18th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 61 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090112881 | File sharing system in cooperation with a search engine - Provided is a computer system including: a client computer; a storage system coupled to the client computer via a network; a folder deciding module; and a file storage module, in which each of a plurality of files is stored in one of a plurality of folders; the client computer receives an instruction to store a file; the folder deciding module judges how strongly the plurality of folders are each related to the designated file based on a matching degree between each of the plurality of files stored in the plurality of folders and the designated file; and the file storage module stores the designated file in one of the plurality of folders that has been judged to be most strongly related to the designated file. According to this invention, a created file is stored in a suitable folder so that the file can easily be found by the user. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112882 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR MANAGING MEDICAL IMAGES AND RECORDS - The disclosure herein provides methods, systems, and devices for managing, transferring, modifying, converting and/or tracking medical files and/or medical system messages. In certain embodiments, the foregoing may generally be based on requesting medical files at a first medical facility, identifying the requested medical files at a second medical facility, initiating a secure network connection between the first and second medical facility, modifying a header portion of the medical files based on patient identification information created by the first medical facility, and other processing steps. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112883 | APPLICATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INTERMEDIATION SERVER DEVICE - An intermediate server device is installed among a financial institution server device, a local government server device and an applicant terminal device. The intermediate server device transmits application processing information received from the applicant terminal device to the financial institution server device after adding data for verification and application ID. Partially masked application processing information is sent to the local government server device for verification. Then the intermediate server device manages verification history for certification request information with application IDs requested from the financial institution server device based on the application IDs. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112884 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a storage device, a first system configured to execute an information process, a second system configured to operate independently from the first system, and to execute a file server process, an activation control module configured to activate the first system in a first mode in which the storage device is used for the information process, and to activate the second system in a second mode in which the storage device is used for the file server process, and a switch circuit configured to connect the storage device to the first system in the first mode, and to connect the storage device to the second system in the second mode. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112885 | Method for user identification - A method for user identification, the method comprising relaying an identifier of an application server user to a database associated with the application server, wherein the relaying is performed via a transaction request from the application server to the database. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112886 | SYSTEM AND PROGRAM FOR IMPLEMENTING SCROLLABLE CURSORS IN A DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEM - Provided are a system and program for accessing data in a distributed database environment. A client program receives multiple requests for data from a database object satisfying specified search predicates from an application program. Each request includes a request for at least one row from the table. The client program transfers a database command and a rowset parameter indicating a maximum number of rows to return to a server program over a network if the requested row is not maintained by the client program. A data block is generated with the server program including rows from the database object satisfying the search predicates in response to the database command. The rows included in the data block do not exceed the rowset parameter. The server program transfers the data block to the client program. In turn, the client program returns at least one requested row from the received data block in response to one request for the at least one row of data from the application program. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112887 | MAPPING DEEP STRUCTURED DATA STRUCTURES - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for mapping deep structured data structures. Statements defining a mapping of source elements formatted in accordance with a first hierarchical structure to a target formatted in accordance with a second hierarchical structure are received. The first and second hierarchical structures may be different. A mapping of the source elements to the target in accordance with the statements may be performed, where the statement may be defined in accordance with a mapping language. The mapping language may define that a single statement may represent an iterative approach to mapping elements from the source to the target. The mapping language may support selection of source elements using a format that allows for navigation through a hierarchy of the source. The mapping language may also support nested statements which may allow for nested iterations in which to perform mappings. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112888 | METHOD OF PROVIDING DATABASE ACCESS TO NON-PROGRAMMERS - An operating system independent system for enabling non-technical users to manipulate data from within large pre-existing databases with limited involvement of programmers. The system consists of a visual interface for the construction of a sequence of operations to retrieve, manipulate and store data in the databases, as well as displays of a meta-language version of the entered user commands and a natural language translation of the commands. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112889 | COMPRESSING NULL COLUMNS IN ROWS OF THE TABULAR DATA STREAM PROTOCOL - Systems and methodologies that enhance a Tabular Data Stream (TDS) protocol by enabling efficient transmission of a row(s) with null columns(s). An identification component employs a bit map that can be positioned at beginning of a row, to indicate to the receiving side (e.g., a client) columns that are to be sent. Accordingly, by distinguishing columns that are null from columns that are not null—followed by sending columns that are not null—transmission resources can be effectively employed. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112890 | EFFICIENT UPDATE OF BINARY XML CONTENT IN A DATABASE SYSTEM - Various techniques are described hereafter for improving the efficiency of updating XML documents in a content repository, such as a database system. Specifically, techniques are described for updating an XML document by dynamically merging a stream of XML data from the document with update information. Techniques are also described for efficient validation of XML documents. Because of the manner of the updates, specifically because the XML data being updated is in the form of a stream, the database system validates only those portions of the stream of XML data that have been updated. In the alternative, the database system validates that portion of the XML data that is associated with the parent node of the portion of XML data that has been updated. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112891 | System and Method for Implementing a Stackable Tabbed Interface in a Data Processing System - A system and method for implementing a stackable tabbed interface in a data processing system. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a file system receives a collection of organizational schemes for arranging a collection of graphical indicia associated with a collection of files in a file system. In response to receiving a collection of organizational schemes, the file system displays the collection of graphical indicia on a collection of axes, wherein each axis among the collection of axes corresponds to each organizational scheme among the collection of organizational schemes. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112892 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY SUMMARIZING FINE-GRAINED OPINIONS IN DIGITAL TEXT - A method and system for automatically summarizing fine-grained opinions in digital text are disclosed. Accordingly, a digital text is analyzed for the purpose of extracting all opinion expressions found in the text. Next, the extracted opinion expressions (referred to herein as opinion frames) are analyzed to generate opinion summaries. In forming an opinion summary, those opinion frames sharing in common an opinion source and/or opinion topic may be combined, such that an overall opinion summary indicates an aggregate opinion held by the common source toward the common topic | 2009-04-30 |
