Database Or File Accessing

Database Or File Accessing patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.

11/09/06 - 20060253419 - Translation of object queries involving inheritence
Join expressions, expressed in terms of objects, are translated into a relational database join statement by generating a parse tree based on the join expression. The parse tree is traversed to build the relational database join statement. ...

11/09/06 - 20060253418 - Method and apparatus for sociological data mining
A processing system for retrieving interrelated documents is described. The system comprises a document repository for storing a plurality of documents, a metadata repository for storing a plurality of metadata elements to represent relations between the documents, and a sociological analysis engine to identify relationships between the documents using the ...

11/09/06 - 20060253417 - Local context navigation system
Embodiments of the invention provide methods, systems, and machine-readable media for browsing, navigating and searching a context sensitive entertainment-programming guide. According to one embodiment, a method for navigating an entertainment-programming guide can comprise establishing a connection from a client device to a server computer through a public network. A first ...

11/09/06 - 20060253416 - Notification processor that notifies information and position information manager
To provide an apparatus that transmits information, which includes a storage unit that stores notification rule information in which transmission destination information is associated with notification type information, a reception processor that receives predetermined information from a detector that detects a mobile information storage medium attached to an object, a ...

11/09/06 - 20060253415 - Data-defined communication device
A system and method for defining one or more operating characteristics of a communication device with data is disclosed. In one embodiment, the communication device includes an input port configured to receive a data file that includes information that defines at least one communication protocol for the communication device, and ...

11/09/06 - 20060253414 - Efficient storing and querying of snapshot measures
A facility for efficiently storing and querying snapshot measures from a relational data warehouse is provided. The facility allows for the efficient query of measures at any given point in time by efficiently modeling snapshot measures. In one technique, the facility stores periodic snapshots of a metric at longer time ...

11/09/06 - 20060253413 - Method and system for transmitting user data to a terminal that has data service capability and is integrated in a communication network
A method and system are provided for transmitting user data to a terminal that has data service capability, is integrated in a communication network, and in which the user data are retrievably stored. Desired user data is obtained from a user-data information system likewise connected to the communication network. It ...

11/09/06 - 20060253412 - System of multi-level defaults in transaction entries
A system for entering multi-level default data in defaultable fields of a new-data-entry entity based on data entered in multi-level controlling fields. A default-data entity provides selectable default data. A default-rule entity includes default rules that specify selections of the default data as a function of controlling data entered into ...

11/09/06 - 20060253411 - Method, system and program product for inserting visual controls for data values in web content from a legacy web application without rewriting the legacy web application
Under the present invention, a request for web content is received from a user in a proxy portlet of a portal server. In response, the proxy portlet will obtain markup for the web content from the appropriate web application(s). Upon receipt, metadata corresponding to the markup will be analyzed to ...

11/09/06 - 20060253410 - Database reverse query matching
The subject invention pertains to database reverse query matching. A text document can be received and analyzed to determine which, if any, queries the document matches. To enable such functionality, a number of intermediate structures such as tables are generated in accordance with designated queries. In particular, a canonical table ...

11/09/06 - 20060253409 - Method, apparatus and computer program product providing local service discovery with browser search
Embodiments of the invention provide in part a method to conduct a search for information in a network. The method includes operating a user interface of a device to initiate the sending of a search request via a first channel; and indicating via the user interface selectively whether received information ...

11/09/06 - 20060253408 - Method and system using profiles to control dissemination of data
A communication device (10) includes a transmitter (16) and a processor (12) coupled to the transmitter. The processor can be programmed to control dissemination of information of a user using a contextual profile (23 or 52, 54, or 56) for at least one recipient of the user, monitor a user's ...

11/02/06 - 20060248044 - Relevance maximizing, iteration minimizing, relevance-feedback, content-based image retrieval (cbir)
An implementation of a technology, described herein, for relevance-feedback, content-based image retrieval minimizes the number of iterations for user feedback regarding the semantic relevance of exemplary images while maximizing the resulting relevance of each iteration. One technique for accomplishing this is to use a Bayesian classifier to treat positive and ...

11/02/06 - 20060248043 - Method and apparatus for multiple agent commitment tracking and notification
A system for tracking client contacts for a host organization utilizes a multimedia database and a user interface at a connected computer device. The database stores client communications as full content, and relates contacts by issue, and the user interface displays client contact communications as objects, such as icons, in ...

11/02/06 - 20060248042 - Method to reduce the latency caused by garbage collection in a java virtual machine
A method to reduce the latency caused by garbage collection in a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) wherein different machines (MC1, MC2, MC3) are running consecutive tasks (P1, P2, P3) of an application. Because instances of a garbage collector (GC1, GC2, GC3) have to run on each machine and interrupt the ...

11/02/06 - 20060248041 - Computing environment assurance tool
A user's computing environment, including operating system, programs, settings, and user data, is stored on a secondary storage device. The computer's operating system is reconfigured such that user data access requests are routed to the user data on the secondary storage device. From a user's perspective, the location of his ...

11/02/06 - 20060248040 - System and method for adaptive remote file caching
A system and method for caching the results of various operations on a remote or distributed file system. The present invention takes into account the MIME type or other file type for a particular file and the application being used to open the file in order to determine whether the ...

11/02/06 - 20060248039 - Sharing of full text index entries across application boundaries
A method and system for sharing full text index entries across application boundaries in which documents are obtained by a shared, platform level indexing service, and a determination is made as to whether the received documents are duplicates with regard to previously indexed documents. If a document is determined to ...

11/02/06 - 20060248038 - System and method of handling file metadata
A network storage system comprises data storage, one or more file system APIs, and a metadata handler. The data storage can comprise file data and associated metadata. The file system APIs can be configured to read and write file data and metadata to and from the data storage. The metadata ...

11/02/06 - 20060248037 - Annotation of inverted list text indexes using search queries
A system and method of data mining comprises processing contents of a primary posting index; and producing a posting within a secondary posting index based on the processing of the contents of the primary posting index, wherein the processing of contents of the primary posting index comprises submitting a disjunction ...

11/02/06 - 20060248036 - Internal persistence of session state information
A method is described for a computing system with multiple virtual machines that does not support persistence of session information in a shared memory that is internal to the computing system and that is accessible to each of the virtual machines. The method involves receiving a deployment descriptor that specifies ...

11/02/06 - 20060248035 - System and method for search advertising
A system and method of optimizing pay-for-placement advertising is disclosed. The disclosed method includes the selection of a metric for evaluating the performance of a pay-for-placement advertisement or “listing,” and predicting the performance of the listing relative to said metric using a particular search term at a plurality of positions ...

11/02/06 - 20060248034 - Dedicated connection to a database server for alternative failure recovery
A Dedicated Administrator Connection (DAC) for a database server is provided that allows a user with administrator privileges to connect to the database server when a connection by standard means fails. By allowing an administrator to connect to the server through the DAC, the administrator can resolve the issue despite ...

11/02/06 - 20060248033 - Data mining within a message handling system
A method, system, computer program product, and process for data mining within a message handling system in a computer system. The message handling system includes a message broker and queues. The message broker implements the method. An executing data mining algorithm operates upon a data mining model that depends on ...

11/02/06 - 20060248032 - Method and system for organizing and retrieving energy information
A method and a system for organizing and retrieving energy related information for a plurality of real world objects, wherein a number of information types are defined, each information type representing different kind of energy related information. The method includes providing one or more predefined interfaces adapted for retrieval of ...

10/26/06 - 20060242114 - Method and apparatus for configuring a computer
A method and apparatus for configuring a computer. One embodiment of the invention combines all of the prior art control panels related to networking into a consolidated Network Setup Control Panel. In addition, the invention provides for computer configuration by scripting. The configuration may be for a type of system ...

10/26/06 - 20060242113 - Cybernetic search with knowledge maps
A precision information collating device is disclosed. The device comprises means for inputting keywords and key phrases and defining level of traverse for establishing interlinks and interdependencies between keywords and key phrases entered and using previously stored interlinks and interdependencies to form a map. The device facilitates searching for keywords ...

10/26/06 - 20060242112 - Hierarchical storage management apparatus, method, and program
A hierarchical storage management apparatus manages data access to a plurality of hierarchical storage devices that have different performances. The hierarchical storage management apparatus includes the following elements: an access history recorder that records an access history of a data file stored in one of the plurality of hierarchical storage ...

10/26/06 - 20060242111 - Methods and apparatus for accessing geospatial information
Methods and apparatus are provided for accessing geospatial information. A geospatial toolkit including source, handler, and data modules is configured to access geospatial data from a variety of sources, parse the geospatial data, and provide geospatial data in a unified format. Parameters including source, layer information, boundaries, query filters, etc. ...

10/26/06 - 20060242110 - Methods and apparatus for accessing geospatial information
Methods and apparatus are provided for accessing geospatial information. A geospatial toolkit including source, handler, and data modules is configured to access geospatial data from a variety of sources, parse the geospatial data, and provide geospatial data in a unified format. Parameters including source, layer information, boundaries, query filters, etc. ...

10/26/06 - 20060242109 - Server-deployed cache list management for presenting an auto-complete list
Auto-complete lists that are utilized by server-deployed client processes are provided. The auto-complete lists are utilized by a client process to provide a list of potential data records that may match a data record that is partially entered into an input field by a user. The user may either continue ...

10/26/06 - 20060242108 - Advanced ground transportation management
Systems, methods and apparatuses for managing ground transportation in a geographical area are disclosed. A system in accordance with the present invention comprises a graphical information systems (GIS) database that represents the geographical area, wherein the GIS database includes at least one node representing at least one geographical location within ...

10/26/06 - 20060242107 - Method and system for sharing digital database
A method and a system for sharing a digital database. The system has a client platform, a server platform and a network. The database of the client platform has the same data format as the database of the server platform. Via the network, database sharing between the client platform and ...

10/26/06 - 20060242106 - Playlist compilation system and method
A method, computer program product and client electronic device for storing, in a memory of a client electronic device, a location of at least one remote media data file available to stream from a server device. A location of at least one local media data file available on the client ...

10/26/06 - 20060242105 - Pack uri scheme to identify and reference parts of a package
The present invention is directed to a system and method for providing access to individual resources stored within a package. The system enables a client to access the resources without having to access the entire package. The system allows a client to reference the different resources within the package through ...

10/26/06 - 20060242104 - Systems and methods for manipulating data in a data storage system
The subject invention provides a system and/or a method that facilitates manipulating data associated to a data storage system, wherein the data storage system has at least one of a characteristic and a constraint associated to a data model. The data model can represent the data storage system such that ...

10/26/06 - 20060242103 - Method, system and program product for estimating transaction response times
Under the present invention, components of an enterprise architecture are first identified. This process not only involves hardware, software and topographic identification, but also includes developing and documenting an understanding of the business processes occurring within the enterprise architecture. Based on this analysis, an enterprise architecture profile is developed. Thereafter, ...

10/26/06 - 20060242102 - Relaxation-based approach to automatic physical database tuning
A system that facilitates automatic selection of a physical configuration of a database comprises an optimizer component that determines simulated physical structures and creates a hypothetical configuration based thereon. A reduction component progressively reduces size of the configuration until the hypothetical configuration is associated with a size below a threshold. ...

10/26/06 - 20060242101 - Method and system for semantic matching of web service policies
A system for and method of matching of web service policies, which includes matching of non-functional properties of first and second Web Services while considering inter-domain interactions of the first and second Web Services using semantics. Methods for semantic matching of web service policies are also described. ...

10/26/06 - 20060242100 - Shared rowset
Multiple Shared Rowsets, can access rows of data stored in a Cached Rowset independently. These Shared Rowsets can have their own cursor, sorted order, filtered rows, and pending changes. ...

10/19/06 - 20060235826 - Tasking, invoicing, and reporting methods
Methods and systems for managing projects and budgets, such as advertising projects and budgets, in a database, and generating reports corresponding to data stored in the database. Actions may include associating tasks with a project in a dependent many-to-one relationship; associating budget categories with the tasks in a one-to-many relationship; ...

10/19/06 - 20060235825 - Methods of visualizing graphs
Methods for visualizing a graph by automatically drawing elements of the graph as labels are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving node information and edge information from an input device and/or communication interface, constructing a graph layout based at least in part on that information, wherein the edges ...

10/19/06 - 20060235824 - Automated processing of appropriateness determination of content for search listings in wide area network searches
A method and system for improving the efficiency of a database processing system for evaluating candidate data items representing search listings that are submitted for inclusion into a search engine database. Candidate search listings are automatically assessed for quality, style, and relevance to evaluate risk of unfavorable reception by a ...

10/19/06 - 20060235823 - Integrating rdf data into a relational database system
The TABLE function mechanism available in a RDBMS is used to integrate RDF models into SQL queries. The table function invocation takes parameters including an RDF pattern, an RDF model, and an RDF rule base and returns result rows to the SQL query that contain RDF triples resulting from the ...

10/19/06 - 20060235822 - Requesting, obtaining, and processing operational event feedback from customer data centers
In connection with an operations management system, a vendor feedback system reports on operational events that occur on customer data centers. The operations management system provides a standardized environment for providing feedback to a vendor of components installed at the customer data centers. Methods supported by the vendor feedback system ...

10/19/06 - 20060235821 - Methods and apparatus for retrieval of content units in a time-based directory structure
One embodiment of the invention is directed to providing a single instance storage capability in a content addressable computer system that stores content units in a time-based directory structure. Another embodiment is directed to managing access to content units that do not include a timestamp in their content addresses, in ...

10/19/06 - 20060235820 - Relational query of a hierarchical database
Relational queries to a hierarchical database having data tables are rapidly processed. A bridging table is created to transform a many to many relationship into a plurality of one to many relationships. The bridging table is stored on a custom semiconductor chip which parses the query and determines by use ...

10/19/06 - 20060235819 - Apparatus and method for reducing data returned for a database query using select list processing
The select statement of a query is processed to determine whether any of the columns in the select statement appear in the predicate of the query. For each column in the select statement that also appears in the predicate of the query, the column may be eliminated from the result ...

10/19/06 - 20060235818 - Estimating a number of rows returned by a recursive query
A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, estimate a number of rows that a recursive query will retrieve from a table by recursively probing an index associated with the table. A recursive query includes a seed and a recursive predicate, each of which is associated with ...

10/19/06 - 20060235817 - Computer input control for specifying scope with explicit exclusions
Methods and systems providing a user interface control allowing a user to specify a scope of items on a computer system or network is disclosed. Certain aspects provide an input control through which a user can specify an explicit scope, or range, of items, while also identifying explicit exclusions from ...

10/19/06 - 20060235816 - Method and system for generating a search result list based on local information
The present invention relates to a method and system for effectively providing search results by referring to local information related to a searcher in response to a search request from the searcher through a communication network. The present invention provides a method for providing local information search results, comprising the ...

10/12/06 - 20060230015 - System for dynamic keyword aggregation, search query generation and submission to third-party information search utilities
A system for creating keywords or phrases to be used for mining online information has a text source accessible by the system, a keyword aggregation function, and a mechanism for configuring the system. The system extracts keywords and phrases from the text source according to the configuration, for submission to ...

10/12/06 - 20060230014 - Method and system for compression of files for storage and operation on compressed files
A method and system for creating, reading and writing compressed files in a computer system comprising a file system coupled with storage medium and at least one application program interface (API) configured to communicate with the file system by means of file access-related requests. The file access-related requests are intercepted ...

10/12/06 - 20060230013 - System and method for performing just-in-time priming of a database cache
A system for retrieving stored data and/or index pages, receives a database request, generates an access plan for the database request for accessing data rows and/or index entries according to the statement, and generates a priming process by selecting a set of data and/or index pages. The set of data ...

10/12/06 - 20060230012 - System and method for dynamically tracking user interests based on personal information
Described are a dynamic interest profile (DIP) system and method for dynamically tracking interests of a user based on personal information. The DIP system obtains electronic documents of the user from a document stream and processes the documents to obtain certain information therefrom. Based on the information obtained from the ...

10/05/06 - 20060224560 - Data storage device, reconstruction controlling device, reconstruction controlling method, and storage medium
The present invention provides a method including a step of determining whether a number of storage media usable for one of input and output of processing data is not smaller than one plus a number of storage media necessary for one of input and output of processing data when a ...

10/05/06 - 20060224559 - Job processing method, job processing device, and storage medium
To enable a process in conformity with operator's request in recovery of interrupted job, it accepts a request for executing in the job recovery a process according to operator's request in the job of which process was interrupted by occurrence of interruption cause; it executes in the job recovery the ...

10/05/06 - 20060224558 - Associating multiple categories with single payee or payor in financial software application
When a user is entering a transaction for a payee or payor, categories that are associated with the payee/payor are given prominence within a drop-down menu or other selection mechanism. Categories can be associated with payees/payors based on recency and/or frequency of use in connection with such payees/payors, as well ...

10/05/06 - 20060224557 - Smart services
In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, there are provided mechanisms and methods for accessing a service on behalf of a requestor. These mechanisms and methods for accessing a service make it possible for results from the service to be provided to the requestor in the form that the ...

10/05/06 - 20060224556 - Sql interface for services
In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, there are provided mechanisms and methods for providing an SQL interface for a service. These mechanisms and methods for providing an SQL interface for a service make it possible for data from a plurality of services to be provided to a requester ...

10/05/06 - 20060224555 - System and method for assisting generation of business specification
A business specification generation assisting system for generation of a business specification that implements a business function specified by a user, on the basis of association among the business functions, programs and physical data is provided. A physical model which is a graph having programs and input and output physical ...

10/05/06 - 20060224554 - Query revision using known highly-ranked queries
An information retrieval system includes a query revision architecture providing one or more query revisers, each of which implements a query revision strategy. A query rank reviser suggests known highly-ranked queries as revisions to a first query by initially assigning a rank to all queries, and identifying a set of ...

10/05/06 - 20060224553 - Method and system for generating an auto-completion list for a cascading style sheet selector
An auto-completion list for a cascading style sheet (CSS) selector is generated based on user input and contextual information associated with a target document. The user input that triggers the generation of the auto-completion list is entered while creating a CSS selector. A CSS block in the target document is ...

10/05/06 - 20060224552 - Systems and methods for determining user interests
Techniques are provided to determine user-interest features and user-interest parameter weights for a user-interest model. The user-interest features are pre-determined and/or determined dynamically. Pre-determined user-interest features are based on user-interest profiles, prior user activities, documents listed in a resume, reading or browsing patterns and the like. Dynamically determined user-interest features ...

10/05/06 - 20060224551 - Method, system and program for joining source table rows with target table rows
Disclosed is a data processing system implemented method, a data processing system, and an article of manufacturing for use with the data processing system. The data processing system implemented method is used for directing the data processing system to join rows associated with a column of a source table with ...

10/05/06 - 20060224550 - Policy based resource management for legacy data
A policy-based resource management system provides an infrastructure that uses high-level definitions of data-types along with desired policy rules to manage legacy data. In particular, relevant legacy data is identified as well as the characteristics of storage devices where the legacy data resides. The storage management system determines what if ...

09/28/06 - 20060218122 - Search and presentation engine
A contents display and search system for navigating and searching and exploring a collection of objects includes a database of Attributes; each of the Attributes being associated with one or more objects, and a database of Kinds, each Kind being associated with one or more Attributes. When a user enters ...

09/28/06 - 20060218121 - Method and apparatus for notifying a user of new data entered into an electronic system
A method of and apparatus for notifying a user of new data entered into an electronic system. The method includes formatting a searchable database into a directory tree structure, the directory tree structure includes nodes comprising related data and branches comprising links between the nodes. Each related data is categorized ...

09/28/06 - 20060218120 - Technology valuation and transaction system and related method capable of conducting on-line technology valuation and transaction
A technology valuation and transaction system and related method are proposed for connecting to at least one terminal device via a network unit. The method allows members to login to the system and provides related technology for conducting technology valuation and transaction online. The system at least includes a web ...

09/28/06 - 20060218119 - Detachable device holder
A system including a portable object and a portable object holder is disclosed. Preferably, the portable object is an electronic device such as a flash memory drive such as a USB flash drive. According to some embodiments, when the portable object and the portable object holder are attached to each ...

09/28/06 - 20060218118 - Using query plans for building and performance tuning services
In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, there are provided mechanisms and methods for using query plans for building and performance tuning services accessed on behalf of a requestor. These mechanisms and methods for using query plans for building and performance tuning services makes it possible to examine the ...

09/28/06 - 20060218117 - Liquid data services
In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, there are provided mechanisms and methods for using query plans for building and performance tuning services accessed on behalf of a requestor. These mechanisms and methods for using query plans for building and performance tuning services makes it possible to examine the ...

09/28/06 - 20060218116 - Pass-through interface queries to populate a class-based model
Some embodiments include reception of a request for data associated with an object instantiation of a component of a class model representing tag-based data and non-tag-based data, the request including user criteria mapped to a member of the component. Embodiments may also utilize an interface and a configuration to query ...

09/28/06 - 20060218115 - Implicit queries for electronic documents
A computer-implemented implicit querying system comprises a scanning component that scans content of a document. An analysis component analyzes the scanned content and outputs a query based at least in part upon the analysis and frequency of use information associated with the query. The system can further comprise a weighting ...

09/28/06 - 20060218114 - System and method for location based search
A system and method for performing geographic based document searching. A grid of location tiles is constructed corresponding to a desired geographic area. A location tag is assigned to each location tile. Documents are searched to identify a geographic location. The documents are associated with one or more location tags ...

09/28/06 - 20060218113 - Method and system for shredding data within a data storage subsystem
A method and system for shredding data within a data storage subsystem is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method is provided of continually shredding data within a data storage subsystem in which all the data of a first storage element is made permanently unreadable followed by the performance of ...

09/28/06 - 20060218112 - Method of presenting a plurality of items
The method of the invention enables a user to select an item, associates the item with at least a parameter indicating the geographical area where the item was selected, and presents a collection of items including the item dependent on whether a relation exists between the parameter indicating the geographical ...

09/21/06 - 20060212421 - Contextual phrase analyzer
A method and a computer system for implementing a contextual phrase analyzer engine are provided. The method includes selecting at least one of a plurality of document frequencies associated with a plurality of words used in a plurality of documents and selecting a subset of the plurality of words based ...

09/21/06 - 20060212420 - Mechanism for multi-domain indexes on xml documents
An XML document can contain domain-specific information, which typically has its own semantics and operations independent of the XML domain. Specialized indexes and operations are used to manage information within different types of domains, for example, text, spatial, life sciences, time series, image, and multimedia domains. Entries in domain-specific indexes ...

09/21/06 - 20060212419 - Bulk download of documents from a system for managing documents
A method and apparatus provide, in one example embodiment, for storing and processing information in a data storage and processing system on a server, the server accessed by attorneys using the system from client computers, wherein the information pertains to a plurality of legal matters being handled by the attorneys, ...

09/21/06 - 20060212418 - Sequence support operators for an abstract database
The present invention generally provides methods, systems and articles of manufacture that provide a database query application that allows user to compose an abstract query that includes a sequence operator. In one embodiment, sequence operators are used to specify which data elements, from a sequence of data elements, should be ...

09/21/06 - 20060212417 - Apparatus and method for monitoring performance of a data processing system
An apparatus and method for monitoring the performance of a computer system via an result size including a result set size of accesses to a database and a page size. Preferred embodiments are directed to a performance monitor that correlates data from existing tools that report data concerning access to ...

09/21/06 - 20060212416 - Method for processing data to optimize and categorize matches
A method for updating information, such as contact or transactional information, by optimizing the match of known data to data within aggregated databases. The known data may include data concerning one or more categories corresponding to an individual or entity, or to a particular transaction, for example. It is determined ...

09/14/06 - 20060206450 - Computer file management system
Computer systems with multiple users will typically store various versions of the same software; different versions being required for different platforms and to maintain compatibility with other software applications. These computer files are generally organized in a hierarchical structure to make their location and access easier, but this still results ...

09/14/06 - 20060206449 - Computer file management system
A file management system for use with a computer system is disclosed. The file management system comprises a real filesystem for accessing files stored on a storage medium and a custom filesystem. The custom filesystem comprises a hierarchical arrangement of links to a subset of files of the real filesystem. ...

09/14/06 - 20060206448 - System and method for improved job seeking
A computer system and method for capture and handling job listings obtained from various often unrelated corporate and job board postings via the internet for examination by a job searcher. This system includes a scraping module having one or more scraping engines operable to scrape job information data set from ...

09/14/06 - 20060206447 - Document managing apparatus
A document managing apparatus has a display unit, an operation unit, a file managing information storage unit which stores file managing information about data files consisting documents to be managed, a document managing information storage unit which stores document managing information about the documents stored in the file managing information ...

09/14/06 - 20060206446 - Personal information manager and communications application providing dynamic contact communication history
A computing device is configured to provide personal information and communications functions. The computing device includes, among other things, a communication interface, a storage device, and a processor. The communication interface is adapted to pass at least one communication. The storage device is operably coupled to the communication interface, and ...

09/07/06 - 20060200444 - Enterprise computer system
A scalable enterprise computer system having the capability to provide transaction security as well as providing subscription filtering is described. As a method of transacting an event in the enterprise computer system a connection with an information broker by the publishe established after which it is determined if the event ...

09/07/06 - 20060200443 - Bookmarks and subscriptions for feeds
Techniques for detecting, managing, and presenting syndication XML (feeds) are disclosed. In one embodiment, a web browser automatically determines that a web site is publishing feeds and notifies the user, who can then access the feed easily. In another embodiment, a browser determines that a web page or feed is ...

09/07/06 - 20060200442 - Dynamic learning for navigation systems
A method performed in a system involves, at a node within the system, receiving an input from a user, determining that the input contains an unknown word, presenting at least one response to the user, and based upon at least one additional input from the user, learning one or more ...

09/07/06 - 20060200441 - Information processing apparatus, information managing apparatus, information managing system, information processing method, information managing method, information processing program, information managing program, and recording medium
An information processing apparatus is capable of performing an application for allowing a user to operate a document using GUI. The information processing apparatus has an information obtaining unit configured to detect a predetermined event concerning the GUI and to obtain document information about a document to be operated in ...

09/07/06 - 20060200440 - Method for providing information about multimedia contents in multimedia service system
Disclosed is a method for providing information about multimedia contents in a multimedia service system. If a mobile communication terminal receives a request for content information from a user while reproducing received multimedia data according to a VOD service, the mobile communication terminal provides information related to a content request ...

09/07/06 - 20060200439 - System and method for data manipulation
In one embodiment of the invention, a system for data manipulation includes a mapper module operable to receive a first data format of a source file, receive a second data format of a target file, and automatically generate a script to represent a movement of data from the source file ...

09/07/06 - 20060200438 - System and method for retrieving data from a relational database management system
As method is disclosed for retrieving data from a relational database management system (RDBMS). An object-oriented environment submits a query to an object relational layer to access data contained in the RDBMS. The object query can result in at least one logical object description that is defined using one or ...

08/31/06 - 20060195415 - Method and device for the generation of a classification tree to unify the supervised and unsupervised approaches, corresponding computer package and storage means
A method and apparatus are provided for the generation of a classification tree as a function of a classification model and from a set of data to be classified, described by a set of attributes. The method includes a step for obtaining said classification model, itself comprising a step for ...

08/31/06 - 20060195414 - Methods and systems for managing data
Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata. In one exemplary method, metadata from files created by several different software applications are captured, and the captured metadata is searched. The type of information in metadata for one type of file differs from the type of information in metadata for ...

08/31/06 - 20060195413 - Programmability for xml data store for documents
A programmability mode for interacting with data stores within a document allows real time interaction. Data for structuring information associated with a document, such as document metadata, is maintained in the data store where relationships between different pieces of data are maintained in a location distinct from the surface level ...

08/24/06 - 20060190423 - Print data editing apparatus and print data editing program stored in a computer readable medium
The relationship between an object and a database item, such as a title item, family name item, address item, city name item, and birth day item are displayed with a link line which connects the object with a database item such that the relationship can be readily observed. The display ...

08/24/06 - 20060190422 - System and method for dynamically creating records
A communication system that is capable of collecting information from one or more users of the communication system includes one or more data collection mechanisms that are operated by a first entity. The mechanisms operate to collect at least a portion of information from a user of a communication system ...

