14th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 52 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090089232 | MICROHISTORIANS AS PROXIES FOR DATA TRANSFER - Systems and methods that enable historians (e.g., micro-historians) to function as proxies, to supply plant level data, (e.g., history data) back to the controllers. Accordingly, typically such micro historians can function as clients/servers, to provide higher level data to the controllers (e.g., from third part databases). The historians can create a proxy that image an object on a server associated with controllers (e.g., programmable logic controller.) Such objects can contain data; pieces of code; attributes; operations or combinations thereof, for example. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089233 | CORRELATION OF NON-TIMES SERIES EVENTS IN INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS - Systems and methods that correlate among disparate pieces of synchronized data, collected from an “internal” data stream (e.g., history data collected from an industrial unit) and an “external” data stream (e.g., traffic data on network services). A process trend component that determines/predicts an outcome of an industrial process and facilitates diagnostics/prognostics of an industrial system. Accordingly, relations among various parameters can be discovered (e.g., dynamically) and proper corrective adjustments supplied to the industrial process. Such enables a tight control and short reaction time to process parameters, and for a modification thereof. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089234 | AUTOMATED CODE GENERATION FOR SIMULATORS - A system that generates deployable runtime code modules is provided. The system includes an input component that accepts specifications in accordance with design preferences, a simulation component that creates and executes a simulation of the control program to be implemented, and a code generation component that creates the deployable runtime code. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089235 | PATTERN IDENTIFICATION METHOD, PARAMETER LEARNING METHOD AND APPARATUS - In a pattern identification method in which input data is classified into predetermined classes by sequentially executing a combination of a plurality of classification processes, at least one of the classification processes includes a mapping step of mapping the input data in an N (N≧2) dimensional feature space as corresponding points, a determination step of determining whether or not to execute the next classification process based on the corresponding points, and selecting step of selecting a classification process to be executed next based on the corresponding points when it is determined in the determination step that the next classification process should be executed. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089236 | Method and System for Identifying Information Related to a Good - A method and a system identify information placed on a good to be processed, and the way of processing the good depends on this information. With regard to the method, the following steps are performed reading the information by an identifier and speaking the information as a voice message into an information retrieval system; delivering the voice message to a plurality of voice recognition systems; analyzing the voice message in each of the plurality of voice recognition systems and identifying a preliminary result; evaluating the preliminary results in order to identify the most probable result among the preliminary results best matching the initial information; and assigning the most probable result to the respective good. The system provides a reliable, high-speed multi speech recognition even in high ambient noise environments without the cost and complexity of introducing an OCR. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089237 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REMOTELY UPDATING DETECTION KNOWLEDGE OF SYSTEMS - A method for remotely updating detection knowledge of a system is presented. The method includes remotely communicating a rule package to the system to incrementally update the knowledge base of the system, wherein the rule package comprises at least one or more rules. Further, the method includes verifying validity of the rule package. The method also includes generating a set of valid rules, a set of invalid rules, or both. In addition, the method includes deploying the set of valid rules. Additionally, the method includes enabling the valid rules. Systems and computer-readable medium that afford functionality of the type defined by this method is also contemplated in conjunction with the present technique. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089238 | Knowledge management portal for rapid learning and assessment of science - The present invention is related to a scientific knowledge management learning-portal system and method that provides appropriate levels of programming and feedback for allowing end-users to rapidly grasp science in its most-elemental and most-useful aspects, specifically the mastery of the tools for assessing, measuring, and improving scientific-value. The system and method of the invention also teaches appropriate use of scientific knowledge management tools to any person who is suitably prepared to learn how to operate such a scientific-value oriented learning system, without requiring said person to have prior knowledge of the physical sciences, in substantially less time than that required for achieving similar levels of scientific skills-mastersy through currently known conventional methods, systems or devices. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089239 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BUILDING A RULEBASE - A method for building a rulebase includes receiving a plurality of rulebase components. The method also includes merging the rulebase components to create a consolidated rulebase. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089240 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO SEGMENT AN OLAP SET - A segmentation management system manages segmentation of a set of members in a multi-dimensionally modeled data source. The segmentation management system comprises a segment definition manager, a segmentation engine and a segment application manager. The segment definition manager manages definitions of identifiable non-overlapping segments for a given base set of members in a multi-dimensionally modeled data source. The segmentation engine divides the base set of members into the segments based on the definitions of the segments. The segment application manager allows the segments to be used as objects. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089241 | MULTIDIMENSIONAL EXPERT BEHAVIOR EMULATION SYSTEM - An expert decision-making method is emulated based on a history of behaviors by experts in a variety of observed situations. The history of behaviors is built up from observations of actions taken by experts in analyzing a plurality of situations. Situation data representative of a situation to be processed is received, and situation features are extracted from the situation data. Each situation feature is associated with an expert behavior method used to process the situation. A behavior method is recognized from a pattern of situation features. Recognizing a behavior method is based on feature/method separation data in multidimensional space of features into so areas with each area associated with a method used by experts. Parameter values for parameters in the recognized behavior method are calculated based on the situation features. The calculation of parameter values is accomplished by recognizing parameter calculation rules and calculating the parameter values using the rules. A parameter calculation rule for each parameter in the behavior method is recognized from a pattern of situation features. Recognizing a parameter calculation rule is based on feature/parameter-calculation-rules separation data of multidimensional space of features into areas with each area associated with a parameter calculation rule used by experts. The recognized behavior method is executed on the situation data using the calculated parameter values to recommend a solution for the situation. The recommended solution has solution data representing a plan of action to provide the solution and remainder data representing unprocessed situation data. A test detects whether the remainder data is in a target range. If the remainder data is not in the target range, the actions to recommend a solution are repeated until the test detects the remainder data is in the target range. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089242 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes the following elements. A feature amount extraction unit extracts feature amounts from a content block. An extraction unit extracts predetermined scenes from the content block using the feature amounts extracted by the feature amount extraction unit. An acquisition unit acquires information for retrieving the content block. A retrieval unit retrieves a scene that meets the information acquired by the acquisition unit from among the scenes extracted by the extraction unit. A presentation unit presents the content block including the scene retrieved by the retrieval unit as a result of retrieval. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089243 | Method and apparatus for handling of information - The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for handling information in a customer device. The method comprises forming an information recording in the customer device from an external information source in respect of the customer device, forming a delimited information recording from the information recording on the basis of manual or automatic delimitation, and showing one or more resulting information contents associated with the delimited information recording. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089244 | METHOD OF DETECTING SPAM HOSTS BASED ON CLUSTERING THE HOST GRAPH - Systems and methods for identifying spam hosts are disclosed in which hosts are known to the system and initially classified as spam or non-spam. Then the hosts are partitioned into clusters based on how each host is linked to other hosts. Each cluster is then analyzed and, depending on the number of spam and non-spam hosts it contains, the cluster may be classified as a spam cluster or a non-spam cluster. The hosts within the cluster may then be reclassified based on the cluster's classification. The results may then be used in many different ways including to filter search results based on host classifications so that spam hosts are not displayed or displayed last in a results set. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089245 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTEXTUAL COMMANDS IN A SEARCH RESULTS PAGE - The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for acting upon one or more items in a search results page. The method of the present invention comprises displaying a search engine results page (SERP), said SERP comprising a plurality of search result resources and a plurality of associated contextual controls, selecting a resource and storing a non-persistent resource identifier associated with the selected resource in response to selection of the contextual control. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089246 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HISTORY CLUSTERING - The present invention is directed towards systems, methods and computer program products for clustering a plurality of user history items. According to one embodiment, a method of clustering a plurality of user history items comprises storing a plurality of history items corresponding to a plurality of user search queries and a plurality of user selected items, as well as clustering the history items according to a time-based clustering algorithm and clustering the history items according to a subject matter based clustering algorithm. The clustered history items are displayed on a display device to a user. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089247 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO STANDARDIZE DATA PROPERTIES IN A PROCESS CONTROL ENVIRONMENT - Example methods and apparatus to standardize data properties in a process control environment are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes associating a function block with a primary key. The example method also includes associating at least one data property associated with the process control environment with the primary key and storing an instance of the at least one data property in a history database associated with the process control environment. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089248 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF FILTERING SEARCH RESULTS - A system and method of filtering search results is provided. Certain embodiments provide an improved user experience in filtering large sets of data in a computer system through the use of multidimensional associative arrays which allow results to be filtered within a web interface without needing additional calls to web server or online database. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089249 | Techniques for Correlating Events to Digital Media Assets - Improved approaches to intelligently refer users of one online media store to another online store are disclosed. The inter-store referral can permit a user of an online media store, such as an online media store that offers digital media assets for purchase, to easily access related information, such as event information, from another online store. According to another aspect, improved approaches to access and present event information are disclosed. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089250 | CONTRACT TEXT SEARCH SUMMARIZED BY CONTRACT - Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for searching one or more business objects and presenting the results organized by business object. According to one embodiment, searching one or more business objects can comprise receiving a set of criteria for searching the business objects. A search can be performed for one or more documents associated with each of the business objects based on the criteria for searching the business objects. A first view of results of said searching organized by business object can be presented. The first view of the results of said searching can comprise, for example, a list of contracts having one or more associated documents with content matching the search criteria. Additional views of the search results providing additional details of the results can be present based on user selections. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089251 | MULTIMODAL INTERFACE FOR SEARCHING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - A disclosed method and computer program product for searching a multimedia content database include determining a first query parameter provided by a user via a first input modality and optionally determining a second query parameter provided the user via a second input modality. A multidimensional query is generated where the query is indicative of the first and second query parameters. The query is applied to the multimedia content database to retrieve records of matching content. The retrieved records are then displayed to the user. The user may refine the query results using additional multidimensional and multimodal queries. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089252 | SEARCHING FOR ASSOCIATED EVENTS IN LOG DATA - To retrieve a sequence of associated events in log data, a request expression is parsed to retrieve types of dependencies between events which are searched, and the constraints (e.g., keywords) which characterize each event. Based on the parsing results, query components can be formed, expressing the constraints for individual events and interrelations (e.g., time spans) between events. A resultant span query comprising the query components can then be run against an index of events, which encodes a mutual location of associated events in storage. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089253 | Display method for patent search - A display method for patent search comprises the steps of: providing a display list previously for entering at least one search term by a patent-searching interface, so as to automatically conduct a patent search through an executive program and download at least one computer file of at least one patent document matching said search term; copying literal contents in at least one representative section of each computer file into the display list; and displaying the display list by the patent-searching interface. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089254 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM FOR AN IMPROVED ENTERPRISE SPATIAL SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method, system, and program for providing access to spatial data. A request for data is received. Enterprise and third party data are integrated. The integrated data is processed. Spatially referenced results are generated using the processed data. The spatially referenced results are returned in response to the request. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089255 | INFORMATION SEARCH APPARATUS AND METHOD - Provided is an information search apparatus and method. The method includes extracting first information and second information from specific information that is received; determining whether the second information satisfies specific conditions; generating a query by combining the second information and the first information if it is determined that the second information satisfies the specific conditions; and transmitting the generated query to a terminal. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089256 | COMPRESSED STORAGE OF DOCUMENTS USING INVERTED INDEXES - A method, in some embodiments, may include mapping, for a collection of documents, each term and each document to an integer value to obtain document identifiers (IDs) and term identifiers (IDs), respectively; storing an indication of each term ID in a document-grained inverted index; storing positional information for each term ID in a separate data structure other than the document-grained inverted index; determining a list of all the term IDs of each document without duplicates and without preserving an original order of the terms; and reconstructing a document from the collection of documents based on the list of all the term IDs of each document and the mapped term IDs and document IDs. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089257 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CONTENT SUMMARY INFORMATION - A method to provide content summary information by using a web content syndication format includes selecting keywords which satisfy a predetermined condition from among a plurality of keywords extracted from a plurality of pieces of content summary information, indicating at least one of the selected keywords through a user selection from among the selected keywords, and displaying a plurality of pieces of content summary information all of which are related to the indicated keyword. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089258 | FILE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A file management system for managing files stored in a camera includes a view generating unit, a searching unit, a selecting unit, and a processing unit. The view generating unit is configured for generating a search query view in response to a first user input, which is configured for receiving a search query in response to a second user input. The searching unit is configured for searching files, if any, matching the received search query, and instructing the view generating unit to generate a list view which is configured for listing entries that satisfy the search query. The selecting unit is configured for selecting listed entries in response to a third user input. The processing unit is configured for accessing files corresponding to the selected entries, and performing a function on the accessed files in response to a fourth user input. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089259 | Methods and systems for caching data using behavioral event correlations - A method is disclosed including a client accessing a cache for a value of an object based on an object identification (ID), initiating a request to a cache loader if the cache does not include a value for the object, the cache loader performing a lookup in an object table for the object ID corresponding to the object, the cache loader retrieving a vector of execution context IDs, from an execution context table that correspond to the object IDs looked up in the object table and the cache loader performing an execution context lookup in an execution context table for every retrieved execution context ID in the vector to retrieve object IDs from an object vector. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089260 | Quick Searching UI for a Better User Experience - A Quick Search User Interface (UI) comprises a search entry field for inputting characters, e.g. search terms. The Quick Search UI further comprises icons that are graphical representations of applications. The Quick Search UI subsequently launches an operating system and passes the user action to the operating system. The operating system uses this information to generate search results comprising websites, program files, videos, etc. Alternatively, the operating system launches the application(s) selected by the user. Icons displayed on the user interface are ordered, for example, according to a company's willingness to pay more money for a more prominent spot or according to user preferences. The Quick Search UI can be customized using skins with themes, such as musicians, geographic locations, and/or products. The icons can be displayed according to which application provider pays the highest premium, or according to user preference. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089261 | METHOD FOR RESOLVING FAILED SEARCH QUERIES - A query resolution system can be used for redirecting, refining, and/or resolving user query terms. A query resolution system may resolve and enhance user query terms, received from a user or a search portal, through providing relational matches to the user query terms using a resolver taxonomy. The resolution system may include a cross-reference map linking the resolver taxonomy with an initial taxonomy in the search portal. Utilization of the resolver system may provide the user with search results from the search portal that the user would not have seen without application of the resolver system. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089262 | METHOD OF DYNAMICALLY PROVIDING A COMPOUND OBJECT'S SOURCE INFORMATION DURING IT'S DEVELOPMENT - A method and system for dynamically providing a composite source information report whenever source information of a composite object is updated. The system includes a subscription handler for receiving a subscription request and generating a subscription query, a means for determining whether source information of an element in a composite object has been edited (added, deleted and/or modified), a source information determining handler for automatically determining source information of an element in a composite object and a composite source information report generation handler for generating a composite source information report and providing the report to users. The system further comprises an authentication handler, an editing handler, an editing monitor, a source information recording handler, subscription source information retrieving handler and a server database. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089263 | Parsing Unstructured Resources - Systems and methods of processing an unstructured resource which contains one or more data portions are described. The method comprises reading the unstructured resource into memory and accessing a data structure associated with the unstructured resource. This data structure contains a number of elements, each element including position information for a data portion in the unstructured resource. Using this position information, data portions are located from the unstructured resource and processed and the locating and processing steps are repeated for each element in the data structure. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089264 | Method and System for Managing Message Boards - Information regarding the structure of information in a content database is maintained in a structure database. The structure database is used to correlate the data structure of a query to the structure of the content database, in order to determine that information in the content database which needs to be provided to a searcher in response to the query. In one embodiment, this search method is used in an online forum, and the forum maintains a reputation score for users with respect to given subject matter. The reputation score is dependent upon the quality of a user's participation in the forum. A user's reputation score depends upon the evaluation by others of information he posts and. upon the user evaluating information posted by others. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089265 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes: a analysis mechanism obtaining a relationship between items pertaining to individually different fields on the basis of a user's evaluation on the individual items; a setting mechanism setting relationship information being information indicating the relationship obtained by an analysis of the analysis mechanism for individual items as meta data; and on the basis of the relationship information set by the setting mechanism for a predetermined item to be a reference, a recommendation mechanism identifying, as a recommendation item, an item pertaining to a different field from a field including the predetermined item having a relationship with the predetermined item. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089266 | METHOD OF FINDING CANDIDATE SUB-QUERIES FROM LONGER QUERIES - A method is disclosed for identifying queries stored in a log which are semantically related to an input query that may include a large number of terms. A set of one or more subsequences are generated for each query stored in the log, and these sets of subsequences are stored in a lookup table. A set of one or more subsequences are also generated for the input query. The subsequences in the lookup table and of the input query are generated by hashing of the respective query terms to a value between 0 and 1 using a known technique of min-hashing. The present system then constructs the subsequences of the query using the k-min hashes of the query, where k is an integer based on the number of terms in the query. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089267 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EDITING HISTORY IN A SEARCH RESULTS PAGE - The present invention is directed towards systems, methods and computer program products for controlling a user history module. According to one embodiment, a method for controlling a user history module comprises providing a history module to a user, the history module comprising a plurality of search queries and a plurality of selected search results, and monitoring user interaction with the user search history panel. A predetermined operation is performed on the history module in response to a user interaction. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089268 | XML Update Facility for an XQuery Processor - An XML update facility is disclosed for an XQuery processor A modular system for updating an XML document comprises a query generator for converting one or more updates to the XML documents into one or more queries; an existing XML query engine for processing the one or more queries to generate one or more point updates that each update a node in the XML document; an update converter that converts the one or more point updates to one or more abstract interface representations of the one or more point updates, wherein the one or more abstract interface representations are executable units that can be individually executed using a point update facility; and an update evaluator that applies the one or more abstract interface representations to the XML document to update the XML document | 2009-04-02 |
20090089269 | Method and system for managing information in a database - The present invention describes a method for managing information in a database. The method includes receiving a request from a first user in a first predefined format. The request includes a set of attributes. Further, the method includes extracting the set of attributes from the request. The method also includes searching for a first data set in the information present in the database based on the extracted set of attributes. The information in the database is organized in one or more categories. Furthermore, the method includes storing the request in the database under a first predetermined category. Moreover, the method includes receiving a response to the request from a second user in a second predefined format, with the response including the first data set. Additionally, the method includes updating the database based on the response. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089270 | TAXONOMY BASED INDEXING AND SEARCHING - A method, apparatus, and computer program product provide the ability to locate and display data in a taxonomy. A canonical taxonomy is defined (that is not exposed to a user that is searching for parts) by defining canonical categories and canonical attributes in a hierarchical structure. Mapping taxonomies are defined that define mapping categories that map to both canonical categories and canonical categories plus canonical attributes. Part data is processed based on the mapping taxonomies during which the data is mapped to a canonical category. A search request is specified in a particular mapping taxonomy format and results are returned (and displayed) that include data from multiple different taxonomies. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089271 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING INFORMATION DISCOVERY - The present invention relates to a system and methodology to facilitate automated retrieval and classification of information. A system and associated methods are provided that facilitate generation of code and/or documents. The system includes a component that receives data relating to at least one of a user's request for desired code functionality and one or more desired documents. A mapping component correlates parsed subsets of the data to specific functional objects respectively located remote from the user, wherein a generator employs the functional objects to form at least one of the desired code and the documents. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089272 | System and method for adaptive text recommendation - Network system provides a real-time adaptive recommendation set of documents with a high statistical measure of relevancy to the requestor device. The recommendation set is optimized based on analyzing the text of documents of the interest set, categorizing these documents into clusters, extracting keywords representing the themes or concepts of documents in the clusters, and filtering a population of eligible documents accessible to the system utilizing site and or Internet-wide search engines. The system is either automatically or manually invoked and it develops and presents the recommendation set in real-time; for example, upon logging onto a web site or as the client views additional documents or pages of a website. The recommendation set may be presented as a greeting, notification, alert, HTML fragment, fax, voicemail, or automatic classification or routing of customer e-mail, personal e-mail, job postings, and offers for sale or exchange. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089273 | SYSTEM FOR DETECTING ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN ITEMS - A method of detecting associations between items can include identifying a plurality of items represented in a data repository from which to select items to recommend to a target user, each item including one or more attributes. A degree of fit between an item's attributes and other items is calculated. The degree of fit can indicate the relevance of the attributes of one item to the other item. A degree of association between the two items is calculated based at least in part on the calculated degree of fit. The degree of association between the two items can indicate the relatedness of the two items. Based on this degree of association, an association between the items can be stored in a data repository. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089274 | GRADIENT BASED OPTIMIZATION OF A RANKING MEASURE - Methods, systems, and apparatuses for generating relevance functions for ranking documents obtained in searches are provided. One or more features to be used as predictor variables in the construction of a relevance function are determined. The relevance function is parameterized by one or more coefficients. A query error is defined that measures a difference between a relevance ranking generated by the relevance function and a training set relevance ranking based on a query and a set of scored documents associated with the query. The query error is a continuous function of the coefficients and aims at approximating errors measures commonly used in Information Retrieval. Values for the coefficients of the relevance function are determined that substantially minimize an objective function that depends on the defined query error. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089275 | USING USER PROVIDED STRUCTURE FEEDBACK ON SEARCH RESULTS TO PROVIDE MORE RELEVANT SEARCH RESULTS - The present invention discloses a solution of using user provided structure feedback to index electronic documents. In the solution, a search engine can serve search results based on an indexed store of electronic documents to at least user. Structure feedback can be received concerning the search results. The structure feedback can identify at least one structure element of an electronic document and at least one user specified semantic tag for the structure element. The indexed store can be changed to incorporate the structure feedback. The changed index store can be used when subsequently serving search results. The search engine can be a Web search engine and/or a desktop search engine. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089276 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PRODUCTS FOR A MONITORING CONTEXT GENERATOR - Systems, methods and computer products for generating calculation context classes from a relationship between structured data and a calculation procedure, the context classes having parent-child relationships. Exemplary embodiments include a method including searching the calculation procedure for a first data definition, generating a first context from a first scope applied to the first data definition, tracing back the calculation procedure to obtain a second data definition for calculating the first data definition and to which the first scope is applied, copying the calculation procedure into the first context until the second data definition is obtained, obtaining a second scope applied to the second data definition, obtaining a second context generated from the second scope, determining an existence of an order comparison of the first scope with the second scope and obtaining order from the structured data. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089277 | System and method for semantic search - Systems and methods for semantic search are provided. A corpus of information grouped into passages are indexed by semantic key terms generated from packed knowledge representations that document the semantic relationships of information within those passages. When a search is conducted, a query is similarly transformed into a packed knowledge representation that documents the semantic relationships from which semantic key terms are also generated. An inverted index relating the semantic key terms associated to the passages is searched using the semantic key terms generated from the query. A set of candidate passages is selected and refined by analysis of the semantic key terms and other information. The semantic representations associated with the set of candidate passages are then matched to the semantic representation of the query to determine a search result set. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089278 | TECHNIQUES FOR KEYWORD EXTRACTION FROM URLS USING STATISTICAL ANALYSIS - Techniques are described for keyword extraction from URLs using regular expression patterns and keyword ranking. Tokenization of URLs also generates regular expressions of URLs from a website. The regular expressions are stored in the form of any type of indexing structure. When a new URL is received, the URL is examined to determine whether the URL is from a website that has previously been tokenized. If the URL is not from such a website, then the URL is tokenized using every delimiter and unit change to extract keywords. If the URL is from a website previously processed, the corresponding regular expression is used to extract keywords from the URL. The keywords extracted from the URLs are then ranked based on any ranking methodology for better relevance and performance. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089279 | Method and Apparatus for Detecting Spam User Created Content - The present invention provides methods, apparatuses and systems directed to automatically detecting spam user created content. In a particular implementation, there is provided a method for processing spam contents, which comprises: maintaining a plurality of key information databases; receiving user-created content and at least one of a service ID and a content category ID of the user-created content from one or more users of a user-created content hosting site; selecting one of the plurality of key information databases based on at least one of the service ID and the content category ID; extracting second key information from the received user-created content; searching the selected key information database for first key information related to the second key information; classifying the received user-created content as spam content based on the extracted second key information and/or the first key information related to the second key information; and conditionally storing the user-created content in a network accessible data store available to users of the user-created content hosting site based on classifying the user-created content as spam or non-spam content. Said first and second key information may comprise at least one of predetermined type(s) of data, word(s) and phrase(s) in said contents, wherein said data comprises a user ID, a universal resource locator, a site address, an account number and/or a telephone number. In addition, said method may further comprise: determining whether the extracted second key information corresponds to predefined restricted information; and if the extracted second key information corresponds to the predefined restricted information, removing the extracted second key information and/or replacing the extracted second key information with predefined different information. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089280 | REAL-TIME SEARCH TERM POPULARITY DETERMINATION, BY SEARCH ORIGIN GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION - Information is generated indicative of frequency of search terms presented to at least one online search service. As event indications, indicative of user interaction generally with front end servers, are being provided for persistent storage, ones of the event indications that are indicative of search events are detected. The detected ones of the search event indications are processed and it is determined, based at least in part thereon, by location, frequency data indicative of a frequency of each of a plurality of search terms presented to the at least one online search service. An indication of at least some of the frequency data is caused to be associated with indications of locations to which the frequency data corresponds. For example, the frequency data may be displayed superimposed on a map. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089281 | COMMUNITY INFORMATION FILTER - A method and system to filter community information by rating members, rating their contributions, and evaluating the accuracy of predictions extracted from their contributions. These metrics can be a combination of subjective and objective factors. Subjective ratings can be weighted according to the ratings of those doing the rating. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089282 | NATURAL LANGUAGE BASED SERVICE SELECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD, SERVICE QUERY SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention relates to a natural language based service selection system for complementing incomplete queries, which comprises a semantic analyzing device which analyzes an incomplete query from a user semantically, a service selecting device which complements the incomplete query based on the semantic-analyzed query so as to acquire the corresponding selected service, and a retrieving device which retrieves an answer according to the selected service. The present invention also relates to a natural language based service selection method as well as a service query system and method thereof, and thus can process an incomplete query from a user and provide a selected service. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089283 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSIGNING A CULTURAL CLASSIFICATION TO A NAME USING COUNTRY-OF-ASSOCIATION INFORMATION - A method and system for performing a search request for a name among a database including a plurality of names. In one implementation, the method includes receiving the search request on the name, determining a geographic location associated with the name, assigning a cultural classification to the name based on the geographic location associated with the name, and completing the search request by searching for the name among the plurality of names within the database based on the cultural classification assigned to the name. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089284 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN TYPES OF NAMES STORED IN A DATA COLLECTION - A method and system for differentiating types of data stored in a data collection. In one implementation, the method includes receiving a search request on a first type of data stored in the data collection; automatically differentiating data of the first type stored in the data collection from data of other types stored in the data collection; and completing the search request using data determined to be of the first type. Automatically differentiating data of the first type includes determining a type of each data entry in the data collection based only on tokens associated with the data entry. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089285 | METHOD OF DETECTING SPAM HOSTS BASED ON PROPAGATING PREDICTION LABELS - Systems and methods for identifying spam hosts are disclosed in which hosts are known to the system and initially classified as spam or non-spam by a baseline classifier. The accuracy of the initial host classifications are then improved by propagating them using a random walk algorithm. The random walk used may be modified in order to obtain a weighted or skewed characterization of the host. The hosts may then be reclassified based on the characterization obtained from the random walk to obtain a final spam/non-spam classification. The final classification may then be used in many different ways including to filter search results based on host classifications so that spam hosts are not displayed or displayed last in a results set. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089286 | DOMAIN-AWARE SNIPPETS FOR SEARCH RESULTS - Techniques are disclosed for providing a domain-aware snippet for a search result. With such techniques, a domain classification component is provided for identifying a template used to generate a plurality of web pages of a domain, associating the template and content of the web pages related to the template with a Uniform Resource Locator pattern of the plurality of web pages, and storing the associated template, the related content, and the Uniform Resource Locator pattern in a database. A snippet extraction component is also provided for extracting text from a section of a web page of the plurality of web pages for a snippet of a search result corresponding to a search query, wherein the extracted text is based on a ranking value of the section and the relevance of the extracted text to the search query. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089287 | Automatically verifying that anti-phishing URL signatures do not fire on legitimate web sites - A method and computer program product prevent false positives from occurring by reducing or preventing legitimate web site content from triggering matches to phishing black lists, but provides time and cost savings over manual review of black lists. A method implemented in a computer system for detecting false positives among a plurality of search patterns of web sites that include illegitimate content comprises accessing a first page of a legitimate web site, obtaining all links included in the first page, for each link included in the first page that points to a page on the web site, determining whether the link matches at least one of the plurality of search patterns, and for each link that matches the search pattern, indicating that the search pattern is a false positive. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089288 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FILTERING CONTENT ON A MOBILE DEVICE BASED ON CONTEXTUAL TAGGING - A system and method of contextually filtering content presented to a user on a mobile device based on contextual tagging. The user controls how content will be filtered by the mobile device by creating contextual tags and associating or tagging content with the contextual tags. The contextual tag includes a contextual behavior that is either satisfied or not based on the current context of the mobile device. During operation, content accessible to the mobile device is searched to determine which contextual tags are met based on the current context of the mobile device. Content tagged with contextual tags whose behavior is currently met based on the current context of the mobile device are filtered and presented to the user. This allows the automatic presentation of a more manageable subgroup of content to the user on the mobile device based on the current context of the mobile device. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089289 | Methods and Apparatus for Providing Customer Treatment Information Over a Network - Methods and apparatus are disclosed for providing customer treatment information over a network. A transaction communication is established between a first enterprise and a second enterprise by receiving a request from a user associated with the first enterprise to establish the transaction communication; determining if the second enterprise is authorized to access enterprise information of the first enterprise; obtaining enterprise information from an enterprise database of the first enterprise; and providing the obtained information to the second enterprise as part of the establishment of the transaction communication if the second enterprise is authorized to access the enterprise information of the first enterprise. The enterprise information is typically related to the transaction and may comprise one or more of customer priority information and a transaction history. The second enterprise can determine if a third enterprise is authorized to access enterprise information of the first enterprise and/or the second enterprise. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089290 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CREATING AND UPDATING APPROVED-FILE AND TRUSTED-DOMAIN DATABASES - Computer-implemented methods and systems for creating or updating approved-file and trusted-domain databases and verifying the legitimacy of files are disclosed. A method for creating or updating an approved-file database may comprise intercepting a first file, identifying a source domain associated with the first file, identifying a trusted-domain database, determining whether a database record for the source domain associated with the first file exists within the trusted-domain database, creating a hash value for the first file if a database record for the source domain associated with the first file exists within the trusted-domain database, and storing the hash value for the first file in an approved-file database. Methods and systems for verifying the legitimacy of a file and for creating or updating a trusted-domain database are also disclosed. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089291 | System and Method for Defining and Manipulating Roles and the Relationship of Roles to Other System Entities - The capability to design and implement roles in a role-based system is disclosed. The system and data architecture enable organizations to model and assign relationships between Roles and other entities in a computing environment. The complex interrelation of Groups and Roles is established in an environment where: users need not be a member of a Group to use the capabilities of a Role; Role ownership is distinct from Role usage; and Roles themselves have attributes. A collection of methods enable creation, configuration, maintenance, ownership and usage of roles and for implementing relationships between the Role and other system entities, attributes and permissions. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089292 | Method and System for Controlled Distribution of One or More Distinct Profiles for a User - An information management and distribution system is disclosed. The information management and distribution system includes a client-side application and a server application that interact to facilitate the controlled exchange of contact information over a network. The client-side application can provide creation and design, rolodex, exchange, and update features. The information management and distribution system can also include a corporate administrator application. Still another aspect of the invention is that contact information can be distributed to registered users in a common format. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089293 | SELFISH DATA BROWSING - The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates accumulating a portion of data associated to an interest. An interface component can receive a portion of data actively and explicitly selected by an input device during a browsing session, wherein the selection is indicative of an interest experienced during the browsing session. An aggregator component can copy the portion of data upon active and explicit selection in which the portion of data is accumulated as a collection representative of the interest. A filter component can manipulate the browsing session to emphasize a portion of data based on having relevancy to the collection representative of the interest. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089294 | DISTRIBUTED LIVE MULTIMEDIA CAPTURE, FEEDBACK MECHANISM, AND NETWORK - Methods and systems for processing multimedia content captured from a plurality of locations via one or more capturing devices include obtaining multimedia content from one or more capturing devices. The capturing devices identify a type of content being captured and/or location of capture. An interest type for multimedia content is obtained from a consuming user. The multimedia content from the capturing devices are searched based on the interest type of the consuming user. A subset of the multimedia content conforming to the interest type is presented in substantial real-time at the receiving devices of the consuming users. Feedback regarding the presented multimedia content is obtained from consuming users and communicated to the capturing devices in substantial real-time so as to influence future capture of multimedia content. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089295 | Methods and Systems for Managing Network Attached Storage (NAS) within a Management Subsystem - An information handling system (IHS) comprising a chassis, a motherboard disposed within the chassis, a management controller (MC) coupled to the motherboard and a network attached storage (NAS) coupled to the MC wherein the MC provides access to the NAS. An IHS may further include and input/output (I/O) module (IOM) disposed within the chassis, at least one blade and a keyboard video mouse (KVM) module, wherein the NAS is directly accessible to the IOM, blade(s) and KVM module. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089296 | Server directed client originated search aggregator - The disclosed embodiments relate to a system for automated aggregation, and possible augmentation, of search results generated or otherwise provided in response to search queries/requests to multiple network resources, such as search engines, the search requests being originated by client devices, at the direction of a server, to the various network resources. In one embodiment, a user, using a client device, enters a search request which is provided to the server. The search request, which may comprise one or more search terms, may be entered via a web based or client based interface/application provided via the client device. As will be described, the client device may be any device capable of accessing the server and network resources via a network, such as the Internet. Exemplary client devices include a computer, cell phone, personal digital assistant, network appliance, etc. The server identifies which network resources, out of a set of available network resources, are likely to provide relevant results to the user's query. The server may further modify the search request to increase the likelihood that the search request will return relevant results. The identified list of resources is then provided back to the client device, along with the modified search request if applicable, which then originates and transmits the search request to each of the identified resources or subset thereof. The search results may then be received and presented to The user by the client device. Alternatively, the search results may be passed to the server which processes the search results and then provides the processed search results back to the client device for presentation to the user. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089297 | File Transmission System - For improving operability by reducing time for backup of video/audio files through a network, and also for achieving to shorten processing time, as well as, to lower a capacity of a recording medium, by inhibiting unnecessary backup, a file transmission system comprises a file list obtaining means for obtaining a list of files, which are stored in a server, a file transmission controller means for controlling file transmission, a file transmission requesting means for requesting a file transmission to the server, a file receiver means for receiving the file transmitted form the server, and a client file storage means for storing the files therein, wherein control is made on the file transmission requesting means, so that it request a transmission of file(s), excepting the file(s), which is/are stored in the client file storage mean, to the server, upon basis of the list. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089298 | File Storage Service System, File Management Device, File Management Method, ID Denotative NAS Server and File Reading Method - The present invention relates to a migration of a file from a path denotative NAS server to an ID denotative NAS server. In a file management device according to one embodiment, a migration-use path denotative NAS access section obtains a file deposit location from the path denotative NAS server, selects a migration target file based on the deposit location, and sends a read request with the deposit location of the migration target file to the path denotative NAS server, so as to obtain the migration target file. A migration-use denotative NAS access section | 2009-04-02 |
20090089299 | DECLARATIVE MODEL EDITOR GENERATION - Embodiments are directed to generating declarative model editors. A computer system receives a first user input indicating a selection of a native underlying schema that includes constraints that are to be followed by models based on the native schema. The computer system receives a second user input indicating a declarative entry that includes user-configurable model editor characteristics. The computer system automatically generates a declarative model editor based on the selected native schema and user-configurable model editor characteristics. Other embodiments are directed to editing models using declarative model editors. A computer system receives user input indicating a declarative entry to be applied to a model, generates a declarative model editor based on the declarative entry, receives a model that is editable by the generated declarative model editor, and edits user-configurable characteristics of the model. The model characteristics conform to the constraints in the native underlying schema. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089300 | Virtual clustering for scalable network control and management - In some embodiments, the invention involves a system and method relating to a framework to build a new class of network control (policy) and (state) management services. The framework may be used to build a number of self-management services to support decentralized (mesh) networks. In at least one embodiment, the present invention is intended to hybridize centralized and decentralized network models to generate a more stable and robust network environment using clustering. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089301 | Method and System for Efficiently Managing Content on an Information Handling Device - Disclosed is a method for managing content on an information handling device, involving identifying creation of new content on the information handling device; tagging the content created on the information handling device with a unique identifier; and storing the unique identifier in a registry. When a risk to the information handling device is perceived, a plug-in on the device efficiently manages the content on the device. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089302 | METHOD TO GENERATE LINKAGE INDICATIVE DATA, COMPUTER USABLE MEDIUM THEREFOR, AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A method to generate linkage indicative data for a linkage indicative diagram, representing a linkage at least between two information resources being interrelated with each other, in a printing apparatus, is provided. The method includes collecting at least two pieces of primary linkage information respectively identifying the at least two information resources and subsidiary linkage information included in each of the at least two plurality of information resources, storing the collected subsidiary linkage information in association with corresponding one of the at least two pieces of primary linkage information in a storage, judging whether each of the at least two pieces of primary linkage information stored in the storage is included in the subsidiary linkage information, determining the linkage between the at least two information resources, and creating the linkage indicative data to represent the linkage indicative diagram. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089303 | Method and apparatus for transmission and storage of digital medical data - System for decentralized storage and rapid retrieval of medical data among geographically separate locations, connected by data paths of limited bandwidth, which optimizes transmission therebetween. Medical data is separated into bulk content and metadata. Metadata is transmitted to all locations. Bulk content is copied to selected locations based on desired duplication, available storage, distance, transmission cost, data path bandwidth or utilization, likelihood of retrieval calculated from the metadata, requests to use or prior usage of content or information from a system that manages the content. Transmission rate is limited and bulk content is queued for transmission based on priority calculated from metadata, from requests to use content or information from a system that manages the content. Optimal locations for bulk content are recalculated based on requests to use content, new patient appointments, data path or equipment failures. Copies are made or deleted. Distributed lists of locations for content are updated. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089304 | System and Method for Configuration of Revenue Analysis Grids - A system and method for configuring and maintaining grids to analyze their revenue relationships in order to better determine where to invest time and resources. Analysis grids can be quickly and easily tailored to adjust to the unique needs of an organization. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089305 | Computer readable electronic records automated classification system - Classifying an electronic document in a computer-based system is disclosed. For each classification instance in a plurality of classification instances, a confidence data indicating a degree of confidence that the electronic document is associated with that classification instance is determined. A classification, based on a first classification instance in the plurality of classification instances, is assigned without human intervention to the electronic document if the confidence data associated with the first classification instance exceeds a first threshold. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089306 | Method, System and Article of Manufacture for Improving Execution Efficiency of a Database Workload - Disclosed is a data processing system implemented method, a data processing system and an article of manufacture for improving execution efficiency of a database workload to be executed against a database. The database includes database tables, and the database workload identifies at least one of the database tables. The data processing system includes an identification module for identifying candidate database tables being identifiable in the database workload, the identified candidate database tables being eligible for organization under a clustering schema, a selection module for selecting the identified candidate tables according to whether execution of the database workload is improved if the selected identified candidate table is organized according to the clustering scheme, and an organization module for organizing the clustering schema of the selected organized identified candidate tables prior to the database workload being execution against the database. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089307 | WRITABLE SHARED DATABASE OBJECTS - A system may include a provider database, a reader database, and a database management system. The provider database may include a provider data area having a plurality of provider block addresses, and the reader database may include a reader data area having a plurality of reader block addresses, and a mapping of provider-specific identifiers to block addresses of the plurality of provider data pages and of reader-specific identifiers to block addresses of the plurality of reader data pages. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089308 | MAPPING ONLINE CONTACT INFORMATION INTO A CONTACTS LIST - A presence management system may communicate contact information with mapped values. Contact information may be stored in a hierarchical, extensible structure (“hierarchical extensible contact structure”). Devices in a presence management system utilize a mapping scheme to map contact values (e.g., e-mail address, phone number, etc.) to the appropriate field of the hierarchical extensible contact structure. When devices in the presence management system communicate information for thousands of contacts, employing mapped values to navigate the hierarchical extensible contact structure reduces the size of the messages, thus reducing resource consumption (e.g., bandwidth), particularly on the scale of an enterprise. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089309 | Using Status Models With Inhibiting Status Values In A Computer System - Actions are controlled actions in a computer-based process by a status schema model defined at design-time, stored in a computer-readable medium and including a precondition identifying how a status affects whether an action is to be allowed to be performed at runtime by a data object node instance having the status. A status schema instance is created for a particular data object node instance being used in a computer-based process. The status schema instance corresponds to the status schema model and includes a status variable having an inhibiting status value. Conditioned upon a determination that the data object node instance includes a value for a status variable that corresponds to the inhibiting status value of the status variable of the status schema model, actions are prohibited to be performed by the data object node instance other than an action with an explicit precondition from the inhibiting status value. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089310 | METHODS FOR MANAGING CONTENT FOR BRAND RELATED MEDIA - Computer-implemented methods for defining access to brand related assets are provided. One method includes generating a website that relates to a specific brand, where the specific brand is associated with a plurality of assets that are integrated with the website, and the plurality of assets are obtained from a number of disparate sources. The method also includes assigning each asset an identifier, where the identifier defines a relation of each asset to the specific brand and defining a dashboard access to the specific brand. The dashboard access is configured to identify a user privilege for accessing specific ones of the plurality of assets of the specific brand, the user privilege enabling one or more of viewing details of an existing asset, adding a new asset, and modifying an existing asset. The user privilege for accessing specific assets enables management of plurality of assets that are integrated with the website, and the management of the plurality of assets overriding control of the plurality of assets provided by the number of disparate sources. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089311 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCLUSION OF HISTORY IN A SEARCH RESULTS PAGE - The present invention is directed towards systems, methods and computer program products for maintaining a record of a user search history. According to one embodiment, a method for maintaining a record of a user search history comprises receiving a plurality of user search queries, storing the user search queries and providing a plurality of search results related to the user search queries. User interaction with the plurality of search results is monitored and the interactions with at least one of the search results are stored. A history module comprising the user search queries and the user interactions is displayed to the user on a display device. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089312 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCLUSION OF INTERACTIVE ELEMENTS ON A SEARCH RESULTS PAGE - The present invention is directed to system, methods and computer program products for generating a graphical module for the display of a query-specific content. The method according to one embodiment comprises receiving a query, determining a category identifier for the query and retrieving a category template corresponding to the category identifier for the query. At least one template query is performed, the template query corresponding to a request for data specified by the category template, and a template module is generated that comprises the data retrieved by the template query. The template module is combined with a search results page responsive to the query for display to a user. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089313 | DECENTRALIZED RECORD EXPIRY - A technique is described that reduces the complexity and resource consumption associated with performing record expiry in a distributed database system. In accordance with the technique, a record is checked to see if it has expired only when it has been accessed for a read or a write. If at the time of a read a record is determined to have expired, then it is not served. If at the time of a write a record is determined to have expired, then the write is treated as an insertion of a new record, and steps are taken to treat the insertion consistently with regard to the previous expired version. A background process is used to delete records that have not been written to or actively deleted by a client after expiration. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089314 | DUPLICATE ITEM DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of detecting contextual duplicate items can include identifying a plurality of representations of items in a data repository, each item representation including one or more textual attributes. A degree of fit between an item representation's attributes and other items can be calculated. The degree of fit can reflect the relevance of the attributes of one item to the other item. A degree of association between the two item representations can be calculated based at least in part on the calculated degree of fit. The degree of association between the two item representations can reflect the similarity of the two items. The degree of association between the two item representations can be assessed to determine whether the items are contextual duplicates. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089315 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSOCIATING METADATA WITH ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - A computer hardware/software facility for managing electronic documents receives metadata globally attributable to a plurality of electronic documents and searches the electronic documents to acquire or generate metadata locally attributable to the plurality of electronic documents. The global and local metadata are organized into an intermediate file, which is displayed in an editable format. The intermediate file is used to generate a database encoding the electronic documents and associated metadata. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089316 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING CONTACT LISTS QUICKLY - BY GROUP NAME, TAGS AND/OR METADATA - A method and system for searching contact lists quickly, that provides searching of a contact list by user defined group names, attributes, and/or system defined metadata regarding contacts, groups and/or attributes. A user of a communication system is allowed to organize their contacts in their contact list within a number of contact groups and to associate attributes with contact groups and/or individual contacts. The visual display of contacts within the user's contact list user interface display may be configured to visually organize contacts into the groups they belong to, and/or to display the attributes associated with groups and/or contacts within the top level contact list display. Group and/or contact attributes may alternatively be accessed by selecting (e.g. clicking on) a group or contact. A quick search feature is provided that allows the contact list to be searched based on group name, attribute, and/or contact name, as well as based on group, contact and/or attribute metadata. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089317 | Method and system for indexing, relating and managing information about entities - Systems and methods for use in association with a master entity index system may allow data records to be grouped together into various entities, where each of the entities may represent a logical or physical item. These entities may also be associated with one another in a manner such that relationships between entities may likewise be represented. In one embodiment, an interface may be provided for use in conjunction with the master entity index system such that these various entities and relationships may be better managed, manipulated or visualized. This interface may allow a user to search for or otherwise obtain an entity, where a representation of this entity and one or more associated entities may be presented to the user along with representations of the relationships between these entities. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089318 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE - A method and apparatus for displaying a graphic user interface (GUI) includes: a file searching unit searching for one or more other files related to a file to be reproduced; a file information extraction unit extracting file information from the file to be reproduced and the one or more other files detected by the file searching unit; and a user interface generation unit generating a user interface for reproducing a plurality of files, wherein the generating of the user interface is based on the file information extracted by the file information extraction unit. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089319 | System and Method for Differentiating Duplicate Addresses in a Locality - A method and system are presented for differentiating duplicate addresses within a locality. A relational database of geographical features is constructed where each geographical feature has related attributes which can be used to differentiate among multiple same-named features. Precedence hierarchies of such attributes can be created within the database where each precedence hierarchy is constructed based on a combination of user type and situational scenario information. Upon receiving a mapping destination from a user, the system may identify the input as being ambiguous. The user and situation can be analyzed in order to select the precedence hierarchy best fit to resolve the ambiguity in this particular situation. The selected hierarchy can then be traversed until an attribute is found that exists for both features and serves to distinguish between them. The attributes can be presented to the end user along with information regarding the ambiguity. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089320 | CAPTURING APPLICATION STATE INFORMATION FOR SIMULATION IN MANAGED ENVIRONMENTS - In one embodiment, a computer system to store application state data associated with a transaction between a client computing device and a server computing device comprises a processor, a memory module coupled to the processor and comprising logic instructions stored on a computer readable medium which, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to receive, from a capturing module that monitors transactions between one or more client computing devices and the server computing device a method, an object on which the method is being performed, and metadata associated with at least one of the object and the method, generate at least one method metadata message that uniquely identifies the method, generate at least one method invocation message that describes characteristics of a single method call, and generate at least one object instance that describes an instance of the object, and store the at least one method metadata message, the at least one method invocation message, and the at least one object instance in a persistent memory module. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089321 | Method and system for managing social brokering services in an online social network - A method and system for managing social brokering services in an online social network has developed that is comprising: social network database storing member information, human network information by member information on basis of a social network, and Needs information; an application server converting written Needs request into Needs information and storing it as said social network database after making payment of charges for use when the written Needs request for solving problems is inputted from Social Brokering Users, acting as members, providing Needs proposal with Social Brokering Users when the written Needs proposal is conveyed from Social Brokers, members, making payment of the amount according to types of dealing, like purchase, sales, exchange, etc., and contracts upon establishing contracts between Social Brokering Users and Social Brokers, and transferring the payment amount upon completing the contract; a Needs server delivering undelivered Needs information to the first human connection according to human network information of Social Brokering Users or Social Forwarders by searching Needs information stored in said social network database; and a payment server processing charges for use and payment when payment is executed in said application server. According to the present invention, it is possible to describe the problem and set up the amount of compensation in case that it is required to resolve various visible and invisible problems each member obtains; to overcome problems of trust and reliance by utilizing connection among people as brokers for assisting settlement of problems in the process of being delivered in accordance with a human network in the online social network if the step of delivering human connection among people is set up, and the amount of compensation(costs for dealing, and brokerage) and charges for use are paid; to support prompt settlement of problems for active anticipation of people, who have an ability to solve problems, from others; to provide costs for solving problems and brokerage in accordance with market forces for people who solve problems and to make the economical compensation granted by distributing brokerage with Needs forwarders in the middle step of human connection; and to form mutual relation during resolving problems. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089322 | LOADING PREDICTED TAGS ONTO ELECTRONIC DEVICES - A tag generation apparatus preloads tag rules onto a peripheral device. The apparatus includes tag generation logic for generating a tag rule. The predicted tag rule is generated based upon information received from a data source, and the tag rule, when executed, associates a tag name with a content object in response to the content object satisfying the tag rule. The apparatus also includes tag communication logic for communicating the tag rule to the peripheral device for storage in a memory located on the peripheral device. The apparatus may be included in a host computer. A tag association apparatus includes tag receiving logic for receiving a tag rule that includes a tag name, tag storage logic for storing the at least one tag rule in a memory; and tag association logic for associating the tag name with a content object in response to the content object satisfying the tag rule. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089323 | DOCUMENT MANAGING SYSTEM, DOCUMENT USE CONTROLLER, DOCUMENT STORAGE DEVICE, DOCUMENT MANAGING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A document managing system includes: a document use controller; and a document storage device, the document use controller including: a managing unit; and an instructing information transmitting unit, and the document storage device including: an index information holding unit; an instructing information receiving unit; and an index information updating unit, wherein the index information updating unit updates an index information so as to change the permission/inhibition of the use of contents of the storage document on the basis of an identifier of a storage document included in instructing information received by the instructing information receiving unit. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089324 | System and method for selective display of a standby attitude indicator and an airport map data using the same display - Methods and apparatus are provided for selectively rendering a standby attitude indicator or an airport map on an aircraft display. The system determines whether the aircraft is on the ground or in flight and, based on this determination, either the standby attitude indicator or the airport map are rendered on the display. If the aircraft is determined to be in flight, then the standby attitude indicator is rendered. Conversely, if the aircraft is determined to be on the ground, then either the standby attitude indicator or the airport map is selectively rendered. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089325 | TARGETED RESOURCE ALLOCATION - Systems and methods that manage resources and distribution thereof within an industrial system. Such an automated and dynamic allocation service can allocate resources from pools of resources available to the industrial system, and hence supply an efficient operation (e.g., adding/subtracting resources dynamically based on usage). A plurality of allocation rules and/or algorithms for resource types can be predetermined, and/or dynamically trained by the allocation service. The data employed for the industrial system includes sets of data from the “internal” data stream(s) (e.g., history data collected from an industrial unit) and sets of data from an “external” (e.g., traffic data on network services) data stream(s), based in part on the criticality/importance criteria assigned to each collection stage. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089326 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT OPTIMIZATION - Methods, system and computer readable medium for detecting duplicate content in a pair of media files prior to publication on a webpage include generating fingerprints for the contents of each of the pair of media files. The fingerprints of one of the pair of media file are then compared with the fingerprints of another of the pair of media files to compute a similarity score. The similarity score is compared against an established threshold. If the similarity score exceeds the established threshold, it is determined that the two media files are substantial duplicate of one another. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089327 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOCIAL PROGRAMMING OF MEDIA SOURCES - A method, system and user interface are provided for building and programming an online media (radio or TV) station based on collaboration by the station's users. The method includes creating an initial playlist for an online media station; creating a set of recommended media content items distinct from the initial playlist; aggregating user input regarding the recommended media content items; and generating a new playlist in accordance with the aggregated input. The user input regarding a given item of media content may include a positive vote or a negative vote. Each item added to the playlist after the initial playlist is voted on by the users, so that each item of the new playlist has an aggregated positive vote greater than a predetermined vote threshold. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089328 | Minimally Buffered Data Transfers Between Nodes in a Data Communications Network - Methods, apparatus, and products for minimally buffered data transfers between nodes in a data communications network are disclosed that include: receiving, by a messaging module on an origin node, a storage identifier, a origin data type, and a target data type, the storage identifier specifying application storage containing data, the origin data type describing a data subset contained in the origin application storage, the target data type describing an arrangement of the data subset in application storage on a target node; creating, by the messaging module, origin metadata describing the origin data type; selecting, by the messaging module from the origin application storage in dependence upon the origin metadata and the storage identifier, the data subset; and transmitting, by the messaging module to the target node, the selected data subset for storing in the target application storage in dependence upon the target data type without temporarily buffering the data subset. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089329 | Systems and methods for the dynamic generation of repeat libraries for uncharacterized species - Systems and methods for using the same for dynamically generating repeat libraries for use in detecting and for masking out repetitive elements in species having poorly characterized genomes or transcriptomes based on phylogenetic analysis are provided herein. Dynamically generated repeat libraries find use, for example, in the design and use of probes for identification of specific targets in these poorly characterized species. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089330 | Order entry system - An automated order entry system is provided for entering orders for artwork framing. The system can include a computer and a handheld computer. The computer includes a store or franchise database containing pricing information for artwork framing. The handheld computer includes a scanner and a portable database synchronized with the store database. Furthermore, information scanned from a frame sample corresponds with information contained in the portable database. | 2009-04-02 |
20090089331 | Real-Time Method and System for Tracking Mail - The present invention provides a real-time, instantaneous method and system for tracking mail. The system utilizes an intelligent, hand-held, portable data entry and data processing device to collect information regarding a mailpiece delivered to a mail distribution facility. The device is linked via the internet to a globally accessible relational database that permanently stores and efficiently and continuously tracks the mailpiece from receipt of the mailpiece in the mail distribution facility until delivery to its final destination. The system effectively utilizes signature capture and location codes to track the mailpiece at all times until final delivery. | 2009-04-02 |