| 15th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 39 |
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| 20110087602 | ELECTRONIC DISPLAY DEVICE CONTENT CACHING AND TRANSACTIONS - A system and method for purchases of stored electronic content stored on an electronic display device are disclosed. The system and method for purchases of stored electronic content may include identifying one or more portions of electronic content to provide on an electronic paper display device, providing the one or more portions of identified electronic content to storage of the electronic paper display device, wherein access to the one or more portions of identified electronic content is restricted, at least in part, until payment is received, providing content information associated with the stored electronic content to a user of the electronic paper display device, providing a payment method allowing the user of the electronic paper display device to purchase access to one or more portions of the stored electronic content while the electronic paper display device is disconnected from a network, and providing access to one or more purchased portions of the stored electronic content, wherein access includes access when the electronic paper display device is disconnected from a network. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087603 | CLOUD BASED MEDIA PLAYER AND OFFLINE MEDIA ACCESS - According to one general aspect, a method for playing, in an offline mode, a media file may include receiving, by a web browser operating in an online mode and from a content server, a media file and at least one advertisement associated with the media file. The method may further include caching, within a local file system, the media file and the at least one advertisement. The method may also include playing, in an offline mode, the cached media file and the cached at least one advertisement. The method also comprise detecting a user interaction, while in an offline mode, with the at least one advertisement. The method may include caching the user interaction for further processing when in an online mode. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087604 | MICRO-BLOGGING FOR ENTERPRISE RESOURCES PLANNING (ERP) - The present invention is directed to methods and systems for implementing enterprise application-based micro-blogging. The method includes receiving a micro-blog registration for an enterprise application for at least one user, verifying the role and access level of the user, and based on the registration, the role, and access level, receiving setting information from the at least one user to configure following of at least one object associated with the enterprise application. The method further includes recording an event to the micro-blog for the at least one object, determining that the at least one user is configured to follow the at least one object, and in response to following the at least one object, receiving a notification that at least one update to the at least one object has occurred. Further, the method includes displaying, in real-time, within the enterprise application-based micro-blog the at least one update to the at least one object to the at least one user. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087605 | Ultrasonic device having memory capabilities - A dental device capable of monitoring at least one characteristic of the dental device. The characteristics are monitored by the use of microchips; radio frequency identification devices (RFID), bar codes, resistors, diodes, semiconductors, and magnetic strips. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087606 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING MERCHANDISE RETURNS - Systems and method for processing merchandise returns are described. In some embodiments, a sales receipt can be received in connection with a requested merchandise return. A receipt identifier can be used to locate sales data associated with the original purchase of the merchandise being returned, and a customer identifier (e.g., a customer loyalty number or a hashed credit card number) can be extracted from the sales data. Customer information, such as prior merchandise return data or prior purchase data, can be retrieved using the extracted customer identifier. The customer information can be used to assess the risk associated with the requested merchandise return for making a determination of whether to accept or deny the return request. Determinations can also be made for whether to provide the customer with a warning or with a coupon in connection with the merchandise return. In some embodiments, multiple customer identifiers can be extracted from a transaction within the sales data and an association can be stored between the multiple extracted customer identifiers. The association can indicate that both customer identifiers relate to a single customer. Then, if a request is later made for customer data associated with a first customer identifier, a response an include customer data for the first customer identifier as well as customer data for other customer identifiers associated with the first customer identifier. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087607 | COMPUTATION ENGINE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - A method of determining a financial rate associated with a particular property in respect of purchase of goods or services, the method comprising the steps of: identifying the goods or services; identifying a property associated with the identified goods or services; using a look up table to determine a financial rate associated with the property of the identified goods and services and determining one or more rules to be used in conjunction with the determined financial rate for any subsequent purpose. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087608 | SYSTEM FOR LOCATING AND LISTING RELEVANT REAL PROPERTIES FOR USERS - A system and a computer program product for generating a list of real properties from real property listings receives a set of inherent parameters associated with a desired real property from a user. The system retrieves an intermediate list of real properties from the real property listings based on the set of inherent parameters. The system ranks each real property of the intermediate list of real properties based on a set of qualitative parameters associated with the each real property. The qualitative parameters may be provided by a user or may be provided by the system. Thereafter, the system generates a list of real properties from the intermediate list of properties based on the ranking of the each property of the intermediate list of properties. The system may generate the list after normalizing the data used to create the ranks of each property of the intermediate list of properties. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087609 | System and Method for Providing a Value Returned Home Service Contract - A method for providing a value returned home service contract includes providing, to a contract purchaser, a service contract on at least one property owned by a contract holder, and checking a status of the home service contract to determine whether a claim has been made by the contract holder within a predetermined period of time. If the contract holder has not made a claim within the predetermined time, the method may then provide the contract holder with additional value. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087610 | GLOBAL SECURE SERVICE PROVIDER DIRECTORY - Systems and methods enable members of a secure transaction network to readily identify the appropriate trusted service manager (TSM) to support a particular transaction. A global directory of TSM providers is provided that a secure service provider can use for determining which TSM provider is the authorized manager of a security domain for the particular transaction. In aspect the directory of TSM providers may be stored within a mobile device secure element. In another aspect, the directory of TSM providers may be stored in a central TSM repository. In a further aspect, the directory of TSM providers may be distributed among a number of secondary TSM repositories. The appropriate TSM may be identified based upon a secure element identifier and an application identifier provided by a secure element as part of the transaction. Communication of the identifiers from mobile devices may be via cellular or near field communication links. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087611 | BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM FOR FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS - A method and an apparatus of biometric identification and authentication for financial transaction are disclosed. In one aspect, an automated teller machine is provided to assist a user to make a financial transaction. A linguistic command data is processed to create an account of the user. The user is directed to place a finger on a fingerprint scanner and the fingerprint is imaged. The user is directed to place an iris of in front of an iris scanner, and/or to place a face of the user in front of a camera to collect biometric data of the user. A name and address of the user is correlated to identify the account of the user. The face, fingerprint and/or iris of the user is imaged and compared to the biometric data to verify identify. An access to the account is provided on verifying the identity of the user. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087612 | PRODUCT DELIVERY SYSTEM - A sensor device for detecting product quality conditions is attached to each product to be delivered, and constant monitoring is performed on quality conditions of stock products in a storage room of a delivery center for quality assurance. For products in a storage room of a delivery truck, constant monitoring is also performed on quality conditions thereof in the same manner. If a quality abnormality is found in a product in the storage room, information regarding product sensing items and information regarding the current location of each delivery truck are processed to select a replacement stock product less susceptible to recurrence of a similar quality abnormality at the time of redelivery. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087613 | System and Method for Evaluating Supplier Quality - Supplier evaluation system for selecting a supplier for a project and/or monitoring a current supplier's performance. A supplier evaluation system first comprises a first database storing a plurality of inquiries and supplier contact information. The supplier candidates identify raters and those raters receive the inquiries over a computer network. The system provides a user interface for the rater to confidentially respond to the inquiries. The raters' responses are then electronically sent to one or more databases in the system and the system's database management system analyses the responses and makes them available to purchasing agents in a plurality of formats. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087614 | SYSTEM FOR REPRESENTING AN ORGANIZATION - The invention relates to a method for generation of at least one model to represent an organization or part thereof. The model includes the ability for a user enquiry to be made and the generation of a viewpoint in response to the enquiry. The generation of the viewpoint includes reference to at least one parameter relating to the organization and in particular the condition of the parameter at or nearest to the time of the enquiry being made or a user defined time. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087615 | Rules-Based Risk Management - An active overlay strategy based on rule-based risk management is implemented by a computer implemented method. The method includes receiving a data value representing implied volatility of a market. The method also includes automatically generating an order to sell call options. The order includes a quantity of call options to sell, where the quantity is determined at least in part based on an evaluation of the data value. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087616 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING A GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF PORTFOLIO RISK - A method for displaying portfolio risk is described. The method includes receiving a time series corresponding to a weight and a desirability of each of an asset in a portfolio. The method further includes maintaining the time series corresponding to the weight and the desirability of each of the assets in the portfolio. The method also includes maintaining a standard time series for comparison with the time series corresponding to the weight and the desirability of each of the assets in the portfolio. The method further includes displaying, for each asset in the portfolio, a quantity based on desirability versus a quantity based on the correlation between desirability and the standard time series over two specified windows of time. The method also includes displaying trend information based on moving two specified windows of time from the past to the point where at least one window is the most current window. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087617 | SYSTEM FOR REAL TIME CONTINUOUS DATA PROCESSING FOR INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS - A real time continuous data inputting, processing, scanning and displaying system for financial data and inputting variable boundaries of data for a variety of desired data characteristics. The process displays when the data characteristics fall outside their respective variable boundaries. Real time financial markets data and conventional data inputs are input into the system which is comprised of conventional and new computer processor enabled processes, clusters of central processing units, a report writer, terminal device, data disk, and interface. The data disks and real time financial market data and conventional data inputs and outputs are continuously referenced during the scanning process for exceptions to the boundaries of desired data characteristics. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087618 | RULE 10b5-1 TRADING PLAN SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system for creating, administering, executing and reporting of Rule 10b5-1 trading plans, and similar trading plans. The system comprises one or more computer programs or modules operating on a server connected to a network, accessed through a web browser or portal program operating on a computing device connected to the network. Users include, but are not limited to, brokers, issuers of securities, and executives or insiders engaging in transactions, or their accountants, financial planners, or other representatives. One or more users can create, finalize, and approve a trading plan. The system allows issuers and executives or insiders access to trading plan data and allows them to operative proactively. Plans may be created, reviewed and approved with the system, as opposed to physically reviewing numerous hard copies. The system may be equipped with a plurality of different investment and liquidation strategies, allowing for a more efficient plan creation process. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087619 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING CREDIT DERIVATIVE INDICES AND ESTIMATING CREDIT DERIVATIVE CREDIT CURVES, AND A CREDIT CALCULATOR FOR VALUING CREDIT DERIVATIVES BASED ON THE CREDIT CURVES - An apparatus, method and system for determining an estimate of at least one numerical attribute of at least one entity of a population when the population is changing and there are a limited number of observations on the attribute for the entities, in which a conditional index is determined to track how a value of the attribute changes from one time to another for an entity that is a member of the population at both times, and an unconditional index is determined representing an average level of the attribute for the entities of the population. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087620 | GRAPHICAL SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE RELATIVE ATTRACTIVENESS OF INVESTMENTS - A system for scoring and evaluating financial investments including a server, at least one database in communication with the server including a plurality of financial indicators for a plurality of investments, each of the financial indicators assignable to one of at least two categories, software executing on the server for generating a display of scores for each of at least two of the financial indicators for a target investment, the display including a radar chart including a ray extending radially from a center point of the radar chart for each of the at least two of the financial indicators, wherein each of the scores is plotted along one of the rays, and wherein the radar chart is divided into two or more sections wherein each of the sections corresponds to one of the categories. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087621 | ADJUSTABLE DERIVATIVE SECURITIES AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING THE VALUE OF SAME DUE TO A CORPORATE EVENT - The claimed invention relates to an adjustable derivative contract. Particularly a method and system for adjusting the derivative contract to account for time value of money due to an occurrence of a corporate event that affects the value of the derivative contract. The claimed method and system allocates distributions amongst different derivative contracts, each derivative contract representing a different economic interest of at least two shares of an underlying security. The claimed invention uses the concepts of present and future values to value derivative contracts in order to more fairly and accurately represent the interests of the various holders of such derivative contracts upon the occurrence of a corporate event affecting the value of these derivative contracts. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087622 | Method and System for Using Risk Tolerance and Life Goal Preferences and Rankings to Enhance - A system and method directed to improving efforts to plan for investor life goals. The method combines unique approaches of assessing investor risk tolerance using utility theory and investor preferences using conjoint analysis, Analytic Hierarchy Process (“AHP”), or the like in combination with existing industry financial projection methods using linear projections, Monte Carlo simulation, or the like. Further, the method improves upon existing financial projection approaches with the addition of regression techniques to streamline adjustments to the plan objectives, resources, and constraints. The method includes a means of determining an optimal combination of attribute preferences that have an acceptable probability of achieving plan goals while maximizing investor satisfaction as measured by total utility. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087623 | MECHANISMS FOR BETTER DECISION MAKING AND OUTCOMES - Methods and systems are disclosed for providing income to persons generally after retirement by addressing the risk of living too long in a way that collectivizes the risk generally avoiding adverse selection and in some cases avoiding or minimizing the use of insurance products. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087624 | System and Method for Generating Knowledge Based Radiological Report Information Via Ontology Driven Graphical User Interface - A system and method are provided to generate knowledge-based radiological report information via an ontology driven graphical user interface. Even further, a system and method are provided that employ radiological report domain ontology to specify and model a graphical user interface knowledge that is used by the present invention to create a graphical user interface and then to exercise the graphical user interface to generate knowledge-based radiological report information. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087625 | Systems and Methods for Automatic Creation of Agent-Based Systems - An agent-based system may be automatically generated from a specification provided by a user or third-party process. An agent generator may map the specification to a canonical model identifying one or more tasks to be performed by the agent-based system as ontological concepts. The agent generator may generate one or more candidate agents using the canonical model. The candidate agents may comprise one or more interconnected data transforms, which may comprise data access transforms, preprocessing transforms, machine learning transforms, and/or structural transforms. The agent generator iteratively modifies the agent-based system until a termination criteria is satisfied. The termination criteria may provide a selection mechanism whereby a performance of the plurality of candidate agents may be evaluated. An optimal agent may be selected using, inter alia, the performance of the agent-based system. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087626 | PRODUCT CLASSIFICATION IN PROCUREMENT SYSTEMS - Various embodiments provide solutions to assist in the classification of products in a procurement system. The tools provided by various embodiments include, without limitation, methods, systems, and/or software products. Merely by way of example, a method might comprise one or more procedures, any or all of which are executed by a computer system. Correspondingly, an embodiment might provide a computer system configured with instructions to perform one or more procedures in accordance with methods provided by various other embodiments. Similarly, a computer program might comprise a set of instructions that are executable by a computer system (and/or a processor therein) to perform such operations. In many cases, such software programs are encoded on physical and/or tangible computer readable media (such as, to name but a few examples, optical media, magnetic media, and/or the like). | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087627 | USING NEURAL NETWORK CONFIDENCE TO IMPROVE PREDICTION ACCURACY - Systems and methods may be provided for generating a prediction using neural networks. The system and methods may include training a plurality of neural networks with training data, calculating an output value for each of the plurality of neural networks based at least in part on input evaluation points, applying a weight to each output value based at least in part on a confidence value for each of the plurality of neural networks; and generating an output result. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087628 | Methods for Updating and Training for a Self-Organising Card - The updating method comprises selecting the best winning neuron and second best winning neuron, modifying the prototype vectors of the best winning neuron and the neurons located around the best winning neuron in the direction of the vector of the learning point (x(k)), determining the neighbouring neurons (N(u*)) of the best winning neuron (u*) and, if the second best winning neuron (u**) is part of the neighbouring neurons (N(u*)), increasing the valuation of the connection between the first and second best winning neurons. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087629 | TECHNIQUES FOR PROCESSING ONTOLOGIES - Techniques for processing ontologies include a computer-implemented method of processing an ontology. The method includes storing data in an ontology and partitioning the ontology into a plurality of partitions. The partitions are distributed among a plurality of reasoner instances. The reasoner instances are directed to reason the partitions and the results from the reasoner instances are combined. If data is changed, an inference library resulting from the combined results may be updated by updating only those portions of the inference library affected by the changed data. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087630 | SYSTEM ANALYSIS PROGRAM, SYSTEM ANALYSIS METHOD, AND SYSTEM ANALYSIS APPARATUS - A computer-readable, non-transitory medium stores the system analysis program which can accurately analyze the operational status of a system without modifying functions of the system for providing services. A message analysis unit analyzes the contents of collected messages, and determines the times of occurrence of the messages, the process types requested by the messages, and whether or not each of the messages is a request message or a response message. In response to an instruction for model generation, a model generation unit generates a transaction model satisfying at least one limiting condition related to caller-called relationships between processes, based on a set of messages selected in accordance with a selection criterion based on the certainty of existence of caller-called relationships. Then, in response to an instruction for analysis, an analysis unit analyzes the processing status of a transaction based on a protocol log conforming to the transaction model. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087631 | Data Distribution in Systems with Multiple Storage Entities - The disclosure is related to systems and methods of distributing data in devices with multiple storage entities. In a particular embodiment, a system is disclosed that includes multiple storage entities, with each storage entity having a sub-controller. A controller is communicatively coupled to each of the multiple storage entities. The controller is configured to send at least one of a respective copy of data or metadata associated with the respective copy of the data to each of the multiple storage entities. Upon receipt of the at least one of the respective copy of the data or the metadata associated with the respective copy of the data, each sub-controller provides storage competency information of the respective storage entity for the respective copy of the data. Upon receiving storage competency information for the multiple storage entities, the controller selects a particular one of the multiple storage entities and notifies the selected storage entity to store the respective copy of the data. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087632 | Data Synchronization Between a Data Management System and an External System - A method, a system and a computer program of synchronizing data between a data management system and an external system are disclosed. The method includes creating a first database instance and a second database instance using an integration data model. The method further includes synchronizing data between the second database instance and the external system. A services framework is created and the first database instance and the second database instance are interfaced using the services framework which includes an entity definition repository, a change tracking repository, and a data export element. Also disclosed are a system and a computer program for synchronizing data between a data management system and an external system. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087633 | Primary database system, replication database system and method for replicating data of a primary database system - The present invention concerns a method for replicating one or more data items of a primary database system ( | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087634 | CONVERTING BACKUP COPIES OF OBJECTS CREATED USING A FIRST BACKUP PROGRAM TO BACKUP COPIES CREATED USING A SECOND BACKUP PROGRAM - Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for converting backup copies of objects created using a first backup program to backup copies created using a second backup program. A plurality of backup copies of versions of an object are created using a first backup program, wherein the object has an object name. The first backup program is used to restore at least one of the backup copies to a restored version of the object having a name different from the object name. A second backup program is used to create a backup copy of each restored version of the object. A name of a designated object is assigned to each backup copy created using the second backup program. Metadata of each backup copy created using the second backup program is updated with metadata for the designated object. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087635 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A SNAPSHOT OF DATA - In one embodiment, a user or client device is connected to a distributed file system comprised of one or more physical nodes. The data on each of the physical nodes store metadata about files and directories within the file system. Some of the embodiments permit a user to take a snapshot of data stored on the file system. The snapshot may include a single file, a single directory, a plurality of files within a directory, a plurality of directories, a path on the file system that includes nested files and subdirectories, or more than one path on the file system that each includes nested files and directories. In an embodiment, a snapshot tracking data structure is maintained for efficient creation and deletion of the snapshot. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087636 | MODELING DISTRIBUTION AND FAILOVER DATABASE CONNECTIVITY BEHAVIOR - Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to database connectivity behavior. In aspects, an entity seeking to access data that is replicated via instances of a database follows a plan. The plan provides information as to which instance(s) the entity is to attempt to access the data from. The plan may include connection data that indicates parameters the entity is to use in connecting to the instance(s). The plan may also indicate one or more other instances from which the entity may attempt to access the data if the client is not able to access the data from initial instance(s). | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087637 | Method and System for Database Recovery - A method, a system and a computer program of database system recovery are disclosed. The method includes building a business process catalog using a pattern analysis of historical data of the database system and also includes deploying the built business process catalog to perform the database system recovery. The method further includes logging a first set of statements corresponding to a plurality of transactions of a first business process batch and comparing the first set of statements with a second set of statements wherein the second set of statements is included in a second business batch process being stored in the business process catalog. The business process catalog is updated based on the comparison of the first set of statements and the second set of statements. The method further includes deploying the built business process catalog to identify and present business process batches to the database system user to select a business process batch. The selected business process batch is used to perform the database system recovery. Also disclosed are a system and a computer program for database system recovery. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087638 | FEED VALIDATOR - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for generating feed schemas and validating feeds are provided. A user interface may be provided that displays the schema in one pane, while providing drop-down menus for defining new schema nodes in a separate pane. An interface for validating the schema may show the feed as it will be displayed on a webpage utilizing the feed. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087639 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY ENSURING CONSISTENCY AMONG MULTIPLE SPECTRUM DATABASES - An apparatus and method of providing accurate and consistent open spectrum results for secondary devices from different geo-location databases is presented. The results, which may be independently derived by each database, are independent of the database queried. The comparison permits some amount of latitude in spatial and temporal consistency between the databases as errors are only indicated if the temporal or spatial discrepancies are pervasive. In addition, large percentages of different locations showing discrepancies when compared also lead to corrective action being taken. Corrective actions that may be taken include forcing problematic databases to update, shunting requests by secondary devices in the problematic locations to acceptable databases or shutting down the problematic databases entirely. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087640 | Data Compression and Storage Techniques - Provided are systems and methods for use in data archiving. In one arrangement, compression techniques are provided wherein an earlier version of a data set (e.g., file folder, etc) is utilized as a dictionary of a compression engine to compress a subsequent version of the data set. This compression identifies changes between data sets and allows for storing these differences without duplicating many common portions of the data sets. For a given version of a data set, new information is stored along with metadata used to reconstruct the version from each individual segment saved at different points in time. In this regard, the earlier data set and one or more references to stored segments of a subsequent data set may be utilized to reconstruct the subsequent data set. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087641 | SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING AND USING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - The illustrative embodiments provide a system and method for processing a document. A data storage unit is provided to store data corresponding to the document, several documents processed at a previous time, and a set of rules. A rule in the set of rules may include a rule identifier, a directive to proceed to a second rule based on a condition, a specification of a data component, the specification configured to include a data component identifier, a data component attribute, and a directive to proceed to a second specification of a second data component based on a second condition. A rules-based engine is provided that may communicate with the data storage unit and may execute a rule in the set of rules. The set of rules may include rules for parsing, validating, identifying, relating, selecting, extracting, transforming, generating, analyzing, error correcting, reporting, and sending. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087642 | Memory-Mapped Objects - A method and apparatus for efficiently managing cached objects is provided. A mapping is a typed relationship between cached objects. A base object contains content, and a mapped object is mapped to a base object when there is a particular relationship between the mapped object and the base object. The type of mapping defines how the objects in the relationship are treated when the mapped object is created, read, or written. At creation time, the mapping type may define how the mapping relationship is recognized. Sometimes recognizing a relationship requires establishing equivalence between the objects. At read and write time, the mapping type may define on which object a mutual exclusion lock is held, which content is returned or which object's content is updated. A wide range of applications can benefit from enhanced object caching performance, and in addition, application may define application-specific semantics on mapping types as well. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087643 | RAPID ACCESS TO DATA ON A POWERED DOWN PERSONAL COMPUTER - The disclosed embodiments provide rapid access to information stored on a personal computing device even though the personal computing device is powered off or otherwise in a low-power consumption state such as a sleep state or hibernation state. An software component gathers user data in a location such as a non-volatile memory associated with a host computer. A browser component accesses the stored data and makes it available to the user when the host computer is powered down or otherwise in a state of low power consumption. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087644 | ENTERPRISE NODE RANK ENGINE - Various methods and systems for calculating ranks of importance of nodes of an enterprise are described. A plurality of relations may be accessed, wherein each relation of the plurality of relations comprises an indication of two nodes of a plurality of nodes, and an indication of a relationship between the two nodes. A matrix may be created using the plurality of relations. The matrix may be processed using the Perron-Frobenius theorem. The plurality of nodes of the enterprise may be ranked according to importance, wherein each node is either a user or an item. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087645 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A TRANSPARENT APPLICATION OF MULTIPLE QUERIES ACROSS MULTIPLE DATA SOURCES - According to a fourth aspect there is provided a system to receive a request to search for the data. The system performs a search of a logical table based on a single criterion to identify a plurality of rows in the logical table. The system generates a first plurality of tuples based on the plurality of rows to identify a first plurality of physical tables that are mapped to the logical table, the first plurality of tuples including a first and second tuple, the first tuple identifies a first server and a first physical table that is accessed via the first server, the second tuple identifies a second server and a second physical table that is accessed via the second server. Next, the system queries at least two data sources for the data to generate results that include the data. The at least two data sources are at least partially identified by utilizing the first plurality of tuples. Finally, the system communicates the data in response to the request to search for the data. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087646 | Method and System for Form-Filling Crawl and Associating Rich Keywords - Techniques are provided for the efficient location, processing, and retrieval of local product information derived from web pages generally locatable through form queries submitted to web pages often referred to as the “deep” or “hidden” web. In an embodiment, information such as product information and dealer-location information is located on a web page form such as a dealer-locator form. After location of a suitable web page form, editorial wrapping is performed to create an automated information extraction process. Using the automated information extractor, deep-web crawling is performed. A grid-based extraction of individual business records is performed, and matching and ingestion are performed in conjunction with a business listing database. Finally, metadata tags are added to entries in the business listing database. Metadata tags also may be added to entries in other databases. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087647 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING WEB SEARCH RESULTS TO A PARTICULAR COMPUTER USER BASED ON THE POPULARITY OF THE SEARCH RESULTS WITH OTHER COMPUTER USERS - A system and method for providing Web search results to a particular computer user based on the popularity of the search results with other computer users is described. One embodiment monitors, using one or more servers, at least one Web service for new actions of sharing of Web content by computer users; identifies, from the new actions of sharing of Web content by computer users, a data item that satisfies predetermined interestingness criteria; parses the data item to obtain at least one Uniform Resource Locator (URL); crawls at least one Web page corresponding to the at least one URL to obtain the content of the at least one Web page; analyzes the content of the at least one Web page; and updates an index based on the content of the at least one Web page, the index being usable in processing a Web search query from a particular user. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087648 | SEARCH SPAM ANALYSIS AND DETECTION - Defeating click-through cloaking includes retrieving a search results page to set a browser variable, inserting a link to a page into the search results page and clicking through to the page using the inserted link. Investigating cloaking includes providing script associated with a suspected spam URL, modifying the script to de-obfuscate the script and executing the modified script to reveal cloaking logic associated with the script. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087649 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING PREMIUM CONTENT ITEMS IN A RESULT SET - The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for identifying premium content items (such as video content items) that are responsive to a query. According to one embodiment, a method for identifying one or more items of video content responsive to a given query comprises receiving a query comprising one or more terms from a given user, identifying one or more items of video content responsive to the received query and generating a result set comprising one or more links to the one or more items of video content responsive to the received query. The one or more links in the result set associated with items of premium video content are identified and the one or more links in the result set associated with items of premium video content are filtered on the basis of information associated with the user from which the query was received. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087650 | CREATION AND USE OF CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP MODELS IN BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS - A computing system for organizing and using information in a building management system (BMS) is shown and described. The computing system includes a memory device storing software defined building objects. The computing system further includes a processing circuit configured to relate the software defined building objects by causal relationships between the devices and to store the causal relationships and a description of the causal relationships in the memory device. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087651 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONVERTING AND DELIVERING MEDICAL IMAGES TO MOBILE DEVICES AND REMOTE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS - According to one aspect, a system for automated conversion and delivery of medical images, comprising a server coupled with a data storage system and a communication interface, the server configured to: receive a plurality of medical image files via the communications interface, the medical image files comprising medical data and meta data, the medical data having a medical data format, store the medical image files, receive a request via the user interface to find a medical image file, return a notification that the requested medical image file has been found via the user interface, receive an output destination type associated with the medical data file via the user interface, wherein the output destination type is an output device, service, or both, retrieve the requested medical image file, determine whether the medical data associated with the requested medical image file includes medical image data, correlate the output destination type with one or more of the plurality of standardized format specifications and with one or more of the plurality of message templates, convert the medical data format associated with the medical data based on the standardized format specifications that correlate with the output destination type, assemble at least one output message that includes the converted medical data based on the message templates that correlate with the output destination type, and transmit the output message to at least one destination via the communication interface. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087652 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONVERTING AND DELIVERING MEDICAL IMAGES TO MOBILE DEVICES AND REMOTE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS - A system for automated conversion and delivery of medical images, comprises a server coupled with a data storage system and a communication interface, the server configured to: receive a medical image file via the communications interface, the medical image file comprising medical data and meta data, the medical data having a medical data format that complies with the digital imaging and communication in medicine standard, determine whether the medical data includes a medical image data, determine an output destination type, wherein the output destination type is an output device, service, or both, based on the meta data, correlate the output destination type with one or more of the plurality of standardized format specifications and with one or more of the plurality of message templates, convert the medical data format associated with the medical data based on the standardized format specifications that correlate with the output destination type, assemble at least one output message that includes the converted medical data based on the message templates that correlate with the output destination type, and transmit the output message to at least one destination via the communication interface. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087653 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SECURE AND OBLIVIOUS DOCUMENT MATCHING - A method and apparatus for secure and oblivious document matching are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises transmitting initial secure dot product data generated from a document thumbprint for a document to a remote system. The method may also comprise receiving a response from the remote system. In one embodiment, the response is generated by the remote system utilizing the initial secure dot product data and without knowledge of the document. In one embodiment, the method may further comprise determining whether the response indicates a match for the document. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087654 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INTERMINGLING HETERGENEOUS LISTING TYPES WHEN PRESENTING SEARCH RESULTS - The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for managing how merchandise listings satisfying a search query are processed and presented to a user of a computer-based trading or e-commerce application when the listings are of heterogeneous types. Consistent with some embodiments, in response to a user-initiated search query, item listings and product listings are displayed intermingled in a set of search results pages. The item listings and product listings are positioned relative to one another, in part, based on a level of demand associated with the product listings and the item listings, where demand is measured by monitoring user-initiated activities in connection with the item and product listings. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087655 | Search Ranking for Time-Sensitive Queries by Feedback Control - In one embodiment, a method comprises accessing a search query received at a search engine; identifying a plurality of network resources for the search query; calculating a ranking score for each of the network resources; determining whether the search query is year-qualified; and if the search query is year-qualified, then adjusting the ranking scores of selected ones of the network resources based on a difference between the ranking score of an oldest one of the network resources and the ranking score of a newest one of the network resources and a confidence score representing a likelihood that the search query is year-qualified. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087656 | APPARATUS FOR QUESTION ANSWERING BASED ON ANSWER TRUSTWORTHINESS AND METHOD THEREOF - Provides is an apparatus for question answering based on answer trustworthiness including: an answer indexer that indexes documents of which document trustworthiness satisfying a threshold value among documents included in a document collection and stores it in a knowledge Bases; an answer candidate extractor that extracts answer candidate documents for a user's question from the knowledge Bases; an answer source trustworthiness measurement unit; an answer extraction strategy trustworthiness measurement unit; and a trustworthiness integrator that generates an answer candidate trustworthiness list by ranking the answer candidate documents on the basis of the document trustworthiness, the source trustworthiness, and the extraction strategy trustworthiness of the answer candidate documents. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087657 | ASSIGNING DATA FOR STORAGE BASED ON SPEED WITH WHICH DATA MAY BE RETRIEVED - A method, system, and apparatus for improving performance when retrieving data from one or more storage media. Files to be stored on the one or more storage media are classified into a ranking of different sets. Differences in retrieval value of different regions of the one or more storage media are exploited by selecting which files to store in which regions. For example, files that have a higher classification are stored in regions with faster retrieval values. The files can be classified based on frequency of access. Thus, files that are more frequently accessed are stored in regions that have a faster retrieval value. The files can be classified by another measure such as priority. For example, the classification for some or all of the files can be based on user-assigned priority. The classification may be based on events or data grouping. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087658 | Ranking Search Results Based on the Frequency of Access on the Search Results by Users of a Social-Networking System - Particular embodiments access a search query submitted by a first user of a social-networking system; identify one or more web pages in response to the search query; for each of the one or more web pages, determine a value indicating a number of user clicks associated with the web page by one or more second users of the social-networking system who are connected to the first user within the social-networking system; and send a set of hyperlinks for the one or more web pages, wherein hyperlinks for web pages where the value is greater than zero are visually emphasized over other hyperlinks. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087659 | DOCUMENT RELEVANCE DETERMINING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Disclosed is a method and computer program product of determining the relevance of at least a part of an electronic document comprising a plurality of terms distributed over a plurality of regions of said document, comprising displaying the electronic document to a user; determining the gaze characteristics of the person on a region of the electronic document; assigning a relevance score to an individual term in said region based on said characteristics; and generating a term relevance label for said electronic document, said term relevance label comprising relevance scores for the respective individual terms in said document The relevance scores may also be used to define a user profile for the user that can aid in retrieving future documents of relevance to the user. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087660 | SCORING RELEVANCE OF A DOCUMENT BASED ON IMAGE TEXT - A method and system for determining relevance of a document having text and images to a text string is provided. A scoring system identifies image text associated with an image of the document. The scoring system calculates an image score indicating relevance of the image text to the text string. The image score may be used in many applications, such as searching, summary generation, and document classification, image search, and image classification. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087661 | SOCIAL DISTANCE BASED SEARCH RESULT ORDER ADJUSTMENT - Both search criteria and a friends list associated with a user are obtained. One or more data items that satisfy the search criteria are identified as search results. An order of the search results is adjusted based at least in part on multiple additional friends lists, each of which is associated with a data item of the one or more data items. Each of the multiple additional friends lists can also be updated to reflect changes in the friends lists made by users associated with the friends lists. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087662 | VISUAL ORGANIZATION OF INFORMATION VIA ASSOCIATED GEOSPATIAL DATA - In a method of organizing information, a plurality of diverse data items is accessed. The diverse data items are related to a physical location. The diverse data items that are accessed comprise at least a non-visual data item and a visual imagery data item, and include geospatial data associated with the individual accessed data items. The diverse data items are parsed by data type and stored in a data store such that the diverse data items are accessible by one or more of the geospatial data associated with the individual data items. Diverse data items related to the physical location are processed to produce an integrated image displayable via a web viewer. The processing occurs in response to receiving a request regarding the physical location. The integrated image comprises an integration of at least two of the stored diverse data items. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087663 | COMPUTER CAPABLE OF RETRIEVING AMBIGUOUS INFORMATION - The present invention is to support the retrieval of an ambiguous file stored on a computer. Desktop space images are generated at predetermined time intervals, and metadata for each desktop space image is created from internally used data and externally input data existing at the time. The metadata consists of multiple pieces of tag data, and part of tag data is a target file to be searched for. Upon searching for the target file, a user selects a desktop space image that evokes the target file from among the multiple desktop space images initially displayed. The selected desktop space image is displayed and the target file is selected from the metadata associated with the desktop space image displayed. The desktop space image can refresh a user's recollection about the target file, and hence allows the user to narrow down the scope of search. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087664 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONVERTING AND DELIVERING MEDICAL IMAGES TO MOBILE DEVICES AND REMOTE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS - A system for automated conversion and delivery of medical images, comprising: a communication interface; a data storage system configured to store medical image files, a list of modalities, a list of meta data fields associated with each of the modalities, and expected content for at least some of the meta data fields associated with each of the modalities; a server coupled with the data storage system and the communication interface, the server configured to: receive a medical image file via the communications interface, the medical image file comprising medical data and meta data, determine what fields are present in the meta data, correlate the determined fields with a modality in order to determine a modality associated with the medical image file, determine whether the data recorded in the fields has been altered, identify a recipient associated with the medical image file based on the meta data, and transmit a message to the recipient via the communication interface. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087665 | CLIENT PLAYLIST GENERATION - Client playlist generation is described. In embodiments, relationships between media assets are determined to identify similar media assets that can be included in an automatic playlist of the similar media assets. Projection vectors of the asset-to-asset relationships can be generated for each of the media assets, where a projection vector for a media asset identifies the similar media assets. The projection vectors are then communicated to a client device that utilizes the projection vectors to generate the automatic playlist for any one of the media assets that is selected as a starting media asset of the automatic playlist. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087666 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUMMARIZING PHOTOS BASED ON PHOTO INFORMATION AND USER PREFERENCE - Systems and methods for generating a summary of photos from a plurality of received photos are described. The received photos are classified according to predefined attributes. Two or more of the categories are selected, and a ratio value is received from a user relating to the two or more of the categories. Photos are selected from among the photos in the two or more categories based on the specified ratio and based on sorting the received photos according to time information. The selected photos comprising the summary of photos are displayed. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087667 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A GEOGRAPHICALLY DEFINED COMMUNICATION PLATFORM - Methods and systems are described for a geographically defined platform. In one embodiment, a block is divided into one or more partitioned blocks comprising geographically proximate street addresses. Residents whose street addresses are located within the same partitioned block may contribute and view resident-generated content through a spatial platform. Further, contiguous blocks may elect to combine with each other and a partitioned block may elect to separate from the larger block that comprises it. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087668 | CLUSTERING OF NEAR-DUPLICATE DOCUMENTS - Documents likely to be near-duplicates are clustered based on document vectors that represent word-occurrence patterns in a relatively low-dimensional space. Edit distance between documents is defined based on comparing their document vectors. In one process, initial clusters are formed by applying a first edit-distance constraint relative to a root document of each cluster. The initial clusters can be merged subject to a second edit-distance constraint that limits the maximum edit distance between any two documents in the cluster. The second edit-distance constraint can be defined such that whether it is satisfied can be determined by comparing cluster structures rather than individual documents. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087669 | COMPOSITE LOCALITY SENSITIVE HASH BASED PROCESSING OF DOCUMENTS - Reliable identification of highly similar documents allows such documents to be treated as identical for purposes of document analysis. Identification of highly similar documents can be based on a composite hash value or other value for which the likelihood of two documents having the same value is high if and only if the documents have a high degree of similarity. Prior to performing content based analysis, the composite hash value for the current document is determined and compared to composite hash values of previously analyzed documents. If a match is found, the results of the analysis of the previous document can be applied to the current document. If no match is found, the current document is analyzed. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087670 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONCEPT MAPPING - Concepts relevant to natural language content may be identified using an ontology. The natural language content may be tokenized and normalized. Using the tokenized content, one or more candidate concepts within the ontology may be identified. Concepts relevant to the natural language content may be selected using the identified concepts and the relationships between concepts defined within the ontology. A spreading activation process may be used to identify related concepts. The spreading activation process may be iterative and/or may reach multiple generations of connected concepts within the ontology. The relevant concepts associated with the natural language content may be used to index the natural content, identify related content, provide targeting advertising related to the natural language content, and the like. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087671 | Document Processing System and Method Thereof - In a document processing system and a document processing method, the document processing method includes the steps of: obtaining a document and dividing the document into a plurality of terms and giving a syntactic index to each of the terms; dividing the document into a plurality of sentences; selecting a key syntactic index from the syntactic indexes, and transforming each of the sentences into a preliminary key terms sequence which includes a preliminary key term corresponding to the key syntactic indexes according to the key syntactic indexes; selectively expanding the preliminary key term of a representative sentence of the document into an advanced key term; and determining at least one core candidate sentence among the sentences to generate a core abstract of the document according to the preliminary key terms and the advanced key term. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087672 | Determining and Displaying Application Server Object Relevance - In embodiments, the number of references to an object which is deployed into an application server framework may be determined by examining metadata extracted from configuration data sources within a multi-tier application framework. In embodiments, an object relevance value based on the extracted number of references to an object may be associated with the object. In embodiments, the number of references extracted from a data source may be weighted using a weight factor that is associated with the data source. In embodiments, the number of references to a source object may be extracted by traversing a source inheritance hierarchy and parsing the objects within the hierarchy. In embodiments, an object relevance display of a set of objects may be generated based in part on object relevance values of the set of objects. In embodiments, an object relevance display may be a molecular display, a flash tag cloud, and/or a source tree hierarchy. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087673 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS RELATING TO RANKING FUNCTIONS FOR MULTIPLE DOMAINS - Methods and systems are disclosed that relate to ranking functions for multiple different domains. By way of example but not limitation, ranking functions for multiple different domains may be trained based on inter-domain loss, and such ranking functions may be used to rank search results from multiple different domains so that they may be blended without normalizing relevancy scores. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087674 | SELECTION OF PHOTOS BASED ON TAGGING HISTORY - Typical users may be interested in viewing photos of people with whom they maintain true social contact. In one example, a person's true social network may be inferred from photo tagging history. Social contacts tend to tag each other in photos, while other types of contacts (e.g., business contacts) are less likely to tag each other in photos. Thus, in order to determine what photos to show to a given user, people may be scored based on how often the user has tagged those people in photos, and also on how often those other people have tagged the user. Those people who have high scores may be presumed to be socially close to the given user. Photos containing people who have received high scores may be selected, and the selected photos may be shown to the user. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087675 | METHOD FOR VISUAL ASSET REPLACEMENT ACCOUNTING FOR COST, COPYRIGHT, AND CONFIDENTIALITY REQUIREMENTS - Systems and methods of replacing digital assets within a multimedia document are provided. The systems and methods include a user workstation that can receive a selection from a user for an original asset in the document to be replaced. Alternative assets can be retrieved that have a level of appropriateness with the selected original asset. Constraints on use of the alternative assets can be determined and a fitness value of each of the alternative assets can be calculated based on the appropriateness and the constraints on use. The alternative assets with the highest fitness values can be presented to the user for the user to select to replace the original asset. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087676 | Communication system, server and method - A communication server comprises a database for storing a plurality of sets of information provider terminal data, each set representing a respective information provider terminal and comprising score data indicative of scores alloted to information previously received from the respective information provider terminal. The communication server presents to an information receiver terminal at least one set of information provider terminal data, selects, in accordance with a selection process of the information receiver terminal, one of the sets of information provider terminal data presented, receives from the information receiver terminal a specific query for information from the information provider terminal represented by the selected set of information provider terminal data, transmits, to the information receiver terminal, a specific information relating to the specific query, and updates the score data in the selected set of information provider terminal data using a score alloted by the information receiver terminal to the specific information. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087677 | APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING RESULT OF ANALOGOUS IMAGE RETRIEVAL AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING RESULT OF ANALOGOUS IMAGE RETRIEVAL - A challenge to be met by the present invention is to provide an analogous image retrieval result display apparatus and a method for displaying a result of retrieval of an analogous image that make it possible to simply, accurately ascertain a behavior history of a person to be retrieved in various camera environments. Person characteristic data (a face, a color, a figure, and the like) extracted from a plurality of cameras ( | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087678 | COLLABORATIVE FILTERING ENGINE - Various systems and methods for collaborative filtering of enterprise objects are described. A first object and a second object, which may be enterprise objects, may be compared. Vectors associated with each object may be created. These vectors may contain elements that indicate one or more actions performed involving other objects. Using these vectors, a similarity comparison may be performed to determine the amount of similarity between the objects. Based on a similarity value determined from the similarity comparison between the vectors, the second object may be recommended to a user. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087679 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COHORT BASED CONTENT FILTERING AND DISPLAY - A Cohort based content filtering and display system and method that enable users to obtain near-real-time information about how specific groups of users react to news, products, people, or other items. The system will aggregate and display commercially valuable, near-real-time information about user preferences and attitudes, sorted according to standard demographic and other user categories employed by marketers, research organizations and others, without compromising individual privacy. In some embodiments, a user can select a Cohort of interest to him or her, and then see what is most relevant to that Cohort, even if this user is not a member of the selected Cohort. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087680 | Method for Selecting Electronic Advertisements Using Machine Translation Techniques - A system for selecting electronic advertisements from an advertisement pool to match the surrounding content is disclosed. To select advertisements, the system takes an approach to content match that takes advantage of machine translation technologies. The system of the present invention implements this goal by means of simple and efficient machine translation features that are extracted from the surrounding context to match with the pool of potential advertisements. Machine translation features used as features for training a machine learning model. In one embodiment, a ranking SVM (Support Vector Machines) trained to identify advertisements relevant to a particular context. The trained machine learning model can then be used to rank advertisements for a particular context by supplying the machine learning model with the machine translation features measures for the advertisements and the surrounding context. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087681 | MERGING OF ITEMS FROM DIFFERENT DATA SOURCES - A digital processing system provided according to an aspect of the present invention processes items received from different data sources, specifically when a second set of items received from a second data source is related to corresponding ones of a first set of items received from a first data source. In one embodiment, each of the items in the first set and the second set is first assigned a corresponding digital value and then sorted according to a sort order of the assigned digital values to form a sorted output. The digital values are assigned such that items in the second set are grouped with related corresponding ones of the first set of items. Thus, items from different sources are merged (and sorted) based on the relation between the items. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087682 | AUTOMATED MEDIA ANALYSIS AND DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A web-based media analysis system, consisting of automated media analysis and document management tools, which processes news articles by parsing the news contents or documents and assigning, relating, and extracting information from the news contents for media analysis and relationally storing them in at least one database. The system further comprises a toning engine for toning articles accurately, based on words, attributes and categories of the article, and optionally based on the author of the article, if applicable. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087683 | IMPLEMENTATION OF A SOFTWARE FRAMEWORK/DATA ARK SYSTEM - A software framework architecture that allows for the migration of data from legacy systems to a DataArk database. The DataArk database acts as a central storage component for disparate data sets. Data is extracted from the legacy systems, transformed into a text format and then mapped into the DataArk database. Users are then able to access the DataArk database as they would access the legacy systems, looking up individual patient accounting detail, clinical detail, employee records, etc. Users are also able to edit and manage the data in the DataArk database. The legacy systems are then decommissioned. Further, the DataArk database is configured for use by establishing user access, permitted functions and permitted views. A system administrator establishes user profiles that specify which functions and screens a user may access. Once users are logged-in the system, users may perform searches on the data to which they have been given access. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087684 | POSTING LIST INTERSECTION PARALLELISM IN QUERY PROCESSING - Disclosed herein is parallel processing of a query, which uses inter-query parallelism in posting list intersections. A plurality of tasks, e.g., posting list intersection tasks, are identified for processing in parallel by a plurality of processing units, e.g., a plurality of processing cores of a multi-core system. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087685 | LOCATION-BASED SERVICE MIDDLEWARE - A middleware system is provided that is situated between the user applications and the various content databases that are to be searched in order to simplify the creation of user applications for mobile devices that use location-based services that employ ontology-based search systems. The middleware system exposes one or more services to the user application. For example, a service exposes a service that allows the user to annotate and/or tag known semantic locations. As another example, a service provides a list of suggested semantic POIs to user applications in response to user queries. The suggested semantic POIs are selected based on a user's location and possibly context-dependent information. The suggested semantic POIs also may be based on user-dependent information obtained from a user-profile or the like and the suggested semantic locations that are provided to the user applications may be ranked and presented in an order beginning with those semantic locations that may be of greatest interest. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087686 | INCREMENTAL QUERY REFINEMENT - A method of incrementally refining queries and updating query result lists without requiring a user to provide an explicit indicator of query submission. In the method, one or more query related character patterns are defined. Entry of query defining characters by a user is monitored to detect entry of a defined query related character pattern. The user is provided with one or more suggested query refinement options and an updated query result list each time a defined query related character pattern is detected. The query related character patterns may be a character pattern that indicates a word has been input by the user. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087687 | POSITION SENSITIVE TYPE-AHEAD MATCHING FOR RESOURCE NAVIGATION - A type-ahead navigation feature typically allows users to navigate to a first resource whose name begins with an inputted character or a sequence of input characters typed in quick succession. The type-ahead navigation feature may not be useful when the resource name comprises multiple parts or where a first set of characters in the resource name is irrelevant in locating a requisite resource name. Functionality can be implemented to initiate the type-ahead navigation feature against any character position in the resource name. By providing the users with an ability to specify a part of the resource name or a character position within the resource name against which the type-ahead navigation feature should be initiated, resource navigation efficiency can be improved. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087688 | System and method for creation and management of location information - A system and method for creation and management of user location policies and data. Generally described, the system provides for automated tools and personal tools that can alleviate the onerous and expensive task of updating location data and location based policies. The automated tools can use existing information within company databases to create and manage standard user locations. The personal tools can allow the user to personally create manage their own locations through a graphical user interface. The automated and personal tools can utilize global positioning system information to track the current location of the user. The information can be used to determine physical locations to a certain degree. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087689 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING A BUSINESS REPOSITORY - Computer-implemented systems and methods are disclosed for providing a business rule repository in a memory. An exemplary method includes displaying, on a display device, a graphical user interface (GUI) for creating a business rule, and receiving, in a computer, via the GUI user input relating to an input variable of the business rule, and user input relating to an action required by the business rule based on the input variable. The method further includes generating, by the computer, a text document associated with the business rule based on the input, and storing the text document associated with the business rule in the business rule repository. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087690 | CLOUD BASED FILE STORAGE SERVICE - A server receives from a user's computer a request to store a file and a file hash value. The server determines whether a file with the same hash value is stored on the server. If so, the server grants access to the server's file copy. If not, the server requests the user to upload the file and stores it. The server grants access to the copy by sending the user a pointer to the copy's storage location and associating the user with the pointer in a database. The server can challenge the user's right to access the copy by requesting a file password or a portion of the file stored on the user's computer. The server can limit access to the server's copy to users who successfully respond to the challenge. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087691 | MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING SEARCH FOR END-USER FUNCTIONS - A mobile device and method for supporting an easy, quick, and exact search for end-user functions by allowing a user to directly input a search word related to a desired end-user function are provided. The mobile device offers a search environment and receives a search word including at least one of letters and numerals from an input unit through the environment. Then the mobile device performs a search based on at least one of a synonym, an acronym and a category of function names by finding at least one of the synonym, acronym and category containing the search word. Thereafter, the mobile device outputs at least one of the function names as search results on a display unit. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087692 | APPLICATION WHITELISTING IN A CLOUD-BASED COMPUTING DEVICE - Methods and apparatus for obtaining and executing application programs for use on a cloud-based computing device are disclosed. An example method includes receiving, by a computing device, a request to obtain an application for execution on the computing device. The example method further includes sending, from the computing device to a first server, the request to obtain the application. The example method also includes receiving, by the computing device from the first server, the application. The example method still further includes sending, by the computing device to one or more cloud-based sources, a request for one or more metrics associated with the application and receiving, by the computing device from the one or more cloud-based sources, the one or more metrics. The example method yet further includes determining, by the computing device, whether to execute the application based on the one or more metrics. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087693 | Methods and Systems for Social Networking Based on Nucleic Acid Sequences - The invention relates to methods and systems for social networking based on profile characteristics (e.g., including phenotypic information) and/or genetic sequence information. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087694 | Determining Search Query Statistical Data For An Advertising Campaign Based On User-Selected Criteria - Techniques for determining search query information for an advertising campaign and communicating the search query information to a sponsor of the advertising campaign are described. The techniques include receiving, from a sponsor of the advertisement, a request for search query information relating to the advertisement having been presented by a search service, identifying previously executed search queries submitted by users of the search service, wherein search results of the identified search queries have been presented with the advertisement to one or more users of the search service, compiling search query information, the search query information including ad performance data associated with the advertisement for the identified search queries, and providing the sponsor with the compiled search query information. A user interface may be generated to receive user input of selection criteria and provide an interface to search query information. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087695 | APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A TRUNCATED POSTAL CODE SMART ADDRESS PARSER - The apparatus, methods and systems for a truncated postal code smart address parser (hereinafter, “SAP”) described herein implement a text parser whereby users may enter a text string, such as manually via an input field. The SAP processes the input address string to extract address elements for storage, display, reporting, and/or use in a wide variety of back-end applications. In various embodiments and implementations, the SAP may facilitate: separation and identification of address components regardless of the order in which they are supplied in the input address string; supplementation of missing address information; correction and/or recognition of misspelled terms, abbreviations, alternate names, and/or the like variants of address elements; recognition of unique addresses based on minimal but sufficient input identifiers; postal code identification and truncation; and/or the like | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087696 | SCALABLE SYSTEM FOR PARTITIONING AND ACCESSING METADATA OVER MULTIPLE SERVERS - In an aggregated file system, metadata is partitioned into multiple metadata volumes. On receipt of a file processing request, a file switch examines its mount entry cache to identify a target metadata volume that hosts the metadata of the requested file. The identification begins with mount entries at a root volume and continues recursively by examining a portion of the absolute pathname of the file until the target metadata volume is identified. Finally, the file switch forwards the request to a metadata server managing the target metadata volume. Since the identification process is carried out completely within the file switch, there is no need for multiple expensive network accesses to different metadata servers. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087697 | DATABASE SYSTEM, METHOD OF MANAGING DATABASE, DATABASE,STRUCTURE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Disclosed is a database system capable of effectively updating data in a database at a high speed. The database system includes: a storage unit that stores a database including an entity data group and at least one identifier table having only a plurality of fixed-length data; and a data processing unit that receives a query and performs data processing on the database on the basis of the received query. The identifier table has a plurality of data identifiers that uniquely indicates the plurality of entity data as the fixed-length data. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087698 | SEARCH EXPRESSION CREATING SYSTEM, SEARCH EXPRESSION CREATING METHOD, SEARCH EXPRESSION CREATING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - To provide a search expression creating system enabling the creating of a search expression by showing an example even if the interpretation by a structure analysis means used for showing an example is different from that by a structure analysis means used for search, and the generation of a search expression for a plurality of structure analysis means which perform different interpretations. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087699 | OWNER-BROKERED KNOWLEDGE SHARING MACHINE - The invention discloses a system and method for promoting information or knowledge sharing among users registered to a computer network by allowing an information or knowledge owner to locate or directly access private information, to publish information for direct access by knowledge requestors, or to broker information or knowledge with an information or knowledge requestor. This invention also discloses a system and method which allow an organization to develop and manage a reward system based on the frequency of an information or knowledge owner's contribution to information or knowledge sharing and the frequency of an information or knowledge requestor's use of shared knowledge. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087700 | ABSTRACTING EVENTS FOR DATA MINING - An event is described herein as being representable by a quantified abstraction of the event. The event includes at least one predicate, and the at least one predicate has at least one constant symbol corresponding thereto. An instance of the constant symbol corresponding to the event is identified, and the instance of the constant symbol is replaced by a free variable to obtain an abstracted predicate. Thus, a quantified abstraction of the event is composed as a pair: the abstracted predicate and a mapping between the free variable and an instance of the constant symbol that corresponds to the predicate. A data mining algorithm is executed over abstracted, quantified events to ascertain a correlation between the event and another event. | 2011-04-14 |
| 20110087701 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR PAIRING A SHORT DOCUMENT TO ANOTHER SHORT DOCUMENT FROM A PLURALITY OF SHORT DOCUMENTS - A computer-implemented method for pairing a new document to a document from a plurality of documents. Embodiments include, for each of the new document and the plurality of documents, generating a vector of terms of interest uniquely associated with a document of the new document and the plurality of documents. For each term of interest, an associated element value of the vector is assigned as zero if the term of interest does not occur in the document and one otherwise. The method also includes, for each document from the plurality of documents, determining a similarity between the vectors. The method also includes selecting a document from the plurality of documents as related to the new document if the similarity between the vector for the new document and the vector for the document from the plurality of documents is greater than or equal to a threshold value. | 2011-04-14 |
