Database Schema Or Data Structure

Database Schema Or Data Structure 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 - 20060253482 - Authoring tools, including content-driven treetables, for fluid text
Plural versions of an authoring/editing tool for fluid text include both a WYSIWYG editor and a content-driven treeable editor for producing narratives and their behavioral control in a fluid text viewing system environment. The tool includes content-driven treetable visualization and a layout mechanisms for authoring and/or editing hypertext narratives, electronic ...

11/09/06 - 20060253481 - Geographic database organization that facilitates location-based advertising
A method of facilitating delivery of advertising to users of mobile computing platforms is disclosed. A geographic database contains data entities that represent geographic features, such as roads, located in a geographic region. Advertising zones are defined within the geographic region. Associated with at least some of the data entities ...

11/09/06 - 20060253480 - Collaborative design process for a design team, outside suppliers, and outside manufacturers
In a first embodiment, the invention includes a collaborative design process for a design team that generates an incomplete design for a project, outside suppliers that supply components for the project, and outside manufacturers that manufacturer the complete design for the project. The process includes storing an incomplete design generated ...

11/09/06 - 20060253479 - Relation-based product development
A product design method includes accessing a defined product design structure. The product design structure includes a number of customer concerns, a number of physical properties associated with components of the product, and a number of relation models. Each customer concern is associated with at least one physical property via ...

11/09/06 - 20060253478 - Client centric document preparation interface
A system and method allows multiple users to more efficiently access and use client information in the preparation and assembly of documents. A computer software system captures certain information from clients and separately stores it from ordinary document assembly files such as template and answer files. A computer software system ...

11/09/06 - 20060253477 - Automated data collection and management system
Employing an automated data collection portable equipment such as a palm top or similar equipment, in addition to a central computer, which includes a database where the captured information is stored through said portable electronic equipment, and such data transfer may occur by means of cable, connection fixed bases, infra-networks ...

11/09/06 - 20060253476 - Technique for relationship discovery in schemas using semantic name indexing
Techniques are provided for semantic matching. A semantic index is created for one or more schemas, wherein each of the one or more schemas includes one or more word attributes, and wherein each of the one or more word attributes includes one or more tokens, wherein the semantic index identifies ...

11/09/06 - 20060253475 - System and method for time dimension management for a data analyzing system
A time dimension management system is provided for managing time dimension of a data analyzing system for analyzing data stored in a data store based on a time data structure. The time dimension management system comprises a date selector controller and a calendar coordinator. The date selector controller is provided ...

11/09/06 - 20060253474 - System and method for compliance profile configuration and application
A system and method for specifying elections in one or more designated lender compliance profiles that include statutory election, exportation election, most favored lender election, preemption election and non-electable regulatory requirements. A set of computer-encoded compliance rules applicable to a particular financial institution is derived from a lender compliance profile. ...

11/09/06 - 20060253473 - Integrating vertical partitioning into physical database design
Systems and methodologies that split a table into a plurality of sub-tables, and vertical partitions. By analyzing an associated work load to determine frequently referenced columns, the subject invention supplies a compromise among various vertical partitioning strategies (e.g., candidate selection for table spilt) via a merging act, such that the ...

11/09/06 - 20060253472 - System, method, and service for automatically determining an initial sizing of a hardware configuration for a database system running a business intelligence workload
A business intelligence hardware sizing system automatically determines an initial hardware configuration for a database system running a business intelligence workload. The business intelligence hardware sizing system provides a structured approach for determining an initial configuration of a database tier of a business intelligence application. The business intelligence hardware sizing ...

11/09/06 - 20060253471 - System, service, and method for characterizing a business intelligence workload for sizing a new database system hardware configuration
A workload characterization system characterizes an exemplary business intelligence workload for use in sizing a hardware configuration required by a new database system running a similar business intelligence workload. The workload characterization system uses performance-oriented measurements to characterize an exemplary workload in terms of resource usage and performance metrics. The ...

11/09/06 - 20060253470 - Systems and methods for granular changes within a data storage system
The subject invention provides a system and/or a method that facilitates creating a data structure to provide a proportional data change. The data change is associated to hierarchical data that can represent a database-based file storage system. An interface can receive at least one data change input related to a ...

11/09/06 - 20060253469 - Dynamic selection of outbound marketing events
A database system and method for ordering marketing events for offering to a candidate. The database system comprises a database manager software application, a first database structure storing a first list identifying marketing events, and a second database structure storing a second list of candidates. The database manager software application ...

11/09/06 - 20060253468 - Dynamic selection of complementary inbound marketing offers
A database system and method comparing marketing events to marketing offers for offering to a candidate. The database system comprises a first database structure storing a first list of candidates, a second database structure storing a second list identifying marketing offers, a third database structure storing a third list identifying ...

11/09/06 - 20060253467 - Capturing marketing events and data models
A database system and method applying data models to candidate(s) with respect to marketing event(s). The database system comprises a first database structure storing a first list of candidates, a second database structure storing a plurality of data models, a third database structure storing a second list identifying marketing events, ...

11/09/06 - 20060253466 - Data mapping editor graphical user interface
An improved graphical data mapping user interface providing the immediate display of portions of the test input, sample output, or execution result output documents. Further improvements are the use of a plurality of graphical trees to represent expressions that encode the mapping instructions, and the use of a graphical tree ...

11/09/06 - 20060253465 - Methods and apparatus for converting a representation of xml and other markup language data to a data structure format
Systems, methods and apparatus operate to convert a markup language representation such as XML to a data structure format such as a tree containing representations of constructs in the markup language representation. The operations receive a markup language representation containing encoded items representative of markup language constructs and identifying a ...

11/09/06 - 20060253464 - Method and system for determining optimum resource allocation in a network
A method for determining the optimum allocation of resources in a mobile telecommunication network. The method includes the step of calculating a fitness parameter for each service class where the fitness parameter is dependent on the quality of service index QoSi, the dynamic queue length q1, and the frequency of ...

11/02/06 - 20060248100 - Video switch
There is provided video switching circuitry for use in a KVM switch and similar devices. Video signal switching circuitry can supply video signals from a one of a plurality of video sources connected to the circuit to a display device connected to the circuit. The high data signalling rate signals ...

11/02/06 - 20060248099 - Method and system for implementing and managing an enterprise identity management for distributed security
An Enterprise Identity Management system includes a registration component, an ownership component, and an audit component. The registration component is configured to associate a user ID with specific accounts that are accessible via a computer system. The ownership component is configured to verify the ownership of the accounts. The audit ...

11/02/06 - 20060248098 - Method of storing and searching pictures and apparatus for the same
A method of storing and searching pictures and apparatus for the same are disclosed, in which the pictures are stored using an abbreviated number in taking a picture and by which the stored picture is searched more quickly. The present invention includes the steps of setting an abbreviated number for ...

11/02/06 - 20060248097 - Creating customisable applications
This invention relates to a method for creating an application that corresponds to a set of components, whose execution provides a tailored result according to the usage conditions of the application. The method includes the generation of a set of DOM-type XML documents that include the non-generic logic of the ...

