36th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 48 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110218921 | NOTIFY/INQUIRE FULFILLMENT SYSTEMS BEFORE PROCESSING CHANGE REQUESTS FOR ADJUSTING LONG RUNNING ORDER MANAGEMENT FULFILLMENT PROCESSES IN A DISTRIBUTED ORDER ORCHESTRATION SYSTEM - A computer-readable medium, computer-implemented method, and system are provided. In one embodiment, an executable process is executed, and a change request is received. A fulfillment system is inquired with as to whether the fulfillment system will accept the change request. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218922 | COST OF CHANGE FOR ADJUSTING LONG RUNNING ORDER MANAGEMENT FULFILLMENT PROCESSES FOR A DISTRIBUTED ORDER ORCHESTRATION SYTEM - A computer-readable medium, computer-implemented method, and system are provided. In one embodiment, a business process is created, and a cost of change value for the business process is defined. An executable process that is generated from the business process is executed, and a change request is received. It is determined whether the cost of change value is greater than a threshold value, and, when the cost of change value is not greater than the threshold value, the change request is initiated. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218923 | TASK LAYER SERVICE PATTERNS FOR ADJUSTING LONG RUNNING ORDER MANAGEMENT FULFILLMENT PROCESSES FOR A DISTRIBUTED ORDER ORCHESTRATION SYSTEM - A computer-readable medium, computer-implemented method, and system are provided. In one embodiment, a task layer service pattern is created, and a task layer service is created from the task layer service pattern. The task layer service is assigned to a step of an executable process, and the step of the executable process is executed. The task layer service is executed in order to invoke a fulfillment service. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218924 | DISTRIBUTED ORDER ORCHESTRATION SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING LONG RUNNING ORDER MANAGEMENT FULFILLMENT PROCESSES WITH DELTA ATTRIBUTES - A computer-readable medium, computer-implemented method, and system are provided. In one embodiment, one or more attributes as delta attributes are defined, and a new order object is determined which references an original order object. The original order object referenced by the new order object is determined and the new order object is compared with the original order object to determine one or more delta attributes. The one or more delta attributes are then stored. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218925 | CHANGE MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK IN DISTRIBUTED ORDER ORCHESTRATION SYSTEM - A computer-readable medium, computer-implemented method, and system are provided. In one embodiment, an original executable process is executed in a regular mode. When a change request is received, the original executable process is stopped, and a new executable process is created. The new executable process is then executed in a change mode. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218926 | SAVING ORDER PROCESS STATE FOR ADJUSTING LONG RUNNING ORDER MANAGEMENT FULFILLMENT PROCESSES IN A DISTRIBUTED ORDER ORCHESTRATION SYSTEM - A computer-readable medium, computer-implemented method, and system are provided to save a state of an executable process. In one embodiment, an executable process is executed. At a milestone, a state of the executable process is saved. Subsequently, the executable process continues to be executed. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218927 | COMPENSATION PATTERNS FOR ADJUSTING LONG RUNNING ORDER MANAGEMENT FULFILLMENT PROCESSES IN AN DISTRIBUTED ORDER ORCHESTRATION SYSTEM - A computer-readable medium, computer-implemented method, and system are provided. In one embodiment, a compensation pattern is defined for a step of an executable process, and the step of the executable process is executed. A change request is received, and, based on the change request, the compensation pattern is applied to the step of the executable process. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218928 | AUTOMATED LICENSE DETERMINATION - Described herein are methods and systems for automated license determination. In one aspect, an interface repository comprises a set of data schemas defining a license determination rule structure for all available control regulations offered by data providers. In another aspect, license determination rules for a certain product may be automatically extracted from the interface repository. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218929 | REAL ESTATE DISCLOSURE REPORTING METHOD - A real estate disclosure reporting method identifies a subject property, accesses an insurance claim database, determines from the database whether an insurance claim has been filed for the subject property and generates a report regarding the subject property and the insurance claim. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218930 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING AND OBTAINING VALIDATED CUSTOMER FEEDBACK INFORMATION - Systems and methods for providing validated customer feedback information about a service provider. Generally, the method includes providing a customer with a digital ratings device, such as digital pen, that is capable of receiving feedback information from the customer and uploading the information to a third-party provider. As the customer uses the digital ratings device to provide the information, the device may associate the information with temporal data, such as the time, date, and location at which the customer provided the information. In some cases, the temporal data is checked to ensure that the customer is actually one of the provider's customers. Because the information is validated as coming from a verified customer, the information is often more reliable than it would be if it were submitted anonymously. Thus, the validated information may present a substantially fair representation of the provider and be useful to potential customers. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218931 | Notifications in a Social Network Service - Notification techniques in a social network service are described. In an implementation, a status update is analyzed that is communicated via a social network service and is originated by a user. One or more other status updates are located that correspond to the analyzed status update, the one or more other status updates are communicated via the social network service and originated by one or more other users. A notification is formed to be communicated to the originating user that indicates the one or more other status updates have been located. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218932 | System and Method for Interactively Entering Data Into the Database - A system and method for facilitating the accurate entry of information into a highly structured database by initially extracting information from a plurality of nonuniformly formatted source data streams, e.g., documents/files, and subsequent interactions with users before storing the accepted and/or modified information into the database. Embodiments of the present invention provide an interactive path for each user (e.g., the author of the source document/file) to interactively modify the extracted data, e.g., according to the source document/file. Preferably, this interactive path is provided via the Internet and the extracted information can be modified by editing and/or selectively copying portions of the source documents/files to supplement and/or modify the extracted information. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218933 | Method and Apparatus for Managing Mobile Storage - A computer system for managing and operating a mobile storage business includes a centralized database that stores route information for a plurality of drivers and routes. A mobile computer device can be used by a driver or mobile storage representative to communicate with the database. The device can be used to display route information relating to the delivery or pickup of a portable storage container and to transmit to the database the signature of the customer, comments relating to the task, images relating to the task and location associated with the container identifier. The mobile computer device includes a scanner for capturing the container identification and a global positioning system capability for capturing the location associated with the container and the location of the mobile computer device. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218934 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR COMPARING REAL PROPERTIES FOR PURCHASE AND FOR GENERATING HEAT MAPS TO AID IN IDENTIFYING PRICE ANOMALIES OF SUCH REAL PROPERTIES - Computer systems and methods enable an individual to import information related to real property units under consideration for purchase from a list of available real property units available for sale and to compare the real property units. The computer system calculates flip and rental based income for the imported real property units under consideration for purchase and displays for comparison the real property units available for-sale or for-rent. The system further allows the individual to load the information relating to selected real property units for purchase or for rent into a simulator to predict future financial performance of the real property units. The computer based methods and systems also represent each real property unit available for sale and/or for rent by a pixel on a geographic map, and calculates and displays heat maps for each of the real property unit that use a plurality of colors to signify the value of a parameter (e.g., rental value, sale price, or expected monthly profit) at various points in a spectrum on the geographic map include the real property unit. The “heat map” helps guide the user to the identify real property units with higher rental value and expected monthly profits, and lower housing prices. In addition, the systems and methods identify anomaly real property units that have prices and/or rental values that do not comport with a surrounding region in a given area or a heat map. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218935 | MINIMIZING SECURITY HOLDINGS RISK DURING PORTFOLIO TRADING - A method and computer program product for minimizing short-term risk to a portfolio of securities holdings during implementation of executing an outstanding trade list of securities to be traded, takes into account covariances between securities in the outstanding trade list and between securities in the outstanding trade list and securities in the portfolio of holdings so as to minimize risk to the portfolio of holdings as well as to a residual trade list of unexecuted orders during said implementation. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218936 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING DATA RELATED TO A DEFERRED ANNUITY WITH AVAILABLE BENEFIT PAYMENTS AND A DEFERRAL BONUS - A computer implemented data processing system and method administers a deferred variable annuity contract during the accumulation phase for a relevant life. The annuity contract has a payment base value, a contract value, and benefit payments. A maximum annual benefit payment withdrawal amount available without reducing the payment base value is calculated by multiplying the payment base value by a factor including a deferral bonus percent, which is a function of a number of years deferred by the relevant life until taking a first lifetime benefit payment. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218937 | System and Methods for Management of Real Property - Computer systems and methods enable an individual to simulate real estate/financial transactions over time, provide accounting and cash flow management for management of real estate investments, and track property values for rental properties taking into account tenant creditworthiness (tenant credit score) and the like. The computer system calculates a tenant reliability score (TRS) that can be used when an individual real estate investor is contemplating whether to enter into a lease with a tenant. A lower TRS would alert the landlord that the tenant may not be a good risk which would decrease the expected future value of rental property. A simulator preferably incorporates the TRS into cash flow projections such that the investor could compare different potential tenants and. Financial tracking modules enable the real estate investor to track the equity value of his or her real estate investments, cash flow, and to provide data useful for buy/sell decisions. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218938 | SYSTEM FOR SELECTING AN OPTIMAL SAMPLE SET OF JOBS FOR DETERMINING PRICE MODELS FOR A PRINT MARKET PORT - A system for determining price models of a print market port including a processor and a computer-readable storage medium in communication with said processor, wherein the computer-readable storage medium comprises one or more programming instructions for: partitioning a job dataset into a plurality of categories, each of the plurality of categories having a pricing model; determining one or more factors within the job dataset that influence a price of each job; developing an input/output model for each job in the job dataset that influences the price of the job; performing an iteration to compute a prediction error for each job in the job dataset that influences the price of the job; removing one or more jobs from a subsequent iteration that include prediction errors that exceed a prediction error threshold; and performing a plurality of iterations on remaining jobs until a predetermined average error prediction is reached. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218939 | TRANSLATION SUPPORT APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A translation support apparatus manages a series of processes related to a translation work of an original text and a proofreading work of a translation. A payable translation fee may be calculated by subtracting a reduction fee calculated based on a proofread record and a reduction fee table from a prescribed translation fee calculated based on the translation and a prescribed translation fee table. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218940 | Parking Meter System - A parking system uses a three-dimensional magnetic field sensor as part of a vehicle detector to monitor plural parking spaces. The detector is calibrated to detect the presence or absence of a vehicle in each of the monitored spaces. The status of each space is communicated to a central controller. A pay station communicates with a central controller when a parking interval has been purchased. The controller may warn customers when the interval is about to expire and law enforcement when it has expired. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218941 | METHOD FOR ASSESSING THE DAMAGE OF KERATIN FIBERS - Method for assessing damages of keratin fibers using color measurements and area measurements. Said methods are useful for assessing the degree of damages of keratin fibers and also to compare the damages of fibers of different origin, different portions of fibers and/or fibers treated with different cosmetic, chemical and/or mechanical treatments. Said methods are also useful for supporting advertising claims about the efficacy of a treatment. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218942 | METHOD OF DISSEMINATING ADVERTISING INFORMATION VIA SHOPPING CART SECURING STRUCTURES - Cart securing structures are provided for securing shopping carts. In one embodiment, the structures include a body having a pair of spaced stops with an intermediate trough. In use, the wheels of the cart are rolled along an upwardly extending face of one of the stops, over the stop and into the trough between the stops. In one embodiment, advertising is located on the surfaces of one or more of the stops. In one embodiment, an electronic display is located on one of the faces of the structure and a control system is provided for presenting advertising and other information using the display. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218943 | Hand/surface-sanitizing kiosk with ad space - A vertical elongated kiosk with a floor-engaging portion is equipped with a handle and optional wheels adjacent a rear surface to facilitate is mobility. A deck region has a dispenser which may include a spout from which hand/surface sanitizer is dispensed in response to a motion sensor. Electrical power is provided alternatively by a storage battery which may be recharged by a solar panel or an ac outlet plug. A wireless receiver/transmitter communicates with a remote base computer to control and monitor the operation of the kiosk. Informational displays, both video and placard, can be accommodated and a business card dispenser provided. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218944 | Distributed-Type Markov Chain Monte Carlo - Implementations and techniques for distributed-type Markov chain Monte Carlo are generally disclosed. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218945 | TRAINING WITH COMPLEX EVENT PROCESSING ENGINE TO IDENTIFY SEMANTIC MEANING OF VIRTUAL WORLD OBJECT STATE CHANGES - Techniques for training a system to identify state changes in objects in virtual worlds. Base events transmitted by a virtual world engine are observed. Statistical analysis of the observed base events is performed. Based at least in part on this statistical analysis, a computer processor determines that a group of one or more of the observed base events is correlated to a first identified higher-level event. Optionally, the determination is based in part on a frequency of occurrence of the group of base events, on generated rules, or both. A candidate higher-level event including the group of base events thus determined is stored. User input is received about the candidate higher-level event. If so specified by the received user input, the candidate higher-level event is stored as a second identified higher-level event. As a result, the system is advantageously trained to identify higher-level events which represent abstract situations. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218946 | PRESENTING CONTENT ITEMS USING TOPICAL RELEVANCE AND TRENDING POPULARITY - A user may request a presentation of a content item set, such as a social network comprising a set of status messages or an image database comprising a set of images. However, the volume and diversity of content items of the content item set may reduce the interest of the user in the presented content items. The potential interest of the user in the presented content items may be improved by selecting content items that are associated with one or more topics of potential interest to the user, and having a positive trending popularity among users of the content item set. Moreover, the interaction of the user with a presented content item may be monitored and used to determine the interest of the user in the topics associated with the presented content item and the popularity of the content item. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218947 | ONTOLOGICAL CATEGORIZATION OF QUESTION CONCEPTS FROM DOCUMENT SUMMARIES - Electronic documents are analyzed to identify assertions, which are inverted to generate questions that may be answered by the assertions. A document or a corpus of electronic documents may be analyzed to identify entities and relationships among entities within the text of the document(s). Assertions are identified based on the entities and relationships among the entities. Each assertion represents a fact about an entity, and a group of assertions represents a summary of the document or document corpus. The assertions are inverted to generate questions that may be answered by the assertions. The questions may be further analyzed to identify relevant concepts and topics and to cluster the questions around the concepts and topics. A combined graph may also be generated that facilitates traversal among topics, concepts, questions, assertions, document summaries, and documents. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218948 | METHODS FOR DETECTING SPAMMERS AND CONTENT PROMOTERS IN ONLINE VIDEO SOCIAL NETWORKS - The present invention relates to a method for detecting video spammers and promoters in online video social systems. Using attributes based on the user's profile, the user's social behavior in the system, and the videos posted by the user as well as the target (responded) videos, the feasibility of applying a supervised learning method to identify polluters (spammers and promoters) is investigated. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218949 | METHOD OF OPTIMIZING DATA TRAINING IN SYSTEM INCLUDING MEMORY DEVICES - In one embodiment, a method of performing data training in a system including a memory controller and at least a first memory device including a group of memory banks is disclosed. The method includes providing a plurality of enabling states for the group of memory banks, wherein each enabling state is different and for each enabling state a set of the memory banks of the group is enabled and any remaining of the memory banks of the group are not enabled. The method further includes performing a first data training procedure that includes a series of first data training operations for the first memory device, each data training operation being performed for a different one of the plurality of enabling states, generating a noise profile based on the series of first data training operations, statistically analyzing the noise profile to select a reference enabling state of the group of memory banks, and performing a second data training procedure for the first memory device using the reference enabling state. As a result, the operating speed and reliability of the system including the memory device may be improved. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218950 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-ACCESSIBLE MEDIUM FOR CLASSIFICATION OF AT LEAST ONE ICTAL STATE - An exemplary methodology, procedure, system, method and computer-accessible medium can be provided for receiving physiological data for the subject, extracting one or more patterns of features from the physiological data, and classifying the at least one state of the subject using a spatial structure and a temporal structure of the one or more patterns of features, wherein at least one of the at least one state is an ictal state. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218951 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PUSHING DATA TO A MOBILE DEVICE - A method for handling information requests from mobile devices includes a memory, a state prediction module, and a push module. The memory is operable to store data requests received from the mobile devices. The state prediction module is operable to access the memory to predict forecasted data requests for a mobile device based on the stored data requests. The push module is operable to receive the forecasted data requests from the state prediction module and in response request and receive response data related to the forecasted data requests and prepare the response data for transmission to the mobile device over a wireless network. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218952 | SOUND IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS - We describe a digital sound identification system, the system comprising: non-volatile memory for storing a Markov model; stored program memory storing processor control code; a sound data input; a processor coupled to said sound data input, to said working memory, and to said stored program memory for executing said processor control code, and wherein said processor control code comprises code to: input, from said sound data input, first sample sound data for a first sound to be identified, said first sample sound data defining first sample frequency domain data, said first sample frequency domain data defining an energy of said first sample in a plurality of frequency ranges; generate a first set of mean and variance values for at least a first Markov model of said first sample sound from said first sample frequency domain data; store said first Markov model in said non-volatile memory; input interference sound data defining interference frequency domain data; adjust said mean and variance values of said first Markov model using said interference frequency domain data; input third sound data defining third sound frequency domain data; determine a probability of said third sound frequency domain data fitting at least said first Markov model; and output sound identification data dependent on said probability. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218953 | DESIGN OF SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVED HUMAN INTERACTION - A method for evaluating a human interface of a system for appropriate allocation of design guidance including establishing guidelines for avoiding sensory overload conditions of a human interacting with a system, identifying an event associated with the system producing a potential sensory overload condition, and generating a human interface design recommendation based on the guidelines for modifying an operation of the system to help alleviate the potential sensory overload condition associated with the event. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218954 | Thinking system and method - A thinking system and method is provided by the present invention. In the present invention, the “thinking” system is capable of accepting information from outside environment, analyzing the information, requesting additional information, and then resulting the problem. More particularly, the system can make new rules according to the information within the system and the new information received and requested. The rule making process is not controlled by outside command, but by an internal controlling mechanism that can be modified by the outside commands. Further, the system comprises a knowledge structure that can be used by the system for analyzing the inputted information, making request for additional information, making new rules, and solving problems, wherein the knowledge structure comprises element files include direct link information of the elements with other elements of the element files in the knowledge structure. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218955 | Evaluation of Client Status for Likelihood of Churn - System, including method, apparatus, and computer-readable media, for evaluating client status for a likelihood of churn. Client data may be received, with the client data representing events from a set of different event types performed by clients. Parameters of a statistical model that describes client behavior may be estimated using a computer and based on the client data. A churn type of event may be encoded in the statistical model as an absorbing state of a stochastic process, with a time of transition to the absorbing state modeled as being infinite. At least one of the parameters may correspond to the churn type of event. A likelihood of churn may be calculated for a plurality of the clients at one or more time points using the statistical model and its estimated parameters. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218956 | METHODS OF DIAGNOSING INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE - The present invention provides methods, systems, and code for accurately classifying whether a sample from an individual is associated with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) or a clinical subtype thereof. In particular, the present invention is useful for classifying a sample from an individual as an IBD sample using a statistical algorithm and/or empirical data. The present invention is also useful for differentiating between a clinical subtype of IBD such as Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) using a statistical algorithm and/or empirical data. Thus, the present invention provides an accurate diagnostic prediction of IBD or a clinical subtype thereof and prognostic information useful for guiding treatment decisions. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218957 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DIAGNOSTIC SERVICES - A request to diagnose a problem with an appliance is provided to a diagnostic system whereupon the diagnostic system functions to interpret the information indicative of the problem with the appliance to thereby normalize the information indicative of the problem with the appliance. The normalized information indicative of the problem with the appliance is then used to select from a knowledge base in which is maintained a plurality of solutions each having associated tags that function to identify concepts and values in a domain model a set of possible solutions for the problem with the appliance. As necessary, information within the set of possible solutions for the problem with the appliance is used to dynamically generate additional questions to thereby obtain further information indicative of the problem with the appliance. The further information indicative of the problem with the appliance may then be used to identify from with the set of possible solutions for the problem with the appliance a subset of best possible solutions for the problem with the appliance. This subset of best possible solutions for the problem with the appliance may then be presented to an end user to thereby allow the end user to perform the repair(s) needed to correct the problem. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218958 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PERFORMING ONE OR MORE ACTIONS UTILIZING A UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for performing one or more actions utilizing a uniform resource locator. These mechanisms and methods for performing one or more actions utilizing a uniform resource locator can enable improved overall URL usage, more efficient search engine URL results, improved URL comprehension by users, etc. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218959 | SEARCH ENGINE MARKETING ANALYZER - A method of processing search engine marketing (SEM) transaction data generated responsive to transactions associated with a search engine marketing campaign carried on the internet for an advertiser by at least one SEM channel, the method comprising: acquiring channel SEM transaction data generated by the at least one SEM channel responsive to the transactions; acquiring back office (BO) SEM transaction data generated by the advertiser responsive to the transactions; merging the SEM data and BO data associated with a same transaction into a merged record; storing the merged record in an OLAP database stored in a computer storage media storing computer executable instructions; and using the merged record in the OLAP database to analyze the transactions and generate an alert. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218960 | Interactive and Social Knowledge Discovery Sessions - There are provided systems and methods that can assist interactively a knowledge user/contributor to obtain a straight answer to his/her request for knowledge about one or more subject matter, can mediates a large group of unknown inquirers and present them with distilled stage of knowledge related to a subject matter, and/or can guide and assist, individually or socially, to find or discover credible and value significant knowledge at much faster rate than the current traditional method of using search engine directories, social networking, blogging, and bookmarking websites. The methods, systems and services of the presented disclosure can significantly increase productivity of knowledge-based users and quality of their work. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218961 | Computerized system and method for tracking the geographic relevance of website listings and providing graphics and data regarding the same - A computer-implemented method includes the steps of accessing, using one or more processors, data relating to visitors who have visited one or more websites, determining, using one or more processors, geographic areas corresponding to locations of the visitors, receiving, using one or more processors, one or more signals indicating a first request to provide at least a portion of data to be provided on a webpage, determining, using one or more processors, a geographic area from where the request originates; generating, using one or more processors, a subset of the data that pertains to the requested data based on: relevancy of the requested data to the geographic area from where the request originates, and relevancy of the requested data to the visitors that are located in or near the geographic area from where the request originates; and providing, using one or more processors, the subset of the data; and providing, using one or more processors, data that indicates whether or not the visitors found each item in the subset to be relevant to one or more geographic regions related to the geographic area from where the request originates. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218962 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SYNCHRONIZING A SET OF SOFTWARE MODULES OF A COMPUTING SYSTEM DISTRIBUTED AS A CLUSTER OF SERVERS - According to this method of synchronizing a set of software modules of a computing system, each software module is executed on a server of the computing system for the management of a digital data set. The synchronization between two software modules of the set comprises a synchronization ( | 2011-09-08 |
20110218963 | Partial Item Change Tracking and Synchronization - Embodiments herein change the way item syncing is handled and tracked between two devices. Changes to items are tracked in accordance with well defined property groups and each group is tracked independently of the other. For example, one group could contain large data items, e.g., attachments, while another group could include highly volatile properties like a follow-up flag. The present invention increases the sync rates between a client and a server by syncing only select portions of an item that have changed, without monitoring the change of each individual property within the item. Accordingly, if a change is made to a small data property (e.g., follow-up flag) on a relatively large email message, such change will not trigger a large download to a client running under a cached mode, nor will there be a requirement for high storage and processing for tracking each individual property. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218964 | AUTOMATIC SYNCHRONIZATION CONFLICT RESOLUTION - A determination is made at a first computing device of whether there is a synchronization conflict between a change to a first synchronized item at the first computing device and a change to a second synchronized item at a second computing device. If a synchronization conflict exists, rule-based conflict resolution is performed to automatically resolve the synchronization conflict. The rule-based conflict resolution is based at least in part on a type of the change made to the first synchronized item, a type of the change made to the second synchronized item, and a set of multiple rules. A notification of the resolution is then sent to the second computing device. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218965 | SYSTEM FOR REMOTELY ERASING DATA, METHOD, SERVER, AND MOBILE DEVICE THEREOF, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A system for remotely erasing data, a method, a server, and a mobile device thereof, and a computer program product are provided. The method is adapted for the mobile device having an internal storage unit and an external storage unit, wherein a user account of a service website is set up for the mobile device. In the method, a relationship between the user account and the mobile device is recorded in the server. The server receives a data erasing request corresponding to the user account through the service website, and sends a remote control command to the mobile device corresponding to the user account. Then, the mobile device erases data stored in the external storage unit thereof according to the remote control command. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218966 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR BACKUP AND RESTORATION OF COMPUTER INFORMATION - A computer creates a full backup of a target volume by copying sectors of the target volume. Incremental backups are created by copying modified sectors that have changed since a preceding backup. Public accesses to a restore volume are prevented by modifying a volume boot record (VBR) of the restore volume to prevent file systems from recognizing the restore volume or by filtering public accesses while allowing private block accesses to the restore volume. Sector data are copied from the backup files to the restore volume while the public accesses are being prevented. The restore can begin, using previously created backup files, while the backup is still in process creating new incremental backups for the target volume. The restore volume is finalized after restoring the full or any number of incremental backups by restoring the VBR to indicate the restore volume is valid or stopping the filtering of public accesses. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218967 | Partial Block Based Backups - A block based backup system may perform several partial backups to incrementally transfer backup information to a backup system. Each partial backup may build on the previous backup and the partial backups may be marked as unable to be used for restoration. In some cases, the partial backups may be portions of a file system snapshot, while in other cases, the partial backups may include any changes that occurred since a last partial backup. The size of the partial backups may be dynamically changed depending on network connections, workloads, and other factors. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218968 | System And Method for High Performance Enterprise Data Protection - High performance, enterprise-level data protection system and method provides efficient block-level incremental snapshots of primary storage devices, and instant availability of such snapshots in immediately mountable form that can be directly used in place of the primary storage device. Related systems and applications are described, including an “Enterprise Image Destination” (EID) for backup images; a mirroring technique whereby a replacement physical primary facility may be created while working with a second storage unit as the primary source file system; and a technique for eliminating redundant data in backup images when multiple systems with partially common contents (e.g., operating system files, common databases, application executables, etc.) are being backed up. A number of examples showing “Fast Application Restore” (FAR) with the use of the invention are also provided. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218969 | APPROACH FOR OPTIMIZING RESTORES OF DEDUPLICATED DATA - Various techniques for improving the performance of restoring deduplicated data files from a server to a client within a storage management system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a chunk index is maintained on the client that tracks the chunks remaining on the client for each data file that is stored to and restored from the storage server. When a specific file is selected for restore from the storage server to the client, the client determines if any local copies of this specific file's chunks are stored in files already existing on the client data store. The file is then reconstructed from a combination of these local copies of the file chunks and chunks retrieved from the storage server. Therefore, only chunks that are not stored or are inaccessible to the client are retrieved from the server, reducing server-side processing requirements and the bandwidth required for data restore operations. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218970 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPRESSION OF DATA FOR BLOCK MODE ACCESS STORAGE - Methods and systems for creating, reading, and writing compressed data for use with a block mode access storage. The compressed data are packed into a plurality of compressed units and stored in a storage logical unit (LU). One or more corresponding compressed units may be read and/or updated with no need of restoring the entire storage logical unit while maintaining a de-fragmented structure of the LU. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218971 | System, Method And Computer Program Product For Managing Caches - Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for managing at least one cache for a database. In one method, an operation record is inserted in an operations log for each write operation to the database. The operation record includes a Log Sequence Number (LSN). At least one cache is updated using operation records in the operations log. To update a cache, unapplied operations in the operations log for the cache are identified using an applied LSN associated with the cache. The applied LSN denotes an LSN of a last operation applied to the cache. The unapplied operations are then applied to the cache and the applied LSN is updated with an LSN corresponding to the last unapplied operation of the unapplied operations that were applied to the cache during updating the cache. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218972 | DATA REDUCTION INDEXING - Example apparatus, methods, data structures, and computers control indexing to facilitate duplicate determinations. One example method includes indexing, in a global index, a unique chunk processed by a data de-duplicator. Indexing the unique chunk in the global index can include updating an expedited data structure associated with the global index. The example method can also include selectively indexing, in a temporal index, a relationship chunk processed by the data de-duplicator. The relationship chunk is a chunk that is related to another chunk processed by the data de-duplicator by sequence, storage location, and/or similarity hash value. Indexing the relationship chunk in the temporal index can also include updating one or more expedited data structures associated with the temporal index. The expedited data structures and indexes can then be consulted to resolve a duplicate determination being made by a data reducer. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218973 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING A DE-DUPLICATED DATA SET AND PRESERVING METADATA FOR PROCESSING THE DE-DUPLICATED DATA SET - The present invention provides a system and method for de-duplicating a large heterogeneous stock of data and collecting metadata associated with that data. Additionally, the system and method provide a means for retrieving data items based on specific criteria that can be identified in the collected metadata. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218974 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPRESSING FILES FOR STORAGE AND OPERATION ON COMPRESSED FILES - Methods and systems for creating, reading, and writing compressed files in a computer system comprising a file system coupled with storage medium and at least one application program interface (API) configured to communicate with the file system by means of file access-related requests are provided. The file access-related requests are intercepted in order to provide at least one of the following: a) to derive and compress data corresponding to the intercepted file access request and to facilitate storing the compressed data at the storage medium as a compressed file; b) to facilitate restoring at least part of compressed data corresponding to the intercepted file request and communicating the resulting data through the API. The compressed files comprise plurality of compressed units. One or more corresponding compressed units may be read and/or updated with no need of restoring the entire file whilst maintaining de-fragmented structure of the compressed file. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218975 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPRESSION OF FILES FOR STORAGE AND OPERATION ON COMPRESSED FILES - Methods and systems for creating, reading, and writing compressed data for use with a block mode access storage. The compressed data are packed into a plurality of compressed units and stored in a storage logical unit (LU). One or more corresponding compressed units may be read and/or updated with no need of restoring the entire storage logical unit while maintaining a de-fragmented structure of the LU. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218976 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPRESSION OF FILES FOR STORAGE AND OPERATION ON COMPRESSED FILES - Systems and methods for creating, reading, and writing compressed files for use with a file access storage. The compressed data of a raw file are packed into a plurality of compressed units and stored as compressed files. One or more corresponding compressed units may be read and/or updated with no need for restoring the entire file while maintaining a de-fragmented structure of the compressed file. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218977 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPRESSION OF DATA FOR BLOCK MODE ACCESS STORAGE - Systems and methods for creating, reading, and writing compressed data for use with a block mode access storage. The compressed data are packed into plurality of compressed units and stored in a storage logical unit (LU). One or more corresponding compressed units may be read and/or updated with no need of restoring the entire storage logical unit while maintaining de-fragmented structure of the LU. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218978 | OPERATING ON TIME SEQUENCES OF DATA - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for operating on time sequences of data. In one aspect, a method includes a database management system storing and updating information in records in a table of a database, the records being associated with respective times that are spaced apart by time intervals, the database management system responding to a query that is phrased to imply a putative record with respect to a time interval that is not among the time intervals with which the records of the table are associated, and the response of the database management system to the query including a computation of a value of an attribute of the putative record from at least one non-null value of the attribute for one of the records of the table, the computation being based on an interpolation policy. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218979 | DOCUMENT REVISION CONTROL - A method for managing document revisions. The method includes receiving a request to access a parent file stored on a server, where the parent file is associated with one or more child files; determining whether a first option is enabled that is associated with selecting a latest version or revision of a child file, where a revision includes one or more versions; determining whether a second option is enabled, where the second option is associated with selecting a released version or revision of a child file; and, for each child file, providing access to a version or revision of the child file based on whether the first option is enabled and whether the second option is enabled. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218980 | DATA VALIDATION IN DOCKETING SYSTEMS - A data validation system and method for a fully or partially automated docket management solution. The system may require single-user double entry and/or double user data re-entry for validation and confirmation of data content. Un-validated/un-confirmed data may be quarantined or otherwise hidden from part or all of the rest of the docket management system. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218981 | Connection handler and method for providing applications with heterogeneous connection objects - The present invention concerns a connection handler ( | 2011-09-08 |
20110218982 | Configuration information management apparatus and dictionary generation method of configuration information management apparatus - A data management unit stores therein configuration items including attribute items described according to different schemas. A dictionary candidate retrieval unit specifies a combination of a pair of attribute items, which defines a correspondence relation between the attribute items of the different schemas, as a dictionary definition item, and retrieves, as a dictionary candidate, a combination of the attribute names corresponding to the same attribute value in the attribute items, which are described according to the schemas, of the dictionary definition item from the data management unit. A dictionary generation unit generates dictionary information defining synonymity between the attribute names of the different attribute items described according to the different schemas based on the dictionary candidate retrieved by the dictionary candidate retrieval unit. A dictionary management unit stores therein the dictionary information generated by the dictionary generation unit. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218983 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ORGANIZING AND EDITING METADATA - In the metadata organization system a metadata classification module dynamically reads metadata organization information, such as, for example, metadata field information, metadata display set information, and metadata category grouping information, from the metadata organization database, reads metadata from a metadata database, and organizes the metadata for display to a user in a graphical user interface. In the graphical user interface, a user may add, delete, and/or modify the metadata in the display. As the user changes the metadata, the metadata database is updated and the user's changes are reflected in the graphical user interface. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218984 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION PERTAINING TARGET OBJECTS - System and method of reducing complexity of a visual search for at least one target object, using at least one user device, comprising: obtaining an image of a target object creating least one target image, using the user device; receiving image data and metadata associated with the photographed target object from the user device; searching for the target object in at least one known objects database comprising the locations and identifying data of known objects to identify the target object; and retrieving information related to the identified target object. The known objects database is structured to allow visual search by partitioning general zones comprising known objects into sub zones, where the visual search is carried out in correspondence with the structure of the known objects database. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218985 | LOCATION-AWARE BUSINESS DATA RETRIEVAL - There is provided a method that includes (a) sending to a geocoding service, an indicator of a location, where the geocoding service returns a bounding box that defines a geographic area, (b) sending to a search engine, a first query that includes the bounding box and a first parameter, where the search engine returns an identifier of a first business entity located within the geographic area and an indicator of an industry in which the first business entity is engaged, and (c) sending to the search engine, a second query that includes the bounding box and the indicator of the industry in which the first business entity is engaged, where the search engine returns coordinates of a second business entity located within the geographic area. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218986 | SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION ECONOMIC PURCHASING METHOD - In a computer workflow environment wherein alternate pages containing various levels having mixed or fixed maxima, minima, and between results pages, various page IP Address Binaries containing geographical location and market audience sizes, and econometric pricing across various levels search engine page states, national pages, wherein including limitations or additions to variables, to optimize profit by allowing computer users access to affordable choices upon performance. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218987 | HARDWARE ACCELERATED RECONFIGURABLE PROCESSOR FOR ACCELERATING DATABASE OPERATIONS AND QUERIES - Embodiments of the present invention provide a hardware accelerator that assists a host database system in processing its queries. The hardware accelerator comprises special purpose processing elements that are capable of receiving database query/operation tasks in the form of machine code database instructions, execute them in hardware without software, and return the query/operation result back to the host system. For example, table and column descriptors are embedded in the machine code database instructions. For ease of installation, the hardware accelerators employ a standard interconnect, such as a PCle or HT interconnect. The processing elements implement a novel dataflow design and Inter Macro-Op Communication (IMC) data structures to execute the machine code database instructions. The hardware accelerator may also comprise a relatively large memory to enhance the hardware execution of the query/operation tasks requested. The hardware accelerator utilizes hardware-friendly memory addressing, which allows for arithmetic derivation of a physical address from a global database virtual address simply based on a row identifier. The hardware accelerator minimizes memory reads/writes by keeping most intermediate results flowing through IMCs in pipelined and parallel fashion. Furthermore, the hardware accelerator may employ task pipelining and pre-fetch pipelining to enhance its performance. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218988 | DETERMINATION OF APPLICABLE TIME ZONE OF A WEB BROWSER - Exemplary method, system, and computer program embodiments for establishing an applicable local time zone of a web browser in a computing environment are provided. In one such embodiment, a plurality of time zone offsets is queried over a predetermined period of time to obtain a listing of possible time zones. Ones of the listing of possible time zones matching a polled absolute coordinated universal time (UTC) offset are selected. A plurality of weights are assigned to the selected ones of the listing of possible time zones based on at least one of the matching polled absolute UTC offset, a matching daylight savings observance type, a matching Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) accept-language header and a human population size. The listing of possible time zones is sorted based on the plurality of assigned weights. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218989 | Information Search Method and System - The present disclosure provides an information search method and system applicable in an information search system wherein each document has corresponding forward index data to address the issue of low search efficiency suffered by existing information search techniques. In one aspect, the method may include: receiving an inquiry word and obtaining one or more keywords contained in the inquiry word by segmentation; searching one or more documents matching the one or more keywords and forward index data corresponding to the one or more documents through the information search system's inverted index data; and determining an abstract of each of the one or more documents according to a corresponding document's forward index data, and outputting the abstract and information of the one or more documents as a search result. The proposed techniques can increase efficiency of information search and, at the meantime, guarantee accuracy of the search to a certain extent. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218990 | DATA STORAGE, RETRIEVAL, MANIPULATION AND DISPLAY TOOLS ENABLING MULTIPLE HIERARCHICAL POINTS OF VIEW - Systems and methods for data storage, retrieval, manipulation and display provide search engines and computer-based research tools for enabling multiple hierarchical points of view. Category definitions in the hierarchical data structures can include lists of set members, like word arrays of set members, generative descriptions for determining set members, and fitness functions for determining fitness of a presented item for being a member of a set. Significance and interest values can be assigned to search categories to set threshold confidence levels for returning search results and for weighting the results, respectively. A user interface can present results in the form of browsing multiple hierarchical representations, wherein matching categories are differentiated from non-matching categories. Peer ratings can represent the ranking of search term results with relation to results using other search terms, providing an indication of the fitness of the search terms for returning satisfactory results. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218991 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF NEEDY QUERIES - The present invention relates to methods, systems, and computer readable media comprising instructions for identifying needy queries for which additional responsive content is needed. The method of the present invention comprises receiving a query comprising one or more terms and retrieving one or more content items identified as responsive to the query, the one or more content items ranked according to one or more ranking techniques. A score is generated for the one or more ranked content items identified as responsive to the query. A determination is thereafter made as to whether the query is needy based upon a comparison of the one or more scores associated with the one or more content items identified as responsive to the query and a needy query score threshold. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218992 | RELEVANCY RANKING FOR MAP-RELATED SEARCH - The following relates to ranking search results consisting of locations or recommending locations to visit based on recorded data representing visits by a plurality of users to the locations represented as search results or recommended locations to visit. The data representing users' visits can be recorded by receiving data anonymously reported by handheld communication devices carried by the plurality of users. A handheld communication device, which is carried by a user, can report to the system the user's present location optionally associated with a time stamp. The handheld communication device can report either a single location coordinate or a collection of coordinates gathered over time. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218993 | SEMANTIC PAGE ANALYSIS FOR PRIORITIZING CONCEPTS - Embodiments disclose a method of obtaining relevancy scores for concepts found on a page of content. Methods disclosed rely on connectivity of concepts found in a page in relation to connectivity of the same concepts with other concepts in general, and the semantic relationships between the concepts found on a page to obtain relevancy of concepts. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218994 | KEYWORD AUTOMATION OF VIDEO CONTENT - A system and associated method for automatically processing keyword for video content. The video content contains image frames and an audio stream. An image pattern table for image patterns from the image frames and a word pattern table for word patterns from the audio stream are generated by use of respective pattern names provided by pattern recognition tools. Each pattern is associated with a respective count indicating a number of appearances of each pattern. A respective weight of each pattern is calculated as a relative frequency of each pattern. The image pattern table and the word pattern table are merged to generate a keyword list. A predefined number of most frequently appeared patterns are selected by examining the respective weight of each pattern and metadata associated with the video content are updated to utilize pattern names of the selected patterns as keyword for web searches. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218995 | DEFERRING CLASSIFICATION OF A DECLARED RECORD - A records management system classifies records according to a file plan. Record are declared, and then classified. Some records have in initially indeterminate classification and classification is deferred, either by request or due to a lack of sufficient information to classify the record according to the file plan. Unclassified records are placed into a temporary container. At some time while in the temporary container a classification event occurs with a given record which allows the records management system to classify the record and place it into a container corresponding to its classification. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218996 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR SHARING CONTENTS - An apparatus and method for sharing contents are provided. The apparatus and method may store contents; receive a selection signal for content selected from among the contents; classify the selected content into groups; and generate a service code for each respective group. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218997 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BROWSING, SEARCHING AND SHARING OF PERSONAL VIDEO BY A NON-PARAMETRIC APPROACH - A method for determining a predictability of a media entity portion, the method includes: receiving or generating (a) reference media descriptors, and (b) probability estimations of descriptor space representatives given the reference media descriptors; wherein the descriptor space representatives are representative of a set of media entities; and calculating a predictability score of the media entity portion based on at least (a) the probability estimations of the descriptor space representatives given the reference media descriptors, and (b) relationships between the media entity portion descriptors and the descriptor space representatives. A method for processing media streams, the method may include: applying probabilistic non-parametric process on the media stream to locate media portions of interest; and generating metadata indicative of the media portions of interest. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218998 | NAVIGATING MEDIA CONTENT BY GROUPS - Grouping media files via playlists on a computer-readable medium. One or more media files are selected according to a grouping criterion to define one or more playlists from the media files. A container group is associated with the playlists and stores values identifying each of the playlists associated with the container group along with references to each of the playlists. | 2011-09-08 |
20110218999 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING - The index update unit analyses the information stored in a document repository to create an index for search and stores the index in a time-series divisional index storage unit and creates, from an ACL repository, an access control entry ACE in association with the index for search, which is correlation of information to be searched with access right of at least a group to which the user belongs. The ACL cache generation unit creates ACL cache data that correlates the user with access right to the information to be searched, from the ACE, and registers the ACL cache data created in an ACL cache. A search processing unit searches for an index for search in response to a request for search from said user. In case the ACL cache data correlating the user with the index for search is registered in the ACL cache, the search processing unit_takes, from among the information searched, the information, reference to which is allowed for the user as a search result, based on information in the ACL cache. | 2011-09-08 |
20110219000 | SEARCH APPARATUS, SEARCH METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - Provided is a search apparatus, a search method, and a program that can improve search speed for a document set even when an object to be searched is a large-scale document set. A search apparatus is used which includes an abstract matrix storage unit | 2011-09-08 |
20110219001 | EMERGING TOPIC DISCOVERY - This document discusses, among other things, a method for discovering a new topic. The method includes identifying a first topic within a first document and comparing the first topic to a first set of topics. The method then determines whether an emergence time for the first topic can be identified. The first topic is recognized as a new topic based on the comparison between the first set of topics and the emergence time for the first topic. For example, when the first topic does not exist within the first set of topics and the emergence time for the first topic can be identified, the first topic is recognized as a new topic. | 2011-09-08 |
20110219002 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISCOVERING LARGE CLUSTERS OF FILES THAT SHARE SIMILAR CODE TO DEVELOP GENERIC DETECTIONS OF MALWARE - A computer-implemented method for determining similarities between system executable objects includes the steps of determining with one or more computing systems a plurality of subsequences of operation codes in a plurality of disassembled system executable objects, for each subsequence, determining with the one or more computing systems a first set of system executable objects associated with the subsequence, with the computing systems, clustering the first set of system executable objects with a cluster. The cluster includes a set of system executable objects. The step of clustering the first set of system executable objects and the cluster includes the steps of determining with the computing systems the relative similarity between the first set of system executable objects and the cluster, and if the first set of system executable objects is similar to the cluster, adding with the computing systems the system executable objects to the cluster. | 2011-09-08 |
20110219003 | DETERMINATION OF PASSAGES AND FORMATION OF INDEXES BASED ON PARAGRAPHS - A method for retrieving information from a document includes a process of grouping paragraphs in the document to form passages, and forming indexes relating to a number of words in the passages. The number of paragraphs in a passage is determined based on the number of paragraphs considered optimum for a writer to cover a particular topic. Passages are formed by merging each N consecutive paragraphs in the document, where N is an integer greater than 1. Thus, individual passages may include paragraphs that are identical to other passages. | 2011-09-08 |
20110219004 | Determining word information entropies - Determining and using word information entropies includes: determining one or more categories that correspond to a plurality of queries; sorting the plurality of queries into one or more groups based at least in part on the determined categories of the plurality of queries; segmenting queries that correspond to each of the one or more groups into a first plurality of phrases, wherein each phrase includes one or more words; determining occurrence probabilities for the plurality of phrases; and determining word information entropies for the plurality of phrases based at least in part on the determined occurrence probabilities. | 2011-09-08 |
20110219005 | LIBRARY DESCRIPTION OF THE USER INTERFACE FOR FEDERATED SEARCH RESULTS - Methods and computer-readable media are provided for performing a federated search using a library description file to locate multiple data sources. For a federated search, a library description can be used to describe a set of data sources searched, and may further be used to describe how search results should be presented to a user. The format of such a library description file can include multiple elements, some of which provide information on how to display the library and others that define which data sources are included in the library. The library description file can be created according to library description template. | 2011-09-08 |
20110219006 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTRONICALLY PUBLISHING INFORMATION ON A COMPUTER NETWORK - Methods and apparatus for electronically publishing information on a computer network are disclosed. A computer connected to a computer network is provided to host a database. The computer is configured receive a request from a user to electronically publish information on the computer network. The computer then may accept and store input from the user in a database. The computer may then electronically publish the user input by making information stored in the database freely accessible on the computer network. | 2011-09-08 |
20110219007 | METHOD EXECUTED BY MANAGEMENT SERVER, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A method executed by a management server controlling a plurality of index servers for searching a database storing an object identifier and an attribute value, each of the plurality of index servers handling a part of the database, storing index information including the attribute value within a range predefined for the each of the plurality of index servers and the associated object identifier stored in the database, the method has deleting one of index information stored in one of the index servers in reference to the range of each of the index servers when an updated attribute value coming to be out of the range of the one of the index servers, obtaining a frequency of the deleting and the storing the one of the index information, and enabling the index server to obtain an attribute value from the database when the obtained frequency being more than a predetermined value. | 2011-09-08 |
