39th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 84 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100250453 | REMOTE MONITORING SYSTEM - A remote monitoring system includes an operating data receiving device, a failure report transmitting section, a new failure determining section, a repair progress data generating section and a repair progress updating section. The operating data receiving device receives failure data from a facility device or a management device. The failure report transmitting section transmits a failure report to a concerned party. The new failure determining section determines whether or not the failure data are new. The repair progress data generating section generates repair progress data using repair progress of the failure as a first state when the failure data are new. The repair progress updating section is capable of updating the repair progress of the repair progress data from the first state to a second state. The failure report transmitting section stops transmission of the failure report when the repair progress is the second state. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250454 | Facilitating Electronic Exchange of Proprietary Information - A method and apparatus effectuates bilateral commerce in ideas. An originator and user-driven on-line commercial network system is designed to facilitate idea submission, purchase, and licensing, and is easily adapted to business-to-business transfers of innovation as well as consumer-to-business transfers of innovation. The invention allows originators of ideas to communicate nondisclosing synopses of ideas globally to potential users, for users conveniently to search for relevant ideas and for users potentially to bind an originator to a limited duration license granting user the exclusive right to access and consider confidentially the originator's fully disclosed idea. The invention also allows users to communicate confidentially or nonconfidentially unsolved problems or needs globally to potential originators, for originators conveniently to search for relevant unsolved problems or needs, and for originators to submit and communicate confidentially proposed solutions to the soliciting user. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250455 | SUGGESTING POTENTIAL CUSTODIANS FOR CASES IN AN ENTERPRISE-WIDE ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products determining suggestive potential custodians in an electronic discovery system. The determination is based on a comparison of data, such as personnel data or like, associated with individuals already added to the case and all other individuals in the enterprise, who form the group of potential custodians. In addition, the comparison of data occurs over the specified timeframe defined by the case to insure that the suggested potential custodians are within the confines to the timeframe of the case. Additional embodiments of the invention provide for determining preservation notice recipients based on a comparison of data, such as personnel data or the like, associated with individuals that have already been identified to receive the preservation notice and other custodians and/or potential custodians. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250456 | SUGGESTING PRESERVATION NOTICE AND SURVEY RECIPIENTS IN AN ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products determining suggestive preservation notice or survey recipients in an electronic discovery system. The determination is based on a comparison of data, such as personnel data or like, associated with individuals previously identified as preservation notice or survey recipients and individuals currently added to the case, referred to as potential custodians. Additional embodiments of the invention provide for determining preservation notice recipients based additionally upon previous preservation notice and/or survey history of the potential custodians. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250457 | AUTHENTICATION ITEM AND SYSTEM FOR PACKAGED ARTICLES AND METHOD FOR THE MANUFACTURING OF THE AUTHENTICATION ITEM - The present invention discloses, inter alia, an authentication item manufactured on product units for encoding the product units as being authentic. The authentication item is an intensity-modulating surface comprising a plurality of adjacent protrusions such that the intensity-modulating surface has alternating height. Each of the protrusions has at least two slopes of respective different orientation. When being in an authenticating position with respect to incident electromagnetic radiation employed for authentication, the authentication item modulates the intensity of the electromagnetic radiation in a manner that generates an intensity profile which is characteristic of the authentication item. In the authentication position, the propagation direction of the incident electromagnetic radiation is at least approximately parallel to one of the at least two slopes of the plurality of protrusions. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250458 | CONTENT BASED SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A content based social networking system and method are provided in which multiple users can interact with each other using pieces of digital content. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250459 | CUSTODIAN MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for the management of custodians within an electronic discovery system. Embodiments of the invention herein disclosed provide for methods of creating, maintaining, and utilizing a unified custodian directory for the purposes of carrying out electronic discovery within an enterprise environment. By employing a unified custodian directory to manage custodians apart from the electronic discovery cases to which they relate, the custodian management system of the present invention promotes efficiencies in the field of electronic discovery. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250460 | LPRF DEVICE WAKE UP USING WIRELESS TAG - A wireless transceiver includes: (a) a low power radio frequency (LPRF) communications component capable of powering down to conserve energy and capable of powering up in response to an electronic signal, the LPRF communications component including a transmitter and a first receiver; and (b) a second receiver that is configured to screen a radio frequency broadcast and provide, on the basis of specific data identified therein, the electronic signal to the LPRF communications component in order to power up the LPRF communications component. The second receiver is adapted to draw less current than the LPRF communications component while awaiting receipt of and listening for a radio frequency broadcast. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250461 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR TRANSPORTATION UTILIZATION AND CONTROL - A complete logistics and transportation management system, with a number of integrated software and hardware components integrated to provide a total system for scheduling transportation assets. A method for tracking an asset includes adding at least one asset to a computer system having a web-accessible graphical user interface; adding properties to the asset in the computer system via at least one of a mobile or handheld computer or the graphical user interface; and displaying a searchable asset list in the graphical user interface, along with the quantity of each asset, location of each asset, and at least one picture of each asset. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250462 | AltUse Rating Application - The present invention relates to the field of rating and evaluating user-generated content on an Internet site. More particularly, the invention relates to a method and system of rating how well product alternative uses work based on user feedback. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250463 | INFORMATION-DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD AND APPLICATIONS EMPLOYING SAME - In one embodiment, an information-delivery system includes a first mechanism for identifying an entity for which to gather information and providing identity information in response thereto. A second mechanism employs the identity information to retrieve rating information pertaining to the entity, wherein the scoring information includes quantified information pertaining to one or more measures of performance, and the user's ethical preferences. The rating information includes environmental information, health information, and/or social information. The rating information further includes components that are each associated with a user-configurable weight. The second mechanism includes plural data sources, wherein each data source is associated with a user-configurable data-source weight. This allows a user to scan a product, receive information on its social, environmental, and health performance, all screened through the user's personal preferences. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250464 | Method of managing financial instruments, equipment lease derivatives and other collateral instruments, data architecture, application and process program - A computer-implemented process ad methodology that selects collateral instruments such as equipment leases, using mathematical models, based on selection criteria, risk-reward relationships, and maturity needs resulting in the creation of new financial instrument derivatives. These new derivatives allow for creation of secured private equity, public equity, mutual funds and venture capital funds where the investors' principal is safeguarded against loss regardless of the performance of the investments being made. A two-tier investment structure is created whereby the principal amounts from the fund are invested in specially identified high yield vehicles such as residual equipment leases with high yields over certain maturities. The high yield cash flow only is then invested in higher risk investments such as venture capital start-ups companies. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250465 | MULTIDIMENSIONAL RISK ANALYSIS SYSTEMS - Multi-dimensional risk assessment in multiple time frames, capable of warning of upcoming risks and current risk levels in market trading without tedious manual confirmations. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250466 | Collateral Trust Management System - A computer implemented method and system is provided for managing counterparty risks associated with collaterals held by counterparties and minimizing systemic risk. A collateral trust management system (CTMS) is provided. Trust accounts are created for holding assets associated with a fund counterparty or collaterals from a derivative counterparty. A central collateral trust is created for providing funding to the trust accounts for the assets and for exposing the assets in the CTMS. The trust accounts are assigned to the counterparties. Leverage is determined for the trust accounts. Risk of assets in the trust accounts, assets' funding requirements, and amount of collaterals to be posted for external funding provided to the trust accounts are calculated. Collaterals, equity, and/or assets are pooled into the central collateral trust and assets are rehypothecated based on the calculation, for obtaining financing for the trust accounts. The CTMS securitizes risk of default of the trust accounts. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250467 | PORTFOLIO CONFIRMATION AND CERTIFICATION PLATFORM - A system and method for confirmation of hedge fund information, comprising performing an asset/liability confirmation by comparing corroborating data received from a third party independent of the hedge fund to a list of hedge fund assets/liabilities to identify third party confirmed assets/liabilities that correspond to the corroborating data. A price input confirmation is performed to identify a fund-provided value of an asset/liability as a confirmed value when it substantially corresponds a third party value of each asset/liability. Assigning a unique identifier to a confirmation instance and associated the unique identifier to a report identifying the proportion of the fund's NAV attributable to the total value of third party confirmed assets/liabilities and attributable to the total confirmed value of assets/liabilities. A second report identifying generated risk and/or performance data includes the unique identifier to certify that the asset/liability and price input confirmations have been performed. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250468 | SYSTEM TO FORM AN ACTUAL SALES OR DELIVERY VALUE FOR ALL COMPONENTS OF A COMMINGLED HYDROCARBON FLUID STREAM - A system to form an actual sales value or actual delivery value for all components of a commingled hydrocarbon fluid stream using mass, volume and energy, to create a theoretical commingled hydrocarbon fluid stream molecular composition and present the information on individual components in the commingled hydrocarbon fluid stream instantaneously to a buyer and a seller. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250469 | Computer-Based Modeling of Spending Behaviors of Entities - Time series consumer spending data, point-in-time balance information and consumer panel information provide input to a model for consumer spend behavior on plastic instruments or other financial accounts, from which approximations of spending ability and share of wallet may be reliably identified and utilized to promote additional consumer spending. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250470 | LIFESTYLE DISEASE PREVENTION APPARATUS AND LIFESTYLE DISEASE PREVENTION METHOD - There is provided a lifestyle disease prevention apparatus capable of objectively recognizing physical condition of a test subject. The apparatus includes: a biological information storing unit in which biological information of the test subject in connection with test subject identification information which identifies the test subject is stored in advance; and a risk calculating unit which reads the biological information in connection with the selected test subject identification information from the biological information storing unit and calculates a lifestyle disease probability that the test subject belongs to a progress stage of each disease targeted for prevention and/or improvement which is preset on the basis of the read biological information. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250471 | MUSIC INTELLIGENCE UNIVERSE SERVER - An artificial intelligence song/music recommendation system and method is provided that allows music shoppers to discover new music. The system and method accomplish these tasks by analyzing a database of music in order to identify key similarities between different pieces of music, and then recommends pieces of music to a user depending upon their music preferences. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250472 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MACHINE-AIDED INFORMATION EXTRACTION RULE DEVELOPMENT - An automatic rule generation system generates rules for fact extraction. A rule generation module receives a sample and generates a rule from the sample. A rule relaxation module generates a relaxed rule from the rule. A rule testing module generates a reverse index from a corpus, applies the relaxed rule to the reverse index, and generates text segments. An information extraction module generates modified text segments from the relaxed rule and the text segments. A candidate suggestion module performs a candidate generation process: if the candidate generation process generates no candidates, the candidate suggestion module signals the rule relaxation module to generate a further relaxed rule to use as the relaxed rule. A user evaluates a candidate and provides the candidate as an additional sample for the automatic rule generation system to generate another rule to use as the rule. As a result of performing these actions iteratively, the rule is eventually generated and relaxed to result in an appropriate rule to use for fact extraction. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250473 | Active Learning Method for Multi-Class Classifiers - A method trains a multi-class classifier by iteratively performing the following steps until a termination condition is reached. The probabilities of class membership for unlabeled data obtained from an active pool of unlabeled data are estimated. A difference between a largest probability and a second largest probability is determined. The unlabeled data with the lowest difference is selected, labeled and then added to a training data set for training the classifier. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250474 | PREDICTIVE CODING OF DOCUMENTS IN AN ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for improved electronic discovery. More specifically, embodiments relate to computer program products for predictive and automated coding of identical or highly similar documents for the purpose of limiting the volume of documents requiring review and thereby increasing the overall efficiency of the document review process. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250475 | Tensor voting in N dimensional spaces - A tensor voting scheme which can be used in an arbitrary number N of dimensions, up to several hundreds. The voting scheme can operate on unorganized point inputs, which can be oriented or unoriented, and estimate the intrinsic dimensionality at each point. Moreover it can estimate the tangent and normal space of a manifold passing through each point based solely on local operations. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250476 | EVALUATION OF RISK OF CONFLICT FOR SECURITY SOLUTIONS INTEGRATION - A method and a system for evaluation of risk of conflict between a number of integrating security solutions. In a computer system, a number of fragmentary security solutions are received. A set of the received fragmentary security solutions is integrated to form a composite security solution to satisfy a number of security requirements. In one aspect, the security requirements are established during a design of a computer system. A risk of conflict between the set of integrating fragmentary security solutions is evaluated. In another aspect, the risk of conflict between the set of integrating fragmentary security solutions exists at authority level and at configuration level. Conflict at authority level arises when different authorities control the same fragmentary security solution. Conflict at configuration level arises when integrating fragmentary security solutions share configuration data. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250477 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING A CAMPAIGN - Systems and methods for optimizing a digital message campaign response are provided where a relationship is discovered between (i) variance in the absence or presence of one or more elements in digital message across a first plurality of digital messages for a first plurality of recipients and (ii) variance in performance of at least one selected response event across the first plurality of recipients. The relationship is used to modify or create a campaign rule that specifies a frequency or range of frequencies for incorporation of an element in digital messages. The campaign rule is used as a basis for determining a frequency of incorporation of an element in a second plurality of digital messages sent to a second plurality of recipients in the campaign. The relationship discovery and campaign rule modification or creation continues on an ongoing basis throughout the campaign and, optionally, after the campaign is completed. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250478 | Demo Verification Provisioning - A method, system, and computer program product for issuing an alert when a method of a live demonstration deviates from demonstration simulation actions. A computer receives a command to commence a demonstration simulation. During the demonstration simulation, capture logic of a computer is initialized. The capture logic records events of the demonstration simulation. When a live demonstration subsequently initiated, demonstration verification logic of the computer continually monitors, in real-time, events of the live demonstration and compares the events to the previously recorded events captured during the demonstration simulation. In response to detecting that a live demonstration has deviated from the recorded demonstration simulation method, the demonstration verification logic issues a non-invasive alert. The non-invasive alert may be issued using visual, audible, or vibration feedback cues in such manner that an audience observing the live demonstration is un-aware of the non-invasive alert. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250479 | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DISCOVERY AND MAPPING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - An apparatus can include an information gathering module, a semantic abstract generation module, and an intellectual property space identification module. The information gathering module can retrieve information pertaining to intellectual property activities within a particular technical field. The semantic abstract generation module can generate semantic abstracts based on the information retrieved by the information gathering module. The intellectual property space identification module can perform an evaluation of the particular technical field based on the generated semantic abstracts. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250480 | IDENTIFYING SIMILAR FILES IN AN ENVIRONMENT HAVING MULTIPLE CLIENT COMPUTERS - To identify similar files in an environment having multiple client computers, a first client computer receives, from a coordinator computer, a request to find files located at the first client computer that are similar to at least one comparison file, wherein the request has also been sent to other client computers by the coordinator computer to request that the other client computers also find files that are similar to the at least one comparison file. In response to the request, the first client computer compares signatures of the files located at the first client computer with a signature of the at least one comparison file to identify at least a subset of the files located at the first client computer that are similar to the at least one comparison file according to a comparison metric. The first client computer sends, to the coordinator computer, a response relating to the comparing. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250481 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OCCUPANCY ESTIMATION - An occupancy estimator calculates an occupancy estimate (x) of a region based on sensor data (z) provided by one or more sensor devices and a model-based occupancy estimate generated by an occupant traffic model (f). The occupant traffic model (f) is based on predicted movement of occupants throughout a region. The occupancy estimation system includes an occupancy estimator algorithm ( | 2010-09-30 |
20100250482 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING TREES USING LIDAR TREE MODELS - A computer system creates and stores a library of LiDAR models for standard trees that have measured characteristics. A point cloud of LiDAR data from an unidentified tree in a forest is compared against a point cloud defined by a LiDAR model of a standard tree in the library to find a match. If a match is found, one or more characteristics of the matching standard tree are associated with the unidentified tree. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250483 | EFFECT PREDICTING APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING AN EFFECT - An effect predicting apparatus for predicting an effect of anthracycline anticancer drugs, comprising: a display, a processor, and a memory, under control of said processor, including software instructions adapted to enable the processor to perform operations, comprising: acquiring a CDK parameter based on a first CDK parameter and a second CDK parameter; acquiring an expression level of glutathione; comparing the CDK parameter with a CDK threshold value, and the expression level of glutathione with a glutathione threshold value; predicting an effect of anthracycline anticancer drugs based on the result of the comparison; and displaying the result of the prediction. A computer program product and a method for predicting an effect are also disclosed. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250484 | PROFILE SCANNER - Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for identifying users of personal computers within a network for the purposes of electronic discovery. Embodiments herein disclosed provide for a tool that accesses the personal computers via the network, locates and queries the profile list on each personal computer, transmits for each personal computer computer-identifying data associated with the personal computer and user-identifying data associated with a user of the personal computer, and stores the computer-identifying data in a database so that it can be used in an electronic discovery system to collect data stored by the user on the computer. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250485 | System for Aggregating Data and a Method for Providing the Same - A system for aggregating data from a plurality of operational databases, and a method for providing the same, are provided. The system includes a data store storing a collection of pre-defined extraction scripts. The extraction scripts identify data available for extraction from a plurality of operational database products, and including parameters for specifying which of the data to extract. A data warehouse server executes the extraction scripts to extract, merge, transform and load the specified data from the plurality of operational databases into a multidimensional database. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250486 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROVIDE REPORT PART VIA A WEB SERVICE - Some aspects include reception of a selection of a part of a report, the selected report part associated with queries of a semantic layer, and creation of a description of a Web Service call to return contents of the selected report part. In some aspects, a Web Service call associated with a part of a report is received, the report part associated with queries of a semantic layer, and a query is determined based on the Web Service call to return contents of the report part. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250487 | Access to Line-of-Business Databases in Declarative Workflow - A first database and a second database have different schemas. An activity in a workflow accesses a data item in a list by invoking a method in an interface of a list object. The list comprises a collection of data items. Each data item in the list comprises an item key field specifying an item key. No two data items in the data item collection have item key fields specifying a shared item key. In addition, each data item in the list comprises a set of additional fields. Each field in the set of additional fields has a value derived from the first database or each field in the set of additional fields has a value derived from the second database. In this way, the activity can be implemented without knowledge of the different schemas of the first database and the second database. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250488 | LABELING ELECTRONIC DATA IN AN ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY ENTERPRISE SYSTEM - Embodiments herein disclosed relate to methods, systems and computer program products that provide an enterprise wide e-discovery system configured to search myriad data sources across an enterprise to identify electronic data relevant to a particular data request, harvest the relevant electronic data, filter the electronic data to identify request file types, transfer the request file types to a data store, and assign labels, such as barcodes, to the requested file types for the purpose of producing, in an organized fashion, all requested electronic data that is in the enterprise's possession. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250489 | Recording medium recording information copying program, information copying device, and information copying method - A non-transitory recording medium recording an information copying program is provided. The information copying program includes a sequence information computation procedure of, when an alteration process is executed on information stored at a copy source storing plural items of information, computing sequence information representing an ordinal rank of the altered information within records, which are stored at the copy source, by using information representing an altered location with respect to the records, and a copy destination reflection procedure of reflecting the alteration process upon information at a copy destination corresponding to the sequence information computed in the sequence information computation procedure. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250490 | Field Filtering - A computing device capable of storing at least one set of data and communicating at least one stored set of data to another device during a data synchronisation operation, the computing device being arranged to determine that a stored data set includes filtered data that is not to be communicated to the other device during a data synchronisation operation, form synchronisation data from the stored data set by substituting the filtered data with an indicator, the indicator being such as to indicate the filtered data to the other device and communicate the synchronisation data to the other device during the data synchronisation operation. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250491 | DATA REPLICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Disclosed is a data replication method in a Database Management System (DBMS). The data replication method includes generating a replication log through a transaction log of a master database to thereby transmit the generated replication log to a distributor, determining a slave host distributing the replication log to thereby distribute the replication log to the corresponding slave host, and reflecting the replication log in a slave database. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250492 | NETWORK ATTACHED STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD USING SAME - A network attached storage device comprising a first file system, a first file system driver, a redirection pseudo device driver, a second file system, and a second file system driver. A method using Applicant's network attached storage device to write information to an information storage medium comprising a plurality of storage blocks. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250493 | USING A SPARSE FILE AS A CLONE OF A FILE - One embodiment is for using a sparse file as a clone. The method includes creating, by an application associated with a computer system, a snapshot of a file, such as an individual file, a collection of files, file system, directories, and so forth. Further, the method includes requesting, by the application, a clone of that created snapshot. Further still, the method includes generating, by the application, an empty sparse having at least one inode identifying the empty sparse file as the clone and pointing to the snapshot associated with the clone. Thereby, the requested clone is created using the created sparse file, which begins as an empty sparse file. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250494 | PERIPHERAL DEVICE AND PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A peripheral device and a portable electronic device are disclosed. The peripheral device is capable of being connected with a data processing system, and the peripheral device includes a transmission module, a control module, and a storage module. The transmission module is capable of being connected with the data processing system. The control module is connected with the transmission module. The control module automatically executing a backup program and an encryption program to copy a target file in the data processing system to be a backup file by the transmission module and to encrypt the backup file when the transmission module is connected with the data processing system. The storage module is connected with the control module for receiving the backup file from the control module and storing the backup file. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250495 | BACKING-UP AND RESTORING FILES INCLUDING FILES REFERENCED WITH MULTIPLE FILE NAMES - Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for backing-up and restoring files including files referenced with multiple file names. Files to backup are determined. A determination is made from the files to backup files referenced with multiple names. An entry is created for each file to backup in a backup directory indicating file attributes and each name used to reference the file. The determined files and the backup directory are backed-up. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250496 | NAS SYSTEM AND REMOTE COPY METHOD - A system including: one or more file systems for storing data; a snapshot producing section for producing snapshots for the file systems based on a pre-scheduled snapshot acquisition time; a remote copy section for remote copying difference data for the snapshots based on pre-scheduled remote copy start times; and a scheduling section for re-scheduling the time of one or more of an Nth snapshot acquisition time, an Nth remote copy start time, and an (N+1)th remote copy start time, in such a manner that remote copying starting at the Nth remote copy start time finishes by the (N+1)th remote copy start time. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250497 | Electromagnetic pulse (EMP) hardened information infrastructure with extractor, cloud dispersal, secure storage, content analysis and classification and method therefor - A method and system processes data in a distributed computing system to survive an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack. The computing system has proximal select content (SC) data stores and geographically distributed distal data stores, all with respective access controls. The data input or put through the computing system is processed to obtain the SC and other associated content. The process then extracts and stores such content in the proximal SC data stores and geographically distributed distal SC data stores. The system further processes data to geographically distribute the data with data processes including: copy, extract, archive, distribute, and a copy-extract-archive and distribute process with a sequential and supplemental data destruction process. In this manner, the data input is distributed or spread out over the geographically distributed distal SC data stores. The system and method permits reconstruction of the processed data only in the presence of a respective access control. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250498 | ACTIVE EMAIL COLLECTOR - Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for electronic discovery and, more particularly, remotely collecting a custodian's data that is stored in one or more network storage areas residing on a network. For example, embodiments of the present invention utilize a collection tool to access a mailbox residing on an email server, copy at least some of the active email data stored in the mailbox, and transmit the copied active email data from the mailbox to a collection server and then to a long-term storage device. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250499 | Cloning and Recovery of Data Volumes - Aspects of a data environment, such as the monitoring, backup, and recovery of data stores and instances, are managed using a separate control environment. A monitoring component of the control environment can periodically communicate with the data environment to determine any necessary actions to be performed, such as to recover from faults or events for a data instance in the data environment. A workflow can be instantiated that includes tasks necessary to perform a recovery action. Tasks of the workflow can instantiate a new data instance and, using an identifier for the original data instance, access a snapshot for the data instance and copy the data to the new instance. Log files also can be accessed and applied to the new data instance to cause the new instance to represent the state of the original data instance at a particular point in time. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250500 | USING A HEARTBEAT SIGNAL TO MAINTAIN DATA CONSISTENCY FOR WRITES TO SOURCE STORAGE COPIED TO TARGET STORAGE - Provided are a method, system, and program for using a heartbeat signal to maintain data consistency for writes to source storage copied to target storage. A copy relationship associates a source storage and target storage pair, wherein writes received at the source storage are transferred to the target storage. A determination is made whether a signal has been received from a system within a receive signal interval. A freeze operation is initiated to cease receiving writes at the source storage from an application in response to determining that the signal has not been received within the receive signal interval. A thaw operation is initiated to continue receiving write operations at the source storage from applications after a lapse of a freeze timeout in response to the freeze operation, wherein after the thaw operation, received writes completed at the source storage are not transferred to the target storage. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250501 | STORAGE MANAGEMENT THROUGH ADAPTIVE DEDUPLICATION - One embodiment retrieves a first portion of a plurality of stored objects from at least one storage device. The embodiment further performs a base type deduplication estimation process on the first portion of stored objects. The embodiment still further categorizes the first portion of the plurality of stored objects into deduplication sets based on a deduplication relationship of each object of the plurality of stored objects with each of the estimated first plurality of deduplication chunk portions. The embodiment further combines deduplication sets into broad classes based on deduplication characteristics of the objects in the deduplication sets. The embodiment still further classifies a second portion of the plurality of stored objects into broad classes using classifiers. The embodiment further selects an appropriate deduplication approach for each categorized class. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250502 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTENTS DE-DUPLICATION - Exemplary embodiments provide in effect data de-duplication in storage servers without the need to compare every byte of stored data. In one embodiment, a method for providing contents from a content device to a storage device comprises receiving by a storage device a ticket including trade information of a trade by a user for content from a content device; receiving by the storage device from the content device attribute information of the content identified in the ticket; determining whether the storage device has the content identified in the ticket based on the attribute information; if the storage device does not have the content identified in the ticket, receiving the content identified in the ticket from the content device and storing the content in the storage device; and if the storage device has the content identified in the ticket, not receiving the content identified in the ticket from the content device. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250503 | ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION DATA VALIDATION IN AN ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY ENTERPRISE SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for improved electronic discovery. Embodiments herein disclosed provide for an enterprise-wide e-discovery system that provides for validity verification of electronic communications prior to subsequent processing, such as decryption or standardized format conversion. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250504 | DYNAMIC INTEGRATED DATABASE INDEX MANAGEMENT - Integral index management for a relational database is provided. Possible index management actions are identified to an administrator, and index management metric thresholds are provided by the administrator. An index metrics collection module automatically collects metric values. An index metrics analysis module automatically determines whether collected metric values satisfy specified thresholds. An index management action implementation module then implements index management actions, such as reorganizing or rebuilding indexes, adding indexes, and removing indexes. Threads may work in parallel on multiple tables of the relational database. Proposed actions may be subject to final authorization or may be implemented automatically after the metric threshold values are satisfied. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250505 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING DATA OBJECTS - A system and method for processing data objects is provided. The system and method may comprise: a data object database for storing data objects, a transaction document database for storing transaction documents, a fast data provider module configured to provide, upon request from a user interface module, data objects to the user interface module; a user transaction provider module configured to read changed data objects from the user interface module, read data objects from the fast data provider module, and store changed data objects in a user transaction document; and a business transaction provider module to read changed data objects from the user transaction document and perform updates of the changed data objects based on the user transaction document. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250506 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING DATA OBJECTS - A system and method for processing data objects is provided. The system and method may comprise a user interface module, a fast data provider module, and a transaction provider module, which modules are configured to exchange data and which may be distributed over a plurality of interconnected servers. Data objects may be statelessly read from a database by the fast data provider module and, after an amendment of the data via the user interface module, statefully saved by the transaction provider module. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250507 | ENUMERATION OF A CONCURRENT DATA STRUCTURE - An enumerable concurrent data structure referred to as a concurrent bag is provided. The concurrent bag is accessible by concurrent threads and includes a set of local lists configured as a linked list and a dictionary. The dictionary includes an entry for each local list that identifies the thread that created the local list and the location of the local list. Each local list includes a set of data elements configured as a linked list. A global lock on the concurrent bag and local locks on each local list allow operations that involve enumeration to be performed on the concurrent bag. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250508 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA MIGRATION IN A CLUSTERED FILE SYSTEM - Systems and methods for providing more efficient handling of I/O requests for clustered file system data subject to data migration or the like. For instance, exemplary systems can more quickly determine if certain files on primary storage represent actual file data or stub data for recalling file data from secondary storage. Certain embodiments utilize a driver cache on each cluster node to maintain a record of recently accessed files that represent regular files (as opposed to stubs). A dual-locking process, using both strict locking and relaxed locking, maintains consistency between driver caches on different nodes and the data of the underlying clustered file system, while providing improved access to the data by the different nodes. Moreover, a signaling process can be used, such as with zero-length files, for alerting drivers on different nodes that data migration is to be performed and/or that the driver caches should be flushed. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250509 | FILE SCANNING TOOL - Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for improved file identification. Embodiments herein disclosed provide for a file scanning tool that receives input related to compromised information in a structured data file and scans databases, servers, systems, or computers throughout a company for origin structured data files that contain the same or similar information as the compromised information in the structured data file. The file scanning tool then outputs the location of the origin structured data files that have the same or similar information. The file scanning tool can be used for various purposes, especially as a tool for investigators trying to determine if other information from the same location could have been compromised, the responsible parties, and the contact information of customers whose information was compromised, so the company can notify customers if their account information has changed. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250510 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT EDITING - According to a preferred embodiment, there is provided a computer program for use in the creation and editing of multimedia works which provides a much simplified method of selecting and placing multimedia clips, with a length of less than about 20 seconds, into a longer composition. In one preferred embodiment, the user is provided with a graphical user interface where he or she can add to or modify the multimedia content contained therein by simply clicking the mouse above an empty track location, with the replacement clips being chosen and inserted into the work automatically. In another embodiment, the user will specify the screening criteria for a plurality of tracks, which tracks will then be automatically populated with clips according to the user's rules to generate a multimedia work. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250511 | Detecting Correlations Between Data Representing Information - A method for acquiring an interrelation between an item of data representing an item of information of a data inventory and an item of data representing an item of information of a request for an interrelation to the item of data representing an item of information of a data inventory by means of a data processing system with data representing information in a data inventory which can be accessed via a data source comprises a link being established by means of a syntactic comparison and/or by means of one semantic comparison of the item of data representing an item of information of a data inventory with the item of data representing an item of information of the request for interrelation with the item of data representing an item of information of a data inventory. According to the method, results of requests for an interrelation are grouped according to topics. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250512 | SEARCH TERM HIT COUNTS IN AN ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for improved electronic discovery. More specifically, embodiments relate to managing the process for creating search term sets to be applied to electronic data sets associated with a case in an electronic discovery system. A search term management application is provided that allows for multiple users to work collaboratively to define the final search term set that is subsequently applied to the corpus of electronic data for the case. In addition, the application provides for tracking the overall search term creation process. In addition, embodiments provide for a search term hit count engine that is configured to determine search term hit counts for data as a means of predicting the volume of data needed to review. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250513 | Aggregating Context Data for Programmable Search Engines - Search results are generated using aggregated context data from two or more contexts. When two or more programmable search engines relate to a similar topic, context data associated with the programmable search engines are aggregated. The context is then applied to a query in order to present, in an integrated manner, relevant search results that make use of context intelligence from more than one programmable search engine. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250514 | IDENTIFYING AND PROCESSING CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION ON NETWORK ENDPOINTS - An automated method for identifying confidential information may include inputting a search term based on a set of policy rules into a search engine, and causing the search engine to perform a search based on the search term. The method may also include analyzing search results obtained from the search engine against the policy rules to identify the search results containing confidential information. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250515 | TRANSFORMING A DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES FOR WEB SERVICES - One embodiment is a method that receives a description of services desired by a service requestor and then crawls web sites to extract information on services offered by service providers. The extracted information is used to transform the description of services desired by the service requestor into an improved description of services. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250516 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WEB CRAWLING - A method and system for retrieving data from a webpage is described herein. A scheduler organizes, or rather orders, a group of webpage identifiers according to some predetermined criteria. Based upon this ordering, a fetcher may be configured to fetch data from webpages identified by the identifiers. To promote efficiency and reduce the latency between when a webpage is updated and when the fetcher retrieves data from the webpage, the scheduler may be configured to reorder the identifiers in such a manner that it causes an identifier that was less relevant, and would not have been sent to the fetcher, to become more relevant. In this way, the method and system may be particularly useful for retrieving data related to webpages that are updated frequently, such as social media webpages, for example. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250517 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PARALLEL COMPUTATION OF FREQUENCY HISTOGRAMS ON JOINED TABLES - According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for the parallel computation of frequency histograms in joined tables is provided. The method includes reading data in a table row-by-row from a database system using a coordinator unit and distributing each read row to separate worker units. Each worker unit computes a partial frequency histogram for each column in the table in parallel. The partial histograms from the worker units are then merged and the coordinator unit sends the merged frequency histograms to the worker units. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250518 | FLEXIBLE QUERY HINTS IN A RELATIONAL DATABASE - A flexible query hints system and method for discovering and expressing query hints in a database management system. Embodiments of the flexible query hints system and method include a power hints (Phints) language that enables the specification of constraints to influence a query optimizer. Phints expressions are defined as tree patterns annotated with constraints. Embodiments of the flexible query hints system and method also include techniques to incorporate the power hints language expressions into an extended query optimizer. Theses techniques include computing a directed acyclic graph for Phints expression, deriving candidate matches using the Phints expression and the graph, computing candidate matches, and extracting a revised execution plan having a lowest cost and satisfying constraints of the Phints expression. Embodiments of the flexible query hints system and method include a flexible query hint user interface that allow users to interactively adjust query hints. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250519 | XML database management system for an XML database comprising access protected XML data - The present invention concerns an XML data base management system (XDBMS, | 2010-09-30 |
20100250520 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEM - A method for controlling a relational database system, with a query statement comprised of keywords being analyzed, with the RTN being formed of independent RTN building blocks. Each RTN building block has an inner, directed decision graph which is defined independently from the inner, directed decision graphs of the other RTN building blocks with at least one decision position along at least one decision path. The inner decision graphs of all RTN building blocks are run by means of the keywords in a selection step and all possible paths of this decision graph are followed until either no match with the respectively selected path is determined by the decision graph and the process is interrupted, or the respectively chosen path is run until the end. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250521 | SEARCH RESULTS OUTPUT TOOL - Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media are disclosed for providing a search results output tool. According to an illustrative embodiment, a method receives one or more search results generated by a search engine in response to a user query of a network information source. Each of the search results is associated with one or more properties. The properties associated with each of the search results are stored. The user is prompted to select one or more selected search results. The user is also prompted to select one or more selected properties. A record is generated for each of the selected search results that include the one or more selected properties. The record for each of the selected search results is then output. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250522 | USING ONTOLOGY TO ORDER RECORDS BY RELEVANCE - A method for retrieving records in an order of relevance based on a pre-defined domain ontology. The relevance of each result of the search conducted is decided on the basis of the pre-defined domain ontology. The method includes obtaining a search query as an input from the user containing one or more than one phrases. Then, the set of results from the given set of records is retrieved based on the input search query. The method further includes calculating and assigning a closeness parameter corresponding to each result of the set of results based on the domain ontology. Finally, the set of results is displayed in an order of relevance by sorting in an ascending order the closeness parameter of each of the record present in the set of results. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250523 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LEARNING A RANKING MODEL THAT OPTIMIZES A RANKING EVALUATION METRIC FOR RANKING SEARCH RESULTS OF A SEARCH QUERY - An improved system and method for learning a ranking model that optimizes a ranking evaluation metric for ranking search results of a search query is provided. An optimized nDCG ranking model that optimizes an approximation of an average nDCG ranking evaluation metric may be generated from training data through an iterative boosting method for learning to more accurately rank a list of search results for a query. A combination of weak ranking classifiers may be iteratively learned that optimize an approximation of an average nDCG ranking evaluation metric for the training data by training a weak ranking classifier at each iteration for each document in the training data with a computed weight and assigned class label, and then updating the optimized nDCG ranking model by adding the weak ranking classifier with a combination weight to the optimized nDCG ranking model. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250524 | RANKING ALGORITHM FOR SEARCH BOX AUTO-COMPLETE - In various exemplary embodiments, a system and associated method for prioritizing search results in an electronic environment is disclosed. The system comprises a communications module to receive a search query from an end-user. The search query includes one or more characters contained within a single TCP packet. A query engine coupled to the communications module matched the one or more characters from the search query against a plurality of selected keywords contained within a database against the search query. Each keyword is then ranked within the plurality of selected keywords thus forming a subset of selected keywords. A response including the subset of selected keywords is returned to the end-user. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250525 | APPARATUS FOR EVALUATING LIBRARY - Arrangements to evaluate maintenance easiness of a library on the basis of the number of modeling processes required to create a library shape and the number of modeling processes required to model a product by using the created library shape. Such arrangements include, in part, a library score calculating unit that calculates sum of the number of modeling processes and the number of library creating processes from the number of library creating processes calculated by the unit of calculating the number of library creating processes and the number of product modeling processes calculated by the unit of calculating the number of product modeling processes. The plurality of combination plans of library shapes to be evaluated are evaluated on the basis of the sum of the number of modeling processes and the number of library creating processes. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250526 | Search System that Uses Semantic Constructs Defined by Your Social Network - A search mechanism that involves receiving input that specifies a search term, e.g., a word or sequence of words. The input is received via a computer network from a user. The search term has an associated meaning that has been defined by the user, one or more members of the user's social network, and/or, a provider of an Internet-based service. The search mechanism may also involve searching a database based on the search term to obtain search results, and sending at least a portion of the search results to the user via the Internet. The search mechanism may also perform searches based on a user-specified phrase that is composed of a number of search terms. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250527 | SPONSORED SEARCH RESULTS RE-RANKING BASED ON LINKING ASSOCIATIONS - A computer-implemented system and methods of re-ranking sponsored search results by a search engine in response to a search query include: retrieving one or more organic search results and a plurality of sponsored search results (“search results”), along with their respective rankings, associated with a search query; determining a degree of association between each sponsored search result and the other search results through analyzing web links between the search results and other web documents to or from which the search results are at least indirectly linked; calculating a clustering score for each sponsored search result based on their respective degrees of linking association; generating a new ranking score for each sponsored search result based on their respective clustering scores and rankings; and re-ranking, and storing in memory, the plurality of sponsored search results based on the new ranking scores of each respective sponsored search result. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250528 | QUICKLINK SELECTION FOR NAVIGATIONAL QUERY - According to techniques described herein, the best set of quicklinks is picked to maximize the benefits for a majority of the users of a search engine, since the “real estate” on a search results page is constrained and valuable. Quicklinks are navigational shortcuts that are displayed below the website homepage on a search results page. Using user browsing trails obtained from browser toolbars, and a simple probabilistic model, the quicklink selection program is formulated as a combinatorial optimization problem. Two techniques are proposed herein: a greedy technique and a tree-based technique. The tree-based technique finds an optimal solution, but may do so in a greater amount of time than the greedy technique takes to find a solution that is not guaranteed to be optimal. The tree-based technique may incorporate natural constraints on the set of chosen quicklinks. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250529 | ANTICIPATING INTERESTS OF AN ONLINE USER - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for identifying intentions related to a user's present intention are provided. The user's present intention may be determined by mapping the user's current actions to a present intent. A related intent may be determined using an intent chain. The intent chain may be generated by analyzing patterns of user activities and mapping the patterns of activities to the underlying intents. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250530 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL ALGORITHM FOR CONTEXTUAL SEARCH - A computer-implemented method can include building a multi-dimensional contextual model, receiving search terms from a user, performing a search based on the search terms and the multi-dimensional contextual model, generating search results based on the search, and visually displaying the search results. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250531 | SHARED DRIVE DATA COLLECTION TOOL FOR AN ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for improved electronic discovery. Embodiments herein disclosed provide for an enterprise wide electronic management server that provides for data to be identified, located, retrieved, preserved, searched, reviewed and produced in an efficient and cost-effective manner across the entire enterprise system. In addition, by structuring management of e-discovery based on case/matter, custodian and data and providing for linkage between the same, further efficiencies are realized in terms of identifying, locating and retrieving data and leveraging results of previous e-discoveries with current requests. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250532 | SINGULAR, COLLECTIVE AND AUTOMATED CREATION OF A MEDIA GUIDE FOR ONLINE CONTENT - Systems and methods are provided in which a content guide includes one or more tags associated with a single user, a group of users or a channel subscribed to by users that enables the retrieval of content for subsequent viewing and which can be supplemented by recommendations and data from other sources. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250533 | Generating Recommendations for Content Servers - A multimedia content server including a memory area in which metadata is stored in association with at least one content accessible via said server and usable for selecting at least one of said contents with a view to formulating a request for access to the selected content, said server including:
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20100250534 | Document Management Techniques to Account for User-Specific Patterns in Document Metadata - Document management techniques to account for user-specific patterns in document metadata are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for facilitating document retrieval may comprise: assigning a first entitlement to a first user for accessing a first plurality of documents; identifying patterns in the first user's creation or modification of metadata related to the first plurality of documents; recording the identified patterns associated with the first user; receiving a document query from a second user who has been assigned a second entitlement to access a second plurality of documents; determining, based on the second entitlement, an access right of the second user with respect to the first plurality of documents; and modifying the document query based on the access right of the second user and the identified patterns, such that the document query returns relevant documents from the first plurality of documents despite the second user's ignorance of the identified patterns. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250535 | IDENTIFYING AN ITEM BASED ON DATA ASSOCIATED WITH THE ITEM - There are provided methods and systems to identify an item based on data associated with the item. Information is received that is descriptive of an item to be listed on an information storage and retrieval platform. The information is associated with an aspect-value pair, which is an aspect of the item and a value of the aspect. An expression of an interest of a user in the item is received. The expression is associated with the aspect-value pair. In response to the associating of the expression with the aspect-value pair, the item is identified. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250536 | Method for integrating road names and points of interest in source data - The present invention is directed to a method for integrating road names recorded in a source data, particularly comprising steps of merging all interconnected segments having this road name into a user road group and merging these user road groups if they belongs to the same physical road entity. The present invention also relates to a method for integrating points of interest recorded in a source data, particularly comprising steps of, beginning from node with highest priority in the tree to the other nodes one at a time, finding nodes with same point of interest to redirect all child links of lower priority node to higher priority node among the same point of interest nodes and delete link between the same point of interest nodes; creating geometry relationship based on above new arrangement. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250537 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLASSIFYING A CONTENT ITEM - Newly created personal classes can be incorporated into classification of a content item, step | 2010-09-30 |
20100250538 | ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for improved electronic discovery and custodian management. Embodiments herein disclosed provide for an enterprise wide e-discovery system that provides for data to be identified, located, retrieved, preserved, searched, reviewed and produced in an efficient and cost-effective manner across the entire enterprise system. In addition, by structuring management of e-discovery based on case/matter, custodian and data and providing for linkage between the same, further efficiencies are realized in terms of identifying, locating and retrieving data and leveraging results of previous e-discoveries with current requests. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250539 | Shape based picture search - The present application relates to a method for implementing picture search and a website server thereof. A method for implementing picture search includes: classifying, according to keywords in advance in a picture database, corresponding pictures by shape of objects in the pictures, and determining a sample picture for each shape type; wherein, after a server receives a picture search request sent from a client, the method includes: searching, by the server, in the picture database for the sample picture of several shape types classified in advance corresponding to the keywords in said search request, and returning, to the client, the searched sample picture of the several shape types; receiving, by the server, the sample picture of a certain shape type determined by the client, and searching, in the picture database for the pictures which correspond to said keywords and satisfy a predetermined request with the characteristic value of said determined sample pictures; returning, by the server, said found pictures to the client. The present application enables the user to search pictures of similar shapes according to the shape types, thereby satisfying the user's search demands. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250540 | METHOD FOR MANAGING A RELATIONAL DATABASE OF THE SQL TYPE - A method is provided for managing a relational database of the SQL type for information technology and network infrastructure service information, including a method in which the following are created, in a system for managing a database of the MySQL type,
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20100250541 | TARGETED DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENTS IN AN ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for improved electronic discovery. More specifically, embodiments relate to computer program products for targeted document review assignments by determining concept-related data groupings within the overall corpus of data associated with a case and assembling the targeted document review assignments based on the concept-related data groupings. As such, document reviewers are presented with assignments that have highly conceptually-related documents, which results in further efficiency in the review process. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250542 | DATA CLASSIFICATION METHOD AND DATA CLASSIFICATION DEVICE - A separation surface set storage part stores information defining a plurality of separation surfaces which separate a feature space into at least one known class region respectively corresponding to at least one known class and an unknown class region. Each of the at least one known class region is separated from outside region by more than one of the plurality of separation surfaces which do not intersect to each other. A data classification apparatus determine a classification of a classification target data whose inner product in the feature space is calculable by calculating to which region of the at least one known class region and the unknown class region determined by the information stored in the separation surface set storage part the classification target data belongs. A method and apparatus for data classification which can simultaneously perform identification and outlying value classification with high reliability in a same procedure are provided. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250543 | EFFICIENT HANDLING OF MULTIPART QUERIES AGAINST RELATIONAL DATA - A query having multiple parts may be processed to form an intermediate results set. This intermediate results set may be partitioned into a plurality of groups. Thereafter, the groups may be sorted into a plurality of containers so that each container contains data sufficient to calculate one requested result in the multipart query. Related techniques, apparatuses, systems, and computer program products are also described. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250544 | PROCESS FOR ORGANIZING MULTIMEDIA DATA - A multimedia data organization process, i.e. creation, of a photo album or slideshow, said multimedia data being represented by contingent individuals ( | 2010-09-30 |
20100250545 | Drug fractional system using generic group code and universal drug number and method thereof - A drug classification system using a generic group code and a universal drug number is developed to determine whether the drug comprises a single formulation or a composite formulation using the generic group code, understands an administration type, dose and/or formulation type of the drug, registers a universal drug number for the drug in association with the generic group code, traces back the generic group code from the universal drug number, and identifies a company name and a trade name of the drug which in turn rapidly and easily recognizes the drug; and, in addition, a drug classification method using the same. The system may manage the generic group code and the universal drug number in association with the company code, thereby enabling quick and exact management of drug information. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250546 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING BANDWIDTH EFFICIENCY IN A COMPUTER NETWORK - A method for operating a server to improve bandwidth efficiency in a computer network is disclosed. The server is operable to transmit files between a memory of the server and destinations on the computer network through a communication link having a finite bandwidth. The files are distinguishable by type and the server is provided with a rule set for prioritizing transmission of files by type. The method comprises monitoring a bandwidth usage of the communication link, and triggering application of the rule set when the bandwidth usage exceeds a threshold amount. The threshold amount is determined relative to the finite bandwidth. The method further comprises distinguishing between the files according to type, and prioritizing transmission of the files according to type and according to the rule set. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250547 | System for Automatically Generating Queries - A method, system and article of manufacture therefor, are disclosed for automatically generating a query from document content. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250548 | INFORMATION TERMINAL EQUIPPED WITH CONTENT SEARCH SYSTEM - An information terminal equipped with a content search system is provided. The information terminal receives a query from a user, analyzes the query, determines a search type on the basis of the result of the analysis, searches for content items corresponding to the query according to the search type, and displays the content items, wherein the information terminal receives a content item selected by the user from the displayed content items, and reads and provides content corresponding to the content item from the content database. Therefore, the information terminal organically combines an information search technique with a content providing technique so that a user can quickly and conveniently search for his or her desired content. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250549 | STORING A VARIABLE NUMBER OF INSTANCES OF DATA OBJECTS - Described are systems and methods for storing a variable number of instances of data objects (e.g., 1, 2, 3, or up to N-1 instances, where N is the number of instances of the data object included in primary data) in secondary storage across a data storage network. In some examples, a system for storing a variable number of instances of data objects includes, one or more computing devices storing a set of data objects and multiple storage devices distinct from the one or more computing devices. Each of the multiple storage devices is configured to store at least a single instance of a data object. The system also includes a database configured to store information associated with the data objects. This information includes substantially unique identifiers for the data objects and, for each of the data objects, a number of instances of the data object stored on the multiple storage devices. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250550 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND DATA STRUCTURE FOR PROVIDING ACCESS TO INTERRELATED SOURCES OF INFORMATION - A system, method, and data structure for storing and accessing interrelated data pertaining to a given subject is disclosed. The system includes a user module and a service module, wherein said service module contains a data storage component. The system facilitates reviewing sources of information that relate to particular subject. Where there sources of information can or must be understood in the context of other sources of information, the present invention also comprises a data structure and method of populating said data structure that facilitates searching and access to any related sources of information. The disclosed invention includes embodiments wherein the sources of information can consist of many different formats. Whereas many user modules can access the service module from any location, searching and accessing of any of said information sources can be reviewed in their full context, as defined by the related sources of information, from any location that has access to the communication medium connecting the user and service modules. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250551 | XML DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND XML DATA PROCESSING CONTROL PROGRAM USED FOR THE SYSTEM - XML analyzer | 2010-09-30 |
20100250552 | INDEXING DOCUMENTS ACCORDING TO GEOGRAPHICAL RELEVANCE - A local search engine efficiently indexes documents relevant to a geographical area by indexing, for each document, multiple location identifiers that collectively define an aggregate geographic region. When creating the index, the search engine may determine a set of geographical areas surrounding a geographical area relevant to a document and associate references to the set of geographical areas with the document index. | 2010-09-30 |