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20130124453 - Slowly changing dimension attributes in extract, transform, load processes: A computer-implemented method, computer program product and a system for identifying and handling slowly changing dimension (SCD) attributes for use with an Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) process, comprising importing a data model for dimensional data into a data integration system, where the dimensional data comprises a plurality of attributes, identifying... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124454 - Slowly changing dimension attributes in extract, transform, load processes: A computer-implemented method, computer program product and a system for identifying and handling slowly changing dimension (SCD) attributes for use with an Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) process, comprising importing a data model for dimensional data into a data integration system, where the dimensional data comprises a plurality of attributes, identifying... Agent: International Business Machines Coporation

20130124455 - Hybrid discovery library adapter book processing: A method for hybrid Discovery Library Adapter (DLA) book processing identifies a first logical group in a first DLA book, the first DLA book including a first set of objects constructed according to a Common Data Model (CDM) specification to represent a first set of corresponding instances of resources at... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124457 - Apparatus, system and method of storing, tracking and disseminating documents related to food products: An apparatus used to store, track and disseminate documents related to a food product is a repository that comprises electronic document generator, database, and query module is. The electronic document generator receives a document related to a food product and certificates related to the food product. The electronic document generator... Agent: Csm Bakery Products Na, Inc.

20130124456 - Managing document workflow: Methods and apparatus for managing document workflow, including generating a nonce for providing participant access for a particular step of the document workflow, generating a first number of nonce elements, and assigning nonce elements to a plurality of participants of a step of the document workflow preceding the particular step... Agent:

20130124458 - Resource effective incremental updating of a remote client with events which occurred via a cloud-enabled platform: System and method for incrementally notifying a remote client of updates in a cloud-enabled platform for each remote client associated with a collaborator are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, for detecting an action in the cloud-enabled... Agent:

20130124459 - Workflow template management for medical image data processing: According to one embodiment, workflow templates are stored, each including a predefined sequence of workflow stages associated with a particular type of medical diagnosis or process. Each workflow stage defines one or more image processing operations to be performed. At least one workflow stage generates metadata specifying a parameter to... Agent: Terarecon, Inc.

20130124460 - System for maintaining unified access to scada and manufacturing execution system (mes) information: A system is disclosed that simplifies configuring an MES entity corresponding to a SCADA system object representing plant equipment. The system includes an equipment model builder (EMB) that receives a set of configured UCO information for a modeled piece of plant equipment in a SCADA system. The EMB extracts relevant... Agent: Invensys Systems Inc.

20130124462 - Clustering and synchronizing content: Clustering and synchronizing content may include extracting audio features for each of a plurality of files that include audio content. The plurality of files may be clustered into one or more clusters. Clustering may include clustering based on a histogram that may be generated for each file pair of the... Agent:

20130124466 - Data processing service: In general, the subject matter described in this disclosure can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products. A computing system receives a first request to insert one or more first data values into a database table. The computing system identifies that first data stored by the database table is... Agent:

20130124467 - Data processing service: In general, the subject matter described in this disclosure can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products. A system includes a first data center, a second data center, and a third data center. The multiple data centers are configured to replicate a logical collection of data that comprises multiple... Agent:

20130124461 - Independent content tagging of media files: Methods for generating meta-tagged media files, in which features of an event recorded in the media file are tagged to identify content, are disclosed herein. The methods include independent and simultaneous generation of a media file and meta-tags, and the combination of the media file and the meta tags based... Agent: Reel Coaches, Inc.

20130124465 - Integrated and scalable architecture for accessing and delivering data: A distributed and scalable data historian framework is provided that allows historian functionality to be efficiently incorporated at various levels of an industrial enterprise. The framework includes a historian data interface system that provides a single interface and common protocol for configuring, managing, and viewing historian data located throughout a... Agent: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.

20130124463 - Method and apparatus for personal asset management: An approach is provided for personal asset management. The approach involves causing, at least in part, a determination of one or more devices to be part of one or more groups. The approach further involves processing and/or facilitating a processing of a determination of one or more datasets to be... Agent:

20130124464 - Multi-path replication in databases: Systems, methods and computer program products for multi-path replication in databases are described herein. A non-limiting embodiment includes instantiating a plurality of replicate connections to a replicate database, providing transactions to the replicate database through a plurality of transaction streams, where the transaction streams associated with respective instantiated replicate connections.... Agent: Sybase, Inc.

20130124468 - Replication of deduplicated data: Various embodiments for replicating deduplicated data using a processor device are provided. A block of the deduplicated data, created in a source repository, is assigned a global block identifier (ID) unique in a grid set inclusive of the source repository. The global block ID is generated using at least one... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124469 - System and method for on-site monitoring data archival: In an embodiment, a system includes an on-site monitoring (OSM) data archival portion having one or more sensors configured to monitor a machine and generate corresponding monitoring data. The system also includes an on-site monitoring (OSM) archiver configured to receive and store the monitoring data collected by the one or... Agent: General Electric Company

20130124470 - Asynchronous distributed garbage collection for replicated storage clusters: A method may be performed by a device of a group of devices in a distributed data replication system. The method may include storing objects in a data store, at least one or more of the objects being replicated with the distributed data replication system, and conducting a scan of... Agent: Google Inc.

20130124471 - Metadata-driven method and apparatus for multi-image processing: Methods and apparatus for processing collections of images are described in which metadata from a set of images may be used in directing a multi-image processing workflow. One or more output images may be rendered from a set of input images, with each output image being some combination of two... Agent:

20130124472 - Methods and systems for file replication utilizing differences between versions of files: Methods and systems for efficient file replication are provided. In some embodiments, one or more coarse signatures for blocks in a base file are compared with those coarse signatures for blocks of a revised file, until a match is found. A fine signature is then generated for the matching block,... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20130124474 - Data clustering, segmentation, and parallelization: A first set of original records is processed by a first processing entity to generate a second set of records that includes the original records and one or more copies of each original record, each original record including one or more fields. The processing of each of at least some... Agent:

20130124473 - Landscape transformation replication server: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for data replication. In one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method. The method may include providing an initial load of a data item from a source system to a target system, wherein the data item is associated with a trigger... Agent:

20130124476 - Data redistribution in data replication systems: Data replication comprises: redistributing one or more originator data subsets among a plurality of originator nodes; determining data redistribution information pertaining to redistribution of the one or more originator data subsets among the plurality of originator nodes; and sending data redistribution information to a replica system. The data redistribution information... Agent:

20130124475 - System and method of performing snapshot isolation in distributed databases: A system and method of performing snapshot isolation in distributed databases. Each node stores local snapshot information that enforces snapshot isolation for that node. The method includes partially processing a distributed transaction by a first node, receiving a global commit identifier from a coordinator, and continuing to process the distributed... Agent: Sap Ag

20130124477 - System and a method for handling co-operation files: The invention relates to a method for handling co-operation files, where the content of the co-operation files is of the type that describes the co-operation basis in relation to a co-operation between document owners and document users and where a unique hash calculated ID is attached to and embedded into... Agent: Media4work Aps

20130124478 - Data analytics reporting system and methods: A non-spreadsheet charting report showing dynamic data from a data feed may be designed by populating a spreadsheet template with a data snapshot of data currently collected to obtain a snapshot spreadsheet having rows and columns that map back to data fields of the data snapshot. A remote user can... Agent: Simply Measured, Inc.

20130124479 - Method and apparatus for in the middle primary backup replication: The backup-in-the-middle primary-backup configuration is created by placing a backup-in-the-middle forwarder in the routing path between the primary and the environment. The backup-in-the-middle forwarder intercepts output messages along with required state information sent by the primary to the environment. The backup-in-the-middle forwarder backs up the primary by updating its state... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20130124480 - System and method for viewer based image metadata sanitization: A request to access a file comprising content and metadata is received. In response to determining the request is from a source other than an owner of the content (or file), a copy of the content is generated and the content's metadata is modified in order to create modified metadata... Agent:

20130124481 - Upgrade of highly available farm server groups: A machine manager controls the deployment and management of machines (physical and virtual) for an online service. Multi-tier server groups are arranged in farms that each may include different configurations. For example, their may be content farms, federated services farms and SQL farms that are arranged to perform operations for... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130124483 - System and method for operating a big-data platform: A system and method for operating a big-data platform that includes at a data analysis platform, receiving discrete client data; storing the client data in a network accessible distributed storage system that includes: storing the client data in a real-time storage system; and merging the client data into a columnar-based... Agent: Treasure Data, Inc.

20130124482 - Systems and methods for application reuse: System and methods are provided. In one embodiment, a system includes a master data archiver configured to store a data related to a turbomachine system and a first data collector service system configured to collect the data from the master data archiver. The system also includes a second data collector... Agent: General Electric Company

20130124484 - Persistent flow apparatus to transform metrics packages received from wireless devices into a data store suitable for mobile communication network analysis by visualization: A persistent flow apparatus maintains a datamart store with up-to-date transformations of packages as the packages are received from wireless recording devices. Each flow apparatus generates measures in a format which can be interactively analyzed along certain dimensions. A persistent flow is stateful to incrementally process metrics packages over multiple... Agent: Carrier Iq, Inc.

20130124485 - Electronic device, storage medium, and method for detecting compatibility of files of the electronic device: In a method for detecting compatibility of files of an electronic device, the method obtains a size and a format of an original file in response to moving the original file from an original storage area to a destination, and determines whether the original file and the destination are compatible... Agent: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

20130124486 - Data storage with snapshot-to-snapshot recovery: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer software products for data storage. A corrupted node under a first meta-volume node in a hierarchical tree structure is deleted. The hierarchical tree structure further includes a source node under the first meta-volume node. The corrupted node and the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124487 - Deduplication of data object over multiple passes: In each of a number of passes to deduplicate a data object, a transaction is started. Where an offset into the object has previously been set, the offset is retrieved; otherwise, the offset is set to reference a beginning of the object. A portion of the object beginning at the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124489 - Compressing a multivariate dataset: A method, computer program product and system for compressing a multivariate dataset. A dataset is selected that includes a plurality of variates. A first compression method is applied to the values of a first variate of the dataset. A second compression method is applied to the values of a second... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124488 - Method and system for managing and querying large graphs: A method, system and computer program product for managing and querying a graph. The method includes the steps of: receiving a graph; partitioning the graph into homogeneous blocks; compressing the homogeneous blocks; and storing the compressed homogeneous blocks in files where at least one of the steps is carried out... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124490 - Contextual suggestion of search queries: A toolbar may have a search box, and one or more applications that interact with the search box. In one example, the user uses one of the applications on the toolbar to obtain, or to interact with, some content. The application then determines, based on the content or on the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130124491 - Efficient pipelined binary search: An apparatus and machine readable storage medium for performing a binary search of an ordered list containing 2N values, where N is an integer greater than one. The apparatus may include a pipeline having N stages numbered 1 to N in sequence. Stage M of the pipeline, where M is... Agent:

20130124493 - Search method, search apparatus and search engine system: Techniques for performing searches using models generated from data mining. These techniques may include receiving a query including a search string. If a portion of the search string matches with a category of relationship data, the portion of the search string may be replaced with a label of the category... Agent: Alibaba Group Holding Limited

20130124494 - Sharing of profile information with content providers: In some implementations, a method includes receiving a search query, at an information provider, from a mobile device; generating a plurality of search results that are responsive to the search query and directed to corresponding content providers that are external to the information provider; identifying one or more search results... Agent: Google Inc., A Delaware Corporation

20130124492 - Statistical machine translation based search query spelling correction: Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) based search query spelling correction techniques are described herein. In one or more implementations, search data regarding searches performed by clients may be logged. The logged data includes query correction pairs that may be used to ascertain error patterns indicating how misspelled substrings may be translated... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130124495 - Methods and apparatus for searching the internet: Some embodiments relate to performing a search for content via the Internet, wherein user input specifying a search query is supplied to a mobile communications device, such as, for example, a smartphone. The mobile communications device separately issues the search query to a plurality of search engines and can receive... Agent: Nuance Communications, Inc.

20130124496 - Contextual promotion of alternative search results: A toolbar extension of a web browser suggests a user try searching a different search engine than the one on which the user has just conducted a search. The toolbar detects the user is frustrated with the search results returned by the search engine by monitoring a number of session... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130124498 - Browser based language recognition supporting central web search translation: A web browser agent or plug-in installed into a web browser of a client device provides translation services along with a search engine server. The system accesses a web page in one (local) language and then translates to another (foreign) language and displays the translated content in a web page... Agent: Enpulz, L.L.C.

20130124497 - Experience graph: Method and system for organizing and sharing content through experience are described. In one embodiment, content may be organized and shared among users through a specific experience. A method for sharing content in a network may include: collecting contents related to a specific experience from a specific user; generating an... Agent: Airtime Media, Inc.

