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Data Processing: Database And File Management Or Data Structures > Database Schema Or Data Structure > Generating Database Or Data Structure (e.g., Via User Interface) Generating Database Or Data Structure (e.g., Via User Interface)Generating Database Or Data Structure (e.g., Via User Interface) 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.10/19/06 - 20060235873 - Social network-based internet search engine Filtering Internet content includes receiving a search query message comprising a search query to an Internet search engine. Data is received from the Internet search engine, responsive to the search query message. Filtering of the data produces a data subset. The filter selects data for inclusion in the data subset ... 10/19/06 - 20060235872 - Integration of push services with applications An application program on a mobile device provides a user interface that integrates application data with data from a push data service from a remote server. The integration of application data and pushed data is performed on the basis of a common element shared between the application data and the ... 10/19/06 - 20060235871 - Method and system for managing metadata information A system for managing metadata information comprising a database for storing the metadata in formation; a central processing core, connected to the database, for monitoring and controlling access of the database; a process dispatcher for receiving the metadata information and transmitting the metadata information to the database via the central ... 10/19/06 - 20060235870 - System and method for generating an interlinked taxonomy structure A system and method for interlinking differing taxonomies, the system including a communications module that provides access to corpora having electronic documents categorized in accordance with first and second taxonomies with a plurality of nodes. The system also includes an analysis module that analyzes the nodes of the first taxonomy, ... 10/19/06 - 20060235869 - Metadata generating apparatus A metadata generating apparatus includes: a private-content-information creating unit that creates content information of an individual; a public-content-information collecting unit that collects public content information for which metadata for retrieval is created; a keyword extracting unit that extracts a keyword, which forms a basis of the metadata for retrieval, from ... 10/19/06 - 20060235868 - Methods and apparatus for representing markup language data A representation of a markup language data such as XML expressed as a sequence of encoded items provides a data format including a type field containing i) a construct type identifying a type of markup language data construct to which the encoded item corresponds or, ii) a directive type identifying ... 10/12/06 - 20060230058 - System and method for tracking user activity related to network resources using a browser A method and system are described for tracking user activity related to network resources using a browser. According to an exemplary embodiment, a user-initiated activity related to a network resource is detected in the browser. The detected user-initiated activity is associated with the network resource to form an activity-resource pair. ... 10/12/06 - 20060230057 - Method and apparatus for mapping web services definition language files to application specific business objects in an integrated application environment A method, an apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for mapping Web services definition language (WSDL) files to application specific business objects. A WSDL reader parses WSDL files and builds a WSDL syntax tree. If a types section is present in the tree, a schema resolver generates a set of ... 10/12/06 - 20060230056 - Method and a device for visual management of metadata A method and a device for visual management of metadata. An area with a plurality of data elements is visualized (504) to the user who determines (508) a route on the area, said route including a number of preferred elements belonging to the plurality of elements, which is detected (512). ... 10/12/06 - 20060230055 - Live graphical preview with text summaries The subject invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates creating a summary page of content associated with disparate sources of data. For example, a user can select one or more regions of one or more disparate web pages for which he/she desires updated information over a length of ... 10/12/06 - 20060230054 - On-line organization of data sets To efficiently retain data online, an instance of a data set may be generated. The instance may have a set of data fields with corresponding data values. The instance also may be searchable in response to a data selection request. Another instance may be generated, which also may have a ... 10/05/06 - 20060224618 - Data transfer and transformation system and method A method for processing data. Meta-data descriptors (15, 18) are defined to describe the data either by the user (17) or automatically using a meta-data connector (16). A meta-data descriptor describes the structure of data including field names (1, 4). A meta-data connector describes how to access the data. Different ... 10/05/06 - 20060224617 - Unstructured business metadata manager Embodiments of the present invention include methods for collecting, organizing, storing and displaying business-oriented metadata. Business metadata is metadata that uses terms of business and is meaningful to the business person. Business Metadata Manager (BMM) is a software system that collects business metadata, organizes and categorizes it, stores it into ... 10/05/06 - 20060224616 - Information processing device and method thereof An information processing device including a key sound achieving unit 21 for achieving audio data serving as a retrieval key, a designated point achieving unit 51 for achieving as a designated point a time for designating a section of the achieved audio data, a variation point detector 31 for converting ... 10/05/06 - 20060224615 - Systems and methods for providing subscription-based personalization A user's prior searching and browsing activities are recorded for subsequent use. A user may examine the user's prior searching and browsing activities in a number of different ways, including indications of the user's prior activities related to advertisements. A set of search results may be modified in accordance with ... 10/05/06 - 20060224614 - Method, system and program product for providing high performance data lookup Under the present invention, index keys are generated for a set of documents. This is typically accomplished by examining the set of documents, and connecting data values extracted from the set of documents to yield the index keys. Once the index keys are generated, an index view will be generated ... 10/05/06 - 20060224613 - Method and system for an administrative apparatus for creating a business rule set for dynamic transform and load Provided is a method for an administrative apparatus for creating a business rule set for dynamic transform and load. A business rule template definition is obtained. A source metadata defining a data source is obtained. A store metadata defining a data store is obtained. Output is displayed to a user ... 10/05/06 - 20060224612 - Information processing system for a value-based system Embodiments of the invention include an electronic processing system for determining states of existence for individuals or groups of individuals, or both. The system incorporates cognitive, psychological, and perceptual principles. The system includes a mechanism for obtaining input variables; one or more processors, a processing engine with one or more ... 10/05/06 - 20060224611 - Identity management user experience Example embodiment of the present invention provide for assisting a user in managing the user's shared persona on a request-by-request basis. Upon requesting to share one or more types of identity information, the user is automatically presented with an interface through which the user can interact in selecting an amount ... 09/28/06 - 20060218179 - System, method, and computer program product for scoring items based on user sentiment and for determining the proficiency of predictors The present invention provides systems, methods, computer program products, and combinations and subcombinations thereof for scoring items based on user sentiment and for determining the proficiency of a predictor and for aiding an investment decision on an item by an individual. The invention includes one or more user devices and ... 09/28/06 - 20060218178 - Method and apparatus for generating readable, unique identifiers A computer apparatus receives seed characters relating to an object and accesses rules to generate an identifier. The identifier includes a human-readable component that conveys understanding to a non-skilled user. The identifier complies with limitations dictated by the rules and is not based on random generation. ... 09/28/06 - 20060218177 - System and method for storing and retrieving data through an inferencing-enabled metadata system A system and method, which registers and stores data and is responsive to queries through management of an inferencing-enabled metadata includes an intelligent database, which receives data or queries and manages data models. An ontology management system is associated with the intelligent database and receives and stores classes of information ... 09/28/06 - 20060218176 - System, method, and service for organizing data for fast retrieval A data organization system includes an index that offers fast retrieval of records and that protects records from logical modification. The index includes a balanced tree that grows from the root of the tree down to the leaves and requires no re-balancing. Each level in the tree includes a hash ... 09/28/06 - 20060218175 - Managing data component with harmonization indicator Data elements for a data component are specified by creating a data type that includes several data elements, the data type to be used in creating data components for specific contexts. Each of the several data elements is associated with a harmonization indicator that causes the associated data element to ... 09/28/06 - 20060218174 - Method for coordinating schema and data access objects Two techniques are commonly used when developing database applications. First, script files containing batched database commands are frequently used to establish the schema of database tables. Second, the software design pattern “Data Access Objects” are sometimes used to contain programmatic database requests while providing an application programmer a more abstract, ... 09/28/06 - 20060218173 - Method, system, and program product for invention mining The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for invention mining. The method includes: extracting and storing in a first database a predetermined, limited amount of information from all invention disclosures submitted by members of a project team; generating an invention disclosure report using information extracted from ... 09/28/06 - 20060218172 - Method and system to personalize sensor characterizing reference database in multiple led spectrophotometers To generate a reference database for a particular sensor in a multiple LED spectrophotometric system with a reduced number of test measurements taken from training samples, a first set of reflectance reference measurements are generated from a test target on to a reference sensor from a plurality of different LED ... 09/21/06 - 20060212472 - Method and system for creating a rich media content portal using third-party commercial portal application software A method of creating an online web application for managing Rich media content and documents of a user is described which involves providing a secure website accessible to the user over a computer network; providing commercial portal application software to store and index files and provide security; providing the user ... 09/21/06 - 20060212471 - System and method for intellectual property information management using configurable activities Method and apparatus are disclosed for organizing intellectual property data according to activities related to intellectual property. Each activity is represented by an activity data structure containing at least some data pertinent to the activity. A plurality of activity data structures are made accessible through a user interface display in ... 09/21/06 - 20060212470 - Information organization using formal concept analysis A method for organizing information includes identifying objects and attributes of the information; determining a context from the objects and attributes; constructing a lattice according to said context; and organizing the information according to the lattice. ... 09/21/06 - 20060212469 - Method and system to associate cell and item metadata The present invention generally relates to new and improved embodiments of methods and systems for capturing and providing arbitrarily rich data to be stored or manipulated within a spreadsheet. In one embodiment of the present invention, a method for creating spreadsheet metadata comprises receiving an item in a spreadsheet, receiving ... 09/14/06 - 20060206517 - System and method for listing administration A system and method of providing listing data administration to a lister user is disclosed. The listing data is posted on a web search bank hosted by a listing administration provider. Furthermore, the listing data is posted with an assigned hyperlink that references a lister user website hosted by a ... 09/14/06 - 20060206516 - Keyword generation method and apparatus Methods, apparatuses, and articles for receiving one or more indicators indicating one or more degrees of relevance or irrelevance of one or more items or entities to advertising keywords of interest, generating one or more advertising keyword suggestions suggesting one or more advertising keywords based at least in part on ... 09/14/06 - 20060206515 - Method of generating directory structure for content search A method of generating a directory structure used for a content search which can maximize a user's convenience is provided. The method includes: generating a plurality of attribute directories based on a plurality of content attributes; and generating a content directory containing a plurality of content having the contents attributes. ... 09/14/06 - 20060206514 - Document file management apparatus, document file management method and document file management program At least a character font in document data of each stored document file is converted into a predetermined image pattern to produce image data from the converted document data. Each produced image data is displayed while successively switched every document unit by a predetermined operation. ... 09/14/06 - 20060206513 - Method for speed-efficient and memory-efficient construction of a trie A method in a data processing system for generating trie structures, comprised of the following steps: The method identifies mappings, which have elements, in a map file. The method advances to a element in a current mapping, wherein the element becomes a current element. Next, the method determines a presence ... 09/14/06 - 20060206512 - Computer systems and methods for visualizing data with generation of marks A method for generating marks when displaying data, such as the results of a query across a database. The method is preferably used in conjunction with a dataset whose fields comprise a plurality of levels. A visual plot is constructed based on a specification. A first level from the plurality ... 09/14/06 - 20060206511 - Method and system for extending the file system api A method is disclosed to create files in a file system hierarchy in a way which facilitates their retrieval. The method comprises the steps of: entering a command from an application to create a file; displaying the file hierarchy; allowing a user to select at least one folder; saving data ... 09/07/06 - 20060200490 - Geographical indexing system and method A geographical indexing system and method for use in association with a plurality of search results and a user-selected location. A user-selected location is obtained by providing a user with a graphical geographical map and receiving a user-selected location on the graphical geographical map. Geographically indexed search results are obtained ... 09/07/06 - 20060200489 - Company modeling A company is compared to a generic company model to identify differences between the company and the generic company model. The generic company model includes a work model that describes sequences of tasks that form processes performed within a generic company and a persona model that describes generic personas in ... 09/07/06 - 20060200488 - System and method for providing post hoc access to legacy applications and data A method and architecture having components for performing a method comprising the steps of: forming a simple bi-directional communication link between each of the clients and a server; and, transmitting along the communication link at least one of two kinds of messages comprising a first message which is a synchronous ... 09/07/06 - 20060200487 - Domain name related reputation and secure certificates Systems and methods of the present invention allow for issuing a secure certificate using improved methods in verifying a Subscriber. In a sample embodiment, a Registering Entity maintains a database with reputation data that can be accessed by a Certification Authority. The Registering Entity may update reputation data based on ... 09/07/06 - 20060200486 - System and method for supporting non-native data types in a database api A database API is presented that can expose data of non-native data-types, i.e., types that are unknown at API design-time. A broad type-system is used that is understood by both a server and a client. The API can dynamically discover, at run-time, data types that were defined using this broad ... 09/07/06 - 20060200485 - Database instance management system and method A system, method and program product for managing database instances. A computer system is disclosed that includes a system for inputting a request for a new database instance; a system for verifying the request; a system for creating the database instance; and a system for configuring the database instance. ... 09/07/06 - 20060200484 - Unified reporting A framework is provided that uniformly stores in a central repository data collected from various locations in an enterprise computing network. One or more measurements for data of interest in the central repository are pre-calculated. The pre-calculated measurement(s) are normalized to reflect the relative importance of the data of interest ... 09/07/06 - 20060200483 - Blog integration in a collaborative system A method, system and apparatus for an integrated blog in a collaborative environment. In this regard, the collaborative environment can include a named collaborative space and one or more collaborative components disposed in the named collaborative space. For instance, the collaborative components can include a discussion forum, a persistent chat, ... 09/07/06 - 20060200482 - System, method and program product for setting and managing breakpoints in a data schema mapping editor Breakpoints are set in a data schema mapping editor that has an expandable view of model objects. A vertical ruler is provided adjacent to the expandable view for setting breakpoints for the model objects. If the expandable view is manipulated or if a scroll bar is adjusted, the breakpoints will ... 08/31/06 - 20060195469 - Method for creating entries in an on-line database in a user-defined category A web server for creating entries in an on-line database in a user-defined category is disclosed. The web server may be configured to receive a request from a user to create an entry in the database; create an entry in the database; receive a category defined by the user for ... 08/31/06 - 20060195468 - System and device for providing contents According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a content providing system, which is provided with a data acquisition unit configured to obtain data inputted and/or outputted through a user interface which is included in an information processing device, an interest estimation unit that generates interest information representing ... 08/31/06 - 20060195467 - Creation and composition of sets of items A data organization system comprises an interface component that receives input that relates to properties associated with a first item type. A set generator component filters a collection of items of the first item type as a function of select properties associated with the input and creates and stores a ... 08/31/06 - 20060195466 - Information processing system, management device and management method To provide an information processing device management method contrived to improve operability by managing respective information processing devices via a network while eliminating any constraint in place for handling the management. A management device receives a request from an administrator terminal via the network, notifies the information processing device of ... 08/31/06 - 20060195465 - Document repository A document repository module provides document management control and flexible indexing of electronic documents associated with a document repository. According to some of the embodiments, the document repository provides a central location to store or to access files related to one project or many projects that are accessible over a ... 08/24/06 - 20060190478 - Method and apparatus for object oriented storage and retrieval of data from a relational database Systems and methods for accessing a relational database through an object-oriented querying interface are provided. A class of objects that are to be stored in the relational database are defined. One or more relational database tables are created and a mapping is produced that maps each data member of an ... 08/24/06 - 20060190477 - 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 ... 08/24/06 - 20060190476 - Database storage system and associated method A system is provided for saving data to a structurally changed database. The system comprises an input processor for validating ancillary data; a stored procedure generator for automatically re-generating a stored procedure using the validated ancillary data and metadata. The system further comprises a code generator for automatically re-generating source ... 08/24/06 - 20060190475 - Group polling for consumer review Using a computer system comprising clients at which users interface to the computer system and at least one review server that maintains a collection of reviews, each associated with a presentation, a method of collecting the reviews including providing a first presentation to a first user via a first client ... 08/24/06 - 20060190474 - Extensible markup language schema for mathematical expressions An extensible markup language-based schema for representing a mathematical expression in documents. The schema can include a single math tag indicative of text and operators of the mathematical expression. The schema can also include format attributes indicative of one of a plurality of formats to be applied to the mathematical ... 08/24/06 - 20060190473 - End user defined event rules for erp applications A method of creating alerts in a database system is disclosed. The method may include allowing the selection of at least one field or record to be monitored, determining the data in a database that affects the value of the selected field or record, storing a trigger related to the ... 08/24/06 - 20060190472 - System and method for improved exposure of database schema information Systems and methods for improved exposure of database schema information are disclosed. Generally, a database driver may retrieve and provide database schema information according to one of two default methods or, also, a third override method. The first default method is to execute a query on the database. The second ... 08/24/06 - 20060190471 - Auto-filing of watch results in ip management system Method and apparatus are disclosed for managing intellectual property information including organizing intellectual property data in a data processing system according to activities related to intellectual property. Each activity is represented by an activity data structure containing at least some data pertinent to the activity. A second data processing system ... 08/17/06 - 20060184567 - System and method providing diffgram format The present invention relates to a system and methodology to facilitate XML data communications and processing. A diffgram data structure is provided that includes one or more states of a plurality of data records. The state information can be determined by examining one or more data sources for differences from ... 08/17/06 - 20060184566 - 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 ... 08/17/06 - 20060184565 - Data allocation setting in computer system A computer is used in a computer system including multiple physical storage areas for storing database data. The database includes component information having a reference item having plural value ranges. The database data is dividable according to value ranges of the reference item. The computer comprises an access frequency obtaining ... 08/17/06 - 20060184564 - Method of, and system for, process-driven analysis of operations A method of process-driven analysis of operations includes defining an abstract process, defining at least one metric over the abstract process using a metric definer and computing metric values using a metric computation engine. The method further includes building an analysis model and a prediction model using an analysis and ... 08/17/06 - 20060184563 - Method and apparatus for temporal database Methods and systems consistent with the invention store data in a database. A method or system consistent with the invention create a first record for a first time period, the first record comprising an identifier and an attribute, create a second record for a second time period, the second record ... 08/17/06 - 20060184562 - Method and system for decoding encoded documents A method for decoding encoded markup language documents includes reading a first numeric value from a data document and identifying a data definition associated with the first numeric value. The method further includes reading a second numeric value from a data document and determining, based on a base delimiter value, ... 08/17/06 - 20060184561 - System and methodology for database migration between platforms A system and methodology for database migration between platforms is described. In one embodiment, for example, a method is described for migrating a database across platforms having different byte order formats (e.g., big-endian and little-endian), the method comprises steps of: when the database is loaded on a given platform, determining ... 08/17/06 - 20060184560 - The health care system of the universal and continuously enriching medical information Doctors input the clinical information of patients into their universal clinical-laboratory forms of the computer network system of the organization, take the different specimens and submit these records in the system that gives them the numbers that they write on the specimen containers and the kits. These numbers are also ... 08/10/06 - 20060179076 - Integration of a digital asset management system with a project management system The disclosure relates to an integrated system comprising a digital asset management system, a project management system, and an interface that permits the integration of the two systems. Data may be accessed or replicated between the two systems via the interface. Among operations facilitated by the integrated system is the ... 08/10/06 - 20060179075 - Method and system for obfuscating data structures by deterministic natural data substitution A method and system create a data structure from an obfuscated data structure. First, the system operates on a first data structure whose obfuscation is desired, and creates a data string based on a portion of the first data structure. Next, based on the data string, a second data structure ... 08/10/06 - 20060179074 - Concept dictionary based information retrieval A method and apparatus are provided for generating and updating a concept dictionary 140 in respect of an information system 125 and for using that concept dictionary to assist in selecting queries and query terms for use in interrogating that information system 125. A lexical reference source 115 is first ... 08/10/06 - 20060179073 - Information management system Provided is an information management system capable of reliably protecting personal data while ensuring the usefulness of the information when data containing personal data are processed. In an information management system (1), processing-object data containing personal data are acquired by an information management apparatus (2), the personal data are extracted ... 08/10/06 - 20060179072 - Method and system for obtaining a profile This invention relates to a method, and to a system, for obtaining a profile. ... 08/03/06 - 20060173906 - Model repository A model repository is provided for storing selected data models generated by a data mining application. The model repository is a structure that may be organized into a plurality of levels, including a project level, a diagram level, and a model level. The project level may include one or more ... 08/03/06 - 20060173905 - Database driven workflow management system for generating output material based on customer input A customer record is generated to include fields specifying at least one product, customer preferences, and a selected delivery option indicating a method to deliver generated output material on the product. A job record including a status field is added to a job status table and set to a first ... 