11/02/06 - 20060248096 - Early detection and warning systems and methods
Systems and methods embodying the present invention permit the identification of early warning conditions affecting characteristics of interest of non-physical entities, such as companies, and transmission of associated alerts or messages when pre-selected conditions are found to be satisfied for such characteristics. In addition, a quantification approach according to the ...

11/02/06 - 20060248095 - Efficient ram lookups by means of compressed keys
A table lookup system utilizes an RAM-based associative table that stores compressed keys. An incoming basekey is hashed by a first set of hash functions to compute hkeys used to access a line in a corresponding subtable. A second set of hash functions compute compkeys which are stored in entries ...

11/02/06 - 20060248094 - Analysis and comparison of portfolios by citation
A system and method for analysis of portfolios of documents is presented. The portfolios may comprise patent-related documents, academic articles, product literature, or any other textual material. In one aspect of the invention, a user-defined classification schema is developed, and predictions for associations with classifications from the user-defined classification schema ...

11/02/06 - 20060248093 - Method for determining relationships between data resources
The present invention relates to an entailment method comprising: defining a virtually reified statement on the basis of information already described in a data structure describing relationships between resources, and applying the virtually reified statement, besides information in the data structure, for further processing of the data structure. ...

11/02/06 - 20060248092 - Dynamic exception reporting service for heterogeneous structured enterprise data
A computer-implemented technique that allows a per element mixture of “concrete” XML elements and “virtual” XML elements that are generated dynamically from external data sources. The technique extends the XML Schema language with declarations of how additional substructure is injected into existing instances. The instances created according to an XML ...

11/02/06 - 20060248091 - Information processing device and information processing method, information-processing system, recording medium, and program
The present invention allows a program vector representing attributes of a program to be generated as follows. At a step S11, EPG data is received. At a step S12, meta data necessary for generation of a program vector PP is extracted from the EPG data. At a step S13, a ...

10/26/06 - 20060242179 - System and method for restoring a virtual disk from a snapshot
A method for restoring a virtual disk (vdisk) in an active file system to an earlier time is described. Pointers pointing to data represented by the virtual disk are maintained. The pointers are saved to persistent storage at the earlier time. A pointer at a later time is compared with ...

10/26/06 - 20060242178 - Media object metadata association and ranking
Metadata may be associated with media objects by providing media objects for display, and accepting input concerning the media objects, where the input may include at least two different types of metadata. For example, metadata may be in the form of tags, comments, annotations or favorites. The media objects may ...

10/26/06 - 20060242177 - Methods of exposing business application runtime exceptions at design time
In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, methods and systems analyze referential integrity of a business application by receiving a model representing the business application and processing the model using a code compiler to identify a compiler exception. The compiler exception is correlated in the model to a referential ...

10/26/06 - 20060242176 - Methods of exposing business configuration dependencies
Embodiments of methods and systems consistent with the present invention may transform business application objects and relationships into object-oriented programming elements, making it possible to display and manipulate representations of the business objects and their relationships in an easily comprehensible and manageable manner using standard object-oriented programming language tools. With ...

10/26/06 - 20060242175 - Systems and methods for identifying problems of a business application in a customer support system
In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, methods and systems analyze potential logic errors or problems of a business application by receiving a model representing the business application and processing the model using an object-oriented tool. The errors or problems may be corrected in the model and the correction ...

10/26/06 - 20060242174 - Systems and methods for using object-oriented tools to debug business applications
In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, methods and systems analyze potential logic errors or problems of a business application by receiving a model representing the business application and processing the model using an object-oriented tool. The errors or problems may be corrected in the model and the correction ...

10/26/06 - 20060242173 - Methods of using an integrated development environment to configure business applications
An interactive configuration environment consistent with the present invention integrates and displays a table-based business application using a single, interactive display. When business application structures are displayed using object-oriented code structures, the business meaning of the object-oriented code structures may also be displayed in the integrated environment. Users can write ...

10/26/06 - 20060242172 - Systems and methods for transforming logic entities of a business application into an object-oriented model
Systems and methods consistent with the invention may analyze a business application's data, operations, and relationships and create a corresponding object oriented programming (OOP) model corresponding to the business application entities. The OOP model may be created by selecting the minimum set of attributes of the business application's data structures ...

10/26/06 - 20060242171 - Methods of using code-based case tools to verify application layer configurations
Systems and methods consistent with the present invention enable the use of computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tools to analyze and verify a configuration of a business application. By transforming business application structures into object-oriented structures, object-oriented CASE tools may be used to verify the underlying business application configuration. CASE tools ...

10/26/06 - 20060242170 - Systems and methods for off-line modeling a business application
Systems and methods consistent with the invention may analyze a business application's data, operations, and relationships and create a corresponding object oriented programming (OOP) model corresponding to the business application entities. In one embodiment the OOP model may be realized in the Java programming language and may include OOP objects, ...

10/26/06 - 20060242169 - Storing and indexing hierarchical data spatially
Hierarchical data is stored spatially. A flat table may be used to store hierarchical data such that the data's hierarchical organization can be maintained by sorting two integer fields. The data may be positioned in a spatial tree by depth and range. Superior data fields are positioned at higher depths ...

10/26/06 - 20060242168 - On-demand data management system and method
An on-demand data management system. The system comprises a file management module and a demand analysis module. The file management module receives files. Each file has attributes. The file management module segments the files according the attributes. The demand analysis module receives a data demand and selects data from the ...

10/26/06 - 20060242167 - Object based test library for winfs data model
A test library for use with a database storage system such as WinFS provides users with a WinFS schema agnostic way to test the WinFS store application programming interfaces (APIs) and to use the WinFS store APIs to populate the WinFS store with randomly generated data. The WinFS test library ...

10/26/06 - 20060242166 - Methods and systems for filtering an extensible application markup language (xaml) file to facilitate indexing of the logical content contained therein
Methods for filtering a file written in Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) and incrementally returning the logical content contained therein to the environment, e.g., a search engine, are provided. Additionally provided are methods for extracting logical content contained in a XAML file to facilitate searching and/or indexing thereof. The methods ...

10/26/06 - 20060242165 - Transferring data in a diverse file system landscape
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, relating to transferring data in a diverse file system landscape. In one general aspect, a computer program product can cause a data processor to extract a first one or more file system objects from a self-extracting program, where the first file system objects ...

10/26/06 - 20060242164 - Systems, methods, and user interfaces for storing, searching, navigating, and retrieving electronic information
Computer system navigation tools provide “links” to various different files, lists, folders, and/or other storage elements and allow users to organize files, e.g., by hierarchical properties, lists, auto lists, folders, and the like. Such systems and methods allow users to assign properties to a file (optionally in a hierarchical manner), ...

10/26/06 - 20060242163 - Local thumbnail cache
Systems and methods are provided for storing and retrieving thumbnail images in a per-user/per-system thumbnail cache. One or more data files may be used to store thumbnail images of varying sizes. An index is updated with the location or locations of thumbnails for a particular file, the URL and modification ...

10/26/06 - 20060242162 - Web services response templates
Provided is a Web Services Response Template (WSRT) that addresses the problems of efficiency and robustness to change in Web Services response by allowing a requestor to explicitly specify, in a response template what information is to be returned by the request. A requestor of a web service gets just ...

