21st week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 60 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110125710 | EFFICIENT CHANGE TRACKING OF TRANSCODED COPIES - A method for efficient change tracking of transcoded copies may include receiving a selection of one or more media items to synchronize with a mobile electronic device. The selection may include one or more quality preferences for syncing the one or more media items. Sync metadata may be accessed that is associated with media items stored on the mobile electronic device. A set of media items may be generated to copy to the mobile electronic device based on the selection, one or more quality preferences, and sync metadata. Also the set of media items may be copied to the mobile electronic device. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125711 | GENERATING DEVICE SPECIFIC THUMBNAILS - A method for generating device specific thumbnails may includes receiving one or more databases on a computing device from a mobile electronic device where the one or more databases include a key file and a data file. The data file may include picture data and the key file may include an index to the picture data. Also, the method may include generating a synchronization set on the computing device wherein the synchronization set includes one or more picture files to be stored on the mobile electronic device. The one or more databases may be transformed to one or more updated databases, wherein the transforming includes updating the key file to index pictures included in the synchronization set and updating the data file to include thumbnails of the pictures included in the synchronization set. The one or more updated databases may be transmitted to the mobile electronic device. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125712 | VIRTUAL COLLECTION OF ENTITIES IN SYNC PROCESS - Apparatus and methods to control selection of media content provide a mechanism to enhance user interaction with multimedia devices. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125713 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIMULTANEOUS FILE TRANSFER AND COPY ACTIONS - Embodiments of the invention broadly contemplate systems, methods, apparatuses and program storage devices providing a mechanism in which a file system and copy command (or file transfer command) allows the start of a copy operation when a file is being copied to and allow the system to continue to read the file as and when it gets updated (appended with additional data), thus permitting automated simultaneous file transfer and copy operations. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125714 | Synthetic Full Backup Generation - System and method for generating a synthetic full backup. A request to perform an incremental backup may be received at a target computer. The incremental backup may be performed on the target computer in response to the request. The target computer may maintain information identifying files that are encountered in the incremental backup. The information may be configured to be used to construct a synthetic full backup. A request to perform a synthetic full backup may be received. The information may be requested. The synthetic full backup may be constructed using the information from the target computer. A synthetic full backup index may be constructed for the synthetic full backup using records from old indexes for each file in the synthetic full backup. The synthetic full backup may be transferred to a backup image. The synthetic full backup index may be stored. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125715 | MANAGING COPIES OF DATA - A method in a computer system for retrieving data from one of multiple copies of the data is provided, referred to as the data management system. The data management system receives a request identifying at least one data object to be accessed. Then, the data management system queries a metabase to locate data copies that contain the identified at least one data object, wherein the data copies are created from similar source data, and wherein for each data copy the metabase contains an indication of the availability of the copy relative to other copies. Next, the data management system determines one of the located data copies to use to access the identified at least one data object, wherein the determination is made based on the indicated availability contained in the metabase for each of the located data copies. Then, the data management system accesses the identified at least one data object using the determined one of the located data copies. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125716 | METHOD FOR FINDING AND FIXING STABILITY PROBLEMS IN PERSONAL COMPUTER SYSTEMS - A method for assisting an administrator to identify files suspected of causing instability on a personal computer comprises periodically creating file content sharing logs concurrently with archiving files of a plurality of personal computers by de-duplicating, when a notification is received regarding instability of a personal computer, then analyzing archive file content sharing log of the personal computer made immediately after receiving the notification for unique system and program files, missing files and newly installed files to generate an instability report. A missing or corrupted file can be restored back on the unstable personal computer by performing a backup restore operation on the unstable personal computer. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125717 | Tracking Files Which Have Been Processed by a Backup or a Restore Operation - Tracking files which have been processed by a backup/restore operation. A request to perform a backup/restore operation for files on a target computer may be received at the target computer. The request may be received from a server computer. Information regarding which files on the target computer have been processed by the backup/restore operation may be maintained by the target computer. The information may be configured to be used for restart of the backup/restore operation at a requested file. Maintaining the information may include storing file identifiers into a data structure on the target computer corresponding to files that have processed by the backup/restore operation. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125718 | Public Electronic Document Dating List - Systems and methods are disclosed which enable the establishment of file dates and the absence of tampering, even for documents held in secrecy and those stored in uncontrolled environments, but which does not require trusting a timestamping authority or document archival service. A trusted timestamping authority (TTSA) may be used, but even if the TTSA loses credibility or a challenger refuses to acknowledge the validity of a timestamp, a date for an electronic document may still be established. Systems and methods are disclosed which enable detection of file duplication in large collections of documents, which can improve searching for documents within the large collection. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125719 | EFFICIENT SEGMENT DETECTION FOR DEDUPLICATION - Mechanisms are provided for efficiently detecting segments for deduplication. Data is analyzed to determine file types and file components. File types such as images may have optimal data segment boundaries set at the file boundaries. Other file types such as container files are delayered to extract objects to set optimal data segment boundaries based on file type or based on the boundaries of the individual objects. Storage of unnecessary information is minimized in a deduplication dictionary while allowing for effective deduplication. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125720 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR NETWORK EFFICIENT DEDUPLICATION - Mechanisms are provided for performing network efficient deduplication. Segments are extracted from files received for deduplication at a host connected to a target over one or more networks and/or fabrics in a deduplication system. Segment identifiers (IDs) are determined and compared with segment IDs for segments already deduplicated. Segments already deduplicated need not be transmitted to a target system. References and reference counts are modified at a target system. Updating references and reference counts may involve modifying filemaps, dictionaries, and datastore suitcases for both already deduplicated and not already deduplicated segments. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125721 | DELETION IN DATA FILE FORWARDING FRAMEWORK - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for deletion in data file forwarding framework. A framework includes a network of interconnected computer system nodes in which data files are continuously forwarded from computer memory to computer memory without storing on any physical storage device in the network, a central server coupled to the network, and a deletion server coupled to the network. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125722 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENT COMPRESSION AND DEDUPLICATION - Mechanisms are provided for performing efficient compression and deduplication of data segments. Compression algorithms are learning algorithms that perform better when data segments are large. Deduplication algorithms, however, perform better when data segments are small, as more duplicate small segments are likely to exist. As an optimizer is processing and storing data segments, the optimizer applies the same compression context to compress multiple individual deduplicated data segments as though they are one segment. By compressing deduplicated data segments together within the same context, data reduction can be improved for both deduplication and compression. Mechanisms are applied to compensate for possible performance degradation. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125723 | METHOD AND NETWORK NODE FOR UPLOADING MEDIA CONTENT FROM A USER DEVICE TO AT LEAST ONE NETWORK ENTITY - The invention relates to a method and network node for uploading media content from a user device to at least one network entity. The method comprises the step of associating a code with the at least one network entity, in a network node. The method further comprises the step of sending an address book object from the network node to the user device, said address book object comprising the code and said address book object being usable for sending a multimedia message to the network node from the user device. The method further comprise the step of receiving, in the network node, the multimedia message from the user device, said multimedia message containing the code and the media content. The method further comprise the step of updating, from the network node, the at least one network entity associated with the code with the media content. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125724 | INTELLIGENT SEARCH SYSTEM - A method and system for intelligent searching having a return result count module for determining the search result count for a keyword as well as a sequence of keywords and returning the result count in real time and an auto-determine module for automatically deciding whether keywords entered by a user should be combined using union (conjunction) or intersection (disjunction). | 2011-05-26 |
20110125725 | Flexible-Date Travel Queries - Techniques for processing flexible-date queries are described. Techniques include a interface to enter a flexible date query including a description of a traveler's desired stay at a destination. A user receives a set of solutions that satisfy the flexible date query in the form of a calendar. The set of solutions can be stored in a database for eventual retrieval of a subset of the set of solutions to render to a user. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125726 | SMART ALGORITHM FOR READING FROM CRAWL QUEUE - A smart algorithm for processing transaction from a crawl queue. If the crawler has in memory a predetermined number of URLs for a given host, the crawler reads from the crawl queue URLs from other hosts. As a result the crawler processes multiple hosts concurrently, and thus, uses machine resources more effectively and efficiently to process the URLs. The smart algorithm can further consider other criteria in deciding which URLs to read from the queue. These criteria can include the response time for each repository (host) the crawler processes. Additionally, the crawler can allocate its resources according to content groups (e.g., two pools), one group for faster content delivery and the second group one for slower content delivery. Thus, crawler resources can be partitioned or divided across different pools depending on repository response time. Other criteria can be provided and considered as well. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125727 | CONTENT ORIENTED INDEX AND SEARCH METHOD AND SYSTEM - This present invention describes an innovative solution in the area of indexing and searching binary files including various binary files such as multimedia files, including image files, mp3 files and other audio/video files from the public Internet. The invention introduces a way to index binary files such as multimedia files according to their content signatures, which uniquely identify themselves, and search for related files by walking through a graph database constructed during the index phase. The present invention can be used in a search engine and a download engine, as well as with text based index and search technologies. As a result, such extended usage will broaden a multimedia file's context and increase relevant accuracy of the keywords describing the context. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125728 | Systems and Methods for Indexing Information for a Search Engine - Embodiments of the invention form an information set from the current set of index information available by the operations of the pre-search and runtime Search components of the search engine. A search request that contains search terms and/or other search criteria (e.g. date or file type) is entered by a user through an input interface. The search terms and the information set are worked through the search engine modules to provide the actual results sought by the user. These results are provided to the user via an output interface. Embodiments involve scanning the repository for documents that comprise at least one information type, and forming a numerical matrix from the scanned documents. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125729 | ANALYZING XML DATA - Embodiments of the invention disclose a method, a system and a computer program product of discovering automated insights in XML data by generating a query result in response to querying data using a query, wherein the data is in a markup language format, and identifying a pattern associated with the query result, wherein the data in the markup language format is used for pattern identification. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125730 | Optimizing Queries to Hierarchically Structured Data - Techniques are disclosed for optimizing queries to hierarchically structured data. For example, a method for processing a query directed to data having a hierarchical structure with a plurality of data nodes comprises the following steps. One or more structural attributes describing the hierarchical structure of the data are identified. The query is partitioned into two or more query partitions using at least one of the one or more identified structural attributes. A parallel execution plan is determined for the query by splitting into components one or more of: the query into at least two of the query partitions; and the hierarchical structure of the data. The split components are executed in parallel on different computer processes according to the parallel execution plan. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125731 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a structure analysis section that analyzes display control data in which information related to display control is written and which includes a plurality of structural units, and that extracts the structural unit included in the display control data, a layout setting section that sets layout information which is used when displaying the display control data on a display screen based on the structural unit extracted by the structure analysis section, a keyword extraction section that extracts a keyword from a display content corresponding to the structural unit, and a content search section that searches image content corresponding to the keyword extracted by the keyword extraction section. The layout setting section places the image content searched by the content search section in a display region, in which the structural unit including the keyword corresponding to the image content is displayed. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125732 | INTERNAL RANKING MODEL REPRESENTATION SCHEMA - A markup language schema utilized to represent internal ranking models. In one implementation, the schema developed utilizes XML (extensible markup language) for internal ranking model representation. Other markups languages can be employed. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125733 | QUICK ACCESS UTILITY - Users are enabled to perform tasks such as creating new content, searching for items, communicating with other users through a simplified access interface, at the same time defining a location for the access interface. A user may begin typing at any location on a canvas. The system ranks possible outcomes, suggesting one as the best match, where the user can override that choice upon which the resulting action is displayed at the point the input was initially placed. The user may be provided options to select among available tasks and the tasks may be performed without selecting an application. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125734 | QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GENERATION - A system, method and/or computer program product for automatically generating questions and answers based on any corpus of data. The computer system, given a collection of textual documents, automatically generates collections of questions about the documents together with answers to those questions. In particular, such a process can be applied to the so called ‘open’ domain, where the type of the corpus is not given in advance, and neither is the ontology of the corpus. The system improves the exploring of large bodies of textual information. Applications implementing the system and method include new types of tutoring systems, educational question-answering games, national security and business analysis systems, etc. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125735 | Architecture for responding to a visual query - A visual query such as a photograph, a screen shot, a scanned image, a video frame, or an image created by a content authoring application is submitted to a visual query search system. The search system processes the visual query by sending it to a plurality of parallel search systems, each implementing a distinct visual query search process. These parallel search systems may include but are not limited to optical character recognition (OCR), facial recognition, product recognition, bar code recognition, object-or-object-category recognition, named entity recognition, and color recognition. Then at least one search result is sent to the client system. In some embodiments, when the visual query is an image containing a text element and a non-text element, at least one search result includes an optical character recognition result for the text element and at least one image-match result for the non-text element. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125736 | Selecting High Quality Reviews for Display - A method and system of selecting reviews for display are described. Reviews for a subject are identified. A subset of the identified reviews is selected based on predefined quality criteria. The selection may also be based on zero or more other predefined criteria. A response that includes content from the selected reviews is generated. The content may include the full content or snippets of at least some of the selected reviews. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125737 | Type Projection Query Of An Instance Space - Technologies are described herein for applying type projection queries to instance space graphs. Through the utilization of the technologies and concepts presented herein, a type projection may be used to describe the hierarchy of instance types connected by relationships within an instance space graph. A type projection query based on the type projection may be dynamically generated to query instances and relationships within the instance store. Filter criteria for the query can be expressed using a path notation. Results from of the type projection query may be provided as graphs of instances and relationships which are subgraphs of the queried instance space graph. Programmatic traversal of the resultant subgraph can navigate to each instance node within the result space. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125738 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING SECONDARY SEARCH ACTIONS BASED ON PRIMARY SEARCH RESULT ATTRIBUTES - A method and system are provided for enhancing an initial set of data values generated by a query of one or more data stores. File parameters and file types are retrieved from the initial query and used to generate a second set of searches, actions, and information related to the initial set of data values. The results from the initial query and the secondary query are displayed on a presentation device. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125739 | ALGORITHMICALLY CHOOSING WHEN TO USE BRANDED CONTENT VERSUS AGGREGATED CONTENT - A method and apparatus for optimizing content on a topic page includes receiving a query for a topic at a topic page on a client and transmitting the query from the topic page on the client to a web application on a server. The web application includes algorithm to analyze the query to identify a plurality of content modules that match the query. The content modules are identified from anyone of a branded source or an un-branded source. One or more module performance indicators are computed for each of the identified content modules. An aggregate module performance indicator for each of the plurality of content modules is generated from the one or more computed module performance indicators. One or more content modules from the identified plurality of content modules are automatically selected for rendering on the topic page based on the aggregate module performance indicator associated with each of the identified content modules. The resulting topic page includes content modules from just the branded source, just the un-branded source or an aggregate of content modules from both branded source and un-branded source providing optimal content that is most relevant to the query. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125740 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING TEXT - The present invention generally relates to a method and system for generating text, and particularly but not exclusively to a method and system for generating syntactically correct text for a report. The ability of an expert system to interpret data is limited by the same factor that limits a human expert—data complexity. Therefore, traditional expert systems suffer limitations in interpreting ever increasing volumes of complex data and in converting such data to knowledge. The present invention provides a means for interpreting complex data and in converting such data to knowledge expressed in a textual report. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125741 | USING POINT-IN-TIME VIEWS IN A DATABASE - A data-warehousing system allows various areas of an enterprise to view data at varying levels of data freshness. The system acquires data that represents an event in the life of a business enterprise, such as a transaction between the enterprise and one of its customers, and loads this data into a database table. The system then makes the data available for retrieval from the table and stores information indicating when the data was made available for retrieval. In some embodiments, the system also acquires data that is related to and more current than the data representing the event and stores the more current data in the database. The system then stores information indicating when the more current data was stored in the database. Such a data warehouse allows decision-makers in the business to see some information (e.g., customer transaction or account data) up-to-the-moment and other information as it stood at some specific point-in-time, such as at the end of the previous month. The data-warehousing system does this without requiring duplication of data, i.e., without requiring the replication of data in multiple databases or tables. The system allows the enterprise to maintain all of its data in a single database with refresh periods as short as the enterprise wishes. Departments that demand data that changes less frequently can view the data as it stood at some point prior to the last refresh. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125742 | Auto-Publishing Photo Albums On A Home Server - A system for selectively publishing multimedia files | 2011-05-26 |
20110125743 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A CONTEXTUAL MODEL BASED UPON USER CONTEXT DATA - An approach is provided for providing a contextual model based upon user context data. A context modeling platform collects context data of a user from a plurality of sources, and the sources include at least online activities of the user. The context modeling platform maps the collected user context data as context data points into a multidimensional contextual model. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125744 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING A CONTEXTUAL MODEL BASED ON OFFLINE USER CONTEXT DATA - An approach is provided for providing a contextual model based upon user context data. A context modeling platform collects context data on offline activities of a user. The context modeling platform maps the collected user context data as context data points into a multidimensional contextual model. The context modeling platform causes, at least in part, actions that result in reception of at least one multidimensional contextual model of another user. The context modeling platform compares the multidimensional contextual model of the user with the multidimensional contextual model of the another user. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125745 | Balancing Data Across Partitions of a Table Space During Load Processing - A balancing technique allows a database administrator to perform a mass data load into a relational database employing partitioned tablespaces. The technique automatically balances the usage of the partitions in a tablespace as the data is loaded. Previous definitions of the partitions are modified after the loading of the data into the tablespace to conform with the data loaded into the tablespace. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125746 | DYNAMIC MACHINE ASSISTED INFORMATICS - A method of identifying a network of actors within a data set, the method comprising: —importing data from one or more data sources; —normalising the data in one or more fields to create a consolidated data set; —identifying one or more networks based on identical or similar instances of one or more pieces of data in the consolidated data set; and —calculating a measure of influence of one or more of the actors in an identified network. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125747 | DATA CLASSIFICATION BASED ON POINT-OF-VIEW DEPENDENCY - Data classification is used to classified input items by associating the input items with one or more classes from a set of one or more classes in a data classification system, including identifying relevant features in an input item to form a feature vector for the input item, receiving at the data classification system an indication of a point-of-view, adjusting the feature vector according to the point-of-view indication or modifying a pattern discriminator (e.g., trainer and classifier) to inline-process feature vectors depending on the provided point-of-view (e.g., SVM custom kernels), and classifying the input item into the set of classes according to the point-of-view. The point-of-view data can be introduced either as a pre-process step prior to passing it off to the pattern discrimination algorithm, or can be incorporated directly into the pattern discrimination algorithm if applicable. The pattern discrimination algorithms can detect arbitrary patterns given a similarly prepared dataset during both training and subsequent classification of unclassified documents. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125748 | Method and Apparatus for Real Time Identification and Recording of Artifacts - Methods and a system of method and apparatus for real time identification and recording of artifacts are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of network database maintenance includes designating a network packet data to be stored in one of a packet capture repository and a file system resident database to indicate an artifact type, a protocol type, an application, a user-definable attribute, and a temporal session duration based on a real-time packet inspection. The method includes grouping the designated packet data in a database including packet data having a similar one of the artifact type, the protocol type, the application, the user-definable attribute and the temporal session duration. In addition, the method of network database maintenance includes indexing the database to point to a memory location of the designated packet data grouped in the database in the packet capture repository. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125749 | Method and Apparatus for Storing and Indexing High-Speed Network Traffic Data - Storing and indexing of high-speed network traffic data is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of network database maintenance includes sequentially recording in real-time packet header and/or packet content attributes derived from network packets captured and stored in one of a packet capture repository and a file system in database units ordered by arrival of the network packet data. In addition, the method includes indexing each database unit to point to a memory location of the network packet data in one of the packet capture repository and the file system. The method also includes computing a hash value on certain input data and creating index bitmaps on each database unit to facilitate grouping of a similar attributes associated with the network packet data recorded in the database units. The resulting data may then be stored in compressed and/or encrypted formats on a file system for efficiency and security. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125750 | VISUAL STRUCTURING OF MULTIVARIABLE DATA - Providing visual structuring of multivariable data sets in records includes: defining a key field for sorting the records; sorting the records by the key field to find patterns; grouping equivalent field values of the key field in an equivalent field value group; forming corresponding blocks for each equivalent field value group, displaying only one field value for each block, and masking all other field values of the block. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125751 | System And Method For Generating Cluster Spines - A system and method for generating cluster spines is provided. Clusters of documents are maintained. Each document is associated with a document concept that is formed from one or more terms extracted from that document. At least one cluster concept is determined for each cluster. The document concepts are ranked and at least one of the document concepts that is highly ranked is selected as the cluster concept. One or more spines are formed. Each spine includes two or more clusters that share at least one of the cluster concepts. The shared cluster concept is identified as a spine concept. One or more of the remaining clusters is assigned to the spines based on a similarity between the cluster concepts for the remaining clusters and the spine concepts for the formed spines. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125752 | Network security data management system and method - A system for compiling security data from an information network includes at least two network components ( | 2011-05-26 |
20110125753 | DATA DELIVERY FOR A CONTENT SYSTEM - A computer-implemented system and method for enabling data delivery in a content browsing and recommendation system are disclosed. The system and method in an example embodiment include: gathering available content information related to particular items of content from a plurality of content sources via a data network; processing the content information, using a data processor, to associate particular items of content information with content catalogs; storing the processed content information into a database with information identifying associated content catalogs; and providing a service, accessible via the data network, to enable a user platform to search the processed content information in the database based on a content catalog identifier. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125754 | Reverse Dynamic Filter-Linked Pages System And Method - Systems and methods for linking to attribute or category pages from a product landing page are described. The landing pages are dynamic filter linked pages (DFLL). Reverse DFLL links specifications in the product landing page back to a result set for an attribute or category using the links. An index builder (one for each category) analyzes the product record data to identify the entire set of values for a category. The index builder then generates category metadata based on this analysis that identifies all of the values within an attribute and/or category. When a request for a particular page is received by the web application, the reverse DFLL links are created for that product page (i.e., the links are created in real time). The specification values for the requested product are compared to the category metadata. If a match is identified, a link is created for that specification in the product landing page that links back to the attribute or category. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125755 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THUMBNAIL MANAGEMENT - Embodiments of various systems, methods, and computer readable media are disclosed herein for a system for managing media content. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125756 | PRESENTATION OF INFORMATION BASED ON CURRENT ACTIVITY - Data elevation architecture for automatically and dynamically surfacing to a user interface (UI) context-specific data based on specific workflow or content currently being worked on by a user. Data is broken down into data elements and stored at a data element level in a data catalog using metadata, attributes, and relationships. Data elements are automatically selected from a comprehensive collection of the data catalogs based on relevancy and correlation to the current user task. The data catalog stores and relates the data elements and metadata based on criteria specified by content matching based on business terms or specified in a business process in predefined relationships between forms or specified by the user as correlated. The UI displays the data automatically in forms dynamically selected, populated, and presented at the point of focus or user activity so that the user can interact or take action immediately. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125757 | DISTRIBUTED COLLABORATIVE KNOWLEDGE GENERATION SYSTEM - System and method related to a distributed collaborative knowledge generation system are disclosed. The distributed collaborative knowledge generation system includes one or more databases configured to store content information related to the distributed collaborative knowledge generation system, a search services module configured to search for the content information, a web services module configured to retrieve and gather the content information, a presentation services module configured to share the content data with multiple users, and a data services module configured to manage the content information by providing interfaces between the one or more databases, the search services module, the web services module, and the presentation services module. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125758 | Collaborative Automated Structured Tagging - A collaborative automated structured tagging method, apparatus, and computer readable medium generate tags for an asset based on context items and the content of the asset. The tags are then ranked and stored until requested by a user or system. Users viewing the asset and the ranked tags can select tags indicating that the tags correctly define the asset. Users can also enter new tags for assets. The user input is then used to re-rank the tags associated with the particular asset. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125759 | Method and system to contextualize information being displayed to a user - Provided is a system and related methods for collecting and storing in a local storage the information extracted. The information stored in this step may include data extracted from the user's navigation on websites, data pushed to the user via his subscriptions to social networks, rss feeds, emails, and data representing the interaction of the user with the web browser and its content. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125760 | USING TAGS IN AN ENTERPRISE SEARCH SYSTEM - An interface can allow for associating documents with tags. A search system can use connections between the tags and documents to determine search-independent rank values for the documents. The search-independent rank values can be combined with term matching indications to get a total relevance of the document. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125761 | AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF SEMANTICS FROM TEXT INFORMATION - The present invention provides systems, methods and computer program products for extracting semantic information from text data having metadata associated therewith. A method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes selecting an ordered set of scale values for a plurality of scales and, for each of the scale values, determining one or more subset of metadata information related to the scale value. For each of the scales and associated subsets, a statistic on occurrences of content associated with the metadata in each subset is determined and the statistics are aggregated for each scale and associated subsets to determine a semantic level for the content. The scales and associated subsets having content with a semantic level above a threshold may be determined to extract semantic information across multiple time frames with the ordered set of scale values for the plurality of scales. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125762 | Method for generating processing specifications for a stream of data items - The present invention concerns a method for generating at least one processing specification ( | 2011-05-26 |
20110125763 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING SIMILARITY OF MEDIA INTEREST - An approach is provided for finding users with similar media interest. A media service platform retrieves a first media profile of a first user and a second media profile of a second user, wherein each of the profiles includes information of a plurality of media parameters and playback data relating to at least one of the plurality of media parameters. Next, the media service computes similarity values between the first user and the second user based on the weighted playback data of the media profiles. The media service platform then determines a similarity score between the first user and the second user using the similarity values. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125764 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED QUERY EXPANSION IN FACETED SEARCH - A method and system for improved query expansion in faceted search are provided. The method includes: receiving a search query; expanding the search query to obtain query expansion terms; and receiving a facet selection for the search query. A facet profile is retrieved in the form of collected important terms for the facet; and the query expansion terms are weighted by comparing them to the facet profile. The query expansion terms are re-ranked and the method includes executing the re-weighted query expansion terms whilst filtering for the facet. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125765 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING MEDIA PROFILE - An approach is provided for updating a media profile. The social media service receives a request, from a device, to update a content object, wherein the content object includes a content playlist for expressing a content preference of a user of the device. Then, the social media service, in response to the request, automatically retrieves information related to the content preference from the device or another device associated with the user. Next, the social media service selects one or more content items to include in the content playlist based on the retrieved content preference information. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125766 | Optimizing the Efficiency of an Image Retrieval System - Aspects of this disclosure relate a system for retrieving images that may include one or more mainframe computer sites or Logical Partitions (LPARS) one or more servers operatively connected to the LPARS, and one or more databases operatively connected one or more of the LPARS. The system may also include a processor that may be configured to perform a method for generating electronic cash letters. The method for generating electronic cash letters may include reading a primary input key file assigned to the cash letter job, wherein the primary input key file includes a set of keys and each key corresponds to an image stored in one of the databases. The method may further include splitting the keys in the primary input key file into individual key files. The method may further include attaching a key processor subtask to each of the individual key files and running the key processor subtasks concurrently and independently of one another, wherein each of the key processor subtasks connects to one of the servers via TCP/IP protocol and retrieves the images from the particular database to which the keys in individual key files correspond. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125767 | System and Methods for Updating User Profiles and Providing Selected Documents to Users - The present invention provides an improved recommender system. In some embodiments, the recommender system automatically builds a user profile for a user based solely on the action or actions the user takes with respect to certain documents and the contents of the documents. That is, the profile is based on implicit ratings. In addition to maintaining a user profile for each user, each document in a set of documents will have its own document profile, which is also referred to as a document vector. Advantageously, in some embodiments, the user profile will consist of the same attributes as the document vectors. This advantageous feature enables the recommender system to compare users and documents in order to generate recommendations. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125768 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus capable of reliably accessing files associated with file identification information generated based on more character code systems, without necessitating a large-capacity memory. When the information processing apparatus (MFP) acquires file identification information, a CPU of the MFP determines whether or not the MFP is capable of performing processing based on a predetermined character code system used for describing the identification information. When the MFP is not capable of performing processing based on the character code system, the CPU converts the identification information described in the predetermined character code system into substitute character codes processable thereby. Then, the CPU registers the substitute character codes and the original character codes before the conversion in a map table in association with each other. When the processing on the file is completed, the CPU deletes the substitute character codes and the original character codes from the map table. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125769 | TARGETED USER NOTIFICATION OF MESSAGES IN A MONITORING SYSTEM - A system and method of targeting message notifications in a monitoring system is provided including a notification module ( | 2011-05-26 |
20110125770 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING IDENTITY RESOLUTION - A method, apparatus, and computer program product are therefore provided for an identity resolution application to handle identity resolution issues that arise when data regarding a persona is available from multiple sources. A method may be provided that includes receiving an indication that a first profile represents a persona of interest, searching for potential profile matches that are at least partially related to the persona of interest, and assessing a confidence level that the potential profile match belongs to the persona of interest. The method may further include providing for presentation of a potential profile match and receiving a confirmation that a potential profile match belongs to the persona of interest where the potential profile match then becomes a confirmed profile match. The first profile may comprise a plurality of data elements related to the persona of interest. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125771 | DATA DE-DUPLICATION IN A DISPERSED STORAGE NETWORK UTILIZING DATA CHARACTERIZATION - A method begins with a processing module receiving, from a requesting device, a data storage request that includes data for storage. The method continues with the processing module determining whether substantially identical data is currently stored in a dispersed storage network (DSN) memory. The method continues with the processing module encoding at least a portion of the data using an error coding dispersal storage function to produce a set of encoded data slices, sending the set of encoded data slices to the DSN memory for storage therein, and generating a unique retrieval matrix for the requesting device, wherein the unique retrieval matrix identifies a sub-set of encoded data slices of the set of encoded data slices for subsequent retrieval of the at least a portion of the data, when the substantially identical data is not stored in the DSN memory. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125772 | QUERY-TIME AND VIEW-TIME SECURITY FOR SEMANTIC LAYER - Aspects may include determination of a first security profile associated with a user and an information space, the information space comprising metadata indicating a plurality of objects mapped to logical entities of a hierarchical data structure, reception of a request from the user for an interface for creating queries to the hierarchical data structure, and determination, based on the first security profile, of a first subset of the plurality of objects based on which the user is allowed to create queries. A query is executed based on one or more of the first subset of objects, data of the hierarchical data structure is received in response to execution of the query, a second subset of the received data which the user is allowed to view is determined based on the first security profile, and the second subset of the received data is presented to the user. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125773 | Logical Object Search Framework and Application Programming Interface - A method, computer program product, and system for executing and administering queries in a data management system, and particularly a relational data management system. Logical objects can be queried by providing a translation from a logical query in a pre-defined logical schema to a physical query against the physical data management system, such as by translating a database query constructed using an Object Query Language (OQL) into a query in Structured Query Language (SQL) without the user needing to know the details of the physical data management system such as the structure of the underlying relational databases. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125774 | CONTENT INTEGRATION FOR A CONTENT SYSTEM - A computer-implemented system and method for enabling content integration in a content browsing and recommendation system are disclosed. The system and method in an example embodiment includes: gathering available content information related to particular items of content from a plurality of content sources via a data network; processing the content information, using a data processor, to provide a searchable database of processed content information; providing a service, accessible via the data network, to enable a user platform to request a search of the processed content information and identify a selected content item; and directing at least one content source to provide the selected content item directly to the user platform. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125775 | CREATING AN AGGREGATE REPORT OF A PRESENCE OF A USER ON A NETWORK - A method performed by a physical computing device communicatively coupled to a computer network for creating an aggregate report of a presence of a user of the physical computing device on the network includes periodically searching the network with the physical computing device for content related to the user authored by a source other than the user, the searching being based on a unique set of identifiers associated with the user, dynamically updating the unique set of identifiers based on contextual trends within content returned as a result of the searching, and aggregating content published by the user to the network with the content returned as a result of the searching to form the aggregate report of the presence of the user on the network. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125776 | Service Oriented Architecture Enterprise Service Bus With Advanced Virtualization - A method and apparatus for discovering services in a service registry. When an enterprise service bus receives a service request, the enterprise service bus determines whether the service name in the request exists in a service registry. If not, the enterprise service bus parses the service name into constituent words, obtains synonyms for each constituent word, and constructs new service names using the synonyms in the same word order as the constituent words in the service name. The enterprise service bus determines whether the constructed service names exist in the registry. If so, the enterprise service bus obtains an address of a service provider application associated with the constructed service name in the registry and sends a request for the service matching the constructed service name to the service provider application. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125777 | Sense and Match Advertising Content - The present disclosure generally provides a method for delivering targeted content to a user device based on environmental variables sensed at or near the user device. At least one sensed environmental variable associated with a user device is received. At least one environmental state is determined based on the at least one environmental variable. Content is then selected to be delivered to the user device based on the at least one environmental state, and the selected content is delivered to the user device. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125778 | STREAM DATA PROCESSING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND STREAM DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS - A stream data processing method to be used in a stream data processing apparatus that receives stream data including time information, the steam data processing method comprising: calculating an input interval and a first reference time; a second step of calculating, a second reference time based on the first reference time and the input interval; and, a third step of generating stream data having new time information based on the second reference time. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125779 | Broadcast Network Platform System - A commercial search engine for searchmercials. The system manages and searches advertising media video and audio files and associating the media with one or more calls to action. The system contains Metadata utilized for various queries including search, channels of distribution and account information. The system uses a manually data entry interface or a custom retrieval system to selectively update media files and Metadata from Meta tags or feeds on a scheduled basis automatically without having to manually update this data in the system. The system spiders these custom Meta tags or feeds for new Metadata on a scheduled basis to automate the submission and programming of the searchmercials content over the search engine. The system provides videos tailored for search in the results list in order to better inform users as to the contents of a link URL. The system can also provide users with other call to action options such as click to call, literature, order forms, etc. The system can schedule searchmercials to target users by time of day, location, device, and other parameters to offer a call to action to different audiences. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125780 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE CAPABLE OF AUTOMATICALLY TRANSMITTING FILES AND METHOD THEREOF - A method for automatically transmitting files applied in an electronic device is provided. The electronic device stores a plurality of files and information associated with files executed by the electronic device. The information of each of the files executed by the electronic device includes a file name, a storage path, a plurality of execution commands, and an execution time corresponding to each of the execution commands. The method includes: receiving image content including time information from an external device communicating with the electronic device; obtaining the time information from the received image content; comparing the time information with the stored execution time to determine the content of which file is displayed and visible at the obtained time; and finding the determined file according to the file name and the storage path of the file and transmitting the file to the external device. A related electronic device is also provided. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125781 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD FOR THESE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is an image processing apparatus and a control method for the same that alleviate the trouble entailed in a user operation when executing processes by combining a plurality of functions, and that, in the case where a process has been selected from a usage history, reliably execute the process with use of settings intended by a user. To accomplish this, if the user has been successfully authenticated, the image processing apparatus selects a process definition file that is to be executed from among previously used process definition files corresponding to identification information used in the user authentication, and obtains the selected process definition file from a management apparatus. If content of a defined process differs between the previously used process definition file and the obtained process definition file, the image processing apparatus inquires the user as to whether the obtained process definition file is to be used. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125782 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED SUPPLEMENTAL PROGRAMMING - A method and apparatus for providing personalized supplemental programming is provided. In one embodiment, the invention can include searching text for a keyword, the text associated with primary programming to be provided to an element of an entertainment system, accessing a database upon finding the keyword, retrieving content associated with the keyword from the database, combining the retrieved content with the primary programming to generate combined programming, and providing the combined programming to the element of the entertainment system. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125783 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ADAPTIVE QUESTIONING AND RECOMMENDING - By adaptive questioning in a way that is entertaining, recommendations can be presented to a subscriber even with a limited amount of user profile information. Moreover, the questioning can allow a subscriber to learn something about himself. Each interaction can be short as well as light hearted and fun in order to accommodate intermittent usage with frequent interruptions. Intermixing questions/recommendation selections that are focused on gaining profile information as well as being somewhat random can unexpectedly learn something about the subscriber while keeping the user experience entertaining. Personal details can be avoided and tools for editing stored personal information can enhance a sense of privacy in order to induce trust. Questions and other responses can lead to other questions in a manner that allows characterizing a subscriber so that recommended offerings can be selected that are appropriate. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125784 | PLAYBACK OF SYNCHRONIZED MEDIA ARCHIVES AUGMENTED WITH USER NOTES - Systems and methods allow collaboration based on media archive based systems. Collaboration events are processed within media archive based systems. End user collaborations are improved and the overall content of the original media archive is enhanced. The collaborative content is modified via the addition of user notes and targeted user notes. User notes can comprise one or more media resources, media archive, or other form of computer readable data. Media resources of user notes are synchronized with the media resources of the media archive. Users can request playback of portions of the media archive. The requested portions of the media archive are presented to the requestor along with user notes associated with positions within the requested portion. Portions of the media archive can be redacted and withheld from presentation to a set of users. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125785 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING REQUESTED FIELDS BY GET-DATA OPERATION IN TV-ANYTIME METADATA SERVICE - Disclosed is a method or an operation for providing a personalized TV-Anytime metadata service. According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing a table field element using a get_Data operation in the TV-Anytime metadata service. In the table field element provision method, a requested fields type element (RequestedFieldsType) required to designate a field of a metadata table is included in a query result value type in the SOAP query operation. A request message of the SOAP query operation is received. When the request message includes the requested fields type element for designating the query result value, a query result value corresponding to the table field designated from the requested fields type element included in the request message is extracted, and the query result value is transmitted using a response message of the SOAP operation. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125786 | Architecture Optimized for Application Data Sharing Within a Mobile Communications Device - The present disclosure discloses a mobile communication device comprising a local common address database object accessible to at least one application; a communication subsystem for communicating with a network; and a database querying logic module. The database querying logic module, in conjunction with the at least one application, is operable to receive a query relating to an address record; determine that no record in a local common database disposed on the mobile communications device meets the conditions of the received query; query, via the network, a remote database for at least one remote matching record meeting the conditions of the received query; receive, via the network, the at least one remote matching record; and update the local common address database object to incorporate the at least one remote matching record. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125787 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRESENTING SENSORY EFFECTS AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING USER SENSORY PREFERENCE METADATA - Provided are method and apparatus for representing sensory effects, and a computer readable recording medium storing user sensory preference metadata. A method for providing user preference information includes: receiving preference information for predetermined sensory effects from a user; and generating user sensory preference metadata including the received preference information, wherein the user sensory preference metadata includes personal preference information that describes the preference information. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125788 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRESENTING SENSORY EFFECTS AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING SENSORY DEVICE CAPABILITY METADATA - Provided are method and apparatus for representing sensory effects, and a computer readable recording medium storing sensory device capability metadata. A method for providing sensory device capability information includes: obtaining capability information for sensory devices; and generating sensory device capability metadata including the capability information, wherein the sensory device capability metadata includes device capability information that describes the capability information. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125789 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRESENTING SENSORY EFFECTS AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING SENSORY DEVICE COMMAND METADATA - Provided are method and apparatus for representing sensory effects, and a computer readable recording medium storing sensory device command metadata. A method for representing sensory effects, includes: receiving sensory effect metadata including sensory effect information; obtaining the sensory effect information by analyzing the sensory effect metadata; and generating sensory device command metadata for controlling sensory devices corresponding to the sensory effect information, wherein the sensory device command metadata includes sensory device command description information for controlling the sensory devices. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125790 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRESENTING SENSORY EFFECTS AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING SENSORY EFFECT METADATA - Provided are method and apparatus for representing sensory effects, and a computer readable recording medium storing sensory effect metadata. A method for generating sensory effect media, includes: receiving sensory effect information about sensory effects applied to media; and generating sensory effect metadata including the received sensory effect information, wherein the sensory effect metadata includes sensory effect description information for describing the sensory effects and the sensory effect description information includes media location information that describes locations in the media where the sensory effects are applied to. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125791 | QUERY CLASSIFICATION USING SEARCH RESULT TAG RATIOS - Techniques are described herein for classifying a search query with respect to query intent using search result tag ratios. A tag is a character or a combination of characters (e.g., one or more words) that indicates a property of a document, such as a topic of the document, a type of entity (i.e., subject matter) the document references, etc. A search result tag ratio is defined as a fraction (e.g., a proportion, a percentage, etc.) of the documents in a search result that includes a respective tag. A search query may be classified based on back-off ratios, which are tag ratios of search queries that are related to the search query to be classified. Tag ratios may be pre-computed (i.e., calculated before the corresponding search queries are received from users). | 2011-05-26 |
20110125792 | Data Distribution System - To readily select a data file to be obtained from among data files to be distributed, or to readily recommend such a data file to a user, while suppressing a load imposed on a data distribution system. A data distribution system comprises a distribution device for holding data files which are distribution objects, and user terminals. Each of the user terminals obtains each of file pieces from any of other user terminals or the distribution devices, the file pieces being obtained by dividing one object file among the data files to be distributed, obtains a list of data files having been obtained by another user terminal when obtaining a file piece from the other user terminal, and assembles the obtained file pieces to obtain the object file, in which information of the data files included in the obtained list is used in selecting a data file to be newly obtained. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125793 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING RESPONSE CHANNEL FOR A CONTACT CENTER FROM HISTORIC SOCIAL MEDIA POSTINGS - Some social networks provide message histories that record information about previous posts that users make to the social media network. From this information, a contact center determines trends in the usage of a social media network by a user. The contact center can mine the message history database for times, frequency of posts, location of the user during posts, and other information provided in the message histories. From this information or metadata about the messages, the contact center develops trends about the user's postings of messages on social media networks. The contact center can further receive subsequent posts and read metadata related to the subsequent posts. The new metadata can be used to modify the trends over time. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125794 | METHOD OF PROVIDING A CAR POOLING ASSISTANCE THROUGH A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The invention relates to a method which receives location information of a mobile terminal of a single user. One or more journeys are extracted from the location information of the single user. The corresponding journey data is stored in a journey database. From the journey data in the journey database, journey patterns for the single user are extracted. A journey pattern indicates at least the regularity of a particular journey in time, i.e. over a number of days. The journey patterns are stored in the pattern database. The journey patterns of the single user are matched with patterns of other users. If a match is found, at least one match based on the journey patterns is sent to the single user. These features enable the carpool service to find a match which takes into account the regularity across a period of days. By identifying the regularity, a better match can be made with users which travel the same route, as also the days on which the users travel are taken into account. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125795 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING A MULTIMEDIA ITEM - Multimedia items are selected from a plurality of candidate multimedia items by: | 2011-05-26 |
20110125796 | SERVICE FOR CREATING ONLINE REVIEW SITE AND FACILITATING WORD-OF-MOUTH ONLINE - A system and method of gathering, validating and disseminating reviews about an organization is disclosed. Reviews from customers of businesses are invited and thereafter selectively provided to third parties using various means. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125797 | USING LUN TYPE FOR STORAGE ALLOCATION - In an embodiment of the invention, an apparatus uses a LUN (logical unit number) data type for storage allocation. The apparatus includes a storage appliance that specifies a LUN data type for a LUN. The storage appliance then allocates data blocks in the LUN based on the LUN data type. The storage appliance allocates data blocks in the LUN as contiguous data blocks or as non-contiguous data blocks, based on the LUN data type. The LUN data type may be, for example, database data type, user data type, or binary data type. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125798 | TEAM SUPPORT IN CHANGE RECORDING AND VERSIONING SYSTEMS - Implementations of the present disclosure provide computer-implemented methods including generating a changelist corresponding to at least one computer code object that is digitally stored in a repository database, assigning a team to the changelist, the team comprising a plurality of members, initiating access to the computer code object using a computer that is in communication with the repository database, enabling access to the computer code object when a user of the computer is a member of the team, and prohibiting access to the computer code object when the user of the computer is not a member of the team. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125799 | Extensible Access Control List Framework - Methods, systems, and products for governing access to objects on a filesystem. In one general embodiment, the method includes providing a framework in an operating system environment for support of a plurality of access control list (ACL) types, thereby enabling governing of access to objects on a filesystem according to an associated definition of an ACL type; and accepting definitions of ACL types. The associated definition may comprise a kernel extension. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125800 | SERVICE REGISTRY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAVING AND RESTORING A FACETED SELECTION - An ordered sequence of two or more facet provider objects are associated and each is configured to select successive subsets of data in a registry via a database upon a user request to create and configure a faceted selection. Upon a user selection of a save feature, each associated facet provider object is serialized in the ordered sequence, and each serialization is collected into an ordered list of serializations and saved. The serialization of each facet provider object is performed by one of the respective facet provider object and a facet provider object of a same type as the respective facet provider object. A selection statement is constructed from the associated facet provider objects in the ordered sequence. A difference between the constructed selection statement and an actual selection statement is calculated and the selection statement difference is appended to the saved ordered list of serializations. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125801 | SYSTEMS FOR RECEIVING AND FORMING MARKETPLACES FOR WORKING ON DIGITAL INFORMATION BLOCKS - A remote access medical image exchange system utilizes a decentralized, i.e., self-organizing, distribution system combined with bid queues to establish a market place which allows for continuously negotiated prices with control (over who reads the images, when they are read and what the fee will be for such a reading) being placed in the hands of the patient/gatekeeper and the diagnostic physician. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125802 | Operating a Network Using Relational Database Methodology - In one embodiment, the disclosed technology involves modeling network elements, such as router configurations and link information, as well as any generic network status, as data in a relational database. Various network data, such as router states and link states are abstracted into tables in the relational database. Network management operations may then be represented as a series of transactional database queries and insertions. As a result, the database automatically propagates, to the appropriate network elements, state changes that are written to database tables, thereby implementing various network operations. Tables in the database can be constructed at various levels of abstraction, as required to satisfy network operational demands. Programmability is provided by a declarative language composed of a series of database queries and insertions. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125803 | USABILITY EVALUATION APPARATUS, USABILITY EVALUATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A usability evaluation apparatus evaluates usability of evaluation objects by evaluation items ( | 2011-05-26 |
20110125804 | MODULAR DISTRIBUTED MOBILE DATA APPLICATIONS - Computer-implemented system and methods for deploying a distributed client-server system, enabling developers to rapidly create and deploy read-write distributed data interfaces for host database systems. The disclosed system is especially advantageous for mobile clients as connection to the server environment can be intermittent without unduly impeding local (disconnected) operations. One important aspect of the invention is an incremental process for executing an application servo in a client device. This process includes building and incrementally maintaining a logical context tree in which each node expresses a complete current state of the execution process. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125805 | GROUPING MECHANISM FOR MULTIPLE PROCESSOR CORE EXECUTION - A concurrent grouping operation for execution on a multiple core processor is provided. The grouping operation is provided with a sequence or set of elements. In one phase, each worker receives a partition of a sequence of elements to be grouped. The elements of each partition are arranged into a data structure, which includes one or more keys where each key corresponds to a value list of one or more of the received elements associated with that key. In another phase, the data structures created by each worker are merged so that the keys and corresponding elements for the entire sequence of elements exist in one data structure. Recursive merging can be completed in a constant time, which is not proportional to the length of the sequence. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125806 | METHOD OF MANAGING FILES IN WEBDAV SERVER-EMBEDDED IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM THAT PERFORMS THE METHOD - A method of managing files in a Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)-embedded image forming apparatus and an image forming apparatus that performs the method. The method includes receiving a connection request from the WebDAV client to manage at least one of a file and a directory stored in a storage unit of the image forming apparatus; receiving login information from the WebDAV client, authenticating the received login information of the WebDAV client, receiving a WebDAV command to control the at least one of the file and the directory from the authenticated WebDAV client, and executing a process with respect to the at least one of the file and the directory with reference to the received WebDAV command. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125807 | Method and Apparatus for a Subscriber Database - A method including receiving a request to change first information relating to a first identity of a subscriber in a database; obtaining information from said database relating to said first identity and at least one other identity of said subscriber; determining from the obtained information if said requested change can be made, in dependence on if said first identity is at least partially shared. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125808 | CONSTRUCTION INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND CONSTRUCTION INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A construction information management device and a construction information management system can readily grasp the history information about each layer below the surface of a road on which construction has been repeatedly carried out. After a subject construction is finished, a user creates the construction information about the subject construction in a construction information processing terminal, and the construction information is transmitted to a construction information management device. The construction information management device receives the construction information, and, based on the construction information, analyzes the pavement structure of the construction zone. Based on the analyzed construction information, the construction information management device also updates the history information about the construction subject road in a superimposing manner. When a request signal for requesting the history information is transmitted from the construction information processing terminal, the construction information management device transmits the updated history information to the construction information processing terminal. | 2011-05-26 |
20110125809 | MANAGING DIFFERENT FORMATS FOR MEDIA FILES AND MEDIA PLAYBACK DEVICES - Described herein are systems and methods for managing different formats for media files and playback devices in a media system. The media system may include a source device, at least one playback device, and a manager device coupled through a communication system. The source device may store a plurality of media files for various media forms (e.g., video, audio, image, or gaming media files). Each media file and playback device may have a playback format that is specified by values of one or more format parameters. The manager device may automatically determine format parameters of each media file and playback device and store to a media data structure. The manager device may also automatically determine and store compatibility data indicating format compatibility between different media files and playback devices, the compatibility data being used to automatically convert media files to the formats of the playback devices. | 2011-05-26 |