Data processing: database and file management or data structures inventions

20090287636 - user removable memory and associated methods: Apparatus for user removable memory, the memory for providing functional expansion to an associated electronic device, the apparatus comprising an interface configured for converting signalling between file access signalling for an associated electronic device and appropriate signalling for the use by the memory in providing the functional expansion.... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090287634 - Maintaining and utilizing copy histories: In some embodiments a method comprises detecting a request to copy and determining information related to the copied data from the document. The method can also comprise augmenting a copy history to include the data and the information related to the data, and storing this copy history. The method can... Agent: Ibm Raleigh Iplaw (dg) C/o Delizio Gilliam, PLLC

20090287635 - System and method for the electronic design of collaborative and validated architectures: One aspect of the invention is a method for the electronic design of collaborative and validated architectures. The method for the electronic design of an architecture includes storing architecture elements created by users in a centralized database. The creation of an architecture model is initiated in response to a request... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090287638 - Autonomic system-wide sql query performance advisor: A method, computer program product and computer system for providing SQL query performance advices to optimize SQL queries of a database, which includes providing a query cache to store records of optimized queries of the database, creating an event-driven web service, sending the records from the query cache to the... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090287637 - Determining a density of a key value referenced in a database query over a range of rows: A method, apparatus and program product that determine a density of a key value referenced in a database query over at least one range of rows, and utilize the determined density to optimize the database query. By doing so, the density of various key values may be determined and compared,... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20090287639 - Embedding densities in a data structure: A method, apparatus and program product that determine a density for each key value of a plurality of key values in a table over at least one range of rows in the database table, and store the determined densities in a data structure for use in optimizing a query that... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20090287640 - Providing notification of a real-world event to a virtual universe user: An approach that provides transmission and notification of a real-world event to a virtual universe user is described. In one embodiment, there is a method for notifying a resident that is on-line in a virtual universe of an occurrence of a real-world event. The method includes receiving an indication of... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090287648 - Ad-based revenue generation using media-hashing to control fraud: The claimed subject matter provides systems and methods that controls fraud and/or generates revenue. The system can upload media content to a generator that produces a digital certificate that includes a short identifier associated with the content. The system further sends the media content together with the digital certificate associated... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090287642 - Automated analysis and summarization of comments in survey response data: Technologies are described herein for providing automated analysis and summarization of free-form comments in survey response data. A number of topic words are identified from the survey response comments, and a numeric weight is calculated for each topic word that reflects the relevance of the topic word to each comment.... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC

20090287660 - Bit string searching apparatus, searching method, and program: To provide a method that minimizes efficiency reductions in processing coupled node trees even if the size of the coupled node tree grows large. In basic searching or maximum or minimum value searching, the search history, not only the address information of the storage area wherein a node is stored... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090287643 - Context based script generation: A method for generating script in a computer system having a user interface includes performing user actions by a user using the user interface to perform a user task, monitoring the user actions by the computer system, determining environment information in accordance with the user actions to provide determined environment... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow Ltd.

20090287662 - Database system, method, program for the database system, and a method for updating indexing tables in a database system: A database system, a computer executable method, a computer executable program for the database system, and a method for updating an indexing tables in a database system To provide a database system, a computer executable method, a computer executable program for the database system, and a method for updating an... Agent: Ibm - Arc Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20090287664 - Determination of a desired repository: A system receives a search query from a user and searches a group of repositories, based on the search query, to identify, for each of the repositories, a set of search results. The system also identifies one of the repositories based on a likelihood that the user desires information from... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090287654 - Device for identifying electronic file based on assigned identifier: To trace electronic files held in system users in the organization by recognizing electronic files being communicated in an organization. Provided is an information identification device for assigning an identifier to an electronic file based on data stored in the electronic file. The information identification device includes an interface coupled... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090287663 - Disease name input support program, method and apparatus: This disease name input support method includes: obtaining type data of a schema selected by a user and identification data of a region on the schema, which is identified by the user, and storing obtained data into a storage device; searching a disease name knowledge storage device storing an inputted... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090287652 - Distributed audio visual system and content directory management system and method thereof: A distributed audio visual (AV) system including a plurality of media servers, a media renderer, and a control point which are connected to each other via a peer-to-peer network is provided. Each of the media servers includes a content directory management unit (CDMU) and a query content information (QCI) module,... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090287655 - Image search engine employing user suitability feedback: An Internet infrastructure that supports searching of images by correlating a search image and/or search string with that of plurality of images hosted in Internet based servers. The image search server supports delivery of search result pages to a client device based upon a search string or search image, and... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090287644 - Interactive recipe and cooking information system: An apparatus, method and data structure for providing information related to the preparation of food and beverages. The invention searches available food and beverage information databases based upon search criteria defined by a user. The search criteria may include medical dietary preferences, ingredient and geographic preferences, and the like. The... Agent: Duncan G. Byers PC

