Data processing: database and file management or data structures inventions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

20090271371 - Search customization by geo-located proxy of user segment: A system and method of data processing receives a query at a server computer system. The system and method utilizes the query to extract a search result from a data source. The system and method associates the search result with a geographically distributed population. The system and method associates a... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

20090259616 - Structure-position mapping of xml with variable-length data: A programming technique is disclosed for linking (or “mapping”) a query on the tree structure of an extensible markup language (XML) based computer-coded file to the “start” and “end” positions of the corresponding XML-coded data contained within the file, when the coded data has variable length in order to enhance... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090259617 - Method and system for data management: The invention provides a method, a system and a computer program product for managing the data of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools in data processing units. This data is managed by a database management system. Data entries that are added to a database are sorted, compressed and stored. These data... Agent: Mentor Graphics Corp. Patent Group

20090259619 - Online intelligent information comparison agent of multilingual electronic data sources over inter-connected computer networks: A method and system for real-time online search processing over inter-connected computer networks, in which an offline database information is maintained for a plurality of vendor sites from the inter-connected computer networks. The information includes URLs, search form URLs, description of domains, and vendor descriptions, and while the vendor descriptions... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20090259618 - Slicing of relational databases: A method and a processing device may be provided for creating a shadow database, having a size being approximately a desired percentage of a size of a relational database. Referential integrity of tables of the relational database may be preserved in the created shadow database. A representation of a connected... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090259629 - Abbreviation handling in web search: A method for handling abbreviations in web queries includes building a dictionary of a plurality of possible word expansions for a plurality of potential abbreviations related to query terms received or anticipated to be received by a search engine; accepting a query including an abbreviation; expanding the abbreviation into one... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090259622 - Classification of data based on previously classified data: Embodiments of the invention generally provide methods, systems, and articles of manufacture that facilitate classification of unclassified data. When unclassified data records are found in a data tree, one or more classified data records near the unclassified data record in the data tree may be identified. The unclassified data record... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090259628 - Data retrieval and data feed generation from data sources: Despite the availability of mashup editors, people without programming knowledge cannot easily access the data sources to create data feeds. A data feed engine allows a user to create a data feed without protocol and/or formatting knowledge for the data source. The data feed engine automatically builds a search command... Agent: Ibm Austin Iplaw (dg)

20090259624 - Exploiting conditions to optimize expensive database queries: A fallback query mechanism that serves as a way to recover from query conditions (or criteria) that break due to excessively large result sets relative to a preset threshold. The fallback query mechanism detects when a query has failed to execute because the query requested more items from the database... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090259636 - Facilitating display of an interactive and dynamic cloud of terms related to one or more input terms: According to certain embodiments, facilitating display of terms includes facilitating display of a graphical user interface. One or more first input terms entered into a user entry window of the graphical user interface are received. One or more first output terms related to the first input terms are determined. Display... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090259631 - Flexible connector framework for data feed generation: A data feed engine allows a user to create a data feed without protocol and/or formatting knowledge for the data source. The data feed engine dynamically selects a connector for any one of a variety of different types of data sources. The date feed engine can then build a search... Agent: Ibm Austin Iplaw (dg)

20090259637 - Information delivering apparatus, information delivering method, and computer-readable recording medium storing information delivering program: An information delivering apparatus is disclosed. The information delivering apparatus includes a condition information obtaining section which obtains delivering destination information, a conforming information extracting section which extracts new document information stored in an information database based on the delivering destination information obtained by the condition information obtaining section in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090259635 - Information delivery apparatus and information delivery method: The invention provides an information delivery apparatus and information delivery method that can improve the rate of access by a user. A task node designation unit acquires task information related to contents sent by a contents transmission unit, and the contents transmission unit sends the acquired task information to the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090259627 - Keeping popular advertisements active: A computerized method and system for keeping popular advertisements active are provided. Example embodiments may include identifying one or more expiring online content from a plurality of online contents. A popularity of the one or more expiring online content may be determined; and an expiration date of the one or... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090259626 - Method and system for identifying partial order patterns in sequences of data: A method and system are disclosed for identifying partial order patterns of a set of motifs in a data sequence. The method comprises the steps of obtaining the data sequence, identifying a set of motifs in the data sequence, identifying a plurality of partial orders of the motifs in the... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090259639 - Method and system for querying parameter information, and apparatus for returning parameter information: The present invention provides a method and system for querying parameter information, and an apparatus for returning parameter information. The protocol layer that receives a query request establishes a correspondence between an acquired parameter value and a parameter name and returns the parameter value and the corresponding parameter name to... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090259620 - Method and system for real-time data searches: Methods and system for real-time data searches are described. In one embodiment, time period news data may be received from a media source. A topical attribute associated with the time period news data may be obtained. A search request for data from a target data source may be received. The... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090259638 - Method for indexed-field based difference detection and correction: A method and system for indexed field based difference detection and correction. A data feed file is partitioned into a plurality of subsets based on an indexed field of the data feed file. A redundancy check value is calculated for each of the subsets, and the redundancy check value is... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ws Attn: Patent Docketing

20090259640 - Method for inputting and searching information about an object in a remote database: A method includes transmitting an object ID containing message from a mobile communication terminal via the network of the Global System for Mobile Communications through a mobile network operator equipment and by means of the Internet network to a server. At least one word is used as an object ID... Agent: Bardmesser Law Group, P.C.