20130124499 - System and method for directing content to users of a social networking engine: A system and method for providing a third generation social network. The system provides processes that allow physical objects to be represented as social objects in the social network. A user may then interact with the social objects. These interactions allow the system to collect the content of the interactions... Agent:

20130124500 - Query rewrite for pre-joined tables: Various aspects of this disclosure are directed to receiving, by a computing device, a first table join query that may include a first group of table identifiers that identify the two or more tables. The computing device may determine whether the first table join query includes an outer join command.... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124501 - System, method and computer-readable medium for optimization of multiple-parallel join operations on skewed data: Techniques that facilitate management of skewed data during a parallel multiple join operation are provided. Portions of tables involved in the join operation can be distributed among a plurality of processing modules, and each of the processing modules can be provided with a list of skewed values of a join... Agent:

20130124502 - Method and apparatus for facilitating answering a query on a database: A method and apparatus for facilitating answering a query on a database. Example embodiments include: accessing a database tree having a plurality of nodes; receiving a set of input variable values, a non-empty set of output variables, and information indicative of a node in the database tree; determining a traversal... Agent: Quova, Inc.

20130124503 - Delta indexing method for hierarchy file storage: A device relative to a delta indexing method for a hierarchy file storage including a from-end side file server and a back-end side file server is provided. The front-end side file server creates a file update list for accumulating a file update history in a file system therein, a search... Agent: Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.

20130124506 - Host-based intelligent results related to a character stream: Information may be presented to a user by using a first application to receive a character stream of one or more noncompletion characters. The noncompletion characters indicate that additional characters may be received. The character stream is exchanged with a host that analyzes the character stream to generate results that... Agent: Facebook, Inc.

20130124505 - Methods for integrating semantic search, query, and analysis across heterogeneous data types and devices thereof: A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and data management computing apparatus comprising searching across a plurality of different heterogeneous data indexes based on portions of one or more search keywords in response to a received request. A result set for each of the plurality of different heterogeneous data indexes is... Agent: Thingworx

20130124504 - Sharing digital content to discovered content streams in social networking services: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a query for content within a user interface of a social networking service, obtaining search results based on the query, the search results including a set of items distributed by users of the social networking... Agent: Google Inc.

20130124512 - Negative associations for generation of refinement options: A computer-implemented method is provided, including receiving a search query from a user during a search session, and presenting information to the user responsively to the search query. After an indication that the user takes an action related to the search session is received, a portion of the presented information... Agent: Collarity, Inc.

20130124510 - Programmable search engine: A programmable search engine system is programmable by a variety of different entities, such as client devices and vertical content sites to customize search results for users. Context files store instructions for controlling the operations of the programmable search engine. The context files are processed by various context processors, which... Agent: Google Inc.

20130124509 - Publish-subscribe based methods and apparatuses for associating data files: Various methods and apparatuses are provided which may be implemented using one or more computing devices within a networked computing environment to employ publish-subscribe techniques to associate subscriber encoded data files with a set of publisher encoded data files.... Agent: Yahoo! Inc., A Delaware Corporation

20130124508 - System and method for real-time image collection and sharing: Various embodiments of a system and methods for real-time image collection and sharing are described. A group of geographically co-located mobile device users may capture images on the mobile devices during a session. The devices may send the images, during the same session, to a database where the images may... Agent:

20130124507 - Visual information search tool: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to generating a search result comprising one or more candidate documents selected based at least in part on one or more criteria associated with an input value of a visual information metric.... Agent: Adobe Systems Incorporated

20130124511 - Visual search history: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting a visual search history. Presentation data is received indicating that a resource has been presented by a user device, the resource having been presented in response to user interaction with a search result that referenced... Agent:

20130124513 - Extracting principal content from web pages: Extracting principal content from Web pages includes identifying and classifying items on the Web page, building a list of candidates, calculating candidate scores, selecting a top score candidate, performing clean up processing for the top score candidate, and performing final page processing for the top score candidate. Candidate scores may... Agent:

20130124514 - Hierarchical ranking of facial attributes: In response to a query of discernable facial attributes, the locations of distinct and different facial regions are estimated from face image data, each relevant to different attributes. Different features are extracted from the estimated facial regions from database facial images, which are ranked in base layer rankings by matching... Agent: International Business Machines Corporaiton

20130124515 - Method for document search and analysis: A search platform and method for enhancing analysis of contents in a patent/non-patent literature document by locating/extracting additional similar contents in the patent/non-patent literature document based on a user selected content/text in the document. A user selects a first portion of the text in the patent/non-patent literature document, and in... Agent: Foundationip LLC

20130124516 - Data display server, data display method and program thereof: The present invention relates to recommendation of items to a user for providing items more satisfying a user's request on the basis of new association. The present invention provides a data display server connected to a user terminal, which includes a posting database for storing posting data posted through the... Agent: Sony Corporation

20130124517 - Displaying auto-generated facts about a music library: A method for surfacing auto-generated facts about a music library is provided. The method initiates with receiving from a client device a request to access an online music library associated with a user, the music library including a plurality of audio files, each of the audio files including audio data... Agent: Google Inc.

20130124520 - Generation of service specification of a service oriented architecture (soa) solution: A system and associated method for automatically generating a service specification of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solution. A process model framework and a data model framework are received as inputs. Processes in the process model framework perform services of various complexity levels. Processes are decomposed into a respective set... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124518 - Information registration device, information registration method, information registration system, information presentation device, informaton presentation method, informaton presentaton system, and program: An information registration device includes an object information acquiring unit and a content information registering unit. The object information acquiring unit acquires object information obtained by performing processing for detecting and identifying an object for image data. The content information registering unit registers target content information in a database in... Agent: Sony Corporation

20130124519 - Medical information processing device: A medical information processing device includes a display portion which displays a chart information display screen, an operation portion for specifying an inspection item on the chart information display screen, an acquisition portion which acquires image data of an inspection image corresponding to the specified inspection item, and a controlling... Agent:

20130124521 - Method, apparatus, and program for supporting creation and management of metadata for correcting problem in dynamic web application: Method to support creation and management of metadata for correcting a problem in a dynamic web application. A support apparatus includes a metadata creation section, a block extraction section, a similar-block search section, and a metadata generalizing section. In response to correction of a problem by a corrector, the support... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124525 - Data clustering based on candidate queries: Received data records, each including one or more values in one or more fields, are processed to identify a matched data cluster. The processing includes: for selected data records, generating a query from one or more values; identifying one or more candidate data records from the received data records using... Agent:

20130124524 - Data clustering based on variant token networks: Received data records, each including one or more values in one or more fields, are processed to identify one or more data clusters. The processing includes: identifying tokens that each include at least one value or fragment of a value in a field or a combination of fields; generating a... Agent:

20130124526 - Method and apparatus for predicting object properties and events using similarity-based information retrieval and modeling: Method and apparatus for predicting properties of a target object comprise application of a search manager for analyzing parameters of a plurality of databases for a plurality of objects, the databases comprising an, electrical, electromagnetic, acoustic spectral, database (ESD), a micro-body assemblage database (MAD) and a database of image data... Agent: University Of Tennessee Research Foundation

20130124522 - Method and apparatus for representing multidimensional data: The present invention relates to methods for representing multidimensional data. The methods of the present invention are well suited but not limited to the representation of multidimensional data in such a way as to enable the comparison and differentiation of data sets. For example, the invention may be applied to... Agent: Nodality, Inc.

20130124527 - Report authoring: A system for aiding report authoring is disclosed. The system comprises a set of associations (1), wherein an association links at least one first concept term in a knowledge domain with at least one second concept term in the knowledge domain, wherein the association indicates a frequent co-occurrence of the... Agent: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.v.

20130124523 - Systems and methods for medical information analysis with deidentification and reidentification: A medical information navigation engine is useful in association with at least one electronic health record system. The engine decouples identifying information from clinical data from electronic health records. The clinical data includes clinical narrative having discrete data and textual data. The identifying information is stored. Additionally, the identifying information... Agent:

20130124530 - Blood-type matching system: An interactive website, preferably hosted on a secured server, fashioned to simplify and expedite the dating process by matching individuals to other individuals of the opposite sex based primarily on the compatibility of the individuals' blood-types. With respect to the online service of the present invention, blood-type matches are suggested... Agent:

20130124528 - Navigation of hierarchical data sets: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a hierarchical data set may be displayed in a database view in a content window of a program or graphical user interface. A filter panel may display one or more categories of information about the hierarchical data set including one or more... Agent:

20130124529 - Search augmented menu and configuration for computer applications: Providing for search to facilitate discovery or access to configuration functions of a computer application is described herein. By way of example, metadata can be appended to configuration functions of the computer application. A matrix correlating subsets of metadata with related configuration functions can facilitate distinguishing respective configuration functions, or... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130124531 - Systems for extracting relevant and frequent key words from texts and their presentation in an auto-complete function of a search service: Systems for searching and reviewing text files among a plurality of users are disclosed. The systems include a server that is configured to receive, index, and store a plurality of text files, which are received by the server from a plurality of sources, within at least one database in communication... Agent:

20130124532 - Analyzing and repairing documents: Techniques for analyzing and repairing documents are described, including evaluating a document at a first location using a first application, the document comprising one or more parameters and being formatted using a document standard, identifying a problem associated with the document by comparing the one or more parameters to the... Agent: Adobe Systems Incorporated

20130124535 - Apparatus and method for calculating intimacy: An apparatus calculates an intimacy. The apparatus includes an information extraction unit to extract one of more communication logs to communicate with contact numbers in contact number information in a mobile terminal and a weight setting unit to set a weight on each communication log and each contact number. The... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20130124534 - Apparatus and method for information access, search, rank and retrieval: An apparatus and method for quickly searching and ranking related documents in a database, and an interactive window that allows a user to dynamically reselect a priority of a score among a plurality of scores for re-ranking documents. In operation, the search engine 102 receives a query comprising a plurality... Agent:

20130124536 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a difference applying unit that obtains, according to difference feature information indicating a difference between first feature information characterizing an action of a target user and second feature information characterizing another action performed by the target user after the foregoing action is... Agent: Sony Corporation

20130124533 - Method and apparatus for updating song playlists based on received user ratings: Methods, apparatuses, and computer programs are presented for updating song playlists based on received rating inputs from user devices. One method includes receiving information associated with songs in an initial playlist from a host device by a server. The server generates a rating interface for the initial playlist, which is... Agent: Google Inc.

20130124537 - Process and apparatus for selecting an item from a database: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for selecting database items from a database, where the database items are indexed by a list of item identifiers. The item identifiers may be in the form of text. An initial display is generated which includes one or more parts of... Agent: Kannuu Pty Ltd

20130124540 - People engine optimization: Some embodiments promote website credibility and the optimization of websites for people by automatedly quantifying various elements of a website into component credibility scores. In some embodiments, a set of encoded credibility scoring rules are used to compute each of the component credibility scores, wherein the credibility scoring rules are... Agent: Credibility Corp.

20130124539 - Personal relevancy content resizing: Described is a technique for resizing content items in a social network based on a relevancy of the content items to a user in the social network. In the disclosed technique, content items that are relevant to the user are identified and a relevancy score for each of the content... Agent: Airtime Media, Inc.

20130124538 - Structured search queries based on social-graph information: In particular embodiments, a method includes receiving an unstructured text query, identifying nodes and edges from a social graph that correspond to n-grams in the text query, and then generating structured queries that include references to the identified nodes and edges.... Agent:

20130124541 - Collaborative bookmarking: A method and system for collaborating tags in a bookmarking system wherein the bookmarking system includes a plurality of tags applied to content items by a plurality of users, the method and system including, examining all the tags that are applied to all the content items, determining whether two tags... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124542 - Default structured search queries on online social networks: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph that includes a plurality of nodes and edges, identifying a nodes corresponding to a page currently accessed by a first user, generating one or more structured queries, where each structured query comprises a reference to the identified node and one... Agent:

20130124543 - System and method for providing and/or obtaining electronic documents: A system and method comprising filtering electronic data on a transaction per transaction basis and replicating the filtered electronic data in response to a request to obtain electronic data on the transaction per transaction basis. The system and method further includes providing the filtered replicated electronic data for viewing.... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124544 - Navigation system with pre-parsed and unparsed navigation data: A navigation system includes a database that stores navigation data used for providing the navigation information to the user, the navigation data being stored in data sets. An application is configured to process the navigation data in order to generate the navigation information. A parsing unit parses the data sets... Agent: Harman Becker Automotive Systems Gmbh

20130124545 - System and method implementing a text analysis repository: One embodiment includes a computer implemented method of storing information. The method includes implementing, by a document repository server computer, a schema-flexible database. The method further includes receiving, by the document repository server computer, processed text information from a text analysis computer, wherein a semantic type is assigned to the... Agent: Business Objects Software Limited

20130124546 - Group access control for a distributed system: Briefly, embodiments of a method, apparatus or article for group access control of a distributed system are described.... Agent: Adobe Systems, Inc.

20130124550 - Method and apparatus for operating a user interface: A method and apparatus for operating a user interface is provided, in which a first user input is detected, and a confidence analysis is carried out. Different kinds of system responses are generated depending on the result of the confidence analysis, wherein a first kind of system response comprises a... Agent: Volkswagen Ag

20130124551 - Obtaining keywords for searching: A playback apparatus (100) and corresponding method for playing back images. The apparatus comprising a controller (110) configured for executing the steps of: recognizing an object in an image being played back (320); obtaining a keyword (410) associated to the recognized object (340); and—searching for information based on the keyword... Agent: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.v.

20130124548 - System and method for presenting a plurality of email threads for review: In an embodiment, characteristics of an email thread are analyzed to find related email threads. Email threads are combined to identify duplicate emails and to generate a superset thread, which maintains the context of combined email threads. The superset thread is displayed to a reviewer for review, wherein each unique... Agent: Google Inc.

