48th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 59 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130317960 | METHOD FOR THE PROCESSING OF BANKNOTES - A method for the processing of bank notes wherein serial numbers of the bank notes to be processed are ascertained and compared with stored serial numbers in order to control the processing of the bank notes, having a specification of several classes which respectively characterize at least one property of bank notes, an association of at least one of the classes with one or several serial numbers in order to associate at least one property with the bank note provided with the respective serial number, a storage of the respective serial number as well as of the associated class or classes, and a control of the processing of the bank notes by means of the stored classes associated with the respective serial numbers. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317961 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ORDER MATCHING - Systems, methods, apparatuses and articles of manufacture are provided for receiving an order for a quantity of a non-standardized currency at a predicted exchange rate. The order is to be transacted on a fixing date that occurs within a restricted period of time. A selective aiming algorithm is applied to a set of orders. All possible combinations are computed. A selected combination that generates a greatest volume of transactions is selected. An indication that the selected combination has been selected is displayed on a display. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317962 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATION OF ARTICLES OF COMMERCE - The invention is directed to systems and methods for indicating volatility adjusted price information for at least one article of commerce or market therefore, and various tools for providing valuation indicators for both current and historical price activity in terms of valuation rather than absolute price. The invention provides users indicators which quantify the degree in which a market is currently trading at fair value, overvalued or undervalued conditions using enhanced tools. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317963 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CREATING A GOVERNMENT BOND VOLATILITY INDEX AND TRADING DERIVATIVE PRODUCTS THEREON - A computer system for calculating a government bond volatility index comprising memory configured to store at least one program; and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the memory, in which the at least one program, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to receive data regarding options on government bond derivatives; calculate, using the data regarding options on government bond derivatives, the government bond volatility index; and transmit data regarding the government bond volatility index. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317964 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING TRADING DATA - A system and method are provided for presenting trading information. One example method includes displaying a plurality of effective trade indicators corresponding to price levels at which effective trades have been initiated, and displaying trading information corresponding to each effective trade. The effective trades can be determined based on user-configured trade definitions. The trading information can include a traded quantity and profit/loss corresponding to each effective trade. In addition to the trading information, current market information could be displayed as well in relation to the plurality of effective trades. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317965 | NEGOTIATION BLUEPRINT PREPARATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention is directed to a computer-implemented system and method for constructing a negotiation blueprint for a business negotiation. The system and method is designed to facilitate the organized and consistent execution of the process by a single individual or team of individuals working on the negotiation. The method can be organized into two phases: analysis; and execution. The analysis consists of a structured review of the situation surrounding the negotiation from the perspective of each party or counterpart while the execution provides negotiators a structured means of presenting alternatives to the counterpart. The system is preferably a computer based program available over a network that facilitates the execution of the business method by presenting data related to typical negotiations of the type the user is executing. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317966 | APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FACILITATING COMMUNITIES OF SOCIAL NETWORK BASED INVESTMENT - The APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FACILITATING COMMUNITIES OF SOCIAL BASED INVESTMENT (“PAVE™ apparatuses, methods, systems, programs and Interfaces”) Transform User Input into Profile Pages, a Social Networking Platform, Social Based funding agreements and mentorship arrangements. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317967 | BIDDABLE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT, ONLINE COMPETITIVE BIDDING PLATFORM FOR TRADING THEREOF AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM AND METHOD OF TRADING THEREOF - The present invention relates to a new type of biddable financial instrument that can be traded on an online competitive bidding process and system and method of trading thereof specifically designed to accommodate the specific needs of these new biddable financial instruments associated primarily with the introduction in the instruments core of a contractual bidder or new properties like acceleration of term linked with trading on the competitive bidding software. The inventor contemplates the use of a large number of new biddable financial instruments, for example B-VRDOs, B-TOBs, and B-MLVRSs. The platform, system and method of trading associated thereto allows for easy portfolio management, Dutch trading, payment of interest, entry of good to cancel trade orders, priority management tools, acceleration of maturity, and offering on a secondary offering stage non-acquired portions held by the contractual bidder. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317968 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING RETURN OF COLLATERAL IN A SECURED TRANSACTION - A computer-implemented method for mitigating counterparty credit risk exposure in a trade of a financial instrument between a pledgor and a secured party includes receiving at a custodian's computer system an initial margin payment from the pledgor or the secured party, and electronically posting the initial margin payment in a custody account record maintained in a database of the custodian's computer system. The method also includes storing information relating to a control agreement that gives control of the custody account to the pledgor if the secured party defaults on obligations related to the trade of the financial instrument, and wherein the control agreement gives control of the custody account to the secured party if the pledgor defaults on obligations related to the trade of the financial instrument. The method further includes investing the initial margin payment into one or more investment vehicles during a life of the trade. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317969 | EXCHANGE FOR DERIVATIVE PRODUCTS CONTINGENT ON ODDS-BASED MARKETS - A method and system are described for creating an exchange for futures products for odds markets based on binary outcomes. The futures product is based on the value of a particular fixed index or an exchange delivery settlement price in odds form, as recorded or computed at the end of a pre-assigned event or time-horizon. A particular use of this product would be on an exchange for sporting events, where for a given event, an identical interface to that which would currently be available for odds markets is made available, but which would be settled differently from the former, in such a manner as to allow investors to take positions on the movement of the odds without exposure to the final outcome of the event. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317970 | System and Method for Changing Order Priority Levels in an Electronic Trading Environment - A system and method for fee-based order priority level modification in an electronic trading environment are described. When an order reaches an exchange, a priority level of the order may be changed to a higher priority level, and the priority level of the order initially at the higher priority level may be changed to a lower priority level of the received order. In one embodiment, a trader who is gaining a higher priority level will be preferably charged a fee for having his order moved to the higher priority level, and at least a portion of that fee may be paid to a trader who is giving up his high priority level. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317971 | LISTING AND EXPIRING CASH SETTLED ON-THE-RUN TREASURY FUTURES CONTRACTS - The disclosed embodiments relate to determining a listing date, an expiration date and the cash settlement price of a futures contract, i.e. a Treasury Futures, for the delivery of the most recently issued, referred to as an on-the-run, US treasury Note of a particular maturity by reference to the U.S. Treasury Auction cycle and the difference between a resultant industry surveyed swap rate and a resultant industry surveyed swap spread of the respective tenors (time remaining until maturity) of the on-the-run treasury futures. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317972 | SEEDING AND DISCOUNTING CREDITS IN A VIRTUAL CURRENCY SYSTEM - A virtual currency system keeps track of virtual credits, which can be owned, transferred, purchased, and sold by participants in a virtual economy. Each virtual credit has an internal value and an external value, which define, respectively, the exchange rates for creating and redeeming the virtual credits. Upon creation of new virtual credits, the internal value for those credits is the rate for which real currency was paid per credit. The external value sets the rate at which the virtual credits can be redeemed for real currency. Each virtual credit may further have a face value, which is an apparent value of the virtual credit within the virtual economy, giving users a baseline impression for valuing the virtual currency. These features of the virtual currency enable a number of useful actions within the virtual economy, including currency seeding, couponing, and chargebacks. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317973 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING MARKET INFORMATION AND ORDER PLACEMENT IN AN ELECTRONIC TRADING ENVIRONMENT - A system and method are provided for displaying a trading screen and placing an order in an electronic trading environment. The system and method may be used to assist a trader in selecting an item of interest, such as the inside market (best bid and best ask) to be displayed relative to a user configured location on the trading screen, such as the center of the trading screen. In a preferred embodiment, the inside market will stay located relative to center of the trading screen and the price levels associated to the inside market will move as the market conditions fluctuate. Other features and advantages are described herein. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317974 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPILING INFORMATION FOR RESOLVING TRANSACTIONS - A system and method for gathering information pertinent to a transaction, such as one of a plurality of debts, is presented. The design comprises a server arrangement configured to seek information to compile a transaction settlement offer set, the server arrangement configured to seek at least one from a group comprising information related to personal data regarding a user, information related to account data regarding a user account, information related to macroeconomic data, and information related to the transaction. The server arrangement seeks all information from a source separate from the server arrangement and the user. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317975 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERFACING MERCHANTS WITH THIRD-PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS - In an implementation, a transaction request message is received at a computing device, wherein the transaction request message is associated with a merchant. Profile information associated with the merchant is retrieved by the computing device. Based in part on the retrieved profile information associated with the merchant or the transaction request message, third-party service providers associated with the transaction request message are determined by the computing device. Profile information associated with the determined third-party service providers is retrieved by the computing device. Based in part on the retrieved profile information associated with the merchant, the retrieved profile information associated with the determined third-party service providers, or the transaction request message, a formatted transaction request message is generated from the transaction request message by the computing device. The formatted transaction request messages may be provided to the determined third-party service providers by the computing device simultaneously or in the future. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317976 | Proxy Shopper Payments - Methods and systems are provided for facilitating payment by one person for products purchased by another person. For example, payment can be authorized, such a by a payment provider, when the purchaser is authorized to make the purchase, the product purchased is authorized for purchase, and the store at which the product was purchased is authorized for such purchasing by the other person. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317977 | System and Method for Managing Leases of Property - An equipment recovery system receives data relating to leased property and associated lease accounts. The system provides lessees with interactive messages that enable them to make payments or payment commitments. Lessees may also make arrangements to return the property or surrender them to retrieval agents. Messages may be left for lessees, enabling them to contact the system or a call center to remedy delinquent payments or arrange return of the property. The system sends interactive messages to agents of lessors enabling them to: check delinquency or payment status; accept payments; make arrangements for the retrieval of the property; or report the outcome of a retrieval attempt. Contact between the system and either the lessee or the agent may be recorded and data received may be stored and reported. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317978 | APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FACILITATING COMMUNITIES OF SOCIAL NETWORK BASED INVESTMENT - The APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FACILITATING COMMUNITIES OF SOCIAL BASED INVESTMENT (“PAVE™ apparatuses, methods, systems, programs and interfaces”) transform user input into profile pages, a social networking platform, social based funding agreements and mentorship arrangements. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317979 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Charging Batteries - Methods, systems, and products charge a battery in a vehicle. A charging station selects charging parameters based on a vehicle identification number associated with the vehicle. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317980 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO FACILITATE REPEATED PURCHASES - Systems and methods are provided to facilitate repeated purchase and payment transactions. In one aspect, a system includes an interchange and a data storage facility configured to store payment transaction records associated with phone numbers. The interchange includes a common format processor and a plurality of converters to interface with a plurality of different controllers of mobile communications. The converters are configured to communicate with the controllers in different formats and to communicate with the common format processor in a common format. The common format processor is configured to identify a prior payment transaction associated with a phone number in response to a message from a mobile phone having the phone number, communicate with a merchant to repeat a purchase according to the prior payment transaction, and transmit via one of the converters premium messages to the mobile phone to collect funds for a payment to repeat the purchase. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317981 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING PAY-PER-USE DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING RESOURCES - Method, system, apparatus, and computer program and computer program product provide on-demand, scalable computational resources to application providers over a distributed network and system. Resources are made available based on demand for applications. Application providers are charged fees based on the amount of resources utilized to satisfy the needs of the application. In providing compute resources, method and apparatus is capable of rapidly activating a plurality of instances of the applications as demand increases and to halt instances as demand drops. Application providers are charged based on metered amount of computational resources utilized in processing their applications. Application providers access the network to distribute applications onto network to utilize distributed compute resources for processing of the applications. Application providers are further capable of monitoring, updating and replacing distributed applications. Apparatus and system includes plurality of computing resources distributed across a network capable of restoring and snapshotting provisioned applications based on demand. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317982 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS OVER A NETWORK - Systems and methods for facilitating financial transactions over a network include a merchant device, a client device and a payment processing device. The merchant device is adapted to allow a merchant to provide items for purchase via the network. The client device is adapted to allow a user to access the merchant device via the network and view the items for purchase. The client device is adapted to provide a payment mechanism to the user. The user generates a purchase request for an item by selecting the one item, dragging the item to the payment mechanism, and dropping the item over the payment mechanism. The payment processing device is adapted to receive the purchase request from the client device via the network and authorize the user to purchase the item from the merchant based on information passed with the purchase request. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317983 | Method and System for Flexible Payment Processing - A system and method are provided that include determining eligibility of customers for flexible payment status and allowing the customers to implement the flexible payment status. The determination for eligibility is based on customer identity, payment date, and payment due date. Flex accrual is calculated if the customer is eligible for flexible payment status. The flex accrual is based on the payment amount, payment date, and payment due date. The system communicates the flex accrual to the customer and the customer is able to utilize the flex accrual by making a late payment without penalty. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317984 | Method and system for processing internet payments using the electronic funds transfer network - Embodiments of the invention include a method and system for conducting financial transactions over a payment network. The method may include associating a payment address of an account with an account holder name, the account residing at a financial institution and the associated payment address of the account configured to allow withdrawals by the account holder only and to allow a plurality of deposits to be made at different times. The method further includes freely publishing the payment address and making it available to users of an internet portal or search engine. The method further includes receiving data over a network identifying a deposit to be made to the account, assigning the deposit to the account using the payment address, and notifying the payer of the assignment. At least one directory is used for associating the account holder with the payment address. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317985 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSIGNING AN INITIAL TRANSACTION FEE TIER TO A VENDOR IN A PAYMENT SYSTEM WITH A VARIABLE TRANSACTION FEE - A system for making payments from each payer of a community of payers to each vendor of a community of vendors assesses a variable transaction fee to each vendor. The system comprises a database which associates, for each payer, identification a selected rate tier assigned to each vendor. A rate tier assignment application determines an initial rate tier to assign to a vendor by: i) determining an industry sensitivity score, the industry sensitivity score being representative of how sensitive a typical vendor in the same type of business as the vendor is to payment of transaction fees; ii) determining a payer centric spend score; iii) determining a payer centric frequency score; iv) determining a network spend score; and iv) determining a network frequency score. These scores are used to determine an initial rate tier to associate with the vendor. A payment application, when making payment from the payer to the vendor, determines a transaction fee to apply to the payment, the transaction fee being a product of the amount of the payment and the transaction rate associated with the selected rate tier. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317986 | DIGITAL SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES - Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for a digital safe deposit box. The digital safe deposit box provides for a user to configure safe deposit box categories for receiving uploads and storing safe deposit box items, such as essential documents, image files, video files or the like. The digital safe deposit box, may be accessible by third parties by providing third parties a secondary login and, more specifically only designated items or categories within the safe deposit box may be accessible or visible to the third party based on user pre-configuration of visibility settings. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317987 | TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A transaction management apparatus is provided, which comprises a request receiving section receiving a transaction request containing a transaction requesting amount indicating an amount of a transaction of local credits used by a user in a limited environment and a user's identification information; a storing section storing a first balance and a second balance, corresponding to the identification information, the first balance indicating a balance of first credit and the second balance indicating a balance of second credit with a larger limitation of use purposes than the first credit; a judging section judging whether the transaction is allowed based on a result of comparing the transaction requesting amount with the first and second balance corresponding to the identification information; and a managing section changing the first and second balance stored in the storing section based on the transaction requesting amount, when the judging section judges the transaction is allowed. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317988 | PAYMENT AND ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING PICTOOVERLAY TECHNOLOGY - A software application program on a computer platform uses PictoOverlay Technology to provide a completely unique and secure method of performing purchase transactions, accessing secure locations, or accessing email, websites, or downloading of min-apps or other software applications without entering, storing or transmitting personal identification information, or having a username and password to login. The uniquely developed PictoIdentity may associate an alphanumeric sequence with a series of static images and with a portion of one image from multiple layered dynamically presented images to for example access a financial account, perform financial transactions, login to a computer software program, access an email account, activate a mobile device, or enter a secure location. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317989 | Method and System for Performing Two Factor Authentication in Mail Order and Telephone Order Transactions - The method for authenticating a mail order or telephone order transaction according to the present invention includes receiving authentication information from a cardholder, providing authentication information to an issuer, and determining whether the authentication information is valid. If the authentication information is valid, the issuer informs the merchant that the transaction is valid. In an embodiment, the issuer may not supply a personal assurance message and/or other confidential cardholder information previously supplied by the cardholder in response to the authentication information. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317990 | SECURE TRANSACTION OBJECT CREATION, PROPAGATION AND INVOCATION - Functional data of a cash channel is encapsulated by at least two parties in succession to define an at least twice-encapsulated data object. The encapsulation and subsequent de-encapsulation can utilize digital signature systems of the parties that involve a private key for encapsulation and a public key for de-encapsulation. If constructed carefully over a series of rigorous events, the resulting at least twice-encapsulated data object can be practically impossible to counterfeit. In addition, a propagation of rights can be tracked for auditing and rights can be easily terminated or modified. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317991 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONDUCTING PAYMENT TRANSACTIONS - A method of eliminating the need to wait in line to conduct a payment transaction in a retail establishment includes initiating a network-based electronic payment transaction with a communications device in a retail establishment. A shopper initiates the network-based electronic payment transaction. Moreover, the method includes entering a machine readable code from at least one good with the communications device, determining a price of the at least one good and a total payment transaction cost, and displaying the total payment transaction cost on a screen of the communications device. Furthermore, the method includes determining whether to approve payment for the electronic payment transaction, authenticating the shopper, completing the electronic payment transaction in the retail establishment, and transmitting a transaction complete message to the communications device when the shopper is authenticated. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317992 | METHOD OF INTERNET REAL-TIME CUSTOMER SERVICE - The present invention provides a method of Internet real-time customer service, including the steps of: providing an online customer service system connected to Internet; providing an exclusive login data to the website operator registering to the online customer service system; for customer service staff of website operator using the exclusive login data to log in to the online customer service system for the online customer service system to enable customer service staff of website operator able to monitor the website; and when visitor visiting the website, the online customer service system providing a plurality of interaction channels between the customer service staff and the visitor as the basis of interaction so that the customer service staff and the visitor able to select from a plurality of interaction channels for interacting with each other. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317993 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LINKING USER SESSIONS AND ESTABLISHING IDENTITY ACROSS CHANNELS - A customer support system exchanges customer data, such as the customer's identity, activity, etc. across multiple channels to enable better customer service. A further embodiment of the invention collects user interaction data from non-CCS channels, such as Facebook® posts, and predicts the intent of customer to provide services to the customer accordingly. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317994 | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GENERATION SYSTEM - Systems and methods are disclosed to generate a patent application by receiving an invention disclosure; locating key concepts in the invention disclosure and searching for patent references of interest; displaying sample patent references without user request to use as drafting examples; receiving one or more drawings generated by a group consisting of a camera, a diagramming tool, a drawing tool, a presentation tool, a word document editor; annotating the drawings with reference numerals and pointer lines; moving the reference numerals and pointer lines to desired positions; generating text description for each drawing; diagnosing the text description to comply with formality requirements; and generating the patent application. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317995 | Method of annotating portions of a transactional legal document related to a merger or acquisition of a business entity with graphical display data related to current metrics in merger or acquisition transactions - A method is provided for annotating portions of a transactional legal document related to a merger or acquisition of a business entity. An electronic data source is maintained that stores data related to a plurality of different metrics in merger or acquisition transactions. At least some of the data is updated as new merger or acquisition transactions occur. Portions of a legal document are electronically annotated with one or more annotations that graphically display data related to different metrics in merger or acquisition transactions. The annotations are created using the data stored in the electronic data source. The annotations reflect the most current data stored in the electronic data source. At least some of the annotations change over time as new merger or acquisition transactions occur. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317996 | Systems and Methods for Tracking Status of Random Unique Code Strings and Generation of Random Unique Code Strings - Systems and methods of tracking the status of product instantiations are provided. The status of production instantiations are determined based upon a highest level within a product packaging hierarchy in which the status applies to all product instantiations. The status is then updated for the determined level using an random unique code string assigned to the product packaging at the determined level. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317997 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USE OF AN APPLICATION WHEEL USER INTERFACE AND VERIFIED ASSESSMENTS IN HIRING DECISIONS - A method and system are disclosed for using verified assessments of employee capabilities in hiring decisions, where the method and system are implemented via applications displayed as icons on a rotatable wheel structure. The verified assessments are of criteria applicable to a group of employees, where the criteria are weighted in accordance with attributes of the group and the hiring decisions depend upon the weighted criteria applied to the assessments of the employee and upon a rating of the group. An arc of the wheel structure is displayed, exposing a subset of applications, the wheel structure being rotatable to expose additional applications within the displayed arc. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317998 | Intelligent Job Matching System and Method - A job searching and matching system and method is disclosed that gathers job seeker information in the form of job seeker parameters from one or more job seekers, gathers job information in the form of job parameters from prospective employers and/or recruiters, correlates the information with past job seeker behavior, parameters and behavior from other job seekers, and job parameters and, in response to a job seeker's query, provides matching job results based on common parameters between the job seeker and jobs along with suggested alternative jobs based on the co-relationships. In addition, the system correlates employer/recruiter behavior information with past employer/recruiter behavior, parameters and information concerning other job seekers, which are candidates to the employer, and resume parameters, and, in response to a Employer's query, provides matching job seeker results based on common parameters between the job seeker resumes and jobs along with suggested alternative job seeker candidates based on the identified co-relationships. | 2013-11-28 |
20130317999 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING EXTENDED SHIPPING OPTIONS - Techniques for providing extended shipping options are described. In some embodiments, a user may specify extended shipping options that are not otherwise provided by or accessible via an existing shipment information specification user interface. In one embodiment, the user accesses a module configured to facilitate specification of extended shipping options and in response, provide an indicator of the specified extended shipping option, such as a tag or uniform resource identifier. The indicator of the extended shipping option is then incorporated into a user interface element, such as an address field, of the shipment information specification user interface. Once the user finalizes the order, the indicator of the extended shipping option is transmitted along with other shipment information items to a merchant and/or carrier system, where services specified by the extended shipping option are initiated. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318000 | Auto Ship Program that Adjusts to Consumer's Usage - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing an auto ship program that adjusts the quantity of goods shipped based on the consumer's usage of the goods. In some embodiments, the auto ship program of the present invention receives consumer notifications indicating that a unit of a shipment has been opened or finished. The program employs the notifications to determine a rate at which the consumer is using units of the goods. If the rate at which the consumer is using the units differs from the rate at which the units are being shipped, the program can suggest or automatically make adjustments to the shipment rate. These adjustments can include modifying the number of units that are shipped in one or more future shipments or changing when one or more future shipments will be sent. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318001 | SHIPMENT PREPARATION USING NETWORK RESOURCE IDENTIFIERS IN PACKING LISTS - Example embodiments provide a Shipment Preparation System (“SPS”), which facilitates the preparation of shipments, such as by producing shipping labels. In one embodiment, the SPS is configured to receive shipment preparation information from a bar code or other machine-readable data block in a packing list. The shipment preparation information identifies a uniform resource identifier (“URI”) that identifies a code module that is remote from the SPS. The SPS then communicates with the remote code module in order to obtain information for the preparation of the shipment and/or for transmission of information about the preparation of the shipment. Obtaining information for the preparation of the shipment may include receiving an address to use for printing a label. Transmitting information about the preparation of the shipment may include posting an indication that a label has been printed, a shipment is ready for pick up, or the like. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318002 | RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLAN CREATION DEVICE AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLAN CREATION METHOD - A resource management plan creation support device reads in a travel schedule, represents, as one node, each path from an originating location to a terminating location of each leg included in a travel schedule that has been read in, and creates a network model by connecting together, using links, the legs over which consecutive travel is possible based upon the place and time. In addition, nodes representing auxiliary resources are added to the created network, and the network model is updated by adding links representing temporary usage of the auxiliary resources or temporary cessation of use of business-use resources. Also, by finding a path group encompassing each node of the network model so as to satisfy a pre-supplied condition (the condition of allocating resources to all of the legs), a management plan for resources which execute transport services is created. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318003 | Index-Linked Notes With Periodic Coupons Subject To A Triggering Event - Index-linked notes with periodic coupons subject to a triggering event, and accompanying methods, are described herein. In some instances, exemplary notes allow a purchaser to purchase a note and receive periodic coupons returned on the note as long as a triggering event does not occur. Assuming that the triggering event does not occur, the purchaser may receive these coupons until the note reaches maturity. Payment of the periodic coupons may cease, however, when a triggering event (e.g., the purchaser's death) does occur. In addition, the amount of the periodic coupons are tied in some manner to a financial index, such as the Bloomberg index, the S&P 500, or the like. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318004 | APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FACILITATING COMMUNITIES OF SOCIAL NETWORK BASED INVESTMENT - The APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FACILITATING COMMUNITIES OF SOCIAL BASED INVESTMENT (“PAVE™ apparatuses, methods, systems, programs and interfaces”) transform user input into profile pages, a social networking platform, social based funding agreements and mentorship arrangements. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318005 | APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FACILITATING COMMUNITIES OF SOCIAL NETWORK BASED INVESTMENT - The APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FACILITATING COMMUNITIES OF SOCIAL BASED INVESTMENT (“PAVE™ apparatuses, methods, systems, programs and interfaces”) transform user input into profile pages, a social networking platform, social based funding agreements and mentorship arrangements. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318006 | ROLLING SETTLEMENT FOR TRI PARTY TRANSACTIONS - A system for settling trades in Tri-Party repurchasing agreements includes one or more processors configured to execute one or more computer program modules. The computer program modules are configured to obtain, on electronic storage media accessible to the one or more processors, security information associated with a plurality of securities securitizing a Tri-Party repurchasing agreement between a dealer and an investor. The computer program modules are also configured to execute one or more computer program modules configured to receive a cash amount from the dealer, the cash amount being less than required to repurchase an entirety of the plurality of securities. The computer program modules are further configured to execute one or more computer program modules configured to release a subset of the entirety of securities to the dealer, the subset of the entirety of securities being repurchased by the cash amount received from the dealer. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318007 | LIFETIME INCOME ANALYSIS TOOL - A lifetime income analysis tool (LIAT) that includes a client-based application that provides selective information relating to an individual's retirement. The client-based application processes the selective information to be sent as a request. A server-based application receives the request and processes the request to evaluate the feasibility of an individual's retirement income goal. The server-based application also provides a customized estimate of expected future monthly income needed to cover a broad range of health-care costs in retirement utilizing a plurality of LIAT factors. The server-based application sends its findings as a response to the client-based application for viewing by a user. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318008 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING RETIREMENT INCOME AND A METHOD THEREOF - A method and system for managing a retirement income fund includes recording a starting value of a retirement investment for an investor and calculating based on the starting value a guaranteed periodic income amount that the investor will receive for the rest of their life. A selection is received from the investor of at least one investment fund and of a periodic withdrawal amount. Based on the performance of the at least one investment fund, upper and lower parameters for the periodic withdrawal amount are calculated. The guaranteed periodic income amount is recalculated whereby if the selected periodic withdrawal amount is lower than the lower parameter then the guaranteed periodic income amount is increased, if the periodic withdrawal amount is higher than the upper parameter then the guaranteed periodic income amount is decreased and if the periodic withdrawal amount is between the upper and lower parameters then the guaranteed periodic income amount is left the same. The selected periodic withdrawal amount is periodically paid to the investor and the value of the retirement investment is recalculated based on the performance of the at least one investment fund and reducing the value of the retirement investment by the periodic withdrawal amount. If the value of the retirement investment has reached zero then ceasing to pay to the investor the periodic withdrawal amount but thereafter periodically paying the guaranteed periodic income amount. Finally, on the death of the investor, determining the value of the retirement investment and if this is greater than zero then paying to at least one beneficiary of the investor the value and ceasing to pay any further periodic amounts. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318009 | Property Sale Application and Tracking System - A property sale application system, such as for a tax deed, is provided that receives sale applications. The tax deed application can include information associated with a parcel, certificate information associated with a tax certificate associated with the parcel, and investor information associated with an investor associated with the at least one tax certificate. The system can enter data representative of the application into a database, transmit the application for review, and retrieve parcel information related to the identification information, the certificate information, or the investor information. The system may update the application data in the tax deed database based at least in part on the parcel information, receive a title search request based at least in part on the parcel information, transmit the title search request for processing, provide a status identifier representative of a current status of the tax deed application, and update the status identifier. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318010 | AUDIO SIGNAL ENCODING EMPLOYING INTERCHANNEL AND TEMPORAL REDUNDANCY REDUCTION - A method of encoding a time-domain audio signal is presented. A device transforms the time-domain signal into a frequency-domain signal including a sequence of sample blocks, wherein each block includes a coefficient for each of multiple frequencies. The coefficients of each block are grouped into frequency bands. For each frequency band of each block, a scale factor is estimated for the band, and the energy of the band for the block is compared with the energy of the band of an adjacent sample block, wherein the blocks may be adjacent to each other in either or both of an interchannel and a temporal sense. If the ratio of the band energy for the first block to the band energy for the adjacent block is less than some value, the scale factor of the band for the first block is increased. The coefficients of the band for each block are quantized based on the resulting scale factor. The encoded audio signal is generated based on the quantized coefficients and the scale factors. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318011 | Method for Detecting Anomalies in Multivariate Time Series Data - A method detects anomalies in time series data, wherein the time series data is multivariate, by partitioning time series training data into partitions. A representation for each partition in each time window is determined to form a model of the time series training data, wherein the model includes representations of distributions of the time series training data. The representations obtained from partitions of time series test data are compared to the model to obtain anomaly scores. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318012 | Processing of Information - Systems and methods are provided for deriving a prediction from existing data by utilizing information extraction and machine learning, wherein both approaches can be optimized independently from each other. Optionally, deductive reasoning may also be combined with information extraction and machine learning and may as well be optimized independently from the other two functionalities. The two or three functionalities may utilize at least one set of data and may (at least partially) process various sets of data. The combined approach may produce significantly improved results, and may be implemented in various technical fields, applications and use cases involving, e.g., data mining or processing of huge amounts of data. The disclosed systems and methods may be applicable for all kinds of technical systems, e.g., medical, genetic research, or industry and automation systems. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318013 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including an evaluation giving unit that gives an evaluation based on a second user to an item in a list created on a basis of a first user, and a display control unit that controls display of the list, on a basis of the evaluation based on the second user. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318014 | INTERACTIONS AMONG ONLINE DIGITAL IDENTITIES - A computer-implemented method is provided, which includes constructing, by a computer system, first and second user profiles for respective first and second users, by observing respective online behaviors of the first and second users, respectively. The computer system identifies that the first and second users have similar interests. Responsively to the identifying, the computer system transfers information to the first user profile from the second user profile, thereby modifying the first user profile. Content is presented to the first user responsively to the modified first user profile. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318015 | NETWORK DATA MINING TO DETERMINE USER INTEREST - Mining information from network data traffic to determine interests of online network users is provided herein. A data packet received at a network interface device can be accessed and inspected at line rate speeds. Source or addressing information in the data packet can be extracted to identify an initiating and/or receiving device. The packet can be inspected to identify occurrences of keywords or data features related with one or more subject matters. A vector can be defined for a network device that indicates a relative rank of interest in various subject matters. Furthermore, statistical analysis can be implemented on data stored in one or more interest vectors to determine information pertinent to network user interests. The information can facilitate providing value-added products or services to network users. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318016 | METHOD OF PREDICTING GAS COMPOSITION - The method of predicting gas composition in a multistage separator includes solutions to the regression problem of gas composition prediction that are developed using an ensemble of hybrid computational intelligence (CI) models. Three separate homogeneous and one heterogeneous ensemble of hybrid computational intelligence (EHCI) models are developed using a parallel scheme. The homogeneous models have the same types of CI models used as base learners, and the heterogeneous model has of different types of CI models used as base learners. Various popular CI models, including multi-layer perceptron (MLP), support vector regression (SVR) and adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS), are used as base learners of ensemble models. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318017 | Devices for Learning and/or Decoding Messages, Implementing a Neural Network, Methods of Learning and Decoding and Corresponding Computer Programs - A learning and decoding technique is provided for a neural network. The technique involves using a set of neurons, referred to as beacons, wherein said beacons are binary neurons capable of assuming only two states, an on state and an off state. The beacons are distributed in blocks of a predetermined number of beacons and being allocated for processing a sub-message. Each beacon is associated with a specific occurrence of the sub-message. Learning includes splitting a message into B sub-messages to be learned, where B is greater than or equal to two; activating, for a sub-message, a single beacon in each block to be in the on state, all of the other beacons of the block being in the off state; and activating binary connections between the on beacons of each of the block for a message to be learned, which assume only connected and disconnected states. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318018 | NEURAL NETWORK-BASED TURBINE MONITORING SYSTEM - A neural network-based system for monitoring a turbine compressor. In various embodiments, the neural network-based system includes: at least one computing device configured to monitor a turbine compressor by performing actions including: comparing a monitoring output from a first artificial neural network (ANN) about the turbine compressor to a monitoring output from a second, distinct ANN about the turbine compressor; and predicting a probability of a malfunction in the turbine compressor based upon the comparison of the monitoring outputs from the first ANN and the second, distinct ANN. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318019 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR MODELING SHALE CHARACTERISTICS IN WELLBORE SERVICING FLUIDS USING AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK - An apparatus and method for determining a formation/fluid interaction of a target formation and a target drilling fluid is described herein. The method may include training an artificial neural network using a training data set. The training data set may include a formation characteristic of a source formation and a fluid characteristic of a source drilling fluid and experimental data on source formation/fluid interaction. Once the artificial neural network is trained, a formation characteristic of the target formation and fluid characteristic of target drilling fluid may be input. The formation characteristic of the target formation may correspond to the formation characteristic of the source formation. The fluid characteristic of the target drilling fluid may correspond to the fluid characteristic of the source drilling fluid. A formation/fluid interaction of the target formation and the target drilling fluid may be determined using a value output by the artificial neural network. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318020 | ANALOG PROGRAMMABLE SPARSE APPROXIMATION SYSTEM - A system and device for solving sparse algorithms using hardware solutions is described. The hardware solution can comprise one or more analog devices for providing fast, energy efficient solutions to small, medium, and large sparse approximation problems. The system can comprise sub-threshold current mode circuits on a Field Programmable Analog Array (FPAA) or on a custom analog chip. The system can comprise a plurality of floating gates for solving linear portions of a sparse signal. The system can also comprise one or more analog devices for solving non-linear portions of sparse signal. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318021 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including an experience information extracting unit that extracts experience information which is information regarding an experience, from text data input from a user, an item selecting unit that performs at least one of extraction and priority setting of an item to be provided to the user, based on the extracted experience information, and a provision control unit that controls provision of the item to the user, based on a result of the extraction or the priority setting of the item. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318022 | Predictive Analytics for Information Technology Systems - Disclosed is a method and apparatus for organizing, correlating IT management data in batch mode as well as real time and doing predictive analytics to indicate possible threshold breaches, possible failures and usage bottlenecks in the systems in an information technology (IT) environment. The system and method further predicts the state of the information technology (IT) system components systematically based on current and past system states and system component states, overall systemic behavior, known system behavioral rules and load conditions /usage characteristics. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318023 | UPDATING POLICY PARAMETERS UNDER MARKOV DECISION PROCESS SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments relate to updating a parameter defining a policy under a Markov decision process system environment. An aspect includes updating the policy parameter stored in a storage section of a controller according to an update equation. The update equation includes a term for decreasing a weighted sum of expected hitting times over a first state (s) and a second state (s′) of a statistic on the number of steps required to make a first state transition from the first state (s) to the second state (s′). | 2013-11-28 |
20130318024 | BEHAVIORAL TARGETING SYSTEM - A behavioral targeting system determines user profiles from online activity. The system includes a plurality of models that define parameters for determining a user profile score. Event information, which comprises on-line activity of the user, is received at an entity. To generate a user profile score, a model is selected. The model comprises recency, intensity and frequency dimension parameters. The behavioral targeting system generates a user profile score for a target objective, such as brand advertising or direct response advertising. The parameters from the model are applied to generate the user profile score in a category. The behavioral targeting system has application for use in ad serving to on-line users. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318025 | APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR SLICING AND USING KNOWLEDGEBASE - An apparatus, and an associated method, slices a knowledgebase into a knowledgebase portion and stores the knowledgebase portion at a device, such as a smart phone or tablet computer. The sliced knowledgebase is accessed to obtain a current mindset of a user of the device. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318026 | ADAPTIVE COMPUTATIONAL GRID FOR INVERSE PROBLEMS - Techniques are described for determining an optimal resolution for a grid to be used in solving inverse problems. Reference physical fields may be computed based on model data for the computational grid at a starting resolution. Cells in the computational grid may be split in a plurality of iterations to provide finer resolution. The model data may be perturbed by introducing different physical property values to the cells. The physical fields may be calculated based on the perturbed model data. A comparison may be made between the reference physical fields and the calculated physical fields based on the perturbed model data for the purpose of determining whether cell splitting should continue. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318027 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO ENABLE DETECTION OF VIRAL INFECTION BY USERS OF ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION DEVICES - A non-transitory computer readable medium that stores instructions for causing a computerized system to perform the following operations: determining, by the computerized system, that a first person is infected by a first infectious disease; wherein the determination is associated with a first person infection probability attribute; detecting, by the computerized system, based upon location information collected during at least a portion of a first infectious disease manifestation period, the location information being indicative of locations of the first person and other persons, a second person that was within an infection distance from the first person and is potentially infected by the first infectious disease; calculating, by the computerized system, a second person infection probability attribute; and updating, by the computerized system, the first person infection probability attribute in response to the second person infection probability attribute. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318028 | DECISION SERVICE MANAGER - The disclosure generally describes computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for modeling and deploying decision services. One computer-implemented method includes creating a connection between a decision service manager and a managed system, establishing a signature of a decision service, developing, using at least one computer, the decision service based upon the established signature of the decision service, performing a deployment readiness check, transferring generated code implementing the decision service to the managed system upon a determination that the deployment readiness check was successful, inserting the generated code into the managed system, and retrieving a deployment status from the managed system. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318029 | DISTRIBUTED ORDER ORCHESTRATION SYSTEM WITH EXTENSIBLE FLEX FIELD SUPPORT - A distributed order orchestration system publishes one or more newly generated artifacts that are generated as a result of generating one or more extensible flex fields to a rule dictionary. The distributed order orchestration system then imports the one or more newly generated artifacts within the rule dictionary as one or more facts. The distributed order orchestration system then creates one or more rules for the rule dictionary that references the one or more facts. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318030 | Embedded Data Marts for Central Data Warehouse - A central data warehouse includes embedded data marts. These embedded data marts, referred to as workspaces, are assigned centrally manage data by reference only but rely directly on the centrally managed data and the underlying infrastructure. Workspaces still allow departments in an enterprise to perform certain actions on their own (like adding new data and building new models) without having to instantiate copies of the centrally managed data in a locally managed data mart. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318031 | DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING OF STREAMING DATA RECORDS - Representative embodiments of a distributed processing method of facilitating interactive analytics of streaming data records by receiving the data records at a plurality of distributed computational nodes, establishing and storing dimensions corresponding to attributes of the data records, parsing the streaming data records to identify matches to at least one of the dimensions and based thereon, reducing the number of data records to create a targeted subset of the data, re-distributing the targeted subsets of the streaming data records among the distributed computational nodes in accordance with the dimensions stored on the nodes, updating a database storing measures of the dimensions in accordance with the targeted subsets of the streaming data records, and using the database to respond to a query based on measures associated with one or more of the dimensions. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318032 | EMBEDDING AND RETRIEVING DATA IN AN APPLICATION FILE FORMAT - Third party data embedding may be provided. Data associated with a third party provider may be saved in a native application save file. If a save file opened by the application is determined to comprise third party data, the application may determine whether an appropriate data provider is available. The application may connect to the data provider and provide on-demand, asynchronous access to the third party data upon request from a user. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318033 | Method for Operating an Automation Device - A method for operating an automation device, into the memory of which an automation solution has been loaded, wherein a technology-oriented control interpreter accesses a data warehouse of the automation solution, and is able to control external commands by virtue of such commands being analyzed and being implemented according to the analysis, where the technology-oriented control interpreter extracts at least one entity designation and at least one instruction from a respective command, the technology-oriented control interpreter searches for an object matching the entity designation in the data warehouse of the automation solution and, in the event of success, checks whether the instruction contained in the command has been defined for the found object, and where the technology-oriented control interpreter causes execution of the instruction for the found object. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318034 | DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING OF STREAMING DATA RECORDS - Representative embodiments of a distributed processing method of facilitating interactive analytics of streaming data records by receiving the data records at a plurality of distributed computational nodes, establishing and storing dimensions corresponding to attributes of the data records, parsing the streaming data records to identify matches to at least one of the dimensions and based thereon, reducing the number of data records to create a targeted subset of the data, re-distributing the targeted subsets of the streaming data records among the distributed computational nodes in accordance with the dimensions stored on the nodes, updating a database storing measures of the dimensions in accordance with the targeted subsets of the streaming data records, and using the database to respond to a query based on measures associated with one or more of the dimensions. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318035 | METHODS AND PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR COMMUNICATING FILE MODIFICATIONS DURING A COLLABORATION EVENT - One example method for communicating a file modification during a collaboration event includes steps of a first computer communicating a file modification status request to a second computer, the status request including at least a file identifier and a file property. The second computer uses the file identifier from the request to identify a current property of a corresponding file. The second computer compares the current file property to the file property from the status request and communicates a response to the first computer when the current property does not match the property from the status request. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318036 | ZENO: BATCH-COMPUTED NEWS FEED UPDATES - A system may receive, at least in part from an update database, a plurality of updates to a plurality of profiles that individually describe ones of a plurality of users of a social network. The system may process, using a batch processor, at least some of the plurality of updates to generate a consolidated update indicative of a status of at least some of the plurality of profiles. The system may transmit the consolidated update to the update database. The system may display the consolidated update on an update stream of the social network corresponding to at least one of the plurality of users. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318037 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSNG MEDIA RESOURCE PLAYLIST IN LOCAL AREA NETWORK - A method for processing a media resource playlist in a local area network, where the local area network includes a media server and a media renderer, includes: updating a stored playlist and a stored playlist element table when determining that a state of the media server changes; and sending the updated playlist to the media renderer. In addition, a playlist processing apparatus and a communication system are provided correspondingly. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318038 | Method and System for Analyzing Data Related to an Event - A system and method for analyzing data from a plurality of computer environments. A user may search for computer environments that meet a certain criterion. The computer environments are authenticated and data is copied from the computer environments to a memory location. The data may be marked so that a user may determine which computer environment provided the data. The user may add notations to the data during a review. Changes to data on the computer environments may be provided to a user using a syndication feed. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318039 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO MANAGE FILES FOR A PORTABLE DEVICE - A method and apparatus to manage files of a portable device such as an mp3 player, a mobile phone, or a game console, the method comprising copying files to be played from a source server and storing the files in a file system on a folder-by-folder basis; determining the presence of files which have been changed in the portable device by checking the file system when the files are completely copied; and creating a playlist of the files, folder-by-folder, according to file path information of the file system when there are the changed files. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318040 | DATA REPLICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD USING HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATION OF DATA SERVERS - Disclosed is a data replication technique using the hierarchical organization of data servers which is contrived to minimize a burden on a metadata server and also improve the performance of the entire system by operating data servers efficiently. To this end, a data replication method using the hierarchical organization of data servers in accordance with the present invention includes dividing a plurality of data servers into a primary data server group and a secondary data server group and managing, by a metadata server, information on the state of each data server group and metadata. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318041 | Method for Operating a Redundant Automation System - A method for operating an automation system having at least two subsystems which are each provided with a control program, wherein relevant data from one subsystem is transmitted to the other subsystem within the scope of an updating phase of the automation system to transfer process control from a solo mode of one of the subsystems to a redundant control mode with another of the subsystems so as to facilitate updating. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318042 | TECHNIQUES TO AUTOMATICALLY MANAGE FILE DESCRIPTORS - Techniques to automatically manage file descriptors are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor circuit and a file descriptor application operative on the processor circuit to manage file descriptors for content files, the file descriptor application arranged to receive a file descriptor request from a client application, generate a file descriptor or file descriptor construct information for a content file, and send a file descriptor response with the file descriptor or file descriptor construct information to the client application. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318043 | ADDING A KEY COLUMN TO A TABLE TO BE REPLICATED - Techniques are disclosed for adding a key column to a table to be replicated, where the key column stores key values for use in replication. In one embodiment, a request is received to add a table to a replication domain, such that the table is replicated from a first database server to at least a second database server. Key values are generated for both existing records and new records subsequently requested to be inserted into the table, respectively. Each generated key value is unique across the replication domain. Further, the key column may be added to the table without requiring exclusive access to the table. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318044 | MYSQL DATABASE HETEROGENEOUS LOG BASED REPLICATION - A system and method for transferring data between different types of systems, and in particular uses log-based replication to transfer data between different types of systems. In accordance with an embodiment, the system can be used to perform a one-time or initial copy of the MySQL data from a source database system to a target database system, and/or to replicate the on-going transactions captured from a MySQL database's binary log into one or additional non-MySQL database(s) on a continuous basis, such that the two systems are synchronized for transactions of interest. In accordance with an embodiment, full or partial data changes can be extracted from the MySQL binary log, optionally transformed, skipped or augmented, output or written to a file, and then applied at any of one or more target systems (e.g. another MySQL database, or a non-MySQL database), thereby synchronizing the source and target systems. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318045 | METHOD OF PRE-BROWSING AND CUSTOMIZING BROWSING DATA AND DIGITAL MEDIA DEVICE USING THE SAME - A method of pre-browsing and customizing browsing data and a digital media device using the same are provided. The method includes following steps. In a step (a), a directory structure of a server is locally copied by recursively requesting to browse each node of the directory structure, where the directory structure has a plurality of levels, and each of the levels has at least one node. In a step (b), the step (a) is repeated on each of other servers so that the directory structures of all the servers are locally copied. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318046 | BACKUP IMAGE DUPLICATION - Various systems and methods for seeding a storage device. For example, a method involves accessing a policy that identifies a number of clients. The method then involves selecting a most recent backup image for each of the clients and copying the most recent backup images from a source storage device to a target storage device. Once a most recent backup image has been copied from the source storage device to the target storage device for each of the clients, the method switches a destination value in the policy from the source storage device to the target storage device. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318047 | POLICY BASED POPULATION OF GENEALOGICAL ARCHIVE DATA - An approach for managing a family tree archive is provided. The approach includes creating an electronic archive based on a family tree. The approach also includes automatically discovering Internet-based data associated with at least one member of the family tree. The approach additionally includes adding the Internet-based data to the archive. The approach further includes storing the archive at a storage device. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318048 | TECHNIQUES TO MODIFY FILE DESCRIPTORS FOR CONTENT FILES - Techniques to modify file descriptors for content files are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor circuit and a file descriptor application operative on the processor circuit to manage file descriptors for content files, the file descriptor application arranged to generate a file descriptor for a content file in accordance with a universal file descriptor model, the universal file descriptor model to comprise a file descriptor surface with multiple file descriptor tiles to present corresponding content parts from the content file, with at least one of the file descriptor tiles defining a content part class representing homogeneous content parts from heterogeneous content file types. The file descriptor application may also comprise a file descriptor editor component arranged to allow modifications to the file descriptor. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318049 | PARTIAL SOURCE VERIFICATION OF EDC DATA - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with partial source verification are described. In one embodiment, a method includes selecting, from a corpus of records, a set of records that includes fewer records than the corpus, where each record corresponds to an instance of an electronic form that records information about a given subject. The set of records is provided for source verification. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318050 | DATA DEPULICATION USING SHORT TERM HISTORY - Exemplary system, and computer program product embodiments for data deduplication using short term history in a computing environment are provided. In one embodiment, by way of example only, a hash value is calculated on data chunks for a read operation. The calculated hash value is stored in a storage media. The calculated hash value is looked up in the storage media to verify if a current write operation was previously written and/or read. Additional system and computer program product embodiments are disclosed and provide related advantages. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318051 | SHARED DICTIONARY BETWEEN DEVICES - In one embodiment, a system and method for managing a network deduplication dictionary is disclosed. According to the method, the dictionary is divided between available deduplication engines (DDE) in deduplication devices that support shared dictionaries. The fingerprints are distributed to different DDEs based on a hash function. The hash function takes the fingerprint and hashes it and based on the hash result, it selects one of the DDEs. The hash function could select a few bits from the fingerprint and use those bits to select a DDE. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318052 | DATA DEPULICATION USING SHORT TERM HISTORY - Exemplary embodiments for data deduplication using short term history in a computing environment are provided. In one embodiment, by way of example only, a hash value is calculated on data chunks for a read operation. The calculated hash value is stored in a storage media. The calculated hash value is looked up in the storage media to verify if a current write operation was previously written and/or read. Additional system and computer program product embodiments are disclosed and provide related advantages. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318053 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING DEDUPLICATED COPIES OF DATA BY TRACKING TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIPS AMONG COPIES USING HIGHER-LEVEL HASH STRUCTURES - Systems and methods are disclosed for forming deduplicated images of a data object that changes over time using difference information between temporal states of the data object. The method includes organizing the content of the data object for a first temporal state as a plurality of content segments and storing the content segments in a data store; creating an organized arrangement of hash structures to represent the data object in its first temporal state; receiving difference information for the data object; forming at least one hash signature for the changed content; and storing the changed content that is unique in the data store as content segments. The method also includes determining, subsequent to receiving the changed content at the deduplicating content store, whether the changed content should be stored by searching for the hash signature for the changed higher-level hash structure in the global cache of the deduplicating content store. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318054 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NEAR AND EXACT DE-DUPLICATION OF DOCUMENTS - A system, method and computer program product for identifying near and exact-duplicate documents in a document collection, including for each document in the collection, reading textual content from the document; filtering the textual content based on user settings; determining N most frequent words from the filtered textual content of the document; performing a quorum search of the N most frequent words in the document with a threshold M; and sorting results from the quorum search based on relevancy. Based on the values of N and M near and exact-duplicate documents are identified in the document collection. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318055 | CACHE CONFLICT DETECTION - Methods, systems, and computer program products for cache conflict detection are provided. A computer-implemented method may include providing a partial graph of data to an application executing on a mobile device where the partial graph is derived from a document comprising a graph of data having a plurality of nodes, receiving a modified partial graph from the application where the modified partial graph includes one or more changes to the partial graph, and determining a document version used to derive the partial graph is no longer a most recent version of the document. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318056 | Lightweight Integrity Protection for Web Storage-Driven Content Caching - Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for providing integrity protection for web storage-driven content caching. Implementations include receiving a web page from a server, the web page being associated with a script library and one or more items that can be stored in web storage of a web browser executed on a client computing device, each of the one or more items being associated with a pre-determined checksum value, and loading the script library, such that a local storage API is overwritten using a wrapper function, the script library being executable to, in response to a request for an item from web storage, perform operations including: determining a generated checksum value based on the item, and verifying an integrity of the item based on the generated checksum value and a pre-determined checksum value associated with the item. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318057 | TECHNIQUES FOR IMPLEMENTING BATCH PROCESSING IN A MULTI-TENANT ON-DEMAND DATABASE SYSTEM - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided techniques for implementing batch processing in a multi-tenant database system. These techniques for implementing batch processing in a multi-tenant database system may enable embodiments to provide great flexibility to a tenant of the architecture to perform desired functions on content of the database while allowing the owner of the architecture schedule the processing of the functions on the content. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318058 | MANAGEMENT OF LONG-RUNNING LOCKS AND TRANSACTIONS ON DATABASE TABLES - Establishment of an exclusive lock on each of an outer database ownership table and an inner database ownership table is attempted. In response to establishing the exclusive lock on each of the outer database ownership table and the inner database ownership table, a switch is made to a pair of overlapping shared locks on each of the outer database ownership table and the inner database ownership table. Release and re-acquisition of each of the pair of overlapping shared locks on the outer database ownership table and the inner database ownership table is alternated. | 2013-11-28 |
20130318059 | TRANSFER OF DATA FROM TRANSACTIONAL DATA SOURCES TO PARTITIONED DATABASES IN RESTARTABLE ENVIRONMENT - Method, system, and computer program product for transferring data from transactional data sources to partitioned databases are provided. One or more messages from a transactional data source are read. Each message includes one or more records to be inserted into a database comprising a plurality of partitions. One of the partitions of the database in which the one or more records of each message are to be inserted is then identified. A transaction is initiated to insert the one or more records of each message into the one partition and to delete the one or more messages from the transactional data source. The transaction is committed only when insertion of the one or more records of each message into the one partition and deletion of the one or more messages from the transactional data source succeed. | 2013-11-28 |