20090259625 - Methods involving tagging: A method for tagging data content, the method comprising, receiving a tag associated with a data content having a data content identifier from a first user, associating the tag with a tag identifier, associating the tag with a user identifier of the first user, saving the tag identifier, the data... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Europe

20090259621 - Providing expected desirability information prior to sending a recommendation: Systems and methods are described for providing information to a recommending user reflecting an expected, or predicted, desirability of a recommendation of a media item for a potential recommendation recipient or a group of potential recommendation recipients. In one embodiment, the recommending user selects a media item to potentially recommend... Agent: Withrow & Terranova Ct

20090259634 - Recording apparatus, file descriptor generation method, and program: A recording apparatus includes a server, a client, a virtual device, a judgment section, and a regeneration section. The server executes an access to a storage medium as a service. The client includes processes that require the service. The virtual device is used to perform communication between the server and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090259630 - System and method for generating a unified service model: The present disclosure is directed to a method and system for generating a unified service model. In accordance with a particular embodiment of the present disclosure, configuration items are received. The configuration items include configuration data for at least one service. Key indicators are received. The key indicators include metrics... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090259632 - System and method for trail identification with search results: A system and method are disclosed for identifying and generating a potential user trail. The trail may be an anticipated browsing path for a user based on current and/or historical browsing data, including search logs, browsing histories, and other data. The trail may be displayed as a search result summary... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090259623 - Systems and methods for associating metadata with media: Embodiments provide methods and systems for associating metadata with media. Such methods may involve associating a media identifier with a media, storing, in an index of media identifiers, one or more entries each comprising the media identifier and metadata associated with the media, and incorporating or preserving a reference to... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP- Adobe Systems, Inc. 58083

20090259633 - Universal lookup of video-related data: A universal video-related lookup system and method receives a request for information associated with specific video content from a requesting device. The system and method identify a first video content identifier associated with the specific video content and retrieves first metadata associated with the specific video content based on the... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20090259644 - Hybrid database system using runtime reconfigurable hardware: A system may include a routines repository that is configured to store and maintain hardware libraries, software libraries and metadata, a hybrid query engine that may be configured to receive a query, parse the query, compute a query execution plan and output the query execution plan using metadata and operators... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090259643 - Normalizing query words in web search: A method for normalizing query words in web search includes populating a dictionary with join and split candidates and corresponding joined and split words from an aggregate of query logs; determining a confidence score for join and split candidates, a highest confidence score for each being characterized in the dictionary... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090259641 - Optimization of extensible markup language path language (xpath) expressions in a database management system configured to accept extensible markup language (xml) queries: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for optimization of XPath expressions in a database management system configured to accept XML queries. Operations of the method include receiving an XQuery representation and partitioning XPath expressions within the XQuery representation into a plurality of XPath expression clusters. The XPath expression clusters... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090259642 - Question type-sensitive answer summarization: In a question answering system, the system identifies a type of question input by a user. The system then generates answer summaries that summarize answers to the input question in a format that is determined based on the type of question asked by the user. The answer summaries are output,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090259648 - Automated avatar creation and interaction in a virtual world: Automated avatar creation and interaction in a virtual world may include detecting if a user's avatar has entered a predefined proximity area in the virtual world. An automated avatar may be presented an automated avatar in response to the user's avatar entering the predetermined proximity area. The automated avatar is... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Ibm

20090259645 - Block compression algorithm: A method for compressing a data stream based on a 3 byte sequence is used. Each three byte sequence is assigned a code word including a location and a length of the data associated with the code word. When a 6 byte sequence is located, a binary tree of 6... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090259655 - Data creating apparatus and data creating method: A data creating apparatus extracts meta data about a topic from a document, the meta data including at least one linguistic expression about a behavior, a plurality of the linguistic expressions having a first modification relation. The data creating apparatus converts the linguistic expressions included in the behavioral meta data... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090259656 - Data search device, data search method, and recording medium: A data search device to extract relevant data matching a specified requirement from multiple pieces of data to be searched stored in a database. The data search device includes a specified requirement data acquisition unit to acquire specified requirement data including the specified requirement, a data extraction unit to extract... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090259647 - Fuzzy keyword searching: A fuzzy, or ambiguous, keyword searching process and systems for implementing the fuzzy keyword searching process are provided. In general, one or more keyword search terms are first identified for a search. Next, a user is enabled to adjust a logical fuzziness, or logical ambiguity, for each of the one... Agent: Withrow & Terranova Ct

