| 43rd week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 56 |
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| 20100274736 | CLASS-BASED DISTRIBUTED EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM FOR ASSET MANAGEMENT AND TRADING - A server computer and a multitude of client computers form a network computing system that is scalable and adapted to continue to evaluate the performance characteristics of a number of genes generated using a software application. Each client computer continues to periodically receive data associated with the stored genes stored in its memory. Using this data, the client computers evaluate the performance characteristic of their genes by comparing a solution provided by the gene with the periodically received data associated with that gene. Accordingly, the performance characteristic of each gene may be updated and varied with each periodically received data. The performance characteristic of a gene defines its fitness. The genes may be virtual asset traders that recommend trading options. The genes may be assigned initially to different classes to improve convergence but may later be decided to merge with genes of other classes to improve diversity. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274737 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING FOR AND REPORTING OF LIEN DISTRESS EVENTS - A computer-based method of monitoring for and reporting of a lien distress event relatable to a lien against a property includes the steps of extracting loan data from a client loan portfolio, defining the lien distress event relatable to the loan data by using one or more lien distress event criterion, detecting an occurrence of the lien distress event iteratively, and notifying a client of the occurrence of the lien distress event. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274738 | Guaranteed Principal Investment System, Product and Method - A software-implemented investment system and related software product including at least one equity profile, one or more non-guaranteed investment instruments and at least one target-risk profile, wherein the target-risk profile and the investment equity profile provide a return on an initial investment amount, said return comprising at least a predetermined sum certain principal amount. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274739 | Using Commercial Share of Wallet To Rate Investments - Commercial size of spending wallet (“CSoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“CSoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. A modeling approach utilizes various data sources to provide outputs that describe a company's spend capacity. A mutual fund rating company can use this CSoW/CSoSW modeling approach to predict the performance of funds that invest in a particular industry or sector. In addition, since mutual funds often provide guidelines for selecting stocks, rating companies can use this modeling approach to predict the performance of companies in a fund's portfolio. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274740 | BUSINESS METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PLANNING EXECUTING AND ADMINISTERING A PUBLIC OFFERING OF REVENUE BACKED SECURITIES - A computer system which includes both hardware and software components which develops, executes and administers public offerings providing individual investors direct participation in joint ventures. In these public offerings, investors purchase full or fractional ownership of specified operating assets, which may be sold by venture partners or acquired from other sources. Investors become silent partners in the joint venture by contributing the use of such assets for pursuit of the business purpose(s) of the venture, and are compensated by receiving guaranteed ownership of specified revenues. These public offerings provide the joint venture or other sponsoring business entity with a new source of funding, plus other financial benefits. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274741 | Metals Mass Production and Small Run Reduced Weight Products and Methods of Producing the Same with Automatic and Numerically Controlled (NC) Hydraulic Punching and Flame Cutting Machinery including a 5 Axis NC Machine with Two Bi-Directional Angling Pivot Joints and Two Telescoping Axis Arms and One Main Carriage for Products involved in Building Construction, Bridges, Automobiles, Airplanes, and Mill Stocks including I-Beams, Channel, Angle, Flat Stocks, and Square Tubing - This invention pertains to all steel, aluminum, and alloys, in all available in stock forms and built up assembles from 10′ to 400′ or more in length, that can be weight reduced pattern processed without reducing structural integrity by numerically controlled (NC) multiple hole circular flame cutting punch, or NC plasma hole cutting machine, or NC horizontal and vertical pattern hole punching machine with hot liquid metal or water cooling. The hot scrap metal furnace return conveyer saves energy. The pattern holes formed will allow for precision cutting and cross piece intersection fastener placements. The I-beam building construction system features accurate pattern no holes cutting necessary bolt and bracket fastening methods. The NC machine accepts circular flame torch cutting and pivoting six or eight sided turret head providing five sided machining access for medium and large work pieces from 10′ to 400′. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274742 | DISTRIBUTED EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM FOR ASSET MANAGEMENT AND TRADING - A server computer and a multitude of client computers form a network computing system that is scalable and adapted to continue to evaluate the performance characteristics of a number of genes generated using a software application running on the client computers. Each client computer continues to periodically receive data associated with the genes stored in its memory. Using this data, the client computers evaluate the performance characteristic of their genes by comparing a solution provided by the gene with the periodically received data associated with that gene. Accordingly, the performance characteristic of each gene may be updated and varied with each periodically received data. The performance characteristic of a gene defines its fitness. The genes may be virtual asset traders that recommend trading options, and the data associated with the genes may be historical trading data. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274743 | Human-Machine Interface with Learning While Using Functionality - A human-machine interface with learning while using functionality, is involved with the fields of communication interface between human and machine. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274744 | System And Computer-Implemented Method For Generating Temporal Footprints To Identify Tasks - A system and computer-implemented method for generating temporal footprints to identify tasks is provided. One or more events performed by a user during execution of a task is recorded. Patterns including sequences of two or more of the events are identified. Each pattern occurs at a plurality of occurrences. A determination of whether each pattern is significant is made. A temporal distance between the events in each pattern occurrence for each pattern is identified. A pattern value is determined for each pattern based on a number of occurrences and the associated temporal distance. The pattern value is applied to a significance level. At least one of the patterns is determined to be significant when the pattern value satisfies the significance level. A temporal footprint is generated for the executed task and includes the significant patterns. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274745 | PREDICTION METHOD FOR MONITORING PERFORMANCE OF POWER PLANT INSTRUMENTS - Disclosed is a prediction method for monitoring performance of power plant instruments. The prediction method extracts a principal component of an instrument signal, obtains an optimized constant of a SVR model through a response surface methodology using data for optimization, and trains a model using training data. Therefore, compared to an existing Kernel regression method, accuracy for calculating a prediction value can be improved. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274746 | Method and Device for Computer-Aided Prediction of Intended Movements - Method and device for computer-aided prediction of intended movements from neuronal signals of a brain, wherein the neuronal signals are each associated in the brain with intended movements, wherein neuronal signals are recorded and the most probable movements are determined from these, specifically using a predetermined model in which a recorded neuronal signal and a determined movement are assigned to each other, and, for the probability with which a recorded neuronal signal corresponds to a respective predetermined movement, a predetermined distribution is assumed that is defined by specific characteristic values, wherein an adaptation of the neuronal signal is included in the predetermined model. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274747 | Constraint Processing with Zero Value Handling - Systems and methods for managing floating point variables are described in the present disclosure. According to one example, an embodiment of a method is described. The method comprises providing a floating point variable having a domain that includes a flag representing whether a specific value is included in or excluded from the domain of the floating point variable. The method also includes analyzing a constraint on the floating point variable to determine if the constraint excludes the specific value from the domain of the floating point variable. A value of the flag is manipulated to indicate that the specific value is excluded from the domain of the floating point variable if it is determined that the constraint excludes the specific value. In some cases, the specific value can be the value zero, for example. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274748 | Dynamic Constraint Satisfaction Problem Solver With Part-Whole Hierarchy Constraints - A constraint solver for solving a constraint satisfaction problem model which includes at least one part-whole hierarchy assigns variables to each part of the part-whole hierarchy. The variables include at least one of selected, quantity, and relative quantity, wherein each part has a parent. The solver automatically applies at least one part-whole hierarchy constraint to the part and solves the model and generates a solution. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274749 | Constraint Based System With Domain Splitting - A solver for a constraint satisfaction problem includes a plurality of variables and a plurality of constraints. A floating point variable has a domain and is assigned a value by first determining if a predetermined value can be assigned to the floating point variable if the predetermined value is in the domain. If not, the solver determines if a bound of the domain can be assigned to the floating point variable. If the predetermined value can not be assigned to the floating point variable and the bound of the domain can not be assigned to the floating point variable, the solver assigns a value to the floating point variable using domain splitting. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274750 | Data Classification Pipeline Including Automatic Classification Rules - Described is a technology in which data items (e.g., files) are processed through an extensible data processing pipeline, including a classification pipeline, to facilitate management of the data items based upon their classifications. A discovery module locates data items to process. An independent classification pipeline obtains metadata (properties) associated with each discovered data item, and one or more classifiers classify the data item based on the metadata. An independent policy module applies policy to each data item based upon its classification. Multiple classifiers may be invoked, based upon various criteria. Predefined ordering of the classifiers, authoritative classifiers and/or an aggregation mechanism handle any classification conflicts. Different types of classifiers may be provided, and each classifier may correspond to automatic classification rules; the classifier may directly change a property, (e.g., set the classification) or return a result to a corresponding rule mechanism for changing a property. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274751 | EXPERT SYSTEM FOR INSULIN PUMP THERAPY - An apparatus comprising a controller. The controller includes an input/output (I/O) module and a rule module. The I/O module is configured to present a question for a patient when communicatively coupled to a user interface and receive patient information in response to the question via the user interface. The rule module is configured to apply a rule to the patient information and generate a suggested insulin pump setting from application of the rule. Other devices, systems, and methods are disclosed. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274752 | Method and Apparatus for Retrieving Information using Linguistic Predictors - The invention discloses a method and apparatus for information retrieval in scenarios where the relation between contents and user has a multilingual nature. The problem of content access subsists when the user does not have a standard capacity in the language of contents. The invention proposes a system so that access accounts for the user's variable linguistic capacity in the language of contents, and metrics and additional information can be generated which make possible an optimized access. The user's linguistic capacity is measured by applying the information of a linguistic knowledge base, personalized or predefined. The metrics computed include suitability predictors for the functions of understanding, learning and reviewing. The additional information supplements the deficits in user's knowledge for the toughest contents, and provides a method for improvement through the progressive training of the knowledge base. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274753 | METHODS FOR FILTERING DATA AND FILLING IN MISSING DATA USING NONLINEAR INFERENCE - The present invention is directed to a method for inferring/estimating missing values in a data matrix d(q, r) having a plurality of rows and columns comprises the steps of: organizing the columns of the data matrix d(q, r) into affinity folders of columns with similar data profile, organizing the rows of the data matrix d(q, r) into affinity folders of rows with similar data profile, forming a graph Q of augmented rows and a graph R of augmented columns by similarity or correlation of common entries; and expanding the data matrix d(q, r) in terms of an orthogonal basis of a graph Q×R to infer/estimate the missing values in said data matrix d(q, r).on the diffusion geometry coordinates. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274754 | CLUSTER AND DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS FOR VEHICLES DETECTION - A method is provided herein for determining and recognizing types of vehicles passing a check point. The method takes advantage of an EM algorithm which is up-loaded into a CPU and which processes data of the vehicles which drive past a checkpoint, the data being representative of essential characteristics of vehicles to produce an output model of the traffic volumes of the various types of vehicles. This model enables the forecasting of future road maintenance costs and the planning and designing of future road networks | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274755 | BINARY SOFTWARE BINARY IMAGE ANALYSIS - Methods and computing devices enable identifying particular software functions, modules or arithmetic blocks within a software binary image. Memory register and memory address references within the binary image are normalized. Functions within the binary image are identified. Each function within the binary image is compared against one or more reference function binary images to determine if there is a match. The function-to-reference function comparison may be accomplished by comparing bit patterns or by comparing hash values generated by applying a hash function to the selected function and the reference function. Component parts within functions in the binary image can be identified and compared to reference function component parts within a reference function or within a database of reference function component parts. Results of the comparisons may be used to determine a degree to which the software binary image matches reference functions and/or component parts. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274756 | MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA ANALYSIS METHOD, MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA ANALYSIS APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - A highly-usable multidimensional data analysis method for performing interactive analysis on, for example, medical/administrative data stored in a hospital information system to support knowledge discovery about clinical decision-making is proposed. A multidimensional data analysis apparatus ( | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274757 | DATA LINK LAYER FOR DATABASES - Method for effecting access to databases and/or data arrays and/or applications (C) in a data processing installation and/or in a network of data processing installations, wherein the databases and/or data arrays and/or applications (C) have an explicit address associated with them, particularly an IP address, a server name, a path name and/or a file name or the like, wherein each database and/or each data array and/or each application (C) has an alias uniquely associated with it and at least one association entity (B) is provided in which the association between alias and address is stored and can be retrieved therefrom, and wherein a connection entity (V) is provided which, in the event of attempted access to databases and/or data arrays and/or applications (C), uses the alias to retrieve the address from the association entity (B) and then uses the address obtained from the association entity to access the databases and/or data arrays and/or applications (C). | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274758 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER, AND DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM - Provided is a computer system including: an active system; and a standby system. The active system generates, when an update request is received, an after-update log, and sends the after-update log to the standby system at a predetermined timing. The standby system generates a before-update log based on the after-update log sent from the active system and the stored data, updates, after the before-update log is generated, the stored data based on the after-update log, and rolls, when a rollback request is received, the data back to the data before update based on the generated before-update log. Accordingly, it becomes possible to suppress an increase in period of time to reflect the data updated in the active system on the standby system, and to suppress an increase in period of time for rollback of the data performed in the standby system. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274759 | METHOD OF SYNCHRONIZING DATA BETWEEN DATABASES, AND COMPUTER SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR THE SAME - Methods of synchronizing data between a first database and a second database each holding a portion of data included in the first database using an electronic computing device are presented including: causing the electronic computing device, in response to issuing a retrieval request to the second database, to extract, from the first database, differential data between a first data set in the first database and a second data set in the second database as a retrieval target of the retrieval request, where the retrieval request includes a current retrieval request and a future retrieval request, where the future retrieval request is configured for issuance after the current retrieval request; and updating the second data set by applying the differential data to the second database, where the updated second data set is the retrieval target of the retrieval request. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274760 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING ACCESS TO CONTENTS BY USERS - A control device belongs to a network equipment connected to a communication network to which are coupled communication equipments of users capable of storing contents. This control device comprises i) a first analyzing means arranged for determining respective popularities of contents of a collection from at least user information, and for determining a number of replicas for each content of this collection from at least its determined content popularity, and/or ii) a second analyzing means arranged for determining content preference(s) of users from content ratings, and iii) a computation means arranged for determining location(s) for storing the replica(s) of each content, from the determined content replica numbers and/or the determined user's content preferences, in order to optimize the access to these contents by the users. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274761 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RELIABLE SYMMETRIC DATA SYNCHRONIZATION - The subject matter discloses a system for adding a data item during a synchronization process, said system comprising a receiving (target) side electronic device having a database being compatible to a database of a sending (source) side, such that each data item has unique local and remote identifiers. The system comprises a control unit for assigning a local identifier and a remote identifier to the data item in the database of the receiving (target) side, such that the local identifier of the receiving (target) side is stored as the remote identifier of the sending (source) side and vice versa. After adding the data item, access to the data item stored in the database of the receiving (target) side, is enabled by receiving the remote identifier or the local identifier of the data item as stored in the database of the sending (source) side. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274762 | DYNAMIC PLACEMENT OF REPLICA DATA - The claimed subject matter relates to systems and/or methodologies that facilitate distributed storage of data. A distributed file system can be implemented on storage nodes such that the system places multiple copies of data (e.g., replicas) on a variety of disparate storage nodes to guarantee availability of the data and minimize loss of the data. Storage nodes are dynamically evaluated to identify respective characteristics. In one example, the characteristics can include availability of a storage node, capacity of a storage node, data storage cost associated with a storage node, data transfer costs associated with a storage node, locality of a storage node, network topology, or user preferences associated with a storage node. The characteristics can be employed to generate optimal placements decisions. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274763 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SYNTHETIC BACKUP AND RESTORE - A method and system for backing up and restoring data. First, a full backup is performed to create a full dataset. Thereafter, incremental or differential datasets may be created by incremental or differential backups, respectively. When a new full dataset is needed, instead of performing a full backup, a previous full dataset may be combined with subsequent incremental or differential datasets to create the new full dataset. The new full dataset may be created on a computer other than the computer which hosts the data of the previous full dataset. The new full dataset may be used for offsite storage or to quickly restore data in the event of a failure or corruption of a computer's file system. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274764 | ACCESSING SNAPSHOTS OF A TIME BASED FILE SYSTEM - A file system driver stored in a computational device receives a request to provide access to a snapshot of a rewritable file system at a selected point in time, wherein a plurality of tokens corresponding to a plurality of data units are stored in the rewritable file system, and wherein an ordering relationship is maintained among the plurality of tokens. The file system driver determines a token corresponding to the selected point in time based on the ordering relationship. A virtual subdirectory name is generated corresponding to the determined token. A virtual subdirectory is created with the generated virtual subdirectory name, wherein the virtual subdirectory is a subdirectory of a root directory. The snapshot is accessed via the subdirectory. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274765 | DISTRIBUTED BACKUP AND VERSIONING - The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates distributed backup and versioning techniques for network-based backup architectures. When data is committed to a backup system, a backup version can be created. The generated backup version can be a complete rendition of data or the generated backup version can be a differential between the data and backup information previously committed to the system. The generated backup version can be replicated across a distributed network of peers. Replication can be based upon a desire level of redundancy of versions, location of peers, network topology of peers, storage capacity of peers, health of peers, type of peer, and the like. In addition, versions can be retained based upon a configurable number of desired versions. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274766 | DATA MIGRATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - A data migration management apparatus continuously monitors and stores the utilization statuses of a migration-source storage area and a migration-destination storage area, and uses the information to set up a data migration. An information management unit collects information related to the storage configuration and information related to performance from respective storage apparatuses, and stores the information in a storage unit. In a case where a data migration plan is to be set, a performance information provision unit provides, to a user computer, variations in the utilization statuses during a predetermined period for each of a migration-source volume and a migration-destination array group. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274767 | BACKUP METHOD FOR STORAGE SYSTEM - The present invention provides a backup method that makes it possible to specify the recovery-enabled time of an application even in a case where a backup has been performed without staticizing the application. In response to a first instruction from a management computer, a storage system backs up a first volume to a second volume at a first time while a first host computer continues to process an application. In response to a second instruction from the management computer, a second host computer reads out the data of the second volume and acquires a second time that is the time at which the application is recovery-enabled. The management computer stores the relationship between the backup and the second time in backup catalog information. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274768 | DE-DUPLICATION AND COMPLETENESS IN MULTI-LOG BASED REPLICATION - Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to multi-log based replication. In aspects, database fragments are associated with different logs. Each change to a duplicated database record may be recorded in multiple logs. A history data structure is used to determine when duplication schemas are valid. A duplication schema indicates what database fragments duplicate one or more database records. For a particular time range, the duplication schema history is used to determine whether currently available logs include all changes. If multiple logs include the same change, one log may be selected to provide the change. Non-duplicative changes may be placed into a single data stream usable to update a remote database. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274769 | MANAGING DELETED DIRECTORY ENTRIES - A method, system, and computer usable program product for managing deleted directory entries are provided in the illustrative embodiments. An instruction to delete the entry is received. A second entry that includes a reference to the entry is identified. A third entry including information to be preserved from the entry is added in a deleted entries subtree. The third entry is modified to include the reference information from the second entry. The third entry is saved such that during a restore of the entry the third entry provides the information to restore the entry and the reference to the entry. The third entry may include a set of attributes that store an identifier of the second entry. The entry is restored from the third entry and made available in the directory. A reference is recreated in the second entry to the restored entry forming a restored second entry. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274770 | TRANSDUCTIVE APPROACH TO CATEGORY-SPECIFIC RECORD ATTRIBUTE EXTRACTION - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for segmenting and labeling a collection of token sequences. A plurality of segments of one or more tokens in a token sequence collection are partially labeled with labels from a set of target labels using high precision domain-specific labelers so as to generate a partially labeled sequence collection having a plurality of labeled segments and a plurality of unlabeled segments. Any label conflicts in the partially labeled sequence collection are resolved. One or more of the labeled segments of the partially labeled sequence collection are expanded so as to cover one or more additional tokens of the partially labeled sequence collection. A statistical model, for labeling segments using local token and segment features of the sequence collection, is trained based on the partially labeled sequence collection. This trained model is then used to label the unlabeled segments and the labeled segments of the sequence collection so as to generate a labeled sequence collection. The labeled sequence collection is then stored as structured output records in a database. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274771 | Information Processing Apparatus, and Information Processing Method, Program, and Recording Medium - A method of verifying the consistency in a hierarchical database includes: generating a pointer record by acquiring a reference point stored in the hierarchical database and associating a first reference point identification value determined from a storage location of the reference point with pointer information retained at the reference point; generating a segment record by acquiring a segment stored in the hierarchical database and associating verification data with a retention address of the acquired segment, the verification data giving a second reference point identification value in connection with the calculation module, the calculation module calculating, for a segment in the hierarchical database, a reference point identification value used to identify a reference point which points to the segment; and verifying the consistency of a chain formed in the hierarchical database from the reference point to the segment by comparing the segment record with the pointer record. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274772 | COMPRESSED DATA OBJECTS REFERENCED VIA ADDRESS REFERENCES AND COMPRESSION REFERENCES - A computing device maintains a mapping of a virtual storage to a physical storage. The mapping includes address references from data included in the virtual storage to one or more compressed data objects included in the physical storage. At least one of the one or more compressed data objects has been compressed at least in part by replacing portions of an uncompressed data object with compression references to matching portions of previously generated compressed data objects. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274773 | NEARSTORE COMPRESSION OF DATA IN A STORAGE SYSTEM - A storage server is configured to receive a request to store a data block from a client. The request to store the data block is serviced by the storage server by compressing the data block into a compression group which includes a number of compressed data blocks. The storage server stores the compression group in a non-volatile memory and flushes the compression group from the non-volatile memory to a physical storage device in response to reaching a consistency point. By compressing data to be stored in system memory of a storage servers the amount of data that can be processed during a given time period by a data storage system is increased. Furthermore, an increase in performance can be achieved at a lower cost, since the cost of additional physical system memory modules can be avoided, | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274774 | DIGITAL DATA TAGGING APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING TAGGING AND SEARCH SERVICE USING SENSORY AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION - Provided are a digital data tagging apparatus for generating sensory and environmental information as a tag and endowing digital data with the sensory and environmental information that is automatically extracted using sensory sensor data and environmental sensor data, all of which are sensed by humans through their sensory organs, and a system and method for providing a tagging and search service using sensory and environmental information. The digital data tagging apparatus, and the system and method for providing a tagging and search service may be useful to enable users to search and use digital data more effectively and abundantly through the later use of the sensory and environmental information by collectively recognizing sensory and environmental information and automatically or manually endowing digital data with the recognized sensory and environmental information as a tag, wherein the sensory and environmental information are sensed by humans through their sensory sensors such as an olfactory sensor, a taste sensor and a tactile sensor; an environmental sensor such as temperature, humidity, illumination intensity and wind speed sensors, etc., as well as a camera or a mic. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274775 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING RELATED SITES - A system facilitates the display of thumbnail images containing images of websites related to a website currently being viewed by a user. The system may include several different components to provide the thumbnail images to the user, such as a graphical user interface, an input interface, and a processor. The graphical user interface may display a website for viewing by a user and the input interface may receive an input representative of a request for a related website. The processor may transmit the request for the related website to a search engine, and, in response, the processor may obtain a search result representative of the related website. Moreover, the search result may include several components, such as a related website image representative of the related website and a uniform resource locator (“URL”) representative of a location of the related website. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274776 | DATA SEARCH APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND DATA SEARCH SYSTEM - This invention is directed to a technique of extracting, from a case database, a plurality of definite case data similar to an input case. A data search apparatus which extracts definite case data from a case database includes an input acceptance unit for accepting input of case data including at least medical image data, a derivation unit for deriving a similarity between each of the plurality of definite case data stored in the case database and the input case data, a classification unit for classifying the plurality of definite case data stored in the case database into a plurality of diagnosis groups, based on definite diagnosis information included in each of the plurality of definite case data, and an extraction unit for extracting, based on the derived similarity, a predetermined number or more of definite case data from each of the plurality of diagnosis groups. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274777 | Method and System for Processing a Variable Click Domain Display - Methods and systems for displaying at least one web site or promotion to a user (consumer) responsive to the user's query, on the user's browser, provide a display, that is for example, bifurcated, for the selected results web sites. A first, and typically larger portion of the display, takes up the balance of the display area, and is reserved for review and browsing of an operable web site, corresponding to the web site or promotion either initially displayed or most recently selected in the navigation area (navigation) of the computer screen, monitor or other display. A second portion of the display shows another portion of the navigation area (navigation) permitting the consumer to browse additional web sites or promotional options selected by the system server and/or computer. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274778 | RANKING DOCUMENTS - A plurality of documents are ranked. The documents are returned as the result of a query computed for each search engine of a plurality of search engines. Each document of the plurality of documents is associated with a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). The plurality of documents includes at least one document returned as a result of the query from each of the search engines. For each URL associated with a document from the plurality of documents, a frequency of the URLs is determined. Ranking the plurality of documents includes ranking them based on one or more factors, which are based on the frequency determined for each URL associated with the plurality of documents. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274779 | QUERY OPTIMIZATION IN A MULTI-TENANT DATABASE SYSTEM - The present invention provides techniques for storing information on a multi-tenant database system to control query latency that includes a method that stores the information on the database among a plurality of tables arranged in columns and rows. For each of a subset of the plurality of tables, sets of the rows are distributed amongst different storage nodes on the database, with the set of rows stored at a common node having a common index value. Data storage and retrieval capabilities to the database are provided to allow access to the information, in response to requests from one of a plurality of remotely disposed computer systems. The retrieval capability includes a query condition that includes a query index value, with the query condition and the query index value being established to control retrieval latency. Also disclosed is a machine-readable medium carrying one or more sequences of instructions for storing information on a multi-tenant database system to control query latency when executed by one or more processors and cause the one or more processors to carry out steps of the method. A data center for storing information on a multi-tenant database system to control query latency is also disclosed that carries-out the functions of the method. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274780 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MODELING PARTITIONED TABLES AS LOGICAL INDEXES - Technologies for forming logical indexes and utilizing such indexes so as to abstract many of the complexities resulting from referencing partitioned database tables. Included are technologies for making use of order-preserving properties of table metadata, for adding a partition equality predicate to an explicit predicate in merge-join processing on partitioned tables, and for selecting execution of a logical skip scan on a partitioned table when a query predicate does not reference a specific partition. Such technologies generally abstract from the query writer and processing systems explicit referencing of table partitions. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274781 | ORDERED INDEX - Systems and methods for processing an index are described. A postings list of items containing a particular term are ordered in a desired retrieval order, e.g., most recent first. The ordered items are inserted into an inverted index in the desired retrieval order, resulting in an ordered inverted index from which items may be efficiently retrieved in the desired retrieval order. During retrieval, items may first be retrieved from a live index, and the retrieved items from the live and ordered indexes may be merged. The retrieved items may also be filtered in accordance with the items' file grouping parameters. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274782 | GENERATING METADATA FOR ASSOCIATION WITH A COLLECTION OF CONTENT ITEMS - A method of automatically generating metadata for association with a collection of content items accessible to a system ( | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274783 | TUNING OF RELEVANCY RANKING FOR FEDERATED SEARCH - Determining a relevancy ranking score is disclosed. An indication is received that a relevancy ranking score algorithm is to be tuned to a selected preference. The relevancy ranking score algorithm is updated based at least in part on the selected preference, wherein the relevancy ranking score of a search result resulting from a search query is based at least in part on one or more constraints of the search query. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274784 | VIRTUAL DISK FROM NETWORK SHARES AND FILE SERVERS - A system manages a file directory containing data that is exposed by a file-server. The system provides a block-device layered on top of a network share that treats the underlying network share as read-only but allows local file-system semantics to operate on top of the network share. The end-result is a virtual disk containing a locally recognizable file-system that can read and write from the perspective of the operating system but where the data is store in the cloud as network shares. The virtual disk appears to be a fully functional local disk with all the expected local disk semantics. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274785 | Database Analysis Using Clusters - A method for mapping relationships in a database results in a cluster graph. A representative sample of records in each of a plurality of tables in the database is analyzed for nearest neighbor join edges instantiated by the record. Records with corresponding nearest neighbor join edges are grouped into clusters. Cluster pairs which share a join relationship between two tables are identified. A weighting may be applied to cluster pairs based on the number of records for the cluster pair. Meaningful cluster pairs above a weighted threshold may be ordered according to table and displayed as a cluster graph. Analyses of the cluster graph may reveal important characteristics of the database. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274786 | System And Method For Performing Longest Common Prefix Strings Searches - A method and system a method for compressing and searching a plurality of strings. The method includes inputting a plurality of strings into a compression engine. The method also includes converting each of the plurality of strings into a new, prefix-preserving compressed string, using the compression engine. For every string P that is a strict prefix of a string S, P's resulting compressed string is a strict prefix of S's resulting compressed string. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274787 | SUMMARIZATION OF SHORT COMMENTS - A method and a system for summarization of short comments are provided. The system comprises a memory to store a comments collection. The comments collection stores a plurality of comments for later access. The comments respectively include an overall rating and at least one phrase. The system also includes one or more processors to implement an aspect module to identify a first head term and a second head term based on a first portion of the comments and to map the first head term and the second head term into an aspect cluster. The one or more processor also implement a rating module to predict an aspect rating corresponding to the aspect cluster based on the respective overall ratings of the portion of the comments. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274788 | METHOD OF ENCAPSULATING INFORMATION IN A DATABASE AND AN ENCAPSULATED DATABASE - In a method of encapsulating information in a database, a message is partitioned into a plurality of object class entries within the database. An object class pointer is generated for each of a first subset of the plurality of object class entries, the generating further including executing a pointer key algorithm, the algorithm additionally generating a random number for each object class entry and concatenating the randomly generated numbers to form a single parameter string adapted to obfuscate a path between a pointer and its corresponding object class entry. The plurality of object class entries are stored in non-adjacent storage locations within the database, with each of a second subset of the plurality of object class entries stored in association with one of the generated pointers. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274789 | OPERATIONAL RELIABILITY INDEX FOR THE KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer program products for an operational reliability index (“ORI”) scoring system in the knowledge management system that is standardized and centralized across the channels and sub-channels in an organization. The ORI system scores the reliability or confidence of the channels, sub-channels, and applications in an organization. The ORI receives reliability data associated with one or more predictability factors related to a business application. The ORI determines predictability factor reliability scores for each of the one or more predictability factors based on the reliability data and weighted values assigned to the predictability factors. Weighted values are also assigned to the categories, applications, sub-channels, and channels. The ORI determines at least one of a category reliability score, application reliability score, business sub-channel reliability score, or business channel score based on the determined predictability factor reliability scores and the weighted values. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274790 | System And Method For Implicit Tagging Of Documents Using Search Query Data - A computer-implemented system and method for implicit tagging of documents using search query data is provided. A corpus of documents including electronically-stored digital data is identified. A search query including one or more query terms from a user is received. The search query is executed against the document corpus. Search results including an identifier for each of the documents in the corpus that matches at least one of the query terms are obtained. A selection of one or more of the identifiers by the user is captured. A set of click-through tags that each include the user, one of the selected identifiers, and the matching query terms is created. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274791 | WEB-BASED TOOL FOR DETECTING BIAS IN REVIEWS - One embodiment provides a computer system for detecting associations between a reviewer and an entity under review. During operation, the system estimates a relationship strength between the reviewer and the entity under review, and determines whether the relationship strength between the reviewer and the entity under review exceeds a predetermined threshold. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274792 | ENHANCED ADDRESS BOOK FOR MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICES - An exemplary method for displaying address book entry data on a mobile wireless communication device comprises displaying a list of contacts entries on a display, receiving first input indicative of selection of one of the contact entries, receiving second input indicative of a request for historical transactions associated with the selected one of the contact entries, and displaying a list of historical transaction associated with the selected one of the contact entries in response to the second input. The method may further include retrieving an entire historical transaction log (e.g., phone call history log or message history log) from memory, and filtering the entire historical transaction log to generate a temporary transaction history. According to one embodiment, the filtering step further comprises ascertaining identification information associated with the selected one of the contact entries, and retrieving entries from the entire historical transaction log which match the ascertained identification information. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274793 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF CONFIGURING FOR SERVICES BASED ON DOCUMENT FLOWS - An approach is provided for a small footprint, flexible client process for a document-flow based service on a mobile device. The approach includes initiating modification of a metadata extraction rule based on configuration data. Metadata is extracted from a document received in a message using the modified extraction rule, | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274794 | System and method for representing information - A preferred method and system for dynamically and/or statically identifying, manipulating, registering, representing and comparing information are disclosed. In a preferred method, systems representing several elements and/or corresponding concepts, associate according to Associative Protocols such as CIRN, enabling networks to effectively represent information. In addition, this disclosure further teaches several additional methodologies for implementing said networks to perform at least one of a: conceptual relations between several data corpuses, contextual relations between several data corpuses, irrelevance removal, search, and trans-grammatical matching. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274795 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING A COMPOSITE DATABASE - Methods and systems are provided that may be used to selectively implement and/or search a composite database comprising a flat file and a relational database based on the query. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274796 | INTELLIGENT CONFERENCE CALL INFORMATION AGENTS - A system is disclosed that integrates with conferencing platforms and provides real-time information by having intelligent agents running on a networked server that is integrated with the conferencing platform. The intelligent agents may be customized or adapted “on the fly” or be preprogrammed by a user or caller to examine real-time data feeds or actively search websites and other information sources. The agents then report any relevant information or content to the system for injection or broadcast into the conference. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274797 | Method and System for Multi-Input Hierarchical Content Navigation - The present invention provides a method and user interface to navigate a hierarchical content catalog comprised of categories, sub-categories and individual content items. Components of the invention are the specific combination of user input capabilities; the combination of display elements; their defined spatial relationship to each other; their individual graphical appearance; and the methodology of how user input actions modify the displayed content within certain display elements. The main benefit of the present invention is its intuitive user interface, enabling the integration of multiple user inputs in order to present context sensitive content choices for selection. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274798 | Program recording medium, computer, and culture state analyzing method - In one aspect of an embodiment, a computer determines an identity of the cells with a cell shape data, and also determines a correspondence relationship of identification data between a plurality of cell analyzing tables at a different observing times. Also, the computer, based on the correspondence relationship of the identification data, records a plurality of cell analyzing tables at the different observing times in a storage medium by making into a database which can be searched in a direction of a time axis for each of the cells having commonality. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274799 | METHOD FOR PERMITTING AND BLOCKING USE OF INTERNET BY DETECTING PLURAL TERMINALS ON NETWORK - The present invention is related to a technology for grasping the number of a plurality of terminals of a client using a Cookie in a private network in which plural terminals are shared by redirecting a session which is to be connected to a Web by analyzing a TCP/IP packet, detecting the accurate number of a plurality of terminals of a client using an Internet, and making the accurate number as a DB, and selectively permitting or blocking a connection to Internet according to TCP/IP by using the Cookie pool information of a DB type and JOB when the users configuring and using a private network connect to the Internet at the same time. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274800 | Method And Apparatus For Determining A List Of Members For A Push To Talk Communications Service - A method and apparatus for determining a list of members for a Group Push to Talk Session in a communications network. A Search Proxy function receives, from a requesting network node, a search request message. The search request message comprises at least one of an instruction to limit the maximum time for a search operation to take, an instruction to send search results in segmented blocks, an instruction to send search results in a predetermined format; and an instruction to perform a search according to a predetermined pattern. The Search Proxy function then performs a search for members with which to populate the list and sends the search results to a receiving node. In most cases, the receiving node is the requesting node. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274801 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a use history search process module configured to transmit a use history search message including model type information of a communication apparatus with which communication has been executed by a second communication process module in a communication method different from a communication method by a first communication process module, and the model type information of the electronic apparatus, to a server, a search result reception module configured to receive from the server a search result related to the use history search message, and an output module configured to output a message recommending communication with the communication apparatus by the first communication module, on the basis of the search result. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274802 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a method including acquiring content distribution information with respect to a criterion denoted by an attribute of metadata supplied to the content, determining as an option, of a plurality of options, a candidate of a search condition to be added as a query related to the attribute, based on the distribution information, displaying a screen including the attribute and the option, and retrieving content from the candidate displayed in the displaying step based on an attribute value corresponding to an option of the plurality of options selected by a user. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274803 | Document Preparation Support Apparatus, Document Preparation Support Method, and Document Preparation Support Program - A document preparation support apparatus outputs a knowhow and a response example for each critical passage of a document. The document preparation support apparatus includes a storage unit. The storage unit includes: first corresponding information that stores a knowhow in association with a search key for extracting a critical passage; and second corresponding information that stores a response example in association with a search key for extracting a critical passage. The document preparation support apparatus also includes a control unit. The control unit receives a document; extracts a critical passage from the received document using a prescribed search key from among the search keys; searches the first corresponding information and the second corresponding information using the search key used for the extraction to obtain a knowhow and a response example; and outputs the obtained knowhow and response example in association with the critical passage. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274804 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INVOKING FUNCTIONALITIES USING CONTEXTUAL RELATIONS - A method for obtaining contextually related instances. The method comprises providing a map of a plurality of contextual relations between a plurality of instance types and a plurality of functionalities. Each one of the functionalities is associated with one of the mapped contextual relations and configured for providing one or more instances of a respective type. The method further comprises receiving a contextual linkage between a known instance and a requested instance, identifying a match between the contextual linkage and a segment of the map, and obtaining the requested instance by using the known instance along with a group of which is selected from the functionalities; each member of the group is associated with a contextual relation in the segment. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274805 | SEARCH SYSTEM OF COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - A communications system is provided which can search for information about a communications device that is not registered in a network by designating time. The search system, which includes a plurality of communications devices, gateways and an entity management server, can execute a search method. The entity management server stores in a storage device the identification information of the communications device sent from the gateways with establishing correspondence with notification time. The entity management server receives from a mobile terminal the identification information of the communications device and designated time. The entity management server searches for the identification information stored in the storage device at the designated time, and identifies the location information of the gateways corresponding to the identification information included in the search request. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274806 | SELECTING APPLICATIONS FOR MIGRATION FROM A POD ENVIRONMENT TO A POOL ENVIRONMENT - A device may receive a selection of an application from a client device, send two or more sets of questions related to the application to the client device, receive answers to the two or more sets of questions from the client device, obtain a score for each of the sets of questions based on the answers, determine whether the application is to be ported from a first computing environment to a virtual computing environment based on the scores, and send results of the determination to the client device. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274807 | Method and system for representing information - A preferred method and system for dynamically and/or statically identifying, manipulating, registering and comparing information are disclosed. In a preferred method, the elements and their respective associations respective to a data string or corpus are identified and/or represented through corresponding network elements and/or configurations. In addition, this disclosure further teaches the methodology of implementing the disclosed methodology of “informational networks” to perform an information application such as that of a search engine while effectively avoiding semantic irrelevance or selecting only relevant information with restrictions of a given grammar. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274808 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAKING A RECOMMENDATION BASED ON USER DATA - There is described a system and computer-implemented method for providing a recommendation based on a sparse pattern of data. An exemplary method comprises determining a likelihood that an item for which no user preference data is available will be preferred. The exemplary method also comprises determining a likelihood that an item for which user preference data is available for users other than a particular user will be preferred based on the likelihood that the item for which no user preference data is available will be preferred. The exemplary method additionally comprises predicting that an item for which no user preference data relative to the particular user is available will be preferred if the likelihood that the particular user will prefer the item exceeds a certain level. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274809 | DYNAMIC TAXONOMY PROCESS FOR BROWSING AND RETRIEVING INFORMATION IN LARGE HETEROGENEOUS DATA BASES - A process is disclosed for retrieving information in large heterogeneous data bases, wherein information retrieval through visual querying/browsing is supported by dynamic taxonomies; the process comprises the steps of: initially showing (F | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274810 | DYNAMIC SUSTAINABILITY SEARCH ENGINE - The innovation relates to systems and/or methodologies for facilitating dynamic sustainability searches. A sustainability search component executes a query, and returns one or more results that satisfy a set of search criteria and a set of sustainability factors. The search criteria can include keywords, such as product types, process types, and additional features related to the keywords, such as price, location, brand, and so forth. The sustainability factors are alternative cost measures for a given process, product, or plant element. The sustainability search component can analyze the returned results, and rank the results based on sustainability. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274811 | DELAYED FILTERING OF ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION - The invention provides a method, system, and program product for processing an electronic communication by delaying its filtering in order to improve the effectiveness of such filtering. In one embodiment, the invention includes sequestering the electronic communication for a period of time, determining whether the electronic communication should be rejected based on either or both of its source or its content, in the case that the electronic communication should be rejected based on either or both of its source or its content, rejecting the electronic communication, and in the case that the electronic communication should not be rejected based on either or both of its source or its content, delivering the electronic communication to at least one recipient. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274812 | Method and System for Sharing Different Web Components Between Different Web Sites in a Portal Framework - The sharing of objects may be executed by performing various share type administrations. Objects may be shared directly to a site or may be made available indirectly for reuse by a site. The objects shared and made available for reuse may be added to the site to which they are shared and made available for reuse. References to the objects shared and made available for reuse are stored in repositories in response to, and in accordance with, the share type administration performed. The storage of the references to objects is based on privileges associated with at least one of a repository, a site and a user. Objects made available for reuse by, and shared to, a site may be made unavailable for reuse by, and unshared to, the site through the execution of a share type administration. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274813 | EXTENSIBLE FRAMEWORK FOR DATA IMPORT AND EXPORT - A modular framework for data import/export in an application that allows modules/components to be independently developed for importing and exporting data related to specific entities, including the handling of dependencies between entities. The framework is metadata driven which allows new entities to be introduced in the application with new modules for importing/exporting data related to those entities, without updating modules for exporting existing entities. Each type of entity is defined with a schema that represents the logical entity such that the entity is agnostic as to how the entity data is stored in database tables. A master configuration file is created for the application that lists each entity that can be imported or exported by the application, and defines how the framework imports or exports the business entity. Additionally, dynamic batching is provided to divide large datasets into multiple batches for suitable consumption by consumers of the exported data. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274814 | ACADEMY FOR THE KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system, computer program product, or a combination of the foregoing for creating a knowledge management system including an academy system for training and tracking training results of employees in a standardized and centralized location across the channels and sub-channels in an organization. The academy system stores a plurality of training modules, associated with one or more certification programs. The academy system further provides a user training selection interface configured to provide for user selection of one or more of the plurality of training modules. The academy system further provides the user access to the selected training module through an interactive display module interface. The academy system further provides for a user training results interface configured to provide a display of the user training results and stores the user training results of the selected training module in a user training database. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274815 | System and method for indexing, correlating, managing, referencing and syndicating identities and relationships across systems - A networking database containing a plurality of records for different identities in which identities are connected to one another by defined or interpreted Inter-Personal and Intra-Personal relationships. Individuals using the system may define, group and categorize specific identities and relationships; the system may also define, categorize and group both identities and relationships belonging to individuals registered with the system and unregistered users through computational analysis. Identities and relationships may be discovered by the system via an opt-in user-provided mechanism, via a third-party providing information, or through the system's own discovery. Identity and Relationship data can then be used to customize content. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274816 | CORRELATED MEDIA FOR DISTRIBUTED SOURCES - A method and a system of associating correlating metadata with data assets, such as video and audio files, so that the files are rendered as a combination presentation are described herein. The system includes a client a media capture device that provides on board storage, network connectivity, preprocessing, preview buffering, file management, and an eventing system. The method includes capturing the media, associating the media with other media via an identifier, and supports associating correlating metadata prior to time of media capture and during media capture on the capture device itself, and after media capture either on a local machine or on an on-line group. When the combination presentation is presented, additional associated advertising and annotations may be provided upon rendering. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274817 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRESENTING SENSORY EFFECTS USING USER'S SENSORY EFFECT PREFERENCE METADATA - Provided is a method and apparatus for representing sensory effect. The method includes: receiving preference information for predetermined sensory effect from a user; and generating user's sensory effects preference metadata including the preference information. The user's sensory effects preference metadata comprises light preference type information, flash preference type information, heating preference type information, cooling preference type information, wind preference type information, vibration preference type information, scent preference type information, fog preference type information, sprayer preference type information, and rigid body motion preference type information. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274818 | Method and System for Updating Object Data With Respect to Object Specifications in a Product Life Cycle Management System - The invention is directed to a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) update process for updating objects with respect to specifications. The process invokes dependence relations between objects. It relies on building a directed graph, wherein objects are the nodes of the graph. An arc (also called “edge”) is directed from a second object to a first object, the latter depending on the second object according to dependence relations of the PLM system. Thus, the update can be carried by browsing the graph along the direction of the arcs in the graph. Owing to the reversion of the graph with respect to the dependence of objects, the simple solution of the invention guarantees that the update of an object occurs only when the ancestor object it depends on is up to date, and so on. This drastically reduces failures at update in practice. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274819 | Dynamic content assembly on edge-of-network servers in a content delivery network - The disclosed technique enables a content provider to dynamically assemble content at the edge of the Internet, preferably on content delivery network (CDN) edge servers. Preferably, the content provider leverages an “edge side include” (ESI) markup language that is used to define Web page fragments for dynamic assembly at the edge. Dynamic assembly improves site performance by catching the objects that comprise dynamically generated pages at the edge of the Internet, close to the end user. The content provider designs and develops the business logic to form and assemble the pages, for example, by using the ESI language within its development environment. Instead of being assembled by an application/web server in a centralized data center, the application/web server sends a page template and content fragments to a CDN edge server where the page is assembled. Each content fragment can have its own cacheability profile to manage the “freshness” of the content. Once a user requests a page (template), the edge server examines its cache for the included fragments and assembles the page on-the-fly. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274820 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOGENERATION OF LONG TERM MEDIA DATA FROM NETWORKED TIME-BASED MEDIA - The present invention provides an easy-to-use centralized service for providing and using advanced video and audio browsing and tagging methods to create a revised and improved video media set and for enabling a user to auto-create a fixed media form of the so-edited and so-improved video. The present invention also enables a system that allows users to select varying degrees of automated creation of a fixed media form recording following editing and revision steps potentially involving synchronized tagging and commenting aspects. Systems and operational modes are provided for labeling and formatting the auto-generated fixed media data. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274821 | Schema Matching Using Clicklogs - Techniques described herein describe a schema and taxonomy matching process that uses clicklogs to map a schema for source data to a schema for target data. A search engine may receive source data that is structured using the source schema, and the search engine itself may contain target data structured using the target schema. Using query distributions derived from the clicklogs, the source schema may be mapped to the target schema. The mapping can be used to integrate the source data into the target data and to index the integrated data for a search engine. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274822 | DATA CONVERTING METHOD, DATA CONVERTING DEVICE, TERMINAL, AND SERVER - A data converting method is provided, which includes the following steps. Data of a terminal is acquired. A data model corresponding to the received data is confirmed to be an object data model. The data based on the object data model is converted into data based on a treelike data model. A data converting device, a terminal, and a server are further provided. Thus, the data based on the object data model is converted into the data based on the treelike data model, so that a server of an Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Device Management (DM) protocol can manage a terminal based on the object data model defined by a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) forum. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274823 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING AN ADAPTIVE CONTEXT MODEL FRAMEWORK - An apparatus for providing adaptive context model framework may include a processor and a memory storing executable instructions that in response to execution by the processor cause the apparatus to perform various operations. The operations performed may include receiving data from a data provider for provision to an application, querying a generic data model for a representation associated with context data corresponding to the received data, translating the received data into an application specific model based on a response to the querying, and providing data to the application represented based on the application specific model. A corresponding method and computer program product are also provided. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274824 | Portable storage device with subject identification and method thereof - This specification discloses a portable storage device with subject identification and the method thereof. When data are stored to the portable storage device or read from the portable storage device by other terminals, the portable storage device identifies the data subject. This solves the problem of unable to identify the subject during the data storing or reading step in the prior art. Therefore, the stored data subject can be immediately identified. The invention further achieves the goal of letting several people sharing one portable storage device. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274825 | DATA MIGRATION SYSTEM AND DATA MIGRATION METHOD - When performing migration of data from a migration source file server which is not endowed with any HSM interface, to a migration destination file server which is endowed with HSM, a volume of high capacity is needed for the migration destination file server, and moreover the performance deteriorates directly after the migration. However, with this system, the manager is enabled to set a migration policy using attribute information which can be acquired through a standard file access interface possessed by a file server program, and, when setting the attribute information of the migration destination file, the tier of the file which is to be created is determined, and the migration destination file is created, on the basis of this attribute information and migration policy. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274826 | METHOD FOR CLIPPING MIGRATION CANDIDATE FILE IN HIERARCHICAL STORAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The system of the present invention curbs an unnecessary inter-tier file migration and provides an inter-tier file migration that conforms to the utilization state. The hierarchical storage management system respectively migrates a frequently accessed file to the upper Tier, and an infrequently accessed file to the lower Tier. This system carries out inter-tier file migration in conformance with the utilization state. This system provides functions for anchoring a Tier for storage for a specified file, and for not permitting an inter-tier file migration. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274827 | TIER-BASED DATA MANAGEMENT - The present invention addresses the deficiencies of the related art by providing a tier-based data storage solution. Specifically, the present invention evaluates the data contained in database tables by analyzing several metrics for the data, and creating a valuation score. The valuation score is used to determine the storage tier that would meet the performance and availability requirements of the database with the goal of reducing the costs associated with storing that data. The metrics that are used to evaluate database tables include (among others): table purpose, data retention, disk requirements, data criticality, data relevance, and desired performance. As such, the present invention will develop a data (lifecycle) storage plan for each set of data. This storage plan not only identifies an initial storage tier where the data should be stored, but also identifies, if, when and to where the data should be moved thereafter. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274828 | Electronic Device, Storage Area Allocation Method for File System, and Computer Product - According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a dividing module and an allocation module. The dividing module divides a data storage area, to which file data constituting a file is to be written, into a plurality of management areas. The data storage area is in the storage area of a storage medium. The allocation module allocates, upon receipt of a write request to write file data, an area to the file data corresponding to the write request as a write area. The write area is subsequent to an area where file data is written in a management area where file data constituting the same file as the file data corresponding to the write request is written. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274829 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STORAGE - A method and system for storage is provided that in one embodiment includes a store process that continually appends data to the end of a data file and without deleting the data file. Additions, changes and deletions to data are managed by adding new data to the file and changing appropriate pointers in the data file to reflect the new data. Various application programming interfaces are also provided so that the store process can operate transparently to higher level applications. Various plug-ins are also provided so that the store process can utilize different types, configurations and numbers of storage devices. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274830 | Budget tracking calculator system and method - A budget tracking calculator system and method is disclosed, comprising a portable calculating device operating under software control and configured to permit a user to record budgetary expenditure data and other transaction data via a keypad. Four operating modes are provided—calculator, transaction entry, graphing and PC interface. In the transaction entry mode, the user may enter expenditure data into a variety of expenditure categories, to minimize manual data entry time and effort. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274831 | COMPUTING DEVICE, CALCULATING METHOD, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT - A computing device includes: a deciding unit which, in computation of values of nodes on a lattice in a direction where a value of m representing a horizontal axis coordinate of the lattice increases, decides dummy nodes to be added to m=n−1, so as to enable values of nodes on m=n to be calculated by adding the dummy nodes to m=n−1 and executing a vector operation through the use of the SIMD function by using values of nodes on m=n−1 and values of the added dummy nodes; an adding unit adding the dummy nodes decided by the deciding unit to m=n−1; and a calculating unit calculating the values of the nodes present on m=n by executing the vector operation through the use of the SIND function by using the values of the nodes on m=n−1 and the values of the dummy nodes added by the adding unit. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274832 | Identifying Relevant Data from Unstructured Feeds - A system and method of providing data to a mashup application may involve receiving a request from a mashup application and supplying first data to the mashup application in response to the request. Mashup information can be received from the mashup application, wherein the mashup information indicates an inclusion of the first data with second data in the execution of the mashup application. The mashup information may be stored and analyzed to identify relationships between previously unrelated data. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274833 | MONITORING DEVICE AND A SERVER - According to one embodiment, each monitoring device acquires monitoring variables from an observation target, generates an individual multidimensional distribution of the monitoring variables, and transmits the individual multidimensional distribution to a server. The server generates sampling data using the individual multidimensional distribution received from each monitoring device, generates an overall multidimensional distribution of the monitoring variables using the sampling data, determines a statistical model of each index using the overall multidimensional distribution, generates an overall index multidimensional distribution of indexes using the statistical model and the overall multidimensional distribution, and transmits the overall index multidimensional distribution and statistical models to each monitoring device. The monitoring device generates sampling data using the individual multidimensional distribution, and calculates a positioning of the observation target using the sampling data, the overall index multidimensional distribution and the statistical models. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274834 | Method and system for content categorization - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for content categorization, where the method comprises transmitting, by a content categorization request entity, a categorization ability negotiation request to a content categorization providing entity to request the categorization ability of the content categorization providing entity; receiving the categorization capability of the content categorization providing entity returned by the content categorization providing entity. Furthermore, embodiments of the present invention disclose a system for content categorization, content categorization request entity and content categorization providing entity. Categorization ability negotiation or subscription helps to learn the content categorization ability so that the content categorization request entity or content categorization providing entity may mutually and accurately acquire content categorization capability information without delay. | 2010-10-28 |
| 20100274835 | REMOTE MONITORING FOR EDUCATION, SECURITY, AND INVENTORY - A communications network and method for remote interaction with an individual includes a server that generates computer executable commands comprising any of queries, instructions, and messages; and a remote system in wireless communication with the server through a communications channel, wherein the remote system executes the computer executable commands, and interacts with an environment remotely located from the server, wherein the remote system comprises a processor that allows the individual to interact with the remote system. The remote system comprises any of a panic system and a sleep surveillance system. The interaction with the individual comprises providing educational training for the individual by the execution of the any of queries, instructions, and messages. The remote system performs any of law enforcement surveillance of the individual and security monitoring of the environment. The interaction with the individual comprises any of audio and video interactions. | 2010-10-28 |