08/03/06 - 20060173904 - Information processing apparatus and control method thereof An information processing apparatus for management of document images. In input document image data, when an area from which index information is to be extracted is designated, an index item for the designated area is set. Then, index extraction information where information specifying the designated area is linked with information ... 08/03/06 - 20060173903 - Methods and apparatus to automatically generate claim charts Methods and apparatus to automatically generate claim charts are disclosed. An illustrated method includes receiving an input identifying a patent via a user interface; and automatically generating a claim chart containing at least one claim of the identified patent. ... 08/03/06 - 20060173902 - Integrated development method for ram-lsa-tm Disclosed is an integrated development method for RAM-LSA-TM. The integrated development method for RAM-LSA-TM comprises the steps of: comparing the reference number of identification key information of a first item from a Ram part list table of a RAM calculation module DB and the reference number of a second item ... 08/03/06 - 20060173901 - Methods for merging files and related systems Methods for merging files and related systems. A first file comprising a plurality of columns is provided. Each column comprises at least one data field for a row corresponding to a string identification. It is determined whether the string identification corresponding to the row is in a second file. If ... 08/03/06 - 20060173900 - Systems and methods for managing information A method for managing information is described. The method includes generating a first database in a first memory device, storing, by an administrator via a server system, a plurality of questions in the first database, where the plurality of questions relate to project information, and storing, by the administrator, a ... 08/03/06 - 20060173899 - Efficient transformation of interchange format messages In a computerized system, a sending computer system and recipient computer system exchange an interchange format message in a resource-efficient manner. For example, a transformation writer at the sending computer system selects and transforms only one or few of a plurality of units of the message at the time. The ... 08/03/06 - 20060173898 - Mis-sort verification system and method of use A method or process and system of confirming an ordering of products includes generating a database of product information associated with a plurality of product and comparing the product information of the plurality of product in a sorting pass process to the product information assigned in the database to verify ... 08/03/06 - 20060173897 - Identification of false ambiguous roots in a stack conservative garbage collector Techniques for memory management or analysis with conservative garbage collectors is provided. The native stack is analyzed during runtime to identify within frames references to objects in the heap space. An amount of memory is calculated that represents the memory implicated by the reference. A log can be generated that ... 08/03/06 - 20060173896 - Authentication method and system for distributing items Aspects of the present invention describe a method of introducing items into a distribution network. Before entering items into the distribution network, the item is placed in an identifiable packaging that has an identifier. The identifier associated with the item and packaging is stored in an item identifier database and ... 08/03/06 - 20060173895 - Distributed computing system having hierachical organization A distributed computing system conforms to a multi-level, hierarchical organizational model. One or more control nodes provide for the efficient and automated allocation and management of computing functions and resources within the distributed computing system in accordance with the organization model. The model includes four distinct levels: fabric, domains, tiers ... 08/03/06 - 20060173894 - System and methods for capturing structure of data models using entity patterns A system and method directed to capturing the structure of data models using entity patterns is provided wherein an entity pattern is an abstraction, for example in the MICROSOFT BUSINESS FRAMEWORK® (MBF), that surfaces in the model editor of the framework at the root level and consists of one or ... 08/03/06 - 20060173893 - System and methods for capturing structure of data models using entity patterns A system and method directed to capturing the structure of data models using entity patterns is provided wherein an entity pattern is an abstraction, for example in the MICROSOFT BUSINESS FRAMEWORK®(MBF), that surfaces in the model editor of the framework at the root level and consists of one or more ... 08/03/06 - 20060173892 - User interface based modeling of web services and batch input templates Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for generating a data input template. A system captures data objects and event objects communicated between a client and an application program, stores a copy of the captured objects, and generates a template based on the stored objects. The client interface has a ... 08/03/06 - 20060173891 - Rapid access to parts of an electronic document via gui Methods, systems, and media are disclosed for accessing one or more parts of an electronic document. In one embodiment, the method includes choosing, with a selecting device, the electronic document, and for receiving document utilization information for the electronic document. Further, the method includes displaying, on the computer, the electronic ... 08/03/06 - 20060173890 - Method and data carrier for handling a database In the field of data storage on limited rewritability storage media, handling frequently changing databases may lead to unequal wear of storage segments. The invention discloses a method for modifying a database file, which ensures maximally distributed segment wear in that any writing of data records uses a next available ... 08/03/06 - 20060173889 - Method and system, in addition to computer program comprising program coding elements and computer program product for analyzing user data organized according to a database structure The invention relates to analysis of user data organized according to a database structure, such as customer data or product data in a company. ... 08/03/06 - 20060173888 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program Each program content has a plurality of program states, such as “already recorded”, “not recorded”, “preset for recording”, “not preset for recording”, and “not received” states”. In response to the selection of a related program on a starting-program-related information page, a detailed operation screen for the related program is presented. ... 07/27/06 - 20060167932 - Method for the acceleration of the transmission of logging data in a multi-computer environment and system using this method This invention relates to a method for the transmission of logging data, within a cluster of computers, enabling all or part of the events constituting the running of a user process to be memorized or reproduced. The method applies in particular to the logging data representing the internal events of ... 07/27/06 - 20060167931 - Techniques for knowledge discovery by constructing knowledge correlations using concepts or terms Techniques for identifying knowledge use a graphical user interface for inputting one or more terms to be explored for additional knowledge. Then a search is conducted across one or more sources of information to identify resources containing information about or information associated with said terms. The resources are decomposed into ... 07/27/06 - 20060167930 - Self-organized concept search and data storage method A document search and retrieval system and method stores documents in groups based on content. The documents are self-organized into a hierarchy of conceptual clusters, and branches of the hierarchy are stored separately in distinct physical stores, each having an index. In response to a query, the system finds the ... 07/27/06 - 20060167929 - Method for optimizing archival of xml documents A technique for optimizing the archiving and management of data stored as XML documents is capable of handling mixed data including highly structured data and unstructured data. The technique maps the structured data to a relational database while storing the unstructured data in its native XML format. The data is ... 07/27/06 - 20060167928 - Method for querying xml documents using a weighted navigational index A technique for optimizing the archival and management of data stored as XML documents is capable of handling mixed data including highly structured data and unstructured data. The technique maps the structured data to a relational database while storing the unstructured data in its native XML format. The data is ... 07/27/06 - 20060167927 - Data query and location through a central ontology model A data query system including a first storage medium including a data schema having a data schema query language associated therewith, a second storage medium including an ontology model including classes and properties, the ontology model having an ontology query language associated therewith, wherein constructs of the database schema are ... 07/27/06 - 20060167926 - Vineyard information collection and management system A vineyard information collection and management system is provided. The system allows a variety of information at one or more vineyards to be collected in real time, processed at a central server, and provided to users over the Internet using customizable, easy-to-use forms and pages accessible using a conventional web ... 07/27/06 - 20060167925 - System and method for providing system objects to a database A system and method are presented for providing system code to a variety of databases by using a resource database. The resource database contains pre-created system objects, which have been parsed and organized into a format suitable for execution. These pre-created system objects are capable of logically appearing in the ... 07/27/06 - 20060167924 - Diagrammatic access and arrangement of data Customizable data diagrams are provided by a data diagram software facility. The facility receives a reference to a multidimensional data set on which to base an initial data diagram. Based, at least in part, on this information, the facility generates a data diagram providing a graphical representation of nodes corresponding ... 07/27/06 - 20060167923 - Method and a system for process discovery The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and a method for process discovery. Embodiments of the present invention comprise extracting process data from a data source, creating a trace using the extracted process data, wherein the trace comprises a plurality of events, and detecting a process model using the plurality ... 07/27/06 - 20060167922 - Method and apparatus for managing data object size in a multi-user environment One or more embodiments of the invention enable improved communication with a database comprising multiple clients utilizing multiple large data objects concurrently. For example when a client system interacts with a server with respect to a data object that is over a threshold size, the system may utilizing a communication ... 07/27/06 - 20060167921 - System and method using a distributed lock manager for notification of status changes in cluster processes According to at least one embodiment, a method comprises implementing a distributed lock manager (DLM) within a cluster. The method further comprises using locks of the DLM to manage notification to at least one monitoring cluster process of a change in status of at least one monitored cluster process. ... 07/27/06 - 20060167920 - System and method for managing large-scale databases The present invention provides a database naming convention that enables each and every column name within the database to be unique within the given database; each row to have a unique identification number; and any field of information to be recovered using a single key value. The database naming convention ... 07/20/06 - 20060161581 - 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 ... 07/20/06 - 20060161580 - System and method for processing event predicates Described is a method comprising initializing a first set of bits corresponding to a first plurality of predicate indices to a first value, and initializing a second set of bits corresponding to a second plurality of predicate indices to a second value. A subscription is processed. The subscription includes a ... 07/20/06 - 20060161579 - Data storage and retrieval system with parameterized category definitions for families of categories and dynamically generated search indices A data storage and retrieval system with parameterized category definitions and dynamically generated search indices. A parameterized category definition for a family of categories is obtained consisting of a parameterized predicate, such that parameter values can be provided with a search query to identify information items that match a category ... 07/20/06 - 20060161578 - Method and system for providing annotations of a digital work Methods and systems for receiving and distributing annotations of a digital work include receiving an annotation of the digital work, storing the annotation, and providing the annotation to a user. The user may be required to submit a valid authorization credential for the annotation. Annotations may be textual or graphical, ... 07/20/06 - 20060161577 - Load balancing based on cache content A method, schema, and computer-readable medium provide various means for load balancing computing devices in a multi-server environment. The method, schema, and computer-readable medium for load balancing computing devices in a multi-server environment may be utilized in a networked server environment, implementing a spreadsheet application for manipulating a workbook, for ... 07/20/06 - 20060161576 - Method and apparatus for dimensional data versioning and recovery management A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing data. Responsive to a request for a data element from an application in the virtual machine, the data element is allocated to the application. The data element having a number of dimensions for storing application data for the application. A data structure ... 07/20/06 - 20060161575 - System and method for sequencing xml documents for tree structure indexing Sequence-based XML indexing aims at avoiding expensive join operations in query processing. It transforms structured XML data into sequences so that a structured query can be answered holistically through subsequence matching. Herein, there is addresed the problem of query equivalence with respect to this transformation, and thereis introduced a performance-oriented ... 07/20/06 - 20060161574 - Mechanism for providing efficient access to redundant number representations Disclosed are an apparatus, method, and program product which each provide an enhanced database engine. Access to precise values is provided while permitting unfettered access to those who are not interested in precise values. This is accomplished via an enhanced database index and indexing method. The entries of the database ... 07/20/06 - 20060161573 - Logical record model entity switching 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 ... 07/13/06 - 20060155754 - Playlist driven automated content transmission and delivery system A media content playlist generating system where data derived from detected public performances or purchases of music is stored in a database and users can query the database, where the query result becomes a playlist that causes the music in the playlist to be transmitted or otherwise delivered to the ... 07/13/06 - 20060155753 - Global asynchronous serialized transaction identifier A system for storing and indexing unique computer transactions taken asynchronously across one or more systems such that a complete database of all transactions taken by all member systems can be recreated in a coherent time sequence in each member system. ... 07/13/06 - 20060155752 - System and method for incremental indexing The present system indexes a plurality of entries in a database that contains a database table having a base index. As a recent row is inserted in the database table, an index increment is generated based on the inserted row. Preferably, the index increment is smaller in size than the ... 07/13/06 - 20060155751 - System and method for document analysis, processing and information extraction A method and system for retrieving information in response to an information retrieval request comprises extracting additional information from a first corpus of data elements based on the request. The request is modified based on the additional information to refine the scope of information to be retrieved from a second ... 07/13/06 - 20060155750 - System to generate unpublished corporate data There is provided a method and system to generate corporate data pertaining to a corporate entity. The system includes an interface to communicate, to each of a plurality of users of a data system, a corporate data attribute relating to a corporate entity and a plurality of candidate data attribute ... 07/13/06 - 20060155749 - Template-based development of servers A server instance, which is a collection of LUNs, containing an operating system, any applications and data storage. A processing element is the physical hardware. The combination is a server as normally understood. Templates are used to define server instances and server types to simplify deploying a server instance to ... 07/13/06 - 20060155748 - Use of server instances and processing elements to define a server A server instance, which is a collection of LUNs, containing an operating system, any applications and data storage. A processing element is the physical hardware. The combination is a server as normally understood. Templates are used to define server instances and server types to simplify deploying a server instance to ... 07/13/06 - 20060155747 - Apparatus and method for automating the logging of table changes in a database A system and method for logging changes to a database table are disclosed. The system comprises an administration tool, table metadata, a history table, and a service engine. The administration tool provides an interface through which a DBA, database programmer, or other user can manage the table metadata and the ... 07/13/06 - 20060155746 - Method and system for automatically hiding irrelevant parts of hierarchical structures in computer user interfaces The invention broadly and generally provides, in a computer-controlled display, a method of simplifying a graphical representation of a set of connected nodes comprising the steps of: (a) selecting a subset of the aforesaid set; and (b) under computer program control, hiding representations of all nodes except (i) nodes within ... 07/13/06 - 20060155745 - System and method to implement container managed streams in j2ee environments A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for implementing container managed streams in an enterprise JavaBean™ environment. Uses, ownership, reference relationships between entity beans and sessions are specified in a deployment descriptor file. When an input data stream is received for a batch job, the file is processed and a method ... 07/13/06 - 20060155744 - Method and apparatus for implementing container managed uses, ownerships, and references in an enterprise javabean environment A method, apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for implementing container managed uses, ownerships, and references in an enterprise JavaBean™ environment. A user may specify a uses, ownership, reference relationships between entity beans and sessions in a deployment descriptor file. When the file is processed, the present embodiment generates methods ... 07/13/06 - 20060155743 - Equivalence class-based method and apparatus for cost-based repair of database constraint violations Methods and apparatus are provided for identifying constraint violation repairs in data that is comprised of a plurality of records, where each record has a plurality of cells. A database is processed, based on a plurality of constraints that data in the database must satisfy. At least one constraint violation ... 07/13/06 - 20060155742 - System and method for serializing java objects over shared closures A method is described that involves processing a shared closure by removing, from each non-shareable object in a closure, content that causes each of the non-shareable objects to be non-shareable. The method also involves serializing each of the non-shareable objects by removing the content that causes each of the non-shareable ... 07/13/06 - 20060155741 - Method and apparatus for storing and maintaining structured documents According to some embodiments, a method and apparatus for storing and maintaining structured documents includes identifying a structured document, decomposing the structured document into a plurality of nodes, each of the nodes representing a portion of information of the document, creating, for each of the nodes, a corresponding object, and ... 07/13/06 - 20060155740 - Method, system and program product for locating remote source files Under the present invention, as a user/developer is developing a software program using an IDE, the user can designate a remote source container(s) (e.g., located on a server or the like that is remote from the local computer system) for one or more source files. When a remote source file ... 07/13/06 - 20060155739 - A generic architecture for indexing document groups in an inverted text index A method for indexing a plurality of documents, that includes a plurality of duplicate documents, first identifies one or more duplicate groups of documents from among the plurality of documents. Then, one index of content for the duplicate group is created instead of indexing the content from every document within ... 07/06/06 - 20060149780 - Method for representing the vertical component of road geometry and computing grade or slope A geographic database represents roads including an altitudinal component of the geometry of the roads. The altitudinal component of the geometry of roads is represented using data that indicate straight line segments and vertical curves, in particular parabolic vertical curves. The straight lines and vertical curves are determined by providing ... 07/06/06 - 20060149779 - Method and apparatus for integrating electronic systems A method for integrating electronic systems comprises acquiring a set of business scenarios, the business scenarios relating to the electronic systems to be integrated, executing, for each business scenario, a collaboration analysis, an interaction analysis, and a component selection, and composing a finalised architecture dependent upon the outcome of the ... 07/06/06 - 20060149778 - Computer-implemented system and method for visualizing olap and multidimensional data in a calendar format Computer-implemented systems and methods for displaying multidimensional data as graphical time-based objects. A system and method could include associating actual calendar units with time dimension members. The association can be based on the time periods and the corresponding time-level information in the cube's time dimension hierarchies. Query results involving time ... 07/06/06 - 20060149777 - System and method for enhancing functionality of java checkboxes within a graphical user interface A method is described in which the method visualizes a hierarchical representation of one or more related items and sub-items, wherein at least one of the items has a sub-item that is subservient to the item. The method displays the hierarchical representation in a tree structure, wherein at least one ... 07/06/06 - 20060149776 - Auto-id simulator An auto-identification system is described that includes a plurality of distributed auto-id nodes that are operable to track physical objects as they move through an operation of an enterprise, such as, for example, a supply chain network or a sales network. The auto-id nodes are distributed across sites of the ... 07/06/06 - 20060149775 - Document segmentation based on visual gaps A document may be segmented based on a visual model of the document. The visual model is determined according to an amount of visual white space or gaps that are in the document. In one implementation, the visual model is used to identify a hierarchical structure of the document, which ... 07/06/06 - 20060149774 - Indexing documents according to geographical relevance A local search engine efficiently indexes documents relevant to a geographical area by indexing, for each document, multiple location identifiers that collectively define an aggregate geographic region. When creating the index, the search engine may determine a set of geographical areas surrounding a geographical area relevant to a document and ... 06/29/06 - 20060143222 - Method, program and system for automatic reengineering of a client code A method, program and system for automatic reengineering of an input client code using an API when an API adapter code, is provided for emulating an old version of the API on a new version of the API, wherein the items no more provided in new API are identified, said ... 06/29/06 - 20060143221 - Apparatus and method of producing 3d structural sketch and computer-readable recording medium on which computer program for executing the method is recorded An apparatus and method of producing a three-dimensional structural sketch (3DSS) and a computer-readable recording medium on which a computer program for executing the method is recorded are provided. The apparatus includes a property-detecting unit detecting a unary property of each part of a predetermined two-dimensional sketch and relational properties ... 06/29/06 - 20060143220 - Software application framework using meta-data defined object definitions An application framework for creating business process management software applications. The framework includes a data store including application data and information describing said data for a runtime environment. The information describing the application data includes presentation information and relational information. The framework further includes presentation logic outputting said data based ... 06/29/06 - 20060143219 - Business change lifecycle framework A method, system, and computer program product for determining and implementing business changes is provided. In one embodiment, a set of stages in a business change process that are performed sequentially are defined. Defining a set of elements corresponding to each stage, wherein each element groups a set of related ... 06/29/06 - 20060143218 - Tracking set-expression cardinalities over continuous update streams A method of estimating set-expression cardinalities over data streams with guaranteed small maintenance time per data-element update. The method only examines each data element once and uses a limited amount of memory. The time-efficient stream synopsis extends 2-level hash-sketches by randomly, but uniformly, pre-hashing data-elements prior to logarithmically hashing them ... 06/29/06 - 20060143217 - Session management within a multi-tiered enterprise network A system and method are described in which session objects are organized and managed within a structured hierarchy of session object storage units, referred to herein as “session domains.” The session domains store session objects sharing one or more related characteristics. In one embodiment, a separate hierarchy of session domains ... 06/29/06 - 20060143216 - Method and system for integrating multimodal interpretations A method and a system for integrating multimodal interpretations (MMIs) in user inputs to a data processing system (100) are provided. The method includes generating (603) a set of MMIs, based on the user inputs collected during a turn. The set of MMIs includes at least semantic relationship function, the ... 06/29/06 - 20060143215 - Volume visualization using tissue mix A method of constructing an object data set of data elements representing a physical property is described, in which the construction of the object data set includes assigning attributes to respective data elements. Such attributes are used, for example, in volume rendering. The construction of the object data set is ... 06/22/06 - 20060136488 - Image forming system, image forming apparatus, information processing apparatus, and recording medium having recorded control program An MFP includes a scanner portion; a printing portion, a workflow storage portion that stores workflows, a workflow selection portion that enables a user to select a workflow, a workflow execution control portion that controls the MFP or an PC to execute operations written in the selected workflow, and an ... 06/22/06 - 20060136487 - Clustering apparatus and method for content delivery system by content classification A clustering apparatus and method for content delivery system are provided. The clustering apparatus includes: a local server for performing operations as a dedicated server providing a stream service by being connected to a cluster; and a file management server for storing original contents. ... 06/22/06 - 20060136486 - Method, system and program for enabling resonance in communications A method, computer program product, and system for collecting and processing feedback information in organizational communications. The system includes an information processing apparatus, a communications mechanism, a database, and a mechanism for collecting data. The communications mechanism operates with the information processing apparatus for providing communications to a user of ... 06/22/06 - 20060136485 - Dynamic selection or modification of data management patterns Systems and methods are presented that enable the dynamic selection or modification of data management patterns (such as for caching or updating data). A deployment document describes how to manage data used by the application, including which caching patterns (and parameters) and which updating patterns should be used. In this ... 