| 42nd week of 2008 patent applcation highlights part 56 |
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| 20080256038 | Automated Method for Structured Artifact Matching - A method for determining a mapping between a first artifact and a second artifact, each artifact comprising at least one constituent, each at least one constituent comprising at least one feature, wherein each at least one feature is selected from a feature group consisting of: a relationship feature and a characteristic feature, the mapping comprising at least one constituent match comprising a correspondence between the at least one constituent of the first artifact and the at least one constituent of the second artifact, the method includes acts or steps of: a) receiving as input the first and second artifacts, and a description of the artifacts, constituents, and the features of the constituents; b) performing advanced inexact matching, comprising a step of selecting the mapping, the mapping comprising the at least one constituent match; and c) producing as output the mapping determined from the step of performing advanced inexact matching. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256039 | SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE QUALITY OF QUERY SUGGESTION SYSTEMS USING A NETWORK OF USERS AND ADVERTISERS - A system is described for determining the quality of query suggestion systems using a network of users and advertisers. The system may include a memory and a processor. The memory may store data representing a plurality of query suggestion systems, a historical dataset, a plurality of residual values, and a data representing a network. The network may comprise a plurality of query items representing queries linked to a plurality of advertisement items representing advertisements via a plurality of query-advertisement link items. The processor may retrieve the historical dataset and generate the data representing the network. The processor may calculate the residual values for each query suggestion system in the plurality of query suggestion systems. The residual value may represent a value attributable to the query suggestions generated by a given query suggestion system. The processor may store the residual value of each query suggestion in the memory. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256040 | VISUALIZATION OF REPUTATION RATINGS - In one embodiment, a system and method is illustrated including receiving a feedback request identifying a particular user, retrieving a feedback entry in response to the feedback request, the feedback entry containing a first term, building a scoring model based, in part, upon a term frequency count denoting a frequency with which the first term appears in a searchable data structure, mapping the first term to a graphical illustration based upon a second term associated with the graphical illustration such that the graphical illustration may be used to represent the second term, and generating a feedback page containing the first term and the graphical illustration. The method may include assigning a value to the first term so as to identify the first term, assigning the first term to the searchable data structure, and extracting the first term from the searchable data structure based, in part, upon an extraction rule. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256041 | System and Method for Generating and Displaying Community Awareness Management Data - A system and method links one or more disparate community awareness management (CAM) datasets for a community awareness program (CAP) with one or more spatial layers to create linked CAM datasets. One or more data attributes common to a CAM dataset and a spatial layer are identified, and the link is defined between the CAM dataset and the spatial layer. The spatial layer and the linked CAM dataset then may be queried using a single input query. Features from the spatial layer and features from the linked CAM dataset that match the query are generated for display. In one embodiment, a system and method manage CAP assets, transactions, interest areas for the CAP, and buffer areas for the CAP. An audience utility enables entering and maintaining audience data for the CAP. A journal utility enables making journal entries for one or more audience members, CAP assets, transactions, and/or other CAM data. A link document utility enables linking one or more documents to CAM data. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256042 | Automatically Acquiring Acoustic and Cultural Information About Music - There are disclosed methods, apparatus, and storage media for building a music metadata library. Acoustic metadata for one or more music tracks may be automatically acquired from a plurality of client computing devices. Cultural metadata for the one or more music tracks may be automatically acquired by searching Internet-accessible content. The acquired acoustic and cultural metadata may be stored in the music metadata library. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256043 | ACCUMULATION CONTROL DEVICE - An accumulation control device arranged to accumulate data in an accumulation device accepts a data classification when the data is acquired, and stores the accepted classification in accordance with the data to be accumulated in the accumulation device. When the data accumulated in the accumulation device is selected, determination is made as to whether or not a current time is a timing at which an accumulation form of the accumulated data should be changed, and when determination is made that the timing has come, the selected data is reaccumulated in the accumulation device, in the accumulation form stored in an accumulation-form storage unit in association with the accepted classification and the determined timing. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256044 | Method And System For Searching An Information Retrieval System According To User-Specified Location Information - A method and system for searching an information retrieval system for items of interest that are in proximity to geographical locations provided by the user. The information retrieval system can perform a search for specified types of businesses or items of interest that surround or are in close proximity to the user's present geographical location, or a geographical location that the user has pre-configured in a database. The system receives geographical location information concerning the user's position from the wireless network carrier, which tracks the location of the user's mobile communications device. When the user desires to store a geographical location and geographical name for a future search, the information is entered into the pre-configured database. When conducting an information search at a later time, the user can narrow a search request to a geographical area in the vicinity of the stored geographical location. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256045 | XML SUB-DOCUMENT VERSIONING METHOD IN XML DATABASES USING RECORD STORAGES - A new sub-document versioning method for record storages of XML documents which uses virtual cutting points to ensure that a search tree is able to support multiple versions of sub-documents and provide efficient mechanisms for XML updating. Record boundaries and virtual cut points divide the two-dimensional space, the horizontal axis representing node identifiers in document order and vertical axis representing version numbers, into rectangles. The bottom corner of the rectangle is used to represent the rectangles and the corresponding information of the corner is added to the search tree index. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256046 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRIORITIZING WEBSITES DURING A WEBCRAWLING PROCESS - A system and method for prioritizing a fetch order of web pages. The method comprises extracting by a web crawler a set of candidate web pages to be crawled. Each web page in the set of candidate web pages is associated with a website in a computer network. A determination is made to determine if a first website score for the website is in a website score database. The first website score is associated with web pages in the set of candidate web pages if the first website score exists in the website score database. The set of candidate web pages is prioritized with respect to an associated website score for each web page in the candidate set of web pages. Content is retrieved from the set of candidate web. Hyperlinks are extracted from the content. The hyperlinks are stored in a memory unit. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256047 | SELECTING RULES ENGINES FOR PROCESSING ABSTRACT RULES BASED ON FUNCTIONALITY AND COST - Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for selecting rule engines for processing abstract rules based on functionality and cost. In general, an abstract rule is analyzed to determine which functions are required to process the rule. The abstract rule is assigned to a rule engine by evaluating metadata describing the functions and costs of the rule engines. The abstract rule is then translated to the format required by the selected rule engine. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256048 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING DATA PROCESSING AND CONTROL IN MEDICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus for providing data processing and control for use in a medical communication system are provided. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256049 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTABLISHING DOCUMENT RELEVANCE - A search engine that provides search results which are ordered, in part, based on an automated analysis of the organizational structure of a group of documents, as indicated by the address of the documents, is disclosed. In one embodiment, a bot crawls various websites analyzing documents, and their organizational structure, in an effort to identify documents that have an implicit high quality based on their inclusion in an index. Accordingly, the search engine provides a greater weight in ranking document relevance to those documents that have been included in certain indexes, such as top ten lists, and A-Z lists. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256050 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MODELING USER SELECTION FEEDBACK IN A SEARCH RESULT PAGE - The present invention provides for improving the search relevance of a search results page by including a perceived relevance factor. The system, device and method monitors user selection of elements in the search results page, where these selections indicate relevance of the element compared with the original search request. A perceived relevance factor for the element is then determined based on probabilistic-based computations accounting for the element, which may include a description, a thumbnail and/or meta data, and the position of the element on the search results page. Thereby, for future searches and search results page generation, relevance factors may be calculated based on various factors, including the element attribute based relevant scores and the perceived relevance factor. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256051 | CALCULATING IMPORTANCE OF DOCUMENTS FACTORING HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE - A method and system for determining temporal importance of documents having links between documents based on a temporal analysis of the links is provided. A temporal ranking system collects link information or snapshots indicating the links between documents at various snapshot times. The temporal ranking system calculates a current temporal importance of a document by factoring in the current importance of the document derived from the current snapshot (i.e., with the latest snapshot time) and the historical importance of the document derived from the past snapshots. To calculate the current temporal importance of a web page, the temporal ranking system aggregates the importance of the web page for each snapshot. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256052 | METHODS FOR DETERMINING HISTORICAL EFFICACY OF A DOCUMENT IN SATISFYING A USER'S SEARCH NEEDS - Documents returned by a search engine may be good keyword matches to the search query terms, but may not historically have been very effective in addressing user needs. Documents which have historically been effective in addressing user needs are said to have high efficacy. Disclosed are methods that try to assess the beginning and ending of user search sessions, assume that documents that are the last document looked at are those with the highest efficacy, and incorporate this notion of efficacy in returning-search results. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256053 | EXECUTION OF DATABASE QUERIES INCLUDING FILTERING - A query processing system has a query processor and a data manager. The query processor calls the data manager to carry out data access for a query including a filtering operation. The data manager accesses the data in a set of data and before returning the data, initiates a callback to the query processor to determine if the located data meets the filtering criteria. Where the data does not satisfy the filtering criteria, the data manager seeks additional data in the set of data, without having to return the first located data to the query processor. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256054 | Computer-implemented method and system for targeting contents according to user preferences - A method, system, and device targets contents according to the preferences of a particular user. A content is associated with one or more content category alternatives, and is different from other contents. Pairwise comparisons for a particular user for a set of content category alternatives are input into a computer, wherein a pairwise comparison includes a judgment between preferences as a relative importance between two content category alternatives. A weighted prioritization of the content category alternatives of the pairwise comparisons for the particular user is prepared in the computer, according to an analytic hierarchy process. The weighted prioritization of the content category alternatives for the particular user is applied, in the computer, to the contents. A weight is associated with the content according to the weighted prioritizations of the content category alternative corresponding to the content categorization of the contents. The contents are provided according to the weight. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256055 | Word relationship driven search - Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for performing searches based upon word relationships. A search term is received from a user in the form of at least one primary word. A data store is searched to determine if the primary word is associated with any content. If so, at least one reference to primary content that has been pre-defined as being related to the primary word is included in the search result. At least one reference to secondary content is included in the search result, if secondary content is found. Secondary contents are those that contain words that have been pre-defined as being related to the primary word. The search results are displayed to the user, with the primary references displayed along with the secondary references, if applicable, in a hierarchical fashion. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256056 | System for building a data structure representing a network of users and advertisers - A system is described for building a data structure representing a network of advertisers and users. The system may include a memory and a processor. The memory may be operatively connected to the processor and may store a historical dataset comprising of a plurality of query items and advertisement items, a plurality of query-advertisement link items, a weight, a data structure and a condition. The processor may identify the historical dataset, and link the query items to the advertisement items to generate query-advertisement link items. The processor may determine the weight of each query-advertisement link item and may store the query-advertisement link items and the weight in the data structure if the query-advertisement link item satisfies the condition. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256057 | Optimizing a query using fuzzy matching - A system is disclosed for optimizing a user query. User queries often include issue terms, such as misspelled or mistyped terms. The disclosed system employs a fuzzy network to match an issue term with a valid term. The system optimizes the user query with the valid term. Thereafter, query results based on the optimized user query may be provided to the user. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256058 | Highlighting of Search Terms in a Meta Search Engine - The invention relates to a method performed by a computer program for presenting data from a collection of documents, including retrieving ( | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256059 | SYSTEM FOR GENERATING QUERY SUGGESTIONS USING A NETWORK OF USERS AND ADVERTISERS - A system is described for generating query suggestions using a network of users and advertisers. The system may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store a data representing a network comprising query items linked to advertisement items via link items, wherein each link item comprises a weight representing the strength of the relationship between each query item and advertisement item, a search query item, and a relevance value for each query item. The processor may be operatively connected to the memory and the interface and may identify the data representing the network and receive a search query item. The processor may calculate a relevance value for each additional query item in the network based on its relationship to the received search query item. The processor may then suggest the query items with the highest relevance values to the user via the interface. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256060 | SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE QUALITY OF QUERY SUGGESTIONS USING A NETWORK OF USERS AND ADVERTISERS - A system is described for determining the quality of query suggestions using a network of users and advertisers. The system may include a memory and a processor. The memory may store a historical dataset, a residual value, a query-advertisement link value, a query suggestion value, and a data representing a network. The network may comprise a plurality of query items linked to a plurality of advertisement items via a plurality of query-advertisement link items. The processor may generate data representing the network and may identify a query-advertisement link item in the network. The processor may calculate the residual value of the query suggestion system represented by the match type of the query-advertisement link item. The processor may calculate the query-advertisement link value. The processor may add the residual value to the query-advertisement link value to determine a query suggestion value and may store the query suggestion value in the memory. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256061 | SYSTEM FOR GENERATING QUERY SUGGESTIONS BY INTEGRATING VALUABLE QUERY SUGGESTIONS WITH EXPERIMENTAL QUERY SUGGESTIONS USING A NETWORK OF USERS AND ADVERTISERS - A system is described for generating query suggestions by integrating valuable query suggestions with experimental query suggestions using a network of users and advertisers. The system may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store a historical dataset, a plurality of query suggestions, a plurality of query suggestion values, a query exploit set, a query explore set, and a data describing a network. The processor may identify the plurality of query suggestions in the historical dataset and generate data describing the network based on the historical dataset. The processor may calculate the query suggestion value for each query suggestion and may rank the query suggestions based on the query suggestion values. The processor may generate an exploit set comprising the top ranked query suggestions and an explore set comprising the remainder. The processor may suggest the query suggestions in the exploit set and the explore set. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256062 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROPAGATING ANNOTATIONS USING PATTERN MATCHING - Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for propagating annotations created for data objects appearing in a variety of different application types are provided. Some embodiments present users collaborating on a project with an indication of data objects in a current document that have been annotated, or that related data objects have been annotated, in other documents. Users may then review the annotations and selectively associate the annotations with the related data object in the current document, thereby spreading the tacit knowledge reflected in the annotation about related data objects across many documents in an enterprise network. Further, an annotation management system may maintain a thesaurus of related terms and corresponding annotation points to find annotations for data objects that exist in other documents without having to inspect the data object(s) associated with each existing annotation. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256063 | TECHNIQUE FOR SEARCHING FOR KEYWORDS DETERMINING EVENT OCCURRENCE - A keyword search system including a text input unit for inputting subtexts obtained by dividing each text into parts, while associating the subtexts with an event through a process recorded in the text; a prediction device adjuster for adjusting a corresponding event prediction device to maximize the percentage of text in which the inputted event is identical to a prediction result in a first text group selected from the subtexts; a prediction processor for generating a prediction result for each section, by inputting each text in a second text group selected from the corresponding subtexts in the adjusted event prediction device; and a search unit for calculating the prediction precision for the second text group of the event prediction device using a comparison between the inputted event and the prediction result for each subtext, and searching for keywords in sections with a certain degree of prediction precision. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256064 | Pay per relevance (PPR) method, server and system thereof - The present invention relates to a server, system and method of pricing advertisements to be presented within a document, according to their relevance to user's search query, comprising: (a) receiving from an advertiser at least one keyword, for which his advertisement to be presented to said user, or receiving and processing said user's search query that contains at least one keyword; (b) determining the relevance weight of said advertisement to said at least one keyword, according to at least one predefined parameter; and (c) pricing said advertisement according to the determined relevance weight. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256065 | Information Extraction System - A method for determining link feature weights from a data set of linked elements is described. These link feature weights are indicative of whether a link travels to a subset of the data set, which has a predetermined characteristic. The link features weights also correspond to link features associated with links between the linked elements of the data set. The method comprises the steps of first choosing the link features in accordance with the predetermined characteristic of the subset and then determining the link feature weights based on evaluating a measure that the link travels towards the subset. In one embodiment, the link feature weights are utilized in a web crawler for crawling web pages to extract information such as biography pages and the like. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256066 | BOOK CREATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Methods and devices are provided for creating books. In general, the methods and devices are provided that can allow a child, a young adult, a senior citizen, or any other new or developing writer to create a story in an online environment including instruction and community involvement. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256067 | File Search Engine and Computerized Method of Tagging Files with Vectors - The main purpose of the software, system and method of this invention is to help produce better searches for people utilizing their context as represented by a vector. The system allows for files (including websites) to be tagged with a vector. If a provider wants a searcher to find that provider's files, the file must be tagged with the vector that is sufficiently close to the searcher's corresponding vectors. A search user inputs not only a text search but also the vectors that have been created to show the context and preferences of that search user. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256068 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CALCULATING IMPORTANCE OF A BLOCK WITHIN A DISPLAY PAGE - A method and system for identifying the importance of information areas of a display page. An importance system identifies information areas or blocks of a web page. A block of a web page represents an area of the web page that appears to relate to a similar topic. The importance system provides the characteristics or features of a block to an importance function that generates an indication of the importance of that block to its web page. The importance system “learns” the importance function by generating a model based on the features of blocks and the user-specified importance of those blocks. To learn the importance function, the importance system asks users to provide an indication of the importance of blocks of web pages in a collection of web pages. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256069 | Complete Context(tm) Query System | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256070 | Data Collection Cataloguing and Searching Method and System - The present invention relates to a method of cataloguing a data structure and also preferably a method of searching through such as data structure to detect the presence of search patterns within the data structure. The catalogusing method of the present invention employs the formation of a catalogue data structure which is used to associate data items (transformed from data elements present within the data collection) with storage addresses. This catalogue data structure may be sorted to facilitate searching through same. Such searches may be completed through the formation of a plurality of search quries from a received search pattern sequence where the results of running these search queries may then be subsequently considered in conjunction with a search pattern sequence detection process. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256071 | Method And System For Selection Of Text For Editing - A method of selection of text for editing is provided. The method includes inputting text to an apparatus and generating a label for at least one unit of the text as the text is being input to the apparatus. Accordingly, a user is able to select the at least one text unit for editing by selecting the corresponding label of the text unit. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256072 | Methods and apparatus for controlling the transmission and receipt of email messages - Methods and apparatus for identifying unwanted email messages by transmitting metadata with an outbound email message that indicates the total number of email messages sent by that sender in a predetermined time period, or alternatively indicates the total number of email messages which are equivalent to the outgoing message that have been sent. In addition the metadata may include an identification of the sender and a “pledge” made by the sender. A pledge may take the form of a binding commitment from the sender that the information contained in the metadata is accurate, and/or that the sender promises to abide by predetermined good conduct rules designed to limit unwanted email. The outgoing message may be further signed by the sender with a digital signature that provides means for verifying the content of the message and the pledge as well as the identity of the sender | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256073 | Transactional memory using buffered writes and enforced serialization order - Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that support buffered writes and enforced serialization order in a software transactional memory system. A buffered write process is provided that performs writes to shadow copies of objects and writes content back to the objects after validating a respective transaction during commit. When a write lock is first obtained for a particular transaction, a shadow copy is made of a particular object. Writes are performed to and reads from the shadow copy. After validating the particular transaction during commit, content is written from the shadow copy to the particular object. A transaction ordering process is provided that ensures that an order in which the transactions are committed matches an abstract serialization order of the transactions. Transactions are not allowed to commit until their ticket number matches a global number that tracks the next transaction that should commit. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256074 | EFFICIENT IMPLICIT PRIVATIZATION OF TRANSACTIONAL MEMORY - Apparatus, methods, and program products are disclosed that provide a technology that implicitly isolates a portion of a transactional memory that is shared between multiple threads for exclusive use by an isolating thread without the possibility of other transactions modifying the isolated portion of the transactional memory. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256075 | EXTERNAL INTERFACE ACCESS CONTROL - A method and apparatus of controlling access to a system containing vital corporation software and storing confidential data assets situated in an open accessible environment is provided. The method includes calculating a signature value for at least one file usable with the system, transferring the calculated signature value to a signature file, and providing at least one signature value in the signature file and at least one associated file to a file system configured to be received by the system. At least one signature value and at least one associated file are inspected by the system to verify the associated file is a known system software application asset. The system comprises an input/output data port configured to receive the external memory storage device, and an operating system capable of reading system data from and writing system data to the memory storage device. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256076 | EXTERNAL INTERFACE ACCESS CONTROL FOR MEDICAL SYSTEMS - A method and system of controlling access to a system in a medical environment is provided. The method includes calculating a signature value for at least one file usable with the medical system, transferring the calculated signature value to a signature file, and providing at least one signature value in the signature file and at least one associated file to a file system configured to be received by the medical system. At least one signature value and at least one associated file are inspected by the medical system to verify the associated file is a known medical software application asset. The medical system comprises an input/output data port configured to receive the external memory storage device, and an operating system capable of reading medical system data from and writing medical system data to the memory storage device. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256077 | Network Connection Presence/Absence Judgment Method, Data Structure For Judging Whether Network Connection is Present or Absent, and Recording Medium Containing the Data Structure - It is possible to easily judge whether a computer device is connected to a network. The judging method includes: a step for detecting position information on predetermined data contained in an external device connected to the network and described on a hypertext which has been read from a storage medium; a step of displaying a connection presence/absence judgment screen containing a message indicating that the predetermined data is displayed at a predetermined position when the computer device is connected to the network according to the hypertext; and a step of displaying the predetermined data at the predetermined position in the connection presence/absence screen if the predetermined data has been acquired from the external device and displaying predetermined alternative data at the predetermined position in the connection presence/absence judgment screen if the predetermined data has not been acquired from the external device. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256078 | SECURE DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENGINE AND DATABASE SYSTEM - In this invention we present a secure distributed computing engine with a built-in distributed database system. The computing engine proposed here is capable of scaling with the network and can handle requests of generic execution types (such as calling a certain function with a set of parameters) or with regards to database manipulation as the engine includes a database management system. A client computer communicates with this computing engine over the network to send requests and receive responses. Each request a client sends is dynamically distributed among various participating computer nodes that make up the distributed computing engine. The communication channels and databases within the engine are secured at various levels using both symmetric and asymmetric encryption schemes. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256079 | LOAD-BASED TECHNIQUE TO BALANCE DATA SOURCES TO DATA CONSUMERS - A system and method is described to determine routing configurations to route data from data producers to data consumers. Each routing configuration corresponds to a time period during which data is routed from the data producers to the data consumers. Data is routed from the data producers to the data consumers according to previously determined data routing configurations during time periods prior to a current time period. Based at least in part on indications of the data load on the data consumers corresponding to actual data routing during the time periods prior to the current time period, a new data routing configuration is determined. During the current time period, data is routed from the data producers to the data consumers according to the determined new data routing configuration. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256080 | Sharing Media Content Among Families of Broadcast Stations - Sharing media content among families of broadcast stations includes receiving information relating to media content from families of broadcast stations, storing the information such that the information is accessible to at least two of the families of broadcast stations via a computer network, receiving a query for specific media content from a broadcast station, searching the stored information in accordance with the query to identify the specific media content; and enabling the broadcast station to access to the specific media content if the specific media content is identified among the stored information. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256081 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PASSIVE INFORMATION CAPTURE, CACHE AND MATCHING TO FACILITATE UNINTERRUPTED TRANSACTIONS - A system and method for monitoring network communications between a consumer making a request for information on a network, and a provider that is providing the requested information. The system detects when the provider has not responded to an information request and provides stored information from a database that either matches, or nearly matches, the information being requested by the consumer. A network agent is used to continuously monitor and to supply the monitoring system with captured information requests and captured information sent by the provider in response to information requests from the consumer. The monitoring system uses metadata or other suitable parameters to categorize the information request and to associate it with the specific information that was captured, before storing both the information and the metadata and/or parameters in the database. Thus, the database is continuously populated as routine, successful communications occur over the database. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256082 | Data access in distributed server systems - A logical network directory database compliant with the X.500 standard for a directory data system is disclosed. The network directory database provides a source of subscriber and service data accessible by various control and management processes that require subscriber information. The network directory database may be extensible across various communications service providers and IT domain. Further, the disclosed network directory database may be applied to new and existing services, such as, IP Multimedia Subsystem, Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) and other IP services. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256083 | Alias hiding in network data repositories - A logical network directory database compliant with the X.500 standard for a directory data system is disclosed. The network directory database provides a source of subscriber and service data accessible by various control and management processes that require subscriber information. The network directory database may be extensible across various communications service providers and IT domain. Further, the disclosed network directory database may be applied to new and existing services, such as, IP Multimedia Subsystem, Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) and other IP services. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256084 | Method and system for using a website to perform a remote action on a set top box with a secure authorization - A communication system | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256085 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCING NETWORK CONTENT - A method and apparatus for reproducing network content are provided. An apparatus for reproducing network content includes a first content list queue storing a content list received from content providing servers; a content list queue management module changing a content list stored in the first content list queue according to a user's command to change the content list; a second content list queue storing the content list changed by the content list queue management module; a content pre-fetch module pre-fetching at least one element of content from the content providing servers based on the second content list queue and storing the content in a local storage unit; and a content reproduction module seamlessly reproducing the at least one element of content stored in the local storage unit. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256086 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SERVER APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing system configured to include at least an open server apparatus and a terminal apparatus communicable with each other through a network is disclosed. The system includes: an opening mode setting means for setting an opening mode; a transmitted content information creating means for creating content information including at least body information and predetermined additional information; a content information storing means for storing content information; a content information upload control means for transmitting content information; and an opening mode determining means for determining an opening mode of the content information stored in the content information storing means. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256087 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR MANAGING CONTENT STORED IN DEVICES - Apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for managing content are provided. The apparatus includes a processor that can communicate with a number of devices, identify content files stored by the devices, and provide a visible indicia of each device in which each content file is stored. The processor may also detect devices configured to store various types of content files and may receive user input selecting a particular content file for downloading, such as from a content provider's website. A list of the downloaded content files, along with information regarding each file, the devices capable of storing each file, and the devices actually used to store each file, may be displayed to the user. In this way, the user may be able to see a list of the various content files that have been downloaded as well as a visible indicia of where each file is stored. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256088 | DISTRIBUTING PERSONALIZED CONTENT - The invention provides a method and system for distributing personalized content to potentially large numbers of recipients. A pool is selected, from among all content available for distribution, of those content elements that will be made available for simultaneous distribution, and personalized content is selected for distribution from that pool. The content of the pool can change with new selections over time. For each individual recipient, content elements in the pool are examined to determine if they are predicted to be of sufficient interest to that recipient for distribution, and if so, those content elements are distributed. If not, successive content elements in the pool are examined, relaxing the standard for sufficient interest, until at least one content element is found and distributed to the individual recipient. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256089 | SUPPORTING MULTIPLE SECURITY MECHANISMS IN A DATABASE DRIVER - A computer program product and database driver for connecting a client to a database server are provided. The computer program product and database driver provide for providing a generic interface, the generic interface being operable to interoperate with one or more non-GSSAPI (Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface) compliant security mechanisms, providing a set of specialized interfaces, the set of specialized interface being operable to interoperate with one or more GSSAPI compliant security mechanisms, and establishing a connection between a client and a database server using the generic interface or the set of specialized interfaces depending on a security mechanism used by the client. The one or more non-GSSAPI compliant security mechanisms and the one or more GSSAPI compliant security mechanisms may be predefined or user-defined. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256090 | DYNAMIC DIRECTORY SERVICE - In a network of computer nodes, a directory service provides both the physical location of directory information around the network and the directory information itself in a single data structure. This single data structure is distributed throughout the network, and continuously redistributed, so as to create a directory service that is both more flexible, and more robust, than prior art directory services. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256091 | Prioritising Data Elements of a Data Stream - The invention relates to prioritising of data elements of a data stream for transmission to a receiving device including determining a decodability of data elements, wherein the decodability indicates the extent to which the current data element is decodable at the receiving device. Then, a priority is assigned to the data elements based on the determined decodabilities. A transmission of the data elements to a receiving device is then scheduled based on the priorities. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256092 | Data Processing Device and Data Processing Method | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256093 | Method and System for Detection of Authors - A method and system are provided for detection of authors across different types of information sources such as across documents on the Web. The method includes obtaining a compression signature ( | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256094 | ENHANCED BLOOM FILTERS - An interface is operable to receive an element for deletion from a bloom filter. The bloom filter includes multiple hash functions and an array. A processor is operable to generate hash function output values for the element using the hash functions. The hash function output values correspond to indices identifying bits in the array. A memory is operable to maintain supplemental data structure entries. The supplemental data structure has entries associated with the indices. The processor is operable to modify the supplemental data structure entries to delete the element from the bloom filter. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256095 | Adaptation in network data repositories - A logical network directory database compliant with the X.500 standard for a directory data system is disclosed. The network directory database provides a source of subscriber and service data accessible by various control and management processes that require subscriber information. The network directory database may be extensible across various communications service providers and IT domain. Further, the disclosed network directory database may be applied to new and existing services, such as, IP Multimedia Subsystem, Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) and other IP services. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256096 | Localizing reports using metadata and multilanguage translations - A method of developing a report capable of providing information from a local database in a predefined structure to a remote application is discussed. The method includes defining an abstract data report structure. The abstract data report structure is configured to provide a report to the remote application having a plurality of data elements. The method further includes localizing at least one of the plurality of data elements by assigning it a remotely customizable field value; and exposing the abstract data report structure to the remote application. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256097 | Method and system for location identification - A method and system for generating location information for a network space is provided. Generating location information for a network space involves maintaining location profiles for spaces familiar to a client device, and performing location detection for the client device in a current space utilizing a signature of the current space and the location profiles. Location detection for the client device in a current space can also be performed utilizing information indicating the probable presence of familiar resources in the current space. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256098 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION ON HUMAN RELATIONS BASED ON ANALYSIS OF LOG DATA IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - Provided are a method and apparatus, which analyze many aspects of log data generated in a mobile communication terminal, calculate changes in human relations based on opposite parties of communication, and provide information on human relations in a variety of ways. Specifically, first log data for a most recent first period and second log data for a second period are acquired, in which the second period is earlier than the first period. Amounts of the first and second log data for the first and second periods are calculated, respectively. The averages of the amounts of first and second log data are also calculated, respectively, and then compared with each other. The changes in human relations are determined based on opposite parties. Therefore, users can easily read the changes in human relations based on opposite parties of communication. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256099 | Method and System For Managing Data and Organizational Constraints - A method and system for managing data and organizational constraints is provided. Data is collected and stored as records in a database and multi-dimensional matrices known as parameters are associated with each of the sets of records. The parameters are then processed using various formulae and functions and the results of the processing are kept separate from the parameters themselves allowing for a flexible and fast response to any change in any of the parameters. The dimensions of each parameter are defined to include zero or more properties configured to access the multi-dimensional matrices and each parameter is defined in relation to each of the dimensions of the parameter. The set of dependencies among the parameters form part of a large constraint propagation network so that any change to a value of one of the parameters will be propagated throughout the network. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256100 | System and Method for Using Content Features and Metadata of Digital Images to Find Related Audio Accompaniment | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256101 | KEYWORD-BASED CONTENT MANAGEMENT - A method, implementable in a system coupled to a network, includes accessing a first portion of a memory device coupled to the network. The first portion has stored thereon information characterizing an entity. An information set of a predetermined information type is gathered from the first portion. First and second information subsets of the information set are organized into first and second keywords. A second portion of a memory device coupled to the network is accessed. The second portion has stored thereon a plurality of data sets. First and second subsets of the data sets are identified. Each data set of the first data-set subset includes the first keyword, and each data set of the second data-set subset includes the second keyword. The first data-set subset is stored in a third portion of a memory device coupled to the network. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256102 | Apparatus and Method for Processing Management Information - An apparatus for processing management information, comprising; a processing engine operable to receive current data and store the current data in a data store, a forecaster engine operable to read past data and current data from the data store and generate forecast data, and store the forecast data in a forecast data store, and a user interface module operable to read the past data, current data and forecast data and generate a common output in accordance with the past data, current and forecast data. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256103 | Systems and methods of providing possible value ranges - Embodiments of the invention relate generally to incremental computing. Specifically, embodiments of the invention include systems and methods that provide for the concurrent processing of multiple, incremental changes to a data value while at the same time monitoring and/or enforcing threshold values for that data value. For example, a method is provided that determines whether multiple incremental changes to a data field could pass a threshold based on keeping track of a possible value range for the data field. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256104 | Rearranging data sections within a page file - A method for rearranging data sections within a page file associated with an operating system is disclosed. The technology initially accesses a page file which comprises one or more data sections. Data sections within the page file are analyzed. Then, data sections are rearranged such that at least one or more non-contiguous data sections are contiguous within the page file. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256105 | Document data creating apparatus, document data creating method and control program of the same - There is described a document data creating apparatus, a document data creating method and a program thereof, which make it possible to improve convenience of both the user and the creator of the document data by effectively utilizing the digital signature. The apparatus for creating document data that include a digital signature, includes: a character recognizing section to recognize a character based on image data inputted; a reliability determining section to determine a reliability degree of the character; a characteristic value calculating section to calculate a characteristic value of the document data; and a digital signature section to attach the characteristic value to the document data. When the reliability determining section determines that the reliability degree of the character is low, the digital signature section attaches a value, which is different from the characteristic value calculated by the characteristic value calculating section, to the document data as the digital signature. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256106 | Determining the Similarity of Music Using Cultural and Acoustic Information - There is disclosed a method and storage media for determining the similarity between a first music collection and a second music collection. The similarity may be determined by comparing metadata associated with the first music collection and metadata associated with the second music collection. A plurality of comparison algorithms may be used including at least one of a comparison algorithm based on acoustic metadata and a comparison algorithm based on cultural metadata. The result of the plurality of comparison algorithms may be combined. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256107 | Integrating data with a contact - A system and method for integrating data with a contact is disclosed. The technology initially receives a first data element from a contact and provides a representation of the first data element. The representation of the first data element is then coupled with the contact on a contact list. A second data element is then received from the contact and a representation of the second data element received is also provided. The representation of the second data element is then coupled with the contact on the contact list, such that the representation of the first data element and the representation of the second data element are concurrently coupled with the contact on the contact list. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256108 | Mere-Parsing with Boundary & Semantic Driven Scoping - Methods, systems and computer program products for implementing a mere-parser are disclosed. Text data is processed to generate one or more parse items. A boundary based attribute associated with one of the parse items is identified, and the identified mere attribute is associated with one or more of the remaining parse items that is not blocked from associated with the boundary based attribute. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256109 | Dynamic Podcast Content Delivery - Systems and methods for delivering podcast content dynamically in an automated podcast platform. In general, one aspect can be a method that includes receiving a request to download a podcast, and determining an item of audio content to be inserted into the podcast. The method also includes inserting the item of audio content into the podcast dynamically at a predetermined time. Other implementations of this aspect include corresponding systems, apparatus, and computer program products. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256110 | STORAGE MEDIA TRACKING AND MANAGMENT - Managing removable computer-readable media transporting across various locations. Data is stored on the computer-readable media at an on-site location. Each of the computer-readable media is associated with a tracking device. The tracking device has a storage medium. An intent expression is defined for each of the computer-readable media. The defined intent expression includes conditions for managing each of the computer-readable media. The defined intent expression for each of the computer-readable media is stored on the storage medium of the tracking device. The computer-readable media are transported from the on-site location to an offsite location. The stored intent expression is obtained for each of the computer-readable media on the tracking device at the offsite location to manage the computer-readable media based on the defined intent expression. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256111 | DATA GENERATOR APPARATUS TESTING DATA DEPENDENT APPLICATIONS, VERIFYING SCHEMAS AND SIZING SYSTEMS - A data generator for database schema verification, system sizing and functional test of data dependent applications. Allows for generation of data from random values or from working databases which may be profiled to generate patterns for occurrences of values and sizes of values. The data may be filled with a fill rate that dictates the percentage of fields assigned nulls. Cardinality allows for a fixed number of values to occur across the records for a field. May utilize reference data associated with an existing database to fill fields. Qualifiers and multi-value fields may be filled to mimic real data. Maximum, nominal and average number of occurrences of sizes of data and qualifiers and multi-value data may be specified. May also utilize dictionaries to fill. Hierarchical levels and number of child nodes may also be specified and used in filling taxonomy tables and hierarchy tables for example. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256112 | Indirect methods in network data repositories - A logical network directory database compliant with the X.500 standard for a directory data system is disclosed. The network directory database provides a source of subscriber and service data accessible by various control and management processes that require subscriber information. The network directory database may be extensible across various communications service providers and IT domain. Further, the disclosed network directory database may be applied to new and existing services, such as, IP Multimedia Subsystem, Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) and other IP services. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256113 | Techniques to associate information between application programs - Techniques to cross-reference information for application programs are described. An apparatus may comprise a first application program to create notes for an operator, a second application program to display a target document, and a context reference module to generate a context reference for the target document indicating a source for the target document, display the context reference, and associate the context reference with a note. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256114 | Techniques to display associated information between application programs - Techniques to cross-reference information for application programs are described. An apparatus may comprise a first application program to create notes for an operator, a second application program to display a target document, and a context generation module to generate a context for a note by displaying a document view for the target document using stored context information when the note is displayed. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256115 | Systems, apparatuses and methods for identifying transitions of content - Systems, apparatuses and methods for identifying the end of the presentation of a content item such as a song, and/or identifying transitions from one content item to another. Content is presented via a device. A calculated fingerprint(s) representative of at least a portion of the content is transmitted. A more comprehensive content fingerprint for the content is received in response to the transmission of the calculated fingerprint. The device locally compares further calculated fingerprints to the received content fingerprint to identify an end to the presentation of the content. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256116 | Publicly auditable polling method and system - A method includes collecting poll data, generating a poll database which includes the poll data, and publishing the poll database, such that the poll data is accessible to at least one interested party. A system is also provided, which includes a server connected to a computer network and a data management application which provide a set of functions. The functions include obtaining poll data, creating a poll database which includes the poll data, and publishing the poll database, such that the poll data is accessible to at least one interested party. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256117 | Managing entity data in case of multiple entity identities - A method manipulates data that is or is to be stored at a server. The data has to be identifiable at the server via a data identifier that comprises an entity identity identifying an entity. A set of entity identities identifying the entity exists and comprises a primary entity identity and one or more other entity identities. The data is specific for the set of entity identities. The data is always identified in the manipulating via a data identifier comprising the primary entity identity. A method further stores such entity-specific data at a server. The data is stored only under the primary entity identity, and the data is associated with the other entity identities so that the data is also identifiable via a data identifier comprising one of the other entity identities. The invention further relates to corresponding devices, computer program products and a system. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256118 | Emulation of empty database tables using database views - Methods and a system for managing database usage. The methods and system include receiving a request to create a table, determining the table is an empty table, and storing a pseudo-table in a data store in response to determining the table is empty. The pseudo-table may be a database view. Metadata related to a table may be stored in the pseudo-table to describe characteristics of the table. The pseudo-table occupies less space than a corresponding empty table. The system may implement the methods in middleware transparent to the applications. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256119 | Publicly Auditable Polling Method and System - A method includes collecting poll data, generating a poll database which includes the poll data, and publishing the poll data in the poll database, such that the poll data is accessible to at least one interested party. A system is also provided, which includes a server connected to a computer network and a data management application which provide a set of functions. The functions include obtaining poll data, creating a poll database which includes the poll data, and publishing the poll data in the poll database, such that the poll data is accessible to at least one interested party. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256120 | Document processing apparatus, document processing method, document processing program and recording medium - The text format of input data is checked, and is converted into a system-manipulated format. It is further determined if the input data is in an HTML or e-mail format using tags, heading information, and the like. The converted data is divided into blocks in a simple manner such that elements in the blocks can be checked based on repetition of predetermined character patterns. Each block section is tagged with a tag indicating a block. The data divided into blocks is parsed based on tags, character patterns, etc., and is structured. A table in text is also parsed, and is segmented into cells. Finally, tree-structured data having a hierarchical structure is generated based on the sentence-structured data. A sentence-extraction template paired with the tree-structured data is used to extract sentences. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256121 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAPPING MULTI-DIMENSIONAL MODEL TO DATA WAREHOUSE SCHEMA - A system maps a multidimensional model to data warehouse schema. The system includes a multidimensional model editor for defining a multidimensional model based on a conceptual model; a mapping reasoner for generating more simple mappings from basic mappings by reasoning on the conceptual model so as to provide mappings for concerning elements in an ontology path in the multidimensional model; a data warehouse schema analyzer for generating a data structure capable of indicating information of the data warehouse schema by making an analysis on the information of the data warehouse schema; and a mapping composition engine for generating result mappings according to mappings for the concerning elements of the ontology path in the multidimensional model and by searching in the data structure paths corresponding to the concerning elements of the ontology path in the multidimensional model. A method and computer program product are also disclosed. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256122 | Time intelligence for application programs - Techniques to implement time intelligence for application program are described. An apparatus may include a calendar application module. The calendar application module may be arranged to define and generate a calendar for an application program, the calendar application module to define time members for a time dimension of a multidimensional data model, assign a monotonically increasing unique identifier to each time member, and generate the calendar with time members from the time dimension using the unique identifiers. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256123 | System and Method for Obtaining Object Data - In a method and a system for obtaining object data representative of an object, the object is provided with at least one identification carrier on which identification data are stored, the method including:—reading identification data from the identification carrier with a read unit;—determining from the identification data location data of a network location of a server element connected to an electronic network and on which object data representing the relevant object are stored;—sending the identification data on the basis of the location data via a communication connection over the electronic network between the read unit and the server element associated with the determined network location;—the server element determining task data from the identification data;—having the server means execute the associated task on the basis of the task data so as to generate and/or process object data representing the identified object. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256124 | SCHEMA MAPPING SPECIFICATION FRAMEWORK - A method, system and program product for specifying, in a schema mapping framework, a mapping between a source schema and a target schema. The source and target schemas are schemas included in respective groups of registered, heterogeneous schemas. The source and target schemas may be of different types. Serialized versions of the source and target schemas include source objects and target objects, respectively. A mapping model is serialized into mapping objects that include logical references representing the source objects and logical references representing the target objects. The logical references are resolved to the source objects and target objects, thereby storing pointers to the source objects and to the target objects. After resolving the logical references, the mapping model includes the logical references and the pointers to the source and target objects. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256125 | Device and Method for Storing / Retrieving Objects with Multidimensionally Addressed Electronic Data - The invention provides for devices and methods for storing/retrieving objects comprising multidimensionally addressed electronic data in a system of several data processing units, in particular as regards the economy of time, even if individual units of the data processing units are unreliable. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256126 | TESTING ENVIRONMENT FOR DATABASE SERVER SIDE LOGIC - A system for providing a test environment for database server-side objects persistently stores a profile for a plurality of test runs for database server-side objects, where the profile comprises persistently stored test parameter values, pre-execution scripts, and/or post-execution scripts. Once the profile is created, it can be selected for subsequent test runs for one or more objects. A plurality of profiles for the objects may also be created. The system eliminates the need for a manual set up or destruction of the test environment for each test run, improving efficiency in the development of database server-side objects significantly. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256127 | System For Extracting Specific Portions of Contents - The present invention relates to a system for extracting a specific portion of content. When a desired portion is extracted so that a content service can be provided, a plurality of users extract a beginning time and an ending time of a specific frame in the case of moving picture content and carry out a temporal indexing operation. When searching for the specific portion after extracting a beginning point and an ending point of the specific portion in case of still picture content and carrying out a spatial indexing operation, the plurality of users retrieve and display the specific portion from an indexed database. Therefore, the plurality of users can carry out the indexing operation for one file to organize a search database without correcting an original file and can extract the specific portion of content. Moreover, because the specific portion of content can be extracted and the extracted specific portion can be displayed and edited, all file formats can be controlled irrespective of file format. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256128 | Systems and methods for source document management in clinical trials - System and methods for source documents management in clinical trials are described. One described method comprises receiving a clinical trial form on a client device over a network from a server device, the clinical trial form comprising a plurality of form data fields; receiving structured clinical trial data associated with at least one of the plurality of form data fields; receiving unstructured clinical trial data; and transmitting the structured clinical trial data and unstructured clinical trial data to the server over the network. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256129 | Method and System of Creating Media Playlists and Sending to Mobile Devices - The field of invention is computer-implemented systems and methods for creating and transmitting media to mobile devices, and in particular, methods and systems for locating, selecting, grouping, and arranging media items in playlists, and transmitting playlists to mobile devices and/or other electronic devices. This invention enhances the usability of mobile devices, and in particular, the usability of any mobile phone by making a user's media or third party media accessible to that user via the mobile phone. An object of the invention is to make any mobile phone a personal media player such as a “MP3 player”, a “Podcast” player, a “slideslow” viewer, and so on. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256130 | NONLINEAR SET TO SET PATTERN RECOGNITION - Variations in the states of patterns can be exploited for their discriminatory information and should not be discarded as noise. A pattern recognition system compares a data set of unlabeled patterns having variations of state in a set-by-set comparison with labeled arrays of individual data sets of multiple patterns also having variations of state. The individual data sets are each mapped to a point on a parameter space, and the points of each labeled array define a subset of the parameter space. If the point associated with the data set of unlabeled patterns satisfies a similarity criterion on the parameter space subset of a labeled array, the data set of unlabeled patterns is assigned to the class attributed to that labeled array. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256131 | Factory equipment, factory equipment control method, and factory equipment control apparatus - A Factory Equipment provided with a control apparatus, equipment to be controlled, and safety measures provided for safety, wherein a memory of the control apparatus stores a work content-worker type relationship table and a work content-equipment operation relationship table, a work content judgment unit refers to the work content-worker type relationship table based on an input worker type from an worker type input unit and an input work content from a work content input unit to judge if a worker of the input worker type can perform the input work content, and, when it is judged that the input work content can be performed, an equipment operation judgment unit refers to a work content-equipment operation relationship table based on the work content and safety conditions input from a safety condition detection unit so as to judge if equipment can be operated. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256132 | Method and system for determining incident impact - A method and system for determining an impact of an incident. An occurrence of an incident is identified. One or more persons at least potentially impacted by the incident are identified based on dynamic indications. After the occurrence, one or more indicators associated with the one or more persons identified are detected. Based on the indicators, the extent to which the persons identified have been impacted by the incident is assessed. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256133 | Integrated Change Management Unit - An integrated system for managing changes in regulatory and non-regulatory requirements for business activities at an industrial or commercial facility. Application of this system to environmental, health and safety activities, and to food, drug, cosmetic, and medical treatment and device activities, are discussed as examples. The system: provides one or more databases that contain information on operations and requirements concerning an activity or area of business; receives information on regulatory and non-regulatory changes that affect operations of the business; converts these changes into changes in data entry forms, data processing and analysis procedures, and presentation (by printing, electronic display and/or distribution) of data processing and analysis results to selected recipients, without requiring the services of one or more programmers to re-key and/or reformat the items affected by the change; and implements receipt of change information and dissemination of data processing and analysis results using the facilities of the Internet. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256134 | Method and Computer Program Product for Dynamic Weighting of an Ontological Data Model - A method, computer program product, and a data processing system that facilitates navigation through a directed graph for selection of sub-processes of a modified business process derived from a business process is provided. A bounding box is used for evaluating and selecting sequences of nodes representative of business sub-processes or services. The bounding box has a predefined depth for limiting the scope of the evaluation. The bounding box is shifted during the evaluation as sequences of nodes are selected. Additionally, state data is maintained such that a sense response model may be employed to detect and account for changes to the environment in previously evaluated services. By maintaining state data, a transition to a previously evaluated sub-process may be implemented to account for significant changes in the environment | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256135 | PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING A CONFIGURATION SPECIFICATION LANGUAGE SUPPORTING INCOMPLETELY SPECIFIED CONFIGURATION ENTITIES - In a hardware definition language (HDL) file among one or more files, one or more design entities containing a functional portion of a digital system are specified. The one or more design entities logically contain a plurality of latches having a respective plurality of different possible latch values that each corresponds to a different configuration of the functional portion of the digital system. With one or more statements in the one or more files, a multi-level Dial tree is defined that includes a selective control Dial (SCDial) entity at an upper level that is associated with at least one design entity. The SCDial entity has a Dial input, a plurality of Dial outputs coupled to inputs of the plurality of lower level Dials, and a mapping table indicating a mapping between each of a plurality of possible input values of the Dial input and a respective one of a plurality of sets of output values for the plurality of Dial outputs. At least one set of output values in the mapping table specifies output values for fewer than all of the plurality of Dial outputs. Each specified output value reflects a setting of at least one lower level Dial, and settings of the lower level Dials reflect which of the plurality of different possible configuration values is loaded in the plurality of configuration latches. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256136 | Techniques and tools for managing attributes of media content - Methods, graphical user interfaces, computer apparatus and computer readable medium for managing attributes (or properties) for media content are disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment, a user of a computing device can utilize the methods, graphical user interfaces, computer apparatus, and computer readable medium to copy attributes from one digital media asset to one or more other digital media assets. The digital media assets can be audio, video or graphical. | 2008-10-16 |
| 20080256137 | Method and system for data processing with data replication for the same - A replication data base is created on the basis of a predetermined condition. A data processing system adds transactions that are lacking and/or cancels transactions that are not required, to and from a replication data base created on the basis of a certain arbitrary time, in accordance with a predetermined condition defined by the data base user. | 2008-10-16 |
