Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110087732 | LINKING VIRTUAL WORLDS AND COLLABORATION PLATFORMS BI-DIRECTIONALLY USING A CENTRAL IDENTITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method, information processing system, and computer program storage product link information associated with a virtual world with information associated with a social collaboration platform. A virtual world user identifier and a social collaboration platform user identifier are stored. The virtual world identifier is associated with a set of virtual world contacts for the respective user. The social collaboration platform user identifier is associated with a set of social collaboration contacts for the user. The virtual world user identifier is linked to the social collaboration platform user identifier. An association is determined between at least one of the set of social collaboration contacts and the virtual world identifier set of virtual world contacts and the social collaboration platform user identifier, respectively, for the respective user. An information set associated with at least one of the virtual world user identifier and the social collaboration identifier is updated to include the association. | 04-14-2011 |
20110087968 | MANAGING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN REAL WORLD AND VIRTUAL WORLD COMMUNITIES - A method, information processing system, and computer program storage product manage connections between a virtual world and a social network. A set of virtual world information and a set of social network information are analyzed. A graph including a plurality of vertices is generated. Each vertex represents one of virtual world information and social network information. Each vertex is coupled to at least one other vertex by a respective edge. At least one edge of the graph couples a first vertex representing virtual world information and a second vertex representing social network information. At least one vertex is determined to be an articulation point having a respective edge. The removal of the respective edge of the articulation point causes a disconnection of the virtual world information from the social network information within the graph. A user is notified via a graphical user interface that the graph comprises the articulation point. | 04-14-2011 |
20110191289 | MANAGING INFORMATION ABOUT AVATARS ACROSS VIRTUAL WORLDS - Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for managing relationship information across virtual worlds. In one embodiment, information about avatars in virtual worlds may be received. A correlation may be derived between two avatars based on the received information. The derived correlation between the two avatars may be stored. Applications may query for derived correlations. | 08-04-2011 |
20110295866 | ONTOLOGY GUIDED REFERENCE DATA DISCOVERY - Mapping and translating reference data from multiple databases using an enterprise ontology. This is achieved by various means, including mapping values of a first database to corresponding fields within the ontology, mapping values of a second database to corresponding fields within the ontology, and determining relationships between the values of the first database and the values of the second database based on their respective mappings to common fields within the ontology. | 12-01-2011 |
20120066214 | Handling Data Sets - A method, system and computer program product provides a first characteristic associated with a first data set and a single data value, and a second characteristic associated with a second data set; and calculates at least one of: 1) the similarity of the first data set with the second data set based on the first and second characteristics, 2) the similarity of the first data set with the single data value based on the first characteristic and the single data value, 3) confidence indicating how well the first characteristic reflects properties of the first data set based on the first characteristic, and 4) confidence indicating how well the similarity of the first data set with the single data value reflects properties of the single data value based on the first characteristic and the single data value. | 03-15-2012 |
20120089791 | HANDLING STORAGE PAGES IN A DATABASE SYSTEM - An operation is disclosed for handling storage pages in a database system. The database system may include a management component and a storage component. The storage component may include storage locations with different hierarchical levels. Each storage page of the storage pages may include a number of records. The operation may include copying a storage page from the storage component to a buffer pool controlled by the management component, monitoring which records of the storage page in the buffer pool are being accessed, and setting information indicating access for each record accessed. The operation may also include determining, based on the information indicating access, whether to split the storage page into at least two resulting storage pages. The operation may also include writing the at least two resulting storage pages to the storage component at storage locations, where the at least two resulting storage pages have different hierarchy levels. | 04-12-2012 |
20120221555 | GENERATING A SEMANTIC GRAPH RELATING INFORMATION ASSETS USING FEEDBACK RE-ENFORCED SEARCH AND NAVIGATION - Embodiments of the invention provide an approach for creating, evolving and using a weighted semantic graph to manage and potentially identify certain information assets within an enterprise. The semantic graph may be generated by monitoring users navigating through search results which provide a set of information assets responsive to a search query. By recording the navigation path taken by many users, relationships between information assets may be identified. Further, once generated, the semantic graph may be used to present users with in indication of related information assets as part of the search results. Further still, the semantic graph may also be used to identify information assert “hubs” as well as information assets that may provide low utility to individuals within the enterprise. | 08-30-2012 |
