36th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 51 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100228721 | CLASSIFYING MEDICAL INFORMATION IN DIFFERENT FORMATS FOR SEARCH AND DISPLAY IN SINGLE INTERFACE AND VIEW - In one embodiment, a method receives a plurality of documents. The documents may be received from different medical providers. Also, the documents may be medical record documents generated or captured in a first format and a second format. The first format may be an unstructured data format and the second format may be a structured data format. The first and second documents are then converted to a common format. For example, a common format may emerge as the most restrictive or constrained denominator of the first format and the second format. A schema is determined that provides an organizational structure with categories that can be used to index the content of the first and second documents while they are being converted to the common format. The schema and indexing enable the different formats of documents to be combined and organized simultaneously into a single view for a comprehensive review. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228722 | Method and system for updating images in an image database - Updating images in an image database includes determining an updated image that is among a plurality of images in the image database, extracting a plurality of image features of the updated image and storing a plurality of image feature values that correspond to the plurality of image features, and associating the plurality of image features of the updated image with a search engine, including adding an array comprising the plurality of image feature values to an index of the search engine. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228723 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UNSTRUCTURED DATA MINING AND DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING - A sort server including a central processing unit, a memory and a network interface configured to interconnect the sort server with a search server, at least one storage system and multiple processing servers using at least one network. The sort server is configured to receive a search result from the search server and to assign multiple tasks to the processing servers. The assignment of the multiple tasks is based on a condition including the search result. Assignment of the tasks to servers may be based on CPU load of at least some of the multiple servers, network architecture, network distance between the servers and the storage system storing the required object, failure information, urgency of the task, Level Agreement associated with the servers and other tasks performed by the servers. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228724 | SEARCH CAPABILITY IMPLEMENTATION FOR A DEVICE - In a method of searching for data objects in a computer system, a content-based search of a first database generates a first domain-specific search result stream and a metadata-based search of a second database generates a second domain-specific search result stream. The first and second domain-specific search result streams are aggregated into a primary search result stream, and search results from the primary search result stream are displayed. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228725 | PLANT INFORMATION MANAGING DEVICE AND PLANT INFORMATION MANAGING METHOD - Terminal device | 2010-09-09 |
20100228726 | DETERMINING ASSOCIATIVE INTENT IN A DATABASE CONTAINING LINKED ENTITIES - A system comprising a database to store information concerning uniquely identified individuals, and a server to identify associations between the individuals and to assign rankings of the individuals based on the associations. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228727 | CASE IMAGE REGISTRATION APPARATUS, METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM, AND CASE IMAGE SEARCH APPARATUS, METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM AND SYSTEM - Case images are registered so as not to cause bias (or partiality or imbalance) in amounts of feature of the case images included in a database of a similar image search system for image diagnosis. Since registration of the case images to the database is controlled according to degrees of similarity of the amounts of feature, it is possible to prevent a lot of similar case images from being included in the search result. Thus, it is possible to reduce possibility of representing a similar search result which may interfere with an accurate diagnosis by a diagnostician. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228728 | HARVESTING OF MEDIA OBJECTS FROM SEARCHED SITES WITHOUT A USER HAVING TO ENTER THE SITES - A method and apparatus for enabling a user to access media objects, such as images, from a website without requiring the user to enter the website. In one embodiment, a search engine searches for websites that match a submitted search term. A selected URL to one of the resulting websites is submitted to a harvester that accesses a web page of the selected website and identifies a media object of the web page. The harvester determines the characteristic(s) of the media object, such as a dimension, an aspect ratio, a proximity to other media objects, etc. The harvester determines a second media object with substantially the same characteristic(s). The determined media objects, or subportions, are rendered in a client user interface. Relationships are mapped between a selected media object and projects that use the object. Manipulating a rendered portion causes a related operation on the whole media object. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228729 | Detecting Real Word Typos - Systems and methods for detecting real word typos are provided. Received text is designated for evaluation. A plurality of words in the received text is parsed into word pairs. A word pair is two consecutive words found in the designated text. A database is identified for comparison to the text. The database includes word pairs previously identified in one or more source texts. The word pairs in the received text are analyzed based on a comparison to the word pairs in the identified database. Based on the analysis, an indication may be generated that a word pair from the designated text may include an error. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228730 | INFERRING SENSITIVE INFORMATION FROM TAGS - A set of tags can be identified from a first set of tagged documents in a first repository. A set of tags can be identified from a second set of tagged documents in a second repository. Access to documents in the second repository can be more restrictive than access to documents in the first repository. For each of a subset tags in the first set and/or the second set, a number of steps can occur. A ratio can be determined of tag instances in the second repository compared to tag instances in the first repository. It can be determined whether the ratio exceeds a previously determined threshold. When the threshold is exceeded, an indicator of at least one tagged document associated with the tag can be changed to indicate that the tagged document is likely to contain sensitive content. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228731 | LARGE GRAPH MEASUREMENT - As provided herein, a pairwise distance between nodes in a large graph can be determined efficiently. URL-sketches are generated for respective nodes in an index by extracting labels from respective nodes, which provide a reference to a link between the nodes, aggregating the labels into sets for respective nodes, and storing the sets of labels as URL-sketches. Neighborhood-sketches are generated for the respective nodes in the index using the URL-sketches, by determining a neighborhood for a node and generating a sketch using labels that are associated with the respective neighboring nodes. A distance between two nodes is determined by computing an approximate number of paths and an approximate path length between the two nodes, using the neighborhood sketches for the two nodes. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228732 | INFORMATION OFFERING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An information offering apparatus and an information offering method are provided. The information offering apparatus is configured to arrange information, which is generated as a user uses services, according to a time period, group the arranged information, and then display the arranged information together with the time period. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228733 | Method and System For Semantic Distance Measurement - A system and method for performing classification using semantic distance measurements. Items of electronic content accessed by individuals over a global communications network are identified. A set of content that includes the plurality of identified items of electronic content are stored. The set of content is normalized. Each of the keywords contained the set of content is identified and a semantic distance between each of the identified keywords is measured. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228734 | MECHANISM FOR EFFICIENTLY SEARCHING XML DOCUMENT COLLECTIONS - The techniques presented herein are directed towards providing a user-directed keyword-based search on a large collection of XML documents, and displaying a summary of results to the user. Prior to receiving search requests from a user, an offline analysis of a large collection of XML documents is performed to construct an inverted index of keywords. For each keyword, the index stores a set of location indicators that identify all the instances of the keyword found in the collection of documents. A location indicator may comprise a document identifier, an indication of the position of the node in the hierarchy of nodes within the XML document containing the keyword, and an indication of the pathname of the node containing the keyword. Once the index is constructed, keyword searching can be done efficiently by a keyword lookup in the index. Various display strategies enable the user to see the specific portion of a large XML document containing the keyword and/or path frequency information allowing the user to easily refine the search to specific paths within the collection of documents. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228735 | ULTRAVIOLET DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - An ultraviolet detection system comprises a global positioning device for receiving signals transmitted from global positioning satellites, and generating global positioning satellite distribution data and current position data; and a processor, coupled to the global positioning device, for generating ultraviolet intensity information according to the current position data and the global positioning satellite distribution data. The processor generates ultraviolet intensity information more accurately according to a current time data, which is transmitted from the global positioning satellite or is automatically generated from the global positioning device. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228736 | Recognizing a disc - A method and a system are provided for recognizing a disc. In one example, the system receives a disc, such as, for example, a Blu-ray Disc. The disc includes a content certificate and data files. The content certificate includes a unique text file that certifies the disc complies with predetermined disc parameters. The data files are the actual audio and/or video content on the disc. The system reads the content certificate or reads the data related to the data files. The system generates a hash value by applying a hash function to the content certificate or to the data related to the data files. The hash value is a unique identifier for the disc. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228737 | HTTP Range Checksum - A method and apparatus that include a hashing and retrieval module that receives an indicator of a portion of a file to access, generates a hash value of a local copy of the portion and generates a request for a remote copy of the portion of the file, the request including the hash value. A verification and response module receives the request for a portion of a server copy of a data file, the request including a first hashing value. The verification and response module retrieves the portion from a server storage device, generates a second hashing value from the portion, compares the first hash value and the second hash value and returns the portion of the file in response to a failed comparison of the first hash value and second hash value. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228738 | ADAPTIVE DOCUMENT SAMPLING FOR INFORMATION EXTRACTION - A method and apparatus for improved sampling documents for training sets input to information extraction systems is provided, which improves the recall and robustness of wrapper extraction. A passive sampling technique provides a list of documents to present for human annotation ordered by representativeness of the document based on structural and content statistics. Thus, the document with the most interesting attributes and which is most representative of the cluster of structurally similar documents to which the document pertains is presented for annotation first. The problem is mapped to classical ‘Set-Cover’ problem and solved using greedy approach. An active sampling technique refines and reorders the sample list produced by the passive sampling technique after initial annotations, based on the human annotation, spatial boundaries of the documents, and structural and content statistics. The proposed techniques work at a site level and perform page-level structural analysis using XPath-term frequency, XPath-document frequency, and XPath-importance. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228739 | Methods and Systems for Automatically Determining a Default Hierarchy from Data - This disclosure describes, generally, methods and systems for determining a natural hierarchy for a data set. The method determines one or more pair-wise combinations within the data set. The one or more pair-wise combinations each include a first field and a second field from the database. The method then determines a distinct count for each entry in the first field grouped by the second field of the one or more pair-wise combinations, and determines that the distinct counts for each entry has a value equal to one. The method further includes based on the determination that the distinct counts for each entry have a value equal to one, setting the first field in the pair-wise combination as the parent and the second field in the pair-wise combination as the child in a default hierarchy for the data set. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228740 | COMMUNITY PLAYLIST MANAGEMENT - System and method in tangible computer-readable media are disclosed for facilitating community interaction with a playlist. A host system communicates with a plurality of portable devices to transmit information about the items in the playlist. Users of the portable device queue additional selections or vote on media items in the playlist. Based on user voting the playlist is rearranged to accommodate the preferences of the community. Both registered and guest users participate in managing the playlist. Such a system and method can be particularly useful in a variety of social gathering situations. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228741 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SEARCHING AND ASSOCIATING INFORMATION RESOURCES SUCH AS WEB PAGES - A method manages information resources in a computer system. The method includes receiving user information from an input device. The user information is representative of a declaration that a second resource accessible by the system should be associated with a first resource. The method further includes storing in association with the second resource an identifier of the first resource. The method identifies other resources that are relevant with respect to the second resource using a relevance scoring process. The method further determines whether the second resource with respect to other relevant resources has a first identifier associated herewith when one of the other resources is to be accessed by the system for display, and if it does, displays signaling information distinct from the display of the other resource itself signaling of the existence of the first resource. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228742 | Categorizing Queries and Expanding Keywords with a Coreference Graph - A method and apparatus is provided for determining related keywords to narrow a query, and/or for categorizing a query. A keyword graph connects keyword nodes to each other based on degrees of cross-reference indicating how frequently keywords associated with the nodes appear in searches. A domain node representing a category hooks to a category-matching node in the keyword graph. Based at least in part on a degree of cross-reference between another node and the category-matching node, the domain node hooks to the other node. Alternately, the domain node hooks to nodes that match user-identified keywords. At query time, the query is categorized by the domain node closest to a node matching the query. Keywords related to the category may be determined from the nodes that are hooked to the domain node. The related keywords can be used to narrow a search or expand the metadata of a document. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228743 | DOMAIN-BASED RANKING IN DOCUMENT SEARCH - In one example, documents that are examined by a search process may be scored in a manner that is specific to a domain. A domain may be a substantive area, such as medicine, sports, etc. Different scoring approaches that take aspects of the domain into account may be applied to the documents, thereby producing different scores than might have been produced by a simple comparison of the terms in the query with the terms in the documents. These domain-based approaches may take a query into account in scoring the documents, or may be query-independent. Each approach may be implemented by a scorer. The combined output of the scorers may be used to generate a score for each document. Documents then may be ranked based on the scores, and search results may be provided. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228744 | INTELLIGENT ENHANCEMENT OF A SEARCH RESULT SNIPPET - A method, system, and medium are provided for enhancing a search result snippet that is associated with a URL. Potentially descriptive terms of the URL are identified by reconciling multiple sources of terms related to the URL. One aspect includes comparing search terms of historically relevant queries to anchor text for the URL. The search result snippet might be intelligently enhanced by causing common terms to be visibly distinguished when the snippet is displayed. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228745 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR SORTING AT LEAST PARTIALLY DYNAMIC DATA - Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with sorting candidate values are disclosed. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228746 | SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR FILE MANAGEMENT - On a display unit of a client terminal, a to-be-uploaded folder and a to-be-uploaded file, a display area associated with computer program that provides uploading function, and the like are displayed. When a user operates a mouse and the like such that a pointer is placed on the to-be-uploaded file and performs a drag-and-drop operation into the display area, the to-be-uploaded file is uploaded to a file management server via a network. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228747 | HIGH LEVEL NETWORK LAYER SYSTEM AND METHOD - A technique for providing high level network layer functionality to an IM environment involves providing a high level platform through which IM clients can connect to IM networks. A platform according to the technique may include a low level network connect engine, an aggregated low level information database, and/or a high level function engine. A method according to the technique may include facilitating a high level login; checking user configurations; accomplishing one or more IM network logins in accordance with the user configurations; and providing high level services in association with at least one of the IM networks. Another method according to the technique may include logging into a high level platform; logging into a first IM network; logging into a second IM network; and accessing at the high level platform aggregated low level information associated with the first IM network and the second IM network. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228748 | DATA SUBSET RETRIEVAL FROM A QUEUED MESSAGE - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for data subset retrieval from a queued message. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for data subset retrieval from a queued message can include receiving from a requesting application a message retrieval request for a message in a message queue and retrieving the message from the message queue. A field specified by the request can be identified and only data in the message corresponding to the identified field specified by the request can be transmitted to the requesting application. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228749 | OPEN TYPES FOR DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS - Techniques for exchanging data are provided herein. An “open” data type is established on a computer system to define the structure of data. The open data type includes one or more predefined properties, and enables one or more extension properties to be optionally included. Data that is defined according to the open data type includes data values for the predefined properties, and may optionally include data values for extension properties. A second computer system may consider the extension properties to be extension properties or predefined properties of a data type known at the second computer system. In this manner, the type system that is used to exchange data between nodes need not necessarily be commonly known among the nodes, and/or may be dynamically modified, even for a particular data instance. Furthermore, queries may be performed against the data that query against the predefined properties and/or extension properties. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228750 | Systems and Methods for Digital File Change Monitoring - Systems and methods for monitoring changes to a digital file are described. Examples include a computer system for monitoring digital file changes that includes a processing unit that accepts a request to write an input data stream to a first file accessible within the computer system, and a storage device coupled to the processing unit and including a second file (the first file being a virtualized representation of the second file). The processing unit parses an input attribute from the input data stream, wherein the attribute includes an input identifier and an associated input value. The processing unit signals an event if the input attribute matches an identifier designated as a monitored attribute identifier of the second file. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228751 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING UCC IMAGE BASED ON REGION OF INTEREST - A method for retrieving an image based on a region of interest (ROI) includes: requesting an image retrieval server to retrieve candidate images corresponding to a query in a mobile communication terminal; retrieving the candidate images corresponding to the query in the image retrieval server to transmit the candidate images to the mobile communication terminal; designating an ROI on one of the received candidate images in the mobile communication terminal; converting the designated ROI image into a descriptor to request the image retrieval server to retrieve ROI-based images corresponding to the descriptor; retrieving the ROI-based images in the image retrieval server to transmit the ROI-based images to the mobile communication terminal; and displaying an image selected by a user among the transmitted ROI-based images in the mobile communication terminal. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228752 | MULTI-CONDITION FILTERING OF AN INTERACTIVE SUMMARY TABLE - Technologies are described herein for allowing a user of an interactive summary table to specify multi-condition data filters to modify the data displayed in the summary table. A user interface is displayed to the user that allows the user to specify a multi-condition data filter. The specification of the multi-condition data filter includes a set of filter conditions connected by logical operators. One or more filter expressions are parsed from the specification of the multi-condition data filter based on the filter conditions and the logical operators, and the filter expressions are applied to the summary data from which the summary table is displayed. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228753 | INTELLIGENT HYPERLINKING OF DATES IN TEXT - A method, handheld electronic device and computer program product for allowing a user to view calendar data related to text the user is reading are provided. The method comprises: receiving an instruction to display a specified text; identifying at least one string in the specified text indicating date information; displaying the specified text with the date string presented as a hyperlink; and receiving user input activating the hyperlink and displaying calendar information related to the date indicated by the date string in response to the user input. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228754 | SEARCH ENGINE AND SEARCH METHOD - A search engine has a plurality of comparators. Discriminants are set in the comparators for each search, and the comparators are selectively connected. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228755 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A communication terminal includes a first storage section configured to store address information for performing connection to a communication terminal of a communication partner and an address book containing information about the communication partner, a second storage section configured to store first data files, a search section configured to search through the second storage section for first data files corresponding to information about the communication partner linked to the communication terminal of the communication partner selected on the basis of the address book, a compiling section configured to compile the retrieved first data files into a predetermined unit to generate a second data file, and a communication section configured to perform communication between the present communication terminal and the communication terminal of the communication partner and transmit the second data file to the communication terminal of the communication partner. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228756 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - A computer system implemented method of creating and using artificial intelligence wherein the system includes a first table including at least one textual portion and at least one context phrase contained in the textual portion and the computer system is capable of communication via a network with the user using at least one electronic device, the method comprising: receiving at least one textual input from the user, extracting at least one portion of the textual input from the user and at least one context phrase therefrom, comparing each portion extracted from the textual input from the user to other portions extracted from the textual input from the user according to a first matching algorithm that utilizes the context phrases of each respective portion, and storing in the first table, the portions and respective context phrases that were extracted from the textual input from the user that satisfy the matching algorithm. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228757 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND MEMORY MEDIUM - An information processing system using apparatus data recorded in a database in accordance with a data definition updated as needed, comprises a storage unit configured to store a data definition history that makes a data definition version and a period during which a data definition for the data definition version was used to correspond to each other, a data definition library in which the data definition version and the data definition for the data definition version are registered in correspondence with each other, and a detection unit configured to detect, from the data definition history, a data definition version of a data definition used in a period designated via a user interface, to detect a data definition for the detected data definition version from the data definition library, and to provide the detected data definition version and data definition to the user interface. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228758 | DIGITAL LIVING NETWORK ALLIANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENT THEREIN - A Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) system and method of providing content therein are provided. A legacy media player displays a content list for content stored in the legacy media player or in an add-in server, and when a content item is selected from the list, the legacy media player determines whether the content item is reproducible by a registered digital media renderer. If the selected content item is reproducible by the registered digital media renderer, the legacy media player transmits a reproducing request for the selected content item, and the corresponding digital media renderer receives and reproduces the selected content. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228759 | Method and System for Monitoring Domain Name Registrations - Improved approaches to domain name monitoring are disclosed. The monitoring of domain names, e.g., registrations therefor, is beneficial to holders of similar domain names, trademark owners, and competitors. Such monitoring can be automatically performed. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228760 | CORRELATED QUERY PROCESS (CQP) AND PEER-TO-PEER (P2P) EXECUTION - Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for processing correlated queries in a collaborative, role-based, peer-to-peer (P2P) execution system. A correlated query is configured in accordance to a collaborative correlated query process (CQP) template. The collaborative CQP template defines roles and steps, each step being executable by one of the roles. A role is assigned to each peer node of the P2P system. A peer node having a designated role executes a step that is executable by the designated role. A message is communicated to other P2P nodes to indicate completion of the step. Another peer node having a matching role to a next step in the correlated query executes the next step in response to the message. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228761 | MAPPING FROM OBJECTS TO DATA MODEL - Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to mapping from application objects to an abstract data model. In aspects, a mapper receives registrations that indicate behavior (e.g., how objects are constructed, modified, or examined) of application objects. The behavior may be specified using user-supplied expressions. The mapper aggregates this data and uses it to map application requests for data access into one or more operations that operate on the abstract data model. A data access layer may then translate the operations into actions to access data corresponding to the requests from a store. If appropriate, data obtained from the store may then be inserted into application objects as indicated by the registrations. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228762 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PROVIDE QUERY LINGUISTIC SERVICE - In various example embodiments, a system and method to provide query linguistic service is provided. An initial query term set is received. Phrase recognition is performed on the initial query term set to determine recognized phrases. Using the determined recognized phrases, one or more synonyms for each of the recognized phrases are determined. Results matching the initial query term set and any selected synonyms from the determined one or more synonyms are determined. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228763 | FINDING RELATED SEARCH TERMS - An apparatus and a method for suggesting search terms is described. A server receives a search term from a client and generating one or more suggested search terms to the client based on an analysis of temporal data between prior search terms in relation to the search term. The server sends the suggested search terms to the client. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228764 | Offline Validation of Data in a Database System for Foreign Key Constraints - An aspect of the present invention performs offline validation of data in database system for foreign key constraints. In an embodiment, a foreign key constraint defined for a database system is identified and an SQL script designed to verify whether data values stored in a foreign key column of a detail table is present in a primary key column of a master table (corresponding to the identified foreign key constraint), is generated. The SQL script is executed to determine whether the data stored in the database system satisfies the identified foreign key constraint. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228765 | QUERYING DATABASE CLIENTS UTILIZING EMAIL MESSAGES - Methods for accessing a database utilizing an email service adapter utilizing a computer are presented including: causing the computer to receive an email message from a user at an email server, the email server configured to respond to the email service adapter; processing the email message by the email service adapter, where the email message includes at least a database query; processing the database query with the database; and returning a result email message to the user via the email server, the result email message including at least a database response. In some embodiments, methods further include: when the email message is received by the email server, determining whether the email message is intended for accessing the database; if the email message is not intended for accessing the database, and processing the email message by the email server. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228766 | QUEUE MESSAGE RETRIEVAL BY SELECTION CRITERIA - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to message queuing and provide a method, system and computer program product for message queue retrieval by selection criteria. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for message queue retrieval by selection criteria can include receiving from a requesting application a message retrieval request for a message in a message queue storing different messages and determining from the message retrieval request both a template defining fields in the messages, and also selection criteria operable upon content stored in at least one of the fields in the messages. The method also can include applying the selection criteria to the messages in the message queue to select a message or subset of the messages in the message queue, and transmitting the message or subset to the requesting application. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228767 | DETERMINING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS IN A DATABASE - A system comprising a database containing information concerning uniquely identified individuals. The database further contains a list of attributes describing the individuals. A server compares the list of attributes of a first individual to another list of attributes for a second individual. The server further provides one or more metrics indicating a degree of match of the first individual to the second individual. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228768 | Information Providing Server, Information Providing System, Information Providing Method and Program - An information providing server of present invention including a state information acquiring unit for acquiring state information related to a state of a user using a client terminal detected at the client terminal connected through a communication network, a database for accumulating data of a content to be used by the user, a selection unit for selecting a part of the data accumulated in the database based on the state information, and a transmission unit for transmitting the data selected by the selection unit to the client terminal. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228769 | METHODS AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ENABLING DATA RECORDS TO BE LOCATED - In large medical facilities such as hospitals or group practices run by physicians individual patients are often examined and treated by a number of specialists in succession. In view of this it is important, in spite of great differences in the workflows of the individual medical facilities, to coordinate the work of said specialists by way of an operator control device having a uniform user interface. According to at least one embodiment of the invention, methods and a program product for enabling data records to be located are provided for that purpose. By way of the methods and/or the program product, in at least one embodiment a basic page and at least one content page are provided, wherein by use of the basic page at least one display field for presenting information extracted from a data record can be generated on a screen display and wherein by use of the content page, information extracted from a data record can be displayed in a display field. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228770 | GENEALOGY CONTEXT PRESERVATION - Preserving context and providing suggestions for genealogy searching. A method includes storing in a storage medium previous user interaction with a genealogical research system from a previous genealogical research session. Initiation of a new genealogical research session is detected. In response to the new research session and based on the previous user interaction with the research system, the system provides suggestions for continuing genealogical research. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228771 | QUERY RESULT ITERATION - Systems and methods for processing an index are described. A pulse in an inverted index refers to a group of items that do not occur in any other pulse in the index. When processing a query against an inverted index in which pulses are present, the query is processed against a single pulse. The end of the pulse is determined based on the characteristics of the pulse and the linked list nodes that comprise the postings lists from which the index was generated. In some embodiments, index updates are applied to the query result obtained from a single pulse to provide an efficient and up to date query result. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228772 | Method and apparatus for performing an information search and retrieval by submitting an electronic form over e-mail - Invention provides a method and apparatus for an e-mail based interface to function as a single common access point for requesting, receiving, publishing, accessing and sharing various data from multiple, remote information systems. The invention becomes akin to a human relay operator in the loop which is transparent to the user. By relaying the e-mail chain, the invention performs multiple functions based on the originating request, and reply as a human would. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228773 | System and method for effectively utilizing a transport operator in an electronic network - A system and method for effectively utilizing a transport operator in an electronic network includes an information service that is configured to provide information distribution services by performing an information distribution procedure through an electronic network. User devices are provided for device users to communicate with the information service for receiving the information distribution services. Transport structures are utilized for communicating with the user devices to provide selected content and advertising information from the information service to targeted ones of the device users. The transport operator performs various appropriate transport management functions to effectively support the foregoing information distribution procedure. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228774 | Protocol Independent Mirroring - A method and apparatus including a mirror module to reviewing a data request, check a local data archive for the requested data, and send a request to a remote archive in response to a failed check for the requested data in the local data archive, the local data archive having a matching structure to the request data archive. The mirror module checks whether requested data available in the local data archive is valid. The local data archive is update with data received from the remote data archive in response to the data request. Data requests can be received and serviced for a plurality of protocols by a plurality of mirror modules using the local data archive. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228775 | REAL ESTATE ANALYSIS SYSTEM - A real estate analysis system that provides an integrated approach for gathering available real estate data and synthesizing the real estate data for various uses by various users. The real estate data may be real time data, historical data, and/or most recent data. The processing of the data utilizes cloud resources in a cloud computing architecture. In addition, cloud resources are used to store various accumulated real estate data in a manner such that the cloud resources can quickly process calculations and have the results returned to an end user who requested the data. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228776 | SYSTEM, MECHANISMS, METHODS AND SERVICES FOR THE CREATION, INTERACTION AND CONSUMPTION OF SEARCHABLE, CONTEXT RELEVANT, MULTIMEDIA COLLAGES COMPOSITED FROM HETEROGENEOUS SOURCES - The current invention provides an enhanced user experience for consumers by minimizing the number of click-throughs, and optimizing time spent by providing customizable, interactive visual multimedia collages of information created from several sources of information in scrollable snapshots. Moreoyer, the same experience is made available for the users on-the-go on their mobile device where they can access the same collages and interact with them in a manner meaningful to the modalities provided on the mobile device, such as phone calls, text messaging, and Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) browser viewing. On the desktop Internet, interested consumers will be referred from the image collage result sets to content provider or retailers' web sites. Each image has all the information: the advertisement from the seller, customer review, product rating, and seller rating composited together. In one embodiment, the consumer can click on any of the regions of the collage (e.g. customer surveys) to click through to the WAP site or Internet site housing the information. In other embodiments, the consumer can just browse the information, consummate a buy transaction on-line: get it shipped or pick it up himself, place a bid for a used product, and/or call a number for more information. Through the system's analytics engine, the invention provides to the retailers competitive location-based information, consumer behavior data for advertising, and location based product demand. The consumer can save any of the interactive images and forward to others. For enterprises, retailers, and individuals interested in selling new/used products, they can create advertisements for their products using the Internet web based information collage authoring tool. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228777 | Identifying a Discussion Topic Based on User Interest Information - Functionality is described for identifying a discussion topic based on user interest information. The user interest information may originate from one or more sources, such as the user's search-related behavior. The functionality then provides an opportunity for the user to engage in a communication exchange associated with the identified discussion topic. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228778 | Query-Based Notification Architecture - A data repository monitoring system that utilizes queries to generate notifications in response to the identification of new and changed content. The system includes a monitoring component that monitors a plurality of disparate repositories in order to identify the receipt of new or modified content. The monitoring component includes a query component(s) that identifies metadata of imported content. The query can be generated and communicated to the monitoring component via a graphical user interface. A notification component is also provided to generate a prompt upon the receipt of incoming content as identified by the query component. The invention employs a centralized store (e.g., change queue) that maintains metadata corresponding to imported (e.g., new) metadata. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228779 | METHOD OF ENABLING ACCESS TO DATA PROTECTED BY FIREWALL - Methods of enabling access to data using a portable electronic device within a private network protected by firewall are disclosed. The data may be transmitted in packets to the portable electronic device and may be consumed either instantly or subsequently. The methods may utilise either at least one web storage or an agent server. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228780 | METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING USER-SPECIFIC CALLING PREFERENCES - A method and system of establishing calling preferences for a user are provided. The method includes: defining a user profile containing an association between the user and two or more communication devices, each device having an associated device type; assigning the user to at least one group; obtaining group preferences associated with one or more of the user's groups; determining user preferences for the user based on the group preferences and the device types of the communication devices associated with the user; and storing the user specific preferences in a user profile associated with the user. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228781 | Resetting of Dynamically Grown Accelerated Data Structure - A circuit arrangement, program product and method are provided for resetting a dynamically grown Accelerated Data Structure (ADS) used in image processing in which an ADS is initialized by reusing the root node of a prior ADS and resetting at least one node in the prior ADS to break a link between the reset node and a linked-to node in the prior ADS. By doing so, the memory allocated to the prior ADS may be reused for the new ADS, without having to clear or wipe out all of the allocated memory. In addition, in some instances, given the similarity of many image frames, often some or all of the node structure of a prior ADS may be reused for a new ADS, requiring only the contents of nodes to be cleared, instead of having to clear out all of the nodes in the prior ADS. As a result, the processing overhead associated with initializing a new ADS can be significantly reduced. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228782 | TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATED GENERATION OF ONTOLOGIES FOR ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS - Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for generating ontologies. In one embodiment, techniques are provided for automatically generating an ontology based upon input information. The input information may, for example, be in the form of XSD, XML, WSDL, or WSRP, etc. The automatically generated ontology may be encoded in OWL or other RDF-compliant language. A set of inference rules may also be automatically generated using the input information. The automatically generated ontology and the set of inference rules may be stored in a database for further processing. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228783 | Desensitizing Character Strings - A method for desensitizing character strings comprises ordering an original set of character strings and generating a tree structure that has nodes corresponding to the ordered set of sensitive strings. The sensitive characters on the nodes of the tree are then desensitized in depth-first order such that a set of desensitized strings is generated that preserves the ordering of the original sensitive set. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228784 | Methods and Systems for Single Instance Storage of Asset Parts - Methods and systems are disclosed that relate to single instance storage of asset parts utilizing a back reference count associated with each asset part. Entries in a journal associated with the asset parts reflect the intention to increment or decrement an asset part's back reference count. The journal may be used to maintain an accurate and reliable reference count for asset parts replicated across multiple disk drives in a distributed storage system, where the replication is structured to reduce the risk of data loss in the event of a disk drive failure. The journal entries may comprise generation numbers used to maintain a back reference count associated with an asset part and to verify a back reference count associated with an asset part. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228785 | Row Column Storage - A method for accessing data is disclosed. The method comprises writing data for a multi-dimensional array to a physical storage device. The data is written to a physical storage device as two different linear strings. The first linear string contains the data from the multi-dimensional array in row format and the second linear string contains the data from the multi-dimensional array in column format. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228786 | ASSESSMENT OF CORPORATE DATA ASSETS - The present invention provides a data processing system and a method of assessing the data value of a data assets inventory which comprises:
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20100228787 | ONLINE DATA VOLUME DELETION - A system to delete a data volume may include storage of a plurality of data pages of the data volume of a data area into a cache, prevention of writing of data pages to the data volume, and designation of each of the plurality of data pages in the cache as modified. The system may also include writing of all data pages in the cache that are designated as modified to a respective location in one or more other data volumes of the data area, and updating, for each of the written data pages, a converter page of the cache to associate the written data page with its respective location in the one or more other data volumes. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228788 | UPDATE MANAGER FOR DATABASE SYSTEM - A database management protocol exchanges update tokens between a client and a server on which the database resides. When a client requests data to be read from a database, an update manager either reads an update token stored therein or generates one dynamically. The update token represents a current state of the data object being read. Sometime thereafter, if the client requests new data to be stored in the object, the client may furnish the update token back to the update manager. The update manager compares the client's update token to a local update token representing a current state of the database and, if they match, determines that the state has not changed. If they do not match, an error results. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228789 | COMMAND LINE INTERFACE PERMUTATION EXECUTOR - A method according to one embodiment includes receiving a command dataset of command data; generating command permutations using the command data; sequentially inputting the command permutations to a command line interface of an application; receiving results of execution of the command permutations; generating a log of at least one of the results and a derivative thereof; and storing the log on a data storage device or medium. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228790 | METHOD FOR ACTIVATING FUNCTIONALITIES PROPOSED IN A COMPUTER TERMINAL - The invention relates to a method for activating functionalities provided in a computer terminal and delivered by sources servers, with one of these functionalities being an instant messaging service in which a list including “user” contacts is displayed on the screen of said terminal. In this method, an instant messaging server delivering the instant messaging service emits the list of the “user” contacts, a list of the “user” contacts passes through a gateway server remote from the computer terminal, the gateway server adds on the fly “functionality” contacts into the list of the “user” contacts, the gateway server transmits to the computer terminal an aggregated list including the “user” contact and the “functionality” contacts the computer terminal displayed on the screen the aggregated list in which the “user” contacts and the “functionality” contacts are written, with one functionality being activated by the selection from the aggregated list displayed on the screen of the computer terminal, the corresponding “functionality” contact. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228791 | Electronic Device Having Music Database And Method Of Forming Music Database - An electronic device is disclosed according to the invention, which comprises an input unit, a memory unit for storing a music database, a display unit and a control unit. The music database comprises a plurality of pieces of music attached with visual tags. The electronic device according to the invention can facilitate the users to quickly and efficiently search out what they want to listen. Further, a method of forming the music database for the electronic device is also disclosed. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228792 | System for Conducting Persistent Periodic Common Weighted Background Investigations - A system for conducting persistent common weighted personnel background investigations. An investigator enters the subject's known applicable information that includes the subject's name, address, social security number, date of birth into the system. Once entered into the system, a report on background investigation findings is automatically generated and provided to the investigator. The report also contains a risk score and rating for the subject based on a common weighted set of evaluation criteria. Periodically afterward, a report of any new background investigation findings is automatically provided to the investigator along with the updated risk score. Reports continue to be generated periodically until the subject's name is removed from the system. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228793 | Revision of Multimedia Content - A system and method for revision of multimedia content is provided. For example, in one embodiment, among others, a computer readable medium comprises instructions for revising a multimedia content. The multimedia content includes a first server multimedia content and an optical disc multimedia content. The instructions are executable on a computer and control the computer to perform retrieving, using an optical disc drive, a first association content included in an instructional content stored on an optical disc. The optical disc multimedia content includes the instructional content. The instructions further control the computer to perform importing the first server multimedia content from a first server according to the retrieved first association content. The first server multimedia content is a previously-authored content. The instructions further control the computer to perform updating the first server multimedia content and exporting the updated first server multimedia content. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228794 | SEMANTIC DOCUMENT ANALYSIS - A technique for dynamic integration and semantic analysis of structured data and unstructured textual data including: defining and selecting static attributes and dynamic attribute from structured data, embedding static and dynamic views of the selected corresponding attributes in an annotated document, linking the unstructured textual data with the structured data using the defined static and dynamic attributes, populating an annotated document structure of multiple annotated documents, performing semantic analysis of a query across the unstructured textual data and structured data, querying the annotated document structure to provide query results satisfying static part of the query, processing static and dynamic parts of the query by querying structured data and the annotated document structure, as appropriate, and providing a combined query processing result satisfying the dynamic and static part the query. Other embodiments are also disclosed. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228795 | DOWNLOAD MANAGEMENT OF DISCARDABLE FILES - A request is received to store a file in a storage area of a storage device, the file being discardable and having associated therewith data in a data structure associated with the storage device. The file is marked as a discardable file. In some implementations a file system structure of the data structure is marked to indicate that the file is a discardable file, where in other implementations, the file itself is marked to indicate that the file is a discardable file. A download manager determines a download condition associated with the request to store the discardable file in the storage area of the storage device and determines whether to delay a download to the storage device of the discardable file based on the determined download condition. The download manager manages the download of the discardable file to the storage device based on the determination of whether to delay the download of the discardable file to the storage device. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228796 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT OF SOFT REFERENCES - A garbage collector determines a target amount of heap space to deallocate, estimates an amount of heap space reachable by a plurality of soft references by determining a cumulative size of no more than an exploration bound N number of objects reachable from each soft reference, and deallocates heap space based on the target amount and the estimate of the heap space reachable from the soft references. Deallocating heap space may include clearing at least one soft reference. If the estimate is inaccurate, it may be utilized regardless or modified to account for inaccuracy. The least-recently-used or the largest soft reference may be cleared until the total cleared space reachable exceeds the target amount. By performing a bounded analysis, the garbage collector may be able to make a more informed decision about whether to clear a soft reference without consuming the full amount of resources consumed by an exhaustive analysis. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228797 | NON-PRIVILEGED ACCESS TO DATA INDEPENDENT OF FILESYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION - An application programming interface (API) module provides access to data, independent of filesystem implementation in a non-privileged user mode. A discovery volume having a filesystem recognizable by an operating system has cover files which prevent damage to data stored in an unrecognizable primary volume. The discovery volume also includes a data access API available for execution in a non-privileged user mode to render the primary volume accessible by operating systems which would otherwise find the primary volume unrecognizable. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228798 | GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM BASED ON HIERARCHICAL PEER TO PEER ARCHITECTURE - A geographically distributed storage system including a global Peer-To-Peer (P2P) ring and a local P2P ring. The global P2P ring includes all storage nodes and the local P2P ring includes a group of the storage nodes. Each of the group of storage node belongs to the global P2P ring and the local P2P ring and each storage node includes global and local management information. The global management information includes a node table for managing topology information of a network connecting the group, a metadata table for managing locations of stored data objects, and a global routing table for managing routing in the global P2P ring. The local management information includes an object management table for managing stored data objects in the group, a Logical Unit (LU) management table for managing logical units in the group and a local routing table used for managing routing in the local P2P ring. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228799 | SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING THE TRANSFER OF STORED CONTENT IN RESPONSE TO A TRIGGERING EVENT - A system is set forth that includes storage, a first file system, a second file system, and a processing system. The first file system manages one or more files and/or directories on the storage, while the second file system manages content of one or more further files on the storage. The processing system is responsive to a triggering event. The processing system responds to the triggering event by re-mapping content from the second file system to the first file system while retaining the content at its original physical location on the storage so that the content is accessible through the first file system from its original physical location on the storage. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228800 | Data Compression in a File Storage System - Embodiments of the present invention provide for compression of files in a filesystem. In embodiments of the present invention, a file is logically partitioned into chunks and each chunk is compressed, such that a request involving a portion of a file can be satisfied by reading and decompressing only the compressed chunk(s) corresponding to that portion. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228801 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, FILE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a file obtaining unit, a saving unit, a save-state information storage unit, an accepting unit, an updating unit, and a transmitting unit. The file obtaining unit obtains a first file from a file management apparatus that manages the first file. The saving unit saves the first file. The save-state information storage unit stores save-state information about a save state of the first file. The accepting unit accepts a manipulation performed on the first file saved in the saving unit. The updating unit updates the save-state information, when the save state of the first file is changed in response to the accepted manipulation. The transmitting unit transmits the save-state information to the file management apparatus. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228802 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO RESPOND TO A DATA FILE DELETION INSTRUCTION - Systems and methods responsive to a data file deletion instruction are disclosed. A method includes receiving an instruction to delete a data file. The data file is stored at a plurality of persistent memory cells of a memory. The memory also stores a directory that includes a first entry corresponding to the data file. In response to receiving the instruction to delete the data file, multiple attribute bits of the first entry are programmed and also a first bit of the first entry is programmed. The first bit of the first entry is distinct from the multiple attribute bits. Programming the multiple attribute bits converts the first entry from a first entry type to a second entry type. Programming the first bit of the first entry indicates that the first entry has an unused status. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228803 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MERGING MEDIA - A method for merging media includes the steps of obtaining a first input from a first media device, the first input comprising first data corresponding to properties of one or more first media files, obtaining a second input from a second media device, the second input comprising second data corresponding to properties of one or more second media files, generating a merged list comprising one or more first selected media files of the first media files sharing a common property with at least one of the second media files and second selected media files of the second media files sharing the common property, and causing execution of one of the first selected media files, one of the second selected media files, or both. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228804 | CONSTRUCTING IMAGE CAPTCHAS UTILIZING PRIVATE INFORMATION OF THE IMAGES - An image CAPTCHA having one or more images, a challenge, and a correct answer to the challenge is constructed by selecting the one or more images from a plurality of candidate images based at least in part on each image's public information and private information. The private information of each of the images is accessible only to an entity responsible for constructing the CAPTCHA. Optionally, the one or more images are selected further based on the specific type of the CAPTCHA to be constructed. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228805 | LOG COLLECTION DATA HARVESTER FOR USE IN A BUILDING AUTOMATION SYSTEM - A building automation system (BAS) comprising a plurality of end devices, at least one communication network, and a server engine comprising a data harvester. The end devices are each associated with at least one of a space, a system, or a subsystem for at least a portion of a building or a campus. The communication network communicatively couples to at least a portion of the plurality of end devices to the server engine. In one embodiment, the server engine is adapted to dynamically implement the data harvesting capability to periodically establish communications with, to receive and store data about, end devices and to selectively control the utilization of the communication network in order to prevent overrun or data loss. Methods of handling log collection from end devices in a building automation system (BAS) based upon a distributed schedule provided by a user or a priority scheme are also disclosed. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228806 | MODULAR DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUITRY WITH OPTIONALLY USABLE, DEDICATED CONNECTIONS BETWEEN MODULES OF THE CIRCUITRY - Digital signal processing (“DSP”) circuit blocks are provided that can more easily work together to perform larger (e.g., more complex and/or more arithmetically precise) DSP operations if desired. These DSP blocks may also include redundancy circuitry that facilitates stitching together multiple such blocks despite an inability to use some block (e.g., because of a circuit defect). Systolic registers may be included at various points in the DSP blocks to facilitate use of the blocks to implement systolic form, finite-impulse-response (“FIR”), digital filters. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228807 | Digital signal processing circuitry with redundancy and bidirectional data paths - Digital signal processing (“DSP”) circuit blocks are provided that can more easily work together to perform larger (e.g., more complex and/or more arithmetically precise) DSP operations if desired. These DSP blocks may also include redundancy circuitry that facilitates stitching together multiple such blocks despite an inability to use some block (e.g., because of a circuit defect). | 2010-09-09 |
20100228808 | Restrained Vector Quantisation - The invention relates to a method for generating a dictionary for the vector quantisation of a signal. Said method comprises a step ( | 2010-09-09 |
20100228809 | Randomized Signal Transforms and Their Applications - Techniques are disclosed to provide randomized signal transforms and/or their applications. More particularly, a signal (e.g., an audio signal, an image, or a video signal) is transformed by applying randomly-selected basis functions to the signal. The applications of the randomized signal transforms include, but are not limited to, compression, denoising, hashing, identification, authentication, and data embedding (e.g., watermarking). | 2010-09-09 |
20100228810 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UNCONSTRAINED FREQUENCY DOMAIN ADAPTIVE FILTERING - Aspects of a method and system for unconstrained frequency domain adaptive filtering include one or more circuits that are operable to select one or more time domain coefficients in a current filter partition. A value may be computed for each of the selected one or more time domain coefficients based on a corresponding plurality of frequency domain coefficients. The corresponding plurality of frequency domain coefficients may be adjusted based on the computed values. A subsequent plurality of frequency domain coefficients in a subsequent filter partition may be adjusted based on the computed values. Input signals may be processed in the current filter partition based on the adjusted corresponding plurality of frequency domain coefficients. A time-adjusted version of the input signals may be processed in a subsequent filter partition based on the adjusted subsequent plurality of frequency domain coefficients. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228811 | System and method for managing data transfer - There is provided a media playback device for accessing first and second server-side applications via a communications network and managing data transfer via client-side applications. The media playback device includes a memory configured to store first and second client-side applications corresponding to the first and second server-side applications. The media playback device includes a processor configured to launch the first client-side application, request first data for use by the first client-side application, transfer the first data by the first client-side application to the first server-side application, and store the first data in the memory. The processor is further configured to receive an input requesting launch of the second client-side application, launch the second client-side application, identify the first data for use by the second client-side application, and read the first data from the memory into the second client-side application. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228812 | Managing Message Categories in a Network - A method is presented for creating and assigning categories to electronic messages and detecting the categories for a given message when the message becomes available to the recipient. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228813 | Information conversion apparatus, information conversion method, information conversion program and relay device - There is provided an apparatus including an information conversion apparatus provided to a relay device for relaying between a server to which a first network address is allocated and a client terminal to which a second network address is allocated, the information conversion apparatus including: an analyzer which analyzes a message corresponding to Layer 7 of an OSI basic reference model of a received packet and determines whether a URL expressed as a literal network address is included; and an address converter which mutually converts, when a URL expressed as a literal network address is included, the literal network address in the URL between the first network address and the second network address. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228814 | FORWARD PATH MULTI-MEDIA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH END USER FEEDBACK TO DISTRIBUTED CONTENT SOURCES - The Forward Path Multi-Media Management System architecture enables end user devices to share a common wireless forward path of a multicast communication architecture in which the forward path delivered content is dynamically changed or modified based on a real-time, near-real-time, or delay-time basis via aggregated reverse path feedback from at least one of a plurality of end user devices. The Forward Path Multi-Media Management System periodically or continuously aggregates the feedback input received via the reverse path (having wired and/or wireless connectivity), modifies the forward path multi-media content, and delivers this dynamically modified multi-media content to the then connected population of end user devices via a wireless forward path multicast in a repetitive closed loop fashion. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228815 | System for Managing Service Interactions - A system is described for managing service interactions in a combined service. The system comprises a first service delivery means for providing a first service, a second service delivery means for providing a second service, a combined service delivery means for providing a combined service capable of associating the first service to one of the second service. The combined service is implemented using a combined state model, which comprises a predetermined number of combined states formed on the basis of the states of the first and the second service and armed detection points for detecting predetermined transitions between the combined states. The combined service delivery means further comprises a combined state manager adapted to transmit a control signal to the first and/or the second service delivery means for inducing a predetermined state transition in the respective first and/or the second service in response to the activation of an armed detection point. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228816 | SHARING SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR HARDWARE DEVICE - A sharing system for a hardware device cooperates with a first client host with a first operating system having a hardware driver to generate a management requirement to drive the hardware device. The sharing system according to the invention includes a first server host which may be coupled with a first client host and has a second operating system. The server host may be installed with a pseudo hardware driver to drive the hardware device according to the management requirement generated from the first server host. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228817 | DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING SYSTEM, CONTROL UNIT AND CLIENT - A distributed processing system includes a client that makes an execution request for a service requested by a user, a processing element, and a control unit to which the client and the processing elements are connected. The client stores therein execution transition information about computational resources and processing paths required for controlling the processing element. The processing element executes tasks constituting the service according to the execution transition information. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228818 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RESTRICTING DISCLOSURE OF NETWORK INFORMATION DURING REMOTE ACCESS SERVICE - A method and apparatus for restricting disclosure of information about a network device during a Remote Access (RA) service are provided, in which a virtual device is activated by an RA service device, a device or service for which information is to be disclosed to an external network is determined from among devices discovered by the RA service device and registered as an embedded device or service of the virtual device, a device description of the virtual device including the embedded device or service is dynamically generated, a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of the RA service device, from which the device description of the virtual device is acquired, is generated and opened to a device of the other party which has remotely accessed the RA service device, and the device description of the virtual device is provided, upon receipt of a request for the device description of the virtual device through the URL. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228819 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMANCE ACCELERATION, DATA PROTECTION, DISASTER RECOVERY AND ON-DEMAND SCALING OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS - A method for improving the performance and availability of a distributed application includes providing a distributed application configured to run on one or more origin server nodes located at an origin site. Next, providing a networked computing environment comprising one or more server nodes. The origin site and the computing environment are connected via a network. Next, providing replication means configured to replicate the distributed application and replicating the distributed application via the replication means thereby generating one or more replicas of the distributed application. Next, providing node management means configured to control any of the server nodes and then deploying the replicas of the distributed application to one or more server nodes of the computing environment via the node management means. Next, providing traffic management means configured to direct client requests to any of the server nodes and then directing client requests targeted to access the distributed application to optimal server nodes running the distributed application via the traffic management means. The optimal server nodes are selected among the origin server nodes and the computing environment server nodes based on certain metrics. | 2010-09-09 |
20100228820 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus functions as a server. When a reference request is received from a client or a user's instruction for transmitting such address data to a client is received, and the address data to be transmitted has no domain name described therein, the apparatus complements the address data with a domain name, and then sends the complemented address data to the client. This makes it possible to export address data correctly to a designated destination, and to reduce failure of authentication. | 2010-09-09 |