08/24/06 - 20060190421 - Information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program
The present information relates to an information processing apparatus and method, a recording medium, and a program which are capable of easily and continuously writing programs to a plurality of storage blocks which are controlled by different CPUs. A first CPU 11 of an image display apparatus 1 writes a ...

08/17/06 - 20060184505 - Method and system for compression of files for storage and operation on compressed files
A method and system for creating, reading and writing compressed files for use with a file access storage. The compressed data of a raw file are packed into a plurality of compressed units and stored as compressed files. One or more corresponding compressed units may be read and/or updated with ...

08/17/06 - 20060184504 - Method and apparatus for providing sponsorship for a directory
A method for providing sponsorship for a directory comprises permitting a search of the directory. The method further comprising displaying a search result on a page and incorporating a designated web page of a sponsor on the same page as the search result. ...

08/17/06 - 20060184503 - Paid search engine bid management
A method and apparatus (information processing system) for overcoming deficiencies and inefficiencies in the current paid search engine keyword bidding market, by providing keyword bidders with information they need to better optimize their use of paid search engines. The system accumulates bid amounts for a plurality of target keywords at ...

08/17/06 - 20060184502 - Method for file level remote copy of a storage device
An object of remote copy can be specified in units of a file or a directory more detailed than in units of a volume. If a host computer issues a write request of a file to NASa, NASa references a source NAS of remote copy and a source directory of ...

08/17/06 - 20060184501 - Information analysis apparatus, information analysis method, and information analysis program
There is provided an information analysis apparatus comprising first and second data mining portions. The first mining portion conducts data mining of a first data group and counts numbers of data obtained in process of the data mining of the first data group. The second mining portion conducts the data ...

08/17/06 - 20060184500 - Using content analysis to detect spam web pages
Evaluating content includes receiving content, analyzing the content for web spam using a content-based identification technique, and classifying the content according to the analysis. An index of analyzed contents may be created. A system for evaluating content includes a storage device configured to store data and a processor configured to ...

08/17/06 - 20060184499 - Data search system and method
According to some embodiments of the invention, a method of data management is provided. The method includes generating a plurality of sub-tables in a table of a relational database. Each sub-table has a predicate that indicates at least a partial description of information to be stored in the sub-table. The ...

08/17/06 - 20060184498 - System and method for efficiently obtaining a summary from and locating data in a log file
Systems and methods for efficiently obtaining a summary from and locating data in a log file allow a user to efficiently obtain summary information and locate specific data records even in large log files. The system includes a configuration program, a log writing program, and a log reading program. The ...

08/17/06 - 20060184497 - Network-information-processing system and information-processing method
As shown in FIG. 3, a network electronic conference system comprises: at least one notebook personal computer PC1 through PCi each having an input operation function to process arbitrary information; presentation apparatus 10 for displaying image based on information transferred from the notebook personal computer PC1; a creator (5) for ...

08/10/06 - 20060179032 - Context-based display technique with hierarchical display format
A system that includes a graphical user interface that may be used to access information contained in a database is provided. The graphical user interface includes a matrix of icons that correspond to elements in the database. Also hierarchical relationships are used for more compactly displaying multiple matrices associated with ...

08/10/06 - 20060179031 - Internet web shield
A computer-readable device is provided to a user. The device has unique and unalterable identification data set by its manufacturer, and application data stored therein by a party other than the manufacturer. The identification data and the application data from the device are collected based on an attempt by the ...

08/10/06 - 20060179030 - Method and system for processing information in monitoring system used in ethics, risk and/or value management and corresponding computer program product and corresponding storage medium
The invention relates to a method and a system for processing information in monitoring systems of ethics, risk and/or value management and to a corresponding computer product and a corresponding storage medium, which can be especially used as a processing and management system for information that is supplied in the ...

08/03/06 - 20060173807 - Organizing pointers to objects
The invention may be a method of organizing pointers. The pointers may identify addresses where objects are stored. The pointers may be stored in arrays so that the pointers corresponding to the most recently selected objects are stored nearer to ends of the arrays than are the pointers corresponding to ...

08/03/06 - 20060173806 - Retrieving and providing contextual information
An electronic dictionary may be created by receiving a data request action for a word appearing in an electronic document, accessing information regarding the context of the word derived from within the electronic document in which the word appears, storing the definition of the word along with the context information ...

08/03/06 - 20060173805 - Virtual file system
There is disclosed a method for managing information about off-line storage data comprising storing information about the off-line storage data, interfacing said information with a file manager of an operating system of a computer, displaying said off-line storage data as accessible by said computer as part of the file system ...

08/03/06 - 20060173804 - Integration of a non-relational query language with a relational data store
A system and/or methodology that employs a non-relational (e.g., XML (extensible markup language)) query language to access stored procedures employed in connection with relational (e.g., SQL (structured query language)) database management systems is provided. Stored procedures in SQL enable the predetermination of queries that can be executed against the relational ...

08/03/06 - 20060173803 - Method and system for associating specific files with different applications
A method and system for associating specific files with different applications. The method includes receiving a selection of at least one application; receiving a selection of at least one specific file; and associating the at least one specific file with the at least one application such that when the application ...

08/03/06 - 20060173802 - Method for extraction of pertinent information taking into account the objective and the target
The method in accordance with the invention is a method of extracting pertinent information taking into account the objective and the target, and it is wherein the target and the objective are identified, that the values applicable to the target are determined and that they are weighted according to their ...

07/27/06 - 20060167834 - Automated response to solicited and unsolicited communications and automated collection and management of data extracted therefrom
An automated correspondence response system is provide for permitting a receiving entity to generate customized responses based on data extracted from received communications. The system also provides for automated management and manipulation of data extracted from correspondence received by a receiving entity for group profiling and to perform various statistical ...

07/27/06 - 20060167833 - Access control system
A system with at least one access control device (1) exhibiting an access authorization reader (4) for data carrier (8) containing access authorization and identification data, a database (9) and a camera (7). Once a valid access authorization is read, the identification data from the data carrier in question (8) ...

07/27/06 - 20060167832 - System management technique to surface the most critical problems first
A method, apparatus and computer instructions are provided to identify problems that are most critical to the revenue of a business. Configuration of business management software is facilitated in a way to ensure that the most severe revenue impacts are addressed first. An administrator is interrogated for those systems, resources ...

07/27/06 - 20060167831 - Method to automate resource management in computer applications
There is provided a computer comprising an application that generates a call having a resource name and a default value. A resource manager compares an entry in a localized resource file to the resource name. A resource manager wrapper adds said resource name to a resource file if the localized ...

07/27/06 - 20060167830 - Method for carrying out quality control on an analytical process and device for carrying out said method
A method is proposed for carrying out quality control on an analytical process which belongs to a group of related analytical processes that can be executed in at least one analytical device and includes a respective chain of sub-processes. The method includes fundamental chemical and/or physical underlying sub-processes being stored ...

07/27/06 - 20060167829 - Multistage network computer architecture, with user-centered remote operating system
A multi-tier computer architecture is intended to allow access to a personal resources environment, via a network such as Internet from varied access points corresponding to different types of client workstations. The said computer architecture comprises: a standard relational database server tier comprising a database manager able to execute on ...

07/20/06 - 20060161514 - Method and apparatus for accessing a database through a network
A system includes a client which can communicate through a network and a database layer with any of several databases. The client communicates with the database layer using a public network communication protocol, in a manner independent of respective protocols specific to each of the databases. The database layer handles ...

07/20/06 - 20060161513 - Method and a system for integrating semantic web services into an existing web service infrastructure
Techniques are described for integrating semantic web services into at least one existing web service infrastructure with an execution environment by placing a proxy component between the execution environment of the existing web service infrastructure and the semantic web services so that the execution environment invoking the proxy component can ...

07/20/06 - 20060161512 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for supporting database access in an internet protocol multimedia subsystem (ims) network environment
Methods, systems, and computer program products for supporting database access in an Internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) network environment are disclosed. At least one call state control function (CSCF) entity generates subscriber-related queries according to an abstracted profile (AP) protocol. At an abstracted profile server (APS), a CSCF-generated, subscriber-related ...

07/20/06 - 20060161511 - Systems, methods, and media for determining electronic document usage
Systems, methods and media for determining the usage of an electronic document are disclosed. More particularly, hardware and/or software for determining the aggregate usage for an electronic document received from one or more users are disclosed. Embodiments include receiving from one or more users an indication of their usage of ...

07/20/06 - 20060161510 - Method and apparatus for form pooling
A form pooling system allows efficient management of various forms used by a computer application. The form pooling system provides a close form module and an open form module to manage closing and opening various forms related to the application. The form pooling system significantly reduces form load time for ...

07/20/06 - 20060161509 - Method and apparatus for two stage transaction handling
A data transaction system allows performing a transaction related to a data unit, where the data unit can be independently saved and retrieved, from an upper layer to a storage layer without causing a database deadlock related to the data unit in the storage layer. The data transaction system uses ...

07/13/06 - 20060155672 - Systems and methods for single input installation of an application
A system and method for single input installation of an application is provided. The method comprises receiving a single input for an application from a user. In response to the single input, the application is downloaded, data associated with the application is stored on a computing device associated with the ...

07/13/06 - 20060155671 - Virtual protection service
A method of transferring an image of a system or disk to a computer dedicated to performing a resource-intensive task, such as virus scanning, disk defragmentation or similar service. Once the dedicated computer has performed the task, the resulting image is compared to the current image of the client system ...

07/13/06 - 20060155670 - Method for queuing files to be sent to an application
A method and a computer program product that enable files in a file directory to be queued or marked prior to “sending” the files to a common application. A background operating system (OS) is enhanced by including a set of queue functions/options for selection when a file is selected within ...

07/13/06 - 20060155669 - System and method for providing access to computer files across computer operating systems
An across-file-system file access system and method for accessing files across different computer operating systems and file systems is disclosed. The across-file-system file access system includes a file resource table generator and a file resource table reader. The file resource table generator creates and up-dates a file resource table, which ...

07/13/06 - 20060155668 - System and method for medical privacy management
A system and related techniques provide an integrated platform for privacy management of electronic medical records, encompassing the entire life cycle of privacy management including the capture of patient consents and other privacy status information, request management to receive and filter requests by health insurance companies and others, publishing management ...

07/13/06 - 20060155667 - Systems and methods for attaching a virtual machine virtual hard disk to a host machine
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods for “attaching” a virtual hard drive to the physical computer hardware by implementing a specialized disk controller driver for the host operating system that is recognized by the host operating system as a disk controller driver but which ...

07/13/06 - 20060155666 - Device for storing a list of elements and method of storing an element in one such device
The invention relates to a device for memorizing a list of items intended to memorize any item that was last presented to it. It comprises a first memory and means responsible, when the first memory is full and when a new item has to be memorized, for randomly selecting an ...

07/06/06 - 20060149701 - Partitioning ownership of a database among different database servers to control access to the database
A database or some portion thereof is partitioned into ownership groups. Each ownership group is assigned one or more database servers as owners of the ownership group. The database servers that are assigned as owners of an ownership group are treated as the owners of all data items that belong ...

07/06/06 - 20060149700 - System and method for automatic geospatial web network generation via metadata transformation
The invention provides a framework to create a network of omnidirectional web hyperlinks using data extracted from various geospatial data sources. The framework establishes a method of fusing disparate data sources, formats and locations into dynamic web documents that link interrelated data. Various linkage mechanisms are supported, including a method ...

07/06/06 - 20060149699 - Automated space usage benchmarking for institutions
Space usage benchmarking is provided among multiple institutions, such as academic institutions or schools. The space usage information is obtained relating to usage of space by each of plural participating institutions. The space usage information is obtained as data output from scheduling databases of the participating institutions. A space usage ...

07/06/06 - 20060149698 - Systems and methods for controlling transaction participation for groups of steps in a workflow
Systems, methods, and computer readable media for designing and executing workflows can be equipped with a means for manipulation of workflow steps by grouping them, such as by placing them in containers. A container can be associated with a database transaction. In some embodiments, a container property can be set ...

07/06/06 - 20060149697 - Context data transmission
A method of providing a context-dependent tile for display on a client device includes: receiving at a server device a request from a client device for a tile, the tile being associated with a context identifier stored on the server device; requesting from the client device a context data portion ...

07/06/06 - 20060149696 - Method and systems for controlling access to a data object by means of locks
Methods, a computer readable medium, and systems are provided accessing a data object having an identifier in a computer system. The ID may be stored in a second lock object. Systems and methods consistent with the invention may determine whether the ID was stored successfully, and upon a successful storage, ...

06/29/06 - 20060143155 - Method and apparatus for classifying document information
When registering a document, notify a document registrant of related information of one or more documents similar in content thereto. In addition, upon registration of the document, if a folder is designated as a registration destination thereof then notify the document registrant of relevant information of any available similar documents ...

06/29/06 - 20060143154 - Document scanner
A method and apparatus are described for scanning a document and processing the image data generated in the process by extracting operator-designated text layout elements such as words or groups of words and including the latter in a designator for the scan file. At least part of the document image ...

06/29/06 - 20060143153 - Signal bearing medium bearing image display program and image display apparatus
A reduced image generation portion generates a reduced image indicating the content of a file stored in a storage device. When a judgment portion judges that text data, which is the file in text format, is attached to the file, a display image generation portion generates a display image indicating ...

06/29/06 - 20060143152 - Vender code generation method
A vender code generation method is used to allow venders of the same business conglomerate to have only one vender code without duplication. The enterprise is able to obtain the application data of the vender through the Internet by using an application form. Upon verifying that the identification data in ...

06/29/06 - 20060143151 - Methods, systems and computer programs for facilitating access to an electronic datum
In an embodiment of a method of facilitating access to an electronic datum, the embodiment includes the step of providing a computer system with first data that identifies the electronic datum. The embodiment also includes the step of receiving from the computer system second data that identifies a file system ...

06/29/06 - 20060143150 - Messaging system and method of operation thereof
A method of operating a messaging system comprising receiving a message, creating a list element for the message, the list element comprising expiry data and a reference to the message, appending the list element to an expiry list, periodically deleting list elements from the expiry list that correspond to consumed ...

06/29/06 - 20060143149 - Deriving and using data access control information to determine whether to permit derivations of data elements
Provided are a method, system, and program for deriving and using data access control information to determine whether to permit requested derivations of data elements. Data access control information is initialized for each of a plurality of data elements, wherein the data access control information for each associated data element ...

06/29/06 - 20060143148 - Method and apparatus for building metadata driven software development kit
A metadata driven software development system provides various functionalities related to an entity of an application in the metadata format. Specifically, the system provides a set of base classes related to the entity and a set of methods and application programming interfaces for various operations to be performed on the ...

06/29/06 - 20060143147 - Systems and methods for client-side cached representation of database-persisted information
Temporary client-side caching of server-side persisted database information is disclosed. The server sends the persisted information to the client, where it is stored in temporary cache memory, such as in a temporary cookie. Subsequent requests from the client to the server include the information in the temporary memory, thereby precluding ...

06/29/06 - 20060143146 - Dynamic configuration files
A dynamic nature is added to configuration files so that various types of dynamic functions can be performed within them. Variables are utilized within the configuration files. Thus, it is possible to have parameters specified in one configuration file and a formula to which the parameters will be applied in ...

06/22/06 - 20060136366 - Application sharing single document sharing
An improved application sharing system and method allow sharing of documents on a per document basis rather than on a per application basis, in order to simplify the user experience and to provide a more secure sharing environment. A window marking method is used to construct a window list describing ...

06/22/06 - 20060136365 - Method and system for compression of data for block mode access storage
A method and system for creating, reading and writing compressed data for use with a block mode access storage. The compressed data are packed into plurality of compressed units and stored in a storage logical unit (LU). One or more corresponding compressed units may be read and/or updated with no ...

06/22/06 - 20060136364 - Data processing system and method of collaborative entry of a set of data
The invention relates to a data processing system comprising a web portal, adapted to receive an initiator's entry of a set of data comprising at least one identifier of at least one co-initiator, means for sending a message to the at least one co-initiator using the respective identifier in response ...

06/22/06 - 20060136363 - System and method for decomposition of multiple items into the same table-column pair without dedicated mapping constructs
A system and computer-based method is provided for decomposing and storing a markup based document into a relational database. For a schema of a markup based document a user identifies multiple items mapping into a same database table-column pair, creates a logical table and associates the logical table to each ...

06/22/06 - 20060136362 - Systems and methods for data conversion
Data, such as pages of vehicle specification manuals, is received from reference information sources, in various formats, converted to a known format, and stored in a data store. Because all of the data is stored in a known format, users may more easily search information from multiple specification manuals. The ...

06/22/06 - 20060136361 - Extensible, customizable database-driven row-level database security
The method and system of the claims decomposes an organization structure into a set of mapping objects, where each mapping object represents an affiliation between entities of an organization. Each object in the data model is associated with an owner by designating a set of ownership affiliation attributes for each ...

06/22/06 - 20060136360 - Preserving log files in a distributed computing environment
A system includes a first device that runs an archiving master program. The first device includes available storage for use by the archiving master program. A second device runs a computer program that generates log files for storage on the second device. The second device runs an archiving slave program. ...

06/22/06 - 20060136359 - Method for sensor initialization in a structural health management system
A method for initializing a chain of non-initialized data collectors is disclosed. The chain of non-initialized data collectors are coupled to a controller. In a first step communication between the controller and each data collector in the chain of non-initialized collectors is disabled, except for an active non-initialized data collector, ...

06/22/06 - 20060136358 - Database tuning advisor graphical tool
An automated database tuning tool may include a user interface component and a tuning engine. The user interface may be a graphical component that interfaces with a user to collect configuration parameters for a tuning session for a specified database. The configuration parameters may be stored in a tuning database. ...

06/22/06 - 20060136357 - Method and system for tracking objects associated with an activity
An object tracking module establishes relationships between different types of data objects associated with application programs while a particular activity occurs. Contextual information associated with the data objects and the activity is collected to establish the relationship. The contextual information may include data objects that are accessed or created while ...

06/22/06 - 20060136356 - Systems and methods for changing items in a computer file
Systems and methods for changing items of a computer file can include a storage medium, and an application programmed to create a file including a first item and a second item, the application storing the file on the storage medium, and the first item including padding. The system can also ...

06/22/06 - 20060136355 - Scalable object model
Scalable object model design is described. In an embodiment, one or more objects corresponding to a form are instantiated in response to a request for the form from a first client device, and an events manager is instantiated through which the one or more objects register to process data manipulation ...

06/22/06 - 20060136354 - Apparatus and method for data warehousing
An apparatus and method for implementing data warehousing systems. According to a first embodiment, a system may include a plurality of data warehouses, and a data warehouse manager configured to extract data sets from one or more data sources for storage in one or more of the plurality of data ...

06/22/06 - 20060136353 - Systems and methods for converting a formatted document to a web page
Systems and methods for transforming a document to a web page can include a mapping module programmed to map document styles of a document to styles of a web page. The system can also include a conversion module programmed to convert contents of the document into hypertext markup language based ...

06/22/06 - 20060136352 - Smart string replacement
String replacement is performed in text using linguistic processing. The linguistic processing identifies the existence of direct or indirect links between the string to be replaced and other strings in the text. Morphological, syntactic, anaphoric, or semantic inconsistencies, which are introduced in strings with the identified direct or indirect links ...

06/22/06 - 20060136351 - Techniques for automatically exposing, as web services, procedures and functions stored in a database
A database server that manages a database retrieves metadata that is stored, within the database, in association with a procedure that is stored in the database. Based on the metadata, a Web service definition is automatically constructed to describe the procedure as a Web service. The WSDL definition can be ...

06/15/06 - 20060129524 - Scalable storage and processing of hierarchical documents
Large messages in the form of hierarchically structured documents are processed in a streaming fashion using the ultimate consumer read requests as the driving force for the processing. The messages are partitioned into fixed length segments. The segments are processed in pipeline fashion. This processing chain includes simulating random access ...

06/15/06 - 20060129523 - Detection of obscured copying using known translations files and other operational data
Systems and methods that automatically compare sets of files to determine what has been copied even when sophisticated techniques for hiding or obscuring the copying have been employed. The file compare system comprises a file compare program that uses various operational data and user interface options to detect illicit copying, ...

06/15/06 - 20060129522 - Subscription service for access to distributed cell-oriented data systems
A cell-oriented data system in which memory cells contain data. A preferred method for storing data in the memory cells includes: receiving at least one datum for storage in the data system; storing the datum in a variable cell that is configured for storing data; and assigning at least one ...

06/15/06 - 20060129521 - System and method for restoring a file directory structure
A system for restoring a file directory structure includes a storage (1) and a computer (2). The storage stores files and a file directory table. The computer is used for performing a file directory restoring program (20), which includes a directory table constructing module (201), a directory information reading module ...

06/15/06 - 20060129520 - System and method for automatically updating a program in a computer
A method for automatically updating a program in a computer includes the steps of: receiving a new program, and determining whether the new program is compatible with a corresponding old program by comparing a first format description file with a second format description file in a storage of the computer; ...

06/15/06 - 20060129519 - Signal output apparatus and signal output method
A signal output apparatus is provided comprising an input unit configured to receive a main data and a notice of the presence of any further information related to the main data, a notifying unit configured to notify the presence of the related information in response to the notice received from ...

06/15/06 - 20060129518 - Optimization of aspects of information technology structures
A computer-implemented method for optimizing an aspect of an Information Technology (IT) structure of an IT system, the aspect of the IT structure is optimized with respect to at least one control parameter. The IT structure includes a plurality of elements. Each element independently is a hardware element, a software ...

06/15/06 - 20060129517 - Anti-item for deletion of content in a distributed datastore
The invention provides an efficient apparatus and method for deleting items within a distributed datastore. In particular, the invention provides an apparatus and method of deletion that uses an already well defined procedure for insertion of data. ...

06/15/06 - 20060129516 - Adaptive software component techniques
Techniques are presented for dynamically adapting software components. An enhancement for a component is dynamically detected and installed. The enhancement is dynamically processed for requests directed to the component or for responses generated by the component. ...

06/15/06 - 20060129515 - Data totaling device, method thereof and storage medium
Field information indicating the field of necessary data is obtained from data stored in each of one or more files. Then, the necessary data is automatically extracted from one or more files, according to the obtained field information and is stored in another file. Thus, necessary data stored in each ...

06/15/06 - 20060129514 - Information terminal and content storage/playback method
An information terminal according to this invention includes a storage means having a first storage area which is accessible from an external terminal, and a second storage area which is inaccessible from the external terminal. Content which includes a content body and rights information indicating a use condition given to ...

06/15/06 - 20060129513 - Network storage system with a clustered configuration sharing a namespace, and control method therefor
Provided is a storage system as follows. A server holds a management table that serves to manage a mount point of a file system. The management table stores a file system identifier that uniquely identifies the file system within the storage system, mount point information that indicates the mount point ...

06/15/06 - 20060129512 - Socket-like communication api for c
A system and method are described for performing data processing using shared memory and socket-like application programming interface. In one embodiment, a plurality of handles is employed and associated with a plurality of processes. The plurality of handles may serve as communication end-points for communication of data. Further, an application ...

06/15/06 - 20060129511 - Internet fax apparatus with an automatic filing function for sending video files and a method for the same
An Internet fax apparatus and its method are proposed. In the present invention, an Internet fax program capable of functioning together with conventional scanners, printers, or a combination of both, is provided. By connecting to a computer, which has the Internet fax program installed therein, with an image-capturing device, a ...

06/15/06 - 20060129510 - Wireless network customization
A branding sub-file is associated with one or more SSID's. A user interface which displays available networks takes the available branding sub-files into account when displaying the names of networks within range. If branding is available for a given SSID, it shows a rich view of the network, using the ...

06/15/06 - 20060129509 - Database schema
An unlimited number of sets may be persisted and interrelated, while each element of each set has an unlimited collection of properties or attributes, and each element of each set may also have an unlimited collection of transactions which themselves may have an unlimited collection of properties or attributes, by ...

06/15/06 - 20060129508 - On-site reclamation of off-site copy storage volumes using multiple, parallel processes
An agent installed on a server reclaims one or more reclaimable off-site copy storage volumes and one or more reclaimable on-site copy storage volumes. To this end, the agent identifies each reclaimable off-site copy storage volume, runs a plurality of threads to collectively copy each data object of the identified ...

06/15/06 - 20060129507 - Privacy markup on entity models
A method of identifying an entry in an entity model as being at least one of potentially private and potentially sensitive is disclosed. The method may include creating an indication related to a specific entry that indicates whether the specific entry is one of potentially personally identifiable and potentially sensitive ...

06/08/06 - 20060122962 - Management method for managing software module and information processor
An attribute of a software module is referred to upon activating the software module and the software module is activated so that it is executed on a process separately generated, in a case where the referred attribute include a different process generation attribute indicating that the software module is to ...

06/08/06 - 20060122961 - Dynamic editing support and validation of application specific information on business objects
Interface code is produced to use services of an enterprise information system. An application specific information schema is provided that defines the format and shape of application specific information usable in a business object schema defining the business object and the application specific information for the enterprise information system. An ...

06/08/06 - 20060122960 - Information processing system and control
Provides methods, apparatus and systems to speed up transaction processing against a database. An example information processing system for performing transaction processing against a database includes: a processing program acquiring section for acquiring a processing program in which the transaction processing against a database is described; a target data selection ...

06/08/06 - 20060122959 - Systems and methods for organizing, sharing, and communicating data
In an exemplary method, file types, captions, and sections are defined. Relationships among the file types, the captions, and the sections are also defined. In response to a request from a client browser to view data that is associated with a file type, a web page file is generated. The ...

06/08/06 - 20060122958 - Matching client interfaces with service interfaces
Provided are a method, system, and program for matching client interfaces with service interfaces. A client component includes at least one client interface and a target component includes at least one service interface. A data structure for the client component associates at least one client interface in the client component ...

06/08/06 - 20060122957 - Method and system to detect e-mail spam using concept categorization of linked content
A system and method for detecting undesired electronic messages (e.g., spam) using concept categorization of hyperlinks is disclosed. A server receives an electronic message and retrieves web pages that correspond to hyperlinks in the message. The server performs concept categorization on the retrieved web pages based on semantic relationships in ...

06/08/06 - 20060122956 - Electronic document management apparatus and electronic document management program
An electronic document management apparatus is provided which can efficiently display the existence state of entire electronic documents stored so as to easily search for a target electronic document in a visual manner. In the electronic document management apparatus of the present invention, a document map creation section represents document ...

06/08/06 - 20060122955 - System and method for launching a resource in a network
The invention provides a system and method for a client connected to a server in a computer network to access a resource, such as an application, database (either local, server, or web-based), service and/or a file, stored in the network. The system comprises: the client in the network; the server ...

06/01/06 - 20060116978 - Site information providing device and site information providing method
Site information on plural Web sites that a user desires is provided without causing a mobile communication terminal to access the plural Web sites. A site information providing device, based on a telephone number received from a mobile phone, extracts user information corresponding to the telephone number from a user ...

06/01/06 - 20060116977 - Method and system for electronically viewing multi-page documents while preserving appearance of printed pages
An electronic Yellow Pages viewer shows the pages of a Yellow Pages directory as they appear in the bound version. The print queue used to print the bound version is intercepted, and each page is rasterized into a JPEG file. The page/header/advertisement data are parsed to create an index which ...

06/01/06 - 20060116976 - Generation of aggregatable dimension information within a multidimensional enterprise software system
Techniques are described for generating dimension information in hierarchical form. A computer-implemented system, for example, includes a data store having multidimensional data. The multidimensional data includes a data cube having a dimension. The system further includes an executable software module that accesses the data store and generates hierarchy data describing ...

06/01/06 - 20060116975 - Automated default dimension selection within a multidimensional enterprise software system
Techniques are described for automatically selecting default dimensions of multidimensional data for publication. A computer-implemented system, for example, includes a data store having multidimensional data. The multidimensional data includes one or more data cubes having dimensions. The system further includes a publish module for accessing the data store and publishing ...

06/01/06 - 20060116974 - Searchable molecular database
A computer system comprising a database (100) having a plurality of records, is provided. Each record comprises a filed point representation representing field extrema for a conformation of a chemical structure. The database may include records for multiple conformations of the same chemical structure. Each record can have a searchable ...

05/25/06 - 20060112072 - Communication system, communication method, distribution apparatus, distribution method and terminal apparatus
A communication system includes a first storage section for storing a plurality of pieces of contents information, a second storage section for storing a plurality of pieces of contents information, a control section for accessing the contents information stored in the first storage section and the second storage section based ...

