01st week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 70 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130006911 | CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND METHODS - A system includes a centralized repository for tracking rule content and managing subscriptions to rule content by organizations and providers utilizing the system; a rule-evaluation server for receiving requests for rule-evaluations for specific patients, wherein the server determines content needing to be evaluated and retrieves the content to be used; a rule engine for performing the evaluations, wherein content, patient data, and rule evaluation parameters are provided to the engine, and the engine returns recommendations triggered by the evaluation, if any; an aggregator for aggregating recommendations from multiple sources, detecting and coordinating related recommendations, and applying configuration settings based on the patient and/or provider in context; and a client component for coordinating communication between an electronic health records system, the server, and the aggregator. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006912 | CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND METHODS - A system includes a centralized repository for tracking rule content and managing subscriptions to rule content by organizations and providers utilizing the system; a rule-evaluation server for receiving requests for rule-evaluations for specific patients, wherein the server determines content needing to be evaluated and retrieves the content to be used; a rule engine for performing the evaluations, wherein content, patient data, and rule evaluation parameters are provided to the engine, and the engine returns recommendations triggered by the evaluation, if any; an aggregator for aggregating recommendations from multiple sources, detecting and coordinating related recommendations, and applying configuration settings based on the patient and/or provider in context; and a client component for coordinating communication between an electronic health records system, the server, and the aggregator. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006913 | System and Method for Automating Proactive Communication - A system and method for automating proactive communication. The information for the desired contacts may be accepted from a user. A selection of contact communication frequency preferences may be received from a user. An automatic communication to one of the desired contacts may be initiated. The user may be allowed to cancel the automatic communication, in response to receiving a notification that the communication is about to begin. A response indicative of the communication status may be received. Rules and preferences may be optimized based upon the received response. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006914 | EXPOSING SEARCH HISTORY BY CATEGORY - Computer-storage media, methods, and systems for mapping a previously submitted query to category(s) and for rendering the category(s) in visual association with the query are provided. Generally, the query is assigned the category(s) by employing one or more categorization processes. One categorization process involves selecting entity(s) that capture a topic inherent to the query, identifying the category(s) that encompass the subject matter of the entity(s), respectively, and generating a mapping between the identified category(s) and the query. Here, the entity(s) operate as a semantic representation of the query. Another categorization process involves inferring a logical description underlying the query, and identifying specific and general category(s) that are semantically related to the inferred logical description. Upon detecting an indication to view past queries, any combination of the specific category, the general category, and the query mapped thereto is presented concurrently to the user. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006915 | DECISION GRAPH FOR EVENT STREAM DATA - A method of generating a decision graph from event stream data, wherein the event stream data includes a plurality of events, and each event includes an associated time stamp, includes generating decision nodes for the graph, wherein the decision nodes each comprise a question having a temporal element. The method includes generating leaf nodes for the graph, wherein the leaf nodes each comprise a rate parameter, and iteratively splitting and merging nodes in the graph in order to maximize a measure of purity of outcomes in resulting nodes. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006916 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTION, FILTERING OR PRESENTATION OF AVAILABLE SALES OUTLETS - Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for the filtering, selection and presentation of vendors accounting for both user characteristics and vendor characteristics, such that the systems and methods may be used by both customer and vendor alike to better match customer needs with the resource-constrained vendors with whom a successful sale has a higher probability of occurring. Embodiments may include filtering, selecting and/or presenting vendors to a user sorted by the probability that the particular vendor will possess the characteristics that appeal to a particular customer and therefore result in a large probability of sale and suppress presentation of those vendors that are unlikely to be selected by the customer since their characteristics are less consistent with those needed by the customer and, therefore, are unlikely to result in a sale. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006917 | DATABASE, PROCESS FLOW DATA MANAGEMENT SERVER, AND PROCESS FLOW DATA MANAGING PROGRAM PRODUCT - A processing load required for updating and searching data is to be reduced in an ERP system. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006918 | Statistical Applications in OLTP Environment - The present disclosure provides a method of statistical application in an OLTP environment to reduce the intensive computational load of invoking SQL statements for statistical calculations. The method introduces a time element into statistical records, and use the time element to determine the time status of previously computed statistical records. Upon receiving a query for a statistical record, the system first searches for an existing copy of the statistical record, and checks the time status of the statistical record if found. The system sends the statistical record to the inquirer if the record exists and is unexpired, and invokes an SQL statement to compute the statistical record only if the record does not exist or has expired. The statistical records may be placed in statistical table in a database and/or a cache of an application server. The disclosed strategy may also increase attack resistance of the system. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006919 | SHARED EDIT ACCESS OF ELECTRONIC CONTENT - In various embodiments, a computerized method includes presenting an electronic document to one user out of multiple users that have edit access to the electronic document as part of a collaborative editing of the electronic document. The computerized method may include receiving an input from the user to edit the electronic document, as well as invoking a lock to prevent edit access by the other users responsive to receiving the input from the user to edit the electronic document. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006920 | RECORD OPERATION MODE SETTING - Designers and implementers of distributed databases have to make difficult trade-offs between reliability, throughput, latency, ease of use, ease of administration and the quality of service provided to applications. Choosing these trade-offs is particularly difficult, as different applications often have widely varying requirements, meaning that different distributed database systems tend to specialise in particular types of application. A method is presented for architecting a distributed database in such a way that applications can make their needs known within fine-grained scopes (e.g., an individual database operation), and the database system can then use this information to alter the trade-offs it makes, thereby improving the quality of service experienced by the application, users, and administrators. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006921 | Method For Transferring Data into Database Systems - A method, computer program, and computer network are disclosed for transferring data to a database system. The method includes preparing a plurality of input records, each including a plurality of fields and a selector configurable to represent a plurality of states. For each input record of the plurality of input records, the following steps are performed. A state represented by the selector for an input record is read. Based on the state represented by the selector, a subset of the fields for the input record is transferred to the database system. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006922 | DATABASE, DATA MANAGEMENT SERVER, AND DATA MANAGING PROGRAM PRODUCT - A processing load required for updating and searching data is to be reduced in an ERP system. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006923 | DISPERSED STORAGE NETWORK VIRTUAL ADDRESS GENERATIONS - A dispersed storage device within a dispersed storage network includes a processing module for determining whether to add a new generation for a vault, in which the vault identifies at least one user having data to be stored. When the new generation is to be added to the vault, the processing module further assigns a vault generation identifier to the new generation and reserves memory for the new generation. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006924 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ASSOCIATING AND MAINTAINING A PLURALITY OF CONTACTS STORED IN A PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGER APPLICATION OF A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method of associating and maintaining a plurality of contacts stored in a personal information manager application of a portable electronic device, each of the plurality of contacts having a contact record including at least one contact record field. The method comprising associating the plurality of contacts based on a common contact record field to form a linked contact group; and upon modification of the common contact record field in one of the plurality of contacts in the linked contact group, automatically updating the common contact record field in all other contacts in the linked contact group. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006925 | MAP UPDATE DATA SUPPLY DEVICE AND MAP UPDATE DATA SUPPLY PROGRAM - A map update data supply device includes: a request update data extraction unit that based on an update request extracts a request update section, and a latest version of an overwrite update data file for overwrite updating; and a safeguard update data extraction unit that extracts a safeguard update section that safeguards a network between adjacent sections, and up to an update safeguard version of a difference update data file, wherein the extracted data files are supplied to a navigation device. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006926 | ROLLING CACHE CONFIGURATION FOR A DATA REPLICATION SYSTEM - Performing data management operations on replicated data in a computer network. Log entries are generated for data management operations of an application executing on a source system. Consistency point entries are used to indicate a time of a known good, or recoverable, state of the application. A destination system is configured to process a copy of the log and consistency point entries to replicate data in a replication volume, the replicated data being a copy of the application data on the source system. When the replicated data represents a known good state of the application, as determined by the consistency point entries, the destination system(s) may perform a storage operation (e.g., snapshot, backup) to copy the replicated data and to logically associate the copied data with a time information (e.g., time stamp) indicative of the source system time when the application was in the known good state. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006927 | STORED DATA REVERIFICATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method are provided for verifying data copies and reverifying the copies over the life span of media according to a verification policy. Characteristics of media and use of media are tracked to provide metrics which may be used to dynamically reevaluate and reassign verification policies to optimize media usage. Copies that fail verification operations may be repaired by repeating a storage operation for recent copies or by substituting a close temporal copy of the failed copy. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006928 | SERVER REPLICATION AT DIFFERENT SITES - A method, device, and program product are provided for inter-site database replication. A replicating server tracks other servers that it needs to replicate with and the sites where the other servers are located. In response to an indication to replicate, the replicating server determines whether each of the other servers is at the same location as the replicating server or a different location from the replicating server. The replicating server replicates with each of the other servers at the same site as the replicating server, and the replicating server replicates with only one of the servers at each different site. The replicated server at each different site replicates with the other servers at the site of the replicated server. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006929 | SYNCHRONIZATION SERVER PROCESS - Among other things, techniques and systems are disclosed for providing sync server process. Processing data sync sessions includes processing a request to initiate a sync session from one or more clients to update one or more data records that include one or more data items. The one or more clients are selectively identified as one of a trusted client and an untrusted client based on one or more properties of the sync session, wherein the trusted client is configured to support all dataclasses defined by the server. The one or more clients are detected as being configured to support field level differencing that sends changed data items only for the one or data records or record level differencing that sends all of the data items included in the one or more data records. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006930 | TRANSFERENCE CONTROL METHOD, TRANSFERENCE CONTROL APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM OF TRANSFERENCE CONTROL PROGRAM - A transference control apparatus includes a communication controller, and a processor that executes a procedure, the procedure including processing a control that causes first processing, in which an update log representing the update content of updating performed for a first database is transmitted, by the communication controller, to a second database serving as a copy destination for the first database, to be performed with priority over second processing, in which transmission target data contained in the first database is transmitted to the second database, and restraining, in the case that updating of the transmission target data is allowed in the first database, the control that causes the first processing to be performed with priority. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006931 | DATA QUALITY MONITORING - A computer implemented method, computer program product and system for data quality monitoring includes measuring a data quality of loaded data relative to a predefined data quality metric. The measuring the data quality includes identifying delta changes in at least one of the loaded data and the data quality rules relative to a previous measurement of the data quality of the loaded data. Logical calculus defined in the data quality rules is applied to the identified delta changes. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006932 | Physical Replication of Database Subset to Improve Availability and Reduce Resource Cost in a Cloud Environment - An approach is provided in which a standby component receives a database log record that corresponds to a modification to one of a primary database's corresponding physical storage spaces. The standby component determines whether a modified object associated with the database log record corresponds to a standby database, which includes a replication of a subset of the primary database's corresponding physical storage spaces. When the standby component determines that the modified object corresponds to the standby database, the standby component invokes a physical replay that replicates the modification on the standby database. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006933 | MINIMIZING REPLICATION SEARCH ON FAILOVER - A method, system, and program product are provided for minimizing replication when a new server is replicated with. A replication application for a client computer having a replica of a database thereon is executed by a processor in a computer to receive for a replication service comprising a plurality of servers containing replicas of the database, an indication of each healthy server in the replication service and a determined period of time within which replication is assured to have been completed for each healthy server. The replication application updates a replication history after successful completion of each replication by adding an entry comprising an identification for the server replicated with and a timestamp for the time of replication and by adding an entry for each other healthy server in the replication service containing an identification for the respective server and an imputed timestamp adjusted for the determined period of time. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006934 | GRID BASED REPLICATION - Provided are techniques for replication in a grid based environment. Grid control structures, including a grid command structure, are created. At an authorized node in a grid of nodes, a Data Definition Language (DDL) operation is received, the DDL operation is inserted into the grid command structure, and the DDL operation is propagated from the authorized node to one or more other nodes in the grid of nodes at the end of a transaction that inserted the DDL operation into the grid command structure. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006935 | METHODS AND APPARATUS RELATED TO GRAPH TRANSFORMATION AND SYNCHRONIZATION - In one general aspect, a computer system can include instructions configured to store on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The computer system can include a subgraph transformer configured to transform a plurality of subgraphs of a source graph into a plurality of transformed subgraphs, and configured to define a target graph that is a transformed version of the source graph based on the plurality of transformed subgraphs. The computer system can include a change detector configured to receive an indicator that a portion of the source graph has been changed, and a synchronization module configured to synchronize a portion of the target graph with the changed portion of the source graph. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006936 | CAPTURING AN ARCHIVING SNAPSHOT - A technique includes, in a first computer system, archiving data for a plurality of environments. Each of the environments are associated with a different combination of an active data source selected from a plurality of active data sources and an archive target selected from a plurality of archive targets. The technique includes capturing a partial snapshot of the archiving, the partial snapshot is associated with one environment for the plurality of environments such that the partial snapshot may be used to replicate said archiving associated with the one environment on another computer system. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006937 | ERROR TRACKING METHOD AND SYSTEM - Data storage services are provided for clients for backup of data objects from the clients. A data object is sent to a first location in a first storage device. A determination is made if the data object was successfully stored at the first location, and if so, meta data corresponding with the data object is stored, wherein the meta data includes first path information on a first data path of the data object to the first location. The data object is migrated from the first location to a second location in a second storage device. A determination is made if the data object was successfully stored at the second location, and if so, second path information on a second data path of the data object is added to the second location to the meta data corresponding with the data object, to update the meta data. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006938 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING DATA REPLICATION - Performing data management operations on replicated data in a computer network. Log entries are generated for data management operations of an application executing on a source system. Consistency point entries are used to indicate a time of a known good, or recoverable, state of the application. A destination system is configured to process a copy of the log and consistency point entries to replicate data in a replication volume, the replicated data being a copy of the application data on the source system. When the replicated data represents a known good state of the application, as determined by the consistency point entries, the destination system(s) may perform a storage operation (e.g., snapshot, backup) to copy the replicated data and to logically associate the copied data with a time information (e.g., time stamp) indicative of the source system time when the application was in the known good state. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006939 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RELIABLY MANAGING FILES IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM - Systems and methods allow for reliably and efficiently managing files stored on a data storage medium associated with a computer system such as a set-top box. The computer system manages a collection of metadata describing each of the files stored on the data storage medium in a memory during operation of the computer system. A current snapshot of the collection of metadata is periodically or otherwise stored to the data storage medium. Following a reboot of the computer system, the collection of metadata can be recovered to the memory from the snapshot of the collection of metadata stored on the data storage medium. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006940 | METHODS AND APPARATUS RELATED TO COMPLETION OF LARGE OBJECTS WITHIN A DB2 DATABASE ENVIRONMENT - In one general aspect, an apparatus can include a completion identifier configured to identify, for completion processing, a large object (LOB) deleted from an auxiliary table within a DB2 database environment based on a space map record associated with the large object where the auxiliary table functions as an auxiliary space to a base table. The apparatus can also include a completion analyzer configured to identify a resource where an image of the large object is stored at a time before the deletion of the large object from the auxiliary table. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006941 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING COPY OF DATABASE - In a DBMS, in response to a request from application programs, a base table update function updates a base table and a recovery start point, and a log recording function records update logs for the base table. Then, at predetermined timing, a backup function outputs the content of the base table to a backup file and copies the recovery start point associated with the base table to a recovery start point. Subsequently, when a user has specified a quiesce point and the base table, a copy generation function generates a target table that is a copy of the base table at the quiesce point by updating the backup file of the specified base table with ones of the update logs from the recovery start point to the quiesce point. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006942 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING AN IMAGE LEVEL SNAPSHOT AND FOR RESTORING PARTIAL VOLUME DATA - The present invention relates to a method for performing an image level copy of an information store. The present invention comprises performing a snapshot of an information store that indexes the contents of the information store, retrieving data associated with the contents of the information store from a file allocation table, copying the contents of the information store to a storage device based on the snapshot, and associating the retrieved data with the copied contents to provide file system information for the copied contents. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006943 | HYBRID DATA BACKUP IN A NETWORKED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the present invention provide a hybrid (e.g., local and remote) approach for data backup in a networked computing environment (e.g., a cloud computing environment). In a typical embodiment, a set of storage configuration parameters corresponding to a set of data to be backed up is received and stored in a computer data structure. The set of storage configuration parameters can comprise at least one of the following: a recovery time objective (RTO), a recovery point objective (RPO), and a desired type of protection for the set of data. Regardless, the set of data is compared to previously stored data to identify at least one of the following: portions of the set of data that have commonality with the previously stored data; and portions of the set of data that are unique to the set of data (i.e., not in common with any of the previously stored data). The above-described process is referred to herein as “de-duplication”. A storage solution is then determined based on the set of storage configuration parameters. In general, the storage solution identifies at least one local storage resource and at least one remote storage resource (e.g., a cloud storage resource) for backing up the portions of the set of data that are unique to the set of data. Once the storage solution has been determined, the unique portions of the set of data will be stored in accordance therewith. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006944 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING STORAGE OPERATIONS USING NETWORK ATTACHED STORAGE - Systems and methods for performing hierarchical storage operations on electronic data in a computer network are provided. In one embodiment, the present invention may store electronic data from a network device to a network attached storage (NAS) device pursuant to certain storage criteria. The data stored on the NAS may be migrated to a secondary storage and a stub file having a pointer pointing to the secondary storage may be put at the location the data was previously stored on the NAS. The stub file may redirect the network device to the secondary storage if a read request for the data is received from the network device. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006945 | DATA MINING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HETEROGENEOUS DATA SOURCES - Systems and methods integrate disparate backup devices with a unified interface. In certain examples, a management console manages data from various backup devices, while retaining such data in its native format. The management console can display a hierarchical view the client devices and/or their data and can further provide utilities for processing the various data formats. A data structure including fields for storing both metadata common to the client device data and value-added metadata can be used to mine or process the data of the disparate client devices. The unified single platform and interface reduces the need for multiple data management products and/or customized data utilities for each individual client device and provides a single pane of glass view into data management operations. Integrating the various types of storage formats and media allows a user to retain existing storage infrastructures and further facilitates scaling to meet long-term management needs. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006946 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORING REDUNDANT INFORMATION - A method and system for reducing storage requirements and speeding up storage operations by reducing the storage of redundant data includes receiving a request that identifies one or more data objects to which to apply a storage operation. For each data object, the storage system determines if the data object contains data that matches another data object to which the storage operation was previously applied. If the data objects do not match, then the storage system performs the storage operation in a usual manner. However, if the data objects do match, then the storage system may avoid performing the storage operation. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006947 | CONFLICT RESOLUTION VIA METADATA EXAMINATION - A provided computing device detects a synchronization conflict between two versions of a file and may examine corresponding metadata fields. The computing device may characterize a nature of a difference between metadata fields as immutable, mergeable, or subsumable. Core metadata fields may be defined such that a nature of a difference, or conflict, is categorized as immutable. Non-core metadata fields may be defined such that a nature of a difference, or conflict, is characterized as either mergeable or subsumable. A conflict between corresponding mergeable non-core metadata fields may be resolved by merging values of the corresponding non-core metadata fields. A conflict between corresponding subsumable non-core metadata fields may be resolved by replacing a value of a non-core metadata field of an older of the two versions of the file with a value of a corresponding non-core metadata field of a younger of the two versions of the file. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006948 | COMPRESSION-AWARE DATA STORAGE TIERING - A method, including assigning, to each tier in a storage system comprising multiple tiers, a respective range of priority scores, and calculating a compression ratio for a file stored on one of the multiple tiers. Using the compression ratio, a priority score is calculated for the file, and the file is migrated to the tier whose assigned range of priority scores includes the calculated priority score. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006949 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA INTEGRITY CHECKING - Systems and methods are provided for data integrity checking in a computing system. In one exemplary embodiment, the method includes receiving, from each of a plurality of computing devices of the computing system, application transaction logs, wherein the application transaction logs are related to a plurality of applications. The method also includes comparing, by the central computing device, the received application transaction logs to a transactions recorded in a database to identify missing transactions. In addition, the method includes performing one or more actions in response to the identified missing transactions. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006950 | Method for Attaching Partition ONLINE to Range Partitioned Table - Method for attaching one or more tables online to a range partitioned table, includes: starting a child transaction; obtaining an exclusive lock on a source table; obtaining an intent exclusive lock on a target table; soft invalidating queries on the target table where compiled form of queries are cached for reuse; attaching the source table(s) to the target table as a new partition(s) of the target table; modifying indices and table structure of the target table to reflect the attaching of the new partition; committing the child transaction; and releasing the exclusive lock and the intent exclusive lock, where concurrently running queries over the target table continue to run without considering the partition until the intent exclusive lock and the exclusive lock are released. Queries on the target table only consider existing partitions when the attaching is in progress. The new partition is available once the attach operation is complete. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006951 | VIDEO DNA (VDNA) METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-DIMENSIONAL CONTENT MATCHING - A method and system of identifying and matching content characteristics comprises the steps of ingesting VDNA (Video DNA) fingerprints from input media contents, quick hash-based query across the VDNA registered indexer servers, and performing multi-dimensional content identification in query engines to obtain best matched results of the input media content. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006952 | ORGANIZING SEARCH HISTORY INTO COLLECTIONS - Computer-storage media, methods, and systems for improving the ability of a user to accomplish a task that is pending during a search session are provided. This pending task can be distilled by identifying a current searching intent associated with a recently submitted query and by determining which candidate tasks are most comparable to the current searching intent of a user. The candidate tasks are mined from a search history of the user by categorizing those navigation events that appear to share a semantically common concept. Upon performing a comparison, the candidate task that captures the user's true current searching intent is designated as the pending task. When a user invokes the pending task, a collection of elements that are associated with the pending task are dynamically organized into a sharable content page, thereby providing a collaborative experience that involves exposing the collection to contacts and accepting feedback therefrom. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006953 | SPATIALLY ORGANIZED IMAGE COLLECTIONS ON MOBILE DEVICES - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for, among other things, spatially-organizing images utilizing information about the orientation of each image for display on mobile devices are provided. A plurality of images of an object is captured from a variety of different orientations and each image and its associated respective orientation information are stored in an image file. Upon a device receiving an indication that displaying of the image file is desired, the device detects the orientation thereof and displays the image of the plurality of images that has orientation information associated therewith that most closely matches the orientation of the device. As the orientation of the device changes, the image that is displayed also changes, approximating for a user viewing the image file the experience of three-dimensional viewing of the object. Such image files may also be utilized in association with advertisements and as search queries. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006954 | TRANSLATION SYSTEM ADAPTED FOR QUERY TRANSLATION VIA A RERANKING FRAMEWORK - A system and method suited to translation of queries are disclosed. The method includes receiving an input query in a source language and outputting a target query, based on a translation of the input query into a target language, different from the source language. The translation is performed with a machine translation system which has been trained on representations of features of translated queries that have been generated by translation of an original query, in the source language, into the target language and a measure of information retrieval performance of each the translated queries, for each of a set of original queries. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006955 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING DATA FOR DATABASE MODIFICATION - A method and system for processing data for database modification, include receiving a set of data, performing a processing chain including a plurality of consecutive jobs to transform the set of data into transformed data, modifying a production database with respect to the transformed data and further include the steps of setting a target processing time for the performance of the consecutive jobs, before a launch of a first job, applying an original configuration as current configuration defining a parallelization level for each of the consecutive jobs, before a launch of at least one further job after the first job, upon an actual remaining processing time being out of a range of acceptable remaining processing times, applying an adapted configuration as new current configuration defining an adapted parallelization level for each of the jobs remaining in the processing chain, the adapted configuration differing from the current configuration. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006956 | Computer Processing Method and System for Searching - The present invention provides a computer processing method and a system thereof for searching. The computer processing method includes: receiving a first keyword; performing search using the first keyword to obtain a first search result; receiving user evaluation of the first search result; in response to the evaluation being unsatisfactory, searching for associated keywords from a keyword data source based on the first keyword; recommending associated keywords to the user according to matching degrees of the associated keywords and the first keyword; and in response to that the user selects an associated keyword from the recommended associated keywords, performing search based on the associated keyword selected by the user. The related specific implementation of the present application will help a user to find an input keyword more effectively during a search so as to enable him/her get more satisfactory search result. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006957 | GESTURE-BASED SEARCH - Computer-readable media, computer systems, and computing devices for initiating a search function, such as presentation of a search box or initiation of a search, is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes detecting movement of a selector from within a display area to an edge of the display area. Such a selector can be controlled by an input device coupled to a user device. In response to detecting movement of the selector from within the display area to the edge of the display area, a search-query input area associated with a search engine is presented within a display screen view. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006958 | Automatic Identification of Related Search Keywords - Keyword expansion is used to expand a particular keyword into multiple related keyword candidates using a collection of data that relates to search queries performed using one or more search engines. The data identifies search terms from associated search queries. A particular keyword is identified and one or more candidate keywords related to the particular keyword are identified based on the data. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006959 | Method for providing a searchable, comprehensive database of proposed rides - A method is disclosed that matches travelers for ride sharing according to personal preferences, such as smoking, music, allergies, drive sharing, expense sharing, number of riders, and gender, as well as basic trip details. In preferred embodiments the method is accessed via a website, and trips can be over any distance and/or by any land, air, or water vehicle. Embodiments require traveler verification by a payment and/or other means, and/or require travelers to supply identifying information. Matches can take into account ratings of travelers by other travelers. Confirmations, reminders, and ride sharing advice can be sent to riders before scheduled rides, and information about a shared ride can be sent to a non-rider. Fees can be charged, and credited if no match is accepted. Communications can be secure and requesting and/or accepting matches can be logged. Origin and/or destination radii can be automatically enlarged to provide more matches. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006960 | Optimizing Database Queries - Some embodiments of the inventive subject matter include a method for transforming queries in a database management system. The can include detecting a first query, wherein the first query produces a first result upon evaluation by the database management system. The method can also include determining that the first query includes at least one operator, wherein the operator is selected from a union operator, an intersect operator, and an except operator, and wherein the operator has a first branch and second branch. The method can also include determining that the first branch of the operator accesses a first table, and wherein the second branch of the union operator also accesses the first table, and transforming the first query into a second query, wherein the second query does not include the operator, and wherein the second query produces the first result upon evaluation by the database management system. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006961 | DATA DRIVEN NATURAL INTERFACE FOR AUTOMATED RELATIONAL QUERIES - A data driven natural interface is provided for automated relational queries. Multiple datasets are displayed in an easily selectable manner on a surface. Upon detecting selection and movement of a dataset to another surface, the moved data is presented on the other surface. Upon detecting selection and movement of another dataset to the other surface, a join path between the moved datasets is computed, the datasets joined, and results displayed on the other surface. The system continues to join newly selected data with existing data as new datasets are moved to the other surface allowing query results to take shape before the user's eyes, without a need to test or execute the query. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006962 | JOIN TUPLE ASSEMBLY BY PARTIAL SPECIALIZATIONS - Various embodiments of systems and methods for join tuple assembly by partial specializations are described herein. The join tuple assembly by partial specializations is a phase of the method for join query evaluation by semi-join reduction. By using partial specializations of the non-join part of the WHERE clause of a join query and matching sets, the join tuple assembly is organized in a manner that all computations are necessary, none are repeated, and failure to complete a partial join tuple to a full tuple is detected as early as possible. The method can be applied to inner and outer joins, and to arbitrary join graphs and non-join conditions in the WHERE clause. It can also be used outside the context of semi-join reductions. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006963 | DATA CHANGE TRACKING AND EVENT NOTIFICATION - The described implementations relate to updating views in a database system. One implementation can identify an active view that retrieves records from a database and determine one or more physical tables in the database that are referenced by the active view. The implementation can track one or more columns in the physical tables that are used by the active view and identify a change to the physical tables in a transaction log of the database. If the change does not affect the one or more columns, the change can be treated as an ignorable change for the active view. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006964 | Technique and Framework to Provide Diagnosability for XML Query/DML Rewrite and XML Index Selection - A method and apparatus for automatically analyzing and providing feedback regarding the optimizability of a relational database query. A query developer's primary goal is to ensure that queries and DML operations are rewritten for the most efficient execution. Rewrite diagnosability captures metadata for each attempted query optimization including success or failure and the reasons for failure. The metadata is stored in association with the operators that were not removed through rewriting. Once all optimizations have been attempted and rewriting is complete, the metadata is selectively displayed based on the cost to perform the associated operation. The context of performing the operation may affect the cost. The cost may be based at least on the type of operation and where within the query tree the operation is located. A query developer may configure the database system not to execute the resulting query plan based on one or more criteria. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006965 | Database Query Optimization - In some embodiments, a method includes detecting a structured query language (SQL) query. The method can also include determining that the SQL query includes a first sub-query and a second sub-query, wherein the first sub-query and second sub-query are operands for a Union operation, wherein a first result of the first sub-query is associated with a first Group By operation, wherein a second result of the second sub-query is associated with a second Group By operation, and wherein a result of the Union operation is associated with a third Group By operation. The method can also include determining that partitioning columns are the same for the first and second Group By operations; determining that the first and second sub-queries include identical algebraic functions; determining that the first Group By operation and first sub-query are not referenced elsewhere in the SQL query; and transforming the SQL query into an optimized query. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006966 | Relational Query Planning for Non-Relational Data Sources - A query plan for executing a query within a relational database system including at least one non-relational data source is generated by analyzing expressions that reference a non-relational data source within a query for the database system via an interface for that non-relational data source, determining for each analyzed expression at least one of the database system and interface capable of processing that analyzed expression for executing the query, providing an indicator for each of the analyzed expressions that indicates at least one of the database system and interface determined to process that analyzed expression, and generating the query plan for execution of the query, via the database system, based on the indicators for the expressions of the query. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006967 | SEMANTIC ACTIVITY AWARENESS - A domain-specific task may be defined from a library of domain-independent task patterns. A task pattern may be selected based on inferences made from a user's initial input, or just based on receiving sensor information through events or contextual information, or a combination of user input and sensor information. One or more elements of a selected task pattern may be defined in the context of a given domain to define the domain-specific task. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006968 | DATA INTEGRATION SYSTEM - A data integration system ( | 2013-01-03 |
20130006969 | SUPPORTING SET-LEVEL SLICE AND DICE IN DATA WAREHOUSES - A method and system for coping with slice and dice operations in data warehouses is disclosed. An external approach may be utilized, creating queries using structured query language on a computer. An algorithm may be used to rewrite the queries. The resulting predicates may be joined to dimension tables corresponding to fact tables. An internal approach may be utilized, using aggregation functions with early aggregation for creating the queries. The results of the slice and dice operations may be outputted to a user on a computer monitor. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006970 | CONTACT QUERY DATA SYSTEM AND METHOD - A processor-implemented method of operating a mobile communication device operable to execute one or more communication applications includes issuing a query for contact data over a communication network, creating a contact resolution object, receiving contact data responsive to the query over the communication network, the contact data comprising communication contact data for the one or more communication applications, associating the contact data received with the contact resolution object, and resolving the contact resolution object to select communication contact data. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006971 | Dynamic Image Display Area And Image Display Within Web Search Results - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing image search results with web corpus search results. In one aspect, a method includes determining dimensions of an image display environment in which image search results are to be displayed, determining an insertion score that defines an ordinal insertion position at which the image display environment is to be inserted into a ranking of general search results that defines ordinal positions for each of the general search results, the dimensions and the insertion score determined, in part, from the quality scores of the images, generating a search results resource for displaying the general search results according to their respective ordinal positions and the image display environment at the ordinal insertion position on a client device, and providing the search results resource in response to the search query. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006972 | BROWSING RELATED IMAGE SEARCH RESULT SETS - Methods are provided for displaying image results responsive to a search query. In addition to displaying responsive results for a query, responsive results are also provided for related queries. The results are ordered along a plurality of display axes, including at least one axis corresponding to the ordering of the various search queries. The results can be displayed in an aligned or non-aligned manner. The results can then be translated along one or more of the display axes to allow a user to browse the various results. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006973 | Summarization of Conversation Threads - Automatically summarizing electronic communication conversation threads is provided. Electronic mails, text messages, tasks, questions and answers, meeting requests, calendar items, and the like are processed via a combination of natural language processing and heuristics. For a given conversation thread, for example, an electronic mail thread associated with a given task, a text summary of the thread is generated to highlight the most important text in the thread. The text summary is presented to a user in a visual user interface to allow the user to quickly understand the significance or relevance of the thread. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006974 | FILE SEARCHING ON MOBILE DEVICES - Systems and methods are provided for file searching on mobile devices. A system includes a user interface and a file query system. The user interface is for receiving a user-provided spatio-temporal query for use in searching for a particular file. The user-provided spatio-temporal query is provided by a user of a mobile device. The file query system is for determining information about the particular file responsive to the user-provided spatio-temporal query, and identifying from the information one or more files as a search result for the particular file. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006975 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MATCHING ENTITIES AND SYNONYM GROUP ORGANIZER USED THEREIN - There is provided a method for managing at least one synonym group, wherein the method comprises the step of: when a synonym group comprises more than one synonym, calculating a similarity value between each two synonyms of all synonyms of the synonym group indicating how similar these two synonyms are to each other. The invention further provided a synonym group organizer, a matching system using the synonym group organizer and the methods thereof. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006976 | SEARCH TOOL THAT UTILIZES SCIENTIFIC METADATA MATCHED AGAINST USER-ENTERED PARAMETERS - A method for providing proximate dataset recommendations can begin with the creation of metadata records corresponding to datasets that represent scientific data by a scientific dataset search tool. The metadata records can conform to a standardized structural definition, and may be hierarchical. Values for the data elements of the metadata records can be contained within the datasets. Metadata records with a value that is proximate to a user-entered search parameter can be identified. A proximity score can be calculated for each identified metadata record. The proximity score can express a relevance of the corresponding dataset to the user-entered search parameters. The identified metadata records can be arranged in descending order by the calculated proximity rating, creating a list of proximate dataset results. The proximate dataset results can be presented within a user interface. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006977 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING RELEVANCE OF WEB CONTENT - A method and system for improving relevance of web content. The method includes receiving a search query from a user. The method also includes processing the search query by generating a list of web content results based on the search query. The search query is also processed by determining a plurality of click counts for the list of web content results. Each click count of the plurality of click counts is generated by one or more contacts in a social network of the user. The search query is further processed by mapping each click count to a corresponding web content result in the list of web content results. The method further includes displaying the list of web content results along with the plurality of click counts. Each click count of the plurality of click counts is displayed with the corresponding web content result in the list of web content results. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006978 | OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE RANKING OF COMMENTS - A system may receive a request for comments associated with a particular document, identify a comment associated with the particular document, generate an objective score for the comment that is independent of a user associated with the request, identify the user associated with the request, generate a subjective score for the comment based on parameters associated with the identified user, generate a combined score for the comment by combining the objective score and the subjective score, and provide the comment, ranked based on the combined score, to the user for presentation with the particular document. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006979 | ENHANCING CLUSTER ANALYSIS USING DOCUMENT METADATA - A search query including search criteria can be received. The search criteria can be a text string. An enhanced search against an enhanced index can be executed. The enhanced index can be metadata associated with an enhanced cluster. The enhanced cluster can be a document cluster associated with the metadata. The enhanced cluster can be aggregated into a merged document. The merged document can be a document including the enhanced cluster contents. The ranking algorithm can be executed on the merged document to obtain a final ranking of content within the single document. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006980 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COORDINATED CONTENT DISTRIBUTION - Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention coordinate the distribution of content by multiple users on a variety of distribution platforms. One embodiment includes a coordination server system, where the coordination server system is configured to query a coordination database, wherein the coordination database includes: a source account; a repeater account including access information enabling access via a distribution platform to a user account maintained by the distribution platform; content associated with the source account; a distribution rule associated with the content; wherein the coordination server system is configured to: associate uploaded content with the source account in the coordination database; and post the content in a user account associated with the repeater account via a distribution platform using access information associated with a repeater account according to the distribution rule. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006981 | STORAGE DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSING DEVICE UTILIZING DETERMINED DICTIONARY COMPRESSION - A data processing device for a storage device can include a dictionary storage unit that is configured to store a plurality of dictionaries and a compression unit that is configured to determine a selected dictionary from the plurality of dictionaries based on received data, and compress the received data using the selected dictionary to provide compressed data. Each of the plurality of dictionaries can include a plurality of pattern-symbol correspondence relations defining a one-to-one correspondence between respective ones of a plurality of patterns and respective ones of a plurality of symbols. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006982 | Storing Method of Performance Data and System Thereof - A method and system for storing performance data are disclosed, and the method includes: during a process of adding a collection point, a system creating a data subtable in real time according to the number of added collection points and a predetermined maximum number of collection points of the data subtable; and storing the performance data of the collection point into the created data subtable, and storing the corresponding relationship between the collection point and the data subtable. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006983 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND FILE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus is connected to an information processing apparatus via a network. The information processing apparatus may be configured to accumulate files. The information processing apparatus may include a communicating part configured to communicate with the information processing apparatus; a data obtaining part configured to obtain data to be accumulated; an encrypting part configured to encrypt the data to be accumulated; a metadata generating part configured to transmit the encrypted data to be accumulated to the information processing apparatus, and set metadata, which is received or generated by an operation receiving part, in a property of the data to be accumulated according to a WebDAV protocol; and an access control information setting part configured to set access control information which defines whether to permit an edit, an addition or a deletion of the metadata as well as an access entity according to the WebDAV protocol. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006984 | CREATING BENCHMARK GRAPH DATA - According to an aspect of the present principles, a method is provided for generating resource description framework benchmarks. The method includes deriving a resultant benchmark dataset with a user specified size and a user specified coherence from and with respect to an input dataset of a given size and a given coherence by determining which triples of subject-property-object to add to the input dataset or remove from the input dataset to derive the resultant benchmark dataset. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006985 | Document Management Techniques To Account For User-Specific Patterns in Document Metadata - Document management techniques to account for user-specific patterns in document metadata are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for facilitating document retrieval may comprise: assigning a first entitlement to a first user for accessing a first plurality of documents; identifying patterns in the first user's creation or modification of metadata related to the first plurality of documents; recording the identified patterns associated with the first user; receiving a document query from a second user who has been assigned a second entitlement to access a second plurality of documents; determining, based on the second entitlement, an access right of the second user with respect to the first plurality of documents; and modifying the document query based on the access right of the second user and the identified patterns, such that the document query returns relevant documents from the first plurality of documents despite the second user's ignorance of the identified patterns. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006986 | Automatic Classification of Electronic Content Into Projects - Automatically classifying content into a given project workspace is provided. New electronic mail items, documents, meeting requests, tasks, calendar items, and the like are automatically classified into a project workspace. Thus, a user is not required to engage in a time-consuming task of identifying, collecting, and associating such content with a given project workspace. In addition, feedback may be provided to the user on the quality of automatic assignments of content items to the desired workspace for editing content associated with the desired workspace and for improving the automatic classification process. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006987 | EVENT PROCESSING BASED ON META-RELATIONSHIP DEFINITION - According to an example implementation, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium is provided that includes computer-readable instructions stored thereon that, when executed, are configured to cause a processor to at least: store a relationship definition including one or more selectors identifying events participating in the relationship and one or more constraints between the events, at least one of the constraints expressed in terms of one or more relationship parameters. The instructions further cause the processor to receive one or more events, evaluate the received events against the one or more selectors, create a candidate relationship when the relationship parameters have been defined based on receiving one or more events that match one or more of the selectors, and convert the candidate relationship to a relationship instance when a minimum number of events matching each of the selectors are received. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006988 | PARALLELIZATION OF LARGE SCALE DATA CLUSTERING ANALYTICS - A cluster selector may determine a plurality of sample clusters, and may reproduce the plurality of sample clusters at each of a plurality of processing cores. A sample divider may divide a plurality of samples stored in a database with associated attributes into a number of sample subsets corresponding to a number of the plurality of processing cores, and may associate each of the number of sample subsets with a corresponding one of the plurality of processing cores. A joint operator may perform a comparison of each sample of each sample subset at each corresponding core of the plurality of processing cores with respect to each of the plurality of sample clusters reproduced at the corresponding processing core, based on associated attributes thereof. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006989 | Search Method for a Containment-Aware Discovery Service - In general, methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for providing a discovery service in a unique identifier network are described. Said discovery service is suitable for tracking and tracing a query item represented by a unique identifier in a unique identifier network. In particular, a search method for a containment-aware discovery service is described. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006990 | ENHANCING CLUSTER ANALYSIS USING DOCUMENT METADATA - A search query including search criteria can be received. The search criteria can be a text string. An enhanced search against an enhanced index can be executed. The enhanced index can be metadata associated with an enhanced cluster. The enhanced cluster can be a document cluster associated with the metadata. The enhanced cluster can be aggregated into a merged document. The merged document can be a document including the enhanced cluster contents. The ranking algorithm can be executed on the merged document to obtain a final ranking of content within the single document. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006991 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR DETERMINING WEIGHT OF EACH FEATURE IN SUBJECTIVE HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING - An information processing apparatus determines a weight of each physical feature for hierarchical clustering by acquiring training data of multiple pieces of content in triplets with label information indicating a pair specified by a user as having a highest degree of similarity among three contents of the triplet and executing hierarchical clustering using a feature vector of each piece of content of the training data and the weight of each feature to determine the hierarchical structure of the training data. The information processing apparatus updates the weight of each feature so that the degree of agreement between a pair combined first as being the same clusters among three contents of the triplet in a determined hierarchical structure and a pair indicated by label information corresponding to the triplet increases. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006992 | Adapting Data Quality Rules Based Upon User Application Requirements - During application of data quality rules to a data set obtained from a data source, data is retrieved from the data source along with a common set of rules configured to format the retrieved data in a manner in accordance with one or more predefined data quality rules of the common set of rules. At least one predefined data quality rule is adjusted utilizing at least one editable widget to form a modified set of data quality rules adapted for use with a specified application. The modified set of data quality rules is applied to the retrieved data. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006993 | PARALLEL DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, PARALLEL DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A parallel data processing system comprises: a unit of processing that generates, reads out or updates an object or relevant information on objects; a consistency controller that returns to the unit of processing a consistency value for an object within each object cluster; and an object to cluster association resolving unit that receives an identifier of an object to return an identifier of a consistency controller for an object cluster including the object, wherein, in generating, reading out or updating an object or relevant information on objects, the unit of processing acquires an identifier of a consistency controller for an object cluster including the object from the object to cluster association resolving unit, and performs consistency control based on the consistency controller, while the unit of processing accesses an object storage unit. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006994 | SYSTEM FOR ORGANIZING COMPUTER DATA - A system for organizing computer data by the use of naming rules, grouping rules, and sequencing rules. These rules name and sort data in a consistent and convenient manner, which can, in part or whole, be employed by a human, computer, or both. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006995 | ACCESSING STORED ELECTRONIC RESOURCES - A method for configuring a computer system to provide access to stored electronic resources may be described. The method can include determining a topic framework between stored electronic resources and topic names by determining topic names for topic framework by generating topic names based on names assigned to storage sets and generating topic names based on attributes of resources. Further forming associations between resources and topic names by associating resources with topic names generated based a storage set and associating resources having attributes with topic names generated based on attributes of the resources. Also, storing the framework to provide structure so resources can be accessed using the topic names and using the topic framework to present a group of stored resources associated with topic names so that the group of resources can be selected for access. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006996 | Clustering E-Mails Using Collaborative Information - In an automatic electronic discovery search tool, emails subject to a litigation hold can be clustered using collaborative information rather than the contents to speed the review process. Collaborative information may include non-content fields such as the sender or recipient of a document or message. Documents may then be reviewed as a group based on the collaborative information, or further filtered in accordance with desired criteria. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006997 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CLIENT MANAGEMENT METHOD AND CLIENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a storage, a log receiver and a merge module. The storage stores a plurality of log data, and first index data corresponding to the plurality of log data. The log receiver receives first log data and second index data from a client apparatus connected via a network, the second index data corresponding to the first log data. The merge module generates third index data by merging the first index data and the second index data. The storage stores the plurality of log data, the first log data and the third index data. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006998 | INTERESTINGNESS OF DATA - Provided are techniques for analyzing fields. Statistical metrics for each field in a data set are received. A general interestingness index is generated for each field using one or more combination functions that aggregate standardized interestingness sub-indexes. One or more fields are identified as interesting for further analysis using the general interestingness index. One or more expert recommendations for field transformations are constructed for the identified one or more fields. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006999 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING A SEARCH FOR ARTICLE CONTENT AT A PLURALITY OF CONTENT SITES - In order to retrieve article level content from a plurality of content providers, a federated search program receives a generic query from a user and dispatches the query simultaneously to a plurality of connector objects. Each connector object that is associated with a particular content source and contains source specific code that reformats the generic query into a proprietary format required for the associated content source. The proprietary query is then dispatched to the content source. When the results at the content source are ready, the result set is fetched by the connector. The fetched results are then mapped into a standard format. The standard result sets from the different content sources are then merged into a single consolidated result set. Duplicate documents are removed from the consolidated result set and the final results are sorted in accordance with criteria specified by the user and presented to the user. | 2013-01-03 |
