37th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 57 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110225114 | DATA STRUCTURE, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING MEDICAL CONDITIONS - The invention relates to a data structure comprising a plurality of biomedical parameters for providing a plurality of biomedical parameter values as input to a medical decision support system. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225115 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE GATHERING - Systems and methods (e.g., utilities) for use in providing automated, lightweight collection of online, open source data which may be content-based to reduce website source bias. In one aspect, a utility is disclosed for use in extracting content of interest from at least one website or other online data source (e.g., where the extracted content can be used in a subsequent search query). In other aspects, utilities are disclosed that are operable to perform various types of analyses on such extracted content and present graphical representations of such analyses on a display of a client device. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225116 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POLICY BASED EXECUTION OF TIME CRITICAL DATA WAREHOUSE TRIGGERS - Embodiments of the invention broadly contemplate systems, methods, apparatuses and program products that employ a policy based method of timely execution of triggers over a data warehouse. Embodiments of the invention utilize methods to convert a trigger condition into differential queries over data sources, to decide when to send queries to data sources, and determine to which data sources to send queries. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225117 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND DATA ALLOCATION CONTROL METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ALLOCATION OF DATA IN STORAGE SYSTEM - A storage system includes a plurality of types of media and a controller, provides a plurality of logical volumes, and performs a reallocation process for migrating data specified in accordance with a reallocation policy from media in which this data is stored to media of different types from the media. A management system searches for a logical volume that conforms to a migration policy, which is a condition under which the reallocation process is considered ineffective, from a reallocation group, which is a group of one or more logical volumes subjected to a target of a reallocation process, and causes the storage system to transfer data in the logical volume that is discovered to outside of the reallocation group. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225118 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONDITIONALLY SHARING AN OBJECT WITH ONE OR MORE ENTITIES - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for conditionally sharing an object with one or more entities. These mechanisms and methods for conditionally sharing an object with one or more entities can enable enhanced data sharing, simplified data security, etc. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225119 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR VERSIONING CONTENT IN A DATABASE SYSTEM USING CONTENT TYPE SPECIFIC OBJECTS - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for versioning content in a database system using content type specific objects. These mechanisms and methods for versioning content in a database system using content type specific objects can enable embodiments to provide a database system which stores information associated with multiple versions of content. The ability of embodiments to provide a database system which supports content versioning can enable an efficient and comprehensive storage of content types having different features by the database system. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225120 | SYSTEM FOR MAINTAINING A DISTRIBUTED DATABASE USING LEASES - A system and method for maintaining a database with a plurality of replicas that are geographically distributed. A plurality of tables are stored in a first replica, each table including a plurality of records. The system identifying if the record is a stub and requesting a lease from a second replica designated as master for the record if the record is a stub. The system receiving a copy of the record from the second replica and storing data fields of the record in the first replica after receiving the lease. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225121 | SYSTEM FOR MAINTAINING A DISTRIBUTED DATABASE USING CONSTRAINTS - A method and system for maintaining a database with a plurality of replicas that are geographically distributed. A plurality of tables are stored in the database, each table includes a plurality of records. The location where each record is stored being controlled based on a constraint property included in the record. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225122 | REORGANIZATION OF DATA UNDER CONTINUOUS WORKLOAD - Architecture that provides the capability to automatically (e.g., dynamically) reorganize (repartition) an existing partition by dividing (splitting) or recombining (merging) logical databases. This reorganization can be performed to logical databases belonging to the same customer, and based on the partitioning of the tables in these databases. This can include not only splitting secondary replicas of a partition or merging secondary replicas of the partition, but also splitting off secondary replicas of the partition to create a new partition and merging two partitions into one partition. Moreover, these operations can occur while the logical databases are accepting workload (online). | 2011-09-15 |
20110225123 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SURROGATES FOR DATA MANAGEMENT - Multi-dimensional surrogation systems and methods are provided that generate at least one data surrogate using information of data and numerous data changes received from at least one data source. The multi-dimensional surrogation transforms data of each data surrogate from a format of the data source to at least one alternative format. Original metadata is extracted from each data surrogate. New metadata is generated by combining portions of the original metadata and components of each data surrogate. The multi-dimensional surrogation generates an extended data surrogate comprising the data surrogate and the new metadata. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225124 | CREATING A BUFFER POINT-IN-TIME COPY RELATIONSHIP FOR A POINT-IN-TIME COPY FUNCTION EXECUTED TO CREATE A POINT-IN-TIME COPY RELATIONSHIP - Provided are a method, system, and computer program product for creating a buffer point-in-time copy relationship for a point-in-time copy function executed to create a point-in-time copy relationship. A point-in-time copy function is initiated to create a new point-in-time copy relationship from a source volume comprising a first volume to a target volume comprising a second volume. Detection is made that the target volume of the new point-in-time copy relationship is a source volume of a first pre-existing point-in-time copy relationship having as a target volume a third volume. Detection is also made that the target volume of the first pre-existing point-in-time copy relationship is a source volume of a second pre-existing point-in-time copy relationship having as a target volume a fourth volume. A buffer point-in-time copy relationship having a source volume comprising the target volume of the first pre-existing relationship and a target volume comprising a fifth volume is created in response to detecting that the target volume of the new point-in-time copy relationship is the source volume of the first pre-existing point-in-time copy relationship and the detected that the target volume of the first pre-existing point-in-time copy relationship is the source volume of the second pre-existing point-in-time copy relationship. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225125 | REDIRECTING DOCUMENT REFERENCES TO A REPOSITORY - A method for automating the redirection of references that can include downloading an original document using an original uniform resource identifier (URI), storing the original document in a repository, parsing the original document to determine the existence of one or more dependent documents referred to in the original document and executing an automated redirection subprocess. The method can include parsing each dependent document to determine one or more dependent documents, and responsive to determining the existence of one or more dependent documents, conducting the automated redirection subprocess for each dependent document and further dependent document and repeating the parsing of dependent documents and conducting the automated redirection subprocess steps until all further dependent documents have been redirected. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225126 | Method, Apparatus and Software for Maintaining Consistency Between a Data Object and References to the Object Within a File - A technique for maintaining consistency between a data object and references to the object in a file. An indication that a source object has changed is received. One or more of the changes made to the source object are identified. A file comprising one or more references related to the source object is analyzed to identify those references that may be inconsistent with the changes made to the source object. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225127 | INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT FACILITY - An investment portfolio management facility is disclosed. The facility is a computerized system for providing data integrity for investment portfolios. When an entry is made, the entry is checked for consistency with previously-made entries and with rules for portfolio entries. If an error is detected, the system alerts users to the error and also provides signals to check for further errors. The user may be made aware of the error or errors through a user interface. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225128 | CLEAN STORE FOR OPERATING SYSTEM AND SOFTWARE RECOVERY - Systems, methods and apparatus for automatically identifying a version of a file that is expected to be present on a computer system and for automatically replacing a potentially corrupted copy of the file with a clean (or undamaged) copy of the expected version. Upon identifying a file on the computer system as being potentially corrupted, a clean file agent may perform an analysis based on the identity of the file and one or more other properties of the system to determine the version of the file that is expected to be present on the system. Once the expected version is identified, a clean replacement copy of the file may be obtained from a clean file repository by submitting a version identifier of the expected version. The version identifier may be a hash value, which may additionally be used to verify integrity of the clean copy. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225129 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO SCAN DATA FROM A SYSTEM THAT SUPPORTS DEDUPLICATION - An interface is disclosed that makes information obtained from a file deduplication process available to an application for the efficient operation thereof. A data deduplication repository is scanned to determine a plurality of file segments and respective checksum values associated with the segments. A data structure is generated that allows shared segments to be identified by indexing using a common checksum value. The segments also indicate the file to which they belong and may also include a timestamp value. This data structure is updated as files are modified, etc. The data structure is accessible to an application program so that the application program can readily determine which segments are shared between multiple files. With this information, the application can efficiently process the segment once rather than multiple times. Timestamps can be used by the application to efficiently identify only those segments that were accessed after a given time. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225130 | STORAGE DEVICE, AND PROGRAM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING STORAGE DEVICE - In a storage device, an information acquisition unit acquires and stores information in an information memory unit. A data acquisition unit acquires data. A deduplication unit divides the acquired data by a smaller division size than that indicated in additional information included in the information stored in the information memory unit, performs deduplication, and stores the resulting data in a data memory unit. The information memory unit stores the information including the additional information that indicates the division size used for dividing data in deduplication of another device. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225131 | STORAGE SYSTEM, STORAGE CONTROLLER AND DATA COMPRESSION METHOD - Provided are a storage system, a storage controller and a data compression method that will not deteriorate the performance of a storage system by adjusting the compression processing time required for compressing data. This storage controller includes a statistical information management unit for managing a throughput value decided based on statistical information of previously compressed file data as a system performance value, a mode setting unit for setting a compression mode of either a system performance priority mode that terminates compression of the file data and gives priority to system performance or a compression priority mode that gives priority to compression of the file data based on a comparison between a system performance target value preset as a target value and the system performance value, and a compression controller for compressing the file data based on the compression mode set with the mode setting unit. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225132 | Provisioning Method and Sytem - A method and system of provisioning one or more Network Elements, as well as a method and apparatus for resuming a failed Customer Service Order for provisioning one or more Network Elements, is disclosed. A provisioning logic framework receives a Customer Service Order CSO from a Business Support System, calls respective provisioning logic for performing said Customer Service Order and detects if the received Customer Service Order is a CSO to be resumed. During the performing time of said Customer Service Order, historical processing data is stored. If it is detected that the received Customer Service Order is a CSO to be resumed, the provisioning logic framework builds up a fake environment on the basis of historical processing data stored previously for the CSO to be resumed. Then the successful part of the CSO is directed to the fake environment and the uncompleted part of the CSO is directed to actual Network elements. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225133 | METADATA-AWARE SEARCH ENGINE - Described herein are various principles that may be used together or separately to implement a search engine to retrieve and use metadata information in performing a search. In one embodiment described herein, a search engine accepts input from a user that describes a search the user desires to be performed. The search engine may then examine the input to determine whether the input relates to an artifact and to what artifact the input relates. The search engine may then retrieve metadata information from a source related to the determined artifact and use the metadata information in performing the search requested by the user. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225134 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED FIND-IN-PAGE FUNCTIONS IN A WEB BROWSER - A system and method for an enhanced find-in-page query function in a web browser. A find-in-page query is received for at least one webpage displayed on a computing device, wherein the query comprises a search string. Metadata relating to data objects displayed on the webpage is collected from the HTML code comprising the webpage, from the source of the of the plurality of objects, and from at least one search engine. At least one of the plurality of data objects matching the find-in-page query is identified wherein the search string is matched to metadata, wherein metadata relating to the matching data objects comprises the search string. The display of the matching data objects on the webpage is then altered, using the computing device, whereby the user is able to identify the data objects which match the find-in-page query. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225135 | Patent Search Engine with Statistical Snapshots - A search engine finds patents, patent applications and related documents and presents a selection of found documents in textual formats and/or graphical formats. After executing a search, the displayed information may include a selection of results sorted by inventor name, year and other variables found within patent documents. Financial data pertaining to patent owning entities is presented along with patent portfolio analysis and estimates of financial worth. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225136 | VIDEO SEARCH METHOD, VIDEO SEARCH SYSTEM, AND METHOD THEREOF FOR ESTABLISHING VIDEO DATABASE - A video search method including following steps is provided. Meta-data of a query clip is received, wherein the meta-data includes an index tag and a semantic pattern. One or more candidate clips are retrieved from at least one video database according to the index tag. The semantic pattern is compared with a semantic pattern of each of the candidate clips, and each of the candidate clips is marked as a returnable video clip or a non-returnable video clip according to a comparison result. The candidate clips marked as the returnable video clip are served as a query result matching the query clip. A video search system and a method for establishing a video database are also provided. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225137 | ENHANCING AND OPTIMIZING ENTERPRISE SEARCH - Embodiments of the invention improve the quality of search results returned for a given set of search terms based on metadata associated with the user performing the search. A search query may specify metadata elements to consider in ranking the search results. The metadata used may include bookmarks set by the user (either locally or at a social bookmaking site), group bookmarks, etc. In such a case, search results may be reordered to improve the ranking of websites that are both in the search results and in the bookmarks. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225138 | APPARATUS FOR RESPONDING TO A SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY - An apparatus adapted to process and store data relating to a suspicious activity, the apparatus comprising: inputting means for inputting the data; a memory for storing the data; and a processor for processing the data and storing the data to memory, wherein the processor is adapted to match the inputted data with existing data which has previously been stored to memory or existing data stored at another source. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225139 | USER ROLE BASED CUSTOMIZABLE SEMANTIC SEARCH - User role based customizable searches, where crawled documents may be evaluated against user roles or attributes during crawl time, are provided. Metadata retrieved from searched documents may also be evaluated against the user roles and/or attributes such that customized search results ranking documents based on their content beyond textual content may be provided. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225140 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AUTHORITY RANKING FOR CONTEMPORANEOUS CONTENT - The present invention provides a method and system for weighting contemporaneous content including, in response to a user content request, determining a plurality of contemporaneous content items relating to the user content request, the contemporaneous content items including ultra-fresh content items having been only recently generated. In the method and system, for each of the contemporaneous content items, identifying one or more authors of the content items and determining an expertise level for the one or more authors and determining an expert weighting for each of the content items based on the expertise level for the corresponding one or more authors. The method and system further includes ranking the contemporaneous content items in response to the user content request based on the expert weighting and presenting at least a portion of the contemporaneous content items in response to the user content request. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225141 | Distributed Catalog, Data Store, and Indexing - This disclosure relates to a system and method for distributed catalog processing, data caching, and indexing to create an efficient, scalable, secure, high availability, disaster recovery enabled backup and storage system. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225142 | WEB SITE ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention provides web site analysis system and method. A crawler is adapted to download data of a target web site and associated with a target web site for security analysis to provide a data set for analysis. A process controller controls a plurality of data analysis processes, each data analysis process associated with one of a plurality of analysis functions related to web site security and integrity, and each data analysis process is adapted to identify data relevant for its associated analysis function from within the data set for analysis. An analyser aggregates the data identified by each of the data analysis processes, and analyses the aggregated data to perform each of the analysis functions to identify indications of any potential security and integrity problems. A report of potential security problems can be automatically generated from the analysed data. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225143 | QUERY MODEL OVER INFORMATION AS A NETWORKED SERVICE - Data is published by publishers to an information service configured to receive data sets and allow consumers to consume the data sets via queries. Structural information of the data sets (e.g., column information) is presented to the publishers to select which information of the data sets can be a search parameter and which information can be returned in query results. Query interfaces are automatically created based on the selections by the publisher, and the back end databases are optimized for such query interfaces, e.g., creation of indexes based on the search parameters or query results selected by the publisher. A query aggregator can automatically combine a given query interface with other query interfaces to form more complicated (but still permitted) queries based on the intersection of permissions for the given query interface and the other query interfaces. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225144 | QUERY EVALUATION USING ANCESTOR INFORMATION - Provided are techniques for processing a query. A query is received, wherein the query is formed by one or more paths, and wherein each path includes one or more steps. A hierarchical document including one or more document nodes is received. While processing the query and traversing the hierarchical document, one or more extraction entries are constructed, wherein each extraction entry includes a step instance match candidate identifying a document node and a step instance ancestor path for the document node, and one or more tuples are constructed using the one or more extraction entries by associating the step instance match candidate from one of the one or more extraction entries with the step instance match candidate from at least one of the one or more other extraction entries. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225145 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND/OR APPARATUSES FOR USE IN SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION USING COMPUTER PLATFORMS - Embodiments of methods, systems or apparatuses relating to data processing and more particularly to methods, systems, and/or apparatuses for use in searching for information are disclosed. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225146 | UNIFIED SEARCH INTERFACE - Methods, systems, and computer program products feature determining a plurality of search result items responsive to a search query. A plurality of search modes are identified based on the query or the plurality of search result items or both. Each search mode is associated with a respective collection of records. The plurality of search result items are provided to a user with an indication of each search mode in the plurality of search modes. User input selecting a first search mode is received, where the first search mode is one of the plurality of search modes. One or more mode-specific search result items are determined based on the search query, where each mode-specific search result item is from the collection of records that is associated with the first search mode. The one or more mode-specific search result items are provided to the user. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225147 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING TAG INFORMATION OF MULTIMEDIA DATA IN MOBILE TERMINAL - An apparatus and a method for reproducing a multimedia in a mobile terminal are provided. More particularly, an apparatus and a method for converting meta information of multimedia data reproduced by a mobile terminal into audio data information to reproduce the multimedia data and simultaneously reproducing the meta information are provided. The apparatus includes a meta information analyzer, an audio data generator, and a meta information provider. The meta information analyzer obtains meta information of multimedia data to be reproduced. The audio data generator converts meta information obtained by the meta information analyzer into an audio data format. The meta information provider reproduces the meta information converted into the audio format by the audio data generator and multimedia data. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225148 | FIELD-BASED SIMILARITY SEARCH SYSTEM AND METHOD - A similarity search method includes generating a feature database which stores data pertaining to a candidate molecule, as executed by a processor of a computer, the database including a hash table having entries which are generated based on, a set of descriptors generated from conformations of fragment graphs of the candidate molecule, the fragment graphs including plural fragment nodes connected by rotatable bond edges, a specific conformation of the fragment node including a fragment of the candidate molecule, and two neighboring fragments connected by a rotatable bond at a specific dihedral angle including a fragment pair, and a context-adapted descriptor-to-key mapping which maps the set of descriptors to a set of feature keys including indices that label grid cells in discriminant space. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225149 | INPUT ASSISTANCE DEVICE, METHOD THEREOF, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING INPUT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM - An input assistance device includes: an operation unit configured to accept information selected by a user from a plurality of input candidates; a storage unit configured to store a priority for displaying the plurality of input candidates according to a display order, the priority determined based on an input history of information accepted by the operation unit in association with each of the plurality of input candidates; and a control unit configured to refer to the storage unit, to change the display order of the input candidates determined based on the priority into other display order by replacing a first input candidate among the plurality of input candidates in a first range from a top percentile priority with a second input candidate in a second range that is outside of the first range, and to output the plurality of input candidates according to the other display order. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225150 | Automatically Acquiring Acoustic Information About Music - Methods, apparatus, and storage media to build a music metadata library from music collections stored on a plurality of client computing devices. A music server may receive, from a first client computing device of the plurality of client computing device, a unique identifier for a track stored in the first client computing device. The music server may determine if the track is a known track corresponding to acoustic metadata that is already contained in the music metadata library. When the track is not a known track, the music server may send a message indicating the track is a new track to the first client computing device. The music server may then receive acoustic metadata for the track from the first client computing device and store the received acoustic metadata in the music metadata library. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225151 | METHODS, DEVICES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR CLASSIFYING DIGITAL MEDIA FILES BASED ON ASSOCIATED GEOGRAPHICAL IDENTIFICATION METADATA - A method for classifying digital media files includes obtaining geographical information from geographical identification metadata associated with one or more digital media files stored in a memory of a mobile terminal, and assigning a respective ranking to the one or more digital media files within one or more media classification categories based on the obtained geographical information. A summary view of the one or more ranked digital media files is displayed, the summary view including two axes, each axis corresponding to at least one of the one or more media classification categories. A travel profile for a user of the mobile terminal, including the user's travel preferences as determined by the respective ranking of at least one ranked digital media file in one or more of the media classification categories, is generated, and relevant travel information is presented to the user. Related devices and computer program products are also discussed. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225152 | CONSTRUCTING A SEARCH-RESULT CAPTION - The present invention is related to constructing a search-result caption that represents content of a search result (e.g., webpage). Information that is extracted from the webpage and/or other webpages is categorized and ranked based on a perceived relevance to a user context. Extracted information is then compared for inclusion in the search-result caption in order to provide a caption that accurately reflects content of the webpage and that is relevant to a context of the user | 2011-09-15 |