05/25/06 - 20060112071 - Recording medium, recording device, recording method, data search device, data search method, and data generating device
A data search device includes a playback unit playing back subjective data representing a subjectivity for predetermined content data from a recording medium on which the subjective data is recorded in association with the content data; a receiving unit receiving subjective data input by a user; and a searching unit ...

05/25/06 - 20060112070 - Interactive graphical interface for data manipulation and presentation
A display for presenting dimensions and hierarchical levels of data has a plurality of branches, each branch representing a dimension in the data, a focus joining the plurality of branches, and one or more hierarchical regions posted along individual ones of the branches, the hierarchical regions each representing a level ...

05/25/06 - 20060112069 - Enterprise medical imaging and information management system with enhanced communications capabilities
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide improved clinical workflow using a medical imaging and information management system and method with enhanced communication capabilities. Certain embodiments of the system include an information manager including clinical content, such as images and/or information, and a communication manager receiving an event notification from ...

05/25/06 - 20060112068 - Method and system for determining similarity of items based on similarity objects and their features
A method and system for determining similarity between items is provided. To calculate similarity scores for pairs of items, the similarity system initializes a similarity score for each pair of objects and each pair of features. The similarity system then iteratively calculates the similarity scores for each pair of objects ...

05/25/06 - 20060112067 - Interactive system for collecting metadata
A method and system for collecting metadata for multimedia objects is described. According to an exemplary embodiment, a metadata service is provided for a multimedia object, wherein the metadata service is not associated with a source of the object. At least one metadata vocabulary is identified for the multimedia object ...

05/25/06 - 20060112066 - Spell checking urls in a resource
Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for spell checking URLs in a resource. Embodiments include identifying within a resource a URL, determining whether the URL is valid, and marking the URL as misspelled if the URL is invalid. In typical embodiments, determining whether the URL is valid is ...

05/25/06 - 20060112065 - Concept-based content architecture
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for the identification of data elements. A user input is received, comprising a data element and a context in which the data element is being used. The user input is sent to a terminology database. A list of entries is received, each entry ...

05/25/06 - 20060112064 - Computerized encounter notification system (cens)
CENS (Computerized Encounter Notification System) is an automated visitor tracking and notification system. Using existing technology in a new format, the system tracks and notifies an organization's staff of visitors and whom the visitor is there to see. CENS maintains a database of all visitors and their times of arrivals ...

05/25/06 - 20060112063 - System, apparatus, and methods for creating alternate-mode applications
A system, apparatus, and method for creating alternate-mode interactive applications is provided. A system for creating an alternate-mode interactive application includes a selection module for selecting a voice-mode element from a set of voice-mode elements defining a voice-mode interactive application for accomplishing a predetermined user-directed task The system also includes ...

05/25/06 - 20060112062 - Controlling the creation of process instances in workflow management systems
The present invention relates to a technique for controlling the creation of process instances within an execution environment such as a Workflow Management Sytem. Upon receiving a request to create a process instance and corresponding input data to be processed by the process instance, a process instance identifier is first ...

05/18/06 - 20060106756 - Normalization of a multi-dimensional set object
Methods and apparatus, including computer systems and program products, for normalizing computer-represented collections of objects. A first minimum value can be normalized based on a second minimum value of a universal set object that corresponds to the first set object. The second minimum value is both a minimum value supported ...

05/18/06 - 20060106755 - Tracking usage of data elements in electronic business communications
A computer program product that is tangibly embodied in an information carrier is described. The computer program product includes instructions that, when executed, perform operations for tracking data elements that are used in electronic documents. The method includes identifying an instance of a data element in a first electronic document ...

05/18/06 - 20060106754 - Systems and methods for preventing digital asset restoration
Systems and methods for managing digital assets in a distributed computing environment are described. Meta-data for the digital assets is stored separately from the digital assets. Meta-data for some of the digital assets is copied and stored at a central location. Meta-data for the digital assets is generated by clients ...

05/18/06 - 20060106753 - Method for discovery reply packet transmission in communication network
A method for determining a transmission time of collected context information at a sensor node in a communication system that includes a client, at least one sensor node collecting context information, and an access point (AP) forwarding the context information received from the sensor node to the client. The communication ...

05/18/06 - 20060106752 - Apparatus and method to provide an operation to an information storage device
A method to provide an operation to an information storage device is disclosed. The method supplies an information storage device and a protocol conversion device capable of receiving an operation in a first communication protocol comprising a variable attribute, and providing that operation to the information storage device in a ...

05/18/06 - 20060106751 - Variable length file entry navigation
Provided are a method, system, deployment and article of manufacture, for variable length file entry navigation. In one embodiment, a first file entry size portion of a first entry marker at a first end of a file entry is read. A position of a second entry marker at a second ...

05/18/06 - 20060106750 - Method and apparatus for best effort propagation of security group information
A method and system for best effort propagation of security group information is disclosed. The method includes determining if a reserved group identifier is associated with a destination and, if the reserved group identifier is associated with the destination, indicating that a packet received at a network node can be ...

05/18/06 - 20060106749 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for implementing enhanced circular queue using loop counts
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for implementing an enhanced circular queue using loop counts for command processing. A circular queue includes a plurality of entries for storing commands. As command entries are added to the queue at the head of the queue, a head loop count ...

05/18/06 - 20060106748 - System and method for orchestrating composite web services in constrained data flow environments
A technique for orchestrating composite web services in a constrained data flow environment. Data flow constraints represent the restrictions which the domains involved in composition might want to impose on access to the data they provide or the source from which they can accept data. The data flow constraints are ...

05/18/06 - 20060106747 - Data transfer management in consistency group formation
Provided are a method, system, deployment and program for managing data transfer in consistency group formation. In one embodiment, a transfer time for a data structure is selected as a function of at least one determined backlog. Upon expiration of the selected transfer time, the mode of operation may be ...

05/18/06 - 20060106746 - Tracking usage of data elements in electronic business communications
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products for tracking usage of business data elements include receiving an electronic document that includes instances of business data elements and identifying an instance of a particular business data element in the electronic document. A counter associated with the particular business data element is ...

05/11/06 - 20060100985 - System and method of assigning seats and/or tables, as well as issuing and tracking personalized tickets for patrons attending events
Coordinators create a record and gather data for attendees. The information can be personal identification information, the company they represent, and the like. Records are stored in a database. The Coordinators assign seats and/or tables to the attendees. Such assignments are automatically captured and stored in the attendee's record. The ...

05/11/06 - 20060100984 - System and method for providing highly readable text on small mobile devices
A system which includes a cell phone or other mobile device which uses RSVP (rapid serial visual presentation) to present text information. The mobile device software receives the textual material to be displayed in a mark-up language, preferably XML. The markup language is used to provide information about the actual ...

05/11/06 - 20060100983 - Method and system for selectively controlling the utility a target
A target having a controlled utility is provided, as well as a method for changing the utility of the target. The target with controlled utility may be an electronic device, or alternatively, may be a tangible media, such as an optical disc. The controlled target has a change effecting device ...

05/11/06 - 20060100982 - Storage configuration loader with automatic error recovery
Disclosed are a system, a method, and article of manufacture to configure information storage and retrieval systems. A configuration loader receives configuration commands from a configuration loader user interface. The configuration loader comprises a configuration loader module and at least one database. Upon receipt of configuration commands, the configuration loader ...

05/11/06 - 20060100981 - Apparatus and method for quorum-based power-down of unresponsive servers in a computer cluster
An apparatus and method provide a quorum-based server power-down mechanism that allows a manager in a computer cluster to power-down unresponsive servers in a manner that assures that an unresponsive server does not become responsive again. In order for a manager in a cluster to power down servers in the ...

05/11/06 - 20060100980 - Methods and systems for delivering yellow pages content to a media delivery device
A directory channel broadcasts or otherwise communicates an electronic communications directory to a media delivery device for presentment, storage, and/or integration with other directory content. The media delivery device may include an integrated multimedia device, such as an audiovisual (AV) device. Alternatively, the media delivery device and the AV device ...

05/11/06 - 20060100979 - Controller for a medical imaging system
A controller for a medical imaging system. The controller includes a hand-held unit and a base unit. The hand-held unit, operable by a hand of a user, has a first shape and a first set of user controls for effecting a first set of operations of the medical imaging system. ...

05/11/06 - 20060100978 - Multiple media type synchronization between host computer and media device
Improved techniques for transferring media assets between a host computer and a media device are disclosed. The transfer of media assets between a host computer and a media device can be referred to as synchronization. According to one aspect of the invention, media assets being transferred can be formatted (e.g., ...

05/11/06 - 20060100977 - System and method for using embedded supplemental information
An apparatus for managing a library of enhanced works of content, which are defined as a compilation of a work of content and a supplemental information record that carries information related to the work of content, includes a memory and a processor. The memory includes enhanced work management module. The ...

05/11/06 - 20060100976 - Method for searching image files
The present invention discloses the method for searching pictures which are stored in digital format as image files, especially as image files in Exif (exchangeable image file) format. With the method, the user can search certain pictures which are taken on specific holidays or anniversaries in a convenient and efficient ...

05/11/06 - 20060100975 - Strongly-typed object oriented gui automation framework
The subject invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates classifying UI components abstracted from a computer based application in a strongly-typed manner based at least in part from a strongly-typed class framework. Methods included in the strongly-typed classes within the framework can correspond to one or more UI ...

05/11/06 - 20060100974 - Visual structuring of multivariable data
Visual structuring of multivariable data sets provided in records which include fields, and are displayed in tabular form. A method comprising: defining a key field; sorting records by defined key field; finding equivalent field values in fields in records arranged adjacent to each other; defining a block for fields having ...

05/11/06 - 20060100973 - Real-time localized resource extraction
The subject invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates mitigating the number of versions of a coded application needed to accommodate different spoken languages. The invention involves generating resource tables including resource identifier-resource type pairs. Examples of resource types include strings, bitmaps, icons, menus, and the like. For ...

05/11/06 - 20060100972 - Automated software-based hardware tracking system
A hardware tracking system includes memory storage devices on tracked parts containing unique serial numbers, part numbers, revision numbers, and firmware versions. At power up and after a reset, a host computer or real-time subsystem downloads this information and compares it to the information stored in a central database. Changes ...

05/04/06 - 20060095402 - System and method for collecting contents on audio/video network and controlling execution of the contents
A method and system for sharing information of contents possessed by audio/video (A/V) devices having network interface, which are connected with each other on a network, and efficiently controlling the execution of the contents are provided. In a control device which receives a list of contents from a collection device ...

05/04/06 - 20060095401 - Personal media broadcasting system with output buffer
A personal media broadcasting system enables video distribution over a computer network and allows a user to view and control media sources over a computer network from a remote location. A personal broadcaster receives an input from one or more types of media sources, digitizes and compresses the content, and ...

05/04/06 - 20060095400 - Macro delivery system and macro delivery program
In a delivery information setting processing, for each macro, deliverability of the macro and a kind of macro data for constituting the macro are set for each process technology. In a registration processing, the macro data is registered in correlation with a macro name and a process technology name. In ...

05/04/06 - 20060095399 - Storage portion management device, image processor, method for controlling the same and computer program product
An image forming device includes a box for each user for storing a file, a table management portion for storing a file change in the box together with a time when the change happened as change history information, an inbox change detection portion for detecting a file change in the ...

05/04/06 - 20060095398 - Automatic defocussing of displayed multimedia information on client by monitoring static and dynamic properties of the client
Automatic defocusing of displayed multimedia information (e.g., video) on a client in a client-server system by monitoring dynamic display properties of the client provides more efficient use of resources in the system. In one embodiment, bandwidth is conserved by configuring the server with the capability of defocus select data being ...

05/04/06 - 20060095397 - Dynamic content change notification
A content page is configured by a user and located on a network. Changes made to the content page are automatically communicated with notifications to a group of contacts for the user. Only contacts with permission to view the content page, or the changed content, will receive the notification and ...

05/04/06 - 20060095396 - Method, system, and apparatus for receiving, processing and rendering content responsive to user and device parameters
Content is received by a device through a port and is analyzed based on a set of predetermined criteria to determine if it matches the characteristics of the device and/or the preferences of a user. The content characteristics are recognized by analyzing the content itself or from tags attached to, ...

05/04/06 - 20060095395 - Using md4 checksum as primary keys to link transactions across machines
A method, system, and computer instructions for using MD4 checksum to link transactions across machines. Transaction information is received, wherein transaction information comprises a checksum and topology information, and wherein the checksum serves as a unique identifier of the current transaction. A first data structure is populated with the checksum ...

04/27/06 - 20060089924 - Document categorisation system
A document categorisation system, including a clusterer for generating clusters of related electronic documents based on features extracted from said documents, and a filter module for generating a filter on the basis of said clusters to categorise further documents received by said system. The system may include an editor for ...

04/20/06 - 20060085385 - Storage of content data in a peer-to-peer network
In a peer-to-peer network of peers 10 which are interconnected for sharing content data, the peers 10 store content files of content data in a file structure comprising a plurality of content folders 21, 22, 23, each content folder 21, 22, 23 containing any number of content files 24 of ...

04/20/06 - 20060085384 - Portable terminal device and reception method
When data received separately in first and second reception processing is processed separately by first and second application programs, and when data received by the first reception processing contains specific data specifying processing by the second application program, and the specific data has regional properties, the current region where the ...

04/20/06 - 20060085383 - Network-based data collection, including local data attributes, enabling media management without requiring a network connection
Consistent user experience of playlist capabilities, despite differences in available resources and on-line connectivity, is provided. Data embedded in a playback device compensates for lack of connectivity. For compactness, embedded data can be targeted to geographic region(s) by selecting metadata for recordings containing audio using statistics on playback of the ...

04/20/06 - 20060085382 - Apparatus and method for managing content data in an information terminal
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for managing content data in an information terminal. Content data information corresponding to content data is stored in a content information database (DB). Whenever an application requests content data information, a content manager provides the application with index information of content data. Then, the ...

04/20/06 - 20060085381 - Remote deployment access system and method
The present invention provides a system and method for rapidly and efficiently transferring, manipulating and accessing data located in different environments, locations and platforms. The present invention is a remote deployment access system and method for allowing multiple simultaneously connections to remote services by access at different locations. The present ...

04/20/06 - 20060085380 - Reentrant database object wizard
A system and method for a reentrant database object wizard is provided. The system provides the ability to compare a currently generated dataset to the objects of the underlying database. Columns and tables that are not common between both the dataset and the database are visually displayed for the user ...

04/20/06 - 20060085379 - Automatic subscriptions to documents based on user navigation behavior
A network device such as a server monitors user behavior and provides subscriptions to documents based at least in part on that behavior. Subscription triggers include requesting at least a predetermined percentage of the entire document, requesting at least a predetermined number of pages in a document, and requesting a ...

04/20/06 - 20060085378 - Schema for physical database tuning
Internal communications within components of an automated physical database design tool may be conducted in a data description language such as XML. Inputs to and outputs from the automated physical database design tool may also be presented in the data description language (e.g., XML). The communications, inputs and outputs may ...

04/20/06 - 20060085377 - Error information record storage for persistence across power loss when operating system files are inaccessible
Records such as error information records are stored across a power loss in a data storage system so that the records can be retrieved following a power loss without the use of a file management system of an operating system of the data storage system. Records are generated for system ...

04/20/06 - 20060085376 - Centralized management of software adapters
Disclosed are systems and methods which provide for monitoring an interface for software applications, for logging transactions conducted using the interface, and/or validating the transactions performed. Embodiments utilize adapters which communicate with an adapter monitor to determine the status of the adapters and/or interfaces provided using the adapters. A monitoring ...

04/20/06 - 20060085375 - Method and system for access plan sampling
A method for selecting an access plan includes analyzing a plurality of access plans for a particular query and a plurality of low cost access plans for the particular query are identified. Each time a subsequent query, similar to the initial query, is encountered, one of the low cost access ...

04/20/06 - 20060085374 - Automatic records management based on business process management
A records management method that automatically classifies records and manages the records based on the classification. The method incorporates processes for receiving a classification scheme for a record, receiving declaration of an asset as a record, automatically classifying the record according to the classification scheme, and workflow processes for vital ...

04/20/06 - 20060085373 - Method and apparatus for creating relationships over a network
Embodiments of the present invention include an information sharing system that provides an online business service from a provider that uses the Internet to enable individuals and organizations to link together contact databases that reside in multiple desktop applications and create a unified meta-database. This database can be searched by ...

04/20/06 - 20060085372 - Copy template/read only data in application tables
A technique for maintenance and utilization of templates in a database. In response to a database access request in a productive data database access configuration, a database interface facilitates access to a template database when a template switch is enabled. The database interface facilitates normal database access when the template ...

04/20/06 - 20060085371 - System and method for associating different types of media content
The invention relates to a system for operating with different types of media content, the system being arranged to enable a user to use a first content of a first type. The system comprises identifying means (120) for identifying that the user concurrently uses a second content of a second ...

04/20/06 - 20060085370 - System for identifying data relationships
A method for identifying data relationships comprising the steps of providing source data, reducing the data into canonical data, so that the canonical data is capable of being used in an inferential web that shows a user connections between at least two entities. Preferably, the inferential web is displayed to ...

04/13/06 - 20060080282 - Data management method and storage medium storing data management program
Is possible to flexibly and dynamically handle several data types with efficient retrieval and updating. Different indices are assigned to several storage regions that are discriminated from each other by their addresses. Entries corresponding to records containing address values to the storage regions are formed so that the entries and ...

04/13/06 - 20060080281 - System and method of continuous assurance for internal control
A computer system for conducting continuous assurance for internal control of financial transactions is disclosed. The computer system comprises a processor, a bus coupled to the processor, a memory coupled to the bus, a mass storage system coupled to the bus, and continuous assurance software resident in the memory. The ...

04/13/06 - 20060080280 - Modified class loaders and methods of use
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implement a hierarchical arrangement of class loaders. Each class loader has a naming token, and each token driven class loader has one or more delegation tokens. A class definition request is received in a first, token driven class loader. If the first class ...

04/13/06 - 20060080279 - Customized and customizable engineering calculation and project detailing system
A customized and customizable structural calculation and project detailing system that is capable of producing a submittal package. The system operable with, but not limited to, structures incorporating cold-formed structural members. The system can output submittal packages based on minimal user input The application or system includes a comprehensive cold-formed ...

04/13/06 - 20060080278 - Automated paperless file management
A computer-implemented electronic automated file management system and method for documents and email messages is disclosed. The system can send, receive, edit and access electronic documents. The document can be stored. When an email message is sent, suggested filing locating are presented such that a suggested filing location can be ...

04/13/06 - 20060080277 - Method and system for designing, implementing and documenting olap
A system for assisting in the design, implementation and documentation of an online analytical processing system provides a plurality of extractor programs for extracting data from the online analytical processing system, and transferring the data to at least one extracted data table. The extracted data table serves as an information ...

04/13/06 - 20060080276 - Information processing method and apparatus
An information processing apparatus includes an input unit configured to input an annotation of at least one of an underline, a box, a character, a character string, a symbol and a symbol string to a displayed document, an annotation recognition unit configured to recognize a type of the annotation and ...

04/13/06 - 20060080275 - Digital file consumer information methods and devices
A vending machine and vending method for audio, video, music, movie or other date file downloads is optimized for commercial viability and product placement. The vending machine offers standard connectors allowing users to access a library of download files and download those files to data players such as MP3 music ...

04/13/06 - 20060080274 - Dynamic product association
A software-based product identifier includes a description module that collects product description; a parsing module that parses the product description based on recognized attributes, don't care attributes, and unrecognized attributes. The product is identified and mapped to a predefined product based at least in part on the recognized attributes. The ...

04/13/06 - 20060080273 - Middleware for externally applied partitioning of applications
A method for routing an application request to servers hosting the application for improved performance and scalability. Routing of the request is accomplished by allocating each partition of an externally defined set of application associated partitions to at least one of the servers hosting the application; by classifying the application ...

04/13/06 - 20060080272 - Apparatus, system, and method for data comparison
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for comparing data objects within a plurality of data structures. The apparatus includes a comparison module and an identification module. The comparison module performs no more than a single comparison of each of a first plurality of data objects with each of a ...

04/13/06 - 20060080271 - Dynamic reporting tool for a fact warehouse, a fact contained within the fact warehouse, and a method for refreshing the fact warehouse
A database for an enterprise includes a data warehouse and a fact warehouse. The fact warehouse contains facts determined at least in part from data contained within the data warehouse. A fact contained within the data warehouse includes information and a reference depth attribute. The reference depth attribute is indicative ...

04/13/06 - 20060080270 - Method for determining an access mode to a dataset
A method and system are provided for identifying and selecting an optimal access method for reading an ILDS. A counter is associated with a pointer and identifies the number of times a database partition has been reorganized. Based upon a comparison of the counter from the pointer with a second ...

04/06/06 - 20060074853 - Canonicalization of terms in a keyword-based presentation system
A presentation system accepts presentations or references to presentations from prospective presenters. Some or all of the presentations or references are stored in a database and referenced by keywords such that presentations to be presented in response to particular searches can be identified. A presentation manager handles accepting bids and ...

04/06/06 - 20060074852 - Method and data structure for performing regular expression searches in a fixed length word language
Given a language with all words in a fixed length, and a set of regular expressions composed only from characters in the alphabet of the language or the “?” sign (any single character), the system of the invention defines a data structure that is used to efficiently find the set ...

04/06/06 - 20060074851 - Management of play count of content data
When a processing including transmission, reception, and/or deletion of content data is performed, a play count detecting unit detects play count of the content data stored in a portable terminal from a time when previous processing has been performed to a time when current processing has been performed, by comparing ...

04/06/06 - 20060074850 - Flexible management process for multiple activities executed on partitionable platforms of a multiple processor system
recording of the extended serial number, as an activity licence, in working memories of the computer hardware resources of the subsystem (4A, 4B) in which the perimeter on which the activity is in the process of initialisation is configured. ...

04/06/06 - 20060074849 - Method and apparatus to insert a scanned document
A method of inserting a scanned document includes inputting a user command to select a position in a first document file where to insert a second document file, generating a file corresponding to the second document file, to have same format as the first document file, and generating a third ...

04/06/06 - 20060074848 - Method for providing requested fields by get_data operation in tv-anytime metadata service
The present invention relates to a method or an operation for providing a personalized TV-Anytime metadata service. According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing a table field element using a get_Data operation in the TV-Anytime metadata service. In the table field element ...

04/06/06 - 20060074847 - Method and system for data processing with data replication for the same
To guarantee that contents of an update by a transaction in a parallel database management system. A database management system includes a replica database management unit that manages the replica database, records synchronous information at a timing at which one of the transaction generated is valid in every database management ...

04/06/06 - 20060074846 - Interpage reference and calculation on a web site
A Web site development tool such as WikiWiki allows a value to be referenced on a page other than the page on which the value is defined. The reference syntax may indicate the name of the page on which the value is defined and the value name, such as with ...

04/06/06 - 20060074845 - Automated user-friendly click-and-search system and method for helping business and industries in foreign countries using preferred taxonomies for formulating queries to search on a computer network and for finding relevant industrial information about pr
The invention, in general, comprises systems and methods for finding information relevant to a user on the World Wide Web. In various embodiments, the invention comprises using one or more of the following: ready-made English-language queries; an ISO Technical Standards Specification Terminology database; an economic activities database based on North ...

04/06/06 - 20060074844 - Method and system for improved electronic task flagging and management
An improved method and system are provided for creating tasks and for inputting information associated with created tasks according to an electronic task management application or system. Electronic correspondence items may be flagged as tasks. Upon flagging an individual electronic correspondence item, a corresponding task is created for the flagged ...

04/06/06 - 20060074843 - World wide web directory for providing live links
The World Wide Web directory for providing live links includes a search function whereby customers can perform a keyword search of database entries to locate websites having a live link. The search results in a listing of websites matching the customer's request, including for each website a URL for the ...

04/06/06 - 20060074842 - Copy on access to locked objects
A method for improving the performance of a computer system when it is detected that a process wishes to gain access to and update an object while it is locked for commitment to stable storage. The process wishing to gain access to the object is provided a copy of the ...

04/06/06 - 20060074841 - Method, system, and program for translating and interfacing between data pools and product information management (pim) systems
Provided are a method, system, and program for translating and interfacing between data pools and product information management (PIM) systems. An element mapping is generated for each of a plurality of data pools mapping user elements and attributes to the data pool elements and attributes, wherein the data pools maintain ...

04/06/06 - 20060074840 - System and method for tracking print job status
A system and method to track and display the status of an electronic document submitted through a web-portal to a multifunctional peripheral device. The multifunctional peripheral device receives an electronic document file upon which it is to perform a service and logs the receipt in a central status database. During ...

04/06/06 - 20060074839 - Merger integration analysis tool
Disclosed are tools and related methods for performing analyses of the prospects for success of two or more companies that are anticipating undergoing a merger integration and/or the extent of current progress toward success of two or more companies that are undergoing such a merger integration. The present invention utilizes ...

04/06/06 - 20060074838 - Reducing programming complexity in applications interfacing with parsers for data elements represented according to a markup language
According to an aspect of the present invention, a parser provides the portion identifiers (e.g., Xpath(s) in case of XML data files) of at It some of the data elements to the applications. As a result, the applications may be relieved from the task of computing the XPath(s) for various ...

04/06/06 - 20060074837 - A method and apparatus for reducing disclosure of proprietary data in a networked environment
A method and apparatus for reducing disclosure of proprietary data in a networked environment includes a client node, an access control server, and an application server farm. The client node transmits a request for a file. The access control server receives the request for the file and makes an access ...

03/30/06 - 20060069665 - File access service system, switch apparatus, quota management method and program
Disclosed is a file access service system including at least one client, a plurality of file servers each having a function for limiting amount of use of a respective storage resource, and a switch apparatus inserted between the client and the plurality of file servers. The switch apparatus, based upon ...

03/30/06 - 20060069664 - Method and system for processing queries intiated by users of mobile devices
In one embodiment, a method for processing queries initiated by users of mobile devices includes receiving an incoming message containing a query initiated be a user of a mobile device, and extracting the query from the received message. The message further includes obtaining a result of the query and creating ...

03/30/06 - 20060069663 - Ranking results for network search query
A method and system for ranking results for a network search query. The method includes receiving a network search query; obtaining weblogs relevant to the search query from a database; scoring the weblogs based on a time when information pertaining to the search query appeared on weblogs; and displaying a ...

03/30/06 - 20060069662 - Method and apparatus for remapping accesses to virtual system resources
A method and apparatus for virtualizing access to native resources includes a hooking mechanism, a name virtualization engine, and an operating system interface. A request to access a native resource from a process executing in the context of an isolation environment is received, the request including a virtual name for ...

03/23/06 - 20060064399 - Method and system for testing distributed software applications
A method for testing a web application (250,275-280) is proposed. The test process is controlled by an automation server (120), which transmits any request of loading a web page (265) to an automation agent (240) running on a corresponding test client (110). The automation agent updates the request (so as ...

03/23/06 - 20060064398 - Method for the transfer of data
The method for the transfer of data which have been assigned to a user-operable, program-controlled, data-processing-technical first application, to a user-operable, program-controlled, data-processing-technical second application, comprises the following steps: defining data fields to be taken over from the first application, defining data fields to be transferred to the second application, ...

03/23/06 - 20060064397 - Network device, service using method, service using program product, and computer-readable recording medium recorded with a service using program
A network device capable of communicating to a Domain Name System (DNS) server including service records and using a service provided by a predetermined server, is disclosed, including a receiving part receiving the service records from the DNS server, an acquiring part acquiring service information for using the predetermined server, ...

03/23/06 - 20060064396 - Liver disease diagnosis system, method and graphical user interface
System and graphical user interfaces are disclosed for liver disease diagnosis. A visual data manipulation page is used for manipulating one or more liver visual data sets, retrieved together with non-visual information associated with a subject and specific to a liver disease. The visual data manipulation page includes a first ...

03/23/06 - 20060064395 - Data element storage method
Storing data from objects into a relational database to permit relative ease of interaction as between an SQL-responsive database and an object-based software program by using an attribute of the object to identify a location in a table in the database. ...

