11th week of 2021 patent applcation highlights part 49 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20210081366 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REAL-TIME COLLABORATION AND ANNOTATION-BASED ACTION CREATION AND MANAGEMENT - A method of collaborating in real-time via action creation comprising detecting an annotation on a document, parsing the annotation; generating an action record responsive to information identified from parsing the annotation, and recording a generated action record to the action database. Action records can be retrieved by users for which they are the assigned user. The annotation does not change the file content of the document. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081367 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REAL-TIME COLLABORATION AND EVENT LINKING TO DOCUMENTS - A method for facilitating real-time collaboration of document mark-up and events correlation comprising receiving an inbound document from a user device, receiving an indication of an associated event of the plurality of events with which the inbound document is associated, storing the inbound document in the cloud document database, defining a stored inbound document, extracting information from the stored inbound document, defining extracted information, adding metadata to the stored inbound document associating the inbound document with the associated event responsive to the indication of the associated event and the extracted information, modifying the event spreadsheet responsive to the indication of the associated event, receiving a request to access the stored inbound document from a user device, and transmitting the stored inbound document to a browser application running on the user device. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081368 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF MOBILE DATABASE MANAGEMENT AND SHARING - Systems and methods of mobile database management and sharing are provided which include at least one mobile database and a first electronic circuit in communication with the mobile database. The system segments the mobile database into a plurality of database segments and indexes the plurality of database segments. The system sends one or more of the plurality of database segments to a second electronic circuit over a private secured communication protocol. One or both of the first and second electronic circuit may be housed within one or more mobile devices. Disclosed systems and methods include processing a database sharing request received from at least one mobile device wherein the database sharing request requests sharing of one or more of the plurality of database segments. A mobile device containing a database management and sharing system is also provided which includes a shared mobile database and one or more proxy entities related to the shared mobile database. At least some of the plurality of database segments are sent via the one or more proxy entities to one or more separate mobile devices and stored in the mobile device and the one or more separate mobile devices. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081369 | UNORDERED IDEMPOTENT LOGICAL REPLICATION OPERATIONS - A method and apparatus for replicating a data container of a source storage server at the logical level in an unordered stream of individual data units are described. In certain embodiments, the replication operations can be performed without regard to the differences in geometry of physical persistent storage of the source and destination storage servers and without regard to the differences in data container format of the source and destination storage servers. An initial replication operation of the source data container is performed by transferring the data objects within the source data container to a replica data container in the destination storage server as an unordered stream of individual data units while preserving data object identifiers of the source data objects. Afterwards, incremental replication operations can be performed to capture modifications to the source data container over time after the initial replication operation. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081370 | METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR EVENT ORDERING - Event ordering is provided in a distributed file system. For instance, events are generated that are associated with an object collected from nodes in the distributed file system, and an event loop indicates causal dependencies among the events, and comprises one or more reliable edges and unreliable edges. Degrees of reliability of the unreliable edges in the event loop are determined, and then at least one unreliable edge is removed from the event loop based on the determined degrees of reliability. Causal dependencies among the events in the distributed file system are analyzed by using a statistical method, and the most unreliable edge in the event loop can be removed by computing a degree of reliability of each unreliable edge, thereby avoiding the occurrence of the event loop. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081371 | SHARING AND SYNCHRONIZING ELECTRONICALLY STORED FILES - A method of sharing and synchronizing a plurality of electronically stored resources between a cloud file system and a client file system is provided. The method includes receiving one or more change events wherein each change event indicates an independent change to one or more electronically stored files in a first client file system, holding the received change events for a period of time, and determining whether any of the held change events are combinable with other held change events indicating one or more independent changes to one or more electronically stored files in one or more client file systems comprising the first client file system. The method further includes combining the combinable change events into an aggregate change event, and dispatching the aggregate change event for processing after it is held for a predetermined period of time, wherein the processing of the dispatched change event effects a synchronization of the one or more electronically stored files between the one or more client file systems and a cloud file system. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081372 | PERSISTENT MEMORY FILE STORE FOR DIRECTLY MAPPED PERSISTENT MEMORY DATABASE - Techniques herein store database blocks (DBBs) in byte-addressable persistent memory (PMEM) and prevent tearing without deadlocking or waiting. In an embodiment, a computer hosts a DBMS. A reader process of the DBMS obtains, without locking and from metadata in PMEM, a first memory address for directly accessing a current version, which is a particular version, of a DBB in PMEM. Concurrently and without locking: a) the reader process reads the particular version of the DBB in PMEM, and b) a writer process of the DBMS replaces, in the metadata in PMEM, the first memory address with a second memory address for directly accessing a new version of the DBB in PMEM. In an embodiment, a computer performs without locking: a) storing, in PMEM, a DBB, b) copying into volatile memory, or reading, an image of the DBB, and c) detecting whether the image of the DBB is torn. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081373 | LOG-STRUCTURED STORAGE SYSTEMS - Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage devices, for data processing. One of the methods includes determining, by a storage system from an index log file, information of a data log file stored in a storage device. The data log file includes one or more of block data, transaction data, or state data generated by a blockchain network. The storage system determines whether the data log file needs a rewritten placement. In response to determining that the data log file needs a rewritten placement, the storage system determines a source storage location of the data log file, reads the data log file from the source storage location, rewrites the data log file to a destination storage location; and generates a destination index log file that indicates the destination storage location corresponding to the data log file. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081374 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING DATA USING BLOCK CHAIN - A system and method for distributing data are provided. The system for distributing data which manages the distribution of data from one or more data transmitting nodes to a data receiving node, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises: an off-chain pool management unit; an integrity authentication unit; a data distribution verification unit; and a block chain storage unit. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081375 | COMPUTERIZED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BI-DIRECTIONAL FILE SHARING AND SYNCHRONIZATION ON AND OVER A NETWORK - Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content providing, searching and/or hosting systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework that automatically and bi-directionally enables applications and devices to upload and access files from remote locations on a network, while synchronizing the stored files for access from the various applications, devices and locations. The disclosed framework enables files sharing and file synchronization between location to location, cloud to cloud, network to network, device to device, location to cloud and vice-versa, and some combination thereof. The disclosed synchronization framework is a cloud-based multi-tenant infrastructure that securely, efficiently and accurately hosts shared files for administrative, read/write and/or read only access from devices, locations and applications with access to the associated drive(s) in/on the cloud. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081376 | CONSTRUCTION METHOD, DEVICE, COMPUTING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR CONSTRUCTING PATENT KNOWLEDGE DATABASE - The present disclosure discloses construction method, device, computing device, and storage medium for constructing patent knowledge database. The method comprises: obtaining patent resource data; analyzing the patent resource data to obtain explicit information and implicit information, the explicit information comprises attribute information of each entity in a preset entity set, the implicit information comprises an entity relationship of technical elements; fusing the implicit information to obtain fused implicit information; and constructing the patent knowledge database according to the explicit information and the fused implicit information. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081377 | TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATED SELF-ADJUSTING CORPORATION-WIDE FEATURE DISCOVERY AND INTEGRATION - The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for a self-adjusting corporation-wide discovery and integration feature of a machine learning system that can review a client's data store, review the labels for the various data schema, and effectively map the client's data schema to classifications used by the machine learning model. The various techniques can automatically select the features that are predictive for each individual use case (i.e., one client), effectively making a machine learning solution client-agnostic for the application developer. A weighted list of common representations of each feature for a particular machine learning solution can be generated and stored. When new data is added to the data store, a matching service can automatically detect which features should be fed into the machine-learning solution based at least in part on the weighted list. The weighted list can be updated as new data is made available to the model. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081378 | INTEGRATION OF EXISTING DATABASES INTO A SHARDING ENVIRONMENT - Techniques described herein create a sharding environment from existing independent databases, use the sharding environment to issue cross shard queries, create “on all shards” new objects, and create and “on all shards” new users that will have permission to access the data across all database shards. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081379 | INTEGRATED TRANSITION CONTROL CENTER - Systems, methods, and machine-readable media to migrate data from source databases to target databases are disclosed. Data may be received, relating to the source databases and the target databases. For each source database, a migration assessment may be generated based on analyzing the data, and a migration method may be selected. A migration plan that specifies a parallel migration of a set of databases to the target databases may be created, with a first migration method to migrate a first subset of the set of databases and a second migration method to migrate a second subset of the set of databases. The parallel migration may be executed according to the migration plan may be caused so that the first subset of the set of databases is migrated with the first migration method while the second subset of the set of databases is migrated with the second migration method. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081380 | Electronic Device, List Deduplication Method and Computer-Readable Storage Medium - An electronic device, a list deduplication method and a medium. The method includes: acquiring to-be-processed lists one by one from a database, and analyzing whether the acquired lists have first-type Identifiers (IDs); if the lists have the first-type IDs, looking up customer lists with same first-type IDs as the first-type IDs of the lists in a valid customer database; if the customer lists are not found, looking up customer lists with the same second-type IDs as those of the lists in the valid customer database; if the customer lists are found, checking whether the customer lists have first-type IDs; if the found customer lists have the first-type IDs, refreshing the found customer lists according database, and then comparing the second-type IDs of the lists with the second-type IDs of the customer lists; and if they are matched, deduplicating the lists to be processed. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081381 | Integrated Disposition for File Retention Management - An abstraction layer communicates with a plurality of applications executing on a multi-application platform. The abstraction exposes a standard interface for the plurality of applications to communicate content status information. An indication is received that a new content item will be generated. A record is generated that is immutably associated with the new content item. The record is updated with information received from the application associated with the content item, the information pertaining to a changed status of the content item. In response to a command to delete the content item, it is determined whether to confirm deletion of the content item based on one or more data retention policies. The record is updated to indicate a reason for granting or denying the deletion and a source of the delete command | 2021-03-18 |
20210081382 | TERMINATION OF DATABASE SESSIONS FOR PLANNED FAILOVER - Techniques are described for performing session termination(s) for active sessions in response to a planned operation on a database server of a DBMS. In an embodiment, the DBMS receives a request for a planned operation on a database server. The database server may have session(s) established with a client system to receive request(s) to execute database command(s) on the DBMS. In response, the DBMS transmits to the client system a notification to drain a session with the database server, and the DBMS marks the sessions at the database to drain. The DBMS is configured to terminate any drain-marked sessions by the database server when a rule is satisfied, and the failover is expected to succeed, and/or that the session is unlikely to drain or to failover at a later point in the session lifecycle. The DBMS may identify, in a rule set, a rule having rule instructions to detect a possible termination point for the session before the drain timeout period expires. Based on the execution of the rule instructions before the drain timeout expires, the DBMS determines that a termination point for the session is detected where that session will failover. In such a way, sessions are failed over early and at points where the failover is expected to succeed. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081383 | LIFECYCLE SUPPORT FOR STORAGE OBJECTS - Methods and apparatus for lifecycle support for storage objects are disclosed. A storage medium stores program instructions that when executed on a processor implement a storage lifecycle manager of a multi-tenant storage service. The lifecycle manager determines a lifecycle policy to be implemented for a storage object. The policy indicates lifecycle transitions of the object, including a transition from a first service level to a second service level. The lifecycle manager initiates modification operations corresponding to the storage object's data in accordance with the lifecycle policy, and verifies that the modification operations succeeded. The lifecycle manager provides, in response to a query, an indication of a current service level of the storage object. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081384 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM STORED IN COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR CONDUCTING ARITHMETIC OPERATION EFFICIENTLY IN DATABASE MANAGEMENT SERVER - Provided are a method, an apparatus, and a computer program stored in a computer readable medium for conducting an arithmetic operation efficiently in a database management server. In a computer-readable medium including a computer program including encoded commands, which is configured to cause one or more processors to perform operations when the computer program is executed by the one or more processors of a computer system, the operations include: an operation of receiving a structure body creation request for performing a predetermined arithmetic operation; an operation of creating a structure body in response to the structure body creation request; an operation of receiving an arithmetic operation processing request of requesting processing of the predetermined arithmetic operation with respect to a plurality of numerical values; an operation of creating structure body number data for each of the plurality of numerical values by applying each of the plurality of numerical values to the created structure body, the created structure body including one or more array elements and at least some numerical values being allocated to the one or more array elements to create the structure body number data; and an operation of performing the predetermined arithmetic operation based on the structure body number data for each of the plurality of numerical values. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081385 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SEARCHABLE CUSTOMER CALL INDEXES - A system and method is provided for providing searchable customer call indexes. Consistent with disclosed embodiments, a system may receive call information associated with telephone conversations between callers and a vendor, the call information including an audio recording or transcript for each telephone conversation. The system may also identify one or more keywords from the audio recordings or transcripts and index the call information into one or more indexes based on the identified keywords. Finally, the system may determine search results responsive to a search query based on the indexing. In some embodiments, changes to customer service may be identified based on the search results. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081386 | INSIGHTS FOR MULTI-DIMENSIONAL PLANNING DATA - Systems and methods are provided for generating new insights for multi-dimensional data. A plurality of insight definitions that define insights within multi-dimensional data can be received, where the multi-dimensional data include dimensions organized in a hierarchical structure, and the insight definitions include members across the hierarchical dimensions that define a slice of the multi-dimensional data. Descriptive data about a candidate insight defined by at least one of the insight definitions that corresponds to a candidate slice of the multi-dimensional data can be received. A new insight definition based on the candidate insight can be generated, where the new insight definition corresponds to a new slice of the multi-dimensional data, and the new slice of the multi-dimensional data is proximate to the candidate slice of the multi-dimensional data with respect to the hierarchical structure. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081387 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF A SECONDARY INDEX IN A DISTRIBUTED DATA BASE SYSTEM - In one aspect, a computerized method for building a secondary index used to access index keys in a distributed database includes the step of providing a distributed database. The computerized method includes the step of providing a database file of the distributed database or on a cluster. The computerized method includes the step of building a first database index of index keys of the database file. The computerized method includes the step of organizing the first database index. The computerized method includes the step of, based on the organization of the first database index, building a second database index. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081388 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR MANAGING METADATA OF STORAGE OBJECT - Metadata of a storage object is managed. For instance, in response to metadata of a storage object being updated, a first index structure for indexing the metadata of the storage object and a page table corresponding to the first index structure in a memory are updated, wherein the first index structure and the page table have been stored in a persistent storage device. Updates of the page table are recorded in at least one page table journal and the updated first index structure and the at least one page table journal are stored in the persistent storage device. Embodiments can significantly increase the speed of failover and persistence of metadata in a distributed object storage system. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081389 | TECHNIQUE OF EFFICIENTLY, COMPREHENSIVELY AND AUTONOMOUSLY SUPPORT NATIVE JSON DATATYPE IN RDBMS FOR BOTH OLTP & OLAP - Herein is a self-tuning database management system (DBMS) storing JavaScript object notation (JSON) documents and operating a JSON datatype as native to the DBMS. In an embodiment, a computer hosts a DBMS that executes a data definition language (DDL) statement that defines, in a database dictionary of the DBMS, a JSON document column of a database table that stores JSON documents as instances of the JSON datatype that is native in the DBMS. The DBMS may autonomously set or adjust configuration settings that control behaviors such as a default width of a JSON document column, in lining or not of the JSON document column, kind and scope and duration of indexing of the JSON document column, and/or caching of the JSON document column such as in an in memory columnar unit (IMCU). The DBMS may use the various configuration settings to control how JSON documents and the native JSON datatype are stored and/or processed. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081390 | SERVER - Provided is a server. The server comprises a communicator configured to receive or transmit data from or to an external source and a processor configured to, through the communicator, receive data from a plurality of factory devices in a factory, to generate big table based on the data from the plurality of factory devices, and to manage the data based on the generated big table. Accordingly, data from the plurality of factory devices in the factory may be efficiently managed and processed. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081391 | SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS FOR ENABLING EXERCISE EQUIPMENT TO COMMUNICATE WITH A NETWORK - This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for enabling exercise by a user. In one aspect, an apparatus includes a communication unit, a user interface unit, and a processor. The processor may receive user identification data from the user via the user interface unit and retrieve data based on the user identification data from an electronic data store. The processor may use the data to generate an exercise routine and command signals may be sent to an exercise machine based on the generated exercise routine. The processor may receive exercise data from the exercise machine via the communication unit and store the exercise data in the electronic data store. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081392 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CONTENT TO RELATED COMPUTE DEVICES BASED ON OBFUSCATED LOCATION DATA - Some embodiments described herein relate to receiving obfuscated location data associated with a first compute device, such as a mobile phone. A database including records of multiple compute devices, including a second compute device, associated with multiple obfuscated locations can be accessed and a link between the first compute device and the second compute device can be defined based, at least in part on the obfuscated location data associated with the first compute device matching a record for the second compute device. In some embodiments, the first compute device and/or the second compute device can receive content based, at least in part on the link. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081393 | UPDATING A DATABASE USING VALUES FROM AN INBOUND MESSAGE IN RESPONSE TO A PREVIOUS OUTBOUND MESSAGE - A technique is described for updating a datastore using a value from an inbound transmission that corresponds to a prior outbound transmission. The outbound transmission and the inbound transmission may be associated with one another so that a system may extract a particular value from one or more of the transmissions. The extracted value may be used to update a datastore. A system may extract the particular value from an editable data object in the inbound transmission. A system may also compare a current value of a data object in a data store with an updated value and generate a notification or other transmission prior to extracting the value and updating the data store. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081394 | CONCURRENT EXECUTION OF DATABASE OPERATIONS - The present disclosure relates to executing concurrent database operations in a database system during a time window. The database operations are configured to use storage units of a storage space of the database system. A first usage speed of free storage units is determined to be used by at least one first database operation and a second usage speed of free storage units to be used by a second database operation. The first and second usage speeds may be used for determining a maximum number of free storage units to be used by the second database operation during the time window. The second database operation may be executed during the time window in accordance with the maximum number. The first database operation may be executed, wherein the execution of the first database operation during the time window being limited to the storage units of the storage space. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081395 | PARTITION LEVEL OPERATION WITH CONCURRENT ACTIVITIES - Techniques of implementing partition level operations with concurrent activities are disclosed. A first operation can be performed on a first partition of a table of data. The first partition can be one of a plurality of partitions of the table, where each partition has a plurality of rows. A first partition level lock can be applied to the first partition for a period in which the first operation is being performed on the first partition, thereby preventing any operation other than the first operation from being performed on the first partition during the period the first partition level lock is being applied to the first partition. A second operation can be performed on a second partition of the table at a point in time during which the first operation is being performed on the first partition. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081396 | LOG-STRUCTURED STORAGE SYSTEMS - Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage devices, for data processing and storage. One of the methods includes receiving, by a storage system, a plurality of write requests for storing a respective plurality of blockchain data in the storage system. Each of the plurality of the blockchain data includes: a value of one or more of a block, a transaction, or a state of a blockchain network, and a key corresponding to the value. The storage system appends the plurality of the blockchain data to a data log file according to a chronological order of the plurality of the blockchain data, and refrains from sorting the plurality of the blockchain data in the data log file according to respective keys of values in the plurality of the blockchain data. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081397 | SYSTEM FOR DATA CONSENSUS VALIDATION IN AN ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTED SERVER NETWORK USING A SCREENING NODE - A system provides for data consensus validation in an electronic distributed server network using a screening node. In particular, a distributed database may be hosted on nodes operated by one or more third party entities. The screening node may retrieve reference data, which may be submitted by one or more reference data providers, from the distributed database to generate executable scripts from the screening algorithms within the reference data. The scripts may in turn be validated by the nodes of the distributed database and subsequently embedded into the distributed database for execution by one or more computing systems within the network environment. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081398 | CASCADING FAMILY OF BLOCKCHAINS - A system, method, and computer-readable storage medium is provided for creating first and second blockchain instances, each comprising representative blocks corresponding to steps in first and second multistep processes, respectively; performing a linking operation to link a block in the first blockchain instance to a block in the second blockchain instance; receiving change evidence data pertaining to steps in one of the first and second multi-step processes; and performing an update operation comprising updating one of the first and second blockchain instances based on said change evidence data. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081399 | AUTOMATIC RECLAMATION OF STORAGE SPACE FOR DATABASE SYSTEMS - An approach is described to provide a method, a computer program product, and a computer system to implement hole punching. The described approach provides an automated way to free up space without requiring manual intervention by a DBA to manually reorganize database objects to free up space. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081400 | SEARCH METHOD USING DATA STRUCTURE FOR SUPPORTING MULTIPLE SEARCH IN BLOCKCHAIN-BASED IOT ENVIRONMENT, AND DEVICE ACCORDING TO METHOD - The present disclosure relates to a search technology using a data structure for supporting multi-search in a blockchain-based IoT environment, and a method for providing a search function for blockchain includes receiving block data via a network, verifying transactions included in the received block data, and adding the block data as a node to an index tree of multidimensional index structures based on information about each transaction in the transaction verification. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081401 | RDMA-ENABLED KEY-VALUE STORE - According to one or more embodiments, lookup, insertion, and deletion operations are allowed to continue during actions required for collision remediation. When relocation operations are used to resolve a collision, information encoded in header portions of the hash table entries that store the key-value pairs indicates when the associated key-value pairs are undergoing relocation. This information facilitates continued access to the RKVS during the relocation process by allowing other processes that access the RKVS to handle relocations without failure. Furthermore, when hash table expansion is needed in order to resolve a collision, a second, larger, hash table is allocated, and lookup operations continue on both the old hash table and the new hash table. One or more embodiments further prevent insertion, lookup, and deletion failures in the RKVS using flags, encoded in header information in hash table entries, that reflect the state of the respective key-value pairs in the store. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081402 | CREATING BLOCKS IN INSTANCE BLOCKCHAIN BASE ON A PROMISED BLOCK IN A GENERIC BLOCKCHAIN - A system, method, and computer-readable storage medium is provided for creating first and second blockchain instances, each comprising representative blocks corresponding to steps in first and second multistep processes, respectively; performing a linking operation to link a block in the first blockchain instance to a block in the second blockchain instance; receiving change evidence data pertaining to steps in one of the first and second multi-step processes; and performing an update operation comprising updating one of the first and second blockchain instances based on said change evidence data. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081403 | LOG-STRUCTURED STORAGE SYSTEMS - Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage devices, for processing data requests. One of the methods include receiving, by a storage system, a processing request of data of a distributive ledger system. Types of the data of the distributive ledger system include block data, transaction data, state data, and index data. The storage system determines a type of the data among the types of the data of the distributive ledger system, and applies a type of a processing engine specified for processing the type of the data. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081404 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING CLOUD SERVICES USING SMART CONTRACTS AND BLOCKCHAINS - Methods and systems are disclosed for managing cloud services using smart contracts to facilitate various functions, such as tenant login, tenant enrollment, service registration, tenant usage charging, tenant usage tracking, tenant quota management, and tenant rights revocation. The proposed techniques allow tenant and service accounts to be represented as smart contracts, and for services to delegate authorization for bundles of service attributes to tenants and other services, for which the tenants and services are then charged. The business logic is implemented on a permissioned, distributed ledger (e.g., a private blockchain) and therefore is easily customized for specific classes of tenants and services. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081405 | SPREADSHEET WITH DYNAMIC DATABASE QUERIES - A spreadsheet supports formulas in cells that trigger queries of a data source. The parameters for queries can include or depend on values in other cells in the spreadsheet. Thus, the precise query submitted to the data source is dynamic, being dependent on the data and formulas in the spreadsheet. Furthermore, on receiving the query results, they are added to cells in the spreadsheet, which can be parameters for other queries defined in other cells. Changing the value of a single cell can automatically trigger an update of an arbitrarily deep hierarchy of calculations that can include an arbitrary number of data source queries. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081406 | BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK - Present invention is related to blockchain networks, which may include: a legacy system including service delivery server and a plurality of user terminals connected to the service delivery server for receiving a service; a middleware system including a plurality of middleware nodes validates the service delivery server and the original transaction data received from the service provider server, and generates a unit transaction, and internally notarizes the validity of the original transaction data included in the unit transaction, and transmits an approval signal, and generates the current cell block including the approved unit transactions, and internally confirms the current cell block for the current cell block and adds the end of the chain of cells in which the blocks of multiple cells are connected; and a main net including a plurality of main net nodes stores the unit transactions received from the middleware system. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081407 | QUALITY REVIEW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A quality review management system may be used to analyze the operation of manufacturing processes within a plant based on data collected by various data sources in the plant, such as batch executive applications, to automatically detect, store, and display exceptions within those processes for use by a quality review engineer to determine if the process operation meets certain quality standards The quality review management system includes a configuration application that enables a user to create one or more exception rules, an exception engine that analyses process data using the rules to detect one or more exceptions within the process, and a review application that enables quality review personnel to review each determined exception for resolution purposes. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081408 | SCHEMA WITH METHODS SPECIFYING DATA RULES, AND METHOD OF USE - An identifier of a data source specifying data is determined from a schema. The data source is called, and data to be analyzed is retrieved. From the schema, an identifier of a method is determined. The method associated with the identifier includes one or more rules. The method is called and used to determine data consistency with the one or more rules. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081409 | PREDICTING AND HALTING RUNAWAY QUERIES - Operations include halting a runaway query in response to determining that a performance metric of the query exceeds a performance threshold. The runaway query halting system receives a query execution plan associated with a query and divides the received execution plan into one or more components. For each component, the system determines a predicted resource usage associated with executing the component. The system further determines a predicted resource usage associated with the query execution plan based on the predicted resource usage associated with each component. The system executes the query associated with the received query execution plan and compares the predicted resource usage associated with the query to a resource usage threshold. In response to determining that the predicted resource usage of the query execution plan exceeds the resource usage threshold, the system halts execution of the query associated with the query execution plan. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081410 | ACCELERATED BUILDING AND PROBING OF HASH TABLES USING SYMMETRIC VECTOR PROCESSING - The present invention relates to hash join acceleration. In an embodiment, a computer receives a request to join build data rows with probe data rows. Each data row is associated with a respective join key value. From multiple buckets of a hash table, a bucket is selected that contains entries of multiple respective join key values in respective locations within the bucket. Whether or not the bucket contains an entry of the join key value of a build data row is detected. While building, multiple locations within the bucket are concurrently inspected to find an empty location in which to store the entry of the join key value of the build data row. The bucket is concurrently probed to detect whether or not the entries in the bucket include an entry of a join key value of a probe data row. For the join request, a response is sent that is based on the concurrent probing of the bucket. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081411 | Assisting Authors Via Semantically-Annotated Documents - Machine learning, artificial intelligence, and other computer-implemented methods are used to identify various semantically important chunks in documents, automatically label them with appropriate datatypes and semantic roles, and use this enhanced information to assist authors and to support downstream processes. Chunk locations, datatypes, and semantic roles can often be automatically determined from what is here called “context”, to wit, the combination of their formatting, structure, and content; those of adjacent or nearby content; overall patterns of occurrence in a document, and similarities of all these things across documents (mainly but not exclusively among documents in the same document set). Similarity is not limited to exact or fuzzy string or property comparisons, but may include similarity of natural language grammatical structure, ML (machine learning) techniques such as measuring similarity of word, chunk, and other embeddings, and the datatypes and semantic roles of previously-identified chunks. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081412 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING KEY-VALUE PAIR DATA - A method and an apparatus for sending key-value pair data are provided, and a method and an apparatus for collecting key-value pair data are provided. In the method, first target key-value pair data is perturbed as first perturbed key-value pair data, so that a data collector can determine, based on a value a or b of a first value in the first perturbed key-value pair data, whether to include the entire first perturbed key-value pair data into the statistical result in a process of generating the statistical result. In this way, an association between a value and a key in the key-value pair data is reserved in the first perturbed key-value pair data, which improves availability of the first perturbed key-value pair data. That is, a statistical result generated by the data collector based on the first perturbed key-value pair data is closer to a statistical result generated based on original user key-value pair data. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081413 | SEMANTIC SEARCH OF APPLICATION RULES - Various examples are directed to systems and methods for searching application rules. A rule management system may access application rule data describing a first application rule and generate a first textual summary of the first application rule. The rule management system may encode the first textual summary to generate a first rule vector. The rule management system may receive a application rule query. The application rule query may include a query description. The rule management system may encode the query description to generate a first query vector and select the first application rule as responsive to the application rule query using the first rule vector and the first query vector. The rule management system may return the first application rule in response to the application rule query. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081414 | COLLABORATIVE DATASET CONSOLIDATION VIA DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER NETWORKS - Various embodiments relate generally to data science and data analysis, computer software and systems, and wired and wireless network communications to provide an interface between repositories of disparate datasets and computing machine-based entities that seek access to the datasets, and, more specifically, to a computing and data storage platform that facilitates consolidation of one or more datasets, whereby a collaborative data layer and associated logic facilitate, for example, efficient access to, and implementation of, collaborative datasets. In some examples, a method may include receiving data representing a query into a collaborative dataset consolidation system, identifying datasets relevant to the query, generating one or more queries to access disparate data repositories, and retrieving data representing query results. In some cases, one or more queries are applied (e.g., as a federated query) to atomized datasets stored in one or more atomized data stores, at least two of which may be different. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081415 | QUERY CLASSIFICATION ALTERATION BASED ON USER INPUT - Techniques are disclosed for classifying a user search query for a database system. In disclosed techniques, a computing system receives a user search query for the database system and determines, based on the user search query, a database query that is compatible with an interface of the database system to implement the user search query. In some embodiments, the computing system causes a query remediation interface to be presented to a user that entered the user search query. In some embodiments, the interface includes: a classification of the user search query that specifies attributes of the database query, and one or more elements selectable to alter the database query. The computing system receives, from the user via the query remediation interface, input for altering the database query and determines an updated database query based on the input. The computing system may access the database system using the updated database query. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081416 | DATA STORAGE APPARATUS, TRANSLATION APPARATUS, AND DATABASE ACCESS METHOD - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for accessing a relational database using requests that conform to a non-structure query language syntax. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from a client, a first access request that conforms to a NoSQL syntax for accessing a wide column store, wherein the first access request comprises a first event feature and a first attribute feature that are related to the wide column store, and the first attribute feature comprises a column family feature of the wide column store; translating the first access request into a second access request that conforms to a SQL syntax, wherein the second access request comprises a second event feature corresponding to the first event feature and a second attribute feature corresponding to the first attribute feature; and forwarding the second access request to a relational database. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081417 | HARDWARE FRIENDLY KEY VALUE TABLE DESIGN TO SUPPORT RELATIONAL HASH JOIN - The present invention relates to join acceleration. In an embodiment, a computer receives a request for a relational join of build data rows with probe data rows. Based on the request for the relational join, a particular kind of data map from many kinds of data map that can implement the relational join is dynamically selected. Based on the build data rows, an instance of the particular kind of data map is populated. A response is sent for the request for the relational join that is based on the probe data rows and the instance of the particular kind of data map. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081418 | ASSOCIATING SEARCH RESULTS, FOR A CURRENT QUERY, WITH A RECENTLY EXECUTED PRIOR QUERY - Techniques for associating a selected search result, for a current query, with a recently executed prior query are disclosed. The system receives a first query from a user and presents a first set of search results. The system receives a second query from the user, subsequent to presenting the first set of search results, and presents a second set of search results. The system determines that a user selects a particular search result from the second set of search results. The system determines an association between the first query and the second query. Responsive to determining that the user selected the particular search result and the association between the first query and the second query, the system associates the particular search result with the first query. Subsequently, the system receives a new request for execution of the first query and, in response, presents at least the particular search result. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081419 | EFFICIENT EXECUTION OF A SEQUENCE OF SQL OPERATIONS USING RUNTIME PARTITION INJECTION AND ITERATIVE EXECUTION - Execution plans generated for multiple analytic queries incorporate two new kinds of plan operators, a partition creator and partition iterator. The partition creator and partition iterator operate as a pair. A partition creator operator creates partitions of rows and a partitioning descriptor describing the partitions created. A partition iterator iterates through the partitions based on the partitioning descriptor. For each partition, multiple analytic operators are executed serially, one after the other, on the same rows in the partition. According to an embodiment, partitioning is based on a common grouping or subgrouping of the multiple aggregate functions or operators. Columns in the grouping or subgrouping may be ignored when executing each of the multiple analytic operators. Forming execution plans that include partition creator and partition iterator in this way is referred to herein as partitioning injection. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081420 | QUERY PLAN MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATED WITH A SHARED POOL OF CONFIGURABLE COMPUTING RESOURCES - Disclosed aspects relate to query plan management associated with a shared pool of configurable computing resources. A query, which relates to a set of data located on the shared pool of configurable computing resources, is detected. A virtual machine includes the set of data. With respect to the virtual machine, a set of burden values of performing a set of asset actions is determined. Based on the set of burden values, a query plan to access the set of data is established. Using at least one asset action of the set of asset actions, the query plan is processed. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081421 | EFFICIENTLY SUPPORTING VALUE STYLE ACCESS OF MOBs STORED IN SQL LOB COLUMN BY PROVIDING VALUE BASED SEMANTICS FOR LOBs IN RDBMS - Described are improved systems, computer program products, and methods for an improved approach to access small to medium size objects (MOBs) stored in LOB data type columns of a RDBMS. The approach includes receiving a SQL statement comprising a retrieval of a large object (LOB). The approach also includes determining whether to return a value of the LOB or a reference to a storage location storing the value of the LOB based on: a data dictionary property of the LOB to return the value of the LOB, a function included in the SQL statement to return the value of the LOB, or a flag derived from a SQL operator tree propagation to return the value of the LOB. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081422 | QUERYING ON HYBRID FORMATS AND STORAGES - Techniques are described for querying on hybrid formats and storages by a DBMS to leverage faster mirror format (MF) data and completeness of persistent format (PF) data. In an embodiment, the DBMS receives a query that specifies both in-memory and disk-only columns. The DBMS identifies that a scan-based operation is referencing an in-memory column stored within both MF and PF data. The DBMS may initiate performing the operation on the in-memory column on one of the formats of data. While doing so, the DBMS may determine that the actual improvement metric for the operation on the selected format data is not achieving the desired improvement. If so, the DBMS may dynamically switch the performing of the scan-based operation to the other format of the same data. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081423 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSOCIATING DUAL-PATH RESOURCE LOCATORS WITH STREAMING CONTENT - A method of associating dual-path resource locators with streaming content includes receiving at least an identifier of a first third-party remote device, providing the at least an identifier in a data structure to a streaming content provider operating a second third-party remote device, receiving from the streaming content provider operating the second third-party remote device a selection of the at least an identifier in the data structure, generating a dual-path resource locator, wherein the dual-path resource locator identifies a first path to the first third-party remote device and a second path to the second third-party remote device which performed the selection, receiving from the second third-party remote device a continuous data stream containing audio content, detecting in the continuous data stream at least a data element relating to the dual-path resource locator and associating the dual-path resource locator with the continuous data stream. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081424 | JOINER FOR DISTRIBUTED DATABASES - A joiner accesses a first sorted dataset and a second sorted dataset. Each dataset includes a corresponding plurality of data blocks, each including a set of records. Each record is associated with a corresponding record key. A set of first records for each first data block of the first dataset is arranged based on values of the first record keys. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081425 | SYSTEM SELECTION FOR QUERY HANDLING - Techniques for system selection for query handling are disclosed. A query response selection system may receive a query from a user and determine attributes corresponding to the query and/or candidate sets of search results that may be displayed in response to the query. The system may select a response interface from one of a plurality of response interfaces for responding to the query. The plurality of response interfaces may include a conversational user interface and a non-conversational user interface. The system may display the response interface with a response to the query. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081426 | FOOD ORDERING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for ordering and scheduling food orders. The system considers hard and soft requirements for one or more customers, a restaurant's capacity to serve assigned meals, and restaurant variety. The system and method may automatically select menu items from assigned restaurants based on food requirements and amount of food required. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081427 | ADJUSTABLE CONNECTION POOL MECHANISM - Techniques and structures to facilitate automatic adjustment of a database connection pool, including calculating a first value indicating a number of connections of to be provided by a first of a plurality of application servers, determining whether the first value is equal to a second value previously calculated to indicate the number of connections to be provided by the first application server and adjusting the database connection pool by providing the number of connections to access the database as indicated by the first value upon a determination that the first value is not equal to the second value | 2021-03-18 |