20130124547 - System and methods thereof for instantaneous updating of a wallpaper responsive of a query input and responses thereto: A method for instantly updating a wallpaper on a screen of a user device responsive of a user query. The method comprises performing an analysis of the user query input by a user of the user device; selecting a wallpaper respective of at least the user query that is determined... Agent: Doat Media Ltd.

20130124549 - Triggering actions in response to optically or acoustically capturing keywords from a rendered document: A system for processing text captured from rendered documents is described. The system receives a sequence of one or more words optically or acoustically captured from a rendered document by a user. The system identifies among words of the sequence a word with which an action has been associated. The... Agent: Google Inc.

20130124553 - Flexible interface module: An interface module for a local application provides a user interface to solicit user input for an configuring invocation. The user input solicited by the user interface includes a name of an external query to be executed and an input variable name for the external query. The interface module receives... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.

20130124552 - Locating relevant content items across multiple disparate content sources: Technologies are described herein for locating relevant content items across multiple disparate content sources. Query parameters are received from a user interface for defining a query for searching a number of content sources located on multiple, disparate content servers. A native search is executed on each of the content servers... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130124558 - Broker mediated geospatial information service: A method includes receiving from a requestor search criteria for a geospatial information service. The requestor selects a dataset for use in providing the geospatial information service. A plurality of processes is determined, resulting in process-dataset solutions to the search criteria including the selected dataset. In particular, each process-dataset solution... Agent: Continuum Loop Inc.

20130124559 - Method and system for inserting data records into files: Methods and system for adding a data record to a file comprise maintaining a data structure to track locations of data records within the file, wherein each entry in the data structure is a Bloom filter that corresponds to a different portion of the file that includes a plurality of... Agent: Vmware, Inc,

20130124554 - Method and system for providing electronic user assistance: A system and method for incorporating software modules into a website or other information source that is searchable and updateable, which helps to create a dynamic user assistance environment. The system searches based on context/category sensitive natural language requests. This dynamic environment becomes “smarter” over time and will track questions... Agent:

20130124555 - Navigating related items in documents based on their classification, grouping, hierarchy or ontology: Disclosed are systems, methods and computer program products for navigating related items in responses to search requests. In response to a search request, a server determines a first results set of items, where the items have one or more item characteristics. The server receives a selection indicating one of the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124561 - Planning-based automated fusing of data from multiple heterogeneous sources: Methods and software for automatedly answering dynamic queries requiring fusing of data from various ones of multiple available heterogeneous data sources. The data sources are characterized and interrelated using a suitable ontology. In one implementation, each dynamic query is analyzed to determine the data items required to answer that query,... Agent: Carnegie Mellon University

20130124556 - Real time query trends with multi-document summarization: A list of “hot topics” may be provided to a user to indicate information that is currently popular. A topic may be deemed popular when a large number of search queries related to the topic are entered by users. A search system may receive and analyze an electronic source of... Agent:

20130124557 - Systems and methods for user configurable recommendation systems: Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention include user configurable recommendation systems that enable a user to modify the presentation of recommendations in a user interface. One embodiment includes at least one recommendation module running on a user device configured to present recommendations in a user interface... Agent: Sweetlabs, Inc.

20130124560 - Variable user interface based on document access privileges: Users may be presented with different viewing interfaces for a document based on a combination of factors relating to display rights possessed for the document and user specific information. In one implementation, the user's location is used to determine portions of the document that can be displayed to the user.... Agent:

20130124563 - Controlling pre-fetching of map data tiles based on selectable parameters: A system and method identifies pre-fetch map data to be downloaded from a remote server, having a map database, to a client device by using selectable parameters to control pre-fetching. For example, device specific parameters, such as device model number, and user specific parameters, such as user interests, may be... Agent: Google Inc.

20130124562 - Export of content items from multiple, disparate content sources: Technologies are described herein for exporting content items from multiple disparate content sources to a single repository. Query parameters are received for locating content items hosted by one or more content servers of different types for export. Native search queries are generated for each content server from the query parameters... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130124565 - Mechanism for co-located data placement in a parallel elastic database management system: A database management system implemented in a cloud computing environment. Operational nodes are assigned as controller-nodes, compute-nodes or storage-nodes. The number of operational nodes, and their assignment as compute-nodes or storage-nodes can vary. Queries specify tables, with each such table assigned to a respective group of storage nodes. The number... Agent:

20130124564 - Metasearch infrastructure with incremental updates: Techniques are provided for a metasearch infrastructure. The metasearch infrastructure supports one or more of the following: hotel matching, backend support of user queries, frontend support for user queries, a cache layer that groups or organizes cached data in storage based on hotel location, scoring and ranking on the client... Agent: Room 77, Inc.

20130124566 - Securely accessing remote systems: A method for securely accessing a number of computing systems within a remote facility includes, with a mobile computing system, checking out access data from a centralized database, the access data providing access to the computing systems within the remote facility. The mobile computing device then interfaces with a first... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124567 - Automatic prioritization of policies: Input is obtained to modify one of a set of self-consistent and prioritized document policies, each policy indicating an allowability of a requested action when a condition of the policy is satisfied. Each policy is representable by a node on a multipartite graph, the node being located in a part... Agent:

20130124568 - Method and apparatus for privilege control: The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for privilege control to provide comprehensive privilege control with fine granularity. Document data stored in the docbase management system includes at least one document data object, and the at least one document object supports at least one privilege. When setting a privilege... Agent: Sursen Corp.

20130124569 - Data destruction mechanisms: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for data destruction. In one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method. The method may include receiving a request to destroy a first data object; determining whether other data objects depend from the first data object; determining a structure for the... Agent:

20130124570 - Registration of cim agent to management agent and system: A Common Information Model (CIM) agent is registered to a management agent in a computing environment by a processor device. The management agent is discovered by the CIM agent in a management domain in response to an insertion of the CIM agent into the management domain. At least one of... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124571 - Keyword acquiring device, content providing system, keyword acquiring method, a computer-readable recording medium and content providing method: A keyword related to a user's interest is acquired. A keyword acquiring device including a tree storage unit that stores a keyword tree obtained by performing hierarchization according to the number of appearances and relevance in advance using a keyword associated with content as a node records a keyword associated... Agent: Dwango Co., Ltd.

20130124573 - Deep cloning of objects using binary format: Techniques are described herein that are capable of deep cloning (a.k.a. deep copying) objects using a binary format. A deep clone of a designated object includes references to other objects (and potentially copies of the other objects) included in the designated object. A binary representation of each object in an... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130124572 - Media generation and management: Techniques for media generation and management are described, including retrieving data associated with an asset, processing the data to identify an asset type, the asset type and the data being used to configure an application framework, wherein one or more panels are dynamically determined by evaluating the asset type, the... Agent: Adobe Systems Incorporated

20130124574 - Scenario driven data modelling: a method for integrating diverse sources of data and data streams: A system and method of integrating diverse sources of data and data streams is presented. The method can include selecting a scenario based on a topic, creating a multi-relational directed graph based on the scenario, identifying and converting resources in accordance with the scenario and updating the multi-directed graph based... Agent: Ut-battelle, LLC

20130124575 - System and method for dynamic meta-data in control and visualization: An automation control and monitoring system is provided that includes an automation control component and a data store. The automation control component is configured to store measurement data acquired from a sensing component of the automation control system in onboard memory. The automation control component is configured to store the... Agent: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.

20130124578 - Column-oriented database schema for dynamic hierarchies: A method and system for a column-oriented database schema for dynamic hierarchies includes a processor (200) establishing (300) a column-oriented database in a memory (202) of a network manager and configuring (304) the database with row keys, wherein each row key is concatenated with a leaf node identifier listed first,... Agent: Motorola Solutions, Inc.

20130124580 - Configurable offline data store: A method and apparatus for a configurable offline data store are described. For example, a method includes receiving a request for a first set of one or more records from a client application, wherein the first set is stored in a client data store and the client application also has... Agent: Apple Inc.

20130124576 - Dynamic data fabrication for database applications: A computer-implemented method and apparatus for fabricating data for database applications. The method comprises intercepting a command issued by an application, the command being addressed to a database; formulating a problem in accordance with the command; obtaining a solution for the problem, the solution comprising fabricated data; providing a second... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124577 - Efficient update of a discovery library adapter book: A first DLA book and a second DLA book are compared, the first DLA book being stored in a data repository and including a first set of objects constructed according to a Common Data Model (CDM) specification to represent a first set of corresponding instances of resources in the data... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124579 - Showing system for product materials and showing method therefor: A showing system and a showing method for product materials are provided. In this showing method, a material module database is created and stored, which includes a number of three-dimensional material modules corresponding to a number of material information and a number of module class information corresponding to the material... Agent: Inventec Corporation

20130124581 - Data processor: A system is described that generates reports from very large data sets. The reports are generated in real-time (or close to real time). Data from the large data set is replicated to a buffer as it arrives in the system. Once sufficient data is obtained (e.g. when the buffer is... Agent: Nokia Siemens Networks Oy

20130124582 - Document processing system and control method thereof, program, and storage medium: This invention is directed to a document processing system and control method thereof. The system stores a plurality of items of document data each containing metadata pertaining to the contents of each item of document data, and relation information representing the relations between the plurality of items of document data.... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130124583 - Presenting metadata from multiple perimeters: In some implementations, a method for managing data in a user device includes pushing first metadata for a first resource in a first perimeter to a service external to the first perimeter. The first perimeter is configured to prevent external resources from accessing resources in the first perimeter. Second metadata... Agent:

20130124585 - File processing apparatus and file processing method: According to one embodiment, a file processing apparatus includes a file group generator, a divided file generator, and a recorder. The file group generator is configured to generate a file group formed by a plurality of first processing target files each having a size less than a threshold size of... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20130124584 - Start page for a user's personal music collection: Methods and systems for providing an interface page for a music library are provided. According to one embodiment, a method initiates with retrieving metadata associated with audio files contained in a music library of a user. User-defined interactions with the audio files are parsed from the metadata. The user-defined interactions... Agent: Google Inc.

20130117216 - Star and snowflake schemas in extract, transform, load processes: A computer-implemented method, computer program product and a system for supporting star and snowflake data schemas for use with an Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) process, comprising selecting a data source comprising dimensional data, where the dimensional data comprises at least one source table comprising at least one source column, importing... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130117217 - Star and snowflake schemas in extract, transform, load processes: A computer-implemented method, computer program product and a system for supporting star and snowflake data schemas for use with an Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) process, comprising selecting a data source comprising dimensional data, where the dimensional data comprises at least one source table comprising at least one source column, importing... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130117219 - Architecture for knowledge-based data quality solution: The subject disclosure relates to a knowledge-driven data quality solution that is based on a rich knowledge base. The data quality solution can provide continuous improvement and can be based on continuous (or on-going) knowledge acquisition. The data quality solution can be built once and can be reused for multiple... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117218 - Cross-store electronic discovery: An electronic discovery (eDiscovery) application is used in managing an electronic discovery process across different electronic data sources using a central interface. The eDiscovery application assists in managing: authentication support for the different data sources; accessing the different data sources; placing holds on content across the different data sources; searching... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117220 - Multi-master text synchronization using deltas: A server enforces a policy for selecting what received change to process. The non-selected changes are not processed by the server. Instead, after the selected change is processed and is incorporated into the current version of the text, the server sends an update to each of the clients indicating the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117221 - Moving data within a distributed data storage system using virtual file links: A record within a destination virtual file is generated on a destination node of a distributed data storage system. The record comprises a link directed to a source virtual file stored on a source node. The source virtual file is mapped to a chain of linked pages stored in a... Agent: Sap Ag

20130117222 - Systems and methods of media management, such as management of media to and from a media storage library: A system and method for determining media to be exported out of a media library is described. In some examples, the system determines a media component to be exported, determines the media component is in the media library for a specific process, and exports the media component after the process... Agent: Commvault Systems, Inc.

20130117223 - Information processing system and method of controlling the same: In an information processing system 1 including first to third storage systems 50a to 50c, the first storage system 50a performs stubbing by managing entity data of a file in the second storage apparatus 10b, migration by replicating the data of the file to the second storage apparatus 10b, and... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20130117224 - System, method and computer program product for cloning a child object with a parent object: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for cloning a child object with a parent object. These mechanisms and methods for cloning a child object with a parent object can provide improved functionality of the cloning process. Namely, the cloning of the child record with the cloning... Agent: Salesforce.com, Inc.

20130117225 - Distributed storage medium management for heterogeneous storage media in high availability clusters: A high availability cluster and method of storage medium management in such high availability cluster. A number k of nodes belonging to the cluster, where k≧2 and includes a master node, are provisioned with high-access-rate and low-access-rate storage media. A file is written to the high-access-rate medium of a serving... Agent:

20130117226 - Method and a system for synchronizing data: The embodiments herein provide a system and a method for synchronizing a plurality of changes from a source to a destination. The method comprises the steps of starting with an initial polling time, checking for an elapse of a polling interval from a last polled time, polling a source for... Agent:

20130117227 - Cache based key-value store mapping and replication: Technologies are generally described for cache based key-value store mapping and replication. In some examples, key-value stores may be mapped for data structure replication through extraction of file breaks in an existing key-value store by iterating through the store and examining changes in cache addresses to detect jumps in address... Agent: Empire Technology Development, LLC

20130117228 - Method and system for object synchronization in crm systems: In an embodiment of the present invention, a Response object collects and synchronizes information from other types of objects as may be implemented in a CRM system. For example, certain objects may include a Lead or Contact Object, a Campaign object, and an Opportunity Object that is synchronized into a... Agent: Full Circle Crm, Inc.