20090259654 - Information processing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium: An information processing apparatus includes: a read unit adapted to read first content information in which a characteristic of first content is written; an extraction unit adapted to extract rule information in which a characteristic that is common among one or more items of second content is written by analyzing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090259653 - Information processing apparatus, method, and program: An information processing apparatus searches search target frame images in video data to find a frame image matching a search query frame image. An extractor extracts characteristic quantities expressing the characteristics of respective images. A reliability judge judges the reliability of the values of each characteristic quantity in a characteristic... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090259652 - Information searching apparatus, information searching method, and computer product: An information searching apparatus retrieves a sub graph matching an inquiry graph from a graph to be searched. The apparatus includes an extracting unit that extracts, from among clusters of nodes in the graph to be searched, plural cluster pairs that each include a first cluster and a second cluster... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090259646 - Method for calculating score for search query: A method and system for automatically calculating, regarding an input search query, a score for evaluating a new query or URL which is a candidate for recommendation information according to a user's search intention. To this end, a recommendation server 10 extracts recommended queries or URLs regarding a certain query,... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090259657 - Network peer-to-peer goods and services delivery system and method for ranking peers by degrees of association: Methods and systems for providing a list of peers that satisfy a query are disclosed. A plurality of peer profiles are obtained from a data repository, each having a degree of association with the query originating peer. A first and second group of peers, respectively having a first and second... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090259651 - Search results ranking using editing distance and document information: Architecture for extracting document information from documents received as search results based on a query string, and computing an edit distance between the data string and the query string. The edit distance is employed in determining relevance of the document as part of result ranking by detecting near-matches of a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090259649 - System and method for detecting templates of a website using hyperlink analysis: The present invention relates to methods, systems, and computer readable media comprising instructions for detecting templates within one or more web pages comprising a website. The method of the present invention comprises generating one or more groups of hyperlinks within a respective web page of the one or more web... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20090259650 - System and method for identification of near duplicate user-generated content: A computer-implemented system and method for identification of near duplicate user-generated content in a networked system are disclosed. The apparatus in an example embodiment includes a data receiver to receive a first instance of user-generated content; a tokenizer to tokenize the first instance into a set of words, create a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090259658 - Apparatus and method for storing and retrieving files: An apparatus and a method for storing and retrieving files, the apparatus including a menu generation unit to generate a retrieval menu screen to input a retrieval condition, a token generation unit to generate a token by hashing at least one retrieval condition which is input through the retrieval menu... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090259659 - Identifying entities of interest: Method for identifying entities of interest is provided. The method includes analyzing records to distinguish mergeable records from non-mergeable records and identifying non-mergeable records that have a common attribute and a same value for the common attribute. If the common attribute among the identified non-mergeable records is a unique attribute,... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20090259660 - Method and apparatus for generating relevance-sensitive collation keys: A method and apparatus for generating collation keys that can be used by sorting methods so as to arrange a sequence of data objects in order of their semantic relevance to the user or their relevance to an operating context. The constituent data values of each data object are “weighted”... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20090259661 - Controlling modification of components in a content management system: A content management system (CMS) includes a content modification mechanism that checks a modification contract corresponding to a component in the repository, and determines if all relevant criteria in the modification contract corresponding to the component are satisfied before making changes to or allowing reuse of a component in the... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20090259662 - Controlling reuse of components in a content management system: A content management system (CMS) includes a content reuse mechanism that checks a reuse contract corresponding to a component in the repository, and determines if all relevant criteria in the reuse contract corresponding to the component are satisfied before allowing reuse of a component in the repository. In this manner... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20090259663 - Information access device and network: An information access device is disclosed comprising an interface for connecting the information access device to a network; a further interface for providing the information access device with a string of information request indicators; an interpretation layer for extracting an information source from the string and for generating an instruction... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090259665 - Directed placement of data in a redundant data storage system: A data processing apparatus, comprising a metadata store storing information about files that are stored in a distributed data storage system, and comprising a class database; one or more processing units; logic configured for receiving and storing in the class database a definition of a class of data storage servers... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090259664 - Infrastructure and architecture for development and execution of predictive models: A system that enables development and execution of predictive models comprises a centralized data management system, a data extraction tool a model validation tool and a model execution tool. In embodiments, a data management system includes a data management server that can be accessed via a web browser that stores... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20090259668 - Method of obtaining electronically-stored financial documents: A method for a bank to obtain an electronically-stored financial document is disclosed. The financial document includes a specific document parameter, such as a record date. The bank maintains the financial document in an off-site storage system when the record date is later than a pre-selected date and in an... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC

20090259667 - Method, device and system for distributing file data: A method for distributing file data includes: obtaining a first request message of a first client for downloading a first file, and determining an autonomous system (AS) where the first client is located; searching the AS for edge servers that support peer to peer (ES-Ps), and returning the address of... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090259666 - Unobtrusive methods and systems for collecting information transmitted over a network: The present invention relates generally to unobtrusive methods and systems for collecting information transmitted over a network utilizing a data collection system residing between an originator system and a responding system. In one embodiment the Originator System can be a web browser and the Responding System can be a web... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20090259670 - Apparatus and method for conditioning semi-structured text for use as a structured data source: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for conditioning semi-structured text to enhance its use as a data source for an analytical processing tool. In general, the method involves analyzing the semi-structured text to identify portions of text (referred to herein as sub-documents) that exhibit a repetitive characteristic.... Agent: Fountainhead Law Group, PC

20090259673 - Method and apparatus for extracting text from internet mail attachment file: Provided are a method and apparatus for extracting text from an Internet mail attachment file. The apparatus includes a mail display unit for displaying Internet mail and an attachment file received from outside, an attachment file storage for storing the attachment file, a text extraction engine for extracting a text... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090259669 - Method and system for analyzing test data for a computer application: Methods and systems are provided for analyzing assets. According to one implementation, a method is provided that comprises extracting the digital content units from a group of digital data, assigning substitute IDs to the extracted digital content units, and determining statistical characteristics of the substitute IDs to determine statistical characteristics... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090259672 - Synchronizing timing mismatch by data deletion: The rate at which data is provided by one device and the rate at which that data is processed by another device may differ. For example, a transmitting device may transmit data according to a transmit clock while a receiving device that receives the transmitted data may process the data... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090259671 - Synchronizing timing mismatch by data insertion: The rate at which data is provided by one device and the rate at which that data is processed by another device may differ. For example, a transmitting device may transmit data according to a transmit clock while a receiving device that receives the transmitted data may process the data... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090259674 - Aggregating information sources to dynamically update a calendar and to notify users of changes: Received information from a set of information sources can be processed. The processing can convert the received information into a standardized form. An effect that the converted information has upon a set of scheduled events of a calendaring application can be determined based upon a set of configurable rules. One... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090259676 - Data format conversion method and equipment, and controller management system using data format conversion equipment: The invention contemplates to improve versatility or flexibility of a system for managing a controller. In a data format converter, a computer constitutes reception unit for acquiring input information containing a program, etc, of a first data format and outputted from a programmer unit, direction extract unit for extracting a... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20090259675 - Remote differential compression applied to storage: Oftentimes, computer files, information packets, and the like share identical data portions that cause duplicate storing. The files and/or packets can be logically divided and checks can be performed to determine if there are shared portions. If shared portions exist, then as opposed to making a duplicate copy of information,... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090259681 - Automatic generation and publication of online documentation: Systems and methods are provided that build and publish online documents. Source files of the online documents are automatically built into a book and published on a web site for review. A report regarding the build is provided to the author of the documents. The author can use the report... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. Oracle International Corporation

20090259678 - Bluetooth volume tracker: A method for tracking portable storage media paired with either a mainframe or a library. The portable storage media, mainframe, and library each having a short-range wireless communication device attached thereto such as Bluetooth™.... Agent: Saidman Designlaw Group

20090259677 - Evidence repository application system and method: An evidence repository application system provides a centralized repository of implementation evidence data for a project and to provide a method for collecting, storing and tracking the implementation evidence data for the project. The evidence repository application system receives and stores evaluation data regarding the implementation evidence data. The evidence... Agent: Garlick, Harrison & Markison (visa)