20090112893 | Creation and management of electronic files for localization project - Creation and management of electronic files for a localization project. The electronic files are based on a data structure that defines the format and content of the electronic files and includes a first data structure portion that contains data that represents a plurality of references to localization project files. Moreover, the data structure includes a second data structure portion that is associated with the first data structure portion that contains data that represents a plurality of references to standard files. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112894 | Method of reducing storage power consumption by use of prefetch and computer system using the same - Provided is a computer system including: a computer running as a DB server; a storage system including a plurality of disk drives for storing data; and a management module, in which: at least one of the plurality of disk drives stores data of a DB schema written by the computer; the management module specifies the DB schema to be accessed based on a received query, transmits, to the storage system, an instruction to copy at least a portion of the data of the specified DB schema from the disk drive to a memory, and transmits, to the storage system, an instruction to control an rpm of the disk drive that stores the data of the specified DB schema; and the storage system controls the rpm of the disk drive based on the instruction. Accordingly, power consumption of the storage system can be reduced even if installed disks increase in number. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112895 | DATABASE SIZE TRACKING AND REPORTING FOR APPLICATION UPGRADES - Techniques for determining the growth of database objects. In one set of embodiments, baseline sizes for a plurality of database objects are recorded, where the baseline sizes are recorded prior to the execution of an application upgrade. Further, upgraded sizes for the plurality of database objects are recorded, where the upgraded sizes are recorded subsequent to the execution of the application upgrade. Growth values for the plurality of database objects are then determined based on the baseline sizes and the upgraded sizes. In further embodiments, the plurality of database objects may be organized into one or more functional groups or product families, and aggregate database object growth may be reported per functional group or product family. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112896 | Method And Related Device For Hardware-Oriented Conversion Between Arithmetic And Boolean Random Masking - A method for secure conversion between two different random markings used for cryptographic functions, converts a first binary data word, masked by a binary mask word according to a first masking process, into a corresponding second binary data word, masked by said binary mask word according to a second masking process, the first and second binary data words and the binary mask word including corresponding pluralities of bits, wherein each of the pluralities of the bits includes a least significant bit, a first bit, and at least one i-th bit i≧2. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112897 | DATA SEQUENCE COMPRESSION - In a method of compressing a data sequence, the data sequence is parsed into data segments, where at least one of the data segments includes a match. In addition, the match is compressed using at least one context model that depends upon one or more coded data symbols that are available to a decoder. An encoder includes a coding unit configured to code at least one of a match offset and a match length of a data segment using one or more context models that depend on previously decodeable data symbols. A computer readable storage medium having a computer program for implementing the method of compressing the data sequence. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112898 | Decoding a Hierarchical Multi-Layer Data Package - A hierarchical decoder is operable to decode a hierarchical multi-layer data package. The hierarchical multi-layer data package includes a plurality of layers and one or more subpackages in each layer. To decode the data package, an objective function is created based on parameters for identifying data in the data package most relevant to information of interest. Subpackages in one or more layers are evaluated using the objective function and a subpackage is selected. Information for the selected subpackage, which may include a summary and metadata, is used to determine whether the subpackage satisfies an information need. If the information need is not satisfied, a drill down procedure is performed to evaluate subpackages in a next lower layer of the data package. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112899 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVE DISK MANAGEMENT - Provided herein are at least one embodiment of systems and methods of adaptive disk management for a recording device employing a memory storage device such as hard disk storage so that memory storage device usage is tracked in the recording device and the memory storage device is controlled based on time-based patterns of user behavior. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112900 | Collaborative Compression - Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for collaborative compression, in which is obtained a collection of files, with individual ones of the files including a set of ordered data elements (e.g., bit positions), and with individual ones of the data elements having different values in different ones of the files, but with the set of ordered data elements being common across the files. The data elements are partitioned into an identified set of bins based on statistics for the values of the data elements across the collection of files, and a received file is compressed based on the bins of data elements. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112901 | Software, Systems and Methods for Modifying XML Data Structures - Methods, systems and software are described for modifying an Extensible Markup Language (XML) file. Initially, an XML file is provided having at least one data node that contains at least one instruction to modify the XML file. This XML file is parsed to identifying the modification instruction(s) and the XML file is modified in accordance with the at least one instruction to generate a modified XML file. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112902 | DOCUMENT FIDELITY WITH BINARY XML STORAGE - Techniques are provided for ensuring lexical fidelity when an XML document is stored in a binary format. Operations, on the XML data, that would cause the loss of lexical fidelity between the original XML document and the binary-encoded version of the XML document are not performed. Such operations include the removal of unnecessary whitespace characters, certain data type conversions, CRLF normalization, the “collapsing” of two-tag empty elements into a single tag empty element, and the replacing of entity references or numeric character references with another value. An XML schema, to which the XML document conforms, may indicate that the XML document is to be stored in a lexical fidelity mode. Additionally, or alternatively, the database statement that (when executed) causes the XML document to be stored in a binary format may so indicate. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112903 | ONTOLOGY DATA IMPORT/EXPORT METHOD AND APPARATUS - The present invention provides a flexible ontology data import/export method and apparatus. The ontology data import apparatus comprises: an ontology data format analyzer for analyzing a format of input ontology data, and performing format determination by utilizing an ontology format database which stores formats of those successfully imported ontologies if it is a private unknown format; and an unknown format data importer for separating and importing the data into an ontology database which stores ontologies, in accordance with a result of the format determination by the ontology data format analyzer. Further, the ontology data export apparatus comprises a keyword-based and query-language-combined ontology exporter and an ontology data export format analyzer, and the keyword-based and query-language-combined ontology exporter outputs a query result returned from the ontology database in accordance with the export format returned from the ontology data export format analyzer. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112904 | Apparatus and Method for Categorical Filtering of Data - A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to retrieve a dataset from a data source. The dataset includes a first set of categories. A data structure with nodes connected by edges is built to represent the dataset. A first set of merit values is calculated for the first set of categories. Each merit value is a measure of how efficient a category is in filtering data. The first set of categories is ordered based on a criterion. The first set of categories is then returned. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112905 | Self-Compacting Pattern Indexer: Storing, Indexing and Accessing Information in a Graph-Like Data Structure - An indexing system uses a graph-like data structure that clusters features indexes together. The minimum atomic value in the data structure is represented as a leaf node which is either a single feature index or a sequence of two or more feature indexes when a minimum sequence length is imposed. Root nodes are formed as clustered collections of leaf nodes and/or other root nodes. Context nodes are formed from root nodes that are associated with content that is being indexed. Links between a root node and other nodes each include a sequence order value that is used to maintain the sequencing order for feature indexes relative to the root node. The collection of nodes forms a graph-like data structure, where each context node is indexed according to the sequenced pattern of feature indexes. Clusters can be split, merged, and promoted to increase the efficiency in searching the data structure. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112906 | MULTI-USER ANIMATION COUPLED TO BULLETIN BOARD - A multi-user animation process receives input from multiple remote clients to manipulate avatars through a modeled 3-D environment. Each user is represented by an avatar. The 3-D environment and avatar position/location data is provided to client workstations, which display a simulated environment visible to all participants. A text or speech-based bulletin board application is coupled to the animation process. The bulletin board application receives text or speech input from the multiple remote users and publishes the input in a public forum. The bulletin board application maintains multiple forums organized by topic. Access or participation to particular forums is coordinated with the animation process, such that each user may be permitted access to a forum only when the user's avatar is located within a designated room or region of the modeled 3-D environment. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112907 | WARRANTY INSIGHT SOLUTION FRAMEWORK SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method of warranty insight solution are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes populating a data mart with data from a number of sources, text analyzing and mining the unstructured data of the data mart according to a uniform structure, performing root cause analysis assistance on staged data mart data, generating root cause analysis output from the root cause analysis, merging the root cause analysis output with the data of the data mart, and generating final output based on a portion of the merged data of the data mart. The data may include data selected from a group including warranty claim data, traceability data, supplier data, manufacturer data, retailer data, customer data, component data, service data, failure data, field data, vehicle failure fault codes trough telematics, and collection center data. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112908 | Method and System for Generic Extraction of Business Object Data - Systems, methods, and software for generic extraction of business object data are provided. One computerized method includes retrieving multiple identifiers of sub-nodes. The sub-nodes are associated with a root node of a business object. The method further includes generating a tree data structure. The tree includes multiple tree nodes and multiple tree edges. The multiple nodes correspond to the root node of the business object and the retrieved multiple identifiers. The method also includes traversing the tree to retrieve data associated with the root business object and the retrieved multiple identifiers. The method further includes storing the retrieved data. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112909 | AUTOMATED GENERATION OF MODELING LANGUAGE PROFILES - A database of data can be leveraged to automatically generate profiles for use in modeling. The data may be specific to one or more domains and/or general to multiple domains. A mapping scheme is established to map structure of the database to a structure of a profile. The mapping scheme is read and the database is read in accordance with the mapping scheme to automatically generate one or more profiles. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112910 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERSONALIZATION OF AN APPLICATION - The invention relates to personalizing an application such as a content search and retrieval application. An ontology store ( | 2009-04-30 |
20090112911 | AUTOMATED INDEXING OF ELECTRONIC FILES AND FILE FOLDERS - A method for indexing an electronic file is presented. In the method, a first value based upon a time value is generated. An index for the electronic file is generated, with the index including the first value and a second value. The electronic file is associated with the index. In another embodiment, an electronic system includes a memory configured to store an electronic file, and control logic located within an electronic device of the electronic system and coupled with the memory. The control logic is configured to generate a first value comprising a timestamp, and to produce an index associated with the electronic file, wherein the index comprises the first value and a second value. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112912 | Reference Architecture Framework - An architecture record can be created for a computer system that includes a plurality of computing devices, each having an operating system. The architecture record includes platform definition architectures each associated with one of the computing devices and the operating system of the computing device, domain reference architectures each associated with one or more of the platform definition architectures and a service performed by the computing device of each platform definition architecture, and channel reference architectures each associated with one or more of the domain reference architectures, wherein the computing devices associated with the one or more domain reference architectures are configured to communicate with each other while performing the respective services associated with the one or more domain reference architectures. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112913 | EFFICIENT MECHANISM FOR MANAGING HIERARCHICAL RELATIONSHIPS IN A RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for managing hierarchical relationships in a relational database system is provided. An “orderkey” data type, which is native within a relational database system, is disclosed. The orderkey type is designed to contain values that represent the position of an entity relative to the positions of other entities within a hierarchy. Such values represent hierarchical relationships between those entities. Values that are of the orderkey type have properties that allow hierarchy-oriented functions to be performed in an especially efficient manner. Database functions, which operate on and/or produce values that are of the orderkey type, are also disclosed. Such functions can be placed within SQL statements that a database server executes, for example. In response to executing SQL statements that contain such functions, the database server performs hierarchy-oriented operations in a highly efficient manner. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112914 | Returning a second content based on a user's reaction to a first content - Embodiments include a device, a system, a computer program product, and a method. A method embodiment includes receiving from a requester sensor data indicative of a response by a person to a first content displayed to the person. The method also includes analyzing the received sensor data for an indication of an expression by the person corresponding to the first content. The method further includes facilitating a search for a second content using a search parameter corresponding to the indication of an expression by the person and to a content attribute of the displayed first content. The method also includes returning to the requester an indication of the second content. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112915 | Class configuration for locally cached remote data binding - Data-driven applications are often designed to couple with a remote data store, such as a relational database server. It may be difficult for developers to implement complex details of the synchronization, including data caching and concurrency management, and developers may be unable to use synchronization code libraries without specialized knowledge of such issues. A data-binding model may be provided to simplify the developer's task of coupling a class in a data-driven application with a remote data store. The development platform may allow the developer to specify the data-bound properties of a class and the aspects of a remote data store for the binding relationship, and may automatically reconfigure the class to implement the many details of binding to the remote data store. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112916 | Creating a mapping - Among other disclosed subject matter, a computer-implemented method for creating a mapping includes obtaining a definition relating to a first schema, the definition comprising a first plurality of nodes to be mapped to a second schema comprising a second plurality of nodes. The method includes receiving at least one context value for the received definition, the context value being associated with at least one context category defined for the second schema. The method includes generating names corresponding to each of the nodes in the first plurality, the generated names being consistent with a naming rule for the second schema. The method includes mapping each of the nodes in the first plurality to a respective one of the nodes in the second plurality, wherein the context value and at least one of the generated names are taken into account in the mapping. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112917 | METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR USING DATA MINING TOOLS TO AUTOMATICALLY COMPARE AN INVESTIGATED UNIT AND A BENCHMARK UNIT - Sources of operational problems in business transactions often show themselves in relatively small pockets of data, which are called trouble hot spots. Identifying these hot spots from internal company transaction data is generally a fundamental step in the problem's resolution, but this analysis process is greatly complicated by huge numbers of transactions and large numbers of transaction variables to analyze. A suite of practical modifications are provided to data mining techniques and logistic regressions to tailor them for finding trouble hot spots. This approach thus allows the use of efficient automated data mining tools to quickly screen large numbers of candidate variables for their ability to characterize hot spots. One application is the screening of variables which distinguish a suspected hot spot from a reference set. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112918 | RICH MEDIA CONTENT WEB SITE ANALYTICS SYSTEM AND METHOD AND NETWORK ANALYTICS INFRASTRUCTURE EMPLOYING THE SAME - A reporting server, a method of performing rich media content web site analytics and a network analytics infrastructure. In one embodiment, the reporting server includes: (1) a location mapper configured to receive messages directly from rich media message generators over a network and associate geographical locations with the messages based on logical addresses contained therein, (2) an analytics engine coupled to the location mapper and configured to create associations among the messages based on aggregation criteria received from a reporting client and (3) a graphical user interface generator coupled to the analytics engine and configured to generate at least one representation based on the associations and transmit the at least one representation to the reporting client. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112919 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO MODEL AND CREATE A VIRTUAL PRIVATE DATACENTER - A virtual private datacenter system and method are provided. A method for capacity planning of a virtual private datacenter and a method for chargeback for use of the virtual private datacenter also are disclosed. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112920 | SYSTEM AND ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE FOR DEFINING AND GENERATING A VIEWTYPE FOR A BASE MODEL - Disclosed is a technique for processing a base model. The base model is received. Then, the base model is used to create a ViewType comprising a ViewType object, one or more ViewList objects corresponding to classes in the base model, and one or more ViewElem objects corresponding to attributes in the base model. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112921 | Managing files using layout storage objects - Managing a plurality of files includes providing at least one server having a table with plurality of file identifiers, each of the file identifiers including a pointer to a metadata file object containing a layout storage object that indicates storage parameters for corresponding files and includes accessing a particular one of the files by obtaining information from the at least one server to access the layout storage object corresponding to the particular file to determine synchronous and asynchronous mirrors for the file. Each layout storage object may be provided as a tree and leaves of the tree may map logical addresses of a corresponding file to data storage locations. At least one internal node of the tree may indicate that at least one leaf node thereof is a mirror of an other leaf node thereof. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112922 | Methods and Arrangements of Processing and Presenting Information - Embodiments include systems, apparatuses, transformations, code, state machines or other logic to perform spreadsheet operations. Some embodiments may provide a text-based interface to a spreadsheet. In further embodiments, a spreadsheet may create, modify, and access spreadsheet objects in response to text entered into the text-based interface. The text-based interface may comprise a command interface. Many embodiments may provide networks to a spreadsheet. The networks may include nodes, flow objects, and the assignment of flow objects to nodes. Several embodiments may enable the assignment of units to elements of a spreadsheet. Numerous embodiments may operate with arrays of three or more dimensions. Some embodiments may comprise non-spreadsheet applications. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112923 | Automatic Annotation of Audio And/Or Visual Data - Automatic annotation of data recorded by a device. A portion of an event may be recorded as an image, movie, sound byte, audio recording, etc., and contemporaneous to the recording, a time value (which may encode a calendar date) is determined. The time value is looked up on a calendar, and a description of the event is read from the calendar and used to automatically annotate the recording. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112924 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR USING INFORMATION REGARDING ACTIONS PERFORMED USING TRACEABLE OBJECTS - An embodiment of a communication system includes a client device adapted to receive a traceable object that includes tracer information, and to perform one or more object-related actions using the traceable object. The client device stores the tracer information and object usage information, which describes the one or more object-related actions that have been performed using the traceable object. The client device also sends the stored information to a server. The system also includes the server, which is adapted to receive the object usage information and the tracer information reported by the client device. In an embodiment, the system also includes a service provider adapted to initiate a billing event, which may include generation and transmission of a bill to a sponsor entity based on an evaluation of the object usage information and the tracer information reported by the client device. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112925 | INTELLIGENT FASTENER INSTALLATION SYSTEM - One embodiment of a fastening apparatus may include at least one of a fastener and a collar having a code with information regarding the fastener and/or collar. The code may be communicated to one or more databases of a computer. The fastener and/or collar may be tightened, located, maintained, and/or inspected according to the code and/or database information. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112926 | Utilizing Presence Data Associated with a Resource - In one embodiment, a method includes subscribing to a resource that is associated with one or more sensors and receiving presence data originating from the one or more sensors. The method includes determining a status associated with the resource based on the presence data originating from the one or more sensors, wherein the presence data is associated with the resource, updating the status associated with the resource based on the presence data, and displaying the updated status associated with the resource. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112927 | System and Method of Transforming Data for Use in Data Analysis Tools - A process of transforming data residing in databases, such as relational databases, into forms suitable as input to data analysis tools, such as predictive modeling tools includes the steps of defining a business process problem to be solved and identifying data requirements. For example, the business process problem may relate to predicting a customer's propensity to make purchases in the future or a store's requirements for inventory in the future. In the process, a computer implemented method is used for automatically transforming data for data analysis such as predictive modeling. Database metadata that describe database tables, their interrelationships, dimensional information, fact tables and measures are accessed. A mining transformation profile is created to encapsulate aggregations and transformation on data stored in relational databases in order to convert the data to forms suitable for predictive mining tools. The mining transformation profile specifies data transformations relative to the data base metadata. Executable data transformation codes is then generated from the database metadata and the mining transformation profile. Execution of this code results in aggregation and transformation of data residing in a database for input to a data analysis tool such as a predictive modeling tool. The data transformation code can be used by, for example, the predictive modeling tool to generate an output that provides a solution to a business process problem. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112928 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IVR BASED ORDER FULFILLMENT - In one example embodiment, a system and method is disclosed as including generating a translation rule file describing a first rule to be used to translate a record definition file. An operation may then be performed that maps the record definition file, using the first rule, to generate a record definition rule file describing a second rule used to translate transaction data. Further, an operation may be performed that transforms the transaction data, using the second rule, to generate a fulfillment file. In some example embodiments, the first rule is written in an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and describes a data type. Further, this data type may include a description of another mapping from a first data type to a second data type. In some example cases, the record definition file is written in XML, and describes a file format associated with a client. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112929 | Digital Registry for Funeral Services - An electronic guest book for funeral services is provided. One or more funeral services can be configured. During the service, a computer permits entry of guest information, such as name, address and comment. Subsequently, the guest information can be used to automate the generation of print materials, such as custom printed labels or envelopes for thank you cards or the like, or a custom printed guest book. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112930 | PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS FOR ENHANCING AN ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE - A process of displaying program information on a viewing screen may include: providing an electronic programming guide, the electronic program guide divided into timeslots containing program information; displaying program information from the displayed timeslots on a viewing screen; providing a link to additional information, the link associated with the program information of a particular timeslot; and displaying the additional information upon receiving a user input while displaying the program information of a particular timeslot. A related system may include: a client device configured to receive and display audio-visual programs; an electronic programming guide including a link to additional information associated with the program information of a particular timeslot; and a processor configured to display program information from the displayed timeslots on a viewing screen and to display the additional information on the viewing screen upon receiving a user input while the program information of the particular timeslot is displayed. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112931 | Method and a System for Determining Predicted Numbers of Processor Cycles Required for Respective Segments of a Media File for Playback of the Media File - A method of determining predicted numbers of processor cycles required for respective segments of a media file for playback of the media file, a method of playback of a media file, a method of downloading a media file, a device for playback of a media file and a system for downloading a media file. The method comprising performing a bitstream analysis of the media file to determine a number of non-zero IDCT coefficients of the respective segments, input parameters of an MC task function associated with respective segments, or both; and determining the predicted numbers of processor cycles based on the bitstream analysis. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112932 | VISUALIZING KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS FOR MODEL-BASED APPLICATIONS - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for visualizing key performance indicators for model-based applications. A composite application model defines how to graphically present an interactive user surface for a composite application from values of a key performance indicator for the composite application. A presentation module accesses values of the key performance indicator for a specified time span. The presentation module graphically presents an interactive user surface for the values of the key performance indicator for the specified time span in accordance with the definitions in the composite application model. Interface controls are provided to manipulate how the data is presented, such as, for example, panning and zooming on key performance indication values. Other relevant data can also be presented along with key performance indicator values to assist a user in understanding the meaning of key performance indication values. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112933 | VIDEO CONTENT VIEWING APPARATUS - A multifunction video navigation display is achieved without adding an extra load onto hardware or software of a viewing apparatus. In such a video content viewing apparatus, a memory unit acquires video contents and metadata to execute video navigation functions from an external server and stores them, a metadata analysis unit verifies completeness of the acquired metadata and corrects/complements an incomplete portion of the metadata, and a navigation unit executes the selected video navigation function according to an analysis result provided from the metadata analysis unit. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112934 | BACKING UP A PROTOCOL ORDER - Computerized methods and systems for creating and documenting protocol orders in a molecular diagnostic laboratory environment are provided. Utilizing the methods and systems described herein, protocol statements may require values to be entered in association therewith prior to permitting access to subsequent protocol orders. Accordingly, more accurate test runs and, consequently, more accurate test results, may be achieved. Additionally, as values associated with protocol statements are electronically captured, in accordance with embodiments hereof, such values may be searched to evaluate trends or identify protocol orders and/or results that may be affected by a later discovered error or the like. Moreover, backing up a protocol order includes providing a backup protocol order for selection, in the event that an alternative test result is desired. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112935 | INTEGRATING ACTIVITY LOG INFORMATION WITH USER-SPECIFIED CONTENT - A user content generation system is described herein that enables content authors to generate content that includes stored information from an activity log or other stored information repository. The content includes one or more references to the activity log information. When the system receives a request to display the content, the system retrieves the content including the references. The system retrieves target information of each reference from the activity log. The system renders the content including the retrieved target information in a form for display to a client application. The system sends the rendered content in response to the request. If the content author later modifies the information in the activity log, then the next time the system receives a request to display the content, the system will provide the content with the updated information. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112936 | METHOD OF AUTOMATICALLY SYNCHRONIZING DATA - There is provided a system operable to execute automatic synchronization therein. The system comprises a first data memory ( | 2009-04-30 |
20090112937 | SPREADSHEET COLLABORATION BETWEEN RICH AND BROWSER CLIENTS - Techniques for collaborating on a spreadsheet file by client computers in real time are disclosed herein. In particular, a revision manager module is preferably provided with a host machine which receives updates from the client computers, processes such updates, and then applies them to the spreadsheet file. Additionally, a technique is described for handling updates sent to the revision manager by clients simultaneously or near simultaneously. In this case, the revision manager determines whether the updates to the spreadsheet file are transformable or able to be merged. If so, the updates are combined into the spreadsheet file and applied thereto. If the updates are not transformable, the revision manager confirms that all clients have received all previous updates before applying the non-transformable update to the spreadsheet file. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112938 | INDICATING STALENESS OF ELEMENTS IN A DOCUMENT IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A content management system (CMS) indicates stale (i.e. outdated) elements in a document according to a stale content policy that specifies one or more thresholds that determine whether or not an element is stale, and if a stale element should trigger an auto suggest mechanism. When an author checks a document out of the repository, the elements in the document are displayed to the user to indicate the element's staleness according to the stale content policy. The auto suggest mechanism populates a related elements list via a query to the repository according to an auto suggest policy that specifies which elements can be included by the auto suggest mechanism in the related elements list. The related elements list is presented to a user, who may select one of the related elements. The link in the document to the stale element is replaced by a link to the selected related element. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112939 | LINKING FRAMEWORK FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT - A data synchronization task is received at a console, wherein the data synchronization task is associated with information technology management. A configuration document is configured using the data synchronization task, wherein the configuration document defines data synchronization through declarations. A linking framework is configured based on the configuration document. Data is synchronized from a first and second source to a target as defined by the configuration document. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112940 | Method, system and computer-readable media for repairing corruption of data record references - A system, method and computer-readable media are provided for repairing corrupted data related to a software database. An electronic information technology system includes (1.) a logical page index; (2.) a free page map; and (3.) a computer-readable medium. The logical page index includes a plurality of logical page index pairs, each logical page index pair having a logical page number and a physical page location address of the computer-readable medium that reference a same record. The database system also includes a means to detect a logical page index pair having a logical page number and a physical page location that are not referencing a same record, and another means to search for a free page map entry that references the physical page address of the record referenced by the logical page index pair. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112941 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND FIRMWARE RECOVERY METHOD FOR COMPUTER SYSTEM - A firmware recovery method for a computer system including the following steps is provided. The computer system enters a firmware recovery mode. It is determined whether a display unit initial firmware is stored in a non-volatile memory. While the display unit initial firmware is not completely stored in the non-volatile memory, the display unit initial firmware is read from a storage apparatus for initializing a display unit. The display unit displays a firmware recovery hint. A complete initial firmware is read from the storage apparatus and then stored to the non-volatile memory. Finally, the computer system is turned on again. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112942 | System and Method for Decoupling Space Reservation in Transactional Logs - A common logging system (a “virtual logging system”) that presents to one or more log clients the appearance that each log client is interacting with a dedicated logging system. In reality, the virtual logging system is multiplexing virtual log streams, including log records, for each log client into a single transactional log. In particular, the invention is directed at a system and method for decoupling space reservation between a plurality of distributed components and a core component in the virtual logging system. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112943 | COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - A computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for managing an electronic information group which includes a first piece and a second piece of electronic information, the process includes monitoring state information indicating a state of the first piece of electronic information; determining that a version of the electronic information group is updated when the state indicated by the state information is changed; judging whether the second piece of electronic information is included in the electronic information group which has the updated version or not, when determining that the version of the electronic information group is updated; and applying the judgment result to state information indicating a state of the second piece of electronic information. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112944 | METHOD, SERVER, TERMINAL, AND SYSTEM FOR UPDATING AN ELECTRONIC SERVICE GUIDE - A method for updating an electronic service guide (ESG) that includes sending version information of the ESG currently maintained by the server along with ESG data to a terminal. When the server receives an ESG request carrying second version information from the terminal, the server compares the first version information with the second version information and if the first version information differs from the second version information, the server sends the first version information and the ESG data that is related to the ESG requested by the terminal and updated relative to the ESG corresponding to the second version information to the terminal. The present disclosure also discloses a system for updating an ESG, an ESG server and a terminal. With the present disclosure, ESG update is more specific and processing load of the terminal is reduced. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112945 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA - Data processing apparatus comprising: a chunk store containing specimen data chunks, a manifest store containing a plurality of manifests, each of which represents at least a part of a data set and each of which comprises at least one reference to at least one of said specimen data chunks, a sparse chunk index containing information on only some specimen data chunks, the processor being operable to: process input data into input data chunks; identify manifests having at least one reference to one of said specimen data chunks that corresponds to one of said input data chunks and on which there is information contained in the sparse chunk index; and prioritize the identified manifests for subsequent operation. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112946 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA - Data processing apparatus comprising: a chunk store partitioned into a plurality of chunk sections, at least one section storing specimen data chunks, the processing apparatus being operable to: process input data into one or more input data chunks; identify a chunk section already containing a specimen data chunk corresponding to at least one input data chunk; and store the at least one input data chunk in another chunk section as a specimen data chunk if the identified chunk section has a predetermined characteristic. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112947 | Database Log Capture that Publishes Transactions to Multiple Targets to Handle Unavailable Targets by Separating the Publishing of Subscriptions and Subsequently Recombining the Publishing - A first log reader publishes first messages to a plurality of queues. The messages comprise changes for transactions extracted from a log by the first log reader. In response to one of the queues becoming unavailable, a second log reader is launched to read and extract from the log, and to publish second messages comprising changes for transactions extracted from the log by the second log reader to the unavailable queue as a catch-up queue. In response to the catch-up queue becoming available and the second log reader reaching the end of the log, the publishing of the second messages for the catch-up queue is transferred from the second log reader to the first log reader. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112948 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING A BACKUP BY QUERYING A BACKUP INFRASTRUCTURE - One aspect of the invention is a method for backing up data. An example of the method includes querying a backup infrastructure to ascertain backup capabilities of the backup infrastructure. This example also may include broadcasting the capabilities of the backup infrastructure, wherein the capabilities are broadcasted by the backup infrastructure. This example also includes determining if the backup infrastructure supports a desired backup type. If the backup infrastructure supports a desired backup type, this example may also include performing a backup of data using the desired backup type. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112949 | COMPRESSED STORAGE MANAGEMENT - In accordance with one or more aspects, compressed storage management in a system includes determining which of multiple data units stored in an uncompressed portion of the storage resource are to be compressed and stored in a compressed portion of the storage resource. The management can further include returning one or more regions of the compressed portion for use in the uncompressed portion in response to storage resource pressure in the system, as well as compacting regions in the compressed portion to fill empty gaps in the compressed portion. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112950 | FILE MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND STORAGE DEVICE - A file system management device is connectable to a storage device. The storage device includes a first file system entity created according to a first file system in which a second file system entity created according to a second file system is allowed to be mapped. A mapping information storing area is defined on a predetermined area of the first file system entity, and the mapping information storing area is reserved for storing mapping information indicating a correspondence of the mapping. The file system management device includes an accessing unit configured to access the second file system entity based on the mapping information through a process according to the first file system to the first file system entity. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112951 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANAGING FILES AND MEMORY DEVICE - A system and method of managing files and a memory device are provided. The system for managing files includes an attribute-management module designating nested attributes to the files having a size smaller than a basic allocation unit of a file system or to directories to which the files belong, a data-management module adjacently nesting the files to which the nested attributes are designated by the attribute-management module with no empty space between the files, and a metadata-management module writing start offsets of the files nested by the data-management module in metadata of the files. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112952 | LOW LATENCY OPTIMIZATION FOR GENERATIONAL GARBAGE COLLECTION - A solution for handling objects in a nursery heap that includes a garbage collector monitoring engine, a size adjustor program, and/or a promotion program. The garbage collector monitoring engine can monitor occurrences of global garbage collection events performed by a global garbage collector program as well as occurrences of nursery garbage collection events performed by a nursery garbage collector. The size adjustor program can dynamically adjust a size of a nursery heap based upon programmatically deterministic events detected by the garbage collector monitoring engine. The promotion program can dynamically adjust conditions of promotion for nursery objects, wherein when additional space is needed in the nursery heap to reduce nursery garbage collection induced latency, the promotion program changes promotion criteria to ensure objects are promoted more frequently from the nursery heap. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112953 | ENHANCED GARBAGE COLLECTION IN A MULTI-NODE ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the invention enhance a garbage collection process running on a parallel system or distributed computing environment. Using a garbage collector in such an environment allows a more in-depth analysis to be performed than is possible on other systems. This is because the number of compute nodes present in many parallel systems, and the connections between them, allows the overhead of doing advanced analysis to be spread across the nodes and the results of that analysis to be shared among the nodes. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112954 | A ROBUST SPECTRAL ANALYZER FOR ONE-DIMENSIONAL AND MULTI-DIMENSIONAL DATA ANALYSIS - A method of analyzing a spectrum of one-dimensional or multi-dimensional signal X(t) requires a number of steps including deriving coefficients [A | 2009-04-30 |
20090112955 | Apparatus and method for performing magnitude detection of arthimetic operations - An apparatus and method is provided comprising processing circuitry, one or more registers and control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured such that it is responsive to a combined magnitude-detecting arithmetic instruction to control the processing circuitry to perform an arithmetic operation on at least one data element and further to perform a magnitude-detecting operation. The magnitude-detecting operation calculates a magnitude-indicating result providing an indication of a position of a most-significant bit of a magnitude of a result of the arithmetic operation irrespective of whether the most-significant bit position exceeds the data element width of the at least one data element. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112956 | Fast Batch Verification Method And Apparatus There-of - A fast batch verification method and apparatus are provided. In the method of batch-verifying a plurality of exponentiations, (a) a predetermined bit value t is set to an integer equal to or greater than 1; (b) a maximum Hamming weight k is set to an integer equal to or greater than 0 and less than or equal than the predetermined bit value t; (c) n verification exponents s | 2009-04-30 |