20090287653 - Internet search engine preventing virus exchange: An Internet infrastructure that supports search operations along with malware screening that uses a search server of a search string from a client device. The search server comprises a search engine for searching the Internet and contains modules for malware detection and quarantine functions. The search server identifies the malwares... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090287651 - Management of multimedia content: Disclosed are method and apparatus for managing multimedia content. The uniform resource locators of multimedia content accessed via the Internet are saved in collections stored in the database of a multimedia access system, which is shared by multiple users via individual user accounts. Collections may be copied from one user... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ws Attn: Patent Docketing

20090287650 - Media file searching based on voice recognition: Provided are a method for searching for media files on the basis of voice recognition and a mobile device for searching for media files based on voice recognition. The media files are stored in a storage unit. Keywords of the media files stored in the storage unit are extracted and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090287647 - Method and apparatus for detection of data in a data store: A method of determining whether particular data is included in a data store. The particular data comprises a plurality of first data values and the data store comprises a plurality of second data values. The method comprises obtaining identification data associated with the particular data. The identification comprises a subset... Agent: Smyrski Law Group, A Professional Corporation

20090287649 - Method and apparatus for providing content playlist: A content playlist providing method used in a content playback apparatus storing content, the method including: extracting information of content to be played back from a first content playlist listing the content to be played back; searching stored content based on the extracted information; and creating a second content playlist... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090287641 - Method and system for crawling the world wide web: A method and system for crawling the World Wide Web is described. One embodiment avoids becoming bogged down by dynamically generated Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) pointing to Web pages having the same or substantially similar content (e.g., URLs generated by a “spam poison” Web site) by browsing automatically and systematically... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20090287665 - Method and system for searching stored data: A complete document management system is disclosed. Accordingly, systems and methods for managing data associated with a data storage component coupled to multiple computers over a network are disclosed. Systems and methods for managing data associated with a data storage component coupled to multiple computers over a network are further... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090287658 - Network browser supporting historical content viewing: An Internet infrastructure supports a timed window and version-based historical search service comprising a search server that receives a search string from a client device and a historical data repository from where the historical Internet data is retrieved when searching. A client device has a network browser that accesses a... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090287659 - Network browser supporting historical hypertext and other links: An Internet infrastructure supports searching of web links wherein if a user desires to obtain historical Internet data that existed as of a past date or time or if current web content cannot be provided to the user due to web changes, maintenance, technical reasons, etc., then a server provides... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090287657 - Network search engine utilizing client browser activity information: An Internet infrastructure that supports searching of web links selects search results by processing browser activity information along with one or more of favorite lists, and related metadata, user profiles, and trends based on browser activity behavior and favorite behavior. The Internet infrastructure consists of a plurality of web browsers... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090287656 - Network search engine utilizing client browser favorites: An Internet infrastructure that supports search operations that are restricted by user favorite lists, related user metadata, and user trends that are based on client-stored user favorite behavior. The Internet infrastructure contains a search engine server coupled to a plurality of web browsers resident on client devices that contain user/favorite... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090287645 - Search results with most clicked next objects: Disclosed are apparatus and methods for providing next click information regarding search results. In certain embodiments, as objects (such as web pages, images, videos, audio files) are searched and clicked, click information is retained. Next click information with respect to specific objects can then be determined. This next click information... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson - Yahoo!

