| 09th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 69 |
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| 20100057452 | SPEECH INTERFACES - The described implementations relate to speech interfaces and in some instances to speech pattern recognition techniques that enable speech interfaces. One system includes a feature pipeline configured to produce speech feature vectors from input speech. This system also includes a classifier pipeline configured to classify individual speech feature vectors utilizing multi-level classification. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057457 | SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - An unknown word is additionally registered in a speech recognition dictionary by utilizing a correction result, and a new pronunciation of the word that has been registered in a speech recognition dictionary is additionally registered in the speech recognition dictionary, thereby increasing the accuracy of speech recognition. The start time and finish time of each phoneme unit in speech data corresponding to each phoneme included in a phoneme sequence acquired by a phoneme sequence converting section | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057459 | VOICE RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR INTERACTIVELY GATHERING INFORMATION TO GENERATE DOCUMENTS - A voice recognition system for interactively gathering information to generate a document, form, or application. An user establishes a connection with the voice recognition system and provides verbal responses to a plurality of verbal questions generated by voice recognition system to compile a document, form or application. The voice recognition system converts the user's verbal responses to textually converted responses. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057461 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING OR UPDATING ENTRIES IN A SPEECH RECOGNITION LEXICON - In a method and a system ( | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057462 | Speech Recognition - The present invention relates to a method for speech recognition of a speech signal comprising the steps of providing at least one codebook comprising codebook entries, in particular, multivariate Gaussians of feature vectors, that are frequency weighted such that higher weights are assigned to entries corresponding to frequencies below a predetermined level than to entries corresponding to frequencies above the predetermined level and processing the speech signal for speech recognition comprising extracting at least one feature vector from the speech signal and matching the feature vector with the entries of the codebook. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057463 | System and Method for Generating Natural Language Phrases From User Utterances in Dialog Systems - Embodiments of a dialog system that employs a corpus-based approach to generate responses based on a given number of semantic constraint-value pairs are described. The system makes full use of the data from the user input to produce dialog system responses in combination with a template generator. The system primarily utilizes constraint values in order to realize efficiencies based on the more frequent tasks performed in real dialog systems although rhetorical or discourse aspects of the dialog could also be included in a similar way, that is, labeling the data with such information and performing a training process. The benefits of this system include higher quality user-aligned responses, broader coverage, faster response time, and shorter development cycles. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057465 | VARIABLE TEXT-TO-SPEECH FOR AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATION - A text-to-speech (TTS) system implemented in an automotive vehicle is dynamically tuned to improve intelligibility over a wide variety of vehicle operating states and environmental conditions. In one embodiment of the present invention, a TTS system is interfaced to one or more vehicle sensors to measure parameters including vehicle speed, interior noise, visibility conditions, and road roughness, among others. In response to measurements of these operating parameters, TTS voice volume, pitch, and speed, among other parameters, may be tuned in order to improve intelligibility of the TTS voice system and increase its effectiveness for the operator of the vehicle. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057466 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCROLLING TEXT DISPLAY OF VOICE CALL OR MESSAGE DURING VIDEO DISPLAY SESSION - A method and communication device disclosed includes displaying a video on a display, converting voice audio data to textual data by applying voice-to-text conversion, and displaying the textual data as scrolling text displayed along with the video on the display and either above, below or across the video. The method may further include receiving a voice call indication from a network, providing the voice call indication to a user interface where the voice call indication corresponds to an incoming voice call; and receiving a user input for receiving the voice call and displaying the voice call as scrolling text. In another embodiment, a method includes displaying application related data on a display; converting voice audio data to textual data by applying voice-to-text conversion; converting the textual data to a video format; and displaying the textual data as scrolling text over the application related data on said display. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057509 | CO-OCCURRENCE CONSISTENCY ANALYSIS METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FINDING PREDICTIVE VARIABLE GROUPS - A method of modeling includes quantifying a co-operative strength value for a plurality of pairs of variables, and identifying a clique of at least three variables based on a graph of the co-operative strength values of a plurality of pairs of variables. The method also includes selecting a first pair of variables of the plurality of pairs of variables having a high co-operative strength value. A second clique may also be identified. A model of the first clique and a model of the second clique are made. The outputs of these models are combined to form a combined model which is used to make various decisions with respect to real time data. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057510 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN AUDIT TOOL FOR COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE PROVIDERS - A method for auditing installation of communications facilities. Network engineering information is received. The network engineering information may include telecommunications installation requirements and a budget associated with one or more telecommunications projects. A portal is displayed to receive telecommunications installation information from one or more contractors assigned to perform the one or more telecommunications projects. Auditing information associated with the one or more telecommunications projects is received. The auditing information and the network engineering information are automatically compared to the telecommunications information to determine deviations for multiple criteria. The deviations are reported for adjusting the compensation of the contractor. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057512 | Linear assets inspection system - The invention provides a graphical user interface implemented on a computer including an information area for displaying to a user at the computer inspection status information in connection with one or more components of a linear asset infrastructure. The graphical user interface also includes a control component operable by the user at the computer to cause the graphical user interface to display additional information on the one or more components of the linear asset infrastructure. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057517 | Eco-systemic business model for a music entertainment company and the music industry - An eco-systemic business model for a Music Entertainment Company that will optimize the use of, and, exploit new method and system for generating, processing and allocating revenues earned in the Music Industry, optimize the use of, and, exploit new Mechanical Royalty Rate Formula and new Mechanical Royalty Rate (that can be Standardized within the Music Industry), and finally optimize the exploitation of entertainment assets such as (but not limited to) Record Artists and Music Catalogues, by implementing a new “Living 360° Music Entertainment Company” Business Model, which utilize the integration of various basic and transferable management and marketing strategies, business tools and business resources. Further, The “Living 360° Music Entertainment Company will exploit assets and products such as (but not limited to) Recording Artists, which will be developed, managed, marketed, place on tour (a tour produced by The “Living 360° Music Entertainment Company), exploited for merchandising opportunities, cross-marketing opportunities and product placements with advertising media and corporate sponsorships, and, exploited to selling albums/single records; all to be interrelated within one company and/or one network of associated and/or affiliated companies for the purpose of earning profit from all areas of the music industry, “across the board”. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057528 | METHODS FOR RENDERING ADVERTISEMENT MESSAGES BY THE USE OF A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method is disclosed for rendering advertisement messages to a user. A display screen of a mobile device is used to present an advertisement message during and after a voice communication. The user may decide to view the message or to ignore the message after the voice communication is terminated. There is no user input action is required if the user decides to ignore the message. A plurality of user selectable items is then displayed on the screen accompanied by the displayed message if the user selects the message for further review. The user selectable items may include at least one icon representing a folder contains other advertisement messages which may intrigue the user. In another aspect of the present invention, contents of the voice communication is analyzed by converting words used in the communication into a text form of the words and then comparing the words with a list of words in a file representing commercial interest of an average user. The message is rendered based upon the determined user's commercial interests. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057530 | System and Method for Electronic Transactions and Providing Consumer Rewards - A system and method for electronic transactions involves a website that displays an advertisement of a merchant. The website includes a feature that allows a visitor to the website to commit to making a purchase from the merchant within a certain period of time. The website visitor is encouraged to make the purchase by a commitment made by the merchant to donate or giveback a portion of the purchase value. When the website visitor actually makes a purchase from the merchant at a later time, the system and method allows for identification of the visitor as somebody who earlier made a purchase commitment, thereby allowing the merchant to determine whether to make a donation and to determine the effectiveness of the advertisement. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057531 | Discovering Rarely-Planned Parts using Order Proposal Data - Discovering Rarely-Planned Parts using Order Proposal Data Discovering rarely-planned parts using order proposal data in a manufacturing/assembly environment. Requests for rarely-planned parts are detected by analyzing data from order proposals, providing early warning to the manufacturer prior to receiving an order that uses the parts and allowing the manufacturer to perform advance planning, ordering, and/or scheduling for the parts. The early warnings may also pertain to resources which may be associated with the parts, including testing, documentation, and so forth for supporting use of the parts in products. User-specified rules (or other conditions/constraints) may be used for defining which order proposals to analyze and/or the type of analysis to be performed. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057532 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING RELEVANT BUSINESS INFORMATION TO CUSTOMER AND FOR TRACKING CUSTOMER RESPONSES - A method and system delivers relevant information about a business to a customer and tracks customer visits to the business premise responsive to the delivery of relevant information. The method includes receiving by a computer-implemented system one or more queries from the customer for the relevant information about one or more businesses. The method further includes presenting through the communication network a total set of businesses to the customer, the total set being a list of identified businesses to the customer. The customer views online a view set of the businesses, the view set being at least a subset of the identified businesses on the list. The method further includes tracking customer visit to the premises of the one or more identified businesses based on location data transmitted by a customer mobile device. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057537 | Online Qualitative Research Support System - A system and method for coordinating and conducting qualitative research interviews over a distributed communication system is presented. The system is controlled from a central point by the user. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057538 | METHOD OF, AND SYSTEM FOR, REAL ESTATE INDEX GENERATION - A method and system for generating a real estate property index uses real estate data including price data, property data and time of sale data that are entered into a computing apparatus. The time of sale data is manipulated to provide consecutive triple times giving two consecutive time periods (e.g., March, April, May 2007 and April, May, June 2007). A transform function, preferably a log function, is generated with two time dummy variables, and the coefficients of the two time dummy variables are extracted and added to generate a transformed growth rate. The reverse transform function, preferably an anti-log function, is generated to provide the desired untransformed growth rate. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057540 | TERM CATERING SYSTEM AND TERM CATERING METHOD - In a term catering system, a management device held by a delivery agent and a manufacturer of cooking appliances outputs reservation sequence information including sequence identification data corresponding to a reserved cooking menu for each customer and obtains feedback information from the customer. The cooking appliance lent to the customer for a certain term controls cooking of a food material delivered by the delivery agent, according to cooking sequence data specified by the output reservation sequence information, among a plurality of cooking sequence data stored beforehand. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057541 | Systems of Influencing Shoppers at the First Moment of Truth in a Retail Establishment - Provided herein are systems and methods for influencing shoppers while they consider making purchasing decisions in a retail establishment. Specifically, the systems and methods for influencing shoppers may occur during a shopper's first moment of truth by transmitting through a communication network one or more influential messages to a handheld wireless electronic device or intelligent shopping cart, which is in close proximity to a shopper during a shopping trip throughout a retail establishment. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057543 | System and methods for monitoring caregiver performance - Systems and methods for monitoring the performance of a caregiver are disclosed. The systems may be configured to monitor the movement of each subject in a network of subjects. One such system includes a plurality of strips adhered in spaced-apart relation on a mattress pad, upon which a subject is positioned. One or more transmitter is provided coupled to the plurality of strips. A processor is connected to the one or more transmitter. The processor is provided with operating software to record and report caregiver activity or both caregiver activity and subject activity. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057547 | MARKETING DEVICE FOR A BAG - Disclosed is marketing device for a bag, the device including a device body, at least one marketing message disposed on at least one surface of the device body; and an association portion structured to associate the device body with a portion of the bag in proximity to an opening of the bag, wherein the association portion is also structured to associate the device body such that the at least one marketing message is visible to a surrounding environment of the bag in at least one direction. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057568 | Method and Apparatus for Searching for Online Advertisement Resource - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for searching for an online advertisement resource. The method includes: setting at least one label for each of online advertisement resources; categorizing the at least one label according to a categorizing rule; categorizing a keyword inputted by a user when searching for an online advertisement resource according to the categorizing rule; and if a category to which the keyword belongs has a label, transmitting the online advertisement resource corresponding to the label to the user. The embodiments of the present invention increase success rate and accuracy for finding the online advertisement resource, and lower the requirement for searching conditions. Compared with the prior art, the problem that it is difficult to find a matching result and that a potential online advertisement resource may be missed is solved. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057569 | Advertising System for Internet Discussion Forums - This patent discloses a system to display an online advertisement to a user viewing user-generated comments in an online discussion forum. The system may include an ad server having online advertisements in an ad database. The ad server may include an analyzer to compare compiled metadata to at least two of the online advertisements. The compiled metadata may include metadata from the user-generated comment. The comparison may result in the selection of one advertisement for display with the user-generated comment. The selected advertisement may be called a paired advertisement and the ad server further may serve the paired advertisement to the user-generated comment. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057571 | Information processing system, portable information terminal and its control method, information providing device and its control method, and program - A portable information terminal includes: a position detecting section that detects a position of the portable information terminal; a selecting section that selects a guidance target object for which voice guidance is to be provided, and detects a guidance target direction that is a direction in which the guidance target object exists with respect to a reference direction, on the basis of a direction in which the guidance target object exists with respect to the position of the portable information terminal; a voice synthesis section that generates a synthetic voice so that a guidance voice for the guidance target object selected by the selecting section is heard from the guidance target direction; and a voice output section that outputs the synthetic voice generated by the voice synthesis section. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057575 | Content Detection and Payment System - Systems and techniques for detecting presentations of sponsored content and identifying persons bearing the content. A set of sponsored content items is identified for which a bearer presenting the content item in qualifying ways may receive payment, and a group of participating users is established, with information being stored for the users so as to allow for identification of a user presenting a content item in order to direct proper credit to the user making the presentation. A plurality of video feeds are identified and monitored and any video feed in which a sponsored logo appears is further examined to identify a bearer of the content item. Upon identification of the bearer, presentation of the content item is evaluated and appropriate payment is calculated. Details of content item presentations and payments may be stored in connection with users and evaluated to provide insight into the circumstances surrounding and influencing presentations. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057576 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIDEO INSERTION INTO MEDIA STREAM OR FILE - Systems, methods, and computer readable-media for presenting sub-videos in a media presentation are disclosed. The method includes transmitting a media bundle having a media presentation and a sub-video bundle to a playback device, the sub-video bundle comprising at least one of a video clip and a reference to a video clip, wherein the media presentation includes a plurality of locked segments, unlocking a segment of the media presentation for display to a user by playing a selected unlocking sub-video from the sub-video bundle such that the unlocked segment of the media presentation is playable, and receiving media impressions reported in the form of sub-video playback behavior of the playback device. In one aspect, a media bundle includes at least one of an episode file, a reference to an episode file, metadata, sub-video break locations, and sub-video unlocking information. The playback device can be an online playback device. The online playback device can transfer the media bundle to an offline playback device for playback. A media bundle can further include episode expiration information and sub-video expiration information, such that the playback device will not display any portion of the media bundle when a sub-video in the sub-video bundle is expired or when the episode is expired. In one aspect, at least one segment of the episode is unlocked when the user pays a fee in lieu of playing a sub-video. All or part of the media bundle can be protected by a digital rights management scheme. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057577 | System And Method For Providing Topic-Guided Broadening Of Advertising Targets In Social Indexing - A computer-implemented system and method for providing topic-guided broadening of advertising targets in social indexing is provided. Articles of digital information and one or more social indexes are maintained. Each social index includes topics that each relate to one or more of the articles. A Web page, which includes one or more of the articles, is identified. The one or more topics in at least one of the social indexes related to the one or more articles are determined. A plurality of advertising expressions that are each associated with advertising content for an online advertiser are received. Each of the advertising expressions is successively matched to the one or more topics related to the one or more articles followed by matching words descriptive of the one or more topics. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057579 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING PURCHASE TRANSACTIONS BETWEEN A CUSTOMER AND A MERCHANT - A method of storing change resulting from a customer/merchant cash purchase, includes providing the customer with a customer electronic purse on a portable storage device for storing credit and the merchant with a merchant electronic purse for storing credit, communicating with the storage device through an access device communicating with the portable storage device, electronically crediting a value representing the change in the customer electronic purse from the merchant electronic purse, and debiting the merchant's electronic purse to an amount equivalent to the change that is credited to the customer electronic purse, the change value credited to the customer electronic purse is redeemable for further purchases, the customer electronic purse is stored solely in the storage device and the merchant electronic purse is stored solely in the access device, facilitating immediate transfer of credit directly from the merchant electronic purse to the customer electronic purse via the access device. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057582 | RENEWABLE ENERGY CERTIFICATE ACCUMULATING, DISTRIBUTING, AND MARKET MAKING - A renewable energy certificate business model embodiment of the present invention accumulates small shares of qualifying energy produced by many small solar installations into the minimum unit sizes that can be certified, traded and sold. Renewable energy generation and load control monitors are installed at hundreds and thousands of small installations to automatically report to centralized servers. These servers log and certify the production of renewable energy into the lot sizes needed for an efficient market. A system integrator provides the brokerage mechanisms needed for buyers and sellers to trade quickly and easily. In one aspect, an online auction website is constructed and maintained on the Internet as a centralized clearing house. The system integrator backs the quality of the lots and the trades with their large enterprise reputation and credit worthiness. The trading can be in renewable energy portfolios, emission offsets, carbon dioxide offsets, and other environmental attributes. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057583 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ORDERING VIDEO CONTENT USING A LINK - A method and system for ordering content includes a content processing system and a device in communication with the content ordering system. The device displaying a link corresponding to content and accessing a content ordering system by selecting the link. The content processing system enables a content recording request. A user receiving device receives the content associated with the link in response to the content recording request and stores the content in a memory. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057586 | Offer Reporting Apparatus and Method - A computerized method for storing purchase information for a product in a price database to generate a purchase history includes receiving in a price database a set of sales information for a product, wherein the set of sales information includes a product identifier for a product and a price for the product; and storing in the price database a price entry, which include the set of sales information, wherein the price entry is editable to generate a purchase history. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057587 | System and Method for Storage and Retrieval of Information Subject to Authorization by a Data Controller - A system and method for storage and retrieval of information subject to authorization by a data controller that allows information for purchasing and other information exchange to occur only for authorized parties. A data subject place information abbot the data subject into a data repository controlled by a data controller. The data controller authorizes a data recipient to obtain that data subject data when authorized by a data subject. Such transactions as purchases of goods and services and applying for college admission are the types of transactions contemplated. The data repository places client software on the computer of the data recipient thereby signifying that the data recipient is authorized. Thereafter, the data recipient can receive information about the data subject when the data subject accepts and offer from the data recipient. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057600 | FINANCIAL TRADING SYSTEM - Disclosed is a computer-implemented system for facilitating generation of a computer-executable financial trading strategy, the system being adapted to provide a graphical user interface for defining a financial trading strategy by arranging interconnectable building blocks into a diagram on a drawing pane provided by the graphical user interface, each building block representing a functional system component of the financial trading strategy; wherein the system includes a plurality of types of functional system components, wherein the drawing pane includes a corresponding plurality of sub-panes, and wherein the system is configured to provide functionality for a user-controlled placement of building blocks into the sub-panes corresponding to the respective types of building blocks. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057602 | Electronic trading GUI - In accordance with the principles of the present invention, a graphical user interface for computer trading is provided. A display represents best bid and best ask prices for an execution venue, with one axis representing available prices, and another axis representing time. The display includes a sell area, a bid-ask spread, and a buy area. The boundary of the sell area and the bid-ask spread represents best ask price for the execution venue, and the boundary of the buy area and the bid-ask spread represents best bid price for the execution venue. First indicium on the display represents order executions and second indicium on the display represents orders. The position of the first indicium represents the time and price of the execution, the size represents the size or quantity of the execution, and the colour represents execution type and execution venue. The position of the second indicium represents the price of the order; the size represents the duration of the order, and the colour represents the order type and posted exchange venue. The second indicium can further comprise a transparency representing the size of the order. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057604 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED TRADING OF SECONDARY MARKET DEBT SECURITIES - A computer-implemented method and system for trading of debt securities (bonds), where multiple dealers participate and compete on a single platform ( | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057606 | Syndication Loan Administration and Processing System - A loan syndication tracking and management system and method provides a user with access to specific details related to a syndicated loan. The system and method coordinates investor, borrower and resource information, in addition to features related to the overall structure of a syndicated loan. Users access the system with various levels of permissions to view, add, update or delete information according to their allotted permissions. The system permits multiple users to access the information for efficient handling of approvals and requests related to multiple investors and borrowers, in addition to handling institution interchanges and notifications. The system and method keeps a record of all transactions and changes for review, reporting or regulatory purposes. The administration of a syndicated loan transaction is simplified while providing advanced features such as support for loan trading. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057607 | System, Method, And Program Product For Foreign Currency Travel Account - Systems, program product, and methods for securing or procuring destination currency funds for a traveler to be used for travel in a destination country commencing at a scheduled future travel date, are provided. A system can include a domestic financial institution server including foreign destination currency transaction account program product. The system provides for establishing an interest-bearing foreign destination currency transaction account having a user-selected maturity date coinciding with a preselected travel date, and near, but prior to the preselected travel date, providing to the traveler a travel debit card having access to the balance of foreign destination currency finds including both principal and accrued interest. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057621 | PAYMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM SECURE HEALTHCARE DATA TRAFFICKING - Healthcare purchase data from a transaction upon a patient's account may be required to be transported and stored for safeguarding patient confidentiality if sufficient to identify the patient and the purchase. To avoid non-compliance, a transaction hander (TH) receives the data from a merchant's acquirer as encrypted by a key known to both the acquirer and TH. After decrypting the data with that key, the TH re-encrypts it with a key known only to the TH, and then stored. After receiving an issuer's request for the data, the TH decrypts the data using its own key, re-encrypts it using a key known only to the TH and the issuer, and then sends it to the issuer who will decrypt the data using that key. The unencrypted data may be used by the issuer to demonstrate the issuer's regulatory compliance to a governmental entity. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057622 | Distributed Quantum Encrypted Pattern Generation And Scoring - Transaction scoring is performed in a distributed manner across a client-server computing system. A computing system for processing a transaction includes a server system and a client system. The server system is arranged to process information associated with the transaction, while the client system communicates with the server system and includes a key engine which is arranged to generate keys. The client system and the server system are arranged to cooperate to make probabilistic determinations associated with the transaction. The client is arranged to send the keys generated by the key engine as a transaction to the server system. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057623 | System and Method of Secure Payment Transactions - A system and method for secure payment transactions is provided. The system may include an adaptive payment server including one or more processors configured to receive a first communication including first identification information from a first communication device on a first communication channel. The adaptive payment server may identify a second communication device based on the first identification information and initiate a second communication to the second communication device on a second communication channel, which may be discrete from the first communication channel. The adaptive payment server may receive second identification information from the second communication device on the second communication channel and authenticate the payment transaction using the first identification information and the second identification information. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057626 | CANCELLATION TIMING IN AN ELECTRONIC MARKETPLACE - A trading platform and trading method that allows access to additional pools of liquidity is described. Other embodiments are also described. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057648 | CREATING FORMS WITH BUSINESS LOGIC - An eForm with integrated business logic is created from an existing eForm using a parser to parse a source eForm to extract attributes of items on the source eForm. An item recognition unit recognizes interactive items in the source eForm according to the attributes of the items extracted by the parser. A business logic recognition unit recognizes business logic integrated into the source eForm according to the attributes of the items. An object eForm generator generates an object eForm containing the recognized interactive items and business logic. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057649 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FAULT PREDICTION IN HOME NETWORK - A system for fault prediction in a home network includes: a context generator for generating context information based on status data collected in real time about components of the home network; a specification interpreter for generating knowledge rules for fault detection by using specifications of the components of the home network; a context analyzer for analyzing if the context information meet the knowledge rules to classify the context information into normal situation contexts and abnormal situation contexts; a context pattern learner for generating new knowledge rules based on the abnormal situation contexts and fault rules corresponding to the abnormal situation contexts; a knowledge rule database for storing and managing the knowledge rules and the new knowledge rules; and a fault predictor for analyzing a correlation between the knowledge rules or the new knowledge rules and the generated context information, thereby predicting faults to be generated. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057650 | CHEMICAL REACTION-TYPE METAHEURISTIC - Subject matter disclosed herein relates to various embodiments of a chemical reaction-type metaheuristic. According to an embodiment, solutions to an objective function can be determined by iteratively searching for a minimum energy state of one or more interactions of molecules in a chemical reaction. The molecules in the chemical reaction can be assigned to represent the possible outcomes of the objective function. In a specific embodiment, the interactions of the molecules can modeled as on-wall ineffective collisions, decompositions, inter-molecular ineffective collisions, and synthesis. The type of interaction can affect where the next molecular structure is searched. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057653 | DEVICE AND METHOD RESPONSIVE TO INFLUENCES OF MIND - V An anomalous effect detector ( | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057655 | Systems And Methods For Providing A Magnetic Resonance Treatment To A Subject - Disclosed here in are a system and method for providing a magnetic resonance treatment to a subject. In one described embodiment, a system for providing a magnetic resonance treatment to a subject is provided, the system including components that provide the system with an ability to treat pain and relieve symptoms of the subject. In another embodiment, a method of providing a magnetic resonance treatment to a subject is provided, wherein the system includes components that provide the system with an ability to treat pain, relieve symptoms, provide relaxation, and improve the overall comfort and well-being of the subject. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057657 | INTELLIGENT PROBLEM TRACKING ELECTRONIC SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING TECHNICAL SUPPORT - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to technical support management and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for intelligent problem tracking to optimize technical support. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for intelligent problem tracking can include receiving recorded information of tracked end user behavior collected in an end user computing system while the end user addresses a problem in the end user computing system, determining a level of technical sophistication of the user based upon the recorded information, selecting a technical support level corresponding to the determined level of technical sophistication of the user, and transmitting a resolution to the problem in a message to the end user computing system commensurate with the selected technical support level. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057668 | MAPPING HUMAN-MEANINGFUL PARAMETERS TO NETWORK-MEANINGFUL PARAMETERS FOR MEDIA TRANSFORMATION - A method of permitting a user to define preferred and acceptable audio/video experiences in a home network in terms that are meaningful for a human and that are translated to useful content transformation parameters. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057671 | URI FILE SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for accessing data from a server. In one embodiment, data referred by a Universal Resource Identifier (URI) is mounted on a file system. The mounted data can then be operated on using the file system. To mount the data referred by the URI, a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) fragment of the URI is determined. An identifier on the file system is generated based on the URL fragment. Data referred by the URI is mapped to the file system using the identifier. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057672 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR DUPLICATION OPTIMIZATION FOR PARALLEL JOIN OPERATIONS ON SIMILARLY LARGE SKEWED TABLES - A system, method, and computer-readable medium for optimizing join operations in a parallel processing system are provided. A respective set of rows of a first table and a second table involved in a join operation are distributed to each of a plurality of processing modules. The join operation comprises a join on a first column of the first table and a second column of the second table. Each of the plurality of processing modules redistributes at least a portion of the rows of the first table distributed thereto substantially equally among the other processing modules and duplicates at least a portion of the rows of the second table distributed thereto among the plurality of processing modules. The disclosed optimization mechanisms provide for reduced spool space requirements for execution of the parallel join operation. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057676 | BLOCK COMPRESSION USING A VALUE-BIT FORMAT FOR STORING BLOCK-CELL VALUES - Particular embodiments store multidimensional block data using a value-bit format. A block of data is determined that includes a first dimension and a second dimension. The occurrences of unique values in the block of data is then determined. If the number of unique values does not violate a threshold, a value-bit format may be used instead of storing the data in a fully-exploded array. In this case, the value for the unique values is stored with an indication of where the unique values occur in the block of data. When a request for a value at an index position in the array is received, the value-bit format is used to retrieve the value requested. A bit that indicates the value that is associated with the index position in the array is determined and that value is returned. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057679 | SEARCH USING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE DIMENSIONS - A search system receives business intelligence dimensions and at least one text search term. The system generates and displays key performance indicators based on the business intelligence dimensions, and generates and displays search results based on the text search term. The search results are restricted by facets, and the facets are derived from the business intelligence dimensions. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057680 | DYNAMIC CONFIGURATION OF SERVICES USING A SYNDICATION FEED - A configuration file is received by a publish-subscribe service and published to a syndication feed. The received configuration file is associated with a class of services. The configuration file is then sent to subscribers of the syndication feed. The subscribers of the syndication feed belong to the class of services. Upon receiving the configuration file, the subscribers are automatically reconfigured. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057682 | Information Feeds of a Social Network - Various embodiments can be configured to provide a social networking computing environment. In an embodiment, a networked computing system can be used to provide informational feeds and commenting functionality to users of a social computing environment. In one embodiment, an enterprise-based social computing system can be configured to provide informational feeds to social networking application users. An informational feed can be populated with events and other information associated with one or more users of interest of an application user, but is not so limited. In one embodiment, a social computing environment can be configured to allow user commenting to feed items or events that are associated with a user or group of users. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057684 | REAL TIME DATAMINING - A method and apparatus for real time datamining. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a user request for datamining with respect to a value from a report associated with a specific pyramid level, identifying a datamining function to be performed for statistical analysis of lower level data pertaining to the value from the report, identifying dimensions to be used as variables for the statistical analysis, and determining criteria for selecting the lower level data associated with the value from the report. The method may further include submitting a request to one or more source databases, the request reflecting the identified dimensions and the determined criteria, performing the datamining function on a data set received from the source databases, and creating a datamining report based on a result of the performed datamining function. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057686 | Deep Web Search - A data processing system and a computer implemented method for searching registered websites including multimedia content according to a user query. The data processing system includes a mediator server with a database storing the multimedia content from the registered websites and an application configured to receive and apply the user's query to the database and provide search results at least one resolution. The computer implemented method includes: (i) receiving multimedia content of the registered websites and storing the content in a database, (ii) receiving and applying the user's query, and (iv) providing search results at least one resolution. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057687 | PREDICTING FUTURE QUERIES FROM LOG DATA - A system, media, and method for selecting future queries are provided. The selected future queries are used to transmit appropriate online advertising to a user that issues queries to a search engine. The search engine is coupled to a prediction component that predicts what subject the user is going to be interested in and when the user will be interested in the subject. The prediction component returns a future query using statistical language models representing a query history of the user and aggregate query histories for a community of users. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057702 | System and Method for Searching Enterprise Application Data - A search modeling tool is provided that can communicate with multiple enterprise applications to create object definitions describing searchable data stored in each application. The object definitions may be used to extract searchable data from the applications, thus allowing for manipulation of the data in formats usable for text searching, user presentation, and other applications. The search modeler may interface with each application using common protocols, allowing for generalization of object definitions and subsequent crawling across a variety of enterprise applications. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057703 | Systems and Methods for Automating Software Updates/Maintenance - In various embodiments, a license code may be provided for determining if a device has a license for new software. In some embodiments, a license system may receive a query from a device. In some embodiments, the query may include an identifier unique to the device. The license system may access a database to determine if the device associated with the unique identifier is has a license to install new software (e.g., a software update). If the device has a license, the license system may generate and send a license code for the device. In some embodiments, when the user and/or device receives the license code, the device may use the license code to determine if the device is authorized to install the new software. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057705 | WEB SERVICES ACCESS WITH SHARED SQL - A method of providing enterprise applications with shared access to a data warehouse. A web service request is issued over a data network from a first client enterprise application to a second server enterprise application. A database query is then constructed at the second server enterprise application. It is then determined whether a response to the web service request will include the results of posing the database query against the data warehouse, or the SQL syntax necessary to pose the query. If the response is to include the results of posing then the second server enterprise application poses the query against the data warehouse and issues the results to the first client enterprise application. If the response to the request is to include the SQL syntax necessary to pose the query, then the second server enterprise application provides the database query syntax to the first client enterprise application. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057706 | PARALLEL ALGORITHM TO IMPLEMENT TEMPORAL AGGREGATE QUERIES - A method executed by a plurality of processors in a database system to implement temporal aggregate queries. The database system has a temporal table. A plurality of consecutive temporal partitions are defined and allocated to the respective processors. A query is received to aggregate at least one attribute of the temporal table. In response to the query, a plurality of timestamps are identified in the temporal table, the respective timestamps are allocated to the respective temporal partitions, the value changes in the at least one attribute at the plural timestamps are computed within each partition using the respective processors to which each partition is allocated, and the value changes within each partition are aggregated using the respective processors to which each partition is allocated to produce an aggregate value for the query. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057707 | QUERY-ORIENTED MESSAGE CHARACTERIZATION - Processing messages. Messages are processed based on a characteristic derived from information in messages, metadata about messages, or other information external to messages. Values for one or more pieces of information are received. At least one of the values for one or more pieces of information is associated with a first message. Queries are received. The queries specify one or more of the pieces of information. At least a portion of the plurality of values for the one or more pieces of information is processed in conjunction with the one or more queries to create one or more normalized characteristics for the first message. The one or more normalized characteristics for the first message are in a same format irrespective of the format of the pieces of information. The first message, and/or other messages, is processed based on at least one of the one or more normalized characteristics. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057719 | System And Method For Generating Training Data For Function Approximation Of An Unknown Process Such As A Search Engine Ranking Algorithm - A system and method for generating training data for a machine learning system. A training data generator server sends at least one keyword to a search engine. The training data generator server receives at least a first and a second page from the search engine in response to the keyword, the first page having a first rank, the second page having a second rank, the first and second rank being based on the keyword. The training data generator server assigns a first label to the first page based on the first rank; and assigns a second label to the second page based on the second rank. The first web page, second page, first label and second label are forwarded to a machine learning server. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057721 | Information Providing Server, Information Providing Method, and Information Providing System - According to one embodiment, a record information storage module stores record information related to content recorded by an external apparatus in association with a keyword representing the content and user information. A search information storage module stores a search phrase used for searching in an external apparatus in association with user information. A search word handler extracts a predetermined number of words having high search frequency from search phrases stored in association with specific user information to generate a word list. A record information handler extracts keywords stored in association with the specific user information to generate a keyword list. A ranking processor generates ranking information indicating a word in the word list which matches a keyword in the keyword list. A communicator provides the ranking information to an external apparatus corresponding to the specific user information. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057723 | PROVIDING ANSWER TO KEYWORD BASED QUERY FROM NATURAL OWNER OF INFORMATION - A type of search engine (referred to as the “Get Engine”) receives one or more keywords, semantically formulates a question being asked from the keywords, generates specifications for the query, and searches a website index to determine websites that are likely owners of the answer to the question based on the query specifications and website classifications. The Get Engine determines a website that is most likely the owner of the answer based on credibility, searches the pages of the website using the keywords and additional keywords related to the query, retrieves the answer from the pages of the website, and receives feedback used in part to determine the credibility of the website. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057726 | Collaborative Search - A collaborative search is disclosed. The collaborative search includes receiving a search request of a mobile terminal. Searching based on the search request to obtain search results. Obtaining a relationship list associated with an identifier of the mobile terminal. Obtaining search history information associated with members in the relationship list based on the relationship list and ranking the search results based on the search history information. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057727 | DETECTION OF RECURRING NON-OCCURRENCES OF EVENTS USING PATTERN MATCHING - Techniques for detecting recurring non-occurrences of an event. In one embodiment, techniques are provided for detecting the non-occurrence of an event within each of a series of time periods following the occurrence of another event. Language extensions are provided that enable queries to be formulated for detecting recurring non-occurrence of an event following occurrence of a triggering event. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057738 | Identification and Verification of Common Cluster Files Residing on Nodes in a Cluster - In accordance with a particular embodiment of the present disclosure, common cluster files residing on nodes in a cluster may be managed by compiling a first list of all files stored on all nodes of the cluster, compiling a second list indicative of unique files and the number of nodes on which each unique file is stored from the first list, determining, from the second list, unique files which are not stored on all nodes, determining, from the second list, which files are required by all nodes, and determining, from the first list and the second list, which files must be added to each node. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057741 | SOFTWARE RESOURCE ACCESS UTILIZING MULTIPLE LOCK TABLES - A computing system includes a plurality of coupled computing systems, a centralized server and a data set. The system also includes a data sharing controller which includes a primary lock structure that is coupled to the data set when an address space for the data set is allocated and a plurality of secondary lock tables. Each secondary lock table is assigned to a different portion of the data set. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057744 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CASCADING A MIDDLEWARE TO A DATA ORCHESTRATION ENGINE - Methods, systems, and computer-readable medium storing instructions thereon for implementing methods are directed to facilitating data exchange, such as accessing and operating on data objects, between field applications, such as mobile clients, and dedicated servers by leveraging the features of middleware. An embodiment includes a first server providing a first set of services and data to a mobile client. A first communicating middleware is connected between the first server and the mobile client according to a first communication functionality. A second server provides a second set of services and data according to a second communication functionality that is different from the first communication functionality. A second middleware communicates with the second server according to the second communication functionality, and communicates with the first middleware according to the first communication functionality. The second middleware is connected to the second server and the first middleware. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057746 | VIRTUAL REPRESENTATION - A computer implemented method provides a way of storing custom access control rules with information to which they apply. The rules can be associated with individual pieces of information, to provide a finer grained level of access without the need for prior knowledge of all potential entities that may access the information. The stored data and access control rules may be associated with a virtual representation of an entity, which may be one of many virtual representations of different entities managed within a globally accessible and federated information store. The access control rules can be based on querying information associated with the virtual representation of a requesting party, or information accessible by navigating relationships associated with that virtual representation, thereby providing great flexibility. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057778 | MEDIA RECOMMENDATION AND ACQUISITION SYSTEM - A method of providing a media recommendation is provided. The method includes receiving user provided information at a first device from a second device. The user provided information includes user preference information and user device information. The received user provided information is stored at a device accessible by the first device. Media information provided by a plurality of devices is monitored. The plurality of devices are accessible by the first device. A media recommendation is generated based on the received user provided information and the media information. If the user provided information includes an automatic download authorization, a media file associated with the generated media recommendation is downloaded to the first device from a content provider device. The downloaded media file is sent from the first device to the second device. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057780 | ACTION EXECUTION MANAGEMENT FACILITY FOR SERVICE CONFIGURATION ITEMS - A system for managing execution of actions corresponding to service configuration items in accordance with embodiments of the invention may include a discovery section for discovering information regarding a configuration item, and a repository for storing a set of data for each configuration item. The set of data may indicate at least one predetermined attribute of the configuration item, and a relation between the configuration item and other configuration items. An associating section may associate a service configuration item with one or more other configuration items that are objects of actions corresponding to the service configuration item. Finally, a determining section may determine whether execution of an action corresponding to a service configuration item is allowed. Such a determination may be made when a request for an action corresponding to a second configuration item is issued during execution of an action corresponding to a first service configuration item, or when a configuration item that is the object of the action corresponding to the second service configuration item is included in a configuration item that is the object of the action corresponding to the first service configuration item. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057782 | Media Playback System with Multiple Video Formats - Embodiments of the invention provide a process for a user viewing a media item. The process comprises the user viewing the media item on a first device in a first format, and the user pausing the media item at a stop time. The stop time is saved in the first format and a second format. The process further comprises the user choosing to view the media item on a second device requiring the second format. The media item is resumed in the second format from the saved stop time. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057783 | On-line Documentation System - The proposed new documentation system, On-line Documentation System, is according to the requirements of the document management. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057785 | MINIMAL EXTENSIONS REQUIRED FOR MULTI-MASTER OFFLINE AND COLLABORATION FOR DEVICES AND WEB SERVICES - The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates managing data consistency in connection with a plurality of devices. A collection of devices can be associated with a user. A web service can receive a portion of data from at least one device via an interface component, wherein the web service can host and relate the portion of data with an account for the user. A master sync component can leverage a computing resource from at least one device in order to maintain data consistency between at least one of the following: two or more devices within the collection of devices associated with the user; or the account hosted by the web service and two or more devices within the collection of devices associated with the user. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057786 | ACQUIRER DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SUPPORT OF MERCHANT DATA PROCESSING - A method begins with receiving an indication that one of a plurality of merchant data files includes an inconsistency with respect to a corresponding merchant profile record in a merchant profile database. The merchant data file of the plurality of merchant data files includes merchant name, merchant business address, and merchant business information. The method continues with receiving a request to authenticate the updating of the corresponding merchant profile record when the inconsistency for the one of the plurality of merchant data files is addressed by a merchant device updating the corresponding merchant profile record. The merchant device corresponds to a merchant of the one of the plurality of merchant data files. The method continues with providing an authentication response regarding the updating of the corresponding merchant profile record. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057788 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR IMPLEMENTING BACK UP HISTORY CLEANUP OPERATIONS FOR A DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method, system, and computer program product for implementing backup history cleanup operations for a database management system are provided. The method includes identifying a version control base (VCB) value for a most recently stored record in a history table, the record representing a back up copy of a data set. The method includes scanning the table starting from most recently stored records to identify records that represent previous backup copies of the data set, the records assigned VCB values. Using a retention limit value assigned to each of the VCBs, the method includes selecting at least one record to determine the deletion date for use in implementing the cleanup operations. The selection includes counting the number of records, representing back up copies of the data set, for each VCB value; identifying last records for respective VCBs that do not exceed the retention limit value; selecting the oldest storage date among the last records; and deleting records that have storage dates older than the oldest storage date. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057791 | METHODS FOR IMPROVING FILE SYSTEM PERFORMANCE - Techniques for managing inodes of a file system are described herein. According to one embodiment, in response to a request received at the file system for committing a file to a storage, a first indirect block having multiple entries is allocated. At least one entry stores a pointer linked with a data block, where the first indirect block is referenced by a pointer stored within an inode associated with the file. A first set of data blocks having a first predetermined number of data blocks is allocated, where each entry is referenced by a pointer stored in an entry of the first indirect block. The first indirect block and the first set of data blocks are contiguous blocks with respect to each other, such that content of the first indirect block and the first set of data blocks can be retrieved via a single storage access operation. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057793 | System and Method for Disseminating and Transferring Contact Information - A web-based system and method for sending, receiving and updating contact information. A subscriber of the inventive system provides contact information that is stored in a database. A unique code is generated by the system that is associated with the contact information. The system provides a website, at which a user who enters a unique code can important the contact information associated with the code directly into his/her personal information manager (PIM). | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057794 | SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY SHADOWING DATA AND FILE DIRECTORY STRUCTURES THAT ARE RECORDED ON A COMPUTER MEMORY - The Data Shadowing System comprises a memory module that is connected to the monitored computer system via an existing input/output port to store the shadowed data. The memory module includes a memory device for data storage as well as software, including a control software component that is automatically installed on the monitored computer system when the memory module is first connected to the monitored computer system, as well as associated module software for maintaining a record of the data stored on the memory device. The Data Shadowing System automatically stores the data on the memory module in a single format, while representing it in a data management database in two formats: disk sectors and files. The Data Shadowing System thereby efficiently tracks and stores the state of multiple file systems over time, while allowing for correct disk-level and file-level restoration to a point-in-time without storing redundant data. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057808 | INTELLIGENT CONTAINER INDEX AND SEARCH - Aspects are introduced for indexing contents of a shell namespace extension. A plurality of files are indexed, and it is encountered that one of the files contains at least one file reference. The file is then accessed as a shell namespace extension so that the file reference can be indexed. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057812 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING MIGRATION OF PORTED TELEPHONE NUMBERS BETWEEN SERVICE PROVIDERS - A method and system include obtaining at a first time a first image of a database having number portability records for each telephone number which has been ported between service providers. The first image is indicative of the LNP records in the database at the first time. At a second time a second image of the database is obtained. The second image is indicative of the records in the database at the second time. The first and second images are compared to determine migration of ported telephone numbers. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057814 | Project Property Sheets - Project property sheets store project compiler and tool properties that are shared across multiple software projects. Property sheets enable a global repository of compiler and tool settings, so that changes in a global project property sheet will automatically propagate to the project property sheets that inherit from the global project property sheet, or from other project property sheets that inherit from the global project property sheet. Users of project property sheets are able to customize their project property sheet by defining their own compiler and tool properties. Defined compiler and tool properties override or supplement compiler and tool properties found in the global project property sheet. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057815 | SEMANTICALLY REPRESENTING A TARGET ENTITY USING A SEMANTIC OBJECT - A data construct called a semcard is a semantic (meaning-based) software object including semantic meta-tags and meta-data that describes a target object or thing. A target object can be any type of digital or physical entity or identifier, or it can be tacit knowledge, such as ideas, concepts, processes or other data existing in a user's mind, provided that the user represents this knowledge in the semcard. A semcard embodies information about its own structure—rules, history, state, policies and goals regarding automation, display, access permissions, sharing and other operations of the semcard and any optional target object. It can also represent a semantic link between two semcards, or a semantically typed link or a standard Web hyperlink between a semcard and its referent target. A collection of semcards represents a knowledge network; single semcards, and knowledge networks, can be browsed, shared, searched, disseminated, manipulated, displayed, organized, and stored. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057817 | ELECTRONIC-DATA DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - An electronic-data distribution system includes a distribution server transmitting a distributed article of electronic data to a distribution client. The distribution client includes a distribution-information requesting means and a distribution requesting means. The distribution server includes a distributed-article creating means, a distribution-information transmitting means to the distribution client, at least a part of distribution information as a distribution plan stored in a distribution-information DB provided in the distribution server, and a distributing means for transmitting a distributed article for which a transmission request is made to the distribution client. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057819 | Iterative Algorithms for Variance Reduction on Compressed Sinogram Random Coincidences in PET - The use of the ordinary Poisson iterative reconstruction algorithm in PET requires the estimation of expected random coincidences. In a clinical environment, random coincidences are often acquired with a delayed coincidence technique, and expected randoms are estimated through variance reduction (VR) of measured delayed coincidences. In this paper we present iterative VR algorithms for random compressed sinograms, when previously known methods are not applicable. Iterative methods have the advantage of easy adaptation to any acquisition geometry and of allowing the estimation of singles rates at the crystal level when the number of crystals is relatively small. Two types of sinogram compression are considered: axial (span) rebinning and transaxial mashing. A monotonic sequential coordinate descent algorithm, which optimizes the Least Squares objective function, is investigated. A simultaneous update algorithm, which possesses the advantage of easy parallelization, is also derived for both cases of the Least Squares and Poisson Likelihood objective function. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057821 | Digital Filter - Methods and apparatuses in which a first stage of a digital filter receives input data to be filtered, the first stage of a digital filter operating at a first clock; a second stage of the digital filter outputs filtered output data, the second stage of the digital filter operating on a second clock, wherein a ratio of a frequency of the first clock and a frequency of the second clock is a fractional number, and a frequency of the second clock is higher than a frequency of the first clock; the first stage receives an indication of a ratio of the first clock and the second clock; and the first stage receives an indication of a time offset between (1) a clock pulse of the second clock, which occurs between a first clock pulse and a second clock pulse of the first clock, and (2) the first clock pulse of the first clock. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057823 | Alternate galois field advanced encryption standard round - An apparatus having a first circuit and a second circuit is disclosed. The first circuit may be configured to (i) generate second Galois Field elements by performing a first Galois Field inversion on first Galois Field elements, the first Galois Field inversion being different from a second Galois Field inversion defined by an Advanced Encryption Standard and (ii) generate third Galois Field elements by multiplying the second Galois Field elements by an inverse of a predetermined matrix. The second circuit may be configured to (i) generate fourth Galois Field elements by processing the third Galois Field elements in a current encryption round while in a non-skip mode, (ii) generate fifth Galois Field elements by multiplying the fourth Galois Field elements by the predetermined matrix and (iii) present the fifth Galois Field elements as updated versions of the first Galois Field elements in advance of a next encryption round. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057824 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING THE BOOTH ENCODING 33RD TERM - A computer system for computing a binary operation involving a first term multiplied by a second term resulting in a product, where the product is conditionally added to a third term in a central processing unit. The central processing unit includes a carry save adder configured to add a plurality of partial products obtained from the product of the first term and the second term to obtain a first partial result and a second partial result, a multiplexer configured to output one selected from the group consisting of the second term, the third term, and zero, and an alignment shifter configured to shift an output of the multiplexer to align the output of the multiplexer with the first partial result and the second partial result to obtain a shifted term. The shifted term, the first partial result and the second partial result are added together to obtain a result of the binary operation. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057827 | Extensible Network Discovery Subsystem - Abstract Particular embodiments generally relate to an extensible network discovery system. In one embodiment, a device may be able to communicate with a plurality of other devices that may communicate using different discovery protocols. For example, the device may include a discovery component that includes a plurality of discovery protocol plug-ins. The plug-ins enable communication using different discovery protocols. An application layer format is provided for applications of a device to communicate with the discovery component. The discovery component can then translate messages from the application layer format to a format compatible with each discovery protocol. Accordingly, applications do not need to know each discovery protocol format. Also, devices can communicate with different devices that may be configured to communicate using different discovery protocols. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057839 | System and method for distributing design system, design system distributing server, and client system - In a design-system distributing method, when a server side design system is updated, a server compares an updated server side design system and a client update state data, and the server distributes an update assisting system, an update indication data and a difference data to a client system based on the comparing result. The client system stores the update assisting system, the update indication data and the difference data, and the client system starts the stored update assisting system such that an update notice is outputted to a user of the client system to urge update of the client side design system each time a preset condition is satisfied until an update command of the client side design system is supplied to the client system. The client system updates the client side design system based on the stored update indication data and the stored difference data in response to the update command. The client system generates and transmits the client update state data to the server to indicate an update state of the client side design system for this time, and the server updates the client update state data based on the client update state data received from the client system. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057841 | THIN CLIENT DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE - The invention increases the functionalities of a television receiver/decoder STB device by transferring a local port of the thin client device STB via a network to which the thin client device is connected. Said port is then viewed as a local port by a server device, accessible via the network to which the thin client device is connected. It is then possible to install a pilot on said server, for controlling the peripheral equipment connected to the transferred local port. The user of the thin client device can then drive, via a transferred user interface, the peripheral equipment which is physically connected to the thin client but logically connected to the server. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057842 | DISPLAY PULLOUT - The invention relates to a display pullout for electronics or information technology cabinets, which can be effectively utilized in modern communication technology environments. The display pullout has at least one display and at least one input interface, which can be transferred from a space-saving storage position in the cabinet into a working position for operating the input interface and/or data output on the display. A computing unit having at least one processor, a volatile memory and a device for the graphical output of data on the flat display is provided in the rear region of the display pullout, and is configured for the determination and processing of information and/or data of a majority of the input via the input interface and for the output of the information and/or data determined on the display for communication with at least one server. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057843 | USER-TRANSPARENT SYSTEM FOR UNIQUELY IDENTIFYING NETWORK-DISTRIBUTED DEVICES WITHOUT EXPLICITLY PROVIDED DEVICE OR USER IDENTIFYING INFORMATION - A technique for uniquely identifying devices without explicitly provided device or user identifying information in a networked client-server environment, e.g., the Mobile Internet, in which content is downloaded from a server to a device browser executing at a client device, and using static XML markup tags embedded in the content in a manner transparent to a user situated at the device browser, derives a globally unique device identifier. Device identifying information is captured and maintained in a device profile database associated with a globally unique device identifier. Specifically, mark up code embedded into a referring content page effectively downloads software from a distribution server, and then instantiates the software in the client device browser. The software transparently and dynamically inserts an Internet address request to a device identification management system. The device identification management system selects a device profile associated with a previously detected request from the device and retrieves its globally unique identifier from a database of all profiles for all previous devices requesting unique device identifications. If a matching profile is not found in the database, the device identifying information associated with the request is entered as a new device profile along with a globally unique identifier associated with that specific device in the database. The globally unique identifier is delivered back to the device or external systems for their own use, e.g., mobile Internet advertising management systems. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057844 | SECURE VIRTUAL TAPE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH BALANCED STORAGE AND MULTI-MIRROR OPTIONS - A system to facilitate distributed storage with balanced load and multi-mirroring options. The system includes a plurality of server processing central processing units, each server having one or more mount points for storage and retrieval of file data. At least one managerial system is in communication with each server, each managerial system having configure information for each server, mover module software, and checker module software. One or more pairs of remote data storage device servers are in communication with the servers so that each pair stores the same data as its counterpart so that they mirror one another, each server having software to dynamically spread workload across the available servers based on factors including the number of files already opened, the existence of files, and available space. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057847 | Method, Device, and system for acquiring a web page - A technique for acquiring a web page includes: receiving, at a client, a user instruction; obtaining from the instruction a page number of a web page that a user desires to access; searching for web page data in a hidden form that is cached in advance at the client, the search being based at least in part on the page number and the hidden form comprising web page data for a plurality of page numbers and in the event that web page data is found in the hidden form, generating, by the client, the web page using the web page data. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057859 | EMAIL CONFIRMATION PAGE FOR SOCIAL NETWORK NOTIFICATIONS - A communication confirmation message provides social networking events in combination with information regarding addresses to a member. The message can be used to suggest additional social network friends to members of a social network. The communication confirmation message is utilized to provide additional information on the social network member's friends, information from third party social networks, and recommendations to add individuals or second parties with whom the social network member communicates as friends. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100057860 | CONFIRMATION AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF TRANSMISSION RECEPTION - Systems and methods of conveying feedback concerning transmissions sent using a one-to-many protocol are disclosed. Such feedback includes information indicating whether a message was received by anyone, by whom, whether the message was accessed, and whether a receiver of the message has acknowledged the message. A receiver is configured to provide such feedback, either in response to receiving a request to send feedback, or automatically. The feedback is sent via the same communications channel the message was sent on, or via a different communications channel. A message's sender is informed that feedback has been received for a given message, and a searchable log is kept of the feedback. | 2010-03-04 |
