25th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 77 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110153586 | MOBILE SEARCH METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND SEARCH SERVER - A mobile search method and system are provided. The method includes the following steps. receiving, by a local search server, a first search request sent by a client, wherein the first search request carries a search keyword; acquiring a member search engine by selecting from a meta index stored locally according to the search keyword, wherein the meta index stored locally comprises a meta index of the local search server and meta indexes of other search servers; searching a search server at which the member search engine is located; and when the search server at which the member search engine is located is not a local search engine, sending a second search request to the search server at which the member search engine is located, wherein the second search request comprises the search keyword; receiving a search result that is returned by the search server at which the member search engine is located according to the search keyword; and sending the search result to the client. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153587 | INDEXING SYSTEM - This invention relates to an indexing system, and to a method of operating an indexing system, the method comprising receiving a request from a user by way of a receiver module, the request including at least a unique identifier; accessing a database, by way of an association module communicatively coupled to the database and the receiver module, to retrieve at least one Uniform Resource Locator (URL) associated with the unique identifier received from the user, the database storing a plurality of unique identifiers for goods or services and URLs associated with the goods, persons or services; and transmitting the at least one retrieved URL to the user by way of a transmission module communicatively coupled to the association module. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153588 | CREATION OF AD HOC SOCIAL NETWORKS BASED ON ISSUE IDENTIFICATION - An external network is crawled (searched) to identify issues that may exist in the external network. Once an issue is identified, internal networks are crawled to determine one or more experts on the issue. A social network of the one or more experts is created. This way, the experts can quickly address the issue. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153589 | DOCUMENT INDEXING BASED ON CATEGORIZATION AND PRIORITIZATION - Disclosed are methods and systems for improving indexing throughput. The methods and systems involve receiving one or more documents for indexing, categorizing the one or more documents based on a document type, a document size and a processing priority, assigning buckets to the categorized one or more documents according to the document type, the document size and the processing priority and scheduling the buckets for processing based on a document type priority, a bucket type and number of threads available to process the buckets. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153590 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING FOR OPEN API AND GENERATING MASHUP BLOCK SKELETON CODE - The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for searching for an open API and generating a mashup block skeleton code. A method for searching for an open API and generating a mashup block skeleton code includes: storing metadata of web services and open APIs according to an integrated schema; searching for a web service or an open API corresponding to search query input from a user; extracting the metadata necessary to generate the skeleton code of the metadata of the mashup block by using the mapping relationship between the meta data of the searched web service or the searched open API and the metadata of the mashup block; and generating the skeleton code of the metadata of the mashup block by using the extracted metadata. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153591 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING INFORMATION SYSTEM PERFORMANCE BASED ON USAGE PATTERNS - Usage patterns of structure model are utilized to determine a personalized structure model associated with a user. The personalized structure model is constructed such that retrieval of data associated with the personalized structure model is expected to improve performance of retrieving data from the data provider. The personalized structure model may be arranged based on an order of retrieval, based on groups of structure objects that may be retrieved together or the like. The personalized structure model may be a flat structure model to further improve performance of retrieving data from the data provider. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153592 | Dividing A Travel Query Into Sub-Queries - Techniques for dividing a travel query into sub-queries for execution by a travel planning system is described. The techniques can divide the travel query according to some optimization such as by taking query processing difficulty into consideration or loading on the travel planning system. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153593 | EXPLOITING PARTITIONING, GROUPING, AND SORTING IN QUERY OPTIMIZATION - An optimizer uses comprehensive reasoning regarding partitioning, sorting, and grouping properties for query optimization. When optimizing an input query expression, logical exploration generates alternative logical expressions. Physical optimization explores physical operator alternatives for logical operators. Required partitioning, sorting, and grouping properties of inputs to physical operators are determined. Additionally, delivered partitioning, sorting, and grouping properties of outputs from physical operators are determined. In some embodiments, enforcer rules are employed to modify structural property requirements to introduce alternatives for consideration. Property matching identifies valid execution plans in which the delivered partitioning, sorting, and grouping properties satisfy corresponding required partitioning, sorting, and grouping properties. An execution plan having the lowest cost is selected as the optimized execution plan. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153594 | Apparatus and Method for Analyzing Query Optimizer Performance - A method of analyzing the performance of a query optimizer includes identifying an event trigger. A reproduction object characterizing operational parameters of the customer computer at the time of the event trigger is populated. The reproduction object is transported from the customer computer to a test computer. The reproduction object is analyzed at the test computer to characterize the performance of a query optimizer. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153595 | System And Method For Identifying Topics For Short Text Communications - A system and method for identifying topics for short text communications is provided. Tokens are extracted from a short text communication. A query is generated using the extracted tokens. The query is applied to a set of documents. Those documents in the set that match the query are identified as search results. Salient terms associated with each of the search results are identified. A threshold is applied to the identified salient terms. The salient terms that satisfy the threshold are selected as topics for the short text communication. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153596 | Scenario, Call, and Protocol Data Unit Hierarchical Comparator - A system, method and computer program product monitors the operation of a telecommunications network and receives source metadata at a metadata comparator. The source metadata is associated with data captured from a source in a telecommunications network. Target metadata associated with target data is also received at the metadata comparator. The source and target metadata are compared to identify metadata parameters that match or do not match. Bias data is also received at the metadata comparator. The bias data comprises weighting parameters and/or tolerance parameters. The weighting and tolerance parameters correspond to selected metadata parameters. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153597 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONTOLOGY-BASED LOCATION OF EXPERTISE - An expertise locator enables user defined correspondences between experts and respective certain objects. Each object inherits from classes in a hierarchy. Using the correspondences, a locator processor routine finds a candidate expert about a particular subject area. The candidate expert may be in a correspondence with a certain object whose class is a subclass of the particular subject area. Output may display an indication of the candidate expert, relevant expertise per candidate and/or a list of experts per certain object. In the case of the certain objects being topics, the hierarchy is an ontology of the topics. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153598 | Information Processing Apparatus and Method - An information processing apparatus includes a correction unit configured to correct item feature quantities representing, as an item, features of a recommendation target item for which a recommendation process for recommending an item having features resembling those of the recommendation target item is performed by using user preferences representing preferences of a recommendation target user who is a party to whom the item is recommended with respect to the item; a matching unit configured to compare the item feature quantities corrected by the correction unit with the item feature quantities of another item and search for another item having item feature quantities that resemble those of the recommendation target item; and a recommendation unit configured to recommend related items having features resembling those of the recommendation target item on the basis of the result of the matching by the matching unit. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153599 | Meta-Web - In one aspect, a system includes an information server, operable to perform operations comprising: receiving a search query from a user device; receiving search results responsive to the search query from a search engine; determining from a registry that user annotations or other metadata are associated with the received search results; ordering the search results according to their relevance, where the relevance is determined based at least in part on the user annotations or other metadata in the registry; generating a search results page including the ordered search results and an annotation tool, wherein the annotation tool provides functions that allow a user of the user device to provide annotations for a particular search result, and wherein the annotation tool receives annotations provided by the user for later use in generating search results pages; and transmitting the search results page to the user device for presentation. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153600 | METHOD AND WEB PLATFORM FOR BROKERING KNOW-HOW - A method for brokering of know-how in various formats between users on an electronic Web service platform includes the following steps: allowing users access to the electronic Web service platform, requesting registration data from a user on the platform, managing interest area categories, receiving user offers for know-how in at least one interest area category, enabling searches of users for know-how in at least one interest area category, calculating and displaying a rating in respect of offers in at least one interest area category, approving to a selected offer an agreed exchange of know-how and a corresponding transfer of credit points, conveying selected know-how from the provider to the consumer and booking a corresponding transfer of credit points, and accepting and storing a rating given to the provider by the consumer in respect of the transferred know-how, wherein the rating is assigned to the interest area category of the transferred know-how. There is not a general rating for a provider but a rating for skills or know-how in specific interest area categories. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153601 | INFORMATION ANALYSIS APPARATUS, INFORMATION ANALYSIS METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information analysis apparatus | 2011-06-23 |
20110153602 | ADAPTIVE IMAGE BROWSING - A method for browsing a collection of multimedia assets on a soft-copy display comprising: receiving a collection of multimedia assets, each multimedia asset having a set of associated metadata; defining an interest criterion; using a processor to analyze the metadata associated with the multimedia assets and rank the multimedia assets according to the interest criterion; displaying a portion of the multimedia assets on the soft-copy display according to the ranking; interactively user selecting a displayed multimedia asset using a user interface; updating the interest criterion based on the selected multimedia asset; using a processor to determine an updated ranking of the multimedia assets according to the updated interest criterion; and displaying a portion of the multimedia assets on the soft-copy display according to the updated ranking. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153603 | TIME SERIES STORAGE FOR LARGE-SCALE MONITORING SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus are described for collecting and storing large volumes of time series data. For example, such data may comprise metrics gathered from one or more large-scale computing clusters over time. Data are gathered from resources which define aspects of interest in the clusters, such as nodes serving web traffic. The time series data are aggregated into sampling intervals, which measure data points from a resource at successive periods of time. These data points are organized in a database according to the resource and sampling interval. Profiles may also be used to further organize data by the types of metrics gathered. Data are kept in the database during a retention period, after which they may be purged. Each sampling interval may define a different retention period, allowing operating records to stretch far back in time while respecting storage constraints. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153604 | EVENT-LEVEL PARALLEL METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR XML PARSING - Embodiments of techniques and systems for parallel XML parsing are described. An event-level XML parser may include a lightweight events partitioning stage, parallel events parsing stages, and a post-processing stage. The events partition may pick out event boundaries using single-instruction, multiple-data instructions to find occurrences of the “<” character, marking event boundaries. Subsequent checking may be performed to help identify other event boundaries, as well as non-boundary instances of the “<” character. During events parsing, unresolved items, such as namespace resolution or matching of start and end elements, may be recorded in structure metadata. This structure metadata may be used during the subsequent post-processing to perform a check of the XML data. If the XML data is well-formed, individual sub-event streams formed by the events parsing processes may be assembled into a flat result event stream structure. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153605 | System and method for aggregating and curating media content - A method and system for aggregating and curating a plurality of media content pieces. The method including the steps of aggregating a plurality of media content pieces from various sources and curating each of the plurality of media content pieces to determine metadata associated with each of the plurality of media content pieces including an ideology level for each of the media content pieces. Each of the media content pieces and determined metadata are stored in a database. The stored/aggregated media content pieces are then made accessible to a user using a search feature that selects at least one of the plurality of media content pieces based upon metadata stored in the database. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153606 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANAGING METADATA IN ASYMMETRIC DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEM - Provided are an apparatus and a method which can be easily implemented with flexibility enabling distributing all metadata of trees and files in an asymmetric distributed file system. The apparatus includes: a metadata storage unit storing metadata corresponding to a part of partitions of a virtual metadata address space storing metadata for directories and/or files for each of the partitions; and a metadata storage management unit controlling the metadata so that the metadata are stored in the metadata storage unit and manages a master map including information on the part of the partitions. Since all directories and files can be distributed to a plurality of metadata servers without a limitation, it is possible to prevent a load from being concentrated on a predetermined metadata server. Metadata roles of the metadata servers are very simply readjusted and as a result, the load can be easily distributed in a partition level. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153607 | COMMUNITY-DRIVEN APPROACH FOR SOLVING THE TAG SPACE LITTERING PROBLEM - In order to provide an improved tagging-based search method, the method includes one-click actions for searching as well as an “one view” indicator telling the user which search would be the most effective or most important search—by displaying a “search cloud”, called search bag. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153608 | IMPLEMENTING SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE INDUSTRY MODEL REPOSITORY USING SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGIES - A method for implementing topic map meta models of a service oriented architecture (SOA) industry model repository (IMR) comprising a meta model service associated with a physical asset repository. The meta model service includes at least one topic map meta model with data specific to a particular topic or industry vertical included within an information model repository common meta-meta model, and the information model repository common meta-meta model included within a meta-meta-meta model with a topic map based index. The method comprises assigning topics, occurrences and attributes to the at least one topic map meta model with data specific to a particular topic or industry vertical; converting topics of the at least one topic map meta model with data specific to a particular topic or industry vertical into resource description framework triples; and persisting the resource description framework triples into a resource description framework repository. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153609 | SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING CONTENT TOPICALITY, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF - A system for determining content topicality comprises a feature value extracting means which extracts feature values of a plurality of contents from the contents; a content grouping means which compares the feature values of the plurality of contents extracted by the feature value extracting means, obtains identical contents and derived contents created using the contents, both of which are included in the plurality of contents, and groups the identical/derived contents, thereby computing identical/derived content grouping information; and a topicality determining means which totals viewing frequencies of the contents determined to be the identical/derived contents from viewing history information and the identical/derived content grouping information relating to the plurality of contents, computes total viewing frequencies of each of the identical/derived contents, and determines the topicality of the identical/derived contents according to the total viewing frequency. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153610 | TEMPORAL SCOPE TRANSLATION OF META-MODELS USING SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGIES - Implementation of a meta-model service of a service oriented architecture industry model repository into a web ontology language representation of at least one topic map meta-model into a plurality of temporal scope topic map meta-models representing states of the at least one topic map meta-model at different times. The implementation includes assigning topics, occurrences, and attributes from the meta-model service to the at least one topic map meta-model. The topics, occurrences, and attributes are assigned from the at least one topic map meta-model to plurality of temporal scope topic map meta-models. The topics, occurrences, and attributes from the plurality of temporal scope topic map meta-models are converted into resource description framework triples; and the resource description framework triples are persisted into the resource description framework repository. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153611 | EXTRACTING DATA FROM A REPORT DOCUMENT - Disclosed are systems and methods for extracting data from a report document for analysis. A report document is retrieved from a group of report documents. Data present in the report document may include fields and associated metadata. The fields and the associated metadata present in the report are categorized as corresponding data source parameters. The data source parameters are rendered on a user interface, to receive a user definition of a scope for analyzing the data present in the report document. The data source parameters associated with the user definition are qualified to rendered result objects for each associated data source parameter. Based upon the result objects, a query is generated to define the data for analyzing the report document. Based upon a user input to the query, the data present in the report document associated to the query is extracted to generate a multi-dimensional result data. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153612 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CUSTOMIZED APPLICATIONS ON DIFFERENT DEVICES - A method for providing a customized application on different requesting device types of a user is provided. The method enables, firstly, receiving requests made by the user using the different device types over multiple communication channels. Secondly, the method enables assigning a rank to the user based on requests received and one or more rules. Further the method enables determining personalization information based on the ranking. Finally, the method enables rendering a customized application on the different device types based on the personalization information and configuration information stored in a central data repository. The configuration information is related to the application and features thereof based on the user's subscription profile. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153613 | INFORMATION SEARCH APPARATUS AND METHOD USING LOCATIONAL/SOCIETAL RELATION-BASED AUTOMATIC CATEGORY GENERATION - Disclosed herein is an information search method using automatic category generation, which automatically generates a category related to a keyword entered by a user, constructs an ontology for processing menu information based on the searched results, and provides a customized menu suitable for the use of the keyword. More particularly, the present invention relates to an apparatus and method for automatically generating keyword-related categories, which automatically classifies menu information related to the results of search of information using a keyword entered by a user on the basis of locational/societal relations. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153614 | INVENTORY CONTROL SYSTEM PROCESS - The inventory control system process includes storing product information in a database. Location information is also accepted and stored in the database in association with the product information. The system receives a command associated with the database and analyzes the command for an instruction and one or more keywords. Next, the database is searched for one or more products associated with the one or more keywords. A list of products related to the one or more keywords is then displayed. The system then accesses, modifies, retrieves, or deletes database information in response to the instruction. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153615 | DATA CLASSIFIER SYSTEM, DATA CLASSIFIER METHOD AND DATA CLASSIFIER PROGRAM - A data classifier system of the present invention selects a plurality of classifications correlated to data groups so as to output classification axes based on hierarchical classifications and data groups. The data classifier system includes a basic category accumulation means, a classification axis candidate reduction means and a priority calculation means. The basic category accumulation means accumulates classifications serving as basic categories used for desired classifications in advance. The classification axis candidate reduction means selects a plurality of classifications from among classifications descendant from each basic category so as to create classification axis candidates, thus reducing classification axis candidates subjected to calculations based on data quantity of classifications and hierarchical distances of classifications. The priority calculation means calculates priority in displaying classification axis candidates, the number of which is reduced by the classification axis candidate reduction means. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153616 | System and Method for Providing Access to Log Data Files - A system and method for providing a user with efficient access to a log data file. The system takes a computer generated log data file and applies a user defined filter criteria to the log data file. The indexed and filtered log data file is then displayed to the user in an application player where the user can interact with the log data file. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153617 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DESCRIBING AND ORGANIZING IMAGE DATA - The present invention is directed to methods and systems for describing and organizing image data. An analysis system includes a sensor, a processing unit, a machine, a database, and/or a display. The analysis system is connected to an electronic device. The sensor generates sensor data which is imported by the processing unit. The processing unit analyzes the sensor data to determine features of the sensor data such as the subject, the time, the location, the object, the event, and/or the action in the sensor data. The processing unit creates entries for the sensor data in a features index. The processing unit receives a query for an item and uses the features index to determine search results including the item, such as a location and a time of the item. The processing unit can also determine whether a machine has completed its mission using the features in the sensor data. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153618 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING MEDIA ADVERTISING ENTERPRISE DATA - A system and method for managing media advertising enterprise data. An enterprise data management (EDM) module can be configured to include a set of rules at an enterprise level to manage disparate and disconnected records. A scoring function with respect to each record can be computed based on the rules to determine the highest priority. The rules in association with the scoring function can be stored locally in an EDM database. A matching process can then be performed to accurately match similar records regardless of manual input, location, and format of the records in a distributed system. Each record can then be assigned with a parent enterprise advertiser. Such an optimization mechanism can interactively manage and report records at the enterprise level in a simple and efficient manner. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153619 | PERSONALIZED CONTENT LINKS - Content with personalized content links are published at a server. The content and specified content characteristics of the content are received at the server. In addition, potential reader's personalization indicators are received by the server. The content is linked with the specified content characteristics and the potential reader's personalization indicators. The content is then published at the server. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153620 | Method and apparatus for improving the transcription accuracy of speech recognition software - A virtual vocabulary database is provided for use with a with a particular user database as part of a speech recognition system. Vocabulary elements within the virtual database are imported from the user database and are tagged to include numerical data corresponding to the historical use of the vocabulary element within the user database. For each speech input, potential vocabulary element matches from the speech recognition system are provided to the virtual database software which creates virtual sub-vocabularies from the criteria according to predefined criteria templates. The software then applies vocabulary element weighting adjustments according to the virtual sub-vocabulary weightings and applies the adjustment to the default weighting provided by the speech recognition system. The modified weightings are returned with the associated vocabulary elements to the speech engine for selection of an appropriate match to the input speech. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153621 | Program and Syndicated Content Detection - Content from multiple different stations can be divided into segments based on time. Matched segments associated with each station can be identified by comparing content included in a first segment associated with a first station, to content included in a second segment associated with a second station. Syndicated content can be identified and tagged based, at least in part, on a relationship between sequences of matched segments on different stations. Various embodiments also include identifying main sequences associated with each station under consideration, removing some of the main sequences, and consolidating remaining main sequences based on various threshold criteria. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153622 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SOFTWARE FOR DIFFERENTIATING TWO OR MORE DATA SETS HAVING COMMON DATA SET IDENTIFIERS - A method, apparatus and software are disclosed which enables the differentiation of two or more data sets having common data set identifiers. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153623 | Compressing massive relational data - A relational dependency transform is introduced as a way to exploit information redundancy in conditioning data in a relational database for better compressibility. An optimum relational dependency transform of the relational database is first computed. Fields of the relational database are then sorted topologically based on a weighted, directed graph having nodes representing predictor and predictee fields. For each predictee field in the topological order, a transformed field is then computed via the relationship between predictor and predictee in the optimum relational dependency transform. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153624 | DATA MODEL ACCESS CONFIGURATION AND CUSTOMIZATION - Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to publish one or more stored back end data models accessible to a user interface and a development environment; to receive a configuration context; to generate derived model attributes by filtering, according to the configuration context, back end data attributes associated with the stored back end data models; to derive a set of mapping rules based on the derived model attributes; and store the set of mapping rules to be used to direct run-time data model request transformation activity. Further activities may include receiving an end-user request from a displayed user interface, transforming the end-user request into a transformed request according to the stored set of mapping rules, and transmitting the transformed request to one of the stored back end data models. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153625 | RETRIEVAL DEVICE, RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, RETRIEVAL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR RETRIEVING A DOCUMENT FILE STORED IN A STORAGE DEVICE - To provide a retrieval device, a retrieval system, a retrieval method, and a computer program capable of completing retrieval in a short time for presenting a retrieval result of a document file, which satisfies a retrieval condition, to a user having the authority to perform predetermined processing. A retrieval device | 2011-06-23 |
20110153626 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING MAPPING OF DATA OF NETWORK DEVICE - A data mapping device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a system-information collecting unit configured to collect information on any one or more of a transmission device and a reception device connected through a network, a rule extracting unit configured to extract a data mapping rule corresponding to the information from a mapping-rule DB, and a data mapping unit configured to perform a mapping of data input from the transmission device according to the data mapping rule and to transmit the data to the reception device. According to the present invention, it is possible to improve interoperability between devices connected through a network. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153627 | System and Method of Generating Reusable Distance Measures for Data Processing - In one embodiment the present invention includes a computer-implemented method of analyzing data. The method includes storing, by a computer system, a column definition that includes metadata that defines a column. The method further includes generating, by the computer system, a distance measure for the column. The method further includes storing, by the computer system, the distance measure for the column as part of the metadata for the column in the column definition. In this manner, improvements may result in the areas of reuse, delegation, usability, and precalculation. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153628 | PROCESS AND WORKFLOW FOR ENTERPRISE DATA MATCHING - A method and system for managing a media advertising enterprise including process and workflow capabilities for enterprise data matching. An EDM (Enterprise Data Management) module can be configured to include a set of rules at an enterprise level to manage disparate and disconnected records associated with an entity. A number of unmatched and enterprise entities that matches with respect to an active entity can be returned based on a fuzzy logic. A matching process can then be performed to accurately match the active entity and the unmatched entities with respect to a parent enterprise entity. The unmatched entity can be put on hold if additional information is required for performing a right match after assigning the parent enterprise entity. A note can also be added in order to place the unmatched entity on hold. Such an optimization mechanism can interactively manage and report records at the enterprise level in a simple and efficient manner. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153629 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR ALLOCATING DRIVERS AND PASSENGERS SHARING A TRIP - A computer implemented method for allocating drivers and passengers sharing a trip, the method being executed by a trip sharing service, the method comprising:
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20110153630 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENT XPATH PROCESSING - The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for efficient Xpath matching of a document comprising Extensible Markup Language (XML) or JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). A Xpath engine identifies an Xpath expression for processing values in the document, which is represented by a stack of nodes. The device may traverse the stack from top to bottom to match each step of the Xpath expression to a type and name of one or more nodes in the stack. The device may store a flag in each node that matches a step of the Xpath expression. Responsive to encountering a leaf node, the device may trace bottom to top from the leaf node to one or more flagged nodes in the stack and compare each flagged node against a corresponding step of the path expression. Responsive to the tracing of the flagged nodes, the device determines if the path expression is matched. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153631 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING BROKEN LINKS WITHIN A FILE - A method for detecting broken links using a computer coupled to a database is described. A plurality of links including valid links and broken links are embedded within data files stored in the database. The method includes receiving, at the computer, a selection of at least one directory that includes a plurality of data files to be analyzed. The method also includes analyzing all links embedded within the data files stored in the at least one selected directory to detect broken links. The method also includes determining that no other links are embedded within the data files stored in the at least one selected directory and generating a broken link report that includes broken link data for each broken link detected. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153632 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING A CURRENT MEASUREMENT VALUE FOR A GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION TO A MAP OBJECT - An apparatus for allocating a current measurement value for a geographical position to a map object of a geographical map, wherein the current measurement value originates from a series of adjacent measurement values for adjacent geographical positions, having a processor for determining a first probability measure indicating whether the current measurement value can be allocated to a first map object to which at least one adjacent measurement value of the series has already been allocated previously, and for determining a second probability measure indicating whether the current measurement value can be allocated to a second map object having an intersection with the first map object, if the first probability measure indicates that an allocation of the current measurement value to the first map object is unlikely. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153633 | SEARCHING FOR HANDWRITTEN ANNOTATIONS APPEARING A GIVEN DISTANCE FROM DOCUMENT CONTENT - A method of searching a database containing documents with handwritten annotations stored in association with document content is disclosed. The method receives as inputs a handwritten annotation as a handwritten search input and a content element as a content search input. A search is then performed of the database for handwritten annotations in a document matching the handwritten search input and less than a given physical distance from document content equal to the content search input in the document. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153634 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOCATING SERVICES WITHIN PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS - A capability is provided for supporting a service location capability in a peer-to-peer network (P2P), such as a Chord network or other P2P network. In one embodiment, a method for locating a service within a P2P network is provided. The P2P network includes a plurality of nodes, including a target node which performs the method for locating the service within the P2P network. The target node includes a search table including a plurality of entries identifying a respective plurality of nodes of the P2P network. The method includes detecting a request to search for the service within the P2P network and initiating, toward at least one of the nodes of the search table, a service search request. The service search request is a request to identify at least one node of the P2P network that supports the service. The service search request includes information indicative of the service and a search range for use by the node receiving the service search request. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153635 | Interactive Visualization of Sender and Recipient Information In Electronic Communications - An approach is provided that visually distinguishes between entity types in a communication system. A Data store with entities is queried, with entities connected to one another as senders and receivers, resulting in a query result. A node data structure corresponding to each of the entities is created and an edge data structure corresponding to each of the connections between the entities is also created. Nodes corresponding to the node data structures are displayed, along with edges (e.g., connection lines) corresponding to the edge data structures. A user selects one of the nodes that is displayed, and the selected node is visually highlighted. Different types of non-selected nodes are identified based on the selected node. Types of nodes may include sender type nodes, receiver type nodes, and sender/receiver type nodes. The types of identified nodes are highlighted in a manner that visually distinguishes each type from the other types. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153636 | SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE INDUSTRY MODEL REPOSITORY META-MODEL COMPONENT WITH A STANDARD BASED INDEX - A method of searching a service oriented architecture industry model repository comprising a meta model service associated with a physical asset repository, the meta model service comprising: at least one topic map meta model with data specific to a particular topic or industry vertical included within an information model repository common meta-meta model, the information model repository common meta-meta model included within a meta-meta-meta model with a topic map based index. The method comprises: a computer receiving entry of a search term for the service oriented architecture industry model repository; the computer searching the service oriented architecture industry model repository for the search term; and displaying results of the searching of the service oriented architecture industry model repository as a topic map comprising data representing meta model service through a graphical interface. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153637 | INTEGRATED FIREARM INFORMATION SYSTEM - System and method for collecting, storing, and providing information related to firearms. More specifically, an embodiment tracks ownership and/or possession of a firearm from its manufacture onward (i.e., from cradle to grave) between and among registered firearm manufactures, firearm sellers/dealers, individual gun owners, pawn shops, law enforcement agencies, government agencies, and any other entity or individual stakeholder that may own and/or posses the firearm. An embodiment may further authenticate firearm-related transactions, provide notifications to registered users, and enable local and global reports of loss, theft, and/or the use in a crime. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153638 | CONTINUITY AND QUALITY OF ARTISTIC MEDIA COLLECTIONS - A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for generating a playlist is presented. A first media file, which is from an artistic media collection and has at least one feature described by first text data, is added to a playlist. An analytics resource is searched for at least one common feature associated with and shared by the first media file and a second media file from the artistic media collection. The common feature is identified by matching the first text data with second text data, about the second media file, in the analytics resource. In response to at least one common feature being identified for the first and second media files, the second media file is added to the playlist. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153639 | Method and Apparatus for Semantic Just-In-Time-Information-Retrieval - A computer-based method and system for just-in-time semantic information retrieval is disclosed. A user interface detects user interaction with a displayed semantic entity. In response, a search member uses semantic information about the displayed entity and automatically searches for information about the subject entity. The search employs system and/or external knowledge bases and returns highly relevant results and information with increased specificity due to the semantic basis. A sidebar unobtrusively displays to the user the search results initially obtained without user request or demand, i.e., on the user's behalf. The sidebar enables the user to dismiss the search results and to effectively copy or export the search results as desired. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153640 | INDEXING DOCUMENTS USING INTERNAL INDEX SETS - Provided are techniques for retrieving a document that includes for each page an area that is ignored by applications that process the document and that includes a different internal index set associated with each subset of pages of the document, wherein each different internal index set is associated with an area and stores indexes, and wherein each of the indexes consists of a name-value pair. Then, for each page in the document, it is determined whether the page is associated with an internal index set; and, in response to determining that the page is associated with an internal index set, one or more name-value pairs from the internal index set are extracted, wherein each of the one or more name-value pairs provides specific information about the document for use in identifying the document. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153641 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REGULAR EXPRESSION MATCHING WITH MULTI-STRINGS AND INTERVALS - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for matching a regular expression in an input string. A system configured to practice the method first identifies a number of substrings (k) in a regular expression of length (m). The system receives a stream of start states for each of the substrings generated according to a regular expression matching process and receives a stream of end occurrences generated according to a multi-string matching process. The system identifies all instances where an end occurrence of a particular substring matches a positive start state of the particular substring, and enters the instances as positive substring accept states in the regular expression matching process on the input string. In one aspect, the system is much more efficient when (k) is much less than (m). The system can match the regular expression based on a bit offset between the first and second stream. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153642 | Client Relationship Management - Managing a relationship between an organization and clients of the organization based on data stored on a server by the organization includes determining that data stored on the server represents a prospective interaction between a member of the organization and a client of the organization, searching the server for additional data related to the client of the organization, and providing a suggestion for optimizing the interaction to at least the member, the suggestion being based on a logical deduction made from the data representing the interaction and the additional data returned as a result of the searching. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153643 | ANALYZING DATA WITHIN A DATA REPORT - Described are methods and systems related to analyzing data within a data report. The data report, including a result set and metadata associated with the result set is retrieved. The result set is analyzed to identify one or more fields. Dimensions and measures within the result set are inferred. Based upon the inferred dimensions and measures, a user interface element is rendered on a user interface. The user interface element is utilized to define a query. Based upon the query defined in the user interface element, a measure included in the query is aggregated along a dimension included in the query, to create a collection of aggregations. A visual representation of the collection of the aggregations is rendered on the user interface. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153644 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UTILIZING A SCALABLE DATA STRUCTURE - An approach is provided for utilizing a scalable data structure. A query specifying an entity identifier and requested content is received. A search is caused, at least in part, the search based on the entity identifier of a profile index of data structures, each specifying a profile field that is associated with an access control field to yield a search result. Access rights to the requested content are indicated for the entity identifier. The data structures further include the profile field and the access control field. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153645 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING A SELECTIVE LOCATION-BASED INTERACTIVE CAMPAIGN IN A WIRELESS ENVIRONMENT - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are disclosed that facilitate providing and managing location-based interactive campaigns. With respect to facilitating providing location-based interactive campaigns, a geographic location is defined within a virtual fence, and associated with an interactive campaign. Location data identifying a current location of a wireless device is then received and processed to determine whether to include or exclude the wireless device from participating in the interactive campaign based on the current location relative to the defined geographic location. With respect to facilitating the management of location-based interactive campaigns, a configurable campaign profile is stored and configured according to a first configuration. The configurable campaign profile is then reconfigured according to a second configuration in response to receiving an input associated with the configurable campaign profile. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153646 | System And Method For Triaging Of Information Feeds - A system and method for triaging of information feeds is provided. A plurality of information feeds are received. At least one topic is identified from each information feed. At least one topic is presented to a user in topic facet including a plurality of identified topics. A selection of one of the plurality of topics is received from the user. The user interface is updated to display only the feeds that contain the selected topic. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153647 | AUTO-POPULATION OF A TABLE - Automatically generating and/or populating a table is described. In some embodiments, in response to receiving an indication to include data from a set of documents in a table, each of at least a subset of documents included in the set of documents is parsed to identify a set of one or more common elements, a table with a structure derived from at least a subset of the set of common elements is generated, and an entry for each of one or more documents in the set of documents included in the table is populated with data values extracted from the content of that document. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153648 | DYNAMIC TASKING-MASKING SERVER AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY CONFIGURING ADAPTIVE AGENTS FOR PERSISTENT QUERY OF MOBILE APPARATUS - A method for operating a dynamic tasking-masking server comprising a circuit to receive a package of metrics recorded at an adaptive server, coupled to a circuit to search an event register for package elements, coupled to a circuit to generate a replacement profile for transmission to the agent, wherein a circuit is comprises a processor adapted by a program product and storage for data and for instructions to adapt the processor accordingly. An apparatus which either masks or unmasks operations defined in a profile on an adaptive agent or provides a replacement profile to the adaptive agent based on configuration-state recorded and transmitted by a package defined in the last profile and comparison with persistent queries stored in an event register data structure. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153649 | AUTOMATIC SEARCH AND TRANSFER APPARATUS AND AUTOMATIC SEARCH AND TRANSFER SYSTEM - It is an object of the present invention to provide an automatic search and transfer apparatus, in which a condition for finding data that is desired is specified beforehand, and that continuously monitor data created in network-connected computers, automatically collect data that matches the condition, and put the data into a usable state. Herein discloses is an automatic search and transfer apparatus that automatically searches for and transfers data from a computer connected via a network. The apparatus comprising: a keyword input section that inputs a keyword; a search section that searches for data including the keyword and acquires attribute data of concerned data from the computer connected via the network; a reporting section that reports information relating to the concerned data; a reception section that receives the concerned data; and a data storage section that stores the data. The reporting section reports acquisition of the attribute data of the concerned data when the attribute data is acquired, and the reception section starts reception of the concerned data after the reporting section has reported the acquisition of the attribute data of the concerned data. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153650 | COLUMN-BASED DATA MANAGING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND COLUMN-BASED DATA SEARCHING METHOD - Disclosed are a column-based data managing method and apparatus, and a column-based data searching method. The column-based data managing method includes determining whether the size of the column-group data file exceeds a partitioning threshold, dividing the column-group data if the size exceeds the partitioning threshold, and generating divided column-group data files. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153651 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REMOTELY MONITORING TERMINAL - An apparatus for remotely monitoring a terminal is provided which includes an analyzer to map terminal information regarding at least one management target terminal, a collection period, a cycle setting value, or an analysis item, to group the at least one management target terminal, and to store the grouped at least one management target terminal in a form of a profile, a management processor to perform a query for a Management Information Base (MIB) object requested by the at least one management target terminal conforming with a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) standard, and to transmit a value of the returned MIB object to the analyzer, and an output unit to output, from a database, at least one of the analysis item, the analysis period, the terminal information, and an output format. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153652 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING VEHICLE INFORMATION - A method for a vehicle information collecting device installed in a vehicle to transmit vehicle information includes: generating a vehicle information identifier list including a plurality of vehicle information and a plurality of vehicle information identifiers respectively mapped on the plurality of vehicle information; transmitting the vehicle information identifier list to a terminal; receiving a request for transmitting vehicle information corresponding to at least one vehicle information identifier included the vehicle information identifier list from the terminal; and transmitting vehicle information corresponding to the at least one vehicle information identifier to the terminal based on the vehicle information identifier list. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153653 | IMAGE SEARCH USING TEXT-BASED ELEMENTS WITHIN THE CONTENTS OF IMAGES - A mobile device searches for electronic content. The mobile device captures an image from a rendered document, and searches for an electronic version of the image using characteristics of the image and using text within the contents of the image. The mobile device receives a result for the search based upon the image characteristics and the text within the context of the image. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153654 | NATURAL LANGUAGE-BASED TOUR DESTINATION RECOMMENDATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - Disclosed herein is a natural language-based tour destination recommendation apparatus and method. The natural language-based tour destination recommendation apparatus includes a query analysis unit, a tour destination search unit, and a tour destination recommendation and provision unit. The query analysis unit performs linguistic analysis on a user's tour-related query and then extracting query analysis information to be used for figuring out the user's intention from a document index DB. The tour destination search unit searches a tour destination DB for one or more recommended tour destinations using the extracted query analysis information. The tour destination recommendation and provision unit provides the retrieved recommended tour destinations to the user. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153655 | SERVER-SENSOR NETWORK COOPERATIVE SPATIAL QUERY PROCESSING METHOD AND SERVER USING THE SAME - Disclosed herein are a server-sensor network cooperative spatial query processing method and a server using the method. The server-sensor network cooperative spatial query processing method includes the server detecting supplementary information for selecting sensor nodes to be excluded from among a plurality of sensor nodes by performing a preliminary spatial query, before starting a spatial query with the plurality of sensor nodes, and the server requesting the spatial query to the sensor nodes, selected based on the supplementary information, when starting the spatial query with the plurality of sensor nodes. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153656 | USER-REQUEST-INITIATED TRANSMISSION OF DATA FILES - A computer node ( | 2011-06-23 |
20110153657 | FSA EXTENSION ARCHITECTURE FOR PROGRAMMABLE INTELLIGENT SEARCH MEMORY - Memory architecture provides capabilities for high performance content search. The architecture creates an innovative memory that can be programmed with content search rules which are used by the memory to evaluate presented content for matching with the programmed rules. When the content being searched matches any of the rules programmed in the Programmable Intelligent Search Memory (PRISM) action(s) associated with the matched rule(s) are taken. Content search rules comprise of regular expressions which are converted to finite state automata (FSA) and then programmed in PRISM for evaluating content with the search rules. PRISM architecture comprises of a plurality of programmable PRISM Search Engines (PSE), each capable of supporting a predetermined size FSAs. FSA extension architecture is created to extend the predetermined size limit of an FSA supported by PSE, by coupling multiple PSEs together to behave as a composite PSE to support larger FSAs. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153658 | INTEGRATING USER INTERFACES FROM ONE APPLICATION INTO ANOTHER - The invention discloses a system and method for integrating user interfaces (UI) within an application. The invention can be configured to display an UI of a second application within a first application in a manner that the user cannot identify that the second application's UI is displayed on top of a reference window within the first application. The invention can be configured to identify a reference window that is to be replaced by a replacement window of the second application, monitor the reference window, create the replacement window, and align the replacement window over top of the reference window. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153659 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT AND MONITORING OF HEALTHCARE SERVICES - A method of operating a centralized healthcare management system that includes a data translation map database and a central interpolation server computer interconnected to a computer network. The central server references a data translation map database for a desired translation map that enables the central interpolation server to translate data records from a source format to a destination format. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153660 | METHOD OF SEARCHING FOR KEY SEMICONDUCTOR OPERATION WITH RANDOMIZATION FOR WAFER POSITION - A method of searching for the key semiconductor operation with randomization for wafer position, comprising: recording the wafer position and the wafer yields of a plurality of wafer ID respectively corresponding to a plurality of semiconductor operations; establishing a matrix model which describes the matrix set for wafer yields of the plurality of wafer ID; analyzing the matrix model, further computing the matrix set for wafer yields of the wafer ID, thereby acquiring the weightings of the randomized wafer positions in such semiconductor operations; and searching for a key semiconductor operation among the plurality of semiconductor operations; herein, by using a local regression model to estimate the wafer position effect, computing the weighting of the position effect in each semiconductor operation based on the estimated position effect and the randomized wafer yield, higher weighting thereof indicates the key semiconductor operation having greater position effect in the aforementioned semiconductor process. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153661 | NAVIGATION DEVICE AND DATABASE UPDATE PROGRAM - A navigation device that is provided with reference databases that include search databases that are referenced when the navigation device performs a location search for a location on a map, that accepts provided update data, and that performs update processing for the reference databases is provided with a priority processing unit that, in a case where a command to perform the location search is input during the update processing for the reference databases, gives priority to performing the update processing for location data that are stored in the search databases, as well as with a search unit that, after the update processing for the location data is completed by the priority processing unit, is enabled to perform the location search using the updated location data. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153662 | MANAGING QUERIES - Managing queries performed on one or more data sources includes: storing at least a first query in a storage medium; selecting the first query for processing; instructing a query engine to process the first query on a first portion of data in the one or more data sources for a first query interval; receiving result data from the query engine based on processing the first query on the first portion of data; saving a state of the first query in the storage medium after the first query interval; instructing the query engine to process a second query during a second query interval after the first query interval; and instructing the query engine to process the first query on a second portion of data in the one or more data sources during a third query interval after the second query interval. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153663 | RECOMMENDATION ENGINE USING IMPLICIT FEEDBACK OBSERVATIONS - Systems and methods to provide a recommendation engine that uses implicit feedback observations are provided. A particular method includes receiving accessing data comprising a plurality of implicit feedback observations for a plurality of users. The plurality of users includes a first user that requested a recommendation. Each implicit feedback observation is associated with a particular user and a particular item of a plurality of items. The method includes determining a plurality of preference ratings and a plurality of confidence ratings for each user of the plurality of users for each item based on the plurality of implicit feedback observations. The method includes generating a recommendation list of one or more of the plurality of items for the first user based on the plurality of preference ratings and the plurality of confidence ratings. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153664 | Selective Storing of Mining Models for Enabling Interactive Data Mining - Computerized methods, data processing systems, and computer program products for storing of data mining models (DMMs) are provided. A new DMM is created having at least one of the following characteristics: quality and complexity. The new DMM is handled as a candidate for storing in a storage device if a predefined criterion for the characteristics is met. The sum of the sizes of the new DMM and already stored DMMs is determined In response to the sum falling below a storage limit, the new DMM is stored in the storage device. In response to the sum exceeding the storage limit, a decision is taken based on priorities of the DMMs which DMMs to store in the storage device. The priorities depend at least on access frequencies of the DMMs. Upon a data mining request, a corresponding DMM is determined and a user is requested to confirm that data mining is to proceed if quality of the determined DMM does not fulfill a further predefined criterion. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153665 | APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE USING RELATIONSHIP OF ONTOLOGY AND METHOD THEREOF - Provided are an apparatus for providing a social network service using the relationship of ontology and a method thereof. The apparatus includes: an ontology storage unit storing social ontology defining relationship information between a user and a social network subscriber, service ontology defining position and relationship information of services, and tag ontology defining tag information related to information included in the social ontology and the service ontology; when a service request is inputted from the user, an ontology analysis unit retrieving a tag corresponding to the user's current position and the service request factor by using the relationship of the ontologies stored in the ontology storage unit; a service processing unit extracting the corresponding service on the basis of the retrieved tag information; and a service providing unit providing the user with the extracted service. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153666 | QUERY-BASED TREE FORMATION - The structuring of data items in a hierarchical structure. A user interface permits a user to define, for each generation of a hierarchical tree, the child characteristics for child data items of particular nodes in the hierarchical tree. Then, a query, or a query template, may be formulated using the child characteristic and the designated parent data item. This may be repeatedly performed to allow for multiple generations of data items to be formed. The query may, at some point, be submitted to identify which data items are child data items or the parent data item. The data items that result from the query (or at least a portion of the data items) may then be assigned as child data items of the parent data item. The query may be postponed until the node is expanded by the user. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153667 | MANAGING RECORD FORMAT INFORMATION - Data is prepared for processing in a data processing system using format information. Data is received that includes records that have values for fields over an input device or port. A target record format for processing the data is determined. Multiple records are analyzed according to validation tests to determine whether the data matches candidate record formats. Each candidate record format specifies a format for each field, and each validation test corresponds to at least one candidate record format. In response to receiving results of the validation tests, the target record format is associated with the data based on at least one of: a candidate record format for which at least a partial match was determined according to at least one validation test, a parsed record format selected according to a data type associated with the data, and a constructed record format generated from an analysis of data characteristics. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153668 | ACCESSING A DATA ITEM STORED IN AN UNAVAILABLE MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method of retrieving a data item from a database synchronized with the contents of an unavailable mobile communication device. The owner of the unavailable mobile communication device uses a telephone such as a landline telephone, a cell phone or a VoIP telephone to call the number of the unavailable communication device. That is the owner calls his own telephone number. A server with access to the database provides the caller with options to retrieve the data item, which can be a contact name, a telephone number, an address, an email message, etc. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153669 | ONLINE DATING WITH PRIVATE SUPPORT GROUPS - Various embodiments of computer systems, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for sharing information in an online dating platform. One embodiment is an online dating computer system comprising a server, an online dating matching component, and a dater support component. The server is configured to communicate with one or more computing devices via a communication network. The server comprises a processor and a memory. The online dating matching component and the dater support component are embodied in the memory and executed by the processor. The online dating matching component is configured to provide a matching service for online dater data and further configured to enable communications among online dater profiles established in memory. The dater support component is configured to provide dating assistance to profiles of online daters, via the online dating computer system, from messages originating from a dater support group associated with the online dater, the dater support group comprising one or more invited supporters. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153670 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DYNAMIC FIELD-LEVEL ACCESS CONTROL IN A WIKI - A method, system, and computer program product for dynamic field-level access control in a Wiki. The method comprises: inserting a virtual field in a Wiki using delimiters; and assigning sole ownership of the virtual field to a user who first inserts the virtual field, where the owner of the virtual field controls access to the virtual field using at least one access control list. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153671 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a creation unit and a registration unit. The creation unit acquires first limited use information which is associated with a designated object and stored in an object storage unit from the object storage unit in accordance with an instruction to specify the designated object, and creates second limited use information containing information indicated by the acquired first limited use information and described in a different form from the acquired first limited use information. The registration unit registers the second limited use information created by the creation unit in a second limited use storage unit. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153672 | Systems and Methods for Freezing Data - In one embodiment the present invention includes a computer-implemented for determining whether or not a data object is frozen. The method comprises accessing, by a user on a computer, a first data object of a plurality of data objects in one or more computer software applications. The plurality of data objects are assigned to a plurality of entities, where each entity specifies a category, and each of the plurality of data objects belong to a specific entity. The method determines if the first data object is frozen based on a relationship between the first entity and a second entity. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153673 | SEMANTIC MATCHING USING PREDICATE-ARGUMENT STRUCTURE - The invention relates to topic classification systems in which text intervals are represented as proposition trees. Free-text queries and candidate responses are transformed into proposition trees, and a particular candidate response can be matched to a free-text query by transforming the proposition trees of the free-text query into the proposition trees of the candidate responses. Because proposition trees are able to capture semantic information of text intervals, the topic classification system accounts for the relative importance of topic words, for paraphrases and re-wordings, and for omissions and additions. Redundancy of two text intervals can also be identified. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153674 | DATA STORAGE INCLUDING STORING OF PAGE IDENTITY AND LOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PAGES - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media of data storage that include storing page identities of individual pages and logical relationships between pages are disclosed. A particular system includes a plurality of data storage devices. A storage manager is configured to store data as pages at the data storage devices. Each page includes a page payload and a page identity. The storage manager is also configured to store one or more relationships indicating logical order between pages. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153675 | COMMON CONNECTION DEFINITIONS FOR DATABASE CLIENTS - A system and method for connection of an application program to its corresponding database in a relational database system environment. Rather than embedding connection configuration information or properties in an application program, connection configurations are stored in a connection configuration repository. The connection configuration repository is likewise stored in a database within the relational database system environment. The connection configuration information stored in the configuration repository may be updated, revised, deleted or assembled into groups/subgroups, without affecting the application programs. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153676 | MOBILE RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A mobile recommendation system for an exhibition space is provided. The mobile recommendation system includes a wireless communication module, a tracking module, a preference correlation module, and a recommendation module. The wireless communication module receives location information corresponding to a plurality of users. The tracking module stores the location information and generates a plurality of track records corresponding to the users according to the location information. The preference correlation module generates track correlation information between the users and the track records according to the track records. The recommendation module generates a recommendation list according to the track correlation information. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153677 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING INDEX INFORMATION OF HIGH-DIMENSIONAL DATA - Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for managing the index information of high-dimensional data. The apparatus for managing the index information of high-dimensional data includes a plurality of data service devices and a control unit. Each of the plurality of data service devices is configured such that user data and index information used to search the user data are allocated thereto. The control unit is configured to extract high-dimensional index data from a large amount of input data and to allocate the extracted index data to the plurality of data service devices by mapping the extracted index data to the plurality of data service devices as the index information. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153678 | CONFIGURATION INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, CONFIGURATION INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE - A system includes FCMDBs managing IPROP among attribute information from MDRs managing the attribute information of each configuration type regarding a CI. The DCMDB includes a determining unit that, when a CI registration request is detected, determines whether multiple types of IPROP are contained in the request; an entity ID collector that, when the request contains multiple types, collects, from each FCMDB, an entity ID of the IPROP and an entity ID of other registered IPROP; an adding unit that, when all types of entity IDs of the same CI are collected, adds a common entity ID of the same CI to all types of IPROP regarding the same CI; and a reconciliation register that distributes the data obtained by federating all types of entity data regarding the same CI to the DCMDBs that relate to the common entity ID and registers the federated data in the DCMDBs. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153679 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO FOR IMPLEMENTING UNIQUE PRIMARY KEYS ACROSS ENTERPRISE DATABASES - A method and system for implementing virtual primary keys in databases of an enterprise network system includes generating virtual primary keys indexed to respective native primary keys. An enterprise application may reference a virtual primary key in a database query. The virtual primary key may be translated to a native primary key for a database that the database query was intended for. The translated database query may be sent to the database. The query response may be translated from the native primary key to the virtual primary key, before sending back to the enterprise application. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153680 | AUTOMATED DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION AND ROUTING - A system for classifying documents receives parsable data that defines an information object associated with a document. The information object defines an ID and document characterization information. The system determines a database record associated with the ID by searching through a database for a record associated with the Id. The system stores at least some of the document characterization information in the record. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153681 | Updating IP address database based on transaction information - Updating an Internet Protocol (IP) address database includes: obtaining transaction address data from a transaction information database, the transaction address data including IP address information and geographical address information received during user transactions; processing the transaction address data to identify specific transaction address data that have overlapping geographical address information and contiguous IP addresses; and updating the IP address database according to the overlapping geographical address information and the contiguous IP addresses. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153682 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING MEDIA-EXCHANGEABLE MULTIMEDIA DATA AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONSTRUCTING MEDIA-EXCHANGEABLE MULTIMEDIA DATA - A method of generating multimedia data is provided. The method includes generating a scene tree by allocating at least one piece of object information to each of a plurality of nodes and then linking the nodes based on the relationship between a plurality of pieces of object information allocated to the nodes, adding a null node to which the object information of an exchangeable media object is allocated, and thereafter recording the null node in a scene descriptor area in a scene description language. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153683 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF DATA - A computer-implemented method for generating visual representations of data. The method aggregates data from multiple data sources, where the data sources are organized in multiple data formats. The data is converted to a predetermined format and stored in a centralized database. The data is analyzed by associating data elements and analysis outputs with geographical factors. The method generates visual representations of the analyzed data based on one or more parameters. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153684 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC PROVISIONING OF A USER DESIGNED VIRTUAL PRIVATE DATA CENTER IN A MULTI-TENANT SYSTEM - Systems and methods for a multi-tenant and fully automated Virtual Private Data Center (VPDC) provisioning. Examples include user interfaces for drag-and-drop configuration of a customer/user/tenant's network, validation checks on design choices, and automated provisioning of validated designs. The tenant may specify certain Quality of Service (QoS) choices along with the design structure, and various physical components and partitions of available and/or shared resources may be provisioned automatically for the tenant/customer. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153685 | ENTERPRISE MULTI-PROGRAM PROCESS DEVELOPMENT AND INTEGRATION PROCESS - Tools and methods allow an enterprise to define a set of processes and create scenarios which link and integrate combinations of processes. In addition, both processes and scenarios can be categorized, enabling re-use of existing definitions and easing subsequent scenario building. Processes and scenarios both allow variations which are stipulated to have a certain applicability in terms of organizations within the enterprise and time-frame. The variations can be evolved and improved over time via versions. Subsequently designed process scenarios can be tested and released for use in an organization and used to drive work planning, initiation and status reporting. | 2011-06-23 |