20120221556 | MANAGING INFORMATION ASSETS USING FEEDBACK RE-ENFORCED SEARCH AND NAVIGATION - Embodiments of the invention provide an approach for creating, evolving and using a weighted semantic graph to manage and potentially identify certain information assets within an enterprise. The semantic graph may be generated by monitoring users navigating through search results which provide a set of information assets responsive to a search query. By recording the navigation path taken by many users, relationships between information assets may be identified. Further, once generated, the semantic graph may be used to present users with in indication of related information assets as part of the search results. Further still, the semantic graph may also be used to identify information assert “hubs” as well as information assets that may provide low utility to individuals within the enterprise. | 08-30-2012 |
20120221558 | IDENTIFYING INFORMATION ASSETS WITHIN AN ENTERPRISE USING A SEMANTIC GRAPH CREATED USING FEEDBACK RE-ENFORCED SEARCH AND NAVIGATION - Embodiments of the invention provide an approach for creating, evolving and using a weighted semantic graph to manage and potentially identify certain information assets within an enterprise. The semantic graph may be generated by monitoring users navigating through search results which provide a set of information assets responsive to a search query. By recording the navigation path taken by many users, relationships between information assets may be identified. Further, once generated, the semantic graph may be used to present users with in indication of related information assets as part of the search results. Further still, the semantic graph may also be used to identify information assert “hubs” as well as information assets that may provide low utility to individuals within the enterprise. | 08-30-2012 |
20120254205 | ONTOLOGY GUIDED REFERENCE DATA DISCOVERY - Mapping and translating reference data from multiple databases using an enterprise ontology. This is achieved by various means, including mapping values of a first database to corresponding fields within the ontology, mapping values of a second database to corresponding fields within the ontology, and determining relationships between the values of the first database and the values of the second database based on their respective mappings to common fields within the ontology. | 10-04-2012 |
20120284261 | GENERATING A SEMANTIC GRAPH RELATING INFORMATION ASSETS USING FEEDBACK RE-ENFORCED SEARCH AND NAVIGATION - Embodiments of the invention provide an approach for creating, evolving and using a weighted semantic graph to manage and potentially identify certain information assets within an enterprise. The semantic graph may be generated by monitoring users navigating through search results which provide a set of information assets responsive to a search query. By recording the navigation path taken by many users, relationships between information assets may be identified. Further, once generated, the semantic graph may be used to present users with in indication of related information assets as part of the search results. Further still, the semantic graph may also be used to identify information assert “hubs” as well as information assets that may provide low utility to individuals within the enterprise. | 11-08-2012 |
20120284262 | MANAGING INFORMATION ASSETS USING FEEDBACK RE-ENFORCED SEARCH AND NAVIGATION - Embodiments of the invention provide an approach for creating, evolving and using a weighted semantic graph to manage and potentially identify certain information assets within an enterprise. The semantic graph may be generated by monitoring users navigating through search results which provide a set of information assets responsive to a search query. By recording the navigation path taken by many users, relationships between information assets may be identified. Further, once generated, the semantic graph may be used to present users with in indication of related information assets as part of the search results. Further still, the semantic graph may also be used to identify information assert “hubs” as well as information assets that may provide low utility to individuals within the enterprise. | 11-08-2012 |
20130031117 | Auto-Mapping Between Source and Target Models Using Statistical and Ontology Techniques - A system maps data within a data source to a target data model, and comprises a computer system including at least one processor. The system determines an identifier for each data object of the data source based on the data within that data object, wherein the identifier indicates for that data object a corresponding concept within a domain ontological representation of a data model of the data source. The determined identifiers for the data objects of the data source are compared to the target data model to determine mappings between the data objects of the data source and the target data model. Data objects from the data source are extracted for the target data model in accordance with the mappings. Present invention embodiments further include a method and computer program product for mapping data within a data source to a target data model. | 01-31-2013 |
