44th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 56 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090271342 | PERSONALIZED MEDICINE SYSTEM - A method, program storage device and system for developing a Personalized Medicine System ( | 2009-10-29 |
20090271343 | Automated entity identification for efficient profiling in an event probability prediction system - A computer-implemented method and system for automated entity identification for efficient profiling in an event probability prediction system. A first subset of entities belonging to one or more entity classes is defined. At least one historical profile is constructed for each entity in the subset of entities based on a set of possible outcomes of transaction behavior of each entity in the first subset of entities. Based on the historical profiles, a second subset of entities having transaction behavior associated with a transaction is selected, the transaction behavior being predictive of at least one targeted outcome from the set of possible outcomes. The first subset of entities is redefined with the second subset of entities. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271344 | Method for computer-aided control or regualtion of a technical system - A method for computer-aided control of any technical system is provided. The method includes two steps, the learning of the dynamic with historical data based on a recurrent neural network and a subsequent learning of an optimal regulation by coupling the recurrent neural network to a further neural network. The recurrent neural network has a hidden layer comprising a first and a second hidden state at a respective time point. The first hidden state is coupled to the second hidden state using a matrix to be learned. This allows a bottleneck structure to be created, in that the dimension of the first hidden state is smaller than the dimension of the second hidden state or vice versa. The autonomous dynamic is taken into account during the learning of the network, thereby improving the approximation capacity of the network. The technical system includes a gas turbine. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271345 | Method and Apparatus for Declarative Data Warehouse Definition for Object-Relational Mapped Objects - A data warehouse is constructed using the relational mapping of a transactional database without reconstructing the data relationships of the transactional database. First, an application programmer analyzes an object model in order to describe facts and dimensions using the objects, attributes, and paths of the object model. Each of the dimensions has an identifier that correlates an item in the transactional database to a dimension record in the data warehouse. The fact and dimension descriptions are saved to a description file. Second, a Data Warehouse Engine (DWE) then access the description file and uses the object model, fact and dimension descriptions, and object-relational mapping to map transactional data to the data warehouse. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271346 | LIBRARY SYNCHRONIZATION BETWEEN DEFINITIONS AND INSTANCES - In an industrial control configuration, various instances can exist that are based upon a definition. A definition can be changed and thus it can be appropriate to alter related instances in accordance with the change. However, changing an instance can cause disruption in other actions even when the change is minor. Therefore, various standards can be used to determine if a change to an instance should be propagated automatically or at another time, such as after an operation. The determination can be based on artificial intelligence techniques, user preference, a defined rule set, user instruction, as well as other standards. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271347 | Methods and systems for monitoring bioactive agent use - Methods, computer program products, and systems are described that include accepting at least one indication of a bioactive agent use by an individual and/or assigning an artificial sensory experience to monitor at least one side effect of the bioactive agent on the individual. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271348 | DETERMINING THE DEGREE OF RELEVANCE OF ALERTS IN AN ENTITY RESOLUTION SYSTEM - An entity resolution system and alert analysis system configured to process inbound identity records and to generate alerts based on relevant identities, entities, conditions, activities, or events is disclosed. One process of resolving identity records and detecting relationships between entities may be performed using a pre-determined or configurable entity resolution rules. Further, the entity resolution system may include an alert analysis system configured to allow analysts to review and analyze alerts, entities, and identities, as well as provide comments or assign a disposition to alerts generated by the entity resolution system. Furthermore, the entity resolution system may be configured to handle duplicate alerts, i.e., one or more identical or near-identical alerts generated using the same entities and/or identities as well as assign a relevance score to the particular entities and identities included in the alert. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271349 | DETERMINING THE DEGREE OF RELEVANCE OF ALERTS IN AN ENTITY RESOLUTION SYSTEM OVER ALERT DISPOSITION LIFECYCLE - An entity resolution system and alert analysis system configured to process inbound identity records and to generate alerts based on relevant identities, entities, conditions, activities, or events is disclosed. One process of resolving identity records and detecting relationships between entities may be performed using a pre-determined or configurable entity resolution rules. Further, the entity resolution system may include an alert analysis system configured to allow analysts to review and analyze alerts, entities, and identities, as well as provide comments or assign a disposition to alerts generated by the entity resolution system. Furthermore, the entity resolution system may be configured to handle duplicate alerts, i.e., one or more identical or near-identical alerts generated using the same entities and/or identities as well as assign a relevance score to the particular entities and identities included in the alert. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271350 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVELY RECOMMENDING SERVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVELY RECOMMENDING SERVICE, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING SERVICE BASED ON USER'S FAVORITE BASE - The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for adaptively recommending service, the apparatus comprises: a semantic analyzing device which analyzes the query from a user semantically; a service selecting device which selects a service which corresponds to the semantically-analyzed query, and updates a service association database according to the selected service; and a service recommending device which searches the service association database according to the selected service to recommend a related service to the user. The present invention also relates to a system and method for adaptively recommending service as well as an apparatus and method for recommending service based on user's favorite base. With the present invention, the data in the service association database can be acquired and adjusted automatically based on the user's service selection history base, thereby enabling provision of associated services for the user. Further, the present invention can recommend service providers to the user based on the user's favorite base and thus provide services with greater flexibility. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271351 | RULES ENGINE TEST HARNESS - A system is provided. The system comprises a computer system, a builder component, and a test execution component. When executed by the computer system, the builder component promotes defining a plurality of test cases and a plurality of test scenarios. When executed by the computer system, the text execution component simulates at least one service application, invokes execution of plurality of rules on a rules engine with an input based on one of the test cases defined using the builder component, wherein the rules engine interacts with the simulated service application, and stores the result of the rule execution in a database. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271352 | System, Method and Software for Selecting Among Available Connections for Accessing Content from a Remote Server Using a Client Computing Device - A computing device may have one or more physical connections and/or one or more virtual connections to computer network(s). A user of the computing device may desire access to data from a remote server. According to the present disclosure, the performance of accessing the remote server via the one or more physical connections and/or the performance of accessing the remote server via the one or more virtual connections are tested. Based on the test results, and possibly user-defined rules as well, one of the physical or virtual connections is selected for accessing content from the remote server using the computing device. Alternatively, one of the physical or virtual connections can be selected based solely on user-defined rules. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271353 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TAGGING A DOCUMENT - There are disclosed a method and a device for tagging a document. The method includes the steps of acquiring structural information of the document, retrieving a content block list corresponding to a user-input tag, comparing blocks in the structural information with blocks in the content block list, to obtain similar blocks, and annotating the user-input tag at positions, which correspond to the similar blocks, in the document. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271354 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OBTAINING A COMBINATION OF FAULTY PARTS FROM A DISPERSED PARTS TREE - It is an object of the present invention to find out parts to be a highly possible cause of failure without searching all of part data of all of products. Dispersed parts data on a parts tree are sequentially accessed from a set of known failed products, and part attribute values each having a higher support in the faulty product are extracted. In this process, a subset of parts used in the faulty product is also obtained simultaneously. The part attribute values having higher supports and the subset of parts used in the faulty product are represented as a tree in which a parts type serves as a node. Next, an information gain of a rule that having the two part attribute values is a cause of failure is calculated on two part attribute values having higher supports on the tree of the parts type. This calculation is locally performed on a common parent part of two parts and parts having a certain information gain is outputted as a cause of failure. How to select these two part attributes is performed in such a way that part attributes located closer to each other on the tree are first evaluated, and first found part attributes are made a candidate of a cause of failure. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271355 | POLICY CHANGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, POLICY CHANGE PROCESSING METHOD, POLICY CHANGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A policy change processing apparatus is used for controlling a system, and processes a change in a content of a plurality of policies specified so that contents of the policies do not conflict with each other. The policy change processing apparatus includes: a changeable scope storing unit that stores therein a changeable scope for each of the policies, the changeable scope indicating a scope where a policy content is changeable without causing a conflict with any other policies; and a changeable scope determining unit that determines whether a policy content accepted as a change target of a predetermined policy is within the changeable scope of the predetermined policy, the changeable scope being stored in the changeable scope storing unit. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271356 | SITUATION-AWARE THRESHOLDING FOR RECOMMENDATION - In one embodiment, data relating to usage patterns of the user is stored, wherein the data includes information as to items which were used and the context in which they were used. The data is then clustered into clusters of data points. Then a centroid is determined for each of the clusters. A cluster similar to a current context of the user is selected by comparing a data point representing the current context of the user to one or more of the centroids. For each of one or more items, a threshold based on values for a plurality of the centroids with respect to the corresponding item, wherein a threshold is used to compare with centroid value of an item in a selected cluster to determine whether to recommend the item. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271357 | KNOWLEDGE ARTIFACT ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD - A knowledge tracking and analysis system and method. The method may include: an artifact evaluator that receives various use parameters for each knowledge artifact, operates on the received use parameters, and generates respective parameter scores; and a knowledge index calculator that compiles parameter scores and generates a knowledge index indicative of use of the knowledge entities during the project. The system and method allow analysis and tracking of knowledge artifacts in future projects. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271358 | Evidential Reasoning Network and Method - The present invention relates generally to expert systems that synthesize data from multiple disparate sources of evidential information. More specifically, the present invention relates to systems, methods, devices, and computer readable media for implementing evidential reasoning with multi-agent systems. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271359 | STATISTICAL RECORD LINKAGE CALIBRATION FOR REFLEXIVE AND SYMMETRIC DISTANCE MEASURES AT THE FIELD AND FIELD VALUE LEVELS WITHOUT THE NEED FOR HUMAN INTERACTION - Disclosed is a system for, and method of, calculating parameters used to determine whether records and entity representations should be linked. The system and method use a symmetric and reflexive function to allow for linking records and entity representations whose field values differ. The system and method apply iterative techniques such that parameters from each linking iteration are used in the next linking iteration. The system and method need no human interaction in order to calibrate and utilize record matching formulas used for the linking decisions. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271360 | Assigning Plan Volatility Scores to Control Reoptimization Frequency and Number of Stored Reoptimization Plans - Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for improving the processing of database queries. Some embodiments include generating volatility scores for various plans for executing similar database queries. Different embodiments may utilize: database statistics, the variable values being selected for, and/or historical run time data, to generate the plan volatility scores. In some embodiments, the volatility scores are used to determine whether to generate a new plan for a query, whether to prune an existing plan, and/or how many different plans to store for a query. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271361 | Non-repeating random values in user specified formats and character sets - Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with producing non-repeating random values for use in data masking are described. One example method includes accessing data describing a mask for a value in a database table column to be masked. The example method may also include identifying a number of distinct values in the database table column to be masked and determining a field width for a mask to provide unique random numbers to mask the distinct values. The method may include identifying locations in a mask value to store the unique random value and locations in a mask value to store filler values. The mask value may include different character sets and may comply with user specified formats. The method may include generating a set of statements that when executed produce a mapping table that includes masks for distinct values in the database table column to be masked. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271362 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEM - A method for controlling a relational database system, wherein a query statement to be processed, which consists of keywords, is first analyzed by applying a recursive transition network (RTN) and then converted into control commands by the following steps: defining the RTN in a presetting step by forming independent RTN building blocks each having an inner, directed decision graph and optionally at least one recursive call function; forming an RTN building block-independent reference group, the elements of which refer to a residual decision graph with the first decision position removed; carrying out a reference processing step and running the residual decision graphs, which may prescribe the recursive call function; and generating an optimized access plan for the relational database system. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271363 | ADAPTIVE CLUSTERING OF RECORDS AND ENTITY REPRESENTATIONS - Disclosed is a system for, and method of, determining whether records and entity representations should be linked. The system and method include assigning to each pair of entity references a match value reflecting the likelihood that the entity references are related. Based on the match values, each entity reference may then associated with a preferred entity reference. Pairs of entity references that are mutually preferred may then be identified and linked. The process may be iterated to generate further links. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271364 | OPTIMIZED STORAGE AND ACCESS METHOD FOR A HISTORIAN SERVER OF AN AUTOMATED SYSTEM - Exemplary embodiments of the disclosure relate to a method and a system for the storage and processing of process values of a technical process or a technical installation in a historian server which can be integrated into a process control system of a technical installation or of a technical process. In such a method and system a dedicated signal cache can be associated with every process value for its raw values provided by the process. The raw values provided by the process are stored in the respective signal caches and additional internal signal-individual aggregate accumulators for the desired aggregates are associated with every raw value. The aggregate accumulators are incrementally modified for the defined interval when a new raw value is received. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271365 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF GENERATING 3D USER INTERFACE FOR PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT - One embodiment of the application provides a method of generating a 3D user interface (UI) in a controller for an appliance in a physical environment. The method includes: abstracting the appliance to obtain to a appliance functionality description having variables of the appliance, operations of the state variables, and relationship among the state variables; converting the state variables into corresponding 3D widgets in the controller, wherein the state variable are mapped respectively into the 3D widgets; laying out the 3D widgets to form the 3D UI in the controller; constructing communication objects in the controller from the state variables, the state variables being mapped into the communication objects; and providing interaction between the 3D UI and the appliance by a communication protocol integrated with the appliance. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271366 | Methods and Systems for Improving Hash Table Performance - Methods and systems for generating a hashcode for a hash table are provided to improve the hash table performance. A particular method includes receiving an input of a key; applying a hash function to the key to generate an incoming hashcode of the key; encoding a key type into the incoming hashcode to generate a first hashcode; and storing the first hashcode. A particular method includes encoding the key type into at least one bit of a bucket index portion of the incoming hashcode. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271367 | PRODUCT LINE EXTRACTION - Methods, systems and computer readable media for extracting product lines from a plurality of product titles are provided. In one embodiment, the plurality of product titles are broken into tokens. Association rules are calculated for individual tokens and pairs of tokens. Brand specific terms and product class specific terms within the product titles are identified. In one embodiment, a token tree is used to identify product lines within the list of product titles using the association rules, the brand specific terms, and the product class specific terms. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271368 | SEARCH QUERY SCORING AND POPULARITY MONITORING AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS THEREFOR - A method of indicating the popularity of the subject of a search query comprising receiving a search query from a user, the search query being received by a search server; determining whether the search query is likely to be related to a particular thing; obtaining popularity information for the particular thing; and, transmitting an indicator of the popularity information to a user computer for display. Some embodiments may also include targeted information about the search query subject, including a map showing the search query subject's location, the location of similar things in the same region as the search query subject, one or more advertisements, and the like. The targeted information and/or the popularity information indicator may be displayed with, or separate from search results associated with the search query. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271369 | COMPUTER METHOD AND SYSTEM OF VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF EXTERNAL SOURCE DATA IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT - An external source data provider provides separable lists of external data in a virtual environment. The external source data provider and method particularly represent a query for external data in the virtual environment. The query is executed against external sources resulting in a plurality of items collectively forming search results. An output module displays the search results as a stream of discrete objects emanating from the representation of the search query in the virtual environment. Each object corresponds to or otherwise represents a respective search result item and operates as an individual data element Any user may persist, manipulate, share, annotate and modify one or more of the objects corresponding to the external data (i.e., respective search result item). Displayed objects that are left untouched by users disappear from display after a predefined period of time. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271370 | DISCOVERY OF FRIENDS USING SOCIAL NETWORK GRAPH PROPERTIES - Embodiments are directed towards providing a list of potential friends to a user based on an analysis of friends' contact lists. The user may provide a subset of friends within a contact list for analysis, along with a degree of separation over which to perform the analysis, and/or a minimum threshold number of occurrences for identifying a candidate friend. The subset of friends' contact lists may then be recursively traversed and merged, where common friends may be identified as members of a candidate set for suggesting friends to the user. In one embodiment, the candidate members may be retained within the candidate set if there is a commonality between the friends and the candidate that exceeds the minimum threshold. The candidate list may also be rank order using various approaches, including a weighted energy diffusion model based in part on a number of communications between the candidates. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271371 | SEARCH CUSTOMIZATION BY GEO-LOCATED PROXY OF USER SEGMENT - A system and method of data processing receives a query at a server computer system. The system and method utilizes the query to extract a search result from a data source. The system and method associates the search result with a geographically distributed population. The system and method associates a demographic criteria with the geographically distributed population and processes the search result to create an output data set based on the demographic criteria. The system and method transmits the output data set from the server computer system to the client computer system. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271372 | SERVICE PROVIDER FRAMEWORK - Providing a dynamic data translation service in a framework that encapsulates other valuable service functions is disclosed. An information technology infrastructure operates in different environments, uses different formats and accesses complex and frequently changing data schemas. The service provider framework provides core computing process automation and dynamic data translation functionality in an encapsulated service that shields requesting systems from data schemas that are often both complex and prone to frequent changes. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271373 | EMAIL RATING SYSTEM AND METHOD - What is disclosed is a novel email rating system and method which enables a user to rate an email based on characteristics selectable from several categories. Cumulative global email ratings for senders given by other receivers are stored in a centralized database accessible over a network. Cumulative local email ratings given by the receiver are also stored. Such information is retrieved, formatted, and displayed on the email for the email receiver at the time the sender's email is opened. Various other options and settings are also displayed. Ratings given the email sender are added to a data record associated with the sender and stored in a database. The sender is optionally provided with the receiver's rating. Additional features are also disclosed. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271374 | SOCIAL NETWORK POWERED QUERY REFINEMENT AND RECOMMENDATIONS - Embodiments of the present invention enhance the search experience of a user by looking at the search history of one or more buddies to provide search enhancements to the user. Examples of search enhancements include an annotation or graphic adjacent to a search result indicating the search result has been visited by one of the user's buddies. In another embodiment, the relevance score assigned to a search result is increased if the search result has been visited by a buddy. In another aspect, alternative queries from the buddies' search history may be suggested to the user during the search session. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271375 | Combination treatment selection methods and systems - Methods, computer program products, and systems are described that include accepting at least one attribute of at least one individual, querying at least one database at least partly based on the at least one attribute, selecting from the at least one database at least one prescription medication and at least one artificial sensory experience to address the at least one attribute of at least one individual, and/or presenting an indication of the at least one prescription medication and the at least one artificial sensory experience at least partly based on the selecting from the at least one database at least one prescription medication and at least one artificial sensory experience to address the at least one attribute of at least one individual | 2009-10-29 |
20090271376 | SEARCH DEVICE AND SEARCH PROGRAM - Where destination candidates that are selected by a search are arranged in a specified display order, the candidates are divided into two subgroups, based on a median value, and a first destination candidate, a median destination candidate, and a last destination candidate are displayed. Where a desired candidate is included among the three displayed candidates, a user chooses the desired candidate. Where the desired candidate is not displayed, the user selects one of a first subgroup button and a second subgroup button to display the destination candidates in the subgroups before and after the median value, respectively. If two-hundred-fifty-three candidates are displayed in a sequential list in five candidate display spaces, a maximum of fifty operations are required to view all of the candidates. In contrast, the divided display arranges the two-hundred-fifty-three candidates into six levels, so the desired candidate can be selected in a maximum of six operations. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271377 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEDICAL EPISODE RECREATION - A system for recreating point-in-time medical episodes is provided. The system can comprise one or more electronic data processors and a network interface connected with the one or more electronic data processors for communicatively linking the one or more processors with a plurality of databases containing patient data corresponding to a particular patient. The system can also include an episode recreation module configured to execute on the more or more processors in order to integrate the patient data by correlating the patient data to a particular point-in-time. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271378 | POINT TO MULTI-POINT MEDICAL COMMUNICATION MATRIX - A method including at least one processor coupled to a computing device and linked to a plurality of databases on which records are stored for contacting a medical professional by a user of the computing device comprises the steps of: activating a service software program by operating an icon on the computing device to perform a function of locating a medical professional; searching for the medical professional; and providing video consults by telemedicine by establishing communication between said medical professional and said user of the computing device upon locating said medical professional. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271379 | Relational database management system (RDBMS) employing a relational datastore and a multi-dimensional database (MDDB) for serving query statements from client machines - A relational database management system (RDBMS) for servicing query statements from one or more client machines, using a relational data store and a multi-dimensional database (MDDB). The RDBMS includes a query interface which is adapted to receive query statements from the client machines, and to generate one or more query requests. The RDBMS includes a query handling mechanism which receives each request from the query interface, extracts a set of dimensions associated with the request, uses the dimensions to retrieve aggregated fact data from the MDDB, and forwards retrieved aggregated fact data to the query processing mechanism for subsequent processing. When the query processing mechanism of the RDBMS determines that servicing one or more query requests requires data stored in the relational tables, then the query handling mechanism automatically routes the requests to the relational data tables, so that data can be accessed from the relational tables and forwarded to the query processing mechanism for use in servicing the requests, in a manner transparent to the client machine. When the query processing mechanism determines that servicing one or more query requests requires aggregated data from the MDDB, then the query handling mechanism automatically routes the requests to the MDDB, so that data can be accessed from the MDDB and forwarded to the query processing mechanism for use in servicing the requests, in a manner transparent to the client machine. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271380 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL OPERATIONS TO BE PERFORMED FOR DATA ITEMS AND RECORDS USING DATA OBTAINED FROM ASSOCIATED VOICE FILES - A method and system are provided for using the contents of voice files as a basis for enabling search and other selection operations for data items that are associated with those voice files. Voice files may be received having associations with other data items, such as images or records. A corresponding text file is generated for each of the one or more voice files using programmatic means, such as a speech-to-text application. Each text file is provided an association with a data item based on the association of the voice file that served as the basis of its creation. Each text file is then made available for the performance of search and selection operations that result in the identification of associated data items. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271381 | Annotations for Electronic Content - Embodiments are described for capturing, displaying, and navigating text annotations in a non-modifiable document. In some embodiments, a determination is made that a text annotation is to be created and a system determines the file position of the selected object. The file position of the selected object can be stored along with the created text annotation in another file or a non-read only portion of a file storing the document. Using the file position, the text annotation may be identified with the selected object without modifying the non-modifiable document. In some embodiments, once a text annotation is displayed a user may easily navigate among the captured annotations. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271382 | EXPRESSIVE GROUPING FOR LANGUAGE INTEGRATED QUERIES - Standard group operators afford expressive grouping across collections of various types for employment by a number of programming languages. The operators can leverage positional information to facilitate grouping of sequential/ordered input data. Groups can also include more than one input element. Additionally or alternatively, the operators can enable multi-level grouping such as nested or hierarchical grouping. In accordance with one aspect, the group operators can be employed in conjunction with language-integrated queries. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271383 | METHOD FOR DERIVING CONTEXT FOR DATA DISCLOSURE ENFORCEMENT - Techniques for deriving a context for enforcing a data disclosure policy while accessing a database are provided. The techniques include receiving a request for database access with met a information, parsing the meta information to identify a context, receiving a user query, formulating a query equivalent to-the user query, wherein the equivalent query implements the identified context to enforce a data disclosure policy, and accessing the database with the equivalent query. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271384 | Relational database management system having integrated non-relational multi-dimensional data store of aggregated data elements - Improved method of and apparatus for joining and aggregating data elements integrated within a relational database management system (RDBMS) using a non-relational multi-dimensional data structure (MDD). The improved RDBMS system of the present invention can be used to realize achieving a significant increase in system performance (e.g. deceased access/search time), user flexibility and ease of use. The improved RDBMS system of the present invention can be used to realize an improved Data Warehouse for supporting on-line analytical processing (OLAP) operations or to realize an improved informational database system or the like. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271385 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PARALLEL QUERY EVALUATION - A method and system for parallel query processing is provided. The method includes estimating a number of sub-queries that may be formed corresponding to an input query. The method further includes fragmenting the input query into a plurality of sub queries by adding one or more filter predicates to the input query without altering the semantics of the input query. Further, processing of the sub queries is scheduled. Thereafter, one or more query execution plans are generated and processed. Following the processing of the query execution plans, the results of the processed sub queries are collated, aggregated and presented in a required format. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271386 | Iterative Search with Data Accumulation in a Cognitive Control Framework - Searching hypotheses for locations of objects in a playback image corresponding to a recorded image generated by a graphical user interface (GUI) of an application program may be accomplished by capturing the playback image, detecting at least one active object in the recorded image, searching subsets of hypotheses from the playback image for an object according to predetermined criteria, recalculating old actions for the object in the playback image by applying actions according to an execution scenario and loading a next set of data, when the object is found, and checking dynamic conditions. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271387 | Extraction Method of Interview Relation by Optimal Condition and Record Medium Recording Thereof - A method of selecting the most suitable partner for a date for the purpose of marriage and a recording medium storing the method are provided. A system for arranging the date comprises a member client management unit for managing registration of clients, an account unit for managing membership fees and usage fees, a security authorization unit for security authorization of a client, if necessary, a match calculating unit for performing calculations to select the most suitable partner, a statistical database for storing and recording various statistical data required for the calculations, an input/output unit inputting and outputting statistical data and data required for operating a server 11 a marriage consultancy, and the server 11 for providing information on marriage. The system enables the most suitable partner to be selected using a status index table indicating an indexed social and economic status, a physical attraction index table indicating an indexed appearance and physique, a home environment table indicating indexed wealth of parents, incomes, and educational backgrounds of siblings, and a database of registered member clients who have gotten married. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271388 | ANNOTATIONS OF THIRD PARTY CONTENT - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to creating a search query based on content and subject of a web page, for example. In one particular example, such a search query may be established by a selection of one or more keywords in a web page. Consequently, the search query may be affected by a determination of content and/or a subject of the web page. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271389 | PREFERENCE JUDGEMENTS FOR RELEVANCE - The claimed subject matter provides a system that trains or evaluates ranking techniques by employing or obtaining relative preference judgments. The system can include mechanisms that retrieve a set of documents from a storage device, combine the set of documents with a query orjudgment task received via an interface to form a comparative selection panel, and present the comparative selection panel for evaluation by an assessor. The system further requests the assessor to make a selection as to which document included in the set of documents and presented in the comparative selection panel most satisfies the query or judgment task, and thereafter produces a comparative assessment of the set of documents based on the selections elicited from the assessor and associated with the set of documents. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271390 | PRODUCT SUGGESTIONS AND BYPASSING IRRELEVANT QUERY RESULTS - A computer system, computer media, and computer-implemented method for generating product suggestions and providing product information are provided. The computer system includes a relevance engine, a product database, and a graphical user interface to respond to user queries and to provide product details associated with one or more products included in the user queries. The relevance engine determines which products are similar to products included in the user queries. The graphical user interface displays product suggestions that refine the user queries without executing the query on the product database, where a subset of the product suggestions are linked to product details pages. User selection of any of the product suggestions within the subset directs the user to a product details page for a specific product and bypasses a listing of results having many products that match the refined user queries. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271391 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RATING USER GENERATED CONTENT IN SEACH RESULTS - Generally, a method and apparatus provides for rating user generated content (UGC) with respect to search engine results. The method and apparatus includes recognizing a UGC data field collected from a web document located at a web location. The method and apparatus calculates: a document goodness factor for the web document; an author rank for an author of the UGC data field; and a location rank for web location. The method and apparatus thereby generates a rating factor for the UGC field based on the document goodness factor, the author rank and the location rank. The method and apparatus also outputs a search result that includes the UGC data field positioned in the search results based on the rating factor. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271392 | System and Method for Utilizing Technology Interconnectivities - A plurality of subtechnologies is identified in which each of the plurality of subtechologies may be defined or characterized by a common granularity level. Thereafter, a plurality of subtechnology interconnectivities, relating to two or more of the identified plurality of subtechnologies, may correspondingly be identified. In one embodiment, a plurality of subtechnology profiles may be generated, wherein the subtechnology profiles include the subtechnology interconnectivities, as well as other subtechnology attributes. In one embodiment, the generated subtechnology profiles may then be stored in a common technology database, to which access may be provided using a common user interface. The technology database may be searched based on user queries entered via the common graphical user interface, as well as the identified subtechnology interconnectivities. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271393 | System and Method for Utilizing Organization-Level Technology Demand Information - A plurality of subtechnologies may be identified in which each of the plurality of subtechologies is characterized by a common granularity level. The organization-level demand and/or expertise for each of the identified plurality of subtechnologies may also be identified. Thereafter, a corresponding plurality of subtechnology profiles may be generated, which include a corresponding organization-level demand and/or expertise, as well as other subtechnology attributes. In one embodiment, the generated subtechnology profiles may then be stored in a common technology database. The technology database may be searched based on user queries entered via the common graphical user interface. The subtechnology search results may be ranked based, at least in part, on a quantitative comparison of the subtechnology's general relevance to the user, with the internal relevance to the user's company or organization. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271394 | DETERMINING THE DEGREE OF RELEVANCE OF ENTITIES AND IDENTITIES IN AN ENTITY RESOLUTION SYSTEM THAT MAINTAINS ALERT RELEVANCE - An entity resolution system and alert analysis system configured to process inbound identity records and to generate alerts based on relevant identities, entities, conditions, activities, or events is disclosed. One process of resolving identity records and detecting relationships between entities may be performed using a pre-determined or configurable entity resolution rules. Further, the entity resolution system may include an alert analysis system configured to allow analysts to review and analyze alerts, entities, and identities, as well as provide comments or assign a disposition to alerts generated by the entity resolution system. Furthermore, the entity resolution system may be configured to handle duplicate alerts, i.e., one or more identical or near-identical alerts generated using the same entities and/or identities as well as assign a relevance score to the particular entities and identities included in the alert. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271395 | MEDIA FILE SEARCHING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A MOBILE PHONE - A media file searching system for a mobile phone is disclosed. The system comprises: a capturing module configured for capturing a section of rhythm sung by a user; a character calculating module configured for calculating a characteristic parameter of the section of the rhythm by using a levinson-durbin recursion arithmetic; a relevancy calculating module configured for calculating a relevancy of the calculated characteristic parameter with each characteristic parameter of each of the media files stored in the mobile phone by using a relevancy arithmetic; the relevancy calculating module further configured for searching a matched media file whose characteristic parameter have a highest relevancy with the characteristic parameters of the section of the rhythm; and a media player for playing the searched media file. A corresponding method is also disclosed. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271396 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEDIA CONTENT PROVISION - Disclosed is a method of providing relevant media content to a user, comprising: storing static data relating to the user's personal profile; providing a choice of media items to the user and allowing the user to select at least one media item from the choice for inclusion in a single media entity to be provided to a media device of the user; selecting at least one relevant media item from a set of additional media items in dependence upon at least some of the static data and at least some of any metadata associated with the or each media item selected by the user; concatenating the at least one user-selected media item and the at least one selected relevant media item to form the single media entity; and sending the single media entity to the user's media device. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271397 | STATISTICAL RECORD LINKAGE CALIBRATION AT THE FIELD AND FIELD VALUE LEVELS WITHOUT THE NEED FOR HUMAN INTERACTION - Disclosed is a system for, and method of, calculating parameters used to determine whether records and entity representations should be linked. The system and method apply iterative techniques such that parameters from each linking iteration are used in the next linking iteration. The system and method need no human interaction in order to calibrate and utilize record matching formulas used for the linking decisions. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271398 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOGNITION OF VIDEO CONTENT - A method and system is provided for recognizing video content represented by temporally segmented video content. An example system includes a communication module and a search and match module. The communications module may be configured to receive a source table of contents (TOC) related to a temporally segmented video content. The source TOC may include one or more titles and a source playback length. The search and match module may be configured to interrogate a video products database with the source TOC to determine one or more match results, utilizing a fuzzy matching technique. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271399 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING CONTENT AT A PRIMARY SERVICE PROVIDER THROUGH A PARTNER SERVICE PROVIDER - A method and system for generating a search includes a user device, a partner service provider in communication with the user network device, and a primary service provider in communication with the partner service provider. The user device generates a search request for search data at the user device and communicates the search request to a partner service provider. The partner service provider communicates the search request to a primary service provider. The primary service provider generates search results data and communicates search results data to the user device. The user device displays the search results on a display device associated with the user device. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271400 | Point of Interest Search Device and Point of Interest Search Method - A point of interest (POI) search device includes: a static POI data storage means for storing therein a static POI data registered in advance; an added POI data storage means for storing therein an added POI data added or changed; a deleted POI data storage means for storing therein a deleted POI data for identifying a POI data which is not subjected to a search anymore, among the static POI data; a search keyword setting means; a computation switch means for computing the number of POI data matching the search keyword from among the static POI data and switching a computation processing of computing the number of POI data according to the computed number of POI data; and a POI search means for computing the number of POI data, using at least the static POI data and the added POI data according to the switched computation processing. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271401 | System for software source code comparison - A system for analyzing similarities between a first and second corpus or between a set of concepts and a corpus uses natural language processing and machine intelligence methods to replace terms or phrases in the corpus with concepts, determine the frequency of each concept in the corpus, and convert the corpus into a concept frequency file to enable easy comparison of the two corpuses or easy retrieval of items from the corpus that contain concept. Difference analysis and a combination of content and spectral analysis may be employed. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271402 | Deduplication of Data on Disk Devices Based on a Threshold Number of Sequential Blocks - Deduplication of data on disk devices based on a threshold number (THN) of sequential blocks is described herein, the threshold number being two or greater. Deduplication may be performed when a series of THN or more received blocks (THN series) match a sequence of THN or more stored blocks (THN sequence), whereby a sequence comprises blocks stored on the same track of a disk device. Deduplication may be performed using a block-comparison mechanism comprising metadata entries of stored blocks and a mapping mechanism containing mappings of deduplicated blocks to their matching blocks. The mapping mechanism may be used to perform later read requests received for the deduplicated blocks. The deduplication described herein may reduce the read latency as the number of seeks between tracks may be reduced. Also, when a seek to a different track is performed, the seek time cost is spread over THN or more blocks. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271403 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PRESENTING METHOD OF RELATED ITEMS - The present invention provides an information processing apparatus including; a first similarity degree calculating section for calculating the degree of similarity between a predetermined item and a calculation target item: and a related item determining section for determining a predetermined quantity of the calculation target items as the related items of the predetermined items in the descending order of the degree of similarity, wherein meta information related to the calculation target item based on the behavior history of user is added to the predetermined items and the degree of similarity between the predetermined item and the calculation target item is calculated. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271404 | STATISTICAL RECORD LINKAGE CALIBRATION FOR INTERDEPENDENT FIELDS WITHOUT THE NEED FOR HUMAN INTERACTION - Disclosed is a system for, and method of, calculating parameters used to determine whether records and entity representations should be linked. The system and method take into consideration interdependent fields, e.g., fields whose constituent field values may be positively or negatively correlated. The system and method apply iterative techniques such that parameters from each linking iteration are used in the next linking iteration. The system and method need no human interaction in order to calibrate and utilize record matching formulas used for the linking decisions. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271405 | STATISTICAL RECORD LINKAGE CALIBRATION FOR REFLEXIVE, SYMMETRIC AND TRANSITIVE DISTANCE MEASURES AT THE FIELD AND FIELD VALUE LEVELS WITHOUT THE NEED FOR HUMAN INTERACTION - Disclosed is a system for, and method of, calculating parameters used to determine whether records and entity representations should be linked. The system and method use a symmetric, transitive and reflexive function to allow for linking records and entity representations whose field values differ. The system and method apply iterative techniques such that parameters from each linking iteration are used in the next linking iteration. The system and method need no human interaction in order to calibrate and utilize record matching formulas used for the linking decisions. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271406 | SEQUENTIAL PATTERN DATA MINING AND VISUALIZATION - One or more processors ( | 2009-10-29 |
20090271407 | INTEGRATED HANDHELD COMPUTING AND TELEPHONY SYSTEM AND SERVICES - Disclosed is an integrated handheld computer and telephony system. Integration of the handheld computer and telephony system is at the physical and operational level. For example, the integrated handheld computer and telephony system physically integrates a handheld computer with a mobile (e.g., cellular) telephone. In addition, the handheld computer is distinct from telephony system in that they are logically separable. However, they are also operationally integrated, for example, the telephony system executes a telephone application on the processor of the handheld computer. Likewise, the handheld computer can execute applications, for example, a phone book, that can be used to launch the telephony application. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271408 | HIERARCHICAL LOCKING IN B-TREE INDEXES - Portions of a B-tree index in a database are locked for concurrency control. In one example, hierarchical lock modes are provided that permit locking a key, a gap between the key and the next key, and a combination of the key and the gap. In another example, key range locking may be applied to the B-tree index using locks on separator keys of index nodes. In another example, key range locking may be applied to the B-tree index using locks on key prefixes. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271409 | Method and system for distributed data management of personal data in a socialnetworking context - A receiving user receives an electronic message from an originating user such that the electronic message contains a data directive that requests a data transfer to/from the receiving user and the originating user. In response to receiving the electronic message, access privileges for the originating user are determined at the receiving computer with respect to access privilege parameters that have been specified by the receiving user. One or more remote and/or local datastores are accessed in order to read and/or write data in accordance with the determined access privileges and the requested data transfer. A response message may be returned to the originating user. One or more new request messages may be sent by the receiving user to other users, wherein each new request message includes the data directive. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271410 | System and a Method for Handling Co-Operation Files - The invention relates to a method for handling co-operation files, where the content of the co-operation files is of the type that describes the co-operation basis in relation to a co-operation between customers and suppliers, and where a unique ID is attached to a co-operation file, where the customer stores co-operation files on a central file handling database and where the co-operation files of the supplier are stored on a supplier computer, the method comprising:
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20090271411 | BINDING UNIT MANIFEST FILE - An information processing device including: a storage unit for storing a data file including readable content, and a control file including control information corresponding to the data file; and a data processing unit configured to use a filename conversion table, which stores filename conversion information, to convert the filename of a file stored in the storage unit into a virtual file system (VFS) name, to construct a VFS that includes storage data of a disc and storage data of the storage unit, and to perform a data reading process; wherein the data processing unit: compares the control information stored in the control file and data stored in the storage unit, and reads and/or updates the filename conversion table to reconcile the control information stored in the control file and the stored data in the storage unit. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271412 | Peer-to-Peer Redundant File Server System and Methods - Peer-to-peer redundant file server system and methods include clients that determine a target storage provider to contact for a particular storage transaction based on a pathname provided by the filesystem and a predetermined scheme such as a hash function applied to a portion of the pathname. Servers use the same scheme to determine where to store relevant file information so that the clients can locate the file information. The target storage provider may store the file itself and/or may store metadata that identifies one or more other storage providers where the file is stored. A file may be replicated in multiple storage providers, and the metadata may include a list of storage providers from which the clients can select (e.g., randomly) in order to access the file. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271413 | TRIAL LISTENING CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND TERMINAL APPARATUS - The present invention provides a content distribution system capable of improving user convenience and effectively distributing content for trial listening. A terminal apparatus includes: a content database that stores plural kinds of content data for trial listening received from a content distribution server; a usage history information recording unit that records usage history information of a user; a user preference estimating unit that estimates user preference on the basis of the usage history information of the user recorded in the usage history information recording unit, and generates preference information; a content extracting unit that calculates similarity between the preference information and each of the content data for trial listening stored in the content database, and extracts content data for trial listening having high similarity from the content database; and a content data playing unit that plays the extracted content data for trial listening. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271414 | USE OF BROWSER COOKIES TO STORE STRUCTURED DATA - A system and process are disclosed for encoding selected data structures in browser cookies. The data structures may contain a variety of different types of data elements, including N-bit integers and other non-character elements. A version tracking scheme provides forward and backward compatibility between client and server software. The process is implemented without the need for any browser extensions, and without the need for users to download any special code to their computers. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271415 | STORAGE AREA NETWORK MANAGEMENT MODELING SIMULATION - A method, system and computer program product are disclosed for simulating a storage area network including a set of correlated devices, each of the devices having a device agent. The method comprises the step of forming a set of simulation agents representing said device agents, including the steps of, (i) for each of the simulation agents, obtaining a set of agent profiles, and storing said agent profiles in a data store, and (ii) obtaining files describing class definitions for the simulation agents, and storing said files in the data store. With this information and data, a Visual Workbench is used to generate a display of said simulation agents. The preferred embodiment provides a framework and implementation that simulates the CIM agent of any SAN device. Each individual device CIM agent can be simulated in this framework based on the specification defined in an XML file and/or through snapshot mechanism. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271416 | Method And System For Retrieving And Organizing Web Media - A system and method which may allow a user to drag and drop a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of a web page onto a media sink on the desktop of the user's computer to download media which may be embedded in or linked to from the web page, so the media may be saved them locally for future consumption. The system may allow a user to subscribe to a URL so that the system may monitor new media as it becomes available at the URL and automatically download the new media. The system may also analyze web media content and its metadata that a user has downloaded, infer the user's preferences, search for web media based on the user's preferences, and recommend web media to the user. The system may consider what other users have downloaded when recommending web media to the user. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271417 | Identifying User Relationships from Situational Analysis of User Comments Made on Media Content - In one embodiment, a method comprises detecting a first comment that is input by a first user at an instance coincident with the first user having been supplied a first identified position of a content asset; detecting a second comment that is input by a second user at an instance coincident with the second user having been supplied a second identified position of the content asset; and selectively establishing a similarity relationship between the first and second users, based on a determined positional similarity between the first and second comments based on the respective first and second identified positions relative to the content asset, and a determined content similarity between the first and second comments. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271418 | COMPUTER FILE SYSTEM WITH PATH LOOKUP TABLES - A namespace is provided in a file system that employs logical volumes. With the namespace, the file system can withstand data storage units going offline without compromising accessibility of the files in the data storage units that remain online. The files in the online data storage units remain accessible through the use of path lookup tables that are stored in the online data storage units. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271419 | Dynamic Database Schemas for Highly Irregularly Structured or Heterogeneous Data - One or more data items of one or more types are received, wherein each data item is associated with one or more attributes, and wherein each attribute is associated with an attribute name and an attribute value. A key is calculated for each attribute, and a determination as to whether the key is located in a dictionary is made. The key is added to the dictionary based on the determination along with an attribute description, and a determination of a number of occurrences of one of the one or more items to the number of all the one or more items in a set is made. Based on this number of occurrences attributes are classified as either mandatory, expected or optional in the generated template for the corresponding info item type. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271420 | DATA CLUSTERING SYSTEM, DATA CLUSTERING METHOD, AND DATA CLUSTERING PROGRAM - An object of the present invention is to perform data clustering while preventing the processing speed from decreasing while maintaining accuracy. A block division section | 2009-10-29 |
20090271421 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAINTAINING AND UTILIZING BERNOULLI SAMPLES OVER EVOLVING MULTISETS - One embodiment of the present invention provides a method for incrementally maintaining a Bernoulli sample S with sampling rate q over a multiset R in the presence of update, delete, and insert transactions. The method includes processing items inserted into R using Bernoulli sampling and augmenting S with tracking counters during this processing. Items deleted from R are processed by using the tracking counters and by removing newly deleted items from S using a calculated probability while maintaining a degree of uniformity in S. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271422 | Object Size Modifications Based on Avatar Distance - A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for modifying objects. In one embodiment, tracking data is obtained which identifies a location of a set of avatars in relation to a range of the object. The range of the object includes a viewable field. In response to determining that the object requires modification, a size of the object is compared with a set of size constraints to form a comparison. Thereafter, the size of the object is modified based on the comparison to form a set of size modifications. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271423 | HLA to XML Conversion - A method includes establishing a connection and subscribing to at least one channel of a High Level Architecture (HLA) federation and an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). The method further includes receiving a text file defining the format of an HLA message; a first extensible Markup Language (XML) document conforming to a first schema that defines data within a first message type; and a second XML document conforming to a second schema that defines data within a second message type. The method further includes receiving a first HLA message over the at least one HLA channel, extracting at least one piece of data from the first HLA message, generating a first XML message, and publishing the first XML message over the at least one ESB channel. The method also includes receiving a second XML message over the at least one ESB channel, extracting at least one piece of data from the second XML message, generating a second HLA message conforming to the text file, and publishing the second HLA message over the at least one HLA channel. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271424 | DATABASE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LINKING RECORDS AND ENTITY REPRESENTATIONS WITH SUFFICIENTLY HIGH CONFIDENCE - Disclosed are a system for, and method of, determining whether records correspond to the same individual. The system and method provide such a determination with a known minimum level of confidence. That is, the system and method provide an indication that records correspond to the same individual along with an associated confidence level. The system and method may be used to link records in a database that correspond to the same individuals, creating entity representations in the database. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271425 | FORMATTED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DATA EXCHANGE OVER A NETWORK - A system, method and article of formatted information and data exchange that extends and replaces certain protocols for intellectual property data exchange using extensible markup language (XML) over a network is disclosed. Information and data is converted and transmitted between various applications and databases using flexible XDS schema fields designed specifically for a more efficient transfer of intellectual property-related data and information. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271426 | Converting between software objects - A computer program product is provided. The product comprises a computer usable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method for converting between data objects constructed according to different software technologies. The method comprises providing a system comprising distinct software modules to perform the converting between data objects and processing a properties file to identify a first class associated with a first software technology based on a second class associated with a second software technology. The method also comprises analyzing the first class to identify a first attribute of the first class. The method also comprises constructing a first object of the first class and assigning a first value to the first attribute of the first object based on a second value of a second attribute of a second object of the second class. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271427 | METHOD FOR DEFRAGMENTING INDEXES IN A RELATIONAL DATABASE AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD - A method and a system defragment indexes in a relational database. The relational database contains a set of tables, in which each table contains a set of indexes, in which, for each index, a fragmentation parameter is associated indicating the fragmentation level of the index. The method includes the following steps: getting a list of the set of tables; for each table of the list, getting the fragmentation parameter associated to each index of the table; and depending on the value of the fragmentation parameter, defragmenting the associated index. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271428 | TRACKING DIGITAL IDENTITY RELATED REPUTATION DATA - Systems and processes of the present invention allow for tracking and publishing digital identity related reputation. In an example embodiment, a Digital Identity Provider maintains a database with reputation data that can be accessed by Requesters. The Digital Identity Provider may update reputation data based on a variety of events related to a digital identity. The reputation data may be tracked regarding the digital identity itself, digital identity purchaser or registrant, or an email address, domain name, URL, or website associated with the digital identity. The reputation data may include various categories, such as email practices, website content, privacy policies and practices, fraudulent activities, domain name related complaints, overall reputation, etc. The reputation data may be published in a publicly-available database, a private database, or via other methods. The Registrant may opt for a reputation service while registering a digital identity. The Requester may decide whether to interact with a digital identity based on the digital identity related reputation. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271429 | DATA RECORDING SYSTEM, DATA RECORDING METHOD AND DATA RECORDING PROGRAM - A data recording system | 2009-10-29 |
20090271430 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLABORATIVE INFORMATION DEVELOPMENT - A system and associated method for collaboratively developing information. An information delivery system for information regarding rapidly evolving software products builds an initial information set and a vocabulary. The initial information set is released for annotations on the information set by contributing users. The vocabulary defines a group of terms and respectively associated confidence level that can be used in describing annotations. An access control list may be employed in authenticating contributing users in accessing the information delivery system to assure reliability of annotations. A reliable annotation having a confidence level satisfying a threshold confidence level is integrated with the information set according to an approval by a content owner. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271431 | System and Method for Providing and Managing Technology-Based Information - A predetermined set of technology attributes is defined, where the technology attributes correspond to set of predetermined traits for a particular subtechnology. A plurality of subtechnologies may then be identified, where each of the plurality of subtechologies may be defined or characterized by a common granularity level. In one embodiment, a plurality of subtechnology profiles, corresponding to the identified plurality of subtechologies, may be generated. In one embodiment, such subtechnology profiles may be generated based on the previously-defined set of technology attributes. The generated subtechnology profiles may then be stored in a common technology database, to which access may be provided using a common user interface. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271432 | TEMPLATE-BASED DEVELOPMENT OF SERVERS - A server instance, which is a collection of LUNs, containing an operating system, any applications and data storage. A processing element is the physical hardware. The combination is a server as normally understood. Templates are used to define server instances and server types to simplify deploying a server instance to a processing element. A graphical user interface provides the templates where the particular storage groups are identified and then server instances are created from lists of operating systems, applications, and available storage. The management service processor is a PXE server and provides the necessary software to identify the components of the processing element and correlate between the processing element and a server instance. The management service processor then automatically provides software to the processing element to allow it correctly boot. The management service processor manages the interconnection of the processing element and the relevant LUNs. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271433 | CLUSTERING USING NON-NEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION ON SPARSE GRAPHS - Object clustering techniques are disclosed. A nonnegative sparse similarity matrix is constructed for a set of objects. Nonnegative factorization of the nonnegative sparse similarity matrix is performed. Objects of the set of objects are allocated to clusters based on factor matrices generated by the nonnegative factorization of the nonnegative sparse similarity matrix. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271434 | Method and System for Storing Trace Data - A method includes capturing a plurality of trace capture records and storing the plurality of trace capture records in a trace acquisition protocol record. The trace acquisition protocol record further storing a single timestamp record and a plurality of flag records. A number of flag records corresponds to a number of trace capture records stored in the trace acquisition protocol record. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271435 | DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD, DATA MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, AND DATA MANAGEMENT DEVICE - Provided is a data management method. Data corresponds to an entry including a reference to another entry and is managed in a set which is a collection of pieces of the data. The set corresponds to a linked list where the entry corresponding to the data is linked in order of addition of the data. The entry includes an insertion time sequence number inserted into the linked list and information indicating if the data has been deleted from the set. In that case, the entry is separated from the linked list at a predetermined timing. The linked list is traced to refer to the data. When the insertion time sequence number of the reference entry is later than the insertion time sequence number of the entry which has already been referred to, it is judged that the reference entry has been separated from the linked list. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271436 | Techniques for Providing a Virtual-World Object Based on a Real-World Object Description - A technique for building a virtual-world (VW) object based on a real-world (RW) object description includes receiving, at a VW toolshed, a message to create a new VW object. In this case, the message uniquely identifies RW object description data that is to be accessed by an RW object management application. VW object description data that is associated with the RW object description data is then requested from the RW object management application. An instance of the new VW object is then created utilizing a VW root object included in an inventory of the VW toolshed. The inventory of the VW toolshed also includes one or more textures, one or more sounds, and one or more scripts. The instance of the new VW object then executes a script to establish a communication path between the new VW object and the VW toolshed. The VW object description data is then provided on an item-by-item basis from the VW toolshed to the new VW object. The appearance of the new VW object is then updated based on the VW object description data on the item-by-item basis. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271437 | DETERMINING COMPUTER INFORMATION FROM PROCESSOR PROPERTIES - Described is a technology by which directly ascertainable properties of a processor are collected, and used as a key to access other information about the processor, such as age-related information maintained in a separate lookup table. If a matching entry is not found, the property information may be added to an unknown list and/or used to dynamically update the lookup table. A data structure such as a record comprises a set of fields including fields containing data representative of properties of a processor, a key value determined from the data in at least some of the fields and an identifier that identifies the processor relative to other processors of other computing devices. The fields may include manufacturer data, brand identifier data, cache information, normalized processor speed data, mobile chip information and/or CPU model data. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271438 | Signaling Correspondence Between A Meeting Agenda And A Meeting Discussion - Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for signaling correspondence between a meeting agenda and a meeting discussion that include: receiving a meeting agenda specifying one or more topics for a meeting; analyzing, for each topic, one or more documents to identify topic keywords for that topic; receiving meeting discussions among participants for the meeting; identifying a current topic for the meeting in dependence upon the meeting agenda; determining a correspondence indicator in dependence upon the meeting discussions and the topic keywords for the current topic, the correspondence indicator specifying the correspondence between the meeting agenda and the meeting discussion; and rendering the correspondence indicator to the participants of the meeting. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271439 | SYSTEMS TO IMPLEMENT BUSINESS PROCESSES IN COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A system to identify a markup language file describing a business process, create a mapping of dimensions of the business process to dimensions of a target computing environment, and implement the business process in the target computing system based on the mapping and the markup language file. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271440 | Personal Address Book Communication Service - A communication service is provided for establishing via a communication network a communication from a first party to a second party. The service receives from the first party data including a first identifier for identifying the first party to the service, and a second identifier for identifying the second party to the service when combined with the first identifier. The data is used as an entry to a database for determining a communication address of the second party. The service then initiates the communication between the first and second parties on the basis of the communication address determined. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271441 | Detailed data aggregation apparatus and method - A detailed data aggregation apparatus holds detailed data of a plurality of events and a transcription and replenishment rule. In the rule, a plurality of common items, which are common to different events as a minimum unit of aggregation, are defined, and a transcription instruction (for instructing to transcribe a value corresponding to an event definition item to a value corresponding to the common item) and a replenishment instruction (for instructing to replenish a value to be replenished as the value corresponding to the common item) are described, associated with each common item for each event. Regarding the held detailed data, transcribed/replenished detailed data including values corresponding to the common items is created from the respective detailed data according to the transcription instruction or replenishment instruction. The apparatus aggregates the created data in a unit of predetermined common item specified as a unit of aggregation or in a unit of combination of predetermined common items. | 2009-10-29 |