37th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 61 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100235284 | METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING AND USING TOKENS IN A TRANSACTION HANDLING SYSTEM - A method and systems for generating and using transaction tokens including a plurality of interfaces for communication over a network, the plurality of interfaces communicatively coupled to a plurality of information sending devices and a plurality of information receiving devices, at least one database including a token data table and a user profile table, the token data table storing at least one token, the at least one token having a user-defined value and a plurality of data fields, and a business software component communicatively coupled to the plurality of interfaces and the at least one database that is operative to receive at least one request from the plurality of interfaces, generate at least one token in response to the at least one request received from the plurality for interfaces, lock the at least one token generated in response to the received at least one request, and redeem the user-defined value of the locked at least one token. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235285 | GAME THEORETIC PRIORITIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for allocation among agents, comprising providing to at least two each having a respective wealth generation function adapted to generate a virtual currency; conducting an auction, having an auction outcome with respect to an auction transaction, in which each respective agent bids an amount of the generated virtual currency; and transferring an amount of the generated virtual currency in accordance with the auction outcome, in consideration of an auction transaction. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235286 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING TOKENS IN A TRANSACTION HANDLING SYSTEM - A method and system for generating tokens in a transaction handling system comprising creating at least one token on at least one server in the transaction handling system, the at least one token having a user-defined value and a plurality of data fields, each of the data fields representing data stored on the at least one server, acquiring the at least one token from the at least one server over a first communication network, and transmitting from a sending device the acquired at least one token to at least one receiving device over a second communication network. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235287 | METHOD FOR OUTSOURCING TECHNOLOGY SERVICES - A method of outsourcing technology. Metrics are determined to govern services by agreement between a client and an outsourcer. Services required by the client are selected from a fixed list of services and a quality for the selected service is determined, the selection and the quality being dependent on the metrics. The services within the fixed list of services are organised within groups and at least one service corresponds to a predetermined practice. An agreement is generated for the provision of each selected service, and the provision of each selected service is allocated to an appropriate technology service provider. Each technology service provider provides its allocated service according to the quality required and according to the corresponding practice. The services provided in conjunction are monitored and the quality of the services is adjusted or additional services are added from the list in response to the outcome of the monitoring. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235288 | E-COMMERCE USING SWAP - Some embodiments include a system that enables complex national and international multilateral swaps of goods and/or services over a network, wherein such transactions are carried out using an internal unit of account (IUA) combined with an automatic and secure credit authorization and a deposit routine. The system controls and tracks all accounts, swaps, trades and balances, and enables credit authorization, deposit interfaces for bank transfers, credit card transfers, and internet service providers, trading sites, and/or auction sites. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235289 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR AUTOMATED DOWNLOADING OF SOFTWARE, IN AN APPARATUS SUCH AS AN AIRCRAFT, INCLUDING THE UPDATING OF THE ASSOCIATED DOCUMENTATION - The invention in particular has as an object methods and devices for automated uploading of software, in a piece of equipment such as an aircraft, comprising the updating of the associated documentation. After having received ( | 2010-09-16 |
20100235290 | Method and apparatus for enabling purchasers of products to obtain return information and to initiate product returns via an on-line network connection - An electronic registration system facilitates authorized product returns and reduces the incidence of improper returns. A retailer sales associate is prompted to enter individual product identification information such as an individual serial number. This individual product identification information is then stored in a data base along with the date on which the product was sold and an appropriate UPC code, SKU number or manufacturer code. A check digit algorithm may be used to verify the serial number prior to storage. A sales receipt may be imprinted with at least the date of the transaction and the serial number. When a product is returned, the retailer may cross-reference the serial number on the product with that on the receipt to verify the sales receipt. Otherwise, the database may be searched for pertinent sales information. A customer may also access a return authorization engine via the Internet to obtain return approval, an authorization number, return instructions, etc. to reduce retailer hassle. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235291 | SELF-HELP INVENTION COMPUTER SYSTEM - Self-help system to support innovation. Depending on the implementation, there is a machine, a method for use, a method for making, and corresponding products produced thereby, as well as data structures, computer-readable media tangibly embodying program instructions, manufactures, and necessary intermediates of the foregoing. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235292 | Virtual world property disposition after real-world occurrence - A method and system provides transactions and arrangements in virtual world environments. A user can participate in transactions to acquire virtual property and related virtual rights. In some implementations, real-world and virtual parties can be involved in possible transfers of various types of virtual property and virtual property rights. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235293 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING STANDARDIZED CARBON EMISSION REDUCTION CREDITS - A method and apparatus for determining standardized carbon emission reduction credits is disclosed. General regional data and site-specific data, if available, are input into a carbon sequestration model to determine the approximate change in the level of carbon compounds stored in a media, such as soil, over a specified period of time. An uncertainty analysis is conducted on the results to quantify and normalize carbon emission reduction credits. Standardized carbon emission reduction credits may be compiled for trade and other carbon emission reduction credits are placed in reserve. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235294 | System and Methods for Multi-Dimension Top Down Negotiation - The present invention relates to systems and methods for multi-dimensional top down negotiations. A user supplies negotiated deal dimensions to an allocator. The allocator may also be able to set some of the dimension values to a default value. A line item generator may then perform transformational algorithms on the negotiated deal dimensions to generate line items. A line item override module may then receive user overrides for specific line items, and update the line items using the overrides. This update may include the recalculating of other line items affected by the override. A summarizer may generate a deal summary using the updated line items. A normalization engine may also normalize the deal summary to current market value to facilitate comparisons of the deal summary. The deal summary may include any of a blended rate per hour, an income, a cost, a product margin, and a net present value. Further, the deal summary may be broken down by geography, period and resource type. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235295 | IDENTIFYING ONE OR MORE HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS - Users may be interested in identifying healthcare providers consistent with their needs. Systems and methods for identifying and presenting one or more healthcare providers to a user are disclosed. Various different metrics may be used to calculate the relative appropriateness of healthcare providers for a user. In order to identify healthcare providers that are particularly appropriate for a user, the metrics used to calculate the relative appropriateness of a healthcare provider may be customizable on a per user basis. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235296 | FLOW COMPARISON PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An apparatus includes an extracting unit which specifies a most frequent occurrence position section regarding an event category of an event in a first flow data and associates a most frequent occurrence group including the most frequent occurrence position section and the event category, and a display unit which displays a node included in second flow data and an occurrence position section of the node and displays the event category and the most frequent occurrence group. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235297 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING FIDUCIARY COMPLIANCE WITH EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT PLAN GOVERNANCE REQUIREMENTS - An employee retirement plan Fiduciary Audit® questionnaire development, implementation, and reporting system which includes the following interrelated and interdependent web based processes: (1) question and related support development and distribution, (2) organization of questions into questionnaires, (3) assignment of people resources involved, and 4) production and distribution of reports to present findings. The processes occur interactively at three levels: (1) a Master Program level, (2) a Service Provider level, and a (3) Retirement Plan level. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235298 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYSING INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS CONSIDERING RETURN AND RISK - A method and apparatus is provided for use by an investor to analyze investments in a user's portfolio of investments. The method assists an investor in determining the proper mix of investments such as securities to hold in their investment portfolio to achieve an acceptable mix of investment risk and investment return. The investment risk and return data are analyzed and an investment portfolio is constructed that meets the investor's criteria. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235299 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHARACTERIZING THE KEY PROPERTIES AND ANALYZING THE FUTURE PERFORMANCE OF AN INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO - Prognostic and diagnostic information is determined about an investment portfolio through perturbing the investment portfolio with allocations to other sectors and reviewing the performance of the perturbed investment portfolios using historical data, and combining that with other factors. Relationships between one's investment portfolio and other assets, rights or liabilities can be identified by creating several modified portfolios each of which comprise a mix of the original investment portfolio and one or more of the other assets, rights or liabilities. The performance of these modified portfolios, as compared to the original portfolio over a historical period, indicates the correlation (or lack thereof) between these other assets, rights or liabilities and one's investment portfolio. By identifying these correlations, one can then take any desired action to modify one's portfolio to obtain the desired results. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235300 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-LAYER RISK ANALYSIS - A risk analysis method uses a multi-dimensional risk representation that allows a standard OLAP engine to perform analysis on multi-dimensional data corresponding to a portfolio of financial positions. The analysis includes context-dependent, heterogeneous aggregation functions. The multi-dimensional data is represented as a multi-layered multi-dimensional cube (“outer” cube), which consists of dimensions and cells. Each cell includes a set of coordinates and an inner multi-dimensional cube (“inner” cube). Dimensions of the inner cube include all dimensions required for aggregations. Dimensions of the outer cube include only dimensions needed for context (or reporting). An aggregation is performed on the set of measures of the inner cube based on a context for the aggregation provided by the outer cube. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235301 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY DETERMINING QUANTITY FOR RISK MANAGEMENT - A system and method for dynamically determining quantity for risk management are described. According to one example embodiment, as a trader positions an order icon at a desired price or price-derivative value on a graphical interface, an order quantity for the order is dynamically determined based on the order price and a selected risk management formula. A trader can change the price or the price-related value for one or more orders by moving the order icons relative to a price axis on a graphical interface. In such an embodiment, the initially calculated order quantity for each order will be dynamically recalculated based on the modified orders for the trading strategy. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235302 | System and Method for Displaying Highest and Lowest Traded Prices of Tradable Objects - A client terminal displays on a graphical interface a first indicator of a price associated with a lowest traded price of a tradable object during a predetermined period of time, a second indicator of a price associated with a highest traded price of the tradable object during the predetermined period of time, along with at least one quantity indicator associated with at least one order to buy/order the tradable object. The first indicator, the second indicator, and the at least one quantity indicator are displayed in relation to a static axis of price, and the client terminal dynamically updates the first and second indicator to new lowest and highest traded prices based on market updates received from an exchange. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235303 | Postal Meter Discount System and Method - A method to provide consolidated shipping information to a server of a carrier by which a package is to be shipped in exchange for a rebate, a discount, or both, is disclosed. The method includes receiving shipping criteria including destination address information and tracking/confirmation information for the package, creating shipping payment information for the package by a postal meter, and generating consolidated shipping information from the destination address information, the tracking/confirmation information, and the shipping payment. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235304 | Electricity use system in electric vehicles - The inventive concept is directed to a method of collecting highway user taxes from the use of an electric vehicle. The invention includes the steps of placing a revenue meter next to a regular meter. The revenue meter only records the amount of wattage being used to charge or recharge the battery in the electric vehicle. This is accomplished by using the revenue meter to relay a current of 110V AC to the vehicle. The vehicle has a computer that will divert the high voltage to a current inverter which inverts the high voltage to a low voltage prevalent in the vehicle. The low voltage is also converted to a DC current which is instrumental in recharging the battery. The computer will also signal to the revenue meter when the respective battery is fully charged. The revenue meter will be read by a meter reading person together with the main meter. The invoice conveyed to the customer will record the regular charges that were incurred through the use of electricity but will also have an added charge indicative of the prevailing highway use taxes. The power company would convey the thus collected taxes to the respective authorities. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235305 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ON-DEMAND DOCUMENT PROCESSING - A document processing method includes receiving, at a server with a network interface, electronic documents from a user. The server includes a software application adapted to recognize a class of electronic documents to which the electronic documents belong. The method also includes processing the electronic documents received from the user to extract data therefrom based on a recognition that the electronic documents belong to the class of electronic documents. The extracted data corresponds to a service being provided to the user. The method also includes automatically mapping the extracted data from the processed electronic documents to a data repository on the server. The data repository is accessible by the user through the network interface. The method also includes electronically generating output data based on the mapped data from the data repository to the user. The output data corresponds to the service being provided to the user. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235306 | ADAPTIVE TIMELOG SYSTEM - An adaptive time log system that includes computer based systems and methods for monitoring, recording categorizing and reporting user activity on a timeline basis is provided. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235307 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR USER-DRIVEN DYNAMIC GENERATION OF SEMANTIC NETWORKS AND MEDIA SYNTHESIS - This invention relates generally to classification systems. More particularly this invention relates to a system, method, and computer program to dynamically generate a domain of information synthesized by a classification system or semantic network. The invention discloses a method, system, and computer program providing a means by which an information store comprised of knowledge representations, such as a web site comprised of a plurality of web pages or a database comprised of a plurality of data instances, may be optimally organized and accessed based on relational links between ideas defined by one or more thoughts identified by an agent and one or more ideas embodied by the data instances. Such means is hereinafter referred to as a “thought network”. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235308 | TEXT ANALYSIS DEVICE AND METHOD AND PROGRAM - A text analysis device includes a storage unit configured to store opinions of users who participate in a discussion about a predetermined theme as text data and author information for specifying authors of the text data, a feature quantity data generation unit configured to generate feature quantity data of the text data stored in the storage unit, an observation time-series signal generation unit configured to generate observation time-series signals based on information obtained by performing a predetermined process with respect to the feature quantity data, a change point detection unit configured to detect a change point of the discussion based on the observation time-series signals, and an influence specifying unit configured to specify an opinion having influence on an opinion corresponding to the specified text data out of opinions of the discussion based on the detected change point and the author information. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235309 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING A LIGHTING SYSTEM BASED ON A TARGET LIGHT DISTRIBUTION - The invention relates to a method of controlling a lighting system with multiple controllable light sources | 2010-09-16 |