20090259679 - Parsimonious multi-resolution value-item lists: Systems and methods are provided for parsimonious representation of large sets of multi-resolution value-item lists. A hierarchical data structure associated with the lists and conditioning variables is learnt while exploiting both semantics encoded in target variables and a notion of nearness among nodes at the same detail level in the... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090259680 - System and method for extensible data interface for shared service module: A system and associated method for interfacing between caller applications and a shared service module. Upon receiving a request for a transaction, the shared service module creates a separate data structure per request from a caller application and configures a caller identifier to uniquely identify the caller application. The separate... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090259682 - Method for identifying requirements for designing information technology systems: A method for generating specification requirements for an Information Technology development project has been developed. First, a framework is created for decomposing and categorizing organizational information into data elements that include project design requirements. These data elements are then stored in a data repository. A relationship is defined between the... Agent: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

20090259683 - System and method for business object modeling: An enterprise information system consists of two fundamental components—the data and the business logic. Relational databases can provide a stable, clear and robust implementation of transactions with ACID properties and a declarative query language (SQL) for managing data and are at the core of modern enterprise computing. But modern programming... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090259686 - Capturing and combining media data and geodata in a composite file: Systems and methods are provided for capturing and combining media data and geodata into a composite file. The system may include a media data capture module configured to capture media data at a plurality of geographic locations along a path in a geographic area, and to store the media data... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090259684 - Digital content library service: A digital content library service makes available copies of digital content in a customer's tangible media library to be transferable to a hard disk or other random access memory of a compatible media player for a fee. To ensure that only one copy is transferable per tangible medium, the medium... Agent: Patent Department Macrovision Corporation

20090259685 - Infrastructure and architecture for development and execution of predictive models: A system that enables development and execution of predictive models comprises a centralized data management system, a data extraction tool a model validation tool and a model execution tool. In embodiments, a data management system includes a data management server that can be accessed via a web browser that stores... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20090259687 - Interactive recipe preparation using instructive device with integrated actuators to provide tactile feedback: An interactive cooking device is provided. A user selects a recipe from a list of available recipes. Preparation steps corresponding to the selected recipe are retrieved from a data store along with a set of ingredients. The retrieved preparation steps are sequentially displaying to the user on a display that... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20090259688 - Interactive recipe preparation using instructive device with integrated actuators to provide tactile feedback: An interactive cooking preparation device is presented. The user places ingredients that the user wishes to use in a recipe. The interactive cooking preparation device detects the ingredients placed by the user in the detection area of the interactive cooking preparation device using sensors. The detection results in a set... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20090259689 - Interactive recipe preparation using instructive device with integrated actuators to provide tactile feedback: A way of delivering recipe preparation instruction to disabled individuals is provided using an interactive cooking preparation device. The device retrieves an instruction delivery preference that corresponds to a user with a disability, such as a hearing or sight disability. The user then selects a recipe from list of recipes.... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20090259690 - Methods and apparatus for audio recognitiion: Frequencies from a set of audio source files are extracted and measured across the set to determine a range of each of the frequencies. Stable frequencies of the frequencies are detected based on each range and used to create a stable frequency family. An unknown recording is mapped to the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090259692 - Managing database agents: Aspects of the present invention provide a solution for managing database agents. Specifically, an embodiment of the present invention produces a predetermined number of replica databases for running the agents. Agent scheduling documents are produced and parsed to determine on which database the agent should be run and on which... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090259695 - Methods and apparatus for maintaining consistency during analysis of large data sets: Methods and apparatus for updating a database using a multi-dimensional data model in which data corresponding to the database are organized in multi-dimensional data blocks. Each data block has summary information associated therewith corresponding to a current state of evolution of the associated data block. Dependency information is maintained in... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090259691 - Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for updating a content item: Methods, apparatuses and computer program products are provided for updating a content item. In this regard, a current context associated with a content item can be determined based on criteria such as, a user's tendencies, user preferences, battery level, time of day, etc. The current context of the content item... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090259693 - Service for receiving obsolete web page copies: The state of network-accessible information is preserved by recognizing a reference to a uniform resource locator contained within an electronic file where the uniform resource locator provides an address for content to be preserved. A copy of at least a portion of the information associated with the recognized uniform resource... Agent: Stevens & Showalter, L.L.P.

20090259694 - System, method, and program for editing production schedule: A system, method, and computer program for editing a production schedule. The system includes: a storage unit storing master data; a receiving unit receiving the master data; a duplicating unit generating editing data; an editing operation unit generating preliminarily-edited data based on an editing command; an identification unit identifying an... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090259698 - Data synchronizing system, acquiring terminal, and providing terminal: A data synchronizing system includes providing terminals and an acquiring terminal. The acquiring terminal includes a first connecting device, an acquiring device that acquires files, a first file storing device that stores the files, a data modify command device that issues a command to modify a data item in the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090259697 - Database synchronization system and database synchronization method: A mobile communication network server judges the degree of importance of an information element targeted for synchronization, and transmits a synchronization start notification to a mobile terminal corresponding to the judgment result, and database synchronization is performed between the mobile communication network server and mobile terminal after the synchronization start... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20090259696 - Node synchronization for multi-processor computer systems: A method and apparatus for controlling access by a set of accessing nodes to memory of a home node (in a multimode computer system) determines that each node in the set of nodes has accessed the memory, and forwards a completion message to each node in the set of nodes... Agent: Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP

20090259699 - Methods and procedures to provide complete test copy environment of hosted applications: Systems and methods that create a duplicate database instance on which database testing may be performed. The techniques for creating a test database instance enable database testing to proceed without impacting other organization's access to their data in the database or corrupting an organization's data. The ability to allow one... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090259700 - System and method for logstream archival: A method of archiving data from a logstream includes determining a begin time parameter earlier in time than a last record obtained from the logstream of data. A request is sent for records from the logstream of data starting at the begin time parameter. Records are received from the logstream... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090259701 - Methods and systems for space management in data de-duplication: The present invention is directed toward methods and systems for data de-duplication. More particularly, in various embodiments, the present invention provides systems and methods for data de-duplication that may utilize storage reclamation. In various embodiments, data de-duplication may be performed using data storage reclamation by reconciling a list of all... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20090259702 - Using an overflow list to process mark overflow: Mark stack overflow list. A method may be practiced in a computing environment including application code that implements garbage collection functionality. The garbage collection functionality includes pushing object references onto a mark stack, such that objects referenced on the mark stack can be marked so as to prevent memory for... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090254511 - Privacy management policy hub: A system architecture is disclosed that includes a privacy management system.... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20090254516 - Accessing data in a column store database based on hardware compatible indexing and replicated reordered columns: Embodiments of the present invention provide hardware-friendly indexing of databases. In particular, forward and reverse indexing are utilized to allow for easy traversal of primary key to foreign key relationships. A novel structure known as a hit list also allows for easy scanning of various indexes in hardware. Group indexing... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090254512 - Ad matching by augmenting a search query with knowledge obtained through search engine results: A method is provided to match an advertisement to a search query comprising: receiving search results produced by a search engine in response to a search query; producing an ad query that includes, unigram features, classification features with respect to an external classification system, and phrase features; producing a plurality... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Duane Morris LLP

20090254514 - Handling requests for data stored in database tables: Method for handling requests for data stored in database tables is provided. The method includes receiving a request for data stored in a database table, the database table including non-hash and hash columns, a hash column including hash values computed based on non-hash values in at least one non-hash column,... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20090254513 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for performing a query using a decision diagram: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for performing a query using a decision diagram. In this regard, in response to receiving a query instruction a compression value for a query result decision diagram can be determined. A compression value for a compressed query result set may also... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090254518 - Methods and systems for joining database tables using indexing data structures: A method for identifying joined rows in a database comprising a plurality of tables. The method comprises selecting a group of tables directly or indirectly joined with each other, selecting an order of the group based on relationships among the tables, generating an intermediate data structure which identifies the group... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel, LLP

20090254517 - System and method for generating messages: A method and system for generating messages are described. The method and system include retrieving information regarding a plurality of tasks from a database and based on the information retrieved, determining whether notifications for the tasks need to be generated. The method and system further include determining a recipient for... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090254515 - System and method for presenting gallery renditions that are identified from a network: A presentation system provided for use on a network. The presentation system includes an index and one or more modules. The index that stores gallery information, the gallery including (i) information that identifies a plurality of galleries, and (ii) data corresponding to renditions of individual media objects that comprise at... Agent: Mahamedi Paradice Kreisman LLP

20090254528 - Data inquiry system and method for three-dimensional location-based image, video, and information: This invention discloses a data inquiry system for three-dimensional location-based image, video, and information, which comprises a client device and a remote server. The client device provides space parameters and lens parameters to the remote server through a transmission module. The remote server determines a space inquiry range by the... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090254522 - Detecting estimation errors in dictinct page counts: A database server may be configured to compute distinct page counts of pages accessed to execute operands of respective queries. The queries may be executed against a table comprised of the pages and having an index managed by the database server. The distinct page counts may be obtained by counting,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090254521 - Frequency partitioning: entropy compression with fixed size fields: A frequency partitioning technique is introduced that amortizes the work of computing codeword lengths within a tuplecode by grouping together tuples that have the same pattern of codeword lengths. Specifically, the technique entropy codes and partitions column values in each column into disjoint sets called column partitions, assigns a codeword... Agent: Ip Authority, LLC Ramraj Soundararajan

20090254523 - Hybrid term and document-based indexing for search query resolution: Methods and apparatuses relate to hosting an inverted index for term-based document searching. According to disclosed aspects, each bank of a plurality of banks receives a plurality of Document IDentifiers (DocIDs) in the inverted index, and within each bank, posting lists for each term are determined large or small. DocIDs... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Duane Morris LLP

20090254530 - Indigenous authentication and searching system and method: An apparatus and system for authenticating and searching data is provided. The apparatus includes a tightly coupled housing, an authenticator in the tightly coupled housing, a first archival storage in the tightly coupled housing, an indexer in the tightly coupled housing, and an index storage in the tightly coupled housing.... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders, LLP Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP Welsh & Katz

20090254525 - Method and system for a database to monitor and analyze performance of an electronic design: Various methods and apparatuses are described that provide instrumentation and analysis of an electronic design having one or more bus interconnects. A relational database may have defined tables designed for interconnect analysis of transactions occurring between initiator intellectual property (IP) cores and target IP cores of the electronic design. A... Agent: Rutan & Tucker, LLP.

20090254519 - Method and system for building a support vector machine binary tree for fast object search: Method and system for building a support vector machine binary tree for fast object search. An appearance model can be generated for objects in a database and computed on regions detected in an image frame. A covariance matrix can be utilized for representing the appearance model of the detected regions.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090254527 - Multi-entity-centric integrated search system and method: Disclosed herein is a multi-entity-centric integrated search system and method. The multi-entity-centric integrated search system includes an entity information acquisition server for receiving and analyzing a query term and determining entities and types of entities, and an integrated search result provision server for configuring an integrated search results page using... Agent: Lrk Patent Firm

