44th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 57 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100280948 | Systems for Financial and Electronic Commerce - A system for electronic commerce including electronic banking tools, products and services. The system includes customizable banking products and cards, and methods and systems for conducting financial transactions and maintaining records over the Internet. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280949 | CROSS-BORDER OR INTER-CURRENCY TRANSACTION SYSTEM - A cross-border financial transaction system is provided in which a local financial institution has a computerised server facility in which multiple system members have each been allocated an account and a foreign financial institution has also been allocated an account and wherein the server facility is programmed to operate a member activated financial transaction system wherein a system member is able to conduct financial transactions by the remote operation of a communications device to transfer money from one financial account in the local financial institution to another financial account. The system is further enabled to reserve funds available in any account during the process of executing a financial transaction initiated by a system member. The server facility is programmed to receive instructions from a system member to execute a cross-border financial transaction; to reserve relevant funds from the instructing system member's account; to communicate information concerning the financial transaction to the said foreign financial institution and to receive a report from the foreign financial institution reporting as to the success, or otherwise of the transaction and transfer the reserved funds appropriately. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280950 | TRANSACTION AUTHORIZATION USING TIME-DEPENDENT TRANSACTION PATTERNS - Systems, apparatus, and methods for authorizing a transaction initiated by a consumer are provided. A likelihood function can approximate a pattern of previous transactions and provide a measure of how likely it is for a transaction to occur as a function of time. The time of a current transaction can be used to determine a corresponding likelihood value of a likelihood function associated with the transaction. The likelihood value can then be used to determine a score for authorizing the transaction. As the likelihood corresponds to a particular time of a pattern, the score can be tailored to the current transaction and achieve greater accuracy. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280951 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A PAYMENT SYSTEM OVER A NETWORK - Apparatus and methods provide an accumulator that processes electronic payments from an employer to a recipient via a network. The payments processed may be, for example, child support payments collected from an employee by the employer. The employer may submit one transaction made up of payments collected from multiple employees bound for multiple recipients and the accumulator may receive, translate, batch, and deliver the payments to the multiple recipients. The accumulator, employers, and recipients may communicate via a network such as the Internet. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280952 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING VERIFICATION AND PAYMENT IN CONTENT SERVICE - Method for implementing verification and payment in content services is provided. The method includes: pre-configuring a payment-related interface between a content service provider and an instant messaging service provider; providing the payment-related interface in a function library which further provides the instant messaging service's login verification interface; modifying the function library and a first jar package including a content service program provided by the content service provider, which includes: injecting the login verification interface and the payment-related interface provided in the function library into the first jar package and configuring the login verification interface as to be called before the content service program is executed; and combining the modified first jar package and function library to form a second jar package, modifying the value of attributes originally belonging to the first jar package in the second jar package to make the modified value of the attributes reflect corresponding attributes of the second jar package. A corresponding apparatus and system are also provided. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280953 | CONTENT DOWNLOAD SYSTEM, CONTENT DOWNLOAD METHOD, CONTENT SUPPLYING APPARATUS, CONTENT SUPPLYING METHOD, CONTENT RECEIVING APPARATUS, CONTENT RECEIVING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a content download system and content download method, content supplying device and content supplying method, content receiving device, content receiving method, and program, whereby a system corresponding to various types of operating modes of content download services can be realized. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280954 | EXTENSIBLE MEDIA RIGHTS - A DRM System. A DRM system comprising a service provider, a CE device coupled to the service provider, and an XMR license disposed upon the CE device. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280955 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VERIFYING IDENTITY - Systems and methods of verifying identity through the use of a plurality of identifying devices is provided. The identity information may be acquired electronically from a plurality of identity devices, which may include credit cards, cell phones, or other personal items fitted with wireless communicators such as RFID tags, for example. In various embodiments, the transaction may be approved or denied based on a number of factors, including the number identity devices, the types of identity information provided by the identity devices, and the level of security specified for the requested transaction. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280956 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONDUCTING COMMERCE IN A VEHICLE - A system for a vehicle and for conducting a transaction with a remote system includes a circuit configured to wirelessly obtain data from a payment mechanism brought into the vehicle and to wirelessly transmit the data to the remote system. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280957 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENABLING INTERACTION WITH DYNAMIC SECURITY - A code-generating device is for enabling interaction with dynamic security between a user and a transaction service provider. The code-generating device includes at least one information acquisition device and processing circuitry. In at least one embodiment, the processing circuitry is configured to receive, via the at least one information acquisition device, a transaction-specific code generated by the transaction service provider, evaluate the transaction-specific code, perform, based on the evaluation of the transaction-specific code, a transaction-specific sequence of functions, each involving prompting the user to indicate a respective function-related value, resulting in a sequence of function-related values indicated by the user, and determine a transaction-specific response code based on the sequence of function-related values, thereby enabling secure authentication of the transaction. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280958 | SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING USER ACCESS TO A SERVICE - The invention concerns a system for controlling user access to a service having a read device ( | 2010-11-04 |
20100280959 | REAL-TIME SOURCING OF SERVICE PROVIDERS - A real-time sourcing system is described herein that matches consumers with service requests to providers that perform the requested services. In addition, the system automates communication between consumers and providers. The real-time sourcing system provides automated and integrated end-to-end management of a transaction. The system receives a request from a consumer that describes a particular service needed by the consumer, and sends notifications to registered providers based on the requested service. The system receives an offer from one or more notified providers that indicates terms under which the provider would perform the requested service, and sends offers that match the consumer's criteria to the consumer for evaluation. The system receives an acceptance of an offer from the consumer. Thus, the real-time sourcing system reduces the time involved with finding providers to perform services, and provides consumers with more relevant selections of providers to perform services. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280960 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR NEGOTIATING DISCOUNT OFFERS - Apparatus, systems, and methodologies are provided that facilitate negotiating discount offers. Mobile devices are equipped to detect product identification data from a barcode or RFID tag. The product identification data can be wirelessly transmitted to a discount negotiator which calculates a discount offer for the product and sends a discount offer back to the mobile device while the customer is considering whether to purchase the product. The discount negotiator calculates the discount offers based on a set of rules which may account for one or more factors, including the expiration date of a product, the quantity being purchased, product bundling, and/or the like. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280961 | Method and arrangement for Network QoS - Methods and arrangements for service specific configuration of QoS, preferably end-to-end QoS, in a data network by establishing a service specific QoS configuration in a client device. The client device is adapted to be connected to a data network. The data network comprises a service management server. The method comprises the steps of sending a request message comprising a service configuration to the server and receiving an acknowledgement message comprising the service configuration requested by the client device, from the server. The requested service configuration comprises information regarding service specific QoS configuration. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280962 | AUTOMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A WEB-BASED IMPLEMENTATION PORTAL - Online collaboration through a web portal facilitates effective communication among all parties, regardless of their geographical and organizational boundaries. With the disclosed web-based implementation portal, project implementation according to various embodiments of the present invention, is no longer an abstract list of service pledges by banks Companies can visualize at each stage exactly how a solution will be implemented for them. In some embodiments, through embedded workflow steps and pre-defined templates, the portal can standardize and automate the customer onboarding process. The process can be standardized and automated from the time the customer confirms subscription to specific commercial solutions to the time when these commercial products are implemented and used by the customer. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280963 | PRODUCT RECALL SERVICE - Participating merchants send transaction data to a Product Recall Service (PRS). Each such transaction data received by the PRS from a merchant identifies a product purchased, an account holder making the purchase, the merchant from which the product was purchased, and an account issued to the account holder by an issuer upon which the transaction was conducted. When a supplier of the product to the merchant announces a recall of the product to the PRS, the PRS mines previously received transaction data, in conjunction with information obtained from transaction handler in a payment processing system, to send announcements to the account holders who conducted transactions to purchase the recalled product, and optionally to assign one or more globally unique identifiers that characterize and specify the product recall. Each account holder can use a web-enabled device to send information to, and receive information from, the PRS. The PRS communicates information received about the product recall to the supplier. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280964 | Issuance, Conveyance and Management of Endorsements - Systems and methods for the issuance, management and conveyance of endorsements to authorities, the system comprising an endorsement issuance module configured to issue an endorsement associated with an endorsee, wherein the endorsement prescribes to specified endorsement issuance rules, an endorsement conveyance module configured to validate the endorsement according to the specified endorsement conveyance rules, and an endorsement management module configured to maintain the specified rules according to an authority. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280965 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTUITIVE MANAGEMENT OF PRIVACY SETTINGS - An approach is provided for intuitive management of privacy settings, which includes receiving data that indicates a contact radius and an information radius. The contact radius is related to how socially close a contact is to a user who is registered with a network service. The information radius is related to how private the information about the user is. In response to a request from the contact for information about the user, information about the user is provided, which has an information radius value in a range that is based on a value of the contact radius associated with the contact. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280966 | Emissions Trading of Travel Avoidance Through Online Web Conferencing - Online web conferencing methods implemented in an information handling system are provided that determine and display various air emission savings and allowances that result from foregoing physical transportation of users on account of meeting by online web conferences. The air emission allowances generated by the methods herein may be traded in climate exchange markets as desired. Reports may be generated that summarize the quantities determined by the models of the embodiments disclosed herein. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280967 | Systems and Methods for Processing Benefits - Systems and methods for processing, for example, childcare benefits include: issuing a benefit card to a childcare customer; receiving a start time for childcare service at a childcare provider, the start time recorded by using the benefit card at a terminal located at the childcare provider at the start of childcare service; receiving an end time for childcare service at the childcare provider, the end time recorded by using the benefit card at a terminal located at the childcare provider at the end of childcare service; computing the childcare benefit eligibility based on the start time, the end time and benefits available for the childcare customer; and paying the childcare provider a payment based on the computed benefit eligibility. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280968 | Interactive Pedestrian Routing Method - The present invention's network-based directions-provision methodology typically features the establishment of two ranking schemes that reversely parallel each other. The “personal” ranking scheme ranks all permitted persons in terms of the degree of access permission with respect to the variously ranked regions of a facility; the lower the personal rank, the fewer the regional ranks to which the person is permitted access. The “regional” ranking scheme ranks all accessible regions in terms of the degree of access permission with respect thereto by the variously ranked permitted persons; the higher the regional rank, the fewer the personal ranks that are permitted access to the region. According to typical inventive practice, a permitted person logs in to request directions, within the facility, from an original location to a destination location; the directions given (textual and/or graphical) are the optimal directions that are consistent with the personal rank of the requestor. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280969 | Method and system for managing pension portfolios - The present invention relates to determining and adjusting the funding adequacy of a pension plan by calculating: a custom liability index, an asset allocation model, a performance attribution model; and managing alpha and beta portfolios, including inputting selected data from an actuarial report based upon benefit schedules and plan contributions; and determining if the assets in the alpha portfolio exceed the growth in liabilities; and if the alpha assets exceed the growth of liabilities; then determining if the excess exceeds a threshold; and if the excess are greater than the threshold then transferring the excess according to a predefined percentage, and reducing the assets in the alpha portfolio by an amount transferred; and calculating a performance attribution; and if the performance attribution is less than required to meet the pension plan benefit obligations then choosing new investments or adding cash and calculating an actuarial analysis for the pension plan. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280970 | METHOD FOR EXECUTING A SINGLE TRANCHE SYNTHETIC ABS DERIVATIVE TRANSACTION - A Single Tranche Synthetic ABS product is designed to replicate economics returns of structured finance collateralized debt obligations (SF CDO) securities and allow parties to express a leveraged and/or correlation view on a custom ABS portfolio by transferring a credit risk of a particular transacted tranche of a portfolio in swap format. The inventions described herein account for an available funds cap risk of the ABS securities within the underlying portfolio in a manner equivalent to a cash analog based on the same underlying portfolio with sequential pay structure. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280971 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTABLISHING, MONITORING, AND RESERVING A GUARANTEED MINIMUM VALUE RETURN ON SELECT INVESTMENTS - The present invention provides a method and system for assuring a minimal guaranteed return on long-term investments, such as mutual funds or variable annuities. The invention includes a method and system for pricing, administration, customer presentation, and reserving relating to the guaranteed minimum return assurance. In addition, the present invention includes a method and system for allowing individual investors to control and easily change their typical asset allocation strategies. In order to accomplish the minimum guaranteed return, the present invention also includes sophisticated projection techniques, such as Monte Carlo simulation of investment performance. The present invention also includes features that allow the tracking of payments and removal of overcontributions from selected accounts, use of reserving techniques, optimizing investment diversification, proposal, issue, and administration of variable annuity riders, such as guaranteed minimum variable income benefit riders and guaranteed minimum income benefit riders, linkable to guaranteed minimum death benefits, and establish a charge for the guarantee. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280972 | System and Method for Locating a Document Containing a Selected Number and Displaying the Number as it Appears in the Document - The disclosure describes a system and method for locating a number in a source document by presenting and manipulating data on private and public companies. A central database of financial information is established. A target entity is entered within the central database by a user, and financial information of the target entity from the central database is displayed. Once a number within the display of financial information is selected, the system and method determines which document is the source document containing the numbers, searches through the source document for the number, identifies the location of the number in the source document and highlights and displays the number as it appears in the source document to the user. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280973 | Linked Information System - A method of simulating an index in a linked information system configured to obtain a set of media content related to at least one tracked theme or topic within a field and to generate a set of links between media content from the set of media content as a function of a relevance to the at least one tracked theme or topic, the method steps of presenting at least one of an initial index or an initial evaluation of events to at least one user, providing mechanisms to enable the at least one user to assign scores to at least one of an initial index or an initial evaluation of events of content from the set of media content, calculating a customized index as a function of the scores, and presenting the customized index to the at least one user. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280974 | AUTOMATED BUNDLE PACKAGE PRICING - An automated system and method for pricing a bundle package based on a weight of a bundle includes an interface, a point of entry and a processor. The interface requests information and displays information. Data relating to the requested information is submitted through the point of entry. The requested information includes dimensions of a booth and a weight of a bundle to be displayed within the booth. The processor receives and controls the data and includes a rules database, a transaction processing system and a calculator. The rules database stores a pre-established set of rules for classifying data into one of a plurality of bundle packages and for associating the bundle packages with a price. The transaction processing system stores and analyzes the submitted data and the pre-established set of rules in the rules database. The calculator determines a bundle package price based on the submitted data and the pre-established rules in the rules database. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280975 | SYSTEMS FOR CLINICAL TRIALS - The invention provides methods and systems for assessing the efficacy of a pharmaceutical which is putatively disease modifying of a cognitive disorder, for use in the treatment or prophylaxis of that cognitive disorder, the method comprising the steps of: (1) stratifying a subject group into at least 2 sub-groups according to a baseline indicator of likely disease progression, (2) treating members of each subject group with the pharmaceutical for a treatment time frame, (3) deriving psychometric and optionally physiological outcome measures for each treated patient group, (4) comparing the outcomes at (3) with a comparator arm of said sub-groups which is optionally a placebo or minimal efficacy comparator arm, (5) using the comparison in (4) to derive an efficacy measure for the pharmaceutical. The methods and systems of the invention address problems such as low rate of decline over the treatment time-frame of patients who have mild-disease severity at baseline and biased withdrawal, particularly in the placebo/comparator treatment arm. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280976 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING INVESTMENT POSITIONS TO INVESTORS - A method includes aggregating investment data and real-time trade data of investors. The method further includes ranking the investors according to investment performance derived from the investment data, and generating ratings for positions held by the investors using the ranking and the real-time trade data. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280977 | System, Program, and Method for Representation, Utilization, and Maintenance of Regulatory Knowledge - A knowledge based system, program, and method for regulatory knowledge representation, utilization, and maintenance is presented. The system, program, and method support advanced reasoning concerning entities and events in order to determine their adherence to regulations and policies, with the specific ability to identify violations of regulations that govern industries such as the financial services industry. Advanced approaches and methods that allow for efficient representation of regulatory knowledge, its utilization and maintenance are specifically defined. Events and actions like, for instance, financial transactions or regulatory compliance violations can be evaluated on an automated basis by applying various approaches and methods using the regulatory knowledge system. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280978 | System and method for utility usage, monitoring and management - Systems and methods are provided for collecting waveform data for a plurality of appliances that may be found in a residential or commercial setting using multi-port outlet monitoring devices to obtain power consumption profiles that indicate power consumption on a per-appliance and/or per-location basis and/or per user basis. The plurality of appliances is reliably identified from the power consumption profiles. In accordance with a method embodiment, waveform data transmitted from an unknown appliance is independently metered via a multi-port monitoring device over an elapsed time period. The metered waveform data is wirelessly transmitted from the multi-port monitoring device to a co-located system controller which constructs an appliance signature. The process may be repeated to generate multiple appliance signatures. The one or more appliance signatures are compared to a database of pre-stored canonical signatures to determine if there is a match to identify the appliance. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280979 | MACHINE LEARNING HYPERPARAMETER ESTIMATION - A method of determining hyperparameters (HP) of a classifier ( | 2010-11-04 |
20100280980 | System and Method for Resolving Gamma Ray Spectra - A system for identifying radionuclide emissions is described. The system includes at least one processor for processing output signals from a radionuclide detecting device, at least one training algorithm run by the at least one processor for analyzing data derived from at least one set of known sample data from the output signals, at least one classification algorithm derived from the training algorithm for classifying unknown sample data, wherein the at least one training algorithm analyzes the at least one sample data set to derive at least one rule used by said classification algorithm for identifying at least one radionuclide emission detected by the detecting device. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280981 | INFORMATION FILTERING SYSTEM, INFORMATION FILTERING METHOD AND INFORMATION FILTERING PROGRAM - A string matching unit | 2010-11-04 |
20100280982 | WATERSHED MEMORY SYSTEMS AND METHODS - An emotional memory control system and method for generating behavior. A sensory encoder provides a condensed encoding of a current circumstance received from an external environment. A memory associated with a regulator recognizes the encoding and activates one or more emotional springs according to a predefined set of instructions. The activated emotional springs can then transmit signals to at least one moment on a fractal moment sheet incorporated with a timeline for each channel in order to form one or more watersheds. An activation magnitude can be calculated for each moment and transmitted to a reaction relay. A synaptic link can then form between the moment and a motor encoder, thereby linking a specific moment with a specific action state. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280983 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING USER'S INTENTION BASED ON MULTIMODAL INFORMATION - Disclosed are an apparatus and method of deducing a user's intention using multimodal information. The user's intention deduction apparatus includes a first predictor to predict a part of a user's intention using at least one piece of motion information, and a second predictor to predict the user's intention using the predicted part of the user's intention and multimodal information received from at least one multimodal sensor. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280984 | METHOD FOR ANALYZING A MULTIMEDIA CONTENT, CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND ANALYSIS DEVICE - A method is provided for analyzing a piece of multimedia content including a time series of elementary entities, in order to check whether or not the piece of multimedia content includes at least one piece of reference content referenced in a content base. The method includes, for at least one elementary entity of the multimedia content and selected according to a predetermined selection rule, or current elementary entity: allocating a plausibility probability to each elementary entity of a set of current candidate elementary entities; allocating a transition probability between the current candidate elementary entity or entities and at least one previous candidate elementary entity; allocating an identification probability of at least one scenario including a time series of candidate elementary entities; deciding the recognition of one of the reference content and/or carrying on the analysis using a subsequent elementary entity of the piece of multimedia content. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280985 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO PREDICT THE LIKELIHOOD OF TOPICS - The present invention relate to a method and system to predict the likelihood of data topics that may occur from data sources. The likelihood of the data topics may be predicted over other dimensions of time or over other dimensions. In the present invention, a topic means a defining characteristic, usually represented as a data element, of a single feature, activity, subject, behavior, event or an aggregation of such defining characteristics. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280986 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TAILORING ACUTE AND CHRONIC VIRAL INFECTION TREATMENTS TO INCREASE THE PROBABILITY OF "CURE" FOR A GIVEN SUBJECT - In various embodiments, systems and methods are provided for increasing the likelihood of a sustained virological response or “cure” using a model of patient physiology incorporating a subjects race, gender, age, weight, concomitant medicines and disease state, immune response status, and responsiveness to drug therapies to simultaneously characterize the change in viral burden in the subject in terms of velocity of viral load decline. In an embodiment, once viral load in a subject is below a physical measurement limit, the model can extrapolate the subject's observed viral velocity toward a physiological target shown to be highly correlated with “cure.” In further embodiments, the model can be used for personalized medicine—“the right drug at the right dose for the right treatment duration for the right patient.” Accordingly, the model can provide optimal value for treatment and reducing the high cost of side effects. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280987 | METHODS AND GENE EXPRESSION SIGNATURE FOR ASSESSING RAS PATHWAY ACTIVITY - Methods, biomarkers, and expression signatures are disclosed for assessing the regulation status of RAS pathway signaling in a cell sample or subject. More specifically, several aspects of the invention provide a set of genes which can be used as biomarkers and gene signatures for evaluating RAS pathway deregulation status in a sample; classifying a cell sample as having a deregulated or regulated RAS signaling pathway; determining whether an agent modulates the RAS signaling pathway in sample; predicting response of a subject to an agent that modulates the RAS signaling pathway; assigning treatment to a subject; and evaluating the pharmacodynamic effects of cancer therapies designed to regulate RAS pathway signaling. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280988 | Detecting, Representing, and Interpreting Three-Space Input: Gestural Continuum Subsuming Freespace, Proximal, and Surface-Contact Modes - Systems and methods for detecting, representing, and interpreting three-space input are described. Embodiments of the system, in the context of an SOE, process low-level data from a plurality of sources of spatial tracking data and analyze these semantically uncorrelated spatiotemporal data and generate high-level gestural events according to dynamically configurable implicit and explicit gesture descriptions. The events produced are suitable for consumption by interactive systems, and the embodiments provide one or more mechanisms for controlling and effecting event distribution to these consumers. The embodiments further provide to the consumers of its events a facility for transforming gestural events among arbitrary spatial and semantic frames of reference. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280989 | ONTOLOGY CREATION BY REFERENCE TO A KNOWLEDGE CORPUS - A computer-implemented method and computer readable media for creating an ontology for a domain by reference to a knowledge corpus comprising linked documents and a category hierarchy wherein each document can be contained in one or more categories and wherein categories can contain one or more other categories. In some embodiments, the method comprises: searching the corpus to identify documents with text that matches a seed domain description; identifying further documents within the corpus that are semantically similar to the identified documents; identifying a subgraph of the category hierarchy that includes the categories assigned to the extracted documents and the further documents; reducing the subgraph to form the ontology by requiring that documents therein be indicative of a second domain description, the second domain description being at least as broad as the seed domain description. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280990 | ETL FOR PROCESS DATA WAREHOUSE - One embodiment is a method extract information technology (IT) events that indicate start and completion times of a business process. The method transforms the IT events into business data changes that are agnostic to multiple different ETL implementation languages and transforms the business data changes into execution data. Execution data is stored in a data warehouse. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280991 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VERSIONING DATA WAREHOUSES - A method, system, and computer program product are disclosed. Exemplary embodiments of the method, system, and computer program product may include hardware, process steps, and computer program instructions for supporting versioning in a data warehouse. The data warehouse may include a data warehouse engine for creating a data warehouse including a fact table and temporary tables. Updated or new data records may be transferred into the data warehouse and bulk loaded into the temporary tables. The updated or new data records may be evaluated for attributes matching existing data records. A version number may be assigned to data records and data records may be marked as being the most current version. Updated and new data records may be bulk loaded from the temporary tables into the fact table when a version number or a version status is calculated. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280992 | System and Method for Photo-image Uplink Confirmation - A system and method are provided for automatic photo-image uplink confirmation. A photo-image discovery device scans communication interfaces for photo-capable devices, and determines if detected photo-capable devices have stored electronically formatted photo-images. The photo-images are acquired into the photo-image discovery device and uploaded to a network-connected storage site. A log is generated chronicling the photo-image upload status. The log is automatically supplied to the photo-capable device sourcing the photo-images, or to a discovery device user interface. In one aspect, the log is supplied in a photo-image file format (e.g., JPEG) for display of a user interface display of the photo-capable device. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280993 | ACTIVE/PUSH NOTIFICATION FACADE FOR A PASSIVE DATABASE SYSTEM - Systems, methods, computer program product embodiments for an active/push notification facade for a passive database are described herein. An embodiment includes an event listener configured to poll (or query) a passive database and selectively retrieve data objects based on the poll results. Such a selective database read operation may be based on the priority of an event occurring in the passive database. If events of a low priority occur, the event listener does not open the passive database immediately to retrieve additional information related to the low priority event but defers reading the passive database by a pre-determined amount of time. If a higher priority event occurs, the passive database is immediately read to retrieve details related to the high priority event from the passive database. In another embodiment, event listener reads the passive database based on event timestamp information in the passive database and stored timestamp information. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280994 | BACKUP METHOD - A method of backing up a backup space includes splitting a complete backup of the backup space into a number of rolling backups, and backing up a portion of unchanged files and all changed and new files on each of the rolling backups. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280995 | FILE SYSTEMS, PROCESSES, CIRCUITS, DEVICES AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS - A computer device ( | 2010-11-04 |
20100280996 | TRANSACTIONAL VIRTUAL DISK WITH DIFFERENTIAL SNAPSHOTS - Some embodiments provide a system that provides a virtual disk in a computer system. During operation, the system stores data for the virtual disk in a virtual disk file on the computer system. Next, the system loads a differential location data structure corresponding to a snapshot of the virtual disk into memory on the computer system and processes input/output (I/O) operations to the virtual disk using the differential location data structure and the virtual disk file. Finally, the system periodically generates a new snapshot of the virtual disk by transactionally committing changes made to the differential location data structure by the I/O operations to the virtual disk file. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280997 | COPYING A DIFFERENTIAL DATA STORE INTO TEMPORARY STORAGE MEDIA IN RESPONSE TO A REQUEST - A plurality of differential data stores are stored in persistent storage media. In response to receiving a first request to store a particular data object, one of the differential data stores that are stored in the persistent storage media is selected, wherein selecting the one differential data store is according to a criterion relating to compression of data objects in the differential data stores. The selected differential data store is copied into temporary storage media, where the copying is not delayed after receiving the first request to await receipt of more requests. The particular data object is inserted into the copy of the selected differential data store in the temporary storage media, where the inserting is performed without having to retrieve more data from the selected differential store in the persistent storage media. The selected differential data store in the persistent storage media is replaced with the copy of the selected differential data store in the temporary storage media that has been modified. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280998 | METADATA FOR DATA STORAGE ARRAY - A data storage array may be made up of several storage devices, each of which may contain array metadata that may allow portions of the storage array to be used. A system may have a file system manager that may receive and respond to file system commands and a storage device manager that may store data on the several storage devices. Array metadata defining where data is stored within the storage array is stored on each device within the array. A policy engine may identify data to be stored on the array and determine if the data contains array metadata or other types of data and may store the data on every device, devices having specific characteristics, two or more devices, or one device. | 2010-11-04 |
20100280999 | ENSURING DATA PERSISTENCE AND CONSISTENCY IN ENTERPRISE STORAGE BACKUP SYSTEMS - Ensuring data persistence and consistency in enterprise storage backup systems method and apparatus are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes creating a data log structure (e.g., a log file) on a storage device (e.g., a Serial ATA drive, a SCSI drive, a SAS drive, a storage are network, etc.) coupled to an application server to store a backup data generated by a filter module in a continuous backup environment and buffering the backup data generated by the filter module through a memory module that transfers the backup data to the data log structure on the storage device based on an occurrence of an event. The data log structure may be created by configuring a portion of the storage device as a dedicated resource available to the memory module to copy the backup data and the data log structure may be a file on the storage device coupled to the application server having the file system. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281000 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PARTIAL DATA SET RECOVERY - A method for data recovery of a data set migrated from a first storage media to a second storage media, where the data set includes a header record and multiple control records interleaved with corresponding data blocks. The header record is examined to identify a number of control records and data blocks comprising the data set. Next, the control records and data blocks are examined in order, starting with an initial data block, until a first data block is identified due to its failure to match the attribute included in the associated control record. Then the control records and data blocks are examined in reverse order, starting with a last data block, until a second data block is identified due to its failure to match an attribute included in the associated control record. Lastly, each data block from the first data block to the second data block are set to a lost data value. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281001 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO RESTORE COMPUTER FILES - A computerized process receives at a processor a request to restore a file to memory. One or more media types and one or more media residencies that are associated with a plurality of backups of the file are identified. Each of the media types and media residencies has a restore factor associated with it. A calculated restore factor is determined for each combination of media type and media residency using the restore factor of each media type and each media residency. A media type and a media residency are selected as a function of the calculated restore factor. The file is restored to memory using the selected media type and the selected media residency. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281002 | ACTIVE DIRECTORY CONTAINER RECOVERY - Methods and systems for performing rapid recovery of deleted object in Active Directory. The invention allows automated recovery of any object at any point in an Active Directory hierarchy. In one embodiment, the method for recovering a deleted object includes determining whether the object of interest is contained in the tombstone and, if not, recursively evaluating higher-order parent nodes until a parent node is found that exists in the tombstone. The object of interest can then be reanimated and its attributes automatically restored as well as those for all of the children of the object of interest. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281003 | SYSTEM AND USES FOR GENERATING DATABASES OF PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURES INVOLVED IN INTER-CHAIN PROTEIN INTERACTIONS - The present invention relates to methods and systems for generating a database of protein secondary structures that are at an interface of a two-chain inter-protein interaction. Collections of secondary structures identified according to the methods disclosed herein, and their use in identifying therapeutic drug candidates potentially effective in modulating a two-chain inter-protein interaction having a secondary structure at its interface, are also disclosed. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281004 | STORING COMPRESSION UNITS IN RELATIONAL TABLES - A database server stores compressed units in data blocks of a database. A table (or data from a plurality of rows thereof) is first compressed into a “compression unit” using any of a wide variety of compression techniques. The compression unit is then stored in one or more data block rows across one or more data blocks. As a result, a single data block row may comprise compressed data for a plurality of table rows, as encoded within the compression unit. Storage of compression units in data blocks maintains compatibility with existing data block-based databases, thus allowing the use of compression units in preexisting databases without modification to the underlying format of the database. The compression units may, for example, co-exist with uncompressed tables. Various techniques allow a database server to optimize access to data in the compression unit, so that the compression is virtually transparent to the user. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281005 | Asynchronous Database Index Maintenance - This disclosure provides techniques for asynchronously maintaining database indexes or sub-indexes. For example, a database management server may receive a data manipulation statement to modify particular data stored in a database and determine whether an index associated with executing the statement is maintained asynchronously. When the index is maintained asynchronously, maintenance of the index to reflect changes made to the particular data by executing the data manipulation statement may be delayed until an index maintenance event. The index maintenance may be based on an isolation level of a transaction including a query that triggered the index maintenance. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281006 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUSPENDING TRANSACTIONS BEING EXECUTED ON DATABASES - A database management system managing one or more databases to suspend access to at least one selected database by one or more processes or applications (e.g., message processing programs, batch messaging programs, etc.). In some instances, the one or more databases may include one or more IMS databases. Access to the at least one selected database may be suspended to enable one or more operations to be performed on the at least one selected database by the database management system and/or an outside entity (e.g., a user, an external application, etc.). For example, the one or more operations may include an imaging operation, a loading operation, an unloading operation, a start operation, a stop operation, and/or other operations. In some instances, access to the at least one selected database may be suspended without canceling transactions being executed by the one or more processes or applications on the selected at least one database. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281007 | Cross-Channel Coauthoring Consistency - A computing device includes a processing unit, and a memory with instructions that, when executed by the processing unit, cause the processing unit to create: a document processing module that processes the creation and editing of document content; and a metadata processing module that generates, monitors and stores metadata for a document on the computing device, the metadata processing module generating lock creation metadata that include information about a new lock that is created when a user begins to edit a portion of a document, lock removal metadata that includes information about removing a lock, and lock deletion metadata that includes information about deleting a lock, the metadata processing module writing lock creation metadata to both a data channel and to a separate metadata channel, the metadata processing module writing lock removal metadata to the data channel and the metadata processing module writing lock deletion metadata to the metadata channel. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281008 | Universal Tracking Agent System and Method - A universal tracking agent system and method are described. The system utilizes a single, universal tag on merchant web pages in a commerce system. The tag collects data for marketing tracking and analysis from a local computer (e.g., a cookie or session variable set on a user computer browser) when the web pages are accessed. The system to receive the data, along with tracking code to collect the data, is determined when the program code accesses a back end database containing records of the marketing providers to which the merchant site subscribes. Only those systems requiring data for a particular user access event receive a report, and each receives a report based on its own requirements. Any changes to providers may be made in the database rather than the web page, providing a very efficient method of changing providers or code without waiting for release schedules or requiring developer resources. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281009 | HIERARCHICAL CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELDS FOR WEB EXTRACTION - A method and system for labeling object information of an information page is provided. A labeling system identifies an object record of an information page based on the labeling of object elements within an object record and labels object elements based on the identification of an object record that contains the object elements. To identify the records and label the elements, the labeling system generates a hierarchical representation of blocks of an information page. The labeling system identifies records and elements within the records by propagating probability-related information of record labels and element labels through the hierarchy of the blocks. The labeling system generates a feature vector for each block to represent the block and calculates a probability of a label for a block being correct based on a score derived from the feature vectors associated with related blocks. The labeling system searches for the labeling of records and elements that has the highest probability of being correct. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281010 | RELAY DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - Provided is a relay device in which when data read from a database is transmitted to external devices and the transmission and reception of the data between the external devices is relayed, the communication load of a communication line can be reduced by reducing the transmitting data amount, and the calculation load of each communication device can be reduced, and furthermore, the calculation load of the relay device itself can be reduced. Data required by in-vehicle devices must be generated from data. The relay device does not send the data that is calculation source data for generating the data to each of the in-vehicle devices, but generates the data that is a calculation result, stores the data in the database, and sends the data to the in-vehicle devices as required. In addition, the relay device determines whether data needed to be generated is required to be regenerated or not and, only when it is determined that the already stored data is old and regeneration of the data is needed, regenerates the data using the data. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281011 | SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE GEOGRAPHIC RANGE OF LOCAL INTENT IN A SEARCH QUERY - A system and method are disclosed for determining the geographic range of a search query. A search query may include local intent which influences the results and advertisements that are displayed in response to the search query. The geographic range associated with the local intent may vary depending on the search query. The geographic range may be determined using probabilistic models that analyze historical searches to determine the geographic range of search queries. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281012 | AUTOMATIC RECOMMENDATION OF VERTICAL SEARCH ENGINES - The automatic search engine recommendation technique described herein automatically recommends topic-specific search engines for user queries. In one embodiment, it automatically matches each query submitted to a non-topic specific or general search engine with one or more vertical search engines using a recommendation model and a set of features. For a given query, one embodiment of the technique suggests vertical search engines and topic-specific search results along with the search results from the general search engine. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281013 | ADAPTIVE MERGING IN DATABASE INDEXES - A method for implementing adaptive merging in database indexes includes selecting a key range from a database query having a range predicate and searching a database for data matching the key range. The data matching the key range is merged to form a collected dataset which is stored for future retrieval. A method for optimizing B-tree representation of a database using actual queries is also provided. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281014 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR QUERYING IN A MULTI-TENANT DATABASE - More efficient querying of a multi-tenant database using dynamic tuning of database indices. A layer of meta-data associates data items with tenants, e.g., via tags, and the meta-data is used to optimize searches by channeling processing resources during a query to only those pieces of data bearing the relevant tenant's unique tag. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281015 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MANAGING A MULTI-TENANT DATABASE SYSTEM - More efficient querying of a multi-tenant database using dynamic tuning of database indices. A layer of meta-data associates data items with tenants, e.g., via tags, and the meta-data is used to optimize searches by channeling processing resources during a query to only those pieces of data bearing the relevant tenant's unique tag. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281016 | MULTI-TENANT DATABASE SYSTEM - More efficient querying of a multi-tenant database using dynamic tuning of database indices. A layer of meta-data associates data items with tenants, e.g., via tags, and the meta-data is used to optimize searches by channeling processing resources during a query to only those pieces of data bearing the relevant tenant's unique tag. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281017 | Partition pruning via query rewrite - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with query pruning via query rewrite are described. One example method includes receiving a query on a partitioned table that will result in a first query plan that includes accessing a local domain index on each partition in the database. The query is rewritten to generate a second query that will result in a second query plan that includes accessing a global domain index instead of the local domain index on each partition in the database. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281018 | SECONDARY INDEX AND INDEXED VIEW MAINTENANCE FOR UPDATES TO COMPLEX TYPES - Pursuant to receipt of a data modification command or statement, such as an Update command, it is determined which fields in a data structure, such as a UDT, computed column, indexed view, or index, for example, will be changed as a result of the command. Only those fields that are affected by the command will be changed. Thus, changes are propagated to only to those dependent data structures whose content is being modified. Tree representations are used to facilitate the determination as to whether a subfield in a hierarchy is changed. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281019 | CREATING INFORMATION MAP APPARATUS AND CREATING INFORMATION MAP METHOD - An information map creating apparatus and method including summing strengths of associations of information elements and creating a duplicate of an information element selected on the basis of the sum of the strengths, calculating strengths, including direct paths, of the associations among the information elements in a state in which some association whose strength is relatively low is excluded from the associations of one of the information elements of a duplicate origin and the information element of a duplicate target, summing the strengths of the associations of each of the information elements, and excluding, from the object to be displayed, an association whose strength is relatively low among the associations of one information element among the information elements, whose strength summed by the summing unit is higher than the others. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281020 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UNIQUELY IDENTIFYING A PERSON TO THE EXCLUSION OF ALL OTHERS - Methods, program products, computer program products and systems for uniquely identifying an individual within a population to the exclusion of all others within the population by comparing data from unique data sources based on the name of the individual for providing a collection of preliminary suspects. An individual search service provider is then searched for additional data relating to the collection of preliminary suspects to locate any potential matches, which are reconciled with data from the unique data sources to locate at least a portion of a unique identifier that may be associated with the individual. The potential matches and portion of the unique identifier are compared with other data records within the individual search data source for locating a complete unique identifier that may be associated with the individual, followed by determining whether or not this complete unique identifier uniquely identifies the individual. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281021 | CUSTOMIZED MULTIFOCAL OPHTHALMIC LENS - System and method for customizing multifocal ophthalmic lenses, such as an intraocular lens (IOL) or the like, that may be tailored for an individual patient or group of patients beyond the selection of a particular IOL power. One or more eye factors of the patient are determined, a set of different multifocal intraocular lenses having a similar base power are determined based on the eye factors, and a multifocal intraocular lens is selected for the patient from the set based on the eye factors. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281022 | ESTIMATING RANK ON GRAPH STREAMS - The rank of nodes in a graph may be inferred from a calculated probability that each node in the graph appears in a single random walk of the graph. Short random walks may be generated for each node in the graph. The generated random walks may be combined to form a longer single random walk. Multiple single random walks may be generated in this fashion. The probability of each node appearing in a single random may be calculated from the generated single random walks. The rank of each node may then be inferred from the calculated probabilities. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281023 | RELEVANCY SCORING USING QUERY STRUCTURE AND DATA STRUCTURE FOR FEDERATED SEARCH - Determining a relevancy ranking score is disclosed. A query is received that includes one or more constraints. One of the one or more constraints includes an operator. A search result based on the query is received. The relevancy ranking score for the received search result is determined based at least in part on the operator associated with the one or more constraints of the query. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281024 | LINEAR COMBINATION OF RANKERS - Described herein is a system that includes a receiver component that receives first scores for training points and second scores for the training points, wherein the first scores are individually assigned to the training points by a first ranker component and the second scores are individually assigned to the training points by a second ranker component. The apparatus further includes a determiner component in communication with the receiver component that automatically outputs a value for a parameter α based at least in part upon the first scores and the second scores, wherein α is used to linearly combine the first ranker component and the second ranker component. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281025 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDATION OF CONTENT ITEMS - A method of generating recommendations for content items comprises providing a domain ontology where concepts are characterized by a term vector with terms and associated weights. Associated term sets, each of which comprises a set of terms that characterize a content item, are further provided. A concept set is generated for each associated term set by determining the concepts of the domain ontology that match the terms of the associated term set. In addition, a user profile for a user is provided where the user profile comprises at least some of the concepts of the ontology coupled with preference weights. Recommendations for content items are generated based on the plurality of associated concept sets and the user profile. The invention may allow improved and/or facilitated generation of recommendations from text based characterizing data. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281026 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING BUNDLE DATA DATABASE STORING DATA ASSOCIATION STRUCTURE - A bundle database management system comprises a search server including a bundle definition unit for defining a core word and a relevant word connected to the core word, and connection relation between the core and relevant words to generate and store bundle data; a description definition unit for defining description data corresponding to the core and relevant words; a search request receiving unit for receiving a search request including a specific search word input by a user; a search result page generating unit for generating a search result page including the bundle data retrieved by the search word as a core word and the description data retrieved by the core word; and a search result page transmitting unit for transmitting the search result page to the user; and a user terminal connected to the search server for transmitting the search request and receiving the search result page. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281027 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATABASE PARTITION - The present invention provides a flexible, dynamic database partition method and system. The method includes the steps of acquiring a data partition rule, where the data partition rule is used to identify a first relationship between a data partition condition and a database partition; establishing a second relationship between the data partition condition and a data partition key based on the data partition rule and a third relationship between the database partition and the data partition key; adding the data partition key to a data item where the data item is stored in the database based on the second relationship between the data partition condition and the data partition key; and storing the data item in the database partition based on the data partition key of the data item. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281028 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INDEXING A DATA STREAM - There are provided methods, computer program products, and systems for indexing a data stream. A method for indexing a data stream having attribute values includes the steps of parsing the data stream, and forming an index of tuples for a subset of attribute values of the data stream. The index is configured for retrieving the top-K tuples that optimize linearly weighted sums of at least some of the attribute values in the subset. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281029 | RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON BRANDING - A method and a system for providing recommendations based on branding are disclosed. For example, a brand preference corresponding to a first brand and a first category may be identified based on user activity. A recommendation is provided to the user based on the brand preference. The recommendation may be provided based on a predetermined brand relationship comprising the first brand associated with the first category, a second brand associated with a second category, and a recommendation score between the first and second categories and brands. The recommendation may provided by accessing a relationships database to determine at least one brand relationship of the brand relationships corresponding to the brand preference. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281030 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT & RETRIEVAL SYSTEM AND DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT & RETRIEVAL METHOD - A document management & retrieval system is configured to: store, for each word in a set of words, appearance positions of the each word in a set of documents as a word index; store, for each tag in a set of tags attached to words, a set of words that appear to a right and left of the each tag, and also store, as a tag LR index, appearance positions of the each tag in a set of documents with a combination of the each tag and a word appearing to its right or a combination of the each tag and a word appearing to its left as a key; and, in a tag search where a query phrase contains words and a tag next to each other, refer to the index with a tag and the word to the right or left of the tag as a key, thereby reducing the size of a document list to be read without needing to have a tag name as a secondary key. A tag is updated by just updating two places in the tag LR index. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281031 | METHODS AND SYSTEM FOR INFORMATION STORAGE ENABLING FAST INFORMATION RETRIEVAL - Methods and apparatus for judicially storing information to enable fast information retrieval are disclosed. The information is organized in information fields each field having a respective set of information elements. Cells of information elements are defined and corresponding information records are cached. The cells may be user defined or formed based on affinity coefficients of pairs of information elements. With a large number of fields, each having a large number of information elements, cells are generated recursively. Each cell is associated with at least one pre-defined query. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281032 | INDEX COMPRESSION - Systems and methods for compressing an index are described. In one exemplary method, the results of a search are annotated and then encoded into one or more chunks of compressed data in accordance with the annotations of the results. The annotations include an indication of a best encoding method selected from a set of available encoding methods, and an indication of whether to switch to a new chunk during encoding or to continue encoding in the current chunk. Other methods are described and data processing systems and machine readable media are also described. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281033 | Ranking System - Ranking systems are described. In an embodiment a large scale data center has peta bytes of items and a query engine is provided to find the top k most frequently occurring items. In embodiments, samples are taken from the data center at least until a specified number of samplings is met, or until a stopping rule is met. In examples, the samples form a sample sketch which is used to find the top k most frequently occurring items without the need to examine every item in the data center. In other examples, the number of samplings or stopping rule is varied to provide ranks or frequencies. In other embodiments the ranking system operates on items having values to find separators which divide the items into bins such that the proportion of the items in each bin is different. For example, a data set may be apportioned to different types of processor. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281034 | Query-Independent Entity Importance in Books - A corpus contains information including text from books and metadata about the books. The book texts mention entities of various types, such as location, date, event, and person entities. An entity importance engine analyzes the information in the corpus to identify the entities mentioned therein, and ranks the entities using query-independent importance scores. The importance scores can be based in part on the contexts in which the entities are mentioned by the books. A presentation engine enables searching of the corpus to identify books satisfying a search query. The presentation engine presents information about a designated book. Entities mentioned in the book are presented in a style selected to enhance comprehension and utility. For example, location entities can be presented on a map with markers showing the locations of the entities. The number of entities presented are limited and ordered based on the query-independent importance scores. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281035 | Method and System of Prioritising Operations On Network Objects - A method and system for prioritising operations on network objects are provided. The method includes gathering Web 2.0 available relationship data on the relationships between network entities, wherein network entities are network users and network objects. The relationship data for a network entity is analysed and a first relative score is determined based on the relationship data. For a network object, a second relative score is determined which is a dynamic score based on user interactions with the network object and formed using the first relative scores of network entities interacting with the object. The method then prioritizes an operation on a network object using the second relative score. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281036 | INFORMATION SEARCH SUPPORT METHOD AND INFORMATION SEARCH SUPPORT DEVICE - An information search support device includes: a cluster selection history information accumulation unit which accumulates content information of each cluster and cluster selection history information indicating a cluster selected by a user; a degree of certainty calculation unit which calculates a degree of certainty indicating a degree to which a vague search target of the user has been identified, based the cluster selection history information accumulated; a search target estimation unit which obtains a condition for estimating the search target; a search-omitted information extraction unit which extracts search-omitted information that is included in the cluster that is not selected and is estimated from the obtained condition; and a search-omitted information addition unit which adds, to the cluster selected by the user, the extracted search-omitted information, in the case where the degree of certainty is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281037 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CASE-BASED DECISION SUPPORT - This invention relates to a method and device for case-based decision support. It proposes that a case-based decision support system is trained on inputs from several radiologists in order to have a “baseline” system, and then the system provides an option to a radiologist to refine the baseline system based on his/her inputs which either refine weights of features for similarity distance computation directly or provide new similarity ground truth clusters. By enabling modifying the similarity distance computation based on user inputs, this invention adapts similarity ground truth to different users with different experience and/or different opinions. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281038 | HANDLING AND DISPLAYING OF LARGE FILE COLLECTIONS - An apparatus comprising a controller. The controller is configured to display a file collection, to receive input indicating a sort option, to search said file collection to find files matching said sort option, and to display said files matching said sorting option in response thereto. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281039 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR LOCATING NETWORK FILES - A method for accessing web pages on a network is disclosed. The method comprises transferring a portion of a web page from a server computer to a display device over the network. The portion of the web page includes a selector allowing the user to concurrently select respective values for two or more dimensions. A user's choice is detected, to indicate the value selected for each dimension chosen by the user and a filtering methodology selected by the user for each dimension chosen by the user. The filtering methodology is selected from a plurality of filtering methodologies. One or more web pages associated with information that meets all the respective values for the chosen dimensions are identified in accordance with the corresponding filtering methodologies selected for the chosen dimensions. Information about the identified web pages is sent to the user computer. At least one of the identified web pages includes a plurality of sections. A user's choice is then detected indicating a web page selected by the user from the identified web pages. Only sections of the web page selected by the user that meet the respective values for the chosen dimensions and the corresponding filtering methodologies are sent to the user computer. Signals provided by a document creator are accepted via the user input device to create a document, the document having a plurality of sections. Signals provided by the document creator are accepted via the user input device to assign a value for at least one dimension to each section of the document. A first section of the document and a second section of the document are associated with different values for the same dimension. The user is given access to the plurality of sections of the document based on the values assigned to the corresponding dimensions by the document creator. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281040 | Filename Segmentation Based Client Server File Management System for Non-Hierarchical Classification - In the client server based file management system the filename contains segments delimited by a specified character that describe the content of the file with respect to different dimensions. Upon uploading the file from the client application to the server the file can be associated with entries of a file schema. Users may filter the system for files that satisfy specified criteria for specified dimensions. The sequence in which filters can be applied and the data can be explored is not bound by any particular sequence or hierarchical order dictated by the system. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281041 | Target advertising to a specific user offered through an intermediary internet service provider, server or wireless network - An advertising method controls the display of information on a client device. A user accesses first content on a server and a first link reference to second content is created. The first content and the first link reference are displayed in separate areas. User interaction with the first link reference sends second content to replace the first content on the content display area of the client computer. The second content includes a second link reference which can redirect the user to the hosting location of the second content. The server may operate as a wireless node. The first content is optionally parsed to key words or objects and the parsed content is used to identify the second content. Optionally, receiving data from a user's wireless device relates to user location; and, the location data is used to identify the second content. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281042 | Method and System for Transforming and Delivering Video File Content for Mobile Devices - A method and system for accessing video file content is provided. When a user encounters a web page with video content, the user can select to view the video content and wait for the server to transcode the video file and to stream the transcoded video file to the user's client device. Alternatively, the user may request that the server transcode the video file and to send the transcoded video file to the user's device, where the transcoded video file will be stored. While waiting for the video to be transcoded, the user may browse other websites, for example. In addition, a user may a request may request that the server transcode the video file and to stream the transcoded video file to the user's device in real-time. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281043 | Fuzzy Database Matching - A method of improving the speed with which a sample such as a biometric sample can be fuzzily matched against records in a database, comprises extracting characteristics from the sample, and using those extracted characteristics as indexes ( | 2010-11-04 |
20100281044 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING A PROFILED SOCIAL NETWORK - Presented is a computer implemented method and system for creating a profiled social network. The method includes mapping at least one identity to each node in the plurality of nodes, defining a profile for each node in the plurality of nodes, identifying a relationship between the at least two nodes in the plurality of nodes, defining a profile for the relationship between the at least two nodes in the plurality of nodes, and forming a collection of profiles defined for all relationships between the plurality of nodes. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281045 | Methods and systems for representing, using and displaying time-varying information on the semantic web - Methods and systems for providing start and stop properties to Semantic Web structured resources and statements are disclosed. The start and stop properties can specify a lifetime during which a resource or statement can be valid. A call or query to one or more resources can return statement data including the start and stop properties for the resources and/or statements. Dates can be specified with the call or query such that the returned resources and statements have lifetimes including the specified dates. Screen images of the data can display subject and object nodes and predicate arcs for the selected dates. A sequence of screen images can display a timeline of nodes and arcs by adding or hiding nodes and arcs to correspond with the start and stop properties of the statements. Tools are provided for the user to navigate through the sequence. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281046 | Method and web server of processing a dynamic picture for searching purpose - A method of processing dynamic pictures for searching purposes allows a user using a web server or PC to extract multiple still pictures from a dynamic picture. A user can input text information for at least one still picture. The text information can be used as search information so that a specific section of the dynamic picture can be found during a search for the dynamic picture. | 2010-11-04 |
20100281047 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING DROP DOWN LIST BOXES - A method and system for displaying a drop down list box. The method and system may include associating a history record with a drop down list box. The method and system may also include associating a filter box with the drop down list box. the method and system may also include associating a unique identifier with each choice in the drop down list box. The method and system may also include associating a hierarchical structure containing more detailed information about choices in the drop down list box with the drop down list box. Finally, the method and system may include displaying the choices in the drop down list box to a user as a function of at least one of the associated history record, filter box, unique identifier, or hierarchical structure. | 2010-11-04 |