevancy parameter is searched in a category ensemble including a set of categories, where the category ensemble overlies a dataset. A first order of the set of categories is created based on the relevancy of the... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080104062 - Approximate matching of strings for message filtering: A method of determining whether a guarded term is represented in a message comprises associating a portion of the message with the guarded term and evaluating a cost of the association. A method of generating a collection of guarded terms that represents an original term comprises generating a plurality of... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080104063 - System and method for clustering unstructured documents: A system and method for clustering unstructured documents is provided. Documents having terms with frequencies of occurrence that satisfy upper and lower edge conditions are selected. Concepts are generated for the selected documents. The selected documents are grouped into clusters of the documents. A weight for each of the clusters... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20080104073 - Automatically inserting relevant hyperlinks into a webpage: A methodology through which a host site may automatically insert relevant links into a set of text. In this methodology, the contents of the text are compared against a database containing character strings, and the character strings from the database contained in the text are identified. Each of the character... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080104072 - Method and apparatus for generation and augmentation of search terms from external and internal sources: A method and apparatus to identify names, personalities, titles, and topics that are present in a repository, and place them into a grammar, and to identify names, personalities, titles, and topics that are not present in the repository, and place them into a grammar, uses information from external data sources,... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080104070 - Pattern-based filtering of query input: Methods, apparatuses, and articles for receiving, by a computing device, a search request, the search request specifyi