03/23/06 - 20060064394 - Method for handling changing and disappearing online references to research information
A method, system, and computer-readable medium for preserving an association between electronic documents are provided. In one embodiment of the invention, an electronic document is stored at a storage media address, the electronic document containing a citation, the citation containing a link to a network address of a remotely located ...

03/16/06 - 20060059116 - Image processing and identification system, method and apparatus
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a system and method for processing and identifying a first data file, the first data file having set of data points, wherein each data point is defined by an x,y coordinate and has a value corresponding to the lightness or darkness of ...

03/16/06 - 20060059115 - System and method for transforming information between data formats
A method and system for transforming information between data formats. According to one embodiment, a transformation engine receives an indication of an input data format and an output data format, identifies, based on the input data format, an input transformation program from a set of input transformation programs, each program ...

03/16/06 - 20060059114 - System and method for a transparent record
Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to a system and method for a transparent record. A record is displayed in a graphical user interface. The record contains at least one container having one or more elements. In an embodiment, a read service accesses a first interface of the container ...

03/09/06 - 20060053089 - Multi-part looked-up table fields and its use in data processing operations involving multiple tables of a relational database
In accordance with a first aspect, a software component is equipped to identify looked-up table fields in a data processing statement, and automatically includes with a SQL statement one or more appropriate JOIN clauses joining one or more target tables from which the table fields are to be looked up ...

03/09/06 - 20060053088 - Method and system for improving management of media used in archive applications
In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a method for efficiently inventorying a plurality of items of media contained in a library is provided. The method includes reading a barcode located on an item of media that contains contents and determining whether the barcode is known. Optionally, the ...

03/09/06 - 20060053087 - System and method for deploying enterprise components using deployment descriptors
System and method for deploying enterprise components using a deployment descriptor are described herein. In one embodiment, a deployment module of an enterprise container parses a deployment descriptor (DD) for deploying one or more enterprise components. For each of the enterprise components being deployed, the deployment module retrieves from the ...

03/02/06 - 20060047624 - Recording medium of stream data, and recording method and playback method of the same
Upon playback of stream data which is recorded while being appended with time stamp information in units of packets, time management is made using the time stamp information. A video playback time viewed from the user, which may be indicated by I-, B-, and P-picture display times, is different from ...

03/02/06 - 20060047623 - Information transmission system by collaborative filtering, information processing apparatus for use with information processing system and program for use with information processing apparatus
A system is disclosed by which the load when a user tries to selectively communicate through a network with a person having information useful to the user from among a large number of persons can be distributed suitably on the network without the necessity for a large-scale network server. The ...

03/02/06 - 20060047622 - Using join dependencies for refresh
In an embodiment, Partition Change Tracking (PCT) refresh is performed by using join dependencies on partitioning columns to derive and fill in identifiers of rows and/or partitions containing the rows in the refresh expressions. In an embodiment, the join dependencies that form the Materialized View's (MV's) query definition and the ...

03/02/06 - 20060047621 - Andersonville
Andersonville's new and scientific addition to our society includes the continuing unity of the United States of America and it's lands and waters. Newborns gaining citizenship at birth will at a bare minimum have the option upon their parent's actions of having their new and unique DNA Profile entered, recorded, ...

03/02/06 - 20060047620 - Method for monitoring changes to an electronic document having a primary predefined purpose
A computer implemented method for monitoring changes to an electronic document having a primary predefined purpose is provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises accessing an attribute of the electronic document, wherein the attribute is specifically and solely configured to reflect the primary predefined purpose of the electronic document, determining ...

03/02/06 - 20060047619 - Uddi metadata query development
A query for data in a UDDI registry is developed. A URI query having parameters that identify the data is provided. A UDDI query having a UDDI specified format based on the parameters in the URI query is generated. The UDDI query is sent to the UDDI registry. ...

03/02/06 - 20060047618 - Network meta-data libraries and related methods
Network meta-data libraries act as repositories of evolving management information models (MIM) and management information based (MIB) models. Changes to the models may be originated using the libraries or tracked by the libraries. In addition, the libraries may be used to generate and store transformation models used by mediation units ...

02/23/06 - 20060041527 - Virtual file system
Described is a method for storing a data file and creating a plurality of virtual files, wherein each virtual file is mapped to the data file. Individual metadata is then generated for each virtual file, the metadata corresponding to a shared file, wherein the data file is different from the ...

02/23/06 - 20060041526 - Binary trees for detecting inventory problems in an enterprise model
A binary tree structure for detecting inventory problems. A first embodiment detects on-hand inventory problems. A second embodiment detects inventory requirements problems. Both embodiments use a binary tree whose nodes store time values and delta values. (FIG. 2). The delta values represent inventory consumers or producers. (FIG. 6). The time ...

02/23/06 - 20060041525 - Web application framework
A web application framework is described for implementing a web server of a type capable of assuming a plurality of states and being arranged to process a received event from among a predeterminable set of events to change from one state to another, with each state having associated with it ...

02/23/06 - 20060041524 - Method and device for handling metadata
The handling of metadata being provided in different formats shall be simplified. Tehrefore, it is suggested to provide metadata in a first metadata structure having a first format and providing a second metadata structure having a first format and providing a second metadata structure having a second format, wherein link ...

02/23/06 - 20060041523 - Information processing technique relating to relation between users and documents
An information processing method of the invention comprises generating first relational data representing a relation between a document and a user by referring to access logs generated in response to accesses to documents; and generating second relational data representing a relation between documents, between users and between the documents and ...

02/23/06 - 20060041522 - Abstract document management systems and methods
An abstract document management layer service (ADML service/module) operating as a single service enabling retrieval, manipulation and management of documents using various specifications. Documents are accessed from a single point of entry. Multiple-document management systems virtually integratale behind ADML. ADML is accessible over a network-enabled interface and provides document access ...

02/23/06 - 20060041521 - System and method for providing graphical representations of search results in multiple related histograms
A system and method are provided for enabling a user to search for documents that the user has previously viewed on its local machine. The system includes three main components: the desktop integration module, the index module, and the graphical user interface module. The desktop integration module is an application ...

02/16/06 - 20060036573 - System for downloading contents, and client terminal for downloading contents from contents server
A download control program of a client terminal transmits a request to a download server, which stores Download Descriptors that include attribution information of contents, for a Download Descriptor, and receives the Download Descriptor from the download server. The download server, before transmitting the Download Descriptor to the client terminal, ...

02/16/06 - 20060036572 - Method and system to control access to content accessible via a network
Described herein are a method and a system to control access to content accessible via a network. The method may include receiving a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) from a client machine and submitting a search request based upon the URL to a search engine. The method includes receiving a search ...

02/16/06 - 20060036571 - Recording apparatus and method, reproducing apparatus and method, recording and reproducing apparatus and method, and program
Disclosed is a recording apparatus for editing data and recording a file which is an editing result. The apparatus is configured by a file generating section for generating a file and a recording section for recording the file which is generated by the file generating section, in a recording medium. ...

02/16/06 - 20060036570 - System and method for controlling inter-application association through contextual policy control
A method for controlling the interoperation of a plurality of software applications and resources includes intercepting communications from a first application to a second application or resource, directing the communication to a context management system, generating a candidate list of contexts for the communication, evaluating the candidate list according to ...

02/16/06 - 20060036569 - Method and apparatus for changing background screen in gui operating system
An apparatus for changing a background screen with a thumb icon, in an operating system having a graphic user interface environment, includes: a background screen information database for storing, searching, and editing background screen information containing information on a kind of a thumb icon included in the background screen; and ...

02/16/06 - 20060036568 - File system shell
A file system shell is provided. One aspect of the shell provides virtual folders which expose regular files and folders to users in different views based on their metadata instead of the actual physical underlying file system structure on the disk. Users are able to work with the virtual folders ...

02/16/06 - 20060036567 - Method and apparatus for organizing searches and controlling presentation of search results
Method and apparatus for organizing searches and controlling the presentation of search results are described herein. A hierarchical search structure provides search storage for replay. Search results can be aggregated through search groups, to collect and present related items from multiple searches together, and search result layout can be specified ...

02/16/06 - 20060036566 - Index extraction from documents
Systems, methods, and programs embodied in a computer readable medium are provided for index extraction. An extraction of a plurality of sets of indices from a document in a server is implemented using a plurality of indexing entities. Each set of indices is extracted using a corresponding one of the ...

02/16/06 - 20060036565 - Passive monitoring of user interaction with a browser application
Assessing a user's interest level with respect to an electronic search result through passive monitoring of user interaction with a browser application includes determining that a user has requested an electronic search and enabling the user to perceive one or more identifiers. Each identifier corresponds to an electronic search result ...

02/16/06 - 20060036564 - System and method for graph indexing
Techniques for graph indexing are provided. In one aspect, a method for indexing graphs in a database, the graphs comprising graphic data, comprises the following steps. Frequent subgraphs among one or more of the graphs in the database are identified, the frequent subgraphs appearing in at least a threshold number ...

02/09/06 - 20060031188 - Web server content replication
This invention relates to managing multiple web servers, and more particularly to a web service system and method that allows a system operator to distribute content to each web server in the web service system. In one embodiment, a method for replicating changes in a source file set on a ...

02/09/06 - 20060031187 - Systems and methods for enterprise-wide visualization of multi-dimensional data
Systems and methods are described that allow powerful multi-dimensional visualization applications to be effectively deployed across large enterprises. The approach employs a zero-footprint client architecture that allows any network (or Internet) connected client device with a web browser that supports industry standard dynamic HTML (i.e., HTML, images and JavaScript) to ...

02/09/06 - 20060031186 - Information processing method, information processing program, and information processing apparatus
An information processing method which can reduce stress on the user by always providing services to the user without any delay. The information processing method is executed by an information processing apparatus. A search server is requested to perform a search for at least one of servers for performing desired ...

02/09/06 - 20060031185 - Systems and methods for interoperation of directory services
Systems and methods according to the present invention may include providing a first directory service program, a second directory service program, and a directory service access program for handling client application information requests. The directory service access program may direct and manage the client application information requests to either the ...

02/09/06 - 20060031184 - Service request module
A method, system, and computer program product for providing external software applications with access to data elements contained within a database is provided. In one embodiment, a Service Request Module (SRM) receives a request from the external software application for data from the database. The SRM determines whether the requesting ...

02/09/06 - 20060031183 - System and method for enhancing keyword relevance by user's interest on the search result documents
A system and method are provided for enabling a user to search for documents that the user has previously viewed on its local machine. The system includes three main components: the desktop integration module, the index module, and the graphical user interface module. The desktop integration module is an application ...

02/02/06 - 20060026122 - Report system and method using context-sensitive prompt objects
A reporting system that incorporates a context sensitive prompt object in a report definition to enable questions to be answered automatically by the reporting system (e.g., decision support system, business intelligence and OLAP) at report execution time. The context sensitive prompt object is an object separate from the report such ...

02/02/06 - 20060026121 - Data processing method and printing system
There is disclosed a printing system which can limit users who access a hot folder as a common folder, and need not prepare for another server only for user management. In a printing system of this invention, a management server monitors digital data stored in the hot folder, and limits ...

02/02/06 - 20060026120 - Method and system for collecting, processing, and distributing residential property data
A method for collecting, processing, and distributing residential data. Client accounts are established. A message is transmitted to the client accounts requesting the submission of primary residential data. The primary data is then received, including primary apartment data relating to apartment rental events and primary home data relating to home ...

02/02/06 - 20060026119 - Method and system for sharing information about media items
A method for sharing information between users of a media management application is disclosed. In one embodiment, a server computer receives a media information share request, retrieves artist or album information according to the media information share request, constructs a media message form containing artist or album information according to ...

02/02/06 - 20060026118 - Aggregation and retrieval of network sensor data
Methods, devices, and systems that aggregate and retrieve network sensor data. In one approach, an exemplary method includes receiving a plurality of instances of correlated sensor data from a plurality of remote data storages, each instance of sensor data respectively correlating to an occurrence. In another approach, an exemplary method ...

02/02/06 - 20060026117 - Microeconomic mechanism for distributed indexing
A distributed index for discovering distributed data sources and computing resources based on predicates on attributes is provided. Proposed is a non-altruistic scheme for indexing distributed data, in which nodes are provided with incentives to cooperate in the referencing of data and the routing of search requests for indexed data. ...

02/02/06 - 20060026116 - Method and apparatus for optimizing execution of database queries containing user-defined functions
A query engine (or optimizer) which supports database queries having user-defined functions maintains historical execution data with respect to each of multiple user-defined functions. The historical execution data is dynamically updated based on query execution performance. When executing a query having user-defined functions, the query engine uses the historical execution ...

02/02/06 - 20060026115 - Reusing optimized query blocks in query processing
Techniques for reusing optimized query blocks in query processing are provided. The techniques include checking a data structure to determine whether a previously-generated query block information record corresponding to an already-processed first inner query block exists in the data structure, where the already-processed first inner query block corresponds to the ...

02/02/06 - 20060026114 - Data gathering and distribution system
A system and method for gathering and distributing data. The system is for extracting information from the world wide web and classifying the information in accordance with certain profiles. The information may include business intelligence, which may be categorized according to its relevance to predefined industry profiles or company profiles. ...

01/26/06 - 20060020573 - Validating multiple execution plans for database queries
Validation of large numbers of alternative execution plans for a database query, either an exhaustive enumeration of the complete space of alternatives, or else an unbiased random sample, is performed by efficiently constructing execution trees from a data structure having groups alternative operators that are ranked in a directory. Each ...

01/26/06 - 20060020572 - Computer, storage system, file management method done by the computer, and program
means which accepts a construction condition for file data stored in the storage device 500; means which creates and stores information (virtual view information)that is associated with a file name and a stored location of the file data satisfying the construction condition; means which accepts a presentation request for the ...

01/26/06 - 20060020571 - Phrase-based generation of document descriptions
An information retrieval system uses phrases to index, retrieve, organize and describe documents. Phrases are identified that predict the presence of other phrases in documents. Documents are the indexed according to their included phrases. Related phrases and phrase extensions are also identified. Phrases in a query are identified and used ...

01/26/06 - 20060020570 - Conflict resolution engine
Various implementations provide techniques for resolving a conflict in a distributed computing environment. One implementation provides for receiving first and second alteration requests that specify first and second proposed alterations, respectively, to information stored in a database, where the first and second proposed alterations are inconsistent with one another. The ...

01/26/06 - 20060020569 - Apparatus, system, and method for time-based library scheduling
An apparatus, system and method for library scheduling include a time-based schedule for mapping a data storage device to a plurality of logical libraries. The data storage device is mapped to the plurality of logical libraries in response to the time-based schedule. The data storage device may be in communication ...

01/19/06 - 20060015477 - Method for managing profiles and management system of profiles
According to the present invention, even if the maximum number of profiles capable of being stored are already stored, profile data being newly made is not be disappeared, and a suitable profile stored can be deleted. A storage portion of temporary storage profiles 3 capable of storing temporarily profile data ...

01/19/06 - 20060015476 - Driver program, recording medium on which driver program is recorded, driver control method, and driver control apparatus
Provided is/are user settings database(s) storing name(s) and application information indicating application(s) within which setting of data processing condition(s) took place, these being attached to combination(s) of data processing condition setting(s) enterable or designatable at settings screen(s) appearing by way of user interface(s) and permitting setting of data processing condition(s), ...

01/19/06 - 20060015475 - Integrated construction project management system with handheld computer and checklist
A construction management system includes a handheld computer adapted to collect construction data including an Inspection Checklist from the field; a planning system to track budgetary information; a design system to perform site engineering assessment; and a construction system to track material consumption and progress for each project, the construction ...

01/19/06 - 20060015474 - System and method for distributed privacy preserving data mining
Distributed privacy preserving data mining techniques are provided. A first entity of a plurality of entities in a distributed computing environment exchanges summary information with a second entity of the plurality of entities via a privacy-preserving data sharing protocol such that the privacy of the summary information is preserved, the ...

01/19/06 - 20060015473 - Dynamic partitioning of storage media for mixed applications
An apparatus comprising a first partition and a second partition. The first partition has a first file system comprising (i) a plurality of first clusters configured to store data having accesses faster than a first worst case data transfer rate and (ii) a dedicated space not used by the plurality ...

01/19/06 - 20060015472 - Filtering cached content based on embedded urls
The present invention extends to methods, systems, computer program products, and data structures for filtering cached content based on embedded URLs. A computer system accesses a URL that corresponds to cached content. The computer system identifies an embedded URL included in the accessed URL. The embedded URL corresponds to a ...

01/19/06 - 20060015471 - System, method, and computer program product of building a native xml object database
A method, system, and computer program product of building a Native XML Object Database, the present invention dynamically generates database API from object-oriented design and persists data in native XML files. The structure of data is maintained from front end API to back end file storage for better security and ...

01/12/06 - 20060010099 - Reproduction apparatus and reproduction method
To provide a reproduction apparatus able to easily select a desired content data based on an attribute of the content data by a simple operation from a user and a reproduction method for the same, wherein the reproduction apparatus having: a display displaying the item; a first operation unit instructing ...

01/12/06 - 20060010098 - Diabetes care host-client architecture and data management system
A host-client data sharing system manages diabetes care data. A host database, preferably web or internet based, is implemented for storing diabetes care data relating to multiple diabetics. A client or local database stores the diabetes care data relating to multiple diabetics on a personal appliance such as a PC, ...

01/12/06 - 20060010097 - Document management apparatus, document management method, and storage medium storing program
A document management apparatus for managing an object includes an input unit that inputs setting of an operation related to an object, an execution unit that executes a predetermined operation related to the object, based on the setting, a setting selection unit that selects setting of an operation related to ...

01/12/06 - 20060010096 - Distributed application infrastructure for the purpose of ad hoc networks and intermittently connected devices
A system and method to manage the distribution and monitoring of offline information on the client side. The client, once it has downloaded the content, can act as a master server to another client. The interface to the local use of the content object(s) on each client is customizable based ...

01/12/06 - 20060010095 - Synchronizing distributed work through document logs
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for synchronizing distributed work. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving first and second metadata entries, adding the first and second metadata entries to a set corresponding to a digital object, and providing access to first and second unique identifiers used for referencing ...

01/12/06 - 20060010094 - Managing entity-relationship data for data objects persisted in a relational database
The present invention comprises a process for managing entity-relationship data for data objects persisted in a relational database. In particular, the process minimizes the number of database operations needed to maintain persistent referential integrity between data objects, thereby minimizing the number of times that a program accesses the database. In ...

01/12/06 - 20060010093 - System and method for continuous diagnosis of data streams
In connection with the mining of time-evolving data streams, a general framework that mines changes and reconstructs models from a data stream with unlabeled instances or a limited number of labeled instances. In particular, there are defined herein statistical profiling methods that extend a classification tree in order to guess ...

01/05/06 - 20060004692 - System and method for filtering and organizing items based on common elements
A system and method for filtering and organizing items from computer memories based on common elements. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, filters are provided for manipulating the items. The filters are essentially tools for narrowing down a set of items. In one embodiment, the filters are dynamically ...

01/05/06 - 20060004691 - Ecosystem method of aggregation and search and related techniques
Techniques are described for effecting data aggregation in a network. Event notifications are received from a plurality of content sites on the network. Each event notification indicates occurrence of an event associated with a corresponding one of the content sites. Each event corresponds to a change to content associated with ...

01/05/06 - 20060004690 - Systems and methods for dynamic configuration of a collaboration
A system and method for selecting a collaboration participant comprising: defining a role wherein the role includes a plurality potential members and one or more criteria; evaluating the role to determine a set of actual members wherein the set of actual members can vary over time; selecting a first member ...

01/05/06 - 20060004689 - Systems and methods for managing content on a content addressable storage system
A method for storing content on a storage system wherein the content is defined an associated retention period. The retention period prescribes a fixed amount of time that the content will be stored without the possibility of deletion. After the retention period expires, the content and all metadata associated with ...

01/05/06 - 20060004688 - Systems and methods for integrating various processes
A method for integrating various processes is described. The method includes managing of data by a first business unit, where managing of data includes at least one of storing-the data within a data repository and editing the data. The method also includes automatically sending a notification from the first business ...

01/05/06 - 20060004687 - Web-based event correction and prevention system
An event correction and prevention system for managing and analyzing unplanned event occurrences within a networked multi-facility corporate environment provides features and steps for entering event information via a computer-based platform into an automated system. Event information includes basic information such as a date, time and location of an unplanned ...

01/05/06 - 20060004686 - Real-time reporting, such as real-time reporting of extrinsic attribute values
A facility for storing extrinsic data is described. The facility receives data associated with a distinguished extrinsic data item of a specified type. The facility determines whether a flexible column directory table contains an entry mapping the distinguished extrinsic data item to a flexible column pool column. If the flexible ...

01/05/06 - 20060004685 - Automated grouping of image and other user data
A user selects a data file (e.g., an image file) from an interface (e.g., a thumbnail view). Upon selecting a file from the interface, the contents of that file are presented to the user in an appropriate manner (e.g., providing an enlarged image display). The selected file is also moved ...

01/05/06 - 20060004684 - Method and system for identifying automounted file system resources
A method, an apparatus, a system, and a computer program product are presented for determining whether a file system resource is a file system resource that is contained within a file system that can be automounted by a data processing system. A target file system resource is identified, after which ...

12/29/05 - 20050289113 - Method and system for automated intelligent electronic advertising
A method and system for automated intelligent electronic advertising. The method and system parse electronic information messages (e.g., e-mail messages, instant messages, etc.) for keywords and make search engine queries or database queries for electronic links based on the identified keywords. The electronic links returned from search engine queries or ...

12/29/05 - 20050289112 - Method and system for organizing and distributing lists of linked or embedded content
Systems and methods are described for organizing and distributing lists of linked or embedded content, which may include digital media assets and/or attendant reviews of the content or linked material, and for enabling the organizers of the lists to receive compensation based on commercial transactions that occur when consumers make ...

12/29/05 - 20050289111 - Method and apparatus for processing metadata
Methods and apparatuses for processing metadata are described herein. In one embodiment, when a file (e.g., a text, audio, and/or image files) having metadata is received, the metadata and optionally at least a portion of the content of the file are extracted from the file to generate a first set ...

12/29/05 - 20050289110 - Trusted index structure in a network environment
Methods and apparatuses of a trusted index structure in a network environment. In one embodiment, a data processing system includes a master device and at least one slave device to communicate with each other through a network; and a master lock status of a shared storage device to determine the ...

12/29/05 - 20050289109 - Methods and systems for managing data
Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata. In one exemplary method, metadata from files created by several different software applications are captured, and the captured metadata is searched. The type of information in metadata for one type of file differs from the type of information in metadata for ...

12/29/05 - 20050289108 - Methods and systems for managing data
Methods and systems for managing an index database. In one exemplary method, an index database is stored on a machine readable volume with an operating system and the files which have been indexed, and then the volume is, after the storing, made available for distribution to licensees or customers. In ...

12/29/05 - 20050289107 - Methods and systems for managing data
Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata. In one exemplary method, a selection of at least one file having metadata stored in a metadata database is received, and a selection of a command to search, using at least a portion of the metadata, is received, and a search ...

12/29/05 - 20050289106 - Methods and systems for managing data
Methods and systems and machine readable media for managing data. In one exemplary embodiment, an initial search query is received and examined to determine whether elements within the initial search query are within the same category of data, and a machine interpreted search query is derived in response to the ...

12/29/05 - 20050289105 - Universal data management interface
A universal data management interface (UDMI) system includes a processing system generates a visual interface through which a user can access, manage, and manipulate data on plural different types of remote databases. The UDMI connects to multiple standard database management systems and to allow multiple users to access, manage, and ...

12/29/05 - 20050289104 - Dynamic user interface creation based on user responsibilities and company policies
In a customizable data migration method and system, when a migration program is launched, it queries a system server for entity-level and user-level policies. The migration program then creates a customized interface to the user, where the entity-level and user-level polices are applied with hierarchical priorities. In this manner, flexibility ...

12/29/05 - 20050289103 - Automatic discovery of classification related to a category using an indexed document collection
One aspect of the invention generates a plurality of candidate phrases in response to a first open-site network search for a category term. This aspect also determines an external score in response to a second open-site network search for at least one of the plurality of candidate phrases. Furthermore, this ...

12/29/05 - 20050289102 - Ranking database query results
A system and methods rank results of database queries. An automated approach for ranking database query results is disclosed that leverages data and workload statistics and associations. Ranking functions are based upon the principles of probabilistic models from Information Retrieval that are adapted for structured data. The ranking functions are ...

12/29/05 - 20050289101 - Methods and systems for dynamic partition management of shared-interconnect partitions
Methods and systems for dynamic partitioning of multiple processor systems. Upon receipt of an on-line event request, the routing management application dynamically implements an alternate routing table (ART) for all nodes affected by the on-line event, the ART reflecting an altered system topology corresponding to the on-line event. For one ...

12/29/05 - 20050289100 - Techniques for representing relationships between queries
A method, system and article of manufacture for processing queries and, more particularly, for graphically representing relationships between different queries. One embodiment provides a method for graphically representing a relationship between a first and a second query. The method includes selecting, from the first and second queries, elements to be ...

12/29/05 - 20050289099 - System and method for searching software repositories
A system and method for searching a software database to locate summaries of software modules, methods and classes that pertain to keywords extracted from a formulation of a software problem. The software problem formulation is parsed to extract keywords pertaining to the subject matter of the problem. The extracted keywords ...

12/29/05 - 20050289098 - Dynamically selecting alternative query access plans
There are disclosed improved methods, systems, and computer program products for enhancing query optimization. More particularly, it relates to dynamically selecting alternative query access plans. ...

12/29/05 - 20050289097 - Method, system and computer program to enable querying of resources in a certain context by definition of sip event package
Disclosed is a system and a method to provide event notification. The method operates an event server (20) with a subscriber unit (12). The method includes formulating a query; sending a subscription request message to the event server, the subscription request message comprising the query; responsive to a receipt of ...

12/29/05 - 20050289096 - Method, system and computer program to enable sip event-based discovery of services and content within a community built on context information
Disclosed is an event notification system and a method to operate an event notification system that has servers and a subscriber unit. The method includes sending a subscription request message from the subscriber unit to a discovery server, where the subscription request message includes a discovery query, and responsive to ...

12/29/05 - 20050289095 - Method for serving location information access requests
The present invention relates to processing location information access requests. An identifier of a sender of a received location information access request is determined, and the identifier is compared to identifiers in a contact storage. Location access control information and/or supplementary contact information associated with an entry having a matching ...

12/29/05 - 20050289094 - Method and system for parallel update of database
Methods and systems for performing database updates by parallel processes are presented. In one embodiment, a method may include assigning identifiers to a plurality of processes, wherein the identifiers are selected from a predefined set of identifiers, where no two processes running in parallel use the same identifier. The method ...

12/29/05 - 20050289093 - Instructing management support software of a first software component to set up a communication channel between the first software component and a second software component
An apparatus in one example comprises a manager component that upon receipt of an indication of a need for a communication channel between a first software component and a second software component, instructs management support software of the first software component to set up the communication channel between the first ...

12/22/05 - 20050283462 - Files transfer between a remote home server and a local server
A method and system for providing a file utilizing information according to which the file is locally stored when the file is received from a remote server are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method is provided which comprises receiving a request for the file, where the request comprises data ...

12/22/05 - 20050283461 - Method and apparatus for managing electronic messages
A method is provided for the storage-efficient management of electronic messages, wherein a message that is to be managed is first received, the message is decomposed into a basic structure and file attachments contained in the message, a unique identification value is calculated for each file attachment, the file attachment ...

12/22/05 - 20050283460 - Database apply-managing system, database apply-managing method and recording medium
A database apply-managing system comprises at least one database, and a database access module, which transforms specific data into general format data and accesses the general format data in the database and further stores the general format data to another database. In addition, a database apply-managing method and recording medium, ...

12/22/05 - 20050283459 - Combining multidimensional expressions and data mining extensions to mine olap cubes
A language schema that integrates multidimensional extensions (e.g., MDX) and data mining extensions (e.g., DMX) for performing data mining operations on data residing in OLAP cubes. The schema provides that the <source-data-query> can not only be a relational query, rather a multidimensional query formed using MDX, for example. The operations ...

12/22/05 - 20050283458 - Automatic detection of frequently used query patterns in a query workload
In the course of an optimization, a query can be broken down into its sub-expressions. Materialized views may be substituted for the sub-expressions during query optimization. Encoded sub-expressions are generated and used in the comparison with stored materialized views. Instead of discarding the encoding of a query's sub-expression if no ...

