06th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 53 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110035328 | METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING TECHNICIAN CHECKLISTS FOR LOCATE AND/OR MARKING OPERATIONS - A checklist is generated for a locate and/or marking operation to detect and/or mark a presence or an absence of at least one underground facility within a dig area, wherein at least a portion of the dig area is planned to be excavated or disturbed during excavation activities. Ticket information that is derived from a ticket and/or a work order associated with the locate and/or marking operation is acquired and, based at least in part on the acquired ticket information, at least one task to be performed by a locate technician in connection with the locate and/or marking operation is determined. The checklist for the locate and/or marking operation is then generated, wherein the checklist comprises a plurality of checklist items to be processed pursuant to the locate and/or marking operation, and wherein at least one of the checklist items corresponds to the at least one task to be performed by the locate technician. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035329 | Search Methods and Systems Utilizing Social Graphs as Filters - A search method and system that accesses a preference data base established by users of the system. The users may not be required to rate businesses they enter into the data base. The entry of the business into the data base constitutes an endorsement of (a “vote” for) the business. A searching party may establish a social filter to narrow the focus of searches performed. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035330 | Quality Control of Investment Performance Calculations - Described are methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for quality control of investment performance calculations. Performance data associated with one or more investment accounts is received by a server computing device. A tolerance range associated with the performance data is generated. A portion of the performance data is identified for filtering based on the tolerance range. The identified performance data is processed through a plurality of filters, wherein the filters are based on predefined rules. A first portion of the filtered data is marked as requiring no further review. A second portion of the filtered data is marked as requiring further review. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035331 | REDUCING ACCOUNTING VOLATILITY - A method, machine, article for reducing accounting volatility. A method can include: storing in memory terms of an agreement governing a contract, the terms including a specification of at least one measure of a variation in a rate of return corresponding to a return on an investment portfolio and a contract rate of return on an investment associated with the investment portfolio determined by using an amount of the at least one measure of the variation, wherein the amount of the measure of the variation changes over time; determining, by a digital computer accessing the memory and receiving market data including data corresponding to the at least one measure of the variation, the amount of the variation; determining, by the computer receiving market data including data on the rate of return on the investment portfolio and by using the amount of the variation, at least one of a contract rate of return on the investment associated with the investment portfolio and a contract value for the investment associated with the investment portfolio; and outputting, by the computer, at least one of the determined contract rate of return and the determined contract value. At least one measure of the variation includes at least one of: a variance, a covariance, a coefficient of variation, a standard deviation, a semi-variance, a semi-standard deviation, a third central moment, a fourth central moment, a duration, and a volatility index. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035332 | Method, Apparatus and Article-of-Manufacture For Managing and Supporting Initial Public Offerings and Other Financial Issues - The present invention relates generally to the field of computer-assisted business methods, and to system and articles-of-manufacture for implementing such methods. More particularly, the invention relates to computer-based methods, apparatus and articles-of-manufacture for supporting the coordination, communication, record-keeping, accounting, security and scheduling needs for the syndicate associated with an initial public offering (“IPO”) or other new financial issue. While the invention is exemplified and discussed herein with reference to IPO's, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the present invention is equally applicable to other types of securities and debt instruments, such as preferred stock, corporate bonds, municipal bonds, etc. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035333 | Using Commercial Share of Wallet To Rate Investments - Commercial size of spending wallet (“CSoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“CSoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. A modeling approach utilizes various data sources to provide outputs that describe a company's spend capacity. A mutual fund rating company can use this CSoW/CSoSW modeling approach to predict the performance of funds that invest in a particular industry or sector. In addition, since mutual funds often provide guidelines for selecting stocks, rating companies can use this modeling approach to predict the performance of companies in a fund's portfolio. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035334 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A PRINCIPAL PRESERVATION FUND BASED UPON OPTION COST PER WEEK - Disclosed is a system and method for operating an investment account which provides a predetermined level of principle preservation while achieving growth by investing gains from zero or low-risk stable investments into options. In one form, the investment account may be owned by an individual investor or by a number of investors, such as in the form of a mutual fund. In yet another form, business logic may be programmed to automatically select the options based upon their associated premium cost per week until expiration. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035335 | Apparatus, System, Method, and Computer Readable Medium for Providing Suggestions - There is provided an apparatus for providing suggestions including a memory that stores print attribute information indicating contents of printing processes in a print attribute information database, an obtaining unit that obtains print attribute information of a group of printing processes designated by a user from the print attribute information database, an alternative selection unit that selects an alternative means applicable to each of the group of printing processes based on the print attribute information obtained by the obtaining unit, an actual cost calculation unit that calculates a print cost required for the group of printing processes based on the print attribute information obtained by the obtaining unit, an alternative cost calculation unit that calculates a print cost that would incur if the group of printing processes were executed with the alternative means selected by the alternative selection unit being applied based on the print attribute information obtained by the obtaining unit, and a suggestion unit that presents an improvement suggestion on printing processes based on the print cost calculated by the actual cost calculation unit and the print cost calculated by the alternative cost calculation unit. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035336 | RATING CHANGE FOR A PREPAID SESSION BASED ON MOVEMENT OF A MOBILE DEVICE - Communication networks and methods are disclosed for dynamically changing the rating for a prepaid session based on movement of a mobile device. During a session involving a mobile device, the communication network monitors location information for the mobile device to determine if the mobile device moves from the first zone to a second zone (i.e., a home zone to a non-home zone). Responsive to a determination that the mobile device has moved zones, the communication network identifies updated location information for the mobile device. The communication network then processes the updated location information for the mobile device to determine an updated rating the session, and applies the updated rating for prepaid charging for the session. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035337 | UNMANNED MAIL ACCEPTING METHOD AND DEVICE AND DATA MANAGING DEVICE - An unmanned mail accepting device verifies ordinary and registered mail to be provided by a client, settles postage for the verified ordinary and registered mail, and displays electronic postmark information on the mail. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035338 | INTELLIGENT ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING USER-AUTHENTICATING CAPABILITIES - An intelligent electronic device (IED) includes a user authentication module configured for authenticating authorized users of the IED and preventing an access by non-authorized personnel to a user-selectable portion of operational features of the IED. In exemplary embodiments, the user authentication module includes a database of information authenticating an authorized user and a sensor acquiring user-identifying information (e.g., a biometric sensor, a reader of magnetic, holographic, RFID, or smart ID cards, or a keypad). In one application, these techniques are implemented in IEDs such as electrical power and energy meters and used to control access to reset, configuration, billing, communication, and data acquisition/processing functions of the meters. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035339 | Body Type Based Line of Clothing and Method of Selling Same - Embodiments of the technology disclosed herein comprise a line of clothing (e.g., a collection of shirts, undergarments, combination thereof, etc.). Within the line of clothing are various styles of clothing (e.g., various types of shirts, undergarments, etc). Each style of clothing further comprises at least two selections of body type for different shaped bodies within a size designation. Such body types may be an apple, pear, hourglass, or banana body type for which garments of a particular style are manufactured and sold to more accurately and predictably fit a wearer. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035340 | DECORATING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MARKETING AND ENHANCING A SURFACE AREA USING A DECORATING SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates generally to a decorating system and a method of enhancing a surface using the decorating system, and more particularly, to a decorating system where decorative templates are used to help select foam elements from a plurality of nonplanar, scaled or unscaled foam elements, which are sold in a display or over the Internet, to be implemented on a wall surface or other room design elements. The decorating system includes a plurality of nonplanar foam elements having a flat side on which is affixed double-sided adhesive. The adhesive is covered with peel-off paper and the other side of the foam element is an outward shape used to create three-dimensional relief of design elements such as flowers, animals, letters, and the like. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035341 | METHOD OF SECURITIZING A PORTFOLIO OF AT LEAST 30% DISTRESSED COMMERCIAL LOANS - A platform and a securitization methodology that provides lenders with an opportunity to maximize the returns on their distressed commercial credit facilities and overcomes the obstacles that have historically precluded the securitization of distressed commercial loans. The present invention is based upon an underlying portfolio of at least 30% distressed commercial loans for securitization that emulates the predictability and regularity of the cash flow and recovery characteristics of a portfolio of generally performing commercial loans, thus eliminating crucial historical barriers to securitization of such distressed commercial loans, such as the absence of predictable and regular cash flows and predictable recoveries. The methodology of the present invention takes a specific mix of distinct classifications of distressed commercial loans with specified characteristics in confluence with structural specifications, such as specific reserves and safeguards, to create a synthetic asset class that emulates the characteristics of a portfolio of performing loans. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035342 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-FACTOR MODELING, ANALYSIS AND MARGINING OF CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS FOR RISK OFFSET - A method for determining a margin requirement associated with a plurality of financial instruments within a portfolio is disclosed. The method includes receiving a plurality of data associated with the plurality of financial instruments within the portfolio, determining a shock value for each of a plurality of risk factors within a multi-factor risk model, such that the shock factor is determined based on the received plurality of data, calculating a maximum risk margin for each of the plurality of risk factors, and calculating a total multi-factor risk margin based on maximum risk margin for each of the plurality of risk factors. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035343 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF DETERMINING A PRIORITIZED LIST OF USERS RELATED TO A GIVEN GOAL - A method and system of determining a prioritized list of one or more users related to a given goal obtaining a set of places, determine one or more future places an expert associated with a given goal is predicted to visit to accomplish the given goal, obtain a history of one or more places users have visited, determine one or more historical places from the history of one or more places that match the future places, and identify one or more users associated with the determined one or more historical places. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035344 | COMPUTING MIXED-INTEGER PROGRAM SOLUTIONS USING MULTIPLE STARTING VECTORS - An optimization engine includes a mixed-integer programming (MIP) solver that receives a programming model, an outcome objective, and a group of start vectors. Each of the MIP start vectors in the group specify one or more restrictions to apply to the programming model. The MIP solver uses the programming model to compute a potential solution from each of the MIP start vectors included in the group, which results in a group of potential solutions. Next, the MIP solver selects one of the potential solutions in the group as an optimal intra-group solution. The optimal intra-group solution is the potential solution in the group that best achieves the outcome objective. In turn, the optimal intra-group solution is used to complete the outcome objective. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035345 | AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION OF SEGMENTED PORTIONS OF WEB PAGES - Exemplary methods and apparatuses are provided which may be used for classifying and indexing segmented portions of web pages and providing related information for use in information extraction and/or information retrieval systems. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035346 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS | 2011-02-10 |
20110035347 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING PROVIDER NONCUSTOMERS AS LIKELY ACQUISITION TARGETS - The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for predicting one or more desired properties of external nodes or properties of their relations with internal nodes, based on a selected group of nodes about which it is known whether the nodes have the desired properties, or it is known whether they have a desired relation property with an internal node. The method comprises storing in one or more data structures a first data set regarding external nodes and a second data set regarding nodes with known properties in a selected group, each data set having one or more data items representing one or more events relating to or attributes of each node in the data set, the second data set including one or more types of data items not included in the first data set. The method then models the second data set to identify from the second data one or more modeled events or attributes of internal nodes in the selected group that are statistically likely to identify the nodes or their relations, that have the desired properties and predicts which of the external nodes are statistically likely to have the one or more desired properties, or desired relation property with internal node, based on the identified plurality of modeled events or attributes and the events or attributes in the first data set. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035348 | SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED INTEGRATION OF EVENTS - A system for automated integration of events, configured for use in a building with a network system, includes a plurality of surveillance systems, a processing center connected to the surveillance systems through the network system and a user device connected to the processing center through the network system. The surveillance systems are adapted to monitor various kinds of irregular events occurring in the building and the surroundings thereof and output corresponding event messages through the network system. The processing center receives the event messages in a preset receiving mode and further classifies and analyzes the event messages. The user device allows users to input filtering conditions and enables the processing center to integrate the classified and analyzed event messages according to the input filtering conditions so as to generate composite filtered messages to be displayed on the user device, thereby achieving efficient acquisition and integration of the event messages. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035349 | Knowledge Management Environment - According to one embodiment, a computer-readable medium has computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computer, are configured to define a plurality of management services according to a model. The model structures operations among the plurality of management services according to a knowledge configuration. A knowledge service is defined according to the model. The model assigns the knowledge service to a knowledge store according to the knowledge configuration. The knowledge store contains a plurality of data records. Instances of the plurality of management services are created. The instances of the plurality of management services control access to the knowledge store. An instance of the knowledge service is created. The instance of the knowledge service performs operations on the data records. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035350 | System for Personalized Term Expansion and Recommendation - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for providing a set of recommended annotations. A set of tags associated with a content item within a content sharing system is identified, where the content item is associated with a user of the content sharing system. A set of global tag co-occurrences within the content sharing system is identified for the set of tags, where each of the global tag co-occurrences in the set of global tag co-occurrences identifies a pair of tags including one of the set of tags, wherein the pair of tags have both been used together to tag at least one of the content items within the content sharing system. One or more sets of personal tag co-occurrences is identified for the set of tags, where each of the sets of personal tag co-occurrences is used in a corresponding one of one or more personal contexts of the content sharing system, the one or more personal contexts relating to the user of the content sharing system. Each of the personal tag co-occurrences in the sets of personal tag co-occurrences identifies a pair of tags including one of the set of tags that have both been used together to tag at least one content item within a corresponding one of the one or more personal contexts. A set of recommended tags is generated from the set of global tag co-occurrences and the one or more sets of personal tag co-occurrences. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035351 | SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR AN ONLINE KNOWLEDGE SHARING COMMUNITY - A method for an online community, wherein the community members share their knowledge fields, together, thereby forming a collective knowledge pool which can be browsed and searched through by members and non-member online knowledge seekers and instantly connecting between people and groups wishing to share knowledge. The method includes subscribing by a plurality of browsers to a proprietary Website having a knowledge center server, the subscribers thereby becoming knowledge providing (client) members, providing an applicable client software program to each of the members and making online knowledge providers accessible through searching and browsing the collective knowledge pool. The method also includes the server maintaining each of the member's online/offline status indication, a knowledge seeker clicking when a relevantly knowledgeable member is online and thereby connecting with this live person to access his knowledge by online chat or other means. The connecting is through the server. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035352 | System and Method for Processing Radiological Information Utilizing Radiological Domain Ontology - The present invention is directed in general to a system and method that employs radiological domain ontology to specify and model radiological information as knowledge. A system and method are provided that allow for consulting the ontology in the context of the model that the ontology fulfills. The result of consulting the ontology is validated, identified and classified radiological information that is based on information provided in the consultation. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035353 | Computer-Implemented Multidimensional Database Processing Method And System - A computer-implemented system and method are provided to handle operations dealing with a multidimensional database. Information about the hierarchical structure of a multidimensional database is used when performing the operations upon the database. Operations such as update, select and others are performed using the hierarchical structural information. Keys and indexes may be used in accessing the hierarchical structural information. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035354 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECONCILING META-DATA IN A DATA WAREHOUSE - A data warehouse system comprising a warehouse database and a data warehouse manager communicatively coupled to the database. The warehouse manager is to store data to and retrieve data from the warehouse database and perform metadata reconciliation to update metadata of objects in the data warehouse to reflect a change in metadata of a first object in the warehouse by identifying a first set of objects impacted by the change to the metadata of the first object, identifying a second set of objects on which the first object depends, identifying at least one task that has to be completed to propagate the impact of the change in the metadata of the first object to objects in the first and second sets of objects, performing the task, and dynamically computing additional tasks based on whether or not definitions of objects in the first or second sets of objects changes based upon completion of the at least one task. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035355 | Bi-Directional Data Modification With Synchronization - Systems and methods for synchronizing data between endpoints, including the modification of data on an endpoint without necessarily modifying data that is communicated between endpoints are disclosed. In such systems and methods the representation of data on an endpoint may be modified so that constraints on that particular endpoint are enforced, without requiring a similar or the same modification to the data when it is synchronized to other endpoints. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035356 | TRANSACTIONAL ARCHIVING OF AN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT - Various methods and apparatus are described for archiving of an electronic document between multiple interconnected archive units of a distributed server network in geographically-dispersed locations in order to store identical copies of the electronic document at the same time. An archival portal server in the distributed server network sends a five-step, two-phase commit protocol to a selected set of two or more transaction manager instances resident on remote archive units. The archival system reconciles if an error occurs between a start of a transmission of the electronic document and a permanent archiving of that electronic document, or the electronic document is stored in a permanent data storage location within each of the archive units at an end of the two-phase commit protocol making archiving of an electronic document to multiple locations an atomic operation. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035357 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING DATA DEDUPLICATION OF STORAGE SYSTEMS UTILIZING PERSISTENT CONSISTENCY POINT IMAGES - A system and method for managing data deduplication of a storage system utilizing persistent consistency point images (PCPIs). Once a target PCPI of a data transfer is generated, a backup management module of the storage system alerts a data deduplication module to begin deduplication of the data contained within the target PCPI. Once the deduplication procedure has been completed, the active file system of the storage system has been deduplicated, however, the target PCPI remains un-deduplicated. In response, the backup management module generates and exports a revised target PCPI. The previous target PCPI may then be deleted, thereby transitioning the exported PCPI's image of the state of the file system to a deduplicated state. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035358 | OPTIMIZED COPY OF VIRTUAL MACHINE STORAGE FILES - A facility is described for optimizing the copying of virtual machine storage files. In various embodiments, the facility refrains from copying portions of the virtual machine storage file that do not contain any meaningful data for the purposes of the guest file system within the virtual machine storage file. In some embodiments, the facility refrains from copying portions of the file that are in use by the guest file system, but are of no practical value. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035359 | Database Backup and Restore with Integrated Index Reorganization - According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for reorganizing a source index tree of a database table resulting in a target index tree of the database table is provided. A backup process reads source leaf pages of the source index tree in a logical order defined by a sequence of index keys. The logical order can be different from a physical order of the source leaf pages defined by a sequence of respective storage locations. The backup process constructs target leaf pages of the target index tree maintaining the logical order. A restore process constructs target non-leaf pages of the target index tree based on the distribution of the index keys among the constructed leaf pages and stores the target leaf and non-leaf pages. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035360 | Tools and techniques for original digital files - The present invention provides tools and techniques for distinguishing a file from any or all copies of the file that may exist. One method ascertains ( | 2011-02-10 |
20110035361 | RESTORATION CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A restoration control apparatus for restoring a status of data arrangement on a destination storage device to a status of data arrangement on a source storage device before backup. The restoration control apparatus includes a determiner and a controller. The determiner determines whether a first storage area, where the backed up data is to be restored, on the destination storage device preserves prior data. Upon determining by the determiner that the first storage area does not preserve prior data, the controller stores the backed up data in the first storage area. Upon determining by the determiner that the first storage area preserves the prior data, the controller stores the backed up data in an unused second storage area on the destination storage device or copies the prior data preserved in the first storage area to the second storage area to store the backed up data in the first storage area. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035362 | TERMINAL, WEB APPLICATION OPERATING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A terminal stores in a storage section content distributed from a server and a data access power for deleting a service that differ from a service to which the content belongs in association with each other. The terminal determines, when the stored content requests the deletion of the differing service that is indicated by the statement contained in the content, whether or not the content and the data access power are stored in the storage section in association with each other. When the terminal has determined that the content that requested the deletion of the differing service and the data access power are stored in the storage section in association with each other, the terminal deletes content that belongs to the differing service from the storage section. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035363 | REAL-TIME DATABASE PERFORMANCE AND AVAILABILITY MONITORING METHOD AND SYSTEM - Database performance and availability monitoring of changes impacting database performance, availability and continuity to the underlying business may be performed. A method for doing so may include analytical and visual real-time analysis engines to identify and provide alert notifications on changes in database performance statistics (such as CPU consumption, physical I/O, etc.) related to a sample period of time on a single database or across multiple databases. Result data may be displayed through a series of charts and/or summary tables that may indicate whether correlations exist between unexpected database performance and relative changes in database performance statistical parameters. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035364 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF COORDINATING CONSISTENCY OF KEY TERMS THROUGHOUT A PLURALITY OF DOCUMENTS - Provided is a method and system for coordinating consistency of key terms throughout a plurality of documents. The method includes identifying at least one key term in a first document provided by a first third-party application. The key term has at least a text element and a numerical element. Each additional instance of the key term in the first document is then linked. Each instance of the key term in at least one second document provided by a second third-party application is then also linked. An index is established for each identified key term and all instances of each key term in each document, the index permitting navigation to any specific instance of the key term in the first or second document. Each instance of each key term has selectable visibility for both the text element and the numerical element such that in varying instances, both the text element and the numerical element are visible, the text element is visible and the numerical element is invisible, and the text element is invisible and the numerical element is visible. An associated system is also provided. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035365 | Distributed Knowledge Storage - According to one embodiment, a method for writing to a distributed knowledge store includes receiving a plurality of Resource Description Framework (RDF) expressions. A distributed knowledge store is identified. The distributed knowledge store contains a plurality of physical knowledge stores. The RDF expressions are written to the distributed knowledge store by storing the plurality of RDF expressions in a buffer and then receiving a plurality of threads from the plurality of physical knowledge stores. The plurality of threads are responsible for downloading the plurality of RDF expressions to the plurality of physical knowledge stores. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035366 | REAL-TIME DATABASE PERFORMANCE AND AVAILABILITY MONITORING METHOD AND SYSTEM - Database performance and availability monitoring of changes impacting database performance, availability and continuity to the underlying business may be performed. A method for doing so may include analytical and visual real-time analysis engines to identify and provide alert notifications on changes in database performance statistics (such as CPU consumption, physical I/O, etc.) related to a sample period of time on a single database or across multiple databases. Result data may be displayed through a series of charts and/or summary tables that may indicate whether correlations exist between unexpected database performance and relative changes in database performance statistical parameters. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035367 | Methods And System For Efficient Crawling Of Advertiser Landing Page URLs - A method and apparatus for the efficient storage, retrieval, and processing of landing pages and related metadata for use in a paid search advertising business model is provided. These techniques promote efficient crawling in situations including one landing page associated with multiple sponsored listings belonging to the same or different accounts. One or more landing pages may be crawled, based at least in part on one or more of the landing page URLs represented in a table. In an embodiment, each URL identifier is placed in an active or inactive queue, with only entries in the active queue crawled. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035368 | System And Method For Processing Database Queries - A system and/or method are implemented to process queries to a database. In particular, the processing of queries to the database is enhanced by enhancing the determination of join orders of tables implicated in queries. Join orders between relatively large numbers of tables are determined by dividing the set of tables to be ordered into a plurality of subsets of tables, and ordering the individual subsets of tables. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035369 | Query Optimization with Memory I/O Awareness - System, method, computer program product embodiments and combinations and sub-combinations thereof for tuning query execution performance in a database management system are described. In an aspect, query optimization in a database management system (DBMS) with memory I/O (input/output) awareness includes determining compensated physical I/O (PIO) values indicative of memory I/O operations, including an approximate cache occupancy level, of an executing query in a DBMS, and utilizing the compensated PIO values as feedback to a query optimizer of the DBMS for optimization of future query execution. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035370 | IDENTIFYING RELATED SEARCH TERMS BASED ON SEARCH BEHAVIORS OF USERS - A system is disclosed that identifies related search terms by performing a term co-occurrence analysis of search query submissions of users. The system may give different amounts of weight to different search query submissions based, for example, on whether subsequent user actions reveal that particular searches were successful. The system may use the identified related search terms to correct spelling errors in search queries received from users. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035371 | DATA COMPARISON SYSTEM - A data comparison system is described. The system may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store a compare data structure containing multiple data item pairs, each pair including a legacy data item of a legacy dataset and a corresponding new data item of a new dataset, and a tolerance associated with each data item pair. The processor may receive the compare data structure and the associated tolerances. The processor may call a compare data subroutine to compare each data item pair in accordance with the associated tolerance if the data items are fields. Otherwise, the processor may recursively call the compare data subroutine for each record the data items until the data item are fields. The processor may then compare data items in accordance with the associated tolerance. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035372 | Search Engine Cache Control - A search query containing one or more terms is received from a client system. In response to receiving the search query, one or more snippets obtained in response to a prior execution of said search query are requested from a cache. For a respective snippet received from the cache, it is determined whether the respective snippet is a current version. In response to a determination that the respective snippet is not the current version, the current version of the respective snippet is obtained from a corresponding document in which one or more terms from said search query are located and the snippet stored in the cache is updated using the obtained current version. Search query results including the respective snippet are transmitted to the client. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035373 | ROBUST VIDEO RETRIEVAL UTILIZING AUDIO AND VIDEO DATA - Techniques for determining if two video signals match by extracting features from a first and second video signal, and cross-correlating the features thereby providing a cross-correlation score at each of a number of time lags, then determining a mean magnitude of a difference of average values at each of the lags, and finally determining the similarity score based on both the cross-correlation scores and the mean magnitude difference scores, and optionally then outputting an indication of a degree of match between the first and second video signals. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035374 | SEGMENT SENSITIVE QUERY MATCHING OF DOCUMENTS - Exemplary methods and apparatuses are provided which may be used to provide or otherwise support segment sensitive query matching based on segmented portions of web pages and/or providing related information for use in information extraction and/or information retrieval systems. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035375 | BUILDING USER PROFILES FOR WEBSITE PERSONALIZATION - One embodiment is a method that builds a website profile from keywords appearing at the website and builds a user profile from a subset of the keywords that appear in documents accessed by the user. A web page is personalized based on the user profile. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035376 | STORING NODES REPRESENTING RESPECTIVE CHUNKS OF FILES IN A DATA STORE - To provide a data store, nodes representing respective chunks of files are stored in a predefined structure that defines relationships among the nodes, where the files are divided into the chunks. The nodes are collected into plural groups stored in persistent storage, where some of the nodes are collected into a particular one of the groups according to a locality relationship of the some of the nodes. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035377 | METHOD - A method of analysing automatically analysing online posts, such that they may then be responded appropriately. The method may comprise: extracting a list of keywords from each of the plurality of posts; generating one or more keyword clusters based on the keywords extracted from each of the plurality of posts and classifying new posts in accordance with the one or more keyword clusters. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035378 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CHARACTERIZING WEB CONTENT - An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a method of processing Web activity data. The method includes obtaining a database of Website organizational data. The method also includes generating a data structure from the database of Website organizational data comprising an Item identifier and a Website category corresponding to the item identifier. The method also includes generating a reduced-rank classification structure from the data structure, the reduced-rank classification structure including a category grouping corresponding to one or more of the Website categories. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035379 | PROBABILISTIC CLUSTERING OF AN ITEM - A clustering and recommendation machine determines that an item is included in a cluster of items. The machine accesses item data descriptive of the item. The machine accesses a vector that represents the cluster and calculates the likelihood that the item is included in the cluster, based on the item variable and the probability parameter. The machine determines that the item is included in the cluster, based on the likelihood. The machine also recommends an item to a potential buyer. The machine accesses behavior data that represents a first event type pertinent to a first cluster of items. The machine calculates a probability that a second event type pertaining to a second cluster of items will co-occur with the first event type. The machine identifies an item from the second cluster to be recommended and presents a recommendation of the item to the potential buyer. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035380 | Means For Navigating Data Using A Graphical Interface - A computer-implemented graphical apparatus and method for navigating a collection of data such as a database by exploring or drilling down through a database without needing to enter a text-based keyword search; and navigating a database using a graphical interface that presents structured options to users rather than relying on user knowledge to direct the navigation process. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035381 | METHOD - A method, and associated apparatus, that allows online posts to be automatically analysed and classified such that they can then be appropriately monitored or actioned. The classification method comprises analysis of the contents of the online posts, for example keyword extraction, the affinity of one poster to comment on the posts of a further poster and the relationship between one poster and their posts with other posters and their posts. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035382 | Associating Information with Media Content - Information is associated with media content. Upon an upload of a portion of the media content, a media fingerprint is derived therefrom. The media fingerprint includes a unique representation of the media content portion, which is derived from a characteristic component of the media content portion. The information is associated with the media content portion based on the derived media fingerprint. Upon streaming the media content portion, the associated information is linked and presented in real time with the media content portion. Upon upload of the media content portion, the media fingerprint may be derived therefrom at upload time or at any time subsequent to upload time and prior to presentation time. The media content may comprise an original instance of content or a derivative instance of the original content. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035383 | Advanced Text to Speech Patent Search Engine - An efficient and stress relieving patent, and non-patent literature database search system has been provided. The system allows for the processing of dynamic and focused search strategies. The user can input a plurality of search features into the GUI of the system and can assign their priority. One of them can be classified as focused/high priority search feature over others. The system also allows for inputting plurality of keywords into the GUI to help ranking of the result. In a preferred embodiment, keywords, or portions or complete sentences or paragraphs can be listened by utilizing text to speech conversion technology. This allows users to go through a long list of patents/publications without requiring to read them. The user can listen the text to speech converted keywords or portions of references in a relaxing and way by utilizing a headset. This provides a fast and very efficient way of studying references with little or no stress. User can select various soothing sounds to be played briefly before switching into another reference. Various keyboard key operations are used to switch between the key features of the search and references. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035384 | Location-Based and Time Control-Based Interactive Information Group and Distribution Platform - An information group is disclosed for enabling user to retrieve and modify information and interact with other user. An information group is defined by three attributes as location, time span and topic. User has to meet requirement on an information group's location and time span attributes in order to interact with information stored inside information group and communicate with other users inside the same information group. Information group dynamically adjusts its location and life span attributes based on its interaction with user. When multiple information groups are available to a user, they are ranked based on their location attribute and user information and presented to user in the ranked order. Several applications enabled by our invention are disclosed, including but not limited to transportation sharing, connecting users that share a common interests, event signing up, or service or product promotion. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035385 | Method and Apparatus for Managing Interpersonal Activities - An apparatus and method for managing interpersonal activities among subscribers. A processor picks two subscribers for a meeting, and assigns them matched face-to-face or virtual assignments that are either identical or complementary. Assignments are selected by a processor according to preferences previously received from the picked subscribers. A random factor may affect the assignment selection. The level of intensity and/or intimacy of assignments selected by the processor may be responsive to the number of previous meetings of the picked subscribers. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035386 | System and Method to Manage and Utilize "Social Dynamic Rating" for Contacts Stored by Mobile Device Users - Various implementations of the disclosure relate to social dynamic ratings for contacts stored at a mobile device. For example, a mobile device may be configured to communicate to a server rating information for the contacts. The rating information may include a frequency of access of a contact by the user at the mobile device and/or explicit ratings provided by the user. The server may use the rating information to generate a social dynamic rating for an entity associated with the contact. The server may communicate the social dynamic rating to the mobile device. The mobile device may display the social dynamic rating whenever the contact is displayed at the mobile device or whenever the user accesses a user interface remote from the mobile device configured to display the contact and/or an entity associated with the contact. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035387 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE CONTROLLED INTRODUCTION OF NOISE TO INFORMATION FILTERING - A system and method for controlled introduction of noise to information filtering, comprises requesting, directly or indirectly, infatuation by a user having a user profile, obtaining the requested information, generating the noise related to the requested information and the user profile, and presenting the requested information and the noise in an information stream. Generating can further comprise finding aggregate profiles relevant to the user profile, obtaining the noise from non-overlapping parts of the aggregate profiles, and prioritizing the noise based on predefined rules. In one embodiment, each of the aggregate profiles comprises at least one characteristic found in the user profile. The aggregate profiles can be constructed using data mining or data aggregation mechanisms. In one embodiment, the noise is generated using random selection or complex selection algorithms. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035388 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOMMENDING INFORMATION USING A HYBRID ALGORITHM - A method and apparatus for recommending information is provided. When a client accesses a server and requests information, the server determines whether the client is included in a meaningful set (MS) and generates first preference information of the client based on an access history of the client, or based on additional information directly input by the client. Then, the server selects a number of neighborhood groups including clients having preferences similar to a preference of the client, and generates and transmits first item information on a number of items preferred by the clients of the neighborhood group to the client. The client extracts second item information to be recommended to a user by filtering the first item information with second preference information. Information is filtered respectively by the server and the client by using different algorithms. Accordingly, it is possible to improve the accuracy and speed of recommending information. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035389 | GENERATING SERVICE COMPONENT DEFINITION LANGUAGE FROM METADATA - An SCA generator is configured to use data in a Metadata repository to generate files that can be used by an SCA server. The SCA generator includes an instruction analyzing module configured to analyze input instructions and to determine the Metadata repository from the input instructions. The SCA generator also includes a matching module configured to match a service identifier received with the input instructions to service metadata stored in the Metadata repository and a retrieving module configured to retrieve service parameters for the matched service. The SCA generator further includes a tree generating module configured to generate a parser tree based on the retrieved service parameters and an output file generation module configured to recursively walk through the parser tree and to generate target output files. The target output files generated by the output generation module are configured such that the SCA server can access services that have associated service metadata stored in the Metadata repository. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035390 | Message Descriptions - Messages (e.g., log messages or any form of record oriented data) are analyzed for identifiable value patterns. When a pattern is located the value is replaced by a name or “token” for the pattern, resulting in a “message description” for the message. When analysis is finished and token/value replacements are complete the message description can be stored as a reference to the message. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035391 | Uniform Data Model and API for Representation and Processing of Semantic Data - In some implementations, a method includes receiving a first data set that is stored using a first format, generating an info item based on the first data set, the info item representing an entity extracted from the first, data set, generating a delta item based on the first data set, the delta item including a reference to the into item and defining a context-based modification of the info item, generating a second data set in a second format comprising the into item and the delta item, and storing the second data set to the computer-readable storage medium. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035392 | AUTOMATED ACTIVE KEYWORD CONTENT SEARCHING - A keyword for use in automated searches of items of content subsequently received is configured at a content processing device. An item of content is received at the content processing device. A search within the item of content for the keyword is automatically performed. An alert is generated upon identification of the keyword within the item of content. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035393 | FILE SELECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A file selection system includes a gravity sensor and a processing unit. The gravity sensor is mounted on an electronic device to measure gravity of the electronic device and output electronic signals correspondingly. The processing unit receives the electronic signals to obtain an angle of inclination of the electronic device relative to a datum plane correspondingly, receives the angle of inclination of the electronic device relative to the datum plane, and selects a file correspondingly from a plurality of files with different shooting angles. The electronic device displays the selected image. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035394 | SYSTEM FOR PERFOMING INSTRURTIONS THAT ARE DEPENDENT UPON RECEIVED MEDIA- BASED MESSAGES AND ASSOCIATED METHODS AND COMPONENTS - A system for performing instructions determined by received media-based messages, the system including an interface for receiving a media-based message from a system user; a database associating a plurality of specifications of media-based messages with respective stored instructions; a recognition engine for identifying a correspondence between a received media-based message and a stored specification of a media-based message. The system may include an instruction engine for performing an instruction associated with a stored specification of an media-based message for which a correspondence has been identified; an interface for receiving an activation request; and a database manager configured to process the activation request to generate publication data for creating a publication that may be recorded by a user to define a new media-based message and configured to adapt the database to include a specification of the new media-based message. The system may include a database manager configured to arbitrate which of plural stored instructions is performed in response to an identified correspondence between the received media-based message and one or more specifications of media-based messages. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035395 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, REFERENCE VALUE DETERMINATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention including a history information obtaining unit and a reference value determining unit. The history information obtaining unit obtains history information about predetermined operation. The history information includes identification information and time information at which a predetermined operation is performed by/on a classification subject. The identification information and the time information are associated with each other. The reference value determining unit calculates operation number information based on the obtained history information. The operation number information includes the number of operations performed by/on the single classification subject. The operation number information further includes the number of classification subjects having the same number of operations. The number of operations and the number of classification subjects are associated with each other. The reference value determining unit determines a reference value based on the operation number information. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035396 | RUNTIME-DEFINED DYNAMIC QUERIES - A programming model for a query service (e.g., web) that supports defining query builders which are bound dynamically at runtime to parameter values. Moreover, the programming model can be used to customize the query execution, for example, by adding pre-processing, post-processing, or dynamic binding to queries (e.g., selecting the query to be executed dynamically at runtime). As a consequence, generalized and parameterized queries can be used (with different runtime values for parameters) in different scenarios. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035397 | DISCOVERING QUERY INTENT FROM SEARCH QUERIES AND CONCEPT NETWORKS - A system is described for discovering query intent based on search queries and concept networks. The system may construct frequency vectors from log data corresponding to a submitted query and at least one related query submitted to one or more search engines. The system may also construct a query intent vector based on the frequency vectors. The query intent vector may include frequency scores that represent the intent of the query. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035398 | STREAMING QUERY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTENSIBLE MARKUP LANGUAGE - A streaming query system for extensible markup language is provided. An XPath query translator receives and analyzes a user-input XPath document. An abstract syntax tree analyzer establishes an abstract syntax tree. A XML parser receives and parses an XML document. An index generator generates an index for the XML document. A computation module performs a format calculation based on the abstract syntax tree and the index, and generates a query result accordingly. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035399 | USING HISTORICAL INFORMATION TO IMPROVE SEARCH ACROSS HETEROGENEOUS INDICES - A method, system and computer program product are disclosed for searching for data. In one embodiment, the invention provides a method comprising identifying a query and a search scope including a set of specified entities; and for each of these entities, estimating a number of documents that would be identified in a search through the entity to answer the query. On the basis of this estimating, a subset of the entities is formed. The query and this subset of entities are sent to a search engine to search the subset of entities to answer the query. In one embodiment, the estimating includes collecting statistical information from queries to build up a historical cache using heuristics or machine learning techniques, wherein the query includes a key word and a scope, and the historical cache contains a maximum number of returned results for an entity given the queries executed. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035400 | ADVERTISING MEDIUM DETERMINATION DEVICE AND METHOD THEREFOR - It is also an object of the present invention to provide objective advertisement plan(s). The target specifying information storage means | 2011-02-10 |
20110035401 | Method for Providing an Attribute Bounded Network of Computers - An attribute bounded network of computers is created. Computers in the distributed computer network are identified by specific attributes (e.g., a geographically bounded region) and a server is used to distribute processing assignments (e.g., addresses of electronic documents to be indexed) based upon the identified attributes. A peer-to-peer computer network is also provided based upon geographically bounded regions, the peer-to-peer computer network can be used to share electronic documents. A virtual community can be created within a peer-to-peer computer network by identifying peer computer connections based upon associated attributes (e.g., a geographically bounded region). The attribute bounded network of computers provides indexes having fresher data by allowing spidering of electronic documents more often than can be done by a central server indexing site. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035402 | RELATED URLS FOR TASK-ORIENTED QUERY RESULTS - Methods, computer-storage media, and graphical user interfaces are provided for identifying and presenting rich related sites for task-oriented search queries. Upon receipt of a search query input by a user, one or more query logs are analyzed to determine if the search query is a related to a task being performed by the user. If the query is determined to be a task-oriented search query, search results are identified, as is one or more Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) related to a particular search result. The related URL is presented to the user in association with the particular search result. Additional controls, e.g., search tools that facilitate querying of those URLs determined to be relevant to a particular search result, may also be provided to aid the user in performing the task at hand. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035403 | Generation of refinement terms for search queries - A computer-implemented method is provided, which includes receiving from a user a first search query consisting of one or more first query terms, and receiving from the user an indication of a desired level of personalization of refinement options for the search query. Responsively to the search query, a set of one or more refinement terms is generated at least in part responsively to the indication. The set of refinement terms is presented to the user. Responsively to a selection of at least one of the refinement terms by the user, the selected at least one refinement term is added to the first search query to generate a second search query. Search results are presented to the user responsively to the second search query. Other embodiments are also described. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035404 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING DESIGN, SELECTION AND/OR CUSTOMIZATION OF LIGHTING EFFECTS OR LIGHTING SHOWS - Methods and apparatus for facilitating a process of designing, selecting, and/or customizing lighting effects or lighting shows. A library of indexed (tagged) predefined lighting effects or shows is searched by a search engine, based upon information provided by a user/designer, to identify a set of effects or shows having attributes that are in some way related to the information provided by the user. The user is then presented with search results, i.e., a manageable subset of intelligently chosen lighting effects or shows, which may be ranked in terms of relevance, any one or more of which may be readily selected by the user. The user may select one or more effects or shows from the search results “as is” for execution by a lighting system, may combine one or more effects or shows from the search results, or may modify one or more effects or shows from the search results to refine some aspect of the effect(s)/show(s) in accordance with user preferences. In one exemplary implementation, the library of lighting effects/shows and/or the search engine may be hosted by a web site and accessible via the Internet. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035405 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA CLASS UPDATE - A method for updating data includes, in a processor, receiving a data field update associated with an existing data object of a data class, modifying a data field of an updater data object of the data class based upon the data field update, traversing the updater data object to identify the modified data field, and modifying a data field of the existing data object based upon the identified data field of the updater data object. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035406 | User Interface for Presenting Search Results for Multiple Regions of a Visual Query - A visual query such as a photograph, screen shot, scanned image, or video frame is submitted to a visual query search system from a client system. The search system processes the visual query by sending it to a plurality of parallel search systems, each implementing a distinct visual query search process. A plurality of results is received from the parallel search systems. Utilizing the search results, an interactive results document is created and sent to the client system. The interactive results document has at least one visual identifier for a sub-portion of the visual query with a selectable link to at least one search result for that sub-portion. The visual identifier may be a bounding box around the respective sub-portion, or a semi-transparent label over the respective sub-portion. Optionally, the bounding box or label is color coded by type of result. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035407 | System and Method for Gathering and Standardizing Customer Purchase Information for Target Marketing - The present invention relates to storing and manipulating customer purchasing information, particularly purchasing information by credit cards, debit cards, checks, and the like. A hierarchical organizational structure is created comprising a plurality of categories and sub-categories. The customer purchase information may then be retrieved according to user created links to generate customer preference information. The customer preference information may be stored in a customer account, thereby allowing targeted offers to be made to customers. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035408 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF RECONCILING HUMAN RESOURCE DATABASE - A system and method to reconcile Human Resource databases, including payroll, accounting, tax and travel databases, are provided. The system and method may include a database aggregation component that automatically gathers and stores a plurality of databases in a corporation business information system wherein these databases may be logically related to each other and a database reconciliation component that is capable of querying a database for retrieving data entries based on user instructions or on requests automatically generated according to preset conditions. The reconciliation method may further compare data from logically related databases. If discrepancies exist in a comparison result, the method may provide a drill-down step where data at next level of detail may be retrieved according to automatically generated queries. This reconciliation process of comparison and drill-down for more detail may continue until a preset condition is satisfied or there is no further detail to retrieve. The system may produce a report relating to the reconciliation results. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035409 | HIERARCHICAL STORAGE SYSTEM AND COPY CONTROL METHOD OF FILE FOR HIERARCHICAL STORAGE SYSTEM - An interface for controlling an inhibition of a recall is prepared for an application, and a judgment of necessity of a recall is informed of to a hierarchical storage before the application executes an access to a file. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035410 | PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - To reduce the processing load for processing structured data pieces in different representation forms, a path correspondence table storage area stores a path correspondence table having a correspondence between first position information for locating an item of a first structured data piece and second position information for locating the item of a second structured data piece, having a different representation form from that of the first structured data piece and corresponding to the item located by the first position information. If the first position information is specified, and a request for obtaining information relating to an item in the second structured data piece is received, a path converting section uses the path correspondence table to convert the first position information to the second position information and obtain the information relating to the item from the second structured data piece stored in a structured data storage area. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035411 | Systems and Methods Involving Information Objects - A method comprises receiving a request from a source service, determining whether the target service associated with the request supports a by-reference evaluation strategy, determining whether an information object associated with the request is a data reference, retrieving data associated with the reference from a database, adding the data to the information object, and invoking the target service and passing the information object to the target service responsive to determining that the target service does not support the by-reference strategy and the information object is a data reference. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035412 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAINTAINING DISTRIBUTED DATA - Systems and methods are disclosed that provide an indexing data structure. In one embodiment, the indexing data structure is mirrored index tree where the copies of the nodes of the tree are stored across devices in a distributed system. In one embodiment, nodes that are stored on an offline device are restored, and an offline device that comes back online is merged into the distributed system and given access to the current indexing data structure. In one embodiment, the indexing data structure is traversed to locate and restore nodes that are stored on offline devices of the distributed system. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035413 | DIAMETER BUS COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN PROCESSING NODES OF A NETWORK ELEMENT - A Diameter bus between Diameter processing nodes of the same network element is disclosed herein. The Diameter bus includes a data structure that is used to transfer Diameter messages between the processing nodes. In doing so, the data structure avoids the overhead associated with SCTP, TCP, Ethernet, and/or IP encoding that is required by the Diameter base protocol. To ensure that the Diameter processing nodes operate as intended, the Diameter bus also includes a simplified Diameter transport structure such that Capabilities Exchange messaging between Diameter processing nodes is maintained as required by the Diameter base protocol. However, the simplified Diameter transport structure forgoes other functionality associated with the Diameter base protocol, such as the Device Watchdog messaging. By eliminating certain features of the Diameter base protocol as well as the SCTP/TCP/IP encoding and decoding associated with Diameter communications, processing performance of the network element can be substantially improved. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035414 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPILING A MULTI-SOURCE DATABASE OF COMPOSITE INVESTOR-SPECIFIC DATA RECORDS WITH NO DISCLOSURE OF INVESTOR IDENTITY - A system and method are disclosed for compiling a database of investor-related data by gathering and linking customer-specific data records from multiple unaffiliated financial institutions, where such data records are coded in such a manner that the database compiler is enabled to link, across data providers and/or time periods, data records that pertain to the same investor without being provided any information that reveals the identity of any investor. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035415 | Integration of the virtual library system - An integration of virtual library system determined especially for storing, exchange and making electronic pedagogical materials accessible composed of minimum one provider block and minimum one access block is provided, and the principle is that at least one provider block is connected to at least one provider login block of the database server being connected through the transmission channel to at least one provider operation block being connected through the transmission channel to at least one personal teacher's module of the virtual library which is connected through the transmission channel to at least one access instructional module of the virtual library and at least one access block is connected through Internet to at least one access login block which is through the transmission channel connected to at least one access instructional module. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035416 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EDITING DATA IN A PORTABLE TERMINAL - An apparatus and method for editing data in a portable terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a data edit management unit for generating a layer corresponding to a region of original data intended for editing, and for applying an edit tag to the generated layer. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035417 | BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY IN DATABASE SCHEMAS - A method of accommodating at least one difference between a first database schema and a second database schema is provided. The method includes receiving a response generated by a first application program using a first database schema, identifying a value in the response that is unrecognizable to a second application program using a second database schema, and substituting, using a processor, the value that is unrecognizable to the second application program with a reserved element recognizable to the second application program, the reserved element indicating to the second application program that a portion of the response is not recognizable to the second application program. The method further includes communicating the response to the second application program. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035418 | Object-Knowledge Mapping Method - According to one embodiment, a method for mapping a data model to an object model comprising receiving an ontology. The ontology provides a definition of a concept. The concept classifies a Resource Description Framework (RDF) expression stored in a knowledge store. A mapping file is generated. The mapping files defines a mapping relationship between the concept and an object representation of the concept. A class is generated according to the object representation of the concept. The class provides a class definition of an object. The object is generated according to the class definition. The object is mapped to the RDF expression according to the mapping relationship. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035419 | Systems and Methods for Facilitating Storage Operations Using Network Attached Storage Devices - A system and method for communicating, browsing, verifying and routing data in storage operation systems using network attached storage devices is provided. In some embodiments, the system may include a management module and a media management component connected to the management server, which interoperate with network attached storage devices to provide the communicating, browsing, verifying and routing functions. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035420 | Location Beacon Database - A location beacon database and server, method of building location beacon database, and location based service using same. Wi-Fi access points are located in a target geographical area to build a reference database of locations of Wi-Fi access points. At least one vehicle is deployed including at least one scanning device having a GPS device and a Wi-Fi radio device and including a Wi-Fi antenna system. The target area is traversed in a programmatic route to avoid arterial bias. The programmatic route includes substantially all drivable streets in the target geographical area and solves an Eulerian cycle problem of a graph represented by said drivable streets. While traversing the target area, periodically receive the GPS coordinates of the GPS device. While traversing the target area, detecting Wi-Fi signals from Wi-Fi access points in range of the Wi-Fi device and recording identity information of the detected Wi-Fi access point in conjunction with GPS location information of the vehicle when the detection of the Wi-Fi access point was made. The location information is used to reverse triangulate the position of the detected Wi-Fi access point; and the position of the detected access point is recorded in a reference database. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035421 | SHARING FILES ON A COMPUTER THROUGH USE OF URIS - A system described herein includes a receiver component that receives a computing event with respect to a file stored in a data repository of a personal computing device. An assignor component automatically assigns a uniform resource identifier to the file responsive to the receiver component receiving the computing event with respect to the file, wherein at least a portion of content of the file is reviewable by way of a web browser through utilization of the uniform resource identifier. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035422 | METHOD FOR MANAGING FILE USING NETWORK STRUCTURE, OPERATION OBJECT DISPLAY LIMITING PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A computer file management system allowing at least one of one file (F | 2011-02-10 |
20110035423 | REPRODUCING APPARATUS, REPRODUCING METHOD, PROGRAM, PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM, DATA DELIVERY SYSTEM, DATA STRUCTURE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention relates to a reproducing apparatus, a reproducing method, a program, a program storage medium, a data delivery system, a data structure, and a manufacturing method of a recording medium for easily handling a content file recorded on a disk and an update file recorded on a local storage. Downloaded data can be handled with a file having a path name and a file name on the local storage being different from a file having a path name and a file name on a virtual file system based on a path name specified by an src_file_name field of and a path name specified by a dst_file_name field of a manifest ( ) section. The present invention is applicable to reproducing apparatuses. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035424 | USER DATA PROFILE NAMESPACE - A method and data structure for separating application data from user data in a namespace. The data structure provides an intuitive profile layout for developers or users while supporting legacy applications. The namespace utilizes a hierarchical structure allowing access by developers or users over a network to information contained in identified public folders and/or a user's profile. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035425 | DISCRETE COSINE AND INVERSE DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM CIRCUIT - A discrete cosine transform (DCT) and inverse discrete cosine transform (IDCT) circuit includes a microcode memory, a processor, and a butterfly operation circuit. The microcode memory stores multiple microcode groups corresponding to DCT/IDCT operations and each of the microcode groups includes a series of microcodes. The processor obtains one of the microcode groups corresponding to one of the DCT/IDCT operations to be performed and retrieves microcodes in the obtained microcode group in sequence. The butterfly operation circuit performs butterfly operations according to the retrieved microcodes to execute one of the DCT/IDCT operations. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035426 | Bitstream Buffer Manipulation with a SIMD Merge Instruction - Method, apparatus, and program means for performing bitstream buffer manipulation with a SIMD merge instruction. The method of one embodiment comprises determining whether any unprocessed data bits for a partial variable length symbol exist in a first data block is made. A shift merge operation is performed to merge the unprocessed data bits from the first data block with a second data block. A merged data block is formed. A merged variable length symbol comprised of the unprocessed data bits and a plurality of data bits from the second data block is extracted from the merged data block. | 2011-02-10 |
20110035427 | PIXEL SENSOR CONVERTERS AND ASSOCIATED APPARATUS AND METHODS - There is described a pixel sensor converter for an image sensor array. In particular, a pixel sensor converter comprising: a delta-sigma converter comprising a modulator and a decimator. In some examples, the modulator is configured to be in communication with a detector, such as a photo-detector, and is configured to sample an analogue signal received from a detector at a particular sampling rate. The modulator is further configured to provide a bit stream of a particular bit rate. The provided bit stream corresponds to a sampled analogue signal. The decimator is in communication with the modulator, and is configured to receive and modify a bit stream provided from the modulator in order to provide a digital output signal. The provided digital output signal is representative of an analogue signal received at the modulator, but having a reduced bit rate than a corresponding bit stream provided by the modulator. | 2011-02-10 |