20090287661 - Setting checking information collecting method, setting checking information collecting device and recording medium that records setting checking information collecting program: A device includes, a search controlling information storing unit that stores, for each searching purpose, the search controlling information indicating whether or not the search is to be proceeded for the kinds of parts between the interfaces in the parts is defined and registered, a set information collecting unit that... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090287646 - System and method for presenting a contextual action for an indicator: A method and apparatus are presented for the presentation and activation of contextual actions for interpreted content. In one aspect, keywords are recognized from an existing webpage, re-processed into a second webpage, and presented via a browser. The indicators are selectable and may invoke functionality resident on the wireless device... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090287667 - Data processing method and apparatus thereof: The invention relates to a data processing method comprising: receiving an attribute request from a device management client by a server using a first access protocol, wherein the attribute request comprises a first representation of an attribute of an element of a data processing system; mapping the attribute request from... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090287669 - Image search engine using context screening parameters: An image search engine server that comprises an image search engine, capable of performing image searches based on the context of a search operation. The context of the search is derived from a built-in thesaurus and/or a dictionary. For a thesaurus-based algorithm, the approach is to send a query back... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090287670 - Method and system for constructing xml query to schema variable xml documents: An XML querying method and system for constructing an XQuery/XPath query to a schema variable XML document. The method includes: receiving the query from a client computer; generating a tree structure; and generating, by query rewriting, an XQuery/XPath for the XML document based on the tree structure and configurable query... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090287668 - Methods and apparatus for interactive document clustering: A computer-based process is described for identifying clusters of documents that have some degree of similarity from among a set of documents that permits user interaction with the process. A plurality of seed candidate documents is identified. Candidate probes based upon the seed candidate documents are generated, and information regarding... Agent: Jones Day

20090287666 - Partitioning of measures of an olap cube using static and dynamic criteria: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for partitioning measures of an OLAP cube into one or more measure sets. One or more static partitioning criteria are applied to each measure in the OLAP cube. One or more dynamic partitioning criteria are applied to each measure... Agent: Mollborn Patents, Inc.

20090287671 - Support for international search terms - translate as you crawl: A search engine server supports delivery of search results to a web browser of a client device. The client device is communicatively coupled to the search engine server via the Internet. The system identifies new web pages in a source language during crawling, translates them into a plurality of destination... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090287697 - Agent rank: The present invention provides methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing techniques for searching and ranking linked information sources. The techniques include receiving multiple content items from a corpus of content items; receiving digital signatures each made by one of multiple agents, each digital signature associating one of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090287698 - Artificial anchor for a document: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for linking to an intra-document portion of a target document includes receiving an address for a target document identified by a search engine in response to a query, the target document including query-relevant text that identifies an intra-document portion of the target... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090287689 - Automated calibration of negative field weighting 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. Such parameters may be set as negative to account for fields that do not match. The system and method apply iterative techniques such that parameters from each linking iteration... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090287679 - Evaluation of tamper resistant software system implementations: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for evaluating a software system includes defining a rating of the tamper resistance of a software system and breaking down the rating into a plurality of metrics relevant to the tamper resistance of the software system. A score may then... Agent: Law Office Of Donald L. Wenskay

20090287675 - Extending olap navigation employing analytic workflows: Analytic workflows for performing data analysis and other related operations are stored in an analytic workflow library and provided to a user upon selection of data from a data store. A workflow manager may rank the workflows based on a number of ranking algorithms prior to presentation. User selected workflows... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090287694 - Four dimensional search method for objects in a database: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and system used for searching among a plurality of entities on a computer network by a user. A computer server in communication with the computer network can include a database with a storage mechanism, a rule set, and an interaction calculation engine. The... Agent: Greenberg Traurig (phx)