20110219008 | INDEXING MULTIPLE TYPES OF DATA TO FACILITATE RAPID RE-INDEXING OF ONE OR MORE TYPES OF DATA - A method and indexing system indexes the content of a body of documents into a content index, and the metadata of the documents into a metadata index which is a parallel index to the content index. The metadata is copied into a data store that is easily accessible by the indexing system and is stored in native form. The indexing system can dynamically re-index the metadata from the native metadata in the data store to produce a new metadata index which is used to replace the original metadata index. Search queries received by a search engine associated with the indexing system are applied to both the content and metadata index and the results are merged for return. | 2011-09-08 |
20110219009 | METHOD OF GENERATING AN ELEVATION DATABASE - A method of generating an elevation database for selected geographic regions, the method comprising: receiving a location database, a rule database, and an input elevation database, each location in the location database being located within a selected geographic region; constructing, for each location in the location database and using rules from the rule database, a bounding region enclosing a continuous geographic region; applying elevation data from the input elevation database to each bounding region; and compressing the elevation data in each bounding region to provide compressed elevation data; wherein, upon decompressing the compressed elevation data, each point in each bounding region represents a level of elevation at that point in the associated selected geographic region. | 2011-09-08 |
20110219010 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PACKET CLASSIFICATION USING BLOOM FILTER - The present disclosure provides an apparatus and method for packet classification using a Bloom filter and includes determining a matching length of how long each field value of one or more fields in an input packet coincides with a field value of the corresponding field stored in a rule set by performing a field-by-field search on the fields in the input packet, and generating a tuple list made up of a combination of one or more of the matching length for the respective fields; selecting particular tuples existing in the rule set from the tuple list; filtering each of the selected tuples by using the Bloom filter; and searching for a best matching rule as a search pool exclusively within the tuples with the positive result of the filtering. According to the present disclosure, the object tuples to search can be substantially relieved to improve the searching performance. | 2011-09-08 |
20110219011 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING SOCIAL BOOKMARKS - A method and system for using social bookmarks wherein a social bookmark is a triplet of the entities of user, document, and tag. The method including: collecting multiple bookmarks; representing the bookmarks as a three-dimensional space or matrix of the number of times a user u, used tag t to bookmark document d; measuring the similarity of two entities of the same type; and using the similarity to weight bookmarks or entities. The weightings may be used to provide a measure of a usefulness of a bookmark for describing a document for retrieval purposes. Two-dimensions of the bookmark space may also be used to predict the third-dimension. | 2011-09-08 |
20110219012 | Learning Element Weighting for Similarity Measures - Described is a technology for measuring the similarity between two objects (e.g., documents), via a framework that learns the term-weighting function from training data, e.g., labeled pairs of objects, to develop a learned model. A learning procedure tunes the model parameters by minimizing a defined loss function of the similarity score. Also described is using the learning procedure and learned model to detect near duplicate documents. | 2011-09-08 |
20110219013 | DETECTING DUPLICATES IN A SHARED KNOWLEDGE BASE - Methods and systems supporting curation of items in a searchable knowledge base are provided. The methods and systems include mining one or more search queries of the searchable knowledge base, where each of the search queries includes a plurality of the items. The method further includes determining one or more pairs of items using a processor, where each of the pairs of items includes a correlation value exceeding a threshold. The correlation values for the pairs of items are based upon the frequency the items of the pairs of items co-occur within the search queries. The method further includes providing the pairs of items to a curator, where the curator reviews the pairs of items. | 2011-09-08 |
20110219014 | Systems and Methods For Representing Text - The disclosure herein describes systems and methods for representing text. For example, one disclosed embodiment is a method including the steps of receiving a plurality of text strings, each text string comprising at least one character, wherein the at least one character has a representation comprising a first part and a second part; receiving a request to sort the plurality of text strings; and sorting the plurality of text strings based on first parts of the characters of the text strings. In another embodiment, a computer-readable medium comprises program code for causing a processor to execute such a method. | 2011-09-08 |
20110219015 | SEARCHING METHOD USING EXTENDED KEYWORD POOL AND SYSTEM THEREOF - Provided are a search method using an extended keyword pool and a system for performing the method. The search system using the extended keyword pool may include a purchased keyword module to generate a purchased keyword set by searching for a keyword having a purchase history through a search advertisement, an additional keyword module to generate an additional keyword set by extracting a keyword from at least one source, a unified search keyword module to generate a unified search keyword set by searching for a keyword having a number of hits greater than a predetermined number for each keyword, among queries including the purchased keyword and the additional keyword, and a search module to provide an associated keyword or an extended keyword based on a search word, using the keywords included in the purchased keyword set, the additional keyword set, and the unified search keywo | 2011-09-08 |
20110219016 | Stream Mining via State Machine and High Dimensionality Database - A system and method for stream mining using state machines and high-dimensionality databases. After a data stream is digitized, a stream analyzer searches a high-dimensionality data structure containing state machine parameters to determine which state machines to activate and execute. A signal classifier creates the state machine parameters stored in the high-dimensionality data structure using a second high-dimensionality data structure programmed with information about signals of interest. If a state machine identifies a signal of interest, the system can optionally alert the user. | 2011-09-08 |
20110219017 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CITATION DATABASE CONSTRUCTION AND FOR ALLOWING QUICK UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS - A computer-implemented method is disclosed for constructing a citation database. The method includes storing initial non-full text information about a citation paper in a citation database, receiving a first request from a first computer device operated by a first user for information about the citation paper in the citation database, sending non-full text information about the citation paper from the citation database to the first computer device, allowing the first user to search on the Internet for a link to a network location storing full-text content of the citation paper, receiving the link to the network location from the first computer device, and storing the link to the network location in the citation database in association with the non-full text information of the citation paper. | 2011-09-08 |
20110219018 | DIGITAL MEDIA VOICE TAGS IN SOCIAL NETWORKS - A voice tagging system includes a client computing device that includes a media object capture device and a voice capture device and runs a client application that associates media objects to voice samples. The system also includes a communications network coupled to the client computing device, a voice tagging system coupled to the communications network and receiving at least one association between a first media object and a first voice sample, and a database coupled to the voice tagging system, the database including one or more voice tags, each voice tag being coupled to one or more voice samples. | 2011-09-08 |
20110219019 | System And Method For Providing Network-Based Services To Users With High Availability - A suite of network-based services, such as the services corresponding to Microsoft® SharePoint™, are provided to users with high availability. To maintain the availability of the services, the configuration parameters of a first server are updated on an ongoing basis, and the updated configuration parameters are used to configure a second, backup server. In the event of switchover or failover, the backup server is prepared to provide the serving functionality of the first server. | 2011-09-08 |
20110219020 | COLUMNAR STORAGE OF A DATABASE INDEX - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media of columnar storage of a database index are disclosed. A particular columnar index includes a column store that stores rows of the columnar index in a column-wise fashion and a delta store that stores rows of the columnar index in a row-wise fashion. The column store also includes an absence flag array. The absence flag array includes entries that indicate whether certain rows have been logically deleted from the column store. | 2011-09-08 |