39th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 67 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110238585 | COMPUTER ALGORITHMS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCT SAFETY - The invention comprises systems, methods and a computerized data management device for creating and using data relating to a medical or non-medical product or device to enhance the safety of the product or device. A vast amount of data regarding adverse events associated with a particular product or device is analyzed to identify new essential adverse events associated with the product or device. At least one database of new essential adverse event information is created and utilized, and new characteristics of or uses for the product or device related to the new essential adverse event information are determined. Adverse event information is gathered for a large number of population sub-groups. The system may also be programmed to incorporate the information into intellectual property and contract documents. Manufacturers and/or distributors can include the proprietary information in consumer safety information, which accompanies the product or device, or which is provided to patients, users, consumers and the like, or in the case of certain medical products or devices, to prescribers of those products or devices. The system and methods also provide for commercializing the essential adverse event information. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238586 | System, method and computer program for registering, tracking and communicating with real estate clients - A system, method, and computer program for creating a database and registering, tracking, and communicating with potential real estate buyers who visit an open house showing or are interested in a particular listing. The computer program executes on a laptop computer in a user friendly configuration at the open house where potential buyers, upon arrival, register by entering their information into the database via a software interface controlled by the program. Various administrative tools are available to the host real estate agent to follow-up, track and communicate with the potential buyer and/or his realtor. The potential buyer's real estate preferences are stored in the database so as to facilitate alerts and communications by the agent to the buyer regarding the status of the open house listing or other listings. The program also promotes periodic communication by the host agent with buyers over the years so as to generate future listings. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238587 | POLICY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - In a policy management system and method, managed services customer policies may be handled on a group or individual basis while taking advantage of information from monitoring and/or auditing of policies for similarly situated managed services customers. The policies may involve compliance standards in varied industries, such as the health care or financial industries. In one aspect, the policies may involve information technology (IT) security standards. In another aspect, the policies may involve both compliance standards and IT security standards. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238588 | REGISTRATION OF PRODUCT INFORMATION AND AUTHENTICITY CERTIFICATION - A method providing a social network of products and certificates of authenticity for products. The method includes providing a product provider interface for uploading product information; generating unique product identifiers and certificates of authenticity for the products; and distributing the unique product identifiers and the and certificates of authenticity to product providers. Additionally the method includes providing an end user interface that enables end users to register ownerships of products, keeping record of products registered to end users, providing to product providers end user information comprising information about products registered to end users, and making information about registered product ownerships available to other end users through the end user interface. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238589 | COMMODITY IDENTIFICATION, VERIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM AND METHODS OF USE - An efficient and scalable system for identifying a commodity having a specific, unique topocompositional profile has been developed that includes: enrolling at least one commodity in order to capture its topocompositional profile; matching the at least one commodity with a plurality of commodities in a commodity database; and integrating the topocompositional profile into a commodity grading system. A method of identifying a commodity having a specific, unique topocompositional profile, includes enrolling at least one commodity in order to capture its topocompositional profile; matching the at least one commodity with a plurality of commodities in a commodity database; and integrating the topocompositional profile into a commodity grading system. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238590 | REGISTRATION OF PRODUCT INFORMATION AND AUTHENTICITY CERTIFICATION - A method providing a social network of products and certificates of authenticity for products. The method includes providing a product provider interface for uploading product information; generating unique product identifiers and certificates of authenticity for the products; and distributing the unique product identifiers and the and certificates of authenticity to product providers. Additionally the method includes providing an end user interface that enables end users to register ownerships of products, keeping record of products registered to end users, providing to product providers end user information comprising information about products registered to end users, and making information about registered product ownerships available to other end users through the end user interface. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238591 | AUTOMATED PROFILE STANDARDIZATION AND COMPETENCY PROFILE GENERATION - A system and method are described for standardizing disparate personal profile information from different sources into a standardized competency based profile. The standardized competency profile enables equalized and fast candidate evaluation and selection across multiple sources for recruiting, education, training and career management purposes. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238592 | Method of and System for Preparing an Employee Benefits Plan - A system for preparing an employee benefits form for, e.g., ERISA includes a server in support of a website, and a processor in communication with the server and a memory. The memory includes a program for automatically preparing a benefits form and/or plan via the interne. The program includes instructions to the processor for retrieving previously filed data from a public database, converting and storing into a database, searching the database for a desired portion of the data, and populating the entries of the form. The website connection also allows a remote user to periodically update the benefit data. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238593 | Systems and Methods for Identifying Suspicious Orders - Various embodiments of the present invention generally relate to systems and methods for identifying suspicious orders for controlled substances based on performing checks on a received order using historical information on previous orders. According to various embodiments, these checks may include: (1) comparing the order quantity for the received order with the order quantity history for the customer who placed the order for the controlled substance; (2) comparing the order quantity and the days since the last order was shipped to the customer for the same controlled substance with the order quantity history and the days between orders for the particular customer and controlled substance; (3) comparing the order quantity with order quantity history for orders received by customers of the same type for the controlled substance; and (4) comparing the order quantity with order quantity history for any customer for the particular controlled substance. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238594 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED AND/OR ASSISTED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING RAPID EXECUTION OF, FOR EXAMPLE, LISTED OPTIONS CONTRACTS USING TOXICITY AND/OR PROFIT ANALYZERS - Methods and systems are provided which enable options broker-dealers to execute a listed options contract trade order while simultaneously eliminating (or at least reducing) exposure to the negative consequences associated with toxic (or likely toxic) trades in the options market. By using toxicity and/or profit analyzers, for example, to detect, track and respond to the level of toxic (or likely toxic) orders present in an option contract order flow, a broker dealer can reduce the level of risk inherent in serving as a counter-party in listed options transactions, and inherent in offering a rapid execution guarantee. Various alternative embodiments are also disclosed. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238595 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR ALLOCATING DIVIDENDS TO A BLOCK OF COMMON STOCK SHARES - A system, a method, and a computer readable medium for allocating dividends to a block of common stock shares are provided. The method includes selling a plurality of Class A common stock shares and a plurality of Class No-Dividend common stock shares associated with the company, that form the block of common stock shares. The method further includes determining a total dividend amount for the block of common stock shares. The method further includes allocating a first percentage of the total dividend amount to the plurality of Class A common stock shares, and allocating a second percentage of the total dividend amount to the plurality of Class No-Dividend common stock shares. The method further includes performing a share buyback of a predetermined number of Class No-Dividend common stock shares of the plurality of Class No-Dividend common stock shares equal to the second percentage of the total dividend amount. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238596 | TRANSACTION INFORMATION ROUTING - Apparatus and methods for routing transaction information. The apparatus and methods may involve using receiving the transaction information; retrieving from computer readable memory: (a) a transaction information routing rule; and (b) transaction service provider information; and formulating routing information based on the transaction information, the transaction service provider information and the routing rule. The apparatus and methods may identify prospective recipients, among participants in a transaction, for receipt of the transaction information. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238597 | Value builder method - Value Builder Method is a means for preserving principal within retirement, healthcare, education, savings, or other financial accounts to maximize the investment by paying for fees, taxes, and other miscellaneous expenses with separate funds from an outside source or account(s). Many accounts that provide, financial, education, retirement, investment and/or health savings are limited in how much an individual or group can contribute within a year. The amount that can be contributed within a year is a limited resource. Associated fees, taxes, and costs for an account(s) divert investment funds from the primary purpose of the account(s). Value Builder Method saves money within primary account now as well as earning compounded interest in the future. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238598 | Waste Recycling Systems, Processes, and Methods - The present invention refers to a system, process, and method of collecting, handling and processing paperboard based fast food service items for the production of pulp suitable for reuse into paper or paperboard and the contemporaneous recovery of the waterproofing film for the production of energy. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238599 | KESSMADE PET CARRIER SYSTEMS - A pet carrier comprising a cage-like enclosure having a top and a bottom, a front end and a rear end, a first side and a second side, a handle, four wheels, and a door. The upper half of the first side and of the second side of the cage-like enclosure comprises window-like ventilation openings which are covered by mesh and the door is receiveable within the rear end and comprises a locking mechanism. The handle is attached to the top of the cage-like enclosure. Two of the four wheels are attached to the bottom near the front end and two of the four wheels are attached to the bottom near the rear end of the cage-like enclosure. The cage-like enclosure simulates a vehicle-form such as for example a school bus or a fire truck. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238600 | ORGANIC WASTE DECOMPOSITION EXCHANGE SYSTEM - A method of managing organic waste decomposition includes providing an organic waste decomposition machine adapted to transform organic waste into decomposed material at a first site, collecting the decomposed material output by the organic waste decomposition machine, and transporting the decomposed material to a second site. The collecting and transporting the decomposed material are performed in exchange for providing the organic waste decomposition machine. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238601 | Method for Ice Distribution - The method is for distributing ice to the foodservice industry utilizing the existing foodservice infrastructure. This invention enables new markets and new revenue sources for the ice selling vendor based on utilizing the foodservice distribution infrastructure. This method allows the ice manufacturer to do business on a national or global scale. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238602 | METHOD FOR ENHANCED MARKETING OF VIBRATION MEDICINE PRODUCTS AND COACHING THEREFROM - It is provided a method for making and marketing vibration medicine products, which includes getting a vibration medicine product, packing the vibration medicine product into packed doses, attaching them to servings of a first product to get units of a second product, providing means for delivering guidance regarding an holistic significance of using the second product, and marketing the second product as being an improvement of the first product, being associated with the vibration medicine product, and using the second product being associated to the holistic significance. The method may include a step of changing the physical shape of the vibration medicine product to a different physical shape before packing into the plurality of packed doses, a liquid to powder, for example. Exemplary means for the delivering of guidance are by a written guiding label for affixing to a unit of the second product, or by a label having an integrated barcode for initiating a visit in a website presenting the guidance. The method may also include the steps of clients purchasing the second product, and following the guidance. Thus, the clients are being coached for self empowerment and spiritual evolvement. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238603 | System and Method for Predicting Events Via Dynamic Ontologies - Disclosed is a system and method for determining the probability of an event occurring. The method involves developing models relating a number of factors and variables. The factors and variables can be unique to a specified field of endeavor, such as military security or epidemiology. The models can be ontological models. A rule set is then utilized to relate certain variables in the models to a specific event. The rule set can be embodied in a computer model, such as a Bayesian-Network. The system permits a user to query a knowledge store or database to acquire referent values for the rule set. Thereafter, the referent values are used to populate the rule set and compute the probability of the event occurring. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238604 | COMPUTER-AIDED DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING SKIN COMPOSITIONS BASED ON TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINAL (TCM) PRINCIPLES - Computer-aided systems and methods are provided for determining the skin composition of a specific user according to Traditional Chinese Medicinal (TCM) principles by statistically analyzing biological and/or psychological information collected from such user, such as age, gender, bodily sensation, skin condition and complexion, sleep pattern, dietary habits, energy level, stress level, physical fitness and emotional wellness, so as to classify the skin composition of the user according to TCM principles but without employing a TCM practitioner. Preferably, the skin composition classification is indicative of Yin-Yang balance of the skin of the user or the lack thereof. The present systems and methods may further recommend to the user one or more topical skin care regimens and/or ingestible skin benefit products suitable for the skin composition of the specific user. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238605 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program - An information processing apparatus including: a label acquisition section that acquires a label assigned by a user to a content selected among plural contents; a user certainty factor setting section that sets a user certainty factor to the label assigned by the user; a label prediction learning section that performs label prediction learning; a label prediction section that predicts a label regarding a content to which the label is not assigned, and calculates a label certainty factor that refers to certainty of the predicted label; a user certainty factor prediction section that performs user certainty factor prediction learning, and predicts a user certainty factor of (regarding) the predicted label of (regarding) the content to which the label is not assigned; and a selection section that selects a content to be next assigned a label among contents to which labels are not assigned. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238606 | KERNEL REGRESSION SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - In training data, a similarity matrix is generated for each of types of data corresponding to different kernels, and graph Laplacians are formed individually from the similarity matrices. An entire graph Laplacian is defined as linear combination of the individual graph Laplacians with coupling constants. Observation variables and latent variables associated therewith are assumed to form normal distributions, and the coupling constants are assumed to form a gamma distribution. Then, on the basis of a variational Bayesian method, a variance of the observation variables and the coupling constants can be figured out with a reasonable computational cost. Once the variance of the observation variables and the coupling constants are figured out, a predictive distribution for any input data can be figured out by means of a Laplace approximation. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238607 | GRAPH EMBEDDING TECHNIQUES - Approaches to embedding source graphs into targets graphs in a computing system are disclosed. Such may be advantageously facilitate computation with computing systems that employ one or more analog processors, for example one or more quantum processors. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238608 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED INFORMATION RESOURCE RECOMMENDATION BASED ON GROUP BEHAVIORS - An approach is provided for suggesting information resources based on context, preferences, and group behavior of a community, culture, country, or combination thereof that the user belongs to. A recommendation application applies one or more rules to select a weight value for tokens within a language topology based upon group behaviors of a community, culture, country, or combination thereof that a user belongs to. The recommendation application adjusts semantic structures of a plurality of information resources based upon the weighted topology. The recommendation application suggests one or more of the information resources to the user based, at least in part, on the adjusted semantic structures. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238609 | Data enrichment apparatus and method of determining temporal access information - A data enrichment processing apparatus ( | 2011-09-29 |
