Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090106072 | Associating Assets with Agreements - Method and apparatus for associating assets with an agreement, where the assets are typically equipment or machinery and the agreement is typically a service contract. When assets are sold or leased, service is often an important part of the transaction. A user is presented with a sequence of operations in order to streamline the process of creating service agreements to cover assets. The user enters data and proceeds through a flow to associate selected assets with service agreements. The method optionally includes obtaining approval and signatures authorizing the agreement. | 04-23-2009 |
20090106079 | Executive Field Service Task Start to Finish - Method and apparatus for completing a field service activity, where the field service activity typically involves providing on-site service for equipment or machinery. A user is presented with a sequence of operations in order to streamline the process of completing a field service activity. The user enters data and proceeds through the sequence of operations to complete the field service activity. The time spent by the user in various stages of completion of the field service activity is captured and recorded. The method optionally includes obtaining approval and signatures authorizing the agreement. | 04-23-2009 |
20090106196 | TRANSFERRING RECORDS BETWEEN TABLES USING A CHANGE TRANSACTION LOG - A method and apparatus for transferring records between database tables using a transaction log. In one embodiment of the method, a first application generates a transaction for deleting a record from a first table in a database. In response to the generation of the first transaction, a copy of the record is stored in an entry of a transaction log before the record is deleted from the first table. A second application generates an instruction for copying the record from the transaction log to a second table, and the record is copied from the entry to the second table. | 04-23-2009 |
20090106216 | PUSH-MODEL BASED INDEX UPDATING - A method and apparatus for push-model based index updating. In one embodiment of the method, a first transaction generated for modifying or inserting a first data object into a memory. A first message is generated in response to generating the first transaction, wherein the first message comprises information related to an identifier of the first data object, wherein the first message comprises information that indicates that the first data object was or will be modified or inserted into the memory, and wherein the first message comprises a copy of some or all of the data contents of the first data object; transmitting the first message to a computer system that implements a search engine. | 04-23-2009 |
20090106294 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EMPLOYING A SEARCHABLE ABSTRACTION LAYER OVER ENTERPRISE-WIDE SEARCHABLE OBJECTS - A mechanism for dynamically configuring searchable fields of interest within an enterprise-wide search center is provided. Such functionality is provided through the creation and maintaining of an abstraction layer that represents the searchable fields of interest, which are gathered from the total available fields from enterprise-wide searchable objects. The abstraction layer is defined through the use of a field mappings file that relates searchable fields of interest in searchable objects with fields within a search index accessible to the search center. The field mappings file can provide the defined relationships between searchable object fields and search index fields at runtime of a user session, thus avoiding a rigid configuration at the time of search center initialization. Through such runtime modification of the abstraction layer, costly downtime due to revision of a configuration of the search center can be avoided and a dynamic flexibility in the presentation of the fields in the searchable objects can be provided without a need for modification of the searchable objects themselves. | 04-23-2009 |
20090106324 | PUSH-MODEL BASED INDEX DELETION - A method and apparatus for push-model based index deletion. In one embodiment of the method, a first transaction is generated for deleting a first data object from memory. A first message is generated in response to generating the first transaction, wherein the first message comprises information related to an identifier of the first data object, and wherein the first message comprises information that indicates that the first data object was or will be deleted. The first message is then transmitted to a computer system that implements a search engine. | 04-23-2009 |
20090106325 | RESTORING RECORDS USING A CHANGE TRANSACTION LOG - In one embodiment of the method, a first transaction is generated for deleting a record from a table of a database. In response the record is deleted from the table. Further in response to the generation of the first transaction, a copy of data of the record is stored in an entry of a transaction log before the record is deleted from the table. An instruction is then generated, and in response the record is restored to the table after the record is deleted, wherein the record is restored in the table using the copy of the data in the transaction log entry. | 04-23-2009 |