07th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 53 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100042569 | APPROXIMATION OF A CLOCK GATING FUNCTION VIA BDD PATH ELIMINATION - An approximation of a clock gating function is obtained by reducing the less probable (e.g., longest) paths of its associated binary decision diagram (“BDD”). It is assumed that clock gating is performed in cycles when the clock gating function equals one. Thus, the approximation eliminates a less probable positive (logic “1”) path in the BDD, thereby reducing the logic delay time of the BDD and the corresponding clock gating function. Given a uniform distribution of variables, i.e., the probability of a variable becoming logic “0” (negative) is equal to the probability of the variable becoming logic “1” (positive), the one or more longest positive BDD paths correspond to a less probable true-assignment of the clock gating function. Thus, by eliminating a less probable positive BDD path, the approximation error is minimized, as the on-set probability is defined by the sum of the probabilities of the positive BDD paths. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042570 | Messaging Application with Multiple Viewports for Presenting Messages in Different Orders - In a method for displaying messages, a system displays messages from a single user account in multiple viewports. Each viewport orders messages based on an importance score that is calculated based on the user's prior interactions with messages in his user account through that viewport. Each viewport associated with the user account orders messages using a distinct message importance model. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042571 | Methods, Systems, and Computer-Readable Media for Facility Integrity Testing - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media provide for facility integrity testing. According to embodiments, a method for populating a watch list with circuits of a communications network to be monitored for repeat failures is provided. According to the method, a trouble ticket associated with one of the circuits and a trouble code and analysis code (TC/AC) combination associated with the trouble ticket is retrieved. Whether the trouble ticket meets a watch list criterion is determined. In response to determining that the trouble ticket meets the watch list criterion, the trouble ticket and the TC/AC combination are added to the watch list. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042572 | Method for Dynamically Determining a Predetermined Previous Condition of a Rule-based System - A method for dynamically determining a predetermined previous condition of a rule-based system comprising a plurality of rules. Each of the plurality of rules is associated with a transaction and a condition under which the transaction is executed. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of (a) determining a system condition; (b) determining an immediate previous condition that caused the system condition; (c) setting the immediate previous condition to the system condition; and (d) repeating steps (b) and (c) until the predetermined previous condition is reached. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042573 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A CLIENT SYSTEM AND A SERVER SYSTEM - A method of a server system communicating with a client system. The method includes a passive system monitoring network traffic between the client-server system. The server sending a page response including an agent, e.g., a Javascript that becomes operable on the client system. The agent monitors events on the client side, e.g., DOM events, and communicates these to the server side. A set of rules that define prescribed user events are maintained by the passive system and applied to the monitored network traffic to determine whether a prescribed user event occurred. Responsive to the prescribed user event occurring, an asynchronous message is generated and sent to the agent in response to a received DOM event message, the asynchronous message comprising a command to be executed by the agent to alter the users web application flow at the client in a manner that is substantially transparent to the web application. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042574 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM FOR HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT - A system and method for testing and/or evaluating employees or potential employees is disclosed. A computer arranges a plurality of applicants in a stack ranked table. The table may rank or re-rank applicants against each other, from best to worst, after successive screening, selecting, and/or interviewing stages for a particular job. Performance evaluations of hired workers may be fed back to the computer for adjusting the system and method. Competencies shown to be predictive of successful performance of a given type of job are tested for at various stages in an online testing system. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042575 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR IMPLEMENTING ONTOLOGICAL DOMAIN SERVICES - Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing ontological domain services are provided. A method includes gathering information elements relating to an individual from trusted sources of information via secure channels of communication. The method also includes creating an ontological domain that is specific to the individual using the information elements accrued from the sources. The information elements are acquired from detectable behaviors of the individual over time. The ontological domain is automatically generated from the detectable behaviors and absent any intervention by the individual. The method also includes determining an interest that is specific to the individual based upon relevancy analyses performed with respect to the information elements and making the interest available to the individual or entity. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042576 | AUTOMATED COMPUTATION OF SEMANTIC SIMILARITY OF PAIRS OF NAMED ENTITY PHRASES USING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT CORPORA AS BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE - An overall semantic similarity score value between pairs of named entities in a text corpus is obtained by calculating for at least one pair of named entities a plurality of corresponding pair similarity score values according to a first and at least a second classifier using electronic information sources. Each pair similarity score value of the pair of named entities per classifier is normalized by calculating a rank list per classifier, for example, for each named entity. The rank list holds each pair of named entities of the text corpus, wherein a rank of each pair of named entities within the rank list reflects the respective pair similarity score value. Further an arithmetic mean of the normalized pair similarity score value of each pair of named entities is calculated to provide the overall semantic similarity score value. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042577 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CALIBRATING USER RATINGS - A website may allow users to rate content items displayed thereon. The user ratings associated with the content items may be weighted according to user rating weight. The rating weight of a particular user may be based, in whole or part, upon whether the user consistently rates content items similarly to one or more “expert” raters. The experts may be selected based on various factors including: professional training, experience, reputation on the website, or the like. If a particular user consistently rates content items similarly to the experts, the user may be given a high rating weight. Users whose ratings consistently diverge from the ratings assigned by the experts may be given a lower rating weight. The weights may be displayed in connection with a user profile, or may be hidden from the user community. The rating weights may be used in calculating an overall rating of a particular content item. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042578 | Computational system and method for memory modification - Systems and methods are described relating to accepting an indication of at least one memory-related condition and presenting an indication of at least one artificial sensory experience and at least one memory-dampening agent at least partially based on the accepting at least one indication of a health-related condition. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042579 | GENERATING AND/OR RECEIVING, AT LEAST IN PART, AT LEAST ONE DATA ACCESS REQUEST - In an embodiment, an apparatus is provided that may include circuitry to generate, at least in part, and/or receive, at least in part, at least one request to access at least one portion of data. The at least one request may indicate, at least in part, at least one subset of the at least one portion of the data that is of relatively higher importance than one or more other subsets of the at least one portion of the data that are of relatively lower importance. The at least one request may be to request, at least in part, that the at least one subset be accessed prior to the one or more other subsets are accessed. The at least one request may be comprised, at least in part, in at least one packet in accordance with a protocol that permits variable packet size. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042580 | Method of for a Host to Access an Object Stored in a Multimedia Device Supported by MTP - An object table is provided between a file system interface of a host and a multimedia device so that the host is capable of accessing objects stored in the multimedia device regardless of incompatibility between file formats respectively used in the file system and the multimedia device. At least one index of the stored object is stored in the object table. A file accessing architecture is constructed in the object table, where the file accessing architecture has at least one API recognizable for the file system interface. Therefore, the host is capable of accessing the objects stored in the multimedia device though the file system interface and the constructed file accessing architecture. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042581 | JOIN PATHS ACROSS MULTIPLE DATABASES - Methods, systems and computer instructions on computer readable media are disclosed for optimizing a query, including a first join path, a second join path, and an optimizer, to efficiently provide high quality information from large, multiple databases. The methods and systems include evaluating a schema graph identifying the join paths between a field X and a field Y, and a value X=x, to identify the top-few values of Y=y that are reachable from a specified X=x value when using the join paths. Each data path that instantiates the schema join paths can be scored and evaluated as to the quality of the data with respect to specified integrity constraints to alleviate data quality problems. Agglomerative scoring methodologies can be implemented to compute high quality information in the form of a top-few answers to a specified problem as requested by the query. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042582 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFICATION OF APPLICATION INTERDEPENDENCY - A method for identification of application interdependency. The method includes receiving dependency data in a Application Interdependency Identification Tool (AIIT) system, and identifying a plurality of applications and dependency relationships corresponding to the dependency data by a dependency engine. The method also includes displaying the dependency data according to the identified applications and dependency relationships. There is also an AIIT system including a dependency engine and a dependency database. The AIIT system is configured to receive dependency data. The dependency engine is configured to identify a plurality of applications and dependency relationships corresponding to the dependency data and display the dependency data according to the identified applications and dependency relationships. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042583 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DE-IDENTIFICATION OF PERSONAL DATA - According to some embodiments, original data is retrieved from an original data source. The original data may be automatically searched for potential personal information, such as a person's name, address, or Social Security number. An obfuscation method may be selected from a plurality of potential obfuscation methods. The potential personal information in the original data may then be automatically replaced with fictional data in accordance with the selected obfuscation method. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042584 | CONCURRENT LOCK-FREE SKIPLIST WITH WAIT-FREE CONTAINS OPERATOR - Apparatus, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for performing a wait-free search of a concurrent, lock-free skiplist to determine existence of a sought-after key. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042585 | Command Interpretation - The compiled code of a computer program is stored in multiple pieces within a database. Each piece is optionally stored within a separate data record. Execution of the computer program includes using database queries to retrieve pieces of the compiled code for execution. The database and associated database management logic are used to provide numerous advantages in execution and management of the computer program. For example, in some embodiments, database queries are used to help facilitate program flow logic. In another example, database queries are based on a command line or universal resource locator. These queries may be used to select functionality of a computer program in response to the command line or universal resource locator. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042586 | DIRECTORY CONTENT RESOLUTION - In a distributed directory configuration, different nodes can retain information pertinent an industrial control configuration. As information changes in one node, replicas of the information in other nodes can be updated. However, updating can take time and a query can be run upon the directory while nodes have conflicting information. Conflicting information can be identified and resolved such that a query obtains a correct answer. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042587 | Method for Laying Out Fields in a Database in a Hybrid of Row-Wise and Column-Wise Ordering - A method, system, and article are provided for employment of a hybrid layout of representation of data objects in computer memory. Columns of the database are separated based upon a classification of the columns. A vertical partition in the form of a bank is provided to receive an assignment of one or more data objects identified in the columns. Each bank is sized to be a divisor of a size of an associated hardware register. Assignment of data objects to banks organizes the data in a manner that support efficient query processing that mitigates the quantity of banks required to respond to the query. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042588 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS UTILIZING A SEARCH ENGINE - Embodiments of the invention form an information set from the current set of index information available by the operations of the Pre-Search and RunTime Search components of the search engine. A search request that contains search terms and/or other search criteria (e.g. date or file type) is entered by a user through an input interface. The search terms and the information set are worked through the search engine modules to provide the actual results sought by the user. These results are provided to the user via a Return Interface. Embodiments involve a search engine that forms a numeric code index that includes grammar embedded rules from a plurality of documents, converts a search request into the same format as the index, and then compares the index and the search request to form the search results. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042589 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TOPICAL SEARCHING - Embodiments of the invention form an information set from the current set of index information available by the operations of the pre-search and runtime Search components of the search engine. A search request that contains search terms and/or other search criteria (e.g. date or file type) is entered by a user through an input interface. The search terms and the information set are worked through the search engine modules to provide the actual results sought by the user. These results are provided to the user via an output interface. A search request may comprise topics of interest to the user. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042590 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A SEARCH ENGINE HAVING RUNTIME COMPONENTS - Embodiments of the invention form an information set from the current set of index information available by the operations of the pre-search and runtime Search components of the search engine. A search request that contains search terms and/or other search criteria (e.g. date or file type) is entered by a user through an input interface. The search terms and the information set are worked through the search engine modules to provide the actual results sought by the user. These results are provided to the user via an output interface. Embodiments of a search engine involve runtime aspects that remove duplicate documents from the index, provide topical searching, and provide caching for the search engine. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042591 | METHOD OF SEARCHING PUBLIC INFORMATION FOR SALES LEADS - A system and method of identifying UCC Financing Statements by productive asset type, which is useful in identifying prospects for companies that are involved in the distribution, sales, and financing of productive assets. The present invention allows the user of the invention to search UCC financing statements by brand and/or type of equipment that is used as collateral. Using a lead generation technique that involves analyzing and correlating collateral information to UCC financing statements, the statements can be identified and categorized by collateral type. By processing electronic collateral information, as well as an OCR process that converts text contained in images into searchable text. There is also a direct data entry method of gathering collateral information. This collateral information is then used in an innovative relational database. Also, the proposed invention categorizes UCC financing statements by collateral type using a method of querying specific equipment type keywords, such as equipment names and brand names. Also, the proposed invention merges UCC addendums and amendments allowing the user to view the most current UCC financing information without looking at multiple filings. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042592 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING USER- REQUESTED CONTENT SERVICES AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES - Aspects of the invention include a system and a method of providing a scalable system architecture and methods facilitating user-requested content alerts. Additionally, aspects of the invention are directed to a system and method of providing customized alerts to a user link atoms corresponding to discrete subjects of information requested by the user to form molecules which can be received by an interactive media device to display the information corresponding to each atom. Other aspects of the invention include a system and a method of facilitating user-requested content utilizing Real Simple Syndication (RSS). The present invention is further directed at providing a system and method for expanding user-requested content, and systems and methods of facilitating monetization of user-requested content via electronic mail. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042593 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF USING INFORMATION BANNERS TO COMMUNICATE WITH USERS OF ELECTRONIC DICTIONARIES - In one embodiment, the invention provides a method, comprising: receiving a query from a user computer device; determining what custom messages are applicable based on the query; and delivering any applicable custom messages to the user computer device. The messages may be selected and customized based on a customization control parameter. In one embodiment, the customization control parameter may include the interface language, the regional settings, and the version of the product. Advantageously, trial versions of dictionaries may have different messages from paid or non-trial versions. For example, for the trial versions, a warning message will be sent informing the user that the trial period is about to expire. Additionally, the server device has the capability to detect whether the version used by a user is bootleg or not, and send customized messages to users of bootleg versions. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042594 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INDEXING INFORMATION AND PROVIDING RESULTS FOR A SEARCH INCLUDING OBJECTS HAVING PREDETERMINED ATTRIBUTES - A system and method for providing at least one search result responsive to receiving a search query comprising at least one search query term, includes receiving the search query; locating at least one record containing at least one search query term; displaying a text representation of each of the records containing at least one search query term; and displaying a representation of an object in relation with the text representation for each record that includes an object comprising at least one predetermined attribute. According to another embodiment of the invention, a method for indexing records in an index of an information network, includes the acts of: receiving a record; searching the record for an indication that an object comprising at least one specified attribute is to be displayed with the record; finding the indication; creating a representation of the object; storing the representation in association with the record to which it corresponds; and making an entry for the record in the index, said entry indicating the object to be displayed with the record. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042595 | PLAYLIST SEARCH DEVICE, PLAYLIST SEARCH METHOD AND PROGRAM - A playlist search method includes: using, as search criteria, one or more pieces of content attribute information of a first content contained in a first playlist to search for a second playlist which contains a second content having one or more pieces of common content attribute information with the first content and is different from the first playlist; obtaining the first playlist and the second playlist; and displaying a plurality of contents contained in the first playlist and the second playlist in such a manner that the first playlist and the second playlist cross each other with the first content and the second content used as a base point. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042596 | Bit string search apparatus, search method, and program - A coupled node tree comprises a root node and a node pair, the node pair being a branch node and leaf node, or a pair of branch nodes, or a pair of leaf nodes arranged in adjacent storage areas. The branch node includes a discrimination bit position of the search key and the first position information of a primary node, one node of a node pair of a link target. The leaf node includes the second position information of the storage area holding an index key that is the target of a search. According to a bit value of the search key of a discrimination bit position in the branch node, repeated linking to a primary node of a node pair of the link target or a node at a position in a memory area adjacent thereto until a leaf node is reached. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042597 | Longest-match/shortest-match search apparatus, search method, and program - A coupled node tree comprises a root node and a node pair, the node pair being a branch node and leaf node, or a pair of branch nodes, or a pair of leaf nodes located in adjacent storage areas. The branch node includes a discrimination bit position of the search key and a position information of a primary node, which is one node of a node pair of a link target. The leaf node includes an index key that is a bit string that is the target of a search. A coupled node tree is searched using a longest-match/shortest-match search key and the longest-match/shortest-match node is determined through a comparison of the difference bit position between the index key resulting from the search and the longest-match/shortest-match search key and the discrimination bit position of a branch node on the search path memorized when the search is performed. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042598 | Coupled node tree backup/restore apparatus, backup/restore method, and program - A coupled node tree has a root node and a node pair, the node pair being a branch node, which includes position information of a link target node pair, and a leaf node, which includes a search target index key, or a pair of branch nodes, or a pair of leaf nodes located in adjacent storage areas. The nodes of the coupled node tree are backed up in a depth precedence search sequence. The coupled node tree is restored by repeating the following process: reading out the nodes in the sequence they are backed up, storing in a stack the position information of the node to be restored, successively restoring child nodes as long as branch nodes are encountered, restoring a leaf node which is read out and then, tracing back up the stack, a decision being made as to which node is next to be restored. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042599 | ADDING LOW-LATENCY UPDATEABLE METADATA TO A TEXT INDEX - Techniques are disclosed for allowing efficient updating of metadata and high performance searching through the use of a text index and a separate updateable metadata index. Generally, an updateable metadata index is used to store document metadata. A text index is used to store document text. Documents in the text index are stored in the same order as the corresponding metadata entries. Upon receiving a search query, a search engine decomposes the query into a metadata condition and a text condition. Search engine performs a parallel scan upon the metadata index and the text index. To increase performance, metadata entries are skipped over if the corresponding text entries do not match the text condition. During the scan, when a document in the metadata index matches a document in the text index, the document is stored in the search results. After the scan, search results are displayed. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042600 | ROLE-BASED CONTACT LIST MANAGER - A system and method for managing a contact list within a business process automation tool. The method includes identifying an active task of a user within the business process automation tool. The method also includes identifying a plurality of roles associated with the active task. Each of the roles is associated with corresponding contact information. The method also includes generating a contact list of the roles and the corresponding contact information. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042601 | Method and System for Determining Users that Satisfy Desired Conditions - A method and system are disclosed allowing for determining those users of multiple users who satisfy desired condition(s), where characteristics of the users in at least some embodiments vary dynamically. In at least one embodiment, the method includes receiving at a server device a request for a determination regarding which of a plurality of users satisfies a plurality of conditions respectively relating to a plurality of user characteristics, and obtaining at the server device a conditions specification. Additionally, the method includes accessing at least one repository in which is stored information regarding the users to obtain at least some of the information, the information concerning the user characteristics. The method also includes making a determination regarding which of the users satisfies the plurality of conditions, obtaining at the first server device updated information from the at least one repository, reevaluating the determination, and sending output information regarding the re-evaluated determination. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042602 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INDEXING INFORMATION FOR A SEARCH ENGINE - Embodiments of the invention form an information set from the current set of index information available by the operations of the pre-search and runtime Search components of the search engine. A search request that contains search terms and/or other search criteria (e.g. date or file type) is entered by a user through an input interface. The search terms and the information set are worked through the search engine modules to provide the actual results sought by the user. These results are provided to the user via an output interface. Embodiments involve scanning the repository for documents that comprise at least one information type, and forming a numerical matrix from the scanned documents. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042603 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEARCHING AN INDEX - Embodiments of the invention form an information set from the current set of index information available by the operations of the pre-search and runtime Search components of the search engine. A search request that contains search terms and/or other search criteria (e.g. date or file type) is entered by a user through an input interface. The search terms and the information set are worked through the search engine modules to provide the actual results sought by the user. These results are provided to the user via an output interface. Embodiments involve converting a search request into a format of an index of documents, and then comparing the converted search request and the index for matches. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042604 | Deployment of a Solution Artifact to a Client Application - Technologies are described herein for deploying a solution artifact to a client-side application. In one method, an instruction to deploy the solution artifact to the client-side application program is received. Upon receiving the instruction, a determination is made whether a package associated with the solution artifact and the client-side application program was generated. Upon determining that the package was generated, a determination is made whether the package is current. Upon determining that the package is not current or that the package was not generated, the package is generated based on the solution artifact and the client-side application program. Upon determining that the package is current or upon generating the package, the package is deployed to the client-side application program. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042605 | VERSIONING RELATIONAL DATABASE DISJOINT RECORDS - An inventive system and method for versioning relational database disjoint records comprises a relational database, configuration files translated into query files, and a version control system, wherein each query file is stored and checked into the version control system, updating a version number of the query file. Each query file comprises a set of query statements. Query files are retrieved from the version control system based on the version number or an independent data item, and put into the database for analysis. In one embodiment, one of the configuration files comprises a configuration of a device, such as a router, a switch, a firewall, or a medical record. The method comprises acquiring configuration files, changing the configuration files into query files and storing the query files, and checking each query file into a version control system, wherein the checking in updates a version number of the query file. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042606 | MULTIPLE AGGREGATIONS OVER DATA STREAMS - A system for a data stream management system includes a filter transport aggregate for a high speed input data stream with a plurality of packets each packet comprising attributes. The system includes an evaluation system to evaluate the high speed input data stream and partitions the packets into groups the attributes and a table, wherein the table stores the attributes of each packets using a hash function. A phantom query is used to define partitioned groups of packets using attributes other than those used to group the packets for solving user queries without performing the user queries on the high speed input data stream. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042607 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ADAPTIVE QUERY PARALLELISM PARTITIONING WITH LOOK-AHEAD PROBING AND FEEDBACK - A database query is partitioned into an initial partition including a plurality of parallel groups, and is executed, via an execution plan, based on the initial partition. A sampling subset of data is identified from the plurality of parallel groups. Substantially in parallel with the executing of the query, the execution plan is executed on the sampling subset of data as a sampling thread. The execution plan is modified based on feedback from the execution of the execution plan on the sampling subset of data. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042608 | SYSTEM FOR OBTAINING RECOMMENDATIONS FROM MULTIPLE RECOMMENDERS - A personalization network service enables developers to develop recommenders that can be made available to content site operators for providing recommendations to end users. The personalization network service may also be capable of optimizing the use and selection of the recommenders for different end users, groups or segments of end users, content sites, and the like. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042609 | SHARING ITEM IMAGES USING A SIMILARITY SCORE - In some example embodiments, a system and method are illustrated to associate an item listing with one or more corresponding images. The system and method include receiving an item listing for an item from a user device. The system and method include generating a similarity score for a respective existing image associated with one or more existing item listings. The generating may be done by comparing the item listing with the existing item listings received from the user device. The similarity score may indicate a degree of similarity between the item listing and the existing item listings associated with the respective existing image. The system and method include proposing a specified number of existing images with the highest similarity scores to the user device. The system and method further include associating the item listing with one or more of the specified number of existing images accepted by the user device. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042610 | RANK DOCUMENTS BASED ON POPULARITY OF KEY METADATA - Ranking of documents by metadata popularity provides relevant search results in response to user search queries received by a search engine. Metadata popularity is determined by comparing metadata from a document with popularity data from one or more sources. In some embodiments, metadata popularity is determined based on a frequency with which extracted metadata appears in query logs. Search results are ordered based on metadata popularity and returned in response to the user search queries. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042611 | Location-based search mash-up engine, web site, and application programming interface - This invention is a location-based search mash-up engine, web site, and application programming interface (API) for use by web browsers or programs running on wireless mobile devices with web or internet access and location finding capability such as GPS and cell tower or Wi-Fi hotspot triangulation. The invention also provides the capability of presenting sponsored listings or coupons with the search results. The logic to choose these sponsored business listings or coupons will be based on keywords associated with a specific location, defined by latitude & longitude and surrounding radius defined by meters or fractions of a mile (¼ mile, ½ mile, etc.) or kilometer. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042612 | Method and system for ranking journaled internet content and preferences for use in marketing profiles - A method and system for ranking and categorizing journaled internet data sources for use in marketing and advertising. Journaled internet data sources are identified and examined. Journal data is retrieved from one or more of the data sources and a voting algorithm is applied to classify the journaled data. The journaled data is associated with one or more content categories of a monitoring taxonomy that specifies content categories and relationships between the content categories. Based on the associations, an interest level, an interaction level, a direction level, or authority level is computed and used to rank the journaled data. The rankings are stored and can be provided for use in targeted marketing and advertising. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042613 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION - A system and method receives identification of a web page. The web page is added to a web page library. Upon occurrence of an analysis event, the web page is provided to an automated analysis framework. Analyses representing SEO best practices are run against the web page. Each of the analyses is associated with input data. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042614 | DEFERRED 3-D SCENEGRAPH PROCESSING - Processing a scenegraph for a client, including: creating a stack of filters, wherein each filter of the stack of filters is configured to edit or create a property on an object within the scenegraph; presenting a query by the client to the stack of filters for a first property on a first object within the scenegraph to determine whether a filter of the stack of filters edits or creates the first property on the first object; and returning a value for the first property if the filter of the stack of filters edits or creates the first property. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042615 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AGGREGATING CONTENT ON A USER-CONTENT DRIVEN WEBSITE - One or more items submitted by user-contributors of a website may be aggregated according to aggregation criteria. The aggregation criteria may specify a topic or type of item to be included in the aggregation. The aggregation criteria may be generated a priori by a user of the website and/or may be generated on-the-fly based on a search, inbound link, or the like. User contributed items may be associated with metadata and/or tags. The items and, importantly the metadata associated therewith, may be rated by users of the website. The item ratings, the metadata, and/or the metadata ratings may be used to aggregate relevant items, thereby increasing the probability that the aggregation closely matches the aggregation criteria. The aggregated items may be presented in a user interface to one or more users of the website. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042616 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING AND PRESENTING REPRESENTATIVE CONTENT OF A USER - Representative content of a user may be selected from the content submitted by the user and available on a website. The content may be rated and the selection of the representative content may be based upon the user ratings. The ratings may be submitted by other users and/or may be received or derived from other sources, such as an editorial board, website employees, hit-count, or the like. The representative content may include the highest-rated, lowest-rated, and/or average-rated content items submitted by the user. Indications of the representative content items may be displayed in connection with content submitted by the user. Displaying the indications of the representative content may motivate users to author and/or submit quality content to the website. The representative content displayed in connection with content submitted by the user may provide an easy-to-digest assessment of the user's corpus. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042617 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DOWNLOADING ADDITIONAL SEARCH RESULTS INTO ELECTRONIC DICTIONARIES - In one embodiment, the invention provides a method for a system to provide information based on a query, the method comprising: performing a first search of at least one first source for information responsive to the query; providing a result of said search to a user; based on user input, performing a second search of at least one second source for information responsive to the query; and providing a result of said second search to the user. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042618 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPARING USER RATINGS - A rating submitted by a user may be compared to ratings submitted by other users in a user community. The users within the user community may be identified using respective descriptive tags. A subset of users within the community may be defined using the descriptive tags. A tag-specific comparison may be made between the rating submitted by the user and a particular subset of the user community. The user may add, edit, and/or remove descriptive tags responsive to the comparisons. Cohesive groups may be identified within the user community. Ratings submitted by members of a cohesive group may be used to suggest content to other members of the group. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042619 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF TRIGGERING A SEARCH REQUEST - A method and system are described for creating a recurring or triggered search request. A search request is associated with a condition which initiates an information search. A search result, including a search query associated with a search request and a condition may be provided to a user via any or all communication services and/or devices associated with the user. A tool is provided to enable a user to select an existing search request and/or search result which may be used to create a triggered or ‘favorite’ search query which may be triggered as designated. Triggered search requests may be suggested to a user using automated and/or human assisted techniques. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042620 | System and Methods for Managing Complex Service Delivery Through Coordination and Integration of Structured and Unstructured Activities - The invention allows for the integration of structured and unstructured human activities in the context of delivering one or more service. The systems and method described improve efficiency and quality of service delivery by increasing overall productivity and by providing better accountability for the actual cost of delivery. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042621 | Methods, Systems, And Computer Program Products For Characterizing Links To Resources Not Activated - Methods, systems, and computer program products for characterizing links to resources that are not activated are disclosed. According to one aspect, a page is presented via a user interface of a client device, the page including a link to a resource accessible via a network through activation of the link. The client device determines whether the link on the page is not activated. The link is characterized based on at least one of information associated with the link, the resource, and the page responsive to determining that the link is not activated. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042622 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPILING A SET OF DOMAIN NAMES TO RECOVER - In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a method and system that receives a seed term, obtains a corpus of candidate terms, where each candidate term comprises the seed term or variants of the seed term, obtains network traffic information associated with each candidate term in the corpus of candidate terms, and compiles a set of domain names based on the network traffic information. Each domain name in the set comprises one of the corpus of candidate terms. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042623 | System and method for mining and tracking business documents - Systems and methods are described that mine and track archived business documents for discovering business knowledge and intelligence using data mining, machine learning, statistics, and computational linguistics, from different linguistic sources according to their meaning. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042624 | METHOD FOR SORTING DATA - Techniques for sorting a sequence of one or more input objects are provided. The techniques include identifying a property that is exhibited by a sequence of one or more input objects, determining whether each input object from the sequence of one or more input objects exhibits the property, storing each of the one or more input objects into a buffer, wherein an input object is stored in a first buffer if it exhibits the property and an input object is stored in a second buffer if it does not exhibit the property, sorting each of the one or more input objects in each buffer, and merging the one or more input objects in each buffer into a sequence of one or more input objects. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042625 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING OBJECTS - Embodiments of a classification pipeline disclosed herein have the ability to both collect data as it occurs and dynamically redact it, allowing ongoing statistics to be gathered and maintained while simultaneously constraining the total amount of storage capacity that must be dedicated to such a purpose. Various types of information can be extracted from or obtained on the object through the classification pipeline. In one embodiment, the classification pipeline comprises a plurality of layers implemented as a set of services available to network clients through a Web interface or an Applications Programming Interface (API). Each client can subscribe to one or more layers of the classification pipeline at their leisure and tailor their classification pipeline configuration through the interface. The classification pipeline can be configured to collaborate with other software to provide a consistent snapshot of the state of a network environment based on data collected at the time. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042626 | Transactional File System - A transactional file system wherein multiple file system operations may be performed as a transaction. An application specifies that file system-related operations are to be handled as a transaction, and the application is given a file handle associated with a transaction context. For file system requests associated with a transaction context, a file system component manages operations consistent with transactional behavior. Transactions over a network are facilitated. Remote files may be accessed within a transaction via a redirector protocol. A redirector on a client computer system communicates with an agent on a server computer system to relay and maintain transactional information on both systems. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042627 | Flexible Integrated Access to Published Material - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, can provide flexible integrated access to media content. A method includes receiving a request for access by a user to media content via a first delivery mechanism of multiple delivery mechanisms. The delivery mechanisms include one or more delivery mechanisms operable to deliver an audio rendering of the media content and one or more delivery mechanisms operable to deliver a visual rendering of the media content. The user is provided with access to the media content via the first delivery mechanism. A request is received from the user for access to the media content via a second delivery mechanism and the user is provided with access to the media content via the second delivery mechanism. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042628 | SHARING ACCESS TO CONTENT ITEMS USING GROUP INFORMATION AND ITEM INFORMATION - A user can share media content with others by defining one or more groups, where each group includes members who may access a set of user's content item on the online service or on user's local device. Item information is generated for content items to be shared and indicates where the content item can be accessed. The item information is provided to the members of the group that was selected to share the content item. The user can conveniently configure or update the group to share the user's content items. The content items to be shared can be located on an online service or on the user's local device. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042629 | FILE SERVER WHICH CONDUCTS A MEMORY TEST UPON BOOT UP - Provided is a file server providing a file service to a host computer, including an interface coupled to the host computer; a processor; a memory; and an interface coupled to a disk drive. The file server is configured to calculate a capacity of storage areas in the memory, which is required to provide the file service; execute a first memory check in which the storage areas having the calculated capacity are tested; execute, after the first memory check is completed, a second memory check in which remaining storage areas in the memory are tested; and start, in a period after the first memory check is completed and before the second memory check is completed, providing the file service. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042630 | SYSTEMS FOR DISTRIBUTING CONTENT DATA OVER A COMPUTER NETWORK AND METHOD OF ARRANGING NODES FOR DISTRIBUTION OF DATA OVER A COMPUTER NETWORK - The invention is a system for distributing content data over a computer network and a method of arranging receiver nodes in a computer network such that the capacity of the server is effectively multiplied many times over, and may even be increased exponentially. The invention takes advantage of the excess capacity many receiver nodes possess, and uses them as repeaters. The distribution system includes nodes having databases which indicate their ancestors and descendants so that reconfiguration of the distribution network may be accomplished without burdening the system's primary sever. The invention includes a process for configuring a computer information distribution network having a primary server node and user nodes docked in a cascaded relationship, and reconfiguring the network in the event that a user node departs from it. The process includes the steps of providing a new user node (or connection requesting user node) with a connection address list of nodes within the network, having the new user node (or connection requesting user node) go to the node at the top of the connection address list, determine whether that node is still part of the distribution network, and connect thereto if it is, and if it is not, to go to the next node on the connection address list. When a user node departs from the distribution network, a propagation signal is transmitted to the nodes below it in the network, causing them to move up in the network in a predetermined order. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042631 | METHOD FOR PARTITIONING A QUERY - Techniques for partitioning a query are provided. The techniques include establishing one or more criterion for partitioning a query, wherein the query comprises one or more tables, materializing a first of the one or more tables, partitioning the first of the one or more tables until the one or more criterion have been satisfied, and partitioning and joining a remainder of the one or more tables of the query. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042632 | Log File Time Sequence Stamping - In certain embodiments, a method for log file time sequence stamping is provided. The method includes connecting to a console port of one or more data sources and receiving data from the data sources. The data may be logged with both an independent time stamp and a sequence indicator. The independent time stamp provides a consistent time stamp of when the data was received at the system and the time sequence indicator represents an order in which the data was received at the system. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042633 | MESSAGING TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD - One embodiment of the invention includes a message tracking system. The system comprises a message agent programmed to detect messages transmitted from one application to at least one other application. The system also comprises a detector programmed to determine a protocol that is associated with a given message of the messages detected by the message agent. The system further comprises a tracking manager programmed to generate tracking information for the given message based on the protocol determined by the detector and to store the tracking information in memory. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042634 | Delivery Enablement Workforce Utilization Tool Integration - Methods, computer-readable media, and apparatuses support data entry and aggregate work entries for an account. Different work codes are mapped to different categories for an account. Work entries are aggregated for the different categories in a report or in an invoice for the account. A worker may be mapped to client, which may further include a client region, when aggregating work entries to different categories for an account. A data structure is formed to include account information. The data structure can assume different structure types, including a data cube having three or more dimensions. A spreadsheet file may be linked to the data structure, and the contents a database may be synchronized to the spreadsheet file. The contents of the database may be categorized, analyzed, and aggregated, in which the contents are exported to provide a report on a worker and/or account. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042635 | Landing page maker - The present invention relates to a method, system and computer program product for managing one or more landing pages. The method, system and computer program product enables creation of a landing page by using one or more pre-coded templates. The created landing pages are coded by using various Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs) and web services. Further, the method, system and computer program product enables dynamic updating of the created landing pages with the content stored in one or more databases. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042636 | INTERNET SERVER SYSTEM, METHOD OF CREATING VIRTUAL MACHINE OF THE INTERNET SERVER AND METHOD OF STARTING THE SAME - An internet server system for providing a virtual machine (VM) to a user, a method of creating a VM and an account, and a method of starting a VM via a webpage are provided. The internet server system includes at least one client apparatus, a computing server, a thin client management server, a storage unit, and a storage server. The method of creating a VM and an account includes: cloning a VM according to the request signal and logging in the VM with a preset account and a preset password; creating an FQDN for the VM; logging out the VM; and saving setting of the VM to a database server. The method of starting a VM via a webpage includes: connecting to a thin client webpage via a web browser; confirming an account and a password; starting the VM notifying a user to connect by a remote desktop connection. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042637 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF DATABASE DIVISIONAL MANAGEMENT FOR PARALLEL DATABASE SYSTEM - A method and a system of database divisional management for use with a parallel database system comprising an FES (front end server), BES's (back end servers), an IOS (I/O server) and disk units. The numbers of processors assigned to the FES, BES's and IOS, the number of disk units, and the number of partitions of the disk units are determined in accordance with the load pattern in question. Illustratively, there may be established a configuration of one FES, four BES's, one IOS and eight disk units. The number of BES's is varied from one to four depending on the fluctuation in load, so that a scalable system configuration is implemented. When the number of BES's is increased or decreased, only the management information thereabout is transferred between nodes and not the data, whereby the desired degree of parallelism is obtained for high-speed query processing. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042638 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SYNCHRONIZING DATA SOURCES - A method is provided for synchronizing data sources. The method includes receiving at least first and second data tables. The data tables have one or more mutually similar fields and one or more dissimilar fields from one another. First normalized, second normalized, and intermediate data tables are stored, each including respective first normalized, second normalized, and intermediate data table fields that each correspond to the mutually similar fields of the first and second data tables. The first normalized data table is at least partially populated with corresponding entries from the first data table and the second normalized data table is at least partially populated with corresponding entries in the second data table. Intermediate data table entries are respectively replaced with corresponding inconsistent data entries of the first and second normalized data tables. An apparatus and a computer program product for accomplishing the above method are also provided. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042639 | CONFIGURATION FILE FRAMEWORK TO SUPPORT HIGH AVAILABILITY SCHEMA BASED UPON ASYNCHRONOUS CHECKPOINTING - In various exemplary embodiments, a method and related system for configuration file management in a network element comprise one or more of the following: upon initialization of the network element, reading a first configuration file that is in a character-encoded format; for each application process, translating the first configuration file into a plurality of non-character-encoded configuration files; configuring each application process based on the respective plurality of non-character-encoded configuration files; modifying, in real-time, at least one of the non-character-encoded configuration files; and merging each of the non-character-encoded configuration files into a second configuration file that is in a character-encoded format. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042640 | Migration Apparatus Which Convert SAM/VSAM Files of Mainframe System into SAM/VSAM Files of Open System and Method for Thereof - Provided are a migration apparatus and method for converting a sequential access method (SAM)/virtual storage access method (VSAM) file of a mainframe system into an appropriate SAM/VSAM file for an open system. The migration apparatus includes: an information obtaining module for obtaining various file information on a SAM file of the mainframe system; a data obtaining module for obtaining actual data of the SAM file of the mainframe system composed of Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC) in binary format; a code conversion module for converting the obtained actual data composed of EBCDIC into American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) code; a file combination module for combining the obtained file information on the SAM file with the actual data corresponding to the file information and converted into ASCII code; and a file registration module for registering the file information of the combined SAM file in the open system. The migration apparatus and method efficiently reuse a conventionally used SAM/VSAM file during a rehosting process of converting a mainframe system into an open system. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042641 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA MANAGEMENT - A data processing system that includes a processor and a metadata repository storing data describing a plurality of systems and applications. The data processing system also includes integration rules describing a plurality of data distribution formats corresponding to the plurality of systems. The data processing system correlates data between the metadata repository and the integration rules to produce and store an impact analysis of the effect a change would have on the plurality of systems and applications. There is also a master data management system including a metadata repository and integration rules. The master data management system correlates data between the metadata repository and the integration rules to produce and store an impact analysis of the effect a change would have on the plurality of target systems and applications. The master data management system is configured to publish data to the plurality of target systems over a network. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042642 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MEDIA BOOKMARKS - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for transmedia video bookmarks, the method comprising receiving a first place marker and a second place marker for a segment of video media, extracting metadata from the video media between the first and second place markers, normalizing the extracted metadata, storing the normalized metadata, first place marker, and second place marker as a video bookmark, and retrieving the media represented by the video bookmark upon request from a user. One aspect further aggregates video bookmarks from multiple sources and refines the first place marker and second place marker based on the aggregated video bookmarks. Metadata can be extracted by analyzing text or audio annotations. Another aspect of normalizing the extracted metadata includes generating a video thumbnail representing the video media between the first place marker and the second place marker. Multiple video bookmarks may be searchable by metadata or by the video thumbnail visually. In one aspect a user profile stores video bookmarks on a per media and per user basis. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042643 | Virtual masked database - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with virtual masked databases are described. One example system includes a masking logic to mask an unmasked column of a database table to produce a masked column. The masked column is then added to the database creating a bi-masked database. A portion of the bi-masked database is then selected by a view logic and provided to a user. The view provided to the user may allow fast, conflict free queries and updates to the database. By providing the user either masked or unmasked data based on information associated with the user, an added layer of data security may be achieved. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042644 | TREE-STRUCTURED DATA DISPLAY - Some general aspects of the invention relate to systems and computer-implemented methods of generating a treemap display. A collection of data elements characterized by a first attribute is accepted, and some data elements are grouped into a first set of data elements according to a first rule associated with the first attribute. A treemap field is partitioned into a collection of cells according to the grouping result, and the collection of cells includes a first cell representing the first set of data elements. The first cell has a first dimension corresponding to a value of the first attribute of the first set of data elements. The first set of data elements is then divided into a collection of subsets of data elements according to a second rule. Correspondingly, the first cell of the treemap field is partitioned into a collection of sub-cells according to the division. Each sub-cell represents a respective one of the plurality of subsets of data elements. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042645 | System with a data aggregation module generating aggregated data for responding to OLAP analysis queries in a user transparent manner - A system for supporting OLAP analysis over a network. The system comprises an OLAP server for enabling an OLAP user to perform OLAP analysis via interaction with a client machine on the network. The system also includes a data aggregation module comprising a multi-dimensional datastore, an aggregation engine integrated with the multi-dimensional datastore, and a first interface for loading base data from a data source to the aggregation engine. The aggregation engine performs data aggregation operations on loaded base data, generates aggregated data from the base data, and stores the aggregated data in the multi-dimensional datastore. A second interface receives requests for OLAP analysis from the OLAP server, accesses the aggregation engine to retrieve from the multi-dimensional datastore, aggregated data corresponding to requests, and communicates the retrieved aggregated data to the OLAP server for query servicing, in a manner transparent to the OLAP user. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042646 | System and Methods Thereof for Generation of Searchable Structures Respective of Multimedia Data Content - A system for generating concept structures respective of a plurality of multimedia data elements (MMDEs). The system comprises an attention processor (AP) for generating a plurality of items from a received MMDE of the plurality of MMDEs and determining which of the generated items that are of interest for signature generation; a signature generator (SG) for generating at least a signature responsive to at least an item of interest of the received MMDE of the plurality of MMDEs; a clustering processor (CP) for clustering a plurality of signatures received from the signature generator responsive of the plurality of MMDEs, and for creating a signature reduced cluster (SRC) of the cluster; and a concept generator (CG) for associating metadata with the SRC and matches the SRC with previously generated SRC such that SRCs that match form a concept structure comprised of a plurality of SRCs and their associated metadata. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042647 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECORDING REAL-TIME COMMUNICATIONS - An approach is provided for buffering and recording real-time communications and then delivering the recorded communication to a user-specified device in a user-specified format. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042648 | ORDERING CONTENT IN SOCIAL NETWORKING APPLICATIONS - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for ordering content in social networking applications are described. A plurality of shared content pieces are received, that are viewable and accessible by at least one viewer. The shared content pieces are displayed in an initial order, wherein the displayed shared content pieces are accessed in a viewer order determined by an individual viewer. The viewer order and the identity of the individual viewer are received and stored in a data store, and the initial order is changed based at least in part upon at least one of the viewer order and the identity of the individual viewer, thereby providing an adjusted order. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042649 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING COMPUTER OPERATIONS ACCORDING TO STORED USER PREFERENCES - A system and method for managing computer operations according to stored user preferences is disclosed. The system includes a calendar module for scheduling an event and centrally storing the user preferences regarding the computer operations during the event, and a controller module for retrieving the user preferences centrally stored in the calendar module and centrally controlling the computer operations according to the user preferences during the event. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042650 | Digital Slate - Some embodiments provide a method performed by a digital slate. The method receives input of a first set of metadata for a particular video clip from a user. The method receives a second set of metadata for the particular video clip from a camera as the camera films the particular video clip. The method embeds the first and second sets of metadata in a data storage structure. The method transmits the data structure for later use in matching the first and second sets of metadata with the particular video clip. Some embodiments display at least a portion of the stored metadata about the particular video clip in front of a camera at the start of the particular video clip. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042651 | Map Updating System, Methods and Programs - Map updating systems, methods, and programs that store map information, including one or more pieces of difference update information, obtain the one or more pieces of difference update information used for updating a part of the map information, and update the map information based on the one or more pieces of difference update information. The systems, methods, and programs obtain total update information used for updating an entirety of the memory to a new piece of map information, update the map information based on the total update information, compare a version of the total update information used in the total update with each of versions of the one or more pieces of difference update information stored in the memory, extract any of the one or more pieces of difference update information judged to be newer and update the map information based on the difference update information. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042652 | System for tracking distribution for internet-distributed works of authorship - A system for use on the Internet to allow automated licensing of works of authorship and access to information about licenses which have been granted. A unique work identifier is issued to each of a large number of works of authorship, most of which are available on the Internet, but some of which are not. When the works are published, whether or not on the Internet, the unique work identifier is included. The work identifier may also identify a distributor, or chain-of-distributors, through which the work has been licensed. The unique identifier leads to a web page where a user can accept an offered license to do one or more of: reproduce, distribute, perform, display, or prepare derivative works. The system then automatically generates a unique license identifier which is placed in each copy of the work prepared by the licensee. The license identifier permits tracking of further licensing. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042653 | DYNAMIC MEDIA OBJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A dynamic media object management system that communicates media objects such as imagery with source media modalities including medical imaging systems and media archival, review, and analysis workstations, among other types of systems. The system includes a management console with a user interactive subsystems controller that may include one or more parameter databases populated via the user interactive subsystems controller with media tag transfer syntaxes, media format mapping protocols, compatibility matrices, and media processing rules that may include technologist reviewer routing rules, communication schedules, and other types of predetermined and, or predefined parameters. The system may also include, among other components, a modality services subsystem that can communicate media objects within and outside the system. A media object processor interoperates with the system components and dynamically normalizes and maps and routes and schedules the media objects to the specifications of the user, for high-speed communication with the workstations. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042654 | Method and System for Updating Playlists - Improved techniques for automatic (or dynamic) updating (or maintaining) of playlists for a media system that stores and plays media content for a user of the media system. The automatic update to playlists can occur when additional media content is added to or removed from the media system. The automatic update to playlists can also occur when previously stored media content is otherwise altered. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042655 | METHOD FOR SELECTIVE COMPRESSION FOR PLANNED DEGRADATION AND OBSOLENCE OF FILES - A system and method manages a file storage system by defining an arbitration policy, the arbitration policy defining a pre-defined usage level threshold and defining implementation priorities for a plurality of storage management mitigation actions, each storage management mitigation action defining a distinct action to be taken to reduce the usage level of the file storage system and a parameter for selecting which file or files stored in the file storage system qualify for the storage management mitigation action. If a usage level of the file storage system is greater than the pre-defined usage level threshold, a storage management mitigation action is selected from the plurality of storage management mitigation actions. Which files that qualify for the selected storage management mitigation action is determined and the selected storage management mitigation action is applied to the files determined to qualify for the selected storage management mitigation action to reduce the usage level of the file storage system. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042656 | CLAIM GENERATION FOR TESTING CLAIMS-BASED APPLICATIONS - The development-time testing of claims based applications. After a claims-based application is deployed, as the application runs, the application will encounter a number of claims, and will perform appropriate processing that depends on the application's trust in the veracity of the those claims. However, at development time, access to claims providers is either limited or non-existent. The principles described herein permit access to an environment at development-time in which the claims-based application will encounter any number and variety of claims. Accordingly, the application may be evaluated to verify proper operation in response to particular claims at development time, and any deviations in expected performance may be addressed prior to deployment. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042657 | Method and system for saving database storage space - Saving database storage space includes extracting a standard property unit from a database of commodity information and including the SPU in a SPU library, generating a sequence document of the standard property unit and sending the sequence document to a front-end device, determining whether a newly released commodity matches the standard property unit of the sequence document of the standard property unit and in the event that the newly released commodity matches the standard property unit of the sequence document, binding the new released commodity and the matched standard property unit. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042658 | METHOD FOR CAD KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT - A knowledge model of CAD knowledge may be created using a modeling language such as SysML to improve maintainability and re-usability of knowledge, thereby reducing workload. The SysML knowledge model may be stored in a knowledge repository coupled to a knowledge server. The SysML knowledge model may be accessed through the knowledge server. The SysML knowledge model may be associated with elements of a CAD model, and one or more elements of the CAD model may be linked to one or more corresponding elements in the knowledge model. Thus, when a value of one or more elements is changed in the knowledge model, the results of the change are updated substantially immediately in both the CAD model and the knowledge model and other applications using the knowledge model. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042659 | DEPLOYMENT OVERVIEW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD - A deployment overview management system, method, and associated apparatus facilitates deployment of a computer system. Feedback is provided to the deployment overview management system by prior-deployed, and other, computer systems. The feedback forms metadata that is associated with active objects, processes, and systems. The metadata is utilized to facilitate deployment of a new system and management of an existing system. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042660 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING ALTERNATIVE VERSIONS OF USER-SUBMITTED CONTENT - A user-contributor may submit a plurality of related content items and associated metadata to a website corpus. One of the items may be designated as the primary version, and the rest may be designated as secondary versions. The metadata may be associated with the primary version in the website corpus, and, as such, may act as a representative for the secondary versions. An interface may display the primary version in connection with indications of the secondary versions. Ratings of the primary version may be used to determine an overall user rating of the submitter, whereas ratings of the secondary versions may not. Similarly, only the primary version may count against a submission limit of the user and/or be eligible for selection as representative content of the submitter. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042661 | Rehosting Method Which Convert Mainframe System into Open System - Provided is a rehosting method for converting a mainframe system environment into an open system environment. The rehosting method rebuilds hardware (HAV) and software (SAV) of a company-data processing mainframe system environment to be appropriate for an open system environment, converts data included in a database or a general file to be appropriate for the open system environment, and reuses an application program. Thus, the rehosting method can be implemented at low cost within a short time and can significantly reduce maintenance cost. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042662 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BACKING UP A PHONEBOOK IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A system and method for backing up a phonebook in an electronic device creates a backup file, copies data in the phonebook to the backup file, and sets an identification for the backup file. The system and method further attaches the backup file to an multimedia service (MMS) message, adds the identification to a title of the MMS message, and sends the MMS message attached with the backup file to a target electronic devices. The target electronic devices determines if a title of any received MMS message contains the identification of the backup file, detaches the backup file from the MMS message and copies data in the backup file to a phonebook of the target electronic devices, in response to a determination that the received MMS message contains the identification of the backup file. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042663 | APPARATUS AND METHOD TO OPTIMIZE THE AVAILABLE STORAGE CAPACITY OF A PLURALITY OF SEQUENTIAL DATA STORAGE MEDIA DISPOSED IN A DATA STORAGE SYSTEM - A method to optimize use of available storage capacity of a plurality of sequential data storage media, wherein the method provides (M) sequential data storage media each comprising a plurality of blockids, where the (i)th sequential data storage medium comprises an (i)th available storage capacity, and where (M) is greater than or equal to 2, and where (i) is greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to (M). The method then receives source data comprising a plurality of segments, determines a quantum of data to store, determines if the quantum of data to store is substantially equal to an (i)th available storage capacity. If the quantum of data to store is substantially equal an (i)th available storage capacity, then the method writes the source data to an (i)th sequential data storage medium. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042664 | MUSIC ARTIST RETRIEVAL SYSTEM AND METHOD OF RETRIEVING MUSIC ARTIST - The present invention provides a music artist retrieval system which makes it possible for users to automatically retrieve an unknown music artist similar to the user's favorite artist while actually reproducing and confirming a piece of music of the unknown artist. A music artist similarity map storing section ( | 2010-02-18 |
20100042665 | Subnormal Number Handling in Floating Point Adder Without Detection of Subnormal Numbers Before Exponent Subtraction - In an embodiment, a floating point unit (FPU) comprises an adder configured to add a first mantissa and a second mantissa and an operand adjust unit coupled to provide at least the first mantissa to the adder. The operand adjust unit is coupled to receive a first operand and a second operand for a floating point add operation, and is configured to: right shift at least one mantissa corresponding to one of the first and second operands responsive to a shift count generated from exponent portions of the first and second operands; to detect whether or not neither, one, or both of the first and second operands are subnormal numbers in parallel with at least a portion of the right shifting; and to left shift by one bit the right shifted mantissa responsive to only one of the first and second operands being a subnormal floating point number. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042666 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING TRANSMISSION SIGNAL WITH DIVISION DETECTION - The present invention relates to a method and device for detecting a transmission signal on the basis of a received signal by applying a division and detection algorithm. An embodiment of the invention provides a method of detecting a transmission signal including: obtaining a unitary matrix and an upper triangular matrix by performing a sorted QR-decomposition algorithm with respect to a matrix indicating a channel state; calculating a vector y by multiplying a transpose matrix of the unitary matrix by the received signal Y; dividing the upper triangular matrix R into a plurality of sub-upper triangular matrices and dividing the calculated vector y into a plurality of sub-vectors so as to correspond to the divided plurality of sub-upper triangular matrices; and detecting a lattice point corresponding to each of the divided sub-vectors using the divided plurality of sub-upper triangular matrices. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042667 | System and method for transmitting illusory identification characteristics - Methods and systems for transmitting illusory identification characteristics are provided. | 2010-02-18 |
20100042668 | HIERARCHICALLY CLUSTERED P2P STREAMING SYSTEM - A HCPS (hierarchically clustered P2P streaming system) comprising peers grouped into clusters and hierarchies. The HCPS actively balances the uploading capabilities among clusters and executes an optimal scheduling algorithm within each cluster to ensure that system resources are optimally utilized. The HCPS comprises an architecture which can be used in practical applications, yet can achieve the streaming rate close to the theoretical upper bound. | 2010-02-18 |