20130007000 | Method and System for High Performance Integration, Processing and Searching of Structured and Unstructured Data Using Coprocessors - Disclosed herein is a method and system for integrating an enterprise's structured and unstructured data to provide users and enterprise applications with efficient and intelligent access to that data. In accordance with exemplary embodiments, the generation of metadata indexes about unstructured data can be hardware-accelerated by processing streaming unstructured data through a reconfigurable logic device to generate the metadata about the unstructured data for the index. | 2013-01-03 |
20130007001 | SEARCHING WITH EXCLUSION TOKENS - An aspect includes phrase searching using exclusion tokens. A token division unit is configured to divide an input character string to be searched into a plurality of tokens. A token position definition unit is configured to set each token to be excluded in an occurrence position calculation as an exclusion token and to set each token to be included in the occurrence position calculation as a headword token, and define an occurrence position for each headword token. A position offset information assigning unit is configured to assign, to each of the exclusion tokens, position information obtained with the headword token followed by the exclusion tokens and to assign the headword token followed by the exclusion tokens as a starting point. An indexing processing unit is configured to perform indexing on the plurality tokens such that whether or not the exclusion tokens follow one of the plurality of tokens is identifiable. | 2013-01-03 |
20130007002 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING METADATA TO ENHANCE DATA IDENTIFICATION OPERATIONS - Systems and methods for managing electronic data are disclosed. Various data management operations can be performed based on a metabase formed from metadata. Such metadata can be identified from an index of data interactions generated by a journaling module, and obtained from their associated data objects stored in one or more storage devices. In various embodiments, such processing of the index and storing of the metadata can facilitate, for example, enhanced data management operations, enhanced data identification operations, enhanced storage operations, data classification for organizing and storing the metadata, cataloging of metadata for the stored metadata, and/or user interfaces for managing data. In various embodiments, the metabase can be configured in different ways. For example, the metabase can be stored separately from the data objects so as to allow obtaining of information about the data objects without accessing the data objects or a data structure used by a file system. | 2013-01-03 |
20130007003 | INTERESTINGNESS OF DATA - Provided are techniques for analyzing fields. Statistical metrics for each field in a data set are received. A general interestingness index is generated for each field using one or more combination functions that aggregate standardized interestingness sub-indexes. One or more fields are identified as interesting for further analysis using the general interestingness index. One or more expert recommendations for field transformations are constructed for the identified one or more fields. | 2013-01-03 |
20130007004 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING A SEARCH INDEX FOR A COMPOSITE DOCUMENT AND SEARCHING SAME - A tool for generating at least one search index for a composite document, wherein the composite document comprises multiple component documents. The search index is generated by extracting characters from the document, segregating the characters into tokens of one or more characters, and determining location information of the tokens. The location information can include the page number of the component document and X, Y page coordinates for the tokens. The tool also provides a user interface that allows for searching of the composite document using at least one of the generated indexes. The user interface allows the user to enter one or more search terms and to select the criteria that will be used during the search. Results are presented to the user via a list of document names that are also hyperlinks to the document. The results documents are listed in order of relevancy, and fragments of text that contain the searched terms are also available to the user, for each document. | 2013-01-03 |
20130007005 | METHOD AND PLAYING DEVICE FOR REALIZING FAST RESPONSE IN MULTIMEDIA FILE CONTROL PROCESS - A method for realizing fast response in a multimedia file control process is disclosed. The method includes creating a file playing time index of a multimedia file in a parallel processing manner at a same time when the multimedia file is opened. A playing device for realizing fast response in a media file control process is also disclosed, and includes a logic control module and a media file analyzing module, wherein the logic control module is configured to control the media file analyzing module to create the file playing time index of the multimedia file in a parallel manner when the multimedia file is opened, and the media file analyzing module is configured to create the file playing time index of the multimedia file according to the control of the logic control module. | 2013-01-03 |
20130007006 | System and Method for Using Network Equipment to Provide Targeted Advertising - A search request received from a user is converted to a search request integer value using an operational portion of a chip in network equipment. The search request integer value is compared to representative data integer values that were previously converted from a dataset of search terms using the operational portion, the representative integer values being stored on the chip. If the comparing is successful, a signal is transmitted to a second database, the signal being used to determine a message to be transmitted to the user that corresponds to the representative data integer. | 2013-01-03 |
20130007007 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A LIST-BASED INTERFACE TO KEY-VALUE STORES - An approach is provided for providing a list-based interface to key-value stores. The library interface platform determines one or more key-value pairs of at least one key-value store, the one or more key-value pairs comprising one or more data entries. Next, the library interface platform causes, at least in part, an association of at least one list object with the one or more key-value pairs, one or more sub-list objects, or a combination thereof. Then, the library interface platform provides at least one interface for performing one or more operations on the at least one list object to interact with the one or more data entries, the one or more key-value pairs, the one or more sub-list objects, or a combination thereof. | 2013-01-03 |
20130007008 | HASH ALGORITHM-BASED DATA STORAGE METHOD AND SYSTEM - A hash algorithm-based data storage method and apparatus are disclosed, including: pre-configuring L number of backend storage modules and a mapping relationship between identifiers of the backend storage modules and a modulo L operation; calculating a key value of data to be stored using a hash algorithm; performing a modulo L operation on the obtained key value and, using the mapping relationship between identifiers of the backend storage modules and the modulo L operation, outputting the key value in the modulo L operation and the corresponding data to a backend storage module with a corresponding backend storage module identifier; determining a preconfigured hash table in the backend storage module does not contain data to be stored, and storing the data to be stored and the corresponding key value. By using the present invention, requirements on storage devices can be lowered and the storage efficiency can be improved. | 2013-01-03 |
20130007009 | Expertise Tagging and Project Membership Suggestion - Automatically tagging individual users for identifying expertise or other relevant skills associated with the individual users based on various sources of information used or interacted with by the users is provided. After expertise tags are established for an individual user, the expertise tagging and other information about the user's profile and computing activities may be used for automatically suggesting a user for membership in one or more other project groups or workspaces that may be a good fit for the user's expertise or other relevant skills. | 2013-01-03 |
20130007010 | REQUIREMENTS EXTRACTION FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES FOR SOFTWARE LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for software requirements extraction from external sources for software development. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for software requirements extraction from external sources for software development includes retrieving content from over a computer communications network pertaining to a product. The content can include by way of example, a Web page, e-mail message, instant message, blog posting or social network posting, to name only a few. Within the content, a modal verb can be identified and text extracted that is proximate to the modal verb. Thereafter, a requirement can be generated for a revision of the product based upon the extracted text. Optionally, the requirement can be ranked according to the modal verb, for example, an imperative modal verb can correspond to a higher ranking than a suggestive modal verb. | 2013-01-03 |