20210081428 | TECHNIQUES FOR IN-MEMORY SPATIAL OBJECT FILTERING - Techniques are introduced herein for maintaining geometry-type data on persistent storage and in memory. Specifically, a DBMS that maintains a database table, which includes at least one column storing spatial data objects (SDOs), also maintains metadata for the database table that includes definition data for one or more virtual columns of the table. According to an embodiment, the definition data includes one or more expressions that calculate minimum bounding box values for SDOs stored in the geometry-type column in the table. The one or more expressions in the metadata maintained for the table are used to create one or more in-memory columns that materialize the bounding box data for the represented SDOs. When a query that uses spatial-type operators to perform spatial filtering over data in the geometry-type column is received, the DBMS replaces the spatial-type operators with operators that operate over the scalar bounding box information materialized in memory. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081429 | TRANSACTION SAVEPOINT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED DATABASE - Proposed are a transaction savepoint management apparatus and method, which may involve: creating, based on a transaction initiation request from a user terminal, a transaction, wherein the transaction includes a plurality of operation instructions, and subsequently accessing at least one of a plurality of databases so as to sequentially execute the plurality of operation instructions according to a time sequence; and if the plurality of operation instructions includes global savepoint establishment instruction, creating and maintaining a global savepoint queue to coordinate the plurality of databases and implement an operation for global savepoints, and based on the global savepoints, triggering a database, involved in this transaction, from among the plurality of databases to establish local savepoints and record an association relationship between each of the local savepoints and the global savepoints. The apparatus and method disclosed in the present invention can be used for transaction savepoint management for a distributed database. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081430 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A ROLE-BASED BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK - Disclosed herein are systems and method for managing a blockchain network. In one aspect, a method may pseudo-randomly select, at a start time of an object processing cycle, a first node and a second node from a plurality of nodes in the blockchain network. The method may assign the first node to be a virtual executing node configured to perform a calculation on an object on the blockchain network. The method may assign the second node to be a light material executing node configured to store a result of the calculation performed by the virtual executing node. The method may then, subsequent to an end time of the object processing cycle, assign, from the plurality of nodes, a subset of nodes as the virtual validating nodes configured to validate the calculation result. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081431 | ANY POINT IN TIME REPLICATION TO THE CLOUD - Systems, apparatus, and methods for any point in time replication to the cloud. Data is replicated by replicating data to a remote storage or a data bucket in the cloud. At the same time, a metadata stream is generated and stored. The metadata stream establishes a relationship between the data and offsets of the data in the production volume. This allows continuous replication without having to maintain a replica volume. The replica volume can be generated during a rehydration operation that uses the metadata stream to construct the production volume from the cloud data. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081432 | CONFIGURABLE DATA REPLICATION - Continuous data protection, including sending, to a target data repository from a source data repository, metadata describing one or more updates to one or more datasets stored within the source data repository; generating, based on the metadata describing the one or more updates to the one or more datasets, an ordered log of metadata describing an ordered application of the one or more updates to the one or more datasets; and generating, on the source data repository and based on the ordered log of metadata, the one or more datasets in accordance with the one or more updates corresponding to a specified point in time. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081433 | GLOBAL TABLE MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS FOR MULTI-REGION REPLICATED TABLES - Systems and methods are disclosed to implement, in a database system, global table management operations for global tables or objects that are replicated across multiple locations. In embodiments, for a regional replica of a global table, a requested change to a metadata property of the replica (e.g., an attribute data type, a write throughput limit, or a time-to-live setting) is propagated to other replicas of the global table at other locations. In embodiments, before performing the requested management operation, the database system may first verify that the operation can be successfully performed in all locations. In embodiments, the operation may be performed optimistically without verification, and rolled back if it cannot be performed everywhere. In embodiments, to serialize management operations on a global table, the database system may check for other pending management operations via a shared control object, and proceed when any pending operations are finished. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081434 | AUTONOMOUS CACHING FOR VIEWS - Techniques are provided for autonomous caching of hierarchical data. In one technique, query log data is stored that comprises multiple entries, each entry (a) corresponding to a different instance of a query that was executed against a database and (b) indicating a tuple (or level grouping) comprising a set of hierarchy levels corresponding to a set of dimensions. Multiple tuples indicated in the query log data are identified. For each tuple: (1) a set of entries that indicate the tuple is identified and the set of entries is associated with the tuple; (2) aggregated performance data is generated for the tuple based on performance data associated with each entry in the set of entries that is associated with the tuple; and (3) based on the aggregated performance data, it is determined whether to create a new auto-cache table or to delete an existing auto-cache table associated with the tuple. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081435 | DATA CLASSIFICATION - Data classification includes tracking classification of columns of data into data classes of a collection of classes available for classifying the columns, obtaining a target column of data, of a target dataset, to be classified into a data class of the collection of candidate classes, and classifying the target column of data into a data class of the collection of classes based on historical data classification characteristics provided by the tracking. The classifying includes selecting a group of candidate data classes of the collection of classes to compare to value(s) of the target column, the selecting excludes at least some candidate data classes of the collection from comparison to the value(s), and establishing a priority between the candidate data classes of the group of candidate classes in comparing the value(s) of the target column of data to the selected group of candidate classes. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081436 | CLASSIFYING DIFFERENT QUERY TYPES - In disclosed techniques, a computing system causes presentation of a user interface having an input field operable to receive, from a user, a search query for a database. The computing system may classify the search query by: determining whether the search query includes terms that are within a specified vocabulary indicative of a natural language query and determining whether the search query includes terms that identify an object defined in a schema of the database. In response to classifying the search query as a natural language query, the computing system returns query results determined by identifying values in the database corresponding to the object defined in the schema. In response to classifying the search query as a keyword query, the computing system returns query results determined by comparing terms of the search query to values within records in the database. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081437 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRIE-BASED AUTOMATED DISCOVERY OF PATTERNS IN COMPUTER LOGS - Systems and methods for tokenization of log records for efficient data storage, log querying, and log data analytics can utilize a trie pattern conversion of the log files, storing trie data pattern IDs, free parameters, and metadata instead of the entire log record. New trie patterns can be discovered automatically by counting the occurrences of tokens matching wildcards for existing patterns. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081438 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device ( | 2021-03-18 |
20210081439 | PRIVATE DATA EXCHANGE - Providing a private data exchange is described. An example computer-implemented method can include providing a data exchange by a cloud computing service on behalf of an entity. The data exchange may comprise several data listings provided by one or more data providers. The data listings reference one or more data sets stored in a data storage platform associated with the cloud computing service. The method may also include designating a data exchange administrator account of the data exchange. The data exchange administrator account may be associated with the entity and may be capable of: granting and denying requests from data consumers to access the data exchange; and granting and denying requests from data providers to publish data listings on the data exchange. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081440 | HISTORICAL AUGMENTATION OF ELECTRONIC MAPS - Disclosed is a computer implemented method to annotate electronic maps with historical data, the method comprising: receiving a first query from a user, wherein the first query includes a request for historical data of a mapped area. The method also comprises retrieving a plurality of references, wherein each reference includes a location reference, and each reference is related to the mapped area. The method further comprises normalizing each location reference to a common coordinate system. The method also comprises ranking each of the plurality of references. The method further comprises generating a first result, wherein the first result is responsive to the first query, and the first result is based on the ranking. The method further comprises determining a confidence score for the first result, and returning the first result to the user. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081441 | AUTOMATIC FEATURE EXTRACTION FROM UNSTRUCTURED LOG DATA UTILIZING TERM FREQUENCY SCORES - A method includes obtaining, in a given log processing node, at least two different types of logs associated with assets of an enterprise system. The method also includes generating, at the given log processing node, frequency scores for terms in unstructured log data of each of the different log types, the generated frequency score for a given term in unstructured log data of a given log type being based on (i) occurrence of the given term in historical logs of the given log type previously processed by log processing nodes and (ii) occurrence of the given term in the obtained logs of the given log type. The method further includes extracting, at the given log processing node, features from the obtained logs based on the frequency scores, detecting events affecting the assets utilizing the extracted features, and modifying a configuration of the assets responsive to detecting the events. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081442 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING USER QUERY AMBIGUITY THROUGH CHATBOT CLARIFYING QUESTIONS - Dialog systems, such as chatbots, enable a user to query for information of a data management system. However, a user's query may be ambiguous resulting in a reply of too much information that is incomprehensible to a user. Clarifying questions are posed to a user to remove ambiguity from a user's query, and based on a user's answers, the volume of replying information is reduced to an amount that a user can comprehend. Clarifying questions are efficiently sequenced to reduce the ambiguity of a user's query, such that the number of clarifying questions does not result in a user abandoning the user's query. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081443 | USER SUPPORT WITH INTEGRATED CONVERSATIONAL USER INTERFACES AND SOCIAL QUESTION ANSWERING - Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for providing assistance to users by integrating social computing system with conversational user interface. In some cases, a user interacting with a virtual assistant of a conversational user interface provides input that the virtual assistant is not able identify a matching intent. As a result, the virtual assistant can leverage the social computing system to generate a new question based on the user input and post the question to the social computing system. Users of the social computing system can provide an answer, which the virtual assistant provides to the user in the conversational user interface. The social computing system can also generate a new intent for the virtual assistant to increase efficiency of the virtual assistant. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081444 | SUB-CLUSTERING PHOTOGRAPHS FOR A DIGITAL PICTURE FRAME - A method for automated routing of pictures taken on mobile electronic devices to a digital picture frame including a camera integrated with the frame, and a network connection module allowing the frame for direct contact and upload of photos from electronic devices or from photo collections of community members. The integrated camera is used to automatically determine an identity of a frame viewer and can capture gesture-based feedback. The displayed photos are automatically shown and/or changed according to the detected viewers. The photos can be filtered and cropped at the receiver side. Clustering photos by content is used to improve display and to respond to photo viewer desires. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081445 | DATA STORAGE MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS IN A SECONDARY STORAGE SUBSYSTEM USING IMAGE RECOGNITION AND IMAGE-BASED CRITERIA - A data storage management system incorporates image recognition and classification features. The illustrative system generates thumbnail images to represent images detected in secondary copies. Subsequent image recognition and classification operations are based on the thumbnail images without need to access the secondary copies from which the thumbnails were derived. The system indexes thumbnail images and respective relationships to each other and to the source secondary copies. Metadata from the source secondary copies is extracted and preserved with the thumbnails. Thumbnail images, metadata, and related index data (collectively “thumbnail data”) are stored locally in an illustrative content index server, or in an enhanced storage manager, thus improving performance without interfering with ongoing storage management operations. Features are disclosed for searching within the system and performing storage management operations based on image criteria. Access to/from other systems is also possible, e.g., for importing images and/or thumbnails. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081446 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING IMAGE CLASSIFICATION RESULTS - An apparatus for performing image searches including a camera, storage devices storing a set of instructions, and a processor coupled to the at least one storage device and the camera. The instructions configure the at least one processor to perform operations including identifying attributes of the captured image using a classification model; identifying first results based on the identified attributes; selecting a subset of first results based on corresponding probability scores, generating a first graphical user interface including interactive icons corresponding to first results in the subset, an input icon, and a first button. The operations may also include receiving a selection of the first button, performing a search to identify second results, and generating a second graphical user interface displaying the second results. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081447 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR BROWSING IMAGES ON A USER INTERFACE DISPLAYING A MAP - A method of browsing images on a user interface displaying a map. A selection of a geographical feature within the map on the user interface is received based on a selection criteria comprising a set of predefined gesture rules. A plurality of images is selected based on a proximity of each of the images to the selected geographical feature. A dynamic browsing widget is generated on the user interface having dimensions proportional to dimensions of the selected geographical feature. The selected plurality of images is browsed using the generated dynamic browsing widget. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081448 | METHOD OF PLAYING MUSIC AND COMPUTER WITH FUNCTION OF PLAYING MUSIC - A method of playing music includes providing a playing pool, where the playing pool includes a plurality of playlists, each playlist includes at least one piece of music, and each piece of music includes at least one attribute; comparing all music in any two playlists, and if at least one attribute of any two pieces of music is determined to be identical, defining the music as pairing music, where the pairing music is not music the same playlist; and playing the music in one of the plurality of playlists, and when a playing sequence comes to the pairing music, playing the music according to the pairing music. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081449 | MUSIC RECOMMENDATIONS FROM TRENDING QUERIES - A plurality of music playlists created on a content sharing platform and having rankings are identified. A plurality of popular external search queries submitted via one or more search engine platforms external to the content sharing platform are identified. A subset of the plurality of music playlists that matches any of the plurality of popular external search queries is determined, and rankings of the determined subset of music playlists are improved. The personalized music recommendations for the user are created based on rankings of the plurality of music playlists, and the personalized music recommendations are provided for presentation to the user. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081450 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A VIDEO - A system and method for capturing a plurality of videos and images with a camera of a mobile communication device, editing them and combining them in order to generate a video. The invention provides an application for capturing, editing and combining a plurality of videos and images of a real estate structure with the build-in camera of a mobile communication device and then generating a real estate video for a specific real estate listing. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081451 | PERSISTED QUERIES AND BATCH STREAMING - A system includes reception of a user request for a set of data visualizations, execution, in response to the user request, of a main thread to request metadata associated with the set of data visualizations from a remote system, execution of a worker thread to request a set of persisted queries associated with the set of data visualizations from the remote system, to issue the set of persisted queries to the remote system, to receive query results associated with the set of persisted queries from the remote system, and to initiate storage of the query results in a local memory, and execution of the main thread to retrieve the query results stored in the local memory and render the set of data visualizations based on the retrieved query results. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081452 | DATA EXTRACTION ENGINE FOR STRUCTURED, SEMI-STRUCTURED AND UNSTRUCTURED DATA WITH AUTOMATED LABELING AND CLASSIFICATION OF DATA PATTERNS OR DATA ELEMENTS THEREIN, AND CORRESPONDING METHOD THEREOF - A fully or semi-automated, integrated learning, labeling and classification system and method have closed, self-sustaining pattern recognition, labeling and classification operation, wherein unclassified data sets are selected and converted to an assembly of graphic and text data forming compound data sets that are to be classified. By means of feature vectors, which can be automatically generated, a machine learning classifier is trained for improving the classification operation of the automated system during training as a measure of the classification performance if the automated labeling and classification system is applied to unlabeled and unclassified data sets, and wherein unclassified data sets are classified automatically by applying the machine learning classifier of the system to the compound data set of the unclassified data sets. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081453 | AUTONOMOUSLY PARTITIONING DATABASE TABLES - What is disclosed is an improved approach to perform automatic partitioning, without requiring any expertise on the part of the user. A three stage processing pipeline is provided to generate candidate partition schemes, to evaluate the candidate using real table structures that are empty, and to then implement a selected scheme with production data for evaluation. In addition, an improved approach is described to perform automatic interval partitioning, where the inventive concept implements interval partitioning that does not impose these implicit constraints on the partition key column. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081454 | UNSUPERVISED AUTOMATIC TAXONOMY GRAPH CONSTRUCTION USING SEARCH QUERIES - A method involves receiving search queries, having search terms, submitted to at least one computerized search engine. For each query, a corresponding pairwise relation in the search queries is calculated. The corresponding pairwise relation is a corresponding probability of a potential edge relationship between at least two terms. Thus, potential edges are formed. A general graph of the terms is constructed by selecting edges from the potential edges. The general graph is nodes representing the terms used in the search queries. The general graph also is edges representing semantic relationships among the nodes. A hierarchical graph is constructed from the general graph by altering at least one of the edges among the nodes in the general graph to form the hierarchical graph. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081455 | OBJECT SEARCH WITH PAGINATION AND NON-DUPLICATES SUPPORT - Techniques are disclosed for querying for members in multiple groups. A list of unique members in the multiple groups may be received in response to the query. An example methodology implementing the techniques may include generating a group contexts dictionary and a job stack. The group contexts dictionary may include group context objects, each group context object associated with a group within a domain. The job stack may include one or more group context hashset keys, wherein a group context hashset key identifies a group context object. The method may include retrieving one or more group context hashset keys from the job stack and, for each retrieved group context hashset key, traversing a group associated with a group context object identified by a group context hashset key to determine membership information of the group, and generating a list of unique members by removing duplicate entries in the membership information. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081456 | USER ATTRIBUTES EVALUATION SYSTEM - The invention relates to the system ( | 2021-03-18 |
20210081457 | RANKING RESULTS OF SEARCHES OF DATABASES - A computer system is configured to receive a plurality of previous user selection by a user of previous database entries, each of which has as plurality of database field. The computer system is configured to analyze the plurality of previous user selections to identify how frequently the same values are included in the various previous database entries. The computer system is configured to determine weights for the various database fields and rank subsequent search results for a subsequent search of the database based on the determined weights. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081458 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELECTING AN ALIMENTARY TRANSFER DESCRIPTOR USING CATEGORICAL CONSTRAINTS - A system and method for grouping alimentary transfer descriptors as a function of user elements includes receiving at least an alimentary transfer descriptor as a function of an alimentary transfer request, identifying at least a user element, determining a categorical constraint as a function of the user element, generating a plurality of groupings, wherein each grouping comprises alimentary transfer descriptors, selecting a grouping of the plurality of groupings, wherein selecting further comprises, executing a selection function on the plurality of groupings, wherein the selection function generates a selection output as a function of the plurality of selection criteria and the plurality of groupings, and selecting the grouping based on the selection output, and transmitting the a notification to a physical performance entity as a function of the selected grouping. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081459 | NOTIFICATION SYSTEM FOR A COLLABORATION TOOL CONFIGURED TO GENERATE USER-SPECIFIC NATURAL LANGUAGE RELEVANCY RANKING AND URGENCY RANKING OF NOTIFICATION CONTENT - A collaboration tool configured to generate natural language urgency and relevancy scores, and to display said scores, with notifications sent to users of the collaboration tool. In this manner, and as a result of these constructions, a user of the collaboration tool can immediately and quickly understand which notifications from the collaboration tool should be acted upon first. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081460 | MAINTAINING CHARACTER SET COMPATIBILITY IN DATABASE SYSTEMS - Database systems handle queries represented in different character sets. A database system allows data stored in the same database column to be represented in different character sets. In response to a query, the database system returns query results in the same character set as the received query even though the data stored in the database column is in a different character set. The database system creates and maintains a metadata table that stores attributes of database columns. The attributes of database columns include, among others, a data type, and a collation attribute. By tracking the collation attributes for data stored in database columns, the database system determines whether to convert data stored in a database column when processing database queries. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081461 | STRING PATTERN MATCHING FOR MULTI-STRING PATTERN RULES IN INTRUSION DETECTION - In some embodiments, a method stores a plurality of identifiers for a plurality of rules. The plurality of rules each include a set of patterns, and a rule and a pattern combination is associated with an identifier in the plurality of identifiers. Information being sent on a network is scanned and the method determines when a pattern in the information matches a pattern for a rule. The method identifies an identifier for the pattern where the identifier identifies a rule and a pattern combination. Then, the method identifies the rule and the pattern combination based on the identifier. The set of patterns for the rule is found in the information based on determining that the rule and the pattern combinations for the rule have been found in the information. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081462 | BINARY CODING FOR IMPROVED SEMANTIC SEARCH - In some aspects, a query for one or more items is received. The query includes a plurality of terms. It is determined that a search result candidate is semantically similar to the query based at least in part on a distance between a first vector that represents the query and a second vector that represents the search result candidate in semantic space. The first vector and the second vector can each correspond to a single vector of binary values. Based at least in part on the determining that the search result candidate is semantically similar to the query, the search result candidate may be caused to be displayed. The search result candidate can include at least a first term that has a same meaning as at least a second term of the query, and the first term and the second term may have a different structure. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081463 | AUTO-LOCATION VERIFICATION - Techniques for automatic extraction and verification of location data are disclosed. In some embodiments, a web crawler is configured to identify uniform resource locators (URLs), including a URL for a website associated with a target entity. The web crawler is further configured to fetch a subset of webpages from the website associated with the target entity. The web crawler may restrict the webpages that are fetched from the website based, at least in part, on patterns in the first website that are indicative of where reliable location information may be found. The web crawler further identifies a primary location of the target entity within at least one webpage in the subset of webpages, populating and/or verifying the primary location of the target entity in an entity profile. The entity profile may be consumed by client applications to execute location-aware and/or location dependent functions. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081464 | CRAWLABILITY OF SINGLE PAGE APPLICATIONS - A computer-implemented method for enabling static markup crawlability for a web application dynamically updating web pages client-side may be provided. The method comprises providing a web application identifiable by a web address comprising both, a static content block and dynamic content, and generating a static HTML page and pre-rendering the static content block of the web application such that at least a portion of static content of the web application is crawlable. | 2021-03-18 |
20210081465 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT MULTI STAGE STATISTICAL WEBSITE INDEXING - Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, devices, and the like for classifying or indexing websites using an efficient multistage statistical indexing scheme. In one embodiment, a system is introduced that includes a plurality of models for classification. The classification and indexing may be obtained using at least two models designed to retrieve information from a website visited for marketing and assessing a user. In one embodiment, a first model, content-based features are used for the classification and in making predictions of the unlabeled observations. In another embodiment, a second model includes embedded technology-based features for further classification. | 2021-03-18 |