20100235310 | Temporally dynamic artificial neural networks - An apparatus, article and method containing an artificial neural network that, after training, produces new trainable nodes such that input data representative of a first event and input data representative of a second event both activate a subset of the new trainable nodes. The artificial neural network can generate an output that is influenced by the input data of both events. In various embodiments, the new trainable nodes are sequentially produced and show decreasing trainability over time such that, at a particular point in time, newer produced nodes are more trainable than earlier produced nodes. The artificial neural network can be included in various embodiments of methods, apparatus and articles for use in predicting or profiling events. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235311 | QUESTION AND ANSWER SEARCH - Exemplary methods, computer-readable media, and systems are presented for leveraging question-answering knowledge from community sites by complementing product search services with a search of questions, answers, reviews and other Internet accessible content including user-generated content. Product or service information is obtained by crawling Internet-accessible Web sites including community sites. An integrated index of such information is generated. A user is able to browse questions by product or service feature, by topic, by identified comparative questions, and by question ranking (for example, interestingness or popularity). | 2010-09-16 |
20100235312 | CREATING AN ALBUM - A system for creating an album is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes an image input configured to receive related images, an image memory coupled to image input, an image processor coupled to image memory, and an album output coupled to image processor. The image processor is configured to use game play with users to assign metadata labels to the related images and assign album layout rules based upon the story schema and metadata labels. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235313 | Media information analysis and recommendation platform - A hybrid approach for personalized recommendation of subject matter description is described, comprising: inputting the description into an analyzing engine, the analyzing engine performing the steps of: extracting at least one of metadata, ID and Title from the description; tokenizing the description to generate tokenized data; normalizing the tokenized data to produce Cast information; stemming the tokenized data to generate stemmed data; pattern matching the stemmed data to produce Genre information; word sense disambiguating the stemmed data to produce Feature information; tagging the word sense disambiguated data to produce Topic information; arriving a concise descriptor of the description. This information is probabilistically matched with at least one of: product placement information; customer profile information; clustering information; and collaborative filtering information; wherein the results are forwarded to a recommendation orchestrator to generate a personalized customer specific recommendation. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235314 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING AND INTERRELATING VIDEO DATA - A method for automatically organizing data into themes including the steps of retrieving electronic video data from at least one video data source, separating the electronic video data into discrete packages based on the content of the data, converting speech data in the electronic video data into text data, storing the text data in a temporary storage medium, querying the text data from a temporary storage medium using a computer-based query language, identifying themes within the text data using a computer program including an statistical probability based algorithm. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235315 | Systems and Methods for Address Intelligence - Systems and methods for determining the present status of at least one occupancy of one or more individuals based on one or more occupancy data sources are described. The techniques include obtaining the at least one occupancy of said one or more individuals from said one or more sources; computing a score of said at least one occupancy by a computer processor based on the currency and the relative trustworthiness of said one or more sources; and determining said present status of said at least one occupancy based on said computed score. The techniques can also include presenting the at least one occupancy in a user readable format. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235316 | SYSTEM, TOOLS, DEVICES AND A PROGRAM FOR DIABETES CARE - A method for diabetes care, the method (which also may be referred to as, involve or incorporate at least one of a tool, device or program) allowing for the characterization of the relevance of errors of parameters affecting glucose concentration on a postprandial glucose concentration outcome for a person with diabetes mellitusm, wherein the method involves at least one of sensing, determining, calculating, predicting, describing and communicating the effects of potential errors of parameters affecting glucose concentration on postprandial glucose concentration values within a clinically relevant glucose range. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235317 | DIVERSIFYING RECOMMENDATION RESULTS THROUGH EXPLANATION - Methods and apparatus for making recommendations of content items to users of computer systems include compiling a database relating a list of items and corresponding explanations; receiving from a user, through a computer user interface, a request for a recommendation; extracting from the database a preliminary list of items related to the request; identifying distances between the extracted items based on the explanation corresponding to each item; and identifying a subset of the preliminary list to form a recommendation list having a limited number of recommendation results with a desired balance of both high relevancy and high diversity relative to each other. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235318 | Terminal and Operation Confirmation Method - A terminal and an operation confirmation method are provided. The terminal includes an operation executing module and a decision judging module. The method includes an operation executing module operable to send an operation authorization request to the decision judging module, and a decision judging module operable to receive the operation authorization request, and obtain user authorization information according to the operation authorization request. The operation authorization response is sent to the operation executing module in response to the operation authorization request according to the user authorization information. In further embodiments, the method includes generating an operation authorization response according to user authorization information when an operation process comes to the step of seeking confirmation from the user. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235319 | Method and System for Converting Virtual Item - A method for converting a virtual item includes: obtaining a pre-configured virtual item converting probability from a database; obtaining a value of an original virtual item to be converted; and generating a new virtual item according to the value of the original virtual item and the pre-configured virtual item converting probability obtained from the database. Through the above solution, a new virtual item may be generated according to the value of the original virtual item and the pre-configured virtual item converting probability. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235320 | ENSURING COHERENCE BETWEEN GRAPHICS AND DISPLAY DOMAINS - A platform may comprise a core coherency domain, graphics coherency domain and a non-coherent domain. A graphics acceleration unit (GAU) of the graphics coherency domain may generate data units from an application and the data units may comprise display data units. The GAU may annotate the display data units with an annotation value before flushing the display data units to an on-die cache. The GAU may identify modified display data units among the display data units stored in the on-die cache and issue flush commands to cause flushing of the modified display data units from the on-die cache to a main memory. The display engine of the non-coherent domain may use the modified display data units stored in the main memory to render a display on a display device. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235321 | PROGRAMMING MODEL FOR SYNCHRONIZING BROWSER CACHES ACROSS DEVICES AND WEB SERVICES - A computer user may use a computing environment comprising a set of computers that respectively feature a web browser having a browser cache containing many types of data objects, including application resources and user-generated data files. However, the contents of a browser cache significantly contribute to the computing environment of a computer, and the computing environments presented by each computer may diverge, providing an inconsistent computing environment. Instead, the contents of browser caches of the computers comprising the computing environment may be synchronized across computers. Additionally, the browser cache may be synchronized with the other data objects of a computing environment (such as relevant portions of the filesystem); the synchronizing may be implemented as an out-of-browser process executing independently of the applications, and even when the browser is not executing; and the synchronization may be exposed through a programmatic access with which web applications may interact. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235322 | Methods and Systems for Sharing Information in a Supply Chain - Method and systems for sharing product data involved in a supply chain among a plurality of subscribers to an on-demand database is described. Data related to a product is received from a first subscriber and stored into a first section of the on-demand database reserved for the first subscriber. The first subscriber then communicates a request to share the product data with one or more second subscribers. Once the first subscriber receives an acceptance from the one or more second subscribers, the product data van be stored in a second section of the on-demand database reserved for the second subscriber. Changes made to the data associated with the product can be synchronized between the two subscribers. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235323 | Cooperative Grid Based Picture Archiving and Communication System - A Cooperative Grid Based Picture Archiving and Communication System (Grid PACS for short) is a multimedia (imaging) medical information archiving, communication and application system used in hospitals. Based on the existing PACS servers, workstations, or other networked multimedia image management systems, it adds and integrates grid-based network functionality into the existing image systems to form new grid-based image communication and management system. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235324 | Replication System Having the Capability to Accept Commands at a Standby-system Site before Completion of Updating thereof - A replication system rapidly switches from a normal-system site to a standby-system site in the event of a problem and reliably maintains functions, and moreover, reduces drops in performance. A first site provides system functions that accompany writing and reading of data. A relay transfer device receives update information from the first site, causes completion of processes for replication in the first site, and continuously executes processes for successively transferring the update information to a second site. The second site receives the update information of the first site and applies this update information to itself to retain a replica of the data of the first site. If, when executing a write request command or a read request command to provide at least a portion of the system functions, the second site has not yet retained the most recent data that are the target of the command, the second site acquires the necessary update information and then executes the command. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235325 | STORING LOSSLESS TRANSFORMS OF DATA - Techniques and environments that increase the convenience, efficiency and variety of cloud services are offered to clients. User data having an original representational format is losslessly transformed to form one or more alternate renditions having various representational formats based on the lossless transforms. The renditions, which may be pre-generated, can be stored on a network server instead of the identical user data to thereby reduce redundant computation and storage costs. In some cases both the renditions and the original use data may be stored. The original user data may be reconstructed, recreated, or restored using the alternate renditions. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235326 | METHOD FOR MIRRORING A LOG FILE BY THRESHOLD DRIVEN SYNCHRONIZATION - A method for of accelerating database log hardening using specific per block data protection and damage control is provided. A per write specification is implemented to determine when database log data is mirrored synchronously or asynchronously. Synchronous minoring is performed upon reaching a predetermined threshold, based on one or more parameters such as transaction value, both individual and cumulative, and the quantity of data written since the last synchronous minoring. As data is added to the database log, it is written specifying asynchronous minoring to the primary log file. Once a threshold is met, a write specifying synchronous minoring is performed to both the primary and secondary log files, thereby hardening the log file in both primary and secondary storage subsystem. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235327 | INTELLIGENT DELETION OF ELEMENTS TO MAINTAIN REFERENTIAL INTEGRITY OF DYNAMICALLY ASSEMBLED COMPONENTS IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A content management system (CMS) uses an element deletion mechanism to maintain referential integrity of dynamically assembled elements in a repository. Element properties such as probability, popularity and recent usage that are not explicit relationships between parent documents and child elements are logged. A deletion policy is then defined in terms of the logged element properties. When a request to delete an element is received, the deletion mechanism checks the logged properties against the deletion policy. If the element's logged properties satisfy the deletion policy, the element is deleted from the repository. If the element's logged properties do not satisfy the deletion policy, the element is not deleted. In this manner referential integrity may be enforced for elements that are dynamically assembled. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235328 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRACKING CONTENT PLAYBACK - An approach is provided for tracking played content that includes determining whether elapsed play time for particular content is greater than a threshold duration. Based on the determination that elapsed play time is greater than the threshold duration, data is stored. The data indicates the particular content is to be indicated in a list of played content. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235329 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF EMBEDDING SECOND CONTENT IN FIRST CONTENT - Apparatus and methods of aggregating content are disclosed. A data storage device includes a host interface, a controller coupled to the host interface, and a memory array coupled to the controller. The host interface is configured to enable the data storage device to be operatively coupled to the host device. First content includes a reference to a source of second content to be embedded in the first content. The first content is retrievable via access to a resource. Upon retrieval, the reference is replaced by the second content such that the second content is embedded in the first content. The controller is configured to receive data of the resource, such received data including the second content embedded in the first content. The controller is also configured to store the received data at the memory array and, when the data storage device is operatively coupled to the host device, provide the second content embedded in the first content to the host device in response to receiving a request for the first content. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235330 | Electronic linkage of associated data within the electronic medical record - The present invention provides a mechanism to define an association between different data elements from disparate sources of data and databases, and different database elements, and track that association over time. This mechanism track multiples related data elements throughout the continuum of an individual patient's medical record and identifies consistent data relationships across large patient populations. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235331 | User-determinable method and system for manipulating and displaying textual and graphical information - One or more aspects of the invention include transforming source data in order to display a work product. A plurality of rules relating to content manipulation of the source data include at least one rule relating to content selection and at least one rule relating to content compression. Source data for content manipulation may also be received. A selected portion of the source data and a compressed portion of the source data may be formed. The compressed portion may then be received and presented on a computer a work product. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235332 | APPARATUS AND METHOD TO DEDUPLICATE DATA - A method to deduplicate data by receiving a data set, setting a data chunk size, selecting a first stage deduplication algorithm, and selecting a second stage deduplication algorithm, where the first stage deduplication algorithm differs from the second stage deduplication algorithm. The method selects a data chunk, where that data chunk comprises all or a portion of the data set, performs a first stage deduplication analysis of the data chunk using the first stage deduplication algorithm. If the first stage deduplication analysis indicates duplicate data, then the method performs a second state deduplication analysis of said data chunk using the second stage deduplication algorithm to verify the data as duplicate. Only if both data deduplication analysis indicate duplicate data the data chunk is replaced by a deduplication stub or reference to the identical data chunk which is already stored. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235333 | APPARATUS AND METHOD TO SEQUENTIALLY DEDUPLICATE DATA - A method to sequentially deduplicate data, wherein the method receives a plurality of computer files, wherein each of the plurality of computer files comprises a label comprising a file name, a file type, a version number, and file size, and stores that plurality of computer files in a deduplication queue. The method then identifies a subset of the plurality of computer files, wherein each file of the subset comprises the same file name but a different version number, and wherein the subset comprises a maximum count of version numbers, and wherein the subset comprises a portion of the plurality of computer files. The method deduplicates the subset using a hash algorithm, and removes the subset from said deduplication queue. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235334 | TIME IN DATABASES AND APPLICATIONS OF DATABASES - A database having data entries with attributes having values that can vary over system time (the time according to a computer clock) and also over valid time (the start time and end time of an interval during which the values of the attributes are true). All logical operations of updates and deletes of values are performed by insert operations that insert new entries into the database, so that all old entries that were present at previous systems still exist and still include their previously-assigned start times and end times for the value of the attribute. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235335 | COLUMN-STORE DATABASE ARCHITECTURE UTILIZING POSITIONAL DELTA TREE UPDATE SYSTEM AND METHODS - A column-store database computer system responsive to database requests for the update and retrieval of data from within a stable data table providing for the storage of database tuples within a column-store organized database structure. A positional delta tree data structure is implemented in the memory space of the computer system and is operatively coupled in an update data transfer path between a database engine interface and the stable data table. The positional delta tree data structure includes a differential data storage layer operative to store differential update data values in positionally defined relative reference to database tuples stored by the stable data table. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235336 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING IMAGE FILES - A method and apparatus for effectively managing image files are provided. The apparatus acquires a second image if a link information input signal is input. If a person is recognized from the second image, text information corresponding to the recognized person may be added to link information of a first image. Also, an image of the second image may be added to the link information of the first image. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235337 | Meta-Document and Method Of Managing - A system includes a meta-document, i.e., a document including content information which has a set of document service requests associated with it. A document service is a process which uses a portion of the document content as a starting point to obtain other information pertaining to that content. A scheduler selects a document service request from the set, then initiates and manages managing communication with a service provider to satisfy the selected document service. Any results received from the selected document service are integrated into the document. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235338 | Method and/or System for Searching Network Content - In a preferred form, the present invention provides a method ( | 2010-09-16 |
20100235339 | Search Advice Systems and Methods - A computer-implemented method receives search optimization advice and applies the search optimization advice to a web page associated with a web site. The method generates a recommendation to modify the web page for improved search engine performance based on application of the search optimization advice. The recommendation to modify the web page is displayed proximate the web page content associated with the recommendation. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235340 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR KNOWLEDGE RESEARCH - Knowledge research and mapping system and method automatically construct a knowledge research map representing the researched topics, their inter-relationships, and related responses retrieved through the processing of, for example, a natural language or Boolean query that is automatically submitted via a knowledge search tool to a database. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235341 | Methods and Systems for Searching Using Spoken Input and User Context Information - Systems and methods for searching using spoken input and user context information are disclosed. In systems and methods according to embodiments of the invention, continuous speech natural language queries are accepted from a user using a client device. Speech processing tasks are divided between the client device and one or more server systems. Along with speech in compressed form, the client device transmits to the one or more server systems user context information, which is used by the one or more server systems to dynamically load one or more of a dictionary, a grammar, or a vocabulary. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235342 | TAGGING SYSTEM USING INTERNET SEARCH ENGINE - A method of acquiring tags using web search includes receiving a search query in a search engine, processing the search query and returning a list of candidate resources corresponding to the search query, determining a candidate resource out of the list of candidate resources, extracting tags from the search query, and tagging the candidate resource with the extracted tags. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235343 | Predicting Interestingness of Questions in Community Question Answering - Exemplary methods, computer-readable media, and systems are presented for learning to recommend questions and other user-generated submissions to community sites based on user ratings. The size of available training data is enlarged by taking into consideration questions without user ratings, which in turn benefits the learned model. Question or other user-generated submissions are obtained by crawling Internet-accessible Web sites including community sites. Questions and other submissions, even when not tagged, voted or indicated as “popular” or “interesting” by users are quantitatively indentified as “interesting.” | 2010-09-16 |
20100235344 | MECHANISM FOR UTILIZING PARTITIONING PRUNING TECHNIQUES FOR XML INDEXES - Techniques are provided for utilizing partition pruning for XML indexes. The computer-implemented method comprises storing XML documents in a document table, which is equi-partitioned with a corresponding index table, and wherein the partitioned document table and the partitioned index table can be searched using a query comprising a partitioning pruning directive. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235345 | INDIRECT DATABASE QUERIES WITH LARGE OLAP CUBES - A large OLAP cube includes data and dimensions not required for a particular query, or for a collection of queries. A response to a query is generated by using the large OLAP cube rather than using an OLAP cube tailored to the query, and rather than querying the relational database directly. The large OLAP cube may be created after identifying a set of frequently sought data and/or filters used in queries to the relational database. Data may be staged by creating a smaller OLAP cube with data extracted from the large OLAP cube. The cubes may then be queried, browsed, and used to prepare reports or generate flat files. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235346 | MULTI-TIERED SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING LARGE COLLECTIONS IN PARALLEL - The system includes a pre-retrieval predictor which determines which collection to submit the query to with a certain degree of confidence. The query is then submitted to either one collection, or multiple collections in parallel. When the results are returned, they are assessed and if they are deemed adequate they are shown to the user. If they are inadequate, the results from the smaller and larger collections are merged and shown to the user. Only if the predictor failed to send the query to more than one collection and the result is not adequate, the query is sent to other collections and executed in a sequential fashion. Overall, large scale searching can be accomplished much more efficiently with no degradation in the quality of the retrieved results and a small increase in processing cost. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235347 | TECHNIQUES FOR EXACT CARDINALITY QUERY OPTIMIZATION - An exact cardinality query optimization system and method for optimizing a query having a plurality of expressions to obtain a cardinality-optimal query execution plan for the query. Embodiments of the system and method use various techniques to shorten the time necessary to obtain the cardinality-optimal query execution plan, which contains the query execution plan when all cardinalities are exact. Embodiments of the system and method include a covering queries technique that leverages query execution feedback to obtain an unordered subset of relevant expressions for the query, an early termination technique that bounds the cardinality to determine whether the processing can be terminate before each of the expressions are executed, and an expressions ordering technique that finds an ordering of expressions that yields the greatest reduction in time to obtain the cardinality-optimal query execution plan. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235348 | LOADING AN INDEX WITH MINIMAL EFFECT ON AVAILABILITY OF APPLICATIONS USING THE CORRESPONDING TABLE - A database server provides a partitioned table with a corresponding locally partitioned index. When a request is made to load data into the table by an application, a table partition, along with a corresponding index partition, is created for the application. The corresponding index partition in marked as asynchronously maintained, allowing other index partitions to be used by the query optimizer in formulating query plans for other table partitions. Once the loading of data is complete, a synchronization operation is called with the result of conforming the data in the asynchronously maintained index partition with its corresponding table in which the data was loaded. Once the data in the corresponding table partition and the data in the asynchronously maintained index partition are synchronized, the asynchronously maintained index partition is marked as synchronously maintained. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235349 | PROGRESS ANALYZER FOR DATABASE QUERIES - A data processing system includes a query progress analyzer. The database processing system comprises a receiver that receives database queries including a target query directed to a database and a query analyzer. The query analyzer is coupled to the receiver and analyzes progress status of the target query based on comparison of measured target query resource usage to resource usage predicted from a query plan of the target query and measured system resource usage. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235350 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PHOTOGRAPH MAPPING - Systems and methods for photograph mapping are disclosed herein. In one embodiment a first digital image and at least one user-generated datum is received from at least one user. The first image is geographically organized according to the at least one datum. The first image is associated with at least one location and at least one direction. The first image is provided from a first person perspective to a user in response to a request. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235351 | Ranking Search Results - Content items and other entities may be ranked or organized according to a relevance to a user. Relevance may take into consideration recency, proximity, popularity, air time (e.g., of television shows) and the like. In one example, the popularity and age of a movie may be used to determine a relevance ranking. Popularity (i.e., entity rank) may be determined based on a variety of factors. In the movie example, popularity may be based on gross earnings, awards, nominations, votes and the like. According to one or more embodiments, entities may initially be categorized into relevance groupings based on popularity and/or other factors. Once categorized, the entities may be sorted within each grouping and later combined into a single ranked list. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235352 | COMPARISON WORKFLOW AUTOMATION BY REGISTRATION - A method for a rapid automated presentation of at least two radiological data sets of a patient, comprising, (a) automatically registering the data sets in 3D space; and (b) concurrently presenting substantially matching anatomical regions in each data set. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235353 | Method and Apparatus for Real Time Text Analysis and Text Navigation - An end user, by way of a submission interface, instructs an engine to select particular collections of documents to process. The engine processes all the text from within all the documents from within the selected collections. The result of the processing of such text is a distilled data set. Such distillate data set is accessed through APIs by a browser. Different views of the accessed distillate data set may be presented to the end user via the browser allowing them to more effectively assess the utility of the presented data and thereby responsively tune the presented data set with regard to their particular research task. One or more of such views may be used to create a new document from sentences, paragraphs, chapters or documents from the distillate data set that correspond to the one or more views for presentation to the end user. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235354 | COLLABORATIVE SEARCH ENGINE SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for implementing a collaborative search engine. A plurality of search tags associated with one or more search terms received from a client device associated with a user of a collaborative search engine are determined. A plurality of users of the collaborative search engine that are associated with information relevant to one or more of the search tags are identified. A time reference associated with the information associated with each of the users is determined. Search results are generated ranking the relevance of each of the plurality of users with respect to the search tags based, at least in part, on the relevance of the information associated with each of the users and the time reference associated with the information. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235355 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UNIFIED CLOUD MANAGEMENT - Method and system for managing workloads in a cloud computing environment comprising cloud services providers is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises, for each of the cloud services providers, monitoring a situation of the cloud services provider to obtain situation information for the cloud services provider and evaluating the obtained situation information and then deploying an workload to a selected one of the cloud services providers based at least in part on results of the evaluating. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235356 | ORGANIZATION OF SPATIAL SENSOR DATA - A measurement of an object from which data is collected may be determined. A scale of the object may be determined by determining the absolute or relative magnitude of the object in comparison to a magnitude of surrounding objects such as the total magnitude of the illustration. An appropriate container shape and size for the object may be determined by searching for a container size with a scale similar to the scale of the object. The object may be stored in a database with the appropriate container shape, size and the scale being attributes. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235357 | CAPACITY MANAGEMENT FOR DATA NETWORKS - A method of processing capacity information is disclosed. The capacity information relates to data capacity in a data network in which a consumer circuit is carried on, and consumes bandwidth made available by, a bearer circuit. The method comprises storing, in a network information database, an entity representing the bearer circuit, and associating capacity information with the bearer circuit entity specifying a first bandwidth quantity defining a quantity of bandwidth made available by the bearer circuit. Also stored is an entity representing the consumer circuit, and capacity information is associated with the consumer circuit entity specifying a second bandwidth quantity defining a quantity of bandwidth allocated to the consumer circuit. The consumer capacity information is then associated with the bearer capacity information in the database to indicate that the second bandwidth quantity allocated to the consumer circuit is to be consumed from the first bandwidth quantity made available by the bearer circuit. The resulting capacity model can be used to support service provisioning, service assurance and SLA management, network engineering and network planning processes. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235358 | TIME BASED PROFILE MANAGEMENT ON PALMTOP COMPUTER - A personal information manager or other software program, preferably residing within a palmtop computer, uses a time of day profile to establish a default data category. When the user wishes to enter or edit data or retrieve data, the personal information manager or other software program inspects a real-time clock to determine the time of day. The personal information manager or other software program then establishes a default category based upon the time of day profile established by the user. The user is given the opportunity to modify the default category at any time. In this manner, for example, the user can establish a default business category during business times in days and a personal category during personal times in days. This provides the advantage of correctly categorizing data in an automated manner under most circumstances. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235359 | FILE RETRIEVAL METHOD AND DEVICE AND TIME STREAM FILE PROCESSOR - A file retrieval method of a file allocation table (FAT) system is provided, which includes steps of: A: acquiring cluster numbers of all clusters of a file; B: sorting the cluster numbers to create a cluster number index table; and C: looking up the cluster number index table to obtain a cluster number of a file cluster to be retrieved, and acquiring a content of the file cluster to be retrieved from a physical storage address corresponding to the cluster number. A file retrieval device is further provided, which includes a central processing unit (CPU) and an address index storage unit. The address index storage unit stores a cluster number index table of sorted cluster numbers of all clusters of a file. The CPU is adapted to obtain a cluster number of a file cluster to be retrieved according to the cluster number index table during retrieving and acquire a content of the file cluster to be retrieved from a physical storage address corresponding to the cluster number. A time stream file processor is further provided. Therefore, a file retrieving speed is enhanced. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235360 | SYNCHRONIZED RELAY MESSAGING AND COORDINATED NETWORK PROCESSING USING SNMP - Methods, devices, and systems are provided for utilizing asynchronous messaging protocols, such as the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), to implement relay messaging through a network, gather data from and/or set parameters on a plurality of managed devices in a network through the issuance and transmission of a single SNMP message, and/or cause multiple managed devices to perform cooperative and coordinated computations through the issuance of a single SNMP message. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235361 | Optimizing Questionnaires - Online and other electronic surveys are increasingly being looked upon as highly useful and versatile tools for gauging popular opinions in a variety of areas. Challenges continually arise in terms of optimizing questionnaires so as to maximize their effectiveness in mapping trends among a population over time. There is broadly contemplated herein, in accordance with at least one embodiment, of the invention, the automation of the usage of value dependencies by way of exposing and eliminating redundancy in survey or questionnaire databases. Dynamically, updated information can be used to continuously evolve a selection of questions, while fairness can be ensured in this selection by averting a situation of continual non-selection of certain questions. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235362 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RANKING UNCERTAIN DATA IN A PROBABILISTIC DATABASE - Methods and apparatus for ranking uncertain data in a probabilistic database are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein comprises using a set of data tuples representing a plurality of possible data set instantiations associated with a respective plurality of instantiation probabilities to store non-deterministic data in a database, each data tuple corresponding to a set of possible data tuple instantiations, each data set instantiation realizable by selecting a respective data tuple instantiation for at least some of the data tuples, the method further comprising determining an expected rank for each data tuple included in at least a subset of the set of data tuples, the expected rank for a particular data tuple representing a combination of weighted component ranks of the particular data tuple, each component rank representing a ranking of the data tuple in a corresponding data set instantiation, each component ranking weighted by a respective instantiation probability. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235363 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING MULTIMEDIA FILES - A method for displaying multimedia files via an electronic device using a first display program and a second display program to classify and rank the multimedia files. The first display program classifies the multimedia files to one or more categorized groups according to a first feature of each image file, and ranks the multimedia files in each categorized group according to a second feature of each image file. The second display program classifies the multimedia files to one or more categorized groups according to the second feature of each image file, and ranks the multimedia files in each categorized group according to the first feature of each image file. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235364 | DATA DISPLAY SERVER, DATA DISPLAY METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF - The present invention relates to recommendation of items to a user for providing items more satisfying a user's request on the basis of new association. The present invention provides a data display server connected to a user terminal, which includes a posting database for storing posting data posted through the user terminal, a reference data base for storing reference data, relational metadata generating means which generates relational metadata making association between two pieces of reference data, and a relational database for storing the relational metadata. According to the arrangement, tight linking between reference data is made possible so that items more suitable for a user's preference can be recommended. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235365 | PS9110 Linear time sorting and constant time searching algorithms - System and methods are described for sorting information in order O(n) time using O(n) space and searching for information in that sorted list in order O( | 2010-09-16 |
20100235366 | DATA FILE AGGREGATION WITH RESPECT TO USER SPECIFIC TEMPORAL RANGE - A method and system of file aggregation is provided herein. Input is received in the form of a user specific temporal range, and is compared to a value within a temporal metadata field of a data file to determine an appropriate data set within which to compile the data file for presentation. In this way, data files within a particular data set may be selectively presented to a user. For example, if a user begins taking photos at 11 p.m. and continues until 2 a.m. the next day, the user may specify the photos taken between 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. are to be compiled into a single data set for presentation, as opposed to presenting the photos in data sets corresponding to different days. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235367 | CLASSIFICATION OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES BASED ON CONTENT - Classifying electronic mail (e-mail) based on content and predefined categories. Content of a received e-mail may be analyzed to determine one of a plurality of predefined categories into which the e-mail is classified. A relevancy score may also be calculated to indicate the strength of correlation between the e-mail and the category. A user may be allowed to sort e-mails in an e-mail box based on the category names and/or relevancy scores. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235368 | Multiple Related Event Handling Based on XML Encoded Event Handling Definitions - In a method and system for collecting event information, XML documents specifying event parsing logic for respective groups of related events are loaded. Representations for the parsing logic contained in the plurality of XML documents are stored in one or more parsing trees. Events are received, including events in a plurality of groups of events. The received events are processed in accordance with the event parsing logic in the one or more parsing trees. The received events are also processed in accordance with stored program instructions that are independent of the parsing logic for the plurality of groups of events. Event information for the received events is stored. The stored event information includes information determined in accordance with the event parsing logic in at least one or more parsing trees. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235369 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ON-DEMAND DOCUMENT PROCESSING FOR A MEDICAL OFFICE - A document processing method for a medical office includes receiving, at a server with a network interface, electronic documents from a medical office. The server includes a software application adapted to recognize an expected class of electronic documents corresponding to the medical office. The method also includes processing the electronic documents received from the medical office to extract data therefrom based on a recognition that the electronic documents belong to the expected class of electronic documents corresponding to the medical office. The method also includes automatically mapping the extracted data from the processed electronic documents to a data repository on the server. The data repository is accessible by the medical office through the network interface. The method also includes monitoring a behavior of the medical office based on access to the mapped data and electronically generating output data to the medical office based on the mapped data on the data repository and/or the monitored behavior of the medical office. The output data corresponds to operation of the medical office. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235370 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NON-OVERWRITING EXTENSIBLE MAPPING - A method for data mapping, and corresponding computer readable medium and data processing system. The method includes loading an input object in a data processing system, the input object including a plurality of elements. The method includes loading a mapping control file and processing the input object and the mapping control file to produce a result set including a plurality of result documents. The method includes combining multiple ones of the plurality of result documents according to inheritance data defined in the mapping control file to produce a combined result. The method includes storing the combined result in the data processing system. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235371 | DEFERRED CONTROL OF SURROGATE KEY GENERATION IN A DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING ARCHITECTURE - An event reporting system includes a computational component | 2010-09-16 |
20100235372 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA - Data processing apparatus comprising: a chunk store containing specimen data chunks | 2010-09-16 |
20100235373 | AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF COMPATIBLE APPLICATIONS AND ACCESSORIES - Embodiments of the present invention provide various communication techniques for communication between a mobile computing device and an accessory. An accessory protocol that is generic to the mobile computing device can be used for some communication. An application executing at the mobile computing device can communicate with the accessory using an application communication protocol. In some embodiments, the application communication protocol can be different from the accessory communication protocol. In other embodiments the application protocol may only be recognized by the application and the accessory. In some embodiments, messages conforming to an application protocol can be communicated between the application and the accessory by packaging the messages inside a message conforming to the accessory communication protocol. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235374 | Method and Systems for Efficient Delivery of Previously Stored Content - Systems and methods for reducing file sizes for files delivered over a network are disclosed. A method comprises receiving a first file comprising sequences of data; creating a hash table having entries corresponding to overlapping sequences of data; receiving a second file comprising sequences of data; comparing each of the sequences of data in the second file to the sequences of data in the hash table to determine sequences of data present in both the first and second files; and creating a third file comprising sequences of data from the second file and representations of locations and lengths of said sequences of data present in both the first and second files. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235375 | TEMPORAL SEARCH QUERY PERSONALIZATION - A user is made able to configure a search query to be responsive to temporal factors in order to adjust the search query to more accurately reflect the user's true information need. By adjusting the search query in this way, the user is more likely to receive satisfactory search results. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235376 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ON-DEMAND CONTENT MAPPING - An approach is provided for mapping content, such as audio files, to associated metadata about the content. The approach includes initiating a search for local metadata associated with particular content. It is determined whether the local metadata is insufficient. A request for metadata associated with the particular content is generated, if the local metadata is insufficient. The request is sent to a metadata service to obtain result data including metadata for the particular content. A search of the result data from the metadata service is initiated based on a description of the particular content to obtain most relevant metadata of the result data. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235377 | Memory Object Sharing for Just In Time Compiled Data - Just in time compiled code and other data within a runtime environment may be shared between multiple applications by identifying common data objects and allowing two or more applications to access the data objects. While at least one application is accessing the objects, the objects may remain in memory. When all applications have stopped accessing an object, the object may be removed from memory. One embodiment may use a server process to manage various operations to facilitate sharing between various applications, such as identifying objects that may be removed from memory and adding newly created data to a database of sharable data. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235378 | MEDICAL ASSESSMENT SUPPORT SYSTEM AND METHOD - The invention is directed to a medical assessment support system. In one embodiment, a user inputs a query that identifies an adverse event that a patient has experienced and the ailments (diseases, disorders, symptoms, conditions etc.) that the patient has experienced. In response, the system causes one or more database searches to be performed to identify one or more possible causes of the adverse event for a patient with the identified ailments. In another embodiment, the user inputs a combination of one or more drugs that a patient has taken and one or more ailments that the patient has experienced. The system operates to determine if there is an adverse event associated with the specified combination and reports any such adverse event to the user. The system retains a copy of any such report for comparison to later searches so as to avoid reporting the same possible adverse event multiple times. The system conducts any such search on a predetermined schedule or can do so at the request of the user. In another embodiment, the system integrates adverse event-drug-ailment associations with electronic medical record (EMR) systems to identify, to health care providers or users, patients who may be potentially at risk for those adverse events. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235379 | Web-based multimedia annotation system - A system that allows multimedia elements to be annotated by other multimedia and non-multimedia elements in a web based format. The multimedia elements can be video, audio, documents of different formats and any other format that may be delivered through the interne or private intranets. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235380 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - A data processing apparatus, a data processing method, and a data processing program for use in a data processing system is provided, the system including the data processing apparatus which includes an RDBMS storing information shared among a plurality of organizations and a business application execution apparatus which is employed when either one of the organizations uses the information stored in the RDBMS of the data processing apparatus and which is communicably connected to the data processing apparatus. An inherent item table managed by the data processing apparatus is kept unchanged even if an organization is added. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235381 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCESSING CONTENT BASED ON USER GEOLOCATION - An approach is provided for mapping content, such as audio files, to associated metadata about the content. The approach includes initiating a search for local metadata associated with particular content. It is determined whether the local metadata is insufficient. A request for metadata associated with the particular content is generated, if the local metadata is insufficient. The request is sent to a metadata service to obtain result data including metadata for the particular content. A search of the result data from the metadata service is initiated based on a description of the particular content to obtain most relevant metadata of the result data. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235382 | IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHORIZATION SYSTEM - An identification and authorization system is provided that utilizes a national ID database and a number of application-specific databases. The national ID database contains unique individual ID numbers linked to unique biometric codes. The application-specific databases contain an applicable portion of the same unique individual ID numbers that are contained in the national ID database. To complete a transaction, a credential such as an ID card is scanned and a biometric scan of the individual is completed. The transaction information and the individual ID number is sent to the appropriate application-specific database. Verification of identity is completed at the national ID database, which compares the biometric code of the biometric scan with the biometric code linked to the unique individual ID number. A response from the application-specific database and a response from the national ID database is sent to the scanning location. | 2010-09-16 |
20100235383 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND DATA MIGRATION-COMPATIBLE SEARCH SYSTEM - To reduce consumption of the data capacity of a data migration-source storage by information necessary for accessing entity data that has been migrated to the other storage, compared to that of the conventional system. Provided is a storage system including a first storage that is a migration-destination storage having stored therein entity data and first index information associated with the entity data, and a second storage that is a migration-source storage having stored therein link information for accessing the entity data and second index information associated with the link information, wherein the second index information includes the same hash value as a hash value included in the first index information. | 2010-09-16 |