20090254526 - Network management information (nmi) distribution: A device associated with a network provides a query for specific network management information (NMI) to a registry, and receives, based on the query, metadata associated with the specific network management information (NMI). The device also provides a request for the specific network management information (NMI) to a plurality of... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090254524 - Providing data based on language choice: Data may be provided in a language chosen by a user. A data record may be stored in a database using symbols to represent data. These symbols may be converted into various languages. A resource file for a given language defines a correspondence between the symbols in the record and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090254520 - System and method for synchronizing data record with web document in a content management system: A system and associated method for synchronizing a record with a web document. A synchronizer selects a web document that is stored in a published web document repository of a content management system. The oldest web document since the latest update is selected and checked for availability. The synchronizer locates... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090254529 - Systems, methods and computer program products for content management: A system for managing content, the system including: (a) a memory for storing a source internet document that has been acquired over an internet connection; (b) a processor, configured to divide the source internet document into multiple granular elements, and to provide a group of interrelated granular elements; and to... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090254532 - Accessing data in a column store database based on hardware compatible data structures: Embodiments of the present invention provide one or more hardware-friendly data structures that enable efficient hardware acceleration of database operations. In particular, the present invention employs a column-store format for the database. In the database, column-groups are stored with implicit row ids (RIDs) and a RID-to-primary key column having both... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090254531 - Method and apparatus for collecting and categorizing data at a terminal: A method and system for collecting and categorizing survey data includes receiving customer information from a customer. A query is identified based at least in part on the customer information. The query is output for presentation to the customer. In one embodiment, the query is presented to the customer by... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20090254537 - Image search apparatus and image search method: m

20090254548 - Information processing apparatus and method, program, recording medium, recomendation apparatus and method, and information processing system: An information processing apparatus is provided whereby digital content can be viewed more comfortably and conveniently. A category information transmitter transmits, to a server, category information expressing one or more content categories associated with a recording medium loaded into the apparatus. A recommendation list presentation unit then receives and presents... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090254541 - Method and apparatus for automated selection, organization, and recommendation of items based on user preference topography: A computer system representing user preferences in an N-dimensional preference topography and making recommendations based on such topography. The preference topography depicts user ratings of products in a recommendation database. Each product is represented by a product vector associated with N objectively measurable characteristics. The user rating of a product,... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090254540 - Method and apparatus for automated tag generation for digital content: A method and apparatus for automatically generating tags for digital content are provided. The method is adapted to be run on a computer, which is an example of the type of apparatus which may generate the tags. The generated tags describe the digital content, and may be used as topics... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090254550 - Method and system for offering search results: A method of providing a search result and a system for executing the method are provided. A method of providing a search result includes: setting a grade of a category associated with a keyword based on click information; creating a category list to maintain the category list in association with... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20090254536 - Method and system for processing search requests: Methods and system for processing search requests are described. In one embodiment, a term of a search request may be received. A determination of whether the term is a meta-keyword may be made. One or more linguistically transformed keywords associated with the meta-keyword may be obtained. A search may be... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090254545 - Method and system for scoring domain names: Methods and systems for scoring domain names are provided. A domain name may be scored based on a set of criteria, and a sub-score assigned to each criteria. The sub-scores may be used to generate a domain name score and identify ways of increasing the score of the domain name.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090254549 - Methods and apparatuses for searching content: Embodiments of methods and apparatuses for searching contents, including structured search are described herein. Embodiments of the present invention use tree structures (or more generally, graph structures), layout structures, and/or content category information to capture within search results relevant content that would otherwise be missed, to reduce the incidence of... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20090254533 - Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for distribution of search metadata: Embodiments of the invention are generally related to metadata describing users accessing a network and network content. Each user may have a user profile comprising a list of user tags describing the user. Each item of network content may include a list of content tags describing the item. When a... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090254534 - Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for managing search metadata: Embodiments of the invention are generally related to metadata describing users accessing a network and network content. Each user may have a user profile comprising a list of user tags describing the user. Each item of network content may include a list of content tags describing the item. Each user... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090254538 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for social based assistance in a source code control system: A method, system, and computer program product for social based assistance in a source code control system are provided. The method includes selecting a segment of source code and parsing the selected segment of source code to identify one or more syntax terms. The method also includes searching source files... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Europe

20090254546 - Personalized screening of contextually relevant content: A system and method store and locate objects within a business organization. Objects created by individuals are stored in association with a context for which they are created. Security can be used to prevent unauthorized individuals from accessing objects without permission.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090254544 - Ranking items: A method of ranking items includes displaying a set of categories. Each category has a set of weights for a user to choose. Each item is associated with the set of categories. The method also includes displaying a search result based on the weights chosen by the user. The search... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090254547 - Retrieving apparatus, retrieving method, and computer-readable recording medium storing retrieving program: A retrieving server 130 includes an input unit 351 that receives a plurality of search conditions of different categories; plural search units 340 (341 to 344) that are provided respectively for each of the categories and execute searches based on the search conditions; a processing unit 352 that, based on... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090254535 - Search engine to improve product recall traceability activities: The present invention provides an improved method of handling product recall activities through traceability. One embodiment of the present invention involves gathering data in a multi-layered database architecture containing supply, process, test, and customer layers. The data is supplied to a traceability module which contains a search engine to link... Agent: Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP

20090254542 - Search methods and systems: Search methods and systems are provided. First, a voice is received. The voice is recognized using voice recognition technology to obtain at least two keywords, and a specific keyword combination is generated according to the keywords. A specific requirement among a plurality of requirements is associated according to the specific... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20090254543 - System and method for matching search requests and relevant data: A system and methods for matching between search requests and relevant data (web pages, online documents, essays, online text in general, images, video, footage etc.). The system comprises three components that can work separately or together and can be integrated with other search engine methods in order to further improve... Agent: Ronny Fogel Daltan Consuiting Ltd.