20110238610 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT REASONING USING VIEW IN DBMS-BASED RDF TRIPLE STORE - An efficient reasoning system and method using a view in a DBMS-based RDF triple store are provided. The DBMS-based reasoning system includes a triple input unit for receiving a Resource Description Framework (RDF) triple. A triple examination unit examines whether the received triple conforms to RDFS subsumption relation entailment rules or Web Ontology Language (OWL) inverse relation rules. A view creation unit creates a table view when the received triple conforms to the RDFS subsumption relation entailment rules or the OWL inverse relation rules as a result of the examination. A triple storage unit stores the received triple. The DBMS-based triple store can efficiently perform reasoning based on rule rdfs7 or rdfs9, which is included in the RDFS subsumption relation entailment rules, and the OWL inverse relation rules. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238611 | PROBABILISTIC INFERENCE IN DIFFERENTIALLY PRIVATE SYSTEMS - Given that a differentially private mechanism has a known conditional distribution, probabilistic inference techniques may be used along with the known conditional distribution, and generated results from previously computed queries on private data, to generate a posterior distribution for the differentially private mechanism used by the system. The generated posterior distribution may be used to describe the probability of every possible result being the correct result. The probability may then be used to qualify conclusions or calculations that may depend on the returned result. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238612 | MULTI-FACTOR PROBABILISTIC MODEL FOR EVALUATING USER INPUT - A multi-factor probabilistic model evaluates user input to determine if the user input was intended for an on-screen user interface control. When user input is received, a probability is computed that the user input was intended for each on-screen user interface control. The user input is then associated with the user interface control that has the highest computed probability. The probability that user input was intended for each user interface control may be computed utilizing a multitude of factors including the probability that the user input is near each user interface control, the probability that the motion of the user input is consistent with the user interface control, the probability that the shape of the user input is consistent with the user interface control, and that the size of the user input is consistent with the user interface control. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238613 | COMPARING DATA SERIES ASSOCIATED WITH TWO SYSTEMS TO IDENTIFY HIDDEN SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THEM - A method that includes: sampling a plurality of parameters associated with a first and a second system to yield a first and a second set of data series, respectively, each data series being associated with samples of a respective parameter; applying, for each two respective data series, a transformation associated with a specified order selected from a plurality of ordered transformations, such that the selected transformation is applied repeatedly to at least one of the two respective data series, wherein, in each repeated application, the transformation is assigned with a different value of a transformation parameter; determining, for each parameter, a one of the plurality of transformation parameters for which the correlation level of the two respective time series is above a specified value; and repeating the applying and the determining with a transformation that is associated with a higher order of the ordered transformations. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238614 | AI PLANNING BASED QUASI-MONTECARLO SIMULATION METHOD FOR PROBABILISTIC PLANNING - A computer-based method and system for AI planning based quasi-Monte Carlo simulation for probabilistic planning are provided. The method includes generating a set of possible actions for an initial state, generating a set of sample future outcomes, generating solutions for each of the sample future outcomes, using an AI planner, generating a set of future outcome solutions that are low probability and high-impact, combining the solutions generated from each of the sample future outcomes with the future outcome solutions generated by the AI Planner into an aggregated set of future outcome solutions, analyzing the aggregated set of future outcome solutions, selecting a best action based at least partially on the analysis of the aggregated set of future outcome solutions, and outputting the selected best action to computer memory. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238615 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREND AWARE SELF-CORRECTING ENTITY RELATIONSHIP EXTRACTION - Methods and systems for trend aware self-correcting entity relationship extraction are disclosed. For example, a method can include receiving a selected entity, determining a plurality of entities related to the selected entity, determining a plurality of most probable entities, calculating relevance scores, and displaying a subset of the plurality of most probable entities. The selected entity can be received on a network-based transaction system. The plurality of entities related to the selected entity can be determined based on a relationship score. The relationship score can represent navigation transitions, aggregated over time, between the selected entity and each of the plurality of entities. The plurality of most probable entities can be determined based on probabilities. Relevance scores can be calculated for each of the plurality of most probable entities. Finally, the subset of the plurality of most probable entities to be displayed can be determined according to the relevance scores. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238616 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING OUTCOMES IN ENTERPRISE LEVEL PROCESSES - A method and system for using a data warehouse to improve results of enterprise level processes are provided. The data warehouse typically includes industry-wide empirical data relating to corresponding operational practices, metrics, and outcomes. The method focuses on actual process results by taking a holistic, end-to-end view of the process in conjunction with using the data in the data warehouse to enable effective process improvements. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238617 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - A document management apparatus includes a document storing portion to store a document, a designated part accepting portion to accept any part designated by a user within the stored document as a designated part, an associating portion to associate the accepted designated part with a notification destination, an altering portion to alter the stored document, and a notifying portion to notify the notification destination associated with the designated part when at least a portion of an altered part altered within the stored document by the altering portion is included in the designated part. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238618 | Medical Collaboration System and Method - Some embodiments of the invention provide a method of medical collaboration. Some embodiments include a server application receiving and storing an image via an uploading application. In some embodiments, the image can be stored in a database, and upon receiving a request to view the image from a plurality of client applications, the image can be transmitted to the plurality of client applications so that each of the client applications can display the image. Some embodiments can include displaying an application interface on each of the plurality of client applications substantially simultaneously with the image. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238619 | RECONCILING ADDRESSES - A device may include a memory, line cards, and a processor. The memory may include an address database for storing sub-location addresses. The line cards may be configured to communicate with other devices. The processor may be configured to receive a request to reconcile physical addresses from a network device, retrieve sub-location addresses from the database based on the request, determine whether each of the sub-location addresses can be deleted from the database based on association between the sub-location address and a physical device, and, for each of the sub-location addresses, delete the sub-location address from the database based on the determination. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238620 | DATA TRANSFER BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND DATABASES - To facilitate data transfer between two databases, a transfer machine accesses both databases and finds matching records. The transfer machine determines and stores a match status of a record in one database. The match status indicates whether the record corresponds to at least one of the records in the other database, and if so, which record or records in the other database correspond to the record. If the match status indicates that the record matches a record in the other database, the transfer machine determines which record is current and updates the other record. If the match status indicates that a record has no match in the other database, the transfer machine adds a copy of the record to the other database. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238621 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVE DATA REPLICATION - Systems and methods for performing data replication are disclosed. Determining whether to update replicated data typically involves comparison of readily obtainable attributes of a given source file and its corresponding replicated file. Such attributes can be obtained from, for example, metadata. In certain situations, an additional assessment of the source and replicated files can be beneficial. For example, if integrity of an existing replicated file's content is maintained, one may not want to re-replicate the corresponding source file. For large source files, such a decision can provide substantial reductions in expenditures of available computing and network resources. In certain embodiments, a threshold for identifying such large files can be based on one or more operating parameters such as network type and available bandwidth. In certain embodiments, replication file's integrity can be checked by calculating and comparing checksums for the replication file and its corresponding source file. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238622 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ASSOCIATING A RECORD WITH AN ACCOUNT FROM AN ON-DEMAND DATABASE SYSTEM - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for associating a record with an account from an on-demand database system. These mechanisms and methods for associating a record with an account from an on-demand database system can enable improved synchronization between an on-demand database system and a software element separate from the on-demand database system, etc. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238623 | EFFICIENT POINT-TO-MULTIPOINT DATA RECONCILIATION - Efficient reconciliation of different versions of a target file or dataset can be facilitated using a hash hierarchy of a master version of the dataset. Each level of the hash hierarchy has hashes of blocks of the master version that may be sub-blocks of the hashes in the level above. The top level of the hash hierarchy, having the hashes of the largest blocks of the master, may be transmitted on a first communication channel, possibly a one-way or broadcast communication channel. Streams of encodings of each lower level of the hash hierarchy may be transmitted on respective communication channels. The encodings for a level of the hierarchy may be combinations, such as random linear combinations, of the hashes of that level. A receiver with a target dataset can receive the top level hashes from the first channel and use them to determine which lower hashes are needed to identify parts of the master missing from the target. The encodings can be used to help obtain needed lower level hashes that can be used to more finely identify missing parts. Different receivers may not have to wait for a particular piece of information about the master. Rather, any received information (e.g. encoding) about the master will most likely allow any receiver to advance its understanding of the master dataset. Receivers will usually not have to wait for delivery of a particular hash in the hierarchy. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238624 | SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATING SERVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - A system for integrating service management systems includes an interface and a processor. The processor may be operative to monitor a first service management system to detect a first system event, and monitor a second service management system to detect a second system event. The processor may retrieve first information from the first database, transform first information into a second system request message, and provide second system request message to the second service management system, responsive to detecting the first system event. The processor may retrieve a data update from second database, transform the data update into a first system update message, and provide the first system update message to the first service management system, responsive to detecting the second system event. The processor may replicate the first database in globally distributed databases, when the first system event corresponds to replication of the first database. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238625 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ACQUIRING BACKUP IN AN INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Provided is an information processing system including a plurality of nodes | 2011-09-29 |
20110238626 | AUTOMATIC USER DEVICE BACKUP - A user device connects to a global server via a public network and to a local server via a private network. The user device is configured to store information and preferences, where the preferences include information regarding a type of backup permitted by a user of the user device; determine that the preferences permit a local backup to the local server; determine whether a connection, to the local server, can be established, via the private network, based on the determination that the preferences permit the local backup; send at least some of the information to the local server and via the connection through the private network, when the connection to the local server can be established; and send, the at least some of the information to the local server, via the global server and the public network, when the connection to the local server cannot be established. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238627 | ONSITE BACKUP FOR THIRD PARTY INTERNET-BASED SYSTEMS - A system for onsite backup of internet-based data is provided. The system includes a central computer, a client computer, a communications link between the central computer and the Internet, and a communications link between the client computer and the Internet. The system also includes at least one database containing a plurality of data records accessible by the central computer, each data record containing a client identification number. Software executing on the central computer receives a data backup request, and software executing on the central computer transmits the data backup to the client computer. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238628 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND PRODUCTS FOR DATA PRESERVATION - A method implementable by an electronic system comprises identifying an event corresponding to a data set, the data set being of a type of a plurality of data-set types; identifying the type of the data set; identifying an association between the type of the data set and an entity of a plurality of entities; and instructing the entity to perform an action with respect to the data set. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238629 | UNCORRECTABLE ERROR HANDLING SCHEMES FOR NON-VOLATILE MEMORIES - Systems and methods are provided for handling uncorrectable errors in a non-volatile memory (“NVM”), such as flash memory, during a garbage collection operation. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238630 | DATABASE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM WITH DATABASE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON - A database management apparatus is provided with a setting unit that receives a snapshot request and records information indicating an extraction range to a memory, an extraction unit that sequentially extracts records and records the extracted records to another area, a monitoring unit that records information indicating an extraction-completed area and an extraction-remaining area, an update unit that judges whether a record targeted by an update instruction for update by a subsequent transaction is in the extraction-completed area, updates the update target record in the extraction-completed area if in the extraction-completed area, and records a map of the update target record in the extraction-remaining area to an area outside the extraction range and updates the map if in the extraction-remaining area, and a restore unit that updates the update target record to be the same as the map, after extraction of the update target record is completed. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238631 | SUBMISSION OF METADATA CONTENT AND MEDIA CONTENT TO A MEDIA DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - The disclosed embodiments related generally to the submission of metadata content and media content to a media distribution system. The media content can include, for example, audio, video, image, or podcast data. In accordance with one embodiment, a client submitting metadata content can validate the metadata content prior to submission of the metadata content and/or associated media content. A media distribution system receiving metadata content can also validate the metadata content. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238632 | VALIDATING AGGREGATE DOCUMENTS - Embodiments described herein are directed to validating an aggregate document. An instance signature can be generated for a first instance of a data page retrieved for inclusion in the aggregate document and can be compared to a baseline signature associated with a second instance of the data page. A similarity value can be calculated in response to the comparison. The similarity value indicates a degree of similarity between the first instance and the second instance of the data page. Based on the similarity value it can be determined whether to delete or bypass the data page in the aggregate document. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238633 | ELECTRONIC FILE COMPARATOR - The invention concerns a method of comparing by a comparator tool a pair of electronic data files each comprising a plurality of data elements, the method comprising: identifying at least one data element in each of said files; replacing the values of said at least one identified data elements in each of said files by a same reference value; comparing the files to detect differences between values of the data elements; and generating an output report indicating said differences. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238634 | STORAGE APPARATUS WHICH ELIMINATES DUPLICATED DATA IN COOPERATION WITH HOST APPARATUS, STORAGE SYSTEM WITH THE STORAGE APPARATUS, AND DEDUPLICATION METHOD FOR THE SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, a storage apparatus includes a first storage unit, a second storage unit and a control module. The control module stores the address of a block data item and a block identifier unique to the block data item, included in a write request, in the second storage unit such that the address and the block identifier are associated with each other when a request to specify the writing of data including the block data item into the storage apparatus has been generated at a host apparatus and when the host apparatus has transmitted the write request because the data item has coincided with any one of the block data items stored in the cache of the host apparatus. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238635 | Combining Hash-Based Duplication with Sub-Block Differencing to Deduplicate Data - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing data; partitioning the data into sub-blocks; determining whether a first one of the sub-blocks is identical to another one of the sub-blocks or similar to another one of the sub-blocks; if the first one of the sub-blocks is identical to another one of the sub-blocks, applying by the one or more computer systems hash-based deduplication to storage of the first one of the sub-blocks with respect to the other one of the sub-blocks; and, if the first one of the sub-blocks is similar to another one of the sub-blocks, applying by the one or more computer systems sub-block differencing to storage of the first one of the sub-blocks with respect to the other one of the sub-blocks. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238636 | DATA CONVERSION DEVICE, DATA CONVERSION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is realized a data conversion device that performs generation of a hash value with improved analysis resistance and a high degree of safety. There are provided a stirring processing section performing a data stirring process on input data; and a compression processing section performing a data compression process on input data including data segments which are divisions of message data, the message data being a target of a data conversion. Part of multi-stage compression subsections is configured to perform a data compression process based on both of output of the stirring processing section and the data segments in the message data. There is provided such a configuration that the stirring process is executed at least on fixed timing of a compression processing round of plural rounds and thus, there is realized a data conversion device that performs generation of a hash value with improved analysis resistance and a high degree of safety. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238637 | Statistical Identification of Instances During Reconciliation Process - A system for reconciling object for a configuration management databases employs statistical rules to reduce the amount of manual identification required by conventional reconciliation techniques. As users manually identify matches between source and target datasets, statistical rules are developed based on the criteria used for matching. Those statistical rules are then used for future matching. A threshold value is adjusted as the statistical rules are used, incrementing the threshold value when the rule successfully matches source and target objects. If the threshold value exceeds a predetermined acceptance value, the system may automatically accept a match made by a statistical rule. Otherwise, suggestions of possibly applicable rules may be presented to a user, who may use the suggested rules to match objects, causing adjustment of the threshold value associated with the suggested rules used. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238638 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OBTAINING AND CORRECTING AN INDEX RECORD FOR A VIRTUAL STORAGE ACCESS METHOD KEYED SEQUENTIAL DATA SET - According to one embodiment, a computer program product includes a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith. The code is configured to: receive an index record including descriptions of data records, and determine if the index record is valid. For a valid index record, code is configured to locate a desired index entry from the valid index record, and to retrieve a last index entry of the valid index record. Also included in the computer program product is code configured to: read all data records to be described in a corrected index record, store a key and a location for each of the read data records, sort the read data records sequentially by key, create the corrected index record for all the read data records, and store the corrected index record. Other systems, computer program products, and methods are described as well. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238639 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - When accepting a write request including a data, an apparatus | 2011-09-29 |
20110238640 | Small Footprint Medical Information Transfer Protocol Stack - A method of communicating information includes receiving a data stream from the host computer, the data stream including a plurality of bytes, one or more bytes of the plurality of bytes being associated with obtaining medical related information, and parsing one or more bytes in the data stream at the sensor device. As a result of parsing the one or more bytes, the method includes identifying a type of medical related information, obtaining the medical related information from the sensor device, and sending the medical related information to the host computer. The parsing of the one or more bytes in the data stream is performed using a single pass through the data stream, one or more data validity checks being performed during the single pass, the medical related information being obtained after the data stream is parsed in the single pass through the data stream. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238641 | System with multiple conditional commit databases - A system for processing a transaction is disclosed. The system comprises a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to check a condition using data in a first database, wherein the data is associated with a transaction, wherein the data in the first database is latched before checking the condition and is unlatched after checking the condition. The processor is further configured to indicate to a second database to check the condition using data in the second database, wherein the data is associated with the transaction. The data in the second database is latched before checking the condition and is unlatched after checking the condition. The memory is coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238642 | Adaptive Relational Database Access - An approach is provided that receives an alteration request to mark a selected column in a database table as an unused column. A database control table is then updated to indicate that the selected column is unused. After the database control table is updated, when a read request is received for the selected column, the same data is returned for the selected column for each row being read and this data is not stored in the database table. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238643 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING A SEARCH RANKING USING POPULATION INFORMATION - Systems and methods that improve search rankings for a search query by using data associated with queries related to the search query are described. In one aspect, a search query is received, a population associated with the search query is determined, an article (such as a webpage) associated with the search query is determined, and a ranking score for the article based at least in part on data associated with the population is determined. Algorithms and types of data associated with a population useful in carrying out such systems and methods are described. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238644 | Using Anchor Text With Hyperlink Structures for Web Searches - This document describes tools for adjusting anchor text weight to provide more relevant search engine results. Specifically, these tools take advantage of a site-relationship model to consider relationships not only between an anchor text source site and a destination page but also relationships between multiple anchor text source sites to improve web searches. Consideration of these relationships aids in determining a new an anchor text weight, which in turn results in more relevant search results. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238645 | TRAFFIC DRIVER FOR SUGGESTING STORES - A system and method for providing a suggested store at or through which to purchase a product or service. When a user enters a query for a product or service into a user interface, the system may use the query as a search argument to search files to find one or more pictures illustrating information about a product or service represented by the query. The picture could illustrate where the queried product or service may be purchased. Auto-complete processes may also be used to process the query as it is being entered, to generate an auto-suggestion key word based on fewer than all the letters of the query, to use as a search argument for the search. Both the query and the auto-suggestion key word may be used as search arguments to find the relevant picture in a variety of search logic sequences to provide the picture to the user. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238646 | SYSTEM AND/OR METHOD FOR LINKING NETWORK CONTENT - The present invention provides a system ( | 2011-09-29 |
20110238647 | SYSTEM FOR EVENT-BASED INTELLIGENT-TARGETING - An event-based intelligent targeting engine is capable of delivering highly relevant content, including, but not limited to, advertisements, alerts, messages, notifications, warnings, signals, machine-to-machine (M2M) telemetry, entertainment/media, and any communications thereof, etc. based on real-time situations (i.e., observed events) of a user as well as, historical preferences both explicitly stated or observed in behavior including demographics, psychographics, and sociographics. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238648 | PREDICTING AND USING SEARCH ENGINE SWITCHING BEHAVIOR - Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to predicting and using search engine switching behavior. In aspects, switching components receive a representation of user interactions with at least one browser. The switching components derive information from the representation that is useful in predicting whether a user will switch search engines. The derived information and information about a user's current interaction with a browser is then used by a switch predictor to predict whether the user will switch search engines. This prediction may be used in a variety of ways examples of which are given herein. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238649 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING ENTERPRISE CONTENT - A method and system for providing a consistent flow documents and data content across different organizational units of a company or agency where the documents and data come from different enterprise systems and data stores but are related to linked processes that share models for organizing the content in the business context and in a format that enables a user to relate the content to the process step or steps they are performing. The system includes a network service that enables a configuration utility to automatically discover the objects and metadata and provides for a mapping of selected fields of the metadata to regions displayed in the user interface view with provision for filtering the data by mapping selected fields to a user input form. Thereby, a business analyst can create solutions without writing and maintaining complex program logic for each combination of presentation environment, enterprise system and data store. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238650 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING ENTERPRISE CONTENT - A method and system for providing a consistent flow documents and data content across different organizational units of a company or agency where the documents and data come from different enterprise systems and data stores but are related to linked processes that share models for organizing the content in the business context and in a format that enables a user to relate the content to the process step or steps they are performing. The system includes a network service that enables a configuration utility to automatically discover the objects and metadata and provides for a mapping of selected fields of the metadata to regions displayed in the user interface view with provision for filtering the data by mapping selected fields to a user input form. Thereby, a business analyst can create solutions without writing and maintaining complex program logic for each combination of presentation environment, enterprise system and data store. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238651 | METHOD, SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND CONTENT MODEL FOR THE CREATION, MANAGEMENT, STORAGE, AND PRESENTATION OF DYNAMIC OBJECTS - The invention includes structures and schema for organizing and inter-relating objects, data, or files, including relational, network, hierarchical, and entity-relationship models, among others, that are dynamic, that is changing with time. This includes manipulating structures by conversion, compression, compaction, and compilation, for various purposes. Also included is generating structures for storing, organizing, and managing dynamic objects for retrieval and presentation. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238652 | SERVICE DIRECTORY AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A unique process-oriented task database contains a hierarchal organization of work tasks. A service provider selects one or more tasks from the database to populate a record corresponding to the service provider; and the record is recorded in a service provider database. A consumer selects tasks from the task database to query the service provider database. The consumer then searches the service provider database with a search engine using tasks selected from the task database. The search engine returns a list of one or more service providers satisfying the search criteria, including the process-oriented task or tasks that the service provider selected from the task database. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238653 | PARSING AND INDEXING DYNAMIC REPORTS - A parsing and indexing mechanism for dynamically generated reports is provided. Upon detection of a dynamically generated report, a data source for the dynamically generated report may be identified based on metadata or other information associated with the report. Crawleable or machine readable metadata and data may be generated using the data source such that data represented in the report and/or other relevant data from the data source can be indexed and searched. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238654 | MULTIPLE CANDIDATE SELECTION IN AN ENTITY RESOLUTION SYSTEM - Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for matching an inbound identity record to existing entities. Entity resolution (ER) candidate-building keys may be determined for a received identity record. A query may be generated from the ER candidate-building keys. When executing the query, a generic key may be identified. Execution of the query may be aborted upon a condition involving the generic key being satisfied. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238655 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING HIGHLY AVAILABLE DATABASE PERFORMANCE - A system and method for enabling a second database instance to more quickly process a request to execute a database statement that has previously been executed by a first database instance is described. In one embodiment, the method involves sending the database statement from the first database instance to the second database instance, and generating by the second database instance one or more structures needed to prepare the statement for execution, such as a parse tree and an execution plan for the statement. If at some point in the future, the second database instance receives a request to execute the same statement, the above structures can be used for execution, thereby eliminating the need for one or more potentially time-consuming operations, such as generation of a parse tree or execution plan for the statement. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238656 | SPECULATIVE SEARCH RESULT ON A NOT-YET-SUBMITTED SEARCH QUERY - Providing a speculative search result for a search query prior to completion of the search query. In response to receiving a search query from a client node, a speculative search result is provided to the client node for the search query prior to receiving an indication from the client node that said search query is completely formed. The speculative search result may be displayed on the same web page on the client node as the search query, while the search query is being entered by the user. As the user further enters the search query, a new speculative search result may be provided to the user. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238657 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING RELEVANT PROPERTIES OF WORK CONTEXTS FOR USE BY INFORMATION SERVICES - An information retrieval system for automatically retrieving information related to the context of an active task being manipulated by a user. The system observes the operation of the active task and user interactions, and utilizes predetermined criteria to generate context representation of the active task that are relevant to the context of the active task. The information retrieval system then processes the context representation to generate queries or search terms for conducting an information search. The information retrieval system determines the relevance of a word to the context by utilizing an adaptive weighting system. The information retrieval system assigns varying weights to different attributes of a word and calculates an accumulated weight of the word by accumulating all weights assigned to the word. The attributes may include word size, style, location of the word, etc. The system then ranks the importance of words based on their respective accumulated weight, and chooses words that rank within a predetermined number from the top to form search terms to conduct an information search using various data sources. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238658 | RETRIEVING CONFIGURATION RECORDS FROM A CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT DATABASE - A method is provided of retrieving a configuration record from a configuration management database pertaining to an IT-infrastructure including host devices, a configuration record having attributes and assigned attribute values, the IT-infrastructure being managed by an operation management system providing messages indicating events in the IT-infrastructure. The method includes providing a message including a set of unidentified attribute values and an identified host value, retrieving from the configuration management database one or more configuration records containing the identified host value, and selecting from the one or more retrieved configuration records a configuration record depending on the number of matches between the unidentified attribute values and the attribute values of the retrieved configuration records. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238659 | TWO-PASS SEARCHING FOR IMAGE SIMILARITY OF DIGESTS OF IMAGE-BASED LISTINGS IN A NETWORK-BASED PUBLICATION SYSTEM - Using a processor, receiving, a query including a query image. A database is searched for a set of images similar to the query image, using a two-pass search. The results of the searching are then provided, the results including image members of the set of images similar to the query image. The first pass may be performed using a TF-IDF algorithm and the second pass ranks a predetermined number of results from the first pass by a best match algorithm or other type of algorithm. The type of second pass algorithm may be selectable by a user. If an end signal is not detected, a further two-pass search may be made based on a subsequent query having a subsequent query image. The subsequent query image may one of the results of the previous two pass search. A subsequent query image may change from an image of a product of a first product category to an image of a product of a second product category. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238660 | CLIENT MANAGEMENT OF DOWNLOAD SEQUENCE OF ORCHESTRATED CONTENT - Downloading resources according to a priority is disclosed. A feed document is retrieved. A feed document represents time-variant chunks of published content. The feed document is parsed to extract one or more references to a downloadable resource. A downloadable resource is a type of content identified by a reference within the feed document. A priority level is assigned to each reference. Priority levels may be assigned in a variety of ways, such as through a size of a resource identified by a reference or a file type of a resource. Priority levels may also be assigned to nestable resources and one or more resources contained therein. Resources for each extracted reference are then downloaded according to the assigned priority levels. A resource for a reference with a higher assigned priority level is downloaded before a resource for a reference with a lower assigned priority level. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238661 | Information processing device, content displaying method, and computer program - An image processing device may comprise a display control unit. The display control unit may control display on a display screen, around a search term, of a search result obtained from searching using the search term and at least one term related to the search term. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238662 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING A WIDE AREA NETWORK - A method and system for searching a wide area network that enables users to find the information they seek more quickly and more easily than prior art search engines are disclosed. The method employs various innovative processes that can be included separately or in combination in different embodiments of the invention to improve searching on a wide area network. These processes include a process for making use of a user's prior search queries for query definition; a process for similarly making use of prior search queries by other users; a process for expanding and clarifying the meaning of queries; a process for including paid and other preferred results in an overall query result; a process for using user evaluation data from previous search query results to identify results that should be included or removed from a current result; a process for executing the selected search query, or set of queries, on one or more search engines, collecting the search results and combining the search results; a process for removing subordinate pages from a search result; a process for testing Web pages that appear on a search result, and removing or flagging pages which are unresponsive or slow to respond; a process for ranking search results by applying a set of ranking factors; a pre-caching process enabling faster viewing of search result; a process for providing links to a set of related Webrooms; a process for providing a set of Web maps for Web pages identified in the search results; and a process for integrating user evaluation of the content and usefulness of the Web pages provided by a search and other user data for system use in enhancing search effectiveness. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238663 | Search method and system using thinking system - The present invention relates to a system and method for information process using artificially constructed apparatus. More specially, the present invention provides a system and method that can search for information in a document structure and provide precise results by analyzing the inputs and search results using the executing system and the knowledge structure of the think system. In one preferred embodiment of the present invention, the search terms are divided into subject terms and corresponding feature terms, and document entry files comprising respective subject terms and corresponding feature terms will provide access to documents including subject terms and corresponding feature terms. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238664 | Region Based Information Retrieval System - A region based information retrieval system improves on conventional information retrieval systems by breaking down documents into one or more region(s) and processing the additional information available at a region level of analysis. When looking at regions, it becomes possible to quickly distinguish between groups of related documents, quickly ignore or focus on certain information, track recent evolutions of documents, as well as understand the historical relationships, heritage, and versions of these documents. This is all possible whether or not the document publishers specify where the content originally came from. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238665 | CATEGORY MANAGEMENT AND ANALYSIS - A method and system analyze data associated with a marketplace category. In some embodiments, a query is received that identifies a marketplace category from multiple marketplace categories associated with an electronic commerce marketplace. Data associated with the marketplace category is accessed and analyzed to identify multiple keywords used to identify listings in the marketplace category. A user interface is generated to display the analysis results, including at least a portion of the multiple keywords used to identify listings in the marketplace category. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238666 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCESSING AN AUDIO FILE FROM A COLLECTION OF AUDIO FILES USING TONAL MATCHING - There is provided a method for accessing at least one audio file from a collection comprising more than one audio file stored within or accessible with an electronic device. The method includes generating one index comprising of information entries obtained from each of the more than one audio file in the collection, with each audio file in the collection information being linked to at least one information entry; receiving an input during an input reception mode; converting the input into a digital signal using an analog-digital converter; analysing the digital signal using either frequency spectrum analysis or melody contour analysis into discrete portions; and comparing the discrete portions with the entries in the index. It is advantageous that the audio file is accessed when the discrete portions substantially coincide with at least one of the information entries in the index. The discrete portions may be musical notes, melody contours or waveforms. The at least one information entry may also be musical notes, melody contours or waveforms. An apparatus employing the aforementioned method is also disclosed. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238667 | B-Tree Ordinal Approximation - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for generating a range of ordinals corresponding to key values represented in a B-Tree data structure. This allows for a boundary point, usable, for example, for partitioning the B-Tree for parallel processing, to be specified using an ordinal value of the range of ordinals. Then an ordinal-to-key transformation can be performed in order to identify a key value corresponding to the boundary point. Additionally, ordinal values can be identified through the use of key-to-ordinal transformations, allowing for specification of ranges, for example, in terms of key values. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238668 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - In a document management system that manages index item definition and document data by cabinet, an index can be easily provided. A user that can log into a first database can use an index item defined by the first database to provide an index value to document data stored in a second database. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238669 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO SEARCH OBJECTS IN PUBLISHED LITERATURE FOR INFORMATION DISCOVERY TASKS - The present invention relates to the identification, extraction, linking, storage and provisioning of data that constitute the captioned components of published or “print ready” literature for computerized information discovery activities including search, browse and data mining. These components, or objects, include the tabular presentation of data (“tables”) and graphics such as “figures”, “images” and “illustrations” typically used to supplement the textual narrative of the publication. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238670 | CROWD-SOURCING AND CONTEXTUAL RECLASSIFICATION OF RATED CONTENT - A content evaluation system is described herein that empowers end users and organizations to share their interpretation of an automatically generated sentiment score. The system provides a control that a user can move to indicate agreement or disagreement with an automatic score. The system adds metadata to a revised score based on the user's feedback that tracks information about the user to consider different demographic contexts. The system performs rescoring with the user-provided scores with contextual consideration, and then exposes the rescored values on context specific endpoints. The system provides a crowd-sourcing approach that scales extremely well, adds more accuracy because individuals within known demographic categories/contexts do the scoring, and generates value-added data products that can be sold/re-sold. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238671 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENTLY DETERMINING PRIORITY OF DATA IN A DATABASE - A method and apparatus for determining priority of data in a database managed by a computing device are provided. The data comprises a list of events, the computing device comprising a processing unit interconnected with a memory device and a display device. Context data is processing at the processing unit to determine a priority ranking for each of the items, wherein processing the context data to determine a priority ranking comprises at least one of processing attendance data, location, event data, and telephone record data. Respective areas of the display device are controlled to provide visual representations of each of the events, each respective area controlled according to the priority ranking. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238672 | COST AND POWER EFFICIENT STORAGE AREA NETWORK PROVISIONING - Various embodiments for efficiently provisioning a storage area network (SAN) are provided. In one embodiment, SAN information is provided to an engine for optimization. The SAN information includes at least one of SAN configuration information, SAN usage information, at least one cost profile, and at least one chargeback model. Based on the SAN information, those of an available plurality of storage resources not meeting at least one storage criterion are filtered. The filtered storage resources are ranked on a cost basis. A resource configuration graph is constructed based on the ranked storage resources. The resource configuration graph is traversed to obtain a plurality of possible SAN configuration plans. At least one power profile is applied to the plurality of possible SAN configuration plans to rank the plurality of possible SAN configuration plans by energy consumption. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238673 | RANKING COMMUNICATIONS EVENTS - To ensure that contacts (and other information) are presented to the user of a communications terminal in a manner that approximates the perceived relative importance a human user might assign, there is described a method for ranking contacts relative to one another on the basis of a ranking value that has been generated from timeline activities (such as tweets, blog posts, RSS feed, emails/SMS etc.), and/or status information (presence, location etc. of the contact) and/or trends in such activities/status values. This ranking method may be supplemental to more conventional rankings such as alphabetic ordering of contacts or ordering by edit date. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238674 | System and Methods Thereof for Mining Web Based User Generated Content for Creation of Term Taxonomies - A system for creation of term taxonomies by mining web based user generated content according. The system includes a network interface enabling access to one or more data sources; a mining unit for collecting textual content from the one or more sources and generating phrases, the generated phrases include sentiment phrases and non-sentiment phrases; an analysis unit for generating at least associations between a non-sentiment phrase and a sentiment phrase based on the generated phrases, wherein an association between a non-sentiment phrase and at least one corresponding sentiment phrase is a taxonomy; and storing the taxonomies in a data warehouse storage connected to the network wherein responsive to a query the system provides a sentiment to a non-sentiment phrase provided in the query. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238675 | TECHNIQUES FOR INCLUDING COLLECTION ITEMS IN SEARCH RESULTS - Techniques are provided for including collection items in the ranked set of search results that are returned to a user in response to a search query. Collection scoring techniques are also provided for generating relevance scores for collection items in a different manner than relevance scores are generated for base items that are not collections. The collection scoring techniques may be applied to non-base collection items, base collection items, or both. Items that match the search query, including base items and collection items, are ranked in a unified ranking based on their respective relevance scores, thereby allowing searches to readily determine the relevance ranking of matching collection items relative to matching base items. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238676 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA CAPTURE, STORAGE, AND RETRIEVAL - A computing device includes a display and a processing circuit coupled to the display. The processing circuit is configured to provide an image on the display, receive an input from a user identifying at least a portion of the image; and automatically transmit the image to a mobile computing device based at least in part on receiving the input. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238677 | Dynamic Sort-Based Parallelism - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for sorting a set of records in a sort run. As the records are sorted, metadata regarding the sort run is gathered, and subsequently used to determine bounds of two or more disjoint subsets of the sort run. This enables the parallelization of several tasks over the sort run data using efficient, dynamic bounds determination, such as the outputting of sorted data from the disjoint subsets in parallel. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238678 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING OBJECT INFORMATION IN MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM - An apparatus for providing object information in a multimedia system includes: a receiver configured to receive multimedia contents from a content provider; a parser configured to parse the received multimedia contents and store output information in a memory, the output information corresponding to playback time of objects existing inside the multimedia contents; a controller configured to receive playback time of the multimedia contents from an event generation device, synchronize with the event generation device using the received playback time of the multimedia contents, and receive event information when an event is generated by the event generation device; a comparator configured to retrieve output information corresponding to the event information from the memory; and a display unit configured to display the retrieved output information. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238679 | REPRESENTING TEXT AND OTHER TYPES OF CONTENT BY USING A FREQUENCY DOMAIN - A method and a system are provided for representing content (e.g., text, metadata and/or a fingerprint, etc.). In one example, the system receives content. The content includes computer readable data. The system generates normalized content by normalizing the content. Normalizing the content is a process by which content is transformed to make the content more consistent for computer reading purposes. The system generates content blocks (e.g., words, etc.) from the normalized content. The system generates values for the content blocks by generating a value for each content block. The system generates a signal for the content based on the values of the content blocks. The signal includes a representation of the values versus time. The system generates a spectrogram from the signal, generates a feature vector from the spectrogram, and stores the feature vector in a database. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238680 | Time and space efficient sharing of data structures across different phases of a virtual world application - A method of decreasing a total computation time for a visual simulation loop includes sharing a common data structure across each phase of the visual simulation loop by adapting the common data structure to a requirement for each particular phase prior to performing a computation for that particular phase. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238681 | Apparatus and Method for Storing, Searching and Retrieving an Object From a Document Repository Using Word Search and Visual Image - An apparatus and method for creating an association between a word and an object comprising creating an object identification (ID); assigning a link ID to the object ID; determining whether a word in the object is part of a word list; performing either a) adding the word to the word list and creating a unique word ID for the word, or b) gathering a word ID associated with the word; and associating either the unique word ID or the word ID to the link ID. In one aspect, the apparatus and method search for an object based on word search and visual image by searching for a word ID associated with a word in a word list; searching for at least one link ID associated with the word ID; associating the at least one link ID with an object ID; and visually displaying the object associated with the object ID. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238682 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - When a document searcher transmits E-mail including a search condition to a document management system and searches for a document, a document search result can be obtained irrespective of an access right which the document searcher has. In order to solve this problem, the document management system searches a database for the document corresponding to document search information received from the document searcher, and transmits a message requesting a permission for the document searcher to obtain the document to a creator of the searched document. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238683 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPARQL-QUERY PROCESSING USING THE PARAMETRIZED-SPARQL-QUERY IN BASED DBMS - A Database Management System (DBMS)-based Semantic Web query system and method using parameterized SPARQL queries are provided. The present invention is configured to include output means that creates a parameter list from a SPARQL query statement, converts the query statement into an SQL statement and stores a PREPARED STATEMENT (PS) object in association with the SQL statement, thereby outputting query results. Accordingly, the query time of a Semantic Web service can be reduced, thereby improving QoS. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238684 | Method and Apparatus for Enhancing Electronic Reading by Identifying Relationships Between Sections of Electronic Text - An apparatus, method and article of manufacture of the present invention detects the presence of references to the same concept in separate sections of text, and, with no input required from the reader, presents the reader with information concerning the detected references to the concept. The information provided may comprise information related to the location of the reference to the concept in other sections of text, and the reader also is provided the ability to move from one reference to a concept directly to another reference to the same concept. | 2011-09-29 |