21st week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 64 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090132378 | DISPLAYING LOCATION-BASED CONTENT IN A TICKER OF A HANDHELD MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Tickers are populated with location-based information that is selected according to the geographic location of communication devices. The location of a communication device is identified based on a GPS system, proximity to transmitters in a wireless network, user input, or using other techniques. Location-appropriate content is obtained either in real-time from the network or from a local data store at the communication device. In general location-based, context-aware content can be displayed on tickers associated with a variety of communication devices, including mobile communication devices and “immobile” or stationary personal computers. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132379 | Remote Ordering System - A remote ordering system is provided using an electronic menu having a series of input devices corresponding to various menu items aligned with the input devices, and a wireless transmitter to send selected menu items to a receiving device for processing. A display to show selected menu items, an alpha-numeric keyboard, a non-cash payment device, and a printer for receipts are also contemplated for increased functionality. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132380 | Electronic Vouchers - A method for distributing and reliably redeeming electronic cash value vouchers that uses existing POS terminals. The vouchers may be distributed via mobile telephones. The voucher comprises an alphanumeric code which is entered into the standards compliant POS terminal. The system checks that the voucher is valid and provides a redemption value to the POS which can be credited by the retailer. The transaction can then be completed by the retailer using known methods. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132381 | Retail Point-of-Sale System To Provide A Customized Set of Identification Data To Facilitate A Retail Sales Point-of-Sale Transaction - A retail point-of-sale system to provide a customized set of identification data to facilitate a retail sales point-of-sale transaction is provided. The retail point-of-sale system, for example, can include a plurality of retail sales point-of-sale terminals, one or more retail system computers, a database accessible by the one or more retail system computers, and a program product stored in the memory of the one or more retail system computers. The plurality of retail sales point-of-sale terminals can be positioned, for instance, at one or more retail locations and can be positioned to accept purchase transactions from purchasers of goods. The one or more retail system computers can be positioned, for example, to provide data to and from each of the plurality of remotely positioned retail sales point-of-sale terminals to thereby facilitate one or more point-of-sale transactions through each of the plurality of remotely positioned retail sales point-of-sale terminals. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132382 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF VIRTUAL PROPERTY TRADING - A domain name provisioning system and method are provided. The system comprises a domain name repository for storing an association between a virtual domain name and an Internet domain name, and a user interface for allowing Internet users to visit a website associated with the Internet domain name website in response to a request to visit a website associated with the virtual domain name. The method comprises the steps of receiving a request to visit a website associated with a virtual domain name, retrieving an Internet domain name associated with the virtual domain name, and providing a website associated with the Internet domain name in response to the request. A system and method of virtual property trading is also described. The system comprises a user registration component for registering a user with the virtual property system, a user information database for storing user information associated with the registered user, a virtual property database for storing information associated with virtual properties corresponding to real-world properties and a trading component for trading a virtual property between registered users. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132383 | PURCHASING A GIFT USING A SERVICE PROVIDER NETWORK - A system facilitates a first user providing a second user with a gift through a service provider network. A first user may provide an asset such as a ring tone for use on the second user's mobile device. Alternatively, the first user may provide a monetary credit to the second user. Embodied systems are enabled for charging or billing an account associated with the first user and notifying the first user of a successful transaction including receipt or use of the gift. In some embodiments, a service delivery platform communicates with a unified storefront and a payment module for receiving and processing gift requests and payments. Gifts may be requested through an interface associated with the first user's IPTV set-top box. In addition, gifts may be presented to the second user by an interface associated with the second user's set-top box. The unified storefront allows access to gifting through mobile devices and other networked data processing systems in addition to set-top boxes. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132384 | PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS - A method of supplying a book to a library involves receiving a request for the book over an electronic network, the request including formatting information and information specific to the library; applying the formatting information and the library-specific information of the request to a marked-up document representing the book to generate a printer-ready form of the book; and transmitting the printer-ready form over the electronic network. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132385 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MATCHING USER-GENERATED TEXT CONTENT - According to a computer implemented method and system for matching user-generated text content, users “freely” specify content by means of fed-in texts which are matched automatically, according to rules in the embodiment. An embodiment of the invention allows customers to specify what items or services to request or offer by adding, to the “MyHaves” or “MyWants” selection criteria, using typed-in descriptions. Traditionally, for the purpose of matching supplies and demands, the specification of an individual's “wants” and “haves” is done by selecting options that are predefined by, or hard-coded into, the system's “drop-down menu”—rather than allowing customers to freely define what they want or have. This method under consideration, however, provides an efficacious solution: customers are free to request an item or service by entering standard descriptive texts describing what s/he wants in a customizable manner very akin to the flexibility associated with verbal speech, with the assurance that these human-entered texts will be matched automatically. Similarly, a customer is free to offer an item or service in the aforementioned (text-descriptive) way. The entered texts are in the form of a specific human language (e.g. English, Chinese, etcetera) using the desired input device, such as a computer keyboard. The system algorithm of an implementation then “crawls” through the network of user generated texts (user-defined texts) to find matches between what people are offering and what others are requesting, while watching out for typographical errors (in the text content) made by customers. That is to say, the algorithm in the embodiment scours the texts in the “MyWants” section of requesters and sees if there are corresponding matches found in the “MyHaves” section of offerers, while paying attention to certain system rules. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132386 | INTEGRATED SYSTEM, DEVICE AND USE THEREOF - The invention describes a novel integrated data-system, a personal device for the system, and methods for operating the system. The invention produces means and technology for providing quantitative information about products. A key function of the system is to provide information about product-based emissions, such as carbon dioxide emissions. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132387 | Online gifting - The computer implemented method and system disclosed herein enables gifting a recipient on a social occasion in an online gifting environment of a provider. A user creates a virtual session for the social occasion in the online gifting environment. A business relation exists between the online stores and the provider, thereby enabling the user to search for gifts from multiple online stores. The user creates gift packages using the gifts selected from the online stores. The user invites guests to participate in the virtual session. The guests and the user post virtual greetings to the recipient in the virtual session. The guests contribute funds for purchase of at least one of the gift packages. The provider selects and purchases at least one of the gift packages based on the total funds contributed by the guests. The purchased gift packages are then delivered to the recipient on the social occasion. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132388 | PRODUCT SEARCH SYSTEM, PRODUCT SEARCH METHOD, AND PRODUCT SEARCH PROGRAM - The present invention makes it possible to narrow down desired products comfortably and efficiently while comparing products and checking a combination of products for compatibility on an EC site. An EC site screen containing a list screen of a product group, fitting platform, keep box, and the like is displayed on a client terminal accessing the EC site. When a user drags and drops thumbnail images of one or more products of interest from the list screen to the keep box, information about the products is held in the keep box. To view detailed information including the held images of the products, the user drags and drops the thumbnail images from the keep box to the fitting platform. Mannequin images and are provided on the fitting platform, and the user can compare products and check a combination of the products for compatibility by placing the images of the products (apparel products) on the mannequin images. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132389 | Method and system for linking eProcurement to virtual communities - An e-commerce system, comprising a master console software application executing on a first network-connected server and accessible to a plurality of external systems used by merchants, a shopping cart software application executing on a second network-connected server and coupled to the first server, and interface software executing on the second server for interacting with content associated with a first user is disclosed, wherein a merchant interacts with the master console software application to load information about a product available for promotion and sale by the first user, the master console software application makes that information available to the shopping cart software application, and the interface software provides information and code related to the specific product to the content, the code compatible with the content, and upon the code being activated in the content by a second user, the second user is connected to the shopping cart software application, and is thereby enabled to buy the product. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132390 | Providing Electronic Access to Consumer-Customized Nonverbal Information Regarding Products and Services - Generic information provided by printed and online catalogs may be supplemented or replaced by information that is customized for and/or related to the consumer, enabling a third party to more fully understand the purchase decision and thus offer more informed feedback. A party accessing a merchant system may be provided electronic access to consumer customized nonverbal information by, e.g., collecting an electronic version of consumer-customized nonverbal information at a merchant site, and displaying the electronic version of the consumer-customized nonverbal information for a party accessing the merchant system. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132391 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING, DECODING, AND UTILIZING HIDDEN DATA EMBEDDED IN AUDIO SIGNALS - A system and method for enabling a user to retrieve, decode, and utilize hidden data embedded in audio signals. An exemplary implementation includes a microphone structured to receive sound waves representative of an audio signal and hidden data embedded in the audio signal. The then microphone converts the received sound waves into an electrical output signal. The system also includes a processor electrically coupled to the microphone and configured to receive the electrical output signal in order to extract the hidden data and provide information represented by the hidden data as an output thereof. A user interface is also provided and is electrically coupled to the processor and configured to receive a first input from the user and activate the processor to selectively initiate extraction of the hidden data. The processor produces as an output the information represented by the hidden data. Finally, the system includes a user presentation mechanism configured to present the information to the user. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132392 | MOBILE ELECTRONIC WALLET - Association of personal, financial, and/or business-related identification information with a mobile communication device (MCD) is provided for herein. For example, an MCD can be associated with a financial account and can further include an identification component that verifies an identity of a user of the MCD. Identity can be verified by biometric analysis (e.g., finger/thumb print scan), username and password, optical feature scan, or a combination thereof or of like mechanisms, for instance. Accordingly, the claimed subject matter provides a mechanism to verify identification of a user of an MCD and incorporate user ID into remote data exchange, including remote financial transactions, with one or more networked devices. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132393 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXPEDITED RELEASE OF HELD ITEMS - A system for identifying and expediting the release of held items, such as checks. Paying banks (having accounts against which the checks are drawn) provide paid item files to the system, and depository banks (where checks have been deposited) provide held item files to the system. If there is a match of a paid item file and held item file (indicating that a held check has been paid by the paying bank), the depository bank is notified that the item has been paid and that the hold may be released. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132394 | Delivering Product Impact Information At The Point Of Sale - Disclosed herein is a method and system for providing a consumer with information on lifecycle of a product at the point of sale. The product lifecycle information comprises lifecycle assessment data on the product with a specific focus on social, environmental, and energy impact attributes of the product. The product lifecycle comprises product creation, product usage, waste disposal, and product disposal. A lifecycle assessment entity is provided to deliver information on the product lifecycle. Information related to the lifecycle of the product is captured automatically and stored in a product information bank. The consumer requests for lifecycle information on a particular product and the requested lifecycle information pertaining to the product is retrieved from the product information bank and delivered to the consumer. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132395 | USER PROFILING IN A TRANSACTION AND ADVERTISING ELECTRONIC COMMERCE PLATFORM - The subject disclosure relates to electronic commerce and advertising platforms that aggregate transaction data from merchants and consumers. A set of enhanced scenarios built on the platform span both the online and offline transactional and advertising universe to the benefit of all participants of the electronic commerce and advertising platform. In non-limiting embodiments, user profiling is performed across multiple data providers that can infer additional profiling information from different transaction data sources, and can take into account a confidence associated with transaction data when updating a user profile, e.g., where data elements of given transaction data may be incomplete, missing or uncertain. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132396 | REVENUE CYCLE CHARGE CAPTURE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for identifying charge capture opportunities comprises steps of receiving and storing in a server computer at least one itemized bill and at least one final bill, comparing the final bill to the itemized bill to identify line item discrepancies between the bills, comparing either or both bills to a Charge Description Master (CDM) to identify discrepancies between line items of the bill and correct charges defined in CDM, and evaluating final bill according to a set of rules to identify potential missing charges associated with billed charges. Additionally or alternatively, itemized charges can be evaluated according to the rules to identify potential missing charges. Potential missing charges are displayed to a user as revenue opportunities for correction of the bill or other remedial action. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132397 | COMMUNICATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS - A system arranged to receive an authorization request from an application server using a first communication protocol; identify a charging server associated with the authorization request from a plurality of charging servers, each charging server associated with a respective charging server communication protocol; and communicate with the identified charging server using the respective charging server communication protocol. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132398 | Media Access Monitoring System And Method - Provided is a sealed cartridge for housing audio video media, the cartridge comprising an electrical counter displaying at least two different counting languages. The electrical counter configured to increment a count when the cartridge is in an audio video player device and the housed audio video media is accessed. An audio video media incorporating the electrical counter and a method of monitoring access to audio video media are also provided. Communication of usage counts over the Internet and processing payments to retailers, copyright holder and others are also provided. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132399 | System and method for preparing multi-level tax returns - A system for calculating and preparing state and local sales and use tax returns suitable for filing with state and local municipal taxing authorities is disclosed. The system in accordance with the present invention provides a total solution for sales and use taxes and is configured to not only determine and prepare state and use tax returns but also calculates and prepares returns of all local taxing authorities where the taxpayer conducts business. Thus, the system in accordance with the present invention is able to provide a total solution for determining and preparing state and local sales and use tax returns. The system is also able to easily and effortlessly prepare local municipal sales and use tax returns that are cumbersome. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132400 | DATA METERING - A charging factor is determined applicable to each time interval in a period of time during which at least one data transfer was conducted. An amount of data transferred during each time interval is determined. A total charge applicable to the at least one data transfer is computed based at least in part on the charging factor applicable to each time interval and the amount of data transferred. Alternatively or additionally, a plurality of potential start times and an amount of data for a data transfer are identified. A set of time intervals associated with each of the potential start times are determined. For each of the potential start times, an estimated charge applicable to the data transfer is computed based at least in part on a charging factor applicable to each of one or more time intervals associated with the potential start time and the amount of data estimated to be transferred. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132401 | Generating a Single Advice of Charge Request for Multiple Sessions in a Network Environment - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a selected communication session of a transaction associated with a prepaid end user, such that the transaction comprises a plurality of communication sessions. The method includes associating the selected communication session with the transaction and extracting data from the selected communication session associated with the transaction. The method includes generating a single advice of charge request for the transaction before the selected communication session is completed, the single advice of charge request comprising the extracted data from the selected communication session associated with the transaction. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132402 | Settling Over-The-Counter Derivatives Using Synthetic Spot Benchmark Rates - Techniques and systems for settling over-the-counter financial instruments includes sampling over a periodic interval are disclosed. A volume weighted average price of the sampled process may be calculated and forward points may be applied to the volume weighted average priced to determine an associated spot exchange rate. Such a synthetic spot FX exchange rate may be published to subscribers. Over-the-counter financial derivatives may establish delivery obligations according to the spot exchange rate. In the event where a number of transactions during the sampling period is less than a threshold, a midpoint of bids and asks associated with orders for the exchange traded financial derivative may be used to determine an average of the midpoint, to which the forward points may be applied to determine the spot exchange rate. Alternatively, the time-weighted average of the bid and ask orders during a periodic interval may be used in computing the volume-weighted average price. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132403 | LICENSING INTERFACE FOR USER GENERATED CONTENT - Technologies are described herein for providing a licensing interface for user-generated content. A first interface and a second interface are provided. The first interface enables a user to upload a content item generated by the user. The second interface enables the user to associate a license with the uploaded content item. The license indicates one or more allowable uses of the uploaded content item and a compensation the user is to receive from the distribution of the uploaded content item. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132404 | APPORTIONING FRAUD LIABILITY - After receiving a notice as to the occurrence of an unauthorized access to financial account information for one or more accounts sufficient for completing one or more financial transactions using the financial account information, a financial service provider assesses the liability for the particular compromise event by analyzing the industry-wide distribution of fraud that would have occurred had the compromise event not occurred, and calculates an incremental amount of fraud that accrued as a result of the compromise event. The incremental fraud is then apportioned to the responsible parties. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132405 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTO-FILLING INFORMATION - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a plug-in feature for a browser that allows for secure financial transactions on a communication network. The plug-in feature auto-fills transaction information including user-generated information, such as billing and/or shipping information of a user. The plug-in feature allows a user to store receipts in an efficient and convenient manner to track online shopping activities. The plug-in feature generates secure card numbers (e.g., single-use and/or multi-use secure card numbers) to pay for purchases. The plug-in feature may be implemented in a toolbar of a browser. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132406 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PAPERLESS LOAN APPLICATIONS - In one embodiment, a system for modifying loan documents may comprise a first computer to receive loan documents, transmit the loan documents to an auto-indexing device, receive an indexed set of loan documents, store the loan documents, and enable modification of the loan documents. In another embodiment, the first computer may transmit the loan documents to a second computer for indexing the loan documents, generating a first indexed set of loan documents, and for storing the loan documents. The first computer may command the second computer to modify the first indexed set of loan documents. In another embodiment, a system for transmitting loan documents to lenders may comprise a first computer to receive a plurality of loan documents, transmit the loan documents to an auto-indexing device, receive a set of loan documents, store the loan documents, and transmit the loan documents to a plurality of lenders. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132407 | Mobile banking vehicle - A mobile banking vehicle that includes an enclosure having a floor, walls and a roof. A door is provided in one of the walls and wheels provide support and mobility to the enclosure. The vehicle includes a conveyance system wherein financial documents are selectively conveyable between first and second ports of the conveyance system. The first port is accessible from within the enclosure and the second port is accessible from a position exterior to and spaced from the enclosure. The conveyance system may take the form of a pneumatically powered conveyance system. Also disclosed is a method that includes moving a mobile banking vehicle having an enclosure from a first to a second location, conveying a financial document between a customer in a second vehicle outside the enclosure and a teller located within the enclosure and conducting a banking transaction associated with the financial document. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132408 | Auction for financially settled contracts - Various embodiments show a system for conducting an auction for a plurality of financially settled contracts: The system may comprise at least one processor. The at least one processor may be programmed to receive a plurality of first participant bids from a first participant and a plurality of second participant bids from a second participant. The at least one processor may also be programmed to match a batch of bids to create a plurality of awarded bids. The contracts may include, for example, an oil contract, a coal contract, a natural gas contract, an electricity contract, a weather contract, a weather-related events contract, a commodities contract, location specific service contracts (e.g., passenger contract and/or freight contracts). | 2009-05-21 |
20090132409 | TRADING SYSTEM PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES - A trading platform and trading method that allows access to additional pools of liquidity is described. Other embodiments are also described. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132410 | Method and Apparatus for Prime Brokering Financial Transactions - Method and apparatus for managing financial transactions for multiple counterparties that allows traders, market makers, dealers, and prime brokers to negotiate with multiple liquidity providers simultaneously, and to receive and respond to transaction processing directives and settlement instructions in real time. The invention, which may be accessed over an interconnected data communications network, such as the Internet, using a standard Web browser, as well as via a proprietary user interface, automatically provides customers, traders, executing banks, funding banks, prime brokers and liquidity providers with up-to-date settlement and allocation details for previously-executed financial transactions as they are received. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132411 | Methods and systems for providing a constant maturity commodity index - Methods and systems provide a commodity index for investing. In one implementation, a method selects a commodity component for inclusion in the commodity index and calculates a target weight of the commodity component. The method further selects a time interval for maturity of the commodity component to be fixed at from a current date. Financial instruments may be purchased corresponding to the commodity component. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132412 | Price improvement crossing system - A method provided for matching a buy order having a buy order price and a sell order having a sell order price that includes the step of determining if the buy order price is not less than the sell order price. Next, an NBBO price range is identified and it is determined whether the buy order price and the sell order price are within the NBBO range. A midpoint between the buy order price and the sell order price is then calculated. Finally, the buy order and the sell order is matched at the midpoint if the buy order price is not less than the sell order price and the buy order price and the sell order price are within the NBBO range. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132413 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SECURE CREDIT CARD PROCESSING INFRASTRUCTURE - The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for secure value transactions between a customer and a merchant in a computerised environment being part of a global interconnecting network, such as the Internet. The method is adapted for utilising existing credit card processing infrastructure and includes the steps of: the customer obtaining a password, such as a PIN, from an intermediate transaction party and validating a server of the intermediate transaction party, the merchant having installed a code module function on its web-based service that generates a transaction identification number, and redirecting or presenting the customer with a link to the intermediate transaction party. The present invention is characterised by the intermediate transaction party presenting the customer with a password-protected account page to validate a purchase either by marking a correct validation or inputting the transaction identification number and amount. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132414 | System And Method For Integrated Electronic Invoice Presentment And Payment - A system and method is provided for an electronic invoice presentment and payment management service. The system and method automatically link electronic purchase orders, invoices, receipt-of-goods documents, and other transaction-related information to a payment card transaction, such as a purchasing card transaction. The system may be used in conjunction with existing infrastructure and the systems currently employed by a buyer organization and a supplier organization. The system provides for the delivery of Level III data (invoice detail) with every payment card transaction and automatically inputs this Level III detailed transaction data into the buyer's accounts payable system and enterprise resource planning system. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132415 | MOBILE DEVICE CREDIT ACCOUNT - Providing for a mobile communication device (MCD) credit account and credit transactions by way of such an MCD is described herein. As an example, a credit account sponsored by a financial or commercial entity can be associated with a unique ID of an MCD. The MCD can interface with another electronic device and initiate credit transactions, such as commercial purchases, credit transfers, currency conversions, and the like, via the interface. Further, rules provided by the sponsoring entity can guide such transactions, enforcing credit limits, for instance. A management component can then synchronize transactions conducted by the device with a server of a financial institution over a remote communication interface, such as the Internet or a cellular/mobile communication network. Accordingly, a mobile device can replace a traditional credit card in transacting credit business. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132416 | TAGGING VIRTUAL CURRENCY - Technologies are described herein for providing tagging virtual currency and processing payments made by the virtual currency. In an example, a virtual currency unit is received as payment for a good or service. Whether the virtual currency unit is associated with a tag is determined. Upon determining that the virtual currency unit is associated with a tag, whether the tag permits a utilization of the virtual currency unit as payment for the good or service is determined. Upon determining that the tag permits the utilization of the virtual currency unit as payment for the good or service, the payment of the virtual currency unit for the good or service is processed. Upon determining that the tag prohibits the utilization of the virtual currency unit as payment for the good or service, the payment of the virtual currency unit for the good or service is denied. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132417 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING SECURE CARD NUMBERS - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a plug-in feature for a browser that allows for secure financial transactions on a communication network. The plug-in feature generates secure card numbers (e.g., single and multi-use credit card numbers) to pay for purchases. The plug-in feature auto-fills billing and shipping information. The plug-in feature allows a user to store receipts in an efficient and convenient manner to track online shopping activities. The plug-in feature may be implemented in a toolbar of a browser. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132418 | ELECTRONIC PAYMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM - In general, in one aspect, parties associated with a merchant profile may be provided access to a system utilized to create merchant profiles. The system may accept data related to a merchant account from the parties and may validate the data. If any required information is missing or invalid the system may notify the parties. Once all the data is received and validated the system processes the data to create the merchant profile. The merchant profile may be stored in the system for the merchant. The merchant profile may be associated with a unique ID associated with a payment handler utilized by the merchant. The merchant or associated parties may utilize the unique ID to configure the payment handler including downloading processor software. The system may utilize the unique ID to manage and control use of the payment handlers and the processor applications. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132419 | OBFUSCATING SENSITIVE DATA WHILE PRESERVING DATA USABILITY - A method and system for obfuscating sensitive data while preserving data usability. The in-scope data files of an application are identified. The in-scope data files include sensitive data that must be masked to preserve its confidentiality. Data definitions are collected. Primary sensitive data fields are identified. Data names for the primary sensitive data fields are normalized. The primary sensitive data fields are classified according to sensitivity. Appropriate masking methods are selected from a pre-defined set to be applied to each data element based on rules exercised on the data. The data being masked is profiled to detect invalid data. Masking software is developed and input considerations are applied. The selected masking method is executed and operational and functional validation is performed. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132420 | COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR A CURRENCY TRACKING SYSTEM - A set of instructions for causing a computer system to monitor transactions involving security documents. Each security document has disposed thereon or therein coded data including a number of coded data portions, each coded data portion being indicative of at least an identity of the security document. The set of instructions causes the computer system to receive indicating data from a sensing device, the sensing device being responsive to sensing of coded data to generate indicating data at least partially indicative of the identity of the security document and the transaction. The computer system updates, transaction data stored in a data store, using the identity, the transaction data being indicative of the identity of the security document and the transaction. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132421 | Secured Disc - A secured disc. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132422 | MACHINE-READABLE AND ENFORCEABLE LICENSE - Technologies are described herein for providing a machine-readable and enforceable license. A first interface and a second interface are provided. A first set of input and a second set of input are received. The first set of input defines a range of allowable uses for a content item generated by a user. The second set of input defines an amount of compensation for the user for a sale of the content item. A high-level representation of a license is generated based on the first set of input and the second set of input. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132423 | SEND MONEY PLUG IN FOR WEB MAILS - In one example embodiment, a system and method is shown as including receiving an email address selection displayed as part of a screen widget, the screen widget included within the display of an interface associated with an Internet-utilizing application. Further, this method may, for example, include executing a plug in having a send money function, the plug in associated with the Internet-utilizing application, the send money function executed due, in part, to a signal received from an input device. The method may additionally include generating a payment request identifying a recipient of funds by the e-mail address selection. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132424 | SECURE PAYMENT CAPTURE PROCESSES - Methods and processes for securely capturing payment device information and conveying the securely captured payment device information to a client application on a merchant's client device in a manner that does not require that the payment device information to be displayed to the merchant. The client application generates and submits a payment authorization request to a payment authorization service in a manner that does not require the payment information to be displayed to the merchant. The merchant receives a status of the payment authorization request as approved, denied, or process failure. Payment capture can be made before an active connection is made with the merchant's client device, or can occur in real-time. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132425 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FINANCIAL TRANSACTION CARD SECURITY - A financial transaction card having a front side and a back side is provided and further includes a magnetic strip configured to retain data associated with a financial transaction card account, where the account is associated with the card, and a character grid printed on one of the front side and the back side. A method for securing transactions that are not made in person utilizing a financial transaction card are also provided. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132426 | Arrangement for Reducing Risk in the Sale of Property - Disclosed are arrangements for selling property off the plan, involving issuing (in a step ‘ | 2009-05-21 |
20090132427 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING MULTIPLE REAL ESTATE OFFERS - The present disclosure is a real estate offer system and method for providing multiple offers to buy a property for a buyer. The present invention can be implemented through a Web site or the like. The systems and methods are utilized by realtors, real estate investors, and the like to improve the process of buying properties. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132428 | Method for creating and marketing a modifiable debt product - This invention relates to a method for creating and marketing a modifiable debt product wherein a debtor who issues the debt note has the ability to modify the type of the note coupon multiple times throughout the life of the note while continuously providing fixed coupons to respective investors. The modifications to the note coupon are determined by prevailing market conditions and are executed as on-market transformations. The invention provides flexibility to the debtor who may wish to change the note in response to the fluctuations of the market without creating additional risk to investors. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132429 | Programmable Financial Instruments - A method and system is disclosed for creating and using programmable financial instruments. The method and system addresses the problems caused by limiting the scope of financial instruments to inert objects, whether considered as abstract data or in a physical embodiment such as a paper certificate. Applications of the method and system include trading, portfolio management, collateralization, securitization, securities lending, securities borrowing, and credit enhancement. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132430 | Method and system for providing a deferred variable annuity with lifetime benefit payments related to a withdrawal percent and a deferral bonus percent - A computer implemented data processing system and method administers a deferred variable annuity contract during the accumulation phase for a relevant life. The annuity contract has a payment base value, a contract value, and a step-up provision. Administration of the product determines whether a step-up of the payment base value is applicable. If applicable, the product determines a step-up, wherein the step-up is guaranteed at a predetermined percentage. The investments of the deferred variable annuity contract are not limited to a specific asset allocation in order to qualify for the step-up provision. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132431 | SYSTEM FOR MAPPING FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE DATA INTO COMPLIANCE INFORMATION - A system for creating tagged financial documents which are computer readable. The system extracts compliance information and inserts tags related to particular financial data. The tags may be computer readable so the tagged information may be easily found and manipulated. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132432 | COMMODITY, PRICE AND VOLUME DATA SHARING SYSTEM FOR NON-PUBLICLY TRADED COMMODITIES - A system and a method are disclosed for gathering non-publicly available commodity data, processing the data, and distributing the processed information over the Internet or similar backbone in a delayed or real time manner. In particular, such a system provides technology and a process that gathers data from multiple operating systems and diverse software systems, receives the data in a central processing system, creates weighted averages, tickers, historical charts, and tables, and allows access to such from web-enabled devices. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132433 | MATCHED FILTER APPROACH TO PORTFOLIO OPTIMIZATION - Given a fixed amount of capital, how to invest it optimally by distributing it among a set of stocks and securities so as to maximize the return while minimizing the overall risk is addressed here. Given that one has full freedom in selecting the type of stocks, a new strategy is outlined here by maximizing the ratio of the gain to risk—rather than minimizing the risk alone—to determine the fraction of capital that must go to each stock. An optimum gain versus variance plot can be used to determine the type of stocks to be selected in addition to their relative quantity for maximum yield over the duration of interest. By modifying the definition of risk to include a function of the covariance matrix of secondary stocks that are sympathetic to the primary stocks of interest, an alternate investment strategy is also developed here. If short selling of stocks and securities is not allowed in a portfolio, then stock selection becomes important so as to maintain the desired fractions to be positive. In this context, a new iterative method that incrementally increases the diagonal loading of the covariance matrix of the primary returns so as to achieve positive weight factors is also developed. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132434 | Methods and Systems for Determining Composition of a Commodity Index - Methods and systems provide a commodity index for investing. In one implementation, a method selects a commodity component for inclusion in the commodity index and calculates a target weight of the commodity component. The method further selects a time interval for maturity of the commodity component to be fixed at from a current date. Financial instruments may be purchased corresponding to the commodity component. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132435 | POPULARITY BASED LICENSING OF USER GENERATED CONTENT - Technologies are described herein for providing popularity-based licensing of user-generated content. A selection of a popularity measure is received. A value of the popularity measure is determined. A price of a user-generated content item is determined based on the value of the popularity measure. A license including the price of the user-generated content item is generated. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132436 | AERIAL ROOF ESTIMATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Methods and systems for roof estimation are described. Example embodiments include a roof estimation system, which generates and provides roof estimate reports annotated with indications of the size, geometry, pitch and/or orientation of the roof sections of a building. Generating a roof estimate report may be based on one or more aerial images of a building. In some embodiments, generating a roof estimate report of a specified building roof may include generating a three-dimensional model of the roof, and generating a report that includes one or more views of the three-dimensional model, the views annotated with indications of the dimensions, area, and/or slope of sections of the roof. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract, and it is submitted with the intention that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132437 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA CONTAINING INSTRUCTIONS FOR EVALUATING THE RETURN ON DIRECT MAIL MARKETING AND FOR EVALUATING SHIPPING SERVICES - A method, system, and computer readable medium including instructions for evaluating and promoting a direct mail marketing campaign includes receiving the cost associated with the campaign and financial information for the campaign. The return on investment is calculated for the direct mail marketing campaign based on the cost and financial information. The return on investment is utilized to evaluate and promote the campaign. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132438 | PARCEL CARRIER BILLING SERVICE - A parcel carrier billing service includes a mobile unit for processing received parcels. Shipment parameters are received and used in calculating a postage that is assessed to a user account. The user account may be for a service provider network account that provides multimedia content such as Internet protocol based television services or broadband services. Notifications to the shipping party and recipient of the parcel may be sent upon receiving the parcel by the service and upon delivery of the parcel. Notifications may be sent via email, text message, or instant message chat sessions, as examples. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132439 | Method of storing and distributing regulated goods - A segregated area for the storage of regulated goods is subleased or otherwise acquired from the operator of a warehouse that is used to store unregulated goods. The segregated area can be manned with support personnel, and appropriately isolated or otherwise separated from the remainder of the host warehouse in accordance with applicable regulations. Upon receipt of an order for such regulated goods, custody and control of the regulated goods is transferred directly to the host warehouse operator at the warehouse facility and the regulated goods are transported, ideally along with unregulated goods, to a third party purchaser. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132440 | COMPENSATION MODEL FOR NETWORK SERVICES - A compensation model is disclosed for compensating a network service provider. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132441 | MULTILEVEL SEMIOTIC AND FUZZY LOGIC USER AND METADATA INTERFACE MEANS FOR INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM HAVING COGNITIVE ADAPTIVE CAPABILITY - A multilevel semiotic and fuzzy logic user and metadata interface means includes: an interactive user interface means comprising at least one multilevel semiotic means addressable by a user and a fuzzy logic descriptor set module for storing multiple fuzzy logic descriptor sets; a metadata layer for linking said multilevel semiotic means to interactivity points present in content of the multimedia representation and defined by the metadata layer such that each level of each of the multilevel semiotic means identifies an interactivity point in the content and allows by selection of the interactivity point to perform a selectively varying content manipulation and to receive a resulting interactive presentation of content according to the selection: and a user control device for addressing the multilevel semiotic means. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132442 | Method and Apparatus for Determining Decision Points for Streaming Conversational Data - A method for determining a decision point in real-time for a data stream from a conversation includes receiving streaming conversational data; and determining when to classify the streaming conversational data, using a measure of certainty, by performing certainty calculations at a plurality of time instances during the conversation and by selecting a decision point in response to the certainty calculations, the decision point not being based on a fixed window of conversational data but being based on accumulated conversational data available at different ones of the plurality of time instances. Systems and computer program products are also provided. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132443 | Methods and Devices for Analyzing Lipoproteins - The disclosure describes methods, systems, and devices for analysis of lipoproteins and for diagnosing and/or determining risk of cardiovascular disease. In some embodiments, lipoproteins are separated by electrophoretically using a micro-channel device, and the data are analyzed using an adaptive method such as a neural network. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132444 | CONSTRAINED LINE SEARCH OPTIMIZATION FOR DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING OF HMMS - An exemplary method for optimizing a continuous density hidden Markov model (CDHMM) includes imposing a constraint for discriminative training, approximating an objective function as a smooth function of CDHMM parameters and performing a constrained line search on the smoothed function to optimize values of the CDHMM parameters. Various other methods, devices and systems are disclosed. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132445 | GENERALIZED REDUCED ERROR LOGISTIC REGRESSION METHOD - A machine classification learning method titled Generalized Reduced Error Logistic Regression (RELR) is presented. The method overcomes significant limitations in prior art logistic regression and other machine classification learning methods. The method is applicable to all current applications of logistic regression, but has significantly greater accuracy using smaller sample sizes and larger numbers of input variables than other machine classification learning methods including prior art logistic regression. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132446 | Support Vector Machines Processing System - An implementation of SVM functionality improves efficiency, time consumption, and data security, reduces the parameter tuning challenges presented to the inexperienced user, and reduces the computational costs of building SVM models. A computer program product for support vector machine processing in a computer system comprises computer program instructions for storing data, providing an interface to client software, building a support vector machine model on at least a portion of the stored data, based on a plurality of model-building parameters, estimating values for at least some of the model-building parameters, and applying the support vector machine model using the stored data to generate a data mining output. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132447 | Support Vector Machines Processing System - An implementation of SVM functionality improves efficiency, time consumption, and data security, reduces the parameter tuning challenges presented to the inexperienced user, and reduces the computational costs of building SVM models. A system for support vector machine processing comprises data stored in the system, a client application programming interface operable to provide an interface to client software, a build unit operable to build a support vector machine model on at least a portion of the data stored in the system, the portion of the data selected using a stratified sampling method with respect to a target distribution, an apply unit operable to apply the support vector machine model using the data stored in the system. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132448 | Segmented predictive model system - An automated method and system ( | 2009-05-21 |
20090132449 | NEURAL NETWORK LEARNING DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - It is possible to acquire existing techniques in a neural network model currently studied and developed so as to generalize them as an element technique, and provide modeling of a basic unit of bottom-up approach using the neural network by adding new values to the existing techniques. A network learning device builds up a network of basic units in a network section, acquires an input from a sensor input section for evaluating it, changes a coupling weight coefficient by using a correlation operation so that the evaluation value satisfies a predetermined evaluation value, and inserts a new neural network according to need. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132450 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTIVARIATE INFLUENCE ANALYSIS OF HETEROGENOUS MIXTURES OF CATEGORICAL AND CONTINUOUS DATA - Systems, methods, and computer readable storage medium with executable instructions for detecting outliers and hidden relationships in heterogeneous data sets are provided. Features of the invention pertain to design and operation of various predictive models that identify multivariate outliers and influential observations by recognizing systematic local relationships within heterogeneous data sets or subpopulations of heterogeneous data sets. Multivariate outliers and influential observations are identified by utilizing general distance metrics which are specific to and defined for any number of individual observations within heterogeneous data sets. Aspects of the invention may be applied to sets of data that are large and complex (e.g. loan portfolios, health insurance company data, homeland security profiles, etc.) or sets of data having a more-limited scope (e.g. medical or drug research, etc.). | 2009-05-21 |
20090132451 | Prediction by Single Neurons and Networks - An artificial neuron integrates current and prior information, each of which predicts the state of a part of the world. The neuron's output corresponds to the discrepancy between the two predictions, or prediction error. Inputs contributing prior information are selected in order to minimize the error, which can occur through an anti-Hebbian-type plasticity rule. Current information sources are selected to maximize errors, which can occur through a Hebbian-type rule. This insures that the neuron receives new information from its external world that is not redundant with the prior information that the neuron already possesses. By learning on its own to make predictions, a neuron or network of these neurons acquires information necessary to generate intelligent and advantageous outputs. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132452 | Artificial Neuron - Artificial neurons and processing elements for artificial neurons are disclosed. One processing element generates a continuous value signal based on the first plurality of inputs and generates a responsiveness based on a second plurality of inputs. An output value determining portion generates an output signal that is equal to a predetermined value when the responsiveness signal corresponds to a non-responsive and equal to the continuous value signal when the responsiveness signal corresponds to a responsive state. Another processing element produces an output signal having a magnitude equal to zero except during a fixed time after an event when the output signal has a magnitude based on an event time. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132453 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRIORITIZING MOBILE MEDIA PLAYER FILES - Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods for prioritizing mobile media player files by providing for the automated addition and/or deletion of media items for a mobile media player. In some embodiments, a statistical method may be provided for inferring which media items on a mobile media player should be deleted based on, for example, user taste data. In some embodiments, new media items may be loaded onto a user's mobile media player by creating one or more playlists from a playlist builder. The playlist(s) may be created by using user taste data. Rankings may also be created to determine an order for deletion of the media items currently on a mobile media player and/or for addition of new media items to the device. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132454 | SYSTEM FOR MATCHING PATTERN-BASED DATA - A pattern-based data matching system matches pattern-based data. The data matching system generates a regular expression pattern for input datasets and describes similarity measures between the generated patterns. The data matching system analyzes an input dataset in terms of symbol classes, generalizing input values into a general pattern to allow identification or extrapolation of overlap between input datasets, aiding in matching fields in databases that are being merged and in learning a pattern for an input dataset. For each sequence of data values, the present system computes a compact pattern describing the sequence. Embodiments of the data matching system comprise noise reduction and repetitive pattern discovery in the input dataset and calculation of recall and precision of the generated pattern. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132455 | AUTOMATED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CASE MATCHING ASSESSMENT BASED ON GEOMETRICAL EVALUATION OF STAGES IN TREATMENT PLAN - Methods and systems for characterizing a dentition of a patient including receiving an initial dentition of a patient, generating an initial profile representing the initial dentition of the patient, identifying an initial malocclusion from the initial profile, comparing at least a portion of the initial profile with one or more reference profiles of reference dentitions, wherein said one or more reference profiles includes a reference malocclusion substantially similar to the initial malocclusion, and calculating a value for the closeness of the initial profile and the reference profile are provided. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132456 | APPLYING RULESET LIMITING CRITERIA FOR AFFIRMING RULE INPUTS AND OUTPUTS - Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for processing abstract rules with limiting criteria. In one embodiment, limiting criteria may specify requirements for characteristics of sets of input or output values of processing abstract rules. For example, limiting criteria may specify requirements for statistical validity of a set of input values, such as a minimum record count. In one aspect, limiting criteria may include input criteria applied to input data prior to being processed in a rule engine. In another aspect, limiting criteria may include output criteria applied to an output of a rule engine. In the event that limiting criteria are not satisfied, the processing of the abstract rule may be terminated. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132457 | DATA COMPARISON USING DIFFERENT TIME PERIODS IN DATA SEQUENCES - Data for a first time period in a primary data sequence is compared with data for a second time period in each of a set of secondary data sequences. The durations of the first and second time periods are correlated, and the first time period is different from the second time period. To this extent, the data in the primary data sequence during the first time period provides a template for assigning a ranking to each secondary data sequence based on the corresponding data for the second time period. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132458 | Intelligent Drilling Advisor - A method, apparatus, and program storage device for integrating and implementing rule-based, heuristic, wellbore key performance rate of penetration indicators advising drilling operations personnel based on the situational awareness of trended earth properties and real time wellbore sensor data, is disclosed. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132459 | PROCESSES FOR IMPROVING THE UTILITY OF PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATIONS GENERATED BY A RECOMMENDATION ENGINE - A recommendation system increases the diversity of item recommendations provided to a target user by using item similarity data to filter an initial recommendation set. In one embodiment, selected items are filtered from the initial recommendation set based on similarity scores that represent degrees of similarity between particular items. The similarity scores may be generated based on an automated comparison of item attributes or content, or based on another measure of item similarity. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132460 | Tailoring Medication to Individual Characteristics - Disclosed is a medical outcome prediction tool that predicts an individual patient's medical outcomes by identifying patients having a same disease; selecting a set of characteristics unique to an individual; determining the similarities between the individual and other cases; and calculating the expected outcome for the individual that is proportional to a weighted sum of outcomes of similar cases. The similarities can be determined by calculating the number of matches between the individual and cases over the set of characteristics, and using that result to determine a similarity score. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132461 | DATA VALIDATION USING SIGNATURES AND SAMPLING - Architecture that facilitates validation of a data mapping of data from a data source to a data target. There is included a signature generation component that generates a source signature of all or a portion of the data source and a target signature of all or a corresponding portion of the data target, and a sampling component that obtains a sample of the source data a corresponding sample of the target data. The data signatures and data samples are compared respectively and processed with a processing component to determine the status of the validation process. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132462 | DISTRIBUTED METADATA EXTRACTION - Particular embodiments generally relate to distributed metadata extraction. In one embodiment, metadata may be extracted for content. A plurality of engines may be provided that include different capabilities for extracting metadata. These engines may be distributed in one or more devices. Distributed metadata extraction may be performed using the engines in the one or more devices. To perform the distributed extraction, coordination may be needed. Different engines may extract different types of metadata. Thus, a list of capabilities for the engines may be provided to a coordinator. The coordinator may then determine a graph that describes and organizes different capabilities for different engines. When content is received, the coordinator may determine if metadata should be extracted for the content. Then, the coordinator uses the graph to determine an interconnection flow to extract the metadata. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132463 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING TRANSITION BETWEEN IBM.RTM. WEBSPHERE.RTM. MQ WORKFLOW AND IBM.RTM. WEBSPHERE.RTM. PROCESS SERVER - A computer program for allowing a client computer program written to communicate with WMQWF to communicate with computing elements running WMQWF or WPS includes a receiving code segment receiving said requests from a WMQWF client library, a target device selection code segment for determining a target device from said request and a list of said computing elements, a first transformation code segment for transforming said request from a format understood by said client computer program to a format understood by said target device, a dispatch code segment for sending said request to said target device, a monitor code segment for waiting for a response from said target device, a second transformation code segment for transforming said response from a format understood by said target device to a format understood said client computer program, and a response code segment for providing said response to said client code segment. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132464 | Methods for processing generic chemical structure representations - The invention relates to machine assisted analysis of information encoded by generic chemical structure representations, and to methods for processing these structures. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132465 | SYSTEM FOR ANIMAL HEALTH DIAGNOSIS - A diagnosis of the health of an animal is obtained through a combination of computerized data and human interpretation. Data relates to the physical characteristics of the animal, and includes data obtained from a physical inspection of the animal. A blood or other fluid sample is used to obtain a computer generated laboratory analysis. This is reported through an internet network to the clinical pathologist. The clinical pathologist has the data relating to the physical characteristics, and thereby makes a diagnosis of the animal health. A drop-down menu on a computer screen provides supplemental reports to support the diagnosis. This can be enhanced by further input from the pathologist through keyboard entry into the computer to obtain an integrated computer report having the laboratory analysis, supplemental report, and selectively an enhanced report. The integrated report is electronically communicated to a client. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132466 | System and method for archiving data - Data to be archived may be stored in a data storage system in a compressed format that allows the compressed data to be accessible without decompression. Along with the data, supporting information is stored in the data storage system. The supporting information may include a location of the data in the storage system and at least one of a schema associated with the data and application information The application information may include a name and version number of an application used to access the data. One or more queries used to access the data may be stored in the storage system or elsewhere. Query attributes also may be stored in the storage system or elsewhere. Query attributes may include a location of a stored query and at least one of data, data formats, and database schemas compatible with a query. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132467 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ORGANIZING IMAGES - Disclosed are a system, method and computer-readable medium for organizing images. A method aspect relates to receiving an image into a device, receiving incidental information associated with the image, organizing the image and the incidental information into a data structure such as a sparse array, classifying the received image with an image classifier and storing the classified image in an image database, receiving a search query and responding to the search query by searching for and retrieving matching images in the image database based on a comparison of the image search query to the data structure. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132468 | RANKING OF OBJECTS USING SEMANTIC AND NONSEMANTIC FEATURES IN A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONDUCTING A SEARCH - The invention provides for a system for ranking data including a first calculation component that calculates a qualitative semantic similarity score of at least one data entry from at least one data source, a second calculation component that calculates a general quantitative score of the at least one data entry from at least one data source, a third calculation component that combines the qualitative semantic similarity score and the general quantitative score of the at least one data entry from at least one data source into a vector score for the at least one data entry, and a ranking component that ranks the at least one data entry among other data entries using the vector score. General qualitative scores such as distance scores are never overruled by semantic scores. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132469 | GEOCODING BASED ON NEIGHBORHOODS AND OTHER UNIQUELY DEFINED INFORMAL SPACES OR GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS - A computer-based method for creating a data structure for informal geographic spaces for use with geocoded databases. A set of data is stored in memory for a geographic region, and a plurality of neighborhoods is identified in the geographic region based on processing of the stored set of data. The method includes generating a boundary definition for each of the neighborhoods by processing neighborhood definition information. A data structure is created in the memory for containing neighborhood data content with at least one record for each of the neighborhoods. The data structure is populated by storing, for each neighborhood, the generated boundary definition along with a neighborhood name and identifier in the records of data structure. The boundary definition may be created by combining two or more definitions identified for a single neighborhood to provide a more inclusive geometry such as by aligning the geometries and performing an additive algorithm. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132470 | Generic Table Grouper - A system and process that groups identical values that are adjacent to one another within a column of a table. The system provides this functionality through an application and backend implementation independent module. Custom grouping information for a table or columns within a table can be stored for retrieval each time a table is open or displayed. A user can manage the customizations through a centralized portal. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132471 | Dynamic query and step routing between systems tuned for different objectives - A computer-implemented apparatus, method, and article of manufacture manage a plurality of database systems. A domain includes a plurality of database systems. Each of the database systems is tuned for a particular type of workload. A virtual regulator (or multiple virtual regulators running in parallel) manages the domain and routes a set of one or more queries to a particular database system within the domain based on a cost function for each database system. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132472 | METHOD OF SEARCHING FOR A FILE WITH A DIRECTORY IDENTIFIED FROM A FILE PATH AS A START POINT - There is provided a file search method executed in a file search apparatus for searching for a file relevant to an application, the file search apparatus having an interface, a processor coupled to the interface, and a memory coupled to the processor. The file search method comprising the steps of: obtaining process information which includes an execution start time and file path of the application; identifying, from the obtained file path, a directory that serves as a start point in a search for a file relevant to the application; and searching, with the identified directory as the start point, for a file accessed after the execution start time of the application. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132473 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROCESSING DATABASES - An obtaining request requesting that information is obtained from a structured database by using multiple loops is received. A unique identifier is assigned to each of records in element tables each having been created for a different one of the loops. A cross product joined table is created by performing a cross product joining process on the element tables, so that the information specified as an obtained target in the obtaining request is obtained from the element tables. For each of the loops, a single-loop table storing therein records in which the obtained information, the identifiers, and the elements are brought into correspondence is created. An inter-loop joined table is created by joining the plurality of single-loop tables. A correspondence between the records in the cross product joined table and in the inter-loop joined table are controlled, based on the identifiers contained in the cross product joined table and the inter-loop joined table. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132474 | Method and Apparatus for Optimizing Queries over Vertically Stored Database - A method and device for optimizing queries over a vertically stored database. Items in the database are partitioned into several partitions each having a partition signature. The method includes decomposing a first query received from a user into multiple first subqueries; generating a signature for each first subquery in a way corresponding to the way of generating the partition signature; comparing the signature of each first subquery with partition signatures of all partitions respectively to obtain all partitions matching the first subquery; rewriting a second subquery translated from the first subquery based on the matching partitions to obtain a rewritten second subquery; and composing rewritten second subqueries for all first subqueries to form a second query so that queries are executed over the database using the second query. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132475 | Optimized database appliance - A system and method from processing database queries allows for cost and locale based distribution for execution of database queries. The database queries are executed on execution engines that provide flexible configuration and overlapping functionality. The system reduces various costs, including elapsed time, required to perform database queries. The method provides processing of a database query using a database catalog comprising database table locality information, record locality information and execution engine information. A query optimizer receives the query and accesses the catalog to create a query execution plan comprising locality-based database operations. A central database operation processor providing a first execution engine executes the query execution plan by performing at least a portion of the locality-based database operations and distributing at least a portion of the locality-based database operations as a subplan. A second database operation processor providing a second execution engine executes the subplan received from the central processor. | 2009-05-21 |
20090132476 | POLICY BASED INFORMATION LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT - A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for managing a lifecycle of an auditory communication is disclosed. In an embodiment, this comprises receiving an auditory communication with associated data representing identified keywords in the communication and call transport information. A data for a disposition of the communication is determined from a portion of the identified keywords, a portion of the call transport information, or a portion of the policies invoked. The communication is associated with the date(s). | 2009-05-21 |
20090132477 | Methods of object search and recognition. - The proposed technical solution allows processing of machine-readable forms of unfixed format. An auxiliary brief description may be optionally specified to determine the spatial orientation of the image. A method of searching for elements of a document comprises the following main operations in addition to the operations of preliminary image processing: selecting the varieties of structural description from several available variants, determining the orientation of the image, selecting the text objects, where the text must be recognized, and determining the minimal required volume of recognition, recognizing the text objects, searching for elements of the form. Searching for elements of the form comprises the following actions: selecting a searched element in the structural description, gaining the algorithm of search constraints from the structural description, searching for the element, testing the obtained variants. | 2009-05-21 |