27th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 47 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100174637 | Dynamic Aggressive/Passive Pegged Trading - A computer-implemented system and method for executing trades of financial securities according to a combination passive/aggressive trading strategy that reliably executes trades of lists of securities or blocks of a single security within a desired time frame while taking advantage of dynamic market movement to realize price improvement for the trade within the desired time frame. A passive trading agent executes trades at advantageous prices by floating portions of the order at the bid or ask to maximize exposure to the inside market and attract market orders. An aggressive agent opportunistically takes liquidity as it arises, setting discretionary prices in accordance with historical trading data of the specified security. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174638 | REPORT EXISTENCE MONITORING - Certain consumers may not have a credit report and, thus, may not be able to enroll in a credit monitoring service. A credit report monitoring system requests a credit report of consumers that are attempting to enroll in a credit monitoring service. If no credit report is located for the consumer, a credit report of the consumer is automatically periodically requested by the system. When a credit report is later located, the consumer may continue with enrollment in a credit report monitoring service. In this way, the consumer is alerted of the (possibly fraudulent) creation of a credit report and is quickly able to enroll in a credit monitoring service. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174639 | EMERGENCY FUND AND REPLACEMENT OF CREDIT/DEBIT CARDS-LOST, STOLEN, DEFECTIVE OR FRAUDULENTLY USED - A credit card Emergency Fund system, comprising the steps of a credit card provider opening one or two accounts with two different card numbers, with a first “main credit card” and a second credit card for a spare. Alternatively, one credit card is provided with one or two accounts. Upon the customer's request, when the credit limit of the main credit card is fully expended, the spare credit card, with the Emergency credit line, or the Emergency credit line with a single card, is activated for a limited time period. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174640 | Change Orders - Method, apparatus and system for setting up withdrawal change orders online or at a cash handling device for immediately retrieval and/or future retrievals of paper cash and coin. The change order may include specific requested denominations of paper cash and/or coins. The change order may also include a specific location that the user wishes to retrieve the cash at. Upon authentication of the user at the requested cash handling device within the time-frame specified, the user may receive the change order requested automatically. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174641 | Deposit of Coins into a Financial Account - Method, apparatus and system for receiving coins and generating a certificate for depositing the sum of received coins in a banking account. The user may redeem the certificate in an already existing bank account or may enroll into a new banking account and receive immediate access to the funds redeemed. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174642 | SOLAR POWERED UTILITY - Systems and methods for providing renewable energy to rural communities employ a solar powered charger and a key configured to activate the solar powered charger, where the solar powered charger is enabled for one or more charge and discharge cycles to provide electrical energy to a device configured to be operated or charged by the solar powered charger. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174643 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATING BILLING INFORMATION FROM ALTERNATE ENERGY SOURCES WITH TRADITIONAL ENERGY SOURCES - The method and system of the present invention provides for data gathering of energy systems, calculation of billing information for the energy systems to include both traditional energy sources and renewable energy sources, and creation of various outputs to include various user interfaces applicable to overall management of the energy systems. The user interfaces can include integrated, real-time billings to a consumer that measure the cost of the primary energy as well as savings provided by renewable energy sources. The present invention also provides predictive analysis for various aspects of energy use in order to better manage particular facilities that may incorporate renewable energy sources. The gathered data and the various user interfaces enables a user to modify or adjust the use of the renewable energy sources at selected sites to maximize their impact on reducing the cost of the primary energy bill. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174644 | Integrated File Structure Useful in Connection with Apparatus and Method for Facilitating Account Restructuring in an Electronic Bill Payment System - An electronic funds transfer bill payment operation of a financial institution receives first information representing an account restructuring of a biller which uses the electronic funds transfer bill payment operation. The first information is combined with second information into a uniformly formatted file. The second information is formatted differently than the first information. The second information includes card update information for recurring payment card payments made with payment cards issued by the financial institution. The uniformly formatted file is transferred to an operator of a payment network of a kind configured to facilitate transactions between multiple issuers and multiple acquirers. The uniformly formatted file specifies at least one old account number associated with a biller and at least one new account number associated with the biller. The payment network operator operates both a recurring payment transaction system for card-not-present recurring payments and an electronic funds transfer account conversion application in accordance with the uniformly formatted file. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174645 | PAY YOURSELF FIRST WITH USER GUIDANCE - The system encourages users to not only pay themselves first, but to pay themselves first in the largest amounts possible, even if they are not able to fully pay outstanding debts. The system obtains information related to the user's income, income sources, user's debts (e.g., bills) and user's goals. The system provides recommendations related to the prioritization of paying certain bills and the amount to pay for each bill based upon, for example, savings goals, minimizing penalties/fees associated with user's debts, minimum amounts due, due dates and available income. The system and/or the user may then determine a payment hierarchy which includes transferring funds to the user's savings account prior to paying all or a portion of certain bills, wherein the transfer of funds may include different funds transfer systems and methods. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174646 | Person-to-Person Funds Transfer - Systems and methods are illustrated for performing a person-to-person funds transfer. A person-to-person funds transfer process may be divided into a funds transfer initiation process to receive the funds to be transferred and recipient information from a sender and a funds retrieval process to provide the funds to a recipient. The funds transfer initiation process may include a customizable authentication step that provides the sender an opportunity to determine the level of authentication. The funds transfer retrieval process may include determining whether the recipient is authenticated based on the authentication level chosen by the sender. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174647 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INITIATING A FUNDS TRANSFER USING A MOBILE DEVICE - The invention is directed to a method and apparatus for initiating an electronic funds transfer. The system includes a first mobile device, a payment engine, and a payment repository. The first mobile device includes functionality to display a notification of a sales transaction, obtain an authorization from the consumer to the electronic funds transfer based on the notification, instantiate a transfer entry form to obtain a transfer entry package, where the transfer entry package comprises the notification, a verification of the authorization, and consumer financial account information. The payment engine is operatively connected to the first mobile device and includes functionality to transmit the notification to the consumer of a sales transaction, generate the transfer entry form based on the authorization, and transmit the transfer entry package to a depository financial institution. The payment repository is operatively connected to the payment engine and includes functionality to store a record of the transfer entry package and the authorization. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174648 | SECURE REAL-TIME BUSINESS PROCESSING SYSTEMS - The present disclosure provides a dynamic business system comprising a business intelligence processing module; a dynamic rules module coupled to said business intelligence module; a dynamic collaboration engine coupled to said dynamic rules module and said business intelligence processing module; a data mining and expert knowledge module coupled to said interoperable system wherein said expert knowledge module can effect a portion of a data set to undergo real-time modification. The system data output and reporting is provided via a secure online method providing real-time interoperability among disconnected facilities. Additionally, the dynamic business system described provides dynamic and real-time decision making capabilities based on third party's available data set wherein data output and reporting is provided via a secure online method providing real-time interoperability among disconnected facilities. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174649 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VALIDATING ONLINE TRANSACTIONS USING LOCATION INFORMATION - A method comprising: obtaining a service point location, the service point location being associated with a logical identifier assigned to end-user equipment used in an attempt to make an online transaction; obtaining at least one authorized transaction point location, the at least one authorized transaction point location being associated with transaction object information provided via the end-user equipment; comparing the service point location to each of the at least one authorized transaction point location; and performing an action related to validation of the online transaction based on a result of the comparing. Also provided is an apparatus for implementing this method. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174650 | ELECTRONIC SETTLEMENT SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC SETTLEMENT SERVER, NEGOTIABLE-VALUE PROVIDING APPARATUS, MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, AND ELECTRONIC SETTLEMENT METHOD - The present invention provides an electronic settlement system which is similar to cash settlement and which is available even in a game hall. The present invention provides an electronic settlement system including an electronic settlement server, a mobile communication terminal, and a negotiable-value providing apparatus. In the electronic settlement system, the mobile communication terminal acquires, from the negotiable-value providing apparatus, an equipment ID identifying the negotiable-value providing apparatus. The mobile communication terminal then generates a settlement request message containing a user ID identifying a user, a transfer amount corresponding to consideration for a negotiable value, and the equipment ID. The mobile communication terminal then transmits the message to the electronic settlement server. According to the result of a check of the user's credit status, the electronic settlement server instructs the negotiable-value providing apparatus to provide a negotiable value corresponding to the transfer amount. The electronic settlement server further requests a transfer of an amount corresponding to the transfer amount from the user's account to a predetermined account. Upon receiving the instruction to provide the negotiable value from the electronic settlement server, the negotiable-value providing apparatus provides the user with rental balls, rental medals, or the like corresponding to the transfer amount. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174651 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INITIATING AND/OR CONDUCTING A TRANSACTION THAT IS ASSOCIATED WITH AT LEAST TWO CORRESPONDING DECLARATIONS OF INTENT - The present invention relates to a method and a system for initiating and/or conducting a transaction that is associated with at least two corresponding declarations of intent, in particular a payment transaction, between at least two transaction parties via a processing unit ( | 2010-07-08 |
20100174652 | CRYPTOGRAPHIC METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR STORAGE MEDIA ELECTRONIC RIGHT MANAGEMENT IN CLOSED AND CONNECTED APPLIANCES - A rights management arrangement for storage media such as optical digital video disks (DVDs, also called digital versatile disks) provides adequate copy protection in a limited, inexpensive mass-produceable, low-capability platform such as a dedicated home consumer disk player and also provides enhanced, more flexible security techniques and methods when the same media are used with platforms having higher security capabilities. A control object (or set) defines plural rights management rules for instance, price for performance or rules governing redistribution. Low capability platforms may enable only a subset of the control rules such as controls on copying or marking of played material. Higher capability platforms may enable all (or different subsets) of the rules. Cryptographically strong security is provided by encrypting at least some of the information carried by the media and enabling decryption based on the control set and/or other limitations. A secure “software container” can be used to protectively encapsulate (e.g., by cryptographic techniques) various digital property content (e.g., audio, video, game, etc.) and control object (i.e., set of rules) information. A standardized container format is provided for general use on/with various mediums and platforms. In addition, a special purpose container may be provided for DVD medium and appliances (e.g., recorders, players, etc.) that contains DVD program content (digital property) and DVD medium specific rules. The techniques, systems and methods disclosed herein are capable of achieving compatibility with other protection standards, such as for example, CGMA and Matsushita data protection standards adopted for DVDs. Cooperative rights management may also be provided, where plural networked rights management arrangements collectively control a rights management event on one or more of such arrangements. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174653 | Secure method and device of financial transaction - A secure method and device thereof is provided for financial transaction without being access of any personal and confidential transaction information by any unwanted party, which includes the following steps. Receive transaction information and personal information of a user in a secure financial transaction device. Encrypt the transaction information, the personal information and a secure PIN of the user in the device and transfer the encrypted transaction information, personal information and the secure PIN to a designate financial entity through the Internet. Verify a payment amount to a designated financial account with the financial entity. Receive a confirmation in the device for the transaction of the payment amount to the designated financial account, after the payment amount is transferred to the designated financial account from the financial entity, by the financial entity through the Internet. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174654 | Electronic Trading System Supporting Anonymous Negotiation and Indicators of Interest - A system conducts anonymous negotiations and supports indications-of-interest in trading stock. The system includes a database for storing public orders received from a public stock trading system; and a server for receiving hidden orders from a plurality of users and for conducting anonymous negotiations between first and second users with the hidden orders. The server repeatedly accesses the database to determine a match of any one of the hidden orders with any one of the public orders, and to execute a pair of orders selected from the hidden orders and the public orders. The system also transmits indicators-of-interest (IOIs) into a trading environment using the server for processing a trading order from a first user and for maintaining a profile of a user. The profile includes a current IOI setting for controlling transmission of the IOI from the user. The server responds to a toggle command from the first user to control transmission of the IOI opposite to the current IOI setting. The server responds to the IOI setting being set to allow transmission by transmitting the IOI of the first user associated with the trading order. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174655 | DIGITAL CONTENT DISTRIBUTION USING IDENTIFICATION TAGS - Systems and methods for storing and distributing digital content using RFID tags are described. The systems contain a storage device for the digital content, a display device that provides an offer for the digital content, a capture device for accepting the offer, a distribution device for distributing the content to the user, and a receiving device for receiving the digital content. In some configurations, the display device can contain an RFID chip that places an RFID tag in the capture device. The RFID tag can be used to retrieve the digital content from the distribution device. In some configurations, the distribution device can be a kiosk and the capture device can be also be used as the receiving device to retrieve the digital content from the kiosk. This system allows the decision to obtain the digital content to be an impulse decision since the RFID tag can be quickly and easily be downloaded from the display device. The actual content can then be retrieved at a more convenient time when the user comes in contact with the kiosk. Other embodiments are described. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174656 | System And Method For Coordinating Building And Construction Activities - A computer based system and method for coordinating building and construction activities that allows electronic punchlists to be created, updated, and managed remotely using a handheld device or a computer with access to the internet. The system and method allows for complete control in the field. The electronic punchlists may also be mapped to electronic blueprints for ease of navigation through multiple punchlists and tasks. Additional information such as digital media, change orders, issues, scheduling, specifications, contracts, and requests for information may also be mapped to the electronic punchlists. The punchlist data may also be used to generate reports. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174657 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR APPRAISAL INFORMATION SERVICES - A method for providing appraisal reference information from a computer based system includes receiving description of a target item for appraisal in the system, defining a geographic area for the appraisal in the system, searching price information of the target item within the geographic area based on the description of the target item in the system, and generating appraisal reference information for the target item based on the price information in the system. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174658 | System and method for enhancing the efficiency of real estate transactions - A computer system and method for real estate transactions concerning the purchase or sale of real property is provided. The method comprises engaging a realtor and a mortgage originator to participate in the real estate transaction, providing unified communication among a client, the realtor and the mortgage originator, whereby the mortgage originator may be the realtor, providing a simplified loan process for the client by the coordination between the realtor and the mortgage originator due to the unified communication among the client, the realtor and the mortgage originator, upon the sale of property, distributing to the client, from the real estate commission received by the realtor, a predetermined portion of money from the purchase price, the loan amount and the listing fee, then, distributing to the realtor a portion of the mortgage origination proceeds typically received by the mortgage originator to compensate for the portion of the purchase price, loan amount and listing fee distributed to the client, and, upon the purchase of property, distributing to the client, from the real estate commission received by the realtor, a predetermined portion of money from the purchase price, the loan amount and the listing fee, then, distributing to the realtor a portion of the mortgage origination proceeds typically received by the mortgage originator to compensate for the portion of the purchase price, loan amount and listing fee distributed to the client, such that, upon a sale, a purchase, and any combination of sales and purchases, the client receives a predetermined portion of money from the purchase price of the property, the loan amount and the listing fee, the realtor receives the full amount of the predetermined real estate commission for the sale consummated and the mortgage originator receives a proportionately smaller portion of the mortgage origination proceeds. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174659 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING THE LIQUIDITY AND DISTRIBUTION NETWORK FOR LUXURY AND OTHER ILLIQUID ITEMS - Systems and methods for improving the liquidity and distribution network for luxury and other illiquid items are provided. These systems and methods preferably include the trading of futures and options contracts, which will provide the liquidity and distribution network for luxury items. Possible embodiments of these systems and methods include the trading of futures and options contracts for diamonds and wine. Another embodiment of this invention preferably includes generating indexes for diamond prices, wine prices, luxury item prices, housing values, mortgage prepayments, privately-held companies or for anything with from sufficiently liquid points of value. Another embodiment of this invention preferably includes a centralized data base for retrieving closing and current auction prices for determining the value of, and best method for the auctioning of various items. The data provided by this data base would improve liquidity by creating greater price transparency. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174660 | METHODS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR FACILITATING FORENSIC INVESTIGATIONS OF ONLINE TRANSACTIONS - A method, comprising: receiving a first identifier associated with an online transaction and a second identifier used by end user equipment involved in the online transaction; obtaining evidentiary information pertaining to the end user equipment based on the second identifier; storing in a database a record that associates the first identifier with the evidentiary information; and retrieving one of (i) the evidentiary information in said record and (ii) the first identifier in response to a request identifying the other of (i) the evidentiary information in said record and (ii) the first identifier. Where the online transaction is effected over a network after the end user equipment has gained access thereto, the evidentiary information may include information pertaining to a subscriber whose credentials were used by the end user equipment to gain access to the network. The information pertaining to the subscriber may include personal information about the subscriber. Alternatively, the evidentiary information may include location information. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174661 | Wireless Branding - A device wirelessly broadcasts branding information associated with a consumer product attached to the device. The branding information is sent to a receiver located remotely from the product. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174662 | COLLABORATIVE SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR DEVELOPING AND MANAGING INNOVATIONS - A system and process for collaborating members of a network. A generation module facilitates the submission of ideas by the members of the network. A development module facilitates the members of the network to provide input to develop the ideas submitted via the generation module. An evaluation module facilitates the members of the network to provide input to evaluate the ideas developed via the development module. An implementation module facilitates the members of the network to implement the ideas evaluated via the evaluation module. The process comprises the phases of submitting ideas by the members of the network; developing by the members of the submitted ideas; evaluating by the members the developed ideas; and implementing by at least one of the members the evaluated ideas. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174663 | REIT-Based Pure Property Return Indexes - The present disclosure is directed to generating REIT-based pure property return indexes. First, REIT return data is compiled from each REIT of a plurality of REITs at a predetermined frequency. Then, the generated REIT return data is de-levered and processed according to exposures to each of a plurality of target characteristics to obtain coefficients reflecting each REIT's weight in an index. Finally, an index is generated according to the REITs, the obtained coefficients, and the weights. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174664 | ETF Trading in Secondary Market Based on Underlying Basket - A trading system enables investors to execute trades electronically on exchange at prices that are chosen in consideration of the derivative nature of ETFs as a portfolio of securities or other financial instruments. In addition to measuring liquidity in the ETF itself on exchange, the trading system analyzes the liquidity of the ETF's underlying portfolio to understand the liquidity that is available to investors in the ETF through the creation/redemption process. By monitoring the bid/ask spread of both the ETF and the underlying portfolio in real time, the trading system enables investors to leverage the full potential liquidity of ETFs. The trading system can be used to manage the data and pricing infrastructure for identifying these liquidity replenishment points and to make these prices actionable for investors. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174665 | AUTOMATIC TRADING SYSTEM WITH COMPUTER AIDED DECISION-METHODS OF WHEN TO BUY AND SELL ON STOCK EXCHANGES - A computerized trading system for trading a tradable product at stock exchanges having a user terminal connected to a data communication system being able to provide a graphical user interface (GUI) to the user terminal through which a user can define a number of criteria to be met in order for the system to allow/indicate a trade order of a selected Symbol or allow/indicate a pair trade of two selected Symbols. A method to format a data stream providing a novel result used for the calculation of technical indicators and the derived criteria and/or used for visual presentation of price movements of the tradable product in the computerized trading system by determining the time to close a bar. Product data having product prices is received at different times at the computer system, and the computer system for each closed bar holds corresponding bar data buffers with data representing time of close of bar and last received product price at close of bar. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174666 | System and Method for Generating Real-Time Indicators iin a Trading List or Portfolio - A trading platform computer system for detecting an abnormal trading condition of a security uses real-time and estimated values of one or more variables associated with the condition of the security to generate one or more analytic metrics that are compared to empirical distributions based on one or more peer groups for the security. An indicator can then be displayed to a trader as an indication of the abnormal condition. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174667 | CHARGING CABLE WITH CONTROLLER - A vehicle charging cable is disclosed configured to charge a vehicle battery on a vehicle from a utility power source, the cable comprising: a vehicle connector and a control module. The vehicle connector is connected to a power cable configured to supply power for charging the vehicle battery. The vehicle connector is configured to connect to a charging port on the vehicle. The control module is connected to the power cable. The control module is configured to receive utility data from the utility power source and to receive vehicle data from the vehicle, and to adjust the power supplied to the vehicle battery based on the utility data and the vehicle data. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174668 | ENERGY MANAGEMENT OF CLOTHES DRYER APPLIANCE - A clothes dryer is provided comprising one or more power consuming functions and a controller in signal communication with an associated utility. The controller can receive and process a signal from the associated utility indicative of current cost of supplied energy. The controller operates the clothes dryer in one of a normal operating mode and an energy savings mode based on the received signal. The controller is configured to change the power consuming functions by adjusting one or more of an operation schedule, an operation delay, an operation adjustment, and a selective deactivation of at least one of the one or more power consuming functions to reduce power consumption of the clothes dryer in the energy savings mode. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174669 | Method of operating a micro-environment within a commercial complex to promote sales of goods and/or services offered for sale by participating retail merchants - The invention relates to a method of operating a microenvironment located within a common area of a shopping mall adapted to promote the particular goods and/or services offered for sale by one or more participating retail merchants leasing space adjacent to or near the microenvironment. One or more activities can be conducted in the microenvironment including allowing the participating merchant's potential customers to use, try and/or sample the particular products and/or services offered for sale by the merchants, as a means of promoting those goods and/or services, and attracting customers generally to the shopping mall. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174670 | DATA CLASSIFICATION AND HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING - Apparatus, systems, and methods can operate to provide efficient data clustering, data classification, and data compression. A method comprises training set of training instances can be processed to select a subset of size-1 patterns, initialize a weight of each size-1 pattern, include the size-1 patterns in classes in a model associated with the training set, and then include a set of top-k size-2 patterns in a way that provides an effective balance between local, class, and global significance patterns. A method comprises processing a dataset to compute an overall significance value of each size-2 pattern in each instance in the dataset, sort the size-2 patterns, and select the top-k size-2 patterns to be represented in clusters, which can be refined into a clustered hierarchy. A method comprises creating an uncompressed bitmap, reordering the bitmap, and compressing the bitmap. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174671 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONCURRENTLY CONDUCTING CAUSE-AND-EFFECT EXPERIMENTS ON CONTENT EFFECTIVENESS AND ADJUSTING CONTENT DISTRIBUTION TO OPTIMIZE BUSINESS OBJECTIVES - The present invention is directed to systems, articles, and computer-implemented methods for assessing effectiveness of communication content and optimizing content distribution to enhance business objectives. Embodiments of the present invention are directed to computer-implemented methods for a computer-implemented method, comprising conducting an experiment using experimental content to determine effectiveness of communication content and executing, while conducting the experiment, a machine learning routine (MLR) using MLR content to enhance an effectiveness metric. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174672 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODCUT FOR IMPLEMENTING EXPERT ASSESSMENT OF A PRODUCT - Disclosed are method(s), system(s), and computer program product(s) for implementing expert assessment of a product. Some embodiments are directed at improved methods, systems, and computer program product form implementing expert assessment of product fixes/patches or upgrade. In some embodiments, the method or the system identifies or receives information regarding a client system on which the product runs and a reasoning rule for the expert assessment; analyzes the received or identified information based upon the reasoning rule; and determines the expert assessment based on the result of the act of analyzing the information. In some embodiments, the method or the system further comprises optimizing the expert assessment based on other information; determining whether the determination of the expert assessment is deterministic; and determining whether or not there exists a conflict in the expert assessment. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174673 | METHOD FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL OF A BODY STRUCTURE - Method for reconstruction of a three-dimensional model of a body structure of a subject, said structure comprising a plurality of objects, wherein a database ( | 2010-07-08 |
20100174674 | ACTION RECOGNITION APPARATUS, ACTION RECOGNITION SYSTEM, AND ACTION RECOGNITION METHOD - An action recognition apparatus includes: an action detection unit for detecting an action of a subject to be recognized; an estimation processing unit for previously narrowing down action types of which actions of the subject is to be recognized; a selection processing unit for selecting a recognition method and a dictionary by referencing a recognition method/dictionary database, based on the action types narrowed down by the processing unit; and a recognition processing unit for performing an action recognition using the recognition method and the dictionary selected by the selection processing unit. The recognition processing unit performs an action recognition processing of information detected by the action detection unit, based on only the action types narrowed down by the estimation processing unit. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174675 | Data Structure, System and Method for Knowledge Navigation and Discovery - Data structures, systems, methods and computer program products that enable precise information retrieval and extraction, and thus facilitate relational and associative discovery are disclosed. The present invention utilizes a novel data structure termed a “Knowlet” which combines multiple attributes and values for relationships between concepts. While texts contain many re-iterations of factual statements, Knowlets record relationships between two concepts only once and the attributes and values of the relationships change based on multiple instances of factual statements, increasing co-occurrence or associations. The present invention's approach results in a minimal growth of the Knowlet space as compared to the text space and it thus useful where there is a vast data store, a relevant ontology/thesaurus, and a need for knowledge navigation and (relational, associative, and/or other) knowledge discovery. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174676 | DETERMINING MODIFIED DATA IN CACHE FOR USE DURING A RECOVERY OPERATION - Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for determining modified data in cache for use during a recovery operation. An event is detected during which processing of writes to a storage device is suspended. A cache including modified data not destaged to the storage device is scanned to determine the data units having modified data in response to detecting the event. The data units having the modified data is indicated in a backup storage. The indication of the data units having the modified data in the backup storage is used during a recovery operation. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174677 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING AND ARCHIVING PERFORMANCE INFORMATION RELATING TO STORAGE SYSTEM - A data management and archive method and apparatus, such as for implementation in an automated system to monitor and manage status, performance and configuration data for a plurality of networked storage components. Analysis and cross-correlation of data related to the plurality of storage components can be done individually, collectively and/or comparatively. A collection manager component of a workload analyzer is implemented to start and stop data collection in the context of a system comprising at least one storage component (or at least two networked storage components). The collection manager includes a command and control module that coordinates requests of data from at least one collection agent configured on at least one host connected to the storage component(s). The collection manager manages collection of data and effects file transfer of collected data according to a user specified policy, and maintains status of the data collected. The user specified policy allows the user to specify data collection “shifts” (i.e. periodicity). | 2010-07-08 |
20100174678 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPARING DIGITAL DATA IN SPREADSHEETS OR DATABASE TABLES - A system, method and computer program product compares data in original and modified versions of spreadsheet or database table documents, and generates a comparison document having indications where changes between the documents are present. The data compared includes formulas or stored procedures that are normally hidden when viewing a spreadsheet or database table document. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174679 | Method, System, and Computer Program Product for Synchronization of Similar Data Objects With Event Information - A computer-implemented method for receiving information at a first device is provided. The method includes storing a first data object on the first device in a first device-specific representation, receiving a batch of information in response to the first device transitioning from an off-line state to an online state, processing the modification event to recover the modification, updating the first data object based on the recovered modification, and transmitting an acknowledgement indicating that the modification event was successfully processed by the first device. The batch of information includes a modification event. The content of the batch was determined based at least on a state of data stored on the first device. The modification event was generated based on at least a modification made to a second data object stored at a second device in a second device-specific representation. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174680 | Network System, Network Household Appliance, Content/Metadata Synchronous Processing Method, and Computer Program - [Object] To provide a network system capable of efficiently carrying out synchronous processing by positively notifying a home network appliance of an update content of a content or metadata. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174681 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR HETEROGENEOUS DATABASE SYNCHRONIZATION - The present application relates to a method for synchronizing heterogeneous databases using at least one processor, a first user database, a second user registers database, a third location criteria database and a fourth location occupancy database, the inputs of said first user database being likely to match the inputs of the third location criteria database, with the method including:
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20100174682 | Methods, Systems and Computer Program Products for Monitoring Changes to Objects on a Computer System Using Information Models and Baselines - Methods for monitoring changes in objects on a computer system include receiving a request to generate a baseline snapshot of a plurality of objects having associated object types. The object types include at least one object having an object type not managed by a file system of the computer system. Current information is obtained, responsive to the request to generate a baseline snapshot, from a plurality of data collectors to determine at least one attribute of each of the objects to define the baseline snapshot. A request for a baseline report for the objects is received. Updated information is obtained, responsive to the request for a baseline report, from the plurality of data collectors to update the at least one attribute of each of the objects. The baseline snapshot is compared to the obtained updated information to determine if any of the objects have changed. Receiving the request to generate the baseline snapshot may be preceded by generating a baseline definition query that identifies object types to be included in the generated baseline snapshot and their associated attributes and the received request to generate the baseline report includes an identification of the baseline definition query. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174683 | INDIVIDUAL OBJECT RESTORE - A method for restoring an object comprises receiving a request to restore an object. Also, the method includes outputting a representation of available backup files and receiving a selection of at least one of the available backup files. Further, the method comprises restoring at least one of the selected backup files into a temporary location and mounting at least one of the restored backup files as a server. In addition, the method includes outputting a representation of available objects from the server and receiving a selection of at least one of the available objects to be restored from the server. Also, the method includes copying one or more selected objects from the server into an Active Directory. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174684 | SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY SHADOWING ENCRYPTED DATA AND FILE DIRECTORY STRUCTURES FOR A PLURALITY OF NETWORK-CONNECTED COMPUTERS USING A NETWORK-ATTACHED MEMORY WITH SINGLE INSTANCE STORAGE - The Secure Networked Data Shadowing System is connected to a plurality of monitored computer systems via an existing communication medium to store the shadowed data. The data is encrypted by the monitored computer system using a cryptokey, and the data file is processed using a hash function prior to encryption, so the contents of this file are uniquely identified. Thus, the encrypted file is stored in its encrypted form and the hash index is used to identify the encrypted file. A “data de-duplication” process avoids storing multiple copies of the same files by identifying instances of duplication via the hash index. Files that have the same hash index can be reduced to a single copy without any loss of data as long as the file structure information for each instance of the file is maintained. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174685 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UPDATING AN ARCHIVE OF A COMPUTER FILE - A method and system for updating an archive of a computer file to reflect changes made to the file includes selecting one of a plurality of comparison methods as a preferred comparison method. The comparison methods include a first comparison method wherein the file is compared to an archive of the file and a second comparison method wherein a first set of tokens statistically representative of the file is computed and compared to a second set of tokens statistically representative of the archive of the file. The method further includes carrying out the preferred comparison method to generate indicia of differences between the file and the archive of the file for updating the archive of the file. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174686 | Generating Equivalence Classes and Rules for Associating Content with Document Identifiers - A system of reducing the possibility of crawling duplicate document identifiers partitions a plurality of document identifiers into multiple clusters, each cluster having a cluster name and a set of document parameters. The system generates an equivalence rule for each cluster of document identifiers, the rule specifying which document parameters associated with the cluster are content-relevant. Next, the system groups each cluster of document identifiers into one or more equivalence classes in accordance with its associated equivalence rule, each equivalence class including one or more document identifiers that correspond to a document content and having a representative document identifier identifying the document content. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174687 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VALIDATING DESIGN META-DATA - A metadata validation process that allows for deferring object model validation until after the objects are created. The process also allows for multi-threaded processing of the validation rules, thus increasing overall performance. Validation is performed by enforcing a series of validation rules on an appropriate subject. Rules are specified according to the subject that they are validating (i.e., attribute level, association level, object level or collection level). The metadata driven validation process implements several validation types on different validation units. Correctness validation rule types ensure that a validation unit satisfies all semantic rules defined for it. Completeness validation rule types ensure that a validation unit contains all the necessary data and is ready for further use. At design time, only correctness type validation is performed. Thus, the present invention advantageously allows for incomplete objects to be created at design time. The developer, however, in this case may opt to perform completeness validation at any time. In general, a developer may opt to perform completeness and/or correctness validation at any time independent of deployment processing. In another aspect, full validation (e.g., completeness and correctness) is automatically performed on the objects during the process of creating a configuration prior to deployment. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174688 | Apparatus, System and Method for Member Matching - An apparatus, system, and method for member matching. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes an input adapter, a processor, and an output adapter. The input adapter may receive a first data record from a plurality of data records stored in one or more databases. The processor may generate a first data key from one or more field values in the first data record, compare a second data key associated with a second data record with the first data key associated with the first data record, and identify a match between the first data key and the second data key. In one embodiment, the output adapter may produce an output configured to identify the first data record and the second data record in response to identification of the match. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174689 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A folder or a file managed in a document management apparatus includes a document with a high confidentiality or personal information, on which only a specific user has an access right. These are frequently stored in a personal folder, and there is a problem that the file or the like within the personal folder cannot be accessed at all when a user account has been deleted because of user's transfer or the like. When a user account has been deleted, the file, on which a user, the user account of whom has been deleted, has the access right, is encrypted and stored in a common area. The user is informed of a guest account for accessing the common area, a password for decrypting the encrypted file and the like. The former user can obtain the file by logging-in to the document management apparatus using the guest account. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174690 | Method, Apparatus and Computer Program Product for Maintaining File System Client Directory Caches with Parallel Directory Writes - A cached version of a file system directory is synchronized with a server version of the directory in a distributed file system. Both a server and a client specify version numbers for their directory versions. On receiving a request from the client specifying a directory update, the server updates its version, increments its version number, and transmits a reply to the client containing a change log with the incremented version number. Upon receiving the reply, the client compares the received version number with that of its cached version. If the version number matches that of the next expected update, the client applies the updates to its cached version and increments its version number. Otherwise, it adds the received change log to a change log queue for the directory without incrementing the last applied version. Mechanisms are provided for handling parallel read and update requests without awaiting replies from the server. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174691 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODCUT FOR AUTOMATICALLY CATEGORIZING DEFECTS - Disclosed are method(s), system(s), and computer program product(s) for automatically categorizing a defect into a category based at least on a keyword related to the defect. In some embodiments, the method or the system identifies an information regarding the defect and identifies or receives additional information related to categorizing the defect. In some embodiments, the method or the system identifies a keyword for the defect based on the first information and determines whether the defect may be categorized into a category using the keyword. In some embodiments, the method or the system further comprises determining whether the result of categorization is deterministic. In some embodiments, the method or the system further comprises associating a first score for categorizing the defect into the category based on the keyword and a second score for categorizing the defect into the category based on another keyword. In some embodiments, the method or the system further comprises identifying or determining a functional describing a relationship between the first some and the second score with respect to the first category for the defect. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174692 | GRAPH STORE - A new database design is implemented in which everything in the database is modeled with primitives, including the links and nodes for a graph tuple store. A query syntax provides a nested tree of constraints with a single global schema. Various optimization techniques for queries and replication techniques are also described. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174693 | COLLABORATIVE WORKBENCH FOR MANAGING DATA FROM HETEROGENEOUS SOURCES - Disclosed is an exemplary computer program application, system and method for a unified approach to managing data from heterogeneous sources. The system includes a central, semantic data storage basing on a directed labeled graph model, a module for accessing data sources by drawing access and mapping configuration from the data storage and loading the resulting data into the data storage and a unified user interface that treats each graph node in the data storage as a separate term, visualizes and modified the term's context in the data graph using configurable user interface widgets. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174694 | TRANSACTION-CONTROLLED GRAPH PROCESSING AND MANAGEMENT - A method, system, and computer program product for transaction-controlled graph processing and management are provided. The method includes notifying an external component of a database management system (DBMS) controlled transaction including multiple operations, and acquiring a DBMS transaction identifier associated with the transaction at the external component. The method further includes storing the DBMS transaction identifier as an external component transaction identifier, and receiving notification at the external component of events associated with the operations. The method additionally includes monitoring the events for an end-of-transaction operation, and passing notification of the end-of-transaction operation to an external routine. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174695 | ONE-CLICK SELECTION OF MUSIC OR OTHER CONTENT - A set of temporal phases are defined, occurring successively during the playback of music (or other content) to a user. Each temporal phase is associated with a set of selection criteria. If the user operates a selection device (which can be a computer mouse button) while a piece of music or other content is being played back, the selection phase applicable at the time of user-action is determined and further content is selected based on the selection criteria associated with the applicable phase. This enables the user, with minimal action, to influence the content being rendered. The selection criteria can be related to the meta-data of the content being played back at the time of user action. The meaning attributed to the applicable temporal phase can be varied depending on the pressure of the mouse button click. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174696 | AGNOSTIC PROCESSING OF RESOURCE REQUESTS TO MESSAGE QUEUES AND SEQUENTIAL FILES - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for agnostic processing of message queues and sequential files. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for agnostic processing of message queues and sequential files can be provided. The method can include receiving an access request for a resource that is uniform for both a message queue and a sequential file and identifying a resource type of the resource. In response to identifying the resource type as a message queue, a corresponding access request specific to a message queue can be invoked in the message queue. Otherwise a corresponding access request specific to a sequential file can be invoked responsive to identifying the resource type as a sequential file. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174697 | System and Methods for Automatic and Interactive Communication with Web Pages - A system and methods for creating a service for real time interaction with one or more Web pages, including retrieving information from a Web page and/or operating one or more Web clips of a Web page, as predefined for the service for utilizing the method of the present invention. A method of the present invention includes predefining tasks and parameters of the service, triggering a request to start the service, performing the predefined tasks of the service, thereby reading data from the Web clip and thereby creating retrieved data, and analyzing the retrieved data thereby creating a data analysis report. Preferably, the method further includes forming a reply message based on the predefined parameters and the analysis of the retrieved data, and sending the reply message to a target as defined in the predefined parameters. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174698 | METHOD FOR A CUSTOMIZED AND AUTOMATED FORWARD AND BACKWARD PATENT CITATION SEARCH - The present invention relates to a method for efficiently searching a patent database using patent search software. A target patent or group of patents are identified and utilized through a forward and backward citation search (FNB search) to identify patent references closely related to the patent search subject. The FNB search may be customized by a plurality of user selectable options to manipulate the results of the FNB search, and the results may be output in a variety of formats depending on the preferences of the user. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174699 | Resident Event Notification System and Display Device - The Resident Event Notification System and Display Device is a combination of Computer Hardware and Software which will allow consumers the ability to automatically load photographs, music or video over the internet to display device. The display device is a display device between 8″ to 15″ with touch screen capability. The device has an application running which will synchronize with a web portal, downloading any updated content, and uploading synchronizing time and any event acknowledgements. Events, which are scheduled notifications, are displayed on the device at a scheduled time. Residents may acknowledge the event via touching the screen. This acknowledgement is recorded and updated on the web portal. If the event is not acknowledged, it is cleared within 15 minutes. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174700 | System and method to generate specific DM content for distribution - A content generating process wherein a broadcaster contacts a moderator and makes a request for specific media content. The moderator processes the request for media content and communicates to a population. Said communication prompts or incentivizes at least one member of a population to provide media content to a content library. Said library content may also be filtered by members of a population. The moderator in some aspects supplies media content to a broadcaster who may broadcast the collected media responsive to the request for specific content. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174701 | MULTI-COLUMN STATISTICS USAGE WITHIN INDEX SELECTION TOOLS - In an example embodiment, a method is illustrated to determine multi-column indexes, the method including receiving one or more structured query language (SQL) queries, the one or more SQL queries defining a workload. A database index analysis tool may be used to determine a plurality of index configurations for executing the workload. Further, leading index configurations may be determined, leading index configurations including a subset of the plurality of index configurations. Also, a statistics database may be updated with complete statistics for the leading index configurations. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174702 | INDEPENDENT COLUMN DETECTION IN SELECTIVITY ESTIMATION - Techniques for independent column detection in selectivity estimations are provided. Values for database statistics are sampled and two independent tests are performed against the values for a first column and a second column. When each test determines that the first and second columns are independent, the first and second columns are said to be independent columns for selectivity estimation. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174703 | RELEVANCE IMPROVEMENTS FOR IMPLICIT LOCAL QUERIES - Computer systems, methods, and media improving the relevance of the search results presented to a user for queries having an implicit local intent are provided. Utilizing the systems and methods described herein locally-biased queries are identified, despite such queries being void of any location-specific terms. A location of a computing device associated with the user is determined and localized web search results associated with the data item pair comprising the input query and the user's determined location are generated and presented to the user. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174704 | SEARCHING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method of providing a search result, comprising combining a result of a keyword search on a plurality of documents with a result of a semantic search on the plurality of documents; and providing a result of the combining. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174705 | STAY LOCATION CONNECTION INFORMATION REGISTER DEVICE, STAY LOCATION CONNECTION INFORMATION REGISTER METHOD, STAY LOCATION CONNECTION INFORMATION REGISTER PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A stay location connection information register device retains history information including user information and stay location information. A history information searching unit searches history information coincident with a predetermined condition. A stay location connection information generating unit generates link information of the stay location by the unit of the user information with using the history information searched by the history information searching unit. Then, the stay location connection information register unit registers the stay location connection information. In this manner, since the stay location connection information register device generates the link information of the stay location with using the history information, the stay location connection information register device can define a correspondent relation between the stay locations. Therefore, the stay location connection information register device can supply the search result based on the association between the stay locations with using the above link information. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174706 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT CONTROL AND CAPTURE OF DYNAMIC DATABASE CONTENT - A system and method for efficient control and capture of dynamic database content for rapidly providing a user with a highly relevant collection of documents related to a query. The system and method for efficient control and capture of dynamic database content includes a computer system with a storage means for facilitating the retention and recall of dynamic database content and a communications means for facilitating bi-directional communication of the computer system with local or distributed networks; an executory module operationally coupled to the computer system for controlling the storage means and the communications means as well as directing the system for the efficient control and capture of dynamic database content to a plurality of pre-selected Internet sites; and a capture module which is in communication with the executory module and facilitates selection of the plurality of Internet sites associated with a query submitted by a user of the system. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174707 | IMAGE SEARCHING APPARATUS, IMAGE SORTING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND PROGRAM - An apparatus has a feature value extracting section | 2010-07-08 |
20100174708 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING NETWORK RESOURCE INTERACTION AND IMPROVED SEARCH RESULT REPORTING - Systems and methods are described for intercepting user interactions without network-provided content. The intercepted information can be used for prioritizing search results by statistical and other analyses of user interactions with a network resource and/or network content. A server connected to a network can receive captured information from an agent that is installed in a device connected to the network. The captured information can be related to an interaction of a user with a network resource. An aggregator may be provided to aggregate the captured information with other captured information related to a plurality of network resources and maintains a repository of aggregated captured information. A prioritizer can determine the relevance of network content based on characteristics of the aggregated captured information. The prioritizer determines relevance for a plurality of search results based on frequency of prior user interactions with the content of the search results. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174709 | Methods For Searching Private Social Network Data - A method for searching a database that includes private social network data includes providing one or more databases including a plurality of database entries, a first portion of the database entries including private social network data and a second portion including non-social network data that is publicly accessible on the World Wide Web. The method further includes receiving a keyword search request from a search request user and searching the one or more databases or a keyword index thereof using one or more keywords and determining a hierarchy for the search result items. The method also includes displaying at least a portion of the search results items according to the hierarchy. And, determining whether the user has access rights to a particular subset of the private social network data and wherein if the user has access rights to the particular subset of private social network data, using at least a portion of the particular subset of social network data in the step of (i) searching the one or more databases, (ii) determining the hierarchy, and/or (iii) displaying the search result items. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174710 | MATCHING AND RANKING OF SPONSORED SEARCH LISTINGS INCORPORATING WEB SEARCH TECHNOLOGY AND WEB CONTENT - A system is disclosed for generating a search result list in response to a search request from a searcher using a computer network. A first database is maintained that includes a first plurality of search listings. A second database is maintained that includes documents having general web content. A search request is received from the searcher. A first set of search listings is identified from the first database having documents generating a match with the search request and a second set of search listings is identified from the second database having documents generating a match with the search request. A confidence score is determined for each listing from the first set of search listings wherein the confidence score is determined in accordance with a relevance of each listing when compared to the listings of the second set of search listings. The identified search listings from the first set of search listing are ordered in accordance, at least in part, with the confidence score for each search listing. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174711 | CONCURRENCY OBJECT CLASSIFICATION - A method of automatically classifying a concurrency object includes intercepting a call that is configured to create the concurrency object. Concurrency type information for the concurrency object is identified based on the call. The type information indicates whether the concurrency object is a lock object or a synchronization object. The concurrency type information is associated with the concurrency object. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174712 | EXPERTISE RANKING USING SOCIAL DISTANCE - Tools and techniques for expertise ranking using social distance are provided. These tools may receive search queries from users, and extract from these search queries record identifiers associated with the users. In addition, the tools may extract query strings from the search queries. In connection with processing these queries, the tools may identify other users associated with a given user, with some of these other users being first-level colleagues of a given user, and some of these other users being second-level colleagues. The tools may identify documents within a search store that are associated with the other users, and may search these documents for any occurrences of the query string. In turn, results of the search may be ranked based on a social distance between the user and the other users, with the social distance indicating whether the other users are first-level or second-level colleagues of the user. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174713 | Enhanced Content Web Browsing - An embodiment of a method for enhanced content browsing includes loading a web page in a user interface; detecting entities of a first specified type in the web page by an analysis service; tagging the detected entities in the web page; calling an action service associated with the analysis service when a detected entity is activated; and displaying a result of the action service in the user interface. Embodiments of systems for enhanced content browsing are also provided. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174714 | DATA MINING USING AN INDEX TREE CREATED BY RECURSIVE PROJECTION OF DATA POINTS ON RANDOM LINES - The present invention relates to a method computer program product for datamining with constant search time, the method and computer program product comprises the steps of: traversing a search tree to a leave, retrieving a one or more data store identifier from said leave, read data pointed to by said data store identifier, locating one or more value in said data, referencing one or more data descriptor, retrieve the n-nearest data descriptor neighbors, terminate said search. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174715 | GENERATING DOCUMENT TEMPLATES THAT ARE ROBUST TO STRUCTURAL VARIATIONS - A template or wrapper tree for a document such as a web page is generalized from the bottom up (from leaf toward root of a logical tree structure of the template). At a given level in the tree, sub-trees are clustered and the clustered sub-trees are generalized, and the process is repeated at a next higher level in the tree, resulting in a generalized template or wrapper tree. This can be done by generating a nested pattern regular expression based on the sub-tree clusters, merging sub-trees based on the nested pattern regular expression, and then replacing sub-trees in a tree-based regular expression of the template or wrapper at the given level with the merged sub-trees. This process is repeated at a next higher level of the tree (progressing from leaf towards root) until the wrapper or tree-based regular expression that represents the template is fully generalized. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174716 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING TEXT SEGMENTATION - Methods and systems for improving text segmentation are disclosed. In one embodiment, at least a first segmented result and a second segmented result are determined from a string of characters, a first frequency of occurrence for the first segmented result and a second frequency of occurrence for the second segmented result are determined, and an operable segmented result is identified from the first segmented result and the second segmented result based at least in part on the first frequency of occurrence and the second frequency of occurrence. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174717 | Interative serialisation procedure for structured software objects - This invention concerns an iterative procedure for conversion of structured software objects into a raw data stream and vice versa, providing for their direct transfer using simple communication resources such as those of an embedded computer station, and reset of said software objects or reutilisation of memory space allocated to them. This procedure can be used by an embedded platform ( | 2010-07-08 |
20100174718 | Indexing for Regular Expressions in Text-Centric Applications - A method, system, and article are provided for evaluating regular expressions over large data collections. A general purpose index is built to handle complex regular expressions at the character level. Characters, character classes, and associated metadata are identified and stored in an index of a collection of documents. Given a regular expression, a query is generated based on the contents of the index. This query is executed over the index to identify a set of documents in the collection of documents over which the regular expression can be evaluated. Based upon the query execution, the identified set of documents is returned for evaluation by the regular expression responsive to execution of the query over the index. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174719 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PERSONALIZATION OF AN OPEN NETWORK SEARCH ENGINE - A system for personalization of a search engine for a network includes a least one search account. A first data structure stores index data for words each having a number of resources less than a first number. A second data structure stores index data for words each having a number of resources greater than the first number and less than a second number. The second data structure can be personalized for the search account. A third data structure stores index data for words each having a number of resources greater than the second number. The third data structure can be personalized for search account. At least one index includes the first data structure, the second data structure and the third data structure where when the search engine responds to a query from a user of a search account, the search engine uses an index corresponding to the search account. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174720 | COHERENT DATA IDENTIFICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DATABASE TABLE DEVELOPMENT - A method, apparatus, and system for configuring, designing, and/or implementing database tables is detailed that provides a framework into which a remainder of database tables are developed. Also detailed is a method to develop this framework of database tables. This so developed framework provides a platform for integrating data from multiple databases. A method is also provided for maintaining and managing master data as a single source of reference data to multiple databases that are based upon this framework. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174721 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-DIMENSIONAL AND GEOGRAPHIC SEARCH - One embodiment of the present invention is directed to a multi-dimensional and geographic-search system that includes a search-region-receiving component that receives coordinates that define a region to be searched, an indexing component that generates an index for each of the received coordinates, a recursive-decomposition component that decomposes the region into sub-regions based on the indices generated by the indexing component, and a search component that selects points of interest from a points-of-interest database by comparing indices computed for the sub-regions to indices computed and stored in the database for each point of interest. Additional embodiments are directed to carrying out efficient, index-based searching for various additional types index-characterized entities. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174722 | FILTERS FOR SHARED CONTENT IN AN ONLINE COMMUNITY - Online communities publish vast quantities of video content. According to YouTube, an average of ten hours of media is posted to its website every minute. According to some embodiments of the inventive subject matter, an online community allows users to rate offensiveness of content and to apply filters to the content when the ratings indicate offensiveness is above a threshold. Filters can disturb or obscure offensive content so that it is less viewable. For example, a filter may be applied to an offensive video. The filter can blur the video's images and reduce the quality of sound associated with the video. In addition, warning may be applied to a link to content that indicates the offensiveness of the content. The filter and warning can provide a visual warning to users before they decide to access the content. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174723 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - The information processing device includes an access history acquiring unit which acquires and stores access history information showing access history for the contents accessed by a user terminal, and a relevancy setting unit which relates the accessed contents. As the access history information, the access history acquiring unit acquires content identification information, access date and time information, and application identification information for identifying a content access application making access to the content, which is different for each of the content access applications operated on the user terminal. The relevancy setting unit generates and stores the relevance information by mutually relating the content identification information based on the access date and time information and the application identification information contained in each of the different contents. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174724 | INTEREST-GROUP DISCOVERY SYSTEM - A method of social networking is disclosed in which users may indicate areas of interest to them and/or search for other users with the same or similar interests. Users may specify one or more areas of interest to them and enter those interests in a database, by means of a list of “tags” or keywords, called a taglist. The values of the tags may be weighted. A user wishing to find other users with similar interests may input a search taglist which is compared with the other taglists stored in the database, and a list of the users with the closest matching taglists is returned. The method may also be used to characterize documents, projects, media files or other data objects, so that such items may be searched in similar fashion. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174725 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPARING ATTRIBUTES SUCH AS BUSINESS NAMES - Embodiments of systems and methods for comparing attributes of a data record are presented herein. Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present invention generate a weight based on a comparison of the name (or other) attributes of data records. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention generate a weight based on a comparison of name attributes. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention may calculate an information score for each of two name attributes to be compared to get an average information score for the two name attributes. The two name attributes may then be compared against one another to generate a weight between the two attributes. This weight can then be normalized to generate a final weight between the two business name attributes. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174726 | Open Profile Content Identification - Open profile data in a user profile, e.g., free-form fields in a user profile, are processed to identify interests and preferences of the user. The interests and preferences are utilized to identify categories associated with the user profile, and content items, e.g., advertisements, can be identified based on the categories. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174727 | Method and Apparatus for a Trusted Localized Peer-to-Peer Services Marketplace - A trusted localized peer-to-peer services marketplace including an available search module to search an available services database for available services responsive to receiving a search query from a potential service buyer, a wanted services search module to search a wanted services database for wanted services responsive to a receiving a search query from a service seller, and a display module coupled with the available services search module and the wanted services search module, the display module to display the results of the search queries, the display module further to display an option for the potential service buyer to automatically populate the wanted services database based on the received available services search query, and to display an option for the service seller to automatically populate the available services database based on the received wanted services search query. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174728 | METHOD FOR CHARACTERISTIC CHARACTER STRING MATCHING BASED ON DISCRETENESS, CROSS AND NON-IDENTICAL - The present invention discloses a method for characteristic string matching based on discreteness, cross and non-completeness, comprising the steps of: A. a user setting discrete number, cross number and non-complete number in the user interface, or an information processing device automatically setting the discrete number, cross number and non-complete number, and inputting the retrieval keywords; B. the information processing device performing the characteristic string matching based on the three characters, with the discrete number, cross number and non-complete number set in step A as matching constraints, for a designated text according to the keywords input by user, and output the matching result of one of the eight retrieval modes, including precise retrieval, discrete retrieval, cross retrieval and cross and discrete retrieval, non-complete retrieval, discrete and non-complete retrieval, cross and non-complete retrieval, discrete and non-complete retrieval. With simple, flexible and convenient operations, the method consistent with the invention realizes a novel operation of information retrieval and provides eight information retrieval modes capable of qualitative retrieval, error tolerant retrieval, and automatic parameter setting retrieval. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174729 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF RECOLLECTION USING THE SEARCH OF RECORDS OF THE PAST - A system of recollection using the search of records of the past, includes a database (DB) device storing records of individual's past events and things, a search computing device for making a search request in response to a user's request, a server computing device for searching the DB device in response to the search request to extract result data, and a presentation computing device for integrating and presenting the result data extracted from the server computing device by using multisensory elements. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174730 | Digital Resources Searching and Mining Through Collaborative Judgment and Dynamic Index Evolution - A method is disclosed for a search engine or part of a search engine which utilizes collective intelligence, evaluation, and judgment, including web intelligence, to create and adapt the content of a generalized index hierarchy for digital resources to be searched. Digital resources to be searched can be stored and managed as a localized or distributed repository of images, video, audio, graphical or other multimedia data objects, as well as structured composite items, services, programs, modules, files, documents, systems, applications, networked peers, and agents, which may be difficult or costly to be indexed. In particular embodiments the claimed invention focuses on the indexing of semantic contents and/or pragmatic characteristics of such digital resources. By tracking and analyzing the searching behavior of users, proxies, and/or meta-search-engines, a search index can be created, tuned, improved and optimized. The claimed method in certain embodiments also incorporates an adaptive and evolution mechanism which allows relevant digital resources that may otherwise be overlooked to be found. The claimed invention can be applied to databases, web searching, personal/local search, community search, and broad-based or vertical search engines for internet, intranet, extranet or other uses. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174731 | Distributed Storage System With Web Services Client Interface - A distributed, web-services based storage system. A system may include a web services interface configured to receive, according to a web services protocol, a given client request for access to a given data object, the request including a key value corresponding to the object. The system may also include storage nodes configured to store replicas of the objects, where each replica is accessible via a respective unique locator value, and a keymap instance configured to store a respective keymap entry for each object. For the given object, the respective keymap entry includes the key value and each locator value corresponding to replicas of the object. A coordinator may receive the given client request from the web services interface, responsively access the keymap instance to identify locator values corresponding to the key value and, for a particular locator value, retrieve a corresponding replica from a corresponding storage node. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174732 | Content Profiling to Dynamically Configure Content Processing - Some embodiments provide a method that receives an unstructured document including a number of primitive elements. The method identifies a default set of document reconstruction operations for reconstructing the unstructured document to define a structured document the method performs at least one of the document reconstruction operations from the default set. Based on results of the performed document reconstruction operations, the method identifies a profile for the unstructured document. The method modifies the set of document reconstruction operations for reconstructing the unstructured document according to the identified profile. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174733 | Encoding method and apparatus and decoding method and apparatus - The disclosed embodiments relate to a multimedia data encoding/decoding method and apparatus. In some aspects, a decoding method comprises receiving multimedia data which comprises a file type area including information regarding a format of a file, a media area including a video data area and a audio data area, a media information area including a video track area and a audio track area respectively corresponding to the video data area and the audio data area, a file information area including identification information and position information regarding media data in the media area, and a menu description area including description data for displaying a menu, the menu providing an interface between a user and media data in the media area; displaying the menu using the description data; and decoding media data extracted from the media area based on the menu, wherein the media information area further comprises a media meta area which includes creation information regarding a plurality of media contents included in the media area and is on a same level as the video track area and the audio track area, the creation information comprising information regarding at least one of a title, an artist, a clip description, a user comment, and a file date of each of the media contents, and the media area, the media information area and the menu description area are incorporated into a single file. The disclosed embodiments include a multimedia data encoding/decoding method and apparatus can construct a multi media data file including a plurality of video/audio contents and description data for a menu between a user and media data. Thus, a time taken to process and transmit the multimedia data can be reduced. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174734 | ASYNCHRONOUS DATABASE UPDATES BETWEEN COLLABORATIVE APPLICATIONS AND SEARCH UTILITIES - Tools and techniques for asynchronous database updates between client applications and search utilities are provided. These tools may receive indications of updates occurring within a workspace in which two or more users are collaborating. Updates to the collaborative workspace may be committed to a collaboration database maintained internally by a collaboration application. The tools may generate request to commit these updates to a search utility, so that the updates are searchable. The search utility maintains a search database that is decoupled from and operates independently of the collaboration database. The tools may increment a notification counter associated with the collaborative workspace, with the notification counter tracking how many requests to commit updates are pending. Finally, the tools may send the request to commit the update to the search database asynchronously with respect to the collaboration database. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174735 | Predictive Content Delivery - A system and method for predictive retrieval of content is described. Prior to selection and delivery of content to a mobile device by a personal computer, content is predictively retrieved from storage at the computing device. By predictively retrieving content, the content is available for immediate computing device to mobile device transfer. | 2010-07-08 |
20100174736 | Systems and Methods to Evaluate Search Qualities - Systems and methods are provided to evaluate a search engine using search results retrieved from a plurality of different search engines. For example, a controller can randomly distribute a set of pre-formulated queries to a plurality of computers to query the search engines at random times to obtain search results and combine the search results to evaluate the completeness of a query result provided by a particular search engine. The controller may simulate the random queries from users using a set of computers and may reduce the burden on the search engines by spreading out the query activities over a period of time, such as a month. | 2010-07-08 |