| 48th week of 2008 patent applcation highlights part 56 |
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| 20080294582 | DYNAMIC DOMAIN ABSTRACTION THROUGH META-ANALYSIS - A modeled-based reasoning system and method including dynamic domain abstraction, includes the use of an abstraction determining module configured to identify an appropriate abstraction level for a system model of a real-world system to be analyzed, from a plurality of potential abstraction levels. A system reasoning module is configured to perform analysis on the system model of the real-world system at the abstraction level determined to be appropriate by the abstraction determining module. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294583 | SIMILARITY MATCHING OF A COMPETITOR'S PRODUCTS - In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for identifying a classification scheme associated with product attributes of a grouping of products of an entity, receiving a record of data relating to an item of a competitor to the entity, the classification of which is uncertain, receiving a dictionary of attributes associated with products, and assigning a product code to the item, based on probabilistic matching among the attributes in the classification scheme, the attributes in the dictionary of attributes and at least one known attribute of the item. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294584 | Customized electronic newspapers and advertisements - This invention relates to customized electronic identification of desirable objects, such as news articles, in an electronic media environment, and in particular to a system that automatically constructs both a “target profile” for each target object in the electronic media based, for example, on the frequency with which each word appears in an article relative to its overall frequency of use in all articles, as well as a “target profile interest summary” for each user, which target profile interest summary describes the user's interest level in various types of target objects. The system then evaluates the target profiles against the users' target profile interest summaries to generate a user-customized rank ordered listing of target objects most likely to be of interest to each user so that the user can select from among these potentially relevant target objects, which were automatically selected by this system from the plethora of target objects that are profiled on the electronic media. Users' target profile interest summaries can be used to efficiently organize the distribution of information in a large scale system consisting of many users interconnected by means of a communication network. Additionally, a cryptographically-based pseudonym proxy server is provided to ensure the privacy of a user's target profile interest summary, by giving the user control over the ability of third parties to access this summary and to identify or contact the user. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294585 | Real-Time Business Process Triggering System and Method Using Rfid - Provided is a real-time business process triggering system (RBPTS) using a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and a method thereof. The RBPTS is to provides interface to a corporation information system by generating an RFID event proper to a specific domain by giving the RFID data a business meaning to apply the RFID data to a predetermined rule before transmitting the RFID data to the corporation information system, provide a rule modeling function to flexibly managing changes in application field and environment, and provide an RFID related-action related to rule performance, and a method thereof. The RBPTS includes: an RFID middleware adapter for receiving RFID data from an RFID middleware/RFID reader and generating RFID events Extensible Markup Language (XML) document; an event manager for receiving the RFID events XML document from the RFID middleware adapter and generating an event query for inference; a rule manager for generating a result set by performing rule inference on the event query through an inference engine and generating an action list; Web Service arbitrator for communicating through Web Service using an external application and a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP); an action manager for performing real-time action by calling the Web Service through the Web Service arbitrator based on the action list; and an event repository for storing and managing registered all RFID event information, rule and action. The RBPTS is applied to maritime freight transportation. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294586 | Enforcing Application and Access Control Policies in an Information Management System with Two or More Interactive Enforcement Points - A method and apparatus for controlling document access and application usage using centrally managed rules. The rules are stored and manipulated in a central rule database via a rule server. Policy enforcers are installed on client systems and/or on servers and perform document access and application usage control for both direct user document accesses and application usage, and application program document accesses by evaluating the rules sent to the policy enforcer. The rule server decides which rules are required by each policy enforcer. A policy enforcer can also perform obligation and remediation operations as a part of rule evaluation. Policy enforcers on client systems and servers can operate autonomously, evaluating policies that have been received, when communications have been discontinued with the rule server. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294587 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RULE SET VALIDATION - A system, method, and computer program for validating a rule set for applicable checks of a part, comprising querying a validation rule set; correlating a part data to said validation rule set; comparing a part against said part data; and whereby said part is approved at an event, and appropriate means and computer-readable instructions. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294588 | Event capture, cross device event correlation, and responsive actions - Correlating security event data according to one or more rules to initiate one or more actions is disclosed. Security event data is received, via an event pipeline, that defines an occurrence of an event. Each type of source of event data may have its own pipeline. Event objects are created from the received security event data, and are gathered into a rules engine. The rules engine includes a plurality of rules. Each rule defines one or more conditions to be met and one or more actions to be taken in response. A rule is evaluated at a frequency over a period of time using data contained within event objects, so to determine whether the one or more conditions defined within the evaluated rule are met. The one or more actions defined by the evaluated rule are initiated whenever the one or more conditions defined by that rule are met. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294589 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING INFERENCES OF UNKNOWN ATTRIBUTES IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - A method and system for determining a probability of inferring an unknown attribute value for an attribute of interest for a target node in a social network. The method comprises the steps of receiving as an input attribute values and link relationships for a plurality of additional nodes in the social network, creating a simplified network using the input values and relationships, and calculating the probability of inferring the unknown attribute value for the target node. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294590 | Reluctant Episodic Memory (REM) to Store Experiences of Everyday Interaction With Objects - A method and system for storing episodic sequences (events and actions). The system learns episodic sequencing by observing real-world events and actions or by receiving fact data from a database storing common sense facts. The episodic sequences are classified into events and actions, processed to indicate correlations and causality between the events and actions, and generated into linked graphs. The linked graphs may then be used to draw inferences, recognize patterns, and make decisions. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294591 | Interactive Computer-Aided Diagnosis - Despite intense research activities in the field of computer-aided diagnosis methods of computer vision, automated classification or comparable algorithmic solutions are not regularly used and even less regularly trusted by physicians. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a confidence interval of the performed diagnosis is visualized and a standardized feedback mechanism is provided which allows for an interactive improvement of the method. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294592 | FRAMEWORK FOR MANAGING ATTRIBUTES OF OBJECTS - A computer implemented method, computer program product, and system for managing objects. Responsive to receiving a find-rule method, and a path-rule table, wherein the path-rule table contains a set of paths, wherein each path references an object, wherein a file system locates the object using the path, and wherein the object has at least one attribute not known to the file system, a path-rule table identifier is created. The path-rule table is associated with the path-rule table identifier to form an associated path-rule table. The find-rule method is associated with the path-rule table identifier to form an associated find-rule method. The path-rule table identifier, the associated path-rule table, and the associated find-rule method are stored. The path-rule table identifier is returned. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294593 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR THE SAME - The present invention maintains the response speed to users operations when operation-target contents are changed and improves the operability in data retrieval operations. An information processing apparatus for reading out content information from a storage unit accumulating the content information and for displaying the content information holds association information that associates each of extraction conditions used for reading out the content information from the storage unit with a corresponding one of memory areas. The apparatus reads out content information from the storage unit according to the extraction conditions and stores the content information in the corresponding memory areas. The apparatus specifies a memory area corresponding to an extraction condition specified by a user based on the association information, reads out the content information from the specified memory area, and displays an image based on the read out content information on a display. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294594 | AUDIT TRAIL MANAGEMENT METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROCESSING PROGRAM - When an access is made to a database from an application in accordance with a request of a user in an application server, thread information and request identification are acquired. The two kinds of information are then delivered to a database connector and are outputted to the database with information outputted by an output function of the database. A request identification information management function holds the request identification information and an audit trail information management function holds the thread information. These kinds of information are collected by an audit trail DB cooperative function and are delivered to the database connector. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294595 | VISUAL INTERFACE TO INDICATE CUSTOM BINNING OF ITEMS - Records representing items in a dimensionally-modeled fact collection are assigned to bins. A count-based portion of a user interface receives user bin assignment specification of the records based on user-specified counts of records. Actual counts for bin assignment are determined by constraining records having a same data value at a specified particular dimension to be within the same bin. A user-observable indication of the determined actual counts is provided. The user interface may include a value-based portion. The value-based portion of the user interface may be operated to receive user indication of bin assignment specification of records based on user-specified at least one value at the particular dimension. Determining actual counts includes reconciling the user indication of bin assignment specification in the count-based portion with the user indication of bin assignment specification in the value-based portion. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294596 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING QUERIES FOR COMBINED HIERARCHICAL DIMENSIONS - An abstract query is received for querying data sources for a combined hierarchical dimension having at least one hierarchy. The abstract query is mapped into data source specific queries by generating context expressions according to the at least one hierarchy. The data source specific queries are executed in an order according to the at least one hierarchy to produce value results for the combined hierarchical dimension. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294597 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING AN INDEX OF A SUBSET OF DATA - The invention is directed to a method, computer program product and computer system for creating an index of a subset of data, comprising:
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| 20080294598 | Electronic Device - An application makes a processor issue a first file access command to a middleware in order to access a file. In response to the first file access command, the middleware makes the processor periodically determine whether file access operation having a higher priority level than file access operation involved with the first file access command is being performed and, in the case where an affirmative determination is made, issue a second file access command corresponding to the first file access command within redundant bandwidth obtained by subtracting guaranteed bandwidth of the high-priority file access from the maximum bandwidth available for accessing the file storage. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294599 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF SEMANTIC TUPLESPACE SYSTEM - A tuple matching method and system includes conducting a plurality of types of matching techniques. The system and method conducts both semantic tuple matching and correlation tuple matching. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294600 | Searching for a Directory in a File System - Methods, apparatus, and products for searching for a directory in a file system are disclosed that include selecting, by a word selection module for inclusion in a word list, a word of text whose frequency of occurrence meets a predefined criterion; inserting, by the word selection module into the word list, the selected word; inserting, by an indexing module into a search index, the selected word in association with the directory name; receiving, by a search module from a user, a search request that includes the selected word; and returning, by the search module to the user in dependence upon the search request and the search index, a search result that includes the directory name. The directory is characterized by a directory name and includes computer storage resources, the computer storage resources including words of text, each word of text characterized by a frequency of occurrence among the computer storage resources. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294601 | Data Relevance Filtering - Data relevance filtering may be provided. First data comprising a plurality of items may be received. Next, relevance information corresponding to the data may be received. The relevance information may comprise a relevance threshold. Then a filter based upon the received relevance information may foe created and the data may be queried using the created liter to create a result. The result may be limited by the relevance threshold and may include a subset of the plurality of ferns included in the data. Next, the result of the data query may be displayed. The result may include a first portion corresponding to the subset of the plurality of items, a second portion indicting a number of items in the plurality of items minus the number of items in the subset of the plurality of items, and a third portion corresponding to negative items within the plurality of items. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294602 | DOMAIN COLLAPSING OF SEARCH RESULTS - Systems, methods, computer-readable media, and graphical user interfaces for presenting search results having collapsed domains are provided. A search result obtaining module obtains search results based upon a received query. Upon obtaining the search results, search results having the same domain are associated with one another. Thereafter, search result clusters of associated search results are formed. In some embodiments, the search result clusters may be formatted to include desired search result cluster attributes. The search result clusters are presented such that two or more associated search results form a single cluster of search results rather than being presented individually. In some embodiments, an option to view more search results with the same domain may be provided. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294603 | Providing Profile Information to Partner Content Providers - In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a search query, at an information provider, from a mobile device; generating a plurality of search results that are responsive to the search query and directed to corresponding content providers that are external to the information provider; identifying one or more search results from the plurality of search results that are directed to partners of the information provider; and providing, to the mobile device, the plurality of search results, wherein the one or more search results directed to partners of the information provider include location information that is stored in a profile maintained by the information provider and associated with the mobile device, wherein the location information is passed to the corresponding partners upon selection of the one or more search results. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294604 | XQUERY JOIN PREDICATE SELECTIVITY ESTIMATION - A method for estimating a selectivity of a join predicate in an XQuery expression is provided. The method provides for determining a first sequence size of a first sequence in the join predicate, determining a second sequence size of a second sequence in the join predicate, determining a type of comparison operator used between the first sequence and the second sequence, estimating the selectivity of the join predicate based on the first sequence size, the second sequence size, and the type of comparison operator used, selecting an execution plan for the XQuery expression based on the selectivity of the join predicate estimated, and executing the XQuery expression using the execution plan selected. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294605 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OFFLINE INDEXING OF CONTENT AND CLASSIFYING STORED DATA - A method and system for creating an index of content without interfering with the source of the content includes an offline content indexing system that creates an index of content from an offline copy of data. The system may associate additional properties or tags with data that are not part of traditional indexing of content, such as the time the content was last available or user attributes associated with the content. Users can search the created index to locate content that is no longer available or based on the associate attributes. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294606 | Aggregating Web Datastore Server for Drilling Information - A method for aggregating data that includes obtaining a log object including a log element, wherein the log element includes oilfield data obtained from a provider, obtaining an aggregation policy for the log element, and aggregating the log element into an aggregated object based on the aggregation policy is disclosed. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294607 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD TO PROVIDE TARGETED CONTENT TO USERS OF SOCIAL NETWORKS - A system, apparatus, and method for providing targeted content to users of a social network. The system, apparatus, and method may be used to provide advertisements, promotions, and other relevant content to a user of a social network based on analysis of the user's preferences, interests, and tastes as expressed in data contained in the user's social network. Additional targeted-content may be selected and provided to a user based on the preferences, interests, and tastes of a user's friends within the social network. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294608 | System for packet interactive multimedia response (PIM2R) and a method of performing the same - A system and method for Packet Interactive Multimedia Response (PIM2R) comprising
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| 20080294609 | CANONICALIZATION OF TERMS IN A KEYWORD-BASED PRESENTATION SYSTEM - A presentation system accepts presentations or references to presentations from prospective presenters. Some or all of the presentations or references are stored in a database and referenced by keywords such that presentations to be presented in response to particular searches can be identified. A presentation manager handles accepting bids and settling terms between prospective presenters. The results of such processes might be stored in a presentation details database. A presentation server handles retrieving presentations from the presentation details database for presentation to users along with requests such as search results. Both the presentation manager and the presentation server can operate on a keywords-basis, wherein presentation terms specify keywords to be associated with particular presentations and the presentation server serves particular presentations based on keywords in a search query for which the presentations are to be returned. The association of keywords can be done using canonicalization so that, under certain conditions, different keywords are treated as the same keyword. Canonicalizations might include plural/singular forms, gender forms, stem word forms, suffix forms, prefix forms, typographical error forms, word order, pattern ignoring, acronyms, stop word elimination, etc. Conditions might include aspects of the search query state, such as the user's demographics, the page from which the search query was initiated, etc. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294610 | DETERMINING VERACITY OF DATA IN A REPOSITORY USING A SEMANTIC NETWORK - A mechanism for determining the veracity of data in a repository. Responsive to receiving a search query from a user, a semantic network is created from the documents in the repository. A determination is made as to whether data from a first document in the semantic network conflicts with data from a second document in the semantic network. If a conflict exists, a determination is made as to whether the data from the first document is obsolete in comparison to data from the second document. If the data from the first document is obsolete in comparison to data from the second document, a portion of the first document corresponding to the obsolete data is automatically annotating with the data from the second document to form an annotated first document. A search result list is then provided to the user comprising the second document and the annotated first document. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294611 | HIERARCHICAL STORAGE MANAGEMENT USING DYNAMIC TABLES OF CONTENTS AND SETS OF TABLES OF CONTENTS - A system, apparatus, and process creates a table of contents (TOC), including one or more table of contents (TOC) entries, to manage data in a hierarchical storage management system. Each TOC entry contains metadata describing the contents and attributes of a data object within an image, which is an aggregation of multiple data objects into a single object for storage management purposes. The TOC is stored in a storage hierarchy, such as magnetic disk, for fast access of and efficient operation on the aggregated TOC entries. The system, apparatus, and process also provide for aggregating the TOC entries from one or more TOCs into a TOC set in the storage management server database. The TOC set may be manipulated and queried in order to find a particular data object or image referenced by a TOC entry. The TOC entries, TOCs, and TOC sets may be dynamically managed by the hierarchical data storage management system through implementation of a set of policy management constructs that define appropriate creation, retention, and movement of the objects within the database and storage hierarchy. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294612 | Method For Generating A Representation Of A Query - This invention relates to a computer-based method for generating a representation of a query for use in performing said query. The method comprises the steps of: retrieving data from a data source; displaying said retrieved data in a plurality of cells, each of said plurality of cells being associated with a cell reference and being capable of containing data from said data source, each cell reference being associated with an expression formulated in a predetermined query language; receiving data indicative of an output cell selected from said plurality of cells; receiving data indicative of a formula for insertion in said selected output cell, said formula comprising a plurality of input cell references, each relating to one of said cells; and converting said formula into a calculation query comprising an output expression and a plurality of input expressions by replacing each of said input cell references in said formula by its associated expression, whereby to generate a representation of said calculation query. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294613 | SQL adapter business service - A Structured Query Language (SQL) adapter business service that converts data from a data set to a common representation format used for all data sets with which the SQL adapter business service interacts. Hence the SQL adapter business service can communicate with various internal and external systems independently of the native format in which those systems maintain and store data. The SQL adapter business service optimizes operations to update data in the data sets by combining operations when possible and by using result sets from executing previous SQL statements to construct subsequent SQL statements. SQL adapter business service takes advantage of parent/child relationships between tables to construct SQL statements in an order such that the SQL statements process only a minimum amount of data, thereby making retrieval of data as efficient as possible. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294614 | STRUCTURED-DOCUMENT PROCESSING - Provides structured-document processing device for detecting a relationship of approximateness between structured documents effectively. State-transition-diagram information storing means stores information concerning a state transition diagram where source nodes of a source structured document transit in order of occurrence from the head thereof. Extracting means extracting, a pair consisting of a new node and a corresponding source node in accordance with order of occurrence. Matching means determining whether the source and new nodes in the selection pair have matchingness, on the basis of their descriptions. Node qualifying means qualifying the source node as a node to be used for the new node. Transition-history information generating means generates, as transition-history information, information concerning a transition history regarding the node to be used. Degree-of-approximateness detecting means detects a degree of approximateness between the source structured document and the new structured document on the basis of the transition-history information. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294615 | Query processing system of a database using multi-operation processing utilizing a synthetic relational operation in consideration of improvement in a processing capability of a join operation - When queries written in SQL are converted into query trees by the query optimizer (S | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294616 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATABASE SEARCHING USING FUZZY RULES - An apparatus and method for database searching using fuzzy rules is presented. The apparatus and method may accept a word or word phrase such as a persons name and returns fuzzy rules for database searching. Applicable search rules are selected and word or word phrase equivalents are displayed to a user. The user accepts or rejects each of the word or word phrase. The word or word phrase along with the user's acceptance or rejection are stored in a sample database. The fuzzy rules are modified according to the data in the sample database. The database is filtered by training and testing portions of the database for accuracy and purging the least accurate portions. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294617 | Probabilistic Recommendation System - A recommendations system uses probabilistic methods to select, from a candidate set of items, a set of items to recommend to a target user. Some embodiments of the methods effectively introduce noise into the recommendations process, causing the recommendations presented to the target user to vary in a controlled manner from one visit to the next. The methods may increase the likelihood that at least some of the items recommended over a sequence of visits will be useful to the target user. Some embodiments of the methods are stateless such that the system need not keep track of which items have been recommended to which users. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294618 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADVANCED HANDLING OF MULTIPLE FORM FIELDS BASED ON RECENT OPERATOR BEHAVIOR - A method, system and computer program product for enhancing the usability of web browsers by analyzing the recent behavior of an operator while executing a search pattern on a computer network. In particular, a browser enhancement utility provides web browsers with the ability to store (for a limited time period) search terms used in a variety of web search patterns. The browser enhancement utility employs ranking algorithms to identify the relationships between searches and a ranking and matching algorithm to utilize stored search terms to find (text) matches in a web document. When the browser displays web pages after a search has occurred, the browser enhancement utility utilizes these matches in order to take actions to enhance document usability. These actions include: Highlighting terms that have been recently searched for; pre-selecting matching terms from drop down boxes or radio buttons; and focusing a web page to relevant sections of text. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294619 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF SEARCH SUGGESTIONS BASED ON RECENT OPERATOR BEHAVIOR - A method, system and computer program product for enhancing the usability of web browsers by analyzing the recent behavior of an operator while executing a search pattern on a computer network. A search history and indexing datastore is defined and associated with the web document parser. The web document parser parses through each returned web page for significant terms that may be of later importance to the user. These terms are then forwarded to the datastore and indexed along with the search term to later provide a historical guide to identify the user's areas/topics of interest. When a search term is entered within the web browser, the search terms is compared against the index of terms for similar terms. The similar terms found are ranked according to closeness to the entered search term, and the ranked terms outputted to the user for possible selection in lieu of the search term. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294620 | User-defined relevance ranking for search - Detailed herein is a technology which, among other things, allows a search engine to utilize a user-defined relevance function. In one approach to the technology, a method of applying a user-defined relevance function is described. In this approach, a complex search query is decomposed into a simple operator. The simple operator is associated with the user-defined relevance function. A document which matches the search query is retrieved, and a rank is calculated for the document, using the user-defined relevance function. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294621 | Recommendation systems and methods using interest correlation - A search technology generates recommendations with minimal user data and participation, and provides better interpretation of user data, such as popularity, thus obtaining breadth and quality in recommendations. It is sensitive to the semantic content of natural language terms and lets users briefly describe the intended recipient (i.e., interests, eccentricities, previously successful gifts). Based on that input, the recommendation software system and method determines the meaning of the entered terms and creatively discover connections to gift recommendations from the vast array of possibilities. The user may then make a selection from these recommendations. The search/recommendation engine allows the user to find gifts through connections that are not limited to previously available information on the Internet. Thus, interests can be connected to buying behavior by relating terms to respective items. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294622 | Ontology based recommendation systems and methods - A search technology generates recommendations with minimal user data and participation, and provides better interpretation of user data, such as popularity, thus obtaining breadth and quality in recommendations. It is sensitive to the semantic content of natural language terms and lets users briefly describe the intended recipient (i.e., interests, eccentricities, previously successful gifts). Based on that input, the recommendation software may determine the meaning of the entered terms and creatively discover connections to gift recommendations from the vast array of possibilities. The user may then make a selection from these recommendations. The engine will allow the user to find gifts through connections that are not limited to previously available information on the Internet. Thus, interests can be connected to buying behavior by relating terms to respective items. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294623 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOVERING FINAL DISPLAY - An apparatus and method of recovering a final display are provided. The apparatus includes a query-string-creating module creating query strings in response to a cursor-request message, a query-string-controlling module creating a first cursor as a result of processing the query strings, and returning the created first cursor to the query-string-creating module, and a cursor-recovery module storing information about the first cursor and recovering information about a second cursor in response to the cursor-request message. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294624 | Recommendation systems and methods using interest correlation - A search technology generates recommendations with minimal user data and participation, and provides better interpretation of user data, such as popularity, thus obtaining breadth and quality in recommendations. It is sensitive to the semantic content of natural language terms taken from user profiles at social networking and online dating applications and blogs. The profiles and blogs can include interests, eccentricities, age, gender, and location information associated with the user. The interest information can include music, movies, sports and personality traits. Based on the user's profile information, the system determines which ad from a stock of ads is best suited to a given profile and delivers that ad. The system can enable advertisers to create and manage online advertising campaigns using a campaign manager in which they attach descriptions to ads in their inventory, thereby generating a profile for each ad which is then compared to the profiles in the target online environment. A user interface can be provided to enable the user to fine-tune product and service recommendation results. The system can be used to match user profiles to provide mate-matching in an online dating environment. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294625 | Item recommendation system - To recommend an item which is highly unexpected to a user because its similarity to user preferences is low and which is useful to the user. A rule that modifies a set of keywords for recommending an item is randomly applied, and a keyword which a user does not prefer is added and a keyword which a user prefers is removed, and then this recommendation result is mixed with a recommendation result of a set of keywords before the above modification, and the mixed result is presented to a user and at the same time the application probability of a rule is learned on the basis of the user's evaluation to a recommended item. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294626 | Method and apparatus for leveraged search and discovery - leveraging properties of trails and resources within - A method of automatically extracting knowledge from user generated trails. The method of this invention provides:
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| 20080294627 | Board Recruiting - Methods, systems, and computer program products for recruiting candidates for a position on a board are described. In a computer system, a degree of matching between a profile of a candidate and a profile of the board is determined, and the candidate is introduced to the board after establishing a mutual interest between the candidate and the board based on the determined degree of match. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294628 | ONTOLOGY-CONTENT-BASED FILTERING METHOD FOR PERSONALIZED NEWSPAPERS - The invention is an ontological-content-based method for filtering and ranking the relevancy of items. The filtering method of the invention utilizes a hierarchical ontology, which considers the distance, or similarity between concepts representing each user to concepts representing each item, according to the position of related concepts in the hierarchical ontology. Based on that, the filtering algorithm computes the similarity between the items and users and rank-orders the items according to their relevancy to each user. The method finds general use in the fields of information filtering and publishing, specifically the production of electronic newspapers for which the invention provides methods of filtering and ranking the relevance of news content to specific readers in order to allow production of personalized electronic newspapers. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294629 | PROCESS FOR FACILITATING A TELEPHONE-BASED SEARCH - The process for facilitating a telephone-based search includes accepting a telephone inquiry, receiving search criteria through the telephone inquiry and searching an electronic database for information relevant to the search criteria. A portion of the search criteria may be received from a software application installed on a telephone. Such search criteria may include a keyword or a category. Next, a search result relating to the search criteria is conveyed in response to the search inquiry. The search result should include a searchable category, a third party or a list of selectable third parties. Accordingly, the telephone inquiry is routed to a third party associated with the search result. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294630 | QUERY STATISTICS PROVIDER - A system to provide search query information. The system receives a request for search query information, identifies a set of search queries from a search query log that includes search queries submitted to a search service over a predetermined length of time, and provides the set of search queries. Each of the set of search queries is associated with at least a predetermined number of unique identifiers. Each of the set of search queries is matched to the request for search query information by a combination of exact matches, expanded matches, and broad matches. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294631 | DESIRE POSTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Systems and methods are provided herein that provide for desire posting. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294632 | Method and System for Sorting/Searching File and Record Media Therefor - A method, a system and a recorded medium for sorting and searching files are disclosed. A method of sorting and searching files have the steps of (a) outputting an annotation interface for an original file selected by a user, (b) receiving annotation details inputted through the annotation interface, (c) generating an annotation file in accordance with the annotation details, and (d) storing the annotation file. With the present invention, the efficient sorting and searching of files can be easily performed by using all kinds of fields stored in a user terminal. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294633 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR TRACKING CONTENT - A system, method, and program product for tracking content are described. Aspects of invention allow bodies of content, whether from a common channel or from different channels, to be compared for relatedness. Comparison of different bodies of content involves analyzing both the actual content, characteristics of the source(s) of the content, and optionally, elapsed time between their respective broadcasts/communications. To this extent, a content similarity value, a source characteristic value and an optional temporal value for the portions of content are determined, and then used to compute a relatedness value of the (bodies of) content. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294634 | SYSTEM AND ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE FOR SEARCHING DOCUMENTS FOR RANGES OF NUMERIC VALUES - Provided are a system and article of manufacture for searching documents for ranges of numeric values. Document identifiers for documents include at least one value that is a member of a set of values. A number of posting lists is generated, wherein each posting list is associated with a range of consecutive values within the set of values and includes document identifiers for documents including at least one value within the range of consecutive values associated with the posting list, and wherein each document identifier is associated with one value in the set of values included in the document identified by the document identifier. The generated posting lists are stored, wherein the posting lists are used to process a query on a range of values within the set of values. A query on a query range of values within the set of values is received and a determination is made of a minimum number of posting lists associated with consecutive values that together include the query range of values. The determined posting lists are merged to form a merged posting list including document identifiers of documents including values within the query range. The document identifiers in the merged posting list are returned. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294635 | System for Conducting Searches on the World Wide Web Enabling the Search Requester to Modifying the Domain Context of a Search Responsive to an Excessive Number of Hits on Combinations of Keywords - The user requesting the search is enabled to analyze the list of excessive hits in a manner organized through a Web content manager on the user's display screen, and reduce the excessive hits through the elimination of extraneous domains or subdomains captured by the search. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294636 | METHOD OF SEARCHING FOR SUPPLEMENTARY DATA RELATED TO CONTENT DATA AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - Provided are a method of receiving metadata including keywords related to content data and searching for supplementary data by using the keywords after the content data is reproduced, and an apparatus therefor. The method comprises receiving content data to be reproduced; receiving metadata including at least one keyword related to the content data; and searching for supplementary data related to the content data by using the at least one keyword included in the metadata. According to the present invention, metadata may be accessed during reproduction of content data or after the content data is completely viewed by using a keyword table, and supplementary data may be easily found in a television (TV) browser, by displaying the keywords as recommended keyword buttons. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294637 | Web-Based User-Interactive Question-Answering Method and System - The disclosed subject matter consists of a system, a website, and their supporting methods for user-interactive question answering. The system consists of a pattern database to store question/answer patterns for users to select when asking/answering questions. Each question pattern may include or be associated with an answer pattern. The system also includes an asking unit to let the users ask questions with or without question patterns and processes users' questions. The system also includes an answering unit to let the users answer questions with or without answer patterns. The invented method and system can significantly improve users' questioning and answering efficiency and also help machines improve the accuracy of processing the questions and answers and accumulate useful knowledge. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294638 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PARSING CONTENTS OF MEMORY DEVICE - A system and a method for parsing and/or modifying content information of a memory device are provided. A definition file including at least one memory address and at least one associated parameter is provided, wherein each of the parameters corresponds to an event description. The memory address is loaded by a user and content information is fetched from the memory device according to the memory address. The content information is compared with the parameter to find a match. Accordingly, an event description corresponding to the match can be automatically acquired and displayed. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294639 | System and Method For Delegating Program Management Authority - A system and method for managing authority granted to third parties to act on the behalf of an organization is disclosed. The system enables program administrators to request authority to manage one or more programs and/or products. A request for authority is submitted to an authorized officer for the organization that the program administrator wishes to act on behalf of. The authorizing office may approve or decline the request as well as assign specific permissions relating to one of more programs and/or product. The system further includes a contact management system providing reporting and hierarchical analysis features relating to program administrators, authorizing officers, account development managers. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294640 | Pop-Up Software Application - An information delivery software application that employs “pop-up” software application technology installed on a user's computer to deliver changing content selected by the computer user. In the present application, the pop-up technology that is used to deliver to the consumer in a controlled and constructive manner to deliver content the user specifically requests, and on a regular schedule that the user has set and can change at will. The content may be data files, including text, audio files, video files, image files, RSS feeds, instant messages, Web pages, Internet hyperlinks and can itself contain links to other data files. Each delivery of content to an end-user is captured and logged as a data exchange event that can be tracked by the deliverer of the content. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294641 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR STORING, ORGANIZING, AND SHARING MULTIMEDIA OBJECTS AND DOCUMENTS - Briefly, the present invention provides electronic methods and apparatus for storing and organizing access restricted multimedia objects. This is accomplished using semantic networks by interactively defining a semantic network, identifying a relationship between nodes by associating a label with each semantic link, attaching multimedia objects to nodes and restricting user access to multimedia objects and/or the semantic network. The method allows users to access and edit the semantic network in a Java-based platform-independent software environment. The present invention further provides a method for multiple users to collaboratively store and organize multimedia objects by providing a shared view via a network while defining the semantic network, identifying the relationship between nodes, and attaching multimedia objects to nodes. The method permits a first user to interactively edit the semantic network, transfer control to a second user, and allow the second user to edit the semantic network while maintaining the shared view. The present invention further provides a method for collaborative platform-independent authoring of multimedia documents, allowing a first user to edit a multimedia document, providing the first and a second user with a shared view of the document via a network, permitting the first user to transfer control of the document to the second user, and allowing the second user to edit the document while maintain the shared view. These tasks are performed in a platform-independent Java-based software environment. The method further comprises restricting access to multimedia documents and/or multimedia objects based on a set of access privileges. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294642 | REMOTE SERVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FUNCTIONALLY CONSTRAINED DATA PROCESSING DEVICES - The subject application is directed to a system and method for a system and method for providing remote service to functionally constrained data processing devices. A server first receives feature identification data representing available services requested from each of a plurality of data processing devices. Instructions corresponding to each of the available services is then stored in association with the server. The feature identification data is then tested so as to determine whether the feature is available locally or requires access to an associated data repository, such as the Internet. The instructions associated with each received feature identification data are then processed so as to complete a corresponding service. The associated repository is then accessed when the result of the testing indicates that the feature is not available locally. Thereafter, result data associated with each requested service is then communicated to the data processing device associated with the service request. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294643 | METHOD OF GENERATING INFORMATION RELATED TO A WEB PAGE - A method of generating information relating to a web page. The method comprises applying a transformation (S | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294644 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEMANTIC PUBLISH-SUBSCRIBE SERVICES - A semantic publish-subscribe system, including: a plurality of subscribers; a plurality of publishers; and a server that receives and stores subscriptions that are described in web ontology language (OWL) graph patterns from the plurality of subscribers and that receives events that are described in semantic graphs formed by OWL assertions from the plurality of publishers, wherein when the server receives an event from a publisher, the server expands the OWL assertions of the event using a reasoner to produce an expanded event, the server matches the expanded event to a subscription, and then, the server notifies a subscriber whose interest matches the event. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294645 | System, method and computer program product for EDI-to-EDI translations - Systems, methods and computer program products for mapping an inbound EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) transaction to one or more outputs are described herein. An embodiment operates by receiving an inbound EDI transaction, and translating the inbound EDI transaction to any combination of EDI outbound transactions and non-EDI outbound transactions. Such translation is performed according to a map file, which is generated as follows. The inbound and any outbound EDI transactions are defined, and templates of the inbound and outbound EDI transactions are also defined. Then, mappings between the template of the inbound EDI transaction and the templates of the outbound EDI transactions are defined. A mapping between the inbound EDI transaction and application data may also be defined, where the application data may include a text file, a XML file, and/or a table of a database. Rules relating to or governing the mapping of the inbound EDI transaction to outputs may also be created. These definitions, mappings and rules are stored in the map file. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294646 | DATA DISTRIBUTING AND ACCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A data distributing and accessing method for sharing a file via a network system includes steps of: dividing the file into a plurality of blocks; distributing the blocks in a plurality of data hosts interconnected via the network system; one of the data hosts receiving a file-reading request from a user host and issuing collecting requests to other data hosts to collect the blocks from the data hosts; and transferring the collected blocks from the data hosts to the user host to be combined into the file. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294647 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MONITOR CONTENT DISTRIBUTED BY THE INTERNET - Methods and apparatus to monitor content distributed by the Internet are disclosed. An example method includes requesting a really simply syndication (RSS) feed file associated with a received topic identification, receiving the RSS feed file identifying a first media content, extracting a first resource identifier for the first media content from the RSS feed file, retrieving the first media content using the first resource identifier, at least one of extracting a first content identification code from the first media content and generating a first signature for the first media content, and storing at least one of the first content identification code and the first signature in a memory. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294648 | Distributed Database System Providing Data and Space Management Methodology - A distributed database system providing data and space management methodology. In one embodiment, for example, a method for transferring a data structure in cache at a first database server to a second database server in a distributed database system comprises steps of: determining a first database server having a data structure in cache in response to a request for the data structure from a second database server, the request including a request for a lock on the data structure; providing the request for the data structure to the first database server; in response, sending the data structure from the first database server to the second database server; and receiving and using the data structure at the second database server without waiting for the lock request to be explicitly granted. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294649 | CONTENTS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE IN CONTENTS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND LINK INFORMATION GENERATING METHOD OF IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - A disclosed contents management system includes a management server for managing contents and an information processing device for performing a process on the contents, which are connected to a network. The management server includes a supplying unit for supplying the contents to the information processing device in response to a request from the information processing device. The information processing device includes an acquiring unit for acquiring reproduction starting point information of the contents, a generating unit for generating, based on the reproduction starting point information acquired by the acquiring unit, link information for accessing the contents, and a storing unit for temporarily storing, in a region of a memory, the link information generated by the generating unit in association with information indicating content of the contents, when a pasting unit pastes the link information onto document data being edited. The contents are accessed based on the link information pasted onto the document data. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294650 | Organizing Media Data Using a Portable Electronic Device - The present invention relates to an electronic communication device, a portable electronic device, a method, a computer program product, a computer program element, and a system for organizing electronic media data in relation to fix points of geographic locations. The method for organizing electronic media data in relation to fix points of geographic locations, according to the present invention, comprises: obtaining at least one said fix point related to a scheme (step | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294651 | Drawing Device for Relationship Diagram of Documents Arranging the Documents in Chronolgical Order - A document correlation diagram drawing device includes extracting means ( | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294652 | Personalized Identification Of System Resources - A processing device may display a representation of a system resource. The system resource may include a menu, a folder, a filename, a shortcut, a textbox, or other resource. The user may make a gesture to indicate a desire to create a personalized identifier for the system resource. The processing device may display a personalized identifier writing area for inputting personalized identifier information. Personalized identifier information may be input via text, speech, digital ink, or other methods. The processing device may permit the user to configure types of information to be stored with personalized identifiers and how the personalized identifier information may be indexed for searching. In one embodiment, the input personalized identifier information may be translated to a second language and indexed for searching. Further, the processing device may permit the user to configure whether or how to display a personalized identifier for a system resource. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294653 | CONDITION BASED SCHEMA EVALUATION - The illustrative embodiments described herein provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for defining a condition based schema for a directory on a directory server. A schema is defined based on a protocol for querying directory services on a directory server. A conditional statement is added to the schema. Responsive to a determination that a first set of attributes within the conditional statement is evaluated to be true, requiring a value for a second set of attributes within the schema to be present in an entry. The conditional statement is enforced by the server rather than by an application accessing the directory. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294654 | Base Tree Node Infrastructure - Methods and apparatuses enable generation of a tree structure that integrates the objects of the tree with access interfaces. A tree worker receives an indication of a base node object of a tree, and a list of children related to the base node object. In response to receiving the indication of the base node object and the list of children, the tree worker can generate a tree structure having the object and its related (children) objects. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294655 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATION OF A USER PROFILE - The invention relates to generation of a user profile for applications and/or services such as e.g. recommendation of content items. Initially, a first user profile is generated at a first user device for a first user. The first user device furthermore stores user contacts for the first user with the user contacts being associated with a social network of the first user. A set of user devices associated with a set of user contacts of the stored user contacts is then determined and at least part of the first user profile is transmitted to this set of user devices. At least one user device generates user profile feedback which is transmitted back to the first user device. The first user device then modifies the first user profile in response to the received user profile feedback. The invention may allow a fast generation of an initial user profile with improved accuracy. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294656 | Loose Pattern Identification Using a Smart Multiset Intersection Approach - A system and method of identifying loose patterns using a smart multiset intersection operation are provided. Data segments are received from a data segmentation algorithm and sorted into corresponding multisets. A retain operation may be performed on the multisets. A normalization operation is then performed on the repeating elements in the multisets to identify the loose pattern. The loose pattern is stored in a database. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294657 | HANDLING ERROR DOCUMENTS IN A TEXT INDEX - Provided are techniques for handling error documents. One or more entries for error documents are stored in a text index. A document with a document identifier is received. It is determined whether the document has an entry in the text index. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294658 | CLUSTERING TRIZ ANALYSIS METHOD - The TRIZ decision process of the clustering method proposed by this invention uses the characteristics and invention rules from the contradiction matrix table resulting from massive quantities of patent inferences to find a similar or approximate character group and invention rule group of the physical meanings, and also applies statistics to calculate the number of display times of the groups to be the basic foundation. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294659 | EFFICIENT XML JOINS - An XML join between XML documents can be performed by comparing XML elements between the XML documents, obtaining join-selection elements from a first XML document, obtaining join-required elements from one or more other XML documents, and performing the XML join using the elements in the first XML document and the join-required elements. The XML documents can be at different locations connected via a network. Where two XML documents are at different locations, the join-selection elements can be transmitted from a first location (of a first XML document) to a second location (of a second XML document). The join-required elements can be obtained at the second location and transmitted back to the first location. The XML join can then be performed at the first location. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294660 | Cluster storage using delta compression - Cluster storage is disclosed. A data stream or a data block is received. The data stream or the data block is broken into segments. For each segment, a cluster node is selected, and in the event that a similar segment to the segment is identified that is already managed by the selected cluster node, a reference to the similar segment and a delta between the similar segment and the segment is caused to be stored on the selected cluster node. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294661 | Handling Large Messages Via Pointer and Log - A computer system with a first messaging application communicates a message to another computer system with a second messaging application via a coupling facility storage device. If the message does not exceed a predetermined threshold, the message is put onto the queue in the coupling facility. If the message does exceed a predetermined threshold, the message is put onto a log associated with the first messaging application and readable by the second messaging application. A pointer to the message is put onto the queue in the coupling facility. The pointer can be used to access the message in the log. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294662 | Method of Management for Map-Type Tour Information - The present invention relates to a method of management for map-type tour information, which allows a travel-lover to record each trip. When coming back from a trip, the traveler organizes the process of the trip. First, a plurality of scenic spot passed through in the trip is labeled on a map. By linking the plurality of scenic spots, a tour route is formed and shown clearly on the map. Then set a link to each of the scenic spots, click the link to each of the scenic spot, and input the introduction, related web addresses, and appraisals to the scenic spots. The present invention provides a method for recording tour information with ease. Thereby a traveler can refer to the tour route of each tour easily, which is helpful for planning tour routes in the future. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294663 | Creation and management of visual timelines - In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for the management and creation of timelines. The timelines may be automatically created based on a user query for information. The query may access a database that contains links to external information sources. The timeline may be accessed through a social network. The timeline may be automatically updated. The timeline may include visual and audio events that may provide additional information to the user. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294664 | MECHANISM FOR SUPPORTING INDEXED TAGGED CONTENT IN A GENERAL PURPOSE DATA STORE - A schema identifies a field in a document as a key field. Using an XML schema, the key field can be identified by attaching a property to the element or attribute to be used as a key field (if the XML schema standard is modified to support properties). Otherwise, attributes can be used to identify the element or attribute that is to be a key field. Fields can be primary keys, secondary keys, or foreign keys, as supported by data stores. The data store can analyze the schema to determine which fields are key fields. The key fields can be duplicated in the native format of the data store for use in indexing, searching, and other data store functions on the documents. The documents themselves can be stored as objects, into which the data store cannot reach, or can be stored in the native format of the data store, as desired. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294665 | Methods and Systems for Handling Data in a Storage Area Network - A method for handling data within a storage area network (SAN), the method comprising receiving by an information handling system, the data from a component of the SAN, the data associated with at least one configuration of the component, converting the data into processed data and providing the processed data to a database. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294666 | Processing a Non-XML Document for Storage in a XML Database - A method for processing a non-XML document for storage in a XML database. The method comprises analyzing the non-XML document and extracting metadata from the non-XML document. The method then generates a shadow XML document for the non-XML document in accordance with a predetermined XML schema, wherein the shadow XML document comprises the metadata extracted from the non-XML document. The XML schema comprises a wrapping element adapted to wrap XML content of an at least partly undefined XML structure. The shadow XML document and the non-XML document are then stored in the XML database. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294667 | METHOD OF COMMUNICATION FOR DATA TRANSFER TO AN ELECTRONIC MICRODEVICE - In a method of communication for the transfer of data for an electronic microdevice ( | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294668 | Storage and Retrieval of Compressed Data in Mixed Mode - Methods of storing and retrieving compressed data and uncompressed data in a mixed mode are described. Generally, the method comprises the steps of compressing a fixed amount of input data within a sequence of frames to provide storage and retrieval in a sequential manner and random manner. The sequence of frames includes at least a first frame and a final frame. Each frame includes a first portion for storing uncompressed data and a second portion for storing compressed data. The uncompressed data is stored within a first portion of the first frame. The compressed data is stored within a second portion of the first frame. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294669 | Program-Data Combining System - Methods for securing at least one program application and data associated with the program application are herein described. In one embodiment, the method includes compressing the program application and data associated with the program application into a program-data combine having a compressed format and storing the program-data combine on a program-data combine computer. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294670 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HIERARCHICAL LOGGING - A method and system to create a logical hierarchy of log files is described. The method records data about each event occurring during a maintenance procedure in a first order log file. Detailed information about the event is redirected to a further order log file. In some case, the hierarchical nature allows the event data to be analyzed and the error causing the event to be corrected without human intervention. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294671 | EXPORTING AGGREGATED AND UN-AGGREGATED DATA - A computer-implemented method, which comprises the following: receiving a graphical selection of a subset of data points from a set of data points, each data point representing at least one record of a dimensionally-modeled fact collection; and exporting information associated with the selected subset of data points. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294672 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISCLOSING RELATIONS BETWEEN ENTITIES IN SUPPORT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM VISUALIZATION AND MANAGEMENT - A relationship visualization system provides a user interface by which a user may select from among entities, elements, and sub-elements as an initial point in a desired relationship for display. The system designates the selected entities, elements, and sub-elements originating endpoints for the desired relationship. The system displays the relationship between entities, elements, and sub-elements to facilitate visualization and management of the information technology system. The relationship comprises a data path. The display of the relationship comprises a graphical view and a tabular view. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294673 | DATA TRANSFER AND STORAGE BASED ON META-DATA - Meta-data is used to generate code which retrieves source data from multiple sources having different formats and places the data into a set of tables having a single schema. Stored procedures access meta-data from a set of meta-data tables, configure one or more destination tables, generate query code from the meta-data and store the source data in the destination tables. When storing the data, data may be replaced or updated as part of storing the source data. The meta-data tables contain meta-data that is combined into code statements by the stored procedures. The code statements are used to retrieve source data from one or more source data stores. Destination tables for storing retrieved data may have a single schema for storing source data, wherein the source data includes several different domains having different numbers of levels and attributes and originates from more than one source. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294674 | Managing Status of Search Index Generation - Electronic items may be searched using search indices. Search indices may be generated for electronic items at a user device. In that case, a list of one or more electronic items stored in memory of the user device may be displayed, and a status of index generation for the electronic items stored in memory of the device may be presented. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294675 | Column file storage estimation tool with text indexes - A technique for estimating the amount of resources that will be needed in order to implement a database service is provided. A method of providing resources for a database service comprises generating an estimate of a size of an index for a data table based on statistics relating to the data table, providing resources based on the generated estimate, and generating the index for the data table and storing the index in the provided resources. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294676 | Compression of tables based on occurrence of values - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for compression of tables based on occurrence of values. In general, a number representing an amount of occurrences of a frequently occurring value in a group of adjacent rows of a column is generated, a vector representing whether the frequently occurring value exists in a row of the column is generated, and the number and the vector are stored to enable searches of the data represented by the number and the vector. The vector may omit a portion representing the group of adjacent rows. The values may be dictionary-based compression values representing business data such as business objects. The compression may be performed in-memory, in parallel, to improve memory utilization, network bandwidth consumption, and processing performance. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294677 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device includes: a creating unit that extracts link information from content, and creates interpage relationship data which includes information between a subject page and linking pages having links from/to the subject page directly or indirectly; a page weight calculating unit that calculates the weight of at least one of the linking pages, based on the interpage relationship data; a tag weight calculating unit that calculates the weight of a tag, based on the weight of the at least one of the linking pages and information about the tag; a tag transmission determining unit that determines which tag is to be transmitted to which page, based on the tag weight; and a page creating unit that creates a new page having the tag added to the subject page, based on the determination result of the tag transmission determining unit. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294678 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATING A SOCIAL NETWORK AND DATA REPOSITORY TO ENABLE MAP CREATION - A system and method for connecting a social network to a geospatial data repository, comprising: accepting geospatial data from a user; linking the geospatial data to the user in the social network; and allowing the geospatial data to be searched and/or combined with other geospatial data from the user or other users in the social network. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294679 | INFORMATION EXTRACTION USING SPATIAL REASONING ON THE CSS2 VISUAL BOX MODEL - A method for extracting tabular information from a web source by determining a plurality of coordinates for a plurality of visualized element nodes on the web source; determining a subset of the plurality of visualized element nodes based on the plurality of coordinates to obtain a candidate web table, wherein each of the subset of the plurality of visualized element nodes constitutes a logical cell of the candidate web table; determining textual content corresponding to the subset of the plurality of visualized element nodes as the textual content would appear after rendering the web source in a browser; and transforming the candidate web table into an explicit representation of relative spatial relation between at least one of the logical cell; and saving the explicit representation in a structured document format. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294680 | Data Navigation Module, Apparatus and Method - A navigation module for a structured database having a multiplicity of dimensions is operative to cause a user interface to display one or more data point values retrieved from the database and to receive user input. The navigation module responds to user selection of one or more presented data point values by causing the user interface to display a first element indicium representative of an element of one or more data point vectors defining a location of the one or more user selected data point values within the database, and to display a second element indicium associated with the first element. The navigation module retrieves from the structured database one or more new data point values corresponding to one or more new data point vectors defined by user selection of the second element indicium, and causes the user interface to display the one or more new data point values. | 2008-11-27 |
| 20080294681 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MATCHING BUYERS AND SELLERS IN AN ANONYMOUS ONLINE MARKETPLACE - In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for matching buyers and sellers in an anonymous online marketplace. One embodiment of a method for defining a community of network users includes collecting data relating to the network users, where the data is of at least one of the following types: demographic information relating to the network users, Internet Protocol address information relating to the network users, and Internet Protocol traffic information relating to the network users. The collected data is then anonymized, where the anonymizing is performed individually for each type of data. The anonymized data is aggregated to generate an activity-to-demographic mapping representative of network activity associated with particular demographics of the community of network users. | 2008-11-27 |