06/22/06 - 20060136484 - Urgent replication facility A system and method for expediting the replication of at least one specified object to a replica in a distributed computer system. A source object of a source replica determines that it has an urgent change to propagate through the distributed system, and informs a replication facility at the source ... 06/22/06 - 20060136483 - System and method of decomposition of multiple items into the same table-column pair A system and computer-based method is provided for decomposing and storing content of 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 and associates a rowset to each such item and ... 06/22/06 - 20060136482 - Defining and generating a viewtype for a base model Disclosed is a technique for processing a base model. The base model is received. Then, the base model is used to create a ViewType comprising a ViewType object, one or more ViewList objects corresponding to classes in the base model, and one or more ViewElem objects corresponding to attributes in ... 06/22/06 - 20060136481 - Simplified validity range selection In one embodiment, the invention is a method. The method includes receiving a validity statement including a range and an identifier from a user interface. The method further includes determining the identifier indicates a validity range statement. The method also includes looking up the range of the validity statement in ... 06/22/06 - 20060136480 - Method for generating a choose tree for a range partitioned database table A choose tree is generated at compile time to facilitate a determination if any partition of a range partitioned database table includes a particular key at runtime. To generate the choose tree at compile time, a query compiler receives a source code indicative of each partition of the range partitioned ... 06/22/06 - 20060136479 - Secured views for a crm database The claims of the present application recite a method and system for accessing information in an otherwise inaccessible application database of a DBMS using view definitions that implement a security protocol. ... 06/22/06 - 20060136478 - Dynamic document icons A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for generating visualizations (e.g., icons) suitable for a specific display. In one embodiment, the method comprises selecting a group of document images having similar layout features suitable for visualization or a specific display from the plurality of document images based on layout analysis ... 06/22/06 - 20060136477 - Management and use of data in a computer-generated document Methods and systems provide for breaking a computer-generated document into a number of components where the components have explicit relationships with each other. A relationship representation is generated for the components of the document. A user may then navigate the relationships between the components to quickly understand the nature of ... 06/22/06 - 20060136476 - Method and computer-readable medium for loading the contents of a data file A method and computer-readable medium are provided for loading the contents of an electronic data file. According to the method, corrupted portions of a data file are identified and an attempt is made to repair these portions. If the corrupted portions cannot be repaired, the loading of these portions is ... 06/22/06 - 20060136475 - Secure data transfer apparatus, systems, and methods Apparatus and systems, as well as methods and articles, may operate to store a data field in a data file, wherein the data field is associated with one or more data packets received at a node on a first network, and to transfer the data file between the node on ... 06/22/06 - 20060136474 - Customer service automatic answering system and method A customer service automatic answering system and method aims to receive question contents entered by users, access the keywords of the question contents, search targeted topic contents in an answer database that match the keywords, and send answering data corresponding to the targeted topic contents to the network user for ... 06/22/06 - 20060136473 - Service data organization Embodiments are provided for maintaining service related data. One computing device embodiment includes a processor, memory in communication with the processor, and computer executable instructions. The computer executable instructions can execute to provide a virtual service data organization interface that can be used to update service data located in a ... 06/22/06 - 20060136472 - Achieving cache consistency while allowing concurrent changes to metadata A method and system for supporting a concurrent recordation of a change in a data file by a server while allowing an application to continue writing changes to a data file. In response to a change in a data file, a near-instantaneous version of the file is created. Metadata reflecting ... 06/22/06 - 20060136471 - Differential management of database schema changes A data processing system-implemented method, system and article of manufacture for differential schema migration. A differential schema migration system can include a schema extractor configured both to extract a contemporary schema and corresponding contemporary data from a first connected database and also to generate an intermediately formatted form of the ... 06/22/06 - 20060136470 - Field-to-field join constraints Embodiments of the present invention generally provide methods systems and articles of manufacture for query processing and for constructing a database abstraction model over an underlying physical database. The database abstraction model allows users to compose an abstract query using a logical view of data, instead of using the view ... 06/22/06 - 20060136469 - Creating a logical table from multiple differently formatted physical tables having different access methods Embodiments of the present invention provide methods for constructing a database abstraction model that includes logical fields that map to a logical table. The logical table is constructed using data extracted from multiple, differently formatted physical tables. The logical table allows logically related data stored in multiple databases to appear ... 06/22/06 - 20060136468 - Fast tree-based generation of a dependence graph A dependence graph having a linear number of edges and one or more tie vertices is generated by constructing a tree of nodes, receiving requests to create cut and/or fan vertices corresponding to each node, adjusting a frontier of nodes up or down, and creating one or more cut or ... 06/22/06 - 20060136467 - Domain-specific data entity mapping method and system A technique is described for performing domain-specific analysis, structuring, mapping and classification of data entities, such as text document, images, audio data, waveform data, and so forth. A domain definition is established that includes a plurality of classification axes and labels for each axis. Data entities are accessed that potentially ... 06/22/06 - 20060136466 - Computer assisted domain specific entity mapping method and system A technique for identifying, analyzing, structuring, mapping and classifying data entities is disclosed. A conceptual framework is established by a domain definition having an association list of attributes of interest. Data entities are accessed, analyzed, structured if appropriate, mapped and classified in accordance with the association list and attributes found ... 06/22/06 - 20060136465 - Cascade feature for creating records in a database Techniques for providing a “cascade create” mechanism which allows data to be entered in related non-existing records in the database are disclosed. The techniques can be used to provide a database program that supports graphical, bi-directional data relationships, as well as multiple predicates. The “cascade create” mechanism supports arbitrary data ... 06/22/06 - 20060136464 - System and method for object persistence Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to a system and method for object persistence. In an embodiment, a proxy object is created based, at least in part, on object metadata stored in an internal data store of a persistence manager. The persistence manager may receive a request to access ... 06/22/06 - 20060136463 - System and method for composition of mappings given by dependencies A system that facilitates composition of schema mappings. A general algorithm is provided for composing a broad class of mappings, where one or both mappings are not functions, such as constraints between two schemas and the inverse of functions. A composition component performs composition on schema mappings of disparate data ... 06/22/06 - 20060136462 - Data-centric automatic data mining A data-centric data mining technique provides greater ease of use and flexibility, yet provides high quality data mining results by providing general methodologies for automatic data mining. A methodology for each major type of mining function is provided, including: supervised modeling (classification and regression), feature selection, and ranking, clustering, outlier ... 06/22/06 - 20060136461 - Method and system for data quality management A method for data quality management may include collecting data related to a project. The method may also include generating a predetermined representation of the data and implementing or performing an improvement related to the project in response to the representation of the data indicating a trend toward not meeting ... 06/15/06 - 20060129598 - Method of splitting a multi-dimensional cube between a multi-dimensional and a relational database A method of operating a multi-dimensional database is disclosed. In this method, a multi-dimensional portion of the data is transferred to a multi-dimensional database. A relational portion of the cube is kept in the relational database. When data from the relational portion needs to be accessed, the system produces the ... 06/15/06 - 20060129597 - Systems and methods for proactive caching utilizing olap variants The present invention leverages MOLAP performance for ROLAP objects (dimensions, partitions and aggregations) by building, in a background process, a MOLAP equivalent of that object. When the background processing completes, queries are switched from ROLAP queries to MOLAP queries. When changes occur to relevant relational objects (such as tables that ... 06/15/06 - 20060129596 - System for annotating a data object by creating an interface based on a selected annotation structure A method and apparatus for capturing annotations about database material in a way that allows queries with conditions or predicates on both the database material and the annotations. Database material may be text, computer programs, graphics, audio, spreadsheets, or any other material which may be stored and indexed. Database material ... 06/15/06 - 20060129595 - Method for analyzing and ranking data ranges in an n-dimensional space A method and computer-readable medium for analyzing a set of two or more data ranges comprising the steps of selecting a first data range from the set, selecting at least one additional data range from the set, analyzing the relationship between the first data range and the at least one ... 06/15/06 - 20060129594 - Computer-implemented method for management of electronic data A computer-implemented method for management of electronic data, comprises the steps: Writing of a data record into a first database (50), checking of the unchanged contents of this one data record on at least one predetermined condition and writing of the one data record into a second database (52) dependent ... 06/15/06 - 20060129593 - Computerized system and method for creating aggregate profile reports regarding litigants, attorneys, law firms, judges, and cases by type and by court from court docket records Computerized method for aggregating relevant information from court records and presenting such information in electronic reports including tables and charts. There are five types of reports that focus on cases filed by Litigant, Attorney or Law Firm, Judge, Court, and Nature of Suit. A History option also is provided, in ... 06/15/06 - 20060129592 - Actionable email documents A received reply email document enables some action to be effectuated using data included in the email document responsive to field identifiers associated with the data and corresponding to fields of metadata. The associated field identifiers that correspond to known fields of the metadata provide some expectation as to the ... 06/15/06 - 20060129591 - Semantic authoring, runtime and training environment A system for developing semantic schema for natural language processing has a semantic runtime engine and a semantic authoring tool. The semantic runtime engine is adapted to map a natural language input to a semantic schema and to return the mapped results to an application domain. The semantic authoring tool ... 06/15/06 - 20060129590 - Method and medium for managing data The present invention allows a user to create an application to manage a database without writing code. The present invention includes a method of creating a database, creating configuration data relating to the data in the database and generating a user interface based on the configuration data to allow a ... 06/15/06 - 20060129589 - System and method of securing computer-readable media Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with securing a computer-readable medium are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes receiving a user supplied command to secure a computer-readable medium having at least one data structure including data and a directory identifying data locations within the data structure, and securing the ... 06/15/06 - 20060129588 - System and method for organizing data with a write-once index According to the present invention, there is provided a system for organizing data objects for fast retrieval. The system includes at least one data storage medium defining data sectors. In addition, the system includes at least one data object on the data storage medium. Also, the system includes at least ... 06/15/06 - 20060129587 - Method and system for automated risk management of rule-based security A method for automated risk management may include presenting a rule request graphical user interface (GUI) for a requester to enter information related to a rule request for a rule. The method may also include determining a risk rating score for the rule based on information entered in the rule ... 06/08/06 - 20060123046 - System and method for unknown type serialization A method of serializing and deserializing unknown data types in a strongly typed model. The method includes serializing an object to a data stream at first node and communicating the data stream to a second node. The second node may be another process, machine or a file on a disk. ... 06/08/06 - 20060123045 - Natural language expression in response to a query Methods and apparatus, including computer products, for generating a natural language expression in response to a query. A computer-implemented method of generating a natural language expression in response to a query, includes generating a text frame from the query, and processing the text frame in conjunction with a grammar and ... 06/08/06 - 20060123044 - User interface device, printing device, and selective display method A multifunction printer 10 comprises a reader/writer 16 connected readably/writably with a memory card 18 and an ink-jet printer mechanism 31. The memory card 18 stores a manifest as a control file including metadata. The manifest includes: link information to another manifest; album information capable of specifying an album as ... 06/08/06 - 20060123043 - File system path processing device and method A file system path processing device and a method thereof are provided. Particularly, a file system path processing device and a method which enable directories or files to be easily searched for from where they are located are provided. The device includes a user input unit that receives a path ... 06/08/06 - 20060123042 - Block importance analysis to enhance browsing of web page search results Systems and methods for block importance analysis to enhance browsing of web page search results are described. In one aspect, a server analyzes content of a document as a function of multiple block importance criteria. The server assigns a respective block importance level of multiple importance levels to respective block(s) ... 06/08/06 - 20060123041 - Mode based action invocation through tag scanning The invention provides seamless activation of a mobile terminal-integrated short-range communication reader along with activation and execution of an application required to further process the information read from a tag. In this regard, the user of the mobile terminal can intuitively control the applications/operations that will be triggered in connection ... 06/08/06 - 20060123040 - Algorithm for automated enterprise deployments A method of automating the deployment of a number of enterprise applications on one or more computer data processing systems. Each enterprise application or update is stored in a dynamic distribution directory and is provided with identifying indicia, such as stage information, target information, and settings information. When automated enterprise ... 06/08/06 - 20060123039 - Method for providing a pluggable custom data binding system The present invention is directed to a pluggable custom data binding system and method utilizing a generic data structure exchanged between a run-time system and a user define binding logic in Web Service Applications. The custom data binding system may replace the existing mappings for XML schema types. The custom ... 06/01/06 - 20060117059 - System and method for monitoring and managing performance and availability data from multiple data providers using a plurality of executable decision trees to consolidate, correlate, and diagnose said data The invention monitors and manages performance and availability data from multiple data providers. A set of executable hierarchical decision trees is used. Each tree has an anchor data node that, if matched to an incoming data point, will trigger the execution of the decision tree. Each tree has lower level ... 06/01/06 - 20060117058 - Method and apparatus for ingress filtering using security group information A method and apparatus for ingress filtering using security group information are disclosed. The method includes performing access control processing on a packet and sending access control information to an ingress node of the packet in response to the access control processing. The access control information includes security group information ... 06/01/06 - 20060117057 - Automated relational schema generation within a multidimensional enterprise software system Techniques are described for publishing multidimensional data from an enterprise software system. A relational database schema is automatically created for storing the multidimensional data. The database schema may be a relational star schema as described herein. The techniques may include processes for automatically producing the database schema based on the ... 06/01/06 - 20060117056 - Method and system of detecting file system namespace changes and restoring consistency Method and system for maintaining namespace consistency between selected objects maintained by a file system and a filter associated therewith. Metadata regarding selected objects of a file system is maintained by a filter while the filter is attached to the file system and persisted in non-volatile storage. The namespace of ... 06/01/06 - 20060117055 - Client-based web server application verification and testing system A client-based web server application verification and testing system that requires no technical training, yet provides effective and efficient automated testing. The invention facilitates the rapid generation of test cases for a web site, and the automated execution of those test cases via distributed computing. The transitions through a web ... 06/01/06 - 20060117054 - Frame mapping scheduler with compressed mapping table A network processor or other processing device of a communication system includes scheduling circuitry configured to schedule data blocks for transmission from a plurality of users or other transmission elements in timeslots of a frame. The scheduling circuitry utilizes a mapping table. The mapping table comprises at least one entry ... 06/01/06 - 20060117053 - Data processing apparatus and data processing method, and computer program This invention efficiently implements encoding processes corresponding to respective image processing functions while minimizing the memory use size in the apparatus in an image processing apparatus having many image processing functions. A data processing apparatus of this invention includes a data reception unit for receiving at least data of a ... 05/25/06 - 20060112136 - Method and apparatus for managing data transfer in a computer memory The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for managing data transfer in a computer memory in which during the transfer of data from an application buffer to a network socket, memory usage faults are reduced. ... 05/25/06 - 20060112135 - Real-time database performance and availability change root cause analysis method and system Root cause analysis of changes impacting database performance, availability and continuity to the underlying business may be performed. A system for doing so may include analytical and visual comparison root cause analysis engines to identify changed database performance statistical parameters (such as CPU consumption, physical I/O, etc) related to a ... 05/25/06 - 20060112134 - Expression detecting system, an expression detecting method and a program A system, method, and program product to correctly detect a preference expression indicating persons' likes and dislikes of a commercial product or the like. Specifically, the expression detecting system for detecting preference expressions indicating evaluators' likes and dislikes of a specific object from texts describing evaluation of the specific object, ... 05/25/06 - 20060112133 - System and method for creating and maintaining data records to improve accuracy thereof In one example, a system receives, from different sources, data having various formats, the received data is selected and combined in accordance with the invention to create accurate records. Specifically, the inventive system organizes the received data into uniform data records having a predetermined format. The data in the uniform ... 05/25/06 - 20060112132 - Methods, systems and computer readable media for providing customized works The present invention provides systems and methods for generating, providing and distributing works. In an embodiment, a work may be customized or personalized using information relating to an individual to provide an enhanced educational, entertainment, or other experience for the profiled individual. The present invention also provides works comprising a ... 05/25/06 - 20060112131 - Story rewriting system A method of generating multiple related stories for an internet web site or web sites is disclosed. The method provides a computer having a display screen, a mouse, and internet access. Unique permutations of a story can be generated based on an input text that is displayed on the display ... 05/25/06 - 20060112130 - System and method for resource management A system and method that standardizes, automates, and facilitates the process of identifying, evaluating, selecting, and managing product and service resources for both individual and business resource users within specific industries. In one embodiment, this resource management system includes a web-based or other computer server with at least one database ... 05/25/06 - 20060112129 - Attributed relationship modeling with perspective A method of describing in a computer an entity is disclosed. The method may have the steps of storing data related to the entity, allowing a relationship to be assigned to the entity, assigning attributes to the relationship, assigning a perspective to the relationship wherein the perspective filters the attributes ... 05/25/06 - 20060112128 - Methods, apparatus, and program products for performing incremental probabilitstic latent semantic analysis One aspect of the invention is that of efficiently and incrementally adding new terms to an already trained probabilistic latent semantic analysis (PLSA) model. ... 05/25/06 - 20060112127 - Method for efficiently mapping error messages to unique identifiers A method and computer product for mapping an error message to an identifier to enable error reporting is provided. An error message hash vector is associated with a resource ID and a resource module. When an error message is displayed, substrings of text in the message are hashed and matched ... 05/25/06 - 20060112126 - Automatic screen pop showing troubleshooting information A method for efficiently and conveniently providing a remote troubleshooting service, in which a screen window automatically pops up, in response to an incoming call reporting a problem encountered at a client computer, to show the information that is helpful in solving the problem. The calling number or network address ... 05/18/06 - 20060106862 - Systems and methods for dynamically adjusting a taxonomy used to categorize digital assets 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 - 20060106861 - Dynamic generation of formatted user interfaces in software environments Methods and systems for selecting multiple entities of a model or models to set or change data of the multiple entities together in a modeling environment are disclosed. When users create or edit a model or models, information on the entities of the model or models is provided to the ... 05/18/06 - 20060106860 - Method and apparatus for building index of source data An online index building operation is disclosed for building an index from source data with minimal loss of availability to the source data. The source data can be maintained in a relational database system, such as in a tablespace of a DB2® environment. The disclosed operation creates a consistent image ... 05/18/06 - 20060106859 - Accelerated system and methods for synchronizing, managing and publishing business information Embodiments of the invention provide an accelerated system and methods for gathering business information, augmenting that information to conform to requirements for sharing the information and for synchronizing, managing and publishing the information across the supply chain. Through use of a control module business information is gathered from a variety ... 05/18/06 - 20060106858 - Methods and systems for server side form processing Various embodiments can efficiently utilize form server resources by, in at least some embodiments, acting only on one tree during the form editing process. Various embodiments can act on a form's data and not necessarily a representation of the form's view. The described embodiments can support various different presentation formats. ... 05/18/06 - 20060106857 - Method and system for assured document retention Embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and method of providing computer archive system accountability. In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, the system and method may comprise receiving a plurality of documents and assigning document IDs to the plurality of documents, each of the document ... 05/18/06 - 20060106856 - Method and system for dynamic transform and load of data from a data source defined by metadata into a data store defined by metadata Provided is a method for dynamic transform and load of data from a data source defined by metadata into a data store defined by metadata. A business rule set is created (116) based on (a) a business rule template definition, (b) metadata defining at least a portion of data of ... 05/18/06 - 20060106855 - Reusable row indices table A method and article of manufacture for managing uniquely indexed segments (304) within a table (302) on a computer system. A segment incarnation number (308) indicates the current status of the segment and the number of times the segment (304) has been added to the table (302). A nextincarnation number ... 05/18/06 - 20060106854 - System and method for automatically including supplemental information in reminder messages A system for adding supplemental information to a reminder message to assist an actor comprises a database comprising supplemental information items related to reminders and a reminder module. The reminder module is adapted to determine that a reminder situation exists for which a reminder prompt is appropriate, determine whether to ... 05/18/06 - 20060106853 - Allocation and scaling of descriptor lists. A system for managing descriptor lists, the system including a plurality of descriptor lists, and a descriptor list manager operative to chain any of the descriptor lists by configuring at least one entry in at least a first one of the descriptor lists to indicate the location of a second ... 05/11/06 - 20060101066 - Methods and systems for creating a virtual work environment within which to develop ideas and perform intellectual work A system for facilitating engagement of one or more subscribers, the system including a subscriber module that is adapted to communicate with a data store by way of a network. The subscriber module is adapted to enable one or more subscribers to link a first document and a second document ... 05/11/06 - 20060101065 - Feature-vector generation apparatus, search apparatus, feature-vector generation method, search method and program A feature-vector generation apparatus includes an input unit configured to input content data including at least one of video data and audio data, a generation unit configured to generate a feature vector, based on information indicating a time at which a characterizing state of the content data appears, the characterizing ... 