12/22/05 - 20050283457 - Api for programmatic retrieval and replay of database trace
Trace and replay objects can be designed to automatically perform operations concerning database trace data upon invocation by custom computer processes. Trace data can be saved to any of variety of locations. It can be manipulated for the purpose of storage or replay. Trace data can be played back against ...

12/22/05 - 20050283456 - Systems and methods for building a disk image
In one embodiment, a system and a method for creating a disk image pertain to receiving identification of individual files to be used to create the disk image, creating file system structures within an output file, and appending the identified files to the output file to obtain a complete disk ...

12/22/05 - 20050283455 - Processing of data sets in a computer network
A system and method for the resource-saving collaborative handling of data sets in a computer network is described. The method comprises the steps of providing a data set having an initial collaborative workflow, determining if the data set satisfies a set of one or more first start conditions to trigger ...

12/22/05 - 20050283454 - Apparatus, system, and method for communicating with multiple data stores
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for communicating with multiple data stores. The present invention includes a control module that communicates with a plurality of data stores. The control module is in communication with a connection module. The connection module communicates with a first association module that is in ...

12/22/05 - 20050283453 - Concept navigation in data storage systems
Navigation among concepts in a free-form data object may be facilitated by using a text-mining tool to identify concepts in a free-form data object, with each concept having at least one concept instance. Using the identified concepts, a concept-navigable structure for the free-form data object may be generated. The concept-navigable ...

12/15/05 - 20050278299 - Data back up method and its programs
User data backup functions are realized through a computer, which is located on the management service provider corporation side and interfaces between a user side computer environment and a storage service side computer environment to support storage service. This computer selects storage devices which meet the user side conditions from ...

12/15/05 - 20050278298 - Systems and methods for organizing and displaying data
Example systems, software, methods, computer-readable media, and so on, associated with organization of data or links to data are provided. In one embodiment, a system includes an organization logic configured to establish relationship data for a plurality of data files, and a display logic configured to visually represent an organization ...

12/15/05 - 20050278297 - System and method for providing intelligence centers
Disclosed herein, among other things, is a system comprising a content repository, a communication portal developer, a content manager, and an analytic engine. The content repository is adapted to store electronic content in a computer-readable storage medium. The communication portal developer includes at least one wizard to create a plurality ...

12/15/05 - 20050278296 - Method and system for creating, sustaining and using a transactional bill of materials (t-bom ™)
The inventive approach provides a dynamic data system and computationally efficient method to uniquely identify a product of interest and by means of querying any number of databases for pertinent transaction data, create a complete product history (lifecycle) as well as the current product state. The inventive method provides a ...

12/15/05 - 20050278295 - Systems and methods for creating a database for accounting purposes
A database is created for accounting purposes, which can be used to prepare financial statements for the organizational units of an enterprise. According to one method, document data records are saved from posting documents to a document database. The document data records include a document header and a data part. ...

12/15/05 - 20050278294 - Systems and methods for a collaboration presence framework
A system and method for providing presence information, said method comprising, defining a role that defines a dynamic set of users wherein the set of users can vary over time and wherein the role is based on presence information of at least one member of the set of users; subscribing ...

12/15/05 - 20050278293 - Document retrieval system, search server, and search client
To provide a summary of a search result in an associative search system based on multiple viewpoints. By indexing one document database in plural ways, a summary of a search result can be displayed from multiple viewpoints. By managing documents in indexed versions of the document database by common identifiers, ...

12/15/05 - 20050278292 - Spelling variation dictionary generation system
A system for effectively collecting, without omissions, spelling variations centering on particular technical terms occurring in documents. In advance, the system sorts technical terms considered to be potential spelling variations from among a large-scale collection of terms. By measuring the edit distance adjusted for the cost of the terms that ...

12/15/05 - 20050278291 - System and method for data visualization
The present invention relates to a system and method of collecting, transforming, displaying, and visualizing business performance measures to facilitate analysis and decision making. The invention is suitable for use in conjunction with a user's management information systems and permits multiple users within a single organization to access the business ...

12/15/05 - 20050278290 - Systems, methods, and computer program products that automatically discover metadata objects and generate multidimensional models
Systems, methods, and computer products that include an automated discovery process that discovers useful metadata objects from an intelligent starting point thereby generating at least one multidimensional model for OLAP analysis. Further, generation of the intelligent starting point may be derived by use of a multidimensional analysis program that analyzes ...

12/15/05 - 20050278289 - Binary xml
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing techniques for encoding binary XML. The techniques include receiving data to be encoded and encoding the data as binary XML data. The binary XML data includes one or more elements. Each element is represented by an index number that identifies the element, ...

12/15/05 - 20050278288 - Search framework metadata
A user selectable evaluation indicia associated with a displayed unit of information within an application is provided. Responsive to a user interaction with the evaluation indicia, an evaluation opportunity is presented to the user. At least a portion of a user's activities comprising the user participation is transformed, responsive to ...

12/15/05 - 20050278287 - Query meaning determination through a grid service
A method, system, and program for query meaning determination through a grid service are provided. A search service within a grid environment receives a free text string as a search query, wherein the free text string includes multiple specifications. The search service controls distribution of the free text string to ...

12/15/05 - 20050278286 - Dynamic graphical database query and data mining interface
A graphical query and data mining interface provides visual feedback to a user during the construction of a query that helps the user determine the quality of the query as the query is being built. The graphical query and data mining interface determines relationships in the database from a database ...

12/15/05 - 20050278285 - Methods and apparatus for specifying and processing descriptive queries for data sources
Improved descriptive query techniques are provided. More particularly, techniques are provided for specifying and processing descriptive queries for data providers grouped into provider kinds with hierarchical containment relationships. The query may include arbitrary boolean combinations of arbitrary tests on the values of attributes of the data providers. ...

12/15/05 - 20050278284 - System and method for accelerating service processor
A service processor that manages a server farm includes a data compare engine that accelerates service processor operation by comparing a current data report from a server to a previous report and noting the changes between the reports, so that only the changes need be analyzed, instead of the entire ...

12/15/05 - 20050278283 - Search via fast case insensitive ascii tree
A system and method for searching a bytestream or other string in a case insensitive manner. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention includes an ASCII tree that associated both upper and lower case letters of an incoming header key (or other symbols) with nodes. When enough nodes are gathered, ...

12/15/05 - 20050278282 - Methods, systems, and storage mediums for expanding the functionality of database applications
Exemplary embodiments include methods, systems, and storage mediums for expanding the functionality of a database application via a computer system. The method includes importing an application development system for expanding the functionality of a database application into a database created using the database application. The database includes records arranged in ...

12/15/05 - 20050278281 - Multi-dimensional data editor
A method includes obtaining a first position of a first data item in a data table, obtaining a second position of a second data item in the data table, comparing the first position with the second position, inferring a relationship between the first data item and the second data item ...

12/15/05 - 20050278280 - Self update mechanism for update module
A system for updating files in a computer system. The update system may download files from a centralized database during a start up process for a computer system. The start up process may complete the loading of all services and applications to be provided by the computer system, then initiate ...

12/15/05 - 20050278279 - Native libraries descriptor with reference counting
Embodiments include a system for managing files or software components by use of a descriptor file. The descriptor file may track references to the file or software component by other files and software components. A software component that has no references to it may be removed from a system. ...

12/15/05 - 20050278278 - Class loading jar operation optimizations
Embodiments include a system for releasing unused files. The files may be held open initially by a virtual machine, class loader, application or similar program. Embodiments register the access times to files with a timeout manager program. After a predetermined time period where no access has been made to a ...

12/15/05 - 20050278277 - Method and apparatus for propogating tables while preserving foreign key integrity
The invention disclosed is a method and apparatus for propagating database tables while preserving foreign key integrity. The invention comprises an improved method of storing subscription sets that enables a user to assign a rank to a subscription set and to each member of the set, and an improved database ...

12/15/05 - 20050278276 - Method and system for processing a database query by a proxy server
A method, system, and computer program product for processing a database query by a proxy server that is adapted to communicate with at least one database server. The database servers are respectively coupled to corresponding databases having tables that include a data isolation field pertaining to a group having subgroups. ...

12/15/05 - 20050278275 - Defining a data dependency path through a body of related data
A data dependency path calculator for a semantic search engine is provided. A body of semantically related data is modeled according to a semantic data model. A user is presented a list of data elements from which they may select desired data elements. The system automatically calculates all of the ...

12/15/05 - 20050278274 - Transaction model for deployment operations
A system and method are described for performing deployment operations according to a transaction model. In one embodiment, a request to initiate a transaction to perform a deploy service operation is received. In response to the request, the transaction is initiated at a container. The transaction is then committed to ...

12/15/05 - 20050278273 - System and method for using root cause analysis to generate a representation of resource dependencies
A system and method for using event management root cause analysis to depict resource dependencies are provided. With the system and method, since the root cause analysis of known event management systems provides a mechanism for defining interactions of enterprise components for root cause analysis purposes, this information is used ...

12/15/05 - 20050278272 - Method and apparatus for maintaining relationships between parts in a package
Modular content framework and document format methods and systems are described. The described framework and format define a set of building blocks for composing, packaging, distributing, and rendering document-centered content. These building blocks define a platform-independent framework for document formats that enable software and hardware systems to generate, exchange, and ...

12/08/05 - 20050273459 - System & method for searching heterogeneous electronic directories
The present invention comprises a computerized system and method for searching heterogeneous electronic directories. An embodiment of the system includes a database, containing data necessary to perform a search, a user interface, and a component for performing the searches. Embodiments of the system provide a user with the ability to ...

12/08/05 - 20050273458 - Virtual digital imaging and method of using the same in real state
The present invention concerns an all-inclusive virtual tour website that features virtual tours of real estate properties. The present invention further concerns methods for allowing real estate related businesses to advertise on the website while complying with applicable guidelines. The present invention further allows various product and service vendors to ...

12/08/05 - 20050273457 - Method for selecting a processor for query execution
A method of determining whether a query can be redirected to an alternate evaluator in a directory system. The method includes the step of determining in any order, any one or a combination of: Availability of an alternate evaluator, First parameters of the query, Second parameters of the alternate evaluator, ...

12/08/05 - 20050273456 - System and method for application server with overload protection
A system and method for application server with overload protection. A system, for example a server or a cluster, is designed to generate a message, and/or reject further work, whenever the server becomes overloaded. It does this in a processor-efficient manner so as not to place even more strain on ...

12/08/05 - 20050273455 - Method, system and program product for enabling authorized access and request-initiated translation of data files
A method, system and computer program product for controlling access to data files stored in a repository is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request for a data file from a requester. The request specifies a data format preference for receiving the data file. The requested data format is different ...

12/08/05 - 20050273454 - Record management and retrieval computer program and method
A record management and retrieval method, computer program, and system are provided. According to the method, in response to a user search query including a query search term, a private search space containing a plurality of electronically recallable internal information records, each internal information record of the plurality of electronically ...

12/08/05 - 20050273453 - Systems, apparatus and methods for performing criminal background investigations
An automated system for performing criminal background investigations of individuals comprising at least one investigator having access to at least one address information database and at least one criminal history database, the investigator having apparatus for recording personal identification information of a subject and for generating electronic reports relating to ...

12/08/05 - 20050273452 - Matching database records
Database records having n fields are analogized to points in n-dimensional space. “Distances” between records are calculated and used to assess the likelihood that those records pertain to the same instance of an item or event of interest. A distance between two records can be based on the distances between ...

12/08/05 - 20050273451 - Method, system, and program for maintaining a namespace of filesets accessible to clients over a network
Provided are a method, system, and program maintaining information on a namespace comprised of filesets shared by clients over a network. Zone information is maintained on at least one zone, wherein each zone associates at least one client system, at least one fileset, and at least one storage pool. For ...

12/08/05 - 20050273450 - Regular expression acceleration engine and processing model
Optimization for improved construction and execution of state machines configured to identify lexemes in data files is disclosed. This optimization includes, for example, systems and methods for disambiguating between overlapping matches found in data files, using trailing context regular expressions, removing stall states from state machines, selecting between a plurality ...

12/01/05 - 20050267864 - Automated system and methods for determining relationships between information resources
A system for determining relationships between information resources. The system of this preferred embodiment is able to determine relationships between information resources by both explicit means through similarities in characteristics and content of the information resources and by inferring relationships by other similarities, including but not limited to indirect data, ...

12/01/05 - 20050267863 - Access to content addressable data over a network
Access to content addressable data on a network is facilitated using digital information storing devices or data repositories (“silos”) that monitor broadcast data requests over the network. A number of silos automatically monitor both data requests and data itself that are broadcast over a network. The silos selectively store data. ...

12/01/05 - 20050267862 - Information processing device
The invention relates to an information processing device (1), including a user control unit (2) for the selection of units of primary information to be processed and functions to be invoked. The device also includes storage means (3) for storing the primary information. From the selections made by the user ...

12/01/05 - 20050267861 - Virtual library management system
The invention provides a virtual library system for use in managing libraries, for example in law firms, by providing needed library services without the need of a library service provider to be physically present at the library premises. The services of a virtual library are provided by a library management ...

12/01/05 - 20050267860 - Method of loading files from a client to a target server and device for implementing the method
The invention proposes a method of loading files from a client to at least one target server, the method comprising the following steps: transmitting, from the client to the target server, a set of data obtained from said files to be loaded, at least some of the data of said ...

12/01/05 - 20050267859 - Structure of an alternative evaluator for directory operations
A system for responding to directory service operations includes a receiving data path for receiving operations. An alternate evaluator includes a local data store, the alternate evaluator responding to the received operations. A responding data path for sending the responses to the operations from the alternate evaluator. ...

12/01/05 - 20050267858 - Method and apparatus for optimizing directory performance
A method for optimizing directory performance includes receiving a directory service operation. Attempting to respond to the operation using an alternate evaluator. Responding to the operation using a back-end evaluator when the alternate evaluator is not able to respond to the operation. ...

12/01/05 - 20050267857 - Method and apparatus for enhancing directory performance
A method for enhancing directory service performance includes determining one or more data types to be loaded. Retrieving data objects that includes the determined data types from storage. Preloading object name and determined data type data into a directory service alternate evaluator for each data object retrieved from storage. ...

12/01/05 - 20050267856 - System and method for application container architecture
There are provided mechanisms and methods for enabling the deployment of applications into new execution environments by adding extensions to base deployment capability for each of the new containers. These mechanisms and methods can enable embodiments to instantiate modules that augment deployment and/or execution environments for applications being deployed. The ...

12/01/05 - 20050267855 - Map image object connectivity
A system and method for creating a connectivity framework between map image objects and map data objects in an object oriented computer environment. The connectivity framework may provide a flexible and efficient architecture for generating multiple map images from one or more map data sources. The map image objects may ...

12/01/05 - 20050267854 - Multiple map image projecting and fusing
A system and method for multiple map image projecting and fusing in an object oriented computer environment. The multiple map image projecting and fusing method may provide a flexible and efficient architecture for generating combined map images from one or more map data sources. One or more map image objects ...

12/01/05 - 20050267853 - Method, system, and apparatus for exposing workbook ranges as data sources
A method, system, and apparatus are provided for exposing and utilizing workbook ranges as server data sources. The system includes a client computer capable of executing a spreadsheet application program for creating a workbook including a range that includes data objects. The workbook may be published to a server computer ...

11/24/05 - 20050262044 - Detecting duplicate records in databases
The invention concerns a detection of duplicate tuples in a database. Previous domain independent detection of duplicated tuples relied on standard similarity functions (e.g., edit distance, cosine metric) between multi-attribute tuples. However, such prior art approaches result in large numbers of false positives if they are used to identify domain-specific ...

11/24/05 - 20050262043 - Information processing system and method, information processing apparatus and method, and program
An information processing system and method, information processing apparatus and method, and program is provided. A user profile memory of a client (user terminal) stores a user profile representing a history of contents that have been operated in the past by the user. If the user profile is to be ...

11/24/05 - 20050262042 - Generating a dynamic content creation program
Provides methods and apparatus that can reduce the time required for processing, when generating a dynamic content using JSP or the like. An example device for generating a dynamic content creation program internally handles text by expressing the text in a predetermined general character encoding format. In the device, provided ...

11/24/05 - 20050262041 - Systems and methods for plain old java object (pojo) persistence
The present invention uses annotations and SQL to retrieve and/or persist POJO data from/to a database, respectively. Using SQL will enable developers to unleash the full querying power of their chosen Database Management Systems (DBMS) and will remove the requirement that they learn a new query language. A minimal amount ...

11/24/05 - 20050262040 - Software systems and methods for programmatically creating graphical and text elements using ole and/or macro functionality of commercially available software applications in the background
A software system composed of methods, intended for use by organizations ranging from in-house corporate marketing research and finance departments to third party market research agencies and consultancies that produce formal reports using graphs, charts, tables, drawing objects and textboxes to describe data collected from various sources. The objective of ...

11/24/05 - 20050262039 - Method and system for analyzing unstructured text in data warehouse
A user initially analyzes a statistically significant sample of documents randomly drawn from a data warehouse to create a cached feature space and text classifier, which can then be used to establish a classification dimension in the data warehouse for in depth and detailed text analysis of the entire data ...

11/24/05 - 20050262038 - Distributing data across multiple storage devices
Pieces of data are stored among storage devices based on a cycle value, which is computed for each storage device as the total capacity of all storage devices divided by the individual capacity of the storage device. Next, a storage device for a current piece of data is selected to ...

11/24/05 - 20050262037 - Method and apparatus for controlling result dataset generation in a javascript environment
An apparatus for and method of utilizing an Internet terminal coupled to the world wide web to access a legacy data base management system having a dialog-based request format using a standardized object-based command language, such as JavaScript, rather than the proprietary command language native to the legacy data base ...

11/24/05 - 20050262036 - Navigating to data in source system
Systems and techniques for providing user navigation to electronic data stored in a data source system. A method may include obtaining, in a data repository management system, pre-selected electronic data stored in a data source system, and providing an output for displaying the pre-selected electronic data on an access device. ...

11/24/05 - 20050262035 - Information processing device, data processing system and method, and computer program
The present invention provides a configuration in which a service corresponding to a user can be provided by using an apparatus near the user, even when the user moves from one location to another and apparatuses near the user change. A mobile apparatus carried by the user forms cells, with ...

11/24/05 - 20050262034 - Method of invisibly embedding into a text document the license identification of the generating licensed software
Method of invisibly embedding into a text document generated by a licensed software the License Identification Signature of the software wherein each original copy of the software has been assigned a unique Software License Code (SLC) and a unique License Identification Key (LIK) by a Licensing Authority, such a method ...

11/24/05 - 20050262033 - Data recording apparatus, data recording method, program for implementing the method, and program recording medium
The present invention provides a data recording apparatus which allows data to be read on the next access after recording of cluster data or a file index is interrupted by power disconnection or the like caused during a data updating process. A cluster data processing section 14 searches a cluster ...

11/17/05 - 20050256842 - User interface for controlling access to computer objects
A computer object access control graphical user interface allows a user to set computer locations where a computer object may be accessed and other users who may access the computer object. The computer object may be a computer file, a computer message, person contact information, etc. The access control user ...

11/17/05 - 20050256841 - Method and system of implementing recorded data for automating internet interactions
A method and system of implementing recorded data for automating interactions which occur across the Internet includes storing data at a central Web server adapted for maintaining a database. Responsive to a program script requesting data, computer program code at the central Web server selectively extracts stored data from the ...

11/17/05 - 20050256840 - Information management apparatus, an information management system, an information management program and a recording medium
It is an object of the present invention to provide an information management apparatus, an information management system, an information management program, and a recording medium, which uses know-how of the manufacture of a device to improve operation related to the device. An information management apparatus according to the present ...

11/17/05 - 20050256839 - System and method for managing information retrievals for integrated digital and analog archives on a global basis
A system and method for managing information retrievals from all of an enterprises' archives across all operating locations. The archives include both digital and analog archives. A single “virtual archive” is provided which links all of the archives of the enterprise, regardless of the location or configuration of the archive. ...

11/17/05 - 20050256838 - Method of managing files for optimal performance
A method of storing a file in a memory. An explicit command is issued to a file system to store the file in accordance with a desired performance characteristic of the file such as enhanced write performance, enhanced read performance or enhanced latency performance. The file system stores the file ...

11/17/05 - 20050256837 - Information providing device and information providing program
An information providing device capable of providing information through Web pages so that a user (a browsing party of the Web page) can acquire a desired piece of information without performing intricate operations. The information providing devices has such architecture that if a certain link anchor is manipulated (clicked) on ...

11/17/05 - 20050256836 - Html file processing technique
An HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) file processing method of the invention comprises: specifying a character string not influencing a display at a user terminal in an HTML file received from another server according to a request from the user terminal by referring to a definition data storage storing data ...

11/17/05 - 20050256835 - Automatic use of a functional index as a primary filter
An approach for using functional indexes as a primary filter is provided. A database query that contains a reference to a column of a table, but does not contain any reference to a functional index based on that column, is received by a database server. The database server adds to ...

11/17/05 - 20050256834 - Data controls architecture
Systems and methods for data controls architecture are described. In one aspect, a data source control exposes an interface for generic access to a data store. A data-bound control implements the interface to automatically databind to the data store at an appropriate time during runtime operations of the data-bound control. ...

11/17/05 - 20050256833 - Method and system for determining similarity of objects based on heterogeneous relationships
A method and system for measuring the similarity of objects based on relationships with objects of the same type and different types and similarities of those objects to other objects is provided. In one embodiment, the similarity system defines intra-type and inter-type similarity functions for each type of object. The ...

11/17/05 - 20050256832 - Method and system for ranking objects based on intra-type and inter-type relationships
A method and system for ranking objects based on relationships with objects of a different object type is provided. The ranking system defines an equation for each attribute of each type of object. The equations define the attribute values and are based on relationships between the attribute and the attributes ...

11/17/05 - 20050256831 - Data query method employing an implication model and business dictionary
A data query method employing an implication model and business dictionary having characteristics that embodies employment of a common universal title of data fields and implication logic between the data fields, and with which endows business terms with systemized organization thereof, thereby realizing non-requirement for a user to understand data ...

11/17/05 - 20050256830 - Systems and methods for storing and dispensing medication
A medication storage/dispenser unit comprises a processor connected to medication package storage compartments. The storage compartments comprise a medication package, and preferably may also include a content reader, a medication information reader, and a medication package indicator. The processor receives a medication request from the medical information system, receives content ...

11/17/05 - 20050256829 - Undo advisor
A method and apparatus for data recovery are disclosed. Undo tablespace size is calculated for user-specified undo retention time based on system statistics collected over a period of time specified by a history time parameter. ...

11/17/05 - 20050256828 - Data mining techniques for enhancing house selection to match buyer desires
A computer method for enhancing house selection to match buyer desires, management. The method includes the steps of providing a demand database comprising a compendium of individual demand housing history; providing a supply database comprising a compendium of at least one of house selection to match buyer desires management solutions, ...

11/17/05 - 20050256827 - Data mining techniques for enhancing land zoning management
A computer method for enhancing land zoning management. The method includes the steps of providing a demand database comprising a compendium of demand land history; providing a supply database comprising a compendium of at least one of land zoning management solutions, land zoning information, and land zoning diagnostics; and, employing ...

11/17/05 - 20050256826 - Component model for batch computing in a distributed object environment
A batch component model is provided within a distributed object environment. The batch component is designed to capture the iterative logic of a batch program as it reads from one or more input streams, invokes operations on other business component functions, and generates output to one or more output streams. ...

11/17/05 - 20050256825 - Viewing annotations across multiple applications
Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for viewing annotations created for data objects appearing in a data source using a second application configured to access and view the data source. Some embodiments present users viewing a data source with an indication of data objects in the data source that have ...

11/17/05 - 20050256824 - Dynamic distributed consensus algorithm
A method and apparatus for data management are disclosed. Data from a first storage device from a subset of a plurality of storage devices is relocated to a second storage device from the plurality of storage devices upon unavailability of the first storage device during a data operation. Each storage ...

11/17/05 - 20050256823 - Memory, method, and program product for organizing data using a compressed trie table
A modified trie table for indexing data and permitting fast access according to a search key in a digital device is present in a memory system. The table may include compressed table elements having a flags field having a compressed value. Each compressed table element has a plurality of KeyString ...

11/17/05 - 20050256822 - Dual-component state token with state data direct access index for systems with high transaction volume and high number of unexpired tokens
Access to state data by a client process such as state data in an Online Transaction Processing arrangement is controlled through generation of and exchanging of a dual-component token. The first component of the token is an Index value which indirectly points to a block of state data assigned to ...

11/17/05 - 20050256821 - Parser for parsing data packets
A parser system is arranged to receive a data stream (1) having interleaved sections derived from a plurality of different packets, and to extract data from each section as it arrives. The parser system has a scanning section which receives information about each of the sections of data defining which ...

11/10/05 - 20050251500 - File server system providing direct data sharing between clients with a server acting as an arbiter and coordinator
A client is permitted to send data access commands directly to network data storage of a network file server after obtaining a lock on at least a portion of the file and obtaining metadata indicating storage locations for the data in the data storage. For example, the client sends to ...

11/10/05 - 20050251499 - Method and system for searching documents using readers valuation
A method and system for ranking pages using valuations from readers is disclosed. A reader's time spent on a page is tracked, normalized on the length of the document, capped to limit the effect of one individual, and a reader valuation score of the page comprising the time is updated. ...

11/10/05 - 20050251498 - Method, computer program and device for executing actions using data sets
A method for executing actions using data sets, said data sets having a specified property, said specified property being indicated by a mark associated with each data set and being associated with a specified maximum number of actions to be executed, comprises the steps of: reading an action counter associated ...

11/10/05 - 20050251497 - Method and apparatus for dynamic information connection engine
A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection engine. User actions are detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination is made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information is extracted electronically from third ...

11/10/05 - 20050251496 - Method and apparatus for categorizing and presenting documents of a distributed database
A method for providing search results to a user is disclosed. The method includes receiving a first set of information associated with a plurality of web pages. A second set of information associated with a user preference, determining a commercial score for each web page is also received. A subset ...

11/10/05 - 20050251495 - System and method for unified file management
In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a system for extracting and loading files and resources provides a uniform file interface that is configured to provide access to multiple types of files. Containers provide resource requests to the uniform file system interface, which interprets the requests, determines how ...

11/10/05 - 20050251494 - System for access to, exchange of information relating to, analysis and design of industrial plants with a substantial complexity
The invention relates to a system for access, exchange, analyses and design of information relating to industrial plants having a substantial complexity like petrochemical sites or production facilities for semiconductors, the system comprising at least a set of mutually connected computers containing the information and at least a client computer ...

11/03/05 - 20050246315 - System and method for abstracting state transitions without requiring client knowledge
A system and method employ a client-server architecture that abstracts from the client the states of objects and transitions between the states. As a result, the server maintains objects, along with associated states, and state transitions that are provided to clients on demand. The client is only provided with a ...

11/03/05 - 20050246314 - Personalized medicine service
Methods, program storage devices and systems for developing a Personalized Medicine Service (100) for an individual or group of individuals that can support the operation, customization and coordination of computer systems, software, products, services, data, entities and/or devices. ...

11/03/05 - 20050246313 - Metadata editing control
A metadata management architecture. The architecture includes a property component that lists one or more properties related to a file, and a viewing component that present files having one or more of the related properties. A synchronization component provides immediate synchronization between property editing fields of the property component and ...

11/03/05 - 20050246312 - Managed object member architecture for software defined radio
A method for managing a flow of information in an object oriented software environment. A master MOM (130) and at least a second MOM (135) can be initialized. A third MOM (140) also can be initialized. A change resolution (150), which includes data correlating to a change in a device ...

11/03/05 - 20050246311 - Enterprise content management network-attached system
The present invention discloses a method and system for providing services in an enterprise content management network-attached system, where the enterprise content management functions are provided as an integral part of a storage system. An integrated enterprise content management network-attached system provides a single, unified approach to the entire range ...

11/03/05 - 20050246310 - File conversion method and system
A computer implemented file conversion method for converting an index file. The index file includes file paths, and each file path corresponds to an actual file. The method first reads the file paths from the index file. If the actual files corresponding to the file paths are files of a ...