20090287684 - Historical internet: An Internet infrastructure that supports a timed window search service comprising a search server. The search server receives a search string from a client device and has access to a historical data repository from where different content can be provided for the search based on date/time inputs. The search server... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090287692 - Information processing apparatus and method for controlling the same: An information processing apparatus includes a holding unit configured to hold a plurality of indices associated with each document information stored in the storage unit, wherein each of the indices includes history information describing user information about users who have accessed each document information, and a user ranking unit allocates... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090287672 - Method and apparatus for better web ad matching by combining relevance with consumer click feedback: A method and apparatus are provided for better web ad matching by combining relevance with consumer click feedback. In one example, the method includes receiving a query page, extracting features from the query page, re-weighting the query page, evaluating the query page in light of each ad in order to... Agent: Stattler-suh PC

20090287685 - Method and apparatus for sociological data analysis: A method to enable improved analysis and use of sociological data, the method comprising identifying causal relationships between a plurality of documents, identifying a plurality of characteristics of a communication, including a modality used, actors involved, proximate events of relevance, and enabling a user to query based on available characteristics.... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090287696 - Method and system for navigating and selecting media from large data sets: Some embodiments of the invention provide a method of accessing a data set. The data set includes a set of data elements. The method collects the data elements of the data set. The method receives a lens item. The lens item provides a set of parameters for searching the data... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20090287693 - Method for building a search algorithm and method for linking documents with an object: A computer-readable medium including computer-readable information thereon including instructions providing a method for refining a search algorithm is provided, the method comprising displaying a document, displaying at least one metadata about the search result, receiving instructions about a selection of at least one of the metadata; and modifying a search... Agent: Maya-systems Inc. Attn.: Intellectual Property Department

20090287674 - Method for enhancing search and browsing in collaborative tagging systems through learned tag hierachies: A number of Web 2.0 sites support collaborative tagging systems, which allow users to tag resources with keywords. The tags enable search and retrieval of resources both for the user and for other users, using interfaces like a conventional search form or a tag cloud. A tag hierarchy-based search and... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law, LLC

20090287688 - Method for searching for class and function based on .net card and .net card thereof: The present invention relates to information security field and presents a method for searching for a class and a function based on a .NET card and a .NET card thereof. The method includes: building a first character string according to information of a class currently executed by the .NET card,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090287699 - Method, device and system for quality check: An embodiment of the present invention discloses a quality check (QC) method, including: determining a QC object to be checked and its QC content; searching a system where QC data needed for the QC is located, according to the determined QC object and its QC content, and obtaining the corresponding... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090287680 - Multi-modal query refinement: A multi-modal search query refinement system (and corresponding methodology) is provided. In accordance with the innovation, query suggestion results represent a word palette which can be used to select strings for inclusion or exclusion from a refined set of results. The system employs text, speech, touch and gesture input to... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090287681 - Multi-modal search wildcards: A multi-modal search system (and corresponding methodology) that employs wildcards is provided. Wildcards can be employed in the search query either initiated by the user or inferred by the system. These wildcards can represent uncertainty conveyed by a user in a multi-modal search query input. In examples, the words “something”... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090287683 - Network server employing client favorites information and profiling: An Internet infrastructure that supports searching of web links wherein a user profile is used to reorder search results in a search result list for improved searching. The Internet infrastructure consists of a plurality client devices with web browsers that are incorporated with user-profiling modules and a search engine server.... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090287686 - Playback device: A playback device includes a communication component, an operation component and a playback control component. The communication component is configured to communicate with a network device via a network. The operation component is configured to select a random playback of a plurality of content items that is stored in the... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20090287691 - Presentation of query with event-related information: In an embodiment, a method is provided for presenting a query directed at an information resource. In this method, a number of queries is accessed over a time period. A burst of the number of queries is detected within the time period. It should be noted that a burst is... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090287700 - Query evaluation using ancestor information: Provided are techniques for processing a query. A query is received, wherein the query is formed by one or more paths, and wherein each path includes one or more steps. A hierarchical document including one or more document nodes is received. While processing the query and traversing the hierarchical document,... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20090287673 - Ranking visualization types based upon fitness for visualizing a data set: Technologies are described herein for ranking visualization types. In order to rank the visualization types, visualization metadata is generated for each of the visualization types and data set metadata is generated for the data set. A suitability score is then computed based upon the visualization metadata and the data set... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090287676 - Search results with word or phrase index: Disclosed are apparatus and methods for providing a word or phrase index regarding a particular set of search results. In specific embodiments, a word or phrase index for summarizing the words or phrases (or a subset of same) within the particular search results may be determined. This index may be... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson - Yahoo!

