26th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 69 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100169267 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA PROCESSING USING MULTIDIMENSIONAL FILTERING - In one embodiment the present invention includes a method comprising receiving a data filter for filtering a collection of data, wherein the collection of data is configured as a star schema including a fact table and dimension tables. The data filter is applied against the dimension tables to generate a modified dimension table. The modified dimension tables are applied against the fact table to produce a modified fact table. The data filter is then applied against the modified fact table to generate a second modified fact table, which is the output of the process. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169268 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SECURING AND AUTHORIZING MULTIDIMENSIONAL TRANSACTIONAL DATA - In one embodiment the present invention includes a system for securing and authorizing access to multidimensional transactional data. The system includes online analytical processing (OLAP) system and a database system. The OLAP system accesses a selection of multidimensional transactional data from the database system according to a multidimensional request. The OLAP system aggregates the selection to form aggregated information. The OLAP system filters the selection according to the authorization for the user, to form a filtered selection. In this manner the user can see accurate aggregations yet not see unauthorized data. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169269 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING COLLABORATIVE EDITING - Systems and methods are presented for providing collaborative editing. An embodiment collaboratively edits a computer file using a plurality of computers in a network, where the computers are connected using a token ring, each of the computers has a local copy, and a first computer has edited its local copy and performs the method. A token circulating around the token ring is captured, and a location of the edited portion of the local copy of the file is determined. The location is broadcast to the other computers. Conflicts are received from the other computers, and the conflicts from the other computers are reconciled with the edited portion of the local copy of the file to provide reconciled edits to the file. The local copy of the file is updated with the reconciled edits. A data packet with the reconciled edits is created and transmitted around the token ring. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169270 | DYNAMIC PERSISTENT ACTIVITIES IN ACTIVITY-CENTRIC COMPUTING - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for managing dynamic and persistent activity objects in an activity in an activity-centric computing (ACC) system. In an embodiment of the invention, the system can include an ACC system executing in a host server coupled both to a data store of activities and external sources of dynamic content over a computer communications network. The ACC system can be configured to manage an activity structure for an activity in the data store of activities in that the activity structure can include a hierarchical arrangement of activity objects representing underlying static content. The system also can include a dynamic activity module coupled to the ACC system. The module can include program code enabled to insert into the activity structure a dynamic activity object subscribing to one of the external sources of dynamic content to render corresponding dynamic content received from the one of the external sources. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169271 | FILE SHARING METHOD, COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND JOB SCHEDULER - Provided is a computer system including a plurality of computing hosts, which constructs a shared file system dynamically so that job execution efficiency is improved. In the computer system which includes the plurality of computing hosts and executes a job requested, in a case where the job is executed by the plurality of computing hosts, each computing host which executes the job is configured to: share a file necessary for executing the job; access the shared file to execute the requested job; and cancel the sharing of the file after execution of the requested job is completed. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169272 | Concurrent Engineering Conflict Manager - A conflict manager according to the present invention is provided for managing concurrent engineering. A common work area is provided and accessible by engineers who also maintain local work areas. The conflict manager immediately notifies users when a drawing file on the common work area is modified. The conflict manager further includes locking, versioning and conflict functionalities. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169273 | MANAGING DATA ACROSS A PLURALITY OF DATA STORAGE DEVICES BASED UPON COLLABORATION RELEVANCE - A computer-implemented method of managing data storage according to collaborative activity can include determining collaborative activity for each of a plurality of data items associated with a first user and stored within a first data storage device. The method can include calculating a measure of relevancy for each of the plurality of data items according to the collaborative activity and comparing the measure of relevancy of each of the plurality of data items to at least one relevancy threshold. Different ones of the plurality of data items can be selectively migrated from the first data storage device to a second data storage device according to the comparison of the measure of relevancy of each of the plurality of data items. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169274 | MANAGING STORAGE OF INDIVIDUALLY ACCESSIBLE DATA UNITS - Managing data includes: receiving at least one group of individually accessible data units over an input device or port, each data unit identified by a key value, with key values of the received data units being sorted such that the key value identifying a given first data unit that is received before a given second data unit occurs earlier in a sort order than the key value identifying the given second data unit; and processing the data units for storage in a data storage system. The processing includes: storing a plurality of blocks of data, each of one or more of the blocks being generated by combining a plurality of the data units; providing an index that includes an entry for each of the blocks, wherein one or more of the entries enable location, based on a provided key value, of a block that includes data units corresponding to a range of key values that includes the provided key value; and generating one or more screening data structures associated with the stored blocks for determining a possibility that a data unit that includes a given key value was included in the group of individually accessible data units. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169275 | ACCESSING A HIERARCHICAL DATABASE USING SERVICE DATA OBJECTS (SDO) VIA A DATA ACCESS SERVICE (DAS) - Techniques for replicating modified data to a hierarchical database. A first list comprises records included in a set of records before at least one modification thereto. A second list comprises records included in the set of records after the at least one modification thereto. For each pre-modification record included in the first list and each post-modification record included in the second list having equal identifying values, a target record at the database and having a matching identifying value is modified. Specifically, if both records include corresponding indexes, information about a structure pointed to by the pre-modification record is removed from an index included in the target record, and information about a structure pointed to by the post-modification record is added to the index. If neither record includes an index, the target record is modified to contain at least one changed value included in the post-modification record. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169276 | View maintenance on multiple tables located in different software components with the same primary keys - A method performed by a processor allows an individual to update or maintain a database including a core and an extension. The core contains core tables including general data and the extension contains extension tables including specific data. The core tables and the extension tables have the same primary keys and the specific data are an extension of the general data. The method includes receiving an input from the individual for modifying the database, modifying the core using the received input, and automatically modifying the extension to reflect the modifying of the core. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169277 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PEER-TO-PEER FILE TRANSMISSION - A method and a system for peer-to-peer file transmission, suitable for an uploading peer to transmit a file to a downloading peer through a communication network, are provided. First, the uploading peer shares one or a plurality of pieces of the file. Then, the uploading peer selects one of the pieces of the file and suggests the downloading peer downloading the selected piece. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169278 | DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMUNICATION METHOD - Distribution apparatuses include databases for storing data received from ECUs, and further include receiving buffers and sending buffers. The distribution apparatus continuously performs, in parallel, an operation for storing received data on the receiving buffer, operation for synchronizing contents of the database with the databases, and an operation for sending data from the sending buffer. Further, the distribution apparatus periodically copies data of the receiving buffer onto the database and data of the database onto the sending buffer. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169279 | Data management of aggregrated devices through a television platform - An apparatus and method are disclosed. In one embodiment apparatus includes a media aggregation backup unit that can receive a request to perform a backup of a set of media files stored within media storage devices coupled to a home network. The media aggregation backup unit can send information to a remote server, coupled to the Internet that identifies the media storage devices coupled to the home network to the remote server. Also, the media aggregation backup unit can send information to the media storage devices to provide the media storage devices the identity and location of the remote server. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169280 | DISTRIBUTED NETWORK CONSTRUCTION AND STORAGE METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM - The disclosure relates to distributed network communications, and in particular, to a distributed network construction method and apparatus, a distributed data storage method and apparatus, and a distributed network system. When a node joins a distributed network, the ID of the node is determined according to the geographic location information about the node. Therefore, all the nodes in the same area belong to the same ID range, and the node IDs are allocated according to the area. Because the node IDs are determined according to the area, the local data may be stored in the node in the area according to the geographic information, inter-area data access is reduced. Therefore, the method, the apparatus, and the system provided herein reduce the data load on the backbone network, balance the data traffic and the bandwidth overhead of the entire network, and reduce the network instability. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169281 | COALESCING AND CAPTURING DATA BETWEEN EVENTS PRIOR TO AND AFTER A TEMPORAL WINDOW - Systems and methods of coalescing and capturing data between events prior to and after a temporal window are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method includes determining a temporal window based on one or more of a user data and an automatically generated data, coalescing data between events prior to the temporal window using a processor and a physical memory and capturing data between events after the temporal window. The coalescing data between events prior to the temporal window may be determined by a set of overlapping operations to a data set, wherein certain operations have non-overlapping sectors which are not coalesced. Shifting a data view around a recovery point through a direction-agnostic roll algorithm that may use a roll-forward algorithm to shift the data view to a time after the recovery point and/or a roll-backward algorithm to shift the data view to a time before the recovery point. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169282 | ACQUISITION AND WRITE VALIDATION OF DATA OF A NETWORKED HOST NODE TO PERFORM SECONDARY STORAGE - Methods and a system to acquire and perform write validation of data generated by one or more networked host nodes to perform secondary storage are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method to passively acquire and perform write validation of data generated by one or more networked host nodes to perform secondary storage in a SAN-based data storage and recovery network includes generating data to store in primary storage. The method further includes generating metadata describing the data generated to store in primary storage, sending the data and metadata to a primary SAN storage device, acquiring passive access to data traveling a data path between a generating node and the primary SAN storage device, the data mirrored over an access line to a secondary storage server. The method further includes receiving, at the secondary storage server, an exact copy of a data stream that passes a splitter. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169283 | RECOVERY POINT DATA VIEW FORMATION WITH GENERATION OF A RECOVERY VIEW AND A COALESCE POLICY - Methods, software suites, networks, and systems of recovery point data view formation with generation of a recovery view and a coalesce policy are disclosed. In one embodiment, a network includes a virtualization module to form a data view around a recovery point, a recovery module to generate a recovery snapshot having an ability to position forward and backward from the recovery point when a rolling algorithm is applied, and an events module to generate a coalesce policy around the recovery point to reduce a storage requirement. The network may include an export module to transfer the data view to an external processing device as a virtual volume using one or more of an iSCSI and a fiber channel transport interface. The export module may automatically communicate the data view to a backup tape to provide extended data retention using a lifecycle management policy. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169284 | DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTIONAL RECOVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD - In one embodiment the present invention includes a system for transaction recovery in a distributed computing environment. The system includes a transaction log server, application servers, and resource servers. The transaction log server stores a shared transaction log. The application servers implement a distributed transaction application and accesses the shared transaction log when performing a transaction using the distributed transaction application. The resource servers store data and that operate with the application servers to access the data according to the transaction. If one of the application servers fails, another application server assumes responsibility for a portion of the shared transaction log that was previously accessed by the failed application server. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169285 | AUTOMATED GROUPING OF MESSAGES PROVIDED TO AN APPLICATION USING STRING SIMILARITY ANALYSIS - Messages which are provided to an application are monitored. Similarities between the messages are determined based on a distance algorithm, in one approach, and messages which are similar are assigned to a common group. For example, the messages may be HTTP messages which include a URL, HTTP header parameters and/or HTTP post parameters. The messages are parsed to derive a string which is used in the distance calculations. Additionally, application runtime data such as response times is obtained and aggregated for the group. Further, a representative message can be determined for each group for comparison to subsequent messages. Results can be reported which include a group identifier, representative message, count and aggregated runtime data. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169286 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Updating Web Content - Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for dynamically updating web content using W3C standards. One such method sends a request to a web server for a web page. A web browser receives and renders a static HTML web page. The web browser periodically sends a query to the web server and, in response, receives a latest date and time stamp indicating the latest update to the web page. The web browser compares the latest date and time stamp to a previously stored date and time stamp representing a previous update. If the latest date and time stamp matches the previously stored date and time stamp, then no update has occurred and no update is required. If, however, the date and time stamps do not match, then the web page has changed since the previous update and the web browser retrieves the latest update to the web page. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169287 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BYTE-LEVEL OR QUASI BYTE-LEVEL SINGLE INSTANCING - Described in detail herein are systems and methods for deduplicating data using byte-level or quasi byte-level techniques. In some embodiments, a file is divided into multiple blocks. A block includes multiple bytes. Multiple rolling hashes of the file are generated. For each byte in the file, a searchable data structure is accessed to determine if the data structure already includes an entry matching a hash of a minimum sequence length. If so, this indicates that the corresponding bytes are already stored. If one or more bytes in the file are already stored, then the one or more bytes in the file are replaced with a reference to the already stored bytes. The systems and methods described herein may be used for file systems, databases, storing backup data, or any other use case where it may be useful to reduce the amount of data being stored. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169288 | DATABASE ELEMENT VERSIONING SYSTEM AND METHOD - This disclosure relates to database systems and, more particularly, to database systems with version controlled data. A version controlled database program resides on a computer readable medium, having a plurality of instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations. The operations include defining a version object software layer. The version object software layer may be configured to read and write data of a version controlled database to a physical storage medium, maintain one or more versions of at least one element of the data, and provide access to the data. The operations may also include defining a database management software layer. The database management software layer may be configured to read and write data to the version object software layer and provide a database access interface for accessing the data. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169289 | Two Phase Commit With Grid Elements - A method, storage medium, and computer that, in an embodiment, receive a command that specifies a transaction identifier, keys, and partition identifiers. A primary partition is selected that executes on a first server. The first server comprises a first grid element that includes a first row that is identified by an initial key. An identification of the first grid element, the transaction identifier, an identifier of the primary partition, and the initial key are stored in a primary factory point at the first server. A secondary partition that executes on a second server is found. The second server comprises a second grid element that includes a second row that is identified by a second key. An identification of the second grid element, the transaction identifier, an identifier of the secondary partition, and the second key are stored in a secondary factory point at the second server. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169290 | EMBEDDED IDENTIFIERS FOR AN APPLIANCE COMPOMENT - An appliance has at least one component and is further enabled to communicate information about the component. The component has embedded identifiers that identify at least two different sources of information related to the component. Thus, a client of the appliance can receive the identifiers in the communicated information and use the identifiers to automatically ascertain information from the sources about the component. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169291 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROMPTING AN END USER WITH A PREFERRED SEQUENCE OF COMMANDS WHICH PERFORMS AN ACTIVITY IN A LEAST NUMBER OF INPUTS - A method for prompting an end user with a preferred sequence of commands which performs an activity in a least number of inputs. The method begins by monitoring a computer system for both input received from the end user and state transitions as a result of the computer receiving the end user input. The input received facilitates an activity the end user whishes to execute; the state transitions being the result of executing the activity. Next, defining the input received from the end user in a meaningful way. Then comparing the input received with at least one other command sequences that accomplish the same activity as the end user's input. Finally, prompting the end user with a preferred sequence of commands which performs the activity with the least number of inputs possible. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169292 | SLIDESHOW VIDEO FILE DETECTION - Slideshow video file detection. A method includes receiving a search query for video files of a desired type. A portion of a video file is extracted. A frame difference based histogram and an active pixel based histogram are generated for the portion. Further, the frame difference based histogram and an active pixel based histogram are provided to a machine learning tool. An indicator is determined for the portion based on a plurality of parameters. The video file is classified as the desired type based on the indicator. The video file is provided to the user. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169293 | SEARCH ENGINE SERVICE UTILIZING HASH ALGORITHMS - A secure search method of securing searches by a user through a hash provider using a search engine. The user registers with the hash provider. The hash provider sends a unique number, encrypted result database, and hashed index to the search engine. The user enters in at least one search term to be searched. The user hashes the search term and sends the search term to the search engine with the unique number. The search engine searches and selects the hashed index and encrypted result database based on the unique number. The encrypted result data set taken from the encrypted result database is sent to user. The user decrypts the result set. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169294 | SEARCH ENGINE SERVICE UTILIZING THE ADDITION OF NOISE - A method of disguising user search terms by adding a plurality of faux search phrases using a phrase-reuse-table comprising resulting faux search phrases and real search phrases the faux search phrases were derived from, a word-reuse-table comprising word substitutions used for words that revel patterns, and a word-table comprising words that reveal patterns sorted into groups. Faux search phrases are added by looking up the search phrases in the phrase-reuse-table, and looking up the search terms in the word-reuse-table and word-table, recording substitutions for words which reveal patterns in the word-reuse-table, and submitting the search terms and the set of faux search phrases to a search engine. Additionally, additional complexity may be used to generate additional faux search phrases. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169295 | DOCUMENT SEARCH SYSTEM WHICH REFLECTS THE SITUATION OF USING DOCUMENTS IN THE SEARCH RESULTS - A document search system includes a plurality of computers in a network having a router, and an email software program on each of the computers. A database stores attachment files and email documents. A search program on at least one of the computers initiating storage of email documents and attachment files. A mail journal database stores email data extracted by the search program from the email. A message identification (ID) identifying the email document, and the ID being generated by the search program and associating an email document with corresponding email data, and the ID associating the email document with an attachment file when an attachment file is sent. A file loader replacing an attachment file with a file link and storing the attachment file in the database. The file link provides access to the attachment file in the database. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169296 | Systems and Methods for Maintaining Records - Systems and methods are disclosed which relate to collecting, cataloguing, reproducing, and destroying records. Medical, legal, and other records from hospitals, medical offices, law offices, etc. are sent to a storage facility. Entry fields, such as name, record number, date of service, and date of birth, from each record are entered into a database. The database catalogues each record as well as the box the record is in and where the box is located. The system allows professionals to search the database over a secure connection. Multiple search fields allow a professional to search the database using any of a plurality of criterion. Search logic enables a cross-field search for a specific query. When professionals request a record, the record is pulled at the storage facility and physically or electronically sent to the professional. The system also keeps track of records eligible for destruction as well as those destroyed. Files eligible for destruction are destroyed after the requisite permission is given. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169297 | Variable Personalization of Search Results in a Search Engine - A search engine provides personalized rankings of search results. A user interest profile identifies topics of interest to a user. Each topic is associated with one or more sites, and a boost value, which can be used to augment an information retrieval score of any document from the site. Search results from any search are provided to the user, with a variable control of the ranking of the results. The results can be ranked by their unboosted information retrieval score, thus reflecting no personalization, or by their fully or partially boosted information retrieval scores. This allows the user to selectively control how their interests affect the ranking of the documents. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169298 | Method And An Apparatus For Information Collection - The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for collecting information. The technical solution of the invention enables the search engine database to collect dynamic web page access information by sending web page access information to it. As the collected information shows statistics about actual web page access information usage, it is an important reference for the search engine to sequence web pages. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169299 | Method and system for information extraction and modeling - Systems and methods for modeling information from a set of documents are disclosed. A tool allows a user to extract and model concepts of interest and relations among the concepts from a set of documents. The tool automatically configures a database of the model so that the model and extracted concepts from the documents may be customized, modified, and shared. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169300 | Ranking Oriented Query Clustering and Applications - Techniques described herein allow for suggesting creation of tools for improving search engine performance. Specifically, these tools focus on producing more relevant search engine results via a URL-based query clustering method. These tools first extract tokens from Uniform Resource Locators associated to search queries. With these tokens, these tools form query clusters of common tokens. The resulting clusters can be used to help understand the similarities in user search queries via URL-based cluster queries to produce more relevant search results. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169301 | System and method for aggregating and ranking data from a plurality of web sites - System and method for collecting information from a plurality of related sites, analyzing the information and storing the relevant information in a data base for future use. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the system uses the provided list of sites, whether obtained automatically or separately, queries them and analyzes the result retrieved from each site. The information may also optionally and preferably be ranked. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169302 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR GROUPING DATABASE LEVEL OBJECT ACCESS COUNTS PER PROCESSING MODULE IN A PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEM - A system, method, and computer-readable medium for grouping of database object access counts per processing module in a parallel processing system are provided. Each processing module manages an intermediate cache allocated thereto that stores database object access counts local to the respective processing module. The processing modules are configured in a hierarchical configuration and processing modules at the lowest level of the configuration forward their respective intermediate cache to a processing module configured as a parent to the respective processing module. On receipt of intermediate cache(s) from lower level processing modules, a processing module merges the received intermediate caches with the intermediate cache allocated to the processing module. The process is iteratively repeated until a root processing module receives the intermediate caches from processing modules configured as child nodes thereto. The root processing module merges the received intermediate cache(s) with the root processing module's intermediate cache thereby generating a final cache. An objects access count data structure is then generated by the root processing module. The object access count data structure of the final cache includes data blocks of object access counts where each data block is associated with a particular access module processor (AMP). The data blocks may then be forwarded to the associated AMPs. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169303 | PLAYLISTS FOR REAL-TIME OR NEAR REAL-TIME STREAMING - Methods and apparatuses for real-time or near real-time streaming of content using transfer protocols such as an HTTP compliant protocol. In one embodiment, a method includes dividing a stream of data, representing the contiguous time based content of a program (e.g. a live video broadcast), into a plurality of distinct media files, and generating a playlist file having a plurality of tags and Universal Resource Indicators (URIs) indicating an order of presentation of the plurality of distinct media files. The plurality of media files and the playlist file can be made available for transmission to a client device which can retrieve the media files using the playlist file. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169304 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO RETRIEVE RELEVANT INFORMATION - A method and system of retrieving information are disclosed. In accordance with the method, a plurality of information identifier (infoID) sets is generated based on at least one search term and at least one filtering criteria. The at least the plurality of infoID sets is joined according to a mathematical expression to form a resultant infoID set that includes at least one resultant infoID. At least a portion of a content document associated with the at least one resultant infoID is retrieved. At least one resultant infoID is summarized into at least one summary. The retrieved portion of the content document is summarized into the at least one summary of a combined result based on the associated at least one resultant infoID. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169305 | INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM FOR ARCHIVING MULTIPLE DOCUMENT VERSIONS - An information retrieval system uses phrases to index, retrieve, organize and describe documents. Phrases are identified that predict the presence of other phrases in documents. Documents are the indexed according to their included phrases. Index data for multiple versions or instances of documents is also maintained. Each document instance is associated with a date range and relevance data derived from the document for the date range. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169306 | Type neutral container - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with an artifact type neutral container are described. This artifact type neutral container is achieved through an artifact type neutral architecture that is managed using a central type neutral registration mechanism. Queries are executed on type neutral registration tables to return data stores that store the artifacts found within a given artifact type neutral container. The data stores are queried to return the artifacts in the artifact type neutral container. The artifact type neutral container can be used in systems in which the artifact type neutral container and artifact data are stored in the same database as well as in systems in which the artifact type neutral container and artifact data are stored in different databases. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169307 | PERFORMING AN EFFICIENT IMPLICIT JOIN OF MULTIPLE MIXED-TYPE RECORDS - A method, system, method and computer program product for retrieving data. Records are retrieved from a hierarchical database. The records are categorized into a plurality of record types. Each record comprises a unique identifier field. A record map contains zero or more entries. Each entry comprises an identifying value, data from at least one record and a set of Boolean flags. Each flag corresponds to a record type. A computer iterates over the retrieved records. Data from each record is stored at an entry in the record map having an identifying value equal to the value included in the unique identifier field of the record. Moreover, the flag in this entry which corresponds to the record type of the record is set. Inner joins and outer joins are then performed using the contents of the record map. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169308 | DYNAMIC TRANSLATOR FOR REQUESTS FOR SYSTEM RESOURCES - Techniques for selectively translating resource requests from a program running on a computer system are disclosed. The resource request may be a request to access a file, library file, API, etc. The resource request may be a system call or library call. The computer program may be non-native to the computer system. Translation of resource requests may occur within the operating system or outside it. A resource request containing a reference to a first path and file name may be selectively translated by altering the resource request to contain a reference to a second path and file name. After selectively translating a request, he request is caused to be serviced. A resource request may be serviced by forwarding it to an operating system, and a result may be sent back to the program. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169309 | System, Method, and Apparatus for Information Extraction of Textual Documents - A method and system for extraction of text from a set of text document(s). A plurality of document segments are identified within a given text document. For each document segment, at least one structured annotation is embedded within the document and associated with the given segment. The structured annotation specifies the start and end of the given document segment and a rhetorical relation associated with the given segment. The structured annotations are processed generate a plurality of variables that represent document segments and associated rhetorical relations as specified by the structured annotations, and such variables are stored in a data repository. A user interacts with a computer to define query input that specifies at least one rhetorical relation of interest. The query input specified by the user is processed to query the variables stored in the data repository to identify zero or more document segments that are associated with a rhetorical relation that matches the at least one rhetorical relation of interest specified by the query input. Information corresponding to the zero or more matching document segments is returned to the user. In the preferred embodiment, the rhetorical relations represented by the user supplied query input as well as the variables stored in the data repository include a set of RST relations whose meaning is dictated by nuclearity of the associated text. Such RST relations can include a plurality of mononuclear RST relations each having a nucleus and a satellite and a plurality of multinuclear RST relations each having a plurality of nucleus. The rhetorical relations represented by the user supplied query input as well as the variables stored in the data repository can also include a set of Speech Act relations whose meaning extends beyond the situational semantics of the associated text. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169310 | DISPLAYING AND MANIPULATING VIRTUAL OBJECTS ON VIRTUAL SURFACES - A computerized method of providing an interactive virtual surface to display virtual objects is described. The method may comprise providing the virtual surface via a graphical user interface on a display screen, wherein the virtual surface displays at least one axis and a plurality of virtual objects. The method may monitor positioning (including re-positioning) of each of the plurality of virtual objects by a user on the virtual surface relative to the axis. Thereafter, virtual object association data may be stored in a database identifying an association between each of the virtual objects and at least one attribute based on the positioning. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169311 | APPROACHES FOR THE UNSUPERVISED CREATION OF STRUCTURAL TEMPLATES FOR ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - A method and apparatus for creating templates for electronic documents is provided. One or more attributes are extracted, using a seed template, from a first document, such as a web page. A second document that contains a particular attribute, extracted from the first document, is identified. The second document may be in a different cluster than the first document. The second document is annotated, using an extracted attribute, to create an annotated document. The second document is annotated without human intervention. A new template for the annotated document is generated. The new template facilitates extraction of information from the annotated document. The new template may be used to extract additional attributes from all documents in the cluster of documents of which the second document is a member. The process may continue over numerous iterations to generate a large number of templates in an automated fashion. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169312 | Method and System for Negative Keyword Recommendations - Effectiveness of keywords is determined. The keywords are classified to include effective keywords and ineffective keywords. An exclusion keyword list based on ineffective keywords is created. The ineffective keywords that conflict with the effective keywords are removed from the exclusion keyword list. Negative keywords are determined. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169313 | Pangenetic Web Item Feedback System - Computer based systems, methods, software and databases are presented in which correlations between web items and pangenetic (genetic and epigenetic) attributes of individuals are determined and stored to generate a pangenetic based item feedback matrix. The pangenetic item feedback matrix can be used in computer based systems for web search, online recommendation of web items, web item satisfaction prediction, and online user behavior prediction to provide personalized results based on a user's pangenetic makeup. Data masking can be used to maintain privacy of sensitive portions of the pangenetic data. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169314 | CONTENT ANALYSIS AND CORRELATION - A content analysis and correlation service system can include a summary manager service for generating content correlation summaries, wherein the generated content correlation summaries are based on discovered content and analyzed content based on the discovered content. The system can include a content search manager service for generating the discovered content based on search criteria and correlation criteria and a semantic analysis service for generating the analyzed content based on the discovered content. The system can also include a data store for storing the generated content correlation summaries and a notification service for providing notifications based on the generated content correlation summaries. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169315 | ATTRIBUTION ANALYSIS AND CORRELATION - An attribution analysis and correlation system can include a content manager and a semantic correlation module. The content manager can receive a list identifying at least one contributor to be evaluated. The content manager can also mine at least one community for content pertaining to the contributor(s). The semantic correlation module can generate correlation results by performing a semantic analysis and correlation on the persistent content and attributions corresponding to the contributor(s). | 2010-07-01 |
