| 37th week of 2008 patent applcation highlights (09-11-08/09-11-08_59) part 59 |
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| 20080222002 | Method of processing online payments with fraud analysis and management system - Systems and methods are disclosed to detect fraud by analyzing customer purchasing behavior for a high value item intentionally placed next to commonly purchased items, payment information for an address verification system (AVS), customer behavioral information, password sharing between two accounts, unique identification for a hardware component of a client computer used to purchase items on line, administrative information associated with a customer account; and Internet Protocol (IP) address. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222003 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEMAND DRIVEN COLLABORATIVE PROCUREMENT, LOGISTICS, AND AUTHENTICITY ESTABLISHMENT OF LUXURY COMMODITIES USING VIRTUAL INVENTORIES - Systems and methods providing for a virtual inventory system of goods aggregating disparate inventories into a single virtual inventory for the purpose of tracking the goods, trading the goods, and establishing authenticity of the goods. The aggregation of disparate inventories readily provides for quick procurement or sales of the goods, especially as they relate to high end, rare, or expensive items. Accordingly, electronic product codes are assigned to each good to monitor inventory and movement of the good. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222004 | Order Entry Graphical User Interface - This patent discloses various systems and embodiments for implementing, establishing and operating a remote order interface system and method. One exemplary embodiment of a remote order entry system includes a communications network, a first order entry workstation communicatively coupled to the communications network and configured to store a baseline commodity listing. The system further includes a second order entry workstation communicatively coupled to the first order entry workstation via the communication workstation and configured to communicate a remote commodity listing to the first order entry workstation, and a graphical user interface executable on the first order entry workstation and configured to display the baseline commodity listing in a first arrangement and the communicated remote commodity listing as a function of the first arrangement. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222005 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PROCUREMENT OF SANCTIONED VEHICLE PARTS - Systems and methods for a procurement system are provided. Additionally, computer-implemented methods for controlling procurement of sanctioned vehicle parts are provided. These methods may include associating one or more sanctioned vehicle parts with a specific vehicle in a fleet using a unique vehicle identification number, receiving a request for information associated with one or more sanctioned vehicle parts for the specific vehicle, and providing one or more sanctioned vehicle parts. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222006 | System and Method for Calculating Parameters for a Commerce System - A method and system for processing a parameter for an item in an electronic order processing system is provided. The method has a first step of associating a calculation code with the item. The second step of the method is applying the calculation rule to the item to produce an amount. The third step of the method is providing the amount to an output device. Each operation within each of the first step, the second step and the third step may be modified and flow of execution amongst the first step, the second step and the third step remains the same. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222007 | METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING DISPOSABLE ABSORBENT INCONTINENCE ARTICLES - The present invention is directed to a method for recommending a disposable absorbent incontinence article to be used by an incontinent person. The method comprises the steps of: (a) receiving information, from a user, about incontinence devices which are currently used by the incontinent person; (b) receiving information about the situation which is experienced by the user; and (c) selecting at least one article, based on the information received, among predetermined disposable absorbent incontinence articles. By this method, an appropriate disposable absorbent incontinence article(s) to be used are recommended depending on the user's situation. The present invention is also directed a method for evaluating the quality of life of a caregiver who takes care of an incontinent person. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222008 | Systems, Methods, And A Storage Medium For Obtaining An Offer For A Sale Of A Product Or A Service - Systems and methods for obtaining an offer for a sale of a desired product or a service are provided. The method includes iteratively transmitting a first signal including a first data message using a mobile transceiver device. Each of the first data messages includes information relating to the desired product or service. The method further includes receiving at least one of the first signals having the first data message and determining whether a product or service provider has the desired product or service available for sale. Finally, the method includes transmitting a second signal including a second data message to the mobile transceiver device. The second data message includes an offer to sell the desired product or service. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222009 | INTEGRATED SYSTEM FOR MANAGING ACQUISITION OF CONSUMER GOODS AND/OR HIRING SERVICES - System and method for managing purchases of goods or services include registering entities interested in receiving or providing the goods or services, enabling a potential receiver of goods or services to search the registered providers using search criteria including market segment defined by the potential receiver, and communicating to the potential receiver a list of the results of the search. The system enables potential receivers to select one of the registered providers from the list to deliver the goods or perform the services, enables the potential receiver to select one or more of the goods or services capable of being delivered by the selected provider, communicates to the selected provider placement of a request for goods and/or services by the receiver, and communicates a confirmation generated by the provider's acknowledgement of the receiver's communicated request to the receiver. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222010 | System and Method for Enabling Online Research, Publication, Promotion And Management Of User Goods - A system and method for enabling online research, publication, promotion, and management of user goods is presented. An embodiment guiding the process of online selling across multiple platforms is presented. Information is gathered from various sources across the Internet to determine pricing and publication options. Data and user input are aggregated to create a listing. Listings are published and promoted across platforms and channels and feedback is presented to the user through an online interface. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222011 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR EXCHANGING CATALOGUE INFORMATION - The present invention seamlessly facilitates information exchange between not only a vendor and a single customer but also between vendors and Procurement Services Providers (PSPs), supporting more than one customer, each with its unique specifications. This framework also has the capability to handle dual pricing. Dual pricing is used to differentiate the price that a PSP has negotiated with a vendor from the price that an end user/customer will be ultimately charged. These two levels of pricing are maintained at the customer/vendor level. This invention is used to create a framework for exchanging catalogue information between the vendors or vendors of IT products and a customer or a PSP acting on behalf of one or more customers. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222012 | System and method for advertising online vehicle sales - Vehicle information is provided by a private seller of a vehicle over a network to an online vehicle transaction server. A periodic payment amount is then calculated for the vehicle based on the provided vehicle information, as well as certain predetermined financing terms. In one embodiment a vehicle advertisement number is generated for the subject vehicle, and may serve as a identifier or online pointer to a webpage containing the subject vehicle's information, including the previously-calculated periodic payment amount. In embodiment, a vehicle advertisement document may be generating to include the vehicle advertisement number and the vehicle's sales price represented as the previously-calculated periodic payment amount. The advertisement document may be downloaded by the private vehicle seller and placed in the subject vehicle as a sale sign. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222013 | IN-LANE MONEY TRANSFER SYSTEMS AND METHODS - The present invention provides systems and methods to initiate, facilitate, process and/or perform money transfers. One such method includes receiving a request for a transfer pair verification from a vendor location ( | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222014 | Property Sale Application and Tracking System - A property sate application system, such as for a tax deed, is provided that receives sale applications. The tax deed application can include information associated with a parcel, certificate information associated with a tax certificate associated with the parcel, and investor information associated with an investor associated with the at least one tax certificate. The system can enter data representative of the application into a database, transmit the application for review, and retrieve parcel information related to the identification information, the certificate information, or the investor information. The system may update the application data in the tax deed database based at least in part on the parcel information, receive a title search request based at least in part on the parcel information, transmit the title search request for processing, provide a status identifier representative of a current status of the tax deed application, and update the status identifier. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222015 | Method and apparatus for development and use of a credit score based on spend capacity - Share of Wallet (“SOW”) is a modeling approach that utilizes various data sources to provide outputs that describe a consumers spending capability, tradeline history including balance transfers, and balance information. These outputs can be appended to data profiles of customers and prospects and can be utilized to support decisions involving prospecting, new applicant evaluation, and customer management across the lifecycle. A SOW score focusing on a consumer's spending capability can be used in the same manner as a credit bureau score. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222016 | Using commercial share of wallet to manage investments - Commercial size of spending wallet (“CSoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“CSoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. A modeling approach utilizes various data sources to provide outputs that describe a company's spend capacity. Managers of investment vehicles, such as mutual fund managers, can use CSoW/CSoSW as one of the parameters to be considered when picking stocks to buy, sell, or short. Investment managers can also use CSoW/CSoSW to predict which stocks in their portfolio are likely to suffer a price fall. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222017 | Method of structuring a property transaction enabling the seller to reacquire the property and maximize profits on the property - The present invention relates to methods of structuring contracts for the purchase of property, and specifically relates to a method of structuring a contract for the purchase of real property, such as a parcel of real estate, enabling the original seller to reacquire the sold property in a transaction controlled by the seller and providing the original purchaser with additional capital to purchase the real property. The method comprises | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222018 | FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS AND METHODS FOR THE HOUSING MARKET - A first financial instrument defines an interest in a property, where one or more buyers are given rights on at least part of a selling price of the property. The interest is purchasable by the interest buyers independently of time of sale of the property and independently of change of occupants of the property. A second financial instrument separates habitational rights in a habitable property from non-habitational rights in that property. A combination between the two financial instruments is also provided. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222019 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT - Transferring spectrum use rights may include ascertaining information regarding available spectrum for use in wireless communications. A request for spectrum use from a spectrum user system may be matched with available spectrum. A spectrum certificate may be issued to the spectrum user system, where the spectrum certificate contains at least one spectrum-related variable under which the spectrum user system is to engage in wireless communications. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222020 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING SPECTRUM WITH TRANSFERABLE ACCESS RIGHTS - Transferring spectrum use rights may include ascertaining information regarding available spectrum for use in wireless communications. A request for spectrum use from a spectrum user system may be matched with available spectrum. A spectrum certificate may be issued to the spectrum user system, where the spectrum certificate contains at least one spectrum-related variable under which the spectrum user system is to engage in wireless communications. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222021 | SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Transferring spectrum use rights may include ascertaining information regarding available spectrum for use in wireless communications. A request for spectrum use from a spectrum user system may be matched with available spectrum. A spectrum certificate may be issued to the spectrum user system, where the spectrum certificate contains at least one spectrum-related variable under which the spectrum user system is to engage in wireless communications. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222022 | Pair trading system and method - A method is provided for fulfilling a pair trade request and includes the steps of receiving a plurality of pair trade requests; executing a transaction for a first portion of one of the plurality of pair trade requests and matching a second portion of the one of the plurality of pair trade requests against another of the plurality of pair trade requests. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222023 | Internet-Based System for Auctioning Securities - A method of auctioning exchange traded assets is described. Before commencing the auction bidding, the seller establishes a maximum asset amount representing a greatest amount of the exchange traded assets to be auctioned, and a minimum asset price representing a minimum acceptable bid amount for a given amount of the exchange traded assets. During the bidding, bids are received for the assets, with each bid including a bid price and a corresponding bid amount of assets. After the bidding, a market demand is determined that represents the total of all the bid amounts for the bids. If the market demand is greater than or equal to the maximum asset amount, a clearing price is established that allocates the maximum asset amount of the assets according to the bids at a final price between and including the clearing price and the minimum asset price. Otherwise, if the market demand is less than the maximum asset amount, the market demand amount of the assets according to the bids at a final price equal to the minimum asset price. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222024 | AUTOMATICALLY DISTRIBUTING A BID REQUEST FOR A GRID JOB TO MULTIPLE GRID PROVIDERS AND ANALYZING RESPONSES TO SELECT A WINNING GRID PROVIDER - A method, system, and program for automatically distributing a bid request for a grid job to multiple grid providers and analyzing responses to select a winning grid provider are provided. A user at a grid client enters at least one bid criteria for a particular grid job intended for submission to an external grid environment. The grid client automatically selects at least one grid provider for the external grid environment to query for availability to process the particular grid job to meet the criteria for the particular grid job. Then, the grid client automatically distributes the criteria in a bid request for the particular grid job to the selected grid providers. The grid client stores bid responses received from the grid providers, and responsive to reaching a deadline for return of responses for the bid request, the grid client selects a winning bid response from the particular grid job from among the received responses. Then, the grid client automatically distributes the particular grid job from the grid client system to the grid provider submitting the winning bid response. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222025 | AUTOMATICALLY DISTRIBUTING A BID REQUEST FOR A GRID JOB TO MULTIPLE GRID PROVIDERS AND ANALYZING RESPONSES TO SELECT A WINNING GRID PROVIDER - A method, system, and program for automatically distributing a bid request for a grid job to multiple grid providers and analyzing responses to select a winning grid provider are provided. A user at a grid client enters at least one bid criteria for a particular grid job intended for submission to an external grid environment. The grid client automatically selects at least one grid provider for the external grid environment to query for availability to process the particular grid job to meet the criteria for the particular grid job. Then, the grid client automatically distributes the criteria in a bid request for the particular grid job to the selected grid providers. The grid client stores bid responses received from the grid providers, and responsive to reaching a deadline for return of responses for the bid request, the grid client selects a winning bid response from the particular grid job from among the received responses. Then, the grid client automatically distributes the particular grid job from the grid client system to the grid provider submitting the winning bid response. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222026 | Derivatives for multi region properties - The present invention relates to a multiple step business process for innovative risk of credit derivatives in computer aligned and mathematical models for management of credit derivatives through the use of different financial platforms and multiple hybrid financial instruments of currency funds for capital flow for property acquisitions, in which the source of each aspect of hybrid financial instruments will be provided with predetermined risk values and risk management for specified periods of time linked to the life span of a property or capital for property acquisition, an improvement in the different hybrid forms of financial instruments include varied debt obligation financial instruments together with different forms of currency, equity holdings, gold, and alternative property. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222027 | Credit score and scorecard development - Share of Wallet (“SOW”) is a modeling approach that utilizes various data sources to provide outputs that describe a consumers spending capability, tradeline history including balance transfers, and balance information. These outputs can be appended to data profiles of customers and prospects and can be utilized to support decisions involving prospecting, new applicant evaluation, and customer management across the lifecycle. The outputs can be used as attributes to consider in developing a credit bureau scorecard. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222028 | Method and System for Providing Mortgage Data Quality Control Verification - A computer implemented quality control system configured for verification of mortgage loan data is disclosed. The system includes a network interface device, a processor in communication with the network interface device via a communication bus, a memory in communication with the processor and the network interface device via the communication bus. The memory is configured to store computer readable instructions programmed to include, an interface module configured to receive mortgage loan data, wherein the mortgage loan data represents a plurality of existing individual mortgages from one or more mortgage sources, a parameter control module configured to store twenty or more predetermined quality control parameters, wherein the quality control parameters represent potential inconsistencies, inaccuracies, missing information, or combinations thereof in the mortgage loan data, a command module configured to store processing instructions utilized to comprehensively analyze the received the mortgage loan data, and a quality control module in communication with the interface module, the parameter control module and the command module, wherein the quality control module is configured to utilize the quality control parameters and the processing instructions to identify anomalies in the received mortgage loan data. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222029 | Charitable Giving - A method for identifying charitable organizations to receive the proceeds generated from the sale of merchandise includes communicating information to purchasers of the merchandise including a price, identities of charities to which donations can be allocated, and a donation amount. An offer to purchase the merchandise and the identities of two or more charities to which the donation is to be allocated is received. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222030 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PURCHASING PRODUCTS VIA TEXT MESSAGING - A method and system including distributing a keyword, and receiving a text message from a device through a carrier with the keyword to purchase a product. The carrier adds a purchase price of the product to the purchaser's wireless service bill and the product is distributed to the purchaser external to the device. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222031 | Method and system for fee payment for automotive services - The present invention provides a system and method for fee payment for automotive facilities, the system comprising: a facility gate unit having a user interface enabling a user to enter a user code, the facility gate unit enables entrance of the user to a respective automotive facility after entering the code; and a transaction server to receive from the facility gate unit the code entered by a user and to produce instruction to debit the user for the respective automotive facility service fee based on user identification, the transaction server is further to receive at least one payment instruction, and to provide confirmation that the fee was fully paid, wherein the facility gate unit enables exit from the respective facility after receiving the confirmation. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222032 | Method and apparatus for value and or revenue sharing by commerce participants - A method whereby the relative contribution of value added to e-commerce sites by users such as contributors, browsers, buyers and sellers are measured and weighed while these users are vesting in a prorated share of either or both the revenue and asset value created by their participation, less the portion kept by the company or provider. Each user's contribution is vested instantly, dynamically and objectively by measuring relative revenue or web traffic that results from their participation. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222033 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAPPING SOURCES AND USES OF CONSUMER FUNDS - A bill-paying system includes a customer deposit account which receives periodic payroll deposits of an individual or a couple. A bill-paying service enrolls the individual or couple for a fee, and is authorized to transfer money from the deposit account to the accounts of various creditors. An originating depository financial institution, such as a bank, handles the transfers of money, and such transfers are preferably done electronically. The automated clearing house (ACH) network supports such electronic money transfers. The various bills and debts of the individual or couple come due at times that are asynchronous to their income structure. The bill-paying service is authorized to debit the deposit account for more than the basic minimums due the creditors each month. Such excess is used to accelerate the repayment of various loans and debts according to what particular application at that time will have the greatest long-term beneficial effect. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222034 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAPPING SOURCES AND USES OF CONSUMER FUNDS - A bill-paying system includes a customer deposit account which receives periodic payroll deposits of an individual or a couple. A bill-paying service enrolls the individual or couple for a fee, and is authorized to transfer money from the deposit account to the accounts of various creditors. An originating depository financial institution, such as a bank, handles the transfers of money, and such transfers are preferably done electronically. The automated clearing house (ACH) network supports such electronic money transfers. The various bills and debts of the individual or couple come due at times that are asynchronous to their income structure. The bill-paying service is authorized to debit the deposit account for more than the basic minimums due the creditors each month. Such excess is used to accelerate the repayment of various loans and debts according to what particular application at that time will have the greatest long-term beneficial effect. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222035 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAPPING SOURCES AND USES OF CONSUMER FUNDS - A bill-paying system includes a customer deposit account which receives periodic payroll deposits of an individual or a couple. A bill-paying service enrolls the individual or couple for a fee, and is authorized to transfer money from the deposit account to the accounts of various creditors. An originating depository financial institution, such as a bank, handles the transfers of money, and such transfers are preferably done electronically. The automated clearing house (ACH) network supports such electronic money transfers. The various bills and debts of the individual or couple come due at times that are asynchronous to their income structure. The bill-paying service is authorized to debit the deposit account for more than the basic minimums due the creditors each month. Such excess is used to accelerate the repayment of various loans and debts according to what particular application at that time will have the greatest long-term beneficial effect. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222036 | MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal capable of causing the user side to grasp whether or not a credit settlement service stops with a simple operation is provided. In the mobile terminal | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222037 | Customer Enrollment in a Stored Value Card Program - Customer enrollment in a stored value card program is provided. One embodiment is a method for enrolling a customer in a stored value card program. One such method comprises: generating a list of unaffiliated stored value card programs; and when enrolling a new customer in a new stored value card program at a device, determining whether the new customer has a stored value account with one of the unaffiliated stored value card programs. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222038 | Location Based Authentication System - An improved location based authentication (LBA) system for detecting fraudulent transactions committed by means of misuse of payment cards is disclosed. The improved LBA system performs a series of transaction analysis and generates a fraud-score which provides an indication as whether to authorize an attempted transaction. The system is designed to increase profitability of credit card companies by reducing the accumulated losses due to fraud. In one embodiment, the system detects fraud by analyzing the behavior patterns of card holders and merchants. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222039 | MONEY-TRANSFER TECHNIQUES - A technique for transferring money between a customer and a beneficiary comprises a money-transfer company, and a plurality of selling agents and paying agents. The money-transfer company maintains a server, a database, and a communications interface for communicating, via a telephone network and/or the Internet, with data terminals located at the selling and paying agents' sites. Customer transaction cards are distributed to customers. These cards have a visible card number and a corresponding alphanumeric card code stored in, e.g., a magnetic strip. In response to a customer's request, the money-transfer company activates the customer's transaction card by loading customer and beneficiary information into a corresponding transaction card record stored in the database. A selling agent initiates a money-transfer request from a data terminal. Specifically, the selling agent enters a monetary amount and swipes the customer's card in a magnetic strip reader located on the data terminal. Upon receiving the money amount and the customer's card code, the company creates a corresponding and unique transaction record associating the customer, his (her) card and the beneficiary, in the database and returns a fund pick-up (“folio”) number to the customer. The customer discloses the folio number to the beneficiary, who, with this number and appropriate personal identification, collects the transferred money from a paying agent. The customer can use the same transaction card to make subsequent money transfers, in any amount, to the same beneficiary. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222040 | Disaggregation/reassembly method system for information rights management of secure documents - The present invention pertains to a computerized system and method that provides for the secure storage and retrieval of electronic digital healthcare information; and, more particularly, to such a computerized system and method that provides for multiple access levels of such secure information; provides for secure access to portions of secure information dependent upon access privileges of the authorized user; provides virtually limitless data expansion capabilities; and provides for rapid access to such secure information by authorized users. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222041 | Methods and Systems for Electronic Agency in Performance of Services - A computer implemented method for a principal to electronically establish and use an agent. The method comprising the steps of: the principal identifying a service requirement, the principal entering a communication medium to interact with a potential agent, the principal submitting an electronic request for service, the principal and the agent negotiating terms, establishing an electronic power of attorney between the principal and the agent, the agent performing the requested service; and the principal paying the agent. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222042 | Prescription Generation Validation And Tracking - Medical prescriptions may be produced in electronic form and carry a plurality of encoded, encrypted data sets. The first data set may represent a unique prescription identifier and the second data set a patient identifier such as a PIN: Both data sets are encrypted and printed on the item, for example encoded in a data matrix. The patient may present a printed prescription to a chemist at which point the data matix symbol is canned to retrieve the encrypted data sets. The data set including the unique identifier may be sent to a remote location for decryption and comparison against a stored identifier to verify the prescription as genuine. The second data set may be decrypted and compared locally to verify that the person presenting the prescription is the patient or an authorised representative of the patient. If both data sets are vertified, the chemist maydispense the medicine. Further data sets may include details of the prescription and prescription history, and details of the doctor and the chemist. The latter two can be sent to local health authorities for payment. The doctor can be notified when the prescription is validated and the patient's records updated accordingly. Different encryption may be used for the two data sets. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222043 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANS-VENDOR LICENSE REGISTRATION AND RECOVERY - Computer implemented method, system and computer usable program code for recovering application software in a data processing system. A computer implemented method for recovering application software in a data processing system includes receiving user data and application data from a plurality of users over a computer network, wherein the application data relates to application software of the plurality of users and includes application license data for applications that include a license. The received user data and application data are stored. A request is received over the computer network from a user of the plurality of users to recover application software of the user, and the requested application software is provided to the user over the computer network, wherein the provided application software is enabled and configured based on the user data and application data related to the provided application software. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222044 | Protected content renewal - Described herein is technology for, among other things, maintaining access to DRM protected content. The technology may be implemented via a playback device or a computer system connected to a MTD. It involves monitoring requests for media content and then verifying access and renewing the license if necessary. The license renewal request may be made to a MTD or an internet connected system. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222045 | System and method of providing media content - A method of providing media content access is disclosed that includes providing a list of available media content to a display device and receiving a selection related to the list of available media content. The method further includes sending data related to the selection to a content source and to an access rule source and receiving media content from the content source based on the selection and an access rule related to the media content from the access rule source. The method also includes applying the access rule to the selected media content, where the access rule defines a restriction to limit access to the media content. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222046 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR EFFECTING ANONYMOUS CREDIT CARD PURCHASES OVER THE INTERNET - A transaction system for performing secure transactions over a communication network includes (i) a merchant server system including a computer processor and associated memory, the merchant server system offering items for sale; (ii) a buyer system including a computer processor and associated memory, the buyer system being selectively couplable to the merchant server system over the communication network to initiate a transaction, wherein, during the transaction, the buyer system selects one or more of the items for purchase; (iii) a security server system including a computer processor and associated memory and an encryption device, the security server system receiving buyer information from the buyer system, encrypting the buyer information in an encryption key that prevents the merchant server system from decrypting the buyer information, and transferring the encrypted buyer information to the merchant server system; and (iv) a third server system including a computer processor and associated memory, the third server system being selectively couplable to the merchant server system, wherein the merchant server system transmits at least a portion of the encrypted buyer information to the third server system for processing during the transaction. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222047 | Device and Method for Conducting Secure Economic Transactions with a Programmable Magnetic Stripe - A secure economic transaction device includes a memory for storing user account information, a temporary code generator coupled to the memory and operable to generate a time-based code that is valid for only a finite amount of time, a programmable magnetic stripe on a surface of the device and operable to magnetically transmit at least a portion of the user account information and the temporary code to a stripe reader, and stripe programming circuitry located on the device, coupled to the temporary code generator, and operable to dynamically program the magnetic stripe with the code. Also provided is a method for conducting the transaction. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222048 | Distributed Payment System and Method - The present invention provides a payment system that allows a mobile communications device (MCD) to interact with a merchant processing device (MPD) and a payment engine. A communications component associated with the payment engine can send requested barcodes to the MPD, receive barcodes or alphanumeric Universal Product Codes from customer MCDs, and handle payment authorizations and settlements. A barcode management component can generate and interpret barcodes based upon merchant offerings and client requests. A security algorithms component can employ an offset pair algorithm to convert each digit from a payment card information into an offset pair of digits to facilitate security in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222049 | Digital Signature Authentication - A systems and methods for authenticating a consumer with a transaction card using digital signatures according to one embodiment of the invention is disclosed. These systems and methods allow consumers to digitally sign transaction information with a private key. The private key may be used to digitally sign the transaction, for example, through a hosted or local system that protects the integrity of the private key. A financial institution may authenticate the consumer by decrypting the digital signature with a public key. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222050 | Method and system for trading financial instruments - Tranches of a position in a financial instrument held by an entity are traded. A suitable tranche size to be traded in a financial market is determined. A trade size of a tranche to trade in the financial market is also determined. The trade size comprises a smaller of a size of the position and the suitable tranche size. An effect of executing a tranche of a size comprising the trade size on an absolute dollar value of risk associated with a portfolio of the entity is determined. The tranche is placed in the market for execution if the absolute dollar value of risk remains the same or is reduced by executing the tranche. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222051 | Synthetic currency - A method for formulating a synthetic currency including the steps of borrowing an amount of funds in at least one first currency at a first interest rate, converting a portion of the borrowed funds to at least one second currency, investing the portion of the borrowed funds in an investment that pays interest which covers at least a portion of cost of borrowing the borrowed funds in the first currency, and providing a third currency based on the remaining portion of the borrowed funds. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222052 | Methods and systems for providing an anti-benchmark portfolio - In one aspect, the invention comprises a method comprising: (a) acquiring data regarding a first group of securities in a first portfolio; (b) based on said data and on risk characteristics of said first group of securities, identifying a second group of securities to be included in a second portfolio; and (c) calculating holdings in said second portfolio based on one or more portfolio optimization procedures. In another aspect, the invention comprises software for performing the steps described above (as well as steps of other embodiments), and in another aspect, the invention comprises one or more computer systems operable to perform those steps. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222053 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FULLY INSURING LARGE BANK DEPOSITS - An Interbank Deposit Placement System (IDPS) that allows banks participating in the service to offer their customers multiple deposits so that potential deposit (fund) amounts exceeding an applicable Federal deposit insurance limit (e.g., $100,000) are fully insured. The IDPS partitions each of the potential deposit amounts into a plurality of deposit portions that do not exceed the Federal deposit insurance limit. In one embodiment, a proposed list of banks to which the deposit portions are allocated is presented to a recipient (e.g., bank representative, depositor) who is offered the option of modifying the proposed list during an established time window. After the time window expires, a deposit is established on behalf of each bank on the list to which the specific deposit portion was allocated by the processor. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222054 | METHOD FOR DEFINING A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AN ACCOUNT AND A GROUP - Defining a relationship between an account and a group. Accounts corresponding to different products are linked together to create a group so that group processing can be performed at the group level while independent processing of the accounts is performed at the account level. The relationship between a dependent account and the group is specified by a dependent strategy. A dependent strategy specified group level processing options for the account. The relationships between the accounts and the group are flexible to accommodate changes in the status of the group cardholders. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222055 | System and Method for Creating Musical Works - In general, in one aspect, a method for creating a work, includes providing a first version of a work, and holding one or more contests for the development of one or more additions to the work. During the contests, contestants submit potential additions to the work, the submissions are evaluated, and one or more winning submissions selected. The winning submission is included in a new version of the work. The work may be distributed, and the proceeds of the distribution may be shared with the winner(s) of the one or more contests. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222056 | CONTROL METHOD COMBINING FUZZY LOGIC CONTROL WITH SLIDING MODE CONTROL FOR IDEAL DYNAMIC RESPONSES - The invention provides a novel control method combining fuzzy logic control with gain auto-tuning sliding mode control. A control error signal e(t) from the detection mechanism and an error change signal ce(t) are combined together as a sliding variable s(t)=ce(t)+λe(t) and used as the fuzzy input control variable. Using the control method, 2D fuzzy control rule is simplified into 1D fuzzy control rule through the sliding variable definition for enhancing the efficiency of computation and saving computation resources. Accordingly, both the quick transient response and steady state precision positioning can be achieved. The present method can overcome the disadvantages of current controller, which can not reach the desired transient and steady state responses simultaneously. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222057 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FUSING CONTEXT DATA - A system and method for fusing context data for use by context aware applications. The method includes the steps of receiving context data from a plurality of information sources; computing a quality measure for each input context value; organizing context values into one or more clusters, and assigning a single context value and a single quality measure to each cluster; and, selecting one or more clusters according to one or more criteria and aggregating the context values and quality measures of selected clusters to generate a single context value and quality single measure. The single context value and single quality measure are usable by a context aware application to avoid conflict and ambiguity among different information sources providing the context data. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222058 | Bayesian-network-based method and system for detection of clinical-laboratory errors - Embodiments of the present invention include methods and systems for analyzing clinical-laboratory results and data in order to detect erroneous clinical-laboratory results. Embodiments of the present invention employ Bayesian networks and modified Bayesian networks that are constructed using cleaned clinical-laboratory results into which various types of synthetic errors have been introduced and that are optimized using different, cleaned clinical-laboratory results into which synthetic errors have been introduced. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222059 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING DATA RECORDS - A computer implemented method and system for analysing a first set of data records where each data record comprises attribute values for one or more attributes, by expanding the first set of data records into a second set of data records by creating for at least one of the attributes of the first set of data records at least two redundant attributes with corresponding redundant attribute values, assigning different generalization rules to the at least two redundant attributes, and performing a generalization of the second set of data records by means of an attribute-oriented induction (AOI)-algorithm. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222060 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MINING TIME-CHANGING DATA STREAMS USING A DYNAMIC RULE CLASSIFIER HAVING LOW GRANULARITY - A dynamic rule classifier for mining a data stream includes at least one window for viewing data contained in the data stream and a set of rules for mining the data. Rules are added and the set of rules are updated by algorithms when an drift in a concept within the data occurs, causing unacceptable drops in classification accuracy. The dynamic rule classifier is also implemented as a method and a computer program product. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222061 | Adaptive Multivariate Model Construction - The present embodiment is able to find the optimal or near optimal variables composition of multivariate models by an evolutionary process within acceptable amount of time and resources that are less than using full variables permutation methodology. Subjected to any data, it adaptively identifies and constructs the most effective combination of the relevant variables to achieve one or more objectives. The objective could be for high explanatory power, high predictive power, response measure, or other objectives that the user defines. The present embodiment solves the sequential F-test problem by conducting non-sequential and non-linear search. The algorithm also solves partial F-test dilemma by evaluating all candidate variables membership intact, maintaining fidelity of full variables membership test throughout its permutation. Furthermore, the stochastic nature of the algorithm neutralizes the prejudices of manual decisions in variables identification and membership construction. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222062 | SUPERVISED RANK AGGREGATION BASED ON RANKINGS - A method and system for rank aggregation of entities based on supervised learning is provided. A rank aggregation system provides an order-based aggregation of rankings of entities by learning weights within an optimization framework for combining the rankings of the entities using labeled training data and the ordering of the individual rankings. The rank aggregation system is provided with multiple rankings of entities. The rank aggregation system is also provided with training data that indicates the relative ranking of pairs of entities. The rank aggregation system then learns weights for each of the ranking sources by attempting to optimize the difference between the relative rankings of pairs of entities using the weights and the relative rankings of pairs of entities of the training data. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222063 | Extensible mechanism for detecting duplicate search items - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with identifying and selectively deleting duplicate search results are described. One example system embodiment includes logic to receive an identity indicator from a search logic. The identity indicator is associated with a search item that the search logic determines to be relevant to a search request. The example system may also include logic to determine whether the search result associated with the identity indicator is a duplicate result based on comparing the identity indicator to another identity indicator associated with another search result. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222064 | Processes and Systems for Automated Collective Intelligence - The present invention relates to the field of collective intelligence. More specifically, to the collaborative acquisition of knowledge and the relationships among said knowledge and the application of acquired knowledge and relationships to solving problems. The present invention presents an interface to a community of users that will create nodes and relationships in an artificial neural network and then weight each node and relationship through votes from one or more users. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222065 | LEARNING AND ANALYSIS SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A system that automatically generates problem-specific neural networks for each of a plurality problems associated with an analyzed environment when there is sufficient data to do so for each such problem and that, in connection with generating a solution for each of the plurality of problems, selects which of the problem-specific neural networks associated with that problem to use in order to produce the solution. The system also retrains each neural network when appropriate. The system also generates new neural networks for each problem when it is appropriate to do so. In one implementation, a genetic algorithm is used to generate the new neural networks. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222066 | CALIBRATION AND PROFILE BASED SYNOPSES ERROR ESTIMIATION AND SYNOPSES RECONCILIATION - Apparatus, methods and computer code for estimating a synopsis error are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, one or more queries of a query workload are analyzed without running the analyzed queries. In some embodiments, the synopsis error is first estimated for a first memory allocation vector, and then, using intermediate or final results of the first estimated, estimated for a second memory allocation vector. In some embodiments, teachings related to estimating synopsis error are applied to the memory reconciliation problem. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222067 | PREDICTION METHOD OF NEAR FIELD PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY LINE FABRICATION USING BY THE COMBINATION OF TAGUCHI METHOD AND NEURAL NETWORK - A method of building a set of experimental prediction model that requires fewer experimental frequency, shorter prediction time and higher prediction accuracy by using the advantages of combining the experimental data of Taguchi method and neural network learning is disclosed. The error between the experimentally measured result of photolithography and the simulated result of the theoretical model of near field photolithography is set as an objective function of an inverse method for back calculating fiber probe aperture size, which is adopted in the following Taguchi experiment. The analytical result of Taguchi neural network model of the present invention proves that the Taguchi neural network model can provide more accurate prediction result than the conventional Taguchi network model, and at the same time, improve the demerit of requiring massive training examples of the conventional neural network. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222068 | Inferring Candidates that are Potentially Responsible for User-Perceptible Network Problems - Candidates that are potentially responsible for user-perceptible network problems may be inferred. In an example embodiment, a system includes an inference engine to produce a list of candidates that are potentially responsible for user-perceptible network problems, with the candidates being network components that may include both services and network elements. A response to a service request may be a non response, an incorrect response, an untimely correct response, or a timely correct response. The user-perceptible network problems may include the untimely correct response as well as the non response and the incorrect response. In another example embodiment, a method includes monitoring a network and producing a list of candidates that are potentially responsible for user-perceptible network problems. The candidates of the list may include both services and network elements of the monitored network. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222069 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A LOGICAL-MODEL BASED APPLICATION UNDERSTANDING AND TRANSFORMATION - Disclosed is a method of and a system for establishing a logical-model based understanding of a legacy application. The method comprises the steps of providing a physical data model of the legacy application, said physical data model having a plurality of physical elements; establishing a logical data model for the legacy application, said logical data model having a plurality of logical model elements; and establishing links between said logical model elements and said physical elements. One of said physical or logical elements is selected, and said links are used to identify all of the physical or logical elements that are linked to said selected one of said elements. The preferred system may include a component for browsing and navigating the physical data model, logical data model, or the links between them, a component to answer queries about the application expressed using the logical data model, and a component to create a relational data model to support the migration of data stored in legacy databases (including flat files) to relational databases. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222070 | ENHANCED RULE EXECUTION IN EXPERT SYSTEMS - A method for detection is presented. The method includes extracting data based upon one or more predefined rules. Further, the method includes preprocessing the extracted data based on the predefined rules to generate one or more rule groups. The method also includes instantiating one or more inference engines based on the generated rule groups. Additionally, the method includes processing the extracted data by a corresponding inference engine based on the predefined rules to generate processed data. Systems and computer-readable medium that afford functionality of the type defined by this method is also contemplated in conjunction with the present technique. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222071 | System and method for automatic distribution and storage of digital media - In general, aspects of the invention relate to the automatic distribution and storage of digital media. Specifically, the invention relates to the automatic distribution and storage of digital media in the home environment. In one embodiment, a system and method are provided for retrieving data objects from sources like digital media input devices and sending those objects to destination digital media input devices. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222072 | Analysing Documents - The text of a document is received and stored, it is analysed according to predetermined rules to identify pitfalls and features of the document, and a graphic displaying the pitfalls and features is created and displayed. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222073 | Loose coupling of pattern components - A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for generating an application is disclosed. A pattern module associated with an application pattern is provided. The pattern module includes a model of the application pattern, a design time component to provide content for the model, and a runtime component to execute the operation associated with the model based with the content. A set of dependencies among the model, the design time component, and the runtime component is determined. A set of interfaces is then generated to couple the model, the design time component, and the runtime component based on the set of dependencies. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222074 | Method or corresponding system employing templates for creating an organizational structure of knowledge - As the amount of knowledge availability to a user grows, user become overwhelmed with information from sources, such as Web pages, electronic documents, media files, or links to online syndication services. The present invention solves this problem by creating an information collection with efficient knowledge access. In particular, a process selects a collection template and allows a user to determine at least one attribute for the collection template. Next, using a user's intended activity (e.g., a construction project) the process obtains data from all available knowledge sources to include in a collection and creates the collection using the collection template, at least one attribute, and the data. Thus, the process creates a collection with information directed to an intended activity from a vast amount of resources. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222075 | AUTONOMIC RETENTION CLASSES - The embodiments of the invention provide methods, computer program products, etc. for autonomic retention classes when retaining data within storage devices. More specifically, a method of determining whether to retain data within at least one storage device begins by storing data items in at least one storage device. Furthermore, the method maintains access statistics for each of the data items, an age of each of the data items, and an administrator-defined importance value of each of the data items. Following this, a retention value is calculated for each of the data items based on the access statistics for each of the data items, the age of each of the data items, and the administrator-defined importance value of each of the data items. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222076 | Enabling Instant Productivity Functionality on Information Handling Systems - A method for enabling instant on access of productivity content on an information handling system. The method includes providing the information handling system with a first operating system partition and a second operating system partition wherein the first operating system partition is a main operating system partition and the second operating system partition is an instant on operating system partition, storing a synchronization management module within the first operating system partition, storing a productivity module within the second operating system partition, synchronizing productivity content stored on the first operating system partition with the productivity module via the synchronization management module, and accessing the synchronized productivity content via the productivity module of the second operating system partition. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222077 | SYSTEM FOR DOCUMENT DIGITIZATION - A system for digitizing a set of documents, the documents belonging to a domain. The system includes an input module for providing documents in electronic form, a digitization module for digitizing the documents provided by the input module, an image repository and digitization database system, the image repository and digitization database system including an image repository, at least one digitization database and at least one knowledge base, a knowledge crawler/builder module for receiving data from the digitization database and building the knowledge base, and a delivery module for providing digitized data. A process for digitizing a set of documents is also provided. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222078 | Architecture for Performing File System Checking on an Active File System - A system and method for performing File System checKing (FSCK) allows a file system to be accessed while the file system is being checked for consistency in the background. In the event that a file is accessed prior to having been checked for consistency by the background FSCK process, the background FSCK process is interrupted, and an in-context FSCK is performed on the accessed file. In addition, an in-context FSCK method and system is described which uses a snapshot block bitmap, FSCK block bitmap and FS block bitmap to check block consistency in the context of handling a block access to handle consistency and corruption issues as part of the file access. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222079 | Enterprise data as office content - Techniques for enterprise data as office content are described. An apparatus may comprise a client device having an application program, an insertion component and an update component. The insertion component may be arranged to insert source data elements from a data source into a document for the application program. The update component may be arranged to update the inserted data elements as the source data elements are modified. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222080 | Inferred index of circular tables in a database - A database system uses indexes to improve performance. The system can use one or more of the following: differentiated subfields for index clustering; set function calculations to reduce the amount of I/O; and/or using an inferred index in a circular table. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222081 | System and Method for Identification of Displays - A data structure ( | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222082 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An information processing device, an information processing method, and an information processing program capable of reducing the workload of a developer and human errors and easily customizing a display menu are disclosed. The method includes the steps of reading the display menu data stored in an HDD based on an instruction received by a CPU of an information processing device via an operations device, extracting each of plural menu elements, writing the extracted menu elements in a CSV file in CSV format to create a CSV file from the display menu data, and creating a location data file and an element definition file from the created CSV file. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222083 | SYSTEM FOR GENERATING PERMALINK OF MASH-UP MAP - A system and method for generating a unique link (i.e., map permalink) of mash-up map data including various information are provided. The system receives a request for generation of the map permalink of specific mash-up map data, and generates a map URL including map information in response to the request for generation of the map permalink. Also, the system generates at least one of an advertisement layer identifier, an additional service data identifier, and a user-generated data identifier, combines the generated identifier with the map URL, and stores the combined identifier together with related data. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222084 | DISPLAYING TEXT OF VIDEO IN BROWSERS ON A FRAME BY FRAME BASIS - A method, system, and computer program product for presenting text from multimedia data to a user is provided. In one embodiment, multimedia data containing associated text data is received by a data processing system. The associated text data is extracted from the multimedia data. The associated text data is then outputted without outputting moving images from the multimedia data. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222085 | Communication Profiles for Integrated Database Messaging System - Systems, methods and media for providing communication profiles for an integrated database messaging system are disclosed. Embodiments of the method may include receiving from a user of the database messaging system a request for one or more profiles and determining one or more profiles associated based on the attributes of each profile request by accessing a profile database. The one or more profiles may include an indication of a user of the database messaging system and an Internet Protocol (IP) address. Embodiments may also include providing the one or more determined profiles to the requesting user. Further embodiments may include receiving an indication of one or more changes to the profile database and modifying the profile database. The user may include a database administrator (DBA) or user of a database. Each profile may contain personal, organizational, contact, group or other types of information. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222086 | LIVE PROFILE - Systems and methods for reconstructing the state of a market are provided. Orders are arranged as a non-indexed collection of orders and may be stored in the cache memory of a processor. The physical locations of orders stored in the memory may correspond to the order in which they were received at a match engine. A computer device simulates the processing of orders between any time periods to reconstruct the activity state of an entity across a trading platform and one or more order books. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222087 | System and Method for Optimizing Query Access to a Database Comprising Hierarchically-Organized Data - An cost based optimizer optimizes access to at least a portion of hierarchically-organized documents, such as those formatted using eXtensible Markup Language (XML), by estimating a number of results produced by the access of the hierarchically-organized documents. Estimating the number of results comprises computing the cardinality of each operator executing query language expressions and further computing a sequence size of sequences of hierarchically-organized nodes produced by the query language expressions. Access to the hierarchically-organized documents is optimized using the structure of the query expression and/or path statistics involving the hierarchically-organized data. The cardinality and the sequence size are used to calculate a cost estimation for execution of alternate query execution plans. Based on the cost estimation, an optimal query execution plan is selected from among the alternate query execution plans. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222088 | Apparatus and Methods for Generating an Implicit Vote for a Media Item Based on User Behavior Relative to a Media Client - A method of generating an implicit vote for a media item based on user behavior may comprise recording information identifying a first set of user inputs to a media client associated with playing of a first media item, receiving and storing an explicit vote for the first media item, and storing information that correlates a user input from the first set of user inputs with the explicit vote. The first set of user inputs may comprise at least one user input. The method may comprise recording information identifying a second set of user inputs to the media client associated with playing of a second media item, wherein the second set of user inputs may comprise at least one user input matching the stored correlated user input. The method may comprise generating an implicit vote for the second media item based on the stored information correlating the stored correlated user input with the explicit vote. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222089 | Set function calculation in a database - A database system uses indexes to improve performance. The system can use one or more of the following: differentiated subfields for index clustering; set function calculations to reduce the amount of I/O; and/or using an inferred index in a circular table. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222090 | LOAD ESTIMATING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER LOAD ESTIMATING METHOD - A load estimating system which estimates a load of a database, includes a storage unit, a record number calculating module, and an access number calculating module. The storage unit includes structure information defining a structure of a table in said database, first distribution information indicating probability distribution of condition variables of a query for said table, and second distribution information indicating probability distribution of values in said table. The record number calculating module calculates the average number of selected records which meet conditions defined by-condition variables, based on said structure information, said first distribution information and said second distribution information. The access number calculating module calculates the number of block accesses for said query based on the average number of selected records. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222091 | Retrieving Documents Transitively Linked to an Initial Document - A method for creating a distinguishing identifier of a collection of data including a primary document and one or more auxiliary documents digests each auxiliary document to create a respective auxiliary document digest, and creates a distinguishing identifier by digesting a concatenation of the primary document with all auxiliary document digests. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222092 | AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING OPTIMIZATION FREQUENCIES OF QUERIES WITH PARAMETER MARKERS - A method and system for automatically determining optimization frequencies of queries having one or more parameter markers. Execution plans for a query are generated and each plan is associated with one or more bind value sets. An optimization frequency is selected based on differences between pairs of execution costs where one execution cost of a pair is a cost of executing the query with a bind value set via a first execution plan and the other execution cost of the pair is a cost of optimally executing the query with the bind value set via a second execution plan. The differences are based on maximum selectivity or cardinality distances associated with the bind value sets. If none of the differences exceeds a predefined value, the query is optimized once. If at least one of the differences exceeds the predefined value, the query is reoptimized each time the query is executed. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222093 | AUTOMATICALLY AND ADAPTIVELY DETERMINING EXECUTION PLANS FOR QUERIES WITH PARAMETER MARKERS - A method and system for automatically and adaptively determining query execution plans for parametric queries. A first classifier trained by an initial set of training points is generated. A query workload and/or database statistics are dynamically updated. A new set of training points is collected off-line. Using the new set of training points, the first classifier is modified into a second classifier. A database query is received at a runtime subsequent to the off-line phase. The query includes predicates having parameter markers bound to actual values. The predicates are associated with selectivities. A mapping of the selectivities into a plan determines the query execution plan. The determined query execution plan is included in an augmented set of training points, where the augmented set includes the initial set and the new set. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222094 | Apparatus and Method for Searching for Multiple Inexact Matching of Genetic Data or Information - A computer implemented method of searching genetic data or information for a plurality of query sequences in a set of target sequence fragments, allowing for mismatches at up to n sequence positions, including dividing each query sequence of the plurality of query sequences into n+1 query sequence segments and dividing each target fragment of the target sequence fragments into at least n+1 target sequence fragment segments, for each query sequence, constructing a first query group and a second query group by distributing query sequence segments there between such that at least n query sequence segments are contained in the second query group, constructing from each target fragment a first target group having a same distribution as the first query group, and for each query sequence, comparing the first query group with each first target group to identify potential matching target fragments. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222095 | Document management system - A document management system includes an image input unit that inputs a document as an electronic image; a character extraction unit that extracts character information from the input electronic image; a word extraction unit that extracts words from the character information; a document search unit that normalizes the extracted words, registers the normalized words in an index, and searches electronic images using the index; an attribute information generation unit that generates attribute information including the extracted words, positions and sizes of the extracted words, and the normalized words referring to the positions and sizes of corresponding extracted words; a search condition input unit that inputs a search keyword that is used by the document search unit when searching for a target electronic image; and a word highlighting unit that highlights the search keyword in the target electronic image found by the document search unit based on the attribute information. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222096 | DYNAMIC COMPUTATION OF IDENTITY-BASED ATTRIBUTES - Enterprise Identity Management systems control access to information derived from identity-related data stored in various data repositories. An identity-based management system can automatically and dynamically compute derived data when the source data changes. Rule-base tools can be used to compute derived data from arbitrary attribute-based datasets. Dynamic computation of identity-based attributes within information system servers allows data to be aggregated and normalized from multiple data sources deployed across an organization so that updated related information can be persisted and pushed to various servers in the organization. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222097 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR AN INLINE DISPLAY OF RELATED BLOG POSTINGS - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for an inline display of related blog postings. The apparatus, system, and method include searching a first blog for material common to the first blog and to a second blog and adding a link to the common material in the second blog. The link includes an interactive indicator in the second blog that displays a posting from the first blog that contains the common material in response to selection of the indicator. The apparatus, system, and method include marking each posting in the first blog that contains the common material and that has been displayed in the second blog as having been read. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222098 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING CONSOLIDATED ORDER INFORMATION - Exemplary embodiments relate to methods, systems, and computer program products for providing consolidated order information. Methods include receiving one or more order numbers corresponding to customer orders for network provider services. Information corresponding to the orders numbers are retrieved from a plurality of sources including order summary data, order detail data, customer data and network data. The retrieved information is stored as consolidated order data. A request for a report is received from a user. The request includes selection criteria specifying a subset of the consolidated order data. The report is created by applying the selection criteria to the consolidated order data and the report is transmitted to the user. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222099 | CONCORDANCE SEARCHING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Embodiments herein include a method of performing a computerized search of the electronic document based on a multi-term inclusive query supplied by the user. The process checks each search term match to determine if other terms in the query are in close enough proximity to allow the search term match to remain in the final search results that are eventually reported back to the user, even if such proximities span adjacent pages. More specifically, counts that span the adjacent pages comprise a count of items from a term on one page to a term on a second page adjacent to the first page so as to include a count of all terms between the terms in the counts that span adjacent pages of the printed publications. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222100 | INTERNET FORUM MANAGEMENT METHOD - A method of automatically managing an Internet forum is disclosed. Metatags are created from user searches. When a user enters text and searches for a particular topic a list of content or topics containing the text or relevant to the text are presented to the user. If the search text is new a metatag of the search text is created. If the text has been entered before, the metatag is updated to hyperlink to the current data and the popularity and content quantity are updated. A list of popular metatags is provided on the main page of the forum. The metatags are sorted according to their popularity with the most popular metatags at the top of the list and descending to less popular metatags. When a metatag is selected, content relevant to or associated with the metatag is displayed. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222101 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HANDLING A LET BINDING - An apparatus and method are disclosed for handling a LET binding used in a WHERE clause of an XQuery FLWOR expression during an XML pivot join procedure. The disclosed apparatus and method enable an XML pivot join procedure to accurately process a query and return one or more qualifying document. A logical expression within the WHERE clause is identified. Next steps of the logical expression are separated by logical operators. The LET binding is incorporated with each next step. The XQuery FLWOR expression is rewritten using the incorporations along with a FOR binding of the XQuery FLWOR expression to make a syntactically equivalent XPath query. Predicates of the LET binding may also be incorporated with the next steps, without altering the predicates. | 09-11-2008 |