20130117229 - Method and a system for integrating data from a source to a destination: The embodiments herein provide a system and a method for integrating a data from a source to a destination. The method comprises generating a global-id, setting an event-id corresponding to an entity id in the global id, polling a data from a source, sorting changes of a source system based... Agent:

20130117230 - Enablement of quasi time dependency in organizational hierarchies: Changes to a hierarchical organizational structure may be stored in different versions of a data structure depicting the hierarchical organizational structure. Each of these versions may include a validity period field representing a time period that the hierarchical organizational structure depicted in the version accurately reflects the organizational structure of... Agent: Sap Ag

20130117231 - Application protection through a combined functionality failure manager: A method for providing application functionality protection. The method includes accessing a distributed computer system having a cluster including a plurality of nodes, and receiving an indication of an application failure. The method further includes attempting to restore the application through a number of application restart attempts, and receiving an... Agent: Symantec Corporation

20130117232 - Snapshots of database models: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for capturing snapshots of database models. Metadata of a database model is captured. A database model snapshot object is generated based on the captured metadata. The generated database model snapshot object is transportable, extensible, secure, and human readable. Furthermore multiple database model... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117233 - Point-in-time database recovery using log holes: A first plurality of log segments are generated in a data storage application. The log segments are sequentially positioned within a log area and at least one of the log segments contains log hole information identifying a portion of log to skip during replay of the log. Thereafter, a portion... Agent: Sap Ag

20130117234 - Database log parallelization: A plurality of transactions in a data storage application are executed during which log entries according to the plurality of transactions are stored in a plurality of log buffers. The log entries are sequentially written into a current log buffer and the plurality of log buffers are written to a... Agent: Sap Ag

20130117236 - Database log replay parallelization: A plurality of transactions are executed in a data storage application. As a result, log entries according to the plurality of transactions are stored in at least one log. During a data recovery operation, log entries from the log are dispatched into a plurality of worker queues. Each worker queue... Agent: Sap Ag

20130117235 - Implicit group commit when writing database log entries: First k log buffers, in a data storage application including a plurality of log buffers are each loaded with exactly one transaction. Each log buffer is written to one of a plurality of log partitions. Thereafter, each of the log buffers is sent to an input/output (I/O) subsystem when they... Agent: Sap Ag

20130117237 - Distributed database log recovery: Log entries are recorded in a data storage application (such as an in-memory database, etc.) for a plurality of transactions among nodes in a node hierarchy. The node hierarchy comprises master node having a plurality of slave nodes. Thereafter, at least a portion of the master node log entries are... Agent: Sap Ag

20130117238 - Oracle rewind: metadata-driven undo: Metadata-driven undo is described. In an embodiment, a metadata repository stores metadata that is associated with operations. Attributes associated with each operation are also stored in the metadata. Each operation is associated with an undolet that includes instructions for generating undo entries for operations of a particular operation type. Undo... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20130117239 - Generating information with plurality of files enumerated therein: A mechanism is provided for generating enumerated information in which a plurality of files is enumerated except entirely-invalidated files on a sequential medium. Management information for managing locations where the plurality of files on the sequential medium are recorded is acquired from the sequential medium. The enumerated information in which... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130117240 - Accessing cached data from a peer cloud controller in a distributed filesystem: The disclosed embodiments provide a system that archives data for a distributed filesystem. Two or more cloud controllers collectively manage distributed filesystem data that is stored in one or more cloud storage systems; the cloud controllers cache and ensure data consistency for the stored data. During operation, a cloud controller... Agent: Panzura, Inc.

20130117241 - Shadow paging based log segment directory: Replay of data transactions is initiated in a data storage application. Pages of a log segment directory characterizing metadata for a plurality of log segment are loaded into memory. Thereafter, redundant pages within the log segment directory are removed. It is then determined, based on the log segment directory, which... Agent: Sap Ag

20130117242 - Adaptive data suppression: Systems, method and devices for adaptively suppressing data items based on one or more dynamic characteristics of the data items are disclosed. Adaptive data suppression of an operational data item may be accomplished by monitoring the operational data item for one or more dynamic characteristics required by a data aging... Agent: Sap, Ag

20130117243 - Compression and storage of computer aided design data: The size of lightweight JT data files containing CAD data is reduced by employing lossy compression where acceptable for portions of the CAD data, such as 3D geometry data. Compression for the remaining portions can be augmented by exploiting common repeated structures for some portions, such as precise Brep data,... Agent: Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.

20130117244 - Data security method using database engine: Disclosed is a data security method in a database engine. A data security engine unit is provided in the database engine so that the data security engine unit performs a data security function while automatically converting queries, which were stored in data storage engine unit without having been encoded and... Agent: Penta Security Systems Inc.

20130117245 - Method and system for identification of asset records in a version managed datastore: Described herein are embodiments of methods and systems and devices identification of asset records in a version managed datastore. In accordance with one aspect, a method is provided for identification of asset records in a version managed datastore. In one embodiment, the method includes: receiving an asset identifier, wherein the... Agent: General Electric Company

20130117246 - Methods of processing text data: Examples of the present invention provide methods relating to identification of a portion of text data common with reference text data, the method including obtaining the text data and the reference text data, the text data and the reference text data comprising a number of lines of text, identifying one... Agent:

20130117247 - Columnar database using virtual file data objects: A plurality of virtual files are instantiated in a columnar database. The columnar database includes a columnar data store that persists tables of data contained therein to the plurality of virtual files. Each virtual file is stored in physical data storage and a portion of the virtual file can be... Agent: Sap Ag

20130117248 - Adaptive media file rewind: An addressable device receives a user-characterized rewind description. The addressable device stores the user-characterized rewind description. The addressable device renders an at least one media file to include a resume point of the at least one media file. The addressable device receives a command to preferentially rewind. The addressable device,... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130117250 - Associative search engine: This invention relates to an advertisement machine which provides advertisements to a user searching for desired information within a data network. The machine receives, from a user, a search request including a search argument corresponding to the desired information and searches, based upon the received search argument, a first database... Agent: Rockstar Consortium US Lp

20130117249 - Locale centric search optimization in response to user opt-in: The present disclosure provides for locale-centric search optimization upon user opt-in. In response to receiving a search query generated by a user of an electronic communication device who has opted to receive search suggestions that are relevant to a locale, a search engine server provides to the user at least... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130117251 - Central server, proxy server arrangement for use in the distribution of information on the internet: In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a proxy server comprising a computer program product is provided. According to a feature of the present invention, the computer program product is disposed on a computer readable media, and the product includes computer executable process steps operable to control a computer... Agent:

20130117252 - Large-scale real-time fetch service: System and method for fetching embedded object content as part of a batch crawl. A fetch server receives a request on a request thread to retrieve content for objects embedded in a document, such as a web page. The fetch server attempts to locate the content of the object in... Agent: Google Inc.

20130117254 - Method and system to update user activities from the world wide web to subscribed social media web sites after approval: Disclosed is a system and method to search the World Wide Web for latest user activities and information and update the user activities and information to user subscribed social media websites with user's approval. User subscribes their personal information and interests to the present invention. Present invention crawls and formats... Agent:

20130117253 - Systems and methods for identifying hierarchical relationships: Embodiments include a computer-implemented method that includes identifying a candidate parent entity having one or more characteristics indicative of the entity having a parent hierarchical relationship to another entity of an entity set, identifying a candidate child entity set including entities of the entity set that each have one or... Agent:

20130117255 - Accessing a dimensional data model when processing a query: Techniques are disclosed for accessing a dimensional data model when processing a query. In one embodiment, the query is processed by performing a two-stage zigzag join operation including a zigzag main join and a zigzag back join. The zigzag main join is configured to generate a set of row identifiers... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130117256 - Sql enumerator: Techniques for collecting database information related to a received request are disclosed herein. In one embodiment a system includes a database, an event detector, and a structured query language (“SQL”) enumerator. The event detector is configured to identify a received request as producing one or more database query language statements... Agent:

20130117257 - Query result estimation: Techniques for efficiently performing queries are provided. A search component can receive a request for information based on data, and a management component can determine a degree of accuracy requested for the information. In turn, the search component can render the information based on the degree of accuracy requested. In... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117258 - Previewing search results: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for previewing search results. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a query from a client device. One or more image search results are provided to the client device, each of the one or more image search... Agent: Google Inc.

20130117259 - Search query context: Search techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a search service receives a search query from a user. A query context is formed for the user based on a history of content consumption that is verified for the user. A plurality of search results are generated that reference different... Agent:

20130117260 - System, method and user interface for content search: A system and method for searching content and user interface for presenting results of the search are provided, wherein visual elements representing the content are distributed in three dimensions on a display, with the various axes representing criteria that relate to a central starting point of the search and the... Agent: Thomson Licensing

20130117261 - Context sensitive transient connections: Methods, system and computer readable medium for allowing user interaction to an article on an Internet property includes detecting a selection of the article for viewing, by a user. Comments and interactions for the article provided by one or more posters are retrieved, wherein the posters are independent contributors that... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20130117265 - Communication assistance device, communication assistance method, and computer readable recording medium: A communication assistance device (10) includes a communication level determination unit (11) and a topic recommendation unit (16) so as to determine a level of a relationship between users who communicate with each other and provide communication assistance using the result of the determination. The communication level determination unit (11)... Agent: Nec Corporation

20130117262 - Content display systems and methods: Systems and methods to display content are described. In some embodiments, program content is received from a content source. A method identifies product-related metadata associated with the program content where the product-related metadata includes at least one item displayed in the program content. The program content is communicated to a... Agent: Ebay Inc.

20130117263 - Context-based item bookmarking: In a method for context-based item bookmarking (300), an instruction to bookmark an item for future delivery and an action context configured to trigger delivery of the bookmarked item are received (304 and 306). In addition, the action context and the item are bookmarked (308) and at least one entity's... Agent:

20130117264 - Object arrangement apparatus, method therefor and computer program: Disclosed is an object arrangement apparatus which arranges a plurality of objects approximately uniformly to a plurality of arrangement destinations by a comparatively easy processing configuration. This object arrangement apparatus includes an arrangement destination determination means. The arrangement destination determination means refers to sequence information generated based on unique information... Agent: Nec Corporation

20130117267 - Customer support solution recommendation system: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium and a method for automatically providing support solutions in response to user feedback items. The method comprises receiving user feedback items and corresponding support solutions. The method further comprises identifying, using clustering techniques, associations between the user... Agent:

20130117266 - Geo-fence based on geo-tagged media: Architecture that creates a geo-fence based on geo-tagged item (e.g., a photo. The geo-tagged item can be used to share virtual boundaries, such as geo-fences, between users via conventional methods (e.g., email) for sharing digital media. An extraction component that extracts geolocation information (e.g., latitude and longitude coordinates, altitude, bearing,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117268 - Identifying and suggesting classifications for financial data according to a taxonomy: A method includes identifying a table within a first document. The method includes analyzing at least one of: a column heading in the table, a row heading in the table, and data in a cell in the table. The method includes determining, based on the analysis, that the table contains... Agent:

20130117270 - Category-prefixed data batching of coded media data in multiple categories: Innovations for category-prefixed data batching (“CPDB”) of entropy-coded data or other payload data for coded media data, as well as innovations for corresponding recovery of the entropy-coded data (or other payload data) formatted with CPDB. The CPDB can be used in conjunction with coding/decoding for video content, image content, audio... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117271 - Method and apparatus for automatically classifying application in mobile terminal: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for automatically classifying an application in a mobile terminal. The method includes: obtaining classification attribute information in a configuration file of a mobile terminal application; and adding the mobile terminal application into an application set of a class corresponding... Agent: Huawei Device Co., Ltd.

20130117269 - System and method for onboarding an item collection: In various example embodiments, a system and method for onboarding a collection of items is provided. In example embodiments, image data containing images of a plurality of items from a client device is received. The image data is parsed to distinguish an item of the plurality of items. The item... Agent: Ebay Inc.

20130117274 - Electronic device with address book and address book management method: In an address book management method of an electronic device, a directory of members of an address book is created. A communication bulk and a communication count of each of the members listed in the address book are obtained. The communication bulk for each member is a total quantity of... Agent: Shenzhen Futaihong Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

20130117273 - Forensic index method and apparatus by distributed processing: Provided is a forensic index method by distributed processing, including: generating data to be divided by dividing data to be indexed according to predetermined division setting for distributed processing; allocating the generated data to be divided to a plurality of data processing units according to the predetermined division setting, extracting... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20130117275 - Index monitoring system, index monitoring method and program: o

20130117272 - Systems and methods for handling attributes and intervals of big data: Data management techniques are provided for handling of big data. A data management process can account for attributes of data by analyzing or interpreting the data, assigning intervals to the attributes based on the data, and effectuating policies, based on the attributes and intervals, that facilitate data management. In addition,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117276 - Methods and apparatus for discovery of attributes using a social mobile application: In one general aspect, a computer-readable storage medium can be configured to store instructions that when executed cause a processor to perform a process. The instructions can include instructions to receive, at a first device, a target attribute associated with a first user account and to access a code representing... Agent: Google Inc.