11/03/05 - 20050246309 - Information processing system, device control method thereof, and program thereof
An information processing system in which access device transmits a transmission command to server device; receives electronic device access information from server device; instructs electronic device to transmit operation screen information which is the information to configure a screen for operating electronic device or another electronic device; receives the operation ...

10/27/05 - 20050240566 - Poet personalities
A method of generating a poet personality including reading poems, each of the poems containing text, generating analysis models, each of the analysis models representing one of poems and storing the analysis models in a personality data structure. The personality data structure further includes weights, each of the weights associated ...

10/27/05 - 20050240565 - System and method for verifying converted database commands
A system and method converts database commands from one language and dialect to another and verifies the results of the conversion. If the results are accurate, changes may be committed to the database and otherwise, changes may be rolled back. ...

10/27/05 - 20050240564 - System and method for state preservation in a stretch cluster
A system and method for preserving the data content of a network having a cluster is provided in which each of the network interface controllers of the servers of the cluster includes a copy of a set of data. Each of the network interface controllers includes a local power source, ...

10/27/05 - 20050240563 - Method, computer program product and device for importing a plurality of data sets into a system
A novel coupled two-way clustering approach to gene microarray data analysis, for identifying subsets of the genes and samples, such that when one of these items is used to cluster the other, stable and significant partitions emerge. The method of the present invention preferably uses iterative clustering in order to ...

10/27/05 - 20050240562 - Method, computer program product and device for importing a plurality of data sets into a system
A method for importing a plurality of data sets into a system, each data set comprising data segments separated by a separator, comprises the steps of: providing data sets to be imported on a data storage medium; reading said data sets from said data storage medium; storing said data sets ...

10/27/05 - 20050240561 - Monitoring and controlling work progress
The invention relates to products for, and methods of, monitoring and controlling work progress, and improving work productivity and work management, for example in highly variable and/or unpredictable work environments, and to products for, and methods of, interactive data processing particularly adapted for systems comprising a handheld mobile component ...

10/27/05 - 20050240560 - Document management network system for managing original document information and additional information
A document delivery server is connected to a user terminal through a network. The document delivery server includes a transmission/reception portion, memory portions that store original document information and public additional information respectively, storage control portions that store and read out the original document information and public additional information together ...

10/27/05 - 20050240559 - Framework for retrieval and display of large result sets
A computer-implemented technique for managing large results sets returned from a data request for a database. The technique comprises retrieving the primary keys responsive to the data request and sub-setting of the primary keys returned into at least one subset list. The data is then retrieved on a second pass ...

10/27/05 - 20050240558 - Virtual server operating on one or more client devices
In one embodiment of the present invention, a computer system includes at least one web server having content that is personalized for a user. A user device, operable to be used by the user, has a browser application and a virtual server application. The browser application is operable to retrieve ...

10/27/05 - 20050240557 - Method and apparatus for identifying related searches in a database search system
A method of generating a search result list also provides related searches for use by a searcher. Search listings which generate a match with a search request submitted by the searcher are identified in a pay-for-placement database which includes a plurality of search listings. Related search listings contained in a ...

10/27/05 - 20050240556 - Partial pre-aggregation in relational database queries
A partial pre-aggregation database operation improves processing efficiency of database queries by reducing the number of records input into a subsequent database operation, provided the query includes a final aggregation. A query optimizer is provided to determine when it is economical to partially pre-aggregate data records and when it is ...

10/27/05 - 20050240555 - Interactive electronic technical manual system integrated with the system under test
Disclosed is a Class V Interactive Electronic Technical Manual (IETM) that allows remote diagnostic engineers to interact directly with on-site maintenance technicians and a system under test. In addition, the disclosed IETM permits automatic synchronization of files on a maintenance technician's portable electronic display device. The disclosed IETM is also ...

10/27/05 - 20050240554 - Data storage method and system
A data storage method is described which comprises receiving a store command issued by a user in respect of a data object, and in response: 1. ascertaining whether an auxiliary function is associated with the data object; 2. storing the data object; and 3. executing the auxiliary function ascertained in ...

10/27/05 - 20050240553 - Directory distributor
Dividing a set of leaf objects having the same path of a directory namespace allows the divided path data sets to be distributed over separate physical stores (e.g., directory servers, network storage, separate memory, etc.). Distribution of divided path data sets over separate physical stores enhances scalability of a directory ...

10/27/05 - 20050240552 - Data mining technique for enhancing building materials management
A computer method for enhancing building materials management. The method includes the steps of providing a demand database comprising a compendium of individual demand material history; providing a supply database comprising a compendium of at least one of building materials management solutions, building materials information, and building materials diagnostics; and, ...

10/27/05 - 20050240551 - Methods and apparatus for discovering data providers satisfying provider queries
Improved discovery techniques are provided. For example, in one aspect of the invention, a technique for making providers of a particular kind of data available to an application program includes the following steps/operations. The technique discovers whether one or more data providers are capable of providing the particular kind of ...

10/27/05 - 20050240550 - System and method for file services
The invention integrates multiple software products and functional components to facilitate file and message delivery, along with managing, tracking and moving bulk data. The packaged system may incorporate user-defined value added services to transported data including, for example, user authentication, access authorization, encryption and compression. ...

10/27/05 - 20050240549 - Data carrier comprising an optically variable element
A data carrier with an optically variable structure having an embossed structure with raised areas and a first coating contrasting with the surface of the data carrier. The embossed structure and the first coating are so combined that at least parts of the coating are completely visible upon perpendicular viewing ...

10/27/05 - 20050240548 - Contents distribution system with integrated recording rights control
In order to realize efficient content distribution, a distributing apparatus (1) stores contents (C) which are distributable to a recipient apparatus (4). One of the contents (C) which is designated by the recipient apparatus (4) is distributed by streaming technique. During distribution of the content (C) by streaming technique, in ...

10/20/05 - 20050234868 - Systems and methods for fragment-based serialization
A method and system for fragment-based serialization places one or more object members in fragments. Fragments may comprise a header and a payload. A header can provide useful information about the fragment, such as an indication of fragment type and an indication of fragment length. A payload may comprise one ...

10/20/05 - 20050234867 - Method and apparatus for managing file, computer product, and file system
A file management apparatus that manages, in a distributed manner, a file and Meta data for the file in a file system in which a plurality of file servers can share a same file, includes an assigned-file processing unit that writes Meta data of a file in a storage unit ...

10/20/05 - 20050234866 - Filter driver for identifying disk files by analysis of content
A system and method for excluding certain types of files from being saved to a system by examining file data. The file data is examined by: mapping the circular queue to memory; reading the file identifiers from the circular queue (a named mutex is locked until all file identifiers have ...

10/20/05 - 20050234865 - Serving signals
Output signals are served from a serving device to a plurality of browsing devices connected to a network. The output signals represent commands executable by each browsable device so as to display viewable data in accordance with specified page formatting. Requests from browsing clients are identified which contain information relating ...

10/20/05 - 20050234864 - Systems and methods for improved data sharing and content transformation
A user's personal computer can be turned into a personal network server for easily sharing personal digital information with other people using a wide variety of devices. There are a variety of alternative ways in which such file sharing on the user's computer can be implemented, such as with a ...

10/20/05 - 20050234863 - Method of recording file system information of write-once high density optical disc and reproducing method thereof
The present invention provides a method of recording file system information of a write-once high density optical disc and reproducing method thereof, by which the robust file system information can be provided and by which the efficient reproduction of the optical disc is enables using the newly configured file system ...

10/20/05 - 20050234862 - Method for interleaving data frame and circuit thereof
A method, adapted to a 3GPP turbo coder, for interleaving a plurality of data of a data frame and a circuit thereof is provided. The present invention computes a value of Row Parameter according to the size of the data frame, computes an index for a table according to the ...

10/20/05 - 20050234861 - Sharing of non-divisible files
A method and a system for sharing files recorded by non-divisible sections in a first memory, including dividing each section into subsets to which are respectively assigned specific access rights; storing, in a second memory, separate from the first one, a specification table comprising at least the location of each ...

10/20/05 - 20050234860 - User agent for facilitating transactions in networks
Methods and apparatus are described which enable transactions in electronic networks through the use of title objects. A title object may have a number of elements and attributes which identify one or more digital assets or resources and define access rights to the corresponding digital assets or resources. An agent ...

10/20/05 - 20050234859 - Information processing apparatus, resource managing apparatus, attribute modifiability judging method, and computer-readable storage medium
An information processing apparatus includes a judging part to judge a modifiability of a value of an attribute of a resource that is an access target based on definition information. The definition information defines a rule related to the modifiability of the value of the attribute is to be permitted ...

10/20/05 - 20050234858 - Recording and reproducing apparatus, reproducing apparatus, recording and reproducing method, reproducing method, program and recording medium
[Solution] It is possible to record in a file header portion 31 of a management information file group 2 an editor identifier 33 for identifying an apparatus and a program having edited that file, trace update history of the file with a file management device 14 and update information with ...

10/20/05 - 20050234857 - Method and apparatus for verifying the authenticity of documents
A method for verifying the authenticity of a document utilizes artifacts of the printing process. The method includes optically capturing at a predetermined magnification a first image of an indicia printed on the authentic document. A corresponding indicia on a document to be authenticated is optically captured at a predetermined ...

10/20/05 - 20050234856 - Xml content monitor
With respect to overcoming the deficiencies of current antivirus and malicious code scanners, the present invention provides a method for monitoring the content of a data object comprising XML-coded data, wherein the method comprises one or more steps determining, for one or more categories, a degree to which one or ...

10/20/05 - 20050234855 - Portable electronic device
An IC card has a memory for storing data having a nest structure in which lower hierarchy data expressed in a predetermined format exists in upper hierarchy data expressed in a predetermined format. The IC card provides direct access to only the desired lower hierarchy data from among a plurality ...

10/20/05 - 20050234854 - Method and system for realizing a network-based growth of an agent for mobile communication apparatus
A system and a method for calculating a growth/evolution mode of an agent for a proactive user interface in a terminal are disclosed. The system includes a server for storing data corresponding to elements of an agent according to versions and growth steps and providing the terminal with element data ...

10/20/05 - 20050234853 - Method and apparatus for dynamic information connnection engine
A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection engine. User actions are detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination is made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information is extracted electronically from third ...

10/20/05 - 20050234852 - Apparatus and method for saving a file over a computer network
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for processing a file over a computer network. In at least one embodiment, the apparatus of the invention includes a computer server adapted for communication with a server database including at least one file accessible from a client computer. The apparatus ...

10/20/05 - 20050234851 - Automatic modification of web pages
Systems and methods for quickly and easily getting information about, or included in, a paper document into a public or private digital page. One embodiment of an example system includes a scanner that generates scan information from at least a portion of a paper document and a processing system that ...

10/20/05 - 20050234850 - Displaying conversations in a conversation-based email sysem
A method and system for processing messages is disclosed that includes receiving a plurality of messages directed to a user, where each message has a unique message identifier. Each of the plurality of messages may be associated with a respective conversation, where each conversation has a respective conversation identifier. Also, ...

10/20/05 - 20050234849 - System and method for content lifecycles
A system and method for providing a lifecycle for content in a virtual content repository (VCR), comprising, integrating a plurality of repositories into the VCR, storing the content in the VCR, allowing the content to go through a set of states according to a lifecycle definition, and wherein the content ...

10/20/05 - 20050234848 - Methods and systems for information capture and retrieval
Systems and methods that identify and extract information from articles are described. In one embodiment, a search engine implements a method comprising capturing an event in real time upon the occurrence of the event, wherein the event comprises a user interaction with an article on a client device, wherein the ...

10/20/05 - 20050234847 - Information storage apparatus, information storage method and information storage processing program
To allow a magnetic disk apparatus, such as an HDD, to perform real-time writing and reading of stream data or the like, the whole area of the disk is divided into a high reliability area and a low reliability area. The high reliability area is contiguous blocks to store reliability-critical ...

10/20/05 - 20050234846 - System and method for computer cluster virtualization using dynamic boot images and virtual disk
A method for computer cluster virtualization includes selecting a distributed application. A policy associated with the distributed application is retrieved. One of a plurality of nodes is dynamically selected. Then, a boot image of the selected node is reset based, at least in part, on the retrieved policy, with the ...

10/20/05 - 20050234845 - End-to-end business integration testing tool
A tool is provided for testing integration logic in a hub-and-spoke integration scheme. The testing tool exercises all spokes of the integration project for all objects in the model. A test document is sent to each adapter, which converts the generic objects to application specific objects and then converts the ...

10/20/05 - 20050234844 - Method and system for parsing xml data
A system, method, and computer-accessible medium for facilitating parsing content from an XML document are provided. A parser and an agent processes XML events from an event-based XML reader in accordance with a parsing map. The parsing map defines XML elements of interest and custom parsing code. The agent comprises ...

10/20/05 - 20050234843 - Computer program for storing electronic files and associated attachments in a single searchable database
A program of storing electronic files in a searchable database includes opening an electronic file having a body of text data. The file's body is stored in a body text file in a memory of a computer system. An attachment associated with the electronic file is opened. Text data of ...

10/20/05 - 20050234842 - System and method for increasing system resource availability in database management systems
A transactional database server is accessible by applications. Applications indicate whether access is made using an online protocol. Where the database server determines that a request received from an application is made using the online protocol, the server will return one of a set of defined error codes upon identified ...

10/20/05 - 20050234841 - Group-by size result estimation
A method and system for accurately estimating a result size of a Group-By operation in a relational database. The estimate utilizes the probability of union of the columns involved in the operation, as well as the relative cardinality of each column with respect to the other columns in the operation. ...

10/13/05 - 20050228771 - Partially embedded database and an embedded database manager for a control system
A method is used for editing a data element stored in a static memory device comprising a plurality of storage units. The method includes a step of copying a content of one of the storage units to a dynamic memory device, wherein the content comprises the data element. The method ...

10/13/05 - 20050228770 - Computer access control
Access to a data processor is controlled by determining if a requested function command conforms to a set of parameters, the set of parameters being derived from previously executed function commands. If the requested function command does not conform to the set of parameters the data processor is controlled to ...

10/13/05 - 20050228769 - Method and programs for coping with operating system failures
In provision against an unrecoverable failure in a first OS, a second OS for undertaking failure processing is loaded onto a memory beforehand. On detecting a failure in the first OS, a gate driver saves the first OS, moves the second OS to its executable area within the memory, and ...

10/13/05 - 20050228768 - Mechanism for efficiently evaluating operator trees
An XPath expression is converted into a tree-based representation where each node represents an operation to be performed and the links between nodes in the tree represent the flow of data between operations. The conversion may involve creating a parse tree for the XPath expression, and then converting the parse ...

10/13/05 - 20050228767 - Method, system and program product for developing a data model in a data mining system
A database table of predefined data transformations is provided. Each predefined data transformation is associated in the table with a unique identifier, a corresponding description and a validity period. When a data modeler wishes to develop a data model for a desired prediction, he/she will first determine a set of ...

10/13/05 - 20050228766 - System and methods of providing pharmacy services
System and methods for processing a drug prescription transaction are configured to identify and resolve any issue or problem associated with the transaction during one or more early stages of processing. System and methods of processing the transaction handle prescription and customer data entry, pharmacy inventory check, prescription refill authorization ...

10/13/05 - 20050228765 - Mechanism for synchronizing manafacturing information systems and document content management systems data
A method and apparatus to synchronize the heterogeneous databases of this invention, first extracts the files to be synchronized from a first database (in the case of the manufacturing facility, the online specification database). These files have a first format such as character or numeric data that is then converted ...

10/13/05 - 20050228764 - Files and method for presenting files
A file (100), provided with at least a front cover (2), a back cover (3), a spine (4) and at least one arch for fastening paper and the like, wherein the front cover (2), the back cover (3) and the spine (4) are manufactured in one piece, preferably by injection ...

10/06/05 - 20050222972 - Computer implemented, fast, approximate clustering based on sampling
(1) An approximate center-based clustering that utilizes sampling to cluster a set of n points to identify k>0 centers with quality assurance, but without the drawbacks of sample size and running time dependence on n. (2) An approximate conceptual clustering algorithm that utilizes sampling to identify k disjoint conjunctions with ...

10/06/05 - 20050222971 - Grouping and displaying multiple tasks within an event object of an electronic calendar
A system for the display and editing of scheduled tasks and timeslots represented in the form of user interface elements embedded in the calendar regions of the graphical user interface of electronic calendaring systems. It provides structures and methods for editing schedule data in the form of individual tasks and ...

10/06/05 - 20050222970 - Medical information management method and server and program using the same
A medical information management method capable of preventing medical information from being browsed somewhere when a client terminal is stolen or the like. A server connected to a movable client terminal via a network includes a medical information recording unit, an access control information recording unit, a client terminal location ...

10/06/05 - 20050222969 - Centralized configuration data management for distributed clients
System and method for managing a plurality of clients. A request to implement a change in configuration data is received from a user. The configuration data relates to an operation of a client. The received request is stored in a memory area. Computer-executable instructions request topology data from the memory ...

10/06/05 - 20050222968 - System, method and program product for identifying differences between sets of program container files
A system and program for comparing a preexisting, hierarchical set of program container files to an updated, hierarchical set of program container files to identify one or more of the program container files or files within the program container files that have been deleted, added or changed in the updated ...

10/06/05 - 20050222967 - Periodic restructuring and repositioning of multi level marketing matrix hierarchy system
A software and database processing system provided for a Periodic Restructuring and Repositioning of Multi Level Marketing Participants Matrix Hierarchy (hereinafter referred as “PRMLM”) ...

10/06/05 - 20050222966 - Delivering items based on links to resources associated with search results
Techniques are described for delivering search results pages to the users of a search engine, where one or more search result listings on the search results pages include one or more items that are associated with links to resources that satisfy a related search and that satisfy a specified condition. ...

10/06/05 - 20050222965 - Query progress estimation
A query progress indicator that provides an indication to a user of the progress of a query being executed on a database. The indication of the progress of the query allows the user to decide whether the query should be allowed to complete or should be aborted. One method that ...

10/06/05 - 20050222964 - Database model for hierarchical data formats
The present invention relates to a method for mapping a hierarchical data format to a relational database management system. It is an object of the invention to provide a method for mapping a hierarchical data format comprising descriptors to a relational database management system capable of handling diverse types of ...

09/29/05 - 20050216442 - Methods and apparatus for configuring a content distribution network
A technique can be used to obtain content (e.g., a live feed, pre-positioned content, etc.) from a content-originating device (a content source). The technique involves identifying a tree-based location-path having a series of locations which leads from the computerized device to the content-originating device. Each location includes a set of ...

09/29/05 - 20050216441 - Method and system for using a sync key
A method and system for synchronization of data stores is described. A synchronization initiator sends a sync key to a synchronization partner requesting to synchronize to some checkpoint. An integer is used as the sync key. When the sent sync key is zero the synchronization partner performs an initial synchronization. ...

09/29/05 - 20050216440 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method
An information processing apparatus and method that allows both a schedule and associated process information to be displayed at corresponding time positions in a calendar view form is provided. An indicator indicating type of process performed on each data is displayed such that the indicator is superimposed on an indicator ...

09/29/05 - 20050216439 - Update notification method and update notification apparatus of web page
This invention provides an update notification method and an update notification apparatus capable of managing the contents of update of various Web pages in an integrated fashion and to browse the pages. In the Web page update notification method according to the invention, update of web page is externally notified ...

09/29/05 - 20050216438 - Systems and methods for storing a pattern occurring in situation representations for context representation in an application
Systems and methods are provided for storing a pattern occurring in situation representations for context representation in an application. A system stores a pattern occurring in situation representations for context representation in an application. The system includes a first storage medium for storing a plurality of situations in which the ...

09/29/05 - 20050216437 - Automatic document archiving for a computer system
A system and method for processing documents is described. The system and method provide for executing a command as part of the execution of an application program, where execution of the command causes the transfer of the document between a processing device in a computer system and a peripheral device. ...

09/29/05 - 20050216436 - System and method for retrieving and displaying data, such as economic data relating to salaries, cost of living and employee benefits
A system and method for retrieving and displaying data, such as economic data. The method can include receiving over a computer network a user request for a first item of economic data, retrieving the first item of economic data from a database, and providing a display description for view by ...

09/29/05 - 20050216435 - Digital camera and method of managing folder of digital camera
A digital camera for recording image data of a photographed object and reproducing the recorded image data is provided. The digital camera includes: a memory which includes a standard folder in which image data for recording and reproducing the image of the photographed object is stored, and a favorite folder ...

09/29/05 - 20050216434 - Variable personalization of search results in a search engine
A search engine provides personalized rankings of search results. A user interest profile identifies topics of interest to a user. Each topic is associated with one or more sites, and a boost value, which can be used to augment an information retrieval score of any document from the site. Search ...

09/29/05 - 20050216433 - Identification of input files using reference files associated with nodes of a sparse binary tree
An input profile is generated from an input audio file using a measurable attribute that was also used to generate reference profiles from reference audio files. The input profile is then subjected to a process that was also used to generate a reference profiles tree, which is structured as a ...

09/29/05 - 20050216432 - Method for updating and preserving data when performing a software upgrade
The present invention relates to a method of converting data stored in one or mores files from a first format to a second format. The files include one or more records, with each record including one or more fields of data. Each of the records is associated with a first ...

09/29/05 - 20050216431 - Dynamic presentation generator
A computer aided workstation programmed to facilitate and enhance the process for creating complex graphics and associated presentation design through the use of multiple software tools/agents in conjunction with retail presentation products. Critical branding/theme characteristics are seamlessly established during the Build process by software/program controls. A high quality, professional presentation ...

09/29/05 - 20050216430 - Generation of meaningful names in flattened hierarchical structures
Architecture for generating meaningful names for a flattened data structure. The architecture comprises a system that observes user activity associated with a hierarchical data structure, and then generates meaningful names derived from file and folder names or other character string data that are easier to navigate and understand by the ...

09/29/05 - 20050216429 - System and method for collaborative systems engineering
A process converts stand-alone data sources to an open standard based architecture and integrates data throughout disparate departments and organizations. Once the data is in an open environment, it is made available in a collaborative environment via Web-based applications. The process does not require that the data come under the ...

09/29/05 - 20050216428 - Distributed data management system
In a data storage system comprising a plurality of data centers, profile information for a data object such as a file is produced. Selection criteria associated with candidate data centers are compared with the profile information to determine whether or not the data object will be replicated to the candidate ...

09/22/05 - 20050209998 - Information management apparatus, information management system and storing medium storing information management software
The present invention provides a management apparatus comprising a storing part adapted to control restriction of use of software and including a storage area for storing type information representing type of the restriction of use of software and a storage area for storing information representing the restriction of use, a ...

09/22/05 - 20050209997 - Spatially integrated relational database model with dynamic segmentation (sir-dbms)
A method and system for providing an open database model that allows the combining of spatial and Attribute data in a single relational database. The integration of spatial and Attribute data allows the data to be accessed by either standard structured query language (SQL) or a GIS viewing application. The ...

09/22/05 - 20050209996 - System and method for developing and implementing on-line marketing techniques
A computer system and method is disclosed that aids in developing and implementing on-line marketing techniques. Several client workstations and servers are coupled together over a network. A client computer contains a browser user interface to allow an administrator to set up a new business web site account. The new ...

09/22/05 - 20050209995 - Storage of content-location information
A method, devices, system and software application products for wired or wireless communication. A file format for a DRM (Digital Rights Management) media content is provided. The file format has textual content-location header(s) in a common headers box for indicating content-location information of the media content. ...

09/22/05 - 20050209994 - Database system with developing user interface, and web browser, medical support system and educational support system using such database system
An object of the present invention is to provide a database system capable of dynamically offering a user interface that is suitable for the tendency in user's actions to a database. The database system updates the user interface functioning as means for transmitting information to and from an operator, based ...

09/22/05 - 20050209993 - Method for generating an executable workflow code from an unstructured cyclic process model and a method for executing a workflow code of an arbitrary process model
A method for generating an executable workflow code from an unstructured cyclic process model comprises the following steps. First, the unstructured cyclic process model is transformed into a preliminary workflow code. Then, from the preliminary workflow code the executable workflow code is generated by eliminating unstructured cycles. ...

09/22/05 - 20050209992 - Method and system for search engine enhancement
A method and a system for search enhancement that can deal with semantic differences in a manner that does not require the user to have a PhD in search or in linguistics. Furthermore, extended, semi-automatic use of synonyms of related terms is necessary to avoid interaction with an ontological tree, ...

09/22/05 - 20050209991 - Computing device with relatively limited storage space and operating / file system thereof
A computing device includes a processor, a storage device having an executable file, and a file system for executing the file in place on the storage device on behalf of the processor. The file is divided into multiple non-contiguous fragments on the storage device, and the computing device further includes ...

09/22/05 - 20050209990 - Method and apparatus for a publish-subscribe system with access controls
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for notifying one or more users of information. A list of one or more subscribable objects is provided to one or more of the users; a subscription request is received from one or more of the users based on at least one of the subscribable ...

09/22/05 - 20050209989 - Method and system for efficient and scalable detection and management of global annotations
Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for proving global annotation services are disclosed. Global annotations are used to annotate a data element independently from the internal representation of a data element employed by a particular software application. Data elements are normalized into a form used by a global annotation system ...

09/22/05 - 20050209988 - System and method for efficient evaluation of a query that invokes a table valued function
The present invention describes an efficient and fast framework for implementing table-valued functions (TVF's) in a relational database server. The framework provides desirable extensibility properties and has the ability to minimize performance degradations by integrating tightly with the optimization infrastructure in a query processor. The present invention also enables a ...

09/22/05 - 20050209987 - Evaluating the relevance of documents and systems and methods therefor
A method of evaluating a particular document relating to property includes selecting the particular document from a set of pre-selected documents. Each pre-selected document has associated therewith one or more search linkages that identify how the pre-selected document was selected, using user-supplied inputs, from a larger set of documents relating ...

09/22/05 - 20050209986 - Transferring service settings from a first device to a second device
A method of transferring service settings from a first device to a second device, wherein the first and second devices each have the same predetermined hierarchical data structure, comprising: sending a data transfer request identifying a first portion of the hierarchical data structure from the first device to the second ...

09/22/05 - 20050209985 - Method and system for capturing and automating execution of administrative processes in a machine-readable format
The present invention provides a method, a system and a computer program product for capturing administrative processes in a machine-readable format, and for automating the execution of the captured administrative processes. An administrative process comprises administrative tasks, which, in turn, comprise administrative commands that need to be performed, to execute ...

09/22/05 - 20050209984 - Method and apparatus for alternative registry lookup of web services
An alternative registry lookup Java naming and directory interface (JNDI) provider is used to lookup a service endpoint in a registry of a Web service. The alternative registry lookup JNDI provider examines the new registry file for a service-ref-name element and determines if the element is present. If the element ...

09/22/05 - 20050209983 - Context driven topologies
The invention uses mathematical patterns, aesthetics, varying views, and a new system of scale, pacing and edges similar to walking in nature to draw the geometry of knowledge as it changes over time. These drawings have no straight lines, only arcs. There are no corners, only transitions and rotations in ...

09/15/05 - 20050203874 - Multi-controller data processing
A system and method for high performance multi-controller processing is disclosed. Independent Network storage controllers (NSCs) are connected by a high-speed data link. The NSCs control a plurality of storage devices. connected by a Fiber Channel Arbitrated Loop (FCAL). To provide redundancy, for a given logical unit of storage one ...

09/15/05 - 20050203873 - System and method for information management in a distributed network
A system and method of information management for a distributed network of data sources comprises, in one example, obtaining information from at least one data source and storing the information in at least one data structure in accordance with previously stored configuration parameters. The system and method further includes receiving ...

09/15/05 - 20050203872 - Method and apparatus making, operating and using media parsers to mark, read, and unmark instances of media formats supporting one, two and multi-dimensional instances and data streams
A method that generates a media parser for a media format from a statistical profile list. It further generates at least one of a marker, mark reader, and unmarker, from a mark profile list. Media format engines, are products of the process. Some products mark media format instances, to create ...

09/15/05 - 20050203871 - System and method for auditing enterprise data
A non-intrusive enterprise application audit trail has the ability to configure and track only data that is selected, thereby conserving system resources. ...