10/26/06 - 20060242161 - Dvd-linked internet bookmarking
A system 100 includes a rendering apparatus 120, a server 110 and a network 130. Content items on the server are identified by respective server content locators, such as a URL. The rendering apparatus also has access to local content. Titles of the local content are associated with respective local ...

10/26/06 - 20060242160 - Method and apparatus for transporting data for data warehousing applications that incorporates analytic data interface
A method and apparatus for transporting data for a data warehousing application. Data is extracted from one or more source containing data having a standard data structure and is translated into data that contains meaningful business terms. The translated data is then stored. In the present embodiment, an analytic business ...

10/19/06 - 20060235861 - Apparatus, system and method for supporting formation of customer-value creating scenario
A value extracted on the basis of a customer demand supports description of an appealing scenario leading to a requirement and a solution. Examples of customer-values include that which appears to be welcome for a customer, that which appears to be pleasant, and an object, and such can form requirements ...

10/19/06 - 20060235860 - System and method for obtaining user feedback for relevance tuning
A system and method are provided for facilitating user feedback pertaining to search results produced by a search system in response to an input user query. The system may include an edit mode activation option provided in conjunction with the search results. The system may additionally include result manipulation tools ...

10/19/06 - 20060235859 - Prescriptive architecutre recommendations
A prescribed system architecture is recommended to an entity that desires to implement a system supporting distributed applications. A performance scenario is created based on anticipated usage, devices employed by servers running the distributed applications, and topology of locations using the servers. An optimized scenario may be provided by determining ...

10/19/06 - 20060235858 - Using attribute inheritance to identify crawl paths
A system and method for identifying crawl paths of a web cruise operation, where each crawl path represents successive uniform resource locator (URL) nodes in a parent/child relationship. One or more seed URLs are identified for the web cruise operation, each seed URL defining an origination of at least one ...

10/19/06 - 20060235857 - Systems and methods for displaying and editing hierarchical data
Systems and methods for displaying hierarchical data are described. In an implementation, a method includes processing hierarchical data describing a distributed computing environment. The hierarchical data includes a plurality of levels, in which, at least one of the levels includes a plurality of containers, each of the containers includes one ...

10/19/06 - 20060235856 - Route generation for task completion by a location-aware device
A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for a portable data processing system for generating a route for completing a set of tasks. A location of the portable device is identified. A route for completing the set of tasks is identified based on a policy and the location to form a ...

10/19/06 - 20060235855 - Digital library system
An apparatus and method for setting up and operating a digital multi-media library configured in such as way as to enable the creation of custom sub-libraries. In this system users are able to create private themed sub-libraries that contain information assets that are excerpts of the main library's information assets. ...

10/12/06 - 20060230050 - Repairing links in locked files
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing a technique for repairing links in a file. The file can contain one or more links, each link referring to a target file. For one or more of the links, a file identifier such as a file name, file number, or file ...

10/12/06 - 20060230049 - Method and apparatus for selecting preferred images for a current exam based on a previous exam
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for interpreting images. An image acquisition device, such as a computerized tomography (CT) system, an ultrasound system, an electron beam tomography (EBT) system, a magnetic resonance (MR) system and the like, generates images and image sets, including a first ...

10/12/06 - 20060230048 - Method and apparatus for object discovery agent based mapping of application specific markup language schemas to application specific business objects in an integrated application environment
A method, an apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for object discovery agent (ODA) based mapping of application specific markup language schemas to application specific business objects using an appropriate ODA. A generic ODA application specific information (ASI) builder is added to a business object application specific information (BO ASI) ...

10/12/06 - 20060230047 - Standardized integration model for distributed business processes
A system and method for integrating distributed business processes that govern message exchange between loosely coupled business applications. The system and method includes the use of an integration scenario. The integration scenario includes a delivery integration model that defines one or more design time business processes. The integration scenario further ...

10/12/06 - 20060230046 - Component design by tables within tables
An apparatus for and method of utilizing an Internet terminal coupled to the world wide web to interface with an existing proprietary data base management system by building a component which accesses said proprietary data base management system. A central process provides a listing of tables or steps to a ...

10/05/06 - 20060224605 - System and method for grouping a collection of documents using document series
A system and method that allows a publisher to create a document series, associate a document with a document series and present to an end-user a series nugget displaying at least one document associated with the document series. Document series information may be inherited by each document in the document ...

10/05/06 - 20060224604 - Content-descriptive user interface correlation for page navigation systems
The present invention provides for navigation systems for table data structures, and methods for facilitating the locating of information in a table data structure. To generate the navigation system, a sort criteria being used to organize the table data structure is identified. After identifying page delineations in the table data ...

10/05/06 - 20060224603 - System and methods for facilitating a linear grid database with data organization by dimension
A system and methods for organizing and querying data within a linear grid management system. Data having multiple dimensions is associated with physical locations, where a first dimension is associated with a node and a second dimension is associated with a data storage identifier of a memory storage device. The ...

10/05/06 - 20060224602 - User data profile namespace
A method and data structure for separating application data from user data in a namespace. The data structure provides an intuitive profile layout for developers or users while supporting legacy applications. The namespace utilizes a hierarchical structure allowing access by developers or users over a network to information contained in ...

10/05/06 - 20060224601 - Proxy policy
In a system with a policy server, a first device able to communicate with the policy server and a second device able to communicate with the first device and unable to communicate with the policy server, the first device is to act as a policy proxy. The policy server may ...

10/05/06 - 20060224600 - Traversal of empty regions in a searchable data structure
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for the traversal of empty regions in a searchable data structure such as a table. A plurality of elements are allocated in logical storage, wherein the plurality of elements correspond to entries of the searchable data structure. An indicator is maintained ...

10/05/06 - 20060224599 - Mobile client synchronization and upgrading
Mobile client synchronization and upgrading are described, including recording a change in the application at a first machine, packaging the change in a document, transferring the document from the first machine to a second machine through a communication channel, and replaying the change from the document at the second machine, ...

10/05/06 - 20060224598 - Communication device
In one embodiment, a method transmits data between an object and one or more communication devices on a perimeter of a display surface. ...

09/28/06 - 20060218167 - Systems, methods and programming for routing and indexing globally addressable objects and associated business models
Methods, apparatus, and programming recorded in machine readable memory are provided for the index, search and retrieval of objects on a global network. This inventive system embeds a distributed index in a routing layer to enable fast search. The method provides dynamic insertion, lookup, retrieval, and deletion of participating nodes, ...

09/28/06 - 20060218166 - Rapid application development based on 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 ...

09/28/06 - 20060218165 - Explicit overlay integration rules
A technique for controlling access to files or directories in a system that includes and overlay involves the use of explicit overlay integration rules. An example of a method according to the technique may include providing an overlay to a file system structure; providing an explicit overlay integration rule; and ...

09/28/06 - 20060218164 - Document management device and document management program
Disclosed is a document management device capable of sharing documents in such a form that each user can simply search out the required document. The document management device has a configuration of operating in such a status that after some users have executed the operation of setting the disclosing destinations ...

09/28/06 - 20060218163 - Rapid prototyping database
A system and method for generating a schema for a database is provided. The schema is based, at least in part, upon three main tables: object types, objects, and, associations. Through these three base tables, the system facilitates rapid prototyping of schema associated with database(s). The schema is extensible since ...