20090254539 - User intention modeling for interactive image retrieval: A system performs user intention modeling for interactive image retrieval. In one implementation, the system uses a three stage iterative technique to retrieve images from a database without using any image tags or text descriptors. First, the user submits a query image and the system models the user's search intention... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090254551 - Guided entry system for individuals for annotating process deviations: Methods (100), algorithms, and implementing systems (200) for guided annotation of process deviations by an individual responsible for annotations (e.g. process operator) for a manufacturing process having an associated computing system (210) including a historical database (stored in memory 219). The historical database is provided (101) including data associated with... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090254552 - Highly available large scale network and internet systems: Described is a technology by which a system corresponding to a large scale application is built from subsystems that are differentiated from one another based on characteristics of each subsystem. Example characteristics include availability, reliability, redundancy, statefulness and/or performance. Subsystems are matched to known design patterns, based on each subsystem's... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090254553 - Matching media for managing licenses to content: Matching digital media available in a multi-node system. An example embodiment receives media from media providers. Metadata may also be included with digital media files or stored separately in a database. An example matching system generates, or receives a list of candidate nodes, such as network domains, to search for... Agent: Corbis Corporation C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090254554 - Music searching system and method: A music searching system and method conducting a metadata search of music based on an entered search term. Music identified from the metadata search is used as seed music to identify other acoustically complementing music. Acoustic analysis data of the seed music is compared against acoustic analysis data of potential... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090254555 - Modeling and simulating software contention: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to modeling and simulating software contention. In aspects, a model declares properties of a scarce software object and models software components that need the scarce software object to execute. A simulator uses the model to set up data structures that track locking... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090254556 - Optimistic locking in online and offline environments: Systems and methods to implement optimistic locking in online and offline environments are provided. A particular method includes receiving from an application an application data request related to retrieving a data item from a data store. The method also includes sending an optimistic locking information request to the data store... Agent: Ibm Corp Svl (jgt) C/o Toler Law Group

20090254560 - Database system and method with improved locks: A method for handling database locks includes detecting a new query from an administrator for a set of database records. Next, it is determined whether the administrator has any chance of being authorized to acquire a new lock. If so, an attempt is made to acquire the new lock and,... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20090254559 - File system and method for controlling file system: A file system includes an entity file region allocated to a client; and a conditional symbolic link file configured to store a conversion rule. A path analyzing section refers to the conversion rule stored in the conditional symbolic link file to convert a virtual path specified when the client accesses... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090254561 - Method for accessing user data and profile management server: A method for accessing user data and a profile management server (PMS) to resolve the inability of prior arts are disclosed to support both the associated access between user profiles and the distributed data access mechanism. The method for accessing user data includes: a PMS receives an associated data access... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090254557 - System and method for visualization of data: Embodiments of computer implemented methods and systems for visualization of data are described. One example embodiment includes receiving authentication data related to a user, establishing an identity of the user based on the user authentication data, and receiving profile data associated with the user in response to the establishing of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090254558 - System and method of managing safety information: A safety management system for use in industry, such as the oil and gas industry, is disclosed. The system comprises a database component for storing safety information including project information comprising at least one project entry. Each project entry has a unique project identifier and project data. The database component... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20090254562 - Automatic metadata extraction and metadata controlled production process: Metadata generated at the outset of an audio visual program, such as a television undergoes transmission to a field device associated with a capture device operated by production personnel, such as a news reporter and/or a videographer to capture one of audio and/or video information. The production personnel will typically... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090254567 - Data file forwarding storage and search: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for data forwarding storage and search. A method includes, in a network of interconnected computer systems, receiving a request from a source system in the network to store a data file, directing the data file to a computer memory of a first computer... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090254572 - Digital information infrastructure and method: Distributed computer system processes data having select content (SC) represented by one or more predetermined words, characters, etc. The system has a plurality of SC data stores in a server cloud for respective security designated (Sec-D) data and scarcity designated (S-D) data, each with respective access controls thereat. The SC... Agent: Robert C. Kain, Jr.

20090254566 - Findings navigator: A method is disclosed for providing access to medical information, the medical information being distributed across a plurality of data files. In at least one embodiment, the method includes receiving data files being relevant to the medical information; selecting a current layout from a plurality of layouts for making the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090254564 - Initial content customization apparatus and method: A hardware platform (300) of choice can be configured and arranged to determine (101) a current need to respond to a previously unknown person with content and to then obtain (102) from that person only a modicum of personal information. The hardware platform can then use (103) that modicum of... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20090254568 - Method and apparatus for editing, filtering, ranking, and approving content: The system provides a method and apparatus for editing, filtering, ranking and approving content. In one embodiment, the system provides a browsing environment for children that routes all internet requests through a central server. A request to a blocked website is automatically forwarded to one of a plurality of editors... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20090254563 - Method and system for dynamically creating and updating user profiles for instant message contacts: A method, system and computer program product for enabling retrieval and display from an information resource of additional information corresponding to an instant message (IM) contact using search topics detected/retrieved from: a profile of the IM contact; a stored list of topics of interest to the IM contact; and content... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20090254565 - Subsequent tailoring of a sign-up page based on a search engine query: The invention provides a method of processing data including, receiving a URL at a server computer system, utilizing the URL at the server computer system to extract a plurality of server search results from a data store, and transmitting the server search results from the server computer system to the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090254571 - System and method of synchronizing data sets across distributed systems: An information management system comprising a first deployment that includes at least one data structure and a plurality of data sets stored on the data structure wherein each data set includes data items, at least a first subset of the data sets assigned an active status and at least a... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090254569 - Systems and methods for real time data management in a collaborative environment: Systems and methods for real time data management in a collaborative environment. In one embodiment, the systems and methods dynamically link stakeholders, through a collaborative environment, to current and updated data. The systems and methods also cross-reference data objects between stakeholders for calling data objects by a common name, and... Agent: Crain, Caton & James

20090254570 - Video server and file management method: A video server and a file management method which can erase an unnecessary program data file promptly are provided. Video server S divides processing of management of files performed by one frame into 11 sections, assigns five sections to playing process, assigns five sections to recording process and assigns one... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090254574 - Method and apparatus for producing an ontology representing devices and services currently available to a device within a pervasive computing environment: One embodiment of the invention provides a method and apparatus for use by a device in a pervasive computing environment. The method includes receiving at the device multiple XML sources describing devices and/or services currently available to said device within the pervasive computing environment. The device then transforms the received... Agent: Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090254573 - Plant floor event protocol and schema: A method is provided for managing information on a plant floor, and includes recording a definition file, such as an extended markup language (XML) schema, in a source device, and generating a plant floor event (PFE) message as a bit array or string array. The PFE message transfers from the... Agent: Quinn Law Group, PLLC