20090287682 - Social based search engine, system and method: A social based search apparatus, system and method. The apparatus, system and method may include receiving, from a user, at least one search keyword, comparing the search keyword to a plurality of keywords having one or more experts associated therewith, and producing a first search result including at least one... Agent: Thomas J. Mcwilliams, Esquire Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

20090287677 - Streaming media instant answer on internet search result page: A method and medium are provided for presentation of media to a user. In one embodiment of the invention, a search query is received containing descriptors of one or more aspects of media. A search is then conducted for sources of media generated in real time that satisfy the search... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090287690 - Support for international search terms: A search engine server supports delivery of search results using an international search string option by identifying websites that provide support in English as well as the language of the international search string. The international search string is a search string in any of the languages that are listed/supported by... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090287678 - System and method for providing answers to questions: A system, method and computer program product for providing answers to questions based on any corpus of data. The method facilitates generating a number of candidate passages from the corpus that answer an input query, and finds the correct resulting answer by collecting supporting evidence from the multiple passages. By... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090287687 - System and method for recommending venues and events of interest to a user: A system and method is disclosed for recommending venues and events to individual users using a combination of collaborative filtering and integrating social behavioral pattern data gathered and computed via an electronic device. The system and method of the present invention is configured to receive data based on users' past,... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090287695 - Systems and methods for bidirectional matching: Described herein are systems and methods for bidirectional matching. In overview, various embodiments provide software, hardware and methodologies underlying a bidirectional matching approach that implements a multi-level importance weighting procedure. Generally speaking, potential relationships between parties are scored on the basis of criterion matches. In some embodiments, a value is... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090287702 - High performance data layout and processing: A method, a system, and a computer-readable medium are provided which provide an efficient data layout for image data and fast access to samples of an image stored in hierarchical z-order format. An array of image data of a physical entity is ordered in a hierarchical z-order at a computing... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090287701 - System and method for receiving and displaying user inputted travel-related messages: A computer-implemented system and method that provides travel-related information to communication devices through a communication network. Travel-related messages are transmitted by users such as travelers at communication devices and are received at a travel update system. The travel-related messages received are stored for display by various selected travel-related categories. The... Agent: Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon LLP

20090287703 - Transaction processing system of database using multi-operation processing providing concurrency control of transactions: c

20090287704 - Cell-based security representation for data access: Architecture for cell-based security on a per-user basis. A security model for this capability includes not only dimension level tables, but is extended to include cell level tables. The security model can include existing dimension tables, plus cell security tables that include a cell permissions table, a cell qualifiers table... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090287709 - Information processing apparatus for editing document having access right settings, method of information processing, and program: An information processing apparatus according to the invention manages a plurality of documents, each including a plurality of pages and being provided with an access right. The information processing apparatus includes a storing unit configured to store the plurality of documents as one file on the basis of the access... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090287705 - Managing website blacklists: A method and system for managing website blacklists to control website access of a user. In one embodiment, a client queries a database regarding a location of a website before the client fetches a resource from the website. The database includes a list of websites based on which access by... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090287707 - Method to manage inventory using degree of separation metrics: A method for shared management of a virtual avatar's inventory using degrees of separation metrics. The user wishing to share his inventory associates other users with indicia representing the degrees of separation between the user creating the associations and the other users. The user associates the degree of separation indicia... Agent: Weitzman Law Offices LLC

20090287706 - Privacy and confidentiality preserving reporting of urls: A method of preserving privacy and confidentiality in a system where information is associated with an existing web page having an address. The method includes receiving a store command from a first user system, the store command including at least a database key and information to be associated with the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Europe