09/28/06 - 20060218162 - System to determine respondent-specific product attribute levels
Provided in some aspects are reception of an indication of one or more acceptable product attribute levels of a first product attribute, and determination of one or more product attribute levels of a second product attribute based on the one or more attribute levels of the first attribute and on ...

09/28/06 - 20060218161 - Systems and methods for efficiently compressing and decompressing markup language
Systems and methods for compressing markup language data, such as XML data, are provided that utilize a finite state machine (FSM), which is representative of an XML schema, and a rule file. Information defined in an XML schema is abstracted into a finite state machine (FSM). The rule file ensures ...

09/28/06 - 20060218160 - Change control management of xml documents
A method and system for change control management of XML documents are provided. The XML change control management method incorporates a novel process of examining and comparing XML documents node-by-node instead of the conventional line-by-line methods. The node-by-node method allows for comparison of matching XML nodes that may be in ...

09/28/06 - 20060218159 - Method and system for user alteration of the configuration of a data warehouse
Disclosed are methods usable by non-experts for altering a configuration of a data warehouse. The initial configuration of the data warehouse is represented in terms of metadata, and that metadata configuration is presented to a user. The user can choose to alter the metadata configuration. If alterations are made to ...

09/28/06 - 20060218158 - Translation of information between schemas
A method of providing translation of information between schemas in a computer system includes creating a first mapping from a first schema to an intermediary schema, wherein information having an intermediary schema format can be translated to a second schema using a second mapping. For any portion of the first ...

09/28/06 - 20060218157 - Dynamic cube services
A method and system for dynamic creation of an OLAP cube is disclosed which enables OLAP cubes to be created from custom database entities and custom database entity relationships. A created cube may be implemented on a local or remote data server using a variety of modular database protocols. A ...

09/28/06 - 20060218156 - Schechinger/fennell system and method for filtering search results by utilizing user-selected parametric values from a self-defined drop-down list on a website
The use of computer technology and the internet to quickly locate, view, compare by user-selected values from drop-down lists for key parameters, and select marketable products or other data. The growth of the internet has exceeded the capacity of existing technologies and business methods to allow business and consumer users ...

09/28/06 - 20060218155 - Method and system for using confidence factors in forming a system
A method for using confidence factors in forming a system may include receiving a tolerable confidence factor. The method may also include utilizing only resources and relationships of a plurality of resources and relationships with confidence factors equal to or greater than the tolerable confidence factor to form the system. ...

09/28/06 - 20060218154 - Data processing method and data processing program
The time required to process a subset of an array can be shortened. Table-formatted data is divided into information blocks each including a value list (VL) where the item values are arranged in order of item value number corresponding to the item value of each item and a pointer array ...

09/21/06 - 20060212461 - System for organizing a plurality of data sources into a plurality of taxonomies
A process displays a taxonomy representing an organizational relationship of a plurality of nodes accessible to a computer. A taxonomy file having a user-generated definition of the taxonomy and the nodes is recorded in a data memory. The definitions of the taxonomy and the nodes are extracted from the taxonomy ...

09/21/06 - 20060212460 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing data standardization activities
A method, system, and computer program product for implementing data standardization activities. The method includes defining a data control structure using meta-data and rules. The method also includes receiving content from one or more source systems that provide a feed for the content. The method further includes identifying the one ...

09/21/06 - 20060212459 - Website analysis system
A website analysis system is provided, which is capable of digitizing an effect of “attractiveness of contents or functions for collecting customers” on an access tendency of a user, separately from effects of other elements, based on aggregation results of an access log. The website analysis system includes an aggregating ...

09/21/06 - 20060212458 - Data processing systems and methods
A data processing system is disclosed with interface means for coupling to a plurality of data warehouses. Each of the data warehouses may include key figures field catalogues and characteristics field catalogues. The data processing system may further include means for selecting a sub-set of the plurality of data warehouses, ...

09/21/06 - 20060212457 - Systems and methods for efficiently storing and accessing data storage system paths
The subject invention provides a system and/or a method that facilitates providing a compact representation of a file path associated to a file storage system. A path component can provide seamless integration and/or transition between the file path associated to the file storage system and an item and/or item ID ...

09/21/06 - 20060212456 - System and method for updating objects in a multi-threaded computing environment
An interlocked object transfer data structure is provided for enabling requests made by multiple threads to update objects in a multi-threaded computing environment to be executed by a single processing thread. An object in the interlocked object transfer data structure contains a pair of flags, which the processing thread manipulates ...

09/21/06 - 20060212455 - Method and system for organizing image files based upon workflow
Methods and systems that permit a user to associate metadata representing one or more workflow-related actions with an image file are provided. Workflow-related actions describe one or more actions which may be undertaken with respect to the associated image file. For instance, workflow-related actions may include, by way of example ...

09/14/06 - 20060206508 - System and method allowing advertisers to manage search listings in a pay for placement search system using grouping
A system for advertisers to efficiently manage their search listings in placement database search system includes grouping means for managing multiple categories for the search listings and query means for searching search listings. The system further includes quick-fill means for modifying an attribute in plurality of search listings by specifying ...

09/14/06 - 20060206507 - Hierarchal data management
A hierarchal data management system for a storage device includes an entity relationship discover to generate meta data from a business object, a file manager to create a partition based on the metadata, a data mover to generate a logical partitioning key and to store the logical partitioning key in ...

09/14/06 - 20060206506 - Expenditure accounting management system and method
A web based payment card software application for an expenditure accounting management automation system that provides a plurality of event code identifiers for processing, reporting and recording expenditure spending related to transaction data activity, including a one of a plurality of expenditure identifiers associated with line item transaction data comprising ...

09/14/06 - 20060206505 - System and method for managing listings
A computer system and method for capture, managing and presenting data obtained from various often unrelated postings via the Internet for examination by a user. This system includes a scraping module having one or more scraping engines operable to scrape information data sets from listings on the corporate sites and ...

09/14/06 - 20060206504 - Ims network access using legacy devices
A communication network is described that allows legacy devices to access an IMS network. The communication network includes a switching system, an IMS network, and a non-IMS network. The switching system includes a subscriber database that is pre-provisioned with identities of IMS subscribers using legacy devices. When in operation, a ...

09/14/06 - 20060206503 - Complex syntax validation and business logic validation rules, using vaxs (value-added xsds) compliant with w3c-xml schema specification
Systems and methods are disclosed that facilitate formally describing structured documents and complex validation rules associated therewith using value-added XSD schemas (VAXs). Native XSDs can be utilized and annotated to generate VAXs that represent both the structure of a document and the complex validation rules used to validate the documents. ...

09/14/06 - 20060206502 - Schema generator: quick and efficient conversion of healthcare specific structural data represented in relational database tables, along with complex validation rules and business rules, to custom hl7xsd with applicable annotations
Systems and methods are disclosed that facilitate transforming business and encoding rules defined in a persistent and relational format into XML schemas that provide a message format and validation logic for the message. A message can be received in delimited flat-file format and parsed to facilitate generating a value-added XML ...

