04th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 58 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120023053 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR QUANTUM COMPUTATION USING REAL PHYSICAL HARDWARE - Iterative approaches to quantum computation are described. Incongruities in the behavior of the various individual elements in a quantum processor may be managed by establishing a set of equivalent configurations for the elements of the quantum processor. The quantum processor is programmed and operated using each equivalent configuration to determine a set of solutions. The solutions are evaluated to determine a preferred solution that best satisfies at least one criterion. Furthermore, thermodynamic effects from operating a quantum processor at non-absolute zero temperature can cause the ground state to be the most probable state into which the system will settle. By running multiple iterations the ground state may be identified as the state with the most frequent reoccurrences. Alternatively, the energy of each unique state may be calculated and the state that corresponds to the lowest energy may be returned as the solution to the problem. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023054 | Device and Method for Creating a Process Model - A method and device for creating a process model, wherein the process model has great expressive power and is intuitively understandable for a human user and is processable by a machine. Creation of the process model is performed by providing a concrete process model, a process meta model, and a mapping of concrete process steps to abstract process steps of the process meta model. It is particularly advantageous that the defined process meta model can be reused in relation to further domain-specific, concrete process models. Accordingly, step-for-step instructions can be semantically enriched, structured, and processed. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023055 | System and method for multi-source semantic content exploration on a TV receiver set - The present invention refers to the field of metadata enhancement system for broadcast televisions program, in particular to provide to the customer more information about a current, past or future broadcast. It concerns a method to enhance transmitted contents, said method starting from the metadata to populate a knowledge database. This method is based on a iterative process to fetch information from open Internet using as search criteria the result of the previous search. The data in the knowledge database are organized in data triple. According to one embodiment, the iterative process is stops when the returned data are related to another content. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023056 | Contextual Decision Logic Elicitation - The present invention is a method of creating decision logic. A first set of rules for the decision logic is received. The user is queried for data and this data is stored in a memory. A first decision is generated for a user based at least in part on the data. Input is received from the user for editing the first set of rules to create a new set of rules for the decision logic in the context of data. A final decision is generated derived at least in part from the data using the new set of rules. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023057 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION RELATED TO A GEOGRAPHIC REGION - Methods and systems for processing information related to a geographic region are disclosed. A method includes determining a probability that at least one difference between a map database and a geographic region represented by the map database is valid based on probe data from the geographic region and at least one change request, the change request being associated with the at least one difference, and storing the probability and the at least one difference in memory. A system includes a processor configured to determine a probability that at least one difference between a map database and a geographic region represented by the map database is valid based on probe data from the geographic region and at least one change request, the change request being associated with the at least one difference, and memory operable coupled to the processor to store the probability and the at least one difference. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023058 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING AUTOMATION SYSTEMS - Systems and methods are disclosed for monitoring operation of an automation system that includes a plurality of interconnected logical objects. The systems and methods may build a fuzzy cognitive map to model an interdependence of the plurality of interconnected logical objects upon one another. In some examples, the systems and methods may identify a non-ideality associated with at least one of the plurality of logical objects and determine from the fuzzy cognitive map an effect of the non-ideality on the operation of the automation system. In some examples, the systems and methods may determine from the fuzzy cognitive map a first one of the plurality of logical objects that affects a second one of the plurality of logical objects to a greater extent than do the remaining ones of the plurality of logical objects. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023059 | Statistical Word Boundary Detection in Serialized Data Streams - Methods, systems, and devices using an algorithm that consists of scoring the bits in the data stream with a periodicity of N, where N is the word-length in bits, and then selecting as the most significant bit the one which receives the highest score after some large number of samples are disclosed. The condition under which bit b | 2012-01-26 |
20120023060 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH AUTOMATIC MODE SWITCHING - An electronic device for predicting or anticipating a user's operational desires. The electronic device is ready to perform the anticipated function without input from the user by using sensors to sense environmental attributes. The sensors can include an ambient light sensor, a force sensor, a temperature sensor, an ambient noise sensor, and a motion sensor. The electronic device also includes a control mechanism for switching between modes for the device. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023061 | ASYMMETRICAL PROCESS PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD - A technique is disclosed for asymmetrically controlling a process parameter based upon the direction of a prediction error between a predicted value determined using an inferential model and a laboratory measurement of the parameter. The present technique provides for the adaptive biasing of the predicted value based upon the direction of the prediction error. In one embodiment, a biasing factor may be determined by filtering the prediction error, such that the prediction error is emphasized more heavily in the biasing factor if the prediction error is in a less tolerable direction and emphasized less heavily if the prediction error is in the opposite direction. The biasing factor may further be determined as a function of a previous biasing factor computed during the process. Asymmetric control of the process parameter may be performed by controlling the parameter using model predictive control techniques based on the biased predicted values of the parameter. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023062 | ROBUST INFORMATION FUSION METHODS FOR DECISION MAKING FOR MULTISOURCE DATA - Methods and systems are provided for developing decision information relating to a single system based on data received from a plurality of sensors. The method includes receiving first data from a first sensor that defines first information of a first type that is related to a system, receiving second data from a second sensor that defines second information of a second type that is related to said system, wherein the first type is different from the second type, generating a first decision model, a second decision model, and a third decision model, determining whether data is available from only the first sensor, only the second sensor, or both the first and second sensors, and selecting based on the determination of availability an additional model to apply the available data, wherein the additional model is selected from a plurality of additional decision models including the third decision model. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023063 | DOCUMENT TRACKING IN HETEROGENEOUS APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTS - A method of naming documents according to a document naming convention (DNC) includes receiving, from any of a plurality of data processing applications (DPAs) within an enterprise, a request for a document name and generating a document name “infix” portion in compliance with the DNC for inclusion in the document name. The prefix may be descriptive of a characteristic of the document and the suffix may indicate a document type, a document format, or both. The infix may include a fixed portion and a modifiable portion. The fixed portion may include a datestamp and a document unification identifier. The infix may include a variable portion that can be modified by a DPA that creates a new or modified document, but the name of the modified document maintains the fixed portion of the original document. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023064 | Parameter Value Binding for Mobile Business Objects - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for facilitating interaction between front-end mobile business objects and back-end enterprise information system data. The approaches described reduce the need for client-visible parameters needed by the enterprise information system, but that can be handled without being directly supplied by a developed of a client application on a mobile device interacting with the enterprise information system via a synchronization server. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023065 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING DATA ON AN OCCASIONALLY CONNECTED MOBILE DEVICE - A system for synchronizing data on an occasionally connected mobile device includes a mobile device with a computer memory storing a plurality of files, an application that causes a change in at least one of the plurality of files, a change detection module configured to detect the change, a message creation module configured to create and queue a message with information regarding the change, a network detection module configured to detect a network connection, and a transmitting module configured to transmit the message when the network connection is detected. A cloud database and a server that receive information regarding the change at the mobile device and also transmit to the mobile device information regarding changes at the server are also described. Methods of synchronizing files across the mobile device, the cloud database, and the server are also described. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023066 | INITIALIZATION PROTOCOL FOR A PEER-TO-PEER REPLICATION ENVIRONMENT - Techniques for initializing a connection in a peer-to-peer database replication environment. A message is received from an initiator node, indicating that the initiator node will begin replicating changes made to a particular data entity. One or more replicated changes relating to the database entity are received from the initiator node. If an updated instance of the data entity does not currently exist on a target node then one or more load operations are performed to create the updated instance. The stored replicated changes may then be processed against the updated instance of the database entity. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023067 | Membership Tracking and Data Eviction in Mobile Middleware Scenarios - Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for ensuring coherency between user data in a client and their corresponding state in enterprise information systems (EIS) wherein data migrates and subscriptions change over time. A mobile business object (MBO) identifies an update to a subscription or a change in set membership in order to provide updates to a client device and EIS systems. Cached data is filtered for client device users who synchronize data they are interested in (i.e., subscribed to). In an embodiment, the method keeps track of set membership by remembering on a per remote identifier/business object basis the set membership for a parent business object. When set membership changes, the method sends delete notifications to the device to remove ex-members. The method recognizes common relationship types in a business scenario and handles reference-type relationships as well as containment-type relationships. The methods include key tracking and membership tracking. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023068 | METHODS OF MULTI-SERVER APPLICATION SYNCHRONIZATION WITHOUT STOPPING I/O - A method according to one embodiment includes receiving a request to perform a backup of data associated with an application running on multiple servers; communicating with I/O Handlers on the servers for initiating a coordinated backup operation on the data at about a same start time; and instructing the I/O Handlers to stretch communication between instances of the application and data storage volumes associated therewith during initiating the backup operation. Additional systems, methods, and computer program products are also disclosed. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023069 | BACKING UP AND RECOVERING A DATABASE - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for recovering a database, distributed in two or more storage devices, based on a backup of each storage device. The backup of each storage device is acquired. In association with the backup for each storage device, a quiesce point indication is acquired. The quiesce point indication indicates backed up data of each storage device. The backed up data is based on a quiesce point. For each storage device, a recovery process is selected. For each storage device, in response to the selected recovery process being a collective copying process, recovering contents of each storage device is done by collective copying. In response to the selected recovery process being to recover based on the quiesce point indication, the contents of each storage device is recovered based on the indicated backed up data of the quiesce point indication. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023070 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORING REDUNDANT INFORMATION - A method and system for reducing storage requirements and speeding up storage operations by reducing the storage of redundant data includes receiving a request that identifies one or more data objects to which to apply a storage operation. For each data object, the storage system determines if the data object contains data that matches another data object to which the storage operation was previously applied. If the data objects do not match, then the storage system performs the storage operation in a usual manner. However, if the data objects do match, then the storage system may avoid performing the storage operation. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023071 | CONVERTING TWO-TIER RESOURCE MAPPING TO ONE-TIER RESOURCE MAPPING - Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for converting a two-tier resource mapping to a one-tier resource mapping. A first mapping from intermediate data buffer to a data destination may be determined. A second mapping from a data source to the intermediate data buffer may also be determined. An optimized mapping from the data source to the data destination may be generated based on the first and second mappings. The optimized mapping may then be used instead of the first and second mappings to collect data from the data source to the data destination, thereby resulting in a one-tier resource mapping. In some instances, the mappings are sets of one or more queries. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023072 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE DELETION OF DATA ASSOCIATED WITH ELECTRONIC GROUPS - A system and method are provided that utilize a mechanism for electronic communication group deletion based on the detection of the completion of the purpose of an event as specified upon creation of the electronic communication group. By specifying the expiry date of a group at the time of creation and notifying members of the expiry date, complete deletion of the group can be performed on the server side to conserve memory, while enabling group members to save content locally before the group is deleted. Upon creating a group, an expiry date can be set for the group and this expiry date and a purpose therefor notified to the members that join the group, and users are then able to join the group. Upon detecting the expiry date, the group members can be notified and permitted to perform a local save, extend the expiry date, etc. The server may then delete its copy of the data and the client devices enable or enforce deletion locally to recapture storage space. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023073 | Efficient Indexing of Documents with Similar Content - A set of documents may be stored and indexed as a compressed sequence of tokens. A set of documents are grouped into clusters. Sequences of tokens representing the clusters of documents are encoded to elide some repeating instances of tokens. A compressed sequence of tokens is generated from the compressed cluster sequences of tokens. Queries on the compressed sequence are performed by identifying cluster sequences within the compressed sequence that are likely to have documents that satisfy the query and then identifying, within these identified clusters, the documents that actually satisfies the query. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023074 | SCALABLE RULE-BASED DATA SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Exemplary scalable, rule-based data synchronization systems and methods are disclosed. An exemplary method includes at least one computing device executing a database trigger process in response to a database trigger event, the database trigger process including writing a general data message to a general message repository. The method further includes the at least one computing device executing an independent process including monitoring the general message repository, detecting the general data message in the general message repository, and processing, in response to the detecting of the general data message in the general message repository, the general data message in accordance with a predefined set of rules. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023075 | DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION TOOLBAR IN A DOCUMENT CREATIONAPPLICATION - A toolbar in a document creation application provides the ability to classify documents based on specific properties such as security classification. The toolbar through dropdown selections allows users to select the appropriate classification and properties based upon the content of the document and have appropriate classifiers added to the document. Document classification properties are generated that are associated with the document in the document properties and by inserting visual markings that allow users to quickly identify the security, sensitivity, intended distribution or retention. By utilizing the classification toolbar a user can classify an document by one or more classification levels and be ensured that the classification will be visible to any person viewing the document. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023076 | AUTOMATED CHANGE APPROVAL - An automated method for facilitating management of a data processing environment is disclosed. In various embodiments, the method may include facilitating creation of a first memorialization, in digital form, of first one or more changes made to a first data processing device of the data processing environment. In various embodiments, the method may further include facilitating creation of a second and a third memorialization, both in digital form, of second and third one or more changes made to a second and a third data processing device of the data processing environment, respectively. In various embodiments, the method may still further include facilitating automated approval of the second and third changes made to the second and third data processing devices, using the first, second and third memorializations. Other embodiments of the present invention may include, but are not limited to, apparatus adapted to facilitate practice of the above-described method. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023077 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATABASE NOTIFICATION INTERFACE TO EFFICIENTLY IDENTIFY EVENTS AND CHANGED DATA - Systems and methods for providing notifications of changes made in a database table to a remote application is presented. The system and methods manage change notification of a table in a database by notifying an application registered to receive notifications of changes made to a database table. A database manager executing on a device may receive a request to register an application to be notified when a first table of a plurality of tables in a database is changed. The database manager may establish a notification table comprising fields of the first table and one or more additional fields for managing notification. The database manager may establish a trigger on the first table to invoke a trigger procedure to copy a changed row of the first table to the notification table. The database manager may create a rule for the notification table to notify registered applications when a new row is inserted into the notification table | 2012-01-26 |
20120023078 | NON-DESTRUCTIVE DATA STORAGE - Non-destructive data storage is disclosed. An information change is stored that is associated with a business object such that tracking of the information change is enabled with respect to one a transaction time and/or an effective time. The stored information change is accessed with respect to a time. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023079 | METHOD OF XML DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT TO SELECTIVELY CANCEL SPECIFIC PAST OPERATION AND SYSTEM USING THE SAME - Disclosed are an XML document management method for cancelling a specific past operation, and a system using the same. The method comprises identifying an original operation to be cancelled, identifying an XML resource to be cancelled, identifying a previous value of the XML resource to be cancelled, identifying a next value of the XML resource to be cancelled, configuring a cancel operation, and applying the cancel operation to the XML resource to be cancelled. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023080 | ENCODING A SCHEMA VERSION IN TABLE NAMES - The subject matter of this disclosure can be implemented in, among other things, a device that includes processors, a data repository, and a table version module configured to create a first version of a database within the data repository using a first version of a database schema that defines a set of tables for the database, and receive a result that is responsive to a command, such that when the result indicates a success condition, execution of the command allows access to data contained in the database and verification of the database schema version, wherein the result does not include database schema version information. The device further includes means for executing the command to access the data, wherein the command includes one or more encoded table names, and wherein each of the encoded table names included in the command is generated based on at least a database schema version identifier. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023081 | CUSTOMIZING SEARCH HOME PAGES USING INTEREST INDICATORS - Methods and systems for utilizing images of interest to a user, so far as they relate to recent, current or upcoming events, to generate custom search engine home pages are provided. Upon receiving a request from the user to view the search engine home page, it is determined whether any indicators of the user's interests are available. If one or more interest indicators is available, the indicator(s) are compared to interest indicators (or categories of indicators) associated with recent, current and/or upcoming events to determine if there is a common interest indicator/category there between. Upon determining that there is a common interest indicator/category between one or more events and the user, a custom image is selected for presentation in association with the search engine home page based upon the common interest indicator/category. The search engine home page with the custom-selected image is then presented to the user. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023082 | Longest Prefix Match Using Binary Search Tree - Longest Prefix Match (LPM) is implemented using a binary tree based search algorithm. Masked entries are stored in a plurality of binary search engines, wherein each of the binary search engines stores masked entries of a corresponding mask length. A search value is applied to each of the binary search engines in parallel. The search value is masked within each of the binary search engines, thereby creating a plurality of masked search values, each having a masked length equal to the mask length of the corresponding binary search engine. Each of the masked search values is compared with the masked entries of the corresponding binary search engine. An LPM result is selected from the binary search engine that detects a match, and has the longest corresponding mask length. Alternately, each binary search engine stores masked entries of N mask lengths, and N consecutive comparisons are performed to identify the LPM. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023083 | University Job Search Engine - A plurality of job candidates have corresponding candidate profiles. Each candidate may be associated with a corresponding candidate entity. For example, the job candidates may be students or recent graduates of universities, in which case the candidate profile of each candidate is associated with that candidate's university. Each university may block one or more criteria in its candidates' profiles from being searched. A computer-implemented system matches the candidate profiles with job profiles provided by employers. The matching process takes into account the criteria blocked by the candidate entities (e.g., universities). As a result, when the matching process matches a particular job profile against a particular candidate profile, the matching process does not match criteria in the particular job profile which are blocked by the profile of the candidate entity associated with the particular candidate profile. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023084 | Computer-Implemented System And Method For Providing Searchable Online Media Content - A computer-implemented system and method for providing searchable online media content is provided. A data store is maintained through an online media server. Media content, including device-playable data provided for dynamic online use, is stored. Media metadata, including markers synchronized to sections of the device-playable data, is also stored. The media content and media metadata are functionally combined through a layered network architecture. The data store is provided as a data layer. Applications are provided within a client layer that execute on a client interconnected to the network. Service interfaces are provided within a data access layer, which are each accessible by at least one of the applications. The media content and the media metadata are combined in response to a request received through a service interface from one of the applications. The combined media content and media metadata are served to the requesting application including streaming the device-playable data. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023085 | SOCIAL GRAPH SEARCH SYSTEM - A social graph search system is in communication with a social network website in order to provide customized search results based on the social network of a particular user, including appreciation information associated to each business listing and demographic information retrieved from the social network. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023086 | SEARCHING APPARATUS AND A METHOD OF SEARCHING - A search engine at a service provider is configured to identify commercial suppliers in response to a keyword specified by a user. Keywords are received and searches are performed on an index database to identify displayable text items. Images are stored in the form of commercially relevant graphical images such as logos. A logo is linked to each item of displayable text and an output list is produced in which each text item includes a displayable graphical image. The system may store different image formats to allow the graphical images to be displayed on a variety of platforms. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023087 | Computer-to-Computer Communication - A computer-implemented method for information sharing between computers includes receiving at a computer system a search request from a first computer, generating with the computer system one or more search results that are responsive to the first computer, formatting the results for display on a second computer that is different than the first computer, and automatically providing the results for display on the second computer. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023088 | Location-Based Searching - In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and programs for providing location-based information. A geographical location of a mobile computing device is received at a server system. A request for content is received at the server system and from the mobile computing device. A search area that corresponds to the geographical location is selected by the sever system. The search area is selected from among a collection of search areas that correspond to the geographical location. At least one of the search areas in the collection is geographically nested within at least one other of the search areas. A search result that is most-relevantly ranked for the selected search area is determined by the server system. Content that represents the determined search result is provided by the server system and for receipt by the mobile computing device. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023089 | METHOD TO SEARCH A TASK-BASED WEB INTERACTION - Presented is a method, system and computer readable product to search a task-based web interaction. A task-based web interaction search query is provided to a search engine. The search results are classified into a set of information parameters. The information parameters are compared against a repository containing multiple sets of information parameters. Upon identification of a corresponding set of information parameters, a task-based web interaction associated with the identified set of information parameters is presented. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023090 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR PROVIDING INTERNET-BASED PROXY SERVICES - A proxy server receives, from multiple visitors of multiple client devices, a plurality of requests for actions to be performed on identified network resources belonging to a plurality of origin servers. At least some of the origin servers belong to different domains and are owned by different entities. The proxy server and the origin servers are also owned by different entities. The proxy server analyzes each request it receives to determine whether that request poses a threat and whether the visitor belonging to the request poses a threat. The proxy server blocks those requests from visitors that pose a threat or in which the request itself poses a threat. The proxy server transmits the requests that are not a threat and is from a visitor that is not a threat to the appropriate origin server. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023091 | System and Method for Enabling Website Owner to Manage Crawl Rate in a Website Indexing System - Web crawlers crawl websites to access documents of the website for purposes of indexing the documents for search engines. The web crawlers crawl a specified website at a crawl rate that is based on multiple factors. One of the factors is a pre-set crawl rate limit. According to certain embodiments, an owner for a specified website is enabled to modify the crawl rate limit for the specified website when one or more pre-set criteria are met. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023092 | Feedback Loop Between A Query Optimizer And A Cache Manager - Systems, methods and computer program products are disclosed for managing a database cache. In one embodiment, access to a data object stored in a database is monitored. A memory residency priority for the data object is determined, based on the access patterns. Further, an access plan is determined for a query, based on the memory residency priority. Access to the data object is also monitored when the access plan is executed, thereby providing a feedback loop between determining memory residency priorities and determining query access plans. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023093 | EXTRACTION OF RICH SEARCH INFORMATION FROM INDEX SERVERS VIA AN ALTERNATIVE ASYNCHRONOUS DATA PATH - A search engine system is described herein that provides an alternative data path for collecting results provided by index servers. The alternative data path collects the results in a direct and asynchronous manner; this is in contrast to a synchronous path used to deliver search results to end users via one or more aggregator modules. An analysis system can use the alternative data path to collect a large amount of richly descriptive information regarding the performance of the search engine system, circumventing bottlenecks and other constraints that would otherwise be imposed by the synchronous data path. The analysis system can analyze the information collected from the index servers to improve the performance of the search engine system. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023094 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND SOFTWARE FOR AUTOMATED GROWTH OF INTELLIGENT ON-LINE COMMUNITIES - To address problems related to interface differences and disunity among on-line services, such as newsgroups message boards and forums, the present inventors devised systems, methods, and software for automating the posting and retrieval of content across different on-line services as well as encouraging growth of active on-line communities. One exemplary system includes a posting module, a retrieval module, and a web server. The posting module allows users to create and initiate data postings that are sent automatically to several newsgroups, message boards, and/or other on-line information sources. The retrieval module automatically retrieves replies to the postings at each of the on-line sources and presents them through the webserver for user review and further reply, eliminating the need for users to repeatedly visit posting sites in search of reply messages. In addition to the retrieved replies, the retrieval module automatically finds and retrieves content based on stored search or fitness criteria, ultimately enabling its integration into the content of one or more websites or databases for convenient user access. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023095 | Customized Search or Acquisition of Digital Media Assets - Improved techniques for using usage data are disclosed. The usage data can pertain to a user of an electronic device. The usage data can be monitored and recorded on the electronic device. The improved techniques are particularly useful when the electronic device is a mobile electronic device. In one embodiment, the usage data can be used to enhance searching of digital assets, such as digital media assets, resident at a local or remote repository. In another embodiment, the usage data can be used to determine content to be resident locally on the electronic device. In still another embodiment, the usage data can be used to present (e.g., display) information on the electronic device. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023096 | SYSTEM TO DETERMINE VALUE OF REFERRAL - A system comprising a database containing information concerning uniquely identified entities is described. The database further contains a list of attributes describing the entities and describing products, skills, or services provided by that entity. A server compares the desired referral of a first entity to one or more second entities having the desired product, skill, or service, and by evaluating the relationship between the first entity and second entities presents those second entities in the order of their value as a referral. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023097 | Computer Application Data In Search Results - A computer-implemented search method includes receiving a registration request from each of one or more computer applications installed on a computing device and registering the applications in response to the request, wherein the registration request indicates an intent by the application to receive search query information from a search application associated with the device. The method also includes receiving user input on the device in the form of a query, providing the query to the one or more registered applications, receiving responses from the one or more registered applications that include data that is managed by the one or more registered applications; integrating the responses into a result set; and presenting the result set with the computing device. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023098 | DOCUMENT SCORING BASED ON QUERY ANALYSIS - A system may determine an extent to which a document is selected when the document is included in a set of search results, generate a score for the document based, at least in part, on the extent to which the document is selected when the document is included in a set of search results; and rank the document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in part, on the score. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023099 | System and method for creating metadata - A system and a method create metadata for media files. The metadata may be information relating to, based on and/or associated with the media files. The metadata of the media files may be searched by one or more terminals. An event database connectable to a terminal may use a location, a date and/or a time of creation of the media files to associate specific events with the media files. Further, the specific events may be used by the database to create keywords associated with the media files. As a result, the system and the method may organize and/or may provide searching for media files. A web page may be generated for an event that accumulates the media files related to the event. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023100 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHANGING REFERENCES BETWEEN OBJECTS - Presented is a method and an apparatus that change references between computer-objects that are memory blocks. Purpose is to change all references to a specific computer-object, which is called current-destination-object, into another object, which is called next-destination-object. For this purpose, information showing the next-destination-object, which is called as order-information, is attached to the current-destination-object. Reference of each computer-object is changed by tracing these computer-objects, references and order-information in order of the followings: A source-object, reference held by the source-object, next-destination-object indicated by the reference, and order-information (showing the next-destination-object) that is attached to the current-destination-object. Finally, the reference is changed so as to indicate the new destination object. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023101 | SMART DEFAULTS FOR DATA VISUALIZATIONS - Smart defaults are provided for data visualization by creating a default layout of rows, columns, filters, and comparable elements that improve a user's experience in finding relevant answers within the data. Usage history of the ways that users look at data in various data sources, user specific information, and inferred relationships between a current user and similar users are used to determine elements relevant to visualization of data for a particular user such that the visualization process may be automatically started, and a relevance model is formed/adjusted based on these factors. Queries may also be executed in a preemptive fashion based on the relevance model and results provided to a requesting user more rapidly enhancing user experience with networked data visualization. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023102 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMICALLY REARRANGING SEARCH RESULTS INTO HIERARCHICALLY ORGANIZED CONCEPT CLUSTERS - Methods of and systems for dynamically rearranging search results into hierarchically organized concept clusters are provided. A method of searching for and presenting content items as an arrangement of conceptual clusters to facilitate further search and navigation on a display-constrained device includes providing a set of content items and receiving incremental input to incrementally identify search terms for content items. Content items are selected and grouped into sets based on how the incremental input matches various metadata associated with the content items. The selected content items are grouped into explicit conceptual clusters and user-implied conceptual clusters based on metadata in common to the selected content items. The clustered content items are presented according to the conceptual clusters into which they are grouped. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023103 | Generation of Annotation Tags Based on Multimodal Metadata and Structured Semantic Descriptors - In one embodiment, a method of generating annotation tags ( | 2012-01-26 |
20120023104 | SEMANTICALLY ASSOCIATED TEXT INDEX AND THE POPULATION AND USE THEREOF - The construction of a semantically associated computer search database is disclosed. A text catalog containing the text particulars and contents of a plurality of electronic documents, a term association database which joins text search terms with their semantic meanings or definitions, and a content association database which contains records associating text search terms and their contextual definitions in respect of individual electronic documents are used to in conjunction provide a text index in which it is possible to search based upon the actual definitions or meanings of certain text or terms within the electronic documents, reducing or refining query search result sets. A method of operating a search engine with the index in question, as well as other e-commerce methods employing the index as a refining tool are also disclosed. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023105 | SportZeus Mobile Computing Apparatus and Worldwide Website Racing Event Database System - A worldwide mobile computing apparatus and database of race events indexed for mobile applications used on Smart phones, computers and computer peripherals for customers and enhanced with a proprietary news magazine, online and in print, and promoted with “AppWear” clothing and consumer goods. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023106 | MAP INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, MAP INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, MAP INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There are provided a map information processing apparatus, a map information processing method, a map information processing program and a recording medium, which provide house-contour data with valuable information such as address information and the like in an effective manner and with a high degree of accuracy, while remarkably minimizing time and cost as required. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023107 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MATCHING AND MERGING RECORDS - A system and method of matching and merging records is disclosed herein. Embodiments comprise receiving, a plurality of records from a feed, wherein a record in the plurality of records from the feed may be either partial or complete. A processor executes fuzzy matching logic to determine whether one or more records in the plurality of records from the feed match an existing record. The processor then executes a merged of the one or more matching records with the existing record to form a merged composite record. Finally, the merged composite record is stored. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023108 | SYSTEM TO DETERMINE PEER RANKING OF INDIVIDUAL IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - A system comprising a database containing information concerning uniquely identified entities. The database further contains a list of attributes describing the products, skills, or services provide by the entities. A server compares the desired referral of a first entity to one or more second entities having the desired product, skill, or service, and by evaluating the relationship between the first entity and second entities, presents those second entities in the order of their value as a referral. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023109 | Contextual processing of data objects in a multi-dimensional information space - A system and method is disclosed for contextual processing of data objects in a multi-dimensional information space. The system can be used to increase the efficiency and improve the interactive experience for the user of a GUI-based operating system or application. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023110 | Adaptive Processing for Sequence Alignment - Disclosed are various embodiments for adaptive processing for sequence alignment. In one embodiment, among others, a method includes obtaining a query sequence and a plurality of database sequences. A first portion of the plurality of database sequences is distributed to a central processing unit (CPU) and a second portion of the plurality of database sequences is distributed to a graphical processing unit (GPU) based upon a predetermined splitting ratio associated with the plurality of database sequences, where the database sequences of the first portion are shorter than the database sequences of the second portion. A first alignment score for the query sequence is determined with the CPU based upon the first portion of the plurality of database sequences and a second alignment score for the query sequence is determined with the GPU based upon the second portion of the plurality of database sequences. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023111 | WORD DECOMPOUNDER - A word is split into one or more first substrings. A morpheme is applied to the one or more first substrings to create one or more second substrings. The one or more first and second substrings are selected as one or more splittings, and a score is generated for each of the one or more splittings. One of the one or more splittings with a score higher than the other one or more splittings is selected as a keyword. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023112 | Method for measuring similarity of diverse binary objects comprising bit patterns - An apparatus, system, and method for measuring the similarity of diverse binary objects, such as files, is disclosed. The method comprises determining a plurality of digital signatures in each of a plurality of dissimilar objects, for each digital signature, accessing a location in a store which has object identifiers for each object which also exhibits at least one instance of the digital signature, writing into the store the object identifiers of all the objects which have the corresponding pattern and the number of times the pattern is found, and making a list of all the objects which share a pattern found in each object. Analyzing the list determines the degree of similarity of a particular object with each of a plurality of diverse binary objects. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023113 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHAT MESSAGE PRIORITIZATION AND HIGHLIGHTING - A system and method is provided for chat message prioritization that uses a combination of machine-derived and user-supplied relevancy criteria to present a filtered, annotated, and/or highlighted chat stream. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023114 | UNIVERSAL DEVICE IDENTIFIER FOR GLOBALLY IDENTIFYING AND BINDING DISPARATE DEVICE IDENTIFIERS TO THE SAME MOBILE DEVICE - Embodiments of the invention are directed to determining a universal device identifier (UDID) for a client device, based on multiple service-dependent identifiers (SDIDs) used by client applications, websites, or other services to identify the client device. SDID types are prioritized with pre-assigned weights. A received SDID causes a single database read to access all other SDIDs, and any existing UDID(s) associated with the client device. A final UDID is created or selected based on the SDID weights. The database is updated in a sequence that enables self recovery of a prior UDID in case of database error during update. First, any non-selected UDID records are updated with the final UDID. Next, lower weighted SDID records are updated. The final UDID record is updated. The highest weighted SDID record is updated last, to preserve the prior UDID as long as possible in case of update error, which aborts the remaining update. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023115 | COMPUTER FOR IDENTIFYING CAUSE OF OCCURRENCE OF EVENT IN COMPUTER SYSTEM HAVING A PLURALITY OF NODE APPARATUSES - To reduce the burden of processing for completing event cause information, which is carried out when a management target node apparatus is added, removed or changed. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023116 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVERSION OF JMS MESSAGE DATA INTO DATABASE TRANSACTIONS FOR APPLICATION TO MULTIPLE HETEROGENEOUS DATABASES - A system and method for performing real-time conversion of data which is present in the form of messages on JMS-compliant or other messaging systems into database transactions, which can then subsequently be applied to multiple heterogeneous databases or other systems. In accordance with an embodiment, the invention provides a means by which data can be read from messages in a messaging system, and converted to a set of database operations that are then stored as a persistent trail file (for example, as an Oracle GoldenGate trail file). The operations, as recorded in the trail file, can then be routed via a network and applied to target systems as required, for example to maintain a replicated set of information at one or more different or heterogeneous systems. The data in the message can be formatted in a variety of ways, for example, as fixed width, delimited, or XML data, and the system can be configured to convert this data as appropriate. In accordance with an embodiment, the data can be read in real-time from the messaging system, and written out as quickly as it can be consumed to the persistent trail files. In scenarios where there is no current means of integration of two systems, the invention can be used as a bridge if, for example, the source system is modified or configured to write data changes to a messaging system, and Oracle GoldenGate is used as a means of delivery to the target system. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023117 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS EMPLOYING INTERMITTENT SCANNING TECHNIQUES TO IDENTIFY SENSITIVE INFORMATION IN DATA - Potentially sensitive information (e.g., account numbers for payment cards, etc.) may be identified from data by use of an “interval scanning” technique, in which a string of data is evaluated in intervals. When a system employs an interval scanning technique, data is evaluated by analyzing bytes of data in periodic sequence (e.g., every thirteenth byte, etc.), while the bytes between the analyzed bytes are initially ignored. If the value of an analyzed byte corresponds to a character of interest (e.g., a decimal numeral or numeric digit (i.e., a character having a value that corresponds to a base-ten, or Arabic, number, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9), etc.), that byte is identified as a “base byte,” from which a more focused evaluation (e.g., a byte-by-byte analysis, or sequential analysis, etc.) may then commence. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023118 | PALEONEIGHBORHOOD HYDROCARBON SPATIAL SYSTEM - A paleogeographic search system is provided for locating geoscience data relevant to a geographic search aperture. The paleogeographic search system comprises a geodatabase, an interface, a paleogeographic reconstruction engine, and a host processor. The paleogeographic engine is configured to transform the geographic search aperture according to tectonic plate movements to a transformed search aperture that the geographic search aperture occupied in a geological age of interest. The host processor is configured to apply a paleoaugmented geographic search aperture to a geodatabase for additional oil exploration data relevant to the geographic search aperture today. The paleoaugmented geographic search aperture is defined by augmenting the transformed search aperture to include relevant proximal locations for the selected geological age of interest to create an augmented transformed search area; and transforming the augmented transformed search aperture, according to tectonic plate movements, to the paleoaugmented geographic search aperture in present day world geography. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023119 | DATA SEARCHING SYSTEM - A method of and system for searching for data, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a query from a user; ii) analysing the content of the user query received in step i); iii) presenting one or more selection options to the user based on the results of the analysis performed in step ii); iv) receiving the one or more selections from the user; v) augmenting the query in accordance with the selections received in step iv); vi) searching a data index for terms that match with the augmented query; and vii) returning to the user one or more search results which match the terms of the augmented query. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023120 | PREDICTIVE QUERY SUGGESTION CACHING - Methods, systems, an apparatus, and computer program products, for pre-caching query suggestions. In one aspect, a method includes receiving from a client device a request for a search resource; providing to the client device in response to the request the search resource, the search resource including: first instructions that cause the client device to generate a search interface that includes a first query input field; initial query suggestions; second instructions that cause the client device to: store the initial query suggestions in a suggestion store on the client device; compare query characters input in the first query input field to the query suggestions stored in the suggestion store; select query suggestions that match the query characters input in the first query input field based on the comparison; and display the selected query suggestions as query suggestions for the query characters input into the first query input field. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023121 | Interactive Intelligent Searching with Executable Suggestions - A method, system, and computer program product for interactive searching with executable suggestions provides a search engine and data management technology that determine what a user is looking for, analyze the data in a database, and present immediately useful suggestions for finding the right information. Executable suggestions are presented that enable a user to further narrow or broaden a search intelligently and adaptively in real-time. Each executable suggestion describes a search and corresponding search criteria and provides information on the actual search results a user will obtain according to this search criteria. In one embodiment of the present invention, a system has a suggestion engine and one or more suggestion spaces. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023122 | USER-DIRECTED PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS - A facility for generating item recommendations is described. In one embodiment, the facility displays a plurality of item indications each indicating an item. The facility then receives user input selecting one or more of the displayed item indications, and selects as seed items the items indicated by the selected item indications. The facility then uses the selected seed items to generate a list of recommended items, and displays the generated list of recommended items. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023123 | Zapaat Context Web Search - Current Internet search methods use Keywords as input to provide information back to users. However, this method provides information which might not be the web pages which are being searched. Due to the conceptual singular input of Keyword, the efficiency of the information provided is compromised. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023124 | SOCIAL NETWORKING COMMUNICATION INTERFACE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A communications system includes a central server that communicates with a plurality of query servers for exchanging queries and receiving query responses. The system also includes a querying device that communicates with the central server to send queries thereto and receive query responses therefrom. The querying device sends a query to the central server that posts the query to each of the plurality of query servers. At least one third party provides a query response to the query on at least one of the plurality of query servers. The central server receives the response to the query from the at least one of the plurality of query servers and provides the response to the querying device. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023125 | OPTIMIZING SEARCH FOR INSERT-ONLY DATABASES AND WRITE-ONCE DATA STORAGE - A search of an insert-only database is performed using a search string in a non-key field to obtain a result set having both valid and invalid entries. Each entry includes a primary key field and the primary key field is subsequently scanned for entries in the result set to determine which entries are valid. Thereafter, invalid entries are removed from the result set to result in a modified result set. Such removal can be based, for example, on the timestamp of the respective entries. In some implementations, a secondary persistence is utilized. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023126 | INTERNET VIDEO CONTENT DELIVERY TO TELEVISION USERS - A method for delivering video content to a user, including accessing a website that hosts a plurality of video content, causing a search to be performed of the website based on a keyword in the set of keywords, identifying, based on a result of the search, a set of video content, of the plurality of video content, related to the keyword, identifying a format of a particular video content in the set of video content, determining whether the format is compatible with a video client device, and outputting identifying information that identifies the particular video content when the format is compatible with the video client device, where the identifying information allows the video client device to access the particular video content. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023127 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING A UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR - The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method of processing a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). The method includes generating a plurality of lattice nodes based on a URL, wherein each of the plurality of lattice nodes includes a host component corresponding to a portion of the URL and a path component corresponding to a portion of the URL. The method also includes identifying one of the plurality of lattice nodes as a search node. The method also includes searching a pattern table database using the search node to find a matching pattern table entry, the pattern table database comprising a plurality of pattern table entries corresponding to known lattice nodes associated with previously encountered URLs. The method also includes processing the URL based on whether the matching pattern table entry was found in the pattern table database. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023128 | DISCOVERY OF USER'S PREFERRED FILING CONVENTION FOR MEDIA ITEMS - In one embodiment, a method of automatically determining a filing convention is provided. The method includes receiving a computer file path. The file path is associated with a digital media file. The method includes separating the file path into a plurality of fields. The separating is carried out using a field-separation module. The method further includes determining a filing convention based on the fields. The determining is carried out using a filing-convention-determination module. The method also includes storing the filing convention in a database. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023129 | ENTERPRISE COLLABORATION WITH REUSABLE CONTENT - Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for a collaboration environment in which a number of different workspaces can use the same, reusable content. According to one embodiment, a method of providing collaboration using reusable content can comprise identifying a content item to be included in a first workspace of a plurality of workspaces of a collaboration environment. A first proxy representing the identified content item can be created. The first proxy can have a unique identifier within the first workspace. A mapping table record can be created for the first proxy that links the first proxy to the content item. Additionally, a cross-reference table record can be created for the first proxy. The cross-reference record can identify a relationship of the first proxy to another content item in the first workspace. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023130 | FACILITATION OF EXTENSION FIELD USAGE BASED ON REFERENCE FIELD USAGE - A system may include presentation, to a user, of a consuming business entity including a reference field of a business object, reception of an instruction from the user to add an extension field to the consuming business entity based on the reference field of the business object, determination of a second consuming business entity including the reference field of the business object, and presentation of the second consuming business entity to the user. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023131 | UNIVERSALLY INTERACTIVE REQUEST FOR INFORMATION - A request for information (RFI) system is provided for use in communications networks including broadcast networks and the Internet. In one implementation, a code identifying an item of media content of interest (e.g. television, newspaper, magazines, billboards, radio) is captured and input to an RFI system that includes stored media tags and a search tool for matching inputs to the stored media tags. Upon receipt of the captured code, the RFI system matches the captured code with the stored media tags and provides a response to the user based on the match. The response may include or relate to follow-on or premium information relating to the content of interest. Using this information, an RFI data center or an RFI platform may credit value to a rewards account established for the network user based on the user's verified consumption of assets and/or data requests. Further, the RFI data center or RFI platform may be used to collect consumer behavior information, including purchasing decisions made by the user after consumption of assets, and correlate the consumer behavior information with the user's verified asset consumption. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023132 | METHOD FOR MONITORING STORED PROCEDURES - A method for monitoring stored procedures is disclosed. The method performs on-line and inline monitoring of stored procedures for detecting table access operations performed by the procedures. This allows the enforcing of access control policies, correlation rules and audit rules on stored procedures. The monitoring is performed using mapping information gathered about each stored procedure that can be executed by a database server. The method comprises parsing an incoming transaction submitted by a client; determining whether the incoming transaction includes an invocation of a stored procedure; obtaining a query group corresponding to the stored procedure; applying an access control policy on the query group; and asserting an unauthorized event if the query group is not compliant with the access control policy. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023133 | DOCUMENT SEARCHING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A document search system and a method are provided to enable a writer (document provider) of a document to detect metadata, which is included in web/WAP documents, and to offer summary or detailed information on the corresponding product (including multimedia content), which is indicated by the metadata, to a document reader. According to the present invention, a client detects the metadata inserted into the corresponding document from the document that is written by the document provider, extracts a reference value, demands production information corresponding to a product ID, to a serer to collect the product information and offers the product information to the document reader. Additionally, the client collects the reference value and information on the document reader who reads the document, into which the metadata is inserted, and stores the collected data in the server. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023134 | PATTERN MATCHING DEVICE, PATTERN MATCHING METHOD, AND PATTERN MATCHING PROGRAM - An optimal subspace for a distance or a similarity cannot be obtained by a pattern matching device which obtains a subspace independent from the distance or the similarity used for matching. A pattern matching device includes a feature extraction unit for extracting a feature value by lowering the dimension of data using a feature extraction parameter; a calculation unit for calculating a distance or a similarity of the data to be matched using the feature value; and a parameter updating unit for comparing the distance or the similarity, and updating the feature extraction parameter so that the value of the distance or the similarity becomes closer to a matching result regarding whether or not the values of the distance or the similarity are in the same category. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023135 | METHOD FOR USING VIRTUAL FACIAL EXPRESSIONS - The method is for using a virtual face. The virtual face is provided on a screen associated with a computer system having a cursor. A user manipulates the virtual face with the cursor to show a facial expression. The computer system determines coordinates of the facial expression. The computer system searches for facial expression coordinates in a database to match the coordinates. A word or phrase is identified that is associated with the identified facial expression coordinates. The screen displays the word to the user. The user may also feed a word to the computer system that displays the facial expression associated with the word. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023136 | Matching Technology for Users of A Social Networking Site - A matching technology for users of a social networking site contains an interface to set a matching module structure and build the matching module structure in a matching system, wherein the structure is comprised of at least one question database, a calculating and matching database, and a changing database, and the question database is used to receive an instruction from the matching module structure so as to acquire required questions, thereafter, the questions are calculated by the calculating and matching database so that a user adds or corrects the question by means of the changing database. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023137 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STORING DATA IN MOBILE TERMINAL - An apparatus and method for storing an image in a storage folder corresponding to a file name in a mobile device are provided. The method includes obtaining a keyword list by analyzing a file name of the data to be stored, searching for at least one storage folder having a folder name corresponding to at least one keyword included in the keyword list, determining one of the found storage folders, and storing the data in the determined storage folder. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023138 | DELETING OBJECTS WITH GROUP AUTHORITY - In an embodiment, a command is received from a sender that requests deletion of an object. A determination is made whether the object specifies group authority and whether all of a plurality of members of the group authority have requested deletion of the object. If the object specifies group authority and all of the plurality of members of the group authority have requested deletion of the object, then the object is deleted. If the object specifies group authority and not all of the plurality of members of the group authority have requested deletion of the object, then an indication is saved in the group authority that the sender requested deletion of the object. If the object does not specify group authority, then the object is deleted. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023139 | INTELLIGENT ATTACHED STORAGE - An intelligent storage device for providing authentication services and secure access to files is provided. The intelligent storage device includes a storage unit for storing a plurality of files, a communication unit for connecting the intelligent storage device to the external device via a wired or wireless connection, and a processor for controlling access to the files by an external device connected to the intelligent storage device, according to input from a user via the intelligent storage device. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023140 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORAGE OPERATION ACCESS SECURITY - A method and system for controlling access to stored data is provided. The storage access control system leverages a preexisting security infrastructure of a system to inform the proper access control that should be applied to data stored outside of its original location, such as a data backup. The storage access control system may place similar access control restrictions on the backup files that existed on the original files. In this way, the backed up data is given similar protection as that of the original data. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023141 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REPRESENTING, ORGANIZING, STORING AND RETRIEVING INFORMATION - A data structure for representing information as a binary directional graph comprising a set of points connected by three distinct types of directed edges. Each point must have a unique left (parenting) edge and a unique right (parenting) edge with end points, and an identity edge that can be null (i.e. have no end point). All connected paths of edges upwards eventually converge at a maximal point in the structure. The points are uniformly assigned a fixed set of data as their content. Rules are defined to construct the structure and allow representation of information, with methods described for translating conventional forms of representation, such as tables, properties, classes, relations, and functions. The structure can be represented as a single relation (i.e. a single table with a fixed structure) and can be implemented using a conventional relational database. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023142 | Data Normalizer - A data normalizer for processing data for use by a CDM system which is capable of dynamically updating user-defined normalization criteria and which is further capable of operating in a multi-tenant environment in which each tenant has distinct data normalization policies. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023143 | ENCODING A SCHEMA VERSION IN TABLE NAMES - The subject matter of this disclosure can be implemented in, among other things, a device that includes processors, a data repository, and a table version module configured to create a first version of a database within the data repository using a first version of a database schema that defines a set of tables for the database, and receive a result that is responsive to a command, such that when the result indicates a success condition, execution of the command allows access to data contained in the database and verification of the database schema version, wherein the result does not include database schema version information. The device further includes means for executing the command to access the data, wherein the command includes one or more encoded table names, and wherein each of the encoded table names included in the command is generated based on at least a database schema version identifier. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023144 | Managing Wear in Flash Memory - At least two groupings are established for a plurality of erase units. The erase units include flash memory units that are available for writing subsequent to erasure. The groupings are based at least on a recent write frequency of data targeted for writing to the erase units. A wear criteria is determined for each of the erase units and the erase units are assigned to one of the respective groupings based on the wear criteria of the respective erase units and further based on a wear range assigned to each of the at least two groupings. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023145 | POLICY-BASED COMPUTER FILE MANAGEMENT BASED ON CONTENT-BASED ANALYTICS - Embodiments of this disclosure managing storage of files, stored in a computer storage system having policy-based file storage management, using information derived from content of the files. Embodiments execute content analytics logic module(s) on a primary file stored in a base storage system, creating one or more Features derived from the primary file content. Based on the Feature(s), embodiments automatically determine an electronic storage policy for the primary file and, in certain embodiments, also for the Feature(s). The Features, and accordingly the storage policy, can be updated particularly readily in exemplary embodiments having pluggable content analytics logic modules. This may be occur in light of, for example, new content analytics algorithms (e.g., new image analysis algorithms), new external factors (e.g., new rules governing certain content), and/or new storage equipment (e.g., new storage farms for which it may be more useful or cost effective to store certain types of data). | 2012-01-26 |
20120023146 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME - Data migration is efficiently executed with optional timing. A file server outputs an instruction to a CPU of a storage apparatus to migrate a file belonging to Tier 1 to Tier 2 when, based on policy information, a condition for migrating the file belonging to Tier 1 to Tier 2 is fulfilled. Based on the instruction from the file server, the CPU copies the data of migration target files in Tier 1 from a page to a Tier 1 virtual page, copies the data which has been copied to the Tier 1 virtual page | 2012-01-26 |
20120023147 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING CONTENTS FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A system and method of providing content for a mobile communication terminal are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes i) receiving package list data for content from a mobile communication terminal, wherein the content is organized into a plurality of individual files, and wherein the package list data comprises individual ID, size and version data of each of the individual files stored in the mobile communication terminal and ii) comparing, at a content server, at least one of the sizes and individual version data of at least two files having the same individual ID that are stored in the content server and mobile communication terminal. The method may further include transmitting at least one individual file stored in the content server to the mobile communication terminal, wherein the at least one individual file has individual file data different from the corresponding file indicated in the package list data. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023148 | Applying Transcodings In A Determined Order To Produce Output Files From A Source File - Target formats of output files to be derived from the source file ( | 2012-01-26 |
20120023149 | BIT-WIDTH ALLOCATION FOR SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATIONS - Methods and devices for automatically determining a suitable bit-width for data types to be used in computer resource intensive computations. Methods for range refinement for intermediate variables and for determining suitable bit-widths for data to be used in vector operations are also presented. The invention may be applied to various computing devices such as CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, etc. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023150 | METHOD FOR PUBLISHING INFORMATION - A method for controlling a host apparatus is provided. The method checks whether or not an external storage device is connected to an asserted connection port, first. When the external storage device is connected to the asserted connection port, a data transmission link is built. Then, the method would checks whether or not an external data having a predetermined format is saved in the external storage. If the external data having the predetermined format is saved in the external storage device, the external data would be read from the external storage device through the data transmission link. In addition, the external data having the predetermined format is transmitted to a social website through the internet for publishing the external data on the social website. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023151 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HOME AUTOMATION AND SECURITY - A home automation and security system is provided in which a home automation and security controller in a customer premises is coupled with a remotely located central control facility using a continuous connectivity access line providing a data channel separate from a voice channel. The controller at the customer premises is responsible for monitoring and applying control signals to devices in the home and for supporting a human interface. The remotely located central control facility is responsible for providing the computational and database resources to the controller. By redistributing functionality, the network-based structure of this home automation and security system can overcome the disadvantages of conventional home automation and security systems. | 2012-01-26 |
20120023152 | Methods and Systems for Providing Location-Based Interactive Golf Content for Display by a Mobile Device - An exemplary method includes an interactive golf content computing system detecting a geographic location of a mobile device associated with a golfer while the golfer is playing a golf hole, selecting interactive golf content associated with one or more other golfers who played the golf hole previous to the playing of the golf hole by the golfer in accordance with the detected geographic location, and providing the selected interactive golf content for display by the mobile device. Corresponding methods and systems are also described. | 2012-01-26 |