20090287708 - Trans-community online memorial website for decedent memorials organized by community within a larger geographic service area: A trans-community online memorial website available over the World Wide Web for memorializing decedents with online memorials organized, listed, and displayed according to said website user's hometown and or otherwise specified local community and or other community or communities within said website's intended larger geographic service area.... Agent: Bruce W. Baldwin

20090287712 - Configurable persistent storage on a computer system using a database: A method for persistent data storage on a computer system with a kernel by retrieving configuration information regarding a system operation request and then deciding based on the configuration information whether to execute it with special persistent storage or to not do so. The configuration information may be stored on... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090287715 - File sharing method and file sharing system for getting an accessible address through an address mapping server: A file sharing method includes: transferring content information related to a to-be-shared file to an address mapping server; and the address mapping server providing an accessible address mapped to the to-be-shared file according to the content information. One advantage of using the above file sharing method is that the user... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090287711 - Information search system and its method: An object is to efficiently retrieve data stored and managed in a plurality of devices in a distributed manner. A PC 10 issues a retrieval request with a designation of a profile name and a profile identifier to the profile retrieval unit 2. The profile retrieval unit 2 uses the... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090287714 - Method and apparatus for community-based comparison shopping based on social bookmarking: A method and apparatus for sharing product information amongst users of a computer network using productmarks. A productmark for a product is created by a user of the network and includes a product identifier, an annotation containing user comments, a username that identifies the creator of the productmark, and a... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090287716 - Network-based database communication system: The present invention is a communication system. Further, the present invention relates to a database communication system that allows for communication between disparate databases.... Agent: Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP

20090287710 - Portable storage media, host device and method of accessing the content of the portable storage media by the host device: The invention relates to a portable storage media (1) comprising resources and metadata wherein the portable storage media (1) further comprises a representation file representing the resources, the metadata and their interrelationships. The invention further relates to a Host device (2) that is designed to cooperate with at least one... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090287713 - Systems and methods for measuring online public relation and social media metrics using link scanning technology: A method for measuring Public Relations (PR) outputs and social media efforts on a webpage is described. The method can comprise generating a list of website addresses, deploying link scanning on the web page, the link scanning configured to include the list of website addresses, and reporting the results of... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20090287720 - Cluster health indicator with dynamic load correlation: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with producing a proximity display of correlated load metrics associated with members of a cluster are described. One example method includes acquiring metrics data (e.g., load data) from nodes in a cluster. The example method may also include determining a cluster element state based... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC - Oracle

20090287719 - Creating storage for xml schemas with limited numbers of columns per table: Techniques are described herein for automatically generating multiple interrelated database tables to store XML data, while ensuring that each such table has no more than the maximum DBMS-allowed number of columns. In response to the registration of an XML schema with a database server, the server determines whether any of... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090287722 - Data processing apparatus and data processing method: A data processing apparatus executes, in response to a processing execution instruction transmitted from an information terminal connected to the data processing apparatus via a network, processing in accordance with the processing execution instruction. The data processing apparatus includes a protocol determining unit configured to determine a protocol used in... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090287721 - Generating conditional functional dependencies: Techniques are disclosed for generating conditional functional dependency (CFD) pattern tableaux having the desirable properties of support, confidence and parsimony. These techniques include both a greedy algorithm for generating a tableau and, for large data sets, an “on-demand” algorithm that outperforms the basic greedy algorithm in running time by an... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Slusky