20130054285 | COMPUTING AND MANAGING CONFLICTING FUNCTIONAL DATA REQUIREMENTS USING ONTOLOGIES - In one or more embodiments of the invention, functional data analysts may use a functional data authoring module to capture functional metadata in a consistent manner. Conflict reports for the business processes may be generated for a subset of the business processes or as an overall report across all business processes. One or more embodiments of the invention may provide early detection of data usage and type conflicts from functional data requirements, automated detection of conflicts from functional data requirements, reports listing detected conflicts, conflicts resolution tracking mechanism, ongoing notification regarding changes in functional data requirements or detected conflicts, and avoidance of conflicting functional requirement in the realization phase, thereby reducing costs and project risks and avoiding project delays. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054286 | COMPUTING AND MANAGING CONFLICTING FUNCTIONAL DATA REQUIREMENTS USING ONTOLOGIES - In one or more embodiments of the invention, functional data analysts may use a functional data authoring module to capture functional metadata in a consistent manner. Conflict reports for the business processes may be generated for a subset of the business processes or as an overall report across all business processes. One or more embodiments of the invention may provide early detection of data usage and type conflicts from functional data requirements, automated detection of conflicts from functional data requirements, reports listing detected conflicts, conflicts resolution tracking mechanism, ongoing notification regarding changes in functional data requirements or detected conflicts, and avoidance of conflicting functional requirement in the realization phase, thereby reducing costs and project risks and avoiding project delays. | 02-28-2013 |
20130110812 | ACCOUNTING FOR AUTHORSHIP IN A WEB LOG SEARCH ENGINE | 05-02-2013 |
20130205252 | CONVEYING HIERARCHICAL ELEMENTS OF A USER INTERFACE - Techniques are disclosed for generating a view of a data flow model. One or more groupings of data flow objects in the data flow model is determined, based on an ontology. At least a first one of the groupings is collapsed in the view. The view is output for display in a user interface configured to selectively expand and collapse the first group based on user input. | 08-08-2013 |
20130238557 | MANAGING TENANT-SPECIFIC DATA SETS IN A MULTI-TENANT ENVIRONMENT - A method, computer program product and system for managing tenant-specific data sets in a multi-tenant system, by receiving a request to convert a data set in a physical data store from a first type of multi-tenant deployment to a second type of multi-tenant deployment, retrieving tenant identification metadata identifying a tenant making the request, modifying the data set in the physical data store based on the second type of multi-tenant deployment, and modifying metadata associated with an abstraction layer to allow the modified data set to be accessed. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238641 | MANAGING TENANT-SPECIFIC DATA SETS IN A MULTI-TENANT ENVIRONMENT - A method, computer program product and system for managing tenant-specific data sets in a multi-tenant system, by receiving a request to convert a data set in a physical data store from a first type of multi-tenant deployment to a second type of multi-tenant deployment, retrieving tenant identification metadata identifying a tenant making the request, modifying the data set in the physical data store based on the second type of multi-tenant deployment, and modifying metadata associated with an abstraction layer to allow the modified data set to be accessed. | 09-12-2013 |
20130275170 | INFORMATION GOVERNANCE CROWD SOURCING - A method, computer program product, and system for information governance crowd sourcing by, responsive to receiving a data quality exception identifying one or more data quality errors in a data store, identifying a performance level required to correct the data quality errors, selecting, from a crowd hierarchy, a first one or more crowds meeting the defined performance level, wherein the crowd hierarchy ranks the performance of one or more crowds, and routing, by operation of one or more computer processors, the one or more data quality errors to the selected crowds for correction. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275803 | INFORMATION GOVERNANCE CROWD SOURCING - A method, computer program product, and system for information governance crowd sourcing by, responsive to receiving a data quality exception identifying one or more data quality errors in a data store, identifying a performance level required to correct the data quality errors, selecting, from a crowd hierarchy, a first one or more crowds meeting the defined performance level, wherein the crowd hierarchy ranks the performance of one or more crowds, and routing, by operation of one or more computer processors, the one or more data quality errors to the selected crowds for correction. | 10-17-2013 |
20130289991 | Application of Voice Tags in a Social Media Context - According to a present invention embodiment, a system utilizes a voice tag to automatically tag one or more entities within a social media environment, and comprises a computer system including at least one processor. The system analyzes the voice tag to identify one or more entities, where the voice tag includes voice signals providing information pertaining to one or more entities. One or more characteristics of each identified entity are determined based on the information within the voice tag. One or more entities appropriate for tagging within the social media environment are determined based on the characteristics and user settings within the social media environment of the identified entities, and automatically tagged. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for utilizing a voice tag to automatically tag one or more entities within a social media environment in substantially the same manner described above. | 10-31-2013 |