20130117277 - Aggregating distributed sources of application guidance information: A product guidance system is described herein that provides consistent methods and processes to aggregate product guidance from different online (and potentially local) sources, to ensure that the guidance aggregation is done with proper quality criteria (e.g., content/author reputation), to define how guidance is aggregated and presented appropriately for the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117283 - Dynamic identity matching in response to threat levels: A dynamic identity matching facility that enables an operator to determine the status of an individual based on identification information contained on an identification record provided by the individual. The operator scans the individual's identification information from the identification record using a scanning device. The facility decodes the scanned identification... Agent: Intellicheck Mobilisa, Inc.

20130117281 - Method and apparatus for social media advisor for retention and treatment (smart): A method and apparatus are implemented in one or more processors for processing various social media data received over a network for collection, analysis, and application to business logic and/or business applications. Based on personally identifying information of an account holder, social media data regarding the account holder is retrieved... Agent: Cgi Technologies And Solutions Inc.

20130117280 - Method and apparatus for visualizing and interacting with decision trees: A decision tree model is generated from sample data. A visualization system may automatically prune the decision tree model based on characteristics of nodes or branches in the decision tree or based on artifacts associated with model generation. For example, only nodes or questions in the decision tree receiving a... Agent: Bigml, Inc.

20130117278 - Methods, computer-accessible medium and systems for construction of and interference with networked data, for example, in a financial setting: Networked data can, e.g., define connections between similar entities. Such data can be valuable for, e.g., improving business revenue opportunities (e.g., increasing sales, reducing customer attrition/churn, etc.) as networked data can capture similarities that can be often hard to encapsulate in traditional variables such as, e.g., socio-demographics. For example, related... Agent:

20130117282 - System and method for detecting dns traffic anomalies: Systems and methods for analyzing domain name system lookup data are disclosed. The method may include: calculating traffic scores for a network address based on a set of DNS lookup data associated with the network address, where the set of DNS lookup data includes a plurality of query records having... Agent: Verisign, Inc.

20130117279 - Systems and methods for dynamic conversation management: Certain embodiments herein relate to generating profiles associated with users and comparing the profiles to determine which contributions, such as conversations, in which the users should participate. User profiles may be based on a user's historical activities, such as browsing certain web pages or generating ideas that may be shared... Agent: Ideastring, LLC

20130117284 - Use of social ranks to find providers of relevant user-generated content: A social rank service is provided to a consumer. The social rank service enables the consumer to compare social ranks of contributors who generate and distribute user-generated content regarding a topic. The social ranks of the contributors are based on the volume of content on the topic generated by the... Agent: Echidna, Inc.

20130117285 - Search support apparatus, search support method, and search support program: Provided is a search support apparatus including: a search keyword reception unit that sequentially receives a part of search keywords input by a target user; a first ranking unit that ranks the search keywords for each user based on search history information and generates keyword ranking information; a user association... Agent: Nec Corporation

20130117286 - Primary data storage system with quality of service: The invention is directed to a primary data storage system for use in a computer network in which a network allows user computers to transfer data to/from the primary data storage system. In one embodiment, the primary data storage system allows an administrator of the computer network to define two... Agent: Nexgen Storage, Inc.

20130117287 - Methods and systems for constructing personal profiles from contact data: A system and method for building a profile record for a person. Email addresses and corresponding person names are extracted from an email message and stored as records each record having an email address and corresponding person name as a key/value pair. A pair of such records is compared. If... Agent: Salesforce.com, Inc.

20130117289 - Content migration framework: The present disclosure involves computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for supporting migration of unstructured data stored in enterprise content management systems. A computer-implemented method includes generating a search for content matching at least one content search rule, receiving a list of matched documents, wherein each document in the list of... Agent: Sap Ag

20130117288 - Dynamically typed query expressions: A dynamic call on dynamic data can be transformed into a dynamic call on a structure representing dynamic data. Specifically, a dynamic query with a code object representation that includes an untyped parameter can be transformed into a dynamic query with a function call with a dynamic meta-object. The function... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117290 - Platform for software as a service and method for provisioning service for supporting multi-tenants using the platform: An SaaS platform for providing an SaaS (Software as a Service) service in cloud computing and a method for provisioning a service for supporting multi-tenants using the platform are provided. The SaaS platform includes a setting environment module configured to set an environment so that setting information for each tenant... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20130117291 - System, method and computer program product for defining applications using metadata records created from an object specifying a predefined metadata format: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for defining applications using metadata records created from an object specifying a predefined metadata format. These mechanisms and methods for defining applications using metadata records created from an object specifying a predefined metadata format can enable embodiments to provide third... Agent: Salesforce.com, Inc.

20130117296 - Communication assistance device, communication assistance method, and computer readable recording medium: A communication assistance device (10) includes a communication level determination unit (11) so as to determine a level of a relationship between users who communicate with each other. The communication level determination unit (11) determines the level (communication level) of the relationship between the users based on similarity between the... Agent: Nec Corporation

20130117292 - Connection of users by geolocation: Architecture that enables discovery and communications between users that have common interests (e.g., visited the same place). For example, when users arrive at a geographic location (e.g., a business) at various times, the users are registered (automatically or manually) via a location-based service. A user can register at the location... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117293 - File system directory attribute correction: Various embodiments are directed to systems and methods for facilitating file attribute correction. A computer system may receive a request to enumerate a first directory stored on a data storage. For a first file in the first directory, the computer system may determine that the first file has a corresponding... Agent: Osr Open Systems Resources, Inc.

20130117295 - Method for searching for flash video tag in bitstream and searching apparatus thereof: A method for searching for a flash video (FLV) tag in a bitstream includes the following steps: setting a first start position and a first search length related to a first search process, wherein the first search length indicates a bitstream length of the first search process performed upon the... Agent: Mediatek Singapore Pte. Ltd.

20130117294 - Trail log analysis system, medium storing trail log analysis program, and trail log analysis method: A trail log analysis system detects a fraudulent operation from a trail log of an information system, and confirms the correctness of a system action. An information development device generates an information development table from a trail log to be analyzed. The information development table defines a subject (who), an... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130117297 - Domain specific query-completion suggestions: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for providing query-completion suggestions configured to be searched against vertical information domains in response to receiving a general web search query are provided. At least a portion of a general web search query is received. As the portion of the general web search query... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117302 - Apparatus and method for searching for index-structured data including memory-based summary vector: An apparatus and method for searching for index-structured data including a memory-based summary vector are disclosed. The apparatus for searching for index-structured data including a memory-based summary vector includes a storage unit configured to store a full index and data related to a key; and a key lookup engine configured... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20130117304 - Associative search engine: This invention relates to an advertisement machine which provides advertisements to a user searching for desired information within a data network. The machine receives, from a user, a search request including a search argument corresponding to the desired information and searches, based upon the received search argument, a first database... Agent: Rockstar Consortium US Lp

20130117300 - Collaborative patent review monitoring system: An online automated pre-issuance or post-grant review monitoring system is disclosed, comprising network-accessible collaborative tools through which a company or client that may be interested reviewing a competitor's patent portfolio may order a search vendor or law firm to provide this monitoring and interact among users.... Agent: Xlpat Tt Consultants Private Limited

20130117303 - Data search device, data search method, and program: A data search device acquires memo data to be used in a search, extracts keywords from the memo data, and then allocates ranks to the keywords. The data search device performs a search for the keywords in multiple databases to identify related data. The databases are ranked similarly to the... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20130117299 - System and method for showing cover art on a display: A graphical display system for an audio system that receives data from a personal electronic device is provided. The personal electronic device is associated with a specific song. The graphical display system includes a display and a control module. The control module is in communication with the display and the... Agent: Gm Global Technology Operations LLC

20130117305 - System and method for the parallel execution of database queries over cpus and multi core processors: The invention relates to a system for parallel execution of database queries over one or more Central Processing Units (CPUs), and one or more Multi Core Processor, (MCPs), the system comprises (a) a query analyzer for dividing the query to plurality of sub- queries, and for computing and assigning to... Agent: Sqream Technologies Ltd

20130117301 - Triggering social pages: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for information retrieval. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a search input including one or more search terms; determining whether the search input includes a particular token; in response to determining that the search input includes... Agent: Google Inc.

20130117298 - Web service performance optimization by adaptively using compression: A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for optimizing a web service by adaptively using compression are disclosed. For example, the method receives a request for a data file, determines whether the data file should be compressed based upon a previous request for the data file, compresses the data... Agent: Xerox Corporation

20130117308 - Apparatus, method and system for node discovering: performing a hash transform to a pair of data including a domain name and an application identifier relating to the desired service to obtain a key if the entry is not found in the table; sending a query including the obtained key to an overlay network, wherein the node is... Agent: Nokia Siemens Networks Oy

20130117306 - Document search wrapper: Various embodiments of systems and methods for a document search wrapper are described herein. A database search framework is provided for performing a database search. The database search framework includes a base search wrapper class and an application specific search wrapper class. The base search wrapper class includes common search... Agent:

20130117307 - Snapshot isolation support for distributed query processing in a shared disk database cluster: System, method, computer program product embodiments and combinations and sub-combinations thereof for snapshot isolation support for distributed query processing in a shared disk database cluster are provided. The embodiments include the forming of object identification data in a leader node of query execution in the shared disk database cluster. At... Agent: Sybase, Inc.

20130117309 - System and method for generating homogeneous metadata from pre-existing metadata: A method according to one embodiment includes determining the presence of pre-existing metadata associated with at least one local media content file. The method of this embodiment may also include determining at least one data field contained within the pre-existing metadata and generating a homogeneous metadata file for the at... Agent:

20130117310 - Systems and methods for generating and displaying hierarchical search results: Embodiments include a computer-implemented method that includes receiving a search query, processing the search query to identify a set of search results, determining that the set of search results includes a parent search result corresponding to a parent entity, in response to determining that the set of search results includes... Agent:

20130117312 - Method and server for pushing information proactively: A method for pushing information proactively includes: receiving updated data; querying search records that match the updated data; determining search records that meet a push condition, and obtaining user information corresponding to the search records that meet the push condition; pushing, according to the user information, the updated data to... Agent: Huawei Device Co., Ltd.

20130117311 - Technique for effectively collecting and analyzing data in providing information assistance services: A system for providing an information assistance service includes a communication interface for receiving a request for information. A search facility conducts a search using a first search criterion in response to the request, a second search criterion being provided in lieu of the first search criterion in conducting the... Agent:

20130117313 - Access control framework: The described implementations relate to an access control framework for a database system. One implementation can receive, from a user, a request for data that identifies a resource, such as a view that obtains data from a database. The implementation can check the identity of the user to identify user... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117314 - Automatic resource ownership assignment system and method: A method for automatic folder ownership assignment, including ascertaining which first folders, among a first multiplicity of folders, have at least one of modify and write permissions to non-IT administration entities, adding the first folders to a list of candidates for ownership assignment, defining a second multiplicity of folders which... Agent: Varonis Systems, Inc.

20130117315 - Automatic resource ownership assignment system and method: A method for automatic folder ownership assignment, including ascertaining which first folders, among a first multiplicity of folders, have at least one of modify and write permissions to non-IT administration entities, adding the first folders to a list of candidates for ownership assignment, defining a second multiplicity of folders which... Agent: Varonis Systems, Inc.

20130117316 - Method and system for modeling data: The various embodiments herein provide a method and system for modeling a data. The method for modeling data comprises steps of extracting the data from a plurality of data sources, identifying a plurality of entities from the plurality of data, defining occurrence of a relationship between the plurality of entities,... Agent:

20130117317 - Multi-state query migration in data stream management: A request handler may determine a query of a data stream management system (DSMS), wherein the query includes a plurality of operators being configured to execute the query collaboratively within the DSMS, and wherein stored stream-related data includes operator-associated windows of state data from the stream data, the request handler... Agent: Sap Ag

20130117319 - Objects in a storage environment for connected applications: In one general aspect, a computer system can include instructions stored on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The computer system can include an application link manager configured to receive an indicator that a first application is linked to a second application, and an object generator configured to store a copy... Agent: Sap Ag

20130117320 - Report data justifiers: A method includes providing a source report for display that includes a first plurality of data values each associated with a first context, the first context comprising an intersection of dimensions of a multidimensional database. The method includes receiving a selection of a first data value of the first plurality,... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130117318 - Rule type column in database: A data definition language (DDL) may be extended by a new column type: a rule type column. Database rules are modeled using patterns (e.g. decision table, decision tree, or formula) specifying rule content through accessible user interfaces instead of programming constructs. A rule type column can be created using the... Agent: Sap Ag

20130117321 - Technique for structuring a navigation database: A technique of structuring a navigation database is provided, wherein the navigation database includes at least route link data for a predetermined geographic area. A method implementation of the technique includes organizing route link data associated with the predetermined geographic area into at least one routing cluster; providing the at... Agent: Elektrobit Automotive Gmbh

20130117322 - Technique for structuring navigation data: A technique for structuring a navigation data base in order to support incremental data updates is provided. A method implementation of the technique includes the steps of providing at least two data levels, wherein a first data level is associated with route links representing road segments of regional distance roads,... Agent: Elektrobit Automotive Gmbh

20130117323 - Database queries enriched in rules: Embodiments allow complex conditional statements to be considered in formulating database queries. Business rules are modeled based upon ready-to-use abstract structures such as decision trees, decision tables, or formulas. A query to the database is then posed by a user. The query includes a system of rules evaluation activating a... Agent: Sap Ag

20130117324 - Systems and methods for providing electronic help: A system, method, and article of manufacture for providing electronic help is disclosed. The method may comprise receiving a search query, searching, by a search library and in response to the search query, a document object model (“DOM”) structure associated with a webpage, and identifying a portion of the webpage... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.