20090287718 - Managing project schedule data using separate current and historical task schedule data and revision numbers: A project management system manages project schedule data using separate current and historical task schedule data structures. In general, current schedule data is stored separately from historical schedule data, so that the current schedule data may be retrieved separately from the historical task schedule data. The project management system may... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090287717 - System and method for selecting a package structural design: A system and method of selecting a package model are disclosed. A data structure of a plurality of package models and one or more attribute relationships may be stored. Each package model may have a plurality of package model attributes including at least a size and a style. Each attribute... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20090287724 - Data viewer management: Embodiments described herein are directed to generating a customized data viewer, where the viewer is configured to display data at any level in a data model. In one embodiment, a computer system receives a user request indicating that portions of data are to be displayed in a user-customized manner using... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090287726 - Method and system for synchronization of databases: The invention relates to a method for synchronization of source data sets of a source database stored on a source system with representative target data sets in a target database database database stored on a target system, the source data sets being of a first type and the target data... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090287723 - Method for stable and linear unsupervised classification upon the command on objects: A method of linear unsupervised classification allowing a database composed of objects and of descriptors to be structured, which is stable on the order of the objects, comprises an initial step for transformation of the qualitative, quantitative or textual data into presence-absence binary data. A structural threshold αs function is... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090287725 - Speculative stream scanning: A system and method for partitioning a data stream into tokens includes steps or acts of: receiving the data stream; setting a partition scanner to a beginning point in the data stream; identifying likely token boundaries in the data stream using the partition scanner; partitioning the data stream according to... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20090287727 - System and method for the loss-free processing of process values of a technical installation or a technical process: The disclosure relates to a method and a system for the loss-free processing of process values which can be integrated into a process control system of a technical installation or of a technical process. The method and system can include process values acquired as raw data by means of an... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090287731 - Managing to-do lists in a schedule editor in a project management system: A project management system manages project schedule data using separate current and historical task schedule data structures. In general, current schedule data is stored separately from historical schedule data, so that the current schedule data may be retrieved separately from the historical task schedule data. The project management system may... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090287730 - Managing to-do lists in task schedules in a project management system: A project management system manages project schedule data using separate current and historical task schedule data structures. In general, current schedule data is stored separately from historical schedule data, so that the current schedule data may be retrieved separately from the historical task schedule data. The project management system may... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090287733 - Method for preparing prepress image data: A method for preparing prepress image data includes forming low-resolution versions of the image data and laying out a document in a page layout program. Data describing commands manipulating the images and placing the images within a document is embedded within the metadata, and preferably within the Exif section of... Agent: Norman Friedland

20090287734 - Method, system and computer program product for comparing or measuring information content in at least one data stream: Method, system and computer program product for comparing or measuring information content in at least one data stream including one or more data segments is provided. In at least one embodiment of the invention, information leak capacity in network traffic is quantified. Instead of trying to detect the presence of... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20090287732 - Secure configuration of authentication servers: Embodiments of the invention are directed to automatically populating a database of names and secrets in an authentication server by sending one or more lists of one or more names and secrets by a network management software to an authentication server. Furthermore, some embodiments provide that the lists being sent... Agent: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation C/o Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090287729 - Source code coverage testing: Code coverage testing of an application (e.g., to determine which blocks of source code are executed during run-time testing) in an operating system is accomplished using instrumented code and a performance analysis profiler. That is, non-executable code statements (e.g., T-SQL in-line comments) are injected into the source code at respective... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090287728 - Tag along shopping: A method for browsing in a virtual environment includes generating a plurality of tag data collections from multiple tag data sources. A plurality of virtual online browsing modes are presented using a computer having data storage. A browsing mode is selected by a user, wherein the browsing mode specified includes... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090287737 - Architecture for enabling rapid database and application development: Raptive is a technical, object-oriented database and architecture allowing for rapid development process cycles. It is a process of three technologies that are unique. The first process technology is an object-oriented, entity-centric database technology process. This process is called Raptor. The second process is a browser-based UI/IDE process that allows... Agent: Chancellor Ip

20090287736 - Bacnet communication status objects and methods of determining communication status of bacnet devices: BACnet objects and methods for efficiently monitoring the communication status of networks and devices in a building automation and control system are presented. A pair of bus communication status objects, including a server object and a client object, provide the communication status of an MS/TP network as an OCTET String... Agent: Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren P.C.