20090254575 - Apparatus and method for manipulating nested archive files and folders: Methods for packing and unpacking files in a multi-level hierarchy in single actions. The methods operate in memory through using one file pointer for the archive file in recursive calls to the packing and unpacking methods, for accessing files in multiple nested levels. The packing and unpacking are performed in... Agent: Soroker-agmon Advocate And Patent Attorneys

20090254577 - Method and system for generating a mapping between types of data: A method and system for routing data of an source type to a target type is provided. The system has various routines for converting data in one type into data in another type. In one embodiment, the system receives an indication of a source type and identifies various sequences of... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20090254578 - Methods and apparatus for searching and accessing multimedia content: A method of synchronising a multimedia content file with an associated text file includes subdividing the text file into one or more samples, where each sample includes zero or more consecutive characters of the text file. The samples are associated with a corresponding contiguous time interval of the multimedia content... Agent: Crawford Maunu PLLC

20090254576 - System and method for collecting data from an electronic document and storing the data in a dynamically organized data structure: A method for automatically and dynamically collecting new data entered into an electronic document includes the step of providing a database having initial data and an initial data structure. The new data is retrieved as the new data is entered into the electronic document. The new data includes a data... Agent: Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

20090254579 - Deploying directory instances: A method, system, and computer usable program product for deploying directory instances are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A configuration of an existing directory instance is cloned to the new directory instance. The existing directory instance may execute in a first data processing system and the new directory instance may... Agent: Ibm Corp. (gig)

20090254581 - Knowledge discovery system capable of custom configuration by multiple users: An automated method for allowing multiple users to independently analyze a corpus of digital information having discrete elements by providing two or more users access to one or more initial training source of digital information, allowing the users to each define a set of categories, automatically generating a group of... Agent: Douglas E. Mckinley, Jr.

20090254583 - Linking discrete dimensions to enhance dimensional analysis: Not all facts in a data warehouse are described by the same set of dimensions. However, there can be associations between the data dimensions and other dimensions. By maintaining a set of relationships that are capable of linking the dimensional keys used in existing data to the keys of an... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20090254582 - Method and system for storage replication: Consistent replicas of a data object are created using a replication protocol that includes an opportunistic replication phase followed by a consistent replication phase. During the opportunistic replication phase, dirty regions are selected from the data object included in a primary computer and copied to a data object replica included... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20090254584 - Methods and apparatus for constructing declarative componentized applications: Techniques for constructing a software application are provided. A data model of the application is represented as a relational model. Control logic of the application is defined to specify each of a plurality of operations of the application as a mapping from a current state of the application data model... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090254580 - System and method for providing common operators across multiple applications: A system and technique for managing and manipulating data objects, and more particularly data files, of different types utilizing a common user interface. The system allows management of folders and files across many different file types native to many different source applications, such as operating system files, document management system... Agent: Brett J. Trout, PC

20090254585 - Method for associating administrative policies with user-definable groups of files: A method and apparatus for associating administrative policies with user-definable groups of files is provided. The groups of files are defined by assigning tags to files or directories. Tags are a part of metadata stored by an operating system for the files and directories. Tags associated with files or directories... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090254587 - Method and system for centrally deploying and managing virtual software applications: A system and method for centrally deploying and managing virtual applications in an organization. The method comprises retrieving an existing schema of objects from a management directory of the organization; generating a virtual directory including at least the retrieved schema of objects and a virtual application; and enabling performance of... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090254586 - Updated bookmark associations: Updated bookmark associations is described. In embodiment(s), a bookmark save event can be received from a media device when a bookmark is initiated while a video stream of media content is rendered by the media device, such as when the bookmark save event is initiated by a viewer at the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090254589 - Client side caching of synchronized data: A method for synchronizing a database with data stored at a client includes providing a data feed to receive data by the client from the database and provide received data, caching the received data in a client side cache to provide client side cached data, detecting a database change to... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow Ltd.

20090254590 - Method of bi-directional synchronization of user data: A method for bi-directional synchronization of user data files between a client and at least one server. The method comprises determining if a match exists between a local session file and a reflection session file, wherein the local session file is maintained by the client and the reflection session is... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090254588 - Multi-dimensional data merge: The invention is directed to a system and method for merging at least two datasets each having at least two keys and each having a plurality of data elements. The system determines a quantity of shared data elements in each dataset for each key as well as a quantity of... Agent: Gibbons P.C.

20090254591 - Manipulating electronic backups: Systems and methods are provided for storing and restoring digital data. In some implementations, a method is provided. The method includes initiating a backup operation of data including a plurality of items, interrupting the backup operation, where interrupting occurs after a portion of the data has been completed, receiving an... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090254592 - Non-disruptive file migration: Non-disruptive migration of the native volume from the source server to the destination server performed by a file switch involves converting the source native volume to a native with metadata volume; converting the native with metadata volume to a mirrored native with metadata volume including the source server and the... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP (f5 Patents) Gunnar G. Leinberg

20090254593 - Online-assisted backup and restore: A system includes a server and a source client executable on a first electronic device configured to be in communication over a network with the server. The first electronic device has stored thereon a plurality of electronic files. The first electronic device is in communication with at least one storage... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20090254595 - Data storage method and related device for an electronic device: In order to prevent memory cells from being damaged, the present invention provides a data storage method for an electronic device including dividing a first section of a memory of the electronic device into N blocks, wherein the N blocks is a sequence of blocks from the first block to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090254594 - Techniques to enhance database performance: Techniques to enhance database performance are described. An apparatus may comprise an enhanced DBMS arranged to manage storage operations for tree data structures in a storage component. The enhanced DBMS may comprise a defragment detector module operative to identify a tree data structure as having a sequential data retrieval pattern.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090254596 - Providing a publishing mechanism for managed objects: Publishing an object. Memory for an object may be reserved so as to lock the memory from being access by garbage collection threads or other user threads. While the lock is in place, type and size information can be installed for the object. If the reservation is being made to... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft