22nd week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 56 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130138630 | ESTIMATION OF A FILTER FACTOR USED FOR ACCESS PATH OPTIMIZATION IN A DATABASE - A computer program product and method for estimating a filter factor for access path optimization in a database are provided. The method includes extracting from a statement segment for database query a relation condition which defines the relationship between a variable and a first table. The method includes obtaining first statistics information according to the relation condition and the statistics information of the first table. The method includes extracting from the statement segment a filter condition which defines the relationship between the variable and a second table. The method includes obtaining second statistics information according to the filter condition and the statistics information of the second table, and according to the first statistics information and the second statistics information, estimating the filter factor of the filter condition. The method and computer program product according to the embodiments of the disclosure may more accurately estimate filter factor of the filter condition. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138631 | SEARCH SCRATCH PAD - A plurality of queries associated with a plurality of user query object submissions to a scratch pad application executing asynchronously as a background application to a first user application may be obtained. One or more search requests may be initiated to one or more search engines based on each one of the plurality of obtained queries. Cumulative search results of the one or more search requests may be obtained, the cumulative search results accumulated over the plurality of obtained queries. A set of accumulated results metadata may be obtained based on an analysis of the accumulated cumulative search results. A display of a summary of the cumulative search results based on a relevance analysis of the accumulated results metadata may be initiated. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138632 | AIRCRAFT TRENDING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods of aircraft trending are described. In one example, a method of aircraft trend analysis includes receiving, at a computing device, data from a plurality of aircraft in a fleet of aircraft. The data includes system level data for each of the plurality of aircraft. The received data is stored in a database. The computing device analyzes the stored data to identify fleet trends and generates one or more trend analysis reports for the fleet based at least in part on the fleet trends. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138633 | DECOMPOSED QUERY CONDITIONS - A method, article of manufacture and apparatus for decomposing an initial query into smaller conditional groups for execution on a database is disclosed. A separate database query may be generated for each of the conditional groups, and the results of executing these separate database queries may be combined and returned as the result of the initial query. Typically, the initial query may be decomposed because it is otherwise too large and/or too complex to be executed directly. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138634 | INTELLIGENT COMMUNITY BASED RESULTS RELATED TO A CHARACTER STREAM - Information may be presented to a user by using a first application to receive a character stream of one or more noncompletion characters. The noncompletion characters indicate that additional characters may be received. The character stream is exchanged with a host that analyzes the character stream to generate results that are responsive to the user's predicted interest. Results are received and displayed so that the user may select one of the results to launch a code segment related to the selected result. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138635 | SEARCH METHOD USING A PLURALITY OF SPACE OF INTEREST OBJECTS - One aspect of the invention provides a method of searching using two or more space of interest (SOI) objects. The method includes: selecting two or more SOI objects; and performing a search using a search method within the two or more selected SOI objects. Another aspect of the invention provides a method of searching using two or more space of interest (SOI) objects. The method includes: selecting two or more SOI objects, wherein selecting two or more SOI objects comprises selecting an individual SOI object or a sub SOI object of another SOI object; performing a search using a search method for the two or more selected SOI objects, wherein the search method comprises a method of multiple searching for all of the two or more SOI objects; and determining a prioritization of results from the search by applying a weight to the results from the search. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138636 | Image Searching - The present disclosure introduces a method and an apparatus for searching images. With respect to each image in an image searching database, respective labels of respective images are generated based on description information corresponding to the respective images. A corresponding relationship between the generated respective labels and the respective images is stored. Based on a received image searching request, description information corresponding to an image for search in the image searching request is obtained. Based on the description information of the image for search, the label of the image for search is generated. Based on the stored corresponding relationship between the respective labels and the respective images, one or more images corresponding to the label of the image for search are determined. The determined one or more images are sent to the client terminal that sends the image searching request. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138637 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RANKING MEDIA FILES - A system for searching and ranking media files is disclosed, which includes a server that is configured to: (a) receive, index, and store a variety of media files, which are received by the server from a plurality of sources, within at least one database in communication with the server; and (b) receive at least one key word that is submitted by a user of the system through the website. The server will then query the database to identify all media files, which include at least one key word, and then ranks the media files in accordance with an algorithm. The algorithm produces a weighted ranking value, which reflects various attributes of each media file that is listed in a set of search results. The media files are then ranked in accordance with the calculated weighted ranking value. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138638 | TEMPORAL VISUALIZATION OF QUERY RESULTS - One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for constructing a temporal visualization of query results. That is, query results associated with temporal information, such as timestamps, may be used to create a temporal distribution (e.g., query results comprising images and image capture dates, web pages and web page creation dates, etc.). The temporal distribution may comprise a distribution of the query results over time (e.g., query results may be sorted and/or grouped based upon dates specified by the timestamps). A temporal visualization of the query results may be constructed using the temporal distribution. For example, query results may be assigned to date slots within the temporal visualization. The temporal visualization may illustrate a substantial number of query results (e.g., thousands) that may otherwise not be visually presentable at once. Zoom commands and/or hover commands may be processed to provide finer and/or coarser granularity of the query results. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138639 | Automatic Gleaning of Semantic Information in Social Networks - Disclosed are method and apparatus for identifying members of a social network who have a high likelihood of providing a useful response to a query. A query engine examines the personal pages of a set of members and automatically gleans semantic information relevant to the query. From the automatically-gleaned semantic information, a score indicative of the likelihood that the member may provide a useful response is calculated. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138640 | SEARCHING, SORTING, AND DISPLAYING VIDEO CLIPS AND SOUND FILES BY RELEVANCE - A documents database has a plurality of documents, including but not limited to text files, video clips and sound files. Each document is associated with at least one category of a plurality of categories in a categories database, and each category has at least one keyword. A search request having at least one search term is received from a user, and a categories database is searched for categories having a keyword corresponding to the user search term to identify first level categories. The other keywords from the identified first level categories are retrieved and the documents database is searched for documents having a user search term or a retrieved keyword. The identified documents are then ranked and presented to the user. Other search expansion techniques, and display techniques, are also discussed. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138641 | CONSTRUCTION OF TEXT CLASSIFIERS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for constructing text classifiers. The method includes receiving a collection of candidate phrases for a given topic; filtering the received candidate phrases to remove erroneously included candidate phrases; assigning weights to the candidate phrases including scoring each candidate phrase using an initial classifier and assigning weights to the candidate phrases based on the scores; and generating a linear classifier using the filtered and weighted candidate phrases, where the linear classifier varies the weights for each phrase candidate depending on the length of the document being classified. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138642 | Computer-Implemented System And Method For Grafting Cluster Spines In A Display - A system and method for generating cluster spines is provided. Clusters of documents are maintained. Each document is associated with a document concept that is formed from one or more terms extracted from that document. At least one cluster concept is determined for each cluster. The document concepts are ranked and at least one of the document concepts that is highly ranked is selected as the cluster concept. One or more spines are formed. Each spine includes two or more clusters that share at least one of the cluster concepts. The shared cluster concept is identified as a spine concept. One or more of the remaining clusters is assigned to the spines based on a similarity between the cluster concepts for the remaining clusters and the spine concepts for the formed spines. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138643 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY EXTENDING SEED SETS - Provided is a method of automatically extending a seed set. Based on an input seed set, initial seed set candidates are generated. Also generated are categories that will vote on the initial seed set candidates. A weight for each category is determined and each initial seed set candidate is scored. The final seed set candidates are selected from the initial seed set candidates based on their scores. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138644 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANNOTATION AND RANKING REVIEWS PERSONALIZED TO PRIOR USER EXPERIENCE - The present invention is directed towards methods and computer readable media for annotating and ranking user reviews on social review systems with inferred analytics. A reference framework is provided by creating context according to previous activity, bias, or background information of a given reviewer. The method of the present invention comprises receiving a first query identifying a given content item, generating a collection of content items based on one or more identical objective attributes associated with the given content item, identifying one or more subjective attributes associated with a given item in the collection of items, and providing a reference framework to interpret the subjective attributes associated with each item in the collection. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138645 | Grouping multimedia and streaming media search results - A method and system for grouping metadata search results associated with media on a computer network, such as multimedia and streaming media include binning and iterative masking. The media metadata has an associated media file, which has an associated uniform resource locator (URL). Each URL has at least one field, and each field has at least one character. Binning includes selecting, sorting, and putting URLs having a common attribute into the same bin. Masking includes creating a mask of masking characters. Each field in each URL in each bin is compare with the mask. If a masking character matches a character in a field, the character in the field is removed from the field. This produces at least one resultant URL. Identical resultant URLs are collapsing into one URL. Redundant and variant URLs are collapsed into a single URL. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138646 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MAPPING AND SEARCHING OBJECTS IN MULTIDIMENSIONAL SPACE - This invention relates to a system and methods for determining the placement of an object in a distributed key-value store by mapping the object to nodes in multidimensional hyperspace. A search function supports efficient object retrieval, even when the search query requests multiple objects and specifies them through non-primary keys. In response to a search query, the search is translated into hyperregions in the hyperspace to determine the set of nodes that hold the queried data object. The number of contacted nodes and the number of scanned objects are significantly reduced in comparison to prior art techniques. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138647 | EXTENDING TAGS FOR INFORMATION RESOURCES - A method for extending a tag of an information resource in an information network may be provided. The method may include providing a group of tags, stored in a database, in a user interface, and selecting at least one tag out of the group of tags and linking the tag to an information resource using the user interface. Furthermore, the method may include extending the tag, such that the resulting extended tag may be a semantically structured string of characters building a first expression including a first operand, a first operator and a first value, wherein the tag may be the operand, such that the extended tag is machine-interpretable by a parser, such that the information resource may be tagged with the machine-interpretable, extended tag. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138648 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING REVIEW STANDARDS IN DIGITAL DOCUMENTS - A system and method for validation, review, approval, editing, developing, publishing, and/or ongoing maintenance of a digital document, the system and method having the functionality to work alone or can be used in conjunction with other software applications and workflows in order to facilitate the direct review of documents. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138649 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STORING DIGITAL CONTENT - An overlay content distribution network provides a consistent interface to enable the storage and retrieval of digital content at multiple storage providers ( | 2013-05-30 |
20130138650 | ALARM MONITORING DEVICE AND ALARM MONITORING METHOD - An alarm monitoring device monitors, when a failure has occurred in a transmission device or a transmission line, an alarm transmitted from a transmission device that has detected the failure. The alarm monitoring device includes: an alarm database for recording therein information included in the alarm, the information being on a detected time, a generated location, an alarm importance, and an ID of a path having the generated location as a route; and a monitoring control unit configured to register information of a received alarm in the alarm database, extract one alarm from the alarm database for each path ID based on an alarm importance and a detected time, determine the detected time as an alarm generation time, associate a path ID of the extracted alarm with the alarm generation time and the alarm importance, and cause to display the path ID as an alarm-generating path list. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138651 | SYSTEM AND METHOD EMPLOYING A SELF-ORGANIZING MAP LOAD FEATURE DATABASE TO IDENTIFY ELECTRIC LOAD TYPES OF DIFFERENT ELECTRIC LOADS - A method identifies electric load types of a plurality of different electric loads. The method includes providing a self-organizing map load feature database of a plurality of different electric load types and a plurality of neurons, each of the load types corresponding to a number of the neurons; employing a weight vector for each of the neurons; sensing a voltage signal and a current signal for each of the loads; determining a load feature vector including at least four different load features from the sensed voltage signal and the sensed current signal for a corresponding one of the loads; and identifying by a processor one of the load types by relating the load feature vector to the neurons of the database by identifying the weight vector of one of the neurons corresponding to the one of the load types that is a minimal distance to the load feature vector. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138652 | AUTOMATIC IDENTITY ENROLMENT - Biometric computer systems are systems which use one or biometric identifiers to enroll, verify or identify a person. This disclosure concerns the automatic enrolment of people into biometric systems. Aspects include methods, computer systems, software and biometric systems. A first biometric identifier (i.e. face) and a second biometric identifier (e.g. iris) is captured ( | 2013-05-30 |
20130138653 | METHOD FOR REDUCING AN AMOUNT OF STORAGE REQUIRED FOR MAINTAINING LARGE-SCALE COLLECTION OF MULTIMEDIA DATA ELEMENTS BY UNSUPERVISED CLUSTERING OF MULTIMEDIA DATA ELEMENTS - A method for reducing an amount of storage required for maintaining a large-scale collection of multimedia data elements by unsupervised clustering of multimedia data elements. The method comprises processing the multimedia data elements in the large-scale collection to generate a first cluster of multimedia data elements; storing the first cluster in a storage unit; repeating the generation of a new cluster from the first cluster and un-clustered multimedia elements in the large-scale collection until a single cluster is reached; and storing the new cluster generated at each iteration in the storage unit, wherein a N-th cluster generated at the N-th iteration is stored in the storage unit, wherein the amount of storage required to store the N-th cluster is less than an amount of storage of the large-scale collection, thereby the unsupervised clustering enables reducing the storage amount required to store the multimedia data elements in the large-scale collection. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138654 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR GENERATING SEMANTIC SIGNATURES FOR MEDIA CONTENT - Methods and apparatuses are provided for generating, storing, and/or distributing semantic media signatures for media content. A method may comprise receiving media content to be analyzed for generating a semantic signature. The method may further comprise processing the media content to determine one or more media segments of the media content. Additionally, the method may comprise identifying one or more topics represented by the media content. The method may further comprise associating one or more media segments with each of the one or more topics. The one or more media segments associated with a topic may contain a representation of the topic. The method may additionally comprise generating a semantic signature for the media content. The semantic signature may comprise an indication of the one or more identified topics and the one or more media segments associated with each topic. Corresponding apparatuses are also provided. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138655 | Web Knowledge Extraction for Search Task Simplification - Techniques are described for generating structured information from semi-structured web pages, and retrieving the structured knowledge in response to a user query that indicates a query intent. The structured information is automatically extracted offline from semi-structured web pages, through the use of an auto wrapper solution that is noise tolerant, scalable, and automatic. The structured information is stored in a knowledge base, and provided in response to a user search query that indicates a query intent. Extraction of structured information may also include clustering of pages based on their measured similarities. The clusters may be determined based on similar elements in the tag path text data of the pages. A minimum size threshold may be applied to the clusters. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138656 | Method and Device for Expiration Date Weighted Food Inventory System and Meal Planner - A method and device comprising a food inventory system that enables food inventory control as well as meal planning Food items are entered into a software controlled means for storing food inventory data and meal recipes. Meal planning is enabled whereby recipes are proposed based on inventory levels and/or food expiration or spoilage times, as well as nutrient and dietary information. Shopping lists are created that reflect inventory levels, recipe needs, and/or food expiration or spoilage dates. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138657 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CLASSIFICATION OF OBJECTS - In accordance with various example embodiments, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided. A method comprises accessing a gallery comprising a plurality of classes, determining distances between classes of the plurality of classes, and determining thresholds for one or more classes of the gallery for classifying test objects in the classes, wherein threshold for a class is determined based on at least one distance of the class from at least one remaining class of the plurality of classes. The apparatus comprises at least one processor and at least one memory, configured to, cause the apparatus to perform accessing a gallery comprising a plurality of classes, determining distances between classes of the plurality of classes, and determining thresholds for classes of the gallery for classifying test objects in the classes, wherein threshold for a class is determined based on distances of the class from remaining classes of the gallery. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138658 | DATABASE QUERY ACROSS PROCESSES WITH CHANGE NOTIFICATION - Indexes for predefined search orders of items in a database are generated and stored. When a client issues a database query a responsive pre-generated index list is retrieved and provided to the client for use in, e.g., populating a U/I view for a user. Only those items that a client needs, e.g., for populating a current U/I view, are retrieved from the database and output to the client. When a change is rendered to the database, e.g., an item is added or deleted or an existing item is altered, only the change is output to the client, rather than the entire modified index or altered item. In this manner clients can more quickly and efficiently respond to user data query requests by performing some processing upfront and by limiting communications traffic to communications relevant to the client's current processing. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138659 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING INFORMATION FROM SEMANTIC DATABASE - Embodiments of the present disclosure set forth a method for retrieving information from a semantic database having a plurality of semantic data. The method includes selecting a hub that is resolved with a number of semantic data based on a resolution rule, when the number of the semantic data is greater than a threshold in an offline environment; calculating a semantic data set that is associated with the hub based on a searching approach and the resolution rule in the offline environment; indexing the semantic data set in the offline environment; modifying the semantic database to include the semantic data set in the offline environment; and retrieving information from the semantic data set in an online environment. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138660 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED INDEX SEARCHING OF ELECTRONIC CONTENT - There are provided methods and systems for efficient search in a peer-to-peer network topology. In various embodiments, search methods and systems provide for response times and network traffic that are independent from the number of query terms, thereby producing constant run-time searches and bandwidth hits in a P2P network search implementation. By distributing inverse indexes between peers, and storing with each inverse index a Bloom filter populated with selected keywords, multi-term search and analysis can be conducted on one network node without requiring exchange of posting lists between various network nodes. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138661 | SYSTEM AND METHOD EMPLOYING A MINIMUM DISTANCE AND A LOAD FEATURE DATABASE TO IDENTIFY ELECTRIC LOAD TYPES OF DIFFERENT ELECTRIC LOADS - A method identifies electric load types of a plurality of different electric loads. The method includes providing a load feature database of a plurality of different electric load types, each of the different electric load types including a first load feature vector having at least four different load features; sensing a voltage signal and a current signal for each of the different electric loads; determining a second load feature vector comprising at least four different load features from the sensed voltage signal and the sensed current signal for a corresponding one of the different electric loads; and identifying by a processor one of the different electric load types by determining a minimum distance of the second load feature vector to the first load feature vector of the different electric load types of the load feature database. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138662 | Method for assigning user-centric ranks to database entries within the context of social networking - A method is provided for assigning user-centric importance ranks to database entries within the context of social networking. A database entry is assigned an importance rank with respect to a user based on the experiences of the user's social relations reachable in social graphs with the database entry or its related database entries. The assigned rank is dependent on the closeness of the user's social relations with the user and their authorities on the database entry. The closeness of relation between users is determined using information from social networking services. Importance ranks calculated from other methods may serve as initial estimates for the user-centric importance ranks. Moreover, a user may acquire more information about a database entry by either communicating with users having experiences with the entry or obtaining information from social networking services. The method improves search relevance and provides more personalized search results. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138663 | System or Apparatus for Finding Influential Users - Embodiments of the invention disclose a method, identifier and a computer program product for identifying influential users among a group of users associated with a communication network. The disclosed method includes selecting two or more ranking models from a plurality of ranking models such that each ranking model provides scores to the users in the group based on a usage data of the users, calculating a weighing factor for each of the selected ranking models, generating an aggregate score for each user using the weighing factor and the score provided by each one of the selected model such that based on the aggregate score, the influential users among the group of users are identified. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138664 | Distributing Personalized Content - The invention provides a method and system for distributing personalized content to potentially large numbers of recipients. A pool is selected, from among all content available for distribution, of those content elements that will be made available for simultaneous distribution, and personalized content is selected for distribution from that pool. The content of the pool can change with new selections over time. For each individual recipient, content elements in the pool are examined to determine if they are predicted to be of sufficient interest to that recipient for distribution, and if so, those content elements are distributed. If not, successive content elements in the pool are examined, relaxing the standard for sufficient interest, until at least one content element is found and distributed to the individual recipient. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138665 | METHODS OF EVALUATING SEMANTIC DIFFERENCES, METHODS OF IDENTIFYING RELATED SETS OF ITEMS IN SEMANTIC SPACES, AND SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME - One aspect of the invention provides a method of evaluating semantic differences between a first item in a first semantic space and a second item in a second semantic space. Thee method includes: calculating a first ordered list of N nearest neighbors of the first item within the first semantic space; calculating a second ordered list of N nearest neighbors of the second item within the second semantic space; and computing a plurality of similarity measures between the first n nearest neighbors of the first item and the first n nearest neighbors of the second item, wherein n and N are positive integers and 1≦n≦N. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138666 | Computer Relational Database Method and System Having Role Based Access Control - A computer method, system and apparatus control access to secured data in a plurality of databases. A repository is coupled to the databases and has a security runtime subsystem. The repository intercepts a user query of a subject database in the plurality. The security runtime subsystem determines from the intercepted query a user and corresponding user role. Based on user role, the security runtime subsystem automatically modifies the user query to filter out secure data for which the identified user is unauthorized to access but are part of the user query. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138667 | System and method for parsing, summarizing and reporting log data - A system and method is disclosed which enables network administrators and the like to quickly analyze the data produced by log-producing devices such as network firewalls and routers. Unlike systems of the prior art, the system disclosed herein automatically parses and summarizes log data before inserting it into one or more databases. This greatly reduces the volume of data stored in the database and permits database queries to be run and reports generated while many types of attempted breaches of network security are still in progress. Database maintenance may also be accomplished automatically by the system to delete or archive old log data. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138668 | SHARED DATA SET WITH USER-SPECIFIC CHANGES - Methods and systems are described for shared data sets with user-specific changes in an on-line services environment. In one embodiment, a method includes, receiving a request for data stored in a shared database from a user, identifying the requesting user, retrieving the requested data from the shared database, determining whether there are user-specific changes for the retrieved data, changing the retrieved data using the user-specific changes, and supplying the requested data to the user. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138669 | SYSTEM AND METHOD EMPLOYING A HIERARCHICAL LOAD FEATURE DATABASE TO IDENTIFY ELECTRIC LOAD TYPES OF DIFFERENT ELECTRIC LOADS - A method identifies electric load types of a plurality of different electric loads. The method includes providing a hierarchical load feature database having a plurality of layers; including with each of a plurality of the layers a corresponding load feature set, the corresponding load feature set of at least one of the layers being different from the corresponding load feature set of at least another one of the layers; including with one of the layers a plurality of different electric load types; sensing a voltage signal and a current signal for each of the different electric loads; determining at least four different load features from the sensed voltage signal and the sensed current signal for a corresponding one of the different electric loads; and identifying by a processor one of the different electric load types by relating the different load features to the hierarchical load feature database. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138670 | AUTOMATIC TAGGING BETWEEN STRUCTURED/UNSTRUCTURED DATA - A system and method for establishing cross-relationships between objects is presented. A primary search is executed on a first object. A set of tagger identifiers is then determined based on the primary search. Each tagger identifier includes an internal instance key and one or more attributes of a match with the first object related to the primary search, and each tagger identifier of the set of tagger identifiers provides data for a secondary search. The secondary search is then executed on each of a secondary object that is tagged by the first object scanned by the primary search, the secondary search using the internal instance key and one or more attributes of the match with the first object. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138671 | AUTOMATICALLY RECOMMENDING ASYNCHRONOUS DISCUSSION FORUM POSTS DURING A REAL-TIME COLLABORATION - An approach for augmenting a real-time collaboration is presented. Content of a real-time collaboration is received. A key word which is included in the content or a theme of the content is determined. A match between the key word or theme of the real-time collaboration content and a theme of post(s) in a threaded discussion forum is determined. Based on the match, a display, on a monitor used for the real-time collaboration, of link(s) to the post(s) is initiated. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138672 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURE A COMPONENT OF THE SYSTEM - A system automatically configures a component of the system from a database operatively associated with the system. The system includes a number of components, each having a module with a unique configuration code and a first communication interface, and a processor. The processor includes a second communication interface structured to communicate with the first communication interface, an interface to the database, and a routine structured to input the unique configuration code from the module, determine if the unique configuration code is in the database, and responsively input configuration information from the database and automatically configure a corresponding one of the number of components with the configuration information. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138673 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an information processing device for extracting a comment having additional information and posted to a program, the information processing device comprising: a program information acquisition unit; a search word determination unit which determines a search word which is a candidate for a term indicating relation between the search word and the program; a comment acquisition unit which searches through comments each having the additional information and already posted, using the search word to acquire a search result as a comment group; a search word relation determination unit which determines whether there is a relation between the search word and the program, using the broadcast time and a time at which each comment included in the comment group is posted; and an input/output unit which outputs information indicating the search result if there is the relation between the search word and the program. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138674 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING APPLICATION BY USING KEYWORD - A system and method for recommending an application by using a keyword. A keyword-based application recommending user terminal includes a keyword extraction unit for extracting a keyword from an application that is running, a recommended application determination unit for determining an application to be recommended to correspond to the extracted keyword and a display unit for displaying the determined application. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138675 | METHOD OF MANAGING PROGRAM FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE - Provided is a method of managing a program for an electric vehicle. The method of managing the program for the electric vehicle include reading metadata of an operating program for an electronic subassembly equipped in an electric vehicle, reading metadata of a parameter corresponding to the operating program, comparing the metadata of the operating program with the metadata of the parameter, and updating the parameter or executing the operating program according to comparison results. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138676 | Anonymity Measuring Device - The invention concerns a data anonymity measuring device for selectively transmitting an anonymized database to a third party comprising: calculation means ( | 2013-05-30 |
20130138677 | System and Process for Connecting Media Content - A system for correlating a user's interests to media content, said system comprising: (a) at least one data store comprising media content data relating to people, works, and tags; (b) a relationship generator configured to generate direct relationships among said people, works and tags; (c) a connection module to generate connections between a primary person, work or tag and a first set of said people, works, and tags, wherein each person, work and tag of said first set has a direct relationship with said primary person, work or tag; and (d) a display module for causing the display of at least a portion of said first set of said people, works and tags. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138678 | FILE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM - The invention provides a file management method and system for managing file retrieval and access. The method operates at the operating system level within a file system of a computer device and allows creating file move links upon detection of a file move request. The file move link associates the file source location with the file target location and is stored within a file move link table of the file system for subsequent file access request. File path to target location is automatically retrieved and file reached transparently for the user. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138679 | Database query optimization and cost estimation - Described are systems and methods relating to database query optimization and query cost estimation. The approach is described in the context of searching balanced and semi-balanced tree indexes such as B-trees, B+ trees, and R-B trees. The described approach may be used for both simple and composite queries, and the described approach may be used for relational queries, i.e., where a variable is less than or greater than a certain value and the database is being used to find the set of records that satisfy the relation. Further, the described approach may be used for generalized N-ary tree queries and cost estimations. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138680 | Intelligent results related to a portion of a search query - Information may be presented to a user by using a first application to receive a character stream of one or more noncompletion characters. The noncompletion characters indicate that additional characters may be received. The character stream is exchanged with a host that analyzes the character stream to generate results that are responsive to the user's predicted interest. Results are received and displayed so that the user may select one of the results to launch a code segment related to the selected result. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138681 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR METADATA DRIVEN PROCESSING OF FEDERATED DATA - A method includes identifying a first set of metadata associated with a database and retrieving the first set of metadata from one or more first memory locations. The method also includes identifying, based on the first set of metadata, a second set of metadata associated with the database and retrieving the second set of metadata from one or more second memory locations. The method further includes combining the first set of metadata and the second set of metadata into a set of combined metadata. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138682 | HIERARCHICAL GRID FOR SPATIAL QUERYING - Techniques are provided for improving performance of spatial queries by defining a grid that divides the domain space into cells, and then using a cell-to-item mapping to determine which items do not have to be individually evaluated against the location criteria of the spatial queries. Based on the cell to which an item belongs, the item may automatically qualify as a match, be automatically disqualified, or require item-specific evaluation. To account for items with size, the query window of a spatial query may be expanded. To limit the degree to which the query window is expanded, a plurality of grids may be established for the domain space, where each grid has differently sized cells, and items are assigned to grids based on the size of the items. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138683 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF AUTOMATIC GENERATION AND EXECUTION OF DATABASE QUERIES - There is thus provided in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention a system for automatically generating and executing database queries, the system including a user interface operative to allow a user to select at least one selected predefined database report from a list of predefined database reports and automatic database query generation functionality operative to automatically generate a database query corresponding to the at least one selected predefined database report, the database query including at least one predefined combinable page. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138684 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING FOR RECOMMENDED MUSIC USING EMOTIONAL INFORMATION OF MUSIC - The present invention relates generally to a method and apparatus for searching for recommended music using the emotional information of music and, more particularly, to a method and apparatus that enable recommended music to be searched for using mixed emotions by extracting emotional values including a valence value and an arousal value from an input search condition when a predetermined search condition is input by a user, extracting an emotion rank combination corresponding to the extracted emotional value information using an emotion model that includes mixed emotions corresponding to the emotional values, searching a music emotion DB for music information corresponding to the emotion rank combination, and outputting a recommended music list based on the results of the search, thus improving the user's satisfaction with the results of the search. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138685 | Automatic Discovery of Popular Landmarks - In one embodiment the present invention is a method for populating and updating a database of images of landmarks including geo-clustering geo-tagged images according to geographic proximity to generate one or more geo-clusters, and visual-clustering the one or more geo-clusters according to image similarity to generate one or more visual clusters. In another embodiment, the present invention is a system for identifying landmarks from digital images, including the following components: a database of geo-tagged images; a landmark database; a geo-clustering module; and a visual clustering module. In other embodiments the present invention may be a method of enhancing user queries to retrieve images of landmarks, or a method of automatically tagging a new digital image with text labels. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138686 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ARRANGING QUERY - An arrangement device includes an acquisition unit, a specifying unit, and a determination unit. The acquisition unit acquires information representing the number of times of communication between queries executed in a plurality of devices in which the plurality of queries are arranged, the query being used for performing processes when data meets set conditions. The specifying unit specifies a set of queries based on the number of times of communication that is represented by the information acquired by the acquisition unit. The determination unit determines to arrange the set of queries specified by the specifying unit in a same device. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138687 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OBSERVING AND ENHANCING COMPLIANCE WITH INSTRUCTION VIA A SOCIAL NETWORK - A method and a system for observing and enhancing compliance with instructions via a social network by a computer system are provided. The method includes the following steps:
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20130138688 | FUZZY DATA OPERATIONS - A method for clustering data elements stored in a data storage system includes reading data elements from the data storage system. Clusters of data elements are formed with each data element being a member of at least one cluster. At least one data element is associated with two or more clusters. Membership of the data element belonging to respective ones of the two or more clusters is represented by a measure of ambiguity. Information is stored in the data storage system to represent the formed clusters. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138689 | SERVER DEVICE, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND MOVEMENT CONTROL METHOD - A specification unit specifies a cycle in which data to be processed by queries is distributed, the queries being arranged at a node and movable between the nodes and performing a processing when the data matches with a set condition. An instruction unit instructs a node as a movement source to move the queries during a period when the data to be processed by the queries to be moved is not distributed on the basis of the specified cycle. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138690 | AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING REUSED MODEL ARTIFACTS IN BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS - The present disclosure involves computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for automatically identifying reused model artifacts in business process models. A computer-implemented method includes identifying a consumable data object associated with a business process model, selecting a search area associated with the business process model to search for a reference to the consumable data object, searching within the selected search area for the at least one reference to the consumable data object, and determining at least one location of at least one data object that refers to the consumable data object. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138691 | CUSTOMIZABLE MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT TOOL - A method, computer system and computer program product for collecting identified items of interest from text result output using a poller. The steps include identifying identified items of interest from a device through highlighting at least one portion of the text result output as data item of interest and recording a location of the at least one highlighted portion of the text result output identified as data items of interest, and at a set time interval accepted from the user, executing the poller, and if at least one data item of interest is present within the text result output, extracting and storing the at least one data item of interest in the repository. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138692 | METHODS FOR SEMANTICS-BASED CITATION-PAIRING INFORMATION - A computer-implemented method of semantically linking, by a computing device, a citing document to a cited document in a corpus of documents includes locating at least one citation present in the citing document, determining a reason-for-citing for at least one citation, and determining a cited-text-area present in the cited document, wherein the cited-text-area corresponds with the reason-for-citing. The method further includes populating a citation entry of a citation-pairing metadata file with a citing-document identifier, a reason-for-citing identifier, a cited-document identifier, and a cited-text-area identifier. The citation-pairing metadata file includes a plurality of citation entries and is stored separately from the citing document and the cited document. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138693 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CONTEXT-BASED OBFUSCATION OF MEDIA - An approach for sharing and/or viewing one or more remixes of content based on the preferences of a user is described. A segmentation platform causes, at least in part, a segmentation of content into one or more segments, wherein the one or more segments are associated with one or more content labels. The segmentation platform also causes, at least in part, a rendering and/or sharing of one or more remixes of the content based, at least in part, on at least one subset of the one or more segments based, at least in part, on profile information, context information, or a combination thereof associated with one or more viewers of the content, one or more owners of the content, one or more sharers of the content. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138694 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CATEGORIES OF WAYMARKS - A computer-implemented system and method for managing categories of waymarks is provided. Waymark records are each associated with a category and maintained on a database. Each waymark record includes metadata associated with at least one variable and one or more attributes specifying a type of the metadata for each variable. Access to the database is provided. A user having access to the database is identified based on a list of authorized users. A request from the user to present one such category and the associated waymark records is received. At least one waymark record from the requested category is processed. Input metadata is received from the user consistent with the variables and the attributes for that waymark record. At least a portion of the metadata is replaced with the input metadata. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138695 | DATABASE VERSIONING SYSTEM - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying one or more rows in a relational database that have each been modified since a first point in time, wherein each of the rows is associated with a respective table in the relational database; for each of the identified rows, updating a respective file in an external representation of the table associated with the row to reflect the modification to the row wherein the respective file is not stored in the database; and creating a first version of the relational database in a version control system using the external representation including one or more of the updated files, wherein the first version of the database comprises one or more files in the version control system. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138696 | METHOD TO BUILD A DOCUMENT SEMANTIC MODEL - The invention relates to processing of data during semantic analysis of text data and building of document semantic models. The method consists of two main steps. In step one, an ontology is extracted from external information sources that contain descriptions of particular domain objects. In step two, the text information in the document is linked to ontology concepts and a document semantic model is built. Electronic resources that may or may not be connected through a hyperlink structure are used as information sources. The technical result is achieved, in particular, by identifying all terms in the document and linking them to ontology concepts, so that each term correlates to one concept (its meaning), and then ranking term meanings by importance to the document. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138697 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA PROVISION - A method and system is provided for the generation of a model to represent at least part of an organisation. The model includes a plurality of items of relevance to the organisation and said items are linked to each other and/or one or more organisation database and/or one or more data sources external to the model so as to be able to generate, in a predefined manner a response to a user request made of the model. Thus user's receive appropriate automated support for their decision processes which is more efficient and allows better informed decisions to be made on the basis of the responses from the model. As the model is generated with reference to the organisation rather than the raw data sources the use of the model is supportive of the organisation work methodology and the responses are at the required level with respect to the decisions are to be made within the organisation. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138698 | IDENTITY INFORMATION DE-IDENTIFICATION DEVICE - De-identification device for automatically configuring a general hierarchy tree of attribute values of identity information. The provided de-identification device quantitatively evaluates the amount of information which is lost when generalizing an attribute value, and can thereby automatically assess priorities between de-identified data and between data that is being de-identified. Information of each person includes attribute values of the person for a plurality of attributes. De-identification is achieved by obfuscating the attribute values, and a structure in which attribute values to be obfuscated are expressed in a tree structure according to the level of obfuscation is called a general hierarchy tree. The disclosed identity information de-identification device achieves automatic configuration by configuring a tree using frequency information of attribute values. By defining a lost information amount metric means, using the general hierarchy tree, in formation amount loss between two de-identified data or between data being de-identified is quantitively assessed. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138699 | MANAGING ADAPTER ASSOCIATION FOR A DATA GRAPH OF DATA OBJECTS - The present invention provides a method, system, and program product for managing adapter association for a data graph of data objects. Specifically, under the present invention, a data graph of data objects is generated (e.g., on a server), and then serialized. In performing the serialization, the data graph is translated into bits. In one embodiment, the bits are communicated to a client over a network, and then translated back into the data graph (i.e., deserialized). An adapter is associated with each of the data objects after the data graph is deserialized. This avoids the “overhead” involved with associating and having active adapters during deserialization. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138700 | ACCESSIBLE AND UPDATEABLE SERVICE RECORDS - A first record of a first component of a service is provided from a memory to a requester of the first component of the service. The first record of the first component of the service is edited using a processor of a computer in accordance with a request from the requester of the first component of the service. A second component of the service is provided in accordance with the edited first record of the first component of the service in the memory. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138701 | ASSERTION MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND REASONING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE ASSERTION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - An assertion management method includes collecting a SameAs assertion from a plurality of assertions; searching the plurality of assertions for any assertion having a first individual of the SameAs assertion as an instance; and creating a new assertion having a second individual of the SameAs assertion as an instance from each found assertion. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138702 | MIGRATION OF DATA FROM A LEGACY SYSTEM - A method and system for translating data to be migrated from an older legacy database to a newer recipient database. A translation table in the older legacy database is updated. The translation table defines one or more recipient data elements in the newer recipient database based upon metadata of the older legacy database. The metadata of the older legacy database describes one or more legacy data fields in the older legacy database. The older legacy database utilizes a first operating system. The newer recipient database utilizes a second operating system. Legacy data elements in the older legacy database are translated to correspond to the one or more recipient data elements in the newer recipient database by utilizing the updated translation table. The legacy data elements translated in the older legacy database are used to migrate the legacy data elements translated from the older legacy database to the newer recipient database. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138703 | OPTIMIZED MEMORY MANAGEMENT FOR CLASS METADATA - A method for managing class metadata in a garbage collected system, including (i) allocating a metaspace to a class loader of a mutator using a memory heap, where the metaspace is configured to store the class metadata generated by the class loader, (ii) storing, in the metaspace, class metadata items associated with classes defined by the class loader, where the class metadata items and the class loader are coterminous, and where all of the class metadata items are identified by a garbage collector as live if any of the class metadata items is reachable by the mutator, (iii) updating a linkset graph during resolution of symbolic links to sumarize cross-metaspace references, and (iv) reclaiming, by the garbage collector based on a pre-determined algorithm using the metaspace, memory locations unreachable by the mutator, where all memory locations allocated to the class metadata items are reclaimed together as a group. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138704 | MANAGING RULE SETS AS WEB SERVICES - Rule sets are managed as a web service. A web service request having at least a body and an endpoint address is received from a client. The endpoint address includes a service description parameter and a parameter identifying a path to a given rule set in a rule set. The body of the web service request is parsed to determine whether the body identifies a first type of method or a second type of method. If a first type of method is identified, a service description file is dynamically generated in a format specified by the service description parameter in the web service request. The service description file is based on the rule set path, information from the rule set database and model data. If a second type of method is identified, the identified rule set is executed. The first type of method may be a GET method while the second type of method may be a POST method. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138705 | STORAGE SYSTEM CONTROLLER, STORAGE SYSTEM, AND ACCESS CONTROL METHOD - A control unit of a storage system controller receives an access command to a first file specifying a first access position in the first file. A storage apparatus stores management information of the first file and management information of each of subfiles obtained by dividing the first file. The management information of the first file contains information associating a data position in the first file and management information of a subfile containning data at the data position. The management information of each of the subfiles contains information associating a data position in the corresponding subfile and a physical storage position. The control unit references the management information of the first file to identify the management information of the subfile containning the data at the first access position, and references the management information of the identified subfile to identify a physical storage position of the first access position. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138706 | Creating a New File for a Dispersed Storage Network - A method begins by a dispersed storage (DS) processing module receiving a file creation request to create a new file from portions of a set of existing files. The method continues with the DS processing module identifying data segments associated with the set of existing files corresponding to the portions of the set of existing files to produce identified data segments and identifying sets of encoded data slices of the identified data segments to produce identified sets of encoded data slices. The method continues with the DS processing module determining addressing information for the identified sets of encoded data slices from existing addressing information of the set of existing files and generating a segment allocation table for the new file based on the addressing information of the identified sets of encoded data slices such that the new file is created without duplication of the portions of the existing files. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138707 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DIGITAL CONTENT - A method and an apparatus for processing digital content arranged in a container file comprising internal file management information are proposed, which allow to perform processing of the digital content with one or more processing nodes with a reduced delay caused by a transmission of the digital content to the one or more processing nodes. After creating placeholder files with the size of the digital content on storage systems associated to the processing nodes, the internal file management information is transmitted from a data repository to the storage systems and stored at locations within the placeholder files specified by the container file format. Subsequently, content elements of the digital content are transmitted from the data repository to the storage systems and stored at their specific locations within the placeholder files. These stored content elements are then processed with the one or more processing nodes. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138708 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS - According to an embodiment, there is provided a document processing apparatus including an electronic file storage unit that stores a plurality of electronic files; an upload time estimation unit that estimates time that will be taken to upload a specified electronic file to a destination if one or more electronic files stored in the electronic file storage unit are selected in a specific destination via a network for performing the upload; and a notification unit that notifies that an allowable time will be exceeded if the time estimated by the upload time estimation unit exceeds a predetermined allowable time. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138709 | Distributed Architecture for Paperwork Imaging - A method provides data files in a data file store of a local domain. The method includes notifying at least a central domain about the data file stored on a local domain. A reference element is provided to the central domain. The reference element indicates the local domain where the data file is stored. Search criteria for data files is transmitted from a destination domain to the central domain to retrieve information about available data files and the local domain. The reference element assigned to the requested data file is sent from the central domain to the destination domain. The data file is requested by submitting the reference element from the destination domain to the local domain. The requested data file is sent from the local domain to the destination domain. The claimed subject matter further relates to system executing the method. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138710 | INDIVIDUAL-SPECIFIC INFORMATION GENERATION APPARATUS AND INDIVIDUAL-SPECIFIC INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD - The generation of individual-specific information having a good reliability and uniqueness is made possible with a little circuit scale. For this purpose, in an individual-specific information generation apparatus, a plurality of digital circuits are in the same circuit configuration. Each of the digital circuits outputs a fixed or a random number output value individually without their output with respect to a certain input being determined unambiguously among the digital circuits. In each of the digital circuit, an order is defined in advance. A random number judgment unit judges whether the output value is a random value or fixed, for each of the plurality of digital circuits. An individual-specific information generation unit generates the individual-specific information based on information of the order defined in the digital circuit judged by the random number judgment unit as having a fixed output value among the plurality of digital circuits and the output value. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138711 | SHARED INTEGER, FLOATING POINT, POLYNOMIAL, AND VECTOR MULTIPLIER - A multiplier for performing multiple types of multiplication including integer, floating point, vector, and polynomial multiplication. The multiplier includes a modified booth encoder within the multiplier and unified circuitry to perform the various types of multiplication. A carry save adder tree is modified to route sum outputs to one part of the tree and to route carry outputs to another part of the tree. The carry save adder tree is also organized into multiple carry save adder trees to perform vector multiplication. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138712 | MINIMUM MEAN SQUARE ERROR PROCESSING - A first systolic array receives an input set of time division multiplexed matrices from a plurality of channel matrices. In a first mode, the first systolic array performs triangularization on the input matrices, producing a first set of matrices, and in a second mode performs back-substitution on the first set, producing a second set of matrices. In a first mode, a second systolic array performs left multiplication on the second set of matrices with the input set of matrices, producing a third set of matrices. In a second mode, the second systolic array performs cross diagonal transposition on the third set of matrices, producing a fourth set of matrices, and performs right multiplication on the second set of matrices with the fourth set of matrices. The first systolic array switches from the first mode to the second mode after the triangularization, and the second systolic array switches from the first mode to the second mode after the left multiplication. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138713 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED DEPLOYMENT OF PROCESSES TO A DISTRIBUTED NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - Certain example embodiments relate to a method for deploying a process to a distributed network environment, the process including a plurality of processing steps to be performed by a plurality of computing components of the distributed network environment, the method including:
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20130138714 | IN-CLOUD CONNECTION FOR CAR MULTIMEDIA - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system to generate a vehicle communication system. The vehicle communication system can determine which devices are within the vehicle. From this determination, the vehicle communication system may create a universal bus and hotspot where applications, data, multimedia information, and resources can be shared both with the vehicle and with the other devices in the vehicle. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138715 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING POTENTIALLY DAMAGING MOTION - Disclosed is a network for determining when a device undergoes potentially damaging motion. The device runs application software that causes a device processor to interrogate at least an accelerometer to determine if a motion threshold that signals potentially damaging motion may have occurred is exceeded. If the threshold is exceeded the device sends motion information to a central server for further processing. The central server processes the motion information to determine if the device underwent potentially damaging motion. If it has, the central server sends an appropriate notification that the device underwent potentially damaging motion. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138716 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ACTIVITY MONITORING AND ANALYSIS - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, detecting an occurrence of an activity by synthesizing sensory data collected at a mobile communication device according to one or more references corresponding to the activity, sharing tracking information associated with the detected occurrence of the activity over a communication network, and presenting feedback information corresponding to the tracking information. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138717 | REMOTE CINE VIEWING OF MEDICAL IMAGES ON A ZERO-CLIENT APPLICATION - Systems and methods for remotely viewing medical images on a client device having a zero-client web application with a buffering module. The zero-client web application receives an image series selection from a user and receives corresponding series details from a web server. The zero-client web application generates an off-screen image array according to the series details. The buffering module outputs image requests based on the series details to a web server. The web server is in communication with a medical image database storing images in a non-web browser compatible format (e.g., DICOM). The buffering module then populates the off-screen image array with converted medical images received from the web server. The zero-client web application further includes an on-screen image and a display module. The display module sequentially sets converted medical images of the off-screen array as the on-screen image to stream the converted medical images. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138718 | DEPLOYMENT OF A DRIVER OR AN APPLICATION ON A CLIENT DEVICE HAVING A WRITE-FILTER - The deployment of a driver or an application on a client device having a write-filter is described. A deployment configuration file is obtained, wherein the deployment configuration file includes a plurality of deployment entries each having information for deployment of one of a driver and an application. A first deployment entry is retrieved from the deployment configuration file, and the deployment configuration file is modified to remove the first deployment entry from the deployment configuration file. The modified deployment configuration file is stored in a location of a memory of the client device that is exempt from a write-filter restriction, wherein the write-filter restriction prohibits a file stored on the client device with the write-filter enabled from persisting across a reboot of the client device. The one of the driver and the application of the first deployment entry is then deployed on the client device while the write-filter is disabled. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138719 | Handling of Cross-System Metadata in a System Landscape with a Hub and Backend-Systems - A system and method for handling of cross-system metadata in a system landscape with a hub and backend systems is presented. Reference metadata that is associated with a first backend system and that refers to metadata of a second backend system is stored in a storage associated with the first backend system, the storage further separately storing backend system metadata that is associated only with the first backend system. Connecting metadata, which establishes a connection between backend system metadata associated with the first backend system and backend system metadata of any other backend system, is stored separately. At | 2013-05-30 |
20130138720 | REPORTING WORK WITH USER PROFILE CONTACTS - User input can be received at a client computing device. The user input can request one or more contacts for a user profile in a work tracking system that is remote from the client computing device. In response to the user input, information on one or more user profile contacts associated with the user profile in the work tracking system can be retrieved. At least one of the user profile contact(s) can be linked with one or more corresponding existing contacts in the client computing device. Work unit information (such as time information) that is associated with one of the user profile contact(s) can be captured in the client computing device and reported to the work tracking system over a computer network. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138721 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FUND VISUALIZATION - A finds comparison tool is provided that includes a presentation tier providing a plurality of interfaces for interacting with a plurality of client applications. The presentation tier allows the client applications to send requests for a plurality of analytics to be performed regarding comparing the performance of one or more funds or portfolios as well allowing mobile-based client applications and web-based client applications to communicate with the funds comparison tool. An application tier processes the requests sent by the client applications by providing the data used by the client applications, storing and retrieving of session data, and an interface for the analytics information captured during sessions so as to allow a visualization of the analytics used in the comparison of the one or more funds or portfolios. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138722 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUSES SYSTEM SUITABLE TO IMPLEMENT AND MODIFY A HIGH DENSITY COMPUTATIONAL BUSINESS LOGIC PROGRAM ONLY ACTING ON THE HIGH DENSITY COMPUTATIONAL BUSINESS LOGIC PROGRAM PLACED IN THE DATABASE SERVER COMPUTER - An information processing apparatuses system including one or more servers and one or more terminal devices connected via web. The system is suitable to implement and modify a high density computational business logic program only acting on said high density computational business logic program placed in the database server. The system includes a database computer server, an application computer server, an http computer server, web application and graphical user interface on the terminal device. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138723 | DYNAMIC BROWSER ICONS - Dynamic icons are made easily available to third-party websites. In one embodiment, a dynamic icon is displayed on a client device, such as a phone, a laptop computer, a desktop computer, etc. The dynamic icon is associated with a third-party website and can have an address of the website associated therewith. The client device can receive information regarding how to update the dynamic icon and such information can be displayed in association with the dynamic icon. If selected, a browser is launched and the address is passed to the browser as an input parameter. The browser can use the address to access the third-party website and display a page of content associated with the website. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138724 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING CUSTOMIZED ADVERTISEMENT/NEWS ON SCALABLE APPLICATION SERVICE SYSTEM - There is provided a method of providing customized advertisement/news in a scalable application service system. The method of providing customized advertisement/news for a scalable application service server includes: substituting an advertisement/news component of existing content with a Scalable Application Description Language (SADL) component to create SADL integrated document; receiving an application request requesting transmission of the existing content, the application request including delivery context about a terminal; applying the delivery content about the terminal to parse the SADL integrated document, thereby creating customized content including customized advertisement/news; and transmitting an application response including the customized content to the terminal. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138725 | Smart Browsing Providers - A web browser program is for execution by a client computer connectable to a plurality of server computers via a computer network. The web browser program automatically reconfigures chrome of a user interface to the web browser program to provide a user access to any one of a plurality of groups of related information. A content display program module is configured to receive content data from a current server computer that is one of the plurality of server computers. The content display program module causes a display, on a content portion of the a display of the client computer, that corresponds to the content data. A chrome display program module is configured to cause a display of chrome on a chrome portion of the client computer display that corresponds to chrome specifiers in a chrome configuration database. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138726 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING USER INTERFACE AND DISPLAY DEVICE THEREOF - Provided is a method for displaying a graphical user interface on a server device and a client device for controlling the server device. The method may include receiving AV data being played in the server device at the client device, receiving a command at the client device to control the server device, generating a first graphical user interface in response to the received command for display on the client device together with the AV data received from the server device, transmitting a control signal corresponding to the command to the server device, and receiving information related to a second graphical user interface displayed on the server device in response to the command. The first graphical user interface may be displayed on the client device before the information related to the second graphical user interface displayed on the server device is received. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138727 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN COMMUNICATION PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SERVER, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - An evaluation regarding an execution of a predetermined application performed by each of other information processing apparatuses is reported to a server, and matchmaking is performed by, when a plurality of information processing apparatuses execute the application together, setting a combination of the information processing apparatuses on the basis of at least the evaluation. Then, each information processing apparatus executes the application together with any of the other information processing apparatuses with which the information processing apparatus has been combined in the matchmaking. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138728 | MOBILE DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A mobile device, a display device and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The mobile device for performing data communication with a display device includes a display module configured to display a current screen including at least one object, a transmission module configured to transmit an image corresponding to the current screen to the display device if mirroring connection with the display device is established, a reception module configured to receive at least one command for controlling a specific object from the display device, and a controller configured to execute the specific object based on the received at least one command. | 2013-05-30 |
20130138729 | SERVER SELECTING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER-EXECUTABLE PROGRAM FOR SERVER SELECTING APPARATUS - A server selecting apparatus which is configured to communicate with at least one image processing apparatus includes: a communication unit configured to communicate with the at least one image processing apparatus; and a control device. The control device is configured to: acquire, via the communication unit, specific function information as to whether the at least one image processing apparatus is capable of executing the processing of a specific function which is a specific image processing function; identify at least one specific-function executable apparatus which is capable of executing the processing of the specific function from among the at least one image processing apparatus, based on the specific function information; and select one image processing apparatus as a specific server, which manages execution information of the specific function with respect to all of the at least one specific-function executable apparatus, from among the at least one specific-function executable apparatus. | 2013-05-30 |