20100169316 | SEARCH QUERY CONCEPT BASED RECOMMENDATIONS - Search Query Concept Based Recommendations. A method includes electronically receiving, in a computer system, a title as an input. One or more subsets of the title are generated. A list of key phrases associated with the title is obtained. Further, one or more key phrases from the list corresponding to the one or more subsets is electronically identified. Contents are selected based on the one or more key phrases identified. The contents can be ranked. The contents are then provided to the user. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169317 | Product or Service Review Summarization Using Attributes - Described is a technology in which product or service reviews are automatically processed to form a summary for each single product or service. Snippets from the reviews are extracted and classified into sentiment classes (e.g., as positive or negative) based on their wording. Attributes are assigned to the reviews, e.g., based on term frequency concepts, as nouns, which may be paired with adjectives and/or verbs. The summary of the reviews belonging to a single product or service is generated based on the automatically computed attributes and the classification of review snippets into attribute and sentiment classes. For example, the summary may indicate how many reviews were positive (the sentiment class), along with text corresponding to the most similar snippet based on its similarity to the attributes (the attribute class). | 2010-07-01 |
20100169318 | CONTEXTUAL REPRESENTATIONS FROM DATA STREAMS - A user's experience with internet content may be given semantic meaning based upon extracting features of the content and creating kind classifications from the features. Kind classifications may be used to enrich a user's experience with internet content by providing meaningful navigation and discovery of information. As provided herein, a data stream (e.g., HTML, audio, video, unstructured data, etc.) is received, and features (e.g., text, phrases, titles, paragraphs, image data, etc.) may be extracted from the data stream. Kind classifications may be created based upon the extracted features. For example, a shirt image kind classification may be created based upon a button image feature, a collar image feature, and a sleeve image feature. The user's experience may be enriched by a presentation of actions allowing the user to view similar shirts, purchase the shirt, and/or discover other information relating to the shirt, for example. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169319 | Verification of Data Categorization - Verification and categorization of data in a system that interfaces with common knowledge repositories having different application programming interfaces. The system inputs a data tree structure with categories of information. The relationships in the data tree are queried against common knowledge repositories. A report of potentially erroneous categorizations in the data tree may be output for further review. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169320 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EMAIL SEARCH - A method and system for performing email search, the said method comprising of enabling the user to find relations between emails and build network relations and to further retrieve groups based on the relations (and intersections of relations) as per the user's choice; the system comprising of giving and having the user select predetermined options for a search with a further ability to “drill-down” the results with the aid of filters to view further mails/results, and being also able to search on search results and also provide for storing user searches. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169321 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CIPHERTEXT INDEXING AND SEARCHING - The present invention provides a method and apparatus for ciphertext indexing and searching. Indices of multiple levels are created for the encrypted files. Each item in the primary index includes a primary index item identifier and the ciphertext of the primary indexing information of the related file. The primary indexing information each includes an identifier(s) of the related secondary index item identifier(s) and the corresponding decryption information. Each item in the secondary index includes a secondary index item identifier and the ciphertext of the secondary indexing information. Information necessary for obtaining a file is included in the corresponding secondary indexing information. With the decryption information of the secondary indexing information in the decrypted primary indexing information, the ciphertext of the related secondary indexing information is decrypted so as to obtain information such as the decryption key of the file. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169322 | EFFICIENT ACCESS OF BITMAP ARRAY WITH HUGE USAGE VARIANCE ALONG LINEAR FASHION, USING POINTERS - A system and method for locating an unallocated bit in a bitmap array includes traversing the bitmap array using a plurality of pointers to locate a unit. The unit includes a plurality of entities and at least one of the plurality of entities is unallocated. The method further includes traversing the at least one of the plurality of unallocated entities in the unit to obtain an unallocated entity. The unit is associated with at least one pointer, and the at least one pointer is associated with a plurality of threshold values and a fill count, the fill count being less than a maximum fill count of the bitmap array. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169323 | Query-Dependent Ranking Using K-Nearest Neighbor - Described is a technology in which documents associated with a query are ranked by a ranking model that depends on the query. When a query is processed, a ranking model for the query is selected/determined based upon nearest neighbors to the query in query feature space. In one aspect, the ranking model is trained online, based on a training set obtained from a number of nearest neighbors to the query. In an alternative aspect, ranking models are trained offline using training sets; the query is used to find a most similar training set based on nearest neighbors of the query, with the ranking model that corresponds to the most similar training set being selected for ranking. In another alternative aspect, the ranking models are trained offline, with the nearest neighbor to the query determined and used to select its associated ranking model. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169324 | RANKING DOCUMENTS WITH SOCIAL TAGS - Technologies are described herein for ranking documents with social tags. A number ranking feature containing a number of times a document was tagged is received. A textual property ranking feature containing a union of each social tag associated with the document is also received. The number ranking feature is transformed into a static input value. Further, the textual property ranking feature is transformed into a dynamic input value. A document rank for the document is determined by inputting the static input value and/or the dynamic input value into a ranking function. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169325 | SEARCH RESULTS DISPLAY FOR WEIGHTED MULTI-TERM SEARCHES - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for displaying search results for weighted, multi-term content searches. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for displaying search results for weighted, multi-term content searches is provided. The method includes specifying different weighted search terms for a content search and performing the content search for both content and content meta-data in a search engine. The method also includes retrieving search results for the content search and computing a relevance for each of the weighted search terms. Finally, the method includes presenting both the search results and also a relevance indicator for each computed relevance for each of the weighted search terms found in connection with each of the search results in a user interface to the search engine. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169326 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION OF CONTENT ITEMS ASSOCIATION - An apparatus for providing analysis and visualization of content items associations may include a processor that may be configured to perform an analysis of a link relation between a source content item and at least one of a plurality of content items. The processor may further be configured to identify at least one content item relevant to the source content item by identifying a similarity between at least one attribute associated with the source content item and at least one attribute associated with the at least one relevant content item. The processor may also be configured to determine a weight of the link relation based at least in part on the identified similarity, and provide for display of a link relation between the source content item and the identified at least one relevant content item. A corresponding method and computer program product may also be provided. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169327 | TRACKING SIGNIFICANT TOPICS OF DISCOURSE IN FORUMS - Users in public forums often mention certain topics in the course of their discussions. Member's comments in messages to other members are analyzed to obtain terms that co-occur with topics. Frequencies of co-occurrence of a term with topics are normalized based on frequency of the term in a random sample of message. The terms are ranked by their normalized frequency of co-occurrence with a topic in messages. The top terms are selected based on their rank. Analysis of demographic information associated with members that mentioned top terms associated with a topic is displayed in graphical format that highlights the relationship between the age, gender, and usage of the top terms over time. The demographic information presented includes average age of members that mentioned a top term or their gender information within a selected time interval. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169328 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS USING MODEL-BASED COLLABORATIVE FILTERING WITH USER COMMUNITIES AND ITEMS COLLECTIONS - Massively scalable, memory and model-based techniques are an important approach for practical large-scale collaborative filtering. We describe a massively scalable, model-based recommender system and method that extends the collaborative filtering techniques by explicitly incorporating these types of user and item knowledge. In addition, we extend the Expectation-Maximization algorithm for learning the conditional probabilities in the model to coherently accommodate time-varying training data. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169329 | SYSTEM FOR SIMILAR DOCUMENT DETECTION - A document is compared to the documents in a document collection using a hash algorithm and collection statistics to detect if the document is similar to any of the documents in the document collection. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169330 | TRAJECTORY-BASED VIDEO RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Nowadays, video cameras are often used for monitoring areas under surveillance. For monitoring more complex surroundings a plurality of video cameras are commonly employed, whereby the resulting data from the plurality of video cameras is viewed on-line or stored in data-bases and checked off-line. With a growing number of video cameras also the amount of the stored video data is increasing rapidly, which finally results in an enormous effort to search through the video data on- or off-line in case a time instance or location of a certain interesting event is unknown. Improvements are achieved by using systems for content-based indexing and retrieval of video data. A video retrieval system 1 is proposed comprising a retrieval means for retrieving trajectory data from a database as a response to a search query, whereby the search query is formulated on the basis of a search trajectory | 2010-07-01 |
20100169331 | ONLINE RELEVANCE ENGINE - Information is automatically located which is relevant to source content that a user is viewing on a user interface without requiring the user to perform an additional search or navigate links of the source content. The source content can be, e.g., a web page or a document from a word processing or email application. The relevant information can include images, videos, web pages, maps or other location-based information, people-based information and special services which aggregate different types of information. Related content is located by analyzing textual content, user behavior and connectivity relative to the source. The related content is scored for similarity to the source. Content which is sufficiently similar but not too similar is selected. Similar related content is grouped to select representative results. The selected content is filtering in multiple stages based on attribute priorities to avoid unnecessary processing of content which is filtered out an early stage. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169332 | ANONYMITY MEASURING DEVICE - The invention concerns a data anonymity measuring device for selectively transmitting an anonymised database to a third party comprising: calculation means ( | 2010-07-01 |
20100169333 | DOCUMENT PROCESSOR - A technique to appropriately process structured data is provided. If a conditional expression related to data stored in a database system is included in a document processing apparatus, a query builder generates a query statement corresponding to the database system from the conditional expression. A database plug-in sends the generated query statement to the database system and then acquires a query result from the database system. A view builder generates a view for displaying the acquired query result. The document processing apparatus displays a display screen for a document including the generated view. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169334 | PEER-TO-PEER WEB SEARCH USING TAGGED RESOURCES - Systems and methods for conducting peer-to-peer (PTP) Internet searches utilizing tagged web resources, that is, web resources that the local user and/or a user at an associated remote computing device has tagged as evidence of a desire to have that resource as part of a PTP search community of resources, are provided. A user's search query is received and local and/or remote client computers associated with the user are searched directly for stored web resource links corresponding to the user's search query. Links to web resources that are identified by the search as corresponding to (i.e., satisfying) the user's search query are presented to the user. The user may then review the presented web resource links and determine if he or she would like to tag the web resource and add it to his or her local list of resources as part of the foundation for future PTP community searches. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169335 | Detecting and Reordering Fixed-Length Records to Facilitate Compression - Disclosed herein are one or more embodiments that facilitate compression of a source file having a fixed-length record therein. One or more of the disclosed embodiments detect the fixed-length records and determine a reordering plan for the source file, including determining a plurality of column groupings within the detected fixed-length records. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169336 | Customer Search Utility - A customer search terminal system may be configured to accept customer product searches and identify corresponding products and product information. A method for determining the efficacy of the customer search terminal may include receiving customer usage information including data related to customer usage of a customer search terminal and may also include receiving product sales information including data related to products sold at a point-of-sale terminal. The method may further include generating customer purchase behavior information by correlating the received customer search terminal usage information with the received product sales information when a product is sold at the point-of-sale terminal within a prescribed time period relative to a search for the product on the customer search terminal. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169337 | IDENTITY ANALYSIS AND CORRELATION - An identity analysis and correlation service system can include a summary manager service for generating identity correlation summaries pertaining to a persona, wherein the generated identity correlation summaries are based on discovered content corresponding to the persona and analyzed content corresponding to the discovered content. The system can include a content search manager service for generating the discovered content based on search criteria and a semantic analysis service for generating the analyzed content. The system can also include a data store for storing the generated identity correlation summaries and a notification service for providing a notification based on the generated identity correlation summaries. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169338 | Pangenetic Web Search System - Computer based systems, methods, software and databases are presented in which correlations between web items and pangenetic (genetic and epigenetic) attributes of individuals are used for pangenetic based web search in which a user can request and receive personalized web search results that are based on the user's pangenetic makeup. Data masking can be used to maintain privacy of sensitive portions of the pangenetic data. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169339 | SYSTEM, METHOD, OR APPARATUS FOR UPDATING STORED SEARCH RESULT VALUES - Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with updating stored internet search query result values are disclosed. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169340 | Pangenetic Web Item Recommendation System - Computer based systems, methods, software and databases are presented in which correlations between web item preferences and pangenetic (genetic and epigenetic) attributes of individuals are used for pangenetic based web item recommendation in which a user can request and receive personalized online recommendations of web items that are based on the user's pangenetic makeup. Data masking can be used to maintain privacy of sensitive portions of the pangenetic data. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169341 | PREDICTIVE ALGORITHM FOR SEARCH BOX AUTO-COMPLETE - In various exemplary embodiments, a system and associated method to predict search results in an electronic environment is disclosed. The system architecture comprises a communications module to receive a query from a remote end-user where the query includes one or more characters contained within a first single communications packet. A query engine is coupled to the communications module. The query engine uses the one or more characters from the query to predictively match keywords contained within a data structure (e.g., a database) and forms a response from the one or more characters. The response is transmitted back to the end-user within a second single TCP communications packet. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169342 | Pangenetic Web Satisfaction Prediction System - Computer based systems, methods, software and databases are presented in which correlations between web item preferences and pangenetic (genetic and epigenetic) attributes of individuals are used for pangenetic based web item satisfaction prediction in which a user can request and receive online predictions of their satisfaction with web items that are based on the user's pangenetic makeup. Data masking can be used to maintain privacy of sensitive portions of the pangenetic data. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169343 | Pangenetic Web User Behavior Prediction System - Computer based systems, methods, software and databases are presented in which correlations between web item preferences, behaviors and pangenetic (genetic and epigenetic) attributes of individuals are used for pangenetic based user behavior prediction in which predictions of a user's online behavior can be generated based on the user's pangenetic makeup. Data masking can be used to maintain privacy of sensitive portions of the pangenetic data. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169344 | DYNAMIC FORMATION OF GROUPS IN A NOTIFICATION SYSTEM - A method for determining membership in a group of notification recipients and issuing a notification to the group of notification recipients, is disclosed. The method includes associating a set of potential recipients of notifications with at least one descriptor and dynamically forming a group of recipients to receive at least one notification based on the descriptors currently associated with the set of potential recipients of notifications. The method also includes issuing the at least one notification to the group of recipients. A system for determining membership in a group of notification recipients and issuing a notification to the group of notification recipients, is also provided. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169345 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DETERMINING DATA SIGNATURES IN A DYNAMIC DISTRIBUTED DEVICE NETWORK - An apparatus for determining data signatures in a dynamic distributed device network may include a processor. The processor may be configured to receive a first query and generate a local partial closure of the data identified by the first query. The processor may be further configured to synthesize a data signature of the local partial closure. In this regard, the data signature may be an irreducible polynomial expression and the data signature may be orthogonal to remote data signatures generated from remote partial closures. Further, the processor may be configured to store the data signature in an information store within a dynamic distributed device network. Associated methods and computer program products may also be provided. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169346 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR POLYNOMIAL-BASED DATA TRANSFORMATION AND UTILIZATION - An apparatus for polynomial based data transformation may include a processor. The processor may be configured to identify data that is relevant to a set of one or more queries and generate an information source vector that indicates information sources associated with the data. The processor may also be configured to generate a cyclotomic polynomial based on the information source vector and factor the cyclotomic polynomial to generate a plurality of orthogonal data signatures. Associated methods and computer program products may also be provided. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169347 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING SEGMENTS OF MEDIA CONTENT - Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and apparatus for tagging a segment of media content. In various embodiments, a beginning location and an ending location indicating the segment are recorded and are used to retrieve the segment from the media content. Various embodiments provide systems and methods for communicating the segment with a user. In various embodiments, the user requests the segment and the position of the segment in the media content and the storage location of the media content are used to extract the segment from the media content. In addition, various embodiments provide systems and methods for providing a license to the user to observe the segment. In various embodiments, a request for the license includes a player identifier and a user identifier that are used to verified the player is associated with the user and the user has rights to observe the segment. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169348 | Systems and Methods for Handling Multiple Records - Devices and methods are disclosed which relate to identifying ‘duplicate’ records in a database by finding similarities between records and applying a set of heuristic rules to determine a likelihood of being a duplicate record. The weighted results of the application of the heuristic rules identify possible duplicate records in the database. Embodiments of the present invention search records comprising fields of personal information. Matches are found between records and weighted according to the degree of similarity and uniqueness. By taking account of the different modes by which duplication errors typically originate in the database to which the method is applied, these heuristic rules identify a higher percentage of actual duplicate records in the database. The heuristic rules also produce a lower rate of ‘false positives’ than the methods for identifying duplicate records in databases now known in the art. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169349 | MODIFYING A CODED BITSTREAM - Implementations may relate to various aspects of modifying, or using, a coded bitstream, or to recovering watermarking information from data. In one implementation, a coded bitstream is modified to allow for the application of a watermark to the coded bitstream without changing the coding of any other syntax elements in the bitstream. This is performed by identifying conditions necessary to change a coded syntax element without disrupting the interpretation of subsequent coded elements. The coded syntax element is replaced with another coded value if the modified value generates the same decoding variables as the original value would have generated. Particular implementations focus on syntax elements coded using entropy coding, including, for example, Context-based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding (CABAC). Regardless of the type of coding or watermarking, various implementations may provide for recovering watermarking information. Particular implementations recover watermarking information using detection data and feature information. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169350 | HIGH-PERFORMANCE, SCALABLE, ADAPTIVE AND MULTI-DIMENSIONAL EVENT REPOSITORY - A High-Performance, Scalable, Adaptive and Multi-dimensional Event Repository is described and utilized in a method for publishing an event in a database. The present method includes transparently intercepting a request to a database to publish an event. A messaging system operable with the database intercepts the request. The present method further includes examining an event repository for a template of the event. The event repository is operable with the database and the messaging system. The present method additionally includes retrieving the event template from the event repository. The present method also includes marshalling the event template to create the event. The present method also includes publishing the event in an event queue. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169351 | UNIFYING HETROGENOUS DATA - Techniques for unifying data are provided. The techniques include transforming a query into one or more sub-queries that can be answered by one or more types of data services, and wherein the query touches one or more joins across data residing in one or more enterprise systems, querying one or more target data services for each of the one or more sub-queries, aggregating one or more sets of results based on the one or more target data services, and unifying the one or more sets of aggregated results. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169352 | NOVEL SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSMITTING SYNTACTICALLY ACCURATE MESSAGES OVER A NETWORK - The present invention is directed to systems and methods for encoding and retrieving information from a variety of sources using novel search techniques. The systems and methods of the invention are capable of extracting all types of structural and relational information from a query or a source data allowing for the recognition of subtle differences in meaning. The capability of discerning subtle differences in meaning that are beyond the search systems and methods presently available, the invention described herein is capable of repeatedly providing accurate and meaningful responses to a diverse set of queries. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169353 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR UNIT OF MEASUREMENT CONVERSION AND SEARCH QUERY EXPANSION - A system and methods for unit of measurement conversion and search query expansion are described. The search query expansion may include identifying an initial unit of measurement associated with a property and an initial numeric value for the initial unit of measurement within a search query, automatically forming an expanded search query by expanding the search query to include at least one related unit of measurement associated with the property, and sending the expanded search query to a search engine to search a database. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169354 | Indexing Mechanism for Efficient Node-Aware Full-Text Search Over XML - Techniques are provided for searching within a collection of XML documents. A relational table in an XML index stores an entry for each node of a set of nodes in the collection. Each entry of the relational table stores an order key and a path identifier along with the atomized value of the node. An index on the atomized value provides a mechanism to perform a node-aware full-text search. Instead of storing the atomized value in the table, a virtual column may be created to represent, for each node, the atomized value of the node. Alternately, each entry of the relational table stores an order key and a path identifier along with, for simple nodes, the atomized value, and for complex nodes, a null value. For a complex node with a descendant text node, a separate entry is stored for the descendant text node in the relational table. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169355 | Clinical Data Monitoring - Data is combined from multiple independent data stores, and is then queried using a data correlation engine. Contemplated engines preferably keep track of previously run correlations, and then makes those correlations available to clinicians for their own use. For example, a preferred system might provide a listing of correlations run by other clinicians in a particular medical specialty, or a particular community, whether geographic or otherwise. In another example, a preferred system might provide a listing of correlations sorted by popularity, so that the most frequently accessed correlations appear near the top of the list. In any case a clinician could simply view the list, and check off which correlations he/she would like to have run for his/her practice, or practice community. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169356 | Method and System for Negative Keyword Recommendations - Effectiveness of keywords is determined. The keywords are classified to include effective keywords and ineffective keywords. An exclusion keyword list based on ineffective keywords is created. The ineffective keywords that conflict with the effective keywords are removed from the exclusion keyword list. Negative keywords are determined. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169357 | Method, Apparatus, and Computer Program Product for Automatically Obtaining Custom Interface Elements When Changing UI Themes by Querying a Remote Repository - A method including forming a query to specifically request at least one user interface element not resident upon a device, transmitting the query to a remote repository comprising a plurality of user interface element definitions, dynamically retrieving response data from the remote repository in response to the query, and applying the response data to a user interface of the device. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169358 | Method for Facilitating the Search of Video Content - A method for facilitating the search of video content, comprising the steps of submitting a video content clip for specific time duration of video content; extracting a fingerprint associated with the video clip by a fingerprint extractor; selecting database entries matching the specific time of video content from a fingerprint archive database; delivering the database entries matching the specific time of video content to a search module; reconstructing the searched database entries into continuous fingerprint streams by the search module, in which the searched database entries from the same location and channel are grouped together, and the fingerprint data sections are stripped out of the entries and concatenated according to the segment ID and time-stamps contained within each entry; searching for a match with the fingerprint associated with the video clip by a matcher from the continuous fingerprint streams to find a match; and combining a matching result with additional information obtained from the archive entries to form a search report. The method according to the present invention can extract fingerprint information from video content for the purpose of archiving without the huge storage capacity required, can collect statistics and extract additional information from the archived video information automatically based on the user entered searching video clip information, and can search through video fingerprint data for identifying historical recording and collect statistics and extract additional information of video content easily at low hardware cost. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169359 | System, Method, and Apparatus for Information Extraction of Textual Documents - A method and system for extraction of text from a set of text document(s). A data repository stores a plurality of variables that represent document segments and associated rhetorical relations. A user interacts with a computer to define query input that specifies at least one rhetorical relation of interest. The query input specified by the user is processed to query the variables stored in the data repository to identify zero or more document segments that are associated with a rhetorical relation that matches the at least one rhetorical relation of interest specified by the query input. Information corresponding to the zero or more matching document segments is returned to the user. In the preferred embodiment, the rhetorical relations represented by the user supplied query input as well as the variables stored in the data repository include a set of RST relations whose meaning is dictated by nuclearity of the associated text. Such RST relations can include a plurality of mononuclear RST relations each having a nucleus and a satellite and a plurality of multinuclear RST relations each having a plurality of nucleus. The rhetorical relations represented by the user supplied query input as well as the variables stored in the data repository can also include a set of Speech Act relations whose meaning extends beyond the situational semantics of the associated text. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169360 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING OF TOP-K QUERIES FROM SAMPLES - A method and apparatus for processing top-k queries are disclosed. For example, the method receives a top-k query with a value for a number of samples and a value of a confidence parameter. The method samples in accordance to the number of samples, and determines a top-k weight of a sample top-k set. The method bounds the top-k weight in an interval having an upper bound and a lower bound such that the top-k weight is in the interval with a probability equal to one minus the value of the confidence parameter, and provides a response to the top-k query in accordance with the upper and lower bounds. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169361 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A DATA DICTIONARY - There is provided a method and system generate a data dictionary for searching data items stored in an information resource. In one embodiment, the system generates a list of synonyms for keywords entered in search queries to the system. A keyword and synonym form a token pair. Token pairs are evaluated according to a bidirectional divergence value calculated for distributions of search results, wherein the searches are based on the token pairs. Token pairs are then selected based on the divergence value. The selected token pairs are compiled into a data dictionary. In one embodiment, the data dictionary is a synonym dictionary used for user search query expansion to find matching items. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169362 | PALETTE FOR ACCESSING DOCUMENT HISTORY - A palette for accessing document history. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods comprising rendering on a display a palette within a window of a software, the rendering by executing a software application by a processor, obtaining information pertaining to the software without prompting a user to enter the information pertaining to software, the obtaining responsive to selecting a first icon, and storing the information pertaining to the software. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169363 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AND DISPLAYING ADDITIVE CONTENT IN A WEB BROWSER - A method and apparatus is provided for use with a web browser for managing and displaying additive content relating to web sites. For example, users can associate user generated content with third party web pages and to customize the visibility of this content based on multiple modes of authentication. Users may also manage personal profiles and contact lists over multiple social networks. Users can even monetize their popularity by hosting advertisements and being paid based on their respective level of viewer ship. Various other features are also available for use by users that will enhance their web browsing and social networking experience and provide the users with increased control of their personal profiles. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169364 | Metadata Enhanced Browser - A social networking browser can display contextually relevant content to a user while the user navigates the Internet. The contextually relevant content is selected based on a determination of the topic of the displayed page, and can include contact-centric information about connections in the user's social graph. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169365 | Research collaboration system and method with data-driven search capability - A research collaboration system and method with a data-driven search capability is provided that facilitates collaboration among researchers and/or others interested in research. | 2010-07-01 |
20100169366 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUGMENTING WEB CONTENT - A system for augmenting data from a source data file with data from a reference database to generate an augmented data file and tracking the augmented data file is provided. The system includes a reference database including at least one reference datum. A handler component is configured to retrieve a source data file including the structured datum. A locator component is configured to locate the structured datum in the source data file; an analyzer component configured to associate the identified structured datum to one reference datum to create an association according to an analyzing strategy. A generating component is configured to generate a hyperlink based upon the association and embeds the generated hyperlink and an identification code in the source file to create and track an augmented data file. | 2010-07-01 |