09/15/05 - 20050203870 - Place management apparatus and place management method
As an embodiment of the present invention, a place management system reads attributes of commodities from RFID-tags attached to the respective commodities located in a spatial area of a predetermined place, and determines an attribute of the place from the attributes read. The place management system is also able to ...

09/15/05 - 20050203869 - Hierarchical database apparatus, components selection method in hierarchical database, and components selection program
A database apparatus stores a first contents table which includes first components including first contents data rows, and a second contents table which includes second components including second contents data rows. The first and second contents data rows each have a selection reference relationship between the first and second contents ...

09/15/05 - 20050203868 - Medical image management system
An Internet address data format for accessing a database comprising medical images is disclosed. The address format corresponds to a plurality of modalities from a plurality of scan dates and associated with a plurality of patients. The images are stored in a browser compatible format. The address format comprises a ...

09/15/05 - 20050203867 - Medical image management system
A method of managing medical images is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a plurality of images corresponding to a plurality of modalities, displaying to a user at a client computer a selection comprising images associated with at least two different modalities, and, in response to the user selection, simultaneously displaying ...

09/15/05 - 20050203866 - Method and system for computerized creation, maintenance and querying of internet based multi-attribute dynamic object rating system
The present invention relates to a method and system for computerized creation, maintenance and querying of an Internet-based multi-attribute dynamic object rating system. An Internet-based ecotourism-site rating expert system was developed using this multi-attribute dynamic object method. The rating system takes into consideration the many types of ecotourism categories, facilities ...

09/15/05 - 20050203865 - Structured approach to software specification
A method and apparatus to afford a technical application for gathering, storing, tracking, and using requirements, engineering software for those requirements, and releasing finished enterprise software. A method is described that gathers requirements into a constrained data structure designed to facilitate the engineering of pre-specified definitions of the work to ...

09/15/05 - 20050203864 - System and method for data management
An automated data management system and method for logging, processing, and reporting a large volume of data having different file types, using different versions, stored on different media, and/or run by different operating systems, includes a first processor for restoring a plurality of received data files, the data files being ...

09/15/05 - 20050203863 - Pre-fetch computer system
A database (DB) server in which a database management system (DBMS) operates and a prefetch server connected to a storage device storing DB data are provided with an acquiring unit for acquiring information on a storage location on the storage device of a DB schema managed by the DBMS, information ...

09/15/05 - 20050203862 - Process control data collection
A data collection system. A data input form receives data, and a message queue receives the data from the data input form, and temporarily manages the data until the data collection system can process the data. A temporary data storage temporarily stores the data received by the message queue while ...

09/15/05 - 20050203861 - Data handling
The present invention provides a method of processing data having one of two types. In particular, the first type of data is formed from a respective data instance, whereas the second type is formed from a number of data elements. In particular, if the data is the first data type, ...

09/08/05 - 20050198004 - Information file recording apparatus
A recording apparatus for creating under a directory a plurality of information files each having information data and creation date information, and recording the information files to a recording medium in which a name of the directory is changed according to a predetermined change in a range of the creation ...

09/08/05 - 20050198003 - Computer systems and methods for performing a database access
Computer systems and methods are provided for performing a database access. In one embodiment, a computer system is provided that comprises means for receiving and storing structural information, the structural information being descriptive of a number of objects, each of the objects having sub-objects, the structural information comprising a first ...

09/08/05 - 20050198002 - Data processing device in vehicle control system
A data storage device executes a program including the steps of: determining whether or not a storage instruction to include data to be stored, along with a class generated as a label common among application software, has been obtained; detecting a class in the contents of the storage instruction when ...

09/08/05 - 20050198001 - Structured indexes on results of function applications over data
Indexed views or materialized views are used as a secondary index on a base table with multi-valued attributes. This provides for using the index to search in the nested data. Moreover, indexing is provided on the result of an unnest operation. Indexing a view on the result of an unnesting ...

09/08/05 - 20050198000 - Methods, systems, and software applications for event based data processing
Methods and systems are provided for processing data objects in a computer system. In one embodiment, a method is provided that comprises (a) storing a first data object in a database in a non volatile storage, (b) creating a second data object assigned to the first data object, step (b) ...

09/08/05 - 20050197999 - System and method for task management
A task management method includes receiving appmail definition data relating to a task from a task manager. The appmail definition data include question data defining a question relating to a task and structured response data defining a plurality of different structured responses to the question. A task appmail is generated ...

09/08/05 - 20050197998 - Dynamic database sql script execution through jdbc
A method for installing a program on a computer, the method including executing an installer to install the program on the computer and executing the program that has been installed on the computer, wherein the installed program executes a script file of database commands to configure a database for the ...

09/08/05 - 20050197997 - Template tag resolution aide
A user interface is provided which allows a database associated with a template file to be populated and reviewed for accuracy. A template file is parsed to identify any tags therein. The user interface shows the tags identified in the template file and database entries for each of the identified ...

09/08/05 - 20050197996 - Side-by-side drivers
A method and system for avoiding the overwriting of drivers by subsequent versions or other commonly named drivers includes generating a unique identity for every eligible driver package. Driver files from the driver package, or the entire driver package itself, are then installed in a subdirectory location in a common ...

09/08/05 - 20050197995 - System and method for provisioning presence application services
A system and method for provisioning presence application services using a customizable presence data model. An ontology depository having at least one domain-specific ontology model for a particular presence application is provided on a communications network. Presence client software associated with a general-purpose presence entity is customized by referencing a ...

09/01/05 - 20050192932 - Storage system architecture for striping data container content across volumes of a cluster
A storage system architecture comprises one or more volumes distributed across a plurality of nodes interconnected as a cluster. The volumes are organized as a striped volume set (SVS) and configured to store content of data containers served by the cluster in response to multi-protocol data access requests issued by ...

09/01/05 - 20050192931 - System and method for presenting survey data over a network
A computer system and method for generating web pages for displaying formatted customer satisfaction display information and/or presentations on a user computer which may be located remotely and connected to the system by a computer network. The formatted customer satisfaction survey information enables a product or service provider to evaluate ...

09/01/05 - 20050192930 - System and method of real estate data analysis and display to support business management
A suite of software tools performs data mining on data periodically extracted from one or more Multiple Listing Service (MLS) databases to support the management of a real estate business. Data relating to properties listed or sold by units of the business, such as agents, offices, regions, or the entire ...

09/01/05 - 20050192929 - Generation and conversion of object that provide for efficient object modification
An information processing apparatus includes an object generating unit configured to generate an object, and a memory operable to store first definition information that defines attribute information of the object according to a type of the object, wherein the object includes an attribute information managing unit configured to manage the ...

09/01/05 - 20050192928 - Data processing system, storage device and computer program
A data processing device, such as a facsimile machine or a printer, sends setting information necessary for processing data to a storage device for a back-up purpose, etc., and the storage device stores the setting information of the data processing device. The storage device classifies the data processing device according ...

09/01/05 - 20050192927 - Uniform resource discovery and activation
A function instance associated with a resource specifies one or more interfaces for accessing the resource. The function instance further includes functionality to return an entity operable to implement the specified interface. ...

09/01/05 - 20050192926 - Hierarchical visualization of a semantic network
The present invention provides methods, systems and apparatus for generating a visualized hierarchy model for a semantic network, and for browsing a semantic network and a semantic network browser. An example of a semantic network comprises a plurality of concepts and a plurality of relation instances each for connecting two ...

09/01/05 - 20050192925 - Enterprise information system architecture (eisa)
A method and system for Enterprise Information System Architecture provides a standardized enterprise information architecture with the ability to share data, provide a consistent user access method, connect application logic to data, provide a uniform method to connect interfaces with applications, interact with workflow, interact with external systems, provide a ...

09/01/05 - 20050192924 - Rapid visual sorting of digital files and data
Described is a system and method including a user interface to manage sets of digital data (e.g., files) such as digital photographs or email messages. The system and method comprise a rapid sort mechanism and an underlying support mechanism that associates metadata with each set of digital data, including annotation ...

09/01/05 - 20050192923 - Computer system for allocating storage area to computer based on security level
A management server takes charge of managing information about whether a physical port is provided with means for security protection. Based on such information, the management server automatically determines to which physical port a volume is to be assigned. As such, an assignment process is executed. ...

09/01/05 - 20050192922 - Client-server computing system capable of validating cached data based on data transformation
The present invention provides a client-server computing system capable of validating cached data having a data store, a server, a cache, a transformation engine, a cache monitor, and an object dependency mapper. The transformation engine transforms data into a format suitable for a client application based on a set of ...

09/01/05 - 20050192921 - Database monitoring system
A framework is provided within a database system for specifying database monitoring rules that will be evaluated as part of the execution code path of database events being monitored. The occurrence of a selected database event triggers a rule that evaluates some parameter of an object related to the event ...

09/01/05 - 20050192920 - Real time data management apparatus, system and mehtod
A data-management system and method to be provided to a digital computer terminal for generating a link in real time between an electronic document opened in a computer application and a target document. The digital computer terminal includes a computer readable memory and a data-capture device, and the data-management system ...

09/01/05 - 20050192919 - System and method for knowledge asset acquisition and management
A knowledge asset management system. An engineering data analysis system contains a plurality of objects. A first storage device stores records of users registered in the engineering data analysis system. A second storage device stores records of the operating history of the objects. A processor generates an object table specifying ...

09/01/05 - 20050192918 - Method for supporting multiple filesystem implementations
A data structure used by an operating system to refer to a filesystem object includes information that permits the structure to be associated with filesystem objects having different filesystem implementations. The data structure is associated with a filesystem object that is linked into different directories that have different filesystem implementations. ...

09/01/05 - 20050192917 - Helpset build system and method
A system and method for automatically building helpsets is disclosed. There are a number of features that are provided by the present invention, including recursive building of subhelpsets, running a variety of scripts (e.g., post-processing scripts), creating topic identification (ID) map files, creating index files (e.g., XML index files), and ...

08/25/05 - 20050187902 - Content addressable information encapsulation, representation, and transfer
Representing a number of assets on an originating computer begins with selecting the assets to be represented. Cryptographic hash asset identifiers are generated; each of the asset identifiers is computed using the contents of a particular asset. The asset identifier is a content-based or content-addressable asset name for the asset ...

08/25/05 - 20050187901 - Consumer-centric context-aware switching model
A system and method for a context-aware switching model enabled between different access points such as web sites are described. The invention allows a user to be automatically transferred securely to another site from the current site without requiring intervention from the user, such as redundant entry of information. In ...

08/25/05 - 20050187900 - Manipulating sets of hierarchical data
Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and/or systems for manipulating hierarchical sets of data are disclosed. ...

08/25/05 - 20050187899 - Structured document processing method, structured document processing system, and program for same
The CPU load and amount of memory use are reduced in a structured document processing system that performs extraction, editing, and searching of structured documents. Position information for specific tags which are branches in a structured document is retrieved in advance and held in a position information holding portion, and ...

08/25/05 - 20050187898 - Data lookup architecture
A lookup architecture is herein disclosed that can support constant time queries within modest space requirements while encoding arbitrary functions and supporting dynamic updates. ...

08/25/05 - 20050187897 - System and method for switching a data partition
A method of mapping data into a table includes identifying pointers of a source portion and target portion and switching the metadata pointers of the target portion to be those of the source portion. Upon switching the metadata pointers, the data of the source portion is mapped into the target ...

08/25/05 - 20050187896 - Method for modifying notifications in an electronic device
An embodiment relates to a novel apparatus and method for changing modes of notification in an electronic device. An electronic device includes a calendar application and a variety of other applications such as the message reader application or the daily alarm application. The device is configured to use the calendar ...

08/25/05 - 20050187895 - Dynamically customizing a user interface for the aggregation of content
Enabling dynamic aggregation of content from a plurality of content providers. The invention stores references associated with specific display areas in a document for a particular data source. Responsive to a request for the document, the invention retrieves the references associated with the data source and dynamically inserts the references ...

08/25/05 - 20050187894 - Method and system for providing a common operating system
A method and system for providing a common operating system feature set for supporting a variety of operating system configurations is described. The common operating system feature set is organized to provide a minimal memory footprint applicable to a number of devices and methods of deployment. The common operating system ...

08/25/05 - 20050187893 - Systems and methods for a large object infrastructure in a database system
Various embodiments of the present invention are direct to the utilization of Blob Handles (BHs) which are an internal representation of a large value. BHs are immutable and stateless references to a large data object. The structure of a BH contains enough information to return an ILockBytes interface in order ...

08/25/05 - 20050187892 - Method for multi-class, multi-label categorization using probabilistic hierarchical modeling
A method for categorizing a set of objects includes defining a set of categories in which at least one category in the set is dependent on another category in the set; organizing the set of categories in a hierarchy that embodies any dependencies among the categories in the set; for ...

08/25/05 - 20050187891 - Transaction processing apparatus and method
A method of processing a transaction includes processing a transaction workload in a primary process pair on a first node in a cluster of nodes, the processing using at least one stable storage volume for storing a database and another stable storage volume for storing a log, the at least ...

08/25/05 - 20050187890 - Authentication of http applications
An apparatus such as an HTTP proxy server compares information of a request by HTTP client logic with a known pattern of information for the client logic. When the information of the request matches the known pattern, the HTTP proxy server causes content and/or software to be communicated to the ...

08/25/05 - 20050187889 - Method for managing file using network structure, operation object display limiting program, and recording medium
A computer file management system allowing at least one of one file (F1) and/or one directory (D3) to belong to two or more directories (D1, D2). The file management system is characterized in that a file or directory specified by an operator of the computer or a program operating on ...

08/18/05 - 20050182751 - Active user support system, support center system, active user support program, and active user support method
An active user support system includes a communication apparatus, shop system, support center system, and communication line. In the support center system, an address registration reception apparatus acquires the identification information of the communication apparatus when it is newly connected to the communication line. An address information storage apparatus stores ...

08/18/05 - 20050182750 - System and method for instrumenting a software application
A method of instrumenting a software application includes tracing events associated with a usage scenario of the software application; pruning the traced events to produce a signature profile representative of a subset of the traced events, the subset being correlated with the usage scenario; and inserting tags corresponding to the ...

08/18/05 - 20050182749 - Process editing apparatus and method and process management apparatus and method
A process editing apparatus is disclosed that includes an editing part that edits a process in execution. ...

08/18/05 - 20050182748 - File system control apparatus
A file system control apparatus, which exclusively shares a recording device upon executing first and second file systems, is provided with a file system controller, which controls in such a manner that, even when, during access execution of the first file system to a recording device, an access execution request ...

08/18/05 - 20050182747 - Method and system for executing multiple tasks at adaptively controlled resource utilization rates to achieve equal qos levels
The QoS levels of multiple tasks are maintained at equal levels by executing items of the tasks stored in a queue during a given time interval at respectively adaptively controlled CPU utilization rates. The QoS levels of the executed items are detected and evaluated. The CPU utilization rates are updated ...

08/18/05 - 20050182746 - Integrated database management of protein and ligand structures
Systems and methods for storing protein structure information are provided. The system comprises a non-public database storing protein structure information, wherein the non-public database is coupled to a public database of non-proprietary protein structure information and to non-public sources of proprietary protein structure information. The non-public database may also be ...

08/18/05 - 20050182745 - Method and apparatus for sharing information over a network
Embodiments of the present invention include an information sharing system that provides an online business service from a provider that uses the Internet to enable individuals and organizations to link together contact databases that reside in multiple desktop applications and create a unified meta-database. This database can be searched by ...

08/18/05 - 20050182744 - Program, program construction method, storage medium, program construction system, and terminal device
An information processing system which constructs a program by combining a plurality of functional units, has an information table for management of components, etc. each of which is a functional unit of a program, and the information table stores plural pieces of management information for individual management of the use ...

08/18/05 - 20050182743 - Internet-based matching service for expert consultants and customers with matching of qualifications and times of availability
An Internet server matches experts offering consulting services in the biological sciences or the like with potential customers of such consulting services. The server presents each expert with a Web interface through which the expert inputs his or her qualifications and times of availability. The qualifications are organized in a ...

08/18/05 - 20050182742 - Method and system for managing a portal
A system and method for managing a portal is described. A portal server application includes a portal manager in communication with a user interface of a web browser. The portal manager includes a database for storing metadata related to elements accessible from a portal. The user interface displays a navigational ...

08/18/05 - 20050182741 - Simplifying application access to schematized contact data
The present invention is directed to utilizing contact data controls to simplify access to schematized contact data. Contact data controls abstract the formatting of schematized contact data from applications. In some embodiments, applications that lack the configuration to natively access schematized contact data (e.g., lack the functionality to convert between ...

08/11/05 - 20050177550 - System and method for flushing bean cache
Servers in a network cluster can each store a copy of a data item in local cache, providing read access to these copies through read-only entity beans. The original data item in the database can be updated through a read/write entity bean one of the cluster servers. That cluster server ...

08/11/05 - 20050177549 - Data mining agents for efficient hardware utilization
A method, system, and computer program product for allocating data mining processing tasks that does not use complex internal schemes, yet results in better performance than is possible with general-purpose operating system based schemes. The present invention uses a data mining agent that operates autonomously, proactively, reactively, deliberatively, and cooperatively ...

08/11/05 - 20050177548 - Method and apparatus for rental storage system
Reduction of the initial investment cost of a user of a storage system can be realized, and the user of the storage system can easily perform timely addition for a short time. In a preferred embodiment, a method for renting and charging the storage system includes the steps of: reading ...

08/11/05 - 20050177547 - Method for handling data
A method, device and computer program for handling a data stream comprising a number of data objects, wherein for at least one of these data objects a decision is made whether a compression is conducted based on a value representing a compression factor of the data object. ...

08/11/05 - 20050177546 - Storage system
In a storage management system for managing a storage device for storing data, management information for managing the storage device, area assignment information for managing an area assignment state of the storage device, and history information for managing a history on area assuring and release are held. Further, an assignment ...

08/11/05 - 20050177545 - Method and apparatus for representing and managing service level agreement management data and relationships thereof
Techniques are provided for representing and managing data and associated relationships. In one aspect of the invention, a technique for managing data associated with a given domain comprises the following steps. A specification of data attributes representing one or more types of data to be managed is maintained. Further, a ...

08/11/05 - 20050177544 - Fast searching of list for ip filtering
A method for filtering data packets through computers on the Internet that allows a computer to determine whether an incoming numbered list is present in a numbered list data set faster than the prior art methods. The present invention comprises an Array Creation Program (ACP) and an Array Matching Program ...

08/11/05 - 20050177543 - Efficient xml schema validation of xml fragments using annotated automaton encoding
A method and system for Extensible Markup Language (XML) schema validation, includes: loading an XML document into a runtime validation engine, where the runtime validation engine includes an XML schema validation parser; loading an annotated automaton encoding (AAE) for an XML schema definition into the XML schema validation parser; and ...

08/11/05 - 20050177542 - Account-owner verification database
A method of populating an account-owner verification database includes collecting participant data elements from one or more participant institutions. The participant data elements are associated with one or more participant accounts in the participant institutions, and each participant data element also corresponds to a data element field in the database. ...

08/11/05 - 20050177541 - Method and system for dynamically updating a process library
A system and method which allows users to track and manage the information gathered during the life of a project. The invention uses a novel method and system for tracking changes to processes within a project. A statistical analysis is done on the changes and the statistical information is merged ...

08/11/05 - 20050177540 - Large-scale visualization of temporal data
Methods, computer-readable media, and systems for representing data associable with intervals are provided. A frame is associated with each of a number of intervals in a period. The frame is configured to display a maximum number of points. A first number of points representative of a first data quantity associable ...

08/11/05 - 20050177539 - Blocking access by preventing completion of volume mount request
A method, of selectively or indiscriminately blocking access to a volume at least a portion of which is on a storage-device that has been formatted according to a predetermined file-system, may include: preventing, selectively or indiscriminately, a file-system driver that corresponds to the predetermined file-system from completing a mount-request. ...

08/11/05 - 20050177538 - Preference information managing apparatus which stores users' usage history of packaged contents, calculates scores of the usage history and outputs the result of the calculation as a preference information, and preference information managing apparatus w
A preference information managing apparatus which outputs preference information reflecting a user's preference by (i) storing characteristics information which represents characteristics of a content relating to the user's usage and (ii) calculating a score of each piece of characteristics information, comprising: an obtaining unit operable to obtain characteristics information corresponding ...

08/11/05 - 20050177537 - System and method for integrating existing computer-based systems
The present invention provides system and method of integrating existing computer-based systems. These existing computer-based systems are systems that are in place for a period of time and may be expensive to replace. Specifically, the present invention provides software, firmware and/or hardware for integrating existing computer-based systems. The present invention ...

08/11/05 - 20050177536 - Order management system
A system capable of managing orders of resources so that order quantities of resources for production of products are properly determined with consideration given to various conditions of a person receiving orders. In this system, according to the latest production plan, placed order quantities are corrected based on corrected required ...

08/11/05 - 20050177535 - Business process autonomy improving system and method
The object is to provide a system and a method for autonomously improving the business process, in which the business activities are analyzed based on the business report submitted by responsible employees of an enterprise to support the business activities of the responsible employees. The data can be transmitted and ...

08/11/05 - 20050177534 - Information management system and methods therein
Methods, in an information management system, for addressing and transmitting a handwritten message to at least one recipient using an electronic address book. In the electronic address book a short address is associated with at least one recipient, and, thus, with at least one complete receiving address of a recipient. ...

08/11/05 - 20050177533 - Method for maintaining a production installation
In a method for maintaining a production installation having a plurality of field devices F1, F2, F3 connected partly, or completely, over a data bus D with a control system L, the field devices F1, F2, F3 are registered in a manufacturer data base HG-DB with a manufacturer-specific identification and ...

08/11/05 - 20050177532 - Delegation object as a first-class business modeling object, and method and system for providing same
A delegation object as a first-class business modeling object and method and system for providing same are disclosed. The delegation object includes a master data set definition, at least one data dimension-to-user mapping, and a target organization definition defining relationships between the master data set definition and the mapping. The ...

08/04/05 - 20050171929 - Method and apparatus for rental storage system
Reduction of the initial investment cost of a user of a storage system can be realized, and the user of the storage system can easily perform timely addition for a short time. In a preferred embodiment, a method for renting and charging the storage system includes the steps of: reading ...

08/04/05 - 20050171928 - Scanner with built in mass storage device
A scanner capable of operating independent of an attached computer so that scans of text and images can be instantly stored on media. In one embodiment of the present invention, a zip drive or CD burner receives information directly from the scanner so that information is stored instantly upon scanning ...

08/04/05 - 20050171927 - Techniques for multiple window resource remastering among nodes of a cluster
Remastering of shared resources among nodes in a cluster, while minimizing the time that such resources are unavailable for access, comprises dividing the shared resources being remastered into multiple “windows” and freezing and remastering one window at a time. The remastering windows are defined over one or more buckets associated ...

08/04/05 - 20050171926 - Systems and methods for collaborative note-taking
Techniques are provided for determining collaborative notes and automatically recognizing speech, handwriting and other type of information. Domain and optional actor/speaker information associated with the support information is determined. An initial automatic speech recognition model is determined based on the domain and/or actor information. The domain and/or actor/speaker language model ...

08/04/05 - 20050171925 - System and method for exposing a child list
An interface may be provided that enables the user to select a parent list, to view a set of available child lists corresponding to the selected parent list, and to select a particular child list from the set of available child lists. The set of available child lists may be ...

08/04/05 - 20050171924 - System for recommending program information in accordance with user preferences
A system for recommending program information in accordance with user preferences, the system comprising receiving means (110) for receiving the program information and program schedule data pertaining to time schedules for receiving program information, input means (120) for providing a user input to the system, recommending means (160) for analyzing ...

08/04/05 - 20050171923 - Method and apparatus for identifying diagnostic components of a system
Method and apparatus is described for identifying a subset of components of a system, the subset being capable of predicting a feature of a test sample. The method comprises generating a linear combination of components and component weights in which values for each component are determined from data generated from ...

07/28/05 - 20050165732 - System and method providing automated margin tree analysis and processing of sampled data
The present invention relates to a system and methodology to facilitate database processing in accordance with a plurality of various applications. In one aspect, a large database of objects is processed, wherein the objects can be represented as points in a vector space, and two or more objects are deemed ...

07/28/05 - 20050165731 - Method for processing data based on the data context
A method for managing data in a semiconductor processing environment. Raw data is collected during a process. Also, trace file data and process log file data are received. The raw data is synchronized with the trace file data and process log file data to create wafer data summary data is ...

07/28/05 - 20050165730 - Section identification and distribution system monitoring system, method and program product
A system and a method is provided for specifying arbitrary nodes and identifying a section between them on a system diagram of a distribution system. It comprises a system diagram information management portion for managing information on each of nodes and spans constituting the system diagram and ID information given ...

07/28/05 - 20050165729 - System and method of managing internet browser navigation
The present invention provides a system and method of managing Internet browser navigation. Software code designed to interact with and control the user's Internet browser is embedded into web pages made available to remote users by a web server. Embedded software code is read by the user's Internet browser upon ...

07/28/05 - 20050165728 - Service providing system, computer which executes program providing service and repository service control program
In a service providing system which provides, through a network, service which is provided by a program executed on a computer to other computer, a unit is provided for providing service which can not be provided by the computer to other computer than the computer in question. ...

07/28/05 - 20050165727 - Removable recording medium and file control method therefor
A file control method for a removable recording medium including a recording medium portion and a controller for executing file access control on the recording medium portion is provided. The file structure of the recording medium portion is stored in the removable recording medium in a directory format, and a ...

07/28/05 - 20050165726 - Packaged, organized collections of digital information, and mechanisms and methods for navigating and sharing the collection
The systems and methods are used to create collections of digital information and to share that information. The systems can obtain and use applications and their data, referred to as packages, that can allow users to create multimedia content (including photographs, text, video, and music) for sharing and collaborating. ...

07/28/05 - 20050165725 - Method, system and apparatus for accessing stored spatial data
An apparatus, method and system for accessing database attributes stored in a first database are disclosed. The database attributes may be stored in a proprietary manner. The invention includes a data access layer having a second database, which maps visible attributes to the database attributes. The second database includes one ...

07/28/05 - 20050165724 - System and method for using an xml file to control xml to entity/relationship transformation
A system and method for transforming output of a data modeler to a repository storage form is provided. A control file includes a selection of data to be transformed, mapping of object names and object content. The control file is optionally converted into internal data structure for easier lookup. A ...

07/28/05 - 20050165723 - System and method for database management
A database management system includes a status analysis processing unit to execute status analysis processing; a reorganization timing estimation processing unit to estimate a future reorganization timing based on data obtained from the status analysis processing unit; a storage status calculation processing unit to calculate a current storage status based ...

07/28/05 - 20050165722 - Method, system, and program for storing data for retrieval and transfer
Provided is a method, system and program for storing data for later retrieval and for transfer within a storage hierarchy. A data storage subsystem stores both individual user files and also managed files, each managed file comprising an aggregation of multiple user files. After receiving user files from a client ...

07/28/05 - 20050165721 - Method and apparatus for symmetrical filename encoding
The invention provides a method and apparatus for encoding a filename having an illegal character. The method features the step of encoding the filename by replacing the illegal character with a specific code character. The apparatus features an encoder module for a mobile terminal or other suitable device that encodes ...

07/28/05 - 20050165720 - Modular assembly of software and method of configuring same
A modular assembly of software is configured to perform a particular function. The modular assembly includes a plurality of atoms. Each of the plurality of atoms is designed to execute a defined task. The modular assembly also includes a plurality of maps that invoke a portion of the plurality of ...

07/28/05 - 20050165719 - Method and system for establishing and maintaining concurrent, coordinated communications on separately managed networks
An improved method for sharing multimedia information across a data communication network based on a concurrent connection among users communicating with one another on a first communication network such as a telephone network, the data communication network distinct from the first communication network. Attributes of the first communication network (e.g., ...

07/28/05 - 20050165718 - Pipelined architecture for global analysis and index building
Disclosed is a technique for building an index in which global analysis computations and index creation are pipelined, wherein the global analysis computations share intermediate results. ...

07/28/05 - 20050165717 - Method, system and computer program product for redirecting a response to a file request from a requesting communication program to a mail server
A method, system and computer program product for improving efficiency of file receipt in a communication program by redirecting a file received as the result of a file request to a mail server is disclosed. A communication program sends a request for a first file to a file server. The ...