05/11/06 - 20060101064 - Method and apparatus for a file sharing and synchronization system A computer-implemented method is provided for managing and sharing picture files. In one embodiment of the present invention, the method comprises providing a server platform and providing a datastore on the server platform for maintaining full resolution copies of the files shared between a plurality of sharing clients. A synchronization ... 05/11/06 - 20060101063 - Method for the collection and analysis of medical data A method of collecting and storing electronic medical data for analysis has been developed. The method includes intercepting medical billing information in an electronic format that is being electronically transmitted to a billing recipient; extracting identified medical data from the medical billing information; securely transmitting the medical billing information on ... 05/11/06 - 20060101062 - Distributed system with asynchronous execution systems and methods Systems and methods are provided for reducing latency in distributed systems by executing commands as sufficient information and system resources become available. In one embodiment, commands in a transaction include dependency information and an execution engine is configured to execute the commands as the dependencies become satisfied. In some embodiments, ... 05/11/06 - 20060101061 - Storage medium storing audio-visual data including metadata, reproducing apparatus, and method of searching for audio-visual data using the metadata A reproducing apparatus for reproducing audio-visual data stored in a storage medium includes a storage unit which stores metadata used to search for desired audio-visual data in the audio-visual data stored in the storage medium, and a search unit which searches for the desired audio-visual data using the metadata stored ... 05/11/06 - 20060101060 - Similarity search system with compact data structures A content-addressable and searchable storage system for managing and exploring massive amounts of feature-rich data such as images, audio or scientific data, is shown. The system comprises a segmentation and feature extraction unit for segmenting data corresponding to an object into a plurality of data segments and generating a feature ... 05/11/06 - 20060101059 - Employment method, an employment management system and an employment program for business system A business system on the Web base having a plurality of system apparatuses and software components aims at reducing a load on configuration works and employment works of the business system. In an employment management system for the business system having a plurality of system apparatuses, a storage device stores ... 05/11/06 - 20060101058 - System and method for transforming legacy documents into xml documents A method for converting a legacy document into an XML document, includes decomposing the conversion process into a plurality of individual conversion tasks. A legacy document is decomposed into a plurality of document portions. A target XML schema including a plurality of schema components is provided. Local schema are generated ... 05/11/06 - 20060101057 - Information system An information system, comprising a workstation, a database, and connection means for providing access to the database from the workstation. The data-base comprises a plurality of predefined attributes arranged into a predefined hierarchical order, each attribute corresponding to an assessable factor. The connection means are configured to receive from a ... 05/11/06 - 20060101056 - Methods and apparatus for performing structural joins for answering containment queries Techniques are provided for performing structural joins for answering containment queries. Such inventive techniques may be used to perform efficient structural joins of two interval lists which are neither sorted nor pre-indexed. For example, in an illustrative aspect of the invention, a technique for performing structural joins of two element ... 05/11/06 - 20060101055 - Interactive 3-dimensional object-oriented database information storage/retrieval system An interactive 3-dimensional object-oriented database patient specific information storage system includes an input device, a database containing 3-dimensional meshes of objects each with an object identifier and a symptom list with each symptom having associated ones of the object identifiers of the 3-dimensional meshes of objects. An interface connected to ... 05/11/06 - 20060101054 - System for distributed information presentation and interaction A system for distributed information processing and interaction includes a plurality of output devices arranged to produce a respective output portion of a system output, a plurality of application processors and a state server in data communication with the plurality of application processors. Each respective output portion is defined by ... 05/11/06 - 20060101053 - System and method for associating software programs with data files within a computer network The present invention teaches a computer implemented method for associating one or more computer software applications with one or more computer data files on a computer system comprising the acts of: providing a computer system, wherein the computer system includes at least one permanent storage device containing at least a ... 05/11/06 - 20060101052 - Method and system for sequencing and scheduling A method and system as well as a computer program product for generating an optimized production sequence and schedule is provided. The method includes generation of a job object, a constraint object, a slot object and a parameters object that are used to generate the optimized production sequence and schedule. ... 05/11/06 - 20060101051 - Electronic data capture and verification Apparatus for automatically building an electronic form for presentation to a user during a data capture process segregates the data capture intent behind the form from the presentation and execution of the form to a data capture user. In this way, the data capture process, including generation of the form ... 05/04/06 - 20060095465 - Use of a metadata presort file to sort compressed audio files A media system is disclosed which presorts media files thereby alleviating a media player from having to actively sort the files in real time. The system creates and uses presort information with the media files. The presort information contains one or more fists of the media files previously presorted according ... 05/04/06 - 20060095464 - Use of a metadata presort file to sort compressed audio files A media system is disclosed which presorts media files thereby alleviating a media player from having to actively sort the files in real time. The system creates and uses presort information with the media files. The presort information contains one or more lists of the media files previously presorted according ... 05/04/06 - 20060095463 - Information processing apparatus A reproducing apparatus comprises: a read unit for reading an information data file storing information data and an index file relating to the information data file, from a recording medium; a communication unit for transmitting the data file read by the read unit to an external apparatus for processing the ... 05/04/06 - 20060095462 - Method, system and program for constructing a database Configuration adjustment processing receives database configuration information and parameter adjustment policy information from an application. When database configuration information received from another application exists in DBMS, the configuration adjustment processing reads in the database configuration information and makes adjustment of the inputted database configuration information and the existing database configuration ... 05/04/06 - 20060095461 - System and method for monitoring a computer environment A system and method are provided for monitoring a computer environment using a customized visual display. The method includes the operation of loading a computer environment diagram having graphic elements representing logical units of the computer environment. The graphic elements can be defined by a user of the computer environment. ... 05/04/06 - 20060095460 - Systems and methods for efficiently clustering objects based on access patterns Techniques for efficiently clustering objects based on access patterns are provided. For example, in an illustrative aspect of the invention, a technique for clustering a plurality of objects based on access patterns comprises the following steps/operations. A first group of sets is created in which at least one set includes ... 05/04/06 - 20060095459 - Publishing domain name related reputation in whois records The invention describes a method for publishing domain name related reputation data in WHOIS records. Reputation data may be published in the WHOIS records of the domain name. Reputation data may include values, ratings, or scores, as well as links or references to the locations where such values, ratings, or ... 05/04/06 - 20060095458 - Multi-level nested open hashed data stores A method for storing data. A method for storing data comprising arranging a plurality of data buckets in a logical inverted tree structure having a plurality of levels; and performing nested hashing at each level of the plurality of levels. ... 05/04/06 - 20060095457 - Interactive tool for knowledge-based support of planning under uncertainty A planning tool provides support in planning, decision making and process management under conditions of uncertainty by combining a plan generating tool for manipulating and displaying a visual representation of a plurality of schedule elements along a time line with a domain-specific knowledge database that enables determination of quantitative and ... 04/27/06 - 20060089947 - System and method for dynamically evaluating latent concepts in unstructured documents A system and method for dynamically evaluating latent concepts in unstructured documents is disclosed. A multiplicity of concepts are extracted from a set of unstructured documents into a lexicon. The lexicon uniquely identifies each concept and a frequency of occurrence. A frequency of occurrence representation is created for the documents ... 04/27/06 - 20060089946 - System and method for managing information for a plurality of computer systems in a distributed network A system for managing computers in a distributed computer network includes a collection agent for each computer being monitored, a local database coupled to each collection agent, one or more condensing agents coupled to the databases, and at least one console module. The condensing agent generates an index table from ... 04/27/06 - 20060089945 - System and method for providing a relational application domain model This disclosure provides a system and method for providing a relational application domain model. In one embodiment, the system is operable to or includes software that is operable to receive a structured query language (SQL) query for one or more services by at least a first of a plurality of ... 04/27/06 - 20060089944 - Automated content posting process A method for automating the posting of content to an online service provider which includes configuring an email account to which content is posted, receiving an email from a user containing content via a predefined email address, determining a user account based upon information contained within the email, and posting ... 04/27/06 - 20060089943 - Computer system and process for aiding in an outsourcing environment A method for utilizing an enterprise description language for describing outsourcing arrangements is disclosed. Also disclosed is an exemplary enterprise description language for implementing embodiments of the present invention. This Abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an Abstract that allows a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain ... 04/27/06 - 20060089942 - Whitespace keywords The present invention provides a system and/or method that facilitates expanding keywords within an existing computer programming language by employing a whitespace keyword containing embedded whitespace. A whitespace component can receive code, and create a whitespace keyword based at least upon a successive comparison of adjacent tokens. The whitespace component ... 04/27/06 - 20060089941 - Data source objects for producing collections of data items Described are data source objects, which provide data from a resource to an application program, such as a data collection for binding to user interface elements. A data source that matches a resource type is specified by an application program, such as via markup language (e.g., XAML). At runtime, a ... 04/20/06 - 20060085474 - Image storage apparatus and program therefor An image storage apparatus includes: storage means; selection means for selecting a folder in the storage means; and file operation means, for, in accordance with the selected folder, displaying indexes for files or folders subordinate to the selected folder, either in a first mode, for displaying indexes for files or ... 04/20/06 - 20060085473 - Method and system for business process super-transaction Embodiments of the present invention relate to a process-oriented extendable “super-transaction” able to handle multiple business objects in an integrated manner. The embodiments may comprise computer-executable instructions to build objects associated with a business process, and to link the objects using pointers. The linkages enable multiple objects of a business ... 04/20/06 - 20060085472 - Device administrative system and administrative server A device administrative system includes a plurality of devices-to-be-administrated, at least one collecting server, an administrative server storing administrative information of the plurality of devices-to-be-administrated, and a user terminal for browsing the administrative information stored in the administrative server. A communication route for transmitting the administrative information between each of ... 04/20/06 - 20060085471 - System and method for reclaiming unused space from a thinly provisioned data container A system and method for reclaims unused space from a thinly provision data container served by a storage system. A host-side agent detects blocks of the data container that may be freed and sends a novel Punch Hole command to the storage system associated with the data container. The storage ... 04/20/06 - 20060085470 - Database record templates A method of creating an electronic database record includes receiving input from a user in a computer system to create an electronic database record; determining, upon receiving the input, a template to be used in populating the electronic database record from among several templates; and creating the electronic database record ... 04/20/06 - 20060085469 - System and method for rules based content mining, analysis and implementation of consequences A system, and corresponding methods are disclosed for automated rule based content mining, analysis, and implementation of consequences to input data. The methods for automated rule based content mining, analysis and implementation of consequences to the input data include (1) providing a user interface capable of receiving user information, including ... 04/13/06 - 20060080353 - Directory aggregation for files distributed over a plurality of servers in a switched file system A file switch, logically positioned between client computers and file servers in a computer network, distributes user files among multiple file servers using an aggregated directory mechanism. A hierarchical directory structure is created on the file servers and used to store metadata files, which store metadata for each user file ... 04/13/06 - 20060080352 - System and method for bridging identities in a service oriented architecture A system for bridging user identities between at least a first and a second security domain, comprising a bridge associated with the first security domain for intercepting messages for service in the second domain from users in the first domain. The bridge authenticates the user identities against a local authentication ... 04/13/06 - 20060080351 - Super distribution of midlet suites A MIDlet Suite comprising one or more encrypted installation files is determined at a sending terminal device. A distribution description file comprising Super Distribution identification information for the MIDlet Suite is generated. A non-encrypted distribution archive file comprising the distribution description file and the MIDlet Suite is generated. The distribution ... 04/13/06 - 20060080350 - Allocation of file storage based on pattern recognition In one embodiment, a method and system for allocating storage space in a storage medium for storing data in a file from at least one application running in an information system is provided. The method and system includes monitoring at least one characteristic of a plurality of data storage operations ... 04/13/06 - 20060080349 - Virtual beverage bar design and analysis system A system, method and computer program product for planning an arrangement of beverage equipment on a virtual surface or counter. The system allows a user to create a virtual surface of chosen dimension (32) and then select one or more beverage machines (36) to place on that surface while verifying ... 04/06/06 - 20060074973 - Managing media objects in a database A method and apparatus are provided for organizing media objects in a database using contextual information for a media object and known media objects, categories, indexes and searches, to arrive at an inference for cataloging the media object in a database. The media object may then be cataloged in the ... 04/06/06 - 20060074972 - Method for increasing data processing efficiency Disclosed is a method for improving data processing efficiency including the following steps: 1) assigning each client browse window a corresponding memory block in the server, taking the amount of data to be displayed in a browse window as a data block, and saving temporarily in each memory block the ... 04/06/06 - 20060074971 - Method and system for formatting and indexing data According to one embodiment, a method for formatting and indexing data includes selecting an input data string associated with a data entry. The input data string is of a first format associated with a first numeral system. The input data string is converted to a second format to create an ... 04/06/06 - 20060074970 - Predicting database system performance A prediction system may perform capacity planning for one or more resources of a database systems, such as by understanding how different workloads are using the system resources and/or predicting how the performance of the workloads will change when the hardware configuration of the resource is changed and/or when the ... 04/06/06 - 20060074969 - Workflow interaction Systems and methods enabling interaction with a workflow governing an electronic file are described. One of these systems or methods presents a dynamically updatable user interface for interacting with a workflow of an electronic file along with the data of the electronic file. ... 04/06/06 - 20060074968 - Electronic content distribution management methods and systems Methods and systems for managing electronic content distribution are provided. Transmission of electronic content on a communication link responsive to a request received from a communication device may be precluded by the transmission of other electronic content, due to bandwidth limitations on the communication link, for example. An electronic content ... 04/06/06 - 20060074967 - Visual query modeling for configurable patterns Methods, systems, and computer program products, implementing techniques for visual query modeling. In one aspect, the techniques include displaying in a web browser a visual model of a database, the visual model including one or more graphical objects representing one or more tables in the database and relations between the ... 04/06/06 - 20060074966 - Programme survey system, arrangement and method Programme survey system, arrangement and method are disclosed. The system includes three interfaces: a first interface receiving programme information on a broadcast programme delivered to a receiver over a programme broadcasting channel, a second interface receiving programme-associated data information on broadcast-programme-associated data delivered to the receiver over a data channel, ... 04/06/06 - 20060074965 - Optimized constraint and index maintenance for non updating updates Database management systems allow modification of existing table rows through update statements or other data modification commands. For example, a user may specify, via a command statement, the table to update, the columns to modify and their respective new value(s), and qualify the rows to be updated. Optimized constraint and ... 04/06/06 - 20060074964 - Index processing According to some embodiments, a technique of processing an index comprises receiving a portion of an index, wherein the index is associated with an identifier; determining whether the identifier is stored; and storing the received portion of the index in substantially the same entry as the stored identifier, if it ... 04/06/06 - 20060074963 - Techniques for estimating item frequencies in large data sets Techniques for estimating items (e.g., data item or objects) frequencies in large data sets are disclosed. For example, a technique for determining items and their frequencies at multiple levels of interest in a collection of nested bags includes the following steps. A hierarchy of a plurality of levels of nested ... 04/06/06 - 20060074962 - Method, system, and program for searching documents for ranges of numeric values Provided are a method, system, and program for searching documents for ranges of numeric values. Document identifiers for documents are accessed, wherein the documents include at least one value that is a member of a set of values. A number of posting lists are generated. Each posting list is associated ... 04/06/06 - 20060074961 - Method and information database structure for faster data access A method and information database structure, wherein at least one data field are given a priority level indication, depending on the importance of the data stored therein. When a query request is received, the query is translated into a plurality of queries, one for each level of priority available in ... 04/06/06 - 20060074960 - Providing data integrity for data streams Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for providing data integrity for data streams. Input data streams are received. A parity data stream is generated by computing parity data from the input data streams, wherein the parity data stream comprises data blocks. Data integrity fields are computed for ... 04/06/06 - 20060074959 - Maximum likelihood based interference cancellation for space-time coded signals A signal processing apparatus comprises a plurality of receiving elements, weighting means, and decoding means. Each of the receiving elements has respective weighting means associated therewith at the decoding means, and is arranged to receive a plurality of signals transmitted from a plurality of transmitters. The weighting means are arranged ... 03/30/06 - 20060069698 - Method and arrangement for editing and displaying information A method for processing information in an electronic information system, which includes a database for saving the information produced by the users in a centralized manner, and a user-specific graphic user interface for presenting the information on least two different viewing sides and for retrieving information from the database and ... 03/30/06 - 20060069697 - Methods and systems for analyzing data related to possible online fraud Various embodiments of the invention provide methods, systems and software for analyzing data. In particular embodiments, for example, a set of data about a web site may be analyzed to determine whether the web site is likely to be illegitimate (e.g., to be involved in a fraudulent scheme, such as ... 03/30/06 - 20060069696 - Method and implementation for referencing of dynamic data within spreadsheet formulas The present invention relates to a new type of structured name within a spreadsheet program that allows users to refer to tables, columns of data within tables, headers of tables, totals from tables, PivotTables®, and portions of PivotTable® data by the data's headers. Embodiments of the present invention comprise a ... 03/23/06 - 20060064431 - Method, system, and apparatus for creating a knowledge interchange profile A method, system, and apparatus are provided for creating a knowledge interchange (“KI”) profile for a user that identifies the interests of the user, the individuals with which the user has communicated, and the topics on which the communication with the user was made. In order to create the KI ... 03/23/06 - 20060064430 - Apparatus, system, and method for using multiple criteria to determine collocation granularity for a data source An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for collocating data. A mode module sets a collocation mode of a storage pool. The collocation mode specifies the granularity of the data to be collocated. In one embodiment, an assignment module assigns a source of data to a collocation group. A collocation ... 03/16/06 - 20060059191 - Use of agents and control documents to update a database structure A method and system for updating a database structure. The database structure includes a dynamically changing list of control documents. A control document specifies tasks to be performed on the database structure. An agent finds an approved control document on the list such as by looking into a view of ... 03/16/06 - 20060059190 - File recording method and file recording apparatus A method and apparatus that, when generating a multimedia file in which encoded data management information is placed at the head of the file, estimates the size needed for the management information in advance and generates a file in which an empty space the size of the estimated size is ... 03/16/06 - 20060059189 - Generation of updatable anonymized data records for testing and developing purposes A mechanism is described for the computer-aided generation of anonymized data records for developing and testing application programs that are intended for use in a productive network (12). A method according to the invention comprises the provision of at least one productive database (14) containing data records that contain productive ... 03/16/06 - 20060059188 - Operation environment associating data migration method A technology that improves the reproducibility of stored data in response to a change in the operation environment of the host computer is provided. Operation environment identification information that identifies the operation environment of the host computer is obtained, the software operation environment identified by the operation environment identification information ... 03/16/06 - 20060059187 - Method, system and program product for managing structured data An improved solution for managing structured data, and in particular generating compressed data based on the structured data. A schema that defines the structure of the data is used to generate a dictionary. The dictionary includes a set of dictionary entries, each configured to generate compressed data for a corresponding ... 03/16/06 - 20060059186 - Method and apparatus relating to retransmission of data between different protocol layers The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for improving the procedures for error detection and recovery in data communication systems and thereby facilitating a better use of data transmission resources. According to the invention, different protocols capable of re-transmission of data are made to communicate with each other ... 03/09/06 - 20060053158 - Techniques for defining, using and manipulating rights management data structures A descriptive data structure provides an abstract representation of a rights management data structure such as a secure container. The abstract representation may describe, for example, the layout of the rights management data structure. It can also provide metadata describing or defining other characteristics of rights management data structure use ... 03/09/06 - 20060053157 - Full text search capabilities integrated into distributed file systems A hierarchical distributed search mechanism is integrated into a distributed file system. Traditional file system APIs (create, open, close, read, write, link, rename, delete, . . . ) and the over-the-wire protocols employed to project these APIs into remote client sites (CIFS, NFS, DDS, Appletalk) are extended to enable the ... 03/09/06 - 20060053156 - Systems and methods for developing intelligence from information existing on a network Systems and methods for analysis and generating reports presenting analysis involving capturing unstructured data from online information services. Speaker attributes and semantic attributes associated with items of the captured data are determined. The captured data, speaker attributes, and semantic attributes are analyzed to generate processed information based on the captured ... 03/09/06 - 20060053155 - Signature generating method, signature verifying method, and information processing device A method and device for verifying content using signature data for the content, where the content includes dynamically changing information. The method and device include inputting content including dynamically changing information, obtaining at least one of an upper and a lower limit of the dynamically changing information, generating target data ... 03/09/06 - 20060053154 - Method and system for retrieving information based on manually-input keyword and automatically-selected keyword A system for retrieving information includes: a first-keyword extracting unit that extracts a character string from a document displayed on a display as a first keyword; a second-keyword extracting unit that extracts a second keyword from a predetermined part of the document; an information retrieving unit that retrieves the information ... 