20090287735 - Memory allocator for optimistic data access: A method, system and computer readable media for optimistic access of data objects in a processing system. The method, system and computer readable media comprise providing a list of position objects. Each of the position objects can be associated with a data object. The method, system and computer readable medium... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ibm Svl

20090287738 - Assessment of educational services: This invention concerns a web-based system comprising a server, computer storage and web-portal to provide an integrated management feedback system for the assessment of educational services. The system particularly comprises an interface to input definitions of graduate attributes related to levels of complexity; and input definitions of learning outcomes related... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20090287742 - Method and system for run time directories for address services on a mail processing system: The present application generally relates to address data maintenance services using a mail processing system. The present application discloses techniques and equipment to update address information and usage of mail processing equipment to print delivery point barcodes that represent the current and accurate address information available for the addressee. The... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090287740 - Method for enabling on-demand communication services: Techniques for coordinating an on-demand communication-based mashup service are provided. The techniques include resolving a dynamic context of a receiver, configuring a communication service with at least one parameter of the dynamic context of the receiver, and coordinating the communication service dynamically at run-time based on the at least one... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090287739 - Outage scheduling system: A system for scheduling, changing, and maintaining an outage schedule includes a data entry module adapted to allow a user to enter data pertaining to an outage, a pre-defined database containing transaction rules to define transaction flows, a processing module, and a display module. The processing module is adapted to... Agent: Trego, Hines & Ladenheim, PLLC

20090287741 - System and method for generating evaluation data: In order to achieve rapid and reliable provision of evaluation data, an evaluation order for evaluating original data is generated upon the occurrence of a pre-specified event. It is checked by the control (150) whether an evaluation order has been generated. In the event of an evaluation order being present,... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20090287743 - System and method for removing a storage server in a distributed column chunk data store: An improved system and method for removing a storage server in a distributed column chunk data store is provided. A distributed column chunk data store may be provided by multiple storage servers operably coupled to a network. A storage server provided may include a database engine for partitioning a data... Agent: Law Office Of Robert Bolan

20090287744 - Apparatus, system and method for healthcheck of information technology infrastructure based on log data: A method and system for checking health of information technology infrastructure based on log data, in one aspect, collect log data non-intrusively from a production system, said log data at least associated with transactions occurring in the production system and resource utilization of the production system, normalize said log data... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090287745 - Image forming apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor: An image forming apparatus capable of preventing the degradation of performance when the log data is outputted to an external device. An output unit outputs an operation condition about image forming as log data to an external device. A changing unit changes a detailed degree of the log data outputted... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090287746 - Apparatus, system, and method for dynamic database driven document synchronization: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for dynamically synchronizing multiple document management systems based on customizable events and actions. An edit module edits records in a custom configuration database in response to user input, each of the records comprising a timestamp and configuration data corresponding to an event. A... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090287750 - Method and apparatus for content pre-fetching and preparation: A method of pre-fetching and preparing content in an information processing system is provided. The method includes the steps of generating at least one content pre-fetching policy and at least one content preparation policy, wherein each of the policies are at least in part a function of context information associated... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090287749 - Method and system for data processing with data replication for the same: To guarantee the contents of an update by a transaction in a parallel database management system, the database management system includes a replica database management unit that manages the replica database, records synchronous information at a timing at which one of the transaction generated is valid in every database management... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090287748 - Simplified data transfer using segmented memory: In certain embodiments consistent with the present invention, a method of storing data on a segmenting data storage device involves designating an arrangement of a plurality of data segments on the segmented data storage device, wherein the data segment arrangement includes designation of a size and a filename extension for... Agent: Miller Patent Services

20090287747 - Storage performance optimization: A system and method for enhancing data throughput in data warehousing environments by connecting multiple servers having local storages with designated external storage systems, such as, for example, those provided by SANs. The system and method may preserve a full reference copy of the data in a protected environment (e.g.,... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090287751 - Method and system for file relocation: A method and system for file relocation is provided. A file relocation system is connected to multiple storage devices. The system obtains a number of times that each of a number of files stored on the multiple storage devices is requested simultaneously with a concerned file. The relocation system then... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20090287752 - Recording/reproducing apparatus and information processing method: A recording/reproducing apparatus is capable of searching a file at high speed without an increase in number of times of rewriting the data on an external storage medium. The recording/reproducing apparatus includes: an input/output unit for receiving data from and sending data to an external storage medium and a storage... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

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