20140006339 | DETECTING REFERENCE DATA TABLES IN EXTRACT-TRANSFORM-LOAD PROCESSES | 01-02-2014 |
20140089926 | BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL ANALYZER AND RUNTIME SELECTOR - In a method for determining appropriate runtime environments for execution of a process model, a computer receives a process model. The process model includes a plurality of activities, wherein two activities are linked by a relationship. The computer determines that the two activities linked by a relationship match a process pattern. The computer determines one or more runtime environments for execution of the process model, wherein each of the one or more runtime environments is capable of executing the process pattern. | 03-27-2014 |
20140108639 | TRANSPARENTLY ENFORCING POLICIES IN HADOOP-STYLE PROCESSING INFRASTRUCTURES - Method, system, and computer program product to facilitate selection of data nodes configured to satisfy a set of requirements for processing client data in a distributed computing environment by providing, for each data node of a plurality of data nodes in the distributed computing environment, nodal data describing the respective data node of the plurality of data nodes, receiving a request to process the client data, the client data being identified in the request, retrieving the set of requirements for processing the client data, and analyzing the retrieved data policy and the nodal data describing at least one of the data nodes, to select a first data node of the plurality of data nodes as a delegation target, the first data node selected based on having a higher suitability level for satisfying the set of requirements than a second data node of the plurality of data nodes. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108648 | TRANSPARENTLY ENFORCING POLICIES IN HADOOP-STYLE PROCESSING INFRASTRUCTURES - Method, system, and computer program product to facilitate selection of data nodes configured to satisfy a set of requirements for processing client data in a distributed computing environment by providing, for each data node of a plurality of data nodes in the distributed computing environment, nodal data describing the respective data node of the plurality of data nodes, receiving a request to process the client data, the client data being identified in the request, retrieving the set of requirements for processing the client data, and analyzing the retrieved data policy and the nodal data describing at least one of the data nodes, to select a first data node of the plurality of data nodes as a delegation target, the first data node selected based on having a higher suitability level for satisfying the set of requirements than a second data node of the plurality of data nodes. | 04-17-2014 |
20140188563 | CUSTOMER DEMOGRAPHIC DATA CHANGE DETECTION BASED ON MONITORED UTILITY CONSUMPTION - In general, the present disclosure describes techniques for detecting changes in demographic data of a customer based on energy consumption data of the customer. For example, a customer data management system receives energy consumption data of a customer and detects, based at least in part on the received energy consumption data of the customer, a change in demographic data associated with the customer. The customer data management system then outputs, based at least in part on the detecting, at least one demographic change report associated with the demographic data. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188565 | CUSTOMER DEMOGRAPHIC DATA CHANGE DETECTION BASED ON MONITORED UTILITY CONSUMPTION - In general, the present disclosure describes techniques for detecting changes in demographic data of a customer based on energy consumption data of the customer. For example, a customer data management system receives energy consumption data of a customer and detects, based at least in part on the received energy consumption data of the customer, a change in demographic data associated with the customer. The customer data management system then outputs, based at least in part on the detecting, at least one demographic change report associated with the demographic data. | 07-03-2014 |
20140222991 | SENTRY FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM BLUEPRINTS - Lifecycle management for blueprints of information technology systems includes determining, using a processor, a component referenced by a blueprint defining an information technology system and determining a component tool used to manage the component. The component is registered with a sensor within the component tool. Responsive to detecting a change in status of the component within the component tool, the sensor sends a notification. | 08-07-2014 |
20140223001 | SENTRY FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM BLUEPRINTS - Lifecycle management for blueprints of information technology systems includes determining, using a processor, a component referenced by a blueprint defining an information technology system and determining a component tool used to manage the component. The component is registered with a sensor within the component tool. Responsive to detecting a change in status of the component within the component tool, the sensor sends a notification. | 08-07-2014 |
20140281856 | DETERMINING LINKAGE METADATA OF CONTENT OF A TARGET DOCUMENT TO SOURCE DOCUMENTS - Provided are to a computer program product, system, and method for determining linkage metadata of content of a target document to source documents. In response to a determination that a target fragment in a target document matches a source fragment in a source document, linkage metadata is generated for the target fragment | 09-18-2014 |