| 27th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 63 |
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| 20120173483 | Application Exits For Consistent Tenant Lifecycle Management Procedures - The subject matter described herein relates to software routines called application exits that are provided at well defined phases of a tenant copy process. The tenant copy process enables copying of separated tenant data associated with a source tenant at multi-computing tenant system to a new created tenant at a destination location either at multi-computing tenant computing system or second multi-computing tenant computing system. The application exits perform predefined functions at the well defined phases such that the predefined functions enable operations including detachment of tenant data from the source tenant that needs to be copied or moved such that the detached tenant data is separated tenant data. When the source tenant is just being moved, instead of being copied, from a source location to a destination location, the source tenant is deleted once all the data associated with the source tenant has been moved to the destination location. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173484 | SYNCHRONIZING FILES BETWEEN BASE AND DETACHABLE DEVICE - An apparatus and method are disclosed for synchronizing states. A management module selects a file to synchronize between a base and a detachable device. The detachable device provides a display and a network connection for the base if the base and detachable device are connected. A synchronize module establishes a control connection and a data connection between the base and the detachable device and transmits the file to a memory space over the data connection in response to a command communicated over the control connection. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173485 | OPTIMIZING DATA SYNCHRONIZATION BETWEEN MOBILE CLIENTS AND DATABASE SYSTEMS - Mechanisms and methods are provided for optimizing data synchronization between clients and database systems. These mechanisms and methods provide optimizations for synchronization requests, by either breaking a synchronization request into multiple smaller requests, or by executing different code routines for differing client types, or by pre-caching data that a user is anticipated to want at a future point. Such optimization techniques can enable clients with varying capacities (e.g., mobile client vs. full desktop client) to optimally utilize their respective device capabilities. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173486 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY SELECTING STORAGE LOCATIONS OF REPLICAS IN CLOUD STORAGE SYSTEM - System and method for dynamically selecting storage locations of replicas in cloud storage system. The cloud storage system may include a plurality of data nodes and a server. The plurality of data nodes may be geographically distributed. Each one of the plurality of data nodes may store an object and at least one replica thereof and provide stored replica to a user. The server may be coupled to the plurality of data nodes through a network. The server may migrate at least one replica according to changes of the location of the user. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173487 | Summarization Systems and Methods - A server-side summarization system includes a function for acquiring material to be summarized, along with source information about the material, a converter for converting the acquired material to machine-readable form, if not in that form when acquired, a summarizer for creating a summary from the acquired material, and a storage function for storing a copy of the acquired material and the summary created as separate files, associated and cross-referenced using the source information. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173488 | TENANT-SEPARATED DATA STORAGE FOR LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT IN A MULTI-TENANCY ENVIRONMENT - A system, method and computer program product for tenant separated data storage for lifecycle management in a multi-tenancy environment is presented. A plurality of data containers is defined in a storage subsystem, each data container comprising a main data storage and a file system data storage for receiving, respectively, main data and file system data, each of the plurality of data containers being separate from all other data containers of the plurality of data containers. For each tenant of a plurality of tenants of a multi-tenancy computing system, main data is stored in the main data storage of one of the plurality of data containers and storing file system data in the file system data storage of the one of the plurality of data containers. For a transaction to be executed with a source tenant, only main data and file system data is accessed from a data container associated with the source tenant. The transaction is executed with the main data and file system data accessed from the data container associated with the source tenant. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173489 | ATTRIBUTE SELECTABLE FILE OPERATION - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for attribute based file operation implementation selection. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for providing selectable implementations of a file operation is provided. The method includes receiving a directive to perform a file operation on a particular file stored in fixed storage of a computer and identifying an attribute of the particular file. An implementation of the file operation can be selected amongst different implementations of the file operation that maps to the identified attribute. Thereafter, the selected implementation of the file operation can be invoked to perform the file operation upon the particular file. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173490 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING BUSINESS LOGIC - A method of recovering a database includes providing a computer having a processor and providing a backup database including a last change marker. The method also includes extracting, using the processor, the last change marker from the backup database and providing transaction logs. Each transaction of the transaction logs includes input data, processed data, and a change marker. The method further includes sorting, using the processor, the transactions of the transaction logs using the change markers, replaying, using the processor, one or more of the transactions of the transaction logs, and generating a recovered database. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173491 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, DATA ARCHIVING METHOD, AND DATA DELETION METHOD - An information processor may include a command receiving unit that receives an immediate processing command in which a deletion target to be deleted from the database is conditioned, and a registration processing unit that registers information defining the deletion target into a management data unit. In addition, the information processor may include a deletion processing unit that deletes the deletion target from a database, and deregisters the deleted deletion target from the management data unit. The information processor can also include a data manipulation command processing unit, which, in the case where a data manipulation command having a manipulation target that coincides with a table of the deletion target registered in the management data unit is received, processes the data manipulation command in a state where a condition to exclude the deletion target from the manipulation target is added to the data manipulation command. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173492 | AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING THE ABILITY TO EXECUTE PROCESSING LOGIC AFTER A PARSER OR VALIDATION ERROR - In an embodiment of the invention, a method for error handling during document processing is provided. The method includes receiving a well-defined document as input to a computer program executing in memory of a computer, parsing the well-defined document and validating the well-defined document as conforming with a defined plan for the well-defined document, and responsive to detecting an error during parsing and validating, permitting use of the well-defined document to proceed notwithstanding the detected error if enough of the well-defined document conforms to the defined plan to satisfy programmatic input needs of the computer program, but otherwise terminating use of the well-defined document in the computer program. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173493 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SAFEGUARDING AGAINST MALICIOUS ONTOLOGIES - A method for providing a mechanism for safeguarding against malicious ontologies may include causing examination of a received file associated with an ontology to determine a namespace marking for subjects, predicates and objects of each triple of the file that are to be stored in a database, utilizing relationship data corresponding to the namespace marking to identify triples whose subjects or objects do not correspond to the ontology, and determining whether the relationship data enables the triples whose subjects or objects do not correspond to the ontology to be considered as a valid data set for storage in the database. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173494 | METHOD FOR DERIVING A HIERARCHICAL EVENT BASED DATABASE OPTIMIZED FOR PHARMACEUTICAL ANALYSIS - A computer implemented method for inferring a probability of a first inference absent from a database at which a query regarding the inference is received. Each datum of the database is conformed to the dimensions of the database. Each datum of the plurality of data has associated metadata and an associated key. The associated metadata includes data regarding cohorts associated with the corresponding datum, data regarding hierarchies associated with the corresponding datum, data regarding a corresponding source of the datum, and data regarding probabilities associated with integrity, reliability, and importance of each associated datum. The query is used as a frame of reference for the search. The database returns a probability of the correctness of the first inference based on the query and on the data. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173495 | Computer Readable Medium, Systems, and Methods of Detecting a Discrepancy in a Chain-of-title of an Asset - A computer readable medium includes instructions that, when executed by a processing system, cause the processing system to receive data corresponding to an asset from a data source. The data indicates a chain-of-title of the asset. The computer readable medium further includes instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to process the data to detect a discrepancy in the chain-of-title in response to receiving the data and generate an output in response to detecting a discrepancy in the chain-of-title | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173496 | NUMERIC, DECIMAL AND DATE FIELD COMPRESSION - A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for accessing data in a computer system. Compression and decompression functions are associated with a column of the table, in order to perform compression of decimal, numeric or date data stored in the column when the data is inserted or updated in the table, and in order to perform decompression of the data stored in the column when the data is retrieved from the table. The compression function compresses and stores the data in a fixed-length compressed field in the column without a length value, and the fixed-length compressed field has a size that is determined by a range of values for the data stored in the fixed-length compressed field. The decompression function retrieves and decompresses the data from the fixed-length compressed field. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173497 | DEFENSE-IN-DEPTH SECURITY FOR BYTECODE EXECUTABLES - Defense-in Depth security defines a set of graduated security tasks, each of which performs a task that must complete before another task can complete. Only when these tasks complete successfully and in the order prescribed by Defense-in-Depth security criteria is a final process allowed to execute. Through such Defense-in-Depth security measures, vulnerable software, such as bytecode, can be verified as unaltered and executed in a secure environment that prohibits unsecured access to the underlying code. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173498 | Verifying Correctness of a Database System - The invention provides a method for verifying correctness of a database system, comprising: receiving SQL instruction; extending access paths of the received SQL instruction; executing the SQL instruction by using the extended access paths; and verifying correctness of the database system according to result of executing the SQL instruction. With the method and system of the invention, the object of verifying correctness of a database system by automatically extending access paths of SQL statement may be achieved, and the object of verifying correctness of a database system scientifically, effectively and purposefully based on ratio of error or defect present in database itself due to various data manipulation approaches (different values of access path elements) may also be achieved. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173499 | MANAGING LOCKS AND TRANSACTIONS - An indication of refusal of a lock request is received with a first operation identifier for a resource that is already locked with a lock associated with a second operation identifier from an agent that controls the resource, wherein the agent returns a value that determines how long the lock request is to stay on the queue. The lock request is placed in a queue with a lock queue timeout period based on the value from the agent. The lock request is reissued if the lock associated with the second operation identifier has been released and the lock request reaches a position of the queue from which the lock request is processed within the lock queue timeout period. The lock request is re-queued if the reissued lock request is not granted based on how many times the lock request has been previously placed in the queue. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173500 | PROGRESSIVE SPATIAL SEARCHING USING AUGMENTED STRUCTURES - A location associated with a user of a computing device and a prefix portion of an input string may be received as one or more successive characters of the input string are provided by the user via the computing device. A list of suggested items may be obtained based on a function of respective recommendation indicators and proximities of the items to the location in response to receiving the prefix portion, and based on partially traversing a character string search structure having a plurality of non-terminal nodes augmented with bound indicators associated with spatial regions. The list of suggested items and descriptive information associated with each suggested item may be returned to the user, in response to receiving the prefix portion, for rendering an image illustrating indicators associated with the list in a manner relative to the location, as the user provides each successive character of the input string. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173501 | CONFIGURABLE CATALOG BUILDER SYSTEM - A catalog builder is disclosed. This invention relates to data management systems, and more particularly to catalog creation mechanisms in data management systems. Present day data management systems employ catalog builder tools. However, the catalog builders cannot be configured as per the requirements of the users. Further, there are no mechanism to configure custom catalogs and associated metadata. The disclosed catalog builder may be employed to configure an online central repository on the fly and build a catalog. The catalog builder is equipped with a central repository. Further, catalog builder is also provided with advanced search features and analytical capabilities in order to search for the data specified by the user and fetch the data from the central repository. The catalog builder is also provided with clustering and segmentation capabilities in order to slice and dice the data. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173502 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING, ENABLING EXPLORATION AND DISCOVERY, RECOMMENDING, AND PLAYING BACK MEDIA FILES BASED ON USER PREFERENCES - Methods, systems, electronic displays, and computer-readable storage devices for displaying media files can include a search entry field displaying an active search query defining parameters of a playlist identifying one or more media files satisfying the parameters. A playback indicator displaying information related to a selected media file from the playlist can be included. Category indicators can be included that each display a distinct media category associated with the playlist. The parameters of the playlist can be defined by at least one attribute of a media category that is not displayed by the category indicators. One or more selectable attribute indicators can be included, and each can display an attribute of a media category associated with one of the media category indicators. Selecting an attribute indicator can modify the active search query, thereby further defining the parameters of the playlist and automatically updating the playlist in real time. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173503 | DECENTRALISED WEB ANNOTATION - Annotations relating to web sites may be based on blog posts relating to the web sites. A user viewing a web site may concurrently view related blog posts about the web site. More particularly, in one implementation, a method includes detecting when a user visits a web page and receiving, in response to the detection, a group of blog posts that link to the web page. The method further includes displaying an indication of the group of blog posts to the user while the user is visiting the web site. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173504 | Retrieving Electronic Documents by Converting Them to Synthetic Text - The present invention relies on the two-dimensional information in documents and encodes two-dimensional structures into a one-dimensional synthetic language such that two-dimensional documents can be searched at text search speed. The system comprises: an indexing module, a retrieval module, an encoder, a quantization module, a retrieval engine and a control module coupled by a bus. Electronic documents are first indexed by the indexing module and stored as a synthetic text library. The retrieval module then converts an input image to synthetic text and searches for matches to the synthetic text in the synthetic text library. The matches can be in turn used to retrieve the corresponding electronic documents. In one or more embodiments, the present invention includes a method for comparing the synthetic text to documents that have been converted to synthetic text for a match. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173505 | INVERSE SEARCH SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Inverse search systems and methods operate on identifiers of content items in a corpus such as the World Wide Web In an inverse search, the user submits a query that includes an identifier of a target content item in the corpus and receives information (metadata) about the target content item being returned to the user. Many types of metadata can be returned, including ratings or other metadata related to the target content item obtained from users, popularity data specific to the target content item, information about previously submitted forward search queries that led to the target content item being identified as a hit, and metadata extracted from the target content item. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173506 | System And Method For Harvesting Electronically Stored Content By Custodian - A system and method for harvesting electronically stored content by custodian is provided. Content associated with user names for one or more custodians is maintained in a collaboration environment. A custodian list with names of at least a portion of the custodians is received. Access reports each having user names and associated unique identifiers for the custodians with access to the content within a collaboration environment are obtained. One or more of the user names are mapped with at least one of the custodians by comparing the list of custodians to the access reports and by determining a selected user name for the at least one custodian. The content associated with the at least one custodian is identified using the selected user name. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173507 | SEARCHING THROUGH CONTENT WHICH IS ACCESIBLE THROUGH WEB-BASED FORMS - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates searching through content which is accessible though web-based forms. During operation, the system receives a query containing keywords. Next, the system analyzes the query to create a structured query. The system then performs a lookup based on the structured query in a database containing entries describing the web-based forms. Next, the system ranks forms returned by the lookup, and uses the rankings and associated database entries to facilitate a search through content which is accessible through the forms. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173508 | Methods and Systems for a Semantic Search Engine for Finding, Aggregating and Providing Comments - One of the deficiencies of the existing search engines is that the search engines do not evaluate the trustfulness of comments before the searched comments are returned to end users. In addition, existing search engines overlook the analyzing and aggregating of the comments whose subjects are semantically, hierarchically related. Furthermore, as the use of non-textual comments has become popular nowadays, it is highly desirable that such search engines finding and providing comments have the capability to analyze, evaluate and aggregate both textual and non-textual comments, or heterogeneous comments in other words. The purpose of the invention is to overcome the abovementioned deficiencies of the existing search engines that find and provide comments. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173509 | SEARCH ENGINE USING WORLD MAP WITH WHOIS DATABASE SEARCH RESTRICTIONS - A search operation can provide geographically restricted and verified information to a user. A two-step approach is used to perform these searches. The first step is to obtain high relevance search results by searching only in a specific region defined for a search operation. The second step further improves the quality of the search results by performing contact address correlation. If the search server finds a reliable reference address in the search results, then these search results can be presented to the user, whereby search results that are not correlating well with legitimate and registered addresses for the site are removed from the search result lists. Therefore, the region-restricted search does searching in a selected geographical region and only presents legitimate web pages or search results to a user. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173510 | PRIORITY HASH INDEX - A priority hash index provides efficient lookup of posting lists for search query terms. The priority hash index is a data structure in which hash values for terms are distributed across multiple storage devices based on importance of the terms and access speeds of the storage devices. Terms are grouped into search lists with each search list including a storage location on each storage device. When a search query is received, a term is identified and hashed to a location on the first storage device and to generate a unique hash value for the term. The locations on the storage device for the term's search list are sequentially read until the hash value for the term is located to access the posting list for the term. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173511 | FILE SEARCH SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - There are provided a file search system and program that perform efficient searches by creating, with respect to a file search environment where files for which a full-text search should be allowed and files for which a full-text search is unnecessary coexist, different index files. With respect to a file search system in which a file search server, a file server and a client are interconnected via a communications line | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173512 | System, Method and Article of Manufacture for Advanced Information Gathering for Targeted Activities - An agent based system assists in preparing an individual for an upcoming meeting by helping him/her retrieve relevant information about the meeting from various sources based on preexisting information in the system. The system obtains input text in character form indicative of the target meeting from a calendar program that includes the time of the meeting. As the time of the meeting approaches, the calendar program is queried to obtain the text of the target event and that information us utilized as input to the agent system. Then, the agent system parses the input meeting text to extract its various components such as title, body, participants, location, time etc. The system also performs pattern matching to identify particular meeting fields in a meeting text. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173513 | ALLOCATION OF TENANTS TO DATABASE SERVICES - The claimed subject matter provides a system and method for automatic allocation of tenants to database services. An exemplary method comprises determining a query plan based on a workload for each tenant. A distance metric is created based on the query plan for each tenant, and tenants are clustered based on the distance metric into a predetermined number of clusters which is equal to the predetermined number of databases. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173514 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND SOFTWARE FOR PRESENTING LEGAL CASE HISTORIES - Systems and methods for automatically processing a textual document by identifying occurrences of a piece of text having a predetermined format in the textual document; determining a depth-of-treatment value for each piece of formatted text in the textual document, the depth-of-treatment value indicating a depth of treatment in the textual document afforded to the particular piece of formatted text; associating an abstract with each piece of formatted text in the textual document; and generating a data record containing each identified piece of formatted text from the textual document, the depth-of-treatment value and the abstract associated with each piece of formatted text in the textual document. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173515 | Processing Database Queries Using Format Conversion - Devices, methods and systems for processing database queries formatted differently than the database storage model being queried are disclosed. Processing database queries independent of the storage model of the queried database may be performed by receiving a query for one or more data items stored in a database, determining whether to use at least one query operator that uses data having a format different from the storage model format of at least one of one or more data items stored in the database and converting the format of the data used by the at least one query operator to a format that matches the storage model format of at least one of one or more data items stored in the database. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also described. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173516 | WORK FILE RECYCLING - A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for processing information are disclosed. In some embodiments, this includes receiving a query plan, generating a work file based on the query plan, associating the query plan with a work file, storing the association, and storing the work file in a storage device after the query plan has executed. In some embodiments, a hash of the query plan may be generated. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173517 | QUERY-AWARE COMPRESSION OF JOIN RESULTS - A method is provided for compressing results of a join query. A join order of a result set comprising multiple tuples is determined from the join query, and a nested hierarchy of dictionaries is maintained based on the join order. The nested hierarchy of dictionaries is used to encode each of the tuples of the result set so as to produce an encode tuple, and each of the encoded tuples is transmitted to a client system. Also provided is a method for decompressing results of a join query. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173518 | ADVANCED DATA INTEGRITY - A payment integrity system that processes data, including data associated with a biometric technology. The system includes a discovery module to receive insurance records from a source of data, which includes the data associated with the biometric technology, the records providing information that pertain to at least one transaction. The discovery module includes a query component and an artificial intelligence engine to process the records to identify a second subset of the records having anomalous information, and provide a second analysis output indicative of the second subset. The system also includes an audit module to determine whether to instruct the artificial intelligence engine to analyze the records according to the outputs. The system facilitates resolution of a claim payment based on the first analysis output and the second analysis output. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173519 | PERFORMING PRE-AGGREGATION AND RE-AGGREGATION USING THE SAME QUERY LANGUAGE - A method includes: obtaining, at time intervals, subsets of data from a database using code of a query language; performing a pre-aggregation on the subsets of data to produce pre-aggregated data; storing the pre-aggregated data in the database; obtaining, in response to a query, at least some of the pre-aggregated data from the database, where the at least some of the pre-aggregated data is obtained using code from the query language used to obtain the subsets of data; and performing a re-aggregation on the pre-aggregated data to produce re-aggregated data | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173520 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTEXTUAL ACTIONS ON A SEARCH RESULTS PAGE - The present invention provides a method and system for providing targeted applications within a search engine results page. The method and system includes receiving a search query from a user and interpreting the search query. The method and system then first maps the interpreted query to one or more action templates, wherein mapping the interpreted query to one or more action templates comprises selecting one or more actions associated with the interpreted query. The method and system then maps the selected one or more actions associated with the interpreted query to a plurality of applications and selecting one or more applications associated with the one or more actions. Finally, the method and system displays the one or more applications within a search results page. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173521 | DYNAMIC FACET ORDERING FOR FACETED SEARCH - Methods for dynamically ordering facets for search result presentation are provided. Facets specific to a query are determined and facet orderings are dynamically generated. A number of search result arrangements are generated based upon the facet orderings and, as users input the query, various search results arrangements are presented and user engagement with respect thereto is monitored. To determine which of the arrangements to present to a given user, a number of factors are taken into account, e.g., previous user engagement for each arrangement across a segment or population of users, and whether the user has previously been shown any of the arrangements and, if so, the nature of the user's engagement therewith. Each time an arrangement is presented to a user and the user's behavior with respect thereto is recorded, additional data becomes available for deciding what arrangement to show the next time a user inputs the query. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173522 | FIELD EXTENSIBILITY FOR ANALYTICAL REPORTS - A system may include reception of an instruction to add an extension field to a node of a business object object model, identification of at least one multi-dimensional analytical view object model including a reference field referring to the node of the business object object model, determination of at least one report associated with the determined at least one multi-dimensional analytical view object model, reception of a selection of one of the at least one report, extension of the one of the at least one multi-dimensional analytical view object model associated with the report based on the extension field, and extension of the selected report based on the extension field. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173523 | INTELLECTUAL ASSET AUTOMATIC DOCKETING AND FILE ASSOCIATION - One embodiment of the invention includes a method of associating a file with an intellectual asset record. The method includes reading information such as the file name and metadata pertaining to a file. The file name has a predetermined format made up of fields. The fields in the file name and the metadata are extracted. Based upon the fields, the file is linked to intellectual asset record. The intellectual asset record includes a set of related data organized into meaningful units pertaining to an intellectual asset. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173524 | CAPTURING COLLECTION INFORMATION FOR INSTITUTIONS - Information on collections may be gathered from publishing platforms and institutional library services. The information may be imported and analyzed to aid in utilization of the collections. Additional information may be scraped from web pages to augment the data imported. Alternatively, data may be scraped from web pages even if import of data has not been performed. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173525 | PROCESSES AND SYSTEM FOR ACCESSING EXTERNALLY STORED METADATA ASSOCIATED WITH A MEDIA ASSET USING A UNIQUE IDENTIFIER INCORPORATED INTO THE ASSET ITSELF - An enhanced metadata structure and associated process is provided which captures and stores metadata gathered about the source and usage of a media asset or file. The source and usage metadata is integrated, such as by encoding within the enhanced media file, as the media asset is transferred and used. The integrated metadata accumulates, as a trail of source information and usage information in the enhanced media asset, and can be extracted upon arrival at a target computer system. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173526 | SELECTIVELY ORGANIZING A RECIPIENT LIST BASED ON EXTERNAL GROUP DATA - An ungrouped list associated with a communication artifact can be identified. The information can be associated with a recipient, which can be a user registered within a computing system. Group data information associated with an external source can be received. The source can be a data source not associated with the artifact. The group data can include a group and/or a contact identifier. Recipient information from the recipient list can be associated with a group identifier if the recipient identifier is equivalent to the contact identifier within the group data. A grouped list can be generated from the associated data. A grouped list can be presented within an interface. The presenting can present recipient information within a logical grouping for at least a portion of the recipients of the ungrouped list. The grouping can be an organization of recipient information associated with the group identifier. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173527 | Variational Mode Seeking - A mode-seeking clustering mechanism identifies clusters within a data set based on the location of individual data point according to modes in a kernel density estimate. For large-scale applications the clustering mechanism may utilize rough hierarchical kernel and data partitions in a computationally efficient manner. A variational approach to the clustering mechanism may take into account variational probabilities, which are restricted in certain ways according to hierarchical kernel and data partition trees, and the mechanism may store certain statistics within these trees in order to compute the variational probabilities in a computational efficient way. The clustering mechanism may use a two-step variational expectation and maximization algorithm and generalizations hereof, where the maximization step may be performed in different ways in order to accommodate different mode-seeking algorithms, such as the mean shift, mediod shift, and quick shift algorithms. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173528 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING JOB SEARCH ACTIVITY DATA - One aspect of the invention provides system for facilitating a job search comprising a database, a display for displaying a user interface with past, present and future sections and one or more processors. The system stores job search data in the database, schedules one or more activities associated with the job search data and displays the job search data or one or more activities in one of the past, present and future sections. Also provided, in another aspect, is a reporting module operably connected to the database and configured to provide statistical data derived from the job search data and the one or more activities. A further aspect of the subject system is directed towards providing such data to third parties to facilitate coaching a job seeker and monitoring job search related activities. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173529 | GRAPHICALLY DISPLAYING A FILE SYSTEM - The contents of a computer file system are displayed on a graphical user interface. File system metadata descriptive of the computer file system and file metadata descriptive of each of a plurality of files are gathered. A file selection is received indicating a file accessed by the user. A user context is determined by the file metadata. The files are clustered using the file system metadata, a set of file metadata, and the user context. The set of file clusters are mapped onto a visualization model and graphically displayed on the graphical user interface using the visualization model. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173530 | Method for Differentiating Traffic Data Obtained from Probe Vehicles - A remote server receives traffic data from a plurality of probe vehicles traveling on roadways. The remote server stores the received traffic data in a regular lane database and/or a carpool lane database. The remote server differentiates the received traffic data for storage in the appropriate database based on the number of probe vehicles associated with each speed pattern observed within the received traffic data. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173531 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING METADATA TO ENHANCE DATA IDENTIFICATION OPERATIONS - Systems and methods for managing electronic data are disclosed. Various data management operations can be performed based on a metabase formed from metadata. Such metadata can be identified from an index of data interactions generated by a journaling module, and obtained from their associated data objects stored in one or more storage devices. In various embodiments, such processing of the index and storing of the metadata can facilitate, for example, enhanced data management operations, enhanced data identification operations, enhanced storage operations, data classification for organizing and storing the metadata, cataloging of metadata for the stored metadata, and/or user interfaces for managing data. In various embodiments, the metabase can be configured in different ways. For example, the metabase can be stored separately from the data objects so as to allow obtaining of information about the data objects without accessing the data objects or a data structure used by a file system. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173532 | DETERMINATION TREE GENERATING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a determination tree generating apparatus includes a determination unit, a condition generating unit, a determining unit, and a point branch generating unit. The determination unit provisionally and sequentially determines all component categories to be classification component categories for a first point of a determination tree. The point branch generating unit generates a first point assigned to a classification component category, and generates component names to be assigned to one or more branches leading from an assigned first point to one or more child points. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173533 | MINING GLOBAL EMAIL FOLDERS FOR IDENTIFYING AUTO-FOLDER TAGS - Embodiments are directed towards identifying auto-folder tags for messages by using a combinational optimization approach of bi-clustering folder names and features of messages based on relationship strengths. The combinational optimization approach of bi-clustering, generally, groups a plurality of folder names and a plurality of features into one or more metafolders to optimize a cost. The cost is based on an aggregate of cut relationship strengths, where a cut results when a relationship folder name and feature are grouped in separate metafolders. Furthermore, the plurality of folder names and the plurality of features are obtained by monitoring actions of a plurality of users, where the folder names are user generated folder names and features are from a plurality of messages. The metafolders may be used to tag new user messages with an auto-folder tag. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173534 | AUTOMATED DETERMINATION AND/OR PROCESSING OF INFORMATION - A data processing system and method for automated retrieval and/or processing of information from a plurality of available data sources in a computer network, whereby the information is input or will be input in objects structured in modules, at least one property related to the information is assigned or will be assigned to the information in the modules of the object (property assignment), a comparison is performed of at least two objects (object comparison) by comparing at least one of the modules of a first object of at least two objects with at least one module of at least one other object of at least two objects, and the result of the comparison of the objects is presented as information. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173535 | Allowing External Access to Private Information of a Local Data Store - Techniques provided for allowing external access by other users to private information that is maintained on local storage of a computer and owned by an information owner. The private information is uploaded from the local storage to an externally accessible information source that is accessible by the other users. A request from a user to access the private information is received by the owner, who determines whether to allow access the private information. If so, the owner sends a private information sharing authorization to a collaboration orchestrator, which retrieves the private information from the external source and provides the private information to the user. The owner optionally requests to collaborate with the user before deciding whether to allow access to the private information. One or both of the identities of the owner and user can remain anonymous until agreeing on revealing identities. A system and program product is also provided. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173536 | Index of Locally Recorded Content - A method to index recorded content at a media device includes extracting, at a remote service provider, event index data from an event being recorded at a media device and associating the event index data with locator code data of the event. The method further includes storing, at the remote service provider, the extracted event index data and the associated locator code data; searching the extracted event index data for a plurality of segments associated with the event, the search being associated with a search request; determining index display data for a presentation of the plurality of segments based on the search request; and transmitting, to the media device, the locator code data associated with the plurality of segments, and the index display data. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173537 | ONE NUMBER, INTELLIGENT CALL PROCESSING SYSTEM - Systems and methods for retrieving household data based on an origination identifier. In an embodiment, an origination identifier of a communication is captured. The origination identifier is indexed into a master table comprising a plurality of records. Each of the records comprises an association between an origination identifier and a universal database linkage key, and each universal database linkage key comprises an index into one or more databases. A universal database linkage key associated with the captured origination identifier is retrieved and indexed into one or more databases. Household data associated with the captured origination identifier is retrieved from the one or more databases and communicated to at least one recipient. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173538 | STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF PROTEINS - The present invention is directed to systems and methods for fast and accurate structural representation and comparison of proteins. Specifically, the present invention provides a method for retrieval of a candidate set of near structural neighbors or structurally similar proteins of a query protein. The method is based on a representation of a protein structure as a “bag of words”—a collection of small disjoint backbone protein fragments. The representation allows quick comparison procedures of the query protein structure to a large number of known protein structures obtained for example, from a repository or database of proteins. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173539 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING DATA - Methods and systems for managing an index database. In one exemplary method, an index database is stored on a machine readable volume with an operating system and the files which have been indexed, and then the volume is, after the storing, made available for distribution to licensees or customers. In this manner, the volume will include a previously created index database, allowing a user to begin use of the index database without having to perform an indexing operation. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173540 | Accelerating Database Queries Comprising Positional Text Conditions Plus Bitmap-Based Conditions - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for improving performance of positional text conditions in concert with bitmap-based conditions. This is accomplished, for example, by focusing positional text condition evaluation to candidate rows based on a bitmap resulting from application of a prior condition. Additionally, the result of a positional text condition may itself be provided in the form of a bitmap to accelerate further bitmap-based condition processing. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173541 | Distributed Cache for Graph Data - A distributed caching system for storing and serving information modeled as a graph that includes nodes and edges that define associations or relationships between nodes that the edges connect in the graph. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173542 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING RANKING OF KEYWORDS FOR EACH USER GROUP - Provided are a system and method for determining rankings of keywords according to a user group. The keyword ranking determining system includes a data grouping unit to group data of a weblog according to a predetermined theme, a weight application unit to calculate a document concentration that denotes a concentration degree, with respect to the theme, of a document corresponding to the data grouped according to the theme and to apply a weight corresponding to the document concentration to the data, a data set generation unit to generate at least one data set by grouping the data applied with the weight according to a search intention and a ranking determination unit to determine rankings of the at least one data set according to the theme, and a main keyword determination unit to determine a main keyword representing each of the at least one data set. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173543 | Criteria-Specific Authority Ranking - Disclosed is a method of ranking linkable nodes based on intrinsic scores assigned to the nodes. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173544 | AUTHORITATIVE DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION - A system determines documents that are associated with a location, identifies a group of signals associated with each of the documents, and determines authoritativeness of the documents for the location based on the signals. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173545 | STATISTICAL RECORD LINKAGE CALIBRATION FOR MULTI TOKEN FIELDS WITHOUT THE NEED FOR HUMAN INTERACTION - Disclosed is a system for, and method of, calculating parameters used to determine whether records and entity representations should be linked. The system and method utilize blended field weights to account for certain types of partial matches. The system and method apply iterative techniques such that parameters from each linking iteration are used in the next linking iteration. The system and method need no human interaction in order to calibrate and utilize record matching formulas used for the linking decisions. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173546 | AUTOMATED CALIBRATION OF NEGATIVE FIELD WEIGHTING WITHOUT THE NEED FOR HUMAN INTERACTION - Disclosed is a system for, and method of, calculating parameters used to determine whether records and entity representations should be linked. Such parameters may be set as negative to account for fields that do not match. The system and method apply iterative techniques such that parameters from each linking iteration are used in the next linking iteration. The system and method need no human interaction in order to calibrate and utilize record matching formulas used for the linking decisions. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173547 | Method Of Detecting A Reference Sequence Of Events In A Sample Sequence Of Events - A method of detecting a reference sequence of events in a sample sequence of events, wherein each event is of a certain event type and holds a set of data attributes, includes the steps of: picking candidate combinations of events from said sample sequence so that the event types within each candidate combination match the event types in the reference sequence, calculating an overall similarity score for each candidate combination from at least (i) an event occurrence score based on occurrence deviations representing a count of non-matching events between the events of a candidate combination matching events of the reference sequence and (ii) an attribute match score based on similarity deviations between the data attributes of the events of a candidate combination and the data attributes of the matching events of the reference sequence, and identifying the candidate combination with the best overall similarity score as reference sequence detected. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173548 | STATISTICAL RECORD LINKAGE CALIBRATION FOR REFLEXIVE, SYMMETRIC AND TRANSITIVE DISTANCE MEASURES AT THE FIELD AND FIELD VALUE LEVELS WITHOUT THE NEED FOR HUMAN INTERACTION - Disclosed is a system for, and method of, calculating parameters used to determine whether records and entity representations should be linked. The system and method use a symmetric, transitive and reflexive function to allow for linking records and entity representations whose field values differ. The system and method apply iterative techniques such that parameters from each linking iteration are used in the next linking iteration. The system and method need no human interaction in order to calibrate and utilize record matching formulas used for the linking decisions. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173549 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RETRIEVING IMAGES FROM A LARGE COLLECTION OF IMAGES - A processing system may receive an example image for use in querying a collection of digital images. The processing system may use local and global feature descriptors to perform a content-based image comparison of the digital images with the example image, to automatically rank the digital images with respect to similarity to the example image. A local feature descriptor may represent a portion of the contents of a digital image. A global feature descriptor may represent substantially all of the contents of that digital image. The global feature descriptor may be content based, not keyword based. Intermediate and final classifiers may be used to perform the automatic ranking. Different intermediate classifiers may generate intermediate relevance metrics with respect to different modalities. The final classifier may use results from the intermediate classifiers to produce a final relevance metric for the digital images. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173550 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR IMPROVING MESSAGES CONTENT USING USER'S TAGGING FEEDBACK - The present invention is a system and method to improve the impact of marketing messages broadcasted to various web communities. Marketing communication keywords that are predefined are matched against tags set by private and public user's tagging communities. Semantic analysis is applied on the keywords and the tags and resulting associations allow determining relevance of marketing keywords. Matches indicate where marketing people have met their goals while matching gaps indicate marketing messages have not been perceived by the companies or the market. Valuable feedback is thus obtained to help re-enforce the initial messages that were not received or to replace the message wording by the one perceived from the identified market tags. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173551 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STORING AND RETRIEVING TAGS - A method of operating a message system can include maintaining a list of users of the message system and maintaining a connection list and a message stream for each user of the message system. After receiving a message from a first user of the message system, the received message can be published on the message stream of the first user and on the message streams of the users identified in the first user's connection list. If the received message is detected to be a reply to an earlier message from a second user, then the earlier message can be published on the message streams of the users identified in the first user's connection list, who are not in the second user's connection list. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173552 | Assigning Document Identification Tags - Document identification tags are assigned to documents to be added to a collection of documents. Based on query-independent information about a new document, a document identification tag is assigned to the new document. The document identification tag so assigned is used in the indexing of the new document. When a list of document identification tags are produced by an index in response to a query, the list is approximately ordered with respect to a measure of query-independent relevance. In some embodiments, the measure of query-independent relevance is related to the connectivity matrix of the World Wide Web. In other embodiments, the measure is related to the recency of crawling. In still other embodiments, the measure is a mixture of these two. The provided systems and methods allow for real-time indexing of documents as they are crawled from a collection of documents. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173553 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ATTRIBUTE-BASED SEARCH FILTERING - A method and a system filter search results according to attributes of current results. A plurality of content elements is tagged so each content element is associated with a plurality of tags. Each tag describes an attribute of at least one of the plurality of content elements. A first listing of results is provided to a user. Each of the results in the first listing includes a content element and the plurality of tags associated with the content element. A first selection of a first tag in a first result of the first listing received from a user. A second selection of a second tag is received from the user. The second tag may be in the first result or in a second result of the first listing of results. A second listing of results is provided to the user where each of the results of the second listing includes at least the first tag and the second tag. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173554 | Method and System for Policy Driven Data Disclosure - A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for controlling access to attribute information. A request is received from an application for attribute information. An attribute release policy associated with the requesting application is used to filter attributes stored in a datastore. The filtered attributes are then provided to the requesting application. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173555 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REALIZING THE STATISTIC OPERATION OF CALL RECORD INFORMATION PERFORMANCE - The present invention disclose a method and device for realizing the statistic operation of short message performance, wherein the method comprises: writing a statistic item and a statistic condition corresponding to the statistic item into a configuration file; saving the statistic item and the statistic condition in the configuration file to a memory; parsing the call record information saved in the memory according to the statistic item and the statistic condition, and generating statistic data. The present invention directly embodies the statistic item and statistic condition in the configuration file, which not only is convenient for maintenance and modification, but also shortens development time and reduces maintenance cost. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173556 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING SEMANTIC AND SYNTACTIC METADATA - A method and system for managing semantic and syntactic metadata. Heterogeneous data is received. After the heterogeneous data is received, the semantic metadata associated with the received heterogeneous data is captured and syntactic metadata associated with the received heterogeneous data is captured. The semantic metadata describes contextually relevant or domain-specific information about data based on an industry-specific or enterprise-specific metadata model or ontology. The syntactic metadata included grammatical rules and structural patterns governing an ordered use of formats and arrangement pertaining to specified data. The received heterogeneous data and said captured semantic metadata and said syntactic metadata are logically linked. The heterogeneous data is stored in a repository. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173557 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXECUTING A DATA INTEGRATION APPLICATION USING EXECUTABLE UNITS THAT OPERATE INDEPENDENTLY OF EACH OTHER - Methods and systems for executing a data integration application using executable units that operate independently of each other. Methods include receiving a specification for a data integration application comprising programmatic rules and specifying data-flow, creating executable units corresponding to the programmatic rules, creating data-flow channels corresponding to the specified data-flow, and executing the executable units such that data is passed between them in a non-blocking manner. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173558 | Receiver-Side Data Deduplication In Data Systems - Methods and apparatus for receiving uploaded data from a sender at a receiver. A data deduplication technique is described that may reduce the bandwidth used in uploading data from the sender to the receiver. In the technique, the receiver, rather than the sender, maintains a fingerprint dictionary for previously uploaded data. When a sender has additional data to be uploaded, the sender extracts fingerprints for units of the data and sends the fingerprints to the receiver. The receiver checks its fingerprint dictionary to determine the data units to be uploaded and notifies the sender of the identified units, which then sends the identified units of data to the receiver. The technique may, for example, be applied in virtualized data store systems to reduce bandwidth usage in uploading data. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173559 | DATABASE SEARCHING METHOD, SYSTEM AND CONTROLLER - A method, system and controller is provided for searching a database containing data items with a user via a user inter the method comprising the steps of specifying an initial search subset of some or all of the data items in the database ( | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173560 | QUERY ROUTING - A search query is submitted to one or more information sources associated with a category of the query. The category of the query is indicated by a query ontology that relates queries to query categories. The information sources represent information sources from which a high percentage of search results for queries associated with the category are retrieved. For instance, the category of the query is identified by identifying categories corresponding to variations of the query, where each variation represents a combination of the terms within the query, and where the categories of the variations are assumed to be the categories of the query. Information sources associated with the query categories are identified, and the query is submitted to the identified information sources. Submitting the query to the identified information sources may cause search results retrieved for the query to more closely reflect search results desired by a user that specified the query. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173561 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR RECOMMENDING OTHER USERS OR OBJECTS BY CONSIDERING AT LEAST ONE USER'S PREFERENCE - The present invention relates to a method for recommending other users who have similar preference with a user. The method includes the steps of: acquiring information on objects selected by a user and other users; acquiring information on topics; determining to which topic the user and the other users respectively correspond; evaluating a degree of user similarity by each other user, the degree of user similarity being relevant to sum of probabilities of the specific object appearing in the state of a topic while k-th other user and the user have the topic as a probability of the k-th other user and the user having selected the specific object, by referring to correspondence relationships; and recommending specific other users who have a high degree of user similarity, wherein the degree of user similarity is evaluated by multiplying the sum by a probability of the specific object appearing independently. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173562 | RECOMMENDATION OF SEARCH KEYWORDS BASED ON INDICATION OF USER INTENTION - Search keyword recommendation includes: receiving a set of search keywords input by a user; determining whether the set of search keywords indicate a clearly defined intention by the user, including comparing the set of search keywords with a plurality of predetermined words corresponding to intentions that are not clearly defined; in the event that the set of search keywords are determined not to indicate a clearly defined intention, executing a first recommendation method to obtain recommended search keywords; wherein: the first recommendation method is selected among a plurality of recommendation methods; and the first recommendation method includes a knowledge-based recommendation method, a session correlation-based method, or a combination. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173563 | TOKENIZATION OF MULTIPLE-FIELD RECORDS - An improved technique for granting access to a complex datum maps a single user token representing a user onto a set of data group tokens, each data group token providing access to a data group stored on a storage medium. The improved technique combines the centralization of the complex datum while providing the security of tokenization and will lower the risk of a rogue third party gaining unauthorized access to the user's records stored across the data groups. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173564 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A COMPARE CHANNEL TOOL - A system and method for providing a compare channel tool is disclosed. The system may comprise an input module configured to receive at least one instruction for a comparison action based on a user selection and to receive two or more items for comparison processing based on user input. A processor module configured to process the two or more items for comparison processing based on the instructions may also be provided. An output module configured to output the comparison results of the two or more items at a user display may also be provided. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173565 | Systems and Methods for Creating and Using Keyword Navigation on the Internet - Systems and methods are disclosed for using keywords to navigate to web pages on the Internet. In one implementation, a system includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions that cause the processor to receive a search string from a website, the search string being entered by a website visitor using a browser. The processor uses a database to locate a keyword associated with the website that matches the search string. The processor determines a web page address associated with the keyword and causes the browser to be directed to the web page address. In another aspect, a method for managing keywords used for directing a browser to a web page hosted at a website, is disclosed. The method includes receiving a domain name for the website from a user and verifying that the user is authorized to provide keywords for the domain name. The method further includes receiving a keyword for the domain name from the user, receiving a web page address corresponding to the keyword from the user and storing the web page address, the keyword, and the domain name in a database to associate the web page address, the keyword, and the domain name. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173566 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL NAVIGATION BAR - A multi-functional navigation bar for a web-based service is described. Consistent with some embodiments of the invention, the navigation bar provides a unified path or user experience for searching for user-generated content that has been posted to a service, and posting new user-generated content to the service. By providing a unified path to perform both the searching and posting functions, the likelihood of the occurrence of redundant or duplicate data is reduced. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173567 | BUILDING BLOCK BASED GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - An exemplary method includes a graphics export subsystem interfacing with a graphical user interface design subsystem to access data representative of a graphical user interface screen design, detecting a building block placeholder element in the graphical user interface screen design, accessing, from a repository of building block elements, data representative of a building block element associated with the building block placeholder element, and generating, based on the graphical user interface screen design and the building block element, computing code configured to be processed by a target computing device to render a graphical user interface screen in accordance with the graphical user interface screen design and the building block element. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173568 | GETTING INDIVIDUAL ROW COUNTS FROM RELATED TABLES MATCHING SELECTION CRITERIA - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for querying a database system. A user input is received on a client computer. The user input includes a single select query operable to obtain individual row counts of two or more related database tables in the database, wherein the row counts match a selection criterion in the single select query. The query is received at the database system. Row counts are obtained from the two or more related database tables in the database and the row counts are assembled into a query response. The query response with the individual row counts is presented to the user on the client computer. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173569 | Exposing Data Through Simple Object Access Protocol Messages - In some embodiments, a method of providing data comprises receiving an XML document. The XML document includes data from a data repository. A SOAP message is generated. The SOAP message is configured to receive a value associated with a selected one of a name-value pair and an XML attribute and configured to receive XML text. The XML document is embedded as the value within the SOAP message. The XML document is designated in the SOAP message as character data such that a SOAP parser does not parse the XML document. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173570 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING FRAUD RING INVESTIGATIONS - Various embodiments provide a fraud ring investigation management system that allows for the documentation and sharing of information related to one or more fraud ring investigations. In particular, the system provides a centralized workspace for documenting and sharing organized fraud ring intelligence and accessing ring investigation tools and various security resources. In certain embodiments, the system provides a web-based application accessible by fraud ring investigators via networked computing devices. Investigators use the application to enter data and store documents related to fraud ring investigations, to search for data related to various fraud ring investigations, and to access various fraud ring investigation tools and security resources. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173571 | Engine, System and Method for Interconnection and Information Exchange Between Interested Parties in a Business Transaction - Disclosed is an engine, system and method for providing an interactive interconnection between parties in a business transaction. The engine, system and method may include requesting remote entry over at least one network of at least one profile from each of at least two users, wherein the profile comprises at least a user type, a technology type, and a transaction sought, electronically querying each of the at least two users with at least one preliminary profile question indicated by the profile, and preliminarily matching at least two of the at least two users in a transaction indicated by at least the profile and the preliminary profile questions. The present invention may further include electronically providing at least a first of the at least two users with secondary questions from the other of the at least two users, responsive to the preliminarily matching and indicated by the transaction sought, and interconnecting the at least two users in accordance with responses received to the secondary questions. Further included may be remotely fulfilling the transaction sought after the interconnecting. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173572 | Concurrent Long Spanning Edit Sessions using Change Lists with Explicit Assumptions - An approach is provided that receives a change request from a requestor. The change request includes metadata regarding the change, one or more changes, and one or more change assumptions corresponding to at least one of the changes. The change request is stored in a data store of pending requests. One or more systems are identified that correspond to each of the change assumptions. The identified systems are automatically queried with queries that correspond to the change assumptions. Query responses in response to the querying are received from the identified systems. The validity of each of the change assumptions is determined based on the received query responses. If the change assumptions are valid, then the changes included in the change request are processed. On the other hand, if at least one of the change assumptions is invalid, then the change request is rejected. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173573 | CREATING AN AGGREGATE REPORT OF A PRESENCE OF A USER ON A NETWORK - A method performed by a physical computing device communicatively coupled to a computer network for creating an aggregate report of a presence of a user of the physical computing device on the network includes periodically searching the network with the physical computing device for content related to the user authored by a source other than the user, the searching being based on a unique set of identifiers associated with the user, dynamically updating the unique set of identifiers based on contextual trends within content returned as a result of the searching, and aggregating content published by the user to the network with the content returned as a result of the searching to form the aggregate report of the presence of the user on the network. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173574 | Information Retrieving Apparatus, Information Retrieving Method and Navigation System - An information retrieving apparatus is provided which has excellent usability using voice inputs. Search queries input by a user via a touch panel or the like are used as voice recognition vocabulary. Further, the search queries are edited by use of morpheme information and/or other information in a database, thereby providing such voice recognition vocabulary that can be easily uttered by the user. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173575 | Record Based Code Structure - The compiled code of a computer program is stored in multiple pieces within a database. Each piece is optionally stored within a separate data record. Execution of the computer program includes using database queries to retrieve pieces of the compiled code for execution. The database and associated database management logic are used to provide numerous advantages in execution and management of the computer program. For example, in some embodiments, database queries are used to help facilitate program flow logic. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173576 | PATIENT IDENTIFICATION - The described implementations relate to patient identification. One implementation can acquire binary biometric data and structured data from a patient. This implementation can compare the acquired patient binary biometric data and structured data to binary biometric data and structured data associated with patient files in an electronic master patient index. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173577 | SEARCHING RECORDED VIDEO - Embodiments of the disclosure provide for systems and methods for creating metadata associated with a video data. The metadata can include data about objects viewed within a video scene and/or events that occur within the video scene. Some embodiments allow users to search for specific objects and/or events by searching the recorded metadata. In some embodiments, metadata is created by receiving a video frame and developing a background model for the video frame. Foreground object(s) can then be identified in the video frame using the background model. Once these objects are identified they can be classified and/or an event associated with the foreground object may be detected. The event and the classification of the foreground object can then be recorded as metadata. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173578 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING E-BOOK CONTENTS - A method and apparatus for managing e-book contents. A method for registering content information includes performing a content path setting process to set a path for an access to contents. The method also includes performing a content information setting process to acquire information related to the contents. The method further includes performing a content database searching process to search whether there is a database record similar to the information. The method still further includes performing a content classification code setting process to set a content classification code for the contents if the search result is that the contents are not registered or are stored as an unclassified value. The method also includes performing a content database updating process to update the content classification code in a content database. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173579 | Method and Computer-Readable Media for Managing Business Transactions - A method, and computer-readable media for performing the method, for managing business transactions. Electronic transaction documents are received from authenticated users and stored in a database, with system usage data regarding users' access to and use of the system captured and stored in the database. Only specified parties are afforded access to system usage data for each user. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173580 | Event Feedback Networking System - The present invention is an event feedback networking system configured to facilitate intuitive participant response. The event feedback networking system utilizes novel distributed hardware components and novel data structures for obtaining, processing, analyzing, and displaying intuitive user feedback. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173581 | Strict Tenant Isolation in Multi-Tenant Enabled Systems - A plurality of partitions can be defined in a database for a multi-tenant computing system provided on one or more processors such that each partition of the plurality of partitions is associated with only one business tenant of a set of business tenants supported by the multi-tenant system. The database can stored shared content that is shared among and accessible to all tenants of the multi-tenant computing system while tenant content for each business tenant can be stored in the database in one partition of the plurality of partitions. The one partition can be assigned to an associated business tenant. At least a portion of the tenant content can be unique to and associated with the associated business tenant. One or more errors can be generated to prevent tenant content associated with a first business tenant of the set of business tenants from being accessed by a second business tenant of the set of business tenants when an application code executed within the multi-tenant computing system comprises a construct that would otherwise enable cross-tenant access by the second business tenant to tenant content associated with the first business tenant. Related systems, methods, and computer program products are described. | 2012-07-05 |
| 20120173582 | Location based access to financial information systems and methods - Systems, methods, and software for identifying location based rules related to a network connected device are described. A network connected device may transmit a set of data identifying the location of the device and an identifier unique to the device to a server. The server may also receive an action request, wherein the action request is associated with the identifier. The server may select a rule in a database to address the action request, the rule applicable to the identifier and location of the device. Various embodiments related to financial card transactions, access to financial information, emergency services contact, and electronic message filtering are also addressed. | 2012-07-05 |