03/09/06 - 20060053153 - Data structure of metadata, and reproduction apparatus and method of the metadata For a reproduction device in which a usable memory size has an upper limit, this invention discloses a novel structure of metadata, which can suppress the number of seeks of a CD or a DVD occurring at a time of reproduction of metadata of a moving image including a large ... 03/09/06 - 20060053152 - Automatic data transmission in response to content of electronic forms satisfying criteria Automatic transmission of information is generated when the content of a posted electronic form matches a predefined criteria. An interface allows the user to create a criterion template to specify the match criterion without requiring the user to have the skills of a professional programmer. The person to be notified ... 03/09/06 - 20060053151 - Multi-relational ontology structure The invention relates generally to a system and method for creating one or more structured multi-relational ontologies. The invention may include ontologies comprising assertions made up of concept-relationship-concept triplets. The invention may also include predefined sets of concept and relationship types as well as concept type hierarchies and concept-relationship association ... 03/09/06 - 20060053150 - Data structure of metadata relevant to moving image There is provided an invention in which in a moving image hypermedia including moving image data and its metadata, when a viewer specifies an object, it is easy to confirm that the specification has been successfully made, and the specified object can be easily confirmed. Metadata relevant to a moving ... 03/09/06 - 20060053149 - Method and system for supporting development of information systems based on ea The man-months definition table 106 defines man-months for each combination of a function, data, and an infrastructure for both As_Is and To_Be of EA. The content retrieval patterns database 109 sets a development example for each combination of the function, data and the infrastructure. The EA result analysis unit 113 ... 03/09/06 - 20060053148 - Image processing apparatus and method displaying data on documents to be operated In an image processing apparatus connected to an external apparatus through a network, a user interface is displayed in a display device on documents. A user's instruction is received in the user interface to operate a document stored in the external apparatus and/or in the image processing apparatus. An operation ... 03/09/06 - 20060053147 - Method, system, and apparatus for configuring a data protection system A method for protecting protectable objects located at a production location is provided. A Namespace, representative of a plurality of protectable objects, is provided to a user for selection. A selection of at least a portion of the Namespace is received and that selected portion is mapped to at least ... 03/09/06 - 20060053146 - Data transmission management A system and method to schedule data for transmission. The system comprises data generating means, developing means, and transmission scheduling means. The data generating means generates data comprising content data and metadata relating to the content data. The developing means develops a set of input data. The transmission scheduling means ... 03/09/06 - 20060053145 - System and method for data dispatch Systems and methods applicable, for instance, in data dispatch. For example, a series of nodes and/or other computers may be employed such that passing of data, via proximity connection, from node and/or other computer to node and/or other computer in the series results in the data being received by an ... 03/09/06 - 20060053144 - System and method for relating applications in a computing system A system, method, and computer program relate a plurality of applications in a computing system. The system, method, and computer program generate a plurality of ontologies associated with the applications. The system, method, and computer program also generate a meta-ontology associated with the plurality of ontologies. Each ontology includes one ... 03/09/06 - 20060053143 - Method and apparatus for managing a data structure for multi-processor access A method and apparatus for managing a data structure for multi-processor access are described. According to one embodiment, a request for a data structure is received. In response to the request, the requested data structure and a corresponding spin-lock are fetched from a computer readable medium. Once fetched, the requested ... 03/09/06 - 20060053142 - Method and system for using query information to enhance catergorization and navigation within the whole knowledge base A method is disclosed to create some structure from the knowledge base of an organization, the knowledge base including a document database (DB) and queries submitted by users concerning the documents, wherein the method performs monitoring and clustering to enable analysis of the ideas of the organization. The first step ... 03/09/06 - 20060053141 - Content transfer The present invention provides a method of transferring content from a file and a database. In this case, the file includes content instances, each content instance being associated with a respective field, and each field having a respective type. The transfer is achieved by determining the type of each field, ... 03/02/06 - 20060047695 - Generation of dynamic web contents the program module is executed by the second data processing unit (2) for generating the data displayable with the web browser. ... 03/02/06 - 20060047694 - Systems and methods for organizing and mapping data A system and method is provided for organizing and mapping data. In exemplary embodiments, a copy of at least one first data block created from a first computing device is generated. A copy of one or more second data blocks created from one or more second computing devices utilizing the ... 03/02/06 - 20060047693 - Apparatus for and method of generating data extraction definition information In combining a plurality of user interfaces provided by servers into one user interface on a client, definition information used for extracting required information from the user interfaces as objects to be combined is generated efficiently. User interface information added with data extraction definition is prepared by inserting data items ... 03/02/06 - 20060047692 - System and method for indexing, organizing, storing and retrieving environmental information Embodiments of the present invention provide indexing, organizing, storing and/or retrieving of environmental information regarding a proposed environment-modifying project, including information about an environment-modifying natural event or construction project (“project”); a natural, constructed or socioeconomic feature in the area of the project (“setting”); a change to the setting brought about ... 03/02/06 - 20060047691 - Creating a document index from a flex- and yacc-generated named entity recognizer Methods of constructing a document index including named entity information generated by at least one tool associated with parsing computer programs are presented. The methods include using a lexical analyzer generator, e.g. Flex, and/or a parser generator, e.g. Yacc, to generate named entity recognizers. The named entity recognizers are used ... 03/02/06 - 20060047690 - Integration of flex and yacc into a linguistic services platform for named entity recognition Method of integrating Flex and Yacc (or their respective equivalents) into a named entity recognition engine used as a component of a general text processing system is provided. The named entity recognition engine adds results into a central representation or lattice for use by various subsequent applications. The applications can ... 03/02/06 - 20060047689 - Centralized terminology and glossary development Developing terminology for use within an organization. Data representing a term is received from a user. Data representing one or more projects to be associated with the term is also received from the user. The received data representing the term is linked with the received data representing the one or ... 03/02/06 - 20060047688 - Method, system and program product for displaying a logical structure The present invention provides a methodology for truncating a logical structure having data matching a predefined pattern. For example, the present invention truncates a logical structure so that branches of the structure are automatically ceased at a recursive ancestor instead of at a descendant. By using the methodology of the ... 03/02/06 - 20060047687 - Apparatus, system, and method for preserving connection/position data integrity during file server serialization reinitialization An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for preserving connection/position data integrity during reinitialization of serialization information in a file server. The apparatus includes a completion rights module, a completion termination module, and a postponement module. The completion rights module grants a completion right to a sensitive process, which is ... 03/02/06 - 20060047686 - Apparatus, system, and method for suspending a request during file server serialization reinitialization An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for suspending a data access request during serialization reinitialization of a file server. The apparatus includes a request recognition module, an availability module, and a suspension module. The request recognition module recognizes a request to be processed by a file server. The availability ... 03/02/06 - 20060047685 - Apparatus, system, and method for file system serialization reinitialization An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for reinitializing serialization data in a file server. The apparatus includes a failure recognition module, a discard module, and a serialization module. The failure recognition module recognizes a file system serialization failure on a file server. Upon recognition of the serialization failure, the ... 03/02/06 - 20060047684 - Sending log records directly from log buffer Sending log records from a first system instance's log buffer to a second system instance is disclosed. Both instances may be instances of a database system. A method may create a log record within the buffer. The record contains actual log information, such as descriptions of transactions. A flag corresponding ... 03/02/06 - 20060047683 - Systems and methods for estimating the number of unique attributes in a database Systems and methods for estimating the number of unique attributes in a database are disclosed that can include generating a first estimate of the unique values of an attribute using a data sample; generating a second estimate of the unique values of the attribute in the data sample; forming a ... 03/02/06 - 20060047682 - Automated identification and marking of new and changed content in a structured document A method for indicating changes in a structured document includes identifying a new topic or a modified topic in an updated version of a structured document having one or more topics, generating a table of contents having one or more topic entries associated with the one or more topics, marking ... 03/02/06 - 20060047681 - Methods and apparatus to reduce a control flow graph using points-to information Methods and apparatus for reducing a control flow graph are disclosed. A disclosed method comprises: creating a points-to set associated with a function in a computer program; determining if a control flow edge between: (1) a call-site associated with a restore and return instruction and (2) a successor block following ... 03/02/06 - 20060047680 - Method and system for building binary decision diagrams efficiently in a structural network representation of a digital circuit A method, system and computer program product for building decision diagrams efficiently in a structural network representation of a digital circuit using a dynamic resource constrained and interleaved depth-first-search and modified breadth-first-search schedule is disclosed. The method includes setting a first size limit for a first set of one or ... 03/02/06 - 20060047679 - Data abstraction based serialization Serialization and deserialization using data contracts. The data contract specifies data types that are serialized and deserialized for data objects that are associated with the data contract. During serialization, the data contract associated with the data object is identified. Then, the data fields that correspond to those specified data field ... 03/02/06 - 20060047678 - Information processing device and method, recording medium, and program This invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a recording medium, and a program for generating preference information based on consecutively and inconsecutively viewed programs in order to recommend the programs matching a user's preferences. A preference information extraction unit 101 extracts program preference information based ... 02/23/06 - 20060041583 - Methods for routing items for communications based on a measure of criticality The routing of prioritized documents such as email messages is disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method first receives a text. The method assigns a priority to the document, based on a text classifier such as a Bayesian classifier or a support-vector machine classifier. The method then routes the text ... 02/23/06 - 20060041582 - Xml-based system and method for collaborative web-based design and verification of system-on-a-chip A computer-based design framework for collaborative design of a product by distributed design team members. The design framework comprises: a virtual database management system, which receives data from a plurality of distinct sources and creates a single relational database interface to each of the distinct sources; software code associated with ... 02/23/06 - 20060041581 - Method of discovering contact identifiers for network access devices (c) providing access to said electronic database whereby said user (21) and/or another user may obtain said contact identifier, whereby said user and/or another user may discover said addressing option(s) to facilitate transmission of data toward said one or more network access device (14-20). ... 02/23/06 - 20060041580 - Method and system for managing distributed storage Embodiments of the present invention provide storage management system and method for managing a geographically distributed storage. In one embodiment, the system includes a plurality of sites organized in a tree form and a management module associated with each site. The plurality of sites include a plurality of management sites ... 02/23/06 - 20060041579 - Structured-document processing Provides structured-document processing device for detecting a relationship of approximateness between structured documents effectively. State-transition-diagram information storing means stores information concerning a state transition diagram where source nodes of a source structured document transit in order of occurrence from the head thereof. Extracting means extracting, a pair consisting of a ... 02/23/06 - 20060041578 - Set based data store Storing data in a data store is disclosed, including storing data in a plurality of generalized memory structures and generating an indexing structure that references one or more of the memory structures. Referencing is based on rules expressed in the memory structures. Processing a query in a data store is ... 02/23/06 - 20060041577 - Ordered list management Ordered list management is described. An item's position within an ordered list is represented by a path value. A globally unique identifier (GUID) is appended to the path value to enable simultaneous or near-simultaneous modifications to the ordered list without conflict. Furthermore, an ordered list-specific seed value may be prepended ... 02/23/06 - 20060041576 - Data processsing deviceand data reception processing device The present invention is directed to a data processing apparatus adapted for performing scramble processing of transmit data, which comprises cyclic code generating means for generating cyclic bit data train of a predetermined period, EXOR operation means for sequentially performing EXOR operation of the cyclic bit data train with respect ... 02/16/06 - 20060036642 - Schemas for a notification platform and related information services Described is a schema-based notification platform that provides regularized notification handling including user control and normalization of the operation of policies across different information types and contexts. Information-service schemas and services are combined to build a content-sensitive and context-sensitive information service to communicate information to recipient devices of users that ... 02/16/06 - 20060036641 - System and method for using social networks for the distribution of communications The present invention provides methods and systems for facilitating the distribution of a communication, for example, using one or more enterprise applications. According to one embodiment, the method comprises obtaining information regarding one or more entities. Using a software application, hardware device or combination thereof, a given entity is selected ... 02/16/06 - 20060036640 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program The present invention enables execution of the processing using metadata such as content recommendation in consideration to cooccurrence relation among metadata. A matrix generating section generates a metadata matrix having N rows corresponding to N metadata (N: integral number of 1 or more) respectively and M columns corresponding to M ... 02/16/06 - 20060036639 - Binning system for data analysis A system for analyzing data from a database is disclosed. In one general aspect, a binned data representation window is operative to display a binned data representation including bin elements that each correspond to one or more values from the database. A binning control is responsive to user input to ... 02/16/06 - 20060036638 - Systems and methods for processing buffer data retirement conditions A system and method for determining whether to retire a data entry from a buffer. A portion of the retirement conditions is processed prior to the data entry being considered for retirement resulting in faster processing of remaining retirement conditions at the time retirement of the data is to be ... 02/16/06 - 20060036637 - System and method for developing a star schema Disclosed embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and method for automatic generation of a star schema. The system and method may comprise categorizing a data field into one of a plurality of data field types, one of the data field types being an enumeration type data field. ... 02/16/06 - 20060036636 - Distributed object-based storage system that uses pointers stored as object attributes for object analysis and monitoring In a distributed object-based storage system that includes a plurality of object storage devices and one or more clients that access distributed, object-based files from the object storage devices, each of the files being comprised of a plurality of object components residing on different object storage device, systems and methods ... 02/16/06 - 20060036635 - System and methods for patent evaluation A system, methods, computer program product, a web site and an Artificial Intelligence system for evaluating a patent document have been provided. According to the methods for patent evaluation of the embodiments of the invention, the patent document is characterized by a number of patent indices arranged into a hierarchy, ... 02/16/06 - 20060036634 - Method and apparatus for generating forms using form types A method, computer readable medium and system are provided which generate model driven form user interfaces to represent data models. Using the method, to generate a form user interface to represent a data model, such as a business model, a selection is made to identify which of a plurality of ... 02/09/06 - 20060031247 - System and method for the secure processing of securities transactions A system and method for providing for the secure and protected processing of securities transactions, particularly preventing the alteration or deletion of trades in violation of the SEC rules. A secure relational database stores, protects and verifies information regarding submitted securities transactions. As transactions are created during normal business processing, ... 02/09/06 - 20060031246 - Universal database method and system A reusable, data-driven universal database model and system for modeling and storing data in all relationships in a form that supports any data to be added to the database. The database system can be implemented to any type of application storing any type of data or data drives in that ... 02/09/06 - 20060031245 - User interactive journal Apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for creating an interactive journaling experience for a user. The user is provided with apparatuses or systems which assist the user in generating a journal by providing interactive features such as suggestions, supportive statements, questions, instructions, and entertainment to enhance and develop the user's ... 02/09/06 - 20060031244 - Data structure of metadata and processing method of the metadata In preparation for a case where a user indicates an area where an object does not exist, it is desired that an action for that case is also described in metadata. Then, layer value data indicating order of overlap of object area data on a screen or discrimination data intrinsic ... 02/09/06 - 20060031243 - Mapping enterprise java bean attributes to database schema Mapping Enterprise Java Bean (“EJB”) attributes to database schema including providing a first metamap including one or more abstracted variable characteristics of a first database schema and creating from the first metamap a second metamap for a second database schema including varying one or more of the abstracted variable characteristics ... 02/02/06 - 20060026196 - Database management system The present invention is related to a database management system that is capable of autonomous dynamic ontology management through soft classing. The present invention is further related to a method of database management by dividing attribute data, e.g., price=10 dollars, into class elements containing data, e.g., attribute name=price, type=numeric, default ... 02/02/06 - 20060026195 - Migrating personality of computing environment from source platform to target platform Methods, and systems for migrating personality of a computing environment from a source machine platform to a target machine platform through a CIM-based system management infrastructure. A system includes: database wherein migration rules of CIM objects between a plurality of platforms are recorded; and migration tool for implementing migration according ... 02/02/06 - 20060026194 - System and method for enabling indexing of pages of dynamic page based systems In a system and method for interacting with dynamic data, a plurality of static pages associated with corresponding products of a database may be generated, operability of a plurality of dynamic pages that is each associated with a corresponding product of the database may be maintained subsequent to the generation ... 02/02/06 - 20060026193 - Dynamic schema for unified plant model An industrial system configuration platform facilitates automation of an industrial system. The industrial system configuration platform comprises a representation of the industrial system and a configuration component that automatically configures at least a portion of the industrial system based at least in part upon metadata that describes the representation. A ... 02/02/06 - 20060026192 - Frame mapping scheduler A network processor or other processing device of a communication system includes scheduling circuitry configured to schedule data blocks for transmission from a plurality of users or other transmission elements in timeslots of a frame. The scheduling circuitry utilizes a weight table and a mapping table. The weight table comprises ... 02/02/06 - 20060026191 - Efficiently ranking web pages via matrix index manipulation and improved caching Methods and systems are described for computing page rankings more efficiently. Using an interconnectivity matrix describing the interconnection of web pages, a new matrix is computed. The new matrix is used to compute the average of values associated with each web page's neighboring web pages. The secondary eigenvector of this ... 02/02/06 - 20060026190 - System and method for category organization A system and method for category organization is disclosed. The method discloses: receiving an information collection including a set of strings; identifying positively predictive pairs of strings; identifying negatively predictive pairs of strings; joining positively predictive pairs of strings into common categories; splitting negatively predictive pairs of strings into different ... 02/02/06 - 20060026189 - Method and system for reconstruction of object model data in a relational database Methods, systems and articles of manufacture are provided for migrating entity relationship data residing in an object oriented program environment to a relational database schema. Further, functionality is provided to facilitate more efficient searching and reconstruction of the entity relationship data in the relational database. ... 01/26/06 - 20060020623 - Relation management control program, device, and system Device component information (physical information, logical information) on each device such as a host computer, a switch, and storage on the SAN is acquired via an LAN 9. Element information is created from the acquired device component information. According to the element information, a link between element information is created. ... 01/26/06 - 20060020622 - Standing order database search system and method for internet and intranet application An internet and/or intranet based database search system and method for conducting searches of highly confidential records such as individual patient medical records and to automate the process of securing required approvals to make such records available to a properly authorized and authenticated requesting party. The system's central premise is ... 01/26/06 - 20060020621 - Information processing system, information processing method, and computer program used therewith An information processing system uses data processing for content. The system includes a preference-data manager for managing user's preferences concerning types of the data processing which are used for said content, a content generator for generating content by using a user-preferred type of the data processing for said content, a ... 01/26/06 - 20060020620 - Extensible data mining framework The subject disclosure pertains to extensible data mining systems, means, and methodologies. For example, a data mining system is disclosed that supports plug-in or integration of non-native mining algorithms, perhaps provided by third parties, such that they function the same as built-in algorithms. Furthermore, non-native data mining viewers may also ... 01/26/06 - 20060020619 - Database generation systems and methods The subject invention pertains to systems and methods that facilitate generation of a database to support a multidimensional model. A database schema is generated in a top-down fashion. In particular, multidimensional structures and attributes such as cubes and dimensions can be defined. From such definition, a proposed database schema can ... 01/26/06 - 20060020618 - Maintaining persistent track data A system is employed to maintain persistent operation information for implementation on persistent data. Bitmaps are created to track outstanding persistent operations. Should a volume of information became inaccessible, the bitmaps are evaluated to determine if outstanding persistent operations exist and, if so, these outstanding operations are performed before the ... 01/26/06 - 20060020617 - Method for processing data packets in a data network which has a mobile function The invention relates to a method for processing data packets in a data network which has a mobile function. A terminal and a data source use a first network protocol, according to which addresses of the first network protocol, reproduced in a first format are assigned to the terminal and ... 01/19/06 - 20060015525 - Transforming a portion of a database into a custom spreadsheet A method and computer system for transforming a portion (e.g., a view) of a database into a custom spreadsheet. The transforming includes determining whether to omit in the custom spreadsheet a column that is in the view, determining whether to add to the custom spreadsheet a column that is not ... 01/19/06 - 20060015524 - System and method for creating and recreating image-based databases Embodiments of this invention include systems and methods for creating and using an image-based databases. Individual data files can be parsed and combined to form a new database, or to add data to an existing database, even when the original database has been destroyed or rendered inaccessible. A database can ... 01/19/06 - 20060015523 - System and method for accessing document data via a web service A method for accessing document data via a web service is disclosed which includes receiving a request from a client application. The request for document data to be retrieved from a repository managed by an IDARS/DOM application. The method also includes processing the request including creating and transmitting at least ... 01/19/06 - 20060015522 - Methods and systems for preservation of fixed pegging A method for providing a planning framework for use in managing a material flow of products in a supply chain. According to the method, subsequent instances of said material flow are associated with linked documents in a document flow. In a prior document, first relations are established identifying one or ... 