20110225153 | CONTENT SEARCH DEVICE AND CONTENT SEARCH PROGRAM - A content search device | 2011-09-15 |
20110225154 | HARVESTING RELEVANCY DATA, INCLUDING DYNAMIC RELEVANCY AGENT BASED ON UNDERLYING GROUPED AND DIFFERENTIATED FILES - Methods and apparatus teach a digital spectrum of a file representing underlying original data. The digital spectrum is used to map a file's position. This position relative to another file's position reveals closest neighbors. When multiple such neighbors are grouped together they can be used to indicate relevance in current data under consideration on a same or different computing device. Also, relevance can be found without traditional notions of needing structured data or users initiating searching for relevance or by examining metadata/administrative information associated with the files. A dynamic relevancy agent is configured for installation on the same or different computing device to monitor events regarding the current data and to initiate the examination of relevancy. It also presents to a user suggestions of data closest to the current data. Various triggering events to undertake a relevancy examination are also described as are predetermined criteria to define relative closeness. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225155 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GUIDING ENTITY-BASED SEARCHING - A system and method are provided for refining a user's query. An entity index, generated from a corpus of text documents, is provided. The entity index includes a set of entity structures, each including a plurality of terms. Each of the terms of an entity structure is a feature of the same entity. Entity structures can be retrieved from the entity index which match at least a portion of the user's query. Clusters of the retrieved entity structures are identified which have at least one of their terms in common. A cluster hierarchy is generated from the identified clusters in which nodes of the hierarchy are defined by one or more of the terms of the retrieved entity structures. At least a portion of the cluster hierarchy is presented to the user for facilitating refinement of the user's query through user selection of a node which, when formulated as a search, retrieves one or more responsive documents from the corpus of documents. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225156 | SEARCHING TWO OR MORE MEDIA SOURCES FOR MEDIA - Presented is a method for obtaining a single set of media search results from a search of media sources. The method includes providing a search query, executing a search of each of the media sources for media based on the provided search query, generating results of the searches, and consolidating the results of the searches into the single set of search results that include a list of media items with associated metadata. The method further includes organizing the media items into groups. Each of the groups includes media items that have similar content. The similarity of the content is defined by the media items' associated metadata meeting a metadata matching threshold. The method further includes filtering the groups, sorting the groups of media items with respect to each other, sorting the media items within the groups, and displaying the groups of media items. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225157 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING WEBSITE CONTENT - An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a method of generating Website content. The method includes generating a client profile comprising a cluster type obtained from a list of cluster types and information received from a user ID, wherein the list of cluster types is generated by processing a database of computer usage. The method includes utilizing the relevant cluster types included in the client profile to a selected Website, wherein the cluster type is used by the Website at least in part to determine the content provided by the Website. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225158 | Method and System for Abstracting Information for Use in Link Analysis - Observable data points are collected and organized into a link-oriented data set comprising nodes and links. Information is abstracted for use in link analysis by generating links between the collected data points, including deriving links and inducing links. A link can be induced by linking together a pair of nodes that satisfy a distance function. Exemplary distance functions that can be used to induce links include geo spatial proximity, attribute nearness, and name similarity. Paths can be identified between selected nodes of interest through a dataset operation, and nodes and/or links can be selectively included or excluded from the data set operation. The dataset can be augmented with pedigree information or one or more association nodes. Link information, including a trajectory and a connected path that selectively produces or excludes one or more intermediate nodes, can be displayed and/or produced in a specified format. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225159 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF STRUCTURING DATA FOR SEARCH USING LATENT SEMANTIC ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES - The disclosed embodiments provide a system and method for using modified Latent Semantic Analysis techniques to structure data for efficient search and display. The present invention creates a hierarchy of clustered documents, representing the topics of a domain corpus, through a process of optimal agglomerative clustering. The output from a search query is displayed in a fisheye view corresponding to the hierarchy of clustered documents. The fisheye view may link to a two-dimensional self-organizing map that represents semantic relationships between documents. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225160 | COMPUTER PRODUCT, OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT SUPPORT APPARATUS AND METHOD - A computer-readable, non-transitory medium stores therein an operation management support program that causes a computer to execute a process that includes acquiring execution history information recording for each element group included in activity diagrams expressing work procedures for operation processes executed by a system, correlations between elements and access destinations thereof; searching among elements not yet selected from among all element groups, for a second element having an access destination coinciding with that of a first element selected from among all element groups, the searching performed by referring to the acquired execution history information; setting the first and the second elements as synonymous elements, if a second element is retrieved at the searching; extracting from among the element groups included in the activity diagrams including synonymous elements, a common element string of elements common among the activity diagrams that include the synonymous elements; and outputting the extracted common element string. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225161 | Categorizing products - Categorizing products includes: extracting titles for a plurality of products from acquired data; segmenting the titles into phrases; determining respective scores for the phrases; composing a first word sequence for a first one of the plurality of products with at least one of the phrases based at least in part on the determined respective scores for the phrases; comparing the first word sequence to a second word sequence for a second one of the plurality of products; and combining the first one and the second one of the plurality of products into a category of products based at least in part on the comparison. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225162 | Assigning Tags to Digital Content - Assigning tags to content on a page stored within a digital document environment is described. An activity log is received for a document including data indicating search queries resulting in the location of the document by a search engine. One or more keywords are determined from the activity log, and the document is tagged with a tag associated with the keywords. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225163 | Assigning Tags to Digital Content - Assigning tags to content on a page stored within a digital document environment is described. An activity log is received for a document including data indicating search queries resulting in the location of the document by a search engine. One or more keywords are determined from the activity log, and the document is tagged with a tag associated with the keywords. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225164 | GRANULAR AND WORKLOAD DRIVEN INDEX DEFRAGMENTATION - This patent application relates to granular and workload driven database index defragmentation techniques. These techniques allow for defragmenting individual index ranges, performing benefit analyses to estimate the impact of defragmenting indexes or index ranges, and leveraging such benefit analyses to provide automated workload-driven recommendations of index(es) or index range(s) to defragment. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225165 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PARTITIONING SEARCH INDEXES - Methods and systems for partitioning search indexes are described. In one embodiment, such a method includes identifying, via a partition manager, a search index to be partitioned, where the search index includes a plurality of entity types, and wherein each of the plurality of entity types associates records stored in a data store with the respective entity type within the search index. The method further includes partitioning, via the partition manager, the search index into a first partitioned search index and a second partitioned search index, correlating, via a partitioning scheme, a first subset of the plurality of entity types with the first partitioned search index, and correlating, via the partitioning scheme, a second subset of the plurality of entity types with the second partitioned search index. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225166 | FREQUENT ITEMSET COUNTING USING CLUSTERED PREFIXES AND INDEX SUPPORT - Techniques are provided for (2) extending SQL to support direct invocation of frequent itemset operations, (3) improving the performance of frequent itemset operations by clustering itemset combinations to more efficiently use previously produced results, and (4) making on-the-fly selection of the occurrence counting technique to use during each phase of a multiple phase frequent itemset operation. When directly invoked in an SQL statement, a frequent itemset operation may receive input from results of operations specified in the SQL statement, and provide its results directly to other operations specified in the SQL statement. By clustering itemset combinations, resources may be used more efficiently by retaining intermediate information as long as it is useful, and then discarding it to free up volatile memory. Dynamically selecting an occurrence counting technique allows a single frequent itemset operation to change the occurrence counting technique that it is using midstream, based on cost considerations and/or environmental conditions. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225167 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO STORE RDF DATA IN A RELATIONAL STORE - A method (and structure) of storing schema-less data of a dataset in a relational database, includes constructing a hash table for the schema-less data, using a processor on a computer. Data in the dataset is stored in a tuple format including a subject along with at least one other entity associated to the subject. Each row of the hashtable will be dedicated to a subject of the dataset, and at least one of the at least one other entity associated with the subject in the row is to be stored in a pair-wise manner in that row of the hashtable. In an exemplary embodiment, RDF data that uses triples (subject, predicate, object) is stored with the predicate/object stored in the pair-wise manner in its associated subject row. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225168 | HASH PROCESSING IN A NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURE - Described embodiments provide coherent processing of hash operations of a network processor having a plurality of processing modules. A hash processor of the network processor receives hash operation requests from the plurality of processing modules. A hash table identifier and bucket index corresponding to the received hash operation request are determined. An active index list is maintained for active hash operations for each hash table identifier and bucket index. If the hash table identifier and bucket index of the received hash operation request are in the active index list, the received hash operation request is deferred until the hash table identifier and bucket index corresponding to the received hash operation request clear from the active index list. Otherwise, the active index list is updated with the hash table identifier and bucket index of the received hash operation request and the received hash operation request is processed. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225169 | Virtual Reader for Scoring Applications - A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for the automated processing and scoring of applications. Application reader resources are selected to read and score individual categories of the application. The difference between the respective reader scores and an average delta value for each category of each application that the selected readers have previously score is calculated. The standard deviation of the average delta value for each category is calculated. If the selected reader's score for that category is not within one standard deviation of the average delta value, then the selected reader's score is adjusted the least amount necessary to be so. An additional application reader is selected to read and score the application. Reading and scoring operations are continued until at least two reader scores are within one standard deviation of the average of the adjusted scores. Final scoring of all applications is performed and the scored applications are ranked in descending order. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225170 | ADAPTABLE RELEVANCE TECHNIQUES FOR SOCIAL ACTIVITY STREAMS - A social networking activity reporting system (“SNARS”) and techniques are used for notifying a user of a client-side electronic device about updates (“activity items,” or “AIs”) from the user's social network. A relevance formula, which includes at least one time-dependent portion and at least one time-independent portion, is used to calculate a relevance score for an AI. For each AI, the time-dependent portion includes at least one factor based on a dynamic relationship between the user and the AI (for example, the relationship between the user or others in the user's social network and the publisher; or the amount of interaction the user or others in the user's social network have had with the item or subject). The AIs are presented in ascending or descending order based on the relevance scores. The relevance formula may be updated and re-applied to the same or a different set of activity items. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225171 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PUBLISHING SYNTHESIZED DATA TO FACILITATE PROVIDING INFORMATION AS A SERVICE - Aspects are disclosed for synthesizing data to facilitate providing information as a service. Data contributions from disparate sources are aggregated in which at least a first data contribution is combined with a second data contribution to create a data combination. A consumption of the data combination is then tracked, and a contribution value associated with at least one contributor to the data combination is ascertained based on the consumption. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225172 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR SEEKING REPRESENTATIVE IMAGES IN IMAGE SET - Disclosed are a system, a method, and a computer-readable medium for seeking representative images in an image set. The method comprises a text feature extracting step of extracting text features of each of the plural images; a diversity data obtaining step of obtaining diversity data of the image set based on the text features; a representative score calculating method of calculating a representative score of each of the plural images based on the diversity data; and a representative image selecting step of selecting one or more of the images in the image set based on the representative score of the corresponding images. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225173 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING SIMILARITY SCORE - A method includes generating, electronically, one or more matching patterns for one or more pairs of attribute values. Each pair includes two attribute values. The two attribute values include a first attribute value from a first record and a second attribute value from a second record. The first attribute value and the second attribute value satisfy a first criterion. Further, the method includes identifying, electronically, matching segment between the first attribute value and the second attribute value of a first pair. The method also includes repeating identifying for each pair. Moreover, the method includes computing a similarity score for the first pair using one of the first pair and the matching segment based on the one or more matching patterns and matching segments of the one or more pairs satisfying a second criterion. The method also includes repeating computing for each pair. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225174 | MEDIA VALUE ENGINE - Exemplary embodiments are directed to determining a media value associated mentions of an entity in one or more documents based on a sentiment attributed to the mentions of the entity and/or a frequency with which the entity is mentioned. Exemplary embodiments can include a media value engine that can identify mentions of an entity in documents, attribute sentiment to the mentions of the entity; determine a polarity of the sentiment, and calculate a media value attributed to the entity based on the sentiment. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225175 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM | 2011-09-15 |
20110225176 | HEALTH-CARE RELATED DATABASE MIDDLEWARE - A system for electronic transmission of electronic medical records includes an object model derived from a messaging protocol, the object model configured to generate metadata for electronic medical records provided through a user-specified form. The system also includes a database configured according to the object model, the database physically stores the metadata generated by the object model. A data bridge/data set pair transforms the metadata from a first format utilized by the database to a second format utilized by a recipient institution and a messaging module transmits the electronic medical records in the second format to the recipient institution. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225177 | Accessing Data In A Content-Addressable Data Processing System - A method of managing information in a content-addressable computer system comprising a plurality of computers including at least a first computer and at least two second computers. The method includes creating a first identifier for a data item, at least in part, by hashing the content of the data item; sending a request including the first identifier from the first computer to the at least two second computers to access the data item, wherein at least one of the at least two second computers uses the first identifier to access the data item; and verifying that the content of the data item has not changed since the creation of the first identifier. 2. The method may include using the first identifier to locate a storage location for the data item on the computer system. The first identifier may be based on the entire content of the data item | 2011-09-15 |
20110225178 | AUTOMATIC DISCOVERY OF METADATA - This is directed to processing stored data to automatically generate metadata for the stored data. In particular, this is directed to identifying metadata associated with stored data, and identifying other data that relates to the stored data from one or more sources. A processing module can identify other data sharing some of the identified metadata, and can extract additional metadata associated with the identified other data. The extracted metadata can then be associated with the user's stored data. The processing module can extract additional metadata from any suitable source, including for example local application data, social networks or blogging sources, and other remote sources. In some embodiments, an electronic device can retrieve data from other users for a particular event based on metadata associated with the user's data for the event to form a master collection of data. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225179 | NETWORK DIGITAL CREATION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - A network digital creation system and the method thereof are disclosed. The client end executes a web page document embedded with a web page procedure in order to initialize the drawing block in the web page document and to allow the user to directly use the cursor to draw. It further enables the user to use quote images previously stored in the server end or the quote the graphic resources in the external network for drawing. After finishing the plot, the user stores the result to the server end to become a quote image. It can be shared to other users by quoting. This facilitates the interactions of network digital creations. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225180 | Guided search based on query model - Providing guided search includes: receiving a new query; processing the new query to obtain a plurality of models, wherein a model indicates a mapping relationship of a previously stored query and corresponding guidance information; determining a corresponding plurality of similarities of the plurality of models relative to the new query; obtaining guidance information in a database comprising a plurality of mapping relationships of previously stored query and corresponding guidance information, including selecting at least some of the plurality of models based at least in part on the similarities and using the selected models as index to search the database; and sending the obtained guidance information to be displayed to a user. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225181 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING PRIME UNIFORM RESOURCE IDENTIFIERS - A system and method for mapping an input uniform resource identifier (URI) to an entry in a database. The system cleans an input URI to produce a prime URI that references an entry in a database. The prime URI is created by applying a regular expression determined for a particular domain to the input URI. Once the prime URI is generated, the prime URI can be used to retrieve information from a database. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225182 | DATA MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD - A data management device includes a memory including a multistage Bloom Filter, a first stage being divided into filter parts of which the number is same as that of data blocks, and a pth stage being divided into filter parts of which a size is a combination of filter parts of a (p−1)th stage; a registration unit registering an entry of data in a filter part of the first stage corresponding to a data block where the data is stored, and the entry of the data to a filter part of the pth stage corresponding to the filter part of the first stage where the entry of the data is registered; and a search unit determining which filter part of the first stage an entry of data being searched is registered in by narrowing down filter parts from the Bloom Filter of which a stage number is large. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225183 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL ASSISTANCE AGENTS IN PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT - A method, data processing system, and machine-readable storage medium are provided for digital assistance agents in product lifecycle management. The method includes obtaining context information relating to a first user of a product lifecycle management (PLM) system from an interaction between the first user and a second user of the PLM system. The method also includes receiving input information from the first user and one or more other users of the PLM system. The method further includes receiving action information from or sending action information to the PLM system, where the action information is related to the input information and the context information. The method also includes sending output information to at least some of the first user and the one or more other users of the PLM system, where the output information relating to a result of receiving action information from or sending action information to the PLM system. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225184 | System and Method for Performing Local Searches Across User Defined Events - The instant invention presents a system and method for performing local searches across one or more events created by one or more users. The system of the present invention comprises an event data structure comprising one or more user defined events, each event associated with a zip code. A zip list processor is provided to receive a zip code and a distance value, e.g., from user defined input, which are used to calculate a zip list comprising all zip codes geographically located with the distance value from the zip code. An event list generator to receives the zip list and queries the event data structure to retrieve events associated with zip codes contained in the zip list. The method of the present invention comprises creating an event data structure comprising one or more user defined events, each event associated with a zip code, calculating a zip list comprising all zip codes geographically located within a distance equal to a received distance value from a received zip code, and querying the event data structure to retrieve events associated with zip codes contained in the zip list. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225185 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STORING AND SEARCHING DATA IN A CUSTOMER CENTER ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods for storing data in a customer center environment are provided. In this regard, a representative method comprises: generating data from workforce applications, at least one of the workforce applications including at least one of forecasting, scheduling, recording, and monitoring functionalities; and storing the data from the at least one of the workforce applications in a storage area network (SAN), the SAN being operable to connect the at least one of the workforce applications to computer storage devices. The method can further include keeping recorded contacts in a long term storage device such as the SAN or an operational data store (ODS) and transparently searching in both the ODS and the SAN simultaneously. With a concept of moving data on to a file system SAN which is cheaper as compared to a database technology such as ODS, the method facilitates predictable performance from the ODS and easier manageability with constant cost from SAN. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225186 | ITERATIVELY LOCATING A POSITION CORRESPONDING TO A DESIRED SEEK TIME - Techniques enable locating a position within a file that corresponds to a desired seek time without having access to an index specifying the desired seek time's position. An iterative process may be used to estimate the position that corresponds to the desired seek time. The process may iterate through multiple estimations until a difference between a time corresponding to an estimated position and the desired seek time is within an acceptable amount or until the process reaches an iteration threshold. The file may then be played beginning at or near the desired seek time. The techniques may therefore allow a user to seek within a file while the user progressively downloads or streams the file. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225187 | NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - A non-transitory storage medium storing a management program, the management program causing a computer to execute first receiving case data related to a result of a clinical trial; referring to a definition table storing a first criterion and a second criterion; determining whether or not the case data satisfies the first criterion or second criterion; first transmitting a first inquiry to a terminal; second transmitting a second inquiry to the terminal; second receiving a first answer to the first inquiry from the terminal, the first answer including other case data that is the case data at least a part of which is modified; third determining whether or not the other case data satisfies the second criterion; and making a second answer to the second inquiry on the basis of a result of the third determination. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225188 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING TRAVEL-RELATED DATA - A method and system for querying travel-related data wherein a computer-readable storage medium comprises one or more programming instructions for: receiving a request for flight information; searching a plurality of Global Distribution System (GDS) databases or at least one airline database directly in accordance with the request; sending at least one result from the plurality of GDS databases corresponding to the request, the at least one result including at least one of an available flight upgrade or an available flight award; and sending at least one result from the plurality of GDS databases corresponding to the plurality of requests for alerts related to availability of a seat upgrade, availability of a flight upgrade, and/or availability of further flight rewards. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225189 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ASSESSING COMPLIANCE AND FEDERATING DATABASES - Systems, methods, and apparatus as discussed herein, provide for enabling a user to select containers and parent level requirements to be retrieved. A navigation panel is provided that enables a user to navigate through the selected containers. A sieve module filters non applicable requirements in the containers based on the selected parent level requirements. The system further joins and integrates compliance information stored within in the Compliance Database, and the associated requirements stored in the containers. The system further stores, manages and reports compliance information associated with specific requirements located in the identified container. Additionally, a federation module may enable user to link requirements located in different containers, and may copy requirements from one container and paste into another container. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225190 | RECEIVING A VERSION-SPECIFIC RESULT RESPONSIVE TO A QUERY - Content returned by a search query is specific to a version of a product installed on or associated with the computer system requesting the search. Upon receipt of the search query, a search system accesses a persistent descriptor corresponding to a detected version of the product. The persistent descriptor may be a cookie file stored on the requesting computer system. A product detection module interrogates the computer system to identify the associated products, including the particular versions of those products. The search of a repository of general content related to the product is scoped using the persistent descriptor as a search filter in order to provide version-specific content. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225191 | Index searching using a bloom filter - A system for index searching comprises a first index, a second index, a processor, and a memory. The processor is configured to determine, using a Bloom filter for the second index of fingerprints, whether the Bloom filter indicates that an entry corresponding to a segment has been previously stored in the second index. The processor is further configured to, in the event that the Bloom filter indicates that an entry corresponding to the segment has been previously stored in the second index, retrieve a second index entry associated with the segment that has been previously stored. The memory is coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225192 | AUTO-DETECTION OF HISTORICAL SEARCH CONTEXT - Architecture that automatically detects historical search contexts as well as behaviors related to a search query. Machine learning and hand-authored rules are employed to automatically identify search contexts. Historical information likely to be useful in the current context is surfaced. When a user enters a search query or executes another search behavior, past behaviors are exposed which are contextually related to the current behavior. The architecture also provides automatic discovery of historical contexts, features related to the contexts, and training or authoring of a system for classifying behavior into contexts, using some combination of the machine learning and/or hand-authored rules. A runtime system classifies the current user behavior into a context and surfaces contextual information to the user. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225193 | ACTIVE TAGS - A method for retrieving data in a data source is provided. The method includes receiving a search term; identifying an active tag associated with the search term; correlating the active tag to dynamic data that is operative to adapt to a mining context in which data is stored; and retrieving the data using the dynamic data. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225194 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING INFORMATION ABOUT FLOATING POPULATION - Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for analyzing information about floating population. The apparatus includes an information collection unit, a data integration unit, a data mining analysis unit, and an interface unit. The information collection unit collects information about locations provided by mobile communication terminals of moving objects, information about attributes of the moving objects, and information about locations and attributes related to stationary objects. The data integration unit creates integrated data by integrating the information collected by the information collection unit, national statistical information, and map data registered previously. The data mining analysis unit extracts data, consistent with conditions input by a system user, from the integrated data, and searches the map data for based moving patterns of the moving objects using data mining analysis. The interface unit provides a map service in which search results have been applied to the map data. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225195 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GATHERING ECOMMERCE DATA - The techniques introduced here provide a method of gathering ecommerce data. The techniques described here allow a system to return information about a product from several non-related ecommerce sites in response to a single search query. Using the techniques described here, a data mining system determines from the search query a product ID and retrieves from a database one or more product links that correspond to the product ID. Using the product links retrieved from the database, the data mining system traverses the links and parses the web-pages corresponding each of the links to determine up to date product information. The product information can then be returned to the application that initiated the request. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225196 | MOVING IMAGE SEARCH DEVICE AND MOVING IMAGE SEARCH PROGRAM - A moving image search device includes: a moving image database ( | 2011-09-15 |
20110225197 | USER SPECIFIC FEED RECOMMENDATIONS - A system for recommending feeds for a user comprises a client with a web browser, an application server, and a content server. The browser tracks the user's browsing activity and transmits user data related to the user's browsing activity to the application server. The application server searches the content server to determine feeds that may be relevant to the user's browsing activity and then communicates those feeds to the browser. The browser displays the received feeds to the user as feed recommendations, prompting the user to select from among the recommended feeds. Once the user has selected one or more feeds, the browser transmits the user's selection to the application server, which enables the feeds to be presented subsequently to the user. In this way, the system uses the user's browsing activity to obtain automatically for a user feeds that are likely to be relevant to the user. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225198 | System and Methods for Linking Multiple Events Involving Firearms and Gang Related Activities - Methods for linking multiple events involving firearms submit event information data and firearms information data to a system that includes a database for multiple firearms events and generate a query map that correlates data in the system database with a preselected geographical grid based upon one or more preselected matching criteria to one or more data entries for a selected event. The map is used to generate a request for a possible link analysis which may be initiated by a firearms examiner and is then performed to determine if there is a link. The event information data can include a case number, a geographical location data entry, a date entry, a crime type, a weapon involved and a suspect information data field based upon input from an investigating officer while the firearms information data can include a weapon data entry and a bullet data entry based upon input from a person with firearms examiner training. The methodology can be used to prioritize multiple requests for a possible link analysis based upon information obtained in one or more query responses and the query response can display at least some of its information in a query map that correlates data in the system database with a preselected geographical grid. One or more gang database modules allow users to execute searches of a gang database and plot incidents on a geographic grid with each incident being represented by a unique icon related to a class of crime or type of incident. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225199 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFICATION OF DATA OWNER IN AN UNSTRUCTURED DATA ENVIRONMENT - A system and method of identifying a data owner examining a plurality of criterion including access type, number of accesses at a given time and over the period of time selected, recentness of access, and permission levels of users. The method of file owner identification comprises collecting a plurality of samples including usage of a file by a plurality of users. A plurality of factors is calculated based on said plurality of users, wherein a respective factor is calculated for each of said plurality of users, wherein each factor is based on a plurality of use elements. Based on said plurality of factors, a file owner is determined of said file from among said plurality of users. The file owner may be communicated and/or displayed e.g., in a graph. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225200 | PRIVACY-PRESERVING METHOD FOR SKIMMING OF DATA FROM A COLLABORATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE - A method and system for harvesting collaboration data in accordance with a privacy policy is provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises defining a privacy policy for collaboration data, said privacy policy including a list of fields associated with the collaboration data to be harvested; harvesting the collaboration data associated with the fields specified as allowable under the privacy policy; transforming the collaboration data associated with the fields specified as allowable if said collaboration data can be transformed in accordance with a set of rules defined in the privacy policy; and storing the harvested collaboration data in a database. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225201 | METHOD AND ASSEMBLY FOR CREATING A DOCUMENT - In a method for data transfer, an identifier for identifying an image generation device is associated with the image generation device. An authorization information is associated with the image generation device. The authorization information associated with the identifier is stored in a data bank. The transfer of data from a data source by at least one of the image generation device and a data processing system connected with the image generation device is requested. Before the transfer of the data, the authorization information associated with the image generation device is determined and read out with aid of the identifier of the image generation device. The data from the data source is only transferred to the image generation device or to the data processing unit when the transfer of the data is permitted via the read-out authorization information. Also, a method is provided in which a device with a printing function and at least one right to procure a further product is distributed in a bundle. The further product comprises at least one of a software product as well as updates of the software product, at least one print product, a loose sheet compilation, serial works in electronic or printed form, and a trial subscription to use a databank or to provide information stored in databank. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225202 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL ACCESS CONTROL LIST - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for providing a dynamic access control list for an object in a computer- implemented content management system. A list of one or more subjects is received. Each of the subjects is associated with a set of operations that the subject has permission to perform on the object in accordance with a first rule-set. A set of dynamic evolution conditions is defined. The dynamic evolution conditions specify under what circumstances to evolve the access control list to a new state in which a second rule-set describes a different set of operations to be associated with one or more of the subjects. The dynamic evolution conditions, the subjects, and the operations are stored in a dynamic access control list on a server in the content management system. A content management system is also described. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225203 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING AND EVALUATING REVIEW TASKS - Methods and systems for tracking and evaluating review tasks. In one example embodiment, a method for tracking and evaluating review tasks includes operations for defining a review task, receiving a review response, scoring the review response, and storing a review score. The defining a review task can include receiving a plurality of parameters including a review target and a reviewer. The review response can be received from a reviewer and can be associated with the review task. The scoring the review response can include creating a review score for the reviewer. The review score can be stored in association with the reviewer and the review response within a database. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225204 | Object Memory Management System - An object memory management system (OMMS) provides a communications link between a plurality of various types of inputs and a plurality of customers who would normally receive one or more of the various types of inputs. Included among the input signal devices are GPS, infrared (IR), photo cell, range finder, and other type sensors, and signal sources such as data bit stream, pulsed digital signals, verbal and visual signals. Included among the customers are artificial intelligence (AI) and software service providers. The system recognizes a received incoming signal, converts it into a signal the designated customer can recognize and sends it to the designated customer. Signals are processed on a first-in-first-out (FIFO) basis unless a priority designation is received. Complex incoming signals (verbal and visual) require pattern recognition wherein an object database is utilized to understand such incoming signals. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225205 | MULTI-QUERY OPTIMIZATION - A database query optimization method is provided for database queries that include predicates, the queries being directed to at least one database table having data in rows and columns. The method includes associating a lineage bit set with each row of the database table, the lineage bit set providing a binary predicate state indication whether each predicate is met or are not met by data in the row. A dependency bit set is established to provide a binary indication of the predicates that are included in each query. Queries are applied against the database table by a logical operation between the lineage bit set and the dependency bit set. A database query optimization data structure includes a lineage bit set associated with each row in the database table. The lineage bit set provides a binary predicate state indication whether each predicate is met or are not met by data in the row. The data structure further includes a dependency bit set that provides a binary indication of the predicates included in each query. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225206 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CREATING A PLURALITY OF CNAMES FOR A WEBSITE - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for creating a plurality of cnames for a website. These mechanisms and methods for creating a plurality of cnames for a website can provide multiple DNS entries for a single website. The ability to provide multiple DNS entries for a single website can enable websites to be accessible from multiple locations. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225207 | VIRTUAL NETWORK DEVICE ARCHITECTURE - A network device such as a router or a switch is comprised of a control module and a plurality of physical line cards. The control module includes a control processor virtual machine, a plurality of route processing virtual machines and one or more instances of a line card virtual machine. The line card virtual machine operates to receive routing information base update information, to modify the routing information base according to the update information and to update each instance of a plurality of forwarding information bases included on each of the physical line cards. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225208 | Integrated GIS System with Interactive 3D Interface - An integrated GIS system in which a 3D visualization system is integrated with a 2D GIS system using interfaces that map 2D components for 3D visualization and map 3D components for processing by the 2D GIS system. A 2D GIS system and a 3D visualization system are integrated through interfaces that provide for 3D visualization of 2.5D GIS data as well as interactive control of the 2D GIS system from 3D windows containing 3D renderings produced by the 3D visualization system. User selections made in a 3D window are mapped to 2D geo-location coordinates for to use by the 2D GIS system components. Changes made via the 3D window to 3D graphic indicia and/or metadata are used to modify GIS data in a GIS database, and the modified GIS data is used to update the 3D rendering to reflect the user changes. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225209 | DISPERSED STORAGE NETWORK FILE SYSTEM DIRECTORY - A dispersed storage device manages a file system directory of a dispersed storage network by receiving a data object to be stored and a user file name of the data object, calculating a data compression function of the data object, creating a file identifier based on a result of the data compression function, creating a source name for the data object using the file identifier and linking the user file name to the source name in the file system directory. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225210 | DUAL-SCREEN ELECTRONIC READING APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF - A dual-screen electronic reading apparatus includes a memory storing files, a non-volatile display unit, a volatile display unit, and a microprocessor. The microprocessor includes a file determining module configured for determining whether text and at least one image exist in one opened file, and for generating a text file and an image file if both text and at least one image exist in the opened file. The microprocessor also includes a display controlling module configured for displaying the text file on the non-volatile display unit and displaying the image file on the volatile display unit. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225211 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING DEDUPLICATION INFORMATION TO APPLICATIONS - A method of maintaining and providing information relating to file deduplication. A first portion of a first file and a second portion of a second file that contain a first content are identified. A first header associated with the first portion is created. The first header identifies the first portion and the second portion containing the first content. The first header is appended to a storage location of the first content of the first portion to form a first data structure for the first file. The first data structure is stored. The first data structure is provided to an application requesting the first file so that duplicate data processing can be avoided by the application. The first data structure is updated when the first file or the second file are altered. A similar process may occur to generate a data structure for the second file. | 2011-09-15 |
20110225212 | METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR FLYING SAFELY AT LOW ALTITUDE IN AN AIRCRAFT - The present invention relates to a method of flying safely and at low altitude in an aircraft, in which method unsafe relief (R | 2011-09-15 |
20110225213 | LOOP CONTROL FLOW DIVERSION - Loop control flow diversion supports thread synchronization, garbage collection, and other situations involving suspension of long-running loops. Divertible loops have a loop body, a loop top, an indirection cell containing a loop top address, and a loop jump instruction sequence which references the indirection cell. In normal execution, control flows through the indirection cell to the loop top. After the indirection cell is altered, however, execution flow is diverted to a point away from the loop top. Operations such as garbage collection are performed while the loop (and hence the thread(s) using the loop) is thus diverted. The kernel or another thread then restores the loop top address into the indirection cell, and execution flow again continues through the restored indirection cell to the loop top. | 2011-09-15 |