07/28/05 - 20050165716 - Method for automated connection of multiple processing machines
A system and method of data communication between processing machines that includes receiving a message produced by a first processing machine at a database server. The message is transmitted via a socket protocol. The message is received in the database server. The received message is analyzed in the database server. ...

07/28/05 - 20050165715 - Identification of relationships in an environment
A method identifies components associated with a first end point in an environment, such as a social environment. The method further identifies components associated with a second end point in the environment. A determination is made regarding whether any of the identified components are associated with both the first end ...

07/28/05 - 20050165714 - Methods of use of ipmp data for mpeg-n ipmp (intellectual property management and protection)
MPEG-n IPMP system with a wide interoperability is provided. For this purpose, the IPMP_Data_BaseClass is defined, several IPMP data extending from this base class are also defined. IPMP data is the data that describes IPMP information, it includes: IPMP_OpaqueData; IPMP_SelectiveDecryptionMessage; IPMP_AudioWatermarkingInit; IPMP_VideoWatermarkingInit; and IPMP_KeyData. Places where IPMP data extending from ...

07/28/05 - 20050165713 - Method for reorganization management in a set of indexed databases of a computer system
The invention concerns an offline reorganization management in a set of indexed databases, in particular of the tablespace type, of an information computer system comprising the following steps: (10): continuously maintaining a list (PRIOREORG) of objects to be reorganized in descending order of priority; (20) executing a process (IDPOR) of ...

07/28/05 - 20050165712 - Method for operating software object using natural language and program for the same
The present invention provides a natural language interface having versatility for allowing unified operation of different software objects and flexibility for appropriately processing an input even when it is a natural language expression of a request, desire or intension of a user. According to the present invention, a character string ...

07/28/05 - 20050165711 - Server device, communication device, and program for managing contents usage
Server device 60 stores contract identification information with UIM identification information for identifying UIM 20 issued based on a subscription contract between a subscriber and a communication carrier for services provided by the communication carrier, the contract identification information identifying the subscription contract. UIM 20 stores UIM identification information. After ...

07/28/05 - 20050165710 - Network-info device
A network-info device, said device comprising of: (a) a connection means, enables to connect said device to a transmission media channel of a network or to any other transmission media means of a network including wire, cable, optical fiber and other transmission means and wherein said connection can be done ...

07/21/05 - 20050160075 - Text information browsing aid apparatus, digital content creation system, digital content distribution system, and storage medium
A digital content distribution system that is suitable to provide digital content readable and output the digital content in a layout viewable for the user is provided. A content distribution terminal includes a user information registration DB that stores user information, and a dictionary information DB that stores dictionary information. ...

07/21/05 - 20050160074 - Database management system and method which monitors activity levels and determines appropriate schedule times
A system and method for automated database management are provided. Statistics relating to operation of a database may be collected, wherein the database comprises one or more database objects. Characteristics of the database objects may be determined, either automatically or by user intervention, using the collected statistics, one or more ...

07/21/05 - 20050160073 - Server side sampling of databases
A system and method for use with a data mining application for a large database having a large number of records. A selection attribute is chosen from one of a plurality of attributes contained by records within the database. Records are scanned in the database and a randomizing function is ...

07/21/05 - 20050160072 - System and method for providing a condition update and for fulfilling needs of a profile subject
There is provided a system for providing a condition update and for fulfilling needs of a profile subject, including a computer system containing at least one database for storing condition information of at least one profile subject and needs information of the at least one profile subject, inputting by a ...

07/21/05 - 20050160071 - Electronic apparatus
An electronic apparatus enables to read and write HTML files from and into a storage portion, and is connected to a computer through a communication network. The electronic apparatus has a data collection and process portion that collects data obtained from an external process, reads an original HTML file from ...

07/21/05 - 20050160070 - Systems engineering document prototyping system, program product, and related methods
A document prototyping system, program product, and methods are provided to create a systems engineering prototype document. The system can include a database having a plurality of systems engineering document templates stored therein. Each of the plurality of systems engineering document templates includes a plurality of document sections. The system ...

07/21/05 - 20050160069 - Method for processing a file for a sub-memory in a wireless terminal
A method of accessing and processing a file stored in a sub-memory of a portable terminal including the sub-memory and an internal memory capable of storing mass storage data. The method includes storing a file system menu of the sub-memory in the internal memory during a boot-up operation, displaying the ...

07/21/05 - 20050160068 - Method and apparatus for processing data
A data processing apparatus for processing and protecting data stored in a removable storage medium, including a medium monitoring unit configured to monitor the state of the removable storage medium, an information storage unit configured to store information, and a controller configured to move the data from the removable storage ...

07/21/05 - 20050160067 - Information input apparatus, information input method, control program, and storage medium
An information input apparatus for inputting content information and obtaining attribute information for identifying the content information. By transmitting the obtained attribute information to other apparatuses when the content information is input, attribute information can be easily added to the content information. Then, the attribute information added to the content ...

07/21/05 - 20050160066 - Database and cataloging system for object manipulations
A database for maneuvers performed by a player with an object using a cataloging system providing a many-to-one mapping of maneuvers to library codes. A library code is a sequence of code groups reflecting a sequence of changes in contact of the object with itself, the player, and environmental surfaces. ...

07/21/05 - 20050160065 - System and method for enhancing resource accessibility
A resource accessibility engine according to the present invention uses a resource-specific knowledge base and user preferences to convert a resource into an improved accessibility resource. Examples of a resource include a website, document, webpage image file, multimedia file, auditory file or any other text and/or non-text record. The resource-specific ...

07/21/05 - 20050160064 - Confirming user rights in distribution of application programs
A method of confirming the user rights of a file to be loaded into a terminal, wherein a user of the terminal is requested to acknowledge a licence of the file. A single payment limit value is stored in the terminal for effecting a licence charge. After acknowledgement of the ...

07/21/05 - 20050160063 - Method and system for distributing and updating heterogeneous resources
Methods, systems and apparatus for distributing and updating resources. An example method comprising the steps of: a resource producer registering a resource and a resource plug-in with a first server, and submitting a resource patch thereto when a resource update occurs; a second server replicating the resource, the resource plug-in ...

07/21/05 - 20050160062 - Method to report personal security information about a person
The present invention provides a method for providing an easily accessible and easily understandable source of information. The information provided comes from a multitude of sources and from a multitude of different information types. More particularly, the present invention provides a portfolio of web services delivered to a consumer through ...

07/21/05 - 20050160061 - Methods and apparatus for indirectly identifying a retention period for data in a storage system
One embodiment is a method and apparatus for modifying retention periods in a storage system, in which previously defined retention periods for units of data may be reduced. In another embodiment, the retention period of a unit of data may be modified in response to the occurrence of an event ...

07/21/05 - 20050160060 - Metadata driven customization of a software-implemented business process
In a method of customizing a software-implemented business process on a mobile computing device, customized metadata defining customizations of the business process are provided. Next, the metadata is deployed to the mobile computing device and stored in a data store of the mobile computing device. The customizations defined by the ...

07/21/05 - 20050160059 - Systems and methods for resolving ambiguity between names and entities
The present invention provides systems and methods that utilize an information architecture for disambiguating scientific names and other classification labels and the entities to which those names are applied, as well as a means of accessing data on those entities in a networked environment using persistent, unique identifiers. ...

07/21/05 - 20050160058 - Program optimization
One embodiment disclosed relates to a method of generating a software program executable binary file. A first file including source code therein is accessed. A second file including object code therein and further including object file summary information is accessed. The executable binary file is generated from at least the ...

07/21/05 - 20050160057 - Method software application and system for incorporating benchmarks into a business software application
Methods and systems are provided for processing and storing data objects by means of one or more processes running in a computer system having one or more electronic data structures. The electronic data structures may include benchmark definitions and may be in a format readable by a SGML-based language. In ...

07/14/05 - 20050154706 - Method and system for capturing memories of deceased individuals
A method, system, and computer software product for capturing and distributing memories of a deceased individual. An electronic storage memory database is provided having controls for allowing selective entry of information into said database with respect to said selected individual. Individuals can be pre-authorization for accessing said database for viewing ...

07/14/05 - 20050154705 - Manipulating schematized data in a database
Methods, systems, and computer program products for accessing data where the data store provider is abstracted from both the data manipulation language used to access the data and the schema that describes the data. A received request structured in accordance with the data manipulation language is represented in an intermediate ...

07/14/05 - 20050154704 - Management apparatus, program and method for controlling data included in bill of material
A BOM is merged to a BOM stored in a BOM data base by means of the component identification judgment means that compares the product record in the BOM file with the product listed in the BOM stored in the BOM data base and makes judgment conformity between these two ...

07/14/05 - 20050154703 - Information partitioning apparatus, information partitioning method and information partitioning program
To provide an information partitioning apparatus, an information partitioning method and an information partitioning program to be used to partition the contents of an electronic document without distinct structure information into appropriate blocks of information (document portions). According to the present invention, a reference source document describing in the form ...

07/14/05 - 20050154702 - Computer aided authoring, electronic document browsing, retrieving, and subscribing and publishing
Provides methods, apparatus, and systems for computer aided authoring. Included are: a method for browsing an electronic document, an apparatus for aided authoring, an electronic document browser, a method for retrieving an electronic document, a system for retrieving electronic documents, a method for subscribing and publishing an electronic document as ...

07/14/05 - 20050154701 - Dynamic information extraction with self-organizing evidence construction
A data analysis system with dynamic information extraction and self-organizing evidence construction finds numerous applications in information gathering and analysis, including the extraction of targeted information from voluminous textual resources. One disclosed method involves matching text with a concept map to identify evidence relations, and organizing the evidence relations into ...

07/14/05 - 20050154700 - System and method of costs saving procedure automation and result optimization in looping industrial environment
System for optimization of production with added value and for integration of the best business practices, which is characterized in that it includes two base modules of services application software, said first base being a central module A connected, for data extraction, with the organization information system or database for ...

07/14/05 - 20050154699 - Method and apparatus for an improved security system mechanism in a business applications management system platform
The present invention provides a solution to the needs described above through an improved method and apparatus for an improved security system mechanism in a business applications management system platform. The security management system partitions a number of business objects into a number of hierarchical domains. A security list is ...

07/14/05 - 20050154698 - Presence data management method
The amount of data of presence information delivered from a presence server to a terminal is reduced by letting the presence server discard part of the presence information depending on communication measures and data type available to the terminal, by which the amount of data processed by the terminal is ...

07/14/05 - 20050154697 - Adjusting a number of database replicas based on a defined threshold value
A method and apparatus is provided for adjusting a number of database replicas of a database based on a defined threshold value. The method comprises monitoring at least one operating condition associated with a database and accessing a prestored threshold value. The method further comprises comparing a value representative of ...

07/14/05 - 20050154696 - Pipeline architecture for data summarization
A pipeline architecture includes a pipeline module controlling data flow through the pipeline architecture and processing modules operating on data. Each processing module can select which tuples it needs to perform its task, and can access their outputs if needed to, e.g., compute a running mean. Common interfaces are provided ...

07/14/05 - 20050154695 - Rule-based transformation of metadata
A computer automatically reads each object in a metadata that is descriptive of a database. Then the computer automatically applies a number of rules, to check if the object triggers a rule. If so, then the computer automatically changes the metadata as per an action identified by the triggered rule. ...

07/14/05 - 20050154694 - Method and apparatus for representing an interest priority of an object to a user based on personal histories or social context
A method and apparatus assigns a quantative variable to each object (or set of objects) in a collection available to a user. The quantative variable is referred to as the Interest Priority Value (IPV). The IPV defines a range of states of the object, between ‘accessed’ and ‘unaccessed’, and is ...

07/14/05 - 20050154693 - Adaptive virtual communities
A system for providing adaptive virtual communities is described. The system monitors or has access to a plurality of users or contact information for users (e.g., e-mail addresses). By determining a technical or business context of a particular user, the system is able to match that user with other users ...

07/07/05 - 20050149490 - System, method, and computer program product for remotely determining the configuration of a multi-media content user
A system, method, and computer program product for determining the configuration of an end user's computer system. In particular, the media players and network connection speed of the user are determined. This configuration information is then received by a delivery management server. The configuration information is used to format multi-media ...

07/07/05 - 20050149489 - Network apparatus for transformation
An apparatus, such as a transforming switch, is provided that includes a transformer to transform a message from a first format to a second format, and a switch to switch the message to a selected server or processing node. The apparatus may also include a security accelerator to decrypt and ...

07/07/05 - 20050149488 - Information recording apparatus and method
The present invention provides simple finalizing that is quicker to be done. To ensure that the finalized recording medium can be replayed by any type of playback apparatus, the invention includes means for additional finalizing that makes the medium the same as processed by normal finalizing. ...

07/07/05 - 20050149487 - Method and apparatus for storing and retrieving business contact information in a computer system
The present invention provides an information management system comprising a remote device, a remote database operatively coupled to the remote device, the remote database containing contact information for each of a plurality of users of the information management system, wherein each of the users is assigned a unique user identifier, ...

07/07/05 - 20050149486 - Method and system for maintaining secure data input and output
Methods and systems for enhancing the security of data during input and output on a client computer system are provided to prevent attempts by unauthorized code to access, intercept, and/or modify data. Example embodiments provide a plurality of obfuscation techniques and security enhanced drivers that use these obfuscation techniques to ...

07/07/05 - 20050149485 - Method and system for maintaining secure data input and output
Methods and systems for enhancing the security of data during input and output on a client computer system are provided to prevent attempts by unauthorized code to access, intercept, and/or modify data. Example embodiments provide a plurality of obfuscation techniques and security enhanced drivers that use these obfuscation techniques to ...

07/07/05 - 20050149484 - Run-time architecture for enterprise integration with transformation generation
An enterprise application system including a run-time transformation server, and a message broker for routing and transforming data in the form of messages between a source application and a target application, including a plug-in for preparing requests to the run-time transformation server and for processing responses from the run-time transformation ...

07/07/05 - 20050149483 - Optical recording medium, apparatus for recording/reproducing data on/from optical recording medium, and method of recording/reproducing data on/from optical recording medium
An information recording medium, an apparatus recording/reproducing data on/from the information recording medium, a method of recording/reproducing data on/from the information recording medium, and a computer-recordable recording medium storing a program executing the method of recording/reproducing data from the information recording medium. A lead-in area, a data area, and a ...

07/07/05 - 20050149482 - Method of updating a database created with a spreadsheet program
The present invention concerns a method of updating a database created with a spreadsheet program, for example with the Excel computer program. The manipulation of databases in a spreadsheet program may be a source of errors and lack user-friendliness to ensure that it is efficiently used. The main object of ...

07/07/05 - 20050149481 - Managed peer-to-peer applications, systems and methods for distributed data access and storage
Applications, systems and methods for efficiently accessing and controlling data of devices among multiple computers over a network. Peer-to-peer exchanges of data between private computers is made possible while providing seamless, firewall-compliant connectivity. Such functionality is available even among private users over a public network, and even when multiple firewalls ...

07/07/05 - 20050149480 - Intelligent discovery of shares
A local computer sends out mount requests to remote computers for identifying folders or files that are available for sharing (shares). The local computer sends out the mount requests without previously discovering if the folders or files exist or are available for sharing on the remote computers. Any of the ...

07/07/05 - 20050149479 - Electronic message management system
An electronic message management system, including in one embodiment, servers disposed at boundary points of an enterprise network, and employment of phrases of various message classifications, is disclosed and described herein. ...

07/07/05 - 20050149478 - Minimizing the dependency of source code on the in-band resources of a set-top box
The present invention is directed to minimizing the dependency of source code on the characteristics of a set-top box's in-band (streaming video or audio) hardware. The set-top box software consists of a device driver layer, which is intimately aware of hardware characteristics, an application layer, which is relatively unaware of ...

07/07/05 - 20050149477 - Workstation and method for transforming information
An information-transforming workstation for processing an object having a first identification information is provided. The information-transforming workstation includes a platform having an area for carrying the object thereon, a reading device for reading the first identification information and outputting a first signal, an image device for extracting respective images of ...

07/07/05 - 20050149476 - Global smartcard cache methods and apparatuses
Methods and apparatuses are provided for use with smartcards or other like shared computing resources. A global smartcard cache is maintained on one or more computers to reduce the burden on the smartcard. The global smartcard cache data is associated with a freshness indicator that is compared to the current ...

07/07/05 - 20050149475 - Correlating process instance data across multiple applications
Instance data is transmitted for Payload/Milestone events and for Enable-Continuation events. Payload/Milestone event data contains information describing an instance and/or providing a time of one or more portions of the processing of an instance. Included in the Enable-Continuation event data is an identifier associated with an instance by a first ...

07/07/05 - 20050149474 - Master data entry
A computer-implemented method of storing data in a first database includes receiving data inputted in a data entry format by a user through a user interface, transforming the data from the data entry format to a first data storage format, and storing the data in the first database in the ...

07/07/05 - 20050149473 - Dynamic grouping of content including captive data
A method and a system for dynamically updating information including captive data for publication. ‘Captive data’ is defined as data accompanied by or associated with an identifying tag such as a caption. The captive data may include image, audio or visual data, among other types of data. Documents and other ...

07/07/05 - 20050149472 - Reorganization-free mapping of objects in databases using a mapping chain
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for addressing data in a database. One method includes storing a physical address of a data object in a mapping item having an item address, and identifying the data object by that item address. If the data object is moved to a second ...

07/07/05 - 20050149471 - Computer representation of a data tree structure and the associated encoding/decoding methods
A memory storing a computerized data array in the form of a table of values stored in the memory as a directed tree representing a set of data. Each data entry in the set is associated with a particular node of the tree, the values representing node ranks of the ...

07/07/05 - 20050149470 - Data transmission apparatus, and data transmission method
A transmission block receiving unit 101 receives a transmission block, a request issuing time assigning unit 102 assigns an arrival time of the transmission block as a request issuing time to the transmission block, a transmission block separating unit 104 makes one of plural transmission block storing units 105 store ...

07/07/05 - 20050149469 - To a data network related arrangement (bilateral)
The present invention concerns a data network related information-carrying and information-transferring arrangement that includes a central unit (10) and a number of slave units (11, 15), which co-act with the central unit (10) via information transmission (1), wherewith a document (D) can be sent to the central unit (10) from ...

07/07/05 - 20050149468 - System and method for providing location profile data for network nodes
A system for providing relational data for a hierarchically-organized plurality of nodes is provided, such as for providing physical location data of a node in an enterprise network. The system includes a hierarchical database system storing network hierarchy data for the plurality of nodes, such as an LDAP database. A ...

06/30/05 - 20050144154 - Tag management within a decision, support, and reporting environment
A system and methods for retrieving and presenting data in a tag-based component environment. The disclosed system provides an efficient mechanism for associating point and non-point data using highly configurable data acquisition strategies. The data acquisition strategies incorporate customized retrieval routines to perform data acquisition at desired intervals so as ...

06/30/05 - 20050144153 - Structured data retrieval apparatus, method, and computer readable medium
A structured data retrieval apparatus stores, in a first memory, a plurality of template IDs used to identify locations of a plurality of structure elements included in a hierarchical structure, stores, in a second memory, a plurality of structured data items each of which includes a plurality of elements, each ...

06/30/05 - 20050144152 - Symbol-based query mechanism
A technique for processing a query request from a terminal (TE) to a search engine (SE). A terminal user is allowed to select querry parameters by means of visual symbols, ie icons, such as a “here” symbol (94) and a “bank” symbol (95). Symbol identifiers (91, 93) of the user-selected ...

06/23/05 - 20050137999 - Method for client-side personalization
A method or data processing system readable medium can be used for communications between a user and a network site. The method or medium may allow a user to determine what, if any, personal information should be transmitted to the network site. In one embodiment, the user may request personalization ...

06/23/05 - 20050137998 - Carrier grade content router
A carrier grade content router, includes a distinct management plane for housing externally visible management applications, and coordinating and relaying external management requests to appropriate underlying application code in the router; a distinct control plane for running control protocols required within an XML routed network; and a distinct data plane ...

06/23/05 - 20050137997 - Method for updating an automation system
An automation system with a data processing device and an automation device connected to a network, with the automation device including a network server, a current operating system and an application program running under the current operating system, can be updated by transmitting a new operating system to the automation ...

06/23/05 - 20050137996 - Indexing for contextual revisitation and digest generation
A medium, system and method of processing content information. In one exemplary embodiment, the medium, system and method include determining associated previously accessed content information in response to an action performed on a document containing information and based on a context of the information, and indicating to a user the ...

06/16/05 - 20050131862 - Web store events
Systems and methods for web store events. A web store event occurs whenever an item is accessed. When an item is accessed, both synchronous and asynchronous events can fire. If a synchronous event fires, then an event object that has registered for the synchronous event is called and executed before ...

06/16/05 - 20050131861 - Referential and relational database software
A referential and relational database comprising a compiled database creating a plurality of cross-linked database tables responsive to a query and yielding multi-faceted responses to the query and a full account of the data compiled in the database tables. ...

06/16/05 - 20050131860 - Method and system for efficiently indentifying differences between large files
Methods and data structures are disclosed for carrying out identifying differences between large files comprising many lines (or other units of comparison such as rows, words, paragraphs, sentences, etc.). The disclosed methods and data structures facilitate and carry out a streamlined, yet thorough comparison of two files to identify differences ...

06/16/05 - 20050131859 - Method and system for standard bookmark classification of web sites
There is disclosed a technique for indexing a web page utilizing a standard classification system. In an embodiment, the technique comprises selecting a classification code from the standard classification system for each web page. The web page is then tagged with a classification tag containing the selected classification code. The ...

06/16/05 - 20050131858 - Recording medium, method of controlling file of the recording medium, and method and apparatus for reproducing the same
A recording medium, a method of controlling a file of the recording medium, and a method and apparatus for reproducing the same are disclosed. The recording medium includes at least one data area storing an original file system, which includes original data files, at least one normal file designating at ...

06/16/05 - 20050131857 - Information processing method and image processing method
An object level is set as an attribute that specifies a virtual object, and a user level is set for an application program, user, or the like that uses this virtual object, and the attribute of the virtual object is determined in accordance with the object and user levels. For ...

06/16/05 - 20050131856 - Method and system for adaptive user interfacing with an imaging system
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for adaptive user interfacing with an imaging system. The method includes recording actions taken during use of an imaging system, comparing the actions to settings stored in a profile, and updating the profile with at least one of the ...

06/16/05 - 20050131855 - Data cleaning
A process for rapid data recovery, data cleaning and an automated self-maintenance of the data recovery mechanism is provided. Dirty input data records are used in conjunction with and to build and revise a fast indexing table wherein index keys point to clean data records with which the input data ...

06/16/05 - 20050131854 - Dynamic command line user interface
A method and system for communicating with a managed object. An operator utilizes a user interface tool to initiate communication with the managed object through a server in communication with the managed object. A syntax tree pertaining to the meta data file of the managed object is created in real-time. ...

06/16/05 - 20050131853 - Database system providing self-tuned parallel database recovery
A database system providing self-tuned parallel database recovery is described. In one embodiment, for example, in a database system, a method is described for performing recovery operations using an optimal number of recovery threads, the method comprises steps of: (a) spawning an initial recovery thread to perform recovery operations; (b) ...

06/16/05 - 20050131852 - Cyclical time-based communication system, user in such a system and transmission method
The invention relates to a cyclical time-based communication system, for the transmission of useful data (DATA) between users of the system, which comprises a databus and users connected thereto. The data transmission occurs within cyclical repeating timeframes, each with at least two timeslots. Each timeslot is provided for the transmission ...

06/09/05 - 20050125379 - Module management device and module management system and method using the same
A module management device and module management system and method using the same to manage a module mounted in a terminal in which a browser is installed, include a detection unit to detect an operation state of the module, a file creation unit to create an information file including the ...

06/09/05 - 20050125378 - Document management apparatus, a document management method, a document management program and a recording medium storing the document management program
A document management apparatus receives an acquisition request of authentication information from a client that requests acquisition authentication information regarding the documents or the document storing means for storing the documents, the authentication information containing information regarding a time limit of use of the authentication information and/or information regarding a ...

06/09/05 - 20050125377 - System and method for integrating spreadsheets and word processing tables
An architecture integrates spreadsheet functionality into tables commonly used in word processing programs and HTML documents. The architecture presents a table user interface (UI) that resembles a table when not being edited and adds spreadsheet elements to the table when being edited. Underlying the table UI, the architecture separates data ...

06/09/05 - 20050125376 - Methods and systems for providing a response to a query
Methods and systems for providing a response to a user's query based on other users' picks. For one embodiment of the invention, user responses are correlated to determine an affinity among users. User affinity is then used to modify the presentation of the search results. For one embodiment the location ...

06/09/05 - 20050125375 - System and method for customizing web-enabled data in ticker format
A method for customizing web-enabled data in ticker format comprises loading a ticker profile associated with a client. Web-enabled data is retrieved from a data provider in response to receiving a request from the client. The retrieved data is transformed into ticker format based on the loaded ticker profile and ...

06/09/05 - 20050125374 - Methods and systems for conceptually organizing and presenting information
Methods and systems for conceptually organizing and presenting information. A correlation of multiple users' responses to the organization and presentation of information is used to determine an optimal organization and presentation of the information. For one embodiment of the invention, in the context of search engine result optimization, the user ...

06/09/05 - 20050125373 - Method and apparatus for providing a dynamically-updating pay-for-service web site
A web server for providing a dynamically-updating pay-for-service web site is disclosed. The web server includes an HTML front-end entry process configured to create and store personal homepage content in a database for a owner, receive a fee for making the personal homepage accessible on a network. The HTML front-end ...

06/09/05 - 20050125372 - System and method for generating a unique, file system independent key from a uri (universal resource identifier) for use in an index-less voicexml browser caching mechanism
A method and system of storing and accessing documents on a computer file system utilizing a file system-independent key for use in an index-less browser caching mechanism. The present invention is a method and system for storing a resource such as a document or group of documents on a computer ...

06/09/05 - 20050125371 - Optimal use of triggers for detecting database events
Triggers are dynamically created and destroyed on an application database. Rules are represented in active databases as ECA (event-condition-action) items, in which an action formulates a reaction to an event and is executed after the rule is triggered when the condition is evaluated to true. The event is defined as ...

06/02/05 - 20050119994 - Storage device
A storage device is provided with a file I/O interface control device and a plurality of disk pools. The file I/O interface control device sets one of a plurality of storage hierarchies defining storage classes, respectively, for each of LUs within the disk pools, thereby forming a file system in ...

06/02/05 - 20050119993 - System and method for declaring a resource within a markup document
Described is a system and method for declaring a resource element in markup that is intended to be instantiated lazily only upon use at run-time rather than always at markup load time. In one embodiment, the invention provides a parent resources tag that encloses resource elements that may be any ...

06/02/05 - 20050119992 - Telephone/transaction entry device and system for entering transaction data into databases
A data transaction processing system in which transaction data is entered by the user in response to prompts in a template which is tailored to each user application. The template and entered data are accumulated into data transactions which are immediately transmitted upon completion to an external database server for ...

06/02/05 - 20050119991 - Access administration system and method
An access administration system and method is disclosed using authentication data. ...

06/02/05 - 20050119990 - System and method for customizing a data display using a presentation profile
A method for customizing a data display using a presentation profile comprises retrieving extensible Markup Language (XML) data in response to a request from a client. A presentation profile is loaded based on at least one characteristic of the client. The XML data is formatted into a data display based ...

06/02/05 - 20050119989 - Storing fibre channel information on an infiniband administration data base
Host computing systems with the ability to efficiently identify the Infiniband™ (IB) addressing parameters corresponding to Fibre Channel I/O devices that are accessible through IB-to-Fibre Channel adapters. An efficient means is described to store the IB addressing parameters pertaining to individual Fibre Channel I/O devices on a subnet administration database, ...

06/02/05 - 20050119988 - Complex computation across heterogenous computer systems
A programmatic interface to allow external functions to be registered and called in parallel from within a database management system is described for coordinating a computation at multiple nodes. In one embodiment, each node executes a process configured for starting a program to perform the computation in response to a ...

06/02/05 - 20050119987 - Memory control method, storage device, control program, and readable record medium
A technique is provided for storing updated values of a data item in a segment of memory in which stored values cannot be individually overwritten, such as a flash memory. Each updated value is stored at an address which has space for a far pointer and a local pointer. When ...

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