01/19/06 - 20060015521 - External metadata processing The operation of a data flow is improved by providing for validation of the consistency of the data flow with the external data files it works with, even in the face of changes in those external data files Metadata is stored regarding the external data files. Because external data files ... 01/19/06 - 20060015520 - System and method for content management A system and method for content management and delivery. Embodiments of the invention may include receiving a plurality of content items from a plurality of content providers, organizing the plurality of content items in a hierarchy, receiving a request for at least one content item among the plurality of content ... 01/12/06 - 20060010160 - Information processing apparatus, storage device, storage control apparatus, and computer program product A CPU (information processing unit) outputs file specification of data and an erasing instruction of data to an HDD controller (storage control apparatus, storage control unit). The HDD controller specifies a cluster into which overwriting data corresponding to a file should be written, and generates the overwriting data, and outputs ... 01/12/06 - 20060010159 - Custom grouping for dimension members The subject disclosure pertains to swift and efficient modification of multidimensional database cubes. For example, support is provided for the addition of custom groupings of dimension members. In one instance, the custom groupings can provide an intermediate dimension level for drill down and/or drill up or roll-up between a level ... 01/12/06 - 20060010158 - File generating method and file retrieving method When image data is a stereo image, information indicating that an image file to be generated is a stereo file, information indicating a frame number, information indicating whether photographing is performed from a left visual point or a right visual point are generated as a file name, and a file ... 01/12/06 - 20060010157 - Systems and methods to facilitate utilization of database modeling The subject invention relates to systems and methods that extend the network data access capabilities of mark-up language protocols. In one aspect, a network data modeling system is provided. The system includes a protocol component that employs a computerized mark-up language to facilitate data interactions between network components. An extension ... 01/12/06 - 20060010156 - Relational reporting system and methodology A system that facilitates generating a report based upon data within a relational database comprises a mapping component that utilizes mapping functions to associate a multi-dimensional structure with the relational database. A report generator communicates with the multi-dimensional structure to obtain data relating to the relational database and generates a ... 01/12/06 - 20060010155 - System that facilitates maintaining business calendars A calendar customization system comprises an interface component that receives responses to one or more questions relating to a calendar. A execution automatically generates a multi-dimensional structure for the calendar, the structure generated as a function of the responses. For example, the multi-dimensional structure can relate to a Gregorian calendar, ... 01/12/06 - 20060010154 - Systems and methods for performing storage operations using network attached storage Systems and methods for performing hierarchical storage operations on electronic data in a computer network are provided. In one embodiment, the present invention may store electronic data from a network device to a network attached storage (NAS) device pursuant to certain storage criteria. The data stored on the NAS may ... 01/12/06 - 20060010153 - Dependency graph-based aggregate asset status reporting methods and apparatus A method for a computer system includes determining a dependency graph for a user-selected aggregate asset comprising a plurality of nodes, determining node types for the plurality of nodes, when a first node of the plurality of nodes comprises a file-level asset node, the method includes determining first status data ... 01/12/06 - 20060010152 - System and method for managing machine servicing including workscope generation The present invention relates to management of machine servicing, particularly, but not only, aircraft engine servicing. When a machine is received in a service facility for one of a plurality of predefined reasons, repair and/or maintenance procedures known to correspond to that reason are identified and a workscope defining work ... 01/12/06 - 20060010151 - Lossless compression method and apparatus for data storage and transmission The present invention provides method and apparatus of a lossless data compression to reduce the amount of data to be transmitted or to be saved into a storage device. In the VLSI implementation, a data path module combined with some state machines support multiple formats of data file and to ... 01/12/06 - 20060010150 - Method and system for electronic file lifecycle management A method and system for managing a file lifecycle is disclosed. The method incorporates a virtual file cabinet having virtual drawers. Files are moved from drawer to drawer throughout their lifecycle in accordance with policies associated with each drawer. The files are moved automatically and as such, ... 01/05/06 - 20060004844 - Management of markup language data mappings available to a spreadsheet application workbook Methods and systems are provided for managing the application of one or more XML data mappings or one or more XML schema files to a spreadsheet application workbook. One or more XML schema files for associating to the spreadsheet workbook are obtained. Each schema file is iterated to determine if ... 01/05/06 - 20060004843 - System and method for automatically populating a dynamic resolution list The system and method of the present invention automatically provides dynamically generated completion information for facilitating user input of email addresses or contact information. This completion information is developed from a “data store” comprised of multiple data sources such as previously sent or received email, and other types of electronic ... 01/05/06 - 20060004842 - Apparatus and method for creating new reports from a consolidated data mart The invention includes a computer readable memory with a consolidated data mart generator to generate a consolidated data mart based upon an analysis of a repository of individual reports. A report generation tool produces a report via access to the consolidated data mart. ... 01/05/06 - 20060004841 - Computer-aided modeling In a modeling method and system, a model is created by using parametric basic elements and parameterized complementary elements, each having special parameters; such that a complementary object to be created with a parameterized complementary element is directly or indirectly, at least via one of its parameter values, associated with ... 01/05/06 - 20060004840 - Index adding program of relational database, index adding apparatus, and index adding method An index adding program, index adding apparatus, and index adding method of a relational database, that enables dynamic and efficient addition of a new index without stopping service to an application, by contriving a method of reflecting an update log to the index. The index of the relational database is ... 01/05/06 - 20060004839 - Method and system for data processing with data replication for the same A data processing method in a database management system having a main database and a sub database, for generating the sub database by utilizing log information generated by a data operation of the main database utilizing a transaction processing. When a checkpoint as a recovery timing of the database in ... 01/05/06 - 20060004838 - Sharing large objects in distributed systems A system and method for efficiently sharing Large Objects (LOBs) is disclosed. Historical records (e.g., redo logs) are kept in which a marker is placed prior to the LOB. The marker includes identifying information, such as the row-column intersection. Using the identifying information in the marker, the LOB may be ... 01/05/06 - 20060004837 - Advanced switching peer-to-peer protocol A peer-to-peer connection protocol for establishing and managing peer-to-peer connections between endpoints coupled via a serial-based interconnect fabric. A requesting endpoint generates and sends a query to a fabric manager requesting connection information for at least one target endpoint having attributes matching attributes specified in the query. The fabric manager ... 01/05/06 - 20060004836 - Dynamic forms generation To facilitate the localization of an OUTLOOK form, a custom form generator may be provided. More particularly, a facsimile form may be created in an application development environment to have the look and feel of the desired resulting OUTLOOK form. Selected controls in the facsimile form may be indicated as ... 01/05/06 - 20060004835 - Standard text method, system, and program product for configuring and publishing text to multiple applications The present provides a standard text method, system, and program product for configuring blocks of text and for defining the circumstances under which the blocks of text are to be displayed to users by multiple applications. The method comprises: providing a block of text to be published; selecting at least ... 01/05/06 - 20060004834 - Dynamic shortcuts The invention provides searching, accessing, maintaining, or editing of media files using a remote control device having a display. The invention enables a user to manipulate displayed media files and other types of information stored on a server. The server may be coupled to a display device such as a ... 01/05/06 - 20060004833 - Method and system for data extraction from a transaction system to an analytics system The present invention provides a method and system for the automatic extraction of data from a transaction system to an analytics system, which is capable of handling large volumes of application data. ... 01/05/06 - 20060004832 - Enterprise infrastructure management appliance Method and apparatus for an enterprise infrastructure management appliance are described. ... 01/05/06 - 20060004831 - System and method for a query language mapping architecture A system and method are provided for a query language mapping architecture. In an embodiment, the query language mapping architecture includes an Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) interpreting layer to receive one or more EJB persistence requests and to translate the one or more EJB persistence requests to command sequences. In ... 01/05/06 - 20060004830 - Agent-less systems, methods and computer program products for managing a plurality of remotely located data storage systems Agent-less data storage management systems, methods and computer program products are provided and include a central data repository, a raw data processor (RDP), a management appliance, and problem identification logic. The RDP collects raw, unformatted metadata directly from remote data storage systems, transforms the collected metadata to a standardized format, ... 01/05/06 - 20060004829 - Rolling keys A method of enabling or disabling a verification process of a first entity in response to a predetermined event, the first entity having at least one associated bit-pattern and at least one variant key, each of the variant keys having been generated by applying a one way function to: a ... 01/05/06 - 20060004828 - Finer grain dependency tracking for database objects A method and apparatus for updating databases are disclosed. An update vector for an object is created for identifying updated attributes. A dependent object is identified and a dependency vector of the dependent object is compared with update vector to determine whether the dependent object depends on the updated attributes. ... 01/05/06 - 20060004827 - Xml based scripting language Various embodiments of a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for processing an extensible markup language (XML) script using an XML based scripting language are provided. The XML script is parsed. The XML script comprises element nodes. Each element node comprises a component name. A first element node comprises a ... 01/05/06 - 20060004826 - Data disambiguation systems and methods Various embodiments provide a state-based, regular expression parser in which data, such as generally unstructured text, is received into the system and undergoes a tokenization process which permits structure to be imparted to the data. Tokenization of the data effectively enables various patterns in the data to be identified. In ... 01/05/06 - 20060004825 - System and method for caching and retrieving from cache transaction content elements A system and method for caching and retrieving from cache transaction content elements. Metadata is stored in cache to describe content elements of a transaction, a data retrieval device determines, based on the metadata, whether cache contains a complete copy of a transaction associated with a requested content element, and ... 01/05/06 - 20060004824 - Ipmi validating system and method An IPMI validating system and method are optimally used between a host system having an IPMI, and an operating terminal. The validating system includes a user interface, an IPMI command engine module, an IPMI command management unit and a channel management unit. The IPMI command engine module is capable of ... 12/29/05 - 20050289175 - Providing xml node identity based operations in a value based sql system Object-relational database systems process XML values in a way that preserves node identities of nodes in the XML values and perform node-id based operations more efficiently or even in circumstances where such operations were not performed. An object-relational database system represents an XML value as a serialized stream of bytes, ... 12/29/05 - 20050289174 - Method and system for implementing and accessing a virtual table on data from a central server A method, mechanism, and computer program product for managing, referencing, and accessing centrally managed information are disclosed. Transparency is provided to the centrally managed data by introducing a mapping system between locally expected data and the central data repository. This allows, for example, local relational database systems to transparently access ... 12/29/05 - 20050289173 - Method and system for diagnostigraphic based interactions in diagnostic medical imaging An ideographical language framework is disclosed that is designed to enable the description and communication of a series of workflow steps. An ideogram is defined as a character or symbol representing an idea or thing without expressing the pronunciation of a particular word or words for it, i.e. not dependent ... 12/29/05 - 20050289172 - System and method for processing electronic documents A system and a method for processing electronic documents are described in which an input document D1 and reference data D2 are examined whether there is a content-based relation between the input document D1 and the reference data D2. For the case of a content-based relation, a type of linkage ... 12/22/05 - 20050283494 - Visualizing and manipulating multidimensional olap models graphically Various embodiments of a method, apparatus and article of manufacture for graphically visualizing and manipulating a multidimensional OLAP model are provided. Data describing a multidimensional model is retrieved. The multidimensional model comprises a plurality of groups. Each group has one or more levels. The levels have a hierarchical order. Sets ... 12/15/05 - 20050278374 - Dynamic program modification A system, method and media for a service oriented architecture. This description is not intended to be a complete description of, or limit the scope of, the invention. Other features, aspects and objects of the invention can be obtained from a review of the specification, the figures and the claims. ... 12/15/05 - 20050278373 - Data retrieval method An hierarchical data retrieval method for retrieving an hierarchy of data from a first store is described. The hierarchy of data comprises one or more items of data of a first level, at least one of which is associated with one or more items of data of a second level. ... 12/15/05 - 20050278372 - Note navigation in a business data processing application Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing techniques for business data processing. The techniques include displaying business data on a user interface through which users can view the business data and provide input modifying the business data. The business data comprises a plurality of business objects. The techniques further ... 12/15/05 - 20050278371 - Method and system for georeferential blogging, bookmarking a location, and advanced off-board data processing for mobile systems A method and system to bookmark a location, blog geo-referential information, and process the geo referential information, having a mobile device and a stationary server. The mobile device is configured to generate a waypoint to geographically identify the location, generate a timestamp, fetch and store data associated with the location, ... 12/15/05 - 20050278370 - System and method for information storage A method for providing information concerning an item includes attaching to the item an information button containing data identifying the item. An identifying location system transmitter is also provided on the item. The information button is read and the data identifying the item is stored on a computer, associated with ... 12/15/05 - 20050278369 - Information processing system, information processing apparatus, method and program The present invention relates to an information processing system, an information processing apparatus and method, and a program in which the purchase of content can be facilitated. When giving content data as a present, a sender giving the content data sends first information for identifying the sender, second information for ... 12/01/05 - 20050267910 - Generating a focused data set from an original data set Systems and methods for generating a focused data. An original data set contains lines of data that are of interest to a user. The data set is filtered using inclusive filters, exclusive filters, and markers to identify the lines of interest to the user without losing the context of those ... 12/01/05 - 20050267909 - Storing multipart xml documents A method for storing an XML document, the method including decomposing the XML document into a hierarchy of nodes and creating an index of the nodes. ... 11/24/05 - 20050262133 - Multimedia retrieval method using multi-weighted feature A multimedia retrieval method determines a descriptor weight for each of a plurality of descriptors used in a first combination to form a multimedia descriptor query. The method retrieves a group of first multimedia objects based on the descriptor weights corresponding to the first combination of descriptors. ... 11/24/05 - 20050262132 - Access control system, access control method, and access control program A policy storage stores an access control policy as a set of setting information items to make resources (access destinations) shared by an adhoc group. When a part of the access control policy is edited, a policy analyzer updates a rule generated from the edited access control policy. At this ... 11/24/05 - 20050262131 - Automatic creation of output file from images in database A query is run against a database with information related to images. Images of interest are selected for inclusion in an output file, for example, a presentation application file. Configuration and other choices are made regarding the output file, and any other information needed to generate the output file is ... 11/24/05 - 20050262130 - Input data specification method and system in business-to-business integration A method and system for creating input data by a second entity in compliance with specifications of a first entity by using a specification object provided by the first entity, wherein the input data is transferred from second entity to the first entity over a computer network. The specification object ... 11/24/05 - 20050262129 - Method and system for creating and loading data warehouse from semi-structured document A data warehouse is created using an input file that can contain sub-documents of different formats. A root document model including path names to all nodes among the sub-documents is generated, and a table is generated with columns being derived from the path names of the root model. The sub-documents ... 11/24/05 - 20050262128 - Apparatus and method for managing and inferencing contextual relationships Standardized support for management of contextual relationships, which includes specification of the context hierarchy, association of relationships with a particular context, and derivation of transitive dependencies, is provided with a Context Manager service. The Context Manager provides a programmatic interface for defining contexts and the relationships therein. The Context Manager ... 11/24/05 - 20050262127 - Method and system for determining conformance of a data key with rules by means of memory lookups A method of comparing unmasked bits of an N-bit data key to an N-bit Rule includes dividing the key into C-bit chunks. Each of the chunks is used as an 5 address to extract from memories 12, 13, 14, 21, 22, 23, 24, 31, 32, 33, 34, 41, 42, 43, ... 11/17/05 - 20050256901 - Method and system for distribution of information A method and system for distribution of information are provided in a publish and subscribe system in which a publisher application transmits a message (210, 310) to one or more subscribing applications (208, 308) via a messaging infrastructure. The method includes receiving (203, 303) a message at a subscribing system ... 11/17/05 - 20050256900 - Universal programming interface to knowledge management (upikm) database system with integrated xml interface A UPIKM database system with an integrated XML interface is disclosed. The system is more efficient and returns search requests more rapidly in light of the database structure and interaction. This is in-part accomplished by each of the tables having only one key to distinguish a record that is to ... 11/17/05 - 20050256899 - System and method for representing hierarchical data structures The present invention relates to the creation of trees for representing hierarchical data structures. Trees are created on a server, with the tree having nodes that are associated with paths on a server. Each node is associated with a resource locator indicating data that can be accessed through the tree. ... 11/17/05 - 20050256898 - Computer system including file sharing device and a migration method When a file server migrates from an existing file server to a new file server, data is allowed to migrate and setting information for a file system can migrate, too. At this time, data migration timing can be arbitrarily designated while a file sharing service is executed without stop and ... 11/17/05 - 20050256897 - Providing the timing of the last committed change to a row in a database table Processing a database statement received from a database client, which requests information about the timing of a last committed change to a row in a database table, comprises retrieving a logical time value that represents a commit time associated with the row and providing the value to the client. In ... 11/17/05 - 20050256896 - Local data repository generation Systems and techniques relating to local data repository generation facilitate analysis of business activity information. In general, in one implementation, a technique includes: receiving results of an analysis query applied against a business information warehouse, the results including at least one key performance indicator generated in response to the analysis ... 11/17/05 - 20050256895 - Method and system for serialization of hierarchically defined objects A method and system are directed to serialization of hierarchically defined objects for communication over a network. A change associated with an object, a field within the object, and the like, may be flagged. Such flagged changes between one game frame and another frame may be included into a frame ... 11/17/05 - 20050256894 - Device, especially an automation apparatus, with a file index structure stored in files The invention relates to a device and a method to represent and/or display a data index structure in an XML file in a very easy manner with the aid of an internet-capable language, especially XML, in automation apparatus, so-called embedded devices, that as a rule do not have their own ... 11/10/05 - 20050251529 - Method and apparatus for accepting and processing an application for conformity of a user dictionary to a standard dictionary There is disclosed an electronic catalog system in which application data concerning use is received from a user who desires to utilize electronic catalog information using a standard dictionary, internal utilization or opening to the outside of the standard supplier by the user is judged, and for the internal utilization, ... 11/10/05 - 20050251528 - System to check and certify the authenticity of labels A system to check and certify the authenticity of labels provided with a marking consisting of one or more identification signs, includes: a) an alphanumeric code identifying each label; b) a set of memorizable and comparable data drawn from the label, which evidences a distinctive feature thereof; c) an information ... 11/03/05 - 20050246369 - System and method for a user interface directed to discovering and publishing presence information on a network A system and method is provided for a user interface directed to publication and discovery of the presence of users on a network. A sidebar tile is provided that peripherally and unobtrusively displays the presence information of nearby users on the network. The sidebar tile is also used to notify ... 11/03/05 - 20050246368 - Systems and methods for displaying and/or accessing content stored in a memory A method for displaying an object includes displaying an identifier of an object, and displaying a graphic associated with the identifier, the graphic indicating that the object is accessible from a plurality of folders. A method for storing an object such that the object is accessible from a plurality of ... 11/03/05 - 20050246367 - Context-driven automated transactions In a business environment, a method for executing context-driven transactions includes defining one or more relations among two or more objects in a semantic network, and defining one or more rules relating to the relations. The “transaction” refers to a request or a sequence of information exchanges for one or ... 11/03/05 - 20050246366 - Biological information trend display and its method A biological information trend display device and method which allow the trend and an abnormal value of biological information to be checked with ease are provided. When a curve (50) showing the ST level in lead V3 exceeds the upper limit of a normal range, the part of the curve ... 11/03/05 - 20050246365 - Systems and methods of building and using custom word lists Standard word lists that are often used for such operations as predictive text, spell checking, and word completion are based on general linguistic data that might not accurately reflect actual text usage patterns of particular users. Systems and methods of building and using a custom word list for use in ... 10/27/05 - 20050240621 - Method and system for managing partitioned data resources In accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, association forming entities are: a) maintained as objects in a like manner to the data objects being associated; and 6) are themselves partitioned objects comprising two or more association fragments, each association fragment being mostly concerned with the interfaces to ... 10/27/05 - 20050240620 - Arrangement for controlling and logging voice enabled web applications using extensible markup language documents A unified web-based voice messaging system provides voice application control between a web browser and an application server via an hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) connection on an Internet Protocol (IP) network. The application server executes the voice-enabled web application by runtime execution of a first set of extensible markup language ... 10/27/05 - 20050240619 - System and method of enhancing The present invention provides a method of enhancing the decoding performance of text indexes of an indexed collection of text documents. The posting list includes a plurality of list entries being of variable size depending on the value stored in each posting list entry. The inventive method is based on ... 10/27/05 - 20050240618 - Using software incorporated into a web page to collect page-specific user feedback concerning a document embedded in the web page In one embodiment, a system for measuring subjective user reaction concerning a particular web page comprising an embedded document includes a first icon viewable on the particular web page independent of input from a user subsequent to the user accessing the particular web page. The particular web page includes a ... 10/27/05 - 20050240617 - System and method for filtering electronic messages using business heuristics Disclosed are systems and methods for use in filtering electronic messages using business heuristics. In one aspect, a method includes determining whether the electronic message is associated with a desirable business, and adjusting the likelihood of delivering the electronic message to an intended recipient of the message if the electronic ... 10/27/05 - 20050240616 - Container-managed method support for container-managed entity beans A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that in an embodiment receive a specification of a method in a container-managed persistence bean and a specification of a procedure in a backend data store, generate code in a helper class associated with the container-managed persistence bean, determine a connector based on ... 