20130117325 - Semantic related objects: In an embodiment, a method is provided for utilizing a meta-model semantic network. In this method, a meta-model of the enterprise data is obtained. The meta-model provides semantic information regarding a definition of a business object. The meta-model is then used to generate a rule definition that maps enterprise data... Agent: Sap Ag

20130117326 - External serialization and deserialization: An object graph can be transformed from a first form to a second form based on metadata discovered about objects of the object graph external to a corresponding object model. In one instance, transformation can correspond to serialization and deserialization.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117327 - Using geographical location to determine element and area information to provide to a computing device: A database has a plurality of elements, where each element is associated with a location and at least one set of different attribute values, wherein each set includes a timestamp when the attribute values in the set were determined. A determination is made of a reference geographical location, an element... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130117328 - Virtual data sharing user application: Disclosed are an apparatus and method of retrieving a plurality of data memory containers from a database. One example method of operation may include displaying the plurality of data memory containers on a graphical user interface, receiving a selection of one or more of the data memory containers, and displaying... Agent:

20130117332 - Database large object reorganization: Embodiments of the invention relate to database large object (LOB) reorganization. An aspect of the invention includes calculating an activity of an inline LOB. The length of an inline LOB is redefined according to the activity of the inline LOB. LOB reorganization is performed based on the redefined length of... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130117331 - Lock-free scalable free list: A plurality of free list data structures are maintained in a multi-processor computing system that each correspond to one processor of the multi-processor computing system and that each comprise an ordered queue of processor-specific items. Thereafter, a number of processor-specific items allocated to each free list data structure is calculated.... Agent: Sap Ag

20130117329 - Providing relevant product reviews to the user to aid in purchasing decision: A method, system and computer program product for providing relevant product reviews to a user. A user's session on a website is monitored to gather information related to reviewing and writing product reviews as well as to buying and browsing habits. The actions performed by the user in connection with... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130117330 - Retaining corporate memory: There are provided a system, a method and a computer program product for managing corporate memory. A user creates at least one rule that maps an organization scheme of electronic data in the user's individual computer to a semantic and structure of a corporate database. The system automatically transforms the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130117333 - Using geographical location to determine element and area information to provide to a computing device: A database has a plurality of elements, where each element is associated with a location and at least one set of different attribute values, wherein each set includes a timestamp when the attribute values in the set were determined. A determination is made of a reference geographical location, an element... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130117334 - Storage for real time process: An automated event viewing method for storing data for a process automation system. The method includes assigning a plurality of collected process data values from a physical process to a stream, and writing the stream on non-transitory machine readable storage to obtain a stored data stream having an original sampling... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20130117335 - Playlist-based content assembly: A method of and apparatus for content assembly is provided by which an automation playlist of media events is created, a relationship is defined between the media events, the media events are merged into a composite media event and published.... Agent: Clear Channel Management Services, Inc.

20130117336 - Data channel utilization management in multi-user system: The management of data storage channel utilization in a computing system that has multiple users. The system receives file-level requests from requesters and then creates a history for each requester. Upon evaluating the history of each requester, the system determines whether to delay the file-level requests from entering the file... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117338 - Aircraft communications system with video file library and associated methods: A video file system for an aircraft carrying a person having a personal electronic device (PED) for displaying video files includes a ground-based video server and an aircraft-based video system. The ground-based video server stores video files, with each video file being updatable from an available status to an unavailable... Agent: Livetv, LLC

20130117337 - Locally connected cloud storage device: The present invention includes systems and methods for implementing a locally connected cloud storage device. The locally connected cloud storage device includes a data storage medium; one or more network adapters capable of connecting the cloud storage device to a network; a file system; and an operating system. The operating... Agent:

20130117339 - Method, apparatus and system for mounting file system: The present invention belongs to the field of computer, and particularly provides a method, an apparatus and a system for mounting a file system. The method comprises: requesting, from a node mounted with a file system of a storage stack at the network distal end, for metadata corresponding to the... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130117340 - Managing file systems: The elements of the path request, such as directories, disks, filenames, file types, etc. are analyzed by the invention in order to provide another complete path. The path provided by the invention is formatted for a different file system and file structure. The file pointed to by the path provided... Agent: Apple Inc.

20130110764 - System and method of combined database system: A system, including both an OLTP database and a warehouse database, that is configured to manage the coordination between the OLTP database and the warehouse database. An aspect relates to a combined OLTP and warehouse database which manages duplicate copies, in both the OLTP database and the warehouse database, of... Agent: Verint Systems Ltd.

20130110765 - Semantic configuration in a business process platform: In an embodiment, a method is provided for customizing a task associated with a business process. In this method, a business process platform is accessed. The business process platform includes a business process definition and a provider semantic configuration. A group semantic configuration is generated, where the group semantic configuration... Agent: Sap Ag

20130110766 - Method for performing transactions on data and a transactional database: The present invention provides a method for performing transactions on data entities in a database and a transactional database. The database comprises an ordered set of data stores with at least one static data store, wherein said static data store uses an index structure based on a non-updatable representation of... Agent: Open Text Software Gmbh

20130110767 - Online transaction processing: A method implemented in an online transaction processing system is disclosed. The method includes, upon a read request from a transaction process, reading a transaction log, reading data stored in a storage without accessing the transaction log, and constituting a current snapshot using the data in the storage and the... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20130110770 - Database clone: Embodiments of the invention relate to systems and methods for cloning a production database for quality assurance (QA) by the merchant users. A QA user may request tokens, card types and other data associated with a payment device for quality assurance purposes. The payment network redirects the QA request to... Agent:

20130110773 - Learning capacity by using excess capacity in a capacity controlled environment: Excess capacity of a database system can be used for learning activities in a controlled computing environment. In this context, excess capacity of a database system can be used as needed and/or on a temporary basis. Furthermore, learning activities can be performed without requiring the use of the capacity that... Agent: Teradata Corporation

20130110768 - Method for managing data, medium, and apparatus for managing data: A method for managing data includes obtaining output device information from an external device, the output device information concerning an output device to which the external device outputs data, upon detecting access to the data stored in a storage device from the external device, estimating, using a processor, a first... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130110769 - Service providing apparatus, information processing system and methods: An information processing system and a service providing apparatus store an electronic file transmitted by an information processing apparatus, receive comments posted to the electronic file, manage the comments with arranged in a time order, and insert the comments into the electronic file. When downloading of the electronic file is... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130110771 - Systems and methods for durable database operations in a memory-mapped environment: A durable memory-mapped database system includes a first memory-mapped view of a database, a second memory-mapped view of the database, a journal buffer and a journal. The first memory-mapped view of the database is a protected view and includes copies of a plurality of datafiles from the database. The second... Agent:

20130110772 - Systems, methods, and computer readable media for maintaining recommendations in a media recommendation system: Methods and systems for generating media item recommendations are disclosed herein. According to an aspect, a method may include using at least a processor and memory for receiving candidate media items associated with one or more computing devices that either has recently played or is currently playing a media item... Agent: Lemi Technology, LLC

20130110774 - Transaction commitment and replication in a storage system: An embodiment provides a system and method for transaction commitment and replication. The method includes receiving a minitransaction from a client node at one or more memory nodes, wherein each memory node includes a number of replicas. The minitransaction is a type of transaction which atomically executes any combination of... Agent:

20130110775 - Method, process and system to atomically structure varied data and transform into context associated data: A novel method, system and process for the enterprise software are described. The data is created, captured, ingested, stored, atomized, monitored, separated, analyzed, enriched, correlated, managed, automated, processed, isolated, secured and synthesized (for example published or automatically pushed to user). The data is recreated using automated contextual delivery methods and... Agent:

20130110779 - Archiving data for a distributed filesystem: The disclosed embodiments provide a system that archives data for a distributed filesystem. Two or more cloud controllers collectively manage distributed filesystem data that is stored in one or more cloud storage systems; the cloud controllers cache and ensure data consistency for the stored data. During operation, a cloud controller... Agent: Panzura, Inc.

20130110778 - Distributing data for a distributed filesystem across multiple cloud storage systems: The disclosed embodiments provide a system that distributes data for a distributed filesystem across multiple cloud storage systems. Two or more cloud controllers collectively manage distributed filesystem data that is stored in one or more cloud storage systems; the cloud controllers cache and ensure data consistency for the stored data.... Agent: Panzura, Inc.

20130110777 - Synchronization of data edited in parallel: Fundamental methods, memory systems and processors systems to synchronize replicas of data by exchanging editing plans to replicas are first explained in Section 1. Other sections show derived methods and systems. Each derived method and system is expressed as an independent claim. Section 2 shows synchronization supported by server providing... Agent:

20130110776 - System and method for synchronizing the profile of a user in social networks and the user's personal contact card (pcc): The method and system for synchronizing social networks and Personal Contact Cards (PCC) update the profile of a user published in an Open Mobile Alliance Converged Address Book (OMA CAB) system with the information published and updated on one or more social networks to which the user subscribes, by means... Agent: Telefonica, S.a.

20130110780 - Relay apparatus and data copy method: A relay apparatus includes: a relay section that relays a communication between an information processing apparatus and one of a first storage apparatus and a second storage apparatus; a determination section that monitors the communication and to detect a first access to one of the first storage apparatus and the... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130110781 - Server replication and transaction commitment: An embodiment provides a method for server replication and transaction commitment. The method includes receiving a transaction from a client node at one or more memory nodes, each memory node comprising a number of replicas, and determining, for each one of the replicas, whether the replica is able to commit... Agent:

20130110782 - Oportunistic database duplex operations: Database updates to primary and secondary database structures are performed by writing information from a client to both primary and secondary database services and building the database structure at the primary database service while delaying application of data written to the secondary database service until notification at the secondary database... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130110783 - Virtual full backups: According to embodiments described herein, a backup server maintains backup data for a set of data, which includes data for a first block and a second block. Backup data for the first and second block include backup data for a plurality of versions of the first and second block. A... Agent:

20130110784 - Managing backups of data objects in containers: Containers that store data objects that were written to those containers during a particular backup are accessed. Then, a subset of the containers is identified; the containers in the subset have less than a threshold number of data objects associated with the particular backup. Data objects that are in containers... Agent: Symantec Corporation

20130110786 - Distributed file system and method of selecting backup location for the same: A method for selecting backup location used by a DFS is to prevent data lose or unavailable while a single point of failure of a switch occurs. The DFS comprises multiple switches and multiple servers. Each server respectively connected to each connection port of each switch and uses the assigned... Agent: Delta Electronics, Inc.

20130110785 - System and method for backing up test data: In a method for backing up test data using a first backup device and a second backup device, backup times and storage paths for each test computing device in the first backup device and the second backup device, and a backup path of each test computing device are set. Test... Agent: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (shenzhen) Co., Ltd.

20130110788 - Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to archive data: Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to archive data are disclosed. An example method to archive data disclosed herein comprises determining an initial data model representing functional dependencies among attributes of the data, the initial data model having fully interdependent functional dependencies among all attributes of the data, pruning one... Agent:

20130110787 - Virtual file system interface for communicating changes of metadata in a data storage system: Embodiments of the invention relate to a virtual file system for communicating changes in metadata associated with data archived in a data storage system to applications. An aspect of the invention concerns a system that comprises a virtual file system for storing metadata files wherein each metadata file is associated... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130110789 - Method of, and apparatus for, recovering data on a storage system: There is provided a method of, and apparatus for, enabling data recovery on a data storage resource. The resource includes a file system having a file system structure component for data storage management. In use, a storage request operable to modify the file system is received, processed and the file... Agent:

20130110790 - Information processing system and file restoration method using same: A file is rapidly restored with minimal storage consumption when a file access request is made by the user. When file restoration takes place, a second server apparatus 3b transmits a directory image, which extends from the top directory to a predetermined lower level, of a directory image configured in... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20130110791 - Method and apparatus for detecting an address update: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for obtaining address update information, comprising: obtaining webpage information related to an address update of a named entity; extracting keywords representing an address update clue of the named entity from the webpage information; determining the time and confidence of the address update... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130110794 - Apparatus and method for filtering duplicate data in restricted resource environment: An apparatus and method for stably filtering duplicate data in various resource-restricted environments such as a mobile device and medical equipment are provided. The apparatus includes a cell array unit configured to comprise one or more cells; a duplication check unit configured to check whether input data is duplicate and... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd

20130110792 - Contextual gravitation of datasets and data services: Through proactive structured dataset management, suggestions are made for dataset enrichment, cleansing, and other enhancements. Users need not go looking for potentially helpful datasets online or in an enterprise filesystem, because relevant datasets and services will be automatically suggested, based on a samplex cast from the user's dataset. Enrichment may... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130110793 - Data de-duplication in computer storage systems: Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach that utilizes discrete event simulation to quantitatively analyze the reliability of a modeled de-duplication system in a computer storage environment. In addition, the approach described herein can perform such an analysis on systems having heterogeneous data stored on heterogeneous storage systems in... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130110795 - Inheritance of rules across hierarchical levels: Rules, such as condition-action rules, are configured at different levels of a hierarchy. For example, a top level site administrator may configure rules, lower level administrators may configure rules and end users may configure rules. Rules created at a higher hierarchical level are automatically inherited by lower hierarchical levels in... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130110796 - Receiving a document update to transmit a change: Examples disclose herein include receiving a master document and a first document update associated with a first time stamp from a first computing device. The first document update includes a first change to the master document. This example also compares the first document update to the master document to identify... Agent:

20130110797 - Version visualization: An approach for visualizing versions of a hierarchically organized object is presented. A measure of similarity is computed between each version and a standard version. Versions having identical hierarchies are clustered into sets of versions. Versions within each of the sets of versions are organized according to the computed similarity... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130110799 - Access to heterogeneous data sources: In one implementation, an apparatus includes a plurality of data access object (DAO) interfaces to facilitate interactions with a plurality of heterogeneous data sources, in which each of the plurality of DAO interfaces is to facilitate interaction with a different type of data source. The apparatus also includes a controller... Agent:

20130110800 - Batch dbms statement processing such that intermediate feedback is provided prior to completion of processing: A database management system (DBMS) client calls an interface of a DBMS server to execute a statement that has been prepared to be executed in batch form in relation to a database managed by the DBMS server. The DBMS client provides a different batch of data to the DBMS server... Agent:

20130110798 - Intercepting and processing database commands: A hybrid approach that combines a small “native” shell and a rich web-based user-interface (UI) is used to develop an application. The shell portion includes a database adapter developed for the targeted platform. The web-based UI can be shared between different devices (mobile/non-mobile) that can host a web-browser. Once the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130110801 - Mesh-managing data across a distributed set of devices: Data files, applications and/or corresponding user interfaces may be accessed at a device that collaborates in a mesh. The mesh may include any number or type of devices that collaborate in a network. Data, applications and/or corresponding user interfaces may be stored within a core object that may be shared... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130110802 - Context aware tagging interface: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for tagging uniform resource locators (URLs) included in a search engine results page are provided. Upon receipt of a search query that includes a name of an entity, the server device provides search results and entry fields to tag one or more URLs that... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130110804 - Context-sensitive query enrichment: Structures and protocols are presented for facilitating a search partly based on a movement status of a search-capable device or on a position of a person's limb or on an association with another search-capable device.... Agent: Elwha LLC, A Limited Liability Company Of The State Of Delaware

20130110807 - Intranet search, search engine and terminal equipment: A method and apparatus for searching an enterprise intranet. An intranet search method includes receiving an intranet inquiry; and in response to the intranet inquiry, returning as a part of search results, a link matching the intranet inquiry in an email in an email system. An embodiment of the invention... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130110806 - Method and system for tagging original data generated by things in the internet of things: A method and system for tagging original data generated by things in the Internet of Things (IoT). The method includes: performing relativity detection on acquired Web messages to obtain Web messages related to various events; acquiring address information contained in the related Web messages; determining adjacent things for various events... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130110805 - Methods and systems for endorsing local search results: Methods and systems for improving user search experience with a search engine by providing a way for associated users to create and share personalized lists of local search results and/or advertisements through endorsements of such local search results and/or ads. Local search endorsements can be used to personalize the search... Agent: Google Inc.

20130110803 - Search driven user interface for navigating content and usage analytics: A search driven user interface (UI) is used for navigating content and usage analytics within a system. The system is configurable such that users of the system may configure the usage events that are used to collect the usage information and configure the display of the content and the usage... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130110808 - Event memorabilia: A method for storing event memorabilia is provided by an online service that receives over a wide-area network notification that a first user has registered to attend an event a sporting event, a concert). The service also receives over the wide-area network metadata associated with the event. The service locates... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130110810 - Ad-hoc queries integrating usage analytics with search results: Search results returned by ad hoc queries integrate search results with usage analytics calculated from collected usage information for a system, such as a content management system. In response to receiving a query, the query is submitted to the system to obtain search results. Information from the usage analytics is... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130110809 - Associating search terms with a downloaded file: An apparatus for associated search terms with a downloaded file includes a storage device storing machine-readable code and a processor executing the machine-readable code. The machine-readable code includes a reference module that references one or more search terms for a file selected for download. The file is retrieved by a... Agent: Lenovo (singapore) Pte, Ltd.

20130110811 - Computer and method for making search engine search resource of computer system including storage system and for displaying result of the search: Computer stores category management information including information indicating search order of search range for each category. The computer outputs display information of category specification part that receives specification of a user desired category in which a special category is all of the plurality of categories specified by default. The computer... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20130110812 - Accounting for authorship in a web log search engine: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for authorship accountability in a blog search engine. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for authorship accountability in a blog search engine is provided. The method includes receiving a search engine query specifying both query... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130110813 - Routing query results: Systems and method for routing search query results in a networked computing environment. An initial search query is reformulated into at least one sub-query in accordance with one or more configurable rules. The sub-query is sent to at least one information system or source, and any potential hits associated with... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130110814 - Contextual search on digital images: A computer-implemented method of providing contextual search on digital images includes tracking a plurality of movements of a user over one or more hot-spots on a digital image in response to the user viewing a web page. The computer-implemented method also includes receiving a selected hot-spot from the user. Further,... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20130110816 - Default query rules: Systems and methods for reformulating an initial search query and presenting query results in a logical and user-friendly manner. Enterprise queries are detected and automatically reformulated such that a user need not have any knowledge of how to reformulate a particular query. Query results are formatted and presented such that... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130110815 - Generating and presenting deep links: Concepts and technologies are described herein for generating and presenting deep links. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein a search engine is configured to generate deep links associated with a site. A site is identified by the search engine and the site is analyzed by the search... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130110817 - System and method for geographically organizing and classifying businesses on the world-wide web: A method and search engine for classifying a source publishing a document on a portion of a network, includes steps of electronically receiving a document, based on the document, determining a source which published the document, and assigning a code to the document based on whether data associated with the... Agent: Facebook, Inc.

20130110818 - Profile driven extraction: Methods, devices, and systems for profile driven extraction are provided. An example of profile driven extraction includes utilizing an extraction profile created for extracting a subset of content from a particular type of web page, extracting the subset of the content from a number of web pages with a computing... Agent:

20130110819 - Accommodating gaps in database index scans: According to a present invention embodiment, a system conducts a scan on a database object index with one or more gaps. The system generates one or more combinations of values for the gaps within an index with respect to an operation. Each combination of values is generated by scanning the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130110820 - Determining an execution ordering: There is provided a computer-implemented method of determining an execution ordering. An exemplary method comprises generating a directed graph based on a hierarchy. The hierarchy includes a plurality of pattern queries. The method also includes determining a minimum spanning tree of the directed graph. The method further includes determining an... Agent:

20130110822 - Indicating location status: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for indicating location status. A computing device can receive a query from a user device, a current time, and a location for the user device. The computing device identifies results responsive to the query, including one or... Agent: Google Inc.

20130110821 - System and method for propagating classification decisions: A system and method for propagating classification decisions is provided. Text marked within one or more unclassified documents that is determined to be responsive to a predetermined issue is received from a user. The unclassified documents are selected from a corpus. A search query is generated from the responsive text.... Agent: Fti Consulting, Inc.

20130110824 - Configuring a custom search ranking model: A custom search ranking model is configured using a base ranking model that is combined with one or more additional ranking features. A base ranking model that has already been configured and tuned is selected that serves as the base ranking model for a custom search ranking model. The additional... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130110825 - Providing knowledge panels with search results: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing knowledge panels with search results. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining search results that are responsive to a received query. A factual entity referenced by the query is identified. Content is identified for display... Agent: Google Inc.

20130110823 - System and method for recommending content based on search history and trending topics: Systems and methods for providing content associated with trending topics relevant to a user are described. An interest detection module identifies topics trending in one or more real-time content sources that are relevant to a user. The real-time content source(s) may include, for example, a source of microblog posts or... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20130110826 - Method for searching contacts, electronic apparatus, and storage medium using the method thereof: A method for searching contacts, an electronic apparatus, and a storage medium using the method thereof are provided. A geographic location is received for determining a positioning coordinate corresponding to the geographic location. A number of times of a landmark positioning performed by each of the contacts at the positioning... Agent: Htc Corporation

20130110829 - Method and apparatus of ranking search results, and search method and apparatus: Described is a method and an apparatus for ranking search results and a search method and apparatus for solving the problem of inaccurate ranking when ranking search results found based on a long tail keyword. The method includes: determining one or more keyword elements related to a keyword; for each... Agent: Alibaba Group Holding Limited

20130110827 - Relevance of name and other search queries with social network feature: Systems, computer-readable media, and methods for utilizing information pertaining to one or more individuals or entities with which a user has at least one social networking relationship are provided. A search engine is configured to receive a query, to identify matching electronic documents, to rank the electronic documents, and to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130110828 - Tenantization of search result ranking: This disclosure describes methods and systems for searching documents in a multi-tenant hosting environment. According to embodiments, to conserve hardware resources, a plurality of documents associated with a plurality of tenants may be mapped to the same search index in the multi-tenant hosting environment. In order to search documents associated... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130110830 - Ranking of entity properties and relationships: An entity ranking system is described herein that provides an input signal of ranked attributes between a data source and an entity viewing application. By providing an input signal of ranked attributes the data source can influence the manner in which these applications consume the properties and relationships of these... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130110831 - 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: Google Inc.

20130110833 - Method and system for identifying candidate users: A computer-implemented method and system of determining the approximate location of a person for an effective time, comprising: performing processing associated with receiving any travel information; performing processing associated with receiving any geolocation information; performing processing associated with receiving any expense information; performing processing associated with receiving any home or... Agent: Concur Technologies, Inc.

20130110832 - Techniques to determine network addressing for sharing media files: Techniques to determine network addressing for sharing media files are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor. The memory may store an application having a media share component operative to receive a request to associate a media file with a document, the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130110834 - Aggregating cardiac resynchronization therapy data: Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) performance data for a number of patients in which an implantable medical device (IMD) is implanted is aggregated and reports of the aggregated data are generated, e.g., for review by organizations or individual clinicians treating the patients. In one example, a method includes collecting CRT performance... Agent: Medtronic, Inc.

20130110837 - Data collecting concentrator and data collecting method: A data acquisition concentrator and a data acquisition method are provided. The data acquisition concentrator comprises a data acquisition module (101) for acquiring data recorded by an instrument, a data processing module (102) for processing and encapsulating the data acquired by the data acquisition module (101), and a reporting module... Agent: Guangzhou Sunrise Electronics Development Co., Ltd

20130110838 - Method and system to organize and visualize media: The invention concerns a method to organize and visualize electronic files (1) comprising media items (2) on an electronic device (3), characterised in that the method comprises the steps of accessing and opening the electronic files (1) and analysis of the media items (2) to extract content (4) and/or meta... Agent: Spectralmind Gmbh

20130110835 - Method for calculating proximities between nodes in multiple social graphs: The present invention discloses a method for calculating proximities between nodes in multiple social graphs. Some nodes in one social graph may be mapped to nodes in other social graphs. To describe the closeness of relation between nodes, weighting factors are assigned to the relations in a social graph. Social... Agent:

20130110836 - System and method for community and group organization for activities and events: A system is disclosed for organizing at least one community. The system includes: a memory having a plurality of modules, including: a community manager module, a community member module, a group manager module, a group member module, and an activity creator module providing functions for an activity creator of the... Agent: Oozbop, LLC

20130110839 - Constructing an analysis of a document: Systems, methods, and computer-readable and executable instructions are provided for constructing an analysis of a document. Constructing an analysis of a document can include determining a plurality of features based on the document, wherein each of the plurality of features is associated with a subset of a set of concepts.... Agent:

20130110840 - Environment classification and service analysis: Discovering environment objects for information management in a networked environment. Information management provides services such as data protection, backup, retention, compliance, etc., by classifying the objects and/or infrastructure of an entity according to its value to the entity. Information management begins by discovering the data in a network and by... Agent: Emc Corporation

20130110845 - Bulk matching with update: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with bulk matching with update functionality are described. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first new record for matching with other records. The method includes querying a database that stores respective single best records (SBR) for respective sets of matching records to... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20130110846 - Data processing method and apparatus: The present invention relates to the field of data processing, and specifically to a method and device for data processing. The method comprises: preprocessing an array-to-be-processed; carrying out by means of a predetermined processing method secondary processing on the array-to-be-processed so as to obtain secondary processing results; acquiring an index... Agent: Feitian Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130110844 - Document indexing: Systems and methods are disclosed that allow for indexing, processing, or both of information from physical media or electronic media, which may be received from a plurality of sources. In embodiments, a document file may be matched using pattern matching methods and may include comparisons with a comparison reference database... Agent: Indxit Systems, Inc.

20130110841 - Method and apparatus for querying media based on media characteristics: An approach is provided for querying media based on media characteristics. A media platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of one or more images, one or more videos, or a combination thereof to determine one or more latent vectors associated with the one or more images, the one or more... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20130110843 - Method and system for classifying documents: The invention provides a method and system for classifying insurance files for identification, sorting and efficient collection of subrogation claims. The invention determines whether an insurance claim has merit to warrant claim recovery efforts utilizing software code for partially describing a set of documents having unstructured and structured file data... Agent:

20130110842 - Tools and techniques for extracting knowledge from unstructured data retrieved from personal data sources: A system may include multiple personal data sources and a machine-implemented data extractor and correlator configured to retrieve personal data from at least one of the personal data sources. The data extractor and correlator may extract information from unstructured data within the retrieved personal data and correlate the extracted information... Agent: Sri International

20130110847 - Proactive user-based content correction and enrichment for geo data: A system and method determines ambiguous or missing information about map features, generates questions to address the ambiguity or the missing information and determines users from whom to request feedback to clarify the ambiguity or supply the missing information.... Agent: Google Inc.

20130110848 - Systems, methods, and computer readable media for generating recommendations in a media recommendation system: Methods and systems for generating media item recommendations are disclosed herein. According to an aspect, a method may include using at least a processor and memory for receiving candidate media items associated with one or more computing devices that either has recently played or is currently playing a media item... Agent: Lemi Technology, LLC

20130110849 - Query generation: In a general aspect, an approach to query specification includes processing a query by identifying one or more terms and validating the terms using a first corpus of media elements. The result of the validation is used to form a modified query. In some examples, identifying the one or more... Agent: Nexidia Inc.

20130110850 - Matching an entry of a list to data: A method, system and computer program product for matching an entry of a list to data. The method includes the steps of: generating source code which matches at least a part of said list with said data; compiling said source code into binary code; and determining a match between said... Agent:

20130110851 - Method and system for providing related technology service: A method and system for providing a related technology service are provided. The method of providing a related technology service by a related technology service providing apparatus includes the steps of (a) acquiring conduct agents of a specific technology; (b) acquiring key research technologies of each acquired conduct agent; and... Agent: Korea Institute Of Science & Technology Information

20130110852 - Intermediate data format for database population: An approach is provided that receives input from multiple data sources and transforms it into a common, intermediate format, where only one generic parser is required for the purpose of transformation into RDF, and the subsequent input to a triplestore database. A triplestore management tool provides this capability. The triplestore... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130110854 - Preview pre-generation based on heuristics and algorithmic prediction/assessment of predicted user behavior for enhancement of user experience: System and methods for determining if a preview of a file uploaded to a web-based collaborative environment is likely to be requested. For a file that is likely to be previewed, the system pre-converts the input format of the file to a target format suitable for providing the preview to... Agent:

20130110853 - Sql constructs ported to non-sql domains: The subject disclosure relates to using structured query language constructs in non-structured query language domains. For example, through mathematical and logical transformation of concepts from a key, value pair domain associated with structured query language data structures to graphical-related data structures, the value originating in the structured query language domain... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130110858 - Adding co-users to user definable co-user lists: A real time notification system that tracks, for each user, the logon status of selected co-users of an on-line or network system and displays that information in real time to the tracking user in a unique graphical interface. The invention provides user definable on-line co-user lists, or “buddy lists”, that... Agent: Facebook, Inc.

20130110857 - Method for implementing context aware service application and related apparatus: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for implementing a context aware service application and a related apparatus. One method for implementing a context aware service application includes: receiving, by a context aware service platform, a first context request from a context aware client, where the first context request... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130110855 - Method of matching data and use in the verification of identity of a recipient of a mail: A method of matching identification data comprising: acquisition of a data record comprising a plurality of fields; selection of matched records stored in a database, the data records having fields of type corresponding to the fields of the record acquired, the selection comprising for each record of the database: comparison... Agent: La Poste

20130110859 - Scalable searching of biometric databases using dynamic selection of data subsets: A method of searching a biometric database includes storing biometric data corresponding to a number of users in a database, and defining one or more data subsets in the database according to inputs from users expecting to pass through a given biometric acquisition device that is linked with the database... Agent: Eyelock, Inc.

20130110856 - Search support apparatus, search support method, and recording medium of search support program: A support method of searching includes in a case that a plurality of display elements each of which is associated with attributes are specified, generating a search condition including attributes associated with the plurality of display elements, and a logical operator corresponding to a specifying method by which the plurality... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130110860 - User pipeline configuration for rule-based query transformation, generation and result display: A query pipeline for an enterprise search system is configurable by a user of the system. A user may create rules for custom query transformation and parallel query generation, federation of queries, mixing of results and application of display layouts to the received search results. A user interface (UI) assists... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130110861 - Facilitating extraction and discovery of enterprise services: Implementations of the present disclosure include methods, systems, and computer-readable storage mediums for improving keyword searches for enterprise services receiving user input, processing the user input to identify a set of terms, querying a knowledge base based on each term of the set of terms to define a first set... Agent: Sap Ag

20130110862 - Maintaining a buffer state in a database query engine: Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to maintain a buffer state in a database query engine are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein includes identifying two or more input tuples associated with a query, identifying two or more output tuples associated with the query, associating the input tuples with a... Agent:

20130110863 - Assisted searching: Example systems, methods, apparatuses, or articles of manufacture, etc. are disclosed in connection with assisted search results.... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20130110867 - Data collection for usage based insurance: Large amounts of data resulting from periodic sampling and capture of data corresponding to variable operational parameters of one or more systems, such as a plurality of vehicles, and stored in a large number of rows of data corresponding to the number of captured samples are summarized in an analytically... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130110864 - Generating an electronic message during a browsing session: A computer system for generating an electronic message for a user includes a memory and a processing circuit. The memory is configured to store a plurality of user identifiers, each user identifier having an electronic message address associated with the user. The processing circuit is configured to receive user interaction... Agent: Cbs Interactive, Inc.

20130110865 - Image endorsements: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing image endorsements. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a search query from a user device of a user that belongs to a social affinity group; receiving image search results responsive to the search query,... Agent: Google Inc.

20130110866 - Information system incorporating real-time data sources to enrich connections among users: An information system is provided that uses information derived from real time data sources to identify a potential current relationship between two or more users or entities, including individuals, organizations, and groups of individuals, based on the similarity between the real data sources, and entities associated with the real time... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130110868 - Integrating usage information with operation of a system: Usage information relating to interaction with content is integrated with operation of a system, such as a content management system. The usage information is collected, stored and provided to the system. The usage information may be integrated with the operation of the system in many different ways (e.g. recommendations for... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130110869 - Device specific folders for bookmark synchronization: Methods for storing Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) in a default storage location that is specific to the type of a device are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request for a device to store a URI, and providing a default storage location for storing the URI. The... Agent: Google Inc.

20130110871 - Distributed platform for network analysis: The present disclosure describes an apparatus and methods for performing data analysis, in particular network analysis. Specifically it provides a framework and user interface whereby raw data may be imported into a data model with entities, attributes, and relationships between the entities and multiple data analysis algorithms may be pipelined... Agent: Chalklabs, LLC

20130110870 - Methods for identifying audio or video content: The disclosed technology generally relates to methods for identifying audio and video entertainment content. Certain shortcomings of fingerprint-based content identification can be redressed through use of human-reviewers.... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20130110872 - De-focusing over big data for extraction of unknown value: Techniques for defocusing queries over big datasets and dynamic datasets are provided to broaden search results and incorporate all potentially relevant data and avoid overly narrowing queries. An analytic component can receive queries directed at one region of a dataset and analyze the queries to generate inferences about the queries.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130110873 - Method and system for data storage and management: According to some embodiments of the present invention there is provided a method and a system for managing data storage in a plurality of data partitions, such as replica databases. The method is based on analyzing, for each physical data partition, the received memory access queries. Each memory access query... Agent: Xeround Systems Ltd.

20130110874 - System and method for combination-based data analysis: A method and system for supply chain data analysis. The method includes storing supply chain data including test data, genealogy data, repair data, some factors and some items, in one or more databases and selecting a portion of the factors from the stored data, and a time range for analysis.... Agent: Camstar Systems, Inc.

20130110875 - Unified user identification with automatic mapping and database absence handling: An identification system that may be used in heterogeneous computing environments provides a fail-free path to providing identifiers from a single canonical namespace. Objects or gateways requiring an identifier for access are accessed using an identifier for the canonical namespace. If an entity requests access using an identifier from another... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130110876 - Permission based query processing: Permission based query processing techniques are provided for protecting privacy. A monitoring component can be provided to receive or intercept queries directed at a datastore, and a privacy component is provided that analyzes permissions associated with the queries. The privacy component can also determine access levels of the queries based... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130110877 - Managing homeowner association messages: For managing homeowner association messages, a communication module receives a message. A storage module stores the message. The communication module communicates the message to accounts through at least one of a plurality of communication channels in accordance with structured message restrictions. The structured message restrictions comprise full access, partial access,... Agent: Advanced Community Services

20130110879 - Declarative support for reference data in relational databases: Reference data is defined declaratively and deployed imperatively to both new and existing databases. By designating a reference data set as open or closed, reference data can be overwritten or spared. Reference data can be included in schema comparison. Reference data defined in scripts can be validated against corresponding table... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130110881 - Single command data warehouse table update: Information warehouse table data is updated through a full outer join between warehouse tables and source tables in response to a single query language command statement of a relational database computer language. The single command statement comprises table mapping instructions for updating the warehouse tables that define matching conditions, delete... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130110882 - System and method for persisting object pointers: A system and method for persisting object pointers in a computing system. Subsequent to initiating an operation to store a plurality of memory resident objects from a memory to persistent storage, a first object of the objects is accessed. Each of the objects may include pointers to other objects in... Agent:

20130110880 - Test planning using attribute value properties: A method for modeling a test space is provided. The method comprises defining a coverage model including one or more variables, wherein respective values for the variables are assigned, one or more definitions of value properties for said variables with assigned values, and one or more restrictions that limit combination... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130110878 - User-defined hierarchies in file system data sets: Hierarchical levels of data sets are defined. An object is provided, and the object includes a user-defined delimiter used to indicate a desired level of hierarchy for data sets. A set of rules associated with the object is used to present data sets. The object and the set of rules... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130110883 - Lock-free transactional support for large-scale storage systems: Described is a reliable and efficient design for a transactional status oracle (“ReTSO”), which supports large-scale storage systems. ReTSO uses a centralized scheme and implements snapshot isolation, a property that guarantees that read operations read a consistent snapshot of the data store. The centralized scheme of ReTSO enables a lock-free... Agent:

20130110884 - Spreadsheet program-based data classification for source target mapping: The subject disclosure relates to third party cloud schema matching to a user's data. The user can select the type of data to be looked up from an external source in order for the user's data to be augmented with data from the external source. The user can be presented... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130110886 - Laboratory method and laboratory arrangement for storing and creating data relating to a remote electrical power device: Exemplary embodiments are directed to a laboratory arrangement and method for storing and creating data related to a remote electrical power device. The laboratory arrangement having sampling containers that hold liquid samples from the remote electrical power device, wherein the sampling container has a read/write memory that stores administrative data... Agent: Abb Technology Ag

20130110885 - Story-based data structures: Computer-implemented systems, methods, and computer-readable media for storing and presenting content according to a story narrative include hosting a data set including a plurality of entries, wherein each entry is individually addressable in the data set and wherein an entry is a story stream; receiving a new entry; storing the... Agent: Vox Media, Inc.

20130110887 - Battery charger as a centralized personal data storage system: An intelligent battery charger comprises functional units including a file storage system, a controller and a communication device. The intelligent charger can be used as a centralized data storage system for personal electronic devices. When a personal electronic device is connected to the intelligent battery charger for charging the battery,... Agent:

20130110888 - Systems and methods of reclaiming storage space: Systems and methods for reclaiming storage space are described, including detecting a user input indicating removing a corresponding copy of each media file of a group of one or more media files; selecting the group of one or more media files; identifying the corresponding copy of each media file of... Agent:

20130110889 - File management apparatus, file management method, and program: A file management apparatus updates areas to be updated when a file operation is performed by collectively writing out buffer caches into a storage device for each of the areas according to a recording order corresponding to the type of the file operation.... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130110893 - Methods of processing files in a multiple quality of service system: The invention relates to a multiple QoS file system and methods of processing files at different QoS according to rules. The invention allocates multiple VLUNs at different qualities of service to the multiQoS file system. Using the rules, the file system chooses an initial QoS for a file when created.... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20130110894 - Reference count propagation: Methods and systems are provided for tracking object instances stored on a plurality of network nodes, which tracking enables a global determination of when an object has no references across the networked nodes and can be safely de-allocated. According to one aspect of the invention, each node has a local... Agent: Simplivity Corporation

20130110891 - Storage system and object management method: A storage system comprises a second NAS storage apparatus and a third NAS storage apparatus for migrating an object managed by a first NAS storage apparatus. The second NAS storage apparatus comprises a processor and a storage medium, which is able to store data. The processor of the second NAS... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20130110892 - Techniques to determine network storage for sharing media files: Techniques to determine network storage for sharing media files are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor. The memory may store an application having a media share component operative to receive a request to associate a media file with a document having... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130110890 - Techniques to share media files: Techniques to share media files are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor. The memory may store an application having a media share component operative to share a media file among a defined set of users. The media share component may comprise... Agent: Microsoft Corporation