20090112957 | System and methods for data sample decimation and display of scanning probe microscope images - Methods, systems and components for producing a scanning probe microscope (SPM) image. One method embodiment includes receiving sample data from a scanning probe microscope wherein said sample data comprises data sample many times per pixel of the SPM image to be displayed; selecting at least one decimation scheme from a plurality of different decimation schemes, for decimating the sample data to provide a single data value per pixel; and decimating the sample data, using the at least one selected decimation scheme. A method of decimating sample data scanned along scan lines from a surface of an object to be imaged includes at least temporarily storing multiple adjacent scan lines of the sample data prior to decimating at least a portion of the sample data; correlating adjacent samples of the sample data; and selecting a decimation scheme different from a decimation scheme previously selected to be applied to sample data within a pixel pertaining to an image to be formed from the sample data, when correlating provides results in which a value from one line of comparison is different from a value from another line of comparison by at least a predetermined value, but otherwise maintaining the previously selected decimation scheme for decimating the sample data pertaining to that pixel. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112958 | Processes and apparatus for deriving order-16 integer transforms - Apparatus, systems and techniques based on an integer transform for encoding and decoding video or image signals, including apparatus, systems and techniques for deriving an order-16 integer transform from an order-8 integer transform in image and video coding. In some implementations, eight additions and eight subtractions are used to assign the data elements to be transformed to an intermediate matrix; and then two fast algorithms for the computation of the order-8 transform may be applied to the first 8 vectors of the intermediate matrix, and the last 8 vectors of the intermediate matrix, respectively. The derived order-16 integer transform tends to produce small magnitude and high frequency transformed coefficients, and thus achieve high compressibility. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112959 | Single-cycle FFT butterfly calculator - In accordance with exemplary embodiments, a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) architecture includes elements that perform a radix-2 FFT butterfly in one processor clock cycle at steady state. Some exemplary implementations of the FFT architecture incorporate register and data path elements that relieve memory bandwidth limitations by pairing operands consumed by and results generated by two adjacent butterflies in the overall N-point FFT operation. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112960 | System and Method for Providing a Double Adder for Decimal Floating Point Operations - A method for implementing an adder including receiving a first and second operand. A sum of one or more corresponding digits from the first operand and the second operand is calculated. The calculating is performed by a plurality of adder blocks. Output from the calculating includes the sum of the corresponding digits and a carry out indicator for the corresponding digits. The sums of the corresponding digits and the carry out indicators in a carry chain are stored in an intermediate result register. Each of the sums in the intermediate result register is incremented by one. A selection between each of the sums and the sums incremented by one is performed. Input to the selecting includes the carry chain, and the output from the selecting includes a final sum of the first operand and the second operand. The final sum is stored in an output register. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112961 | ERROR-CORRECTING METHOD USED IN DATA TRANSMISSION AND DECODING - An error-correcting method used in decoding data transmission is disclosed. The error-correcting method is used for analyzing an error receiving data received from a receiving terminal and comprises: providing a first calculating formula for manipulation of the receiving data to generate the first sum; providing a second calculating formula for manipulation of the receiving data to generate the second sum; identifying the error position of the receiving data according to the result of dividing the second sum by the first sum. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112962 | MODULAR SQUARING IN BINARY FIELD ARITHMETIC - After squaring an element of a binary field, the squaring result may be reduced modulo the field-defining polynomial g bits at a time. To this end, a lookup table may be employed, where the lookup table stores entries corresponding to reducing g-bit-long polynomials modulo the field-defining polynomial. Such a reducing strategy may be shown to be more efficient than a bit-by-bit reducing strategy. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112963 | METHOD TO PERFORM A SUBTRACTION OF TWO OPERANDS IN A BINARY ARITHMETIC UNIT PLUS ARITHMETIC UNIT TO PERFORM SUCH A METHOD - A method, circuit apparatus, and a design structure on which the circuit resides, is provided to perform a subtraction of two operands in a binary arithmetic unit by subdividing two operands into groups of equal numbers of bits, generating, by appropriate arithmetic operations, pairs of intermediate results for the particular groups of bits of the two operands comprising the same bit positions, respectively. A first intermediate result of each pair of intermediate results is generated under the assumption of a carry-in of ‘0’ and a second intermediate result of each pair of intermediate results is generated under the assumption of a carry-in of ‘1’. The correct intermediate result of each particular pair of intermediate results from each group of bits is selected, and the result of the subtraction of the two operands is generated by an appropriate merging of the selected correct intermediate results. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112964 | DEVICES, METHODS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR WIRELESS ADAPTER DISENGAGEMENT CONTROL - Disclosed are devices, methods and computer readable media including a wireless adapter disengagement control that is configured to disengage at least most of the wireless communication when several conditions are met. A wired communication detector detects that a wired communication connector is in communication with a wired network, and an event registration control detects an event. The event is a trigger for determining whether the device is simultaneously in communication with a wired network and consuming system resources associated with wireless communication. By using an event as a trigger for the determination of whether the device is simultaneously in communication with a wired network and consuming system resources associated with wireless communication, the disclosed devices and methods beneficially add no additional background processes to the operation of the device, and require no additional configuration to the device. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112965 | PRESERVATION OF FILE LOCKS DURING CHECKPOINT AND RESTART OF A MOBILE SOFTWARE PARTITION - A computer-implemented method, apparatus, and computer-usable program code for preserving file locks while moving a software partition from an origination network file system client data processing system to a destination network file system client data processing system is provided. A request for a file is received. A determination is made as to whether the request is for a file that is within a software partition. Responsive to a determination that the request is for a file within a software partition, a determination is made as to whether the request is a lock request. Responsive to a determination that the request is a lock request, a determination is made as to whether the software partition is being restarted. Responsive to a determination that the software partition is being restarted, the lock request is blocked from being sent to a remote network file system server. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112966 | ASSIGNMENT OF APPLICATION MODULESTO DEPLOYMENT TARGETS - A distributed application deployment engine uses declarative deployment data that describes deployment characteristics for application modules, and potential target environments. The engine uses the deployment data to potentially match a module to a deployment target. At some point, the modules may then be actually deployed on the identified deployment target. This may be performed for multiple modules in the distributed application, thereby deploying the distributed application in a distributed environment. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112967 | Data access control system and method according to position information of mobile terminal - To restrict data transmission to a mobile terminal according to a location of the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal requests data to a second computer, the mobile terminal does not log in the second computer. A communication method for a communication system having a first computer and the second computer, the first computer sends location information of the mobile terminal to the second computer, and the second computer controls data which is to be sent to the first computer according to an access right based on a predetermined location information by referring to received location information. Thereby, it can be controlled data sent to the mobile terminal. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112968 | Identification information creating method, information processing apparatus, computer program product, recording device monitoring method, terminal apparatus management method, and communication network system - A terminal apparatus generates a hash value from a sequence number based on a predetermined hash algorithm, and creates identification information from an IP address and/or a MAC address and the generated hash value based on a predetermined creation algorithm. Moreover, at the time of processing for shutdown or reboot, the terminal apparatus stores the current recording device information into a hard disk, and when booted next time, determines whether or not the current recording device information and the recording device information stored in the hard disk match with each other. Further, when booted, the terminal apparatus requests a response from another terminal apparatus in the network segment, and when there is not a response from another terminal apparatus, creates management information of terminal apparatuses including itself having been booted in the network segment. With this, spoofing as an authorized terminal apparatus can be prevented, a change of a recording medium can be monitored, and the traffic of the communication network needed for the management of the terminal apparatuses can be reduced. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112969 | CHECKPOINT AND RESTART OF NFS VERSION 2/VERSION 3 CLIENTS WITH NETWORK STATE PRESERVATION INSIDE A WORKLOAD PARTITION (WPAR) - Exemplary embodiments provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer-usable program code for moving a software partition from an origination network file system client data processing system to a destination network file system client data processing system. Responsive to receiving a request to perform a checkpoint operation on a software partition, network file system related mount information for the software partition is gathered. Determined ports of a network are unblocked. Unwritten data on the origination network file system client data processing system is synchronized with a remote network file system server. The network is re-blocked. A checkpoint file is generated and stored. The checkpoint file is sent to the destination network file system data processing system. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112970 | AUTOMATICALLY UPDATING VIRTUAL WORLDS - Methods and arrangements of automatically updating virtual worlds are discussed. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic to receive from a user a specification of a data store of the user external to a virtual world. The method may involve automatically gathering data from the data store of the user, responsive to the receiving; generating a representation of the data, and transmitting the representation of the data. In many embodiments, the representation may contain a designation of a data store of the virtual world to be updated by the representation. In some embodiments, a display of the user in the virtual world may be based upon the data store of the virtual world. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112971 | INTERNET MULTIMEDIA CONTENT DELIVERY TO CONSUMER ELECTRONIC DEVICES THROUGH WIRELESS NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE - Internet multimedia content delivery methods, devices and systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for communicating internet multimedia data to a consumer electronic via a wireless network comprises receiving the internet multimedia data via the wireless network, converting the internet multimedia data to a data type associated with the consumer electronic device, and forwarding the internet multimedia data of the data type to the consumer electronic device, where the internet multimedia data via the wireless network is serviced by an internet multimedia data server | 2009-04-30 |
20090112972 | Managing Device Models in a Virtual Machine Cluster Environment - Machine-readable media, methods, apparatus and system are described. In some embodiments, a client platform may determine that an input/output operation related to a hardware device may happen in a virtual machine of the client platform and request a server platform via the network to handle the input/output operation related to the hardware. The server platform may receive the request from the client platform through the network; and identify a software device from a plurality of software devices in the server platform to handle the request, wherein the identified software device corresponds to the hardware device related to the input/output operation. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112973 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPOSITE PART DATA EXTRACTION - A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for providing ply lay-up data for a composite part. A designation of a location is received for the composite part in a three dimensional object from a requester. A three dimensional model is opened in which the composite part is located. The ply lay-up data is extracted for a section within the composite part within the three dimensional model to form extracted ply lay-up data for the section. An output file is created containing a two dimensional drawing for the section with the ply lay-up data identifying a ply stacking sequence, an orientation of each ply in the ply stacking sequence, and a material for the each ply in the ply stacking sequence. The output file is returned to the requester. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112974 | COMMUNITY-BASED WEB FILTERING - Community-based rating information is generated about a Web site, Web page or other network-accessible content for use in Web filtering operations. The rating information may relate to the appropriateness of the content for a particular audience or audiences, such as for children or for children of different age groups. The rating information is based on feedback provided by users who have accessed the content in question. Where the group of users providing feedback is sufficiently large, the rating assigned to the content will tend to accurately reflect community standards. Also, because the rating information is based on user feedback, the rating information can change over time to reflect changing community attitudes towards content. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112975 | PRE-FETCHING IN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS - Client-side performance is optimized through server-side pushing of content. Portions of content are requested and retrieved as required by a client-side application. Moreover, content likely to be needed in the near future is pre-fetched and pushed to the client. This is beneficial from an overhead standpoint since all content need not be provided to the client at once. Rather, content provisioning is throttled based on need, and wait time is mitigated by pre-fetching. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112976 | Method for measuring web traffic - A method is presented for measuring, analyzing and/or reporting web traffic, predetermined events, and/or user activity on one or more web pages utilizing a landing page having code embedded thereon, wherein the program code is structured to deploy at least one portal element onto the landing page. Further, the portal element is structured to display at least one web page therein, while remaining substantially imperceptible at a client interface. Additionally, the program code is structured to detect a source of the web visit, and other predetermined events, including mouse clicks and other navigation activity. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112977 | System for measuring web traffic - A system is presented for measuring, analyzing and/or reporting web traffic, predetermined events, and/or user activity on one or more web pages utilizing a landing page having code embedded thereon, wherein the program code is structured to deploy at least one portal element onto the landing page. Further, the portal element is structured to display at least one web page therein, while remaining substantially imperceptible at a client interface. Additionally, the program code is structured to detect a source of the web visit, and other predetermined events, including mouse clicks and other navigation activity. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112978 | CLICK DETECTION METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM - A click detection method, apparatus and system is provided. An embodiment includes a method that receives a request from a client destined for a server and a unique identifier for the client. The method of the method also includes generating a representation of the unique identifier, and forwarding the unique identifier and the request to the server. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112979 | EXTENSIBLE METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS ON KNOWN AND UNKNOWN TARGETS - This invention provides an extensible method for performing management operations on known and unknown targets. The extensible method is implemented on a fully extensible system where management software and triggers that cause these management operations to be run are easily extended in the field. The triggers may include information indicating a change in inventory, product state, or an event, and may originate directly from a product or from an information store containing information about installed products. The management software facilitates mining this information, parsing the information through a manifest of the triggers, and selecting functions to determine if a management operation should be executed, and if so, which management operation. Generally, the management software executes the selected management operation. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112980 | Image Data Server - Disclosed is an image data server which transmits image data through a communication network to a client apparatus for displaying an image on a display screen, the image data server including: an obtainment section to obtain aspect ratio information of the display screen from the client apparatus through the communication network; a specification section to specify a display screen area where the image based on the image data is not displayed in the display screen of the client apparatus when the image is output to the client apparatus according to the aspect ratio information obtained by the obtainment section; a creation section to create combined data by combining background image data corresponding to the display screen area specified by the specification section with the image data; and a transmission section to transmit the combined data created by the creation section through the communication network to the client apparatus. | 2009-04-30 |