09/14/06 - 20060206501 - Integration of annotations to dynamic data sets
A data enhancement system that facilitates attaching annotations to dynamic data items and collections. The system employs the concepts of view and item to associate an annotation to a dynamic collection and/or item prior to rendering (e.g., via a graphical user interface) such collection and/or item. A user interface can ...

09/14/06 - 20060206500 - Document managing system
A document-managing-system receives an electronic mail. A first file of data constituting a document which is a managing target and a second file which indicates related information showing contents related to the first file are attached to the mail. The system obtains the files from the mail in the order ...

09/14/06 - 20060206499 - Document managing apparatus
The document management manages file managing information on a data file which constitutes a document which is a managing target while managing document managing information on the plural managed documents. The document managing apparatus enters a document file and header information data of an electronic mail to which the document ...

09/14/06 - 20060206498 - Document information management apparatus, document information management method, and document information management program
A document information management program and the like is provided which can manage documents by using their metadata without increasing their file sizes. The document information management program according to the present invention is a document information management program which serves to make a computer perform document information management that ...

09/14/06 - 20060206497 - System and method in a data table for creating recursive scalable template instances
A method and system for creating a recursive scalable template instance (RSTI) in an electronic data table having dimensions D1 and D2. A recursive scalable template (RST) associated with the RSTI is selected such that the RSTI is to be structured in accordance with the RST. A plurality of contiguous ...

09/14/06 - 20060206496 - System and method in a data table managing deletion operations in recursive scalable template instances
A method and system for managing deletion operations in a recursive scalable template instance (RSTI) of an electronic data table having dimensions D1 and D2. The RSTI includes contiguous recursive element instances (REIs) ordered and aligned along D1. The REIs include scalable template instances (STIs). Contiguous elements are deleted, upon ...

09/14/06 - 20060206495 - Method and apparatus for grouping content items
The invention relates to a system for grouping content items. A consumer equipment or computer (100) comprises a grouping principle processor (109) that determines a content item grouping principle used by a user to group content items such as music files, video files or email. The content item grouping principle ...

09/07/06 - 20060200479 - Form production system
The present invention relates to an on-line system for facilitating the production of forms, such as business cards, stationery, catalogues and generally any printed matter. Relatively permanent material for the production of forms is stored as a form structure in a computing system repository. The system receives copy information input ...

09/07/06 - 20060200478 - Generating structured information
Structured and/or unstructured data about enterprises are acquired from one or more sources such as commercial data providers, enterprise web sites, and/or directory web sites. Strings are extracted from the unstructured data. The strings contain key, value pairs describing facts about the enterprises. The extracted strings are parsed to normalize ...

09/07/06 - 20060200477 - Method and system for managing information technology data
Database system for storing information technology (IT) management operational data and a method and apparatus for managing IT data are provided. The database utilizes an integrated database schema. IT operational data is stored into the database using the integrated database schema and the database is accessed by plural applications and/or ...

09/07/06 - 20060200476 - Creating, storing and viewing process models
The location of a drawing of an activity, a property of an element in the drawing and the structural relationship of elements in the drawing are stored in a database. The database is accessed to form a user interface that provides a hierarchical representation of activities and the elements within ...

09/07/06 - 20060200475 - Additive clustering of images lacking individualized date-time information
A database has chronologically ordered images classified into event groups based upon a time difference threshold, and into subgroups based upon a similarity measure. In a method and system for combining new images into such a database, new image are ordered into clusters based upon assessed image features. A representative ...

09/07/06 - 20060200474 - Alternative sourcing assessment
A method and apparatus, including a computer program product, implementing techniques for providing a sourcing model recommendation for business applications. The techniques include grouping a plurality of application programs to form one or more application clusters. One or more of a suitability assessment, readiness assessment, and risk assessment can be ...

08/31/06 - 20060195462 - System and method for enhanced media distribution
A method and a computer readable medium for searching for media items from a network of users using a media management application and an instant messenger platform and a system for handling searches such searches. In one aspect, the method comprises receiving from a user having a group of messenger ...

08/31/06 - 20060195461 - Method of operating crosslink data structure, crosslink database, and system and method of organizing and retrieving information
A system and a method for organizing and retrieving information are provided. The system is running on a computer system accessible for interactive communication with users. The computer system runs a crosslink database stored therein. The crosslink database includes a crosslink data structure comprising at least a connecting node and ...

08/31/06 - 20060195460 - Data model for object-relational data
A common data model (CDM) that is a data model common to multiple application-specific data models. The CDM supports both PIM (Personal Information Manager end-user application data and line-of-business (LOB) data. Similarly, an SDM-type (system definition model) application can specify its model on top of the CDM. The CDM enables ...

08/31/06 - 20060195459 - Schema grammar and compilation
The subject innovation provides a system and/or a method that facilitates developing schemas for a file storage system. A type definition component can provide a schema grammar, wherein a generator component can employ the schema grammar to build the schema for the file storage system. The schema grammar can describe ...

08/31/06 - 20060195458 - Entity lookup system
In an electronic document such as a map, an entity lookup system associates primitive data with entity data though parallel or corresponding grids of a primitive quad-tree and an entity quad-tree. A key is assigned to grids in the primitive quad-tree in association to particular grids in the entity quad-tree. ...

08/31/06 - 20060195457 - System and method for regulating an extensibility point's access to a message
Prior to sending a message to an extensibility point, the message is wrapped with a wrapper object associated with the extensibility point. The wrapper object can be validated by the extensibility point when the extensibility point is ready to commence its operation on the message. Validation of the wrapper object ...

08/31/06 - 20060195456 - Change notification query multiplexing
In order to efficiently handle change notification requests to a storage system based on a database data store and a database engine, the change notification requests are multiplexed. This can be done by issuing a query which refers, for information about what changes are being tracked, to a data structure. ...

08/31/06 - 20060195455 - Method and system for calculating performance metrics using backchannel messaging and information pattern matching
A client utilizes a backchannel messaging infrastructure and information matching logic to measure server performance characteristics at the client without requiring the server to correlate command responses to command requests. The backchannel messaging infrastructure facilitates the sending of messages between clients, and allows a client to send to the interested ...

08/31/06 - 20060195454 - Xml schema for binding data
An XML schema is provided allowing data to be stored in a separate location from the presentation surface of an application. By way of the schema, users of the application can establish links (or bindings) between the contents of the data and the presentation surface as part of an XML ...

08/24/06 - 20060190467 - Method, apparatus and recording medium for recording time information for digital data streams
A method and apparatus for recording time information for received digital data streams are provided. The method includes recording first time information and second time information on a recording medium. The first time information is part of management data for managing presentation data and the second time information is time ...

08/24/06 - 20060190466 - Customization of metadata describing objects in a computing environment
The present invention facilitates customization of metadata that describes objects in a software system without requiring modification of source code. A customization that describes a desired customization to metadata is received and the relevant metadata is identified. A delta value indicating the customization to the metadata is stored. ...

08/24/06 - 20060190465 - Method and apparatus for efficient indexed storage for unstructured content
A method and apparatus for efficient indexed storage for unstructured content have been disclosed. ...

08/24/06 - 20060190464 - Information processing apparatus, method and program
If content having an attribute different from that of content usually used by a user is selected, the present invention allows proper content recommendation in accordance with the selection. When notified from a control block of a selected piece of music, a short-term preference vector generation block gets music vector ...

