46th week of 2008 patent applcation highlights part 55 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20080281750 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADMINISTERING PRIME BROKERAGE - A Straight-Through-Processing (STP) trading platform provides a fully electronic and seamless solution to substantially all aspects of the trading cycle for fixed income instruments and other financial instruments. In an exemplary embodiment, one or more customers, one or more dealers and one or more prime brokers have access to computer software that facilitates trade order management, trade order generation, trade execution, trade allocation, allocation acknowledgement, trade confirmation, acquisition of settlement instructions, and the generation of progress reports based on specific metrics criteria. In said exemplary embodiment, the STP trading platform allows a prime broker to monitor and approve a trade where the STP trading platform includes software modules including at least an account management module and an electronic trading module to handle the various stages of executing a trade, confirming the trade, and facilitating settlement of the trade. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281751 | COLLATERAL REQUIREMENTS MATCHING AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION - A collateral management method for a plurality of parties, each of the parties having a collateral requirement with at least one other party of the plurality of parties is disclosed, the method including matching the collateral requirements of the plurality of parties to determine a net collateral requirement of a party of the plurality of parties to one or more other parties of the plurality of parties, and making available for that party the net collateral requirement of that party. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281752 | ONE-PRICE HOME MORTGAGE LENDING METHOD AND PLATFORM - A method and platform for an online one-price home mortgage lending is disclosed. House buyers use the platform to obtain a mortgage with autonomous interest rates. The platform provides a loan to members to allow them to get their house in advance or to pay off an existing home mortgage. After receiving the loan members participate in an auction process. The bid-winner receives the funds and repays the loan in installments. Non bid-winners are issued a transferable auction certificate and wait until the next term to bid again. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281753 | HANDLING OF ACH PAYMENT REJECTIONS SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for processing financial transactions. According to one embodiment, a method for processing financial transactions prior to a collection of payment for the transactions can comprise receiving information related to a plurality of transactions from a party to the transactions. One or more rules can be applied to the information related to the plurality of transactions. The one or more rules can define dispositions of the payment for the transactions to provide for collection of fees associated with the transactions. Payment for the transactions can be handled based on applying the one or more rules. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281754 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING AFFILIATE-BASED TRANSACTIONS - Enhanced methods, systems, and techniques for facilitating affiliate-based transactions are provided. Example embodiments provide an Affiliation Facilitator System, which generates and provides reference rewriter code modules based on affiliations between content providers and target sites. In some embodiments, a reference rewriter code may execute on a client computing system to automatically modify content provided by a content provider that is affiliated with one or more target sites. In some cases, the reference rewriter code may modify links that refer to designated target sites to refer instead to designated affiliation facilitators. The designated affiliation facilitators may then track accesses to the target sites and provide compensation to the content provider based on the tracked accesses. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract, and is submitted with the intention that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281755 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING COMMERCIAL KITCHEN VENTILATION - A business method utilizing a Principal Entity to provide Commercial Kitchen Ventilation (CKV) systems including components such as hood and duct systems direct to owners of food service facilities. In one example, Principal Entity selects members of a contractor network, provides or arranges CKV instruction leading to CKV installer certification for members supports a continuing certification instruction program and facilitates CKV licensing of certified members by governmental code agencies. The Principal Entity may further create a business conduit facilitating participation of CKV component manufacturers in training that may lead to additional certifications of contractors as certified installers and/or servicers of manufacturer's components. The business conduit example may also provide tools and business systems to combine the purchasing power of members through the Principal Entity to facilitate the transfer of products and services between manufacturers, members and/or owners at greatly reduced costs yet with enhanced levels of service and code compliance. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281756 | TRUSTED THIRD PARTY CLEARING HOUSE FOR LEAD TRACKING - A method for tracking sales leads, including a lead clearing house logging receipt in a log of one or more encrypted leads received from a participant of the lead clearing house, the one or more leads including personal lead information having been encrypted with a one-way hash algorithm; comparing the received one or more encrypted leads with stored encrypted leads to find any matches; updating the log related to the one or more encrypted leads with unencrypted log information associated with the matching one or more encrypted leads; and communicating a status to the participant based on the log relating to the one or more leads. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281757 | TRUSTED PRIVACY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT - A method for tracking and controlling privacy information within a lead sales system includes logging receipt in a log of one or more encrypted leads by a trusted privacy information manager (TPIM) that are received from a participant thereof, the one or more leads including private lead information from a lead provider having been pre-processed and encrypted with a one-way hash algorithm; comparing the received one or more encrypted leads with stored encrypted leads to find matches; updating the log related to the one or more encrypted leads with information associated with the matching one or more encrypted leads, the log information including at least one of an e-mail address and a phone number of the lead provider; and communicating to the lead provider at least one way to access a user interface of the TPIM that enables the lead provider to control his or her private lead information. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281758 | Postage value exchange system and method - A postage value exchange system and method provides for the improved generation of postage indicators. A meter requesting device sends a meter request to a postage security device (PSD). The PSD processes the request based on the identification of the requesting device and a comparison of available metering funds. If authorized, the PSD provides a meter response that includes an authorization. Based on this authorization, the requesting device may thereupon locally generate the postage indicator, eliminating processing and transmission overhead from the PSD generating these indicators. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281759 | System and Method for Registration Control - The invention concerns a control unit ( | 2008-11-13 |
20080281760 | Service Negotiation - Embodiments of a method for negotiating a service include enabling a first user to submit a set of information for establishing a service on behalf of another person, the set of information prohibited from being submitted by the first user unless the set of information completely satisfies criteria for the set of information that is needed for establishing the service in accordance with operating standards for establishing the service. The method further includes, after submission of the set of information by the first user, notifying a second user of the submission and enabling the second user to review the set of information and update the set of information with additional information regarding establishment of the service. Other methods and systems are also provided. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281761 | Guaranteed principal investment system, product and method - An investment system comprising at least one equity profile comprising one or more non-guaranteed investment instruments and at least one target-risk profile, wherein the target-risk profile and the investment equity profile provide a return on an initial investment amount, said return comprising at least a predetermined sum certain principal amount | 2008-11-13 |