10/27/05 - 20050240615 - Techniques for identifying mergeable data A system, method and article of manufacture for identifying mergeable data in a data processing system and, more particularly, for identifying correlated columns from one or more database tables. One embodiment comprises determining correlation attributes for a first column and a second column from one or more database tables. The ... 10/27/05 - 20050240614 - Techniques for providing measurement units metadata A system, method and article of manufacture for identification of mergeable data in a data processing system and, more particularly, for providing mechanisms for facilitating identification of correlated columns from one or more database tables. One embodiment provides a computer-implemented method for managing storage of data having an associated measurement ... 10/27/05 - 20050240613 - Portable health care history information system A portable heath care records system employs a server on which the health care records of participating patients are stored. The patients are issued cards that are inserted into the patient's computer to access each patient's records via the Internet for review and editing. The patient record is protected by ... 10/27/05 - 20050240612 - Design by space transformation form high to low dimensions A method is provided for transforming data from a high-dimensional to low-dimensional design space, and for inspecting the transformed data in such a manner as to permit effective navigation and exploration of the high-dimensional design space. Conveniently, an optimum/conditional value for a prescribed functional representation of the transformed data can ... 10/20/05 - 20050234971 - Using estimated cost to refresh a set of materialized views (mvs) In an embodiment, estimated costs are used to pick the best refresh technique (e.g., method) for a given MV. In another embodiment, estimated costs are used to schedule the refresh of a set MVs in an order such that overall time to refresh is reduced, or in an order that ... 10/20/05 - 20050234970 - Address database and address retrieval system using the same An address retrieval system includes: an address database having a tree structure in which regional names, which constitute an address, and which indicate the areas of each scale ranging from the large area down to the small area, are associated with nodes, wherein a child node has a regional name ... 10/20/05 - 20050234969 - Services oriented architecture for handling metadata in a data integration platform Metadata handling is deployed as a service in a services oriented architecture for use, for example, in a data integration platform. ... 10/20/05 - 20050234968 - Systems, methods, interfaces and software for automated collection and integration of entity data into online databases and professional directories An information-retrieval system includes a server that receives queries for documents from client devices and means for outputting results of queries to the client devices, with the results provided in association with one or more interactive control features that are selectable to invoke display of information regarding entities, such as ... 10/20/05 - 20050234967 - System and method for providing data storage through a device management tree using non-device management agents A client device (701) of a communication system (700) includes, for example, a processor (304) programmed to include a device management tree interface (702) that provides access for a plurality of non device management agents (210, 618) and at least one device management agent (208) to a device management engine ... 10/20/05 - 20050234966 - System and method for managing supply of digital content Digital content is stored in a logical volume provided in a storage system connected to a communications network. A sub-management computer selects a destination computer forming a supply destination for digital content from a plurality of business computers or virtual computers, further selects the address information corresponding to the selected ... 10/20/05 - 20050234965 - Computing algebraic equations Methods and systems for computing algebraic equations are disclosed, with particular relevance to financial analytics. Analytic formulas may be represented as data, and the analytic system may be structured as a kind of an analytic interpretation engine in a database layer of a system. Because analytic formulas may be represented ... 10/20/05 - 20050234964 - System and method for creating dynamic workflows using web service signature matching A system and method for dynamically implementing a chain of Web services from a client on the World Wide Web to execute a workflow. The described system includes: a database for storing a list of available Web services, wherein each listed Web service includes a description of a task performed ... 10/20/05 - 20050234963 - Method and system for transactional log processing In a network comprising a first node where raw business data is collected, and a second node connected to the first node, a method for converting the raw business data to transformed data, comprises steps or acts of monitoring the availability of raw business data at the first node and ... 10/20/05 - 20050234962 - Apparatus and method to update code in an information storage and retrieval system while that system remains in normal operation A method to update code in an information storage and retrieval system comprising one or more processors, and existing code, where that existing code includes a Concurrent Code Load having (N) phases, where that Concurrent Code Load invokes an as yet unwritten Temporal Coupling File. The method provides a code ... 10/20/05 - 20050234961 - Systems and methods for providing a proxy for a shared file system Methods and systems are provided for representing a shared file system using a proxy file system. Methods and systems may manage a plurality of proxy files, which are associated with counterpart data files in a shared storage. The proxy files may include information for accessing the counterpart data files. Methods ... 10/20/05 - 20050234960 - Automatic data perspective generation for a target variable The present invention leverages machine learning techniques to provide automatic generation of conditioning variables for constructing a data perspective for a given target variable. The present invention determines and analyzes the best target variable predictors for a given target variable, employing them to facilitate the conveying of information about the ... 10/20/05 - 20050234959 - User interfaces for categorization schemes A graphical user interface (GUI) tool for maintaining categorization schemes includes a categorization area that displays user-input fields which may be used to define a number of categories and a number of links that form a categorization scheme. The categorization scheme is organized to enable the computer-executed process to categorize ... 10/20/05 - 20050234958 - Iterative collaborative annotation system A collaborative annotation system for facilitating annotations, such as commentaries, of time-based media, such as video, by users is disclosed. The system involves displaying and controlling the display of a time-based medium, and receiving and storing input for defining a location in the time-based medium. The system also involves receiving ... 10/13/05 - 20050228821 - Stand-alone system for storing books in electronic memory The system includes a memory card, such as flash memory, containing information which would otherwise be published in conventional book form, such as a textbook, wherein the information on the card is in read-only form and further includes security elements, which prevent unauthorized access to the book content in the ... 10/13/05 - 20050228820 - Partially embedded database and an embedded database manager for a control system A method for creating a compressed database includes a step of receiving a data input file. The data input file defines a first set of data fields to be included in the database and includes a set of data elements to be included in the database. The method also includes ... 10/13/05 - 20050228819 - Asset management in media production An asset management system for managing media assets in media production. The system includes a database and a database interface. The database stores a plurality of records, each record storing information for a media asset. Each record includes work performance information for the media asset. The database interface is coupled ... 10/13/05 - 20050228818 - Method and system for flexible sectioning of xml data in a database system A method and system are provided for flexibly sectioning XML documents stored in a relational database system. The method includes obtaining a set of sectioning rules; receiving an XML document that is to be stored in the relational database system; and identifying a storage location for each node in the ... 10/13/05 - 20050228817 - Method, system, and software for electronic data capture and data analysis of clinical databases A method, system, and software for providing clinical data for analysis. purposes, includes storing clinical data, received from one or more data source sites, in a data repository. On receiving a request for data from the data repository from a user at a data source site, a working set of ... 10/13/05 - 20050228816 - System and method for content type versions A system and method for describing content in a virtual content repository (VCR), comprising, integrating a plurality of repositories into a virtual content repository (VCR), storing a first schema in the VCR, wherein the first schema includes a first set of one or more properties, maintaining a version history to ... 10/13/05 - 20050228815 - Categorization of information using natural language processing and predefined templates Methods and systems for classifying and normalizing information using a combination of traditional data input methods, natural language processing, and predetermined templates are disclosed. One method may include activating a template. Based on this template, template-specific data may also be retrieved. After receiving both an input stream of data and ... 10/13/05 - 20050228814 - Dynamic materialization of disappearing entities In various embodiments, a method, apparatus and article of manufacture display information. A first subset of information of the file is presented in a scrollable area. The first subset of information comprises, at least in part, a second subset of information. The second subset of information is designated as a ... 10/13/05 - 20050228813 - Method for communicating and controlling data A method for communicating and controlling data, for example information data concerning intellectual property rights pertaining to a product, provides to arrange and organise a list of data defined by at least an alphanumeric code that identifies the existence of intellectual property rights for protecting a product, and to make ... 10/13/05 - 20050228812 - System and method for accessing different types of back end data stores The present discloses a framework that allows a synchronization engine to synchronize data between a mobile device and Back End data stores independently from the architecture and data formats of that Back End data store. The framework introduces content adapters, which access synchronization data from backend data systems. These adapters ... 10/06/05 - 20050223025 - System and method for automating the assembly, processing and delivery of documents A system for automating the assembly, processing and delivery of documents includes a plurality of transport clients, a work queue, a scheduler, a plurality of rendering objects, a plurality of transport objects and a routing table. The transport clients are each responsible for acquisition of data necessary to generate the ... 10/06/05 - 20050223024 - User-definable hierarchy for database management Methods, systems and computer readable media for users of a shared database, file system, or other similar software system to browse files or records in the database according to any of the files' attributes in a standard hierarchical tree structure. Methods, systems and computer readable media that enable users to ... 10/06/05 - 20050223023 - Generating pages suitable for viewing over the internet A method is provided of generating a plurality of pages suitable for viewing over the Internet with hyperlinks interconnecting said pages, wherein each page includes a plurality of hyperlinks arranged to represent a portion of a hierarchical navigation system. The method comprises the steps of storing a plurality of content ... 10/06/05 - 20050223022 - Custom entities and fields in a multi-tenant database system Systems and methods for hosting variable schema data such as dynamic tables and columns in a fixed physical database schema. Standard objects, such as tables are provided for use by multiple tenants or organizations in a multi-tenant database system. Each organization may add or define custom fields for inclusion in ... 10/06/05 - 20050223021 - Providing enterprise information Separate executable agents each perform tasks on associated information that is changing over time, to produce current information, Inputs and outputs are delivered among agents to enable assembly of a body of aggregated and summarized management information, based on the current information, to be used to manage at least a ... 10/06/05 - 20050223020 - Generating and analyzing business process-aware modules Techniques are disclosed for efficiently analyzing measurement data for business processes (for example, in a service provider environment). Business process-aware modules or “cubes” are created from the measurement data, using features of a spatially-enabled database system. A “drill-down” approach is provided for investigating underlying information for a cube (including lower-level ... 10/06/05 - 20050223019 - Block-level sampling in statistics estimation System and apparatus for using block-level sampling for histograms construction as well as distinct-value estimations. For histogram construction, the system implements a two-phase adaptive method in which the sample size required to reach a desired accuracy is decided based on a first phase sample. This method is significantly faster than ... 09/29/05 - 20050216500 - Data query and location through a central ontology model A data query system including a first storage medium including a data schema having a data schema query language associated therewith, a second storage medium including an ontology model including classes and properties, the ontology model having an ontology query language associated therewith, wherein constructs of the database schema are ... 09/29/05 - 20050216499 - System and method for multiple table entry selections Multiple entries in a table are selected or deselected by designating a particular data field of a first entry. The selection state of other entries, the content of whose corresponding data field matches that of the first entry, is toggled. The data field may be designated by selecting a data ... 09/29/05 - 20050216498 - Data storage system interface This invention relates to a method of and an apparatus for providing an interface between a client and one or more data storage systems. Existing approaches to the management of multiple, distributed heterogeneous data storage systems are deficient in that they are inflexible to change. To alleviate these deficiencies there ... 09/22/05 - 20050210061 - Rendering tables with natural language commands The present invention relates to a method of manipulating a software application and processing data stored in a data source. The method includes receiving a natural language input and analyze the natural language input to identify semantic information contained therein. Portions of the natural language input are associated with command ... 09/22/05 - 20050210060 - Driver database auto-configuration methods and means A method and system of administering an MFP connected to a network comprising discovering an MFP; building an MFP database comprising data regarding the MFP discovered; discovering a driver; building a driver database comprising data identifying at least one MFP the driver is applicable to; and building a relationship database ... 09/22/05 - 20050210059 - Method and system for creation and retrieval of global annotations Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for managing global annotations made for data elements that may be instantiated (e.g., displayed) by a variety of different type applications are provided. By anchoring the global annotations to the data element, rather than the particular data source containing the data element at the ... 09/22/05 - 20050210058 - 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 ... 09/15/05 - 20050203946 - Method for data maintenance in a network of partially replicated database systems Methods and systems for data maintenance in an offline-distributed database network system, which comprises a central system having a central database, and node systems having local databases capable of containing different subsets of data from the central database. First, change information relating to data stored in at least one of ... 09/15/05 - 20050203945 - Method and apparatus for implementing a conditional payload server A system and method for implementing a conditional payload server are provided. A request for a payload corresponding to a subset of client attributes is obtained. Additionally, one or more payload(s) is obtained in which each payload defines criteria for delivering the payload. The criteria for delivering each payload are ... 09/15/05 - 20050203944 - Apparatus, system, and method for facilitating transactions between thin-clients and message format service (mfs)-based information management system (ims) applications An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for facilitating conversational and non-conversational transactions between thin-clients and MFS-based IMS applications. The method includes storing conversation attributes associated with a conversational transaction between a thin-client and an MFS-based IMS application, the conversation attributes comprising connection information and conversation-specific information. Next, one or ... 09/15/05 - 20050203943 - Personalized classification for browsing documents The present invention provides document classification methods, apparatus and systems for browsing documents in the Internet. The method includes the steps of: creating a plurality of categories on the server side, assigning the documents to be browsed by the user to the corresponding categories, and managing said plurality of categories ... 09/15/05 - 20050203942 - User interfaces and software reuse in model based software systems In a model based software system, a set of business rules is scanned, and patterns are identified. The patterns are then compared, and similarities identified which indicate that software can be reused in the system. In one embodiment, identifiers of the rules are scanned. In another embodiment, usage patterns are ... 09/15/05 - 20050203941 - Monitoring device used for producing compositions The present invention is directed to a monitoring device for producing a target composition, such as an automotive paint or an architectural paint. The device includes a client computer in communication with a host computer and means for dispensing required items for making a desired amount of the target composition. ... 09/15/05 - 20050203940 - Database system with methodology for automated determination and selection of optimal indexes A database system with methodology for automated determination and selection of optimal indexes is described. In one embodiment, for example, in a database system, a method of the present invention is described for recommending database indexes to be created for optimizing system performance, the method comprises steps of: capturing a ... 09/15/05 - 20050203939 - Method and system for facilitating access to external data A system for providing application access to external data uses a data component that translates requests for data into .NET objects. The .NET objects are used to retrieve information from a variety of different data sources that contain data stored in a number of different formats. The data component retrieves ... 09/15/05 - 20050203938 - Platform-independent data dictionary A server system may include a data dictionary to store platform-independent data types. A development client may access and modify a platform-independent data type stored in the data dictionary. The server system may notify other development clients using the data type that the data type has been modified. ... 09/15/05 - 20050203937 - Map data product, map data processing program product, map data processing method, and map data processing device A first data product that can be read into a computer or a map data processing apparatus, contains therein map data having map-related information of a map. The map data includes: a structure having the map-related information divided into units of a plurality of divisions into which the map is ... 09/08/05 - 20050198063 - Methods for remote monitoring and control of appliances over a computer network The remote monitoring and controlling of controllable devices is provided by sending control information to and receiving status information from information appliances over a network. A user is able to monitor the information appliances from a remote location, and control the information appliances from the remote location. The remote monitoring ... 09/08/05 - 20050198062 - Method and apparatus for accelerating data access operations in a database system Data access operations in a database system may be accelerated by allowing the memory cache to be supplemented with a disk cache. The disk cache can store data that isn't able to fit in the memory cache and, since it doesn't contain the primary copy of the data for the ... 09/08/05 - 20050198061 - Process and product for selectively processing data accesses In a method according to an embodiment of the invention, it is determined whether there is an attempt by a device to access data representing music. If there is such an attempt by the device one of various actions may be performed, such as providing an offer to purchase an ... 09/08/05 - 20050198060 - Xml document classifying method for storage system An XML document classifying method includes the steps of: classifying a plurality of XML documents stored in a storage unit, depending on whether a specific element/attribute is present in the XML documents and based on the identity of the value of the element/attribute; generating a folder hierarchical expression wherein the ... 09/08/05 - 20050198059 - Database and database management system The database management system of this invention is used to manage a database of a plurality of data files and comprises: a data file access module to access particular data file to obtain content of said data file, to edit and to restore; an index analyzing module to analyze said ... 09/08/05 - 20050198058 - Services offering delivery method A software product having numerous configurable objects and views is implemented for a services client. Once a configuration is planned, the impacted views and objects are automatically determined and presented to the installer in spreadsheet form. The installer configures the application by modifying data in the spreadsheets in accordance with ... 09/08/05 - 20050198057 - Mechanism for efficiently implementing object model attributes A data structure and method for defining and manipulating object model attributes within a meta-model is provided. The data structure may include a model element class which functions as a base class for storage of attribute values. A model element field handler object provides accessing and setting of the attribute ... 09/01/05 - 20050193000 - Method for the processing and visualization of distributed stored data A method for processing and displaying distributed stored data, where each particular data record is provided with objects (1 to 7) to be processed and displayed separately. Objects are arranged so as to be distributed within a network topology of a data processing system, such that the objects are each ... 09/01/05 - 20050192999 - System and method of virtualizing physical locations The system and method provide an intuitive and user-friendly way to store information about physical locations on a computer network. In particular, a physical location information collection is created and stored on a computer network at a network address that corresponds to the physical address of the physical location to ... 09/01/05 - 20050192998 - Automatic reduction of table memory footprint using column cardinality information In a business system, one or more methods can be used to reduce an amount of redundancy in the storage of data. One implementation includes a method of reducing a memory footprint of a database table having multiple rows and one or more columns, in which each of the one ... 09/01/05 - 20050192997 - Method of addressing query scheduling and system resource requirements Method, system and article of manufacture for scheduling queries. In particular, the scheduling options made available to a user for a particular unit of work are determined dynamically at the time of scheduling. In this way, the execution cost, for example, of a particular unit of work can be taken ... 09/01/05 - 20050192996 - Value-instance-connectivity computer-implemented database A computer-implemented database and method providing an efficient, ordered reduced space representation of multi-dimensional data. The data values for each attribute is stored in a manner that provides an advantage in, for example, space usage and/or speed of access, such as in sort order and/or condensed form. Instances of each ... 08/25/05 - 20050187968 - File splitting, scalable coding, and asynchronous transmission in streamed data transfer Files are divided into parts and at least some of the parts are transmitted to a client using a communication channel. At least some of the transmitted parts are cached locally. This allows subsequent streaming playback of the file while using less bandwidth by transmitting the part of the file ... 08/25/05 - 20050187967 - Dynamic presentation of web content Dynamic presentation of web content is provided. One embodiment comprises a computer system for dynamically presenting market channel information associated with items on a web site to a customer. One such computer system comprises: a data service containing information for a plurality of products and a plurality of market participants; ... 08/25/05 - 20050187966 - Data communicating apparatus, data communicating method, and program A data communicating method is disclosed for use with a user terminal, the method preventing both members of a given group including the terminal and nonmembers from intercepting, tampering with or falsifying data communicated between the members without recourse to a plurality of encryption keys. In a first step, validity ... 08/25/05 - 20050187965 - Grouping multimedia and streaming media search results A method and system for grouping metadata search results associated with media on a computer network, such as multimedia and streaming media include binning and iterative masking. The media metadata has an associated media file, which has an associated uniform resource locator (URL). Each URL has at least one field, ... 08/25/05 - 20050187964 - Method and apparatus for retrieving natural language text A method for retrieving data from a set of natural language texts, includes the steps of storing the units of the natural language texts and fixed-length codes into a conversion-code table relating each unit uniquely to each code; constructing a coded-text database which stores a set of coded texts produced ... 08/25/05 - 20050187963 - Security and compliance testing system and method for computer systems A security and compliance testing system comprises a vulnerabilities, regulations, priority, and results database. A relational database maps the contents of the vulnerabilities and regulations databases to each other. A target is tested and discovered vulnerabilities are mapped to violated regulations with the relational database. The violations are then prioritized ... 08/25/05 - 20050187962 - Searchable archive A searchable archiving system. A searchable archiving system includes one or more compacted files of archive data loosely coupled to a search process. To create a compacted file, an archiving process tokenizes the archive data, optimizes the tokenized archive data, and extracts archive metadata from the tokenized data. The tokenized ... 08/25/05 - 20050187961 - Guest data management method and apparatus for navigation system A guest data management method and apparatus for a navigation system is capable of creating, editing and using a guest database storing various types of information regarding guests, tour destinations associated with the guests, and comments by guests or user regarding the destinations, etc., for use with a navigation system. ... 08/18/05 - 20050182787 - Intelligent rendering on a mobile computing device A solution is provided wherein step information is intelligently rendered on a mobile computing device. A current page is created based on a default size. The step may then be placed on the current page below any previous steps. A height allocated for the step may then be increased if ... 08/18/05 - 20050182786 - Information processing system, server apparatus, control method of server apparatus, program and storage medium It is an object of this invention to alleviate the complicatedness of an operation of uploading an image file held in a client apparatus to an album site. To achieve this object, a server apparatus of the album site has a data storage area DB, and manages data in relation ... 08/18/05 - 20050182785 - Smart database A solution is provided wherein only primary keys are used as meta-data to construct many-to-many relationships between table, resulting in amore robust, efficient database structure. Once tables of user-specific data are bound to the database as meta-data using their primary keys, the system may automatically ensure the handling of the ... 