08/24/06 - 20060190463 - Methods and systems for outputting data on a graphical user interface of a computer system
Methods and systems are provided for outputting data on a graphical user interface of a computer system. Consistent with one implementation, a method of outputting data on a graphical user interface is provided. The method comprises retrieving data descriptive of an object from a data repository, transferring the data as ...

08/24/06 - 20060190462 - Global satellite databases and security systems
The objective of the current invention is to provide an advanced and effective means of security checks performed for airline travelers and other administrative functions as well. It makes use of satellites to host databases containing personal information about the citizens of the member countries. Anybody who needs to travel ...

08/24/06 - 20060190461 - Apparatus, system, and method for managing objects in a database according to a dynamic predicate representation of an explicit relationship between objects
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for managing objects in a database according to a dynamic predicate representation of an explicit relationship between objects. The apparatus includes a correlation module, a storage module, a query module, and a deletion module. The correlation module associates a set of predicate identifiers ...

08/24/06 - 20060190460 - Method and mechanism of handling reporting transactions in database systems
Disclosed are improved methods, systems, and mediums for handling reporting transactions in database systems. In some embodiments, database snapshots are used to carry out reporting transactions on a failover node concurrently with execution of non-reporting transactions on a primary node. ...

08/17/06 - 20060184551 - Mechanism for improving performance on xml over xml data using path subsetting
Techniques are provided for indexing XML documents using path subsetting. According to one embodiment, a PATH table created for storing one row for each indexed node of the XML documents using user-defined criteria. The user-defined criteria are used to determine which nodes of XML documents to included in The PATH ...

08/17/06 - 20060184550 - Information processing apparatus and method, and computer readable memory
An application IF layer interprets and processes manipulations of an application program. A database IF layer interprets and processes manipulations common to a plurality of types of databases. Individual database manipulation implementation embedded in the database IF layer executes processes unique to databases for each of the plurality of types ...

08/17/06 - 20060184549 - Method and apparatus for modifying messages based on the presence of pre-selected data
A method and apparatus for modifying messages based on the presence of pre-selected data is described. In one embodiment, the method includes determining that a message transmitted to a recipient via a network includes pre-selected data. The pre-selected data contains information from at least one random row within the tabular ...

08/17/06 - 20060184548 - Hierarchical inherited xml dom
A method and system for providing processed data definition documents (DDDs) or processed document object models (DOMs) for object oriented programming. The use of these processed data definitions simplifies the data structures and streamlines programming to access the data. A standard DDD/DOM has a hierarchical branched structure having a number ...

08/17/06 - 20060184547 - Method and system for fast encoding of data documents
A method for processing markup language documents includes generating a markup-language document that includes one or more data nodes and transmitting the markup-language document to a remote component. Each data node of the markup-language document includes a numeric identifier identifying a node type of the data node and one or ...

08/10/06 - 20060179070 - Service desk data transfer interface
A system, method and computer program product for importing data in a network-based customer relationship application is provided. First, data to be imported to a customer relationship application utilizing a network is identified. A set of predetermined rules associated with the customer relationship application are identified. The data is imported ...

08/10/06 - 20060179069 - Knowledge discovery tool navigation
A system including a knowledge model is provided. The system includes an interface for presenting a relationship between two entities of a knowledge model. The interface includes a method that accepts a first input representative of a selection of a first interface item, the first interface item associated with an ...

08/10/06 - 20060179068 - Techniques for efficiently storing and querying in a relational database, xml documents conforming to schemas that contain cyclic constructs
To associate XML data objects (“child objects”), stored in rows of relational or object-relational tables, with the appropriate XML data objects (“parent objects”) from which the child objects descend, tables that contain child objects (“out-of-line” tables) are constructed with an additional column. In one embodiment, this column stores values that ...

08/10/06 - 20060179067 - Knowledge discovery tool navigation
A system including a knowledge model is provided. The system includes an interface for presenting a relationship between two entities of a knowledge model. The interface includes a method that accepts a first input representative of a selection of a first interface item, the first interface item associated with an ...

08/10/06 - 20060179066 - Flexible file format for updating an address book
Mechanisms for updating an address book. A first computing system generates an address book update file format and provides the file to a second computing system. The file format contains several data fields. One of the data fields consists of a configurable list of attribute property identifications. These property identifications ...

08/10/06 - 20060179065 - Matrix oriented application framework with interchangeable data source mapping and user interface
An application framework that includes modular components is disclosed that simplifies development of web-based applications. The application framework may be written in Java based on servlet/JSP. Through the use of components that include at least a data model object, a view object, and a data storage object, the application framework ...

08/03/06 - 20060173874 - Method and system for interactive parameter optimization using multi-dimensional scaling
A method for interactively optimizing a system comprises interactively adjusting controlling parameters in a parameter set, by deriving successive pluralities of parameter sets in a parameter space, each of whose respective member parameter sets are respectively ranked in order, utilizing a ranking input based on respective system performance associated with ...

08/03/06 - 20060173873 - System and method for providing access to databases via directories and other hierarchical structures and interfaces
A hierarchical/relational translation system is provided for enabling information from unrelated heterogeneous relational computing systems to be accessed, navigated, searched, browsed, and shared over a hierarchical computing system. In one embodiment, the hierarchical/relational translation system includes a virtual directory server for capturing information in the nature of relational database schema ...

08/03/06 - 20060173872 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program
An information processing method is disclosed which includes the steps of: (a) calculating levels of similarity between a standard form vector as a comparison basis vector and each of a plurality of item characteristic vectors of the standard form which are characteristic of a plurality of items, the standard form ...

08/03/06 - 20060173871 - Resource managing system, resource managing program and resource managing method
A resource managing system for managing a resource used by a function module includes a resource measuring device for measuring the amount of the resource used by the function module in a first executing environment; a resource upper limit value acquiring device for acquiring an upper limit value of the ...

08/03/06 - 20060173870 - Computing system and a method for calculating a recovery time of an application system
The invention relates to a method for calculating a recovery time (tr) of an application system (DB) in a computer system for tuning the computer system dynamically, wherein the recovery time (tr) is calculated and controlled within flexible predefined time slices and compared to a predefined time period (t0) and ...

08/03/06 - 20060173869 - Method and apparatus for requestor sensitive role membership lookup
A directory server system that includes a data repository storing a plurality of entries, wherein the plurality of entries comprises a plurality of user entries and a plurality of role entries, wherein each of the plurality of role entries define a role and comprises an InterestedApplication attribute, a directory server ...

08/03/06 - 20060173868 - Mapping web services to ontologies
A system for enterprise information integration is described. The system is based on different layers: the data sources, source ontologies corresponding to the data schema of the data sources, an integration ontology integrating the different source ontologies, a level of query input, preferably in the form of a web service. ...

08/03/06 - 20060173867 - System and method for providing s/mime-based document distribution via electronic mail mechanisms
A content or document management system includes a content or document repository; a dedicated e-mail account; and a mail agent associated with the dedicated e-mail account. The mail agent processes a received e-mail message to determine a sender's identity; authenticates the identity of the sender and an authorization of the ...

08/03/06 - 20060173866 - Apparatus and method for handling backend failover in an application server
An application server includes a connection pool that specifies a number of allowable connections, and includes a backend failure detection mechanism and a backend failure recovery mechanism. When the backend failure detection mechanism detects that the backend fails, applications waiting on the hung connections may be notified of the backend ...

08/03/06 - 20060173865 - System and method of translating a relational database into an xml document and vice versa
A method of translating a relational database into an XML document comprises generating an Extended Entity Relationship model from relational schema associated with the relational database and applying a schema translation process to the Extended Entity Relationship model to map the relational schema into a Document Type Definition (DTD) of ...

08/03/06 - 20060173864 - Systems and methods for reconciling image metadata
System and methods are herein disclosed for reconciling image metadata in an image file between different metadata schemas, both in the utilization of said metadata by an application or device, as well as proactively reconciling conflicts when detected in said image file. Several embodiments are directed to logically reconciling conflicting ...

08/03/06 - 20060173863 - Method and system for bidirectionally data binding a control of a template
A control is bound to a data item that provides a data binding context. Controls inside the template of a data bound control have properties which are bound to fields of the data item via a bidirectional data binding process. Bidirectional data binding allows a page developer to specify that ...

08/03/06 - 20060173862 - Method and system for displaying context-sensitive columns in a table
A method and system for displaying context-sensitive columns in a table of a graphical user interface (GUI) are provided for software running on a processor and being displayed to a user. The context-sensitive columns allow additional information to be displayed in a table on a window of a graphical user ...

08/03/06 - 20060173861 - Method and apparatus for incremental evaluation of schema-directed xml publishing
Methods and apparatus are provided for incremental update of an XML tree defined from a recursive XML view of a relational database. A method comprises the steps of detecting at least one change to the relational database; providing one or more queries to the relational database to map the change ...

07/27/06 - 20060167908 - Methods and systems for creating and operating hierarchical levels of administrators to facilitate the production and distribution of content
A hierarchically arranged content assembly and distribution system includes global and local administrators, the global administrators having the authorization to establish the local administrators. Global administrators have the ability to establish global content, establish global subscriber lists and assemble content for distribution to the global subscribers. Local administrators have the ...

07/27/06 - 20060167907 - System and method for processing xml documents
A method and apparatus are provided for representing an XML document in a collection of ordered information items. The method includes the steps of providing an information item of the collection of ordered information items encoded as a series of records where each record is provided with a length field ...

07/27/06 - 20060167906 - Information processing apparatus, document management system and method, and computer program
An information processing apparatus includes an input section, a position calculation section, a storage section, a log information record section, a display data generation section and a display section. The input section receives document identification information, which are output as output signals from respective transmission portions set to correspond to ...

07/27/06 - 20060167905 - Method and system for template data validation based on logical constraint specifications
A method and system to validate template data based on logical constraint specifications for constraining data collection in XML forms. The invention comprises methods and systems for validating dynamic, calculated, and other template data types. The constraint descriptions include data types, cardinality, order, co-occurrence, Boolean logic, read-only data, regular expression ...

07/27/06 - 20060167904 - Visual association of content in a content framework system
A content framework system and method. The content framework system comprises a content infrastructure, a content association system, and a user interface system. The content infrastructure comprises content management systems. Each of the content management systems comprises content. The content association system is for generating a first set of associations ...

07/27/06 - 20060167903 - Mediadescription data structures for carrying descriptive content metadata and content acquisition data in multimedia systems
A MediaDescription data structure that includes both descriptive metadata, such as EPG information, about a multimedia content item and instructions for acquiring the content item is assigned to each multimedia content item in a multimedia system. A MediaDescription data structure is transferable as a token for representing the content item. ...

07/27/06 - 20060167902 - System and method for storing a document in a serial binary format
A computer-readable medium having a data structure for storing document data in a serialized binary format so that the document data is accessible to other applications. A document structure is generated that includes root node data. The document is stored in a serial binary data format. The serial binary format ...

07/27/06 - 20060167901 - Live collections
A method, system and apparatus for managing live collections in a collaborative environment. In a preferred aspect of the present invention, a live collection can include a multiplicity of live objects aggregated together from which a live collection status can be obtained by reference to an application of at least ...

07/27/06 - 20060167900 - Reducing memory used by metadata for duplicate user defined types
A computer automatically identifies multiple occurrences of an abstract data type that is embedded within an object of metadata of another abstract data type (hereinafter “top-level” abstract data type), e.g. by recursively visiting each element of the top-level abstract data type. Then the computer automatically generates, for the top-level abstract ...

07/20/06 - 20060161565 - Method and apparatus for providing user interface for content search
A method and an apparatus are provided for providing a user interface for a content search that facilitates the selection of a search object during the content search. The method for providing a user interface for a content search includes displaying items that indicate content types on a first axis ...

07/20/06 - 20060161564 - Method and system for locating information in the invisible or deep world wide web
A system that allows location and extraction of information from database driven web sites that are part of the deep web is described herein. The system uses an automatic wrapper generation mechanism that understands the meaning of deep web pages, extend search technologies capabilities, and help users extract information from ...

07/20/06 - 20060161563 - Service discovery
Services having associated metadata meeting particular criteria can be discovered. One or more services are stored. The services provide service objects to service requesters. Service requestors include compiled code and the service objects include compiled code that is linked to the compiled code of a service requester at runtime and ...

07/20/06 - 20060161562 - Adaptive document management system using a physical representation of a document
Systems and methods for creating a Token and using it to operate and modify a case file in a document management system are described. An exemplary embodiment of a Token includes a representation of a case file. A Token may include a representation of a document associated with the case ...

07/20/06 - 20060161561 - Broken hyperlink auto-redirection and management system and method
A broken hyperlink auto-redirection and management system and method, which the system includes a hyperlink verify module for verifying a hyperlink and generating a verify result according to a classify result, wherein if type of the hyperlink indicates the hyperlink belonging to a redirection required class so that the classify ...

07/20/06 - 20060161560 - Method and system to compare data objects
The invention provides a method and system to compare data objects. Each data object is converted into a directed acyclic graph forest, which comprises one or more directed acyclic graphs. The directed acyclic graph forests corresponding to data objects are then compared to calculate a similarity score between the data ...

07/20/06 - 20060161559 - Methods and systems for analyzing xml documents
Methods and systems for analyzing XML documents. The system scans an XML document, identifies different dimensions that span the XML document and detects scoping relationships amongst them. The system uses the dimensional information to create a logical hierarchical scoped dimension analysis model, maps the logical XML tree to this model, ...

07/20/06 - 20060161558 - Schema conformance for database servers
Automatically determining the conformance of database server schema. Maintaining conformance of database schema helps manage and sustain database driven services and applications. Schema for a pair of randomly selected databases are generated and compared. A diffgram is generated from the difference of the database schema. An alarm message can then ...

07/20/06 - 20060161557 - Virtual columns
Embodiments are provided for associating a virtual column with a target physical table. The data for the virtual column originates from a source physical table where the data physically resides. In this way, users can access the data in a manner consistent with the users' logical perspective of the data. ...

07/20/06 - 20060161556 - Abstract record timeline rendering/display
Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for constructing a database abstraction model over an underlying physical database. Once constructed, users may interact with the database abstraction model, rather than the underlying physical database representation, to query the database and view query results. In one embodiment, information is retrieved from the ...

07/20/06 - 20060161555 - Methods and systems for generating playback instructions for playback of a recorded computer session
A protocol engine executing on a first device receives a recorded stream comprising a plurality of packets representing display data generated by an application program executed on a second device. The protocol engine determines for a packet in the recorded stream, to render the contents of the packet in a ...

07/13/06 - 20060155731 - System and method for manipulating and managing computer archive files
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide an archive management application that operates within a host application to provide access to an archive and/or allow access to and/or modification of files in an archive using the host application's interface, instead of operating as a separate standalone archive management application. In ...

07/13/06 - 20060155730 - 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 ...

07/13/06 - 20060155729 - Distributed computing systems and system compnents thereof
In one embodiment of the present invention, a replicated state machine comprises a proposal manager, an agreement manager, a collision/back-off timer and a storage reclaimer. The proposal manager facilitates management of proposals issued by a node of a distributed application for enabling coordinated execution of the proposals by all other ...

07/13/06 - 20060155728 - Browser application and search engine integration
Methods and systems for retrieving and rendering search results via the Internet can be implemented by a search engine that collates and collects multiple links in the background all tied to a single hyperlink click. The user of the search engine can set the number of back links tied to ...

07/13/06 - 20060155727 - Method for managing download of duplicate contents
A method for managing download of contents includes: providing a replay memory for storing a globally unique right object identifier (GUID) and a right issuer timestamp (RITS), and a duplication memory for storing a right object (RO) in downloading a duplicate of content that is already stored in the replay ...

07/13/06 - 20060155726 - Generating a parser and parsing a document
A parser is generated for parsing a marked up document. A template of a sample marked up document chosen by a user is extracted. The template comprises elements of the structural markup of the sample document with their data contents removed. The parser for parsing a marked up document is ...

07/13/06 - 20060155725 - System and method for future-proofing devices using metaschema
Disclosed are arrangements which seek to update schemas in a controlled manner so that a device (3710) or service can accurately parse documents conforming to a new version of a schema (3724, 3734) without the need for translation services or extra information within the document to provide guides for translation. ...

07/13/06 - 20060155724 - Loop channels
Exemplary systems and methods for creating and sharing channels are provided. In exemplary embodiments, a channel having at least one loop with items of media is created by a user. Permissions for accessing and modifying the channel including the items of media and the loop are set by the user. ...

07/13/06 - 20060155723 - Method and system for presenting a single view of content in a home network
A system for providing single view of content in a network of devices includes a communication module that detects devices connected to the network, a directory module that discovers content in each detected device via the communication module and maintains a directory of such available content providing a single view ...

07/13/06 - 20060155722 - Technique for creating self described data shared across multiple services
In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, there are provided mechanisms and methods for sharing data across services. These mechanisms and methods for applications to share information even when the applications use different data formats make it possible for business services to operate without any disruption even if ...

07/13/06 - 20060155721 - Buffering proxy for telnet access
A single- or multi-protocol buffering proxy accepts communication option negotiation commands from a client before establishing a connection between the client and a host. The proxy negotiates a limited set of options with the client before the connection is established and buffers (accepts and temporarily stores without responding to) other ...

07/13/06 - 20060155720 - Data access layer class generator
Systems and methods that that automatically generate a data access layer for a middle tier of a relational data store with stored procedures, via a data access layer generator. The data access layer generator can employ an extensible mark up language extension (XML) to determine the stored procedures that are ...

07/13/06 - 20060155719 - Complex event discovery in event databases
Situation detection systems and methods are provided, in which the capabilities of standard event stores and relational systems are enhanced by augmented event-oriented algebraic operators. Rules involving the event-oriented operators are combined with conventional relational algebraic techniques, and applied to an event database in order to detect more complex patterns, ...

07/13/06 - 20060155718 - Multiple copy track stage recovery in a data storage system
A bad track in a disk device in a data storage system is recovered by determining which cluster in the system the bad track belongs to. If the track belongs to the cluster that discovered that the track was bad, that cluster recovers the track by locating a good copy ...

07/13/06 - 20060155717 - Device and method for producing computer readable formatted output
Communication device for supporting a general-purpose computer to communicate with a vehicle having a control unit for controlling at least one particular function of the vehicle. A first request in XML format for requesting the control unit to return specified information is received from the computer. The request received is ...

07/13/06 - 20060155716 - Schema change governance for identity store
A system includes a schema defining terms for objects in an identity store, and a schema governance module controlling changes to the schema based on schema change criteria. A method of managing an existing schema defining objects in an identity store includes receiving a request specifying a proposed change to ...

07/13/06 - 20060155715 - Method and apparatus to associate a modifiable crm related token to an email
A method and apparatus to associate incoming emails to a customer relationship management (CRM) object is disclosed. The method may include creating a user configurable tracking token that relates an email to a CRM object, attaching the tracking token to an outgoing email, sending the outgoing email to recipients, receiving ...

07/13/06 - 20060155714 - Certification of address records for use in address hygiene
An improved method for cleansing a plurality of address records in an address record file. The method checks an address record for an associated cleansing date. The method determines whether the associated cleansing date has expired. If the address record has no cleansing date, or if the cleansing date is ...

07/13/06 - 20060155713 - Method and system for monitoring a workflow for an object
A system and method for monitoring a workflow for an object are described. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention include sending workflow information to at least one mobile device operated by a recipient of the object. The workflow information associates the object with the at least one mobile device ...

07/13/06 - 20060155712 - System and method for performing integrated storage operations
The present invention relates to a method for performing integrated storage operations on an information store. The present invention comprises identifying a plurality disparate types of storage operations stored in a policy option table. A first storage operation is performed according to a first set of storage criteria stored in ...

07/13/06 - 20060155711 - Method and system for management of software product licences
The present invention relates to a method, system and software for management of software product licences. More particularly, a method of analysing software product licence data is disclosed. The software product licence data is received from a sales database. The data is then collated into an analysis database and an ...

07/13/06 - 20060155710 - Method and computer system for customizing computer applications by storing the customization specification as data in a database
The present invention relates to a method and computer system to store customization specifications for computer software as data in a database. The customization information includes labels, error messages, help, security, and client preferences, such as display preferences. Because this information is stored as data, it is possible for a ...

07/06/06 - 20060149762 - Key information processing method, device thereof, and program
It is possible to safely constitute a key management method having an access structure equivalent to the hierarchical key management method with a small amount of calculations. The method includes: a setting step for setting a set (,) of the number of times a one-way hash function is executed for ...

07/06/06 - 20060149761 - Structure of objects stored in a media server and improving accessibility to the structure
The present invention relates to providing media data in an open network system, wherein an object structure of a media server operationally connected to a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) network is provided. The media server comprises a service for managing objects, and a storage unit for storing at least ...

07/06/06 - 20060149760 - Ldap bulk append
Systems and methods for performing a bulk append into an LDAP Server Directory Store. A conversion tool may receive an input file in LDIF format. The conversion tool performs a schema check on each entry in the input file, and creates a plurality of output files in SQL or another ...

07/06/06 - 20060149759 - Method and apparatus for managing feedback in a group resource environment
A system, method and computer program fo