20080281762 | Methods and Systems for Interest Rate Prediction - In one aspect, the invention comprises a computer-implemented method for predicting interest rates, comprising the steps of: electronically receiving data describing one or more Fed fund futures rates; electronically adjusting the data describing the one or more Fed fund futures rates to obtain adjusted data regarding the one or more Fed fund futures rates; and electronically determining data regarding one or more expected Fed fund target rates. In another aspect, the invention comprises a system for predicting interest rates, comprising: one or more processors operable to determine probability distribution data for one or more Eurodollar rates based on Eurodollar futures option data; one or more processors operable to link said probability distribution data for one or more Eurodollar rates to overnight forward Fed funds rate data; and one or more processors operable to link said forward Fed funds rate data to expected Fed funds rate data. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281763 | Device and a Method for Measurement of Energy for Heating Tap Water Separated from the Buildings Heating Energy-Usage - A device, such as a heat meter for measurements of hot tap water energy usage, separated from building heating energy usage, in a district heating substation. The device is connected only to sensors attached to the supply pipe and return pipe of the district heating substation. A device, such as a heat meter, has a detector to detect a deviation in the total power (P) usage in the district heating substation which deviation depends on the use of warm tap water. The device may be used to calculate energy consumption in the heat exchanger related to building heating, and the energy consumption in the second heat exchanger related to tap water heating. The device may be used to calculate energy consumption for tap water heating, which relates to the duration of the deviation. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281764 | Machine Learning System - A method for training a classifier to classify elements of a data set according to a characteristic is described. The data set includes N elements with the elements each characterized by at least one feature. The method includes the steps of forming a first labeled subset of elements from the data set with the elements of the first labeled subset each labeled according to whether the element includes the characteristic, training an algorithmic classifier to classify for the characteristic according to the first labeled subset thereby determining which at least one feature is relevant to classifying for the characteristic; and then querying with the classifier an inverted index, with this inverted index formed over the at least one feature and generated from the data set, thereby generating a ranked set of elements from the data set. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281765 | Method of Ranking Politically Exposed Persons and Other Heightened Risk Persons and Entities - A method for ranking politically exposed persons and/or other persons and entities that pose a heightened risk based on their importance wherein an exposure index is determined for each person in the population as a function of the existence or absence of a relationship with each of the other members of the population and each of one or more exposure factors such as position held by the person, country in which the position is held, and source of information about the person. The politically exposed persons in the population are ranked in accordance with their respective exposure indexes. The population is sorted and a subset of the population containing those politically exposed persons having exposure indexes indicative or the highest likelihood of illicit financial activity is thereby identified. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281766 | Time Machine Software - A method and system for creating human robots with psychic abilities, as well as enabling a human robot to access information in a time machine to predict the future accurately and realistically. The present invention provides a robot with the ability to accomplish tasks quickly and accurately without using any time. This permits a robot to cure cancer, fight a war, write software, read a book, learn to drive a car, draw a picture or solve a complex math problem in less than one second. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281767 | Method for Training Neural Networks - The present invention provides a method ( | 2008-11-13 |
20080281768 | Method and System for Conducting a Compliance Audit - In an embodiment of the invention, a method related to conducting a compliance audit, including accessing a database, the database including a rule set formulated from at least one requirement, wherein the database includes a knowledge base, accepting input regarding circumstance data, the circumstance data regarding a subject of the at least one requirement, applying the rule set to the input regarding circumstance data, and generating a compliance audit report based on applying the rule set to the input regarding circumstance data. In addition, other method, system, program product, and apparatus aspects are described in the claims, drawings, or text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281769 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNITY TAGGING - An embodiment relates generally to a method of organizing information. The method includes providing for a knowledgebase and providing for a first set of tags configured to be applied to items in the knowledgebase. The method also includes providing for a second set of tags configured to be applied to items in the knowledgebase and searching the knowledgebase based on at least one of the first set of tags and the second set of tags. The method further includes ranking result items in a search result favoring the result items tagged with terms for the first set of tags. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281770 | Classification Method and System for Small Collections of High-Value Entities - A method and system for classifying small collections of hi-value entities with missing data. The invention includes: collecting measurement variables for a set of entity cases for which classifications are known; calibrating standard weights for each measurement variable based on historical data; computing compensating weights for each entity case that has missing data, computing case scores for each of one or more dimensions as a sum-product of compensating weights and variables associated with each dimension; executing an iterative process that finds a specific combination of compensation weights that best classify the entity cases in terms of distinct scores; and applying a resulting model, which is determined by the specific combination of compensation weights, to classify other entity cases for which the classifications are unknown. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281771 | Data Partitioning and Critical Section Reduction for Bayesian Network Structure Learning - In a parallel system, multiple threads operate in parallel to perform network structure learning. A global score cache is partitioned into multiple split score caches, which may in one embodiment include associating a score cache with a node of the structure to be learned. With a split score cache, the learning may be performed in split neighbor scoring loops, with the first loop operating on separate score cache partitions, and warming the score cache partitions for the second loop. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281772 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ACCESS TO STORAGE MEDIA - Systems and methods for managing access to a file storage device are described. One embodiment is configured to initially allow an anti-pestware process to access the file storage device, and then in response to identifying a process, other than the anti-pestware process, attempting to access the file storage device while the anti-pestware process is accessing the storage device, ceasing to allow the anti-pestware process to access the storage device during an interrupt period. In this embodiment, the interrupt period is limited so as to allow the anti-pestware process to access the storage device of the computer even if the at least one process continues to attempt to access the storage device. In variations, the interrupt period is extended one or more times in response to one or more processes other than the anti-pestware process attempting to access the file storage device. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281773 | DATA STORAGE METHOD AND DATA STORAGE STRUCTURE - A data storage method and a data storage structure are provided. In one aspect, a method of storing data includes setting a first data node in a first storage area; setting a second data node in a second storage area; wherein said second data node is an element of a plurality of elements forming a first flat table of at least one flat table in the second storage area; and said step of setting a first data node includes storing in the first data node a two-tuple linker which comprises a first identifier indicating said first flat table and a second identifier indicating the row of said element in the first flat table. In another aspect a corresponding data storage structure is further provided. According to the present invention, it is able to achieve easily data chaining via a two-tuple linker in a special-purpose processor that does not support a pointer of memory address, thereby reducing requirements on space needed for data storage and enhancing efficiency of chaining each data segment. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281774 | Method and System for Checking Availability of Automounted File Systems - A method, an apparatus, a system, and a computer program product are presented for determining whether a file system, which contains a file system resource that is to be the target of a file system operation, is currently mounted by a data processing system. A first kernel-level process obtains unique identifying information for a file system that contains the target file system resource, and a second kernel-level process manages a data structure having an entry for each file system that the kernel of the data processing system recognizes as being currently mounted. The data structure is searched by the first kernel-level process for an entry having information that matches the unique identifying information such that the first kernel-level process determines that the file system is mounted in response to finding an entry having information that matches the unique identifying information. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281775 | Method and System for Identifying Automounted File System Resources - A method, an apparatus, a system, and a computer program product are presented for determining whether a file system resource is a file system resource that is contained within a file system that can be automounted by a data processing system. A target file system resource is identified, after which a first file system data structure that represents a file system that contains the target file system resource is identified using a file system resource data structure that represents the target file system resource. If it is determined that the first file system data structure identifies a file system resource data structure that represents an automount point, the target file system resource is marked as an automount file system resource. File system resource data structures that represent hierarchically more inclusive file system resources are traversed if necessary to search for an automount point. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281776 | Interactive System For Creating, Organising, and Sharing One's Own Databank of Pictures Such as Photographs, Drawings, Art, Sketch, Iconography, Illustrations, Portraits, Paintings and Images - An interactive system for creating, organising, and sharing one's own databank of pictures is disclosed, it being accepted that one may want to build such data based on one's personal interest, by well-defined classifications, using a computer system comprising of; a. (i) a User Interface; (ii). a Database comprising a. a Picture Bank Database; b. a User Database; c. a Configuration Database; (iii) At least one data input, organising and management module(s) allowing a user to input, append, and modify well-classified data (iv) Module allowing a user to invoke a Picture Session; (v) Module allowing a user to Schedule data; (vi) Module allowing the user to Export data from the Database(s); (vii) Module allowing the user to Import data; (viii) Module allowing the user to use the data in the Database as a screen saver. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281777 | Complex datastore with bitmap checking - A datastore, such as a registry or file system having a defined data structure with a logical layer, may be analyzed using a bitmap corresponding to equally sized blocks of data in the datastore. The bitmap is created by traversing the datastore and setting a bit at the beginning of each cell of data, where one cell may have multiple blocks. The datastore is traversed again at a logical layer to verify that each cell is used only one time. The second traverse may unset the beginning bit of each cell as the cell is used. An inconsistency is detected in the datastore when a bit is already unset during the second traverse and when set bits exist after the second traverse. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281778 | Hardware Accelerator Based Method and Device for String Searching - A method for searching within a data block for a data chunk having a predefined value, the method includes: fetching, by a processor, a data block search instruction; fetching, a data unit that includes multiple data chunks; wherein at least one data chunk within the data unit belongs to the data block; deciding whether to use a mask for data chunk level masking; searching, by a hardware accelerator, for a valid data chunk within the fetched data unit that has the predefined value; wherein the searching comprising applying a mask; wherein a valid data chunk in an non-masked data chunk that belongs to the data block; and determining whether to update the value of the mask and whether to fetch a new data unit that belongs to the data block. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281779 | Query Directives And Access Plan Hints - A query plan modification system and method relate to a database system that includes a cost-based optimizer for generating access plans. The database system also permits a user to view an access plan that has been generated by a particular SQL query and modify the access plan if desired. The user specifies customizations that are associated with the access plan so that when that plan is executed, the customizations are executed as well. Exemplary customizations include specifying an initialization file specific to a query, specifying different implementation methods than those in the original access plan, prohibiting rebuilding of an access plan, and over-riding or ignoring a clause within the query that is used to generate the access plan. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281780 | Query Directives And Access Plan Hints - A query plan modification system and method relate to a database system that includes a cost-based optimizer for generating access plans. The database system also permits a user to view an access plan that has been generated by a particular SQL query and modify the access plan if desired. The user specifies customizations that are associated with the access plan so that when that plan is executed, the customizations are executed as well. Exemplary customizations include specifying an initialization file specific to a query, specifying different implementation methods than those in the original access plan, prohibiting rebuilding of an access plan, and over-riding or ignoring a clause within the query that is used to generate the access plan. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281781 | SEARCHING DOCUMENT SETS WITH DIFFERING METADATA SCHEMATA - Search and filtering of documents with different metadata schemata is enabled using a single index that supports a single schema through decorated namespaces. Each metadata schema submitted to a system is assigned a unique identifier and property names associated with the schema are prefixed with the unique identifier. A single-valued, decorated property is used to indicate whether a submitted document is part of a registered schema in the system. The single-valued properties are converted to a search index table that enables resource-optimized searching and filtering of documents eliminating documents of other schemata by simply checking the association property. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281782 | QUERY PROCESSING CLIENT-SERVER DATABASE SYSTEM - There is disclosed a method for processing a query in a client-server database system comprising a server for managing content in a database and at least one client connected to the server via a network. The method comprises inputting a query from an application; and transmitting the inputted query to the server, skipping a query parsing processing at the client. The server parses the query transmitted from the client computer module and executes the query by manipulating the data in the database according to the query. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281783 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING MEDIA - One embodiment of the present invention may permit retrieving and presenting media resources and/or providing online chat functionality. The embodiment may include a communication toolbar. The communication toolbar may be an interactive user tool that allows a user to retrieve and display document and media files, website/pages links, and/or conference links. The communication toolbar may also aid users in facilitating an on-line chat between one another. Another embodiment of the present invention takes the form of a media retrieval and display module that may show any and all retrieved search results to the user. Each search result may include a text description of the media record file, such as a title, a link to the media record file and a time bar associated with the media record file. The time bar may include at last one graphic indicator corresponding to a time in the media file where the search term is used. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281784 | QUERY HANDLING IN DATABASES WITH REPLICATED DATA - The same data is stored in at least two different database management systems (DBMS's), including a columnar DBMS ( | 2008-11-13 |
20080281785 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REMOTE BINDING OF META-CONTENT TO A UNIFORM RESOURCE IDENTIFIER - A method and system for remote binding of meta-content to a uniform resource indicator are provided. The method includes providing a script to a web browser application in response to the web browser, application accessing the uniform resource identifier of a content provider system and requesting an asset therefrom. The script is generated by a remote server system and is provided to the web browser application by routing the web browser application from the content provider system to the remote server system. The method also includes receiving a call from the web browser application at the remote server system via the script. The call includes the uniform resource identifier of the content provider system. Using the uniform resource identifier, the remote server system queries a data source to determine whether meta-content for the asset is available. Upon determining the meta-content is available for the asset, the method includes returning the meta-content to the web browser application for interpretation. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281786 | PRODUCER/CONSUMER OPTIMIZATION - Systems and methods facilitate efficient data processing in a computer environment. Data producers and consumers are considered in aggregate rather than in isolation. In one instance, interaction between data producers and consumers is improved by integrating producers and consumers. Optimization can subsequently be performed over the combination to produce synergistic results. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281787 | Content storing device query - A method, apparatus, and correspondingly configured computer program, in which a querying device inputs a user an identification of desired content and sends a query request for the desired content to surrounding memory devices. The query request is adapted to cause compatible receiving memory devices to perform a search based on the request. The memory devices are configured to listen to query requests and responsively perform searches based on the queries. Any memory device that finds content according to the query request responds to the query device which, after sending the query request, monitors for the compatible receiving memory devices for information that the queried content is found. Responsive to receiving the information from a given memory device, the querying device establishes a connection with the given memory device and obtains the content. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281788 | Hierarchical structured abstract file system - A method in a data processing system of searching a plurality of electronic files identified by filenames in a first hierarchical file structure that is on a recordable medium of the data processing system. A user-defined metalabel is assigned to each of the electronic files. The electronic files are organized as a function of the metalabels into a second hierarchical file structure existing simultaneously with the first hierarchical file structure on the recordable medium of the data processing system. A search query is received from a user and the metalabels of the second hierarchical file structure are searched as a function of the query. Each electronic file having a metalabel matching the query is returned to the user as a search result. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281789 | Method and apparatus for implementing a search engine using an SRAM - A search engine system including a memory bank coupled to a bank selection signal, mask logic for receiving constructed keys and incoming key masks and for providing masked keys, hash function blocks for receiving at least two of the masked keys and for providing at least three hash function outputs, and multiplexers for receiving hash function outputs and for providing the bank selection signal is disclosed. Also, the system can allow for local masking of the constructed keys using local mask fields. The hash function can be a Cyclic Redundancy Code (CRC) type function. The memory bank can be arranged as buckets of entries and can be implemented as a standard static random access memory (SRAM). Further, the system can be configured to operate in either a shared mode for sharing hash function outputs or a non-shared mode whereby hash function outputs can be designated for particular portions of the memory bank. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281790 | System and Method for Determining and Applying Affinity Profiles for Research, Marketing, and Recommendation Systems - The present invention relates to systems and methods enabling the identification and/or application of user affinities in an automated and highly effective manner. A method of the present invention includes enabling a user to build or evaluate a portion of or an entire personal expression. As this is done, an analytical process obtains knowledge about affinities for the user. This knowledge can be used for any number of purposes such as recommending products, generating meaningful content, or optimizing product packaging, to name a few. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281791 | Database Management Program - A database management program in which even in a case where a row having a value of a column A duplicated is arranged in sequential space as an initial state for speeding-up a search with a condition of the column A, even if insertion, deletion and update of a row are repeated, a time required for the search with condition of the column A is not lengthen, and rearrangement requiring a long time in a case of solving this problem using a conventional method is not required. In the database management program, when managing a single or a plurality of sets of rows having values of the column A duplicated using relational database, in a case where the row having the value of the column A duplicated is arranged in the sequential space as the initial state for speeding-up the search with the condition of the column A, only the set of rows having the value of the column A duplicated is arranged in the sequential spaces when insertion, deletion and update of a row are performed. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281792 | CONVERSION OF DATA FROM A FIRST FILE TYPE TO A SECOND FILE TYPE FOR USE BY A TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT INVENTORY SYSTEM - Data files produced by one inventory scan are converted for use by a different inventory process so that multiple inventory scans to address multiple inventory processes are avoided. A subset of the categories of data from a first data file is extracted and included in a second data file. The second data file is provided with a different file type and format than the first data file. Additional information may be provided within the second data file such as data provided as user input and/or data that is looked-up from other sources. The second data file is uploaded to an inventory process such as by being sent to a file transfer protocol server where it is available for subsequent consideration by an inventory server. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281793 | Method and System of Information Engine with Make-Share-Search of consumer and professional Information and Content for Multi-media and Mobile Global Internet - The method of Make, Share and Search Integrated System, improves the user experience of creation and consumption of information content, with instant access to newly created and dynamic information. The new system also reduces or eliminates the need for web crawlers, by capturing search parameters at the time of creation itself, and improves the same whenever any user utilizes the same, to enable instant access to new information. In the next generation of web, content creation by consumers is going to far exceed any professional content, and new Make, Share and Search Integrated System enables this in a superior manner than any of present day technologies do. Further the system is designed for multi-media and mobile environment with global reach, and provides users with creation, sharing, prioritization, search, utilization and consumption in a single integrated technology, replacing the present day “Search engine” paradigm by a new paradigm called “Information Engine”. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281794 | "Web 2.0 information search and presentation" with "consumer == author" and "dynamic Information relevance" models delivered to "mobile and web consumers". - Moving forward from current generation of search engines, originally designed for web 1.0, an entirely new comprehensive information search system is presented for searching and presenting of information in the Web 2.0, and other emerging new models of the global Internet using new and emerging sources of static and dynamic information, including but not limited to professionally created web pages, consumer created content, increasingly dynamic yet invisible web or web services based web, unconnected yet relevant dark web, mobile content web, social networked web and other emerging models of content publication, with access using mobile and fixed wireless and wire-line networked computing, communication and entertainment devices, user agents and application agents, and corresponding new business and delivery models for consumer and business users worldwide through sponsored web business model, content advertising business models, keyword advertising models, multi-media advertising models or pay per search, pre-paid and service business models. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281795 | SEARCH ENGINE FOR ENVIRONMENTALLY RELEVANT ITEMS - Methods and systems for facilitating exchange of rights associated with environmentally relevant items are provided. The methods and systems may include identifying a type of environmentally relevant item recognized by a market associated with an environmentally relevant action and providing a user interface whereby a user may search for environmentally relevant items. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281796 | Desktop, stream-based, information management system - A steam-based document storage and retrieval system accepts documents that are in diverse formats and come from diverse application, automatically creates document model objects describing these documents in a consistent format and associating time stamps with the documents to automatically create a main stream in chronological order. The stream, or sub-streams meeting selected search criteria, are displayed in a variety of forms, including a receding, partly overlapping stack with aids that facilitate user interaction. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281797 | IMAGE SEARCH APPARATUS AND IMAGE SEARCH METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREOF - With the conventional techniques, when the images taken under various conditions such as plural aspect ratios, horizontal shooting and vertical shooting are collectively selected and searched, the search conditions adaptable to all the images can not be specified, whereby there was a problem that the search could not be made as intended. In order to solve this problem, the present invention provides an image search apparatus comprising search object image designation means for designating a search object image, search condition input means for inputting the search conditions, feature amount extraction means for extracting a feature amount thereof from the search object image, feature amount transformation means for transforming the feature amount to adapt to the inputted search conditions, and determination means for determining whether or not the search object image is matched with the search conditions using the feature amount after transformation. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281798 | AUTOMATIC CONVERSION SCHEMA FOR CACHED WEB REQUESTS - Various embodiments are directed to a proxy system for implementing an automatic conversion schema which allows data results from a publishing application to be extracted and displayed by a display application other than the publishing application. In one embodiment, a proxy publisher may receive a request from a publishing application to retrieve a data result from a data server. The request may include a path to the data server and appended publishing parameters. In accordance with the automatic conversion schema, the publishing parameters may comprise decode parameters associated with the publishing application for allowing a display application other than the publishing application to decode variables of the data result and to transform the decoded variables for display. The proxy publisher may cache the request including the appended publishing parameters and retrieve the data result from the data server. The proxy publisher may locally store the data result along with the cached publishing parameters and may respond to a query from a display application for data associated with the publishing application by providing the cached data result and the publishing parameters to the display application. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281799 | TECHNIQUES FOR SHARING PERSISTENTLY STORED QUERY RESULTS BETWEEN MULTIPLE USERS - A method, system and article of manufacture for managing access to query results and, more particularly, for managing access by multiple users to persistently stored query results, whereby at least some of the users may have different access rights. One embodiment provides a method of managing access to a query result obtained upon execution of a query against one or more databases. The method comprises creating security information configured for restricting access to the query result. The security information is associated with the query result. Access to some or all of the query result is granted to a requesting entity on the basis of the security information and an attribute of the requesting entity. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281800 | Apparatus and method for searching among and presenting information associated with geographical position data - The invention relates to an apparatus for searching and presenting information associated with geographical position data. The apparatus comprises a GPS receiver adapted to receive geographical position data, an input device comprising a user interface comprising at least a first input text box adapted to receive a first text item, wherein said first text item is a general search text item, at least a second input text box adapted to receive a second text item, wherein said second text item is a geographical position text item, and a user actuation input device. The apparatus further comprises a database selection engine adapted to select a number of databases from a plurality of databases based upon said first and second text item, a database search engine adapted to perform a database search in said number of databases based upon said first and second text item, upon reception of a user input actuation, via said user actuation input device, an output device adapted to present information associated with geographical position data based upon data retrieved from a database selection engine or a database search engine. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281801 | DATABASE SYSTEM AND RELATED METHOD - A database system storing a data structure. The data structure includes a plurality of data nodes that each store a type and a value. None of the data nodes are linked directly to one another. The data structure also includes a plurality of context nodes that are each linked to at least two data nodes. The context nodes do not store data. Instead, each of the context nodes indicates a relationship exits between the data nodes connected to it. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281802 | Building A Unified Query That Spans Heterogeneous Environments - A unified query building system generates a source structure comprising nodes from a data structure input of an identified data source, displays the generated source structure in a logical view, adds a selected node or element from the nodes to a design query canvas, generates a query object from the selected node based on a source type of the selected node, presents a logical view of a query function of a selected query object, and generates a unified query comprising the generated query objects. The logical view is displayed in a graphical user interface comprising a design query canvas comprising grids corresponding to functions in a query language such as SQL or XML. The generated unified query is displayed in an actual query view and is outlined in a query outline view. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281803 | Method of Transmitting Content With Adaptation of Encoding Characteristics - The invention proposes a method of transmitting a multimedia content from a server to a client device upon request of the client device, said method allowing adaptation of the characteristics of the encoder used for encoding the multimedia content based on the network transmission rate and/or client preference or preferences. The method of the invention consists in encoding the content with various encoder characteristics, thereby providing several encoded multimedia contents, slicing the encoded multimedia contents, thereby providing a plurality of file-based contents, downloading the content file by file while switching from one encoded multimedia content to another so as to change the encoding characteristics, thereby adapting to the network transmission rate and/or client preferences. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281804 | SEARCHING MIXED LANGUAGE DOCUMENT SETS - Multilingual document searches are performed by ordering and filtering localized documents in different languages based on user preferences. Documents are indexed in a global search engine index using an identifier property and a language property permitting all relevant documents to be retrieved in a single search engine query. By storing documents with their identifier and language properties, documents from different cultures but with same content can be treated as equivalent. Results of the initial search include a multilingual set of documents ranked in order of relevance. Result sets are then post-processed using a data resource indicating for each multilingual user interface combination, which language version of each document should be returned. The initial search result are then transformed into a relevance based ordered list treating documents in different languages having same content as equivalent. Based on the ordered list, a final document list is prepared using localized and non-localized content. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281805 | MEDIA CONTENT TAGS - A tag file associated with a content file provides a user with access to related content. A content provider can request that information be associated with selected content, such that when a user views the selected content a selectable element is generated and displayed to the user to provide easy access to the related content. Information such as keywords associated with the selected content also can be used to search for related content. Related content information is placed in tags of the tag file for the selected content, such that at a selected or other appropriate time information relating to the related content is displayed to the user. When a user selects the selectable element, the related content is located and displayed in place of, or in addition to, the selected content. Such an approach is useful for digital media networks such as IPTV applications. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281806 | SEARCHING A DATABASE OF LISTINGS - A database having listings rather than long documents is searched using a term frequency-inverse document frequency (Tf/Idf) algorithm. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281807 | SEARCH ENGINE - A search engine comprising search indices for entities, wherein a tag reputation of a tag which classifies an entity is updated by said search engine depending on a rating input by said user and depending on a user reputation of said user. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281808 | Recommendation of related electronic assets based on user search behavior - Recommendation of related assets based on user search behavior is provided. Relevance classifications assigned to search results in association with search strings that produced the search results may be used for providing a list of one or more searchable assets that may be relevant to a given search query. All pairings of two acceptable assets contained in a given search session may be marked as “See Also” candidates. If a given pairing appears in a search session more than a configurable threshold, the assets in the pairing may be established as “See Also” relationships. Subsequently, when a user conducts a search that produces a search result that is a member of a pairing established as a “See Also” relationship, the other asset in the pairing may be recommended to the searching user within the destination search result page after the user selects the search result for viewing. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281809 | Automated analysis of user search behavior - Automated analysis of user search behavior is provided. Data on user searches is maintained in a user search database. Relevance factors are determined for each search result included in a given search session where the relevance factors provide an indication of user satisfaction with particular search results included in the session. The relevance factors for each search result are analyzed by a relevance classification module for classifying each search result in terms of its relevance to an associated search query. The result of the relevance classification may assign a relevance classification and associated confidence level to each analyzed search result as to whether the search result is acceptable, unacceptable or partially acceptable relative to the search query that resulted in the search result. Relevance classifications for each analyzed search result may be stored for future use, for example, for diagnostic analysis of the operation of a given search mechanism. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281810 | Meta search engine - In an information retrieval method a meta search engine ( | 2008-11-13 |
20080281811 | Method of Obtaining a Representation of a Text - A method of obtaining a data file ( | 2008-11-13 |
20080281812 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING EXPERTISE - A system and method of identifying entities having expertise in one or more subjects. Among other features, the method includes querying a database for documents (e.g., articles, papers, periodicals) relevant to a subject; and calculating a first score for each relevant document. The method also identifies entities affiliated with one or more relevant documents; and calculates a second score for each entity based on the one or more first scores of the one or more relevant documents affiliated with the entity. A step of ranking expertise of the entities based on the respective second scores of the entities is included. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281813 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING AND RETRIEVING RELATED MESSAGES - A system and method is provided which utilizes a threading service to offer enhanced features for a document management system including an email system. Various enhanced email features may be provided through one or more of the following components: a delete module, a reply module, a profile module, and a search module. The delete module enables a user to delete a selected message, a set of related messages, or the whole set except for the selected message. The reply module enables a user to send a reply message to all addresses associated and involved with an entire set of related messages. The profile module enables a dynamic interest profile to contain all relevant information from an outgoing message and a set of messages related to the outgoing message. The search module enables search results to include documents which match the user's query as well as documents related to the documents which match the user's query. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281814 | CONSTRUCTION OF TRAINABLE SEMANTIC VECTORS AND CLUSTERING, CLASSIFICATION, AND SEARCHING USING A TRAINABLE SEMANTIC VECTOR - An apparatus and method are disclosed for producing a semantic representation of information in a semantic space. The information is first represented in a table that stores values which indicate a relationship with predetermined categories. The categories correspond to dimensions in the semantic space. The significance of the information with respect to the predetermined categories is then determined. A trainable semantic vector (TSV) is constructed to provide a semantic representation of the information. The TSV has dimensions equal to the number of predetermined categories and represents the significance of the information relative to each of the predetermined categories. Various types of manipulation and analysis, such as searching, classification, and clustering, can subsequently be performed on a semantic level. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281815 | OPTIMAL STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL OF XML DATA - A document management system manages a large number of XML documents on an efficient and cost-effective basis. Storage requirements are reduced, because compressed versions of the XML documents, which are much smaller in size than the XML documents themselves, are used when processing queries. Processing requirements are reduced, because parsing is not a required step when processing queries. Instead of parsing, the query is processed by unpacking the compressed version of the document identified in the query, node by node until enough information has been decoded to satisfy the query. Processing speed is improved in two ways. First, unpacking as carried out according to the invention is a much faster process than parsing. Second, the entire document need not be unpacked. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281816 | Dynamic Keyword Processing System and Method For User Oriented Internet Navigation - A system and method are described that enable users to navigate on the web according to use's own keyword definition on web site, keyword extraction and processing from user's visiting website, user's selection on keyword categories, and mapping between E-mail address and URL. The user's own keyword definition on web site is user-driven keyword naming scheme is opposite) method of the keyword domain services which were service company-driven method. The user's selection on keyword categories provides users choice on keyword categories and group. The keyword extraction and processing from user's visiting web site provides keyword extraction from the page and arranges for related keywords in order to prepare for anticipated search and navigation from the user's current web site and keyword. The mapping system between E-mail and URL provides conversion of E-mail address into URL, in order to use as domain name. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281817 | Accounting for behavioral variability in web search - The concept of variability pertains to whether users exhibit consistent search interaction patterns, for example, in terms of interaction flow or information targeted. Methods are provided for analyzing variability, and then adapting search-related functionality (e.g., processes and/or interfaces) to account for variability characteristics, for example, to account for predictable search interaction behavior. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281818 | SEGMENTED STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL OF NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE INFORMATION - Processing of genomic data is facilitated by providing a storage device with a database having a segmented sequence table. The table has a plurality of data subsets of common nucleotide sequence size n, wherein≧2, and each data subset of common nucleotide sequence n is separately indexed within the table. A database manager associated with the database retrieves a selected nucleotide sequence locus from the table. The selected nucleotide sequence locus is sized differently from the common nucleotide sequence size n, and the retrieving includes identifying each data subset of the segmented sequence table containing at least a portion of the selected nucleotide sequence locus, and retrieving the identified data subsets. The database manager processes the retrieved, identified data subsets to remove genomic data mapped to the nucleotide positions outside the selected nucleotide sequence locus, and outputs the selected nucleotide sequence locus. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281819 | NON-RANDOM CONTROL DATA SET GENERATION FOR FACILITATING GENOMIC DATA PROCESSING - Processing of genomic data is facilitated by providing a control data set generation system wherein a control generator tool or process creates matched data sets for facilitating informatics analysis. These matched data sets may include genomic loci or genomic sequences, or both. The data is taken from a database of actual genomic data, including sequence and annotation data, as opposed to ad-hoc generation, sequence scrambling or the like. This produces biologically relevant and accurate results which allow for stronger controls. The controls are matched against a user-provided data set via a number of parameters. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281820 | Schema Matching for Data Migration - Embodiments include a system for matching an element of a source schema to an element of a target schema. The system includes a processing unit and a communication unit. The processing unit may be configured to: identify a sample data item of the element of the target schema; match a part of the sample data item to a part of a sample instance of the source schema; and match the element of the source schema to which the part of the sample instance of the source schema belongs to the element of the target schema. The communication unit may be configured to: provide the sample data item through an interface and receive the sample instance of the source schema. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281821 | Concept Network - A concept network that can be generated in response to a user query. Various embodiments include analysis of structure information, for example, where such information is based at least in part on Universal Resource Locators (URLs) of Web sites or data storage locations. A concept network may be used with a search tool where the search tool searches a plurality of sites (e.g., Web sites, data storage locations, etc.). In such an example, each site location is arranged with a node. Certain ones of the nodes are connected by at least one link. The concept network selects a portion of certain ones of the nodes based on the link, wherein the at least one link is used for content purposes. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281822 | Interactive System For Building, Organising, and Sharing One's Own Databank of Works of Literature in one or More Languages - An interactive system for building, organizing, and sharing one's own databank of works of literature in one or more languages is disclosed, it being accepted that one may want to build such data based on one's personal interest, by well-defined classifications, using a computer system comprising of; a. (i) a User Interface; (ii). a Database comprising a. a Literature Bank Database; b. a Translation Database; c. a User Database; d. a Configuration Database; (iii) At least one data input, organizing and management module(s) allowing a user to input, append, modify, and translate well-classified data (iv) Module allowing a user to invoke a Literature Session; (v) Module allowing the user to Export data from the Database(s); (vi) Module allowing the user to Import data built by another user using the same system. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281823 | System and Method for Display of Chained Messages in a Single Email in Different Orders - Systems and methods for display of chained messages in a single email in different orders allow a user to specify sort criteria to determine the order of display of chained messages. The system includes a message finding program and a message sorting program. The message finding program identifies individual messages within an email and populates a message list with a unique identifier for each message and sorting data contained within each message. The message sorting program receives sorting criteria defined by a user via an email display and sorts the sorting data within the message list pursuant to the sorting criteria. After sorting the message list, the message sorting program provides the email display with the messages in order of their identifiers within the message list for display as a single email in their sorted order. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281824 | Data Management System Providing a Data Thesaurus for Mapping Between Multiple Data Schemas or Between Multiple Domains within a Data Schema - In one embodiment, a system is provided for managing a centrally managed master repository for core enterprise reference data associated with an enterprise. A centralized master repository contains the reference data, the reference data being associated with multiple schemas, each schema including one or more data models for reference data, each data model including one or more fields. A data management services framework coupled to the repository provides services for managing the reference data in the repository. The services framework supports a master schema including a union of multiple models and associated fields in the multiple schemas. The services framework also supports a thesaurus including, for each field in the master schema, a set of synonyms each representing a mapping between the field in the master schema and a corresponding field in a particular one of the multiple schemas. The master schema and thesaurus facilitate centralized management of the reference data in the repository across multiple heterogeneous external operational systems that have different associated data models and are provided indirect access to the reference data in the repository for operational use of the reference data according to associated business workflows. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281825 | APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING REAL-TIME MOBILE TRANSACTIONS IN A THREE-TIER DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEM - An apparatus that enables real-time processing of mobile based transactions in a three-tier database by employing pending operation/locks databases at each mirror in the three-tier database and generating a token for each proposed transaction that indicates the operations/locks needed to perform the transaction. The token is passed to each mirror database to compare with the corresponding operation/lock database. When a conflict is detected, a flag indicating such is set. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281826 | MANAGING POTENTIAL CLINICAL TRIAL PARTICIPANTS - A method for managing information on potential participants in clinical research trials is disclosed. The method and system include populating a centralized secure database with information on a contact from the contact's response content or referral content, assigning investigative responsibility for the contact to an investigator, and providing the investigator access to the information of the contact through a secure web portal. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281827 | USING STRUCTURED DATABASE FOR WEBPAGE INFORMATION EXTRACTION - A structured database is used for webpage information extraction, and in particular, to obtain training data from the webpage for training a statistical model. The structured database has a plurality of entries, wherein each entry comprises a plurality of fields. One of the fields comprises a URL (uniform resource locater), while another field comprises information at least similar to other information to be located in a webpage associated with the URL. For at least some of the entries in the structured database, a web page associated with the URL is retrieved. The webpage is analyzed and if information is found in the webpage similar to the information in the structured database, the webpage is identified as being suitable to be considered as a training sample. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281828 | Variable Data Replacement Technique For An Electronic Communication System - A method and system for composing electronic communications retrieves and provides, in real-time or near-real time, personalized content data from electronically accessible content sources using replaceable tokens. A replaceable token points to a defined location of an electronically accessible content source. The token is identified, and the desired content data is extracted from the defined location. The token is replaced with the extracted content data, and the personalized or customized content data is inserted into one or more electronic communications. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281829 | Web-Based System and Method for Collection and Management of Real Estate Open House Data - A system and method for management of real estate open house data includes a database and a website configured to provide access to information from the database. The website is configured to communicate with a user identification device, in the form of a user's cell phone or other mobile device, upon a user's entry into the open house, to transfer user identification data to the database. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281830 | DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM WITH GLOBAL REPLICATION - A data storage system apparatus and associated method with a virtualization engine connectable to a remote device over a network for passing access commands between the remote device and a storage space. A plurality of intelligent storage elements (ISEs) are configured for replicating data from a first ISE to a second ISE independently of access commands being simultaneously passed between the virtualization engine and the first ISE. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281831 | System and Method for Archiving Records - A method of archiving recordations includes providing a storage device in communication with a network. A plurality of recordations are received from a first user, and relate to a specific person. The plurality of recordations include medical records, and are transmitted from the first user via the network from a first remote computer. The recordations are stored on the storage device. A second user is given access to at least a portion of the stored recordations through a second remote computer via the network. A method may also include receiving hard copies of medical records from a customer. The hard copies may be digitized, which may include scanning the hard copies or copying information from the medical records onto a computer in communication with the storage device. The hard copies may be returned to the customer, along with the digitized medical records in a computer readable form. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281832 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING REALLY SIMPLE SYNDICATION (RSS) FEEDS - The invention provides a system and method for acquiring, normalizing, indexing and storing information related to RSS feeds and their constituent content items in a searchable database. In some embodiments, the invention includes an application that accesses electronic feed documents for a plurality of RSS feeds to ascertain information regarding the feed and content items within the feed. The information is then parsed to identify characteristics of the feeds and their content items. The characteristics of the feeds and content items can then be stored in a common format in a database. This enables, inter alia, creation of custom feeds by utilizing the normalized feed data. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281833 | Configuration change management tool - A change management system for managing configurable devices such as computer systems uses a set of rules for validating change requests, linking change requests, and determining inconsistencies within various configuration states. Analysis and validation may happen at the time the change request is created with respect to the current environment, as well as analysis and validation with respect to other pending requests and proposals, and historical actual states. The maintenance of accurate and consistent state and change information may enable various automated tools to analyze and manipulate change requests, including analysis of future desired states, historical actual states, pending change requests, and current state. The change request may be processed through an approval cycle all the while being incorporated into a scheduling system that may be used to detect inconsistent, illogical or harmful configurations in potential future configurations. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281834 | Block tracking mechanism for web personalization - Described is a technology by which blocks of web pages may be selected, such as for building a user-personalized web page containing selected blocks. A selection mechanism, such as a browser toolbar add-on, provides a user interface for selecting blocks, and records information about selected blocks. A block tracking mechanism (e.g., a daemon program) uses the information to locate selected blocks of the web pages, including when the web page containing the block is updated with respect to content and/or layout. The block tracking mechanism may update a local gadget that when invoked, such as by browsing to a particular web page, which shows updated versions of the block on a personalized web page. Blocks may be efficiently located by processing trees representing web pages into reduced trees, and then by performing a minimum distance mapping algorithm on the reduced trees. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281835 | VIRTUAL FOLDERING SYSTEM FOR BLENDING PROCESS AND CONTENT IN A COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT - A computer system that includes a storage medium. The storage medium stores a database. The database includes tables. Each table includes g at least one column and at least one row. The tables describe components of a hierarchy in which hierarchical relationships between components of the hierarchy are defined. The tables include a component table and component-specific tables. The component table is a self-referential table that describes the hierarchy. Each row of the component table is specific to a unique component. The components of the hierarchy encompass component types. Each column of component table is configured to be edited by a user through use of a worksheet. Each component-specific table encompasses only components of the hierarchy such that each component has a component type that is a specific component type. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281836 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING AND NAVIGATING CONTENT ON A ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A system and method for displaying and navigating content on a electronic device is disclosed. The system and method provides information describing files stored in one or more memory units in a electronic device by first cataloging file metadata residing at a plurality of memory units into a corresponding plurality of databases. The system and method then aggregates the file metadata cataloged in the plurality of databases into a single list, and delivers the aggregated file metadata list to an application running on the electronic device. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281837 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CONTROLLING USE OF MEDIUM INSERTED THEREINTO - When a user logs in to an MFP and inserts a medium, a serial number of the medium is stored in a device information database in correspondence with user information of the user, and a descramble key, e.g., a hash code of the serial number is registered in the user information. When the medium is removed from the MFP which is still logged in, the registration is deleted. When the MFP into which the medium is still inserted is logged out, no registration is deleted. When the user logs in to the MFP into which the medium is already inserted, the MFP determines whether a descramble key is registered in user information of the user. When a second user logs in to an MFP from which a first user had logged out while forgetting to remove a medium, the MFP prohibits the second user from accessing the medium because no descramble key is registered in user information of the second user. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281838 | METHOD OF DETERMINING DEPENDENCIES BETWEEN ITEMS IN A GRAPH IN AN EXTENSIBLE SYSTEM - A dependency determination system and method determines dependencies among extensions of an extensible system based upon a directed graph thereof. Dependencies between extensions in an extensible system are expressed as a directed graph. Given the dependency graph for an extensible system or its data, the dependency system can traverse the graph and operate on or find the correct order for the extensions in the extensible system or for the data created by extensions in the extensible system. Constructing the dependency graph is done with knowledge of the extensions in question and is constructed by input from the extensions. Consequently, input from extensions is first gathered to construct the graph. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281839 | Three-Dimensional Topology Building Method and System - This patent application is for a method and system that takes any arbitrary pre-existing geometric data and builds ISO 19107 compliant 3-Dimensional (3D) topology rather than requiring an incremental build of the topology. In accordance with at least one embodiment of the present invention, a method for integrating a three-dimensional feature geometry into a three-dimensional topology in a database includes adding a three-dimensional feature geometry into a table in a database; passing the three-dimensional feature geometry to a three-dimensional topology engine and a cache; performing a spatial refinement to determine a number of topology primitives in an existing three-dimensional geometry in the database that are near to topology primitives of the three-dimensional feature geometry; obtaining a number of relevant nearby spatial topology primitives in the geometries using a spatial search; performing an interaction refinement to determine a precise set of the number of relevant nearby topology primitives in the geometries that have spatial interactions; determining a common section of each topology primitive in the number of relevant nearby topology primitives that have spatial interactions; validating that the three-dimensional feature geometry fits into the three-dimensional topology table using a plurality of rules; and saving the validated three-dimensional feature geometry in the database. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281840 | ANALYTE MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHODS - Methods and systems for providing data communication in medical systems are disclosed. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281841 | Navigating a software project respository - A system for analyzing a document in a repository is provided. The system receives a document that includes data and a document type. The document type has an associated physical structure. The system determines a logical structure of the document based in part on the data and selects a subset of the data based on at least one of the group including the associated physical structure and the logical structure. The system also stores a document segment that includes the selected subset of the data. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281842 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRE-PROCESSING MAPPING INFORMATION FOR EFFICIENT DECOMPOSITION OF XML DOCUMENTS - Pre-processing mapping information for efficient decomposition of an XML document for storage in a database. A mapping document is received that describes how all of (or a portion of) an XML document is to decomposed, the mapping document is transformed into a data structure for decomposing an XML document, and the data is made persistent for use with a subsequent decomposition operation that decomposes an XML document. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281843 | Distributed Memory Type Information Processing System - It is possible to realize high-speed data processing between processing modules with a small communication amount when performing information processing of a large amount of data employing the parallel computer architecture. Each of the processing modules transmits a first list as a list of values stored in the memory of the local processing module to another processing module in the information processing system and receives at least one second list as a list of values transmitted from the another processing module to the local processing module so as to compare the values in the second list with the values in the first list. When the values in the second list coincide with the values in the first list, counters corresponding to the values in the first list which have coincided are incremented by one. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281844 | Interactive Data Access Method and Interactive Data Access System - A variable is defined by one engineering device. A tag name is assigned to the variable that the other device accesses, and a corresponding table of the tag name and the variable name is created. Further, a tag object is converted to a tag list in a format that can be interpreted by the other device, and the tag list is downloaded to the other device. The tag name of the access from the other device is converted to the variable name with reference to the corresponding table. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281845 | Transforming values dynamically - When altering records in a repository of information to add an attribute that has a non-NULL default value and a corresponding constraint to the records, no update record is issued and instead, the existing records are essentially treated as having a NULL value for the attribute being added. To compute a query over the records to which the attribute has been added, a value is generated for rows that hold NULL values for the attribute in which the value in which the NULL values held therein are translated to the default value. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281846 | High performant row-level data manipulation using a data layer interface - Performing an operation directly on data stored in a database table provides for avoiding generation and processing of SQL statements. A Data Layer interface, comprising a set of APIs, allows internal database server components to call directly to the Data Layer for making fast row changes to a table. According to an embodiment, before making any row change to a table through this Data Layer interface, a shared state data structure is created to hold the metadata about the table. A single shared state can be used for all DML changes to a particular table regardless of what columns are updated or inserted during each DML operation. When a process needs to change a row, the process uses a mutable state based on the shared state of the table. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281847 | METHOD OF PROCESSING PROTEIN PEPTIDE DATA AND SYSTEM - The invention provides a method of processing protein peptide data obtained from healthy or pathological samples for analysis, comprising the steps of: providing a list of peptide sequences and associated auxiliary information representing an input data set; compiling from the input data set a new peptide sequence list by removing peptide sequence redundancy in the peptide sequence list, said new peptide sequence list representing a peptide data set; and grouping together members of the peptide data set originating from the same protein thus generating a protein data set. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281848 | Method to share and exchange geographic based information - A simplified approach to sharing and exchanging geographic-based information containing the maps and corresponding data and metadata was developed to enable easy sharing of information for decision support tools. Current Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technologies are limited in their ability to share maps and data in the exact format that the user created the information. This technology shares the corresponding data with the map information (not just a ‘picture’ of the data—e.g., a static map) in the exact form that the user wants to provide to other users of the software application. The technology and use of this software application provides the unique ability for users to share the information directly with other users of the software, eliminating process and setup of importing new information into the spatial decision-support software. Users can then utilize the information to explore the map and database information, to add their own data, and to make further decisions, enabling them to modify and change the information and exchange the information with others in the same manner. | 2008-11-13 |
20080281849 | DATA INTEGRATION APPARATUS, DATA INTEGRATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - When collecting and integrating data present in separately managed information sources, data are collected from the information sources through a physical model of the information sources. Integration is executed by a process of converting a data configuration (mapping) into a logical model predefined for each utilization-side application and a process of converting and conforming values (cleansing); and the result thereof is provided as a view (logical model) for each application to the utilization-side application. | 2008-11-13 |