08/18/05 - 20050182784 - Result set formatting and processing The select list for the query is thus constructed such that it produces a result set having a predefined structure. Columns representing identifier properties of an entity are added to the select list. If the entity is an inheritance entity or a collection, then entities from a least derived entity ... 08/18/05 - 20050182783 - Method and system for generating help files based on user queries A method and system for generating a help file based on failed user queries. A help file generation system collects failed user queries from user computer systems. The generation system assists a developer in identifying failed user queries that are related to a topic. The generation system then updates the ... 08/18/05 - 20050182782 - Apparatus and method for enabling parallel processing of a computer program using existing database parallelism An apparatus and method enable parallelism in a computer program using parallelism that is built-in to many modem database managers. The parallelism provided by a database manager in executing user-defined functions provides an easy way to implement parallelism for database and non-database functions in a computer program without the need ... 08/18/05 - 20050182781 - System for consulting and/or updating dns servers and/or ldap directories A database in a system for consulting and/or updating one or more resource records, is stored by a domain name server, (DNS server), or a directory server, (the LDAP server), indirectly accessed from a DNS server. A communication arrangement enables the system to receive from a telecommunication terminal a request ... 08/11/05 - 20050177593 - Dynamic adaptive distributed computer system A system, methods and apparatus are described involving the self-organizing dynamics of networks of distributed computers. The system is comprised of complex networks of databases. The system presents a novel database architecture called the distributed transformational spatio-temporal object relational (T-STOR) database management system (dbms). Data is continuously input, analyzed, organized, ... 08/11/05 - 20050177592 - System for searching for data and defining data in tree structures and method of searching and defining data in tree structures The present invention relates to a system of searching and defining data in tree structures. The system includes a block of analysis of data structure (2), in which the data structure, which is created by data sources (1) connected to the block of data structure analysis (2), is analyzed and ... 08/11/05 - 20050177591 - Storage system for managing data with predetermined retention periods Time information from a time server may be incorrect because of human mistakes or cracking. This may cause time errors of one year or more and then data recorded in a storage device might be altered or deleted before their retention periods expire, which would lead to serious troubles. Provided ... 08/11/05 - 20050177590 - Low-overhead built-in timestamp column for relational database systems An improved automatically updated timestamp for database systems is disclosed. The automatically updated timestamp can be provided in a hidden timestamp column for a table, where the value of the timestamp column can be retrieved with a query that calls the column by name. Optionally, the timestamp column can be ... 08/11/05 - 20050177589 - System and method for providing user defined types in a database system A database system and method allows a user to write program code in a high-level programming language that implements a class that defines the structure of a user-defined type and methods that can be invoked on instances of the type. The class is then registered with the database system, which ... 08/04/05 - 20050171970 - Method and apparatus for efficient management of xml documents An in-memory storage manager represents XML-compliant documents as a collection of objects in memory. The collection of objects allows the storage manager to manipulate the document, or parts of the document with a consistent interface and to provide for features that are not available in conventional XML documents, such as ... 08/04/05 - 20050171969 - Computer network security data management system and method A software based system for compiling security data from an information network includes at least two network components, each providing data. A data parser is coupled to certain of the network's components. The data parser has access to two parser scripts that correspond to the network's component data. Categorized data ... 08/04/05 - 20050171968 - System and method for providing a logical view of a data source A logical view of a data source may be provided. The data source may include a number of data source objects organized according to a data source schema. The data source schema may be retrieved or inferred, and the data source objects may be identified from the data source schema. ... 07/28/05 - 20050165831 - System and method for compiling and displaying a pruned information set The processing system 10 is disclosed which uses a user interface 12 to interact with the search and control engine 16 and the display engine 18. The search and control engine 16 operates on a data set 14 to identify specific elements within a directory structure. Display engine 18 compiles ... 07/28/05 - 20050165830 - Application programming interfaces for an on-demand property system The application programming interfaces described herein are directed at property management mechanisms that operate within an on-demand property system. The property management mechanisms support the caching of property values on an as needed basis, allow a plurality of object instances to utilize the same property via attached properties, overriding default ... 07/28/05 - 20050165829 - Systems, methods and computer program products for developing enterprise software applications A software development system and associated methodologies for a business solution including the steps of creating a document having a plurality of variations, defining for the document a plurality of data elements, rows and columns of data from which to populate the document, designating for each data element an attribute ... 07/28/05 - 20050165828 - Caching media data using content sensitive object identifiers Techniques for caching media data, including streaming media data, using content-sensitive identifiers. The content-sensitive identifiers enable a caching proxy or a caching server to unambiguously determine the version or contents of media data cached by the caching proxy for a particular data pointer or data reference (e.g., a URL) such ... 07/28/05 - 20050165827 - Systems and methods for customizing objects Systems and methods are provided for customizing objects, such as customization objects. Such systems and methods may include displaying names of one or more predefined parameter sets for a customization object which have been entered previously, displaying a first entry field for entering a name of an additional parameter set ... 07/28/05 - 20050165826 - Apparatus, system, and method for automatically generating a web interface for an mfs-based ims application An apparatus, system, and method are provided for automatically generating a web interface for an MFS-based IMS application. The apparatus, system, and method include an import module that imports MFS-based IMS source files corresponding to an MFS-based IMS application. A metadata generator stores a standardized metadata description of the Message ... 07/28/05 - 20050165825 - Automatic query clustering The present invention relates to a system and methodology for automatic clusterization and display of data items in a local or remote database system. Such clusterization can be based on properties associated with the data items such as a type, location, people, date, time, user-defined, and so forth, wherein an ... 07/28/05 - 20050165824 - Selective multi level expansion of data base via pivot point data Systems and methodologies are provided for data visualization, retrieval and management of a logically ordered list by a selective multi level expansion of pivot point data. Such pivot points can represent hierarchy expansion designators to a subsequent level, which can include user created groups/clusters of data. The present invention facilitates ... 07/28/05 - 20050165823 - Binary dependency database The present invention facilitates the analysis of binaries, components, configurations, and their footprints for component design and optimization. Complete and meaningful binary, component, configuration, and footprint information allows formal methods for component analysis and configuration optimization. A binary dependency database persists and stores binary dependency information. The binary dependency database ... 07/28/05 - 20050165822 - Systems and methods for business process automation, analysis, and optimization A method of carrying out a business process includes obtaining an entity model representative of an entity to which a task associated with said business process can be assigned, obtaining a work model representative of a task to be assigned to said entity, and assigning said task to said entity ... 07/28/05 - 20050165821 - Method and system for delivering of messages A method, and infrastructure supporting the same, for enabling the supply of data to a predetermined group of recipients (14), each of which has a means (24) for displaying messages carried in said data and received electronically via a communications channel (28). A host (10) provides an electronic communications facility ... 07/21/05 - 20050160111 - Methods and systems for providing playlists Various systems and methods described above permit a user's content experience (e.g. music playing experience) to be monitored and for metadata describing this experience to be collected. This metadata can be dynamically updated as a user experiences media content and then used to impart to the user a personalized experience ... 07/21/05 - 20050160110 - Apparatus, system, and method for defining a metadata schema to facilitate passing data between an extensible markup language document and a hierarchical database An apparatus, system, and method are provided for defining a metadata schema to facilitate passing data between an XML document and a hierarchical database. The invention includes a database accessor, a document accessor, and an association module. The database accessor accesses a database schema indicative of database field names and ... 07/14/05 - 20050154754 - User interface and operating system for presenting the contents of a content collection based on content type An apparatus and method for execution in a graphical user interface environment are provided. The apparatus and method are used to display a set of items within a content collection, such as a set of files within a folder on a computer operating system. The method includes obtaining data from ... 07/14/05 - 20050154753 - Human relationships registering system, method and device for registering human relationships, program for registering human relationships, and medium storing human relationships registering program and readable by computer To provide a human relationships registering system, a method and a server for registering human relationships, a program for registering human relationships, and a medium storing human relationships registering program and readable by a computer, all of which are used to establish wide and close relationships with members having a ... 07/14/05 - 20050154752 - Display apparatus and method that display navigatable objects A display apparatus and method that display directions in which objects navigatable from a currently activated object are located. The display apparatus includes a display unit, which displays an application program, an application program executing unit, which executes the application program so that the application program is displayed on a ... 07/14/05 - 20050154751 - System and method for comprehensive management of company equity structures and related company documents with financial and human resource system integration A system comprises business logic operable for managing and administering company entities, records, documents, equity instruments, and stakeholders, a database storing data associated with the business logic, integration logic operable to integrate the business logic and its associated data with existing enterprise systems and data associated therewith, and a graphical ... 07/14/05 - 20050154750 - Methods and apparatus for generating automated graphics using stored graphics examples A technique is provided for generating automated graphics in response to a user request. A measure of similarity between the user request and one or more stored graphics examples is determined. At least one stored graphics example is obtained based on the similarity measure. Graphics are created from the at ... 07/14/05 - 20050154749 - Method and arrangement for automated provision of service hints A method and arrangement for assisting in correct diagnosis of a problem exhibited by a product having at least one component couples a database to various organizations within an entity responsible for design, manufacture and/or distribution of the product. An observed problem with the product is associated with a component ... 07/14/05 - 20050154748 - Analytical task execution One embodiment of the invention provides a computer system that is operable to invoke multiple executions of an analytical task in response to receiving a request for analytical information from a front-end software application. In this embodiment, the computer system is programmed to use the request to identify a first ... 07/07/05 - 20050149553 - Logical semantic compression Individual records of a data set include data and semantic information to describe the data. The records in the data set are encoded to generate an encoded data set using a compression function which is determined from semantic information that is common to multiple records of the data set. Multiple ... 07/07/05 - 20050149552 - Method of generating data servers for heterogeneous data sources A query system (1600) is formed by a wizard (1605) operating to form a data server (1610) arranged to serve data from a data source (1615) to a client application (1630), each of the wizard, the client application, the data server and the data source being linked by a communications ... 07/07/05 - 20050149551 - Systems and methods for co-axial navigation of a user interface Improved systems and methods for navigating media via a user interface, such as a user interface provided on a handheld or portable computing device, are provided. The methods for navigating media of the invention extend the navigation experience by allowing bi-axial context shifts, e.g., with respect to substantially orthogonal directions, ... 07/07/05 - 20050149550 - Linked dimensions and measure groups The ability to link dimensions and measure groups in one analysis database to a second database is provided. This feature enables the use of the dimension or measure group without physically creating and managing the contents of the cube so defined. ... 07/07/05 - 20050149549 - Content management in web environments Techniques for generating portions of a web environment provide for an automated or semi-automated generation of a web site. A user interface adapted to allow a user to configure parameters relating to a set of predefined components for a web environment is presented. Data defining the parameters for the web ... 07/07/05 - 20050149548 - One-way data mirror using copy-on-write Methods and systems for one-way data mirror are described herein. In one aspect of the invention, the exemplary process includes receiving a first data being written to a data block on a first storage volume, indicating the data block being stored on a first storage image, the indication information being ... 06/30/05 - 20050144192 - Support for real-time queries concerning current state, data and history of a process A computer-implemented method is provided for defining interesting portions of a workflow of a business or other type of process. Using a tracking profile editor, a portion of a given workflow is selected and associated with a named process part. Items of payload data to be used in reports are ... 06/30/05 - 20050144191 - Support for real-time queries concerning current state, data and history of a process A computer-implemented method is provided for defining interesting portions of a workflow of a business or other type of process. Using a tracking profile editor, a portion of a given workflow is selected and associated with a named process part. Items of payload data to be used in reports are ... 06/30/05 - 20050144190 - Information managing method, information managing apparatus, information managing program and storage medium There is disclosed an information managing method in which a plurality of information files are set as managing objects, the method includes (a) acquiring one or two classification standards which are standards to classify the information files, (b) selecting one of classification units of each of the acquired classification standards, ... 06/30/05 - 20050144189 - Electronic item management and archival system and method of operating the same An electronic item management and archival system for managing and archiving items. In some embodiments, each item includes at least one of image data, audio data, and video data. The system can include a server configured to receive items, archive at least one of the received items to an archive, ... 06/23/05 - 20050138063 - Method and system for service providers to personalize event notifications to users Personalized notifications are delivered to end users. A service provider receives, a content description from a content provider. The content description defines keywords, values attached to each keyword and a localization of values attached to each keyword in a piece of content. Each time a subscription request for a notification ... 06/23/05 - 20050138062 - Method, computer program, apparatus and system for the selective communication of data sets Method for selectively communicating data sets. The method includes the steps of detecting at least one data set of a first user, the data set being communicated via an at least unidirectional connection, detecting at least one data set of at least one second user, comparing at least one part ... 06/23/05 - 20050138061 - Automatic policy generation based on role entitlements and identity attributes Policies defining the entitlements to be assigned to a new identity joining a role are automatically generated. An automatic policy assigns a new identity the entitlements commonly owned by a predetermined number of identities in the role, which may be all of the role identities. A conditional policy recommends that ... 06/23/05 - 20050138060 - Automated process flow in product development The invention relates to a computer-implemented method, computer program, computer program product, data structure, and computer for providing automated process flow in product development. A structured data object may be defined comprising at least one recipe and at least one defined formula. Trial stages within said product development are also ... 06/23/05 - 20050138059 - Framework for shared physical models in a multi-database installation The present invention is a method, system and apparatus for generating parameterized installation scripts to accommodate the installation of multiple databases sharing similar physical constructs. The method of the invention can include the step of creating a database which can achieve the foregoing stated advantages of the present invention, a ... 06/23/05 - 20050138058 - Method and system for record association management Embodiments of the present invention relate to forming a network of associations among records of a computer database. The records may relate to logistical operations, and the associations may reflect a status of the logistical operations. According to embodiments, values representing quantities of goods bought, sold and transferred pursuant to ... 06/23/05 - 20050138057 - Data mapping visualization A method and apparatus, including a computer program product, implementing techniques for providing a context building tool that facilitates the building of a context from an existing model or context. The tool can receive a model specification and generate a storage area structure including multiple nodes, each node corresponding to ... 06/23/05 - 20050138056 - System and method for multi-dimensional foraging and retrieval of documents A method for interactive foraging for documents within a corpus of documents includes forming a working set of documents which are a subset of the corpus of documents. A visual representation of the working set and a portion of the corpus other than the working set are generated, and a ... 06/23/05 - 20050138055 - Round robin selection logic improves area efficiency and circuit speed A method and apparatus are provided for efficiently operating a round robin arbitration system in a given computer system. The system utilizes a series of banks of requesters and pointer. The banks of requesters and pointers operate on sequential AND-OR-Inverter/OR-AND-Inverter (AOI/OAI) logic to advance the pointer and efficiently select those ... 06/16/05 - 20050131936 - Methods and systems for performing reliable asynchronous notification of high-level document operations A mechanism is described for the reliable notification to client applications of the implementation of predefined high-level document commands in a database. The database management system is issued a number of high-level document commands such as “move electronic mail message” or “add folder” which are to be implemented in the ... 06/16/05 - 20050131935 - Sector content mining system using a modular knowledge base A content mining system and process utilizes a combination of term recognition and rules-based activity-event classification, performed using a modular database that defines one or more vertical markets or information sectors, to identify sector relevant evidence. The primary elements of the identified evidence are scored in a manner that rates ... 06/16/05 - 20050131934 - Inserting an aid into an answer to a request for a virtual office An aid server (AS) comprises a processing module (PM) which stores a user identifier (UID) and an identifier (SID) of a stage of an application of the virtual office type, said identifiers being retrieved from a request sent by the terminal and designating an action need by the user. The ... 06/16/05 - 20050131933 - Systems and methods for aggregating information exchange requirements A new approach to aggregating a plurality of information exchange requirements (IERs) into a common schema is disclosed. An aggregation method includes the broad steps of tabulating the plurality of IERs into an ordered format, identifying a plurality of commonalities in the ordered format, and formulating the common schema from ... 06/16/05 - 20050131932 - Dynamic content clustering A method and a system for dynamically updating information for publication on the Internet. Meaningful content is extracted from information received from multiple sources such as news sources. The information can contain text, sound, images and video. A set of characterizing features for the received information is determined. Information having ... 06/09/05 - 20050125439 - Method and apparatus for multi-contact scheduling A method and apparatus for generating an agent schedule for a multi-contact center that has immediate queues and deferred queues. In one embodiment, a method includes scheduling software receiving a plurality of scheduling data from a user interface, and the scheduling software generating a plurality of scheduling constraints. The method ... 06/09/05 - 20050125438 - Systems and methods for validating design meta-data A metadata validation process that allows for deferring object model validation until after the objects are created. The process also allows for multi-threaded processing of the validation rules, thus increasing overall performance. Validation is performed by enforcing a series of validation rules on an appropriate subject. Rules are specified according ... 06/09/05 - 20050125437 - Data analysis system and method A data visualisation system for a method of data analysis comprising a database of interaction data between customers and merchants; a display of a graphical spatial representation of at least part of the commercial premises of a merchant; retrieving from the interaction database a plurality of data values representing interactions ... 06/09/05 - 20050125436 - Set-oriented real-time data processing based on transaction boundaries A method is provided for real-time data processing based on data sets or data sets defined by applicable rules or user-defined logic. Also provided is a real-time data processing system that implements such method. Transaction boundaries are set and propagated through cascades of multiple data transformations on multitudes of data ... 06/09/05 - 20050125435 - Text generation and searching method and system A text-generation method and system includes receiving data records, such that each data record includes one or more data fields and a field value associated with each data field. A text-string is generated for each data record, such that each text-string includes one or more text-based data descriptors. Each data ... 06/09/05 - 20050125434 - System and method for scalable cost-sensitive learning A method (and structure) for processing an inductive learning model for a dataset of examples, includes dividing the dataset into N subsets of data and developing an estimated learning model for the dataset by developing a learning model for a first subset of the N subsets. ... 06/02/05 - 20050120047 - System and method for ordering printing of images, and system and method for printing edited images An edited-image printing system includes a client computer and an image server that are capable of communicating data with each other. The client computer includes desired-image deciding means for deciding a desired image that is to be combined with a template image, position deciding means for deciding placement position of ... 06/02/05 - 20050120046 - User interaction and operation-parameter determination system and operation-parameter determination method The present invention provides an interaction-state detection unit and an interaction-state capturing unit for detecting and capturing the current state of an interaction with a user. The present invention further provides a table storing interaction-state data and operation parameters that are paired with one another, an operation-parameter search unit for ... 06/02/05 - 20050120045 - Process for determining recording, and utilizing characteristics of website users The subject invention comprises a process that provides for analyzing characteristics of website users, indicating the behavior modes and attitudes of particular individuals or entities using a given website on the internet from a perspective of both real-time and historical time, with attitude attributes and other relevant attributes extracted from ... 06/02/05 - 20050120044 - Computer system A computer system and method for efficient storage and retrieval of data. The inventive computer system may comprise means for storing data, wherein data are allocated to predetermined categories that are components of at least one stored categorical structure forming an object model, wherein attributes that are inherited within the ... 06/02/05 - 20050120043 - System and method for generating html based on common xslt A method for generating HTML based on common XSLT includes retrieving XML data from a data provider in response to a request from a client, the XML data comprising at least one dataset associated with at least one SVG tag or at least one table tag. The retrieved data is ... 06/02/05 - 20050120042 - Method and apparatus for content filtering A method for filtering content makes use of local filtering agents for end users, and a portal to a network of human reviewing resources. Local filtering agents request content classification for unclassified content. The portal routes requests from local agents to available human reviewing resources. A content classification is provided ... 06/02/05 - 20050120041 - Method of updating entries in a web site database A web page for updating entries in a database is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, a web page is disclosed for entering information received from a user into a database managed by the web site. The web site may be configured to associate the entered information with a database, present ... 06/02/05 - 20050120040 - Network download regulation method and system A system and method by which content, such as a software update, is downloaded in a controlled manner to clients so as to reduce peak demands, by modulating the number of clients that can request (e.g., automatically) to download content. To this end, before any download is requested, each client ... 06/02/05 - 20050120039 - System, method and software for acquiring, storing and retrieving electronic transactions A method, system, apparatus and data structure is described wherein two or more different systems producing electronic data relating to a transaction involving documentation communicated in an electronic form. Copies of the electronic data are processed to identify electronic documentation items and at least one key value associated with an ... 06/02/05 - 20050120038 - Data structure for data streaming system A data structure for storing a data source for a streaming system, the data source including a plurality of encoded data streams, each of the plurality of data streams being an independent representation of data from the data source encoded at a different resolution to the other of the plurality ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |