25th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 75 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100161499 | Centralized Rights Management System for Digital Media - A centralized rights management system and methodologies for digital media (e.g., books) is shown and described. In one embodiment, for example, a computer-implemented method is described for automated assertion of a claim of rights in books, the method comprises steps of: maintaining a publicly-searchable registry of books subject to claims by rightsholders; receiving user input allowing a user to select a book from the registry that the user wishes to assert a claim of rights in; displaying a list representing rights that can be claimed by rightsholders for the selected book; receiving input from the user asserting a claim of rights for the selected book; and electronically storing information about the asserted claim of rights, for facilitating automated payments to the user in connection with royalties earned for the selected book. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161500 | Dynamic Enabling of Functionality in Electronic Document Readers - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for digital rights management. In one aspect, a method is provided. The method includes receiving an electronic document, where the electronic document includes one or more content items, a set of usage rights defining one or more features to be enabled when the document is read by an electronic document reader, and a stored representation. The method further includes generating a representation of invariant content items of the electronic document, comparing the generated representation with the stored representation, and enabling features corresponding to the set of usage rights in the electronic document only if the generated representation and the stored representation are identical, where the features are features performed by the electronic document reader on the electronic document. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161501 | SURFACE OWNERSHIP DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A system, method and computer program relate to gathering and managing ownership data for properties in a geographic area on which an asset, such as a pipeline is located. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161502 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING AN ENERGY SAVING BEHAVIOR - An appliance measurement interface inputs an appliance measured value from each appliance. The appliance measured value includes an electric energy consumption, a usage intensity and a usage frequency of the appliance. An appliance information count unit calculates an average of the appliance measured value in an evaluation span, and outputs an appliance information as the average of the appliance measured value. An evaluation unit acquires a first appliance information in a first evaluation span as an evaluation object period and a second appliance information in a second evaluation span as a comparison object period from the appliance information, and calculates an evaluation value by applying the first appliance information and the second appliance information to an evaluation function. A display unit displays an evaluation result of an energy saving behavior based on the evaluation value. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161503 | System and Method for Online Employment Recruiting and Evaluation - A system and method for online employment recruiting and evaluation is provided. An online, web-based environment allows employers to create job descriptions for posting on an Internet-based job search service in communication with the web-based environment, and allows for online recruitment and review of hiring candidates using a multi-phase approach. An employer can create an initial questionnaire associated with the job descriptions, which must be answered by potential employees as part of the recruitment and hiring process. A virtual dossier is created for each potential employee, is stored in a database, and can be reviewed by the employer. An employer can select desired candidates based upon information provided in response to the initial questionnaire, and selected candidates can be provided with a second questionnaire which asks the selected candidates to provide information about previous employers/supervisors. A subset of candidates can then be selected for a telephone interview, which is recorded and stored as part of the virtual dossier. Each employer/supervisor specified by the candidate is also interviewed, and the interview is recorded and is stored as part of the candidate's virtual dossier. A final group of candidates is then selected for an in-person interview, which is recorded and made part of the candidate's virtual dossier. A final review of the updated virtual dossiers is conducted by the employer so that the employer can select a final candidate for hiring. The virtual dossier can be made part of the hired candidate's personnel file, and provides a digital, comprehensive, and easy-to-access record of the recruitment and evaluation process of the candidate. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161504 | Inspecting and Releasing Goods at a Land, Air, or Sea Border - A method and system for use by a Customs Agency for clearing shipments of goods into a country is disclosed. A customs resource application may be used to integrate alert information, news, research, and communications capabilities. Customs inspectors may use the resource application with a conventional computer, or with a portable device in the field as they perform customs inspections. The portable device provides access to alert information regarding shipments that are to be inspected by the inspector, and provides alert resolution capabilities so that the inspector can clear shipments into the country from the location of the inspection and/or shipped goods without requiring the inspector to return to a field office to clear the goods. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161505 | ENTERPRISE KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND SHARING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An enterprise knowledge management and sharing system having a plurality of services to facilitate members of an enterprise to create, capture, organize, refine, promote and/or publish knowledge of the enterprise is disclosed and described herein. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161506 | MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING LOGGING AND REPORTING OF USER-DEVICE INTERACTION - An apparatus and method of conducting a study involving user interaction with mobile devices includes installing an application program executable by a processor for performing steps of the method on a mobile device, collecting and logging data pertaining to the mobile device, querying the user in response to a trigger event of the mobile device to which the logged data pertains, and collecting and logging feedback from the user, via user interaction with the mobile device, in response to the query. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161507 | GPS RATING SYSTEM - A system for using GPS or location-aware devices to solicit and collect rating information of businesses of interest. Businesses of interest include, but are not limited to, restaurants, gas station, bars, hotels, and motels. The user or consumer uses the GPS or location-aware device to rate the business, or its components, after having visited the business. The rating is a discrete number or letter grade. Alternatively, the user could provide open-ended feedback, which could be at the user's discretion. The device may be a handheld device with GPS capabilities, such as a personal digital assistant (PDA), cell phone, Smart phone, or the like. The device also may be a device used in a motor vehicle. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161508 | PROCESSING SECURITIES-RELATED INFORMATION - Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for improving clarity of disclosure materials provided to investors, by enabling securities issuers, intermediaries and/or other entities to create and disseminate clear and concise summary-level information on individual securities to investors to enable informed investment decisions. The information may include a summary version of the full statutory prospectus (a “summary prospectus”). A summary prospectus may include a concise, “plain English” synopsis and/or representation of certain information contained in the full statutory prospectus, such as a security's investment objectives and strategies, costs, risks and/or other information. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161509 | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT METHOD AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY BANK SYSTEM - An intellectual property management method and an intellectual property bank system are provided. The intellectual property management method includes raising funds to set up a fund company by a plurality of members to purchase intellectual properties. The intellectual property management method also includes setting up an intellectual property management company to assist purchasing and managing the purchased intellectual properties of the fund company. The intellectual property management method further includes selling the intellectual properties to the members when a special event occurs to the members such that the members can own the intellectual properties to deal with the special event. Therefore, the intellectual property management method can provide the members with powerful protection with fewer resources and lower costs. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161510 | METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE PROGRAM FOR ANALYZING VALUE AND RISK - Methods and computer-readable programs for analyzing value and risk through the use of one or more computers are disclosed. According to one embodiment of the disclosure, a method for analyzing value and risk includes providing market capitalization data and book value data. The method further includes identifying value and risk items and ranking the identified value and risk items. The method includes determining the average rank for each item ranked. The method also includes determining the value of each item based on the combined average rank for each item and the difference between the market capitalization and the book value and displaying a portion of the rank information on the one or more computers. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161511 | System and Method for Analyzing Operational Risk and Performance of Real Rental Property - A computerized method and associated computerized apparatus and product by process for determining a default risk for a given real rental property, comprising: providing computerized property data for a plurality of real rental properties comprising at least a rental price and a square footage for each said real rental property in the plurality of real rental properties; and via a user interface and computerized processing and computerized storage: calculating a rent per square foot for each of said plurality of real rental properties, including the given real rental property; calculating a property gauge score for each real rental property in the plurality of real rental properties including for said given real rental property; and determining the default risk for the given real rental property by comparing the property gauge score for the given real rental property to the property gauge scores for the remaining real rental properties in the plurality of real rental properties. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161512 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ICON ORIENTED REPRESENTATION OF TRADING STRATEGIES - A system and method for visually establishing a trading strategy are described. According to one method, a trader can position a first icon corresponding to a first order and a second icon corresponding to a second order in relation to a first value axis displayed on a graphical interface. A graphical means can also be used in relation to the icons to show that the icons correspond to a trading strategy. The graphical means can include lines, numbers, or any other user-configurable graphical representation illustrating order precedence, for example. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161513 | System and Method for Money Management Using a Plurality of Profit Levels in an Electronic Trading Environment - A system and method for money management in an electronic trading environment are presented. According to one embodiment, a money management application intercepts an order before the order is sent to an exchange, and determines a plurality of P/L levels, based on which the money management application then selects a set of money management parameters to be used to control or modify order parameters before the order is sent to the exchange. The plurality of profit levels may include a net profit level determined based on a trader's net position and a current market level, a realized profit level determined based on trader's sells and buys associated with the tradeable object, or an open profit level determined based on the realized and net profit levels. The set of money management parameters may include a maximum order quantity and a maximum net position so that, for example, if the order quantity associated with the order is higher than the maximum order quantity associated with the applicable set of money management parameters, the order quantity may be modified to the maximum order quantity. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161514 | FINANCIAL DATA ENTRY SYSTEM - A method of tracking and aggregating all Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) “shelf” registration and all capital market activity related to those shelf registrations. The method includes the steps of accessing a first database containing data associated with investment registrations, wherein the data is organized as a series of individual filings. The method further includes the steps of retrieving data from the first database associated with selected ones of the filings, organizing the data into tables based on at least one aggregate aspect of the data common to multiple filings, and storing the retrieved data in at least one table. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161515 | On-line, Real-time, Property and Casualty Loss Estimation System and Method - An interactive, real-time, property and casualty loss estimation system and method includes a web portal comprising a computer configured to allow a qualified user to sign in over the internet and create an estimate reflective of the true cost to renew a property from a casualty loss. The user enters data from an insurance company loss estimate which in many instances is devoid of consideration of issues such as matching finishes, bringing a property up to standard for changes in building and municipal code, and ancillary costs such as permitting fees. In operation, a final affidavit with a supporting loss estimate is made available for printing by the user to submit to an insurance company to negotiate an increased settlement more fully covering the costs needed to property to a pre-loss condition. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161516 | Rolling View Virtualization - Rolling view optimization is initiated by receiving electronic mail data corresponding to a plurality of mail pieces, the electronic mail data including a first cycle and determining whether substantially all electronic mail data from the first cycle can be processed for mailing. In response to determining that substantially all of the electronic mail data from the first cycle cannot be processed for mailing, a determination is made whether a portion of the mail data from the first cycle can be processed for mailing and in response to determining that a portion of the mail data from the first cycle can be processed for mailing the electronic mail data corresponding to the first cycle for mailing is sent. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161517 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTRICITY METERING FOR VEHICULAR APPLICATIONS - An electricity power meter for use in an electric vehicle is coupled to at least an energy storage device and to a conduit configured to receive electrical charging power from external to the vehicle. Further, the meter is configured to transmit a request for authorization for an electric charging transaction to a vehicle charging station, and receive a response to the request from the vehicle charging station, wherein the response indicates one of an approval and a denial of the request. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161518 | ELECTRICITY STORAGE CONTROLLER WITH INTEGRATED ELECTRICITY METER AND METHODS FOR USING SAME - An electricity storage controller for use with an electric vehicle is provided. The controller is coupled to at least an energy storage device to receive electrical charging power from external to the vehicle. Further, the controller is programmed to transmit a request for authorization for an electric charging transaction to a vehicle charging station and receive a response to the request from the vehicle charging station, wherein the response indicates one of an approval and a denial of the request. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161519 | METHOD OF PROVIDING A REPLACEMENT COMPONENT - A method of providing a retrofit component for a host comprises the steps of removing a mechanical component from a host and replacing the removed mechanical component with a new mechanical component that is operable to provide power to a consumer electronic device. The component being replaced includes handles, trim pieces, face plates, or the like. The source of power to the new mechanical component comes from an external source which can also provide data. Instructions can be provided to the consumer so as to instruct the consumer on how to install the new mechanical component to the host. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161520 | COMPRESSED TEXTILES TECHNOLOGY AND METHOD OF USING SAME - The present invention comprises a home textile product having an outer textile shell with a polyester fiber blend disposed therewithin. The fiber blend is characterized by substantially complete rebound following compression, and comprises a blend of a first 0.7-0.9 microdenier polyester staple and a 12-17 denier second polyester fill, preferably in a blend of about 70% microdenier staple to about 30% polyester fiber fill. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161521 | Fund raising business method employing brand creation and food packaging advertising - A fund raising business method engaged in on behalf of a donatable entity consisting of the creation of a brand name associated with the entity for food products; preparing the packaging and printing advertising to be included with the packaging of the food product; preparing a marketable product using the created brand name to include the packaging, the advertising, and the food product; distributing and selling the marketable product to the public; and donating a portion of the proceeds to the entity. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161522 | INCREASING USER INPUT ACCURACY ON A MULTIFUNCTIONAL ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device and a method of dynamically adapting a sensitivity of at least one user interface component on the electronic device. A device context corresponding to the electronic device can be identified and processed in real time to identify a potential user intent and to determine a probability that the potential user intent corresponds to an actual user intent. A user input sensitivity parameter can be selected based on the potential user intent and the determined probability. The sensitivity of the at least one user interface component can be adapted to correspond to the user input sensitivity parameter. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161523 | GENERATION AND USE OF SPECIFIC PROBABILITY TABLES FOR ARITHMETIC CODING IN DATA COMPRESSION SYSTEMS - In one embodiment, when executing data compression or decompression for a data set, a particular compression category of the data set is determined, and a corresponding probability table specific to the particular compression category of the data set is accessed. Then, one of either arithmetic coding (e.g., an encoder device) or decoding (e.g., a decoder device) may be performed on the data set based on the specific probability table. Specifically, in one or more other embodiments, techniques may statistically generate probability tables specific to particular compression categories. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161524 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING GRAPHICAL MODEL SEMANTICS - A system and method for identifying graphical model semantics, one aspect, receive a graphical diagram, associate each of a plurality of elements with one or more predetermined meta-types, identify a plurality of types in the graphical diagram, and determine a category for each of elements in said graphical diagram. Containment identification rules identify one or more containment relationships in the graphical diagram. Multiplicity identification rules identify multiplicity relationships in the graphical diagram. Advanced semantic rules identify visual elements that represent attributes and refine relationships to identify unique behavior. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161525 | ANALYZING A TARGET ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNAL RADIATING FROM A COMPUTER SYSTEM - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that characterizes a computer system parameter by analyzing a target electromagnetic signal radiating from the computer system. First, the system monitors the target electromagnetic signal using a first directional antenna located outside of the computer system, wherein the first directional antenna is directed at a location inside the computer system. The system also monitors the target electromagnetic signal using a second directional antenna located outside of the computer system, wherein a receiving axis of the second antenna is oriented non-parallel to a receiving axis of the first antenna, and wherein the second directional antenna is directed at the location inside the computer system. Next, the system characterizes the computer system parameter based on the target electromagnetic signal received from the first antenna and the target electromagnetic signal received from the second antenna. Then, the system generates a request for an action based on the characterization of the computer system. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161526 | Ranking With Learned Rules - Systems, methods and computer program products for the ranking of a target data set based on learned rules are disclosed. One embodiment is a method that includes generating a learned rule set from a training data record set, creating at least one prototype for each rule in the learned rule set to generate a prototype set, and ranking the target data record set using learned rule set and the prototype set. The generating of a learned rule set includes dividing the training data record set to a positive class and a negative class, and deriving the learned rule set for the positive class. Learning of rules includes deriving the most general projected rules with respect to remaining training data and then refining those rules, eventually selecting the best rules using an F-measure. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161527 | EFFICIENTLY BUILDING COMPACT MODELS FOR LARGE TAXONOMY TEXT CLASSIFICATION - A taxonomy model is determined with a reduced number of weights. For example, the taxonomy model is a tangible representation of a hierarchy of nodes that represents a hierarchy of classes that, when labeled with a representation of a combination of weights, is usable to classify documents having known features but unknown class. For each node of the taxonomy, the training example documents are processed to determine the features for which there are a sufficient number of training example documents having a class label corresponding to at least one of the leaf nodes of a subtree having that node as a root node. For each node of the taxonomy, a sparse weight vector is determined for that node, including setting zero weights, for that node, those features determined to not appear at least a minimum number of times in a given set of leaf nodes in the sub-tree with that node as a root node. The sparse weight vectors can be learned by solving an optimization problem using a maximum entropy classifier, or a large margin classifier with a sequential dual method (SDM) with margin or slack resealing. The determined sparse weight vectors are tangibly embodied in a computer-readable medium in association with the tangible representation of the nodes of the taxonomy. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161528 | Method Of and Apparatus For Automated Behavior Prediction - A computer-implemented method of behavior prediction includes selecting behavior examples having corresponding antecedent candidates, identifying source text descriptions describing the behavior examples, automatically extracting predictors as common themes across all statements and all behavior examples with a language-independent theme extraction process, flagging each behavior example to indicate a presence or absence of the corresponding extracted antecedents in each of the source text descriptions and creating a data array consisting of antecedent columns and behavior example rows, submitting the data array to a pattern classifier to extract patterns among the antecedent candidates and outcomes by training and validating the pattern classifier and predicting a new occurrence of a target behavior by entering a current state of the antecedents to the trained pattern classifier. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161529 | Self-Calibration - Mitigation of processing artefacts caused by surfaces with high contrast printing or colouring transitions within a system to compare signatures derived from inherent physical surface properties of different articles to authenticate or validate articles and within a system to generate signatures from inherent physical surface properties of different articles. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161530 | METHOD FOR ENHANCED ACCURACY IN PREDICTING PEPTIDES ELUTION TIME USING LIQUID SEPARATIONS OR CHROMATOGRAPHY - A method for predicting the elution time of a peptide in chromatographic and electrophoretic separations by first providing a data set of known elution times of known peptides, then creating a plurality of vectors, each vector having a plurality of dimensions, and each dimension representing positional information about at least a portion of the amino acids present in the known peptides. A hypothetical vector is then created by assigning dimensional values for at least one hypothetical peptide, and a predicted elution time for the hypothetical vector is created by performing at least one multivariate regression fitting the hypothetical peptide to the plurality of vectors. Preferably, the multivariate regression is accomplished by the use of an artificial neural network and the elution times are first normalized using linear regression. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161531 | MOLECLAR PROPERTY MODELING USING RANKING - Methods and articles of manufacture for modeling molecular properties using data regarding the partial orderings of compound properties, or by considering measurements of compound properties in terms of partial orderings are disclosed. One embodiment provides for constructing such partial orderings from data that is not already in an ordered form by processing training data to produce a partial ordering of the compounds with respect to a property of interest. Another embodiment of the invention may process the modified training data to construct a model that predicts the property of interest for arbitrary compounds. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161532 | DETERMINATION OF GRAPH CONNECTIVITY METRICS USING BIT-VECTORS - Determination of a connectivity-metrics for graphs representative of networks of interest. A graph that represents a network of interest is accessed. The graph includes nodes representing points in the network of interest, and edges corresponding to the nodes. Bit-vectors are generated corresponding to the nodes and/or edges, wherein individual bits in the bit-vectors respectively provide a logical indication of connectedness. The connectivity-metric is then determined by applying a logical bit operation to the plurality of bit-vectors. Examples of connectivity metrics include a connected components, shortest paths, betweenness, clustering, and tree-based determinations. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161533 | ADDRESSING SCHEME FOR NEURAL MODELING AND BRAIN-BASED DEVICES USING SPECIAL PURPOSE PROCESSOR - A special purpose processor (SPP) can use a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) to model a large number of neural elements. The FPGAs or similar programmable device can have multiple cores doing presynaptic, postsynaptic, and plasticity calculations in parallel. Each core can implement multiple neural elements of the neural model. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161534 | PREDICTIVE GAUSSIAN PROCESS CLASSIFICATION WITH REDUCED COMPLEXITY - A computer-implemented method of generating a model of a sparse GP classifier includes performing basis vector selection and adding a thus-selected basis vector to a basis vector set, including performing a margin-based method that accounts for predictive mean and variance associated with all the candidate basis vectors at that iteration. Hyperparameter optimization is performed. The basis vector selection step and hyperparameter optimization step are such that the steps are alternately performed until a specified termination criteria is met. The selected basis vectors and optimized hyperparameters are stored in at least one tangible computer readable medium organized in a manner to be usable as the model of the sparse GP classifier. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161535 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INFERRING THE PRESENCE OF STATIC INTERNET PROTOCOL ADDRESS ALLOCATIONS - A method and apparatus for inferring if an IP address allocation in a remote network is static or dynamic are disclosed. For example, the method contacts at least one remote peer to peer endpoint using a peer to peer application to obtain an IP address of the at least one remote peer to peer endpoint. The method then analyzes characteristics of the at least one remote peer to peer endpoint over a predefined period of time to infer whether the presence of static IP address allocation exists for the at least one remote peer to peer endpoint. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161536 | PATTERN MATCHING - A method and apparatus to perform pattern matching is provided. The apparatus includes a first storage to store data representing a first set of pattern components, and a second storage to store data representing a second set of pattern components each corresponding to one or more components of the first set of pattern components. A first pattern matcher is configured to detect in an input stream a first component of one or more patterns and to generate a signal indicative of the detection of the first component. A second pattern matcher is configured to receive the signal from the first pattern matcher and to detect if a second component of the one or more patterns of the set of patterns immediately follows the first component in the input stream. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161537 | System and Method for Detecting Email Spammers - A system and method for detecting Email spammers from unknown SMTP Clients using the unknown SMTP Client's SMTP traffic information e.g. byte size and variability data. The system and method includes a byte size and variability traffic flow model and a classification system. The traffic flow model may be based upon a standard deviation of byte size and variability of traffic flows for a plurality of legitimate SMTP Clients and for a plurality of Spammer SMTP Clients. The classification system then classifies an Unknown SMTP Client as an Email Spammer based on a comparison between the byte size and the variability of the Unknown SMTP Client's traffic flows with the byte size and variability traffic flow model. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161538 | Device for user input - An electronic device receives text inputs. The device predicts the user's intended input by analyzing text previously and subsequently entered. The device compares the previous and subsequent input to the current input to ensure that the inputs are compatible. The device may also be capable of comparing previous input to predict current input. The device also may contain a keyboard designed to minimize user input error. Examples to which this invention applies include predictive text and autocorrect features of word processors and mobile phones. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161539 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING TICKETS - A system and method for analyzing tickets including an input configured to receive data associated with one or more tickets, one or more modules configured to analyze the received data, and an output configured to output the processed data. Each of the one or more tickets may be associated to at least one issue associated with at least one of a product and service. Analyzing the received data may include calibrating the one or more modules based on the received data and processing the data based on the calibration. The output may output the processed data for optimizing the at least one product and service and/or transmit the processed data into the input for further analysis at the one or more modules. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161540 | Method for Monitoring and Ranking Web Visitors and Soliciting Higher Ranked Visitors to Engage in Live Assistance - A ranking system ranks visitors to a Web site using one or more instances of machine-readable code executable from a digital medium accessible to a Web server. The code tracks visitor behavior while browsing the web site, and a visitor ranking module resident on the digital medium accepts information documented by the one or more instances of machine readable code and assigns rank values to one or more of the visitors. The ranking module ranks visitors at the Web-site based on logic and rules for interpreting visitor behavior and for applies a value to the visitor in real time based on that interpretation, and values applied at or above a preprogrammed level trigger solicitation of the visitor so ranked to engage in interaction including live assistance. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161541 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A CONTEXT ENHANCED WORK OF COMMUNICATION - A system for selecting, managing, sharing and displaying narrative data files in a manner that takes into the account the contextual significance of said narrative data files to a narrative, an author(s) and an audience. A system that is able to place an absolute and relative value upon the significance of a media object is able to assist in stimulating the recollection of the author and audience, thus making every aspect more memorable and enhancing by improving the ease of use and the quality of the final result of the use of the system of this invention. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161542 | DETECTING ENTITY RELEVANCE DUE TO A MULTIPLICITY OF DISTINCT VALUES FOR AN ATTRIBUTE TYPE - Techniques are disclosed for providing multiple value detection rules used to determine whether an entity is relevant due to multiple distinct values for an attribute type of the entity in an entity resolution system. Generally, the multiple value detection rules may be applied to attribute types of an entity. When a rule is violated because too many distinct values exist for a particular attribute type, an alert may be generated. Once the alert is generated, additional rules may be applied or skipped. In one embodiment, a rule may be named and given a description. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161543 | Constructing an Agent in a First Execution Environment Using Canonical Rules - A method, computer readable medium and system for constructing an agent in a first execution environment that utilizes a set of canonical rules, comprising requesting a canonical rule set for an agent, supplying the agent with the rule set and requesting compilation of the rule set. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161544 | CONTEXT-BASED INTERESTS IN COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS AND SYSTEMS - Techniques for determining an interest in an object of interest in a given situation are disclosed. Multiple situation-based interest rating components can be provided for various situations. Each situation-based interest rating component can include an interest value indicative of interest in an object of interest in one of the situations. An input situation can then be obtained. One of the situation-based interest rating components can be identified matching an input situation. The relevance of one or more of the other situation-based interest rating components to the identified matching component can then be determined. This can, for example, be done by computing one or more distances between only the respective situation-based portions of the matching situation-based interest rating component and one or more of the other components, or based on the interest value-based portion of each component, or both. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161545 | DATA INTEGRATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - Provided are a data integration apparatus and method using a weight factor. The data integration apparatus receives sensing information from at least one sensing device, the sensing information including a value indicating the existence of signals and confidence estimated parameters indicating the degree of confidence for the value indicating the existence of signals, and then generates the weighting factor based on the confidence estimated parameters. Then, the value indicating the existence of signals and the weighting factor are used to produce characteristic values of each sensing device and to finally determine the existence of signals. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161546 | FAILURE DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM, A FAILURE DIAGNOSIS DEVICE, AN INFORMATION UPDATE DEVICE, AND A COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a failure diagnosis system including: a causal relationship information storage unit configured to store causal relationship information representing a causal relationship between events regarding a diagnosis-target apparatus, the causal relationship information including: common causal relationship information that is commonly used in a plurality of types of failure diagnosis regarding the diagnosis-target apparatus; and specific causal relationship information that is used in each specific type of failure diagnosis among the plurality of types of failure diagnosis; and a diagnosis execution unit configured to selectively execute the plural types of failure diagnosis by using a combined causal relationship information that is a combination of the common causal relationship information and a piece of the specific causal relationship information corresponding to a diagnosis-target type of failure diagnosis. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161547 | Personalized Web Feed Views - A system for generation of personalized Web feed views in accordance with pre-defined profile parameters, is presented. The system including a user definition interface for receiving at least one user parameter and sending the parameter to a content provider and a feed view personalization unit operable to receive the user parameter and customize feed content in accordance with the at least one user parameter for displaying to the user. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161548 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAPACITY PLANNING IN AN INFORMATION NETWORK - A systems and method for extracting utilization data from a plurality of system monitoring products, storing the extracted utilization data in a data warehouse, correlating the extracted utilization data extracted from the plurality of system monitoring products, retrieving utilization data for a group of systems from the data warehouse and displaying the retrieved utilization data on a display. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161549 | MASTERLESS DISTRIBUTED BATCH SCHEDULING ENGINE - A distributed, high availability scalable task execution framework that does not use a master. Each server periodically checks if there are new jobs that are scheduled to execute immediately and picks a task for execution. Multiple batch server configurations can be created and executed during a specific time period where each server can behave differently to provide improved response time to online users. Each server can be configured to execute a different number of parallel tasks during a time period, execute fewer tasks or no batch task at all, and then change server behavior to execute many tasks in parallel at a different time when there are no online users. Automatic transaction assists in task restart in the case of infrastructure failures. If infrastructure failure happens before the task completes, the transaction will be rolled back by the database automatically. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161550 | FILE SYNCHRONIZATION BASED ON INTERCEPTING FILE SYSTEM CALLS - A method is provided for synchronizing file objects between different data centers. Here, a file system call from a virtual file system is intercepted. This file system call is associated with a file object at a data center, which is in communication with a remote data center. The intercepted file system call is then transmitted to the remote data center to synchronize a copy of the file object at the remote data center with the file object at the data center. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161551 | SELECTIVE DATABASE REPLICATION - A method and system for selectively replicating data from a primary database associated with a primary server to a secondary database associated with a secondary server. The secondary server determines that a replication task using a first update command has modified the primary database. The secondary server determines a primary table in the primary database has been updated. The secondary server generates a secondary federated table that is coupled to the primary table. The secondary server obtains a second update command based on the first update command from the primary database and applies the second update command to a secondary table in the secondary database using the secondary federated table. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161552 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REFERENCING MEASURES BETWEEN TABLES OF ANALYTICAL REPORT DOCUMENTS - A method and system for referencing measures between tables of analytical report documents are provided. It is determined whether a source key of a source table and a target key of a target table are on compatible flows, each of the source table and the target table comprising at least one dimension column and one measure column. The source key is a combination of one or more dimensions in the source table and the target key is a combination of one or more dimensions in the target table. On determining that the source key and the target key are not on incompatible flows, the source key is projected on the intersection of the source key and the target key. Finally the target table is synchronized with the source table. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161553 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR SYNCHRONIZING CONTENTS - A method, apparatus and system for synchronizing contents are provided. The method for synchronizing contents includes comparing contents stored in a first device with a content list stored in a second device, and deleting contents from the content list or adding contents to the content list. Therefore, is possible to prevent incorrect contents from being browsed even when contents are not completely synchronized. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161554 | ASYNCHRONOUS DISTRIBUTED DE-DUPLICATION FOR REPLICATED CONTENT ADDRESSABLE STORAGE CLUSTERS - A method is performed by a device of a group of devices in a distributed data replication system. The method includes storing an index of objects in the distributed data replication system, the index being replicated while the objects are stored locally by the plurality of devices in the distributed data replication system. The method also includes conducting a scan of at least a portion of the index and identifying a redundant replica(s) of the at least one of the objects based on the scan of the index. The method further includes de-duplicating the redundant replica(s), and updating the index to reflect the status of the redundant replica. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161555 | Immediate Maintenance of Materialized Views - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for immediately updating a materialized view in a relational database management system. The method includes the steps of creating a materialized view defined over a base table, executing an update statement on the base table, computing a delta of the base table by comparing images of the base table before execution of the update statement and after execution of the update statement, computing a delta of the materialized view based on the delta of the base table, and updating the materialized view using the delta of the materialized view. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161556 | 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 one embodiment, the metadata comprises mini-snapshots for directories representing a path from the root of the file system to the root of the snapshot. The mini-snapshots serve as stand-ins for portions of the file system which are not included in the snapshot, but which permit access to the snapshot data in an intuitive way. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161557 | 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. According to one embodiment, the system stores representations of the snapshots that govern a file or directory and its descendants within metadata associated with that file or directory. In one embodiment, before modifying a file or directory, the system updates the representations of the governing snapshots by traversing the metadata of ancestors of the file or directory. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161558 | COMPUTER-BASED DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA OBJECTS - A computer-based system creates a data object by preparing a data structure for the data object in a database and processes the data object at different processing stages each associating a different workflow state with the data object. The system can take and store automatically a snapshot of the data object, prior to a workflow transition of the data object from a first workflow state to a second workflow state, respectively associated with the snapshot and with the data object. The system also creates a unique locating reference for the snapshot based on a unique locating reference created previously for the data object. When the unique locating reference for the data object is received, controlled access to the data object and the snapshot is provided. Based on one unique locating reference, multiple states of the data object can be easily and efficiently made available concurrently to a user. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161559 | MAINTAINING A NETWORK CONNECTION OF A WORKLOAD DURING TRANSFER - According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method and technique is disclosed for maintaining a network connection during transfer of the workload from a global environment of a logical partition to a workload partition of the logical partition and during any subsequent transfer(s). | 2010-06-24 |
20100161560 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEAMLESS MANAGEMENT FOR DISASTER RECOVERY - A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and system are presented for establishing redundant computer resources. According to one embodiment, in a system including a plurality of processor devices and a plurality of storage devices, the processor devices, the storage devices and the management server being connected via a network, the method comprises storing device information relating to the processor devices and the storage devices and topology information relating to topology of the network, identifying at least one primary computer resource, selecting at least one secondary computer resource suitable to serve as a redundant resource corresponding to the at least one primary computer resource based on the device information and the topology information, and assigning the at least one secondary computer resource as a redundant resource corresponding to the at least one primary computer resource. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161561 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA ARCHIVING - Disclosed is a method and system for archiving data. A server computer (or any computing device) receives data transmitted over a network from a client computer, wherein at least some of the data was previously collected by a scientific instrument during an experiment. After receiving the data, the server computer updates (e.g., creates) an index for the received data, archives the received data, and automatically transmits a notification to the client computer that the received data has been archived. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161562 | Method and apparatus for preventing duplicate or redundant data from storing in media player - A method and apparatus prevents duplicate and redundant data of song information from being stored in a media player by checking a category and duplication of meta data associated with a song that is received through digital broadcasting. The method and apparatus prevents the unwanted meta data, such as a station name, channel number, station frequency, specified in advance or other redundant data such as the one already stored in the media player from being stored in the media player. Thus, when listening a song from a digital radio broadcasting station, the method and apparatus enables to effectively collect the meta data in the media player that are necessary for later activities such as purchasing the music file of the song. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161563 | SMART MEDIATION SYSTEM IN A SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE - In one embodiment, a service mediator provides a service that is a composite of atomic services and executes a recovery pattern in the event that a service is not available. More particularly, in an initial phase of operation, the service mediator determines one or more recovery patterns for each atomic service offered in the composite service and stores in a database an identity of each such recovery pattern for each atomic service. In subsequent operation, the service mediator monitors the availability of each atomic service. When a user inquires of a composite service, the service mediator determines if any of its atomic services is unavailable. If an atomic service is unavailable, the service mediator selects a recovery pattern and executes it. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161564 | CLUSTER DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA RECOVERY USING PARALLEL PROCESSING IN CLUSTER DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Provided is a method for data recovery using parallel processing in a cluster data management system. The method includes arranging a redo log written by a failed partition server, dividing the arranged redo log by columns of the partition, and recovering data parallelly on the basis of the divided redo log and multiple processing unit. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161565 | CLUSTER DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA RESTORATION USING SHARED REDO LOG IN CLUSTER DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Provided are a cluster data management system and a method for data restoration using a shared redo log in the cluster data management system. The data restoration method includes collecting service information of a partition served by a failed partition server, dividing redo log files written by the partition server by columns of a table including the partition, restoring data of the partition on the basis of the collected service information and log records of the divided redo log files, and selecting a new partition server that will serve the data-restored partition, and allocating the partition to the selected partition server. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161566 | USING RELATIONSHIPS IN CANDIDATE DISCOVERY - Techniques are disclosed for adding entities to a group of entity resolution candidates by selecting entities that have a minimum threshold of similarity to a candidate, allowing a greater number of resolutions in an entity resolution system. To resolve an incoming identity record, an initial group of candidates may be selected from known entities by identifying entities that match a candidate building attribute of the incoming identity record. Additional candidates may be selected by identifying entities with some information that is similar to one of the candidate entities. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161567 | Compressed data page with uncompressed data fields - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a compressed data page that includes uncompressed data fields are described. One example method includes compressing user records and storing them on a compressed data page and then storing one or more uncompressed data fields on the compressed data page such that the uncompressed data fields can be updated in place without uncompressing the compressed data page. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161568 | Data Compression by Multi-Order Differencing - Embodiments of the present invention enable compression and decompression of data. Applications of the present invention are its use in embodiments of systems for compression and decompression of GPS long-term Ephemeris (LTE) data, although the present invention is not limited to such applications. In embodiments, the LTE data may be grouped into a set of data values associated with a parameter. In embodiments, a data set may be compressed by using a multi-order differencing scheme. In such a scheme, a set of the differences between values may be compressed because the differences have smaller magnitudes than the values. In embodiments, a multi-order differencing scheme determines how many levels (orders) of differencing may be applied to an original data set before it is compressed. In embodiments, the original data may be recovered from a compressed data set based on the type of multi-order differencing scheme used to generate the compressed data. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161569 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY PARTITIONING VERY LARGE DATABASE INDICES ON WRITE-ONCE TABLES - Methods and systems for partitioning and dynamically merging a database index are described. A database index includes a single first-level index partition stored in a data cache. As the first-level index partition in the data cache reaches a predetermined size, it is copied to secondary storage and a new index partition is generated in the data cache. When the number of index partitions in secondary storage reaches some predetermined number, the index partitions are merged to create a single index partition of a higher level in a hierarchy of index partitions having an exponentially increasing size with each increase in level within the hierarchy. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161570 | Scope Based Indexing Prioritization - Methods and systems provide a tool for prioritizing the ordering of outstanding indexing work in order to bring a particular portion of an indexing source up to date quickly and to reduce the likelihood of inconsistencies between an index-backed view and a direct view of a source. In accordance with the described embodiments, indexing of items can be prioritized based upon a user's view or metadata contained within a query. Further, in at least some embodiments, the tool can decide the order to index items based upon multiple prioritization requests. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161571 | ULTIMATE LOCKING MECHANISM - A system and method for an ultimate locking mechanism which minimizes a lock period for modifying shared data in a shared database. A process is executed as one or more initial instances and a final instance. Each initial instance reads the shared data from the shared database without acquiring a lock on the shared database. The locking mechanism obtains results that are directed to modifying the shared data and buffers the results at least partially. During or after each of the initial instances, it determines whether the next instance is to be the final one (e.g., the estimated runtime of the next instance is acceptable as the lock period). In response to a positive determination, the final instance of the process is executed. The final instance uses at least one of the buffered results during execution and acquires the lock on the shared database to modify the shared data. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161572 | CONCURRENCY MANAGEMENT IN CLUSTER COMPUTING OF BUSINESS APPLICATIONS - A system and method for concurrency management in an environment, in which a common pool of objects is shared by multiple users. A virtual lock owner is created for a main thread of a processing task. The main thread spawns parallel threads to update the objects in the common pool with locks. The virtual lock owner is passed to each parallel thread. Each thread (including the main thread) is associated with a thread dependent lock indicator identified by the virtual lock owner. The lifetime of the thread dependent lock indicator is coupled with the lifetime of the associated thread. The virtual lock owner is also associated with a thread independent lock indicator that has a lifetime independent of the lifetime of the main thread. Thus, the parallel threads can perform object update with lock protection even if the main thread aborts. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161573 | Time Limited Lock Ownership - Described herein are techniques for time limited lock ownership. In one embodiment, in response to receiving a request for a lock on a shared resource, the lock is granted and a lock lease period associated with the lock is established. Then, in response to determining that the lock lease period has expired, one or more lock lease expiration procedures are performed. In many cases, the time limited lock ownership may prevent system hanging, timely detect system deadlocks, and/or improve overall performance of the database. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161574 | HETEROGENEOUS DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An administration server in a database management system retrieves log files in a plurality of formats from a plurality of clients through helper programs running on the clients. The plurality of clients can include Web servers, application servers, and database servers. The log files can be generated by software modules on the clients. An administration engine converts log entries in the log files into a unified format for display. The converted log entries can be stored in a log database. Upon a user request, the administration server presents the log entries to the user in a log viewer. The log viewer can display log entries originated from heterogeneous software modules in a unified view. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161575 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REPRESENTING MEDIA ASSETS - Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and tangible computer-readable media for representing media assets. The method includes receiving an original media asset and derivative versions of the original media asset and associated descriptors, determining a lineage to each derivative version that traces to the original media asset, generating a version history tree of the original media asset representing the lineage to each derivative version and associated descriptors from the original media asset, and presenting at least part of the version history tree to a user. In one aspect, the method further includes receiving a modification to one associated descriptor and updating associated descriptors for related derivative versions with the received modification. The original media asset and the derivative versions of the original media asset can share a common identifying mark. Descriptors can include legal documentation, licensing information, creation time, creation date, actors' names, director, producer, lens aperture, and position data. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161576 | DATA FILTERING AND OPTIMIZATION FOR ETL (EXTRACT, TRANSFORM, LOAD) PROCESSES - A method and system are disclosed for use with an ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) process, comprising optimizing a filter expression to select a subset of data and evaluating the filter expression on the data after the extracting, before the loading, but not during the transforming of the ETL process. The method and system optimizes the filtering using a pipelined evaluation for single predicate filtering and an adaptive optimization for multiple predicate filtering. The adaptive optimization includes an initial phase and a dynamic phase. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161577 | Method of Reconciling Resources in the Metadata Hierarchy - An enhanced resource reconciliation process is disclosed to examine the metadata hierarchy of unidentified instances of configuration objects within a particular “data partition” (sometimes called a dataset) of an enterprise configuration management database (CMDB) and perform reconciliation against a target dataset, such as a golden, i.e., production, dataset. The enhanced reconciliation process could identify against instances in the production dataset that are of the same class as the unidentified instance—as well as instances that come from any “candidate” classes. Candidate classes could consist of, e.g., classes upstream or downstream from the unidentified instance in the metadata hierarchy. By allowing the specification of one or more reconciliation properties, such as, “identify downstream,” “identify upstream,” “identify upstream and downstream,” or “identify resources of the same class only,” the enhanced resource reconciliation process could perform identification and resource reconciliation against instances of any class in the unidentified instance's metadata hierarchy. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161578 | SEARCHING FOR COMPUTER RESOURCES BASED ON ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN THESE RESOURCES AND EXTERNAL EVENTS - The invention provides a method and system for searching based on association of system resources a user was working on with external devices such as user's PDA, mobile phone, or printer and the system's interaction with such external devices. In one embodiment of the invention, a method is provided comprising a person using a resource on the computer and, during said using, engaging in another event; sending data to the computer related to said another event; and the computer creating an association between said another event and said resource. This embodiment also comprises sending a request to the computer to identify the resource that was being used by said person at the time of said another event; and the computer, acting in response to said request, using said association to identify said resource. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161579 | COLLABORATIVE SELF-SERVICE CONTACT ARCHITECTURE WITH AUTOMATIC BLOG CONTENT MAPPING CAPABILITY - Resolving an issue raised by at least one user includes establishing a contact session over a communication channel for servicing the issue. The Internet is searched for content related to providing a resolution for the issue using a customized query, when a search of a database does not return results. Content obtained from at least one Internet source as a result of searching the Internet using the customized query is restructured to prepare the resolution for the issue. The at least one Internet source from which the content was obtained is updated with the resolution. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161580 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ORGANIZING SEGMENTS OF MEDIA ASSETS AND DETERMINING RELEVANCE OF SEGMENTS TO A QUERY - The invention pertains to methods, systems, and apparatus for identifying media items relevant to a selected subject matter, the method comprising determining the subject matter of a first media item, the first media item comprising at least one of audio content and video content, determining the classification within an ontology of the subject matter of the first media item, analyzing the ontology to identify other subject matter related to the subject matter of the first media item, and performing a search for other media items relevant to the subject matter of the first media item as a function of at least the other related subject matter according to the ontology. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161581 | OPTIMAL STOCHASTIC AUCTIONS FOR CONSTRAINED SPONSORED SEARCH - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for processing an auction for sponsored search according to a set of constraints. In accordance with one embodiment, a polyhedron that incorporates a set of one or more restrictions is defined, wherein the polyhedron that incorporates the set of one or more restrictions represents a plurality of allocations, wherein each of the plurality of allocations is a subset of a plurality of ads to be displayed on a particular occurrence of a search query received via a search engine. A subset of the plurality of allocations is obtained via application of an analysis tool to the polyhedron. One of the subset of the plurality of allocations is then identified, enabling the ads in the allocation to be displayed. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161582 | CONVERSION AND QUERY FOR DATA DRAGGED ON WEB-SITES - A service performs transformation for material that has been dragged in one format from a web-site and has to be transformed first in order to be dropped onto a different web-page. The transformation makes it possible for the target (drop) page to understand and process the data. A target page need only support one format rather than numerous possible formats used by source pages. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161583 | SEARCH MACRO SUGGESTIONS RELEVANT TO SEARCH QUERIES - Search macros suggestions are provided to refine a user's search. When a search query is received from an end user, one or more search macros are determined to be relevant to the search query. The search macros are then provided to the end user as suggestions for refining the user's search. In some instances, the end user may chose to select one of the suggested search macros. A search is then performed using the search query and the selected search macro to provide search results to the end user that may be more relevant to the user's search. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161584 | Parent-Child Query Indexing for XML Databases - A method for processing queries for a document of elements is provided. The document includes a plurality of subsections where each subsection includes at least a portion of elements in the document. The method comprises: receiving a query for a path of elements in the document of elements; determining a plurality of step queries from the query, each step query including at least a part of the path of elements; for each step query in the plurality of step queries, determining one or more subsections that include elements that correspond to a step query; and determining at least one subsection that includes the path of elements of the query. A result for the query is generated using the at least one subsection. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161585 | ASYMMETRIC CLUSTER FILESYSTEM - Provided is a data processing method in an asymmetric cluster filesystem. Each data server pre-allocates a free data block and transmits relevant information to a metadata server. The metadata server allocates a free data block and generates metadata by using free data block information, which is received beforehand and managed, upon a user's request of data generation. Then, the data server records the data on the free data block indicated in the metadata. Accordingly, network cost and operation amount of a server decrease and the load can be fairly distributed. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161586 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MULTI-PAGE DISPLAY AND INTERACTION OF ANY INTERNET SEARCH ENGINE DATA ON AN INTERNET BROWSER - The present invention describes a system and method of displaying search engine results and comprises a method of Internet browser add-ons or a web-based program where the multi-page of the Internet search engine data is displayed partially on one window screen in multi-columns format, each column represents one search engine page of data. The invention is particularly, but not exclusively, useful as a system and methods with novel aspect to develop the Internet browser view more user friendly to the users and includes further a Download module to user computer and an Install/Remove module of the add-on software module. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161587 | Browser Operation With Sets Of Favorites - Methods, apparatus, and products for browser operation with sets of favorites, the browser supporting tabbed browsing, where the browser operation includes opening, by the browser, a first member of a set of favorites in a new tab and loading, by the browser, a Uniform Resource Locator (‘URL’) for each member of the set into navigation memory for back and forward navigation functions for the new tab. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161588 | UNSUPERVISED DETECTION OF WEB PAGES CORRESPONDING TO A SIMILARITY CLASS - A method of detecting web pages belonging to at least one similarity class from a plurality of web pages includes determining clusters of the plurality of web pages based on characteristics of the content of the web pages. For each of the determined clusters, at least one metric is determined indicative of similarity among resource locators associated with the web pages of that cluster. A determination of web pages belonging to the at least one similarity class is based on the determined clusters and the determined similarity metrics. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161589 | Graphical Representation of Query Optimizer Search Space In A Database Management System - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for generating a graphical representation of a query optimization process. The method comprises the steps of parsing a search space log, presenting one or more evaluated access plans on an axis of a timeline, identifying a best access plan on the timeline, and outputting a graphical representation of the timeline. An additional system, method, and computer program product are provided for recording a query optimization process of a query optimizer. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161590 | QUERY PROCESSING IN A DYNAMIC CACHE - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to dynamically update an ad cache. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161591 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GEO-BASED PREDICTION IN SEARCH RESULT SELECTION - A system and method is disclosed for determining a prediction measurement, or measure, using geo-spatial information which can be used to determine whether or not to include type of information in search results. The prediction measurement comprises a measure of the likelihood that an item of the type of information for which the prediction measure is determined will be selected, or clicked on, by a user, if the item of the type of information is included in the search result. Without limitation, one such information type is news. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161592 | Query Intent Determination Using Social Tagging - A method and system for using social tagging to identify a search engine user's intent are described. A search engine selects a set of pages that are relevant to a query. The engine determines neighbors of these pages and groups the neighbors into topical clusters. For each cluster, the engine determines tags that a community of users has frequently associated with pages in that cluster. For each cluster, the engine matches that cluster's dominant tags with phrases in various intent lists. By matching a particular cluster's tags to various lists, an intent corresponding to that particular cluster is determined. For each cluster's intent, the search engine may present, with query results, types of content that correspond especially to that intent (e.g., a map for a location intent, possibly along with driving directions). Additionally or alternatively, for each such intent, the search engine may format the query results in a manner that suits the intent. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161593 | GRAPHICAL RESULT SET REPRESENTATION AND MANIPULATION - A graphical user interface in a database application includes a control for manipulating a result set of a query. The control is operable to display multiple graphical representations of a result ratio between a total number of rows in a database table returned in response to the query and a total number of rows of the database table. By interacting with the control, the user can switch (e.g., toggle) between graphical representations of the result ratio. The toggling can be achieved by automatically creating supplemental queries to the database. The graphical representations can be a pie chart, bar chart, eye chart or any other graphical representation that is suitable for displaying the result ratio. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161594 | HISTORY BASED SEARCH SERVICE OPERABLE WITH MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES - A method, a device and a computer readable storage medium for enhancing user experience associated with searching data associated with one or more applications/services accessible on a mobile computing device. The result of the search is selected organized based on previous history of user actions to present the most relevant data entries to the user. Options associated with the searched data entries are also selected and organized based on previous history of user actions to facilitate performing of the user's intended functions on the mobile computing device. Further, searched data entries may be presented to the user in an argument oriented presentation mode where the searched data entries represent arguments for functions or a function oriented presentation mode where the searched data entries represent functions to be performed on the mobile computing device. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161595 | RECOMMENDER SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING A NEW SET OF MEDIA ITEMS RESPONSIVE TO AN INPUT SET OF MEDIA ITEMS AND KNOWLEDGE BASE METRICS - Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying a new set of media items in response to an input set (or “query set”) of media items and knowledge base metrics. The system uses a knowledge base consisting of a collection of mediasets. Various metrics among media items are considered by analyzing how the media items are grouped to form the mediasets in the knowledge base. Such association or “similarity” metrics are preferably stored in a matrix form that allows the system to efficiently identify a new set of media items that complements the input set of media items. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161596 | Learning Latent Semantic Space for Ranking - A tool facilitating learning latent semantics for ranking (LLSR) tailored to the ranking task via leveraging relevance information of query-document pairs to learn a tailored latent semantic space such that other documents are better ranked for the queries in the subspace. The tool applying a learning latent semantics for ranking algorithm integrating LLSR, thereby enabling learning an optimal latent semantic space (LSS) for ranking by utilizing relevance information in the training process of subspace learning. The tool enabling an optimization of the LSS as a closed form solution and facilitating reporting the learned LSS. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161597 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINDING POTENTIAL TRADING PARTNERS IN BOTH TWO-PARTY AND MULTI-PARTY SCENARIOS - System and method for bartering items between two or more parties using a communications network in which each party accesses a central server via the communications network and provides a list of items they have to trade and want to obtain, a description of the items and any conditions for trade of the items. The lists are stored in a database and links indicating the party's possible trades are automatically created. A search for possible trades between the parties is undertaken using the links and the parties involved in each possible trade are notified to confirm the trade. Upon receipt of confirmation from each party, the trade is processed to completion. Weights may be assigned to the links, representing a degree of similarity between descriptions of items, whereby the search for possible trades is conducted based on the weights of the links. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161598 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR SHARING A RESULT RELATED TO CONTENTS - The present invention relates to a method, system, and computer-readable recoding medium for sharing a result related to contents. The method for sharing a result related to contents includes the steps of assigning different identifications (IDs) to communities in which the contents are primarily and/or secondarily posted if a user requests to directly scrap and post the contents of a server, and collectively providing a result created in relation to the contents belonging to communities having a common ID if the result is created in relation to the primarily and/or secondarily posted contents. | 2010-06-24 |