24th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 64 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120150854 | Relevance Estimation using a Search Satisfaction Metric - The subject disclosure is directed towards using a satisfaction model's prediction as to whether a user was satisfied or dissatisfied in satisfying a search goal to help estimate the relevance of a URL/document that was returned and clicked by the user. The clickthrough data for a search goal session is processed by either a utility model or a despair model based on whether the satisfaction model indicated that the search goal session ended with the user satisfied or dissatisfied, respectively. The utility model distributes a utility value to each clicked URL, while the despair model distributes a despair value to each clicked URL. The utility value and despair value of each query-URL pair may be used as corresponding feature data for learning a search ranker. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150855 | CROSS-MARKET MODEL ADAPTATION WITH PAIRWISE PREFERENCE DATA - Embodiments are directed towards generating market-specific ranking models by leveraging target market specific pairwise preference data. The pairwise preference data includes market-specific training examples, while a ranking model from another market captures the common characteristics of the resulting ranking model. In one embodiment, the ranking model is trained by applying a Tree Based Ranking Function Adaptation (TRADA) algorithm to multi-grade labeled training data, such as editorially generated training data. Then, contradictions between the TRADA generated ranking model and target-market specific pairwise preference data are identified. For each identified contradiction, new training data is generated to correct the contradiction. Then, in one embodiment, an algorithm such as TRADA is applied to the existing ranking model and the new training data to generate a new ranking model. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150856 | System and method of ranking web sites or web pages or documents based on search words position coordinates - The described systems and methods are directed to ranking web sites or web pages or documents, on internet or intranet, when two or more search words are used to search for web sites or web pages or documents on internet or intranet. Rank of web sites or web pages or documents will be based on the positional correlation matrix created using paired positional correlation of the search words. In order to calculate paired positional correlation; search words will be indexed within a web site or web page or document based on the position of the sentences, in which they occur, and their position within the sentences. It is possible that contents of web sites or web pages or documents are in tabular form instead of textual/descriptive form, in that case, either columns or rows or any other order of table cells can be considered as equivalent to a sentence and can be used to index the search words. Positional correlation matrix can be a, but not limited to, two dimensional representation of the paired positional correlation of the search words. Rank of the web site or web page or document will be based on relevance score, which will, at least in part, be based on search words cumulative paired positional correlation taken from positional correlation matrix. Performance of the system can be improved by calculating positional correlation matrix for web sites or web pages or documents, in advance, based on the key words. Key words can be referred to as the words that web site or web page or document claims to be the best source of information. Relevance score, of the web site or web page or document, can then be readily calculated by picking the paired positional correlation of the search words from the positional correlation matrix of key words, calculated earlier. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150857 | BOOKMARK EXTRACTING APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Disclosed is a bookmark extracting apparatus which selects the most suitable bookmarks related to a website being browsed at present accurately from bookmarks registered in advance and provides them to a user is disclosed. This bookmark extracting apparatus includes a keyword extraction unit which extracts a keyword based on browsing history information of a website up to now, and a providing unit which provides a bookmark related to the keyword extracted by the extraction unit from a plurality of registered bookmarks based on the keyword. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150858 | PARTITIONING MANAGEMENT OF SYSTEM RESOURCES ACROSS MULTIPLE USERS - Exemplary method, system, and computer program embodiments for partitioning management of storage resources in a computing storage environment across multiple users are provided. In one embodiment, a resource group attribute is assigned to a storage resource object representing at least one of the plurality of storage resources in a system configuration of the computing storage environment. The resource group attribute includes a selectable value indicating a resource group object to which the storage resource object is associated. A resource group label is provided in the resource group object and is a string having no wildcards. A user resource scope is assigned to a user ID and a value of the user resource scope provides a mechanism to match to the resource group label. The user ID is authorized to perform one of creating, deleting, modifying, controlling, and managing storage resources with an association to a resource group. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150859 | Task-Based Tagging and Classification of Enterprise Resources - Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for task-based tagging and resource classification, which allow tags or metadata to emerge from execution of work-related tasks and activities. In certain embodiments, tags can be automatically extracted from activities performed, for example utilizing a textual description of tasks carried out by an employee. Accumulated tags can then be utilized to describe enterprise resources. Automatic tagging or metadata annotation can be integrated with everyday work utilizing one or more techniques. Candidate tags can be extracted from a task written description utilizing an algorithm that analyzes keywords. Candidate tags can be refined, for example by clustering utilizing a K-means approach. Candidate tags can be ranked based on an overall frequency adjusted against time, with the importance of a tag declining with time. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150860 | Clustering with Similarity-Adjusted Entropy - Data-mining software initializes a loop by (a) assigning the messages in an online discussion on a website to a single logical cluster that is one of a group of logical clusters and (b) determining a measure of similarity-adjusted entropy for the group of logical clusters. Then the data-mining software randomly reassigns one of the messages to another logical cluster that is randomly selected from the group of logical clusters and again determines a measure of the similarity-adjusted entropy for the group of logical clusters. If the subsequent measure of similarity-adjusted entropy is greater than or equal to the earlier measure of similarity-adjusted entropy, the data-mining software undoes the reassignment. If the subsequent measure of similarity-adjusted entropy is less than the earlier measure of similarity-adjusted entropy, the data-mining software replaces the earlier measure with the subsequent measure. The data-mining software repeats the operations of the loop until convergence is reached. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150861 | HIGHLIGHTING KNOWN ANSWERS IN SEARCH RESULTS - Answers to search queries are identified and highlighted in search result snippets for documents containing the answers. When a user submits a search query to a search engine, the search engine may query a search index to identify a set of documents as relevant search results for the search query. Additionally, an answer data store may be queried to determine if there is a short answer to the search query. If an answer is found, the answer may be used when generating search result snippets. As such, the search result snippets for documents containing the answer may include the answer. The answer may also be highlighted in the search result snippets. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150862 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUGMENTING AN INDEX ENTRY WITH RELATED WORDS IN A DOCUMENT AND SEARCHING AN INDEX FOR RELATED KEYWORDS - A method for enhancing a search of a set of documents is described. The method allows a user to present a word of interest. The word is then matched to related words in a larger corpus of words and the related words are matched against an index of the document to identify words that appear in both the matched words and the document index. The word selected by the user may be taken from a previously generated index of the document or the word may be presented by the user based on a topic of interest. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150863 | BOOKMARKING OF MEETING CONTEXT - Architecture that facilitates the ability to trigger the capture and storing of meeting state (or context) by way of a single user interaction (a “one-click” operation), referred to herein as a bookmark operation, and then to store and access the state for subsequent use. The state is captured relative to a point of reference, such as time, user, keywords, and reference to a document, for example. Thus, all state elements such as meeting activities, participants, and content (e.g., audio, video, images, text, documents, etc.). The bookmark assigned to the state at a particular reference can be selected to rehydrate all the state elements captured and associated with that bookmark (e.g., getting back to the point in the meeting to perceive a relevant portion of a document, part of the meeting video, or other recorded feed), as well as all other allowed state elements. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150864 | TEXT INDEXING FOR UPDATEABLE TOKENIZED TEXT - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with text indexing for updateable tokenized text are described. One example method includes receiving revised tokenized text intended to replace existing tokenized text in an indexed document. Token location information corresponding to the revised tokenized text is stored in an allocated free space portion of a text index posting. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150865 | Techniques For Efficient Queries On A File System-Like Repository - Techniques are provided to achieve performance improvements for path-based access to hierarchical data and for utilizing an extensible indexing framework. Extensible operators may be optimized by evaluating the operators using functions native to the database system instead of using functions defined through an extensible indexing mechanism. Furthermore, the database system may resolve a resource path of a query when the query is compiled, and may store the mapping of the resource path to one or more resources in a cursor for the query execution plan to avoid resolving the resource path each time the cursor is used to run the query. The cursor may be made dependent on the one or more resources to which the resource path refers at compile time. This takes advantage of the observation that the mapping of the resource path to particular resources rarely changes between evaluations of a particular query. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150866 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DOCUMENT SEARCHING - Systems and methods are provided for document searching. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method provides keyword searching. The method may receive a plurality of noisy keywords for a document collection. A server may generate tokens for a plurality of keywords in the document collection and merge the tokens to create an index. A search query may be received. The search query may include at least one search phrase. For the at least one search phrase, an indication may be received from a user specifying to perform one of a noisy phrase search or a noiseless phrase search. The method may search the index for the at least one search phrase based on the indication received from the user. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150867 | CLUSTERING A COLLECTION USING AN INVERTED INDEX OF FEATURES - Provided are techniques for creating an inverted index for features of a set of data elements, wherein each of the data elements is represented by a vector of features, wherein the inverted index, when queried with a feature, outputs one or more data elements containing the feature. The features of the set of data elements are ranked. For each feature in the ranked list, the inverted index is queried for data elements having the feature and not having any previously selected feature and a cluster of the data elements is created based on results returned in response to the query. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150868 | TIME BASED ORDERING OF PROVIDED MOBILE CONTENT - A method, system, and apparatus are directed to providing information over a network. A search query may be received. If the search query includes at least one keyword matching a pattern associated with a specific search engine, a plurality of search results is retrieved from the specific search engine based on the keyword, and the plurality of search results is provided. A plurality of potential search or source engines may be determined based on a current time information. At least one of the potential search or source engines may be a personalized source engine. At least one plurality of results may be retrieved from at least one of the potential search or source engines. The result may be based on the search query. An aggregated result may be determined based on a time rule and/or the current time information. The aggregated result may comprise the plurality of results. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150869 | METHOD FOR CREATING A INDEX OF THE DATA BLOCKS - An method for creating a index of the data blocks is applicable in data de-duplication procedure, includes loading an index file, the index file includes a plurality of location blocks, each location block includes a plurality of storage fields, and each storage field records a primary Hash value corresponding to the data block; performing a first Hash procedure on a primary Hash value of the data block and calculating a block number; performing a second Hash procedure on the primary Hash value in the same data block and calculating a field number; loading a location conflict list; comparing the field number with the field number in the location conflict list to search whether the same field number is stored in the location conflict list; writing the primary Hash value into the corresponding block number and the field number if the field number does not exist in the location conflict list. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150870 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE CONTROLLED RESPONSIVE TO SHARING BREADTH - A digital image display device for displaying a collection of digital media assets, comprising: a display screen; a processor; a network connection for communicating with a network; an image memory; and a processor-accessible program memory. The processor-accessible memory stores executable instructions for causing the processor to execute the steps of: receiving a plurality of digital media assets using one or more different origins; determining an importance value for each of the received digital media assets responsive to an associated sharing breadth; and performing an operation using at least one of the received digital media assets responsive to the determined importance value. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150871 | Autonomous Mobile Blogging - An autonomous blog engine is implemented to enable the autonomous generation of a blog. The autonomous blog engine receives media objects that are captured by an electronic device during a trip session. The autonomous blog engine determines a place of interest based on photographs selected from the media objects. The autonomous blog engine then generates textual content using one or more pre-stored knowledge items that include information on the place of interest. The autonomous blog engine further autonomously publishes a blog entry on the place of interest that includes one or more photographs from the photograph cluster and the textual content. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150872 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO CLASSIFY AND APPLY BEHAVIORAL STIMULI POTENTIALS TO DATA IN REAL TIME - A system and method for digitally classifying and analyzing exposure to behavioral influencers to probabilistically determine behaviors likely to be demonstrated by an individual or cohorts of individuals based on a combination of demographic and psychographic attributes. The system and method transforms raw data into useful data elements having associated exteroceptive values and other metadata that is useful for further evaluation, analysis, integration into a model, or other behavioral data utilization. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150873 | SEARCH APPARATUS, SEARCH METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A search apparatus searches graph data representing a graph including nodes and links. The search apparatus includes the following elements. An input receiving unit receives an input of a reference node indicating a search reference position on the graph and an input of a search condition indicating a condition satisfied by a node, a link, or a combination of a node and a link. A searching unit searches the graph data for a node, a link, or a combination of a node and a link that satisfies the search condition. A search result data generating unit generates search result data indicating at least one search result obtained by the searching unit, together with path data showing a path on the graph from the reference node to each of the at least one search result. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150874 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION OF INTEREST TO ONE OR MORE USERS - Methods and system for providing information selected from a large set of digital content to at least one user. One such method comprises receiving user context information associated with the at least one user and identifying or generating, using at least one processor executing stored program instructions, a first concept in a semantic network, the first concept representing at least a portion of the user context information. The method further comprises obtaining at least one concept, including a second concept, semantically relevant to the first concept at least in part, by synthesizing the second concept based on the first concept and at least one other concept in the semantic network; and providing information to the at least one user, wherein the information is selected by using the first concept and the at least one obtained concept semantically relevant to the first concept, wherein the first concept in a semantic network is represented by a data structure storing any data associated with a node in the semantic network. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150875 | RELEVANCY SORTING OF USER'S BROWSER HISTORY - Various embodiments provide a Web browser that employs a relevancy algorithm to make an educated guess as to the likelihood of a user's intended destination when the user begins to enter text into a browser's address bar. In one or more embodiments, the relevancy algorithm employs various parameters and assigns weights to the parameters to arrive at a collection of suggestions to provide to the user. By using various rules, associated weightings, and the relevancy algorithm, relevant suggestions can be provided to a user to facilitate their navigation activities. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150876 | IMAGE SEARCH APPARATUS AND IMAGE SEARCH METHOD - An image search apparatus has: a dimension reducing unit for reducing dimensions of multidimensional feature data to be produced as approximate data; an approximate-data storing unit for storing the produced approximate data with corresponding to the multidimensional feature data before the dimension reduction; a search request receiving unit for receiving an identifier which identifies multidimensional feature data of a person to be searched, at least as a search key; an approximate-space searching unit for calculating distances between approximate data corresponding to the received search key, and plural approximate data stored in the approximate-data storing unit, and for arranging the distances in order of similarity; and a real-space final ranking unit for again performing a distance calculation with using the multidimensional feature data before the dimension reduction, on a group of results in which the similarity is high, and for determining final rankings. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150877 | EFFICIENT DATABASE COMPRESSION - A method for compressing data. The method includes accessing, within an electronic system, a database relation comprising a plurality of attributes and determining a sort order of the plurality of attributes of the database relation. The method further includes determining an order of a plurality of compression operators operable to compress the database relation and compressing the database relation to produce a compressed database based on the sort order and the order of the plurality compression operators. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150878 | Longitudinal Electronic Record System and Method With Task-Based Workflow - A system and method for keeping, organizing and managing electronic records, comprising generating a first instance of data objects comprising data elements during a first encounter, the elements comprising a first instance identifier and temporal identifiers; linking a data object to a summarization reference with a pointer; creating an additional instance of data objects also comprising data elements comprising an additional instance identifier and temporal identifiers during a later encounter; and providing continuity for the first instance data objects over time. Continuity may be provided by tracking a relationship between the first instance data object and an additional instance data object and repointing the pointer to point between the summarization reference and the additional instance data object. The additional instance data object may be a revision of the first instance data object, and tracking may occur by back-linking the revision to the first instance data object. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150879 | LUBRICATION PROGRAM MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHODS - System for scheduling plurality of selected maintenance tasks, having storage media and a processor. The storage media store data indicative of a plurality of maintenance points, task templates, and maintenance task definitions associated between maintenance points and task templates. At least one maintenance point(s) has a plurality of maintenance point parameters associated with task template(s) having a plurality of task parameters. Upon accessing at least one maintenance task definition, the maintenance task definition is dynamically generated from the plurality of maintenance point parameters of maintenance point(s) and from task parameters of task template(s). The processor selectively applies queries to stored data to generate assignments including selected maintenance tasks. The queries have a plurality of filter criteria and logical relationships defined between the filter criteria to selectively include maintenance task definitions matching queries and exclude definitions not matching queries. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150880 | Identity Propagation through Application Layers Using Contextual Mapping and Planted Values - Mechanisms are provided for propagating source identification information from an application front-end system in an application layer to a data layer inspection system associated with a back-end system. An incoming user request is received, at the data layer inspection system, from a gateway system associated with the application front-end system. One or more outgoing statements targeting a back-end system are received at the data layer inspection system. The data layer inspection system accesses a mapping data structure based on the one or more outgoing statements to thereby correlate the one or more outgoing statements with the incoming user request. The data layer inspection system retrieves source identification information associated with the incoming user request based on the correlation of the one or more outgoing statements with the incoming user request. The data layer inspection system performs a data layer inspection operation based on the source identification information. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150881 | CLOUD-HOSTED MULTI-MEDIA APPLICATION SERVER - The invention is directed to a method and system for automatically processing multimedia files in a cloud-based multi-media application server. The processing comprises parsing metadata from the multimedia files and automatically generating a description. The system comprises a file system, a content detector; and a content processor. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150882 | Method and apparatus to search data and notify and update a user - The present invention allows a user to subscribe to multiple concurrent channels of syndicated content published over the internet. The user receives notification of the content which is new since the previous time that the user accessed a channel. The user can select the frequency of checking for new content and the user can specify how far back in time to check. In addition, the user can specify a maximum number of changes to be presented. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150883 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ORGANIZING DATA BY OVERLAYING A SEARCHABLE DATABASE WITH A DIRECTORY TREE STRUCTURE - Method and apparatus for organizing data by overlaying a searchable database with a directory tree structure. The method includes generating the directory tree structure that includes nodes comprising a designated category for each node and branches comprising links between the nodes, and generating one or more pointers. Each pointer corresponds to a specific node and the pointer links the specific node to an item of data within the searchable database. All pointers associated with the specific node link related items of data corresponding to the designated category. Each node within the directory tree structure can include a corresponding html address. Items of data can be web-based multimedia including audio, video, images, and appropriately formatted text, displayed in an encyclopedia-like format. Nodes, branches, and pointers within the directory tree structure can continually be added, edited, or deleted. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150884 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR UNIVERSAL DATA ACCESS BY LOCATION BASED SYSTEMS - A method of operating a location based system includes storing first web service definitions for first location data sources in the location based system, and storing second web service definitions for second location data sources in a server communicatively coupled to the location based system via the internet. A user is prompted to select one of the location data sources. One of the web service definitions is used to access the selected location data source via the internet. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150885 | CHANGE NOTIFICATIONS FROM AN UPDATED DATA REPRESENTATION - An original representation of an original set of data in a data source can be provided, and an updated representation of an updated set of data in the data source can be received. A change notification set that includes change notifications can be generated by comparing the updated representation with the original representation. The change notification set can represent a possible set of changes that yield the updated representation when starting with the original representation. The change notification set can be sent to a client of the data source. One or more requests from the client for data from the data source may be processed while obtaining the updated representation of the updated set of data. This processing can include adding one or more placeholders and matching the placeholder(s) with one or more items in the updated set of data. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150886 | PLACEHOLDERS RETURNED FOR DATA REPRESENTATION ITEMS - One or more requests from a client for data representation items can be received by an items manager. The data representation items can represent data items in a data source. In response, the items manager can perform the following: generating placeholders corresponding to the data representation items; returning the placeholders to the client; fetching the data items from the data source; providing the data representation items to the client; and informing the client that the placeholders are to be replaced with the data representation items. The items manager may determine whether each data representation item can be synchronously returned to the client. If so, the items manager may return that data representation item synchronously, and may forego providing the client with a placeholder for that data representation item. This may allow a client to interact with a single interface for both synchronous and asynchronous data sources. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150887 | PATTERN MATCHING - An embodiment may include circuitry to determine, at least in part, whether one or more reference patterns are present in a data stream in a packet flow. The circuitry may include first pattern matching circuitry communicatively coupled to second pattern matching circuitry. The first pattern matching circuitry may determine, based at least in part upon one or more deterministic pattern matching operations, whether at least one portion of the one or more reference patterns is present in the stream. If the first pattern matching circuitry determines that the at least one portion of the one or more reference patterns is present in the stream, the second pattern matching circuitry may determine, based at least in part upon one or more pattern matching threads, whether at least one other portion of the one or more reference patterns is present in the stream. Many modifications are possible without departing from this embodiment. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150888 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT AND INTELLIGENT AGENT - The present invention provides computer-based systems and methods directed to maintaining a database of user profiles based, respectively, on user interaction with third-party systems. The invention includes the processes of: accessing a unique user profile associated with a unique user; automatically collecting, by an agent module executing on a processor associated with a first system, data associated with the unique user based at least in part on the unique user's interaction with a system unassociated with the first system; evaluating by the processor the collected data and searching available databases to identify potential items of interest to the unique user based at least in part on the unique user profile and the collected data; determining a set of predicted items of interest to the unique user from the identified potential items of interest; and presenting at a display associated with the unique user data representing the set of predicted items of interest. In one implementation, the invention provides an intelligent agent possessing a level of “awareness” concerning individual users associated with user profiles or accounts and is adapted to access private and public databases, websites, resources, and other systems to efficiently collect, filter and deliver/present content and resources of interest to the individual user in a predictive fashion. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150889 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO DISPLAY DLNA DEVICES - A method and apparatus to display at least one device connected through a DLNA way in a DLNA device including searching device information of one or more peripheral apparatuses, extracting URLs of media files corresponding to the one or more peripheral apparatuses respectively from the searched device information, and if there is a URL of a media file corresponding to a respective peripheral apparatus, receiving the media file corresponding to the respective peripheral apparatus from the URL, and displaying a UI to access the media files corresponding to the one or more peripheral apparatuses along with model names of the one or more peripheral apparatuses. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150890 | METHOD OF SEARCHING FOR MULTIMEDIA CONTENTS AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - Provided are a method of searching for multimedia contents and an apparatus therefor. The method includes separating an audio signal from indexing target multimedia contents and performing pre-processing on the audio signal, extracting a silence period of the audio signal, extracting an audio feature in at least one predetermined length period after an end point of the silence period, storing at least two of information for the multimedia contents, the audio feature and the end point of the silence period, to be associated with each other, in a database, and receiving the audio feature of the multimedia contents and searching the database for multimedia contents having the same or a similar audio feature as the search target multimedia contents. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150891 | SERVER SYSTEM, PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION METHOD, PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING COMPUTER PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON - A search is performed for information of other products associated with a question about a specific product. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150892 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - In general information processing apparatuses, determination on what sort of operational interface is appropriate to be provided for which application (AP, hereinafter) is left up to the user. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150893 | CONTENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, CONTENT MANAGEMENT METHOD, CONTENT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - When registering content in a data storage unit ( | 2012-06-14 |
20120150894 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUBTEXT SEARCHING DATA USING SYNONYM-ENRICHED PREDICATIVE PHRASES AND SUBSTITUTED PRONOUNS - A method and system for automatically, without the necessity of user intervention, creating subtext from textual information regarding text and/or images and/or symbols, etc. and using the subtext to associate by sense passages of the textual information with each other and/or with passages related to search queries. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150895 | MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE RUNTIME QUERY GOVERNOR - Techniques for managing query execution using memory compression based on maximum allowable runtimes. Embodiments may receive a query from a requesting entity and calculate an estimated execution time for executing the query. Embodiments may further determine a maximum allowable runtime for the query. An amount of memory compression for use in processing the query may then be adjusted, based on the estimated execution time and the maximum allowable runtime. The query may then be executed using the adjusted memory compression rate to produce a set of query results, which may then be returned to the requesting entity. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150896 | ADDRESS REQUEST AND CORRECTION SYSTEM - A system may receive a request to process an address. The system may insert, in a job queue, a first description of a first job for creating a first address when the request is to create a new address. The system may perform subtasks of the first job for creating the first address in a database in accordance with the first description and remove the first job description from the job queue. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150897 | Calculating State of Cryptographic Objects and Generating Search Filter for Querying Cryptographic Objects - Mechanisms are provided for calculating state of cryptographic objects and generating search filters for querying cryptographic objects based on the given state or on the given combination of unique states. The mechanism to calculate a state of a cryptographic object allows an application or system to resolve the current state of any cryptographic object with the following set of state altering date values: initial date, activation date, deactivation date, compromise date, and destroy date. A processing module may retrieve the state meta-data and calculate the current state of a given cryptographic object. The current state may be, for example, one of the following: unknown, pre-active, active, deactivated, compromised, destroyed, and destroyed-compromised. The mechanism to generate a search filter may generate a search query language (SQL) search filter to query for cryptographic objects using the state altering date values stored for each object. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150898 | Dynamic Collection Of System Support Files In A Data Processing Environment - Dynamic collection of system support files in a data processing environment, the data processing environment comprising a plurality of computing systems having different characteristics, including: querying, by a support manager plugin of a management module, a registry of extensions for a support file type provider extension; presenting, by the support manager plugin to a user, a list of types of system support files available from the particular computing system; receiving, by the support manager plugin, a user selection of a type of system support file to retrieve from the particular computing system; querying, by the support manager plugin, the registry of extensions for a data collector extension; and retrieving, by the support manager plugin, the system support file from the particular computing system, including executing the data collection operation specified in the identified data collector extension. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150899 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY GENERATING TABULAR DATA FROM SEMI-STRUCTURED CONTENT - Disclosed is a computer implemented method for acquiring specified web-based data in a tabular format, the method comprising the steps of: performing a web searching operation to acquire web pages containing predefined data; and placing the predefined data into columns of a structural table to form a modifiable table, the characteristics and positions of the modifiable table columns being subsequently determined by a user. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150900 | FILE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM - The invention provides a file management method and system for managing file retrieval and access. The method operates at the operating system level within a file system of a computer device and allows creating file move links upon detection of a file move request. The file move link associates the file source location with the file target location and is stored within a file move link table of the file system for subsequent file access request. File path to target location is automatically retrieved and file reached transparently for the user. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150901 | Computerized System and Method for Tracking the Geographic Relevance of Website Listings and Providing Graphics and Data Regarding the Same - A computer-implemented method and system acceses data from user computers related to corresponding users who have referenced one or more websites. Geographic areas corresponding to locations of the users are determined. One or more signals indicating a request to provide at least a portion of data to be provided on a webpage are received from a requestor computer, where the at least a portion of data relates to the one or more websites. A request geographic area from where the request originates is determined. A subset of the data that pertains to the requested data based on relevancy of the requested data to the request geographic area and relevancy of the requested data to the user geographic areas located inside and outside the request geographic area is generated. The subset of the data is provided. Data is provided to the requestor's computer that indicates whether or not the users found each item in the subset to be relevant to the user geographic areas located inside and outside the request geographic area. An interface is provided to the requestor's computer for reorganizing the subset according to each of the one or more user geographic areas located inside and outside the request geographic area. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150902 | SEARCHING IN A COMPUTER NETWORK - The invention allows a user to enter a search criteria in a search form once and search multiple web services, search engines and web pages without the need for repeatedly re-creating the search criteria for each web service or search engine because of different and varying supported formats. Once the user has defined their search query, the search query is passed to a query manager in the browser application for formatting the search criteria into a generic query format. The generic query format provides a unified and generic interface to all other query mechanisms supported by different web services, search engines and web pages. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150903 | Content Interaction Methods and Systems Employing Portable Devices - A portable device, such as a cell phone, is used to “forage” media content from a user's environment. For example, it may listen to a television viewed by a traveler in an airport lounge. By reference to digital watermark or fingerprint data extracted from the content, the device can identify the television program, and enable a variety of actions. For example, the device may instruct a DVR to record the remainder of the television program—or add the program to the traveler's viewing queue (e.g., at Netflix). The device may also identify content that preceded (or follows) the foraged content. Thus, a user who tunes-in just at the end of an exciting sporting event can capture one of the following commercials, identify the preceding program, and download same for later viewing. A great variety of other functions and arrangements are also detailed. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150904 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SPECIFYING AND PROCESSING DESCRIPTIVE QUERIES FOR DATA SOURCES - Improved descriptive query techniques are provided. More particularly, techniques are provided for specifying and processing descriptive queries for data providers grouped into provider kinds with hierarchical containment relationships. The query may include arbitrary boolean combinations of arbitrary tests on the values of attributes of the data providers. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150905 | Concerted Coordination of Multidimensional Scorecards - Data retrieval from data sources associated with elements of a scorecard is optimized by combining the queries for the same data sources into a single query. The querying process is further optimized based on an attribute and/or condition of a data source. Query parameters and execution schedule may be adjusted based on the elements, data sources, or subscriber identity. Retrieved data is cached at element, combination of elements, data source, or scorecard level for rapid and efficient building and maintenance of scorecards. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150906 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A MAP OF AN ENTERPRISE SYSTEM - An exemplary system and method for providing a map of an enterprise system is provided. The method comprises accessing data describing an element from one or more sources. One or more objects are associated with the element. At least one relationship is identified between the one or more objects. A map is then generated of an enterprise system comprised of the one or more objects based on the at least one identified relationship. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150907 | AUDIO AND/OR VIDEO SCENE DETECTION AND RETRIEVAL - Movie video trailers for a particular movie quote may be created and provided to a user. The Internet may be searched to identify documents that likely include references to a movie. A reference to the movie within an identified document may be detected and determined to be a movie quote. The movie quote and related information may be extracted from the identified document. A location of the movie quote within the movie may be determined. A movie video trailer that includes the movie quote may be created based on the location of the movie quote. A request for a movie video trailer that includes a movie quote or a partial movie quote, specified by the user, may be received from the user. A movie video trailer that includes the movie quote or the partial movie quote may be identified and provided to the user. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150908 | MICROBLOG-BASED CUSTOMER SUPPORT - Embodiments are disclosed that relate to microblog-based customer support. One embodiment provides a method comprising receiving a stream of microblog messages including two or more microblog messages received at a designated microblog address associated with customer support, and sorting the stream of microblog messages into two or more different pools based on preselected criteria. The method further comprises receiving an input of a first microblog reply to a first microblog message of a first pool, and sending the first microblog reply via the designated microblog address associated with customer support. The method further comprises receiving an input of a second microblog reply to a second microblog message of a second pool different than the first pool, and sending the second microblog reply via the designated microblog address associated with customer support. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150909 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING MOBILE TELEPHONE NUMBERS AND MOBILE TELEPHONE SUBSCRIBERS' DATA WITHOUT GEOGRAPHY-BASED RESTRICTION - A system manages subscribers' data of mobile telephones in a wireless network. Data servers are located according to geographic service areas, and each of the data servers may store subscribers' data of mobile telephones based on the respective geographic area. Location of subscribers' data is determined depending upon subscribers' ID, to which two or more Mobile telephone Numbers (MTNs) are assigned. Two or more MTNs may have different area codes for which subscribers' data are stored in at least two or more of the data servers. A terminal, for example, receives a user request calling for subscriber's data of a first MTN, retrieves a subscriber's ID corresponding to the first MTN from an Electronic Telephone Number Inventory (eTNI) database and sends a request containing the subscriber's ID. A router determines a first data server corresponding to the retrieved subscriber's ID and routes the request to the first data server. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150910 | MANAGING DATABASE INQUIRIES - A rules engine assigns a set of appropriateness rules to a particular data collection. The set of appropriateness rules describes an optimum usage for the particular data collection based on a source of the particular data collection and a type of activity that is deemed best suited to utilize the particular data collection. The set of appropriateness rules also requires that a data collection requester's role matches a data collection provider's role. In response to determining that a requesting computer is implementing an activity that matches the set of appropriateness rules, a rules engine directs a database controller to transmit the particular data collection to the requesting computer. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150911 | TECHNIQUES FOR CONSTRUCTING AND EDITING A SEARCH QUERY USING AN OVERLOAD CELL - A technique utilizes a search query having a set of clauses. The technique involves displaying, by a processor, the set of clauses of the search query onto an electronic display. Each clause includes a selection cell describing a selectable operation. The technique further involves receiving, by the processor, a mouse click input from a mouse apparatus. The mouse click input includes coordinates identifying a location that resides within the selection cell of a particular clause. The technique further involves change, by the processor, the selectable operation described by the selection cell of the particular clause between an editing operation and a Boolean operation in response to the mouse click input. Such a technique minimizes user typing and navigation demands, and offers a compact format and considerable power and flexibility when constructing and/or editing a search query. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150912 | HIERARCHICAL MULTI-TENANCY MANAGEMENT OF SYSTEM RESOURCES IN RESOURCE GROUPS - Exemplary method, system, and computer program embodiments for establishing hierarchical user management authority for storage resources organized into a plurality of resource groups in a computing storage environment are provided. In one embodiment, each of the plurality of storage resources is associated with a resource group object having a resource group attribute associating the resource group object with one of the plurality of resource groups. The resource group label attribute is assigned to the resource group object. An additional attribute of the resource group object, that specifies a plurality of management policies for the resource group object and the plurality of storage resources associated with the resource group object, is defined. One of plurality of available users of the plurality of storage resources is associated with a user resource scope attribute. A schema is defined for comparing of a plurality of values of the user resource scope attribute with the resource group label attribute. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150913 | MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA-CENTRIC SERVICE PROTOCOL - Data acquisition is facilitated by way of an intermediate representation of a query expression. The intermediate representation can be generated and subsequently transmitted to, and employed by, a plurality of execution environments with respect to query execution. More particularly, the intermediate representation can be transformed into a locally executable query expression. Furthermore, numerous factors can shape the created and transmitted intermediate representation. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150914 | AUTOMATIC ENFORCEMENT OF RELATIONSHIPS IN A DATABASE SCHEMA - A technique for enforcing a database relationship is disclosed. The technique includes specifying within a database schema a reference type that associates two structures and specifies the relationship between the two structures, and automatically generating code that checks the relationship between the two structures based on the specified reference in the database schema. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150915 | DIGITAL FORENSIC APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING USER ACTIVITIES AND METHOD THEREOF - A digital forensic apparatus for analyzing user activities includes: a collection unit for collecting analysis information related to user activities from a device as an investigation target for analyzing the user activities; and an analysis unit for analyzing the analysis information collected by the collection unit to determine activity information of a user from each type of the analysis information, and for causing the activity information to be arranged and displayed in temporal order. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150916 | Circumventing Queue Downtime In A Queue Damage Scenario - An approach is provided where a put request is received to put a data entry into a queue. A detection is made that a primary queue data structure corresponding to the queue is damaged. If an alternate queue data structure corresponding to the queue has not yet been created, then the alternate queue data structure is dynamically created. The data entry is then stored in the alternate queue data structure. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150917 | USAGE-OPTIMIZED TABLES - Systems and methods are disclosed for employing usage-optimized tables with a computer database system. In one embodiment, the database system stores create, update, and delete database operations in the usage-optimized table. The create, update, and delete database operations remain in the usage-optimized table until a flush condition is reached. When the flush condition is reached, the create, update, and delete operations are transferred to their corresponding real tables. In embodiments, the read operation does not flush the contents of the usage-optimized table to the real table. In such embodiments, the database system modifies read operations to account for data resident on the usage-optimized tables. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150918 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING STRUCTURED DATA TO A STRUCTURED OR UNSTRUCTURED GRID - A system and method for converting structured data to unstructured or structured data, the system and method receiving processing options in a flexible format and a reader selection, executing the reader selection to read data, computing a date time group to iterate through observed and/or modeled data, bilinearly interpolating the structured data to create an unstructured or structured finite element mesh, linearly interpolating data in time if necessary, and storing the populated grid on a computer-readable medium in a format compatible with a target numerical model. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150919 | AGENCY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM INTEGRATION - An agency management and content management integration system links agency management system domain entities (such as clients, policies, claims, vendors) to content management system content hierarchical structures (such as client files, policy folders, claims folders, vendor files). End users can quickly navigate to the appropriate content management system structure or structures when working with an entity in the agency management system via button integration. The agency management and content management integration system automatically creates and updates the content management system when changes are made to the agency management system. This may include providing multiple mappings between the entities of the insurance agency management system and content hierarchical structures, a preview of changes to the content hierarchical structures, a testing environment to test the content hierarchical structure changes, and troubleshooting logs resulting from testing of the content hierarchical structure. Also provided are systems to create appropriate initial content management system hierarchical structures when the agency management system already exists, and to update existing structures en masse if desired. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150920 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LINKING TEXTUAL CONCEPTS AND PHYSICAL CONCEPTS - A system and a method for linking textual and physical concepts are disclosed. The method includes extracting candidate phrases from a knowledge base for a device, the candidate phrases including noun phrases. A set of candidate concepts is generated, based on the extracted noun phrases. Provision is made, e.g., on a graphical user interface, for a user to generate mapped concepts for physical components of the device by selecting, for each concept to be mapped, a physical component shown in a graphical representation of the device and at least one of the candidate concepts which is to be linked to that physical component. The knowledge base is indexed, based on the mapped concepts. In this way, textual expressions in the knowledge base are linked to a respective physical component through one of the mapped concepts. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150921 | Information Update System - An object of the present invention is to provide a novel information management program or system for mutually distributing and managing information limited by an information provider in terms of target for disclosure, for example, personal contact information such as contact information and private messages. A storage medium of a center system stores therein personal self-information, a receivers list, and a senders list as user information and personal contact information on other person as a sender's personal contact information database for each user, and the information processing device, when personal self-information stored in the storage medium is input or changed by a user, checks whether or not the user is registered for a sender on a senders list on each receiver, for each receiver registered in a receivers list on the user, and only for the registered receiver, writes at least some of the input or changed personal self-information in a sender's personal contact information database on the receiver stored in the storage medium, thereby automatically updating the content of the senders' personal contact information database on the receiver. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150922 | EXTENSIBLE RDF DATABASES - A method and apparatus for introducing domain-specific data types with associated semantics in an RDF database system using an extensibility framework mechanism. The extensibility framework mechanism allows users to map serialized instance data for a particular user-defined data type to properties of a base data structure associated with the domain-specific data and to map instance data in base data structures to the data's serialized form. The RDF database system may return inferred properties of RDF data stored in domain-specific data types in response to a query on the data. Further, the RDF database system may infer relationships between resources in stored data. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150923 | Processes and Systems for Monitoring Environments of Projectile Weapons - Processes and systems are disclosed for recording data relating to a shot by a projectile weapon. Environment data occurring prior to data indicating the occurrence of a shot by the projectile weapon is retained for subsequent evaluation. Such environment data includes, but is not limited to, ambient audio data, video data produced by a video camera associated with the projectile weapon, GPS data representing locations of the projectile weapon, electronic compass data representing orientations of the projectile weapon and acceleration data representing accelerations of the projectile weapon. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150924 | APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING CONTINUOUS READ/WRITE IN ASYMMETRIC STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are an apparatus for supporting continuous read/write in an asymmetric storage system, and a method thereof are provided. The apparatus for supporting continuous read/write in an asymmetric storage system that permits continuous reading/writing by providing context identifiers for reading or writing files and requesting reading or writing the files, using the context identifiers. Therefore, it is possible to efficiently process continuous reading or writing, improve performance of data service, and reduce waster of a memory by removing context identifies for reading or writing files when the files are not used any more or not frequently used. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150925 | Proactive Method for Improved Reliability for Sustained Persistence of Immutable Files in Storage Clouds - Embodiments are disclosed for storing an immutable file in cloud disk space determined to be suitable for the length of time the file specified to be maintained. This is done by detecting the immutable status of a data file to be saved and determining an expiry date of said immutable file. The available cloud storage space is analyzed to determine suitable storage locations, and the immutable data file is stored in the location determined to be optimal that accommodates the expiry date of the immutable file. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150926 | DISTRIBUTED FREE BLOCK MAP FOR A CLUSTERED REDIRECT-ON-WRITE FILE SYSTEM - In a cluster that distributes fileset management, fileset managers will maintain a free block map and an in-flight block map to allocate blocks to clients writing to a relevant fileset. A fileset manager managing free block allocation for cluster clients that write to a fileset managed by the fileset manager. Since a clustered file system manager manages an initial free block map for the cluster (“cluster free block map”), the clustered file system manager provisions free blocks to fileset managers from the cluster free block map. The fileset manager then allocates free blocks from the provisioned free blocks to cluster clients that write to the fileset managed by the fileset manager. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150927 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING MEDIA ASSETS - A system and method for organizing media assets of a media project. The method includes storing a plurality of versions of media assets of the media project, including an original version of the media asset and at least one modified version of the media asset. Each of the plurality of versions of the media assets include a plurality of components, and the modified versions of the media assets include at least one modified component. Metadata for each of the plurality of components is generated. The metadata indicates whether each of the plurality of component is a modified component, and the metadata of the modified component indicates a type of modification made to the modified component. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150928 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING MEDIA ASSETS - A system and method for media asset management. An original media asset for a media project is identified and a plurality of versions of the original media asset is also identified. The plurality of versions of the media asset include at least one modified version of the original media asset. Typically each of the plurality of versions of the original media asset includes a plurality of components, and the modified versions of the original media asset include at least one modified component. The component being modified is based on a corresponding component of the original media asset. Metadata for each of the plurality of components is generated that indicates whether each component is a modified component, and the metadata of the modified component indicates a type of modification made to the modified component. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150929 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A PLURALITY OF ALBUMS - A management apparatus and a management method manage a plurality of albums. The management apparatus may include: a storing module which stores related information of photographs included in the plurality of albums; and an updating module which update the related information of photographs stored in the storing module according to copy, move or deletion of a photograph. The management apparatus may further include: an extracting module which in response to the user's request for displaying, copying, moving or sharing a photograph or an album, accesses an album which stores the photograph or the album requested by the user, so as to extract the photograph or album requested by the user. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150930 | CLOUD STORAGE AND METHOD FOR MANAGING THE SAME - Disclosed is a cloud storage managing a plurality of files, including: a plurality of metadata servers managing a plurality of metadata associated with the plurality of files; a plurality of data servers managing the data of the plurality of files; and a cluster management server managing the plurality of metadata servers and the plurality of data servers. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150931 | DECOMPRESSING APPARATUS AND COMPRESSING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a decompressing apparatus includes an input unit, a calculating unit, a first selecting unit, and a decompressing unit. The input unit inputs additional data, which is obtained based on trace expression data in which an element in a subgroup of a multiplicative group of a finite field is trace-expressed and affine expression data in which the trace expression data is affine-expressed, and the trace expression data. The calculating unit calculates a plurality of solutions of simultaneous equations derived by the trace expression data. The first selecting unit selects any of a plurality of items of affine expression data in which the element is affine-expressed based on the additional data, the affine expression data being found from the solutions. The decompressing unit decompresses the selected affine expression data to the element. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150932 | DIVIDER CIRCUIT AND DIVISION METHOD - A divider circuit includes: a register which is configured of an even number of bits and in which a dividend data is stored. A shift operation section is configured to acquire a data stored in an upper bit portion of the register when the even number of bits of the register is equally divided to the upper bit portion and a lower bit portion, as a quotient data when the dividend data is divided by a maximum of a divisor data which can be expressed by a half of the even number of bits of the register. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150933 | METHOD AND DATA PROCESSING UNIT FOR CALCULATING AT LEAST ONE MULTIPLY-SUM OF TWO CARRY-LESS MULTIPLICATIONS OF TWO INPUT OPERANDS, DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - Various systems, apparatuses, processes, and programs may be used to calculate a multiply-sum of two carry-less multiplications of two input operands. In particular implementations, a system, apparatus, process, and program may include the ability to use input data busses for the input operands and an output data bus for an overall calculation result, each bus including a width of 2n bits, where n is an integer greater than one. The system, apparatus, process, and program may also calculate the carry-less multiplications of the two input operands for a lower level of a hierarchical structure and calculating the at least one multiply-sum and at least one intermediate multiply-sum for a higher level of the structure based on the carry-less multiplications of the lower level. A certain number of multiply-sums may be output as an overall calculation result dependent on mode of operation using the full width of said output data bus. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150934 | Receiver Having an Adaptive Filter and Method of Optimizing the Filter - A receiver comprises an adaptive filter having an input for a digitized input signal, means for storing a pre-designed filter characteristic, means for analyzing a digital. representation of the input signal to determine a desired position of the filter characteristic to match the system requirements, and means for adapting the stored pre-designed filter characteristic in the frequency domain and/or the time domain to match the system requirements and for transforming the adapted filter characteristic to the time domain to update coefficients for the adaptive filter and for loading updated coefficients into adaptive filter. The updating of the coefficients may be done periodically. The adaptation may be one or more of adjusting bandwidth, frequency shift and, in the case of a bandpass characteristic, superimposing characteristics. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150935 | METHODS, APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUMS FOR USE IN SHARING INFORMATION BETWEEN ENTITIES - In one aspect, a method comprises: receiving, by a first processing system, information indicating that a second processing system has content that is to be provided to the first processing system; receiving, by the first processing system, content and at least one identifier from the second processing system; determining, by the first processing system and based at least in part on the at least one identifier, whether the content is another version of content previously received by the first processing system; receiving, by the first processing system, information indicating that a third processing system is to receive content from the first processing system; and transmitting, by the first processing system, the content, at least one identifier and version information to the third processing system, wherein the version information indicates whether the transmitted content is another version of content that has been previously transmitted by the first processing system to the third processing system. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150936 | DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A distribution system | 2012-06-14 |
20120150937 | NETWORK SYSTEM - A network system suitable for remote monitoring or remote control of equipments is provided. When an execution of a server-side object is requested from a client terminal device to a server, the server requests an execution of an equipment-side object to the equipment(s). The execution request of the server-side object from the client terminal device is performed by use of a first identifier assigned to the server-side object, and the execution request of the equipment-side object is performed by use of a second identifier assigned to the equipment-side object. Since the server has an identifier setting function of setting a correspondence relation between the first identifier and the second identifier, it is possible to reduce burden on the client terminal device, and flexibly cope with cases of exchanging and increasing the equipment(s) in the network system without considering specific identification information of the equipments such as IP address. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150938 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A PORTABLE INFORMATION AGENT - A method and system for providing enhanced intelligent agents that are moveable by a user from a browser application to a desktop. In specific embodiments, agents provide advanced interactive graphics and communications back to a server. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150939 | Extending Legacy Scripting Languages with Graphical References - A graphical data type inference transparently transforms a legacy text-oriented command line interface (CLI) into a graphic-oriented or graphic-aware CLI (G-CLI). A user fuses graphical references with the legacy scripting language by identifying objects using syntax familiar to the user. The objects are presented to the user via a user interface and may be queried/selected by the user. The user issues commands on the selected objects by referencing the graphical selection in a command line within a shell. The graphical selection in short hand is translated into a form operable by a server or computer. The syntax of the legacy command language is extended with operators that operate entirely within the G-CLI. Consequently, the command line used in the shell has an existing operation set, as well as new graphic-based operations. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150940 | ENHANCED CONNECTIVITY IN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS - Techniques are provided for exchanging configuration settings in a distributed software system in which interrelated software processes execute on both a client system and a service provider. Automation scripts are generated and used by the client system and the service provider to establish and initiate respective test environments. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150941 | Dialog Server - In one embodiment, a dialog server comprising: a memory comprising instructions executable by one or more processors; and the one or more processors coupled to the memory and operable to execute the instructions, the one or more processors being operable when executing the instructions to: receive, from a client, a request for a dialog and one or more parameters associated with the request; process the request and the one or more parameters to extract information concerning the dialog; generate, based on the information concerning the dialog, code that implements one or more functionalities supported by the dialog, wherein the code can be processed directly by a web browser executing on the client; and transmit, to the client, the code for execution in the web browser. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150942 | IN BROWSER REAL TIME COLLABORATION LISTS AND FORMS - Real time collaboration is enabled by providing a notification to users attempting access to an item, such as a document or a resource, that another user has currently access to the item. The users may be notified automatically when the other user is done accessing the item or periodically as the item is being accessed by the other user. The notification(s) may also include a summary or complete list of changes such that any user accessing the item after the other user has the latest version. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150943 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR IMMEDIATE POSTING OF CHANGES IN A CLIENT SERVER ENVIRONMENT - According to one aspect of the present invention, a method is provided in which a first field and a second field of a data record are displayed to a user using a client program, the second field having one or more attributes that are dependent upon the value of the first field. In response to a detection that the value of the first field has changed, the value of the first field is sent to a server program. The server program is configured to process the change in value of the first field and determine corresponding changes with respect to the one or more attributes of the second field. The corresponding changes with respect to the one or more attributes of the second field are sent from the server program to the client program. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150944 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A CONTEXTUALLY-BASED MEDIA ENHANCEMENT WIDGET - The present invention is and includes a device, system and method for providing an image enhancement widget. The device, system and method include a javascript component that, upon execution, obtains at least one subject of primary content on a networked page, and at least one permission for enhancement of the primary content, ones of a plurality of content produced remotely from the javascript component and according to the javascript component, and an enhancement widget. The enhancement widget may be a flash widget. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150945 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENT-CENTRIC SERVICES USING ULTRA-PEER - To provide a content provision service to a user in conjunction with an end terminal and a P2P management server, a request for content is received based on a content name input from a user. It is checked whether the content corresponding to the content name is stored or not, and if the content is not stored, the content name is transmitted to the P2P management server to request content location information. Upon receiving the content location information from the P2P management server, a request for the content is sent to an adjacent content providing device listed in the content location information. Then, the content is received from the adjacent content providing device and provided to the user. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150946 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING A WEBSITE CONTAINING VIDEO PLAYLISTS AS INPUT TO A DOWNLOAD MANAGER - Systems and methods for enabling the download of a set of media files with a specific order and specific contents and, more particularly, to enabling a download manager to automatically receive the information it requires to retrieve those elements required to replicate a streaming edit through local playback after the downloads complete. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150947 | Method of Handling Access Control for Software and Application Control Management Object Client - A method of handling access control for a software and application control management object (SACMO) client is disclosed. The method comprises executing a transaction activated by a SACMO server; checking an access control list of a target node of a management object before executing the MO; and determining whether to execute the MO according to a checking result. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150948 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A CONTENT BASED ON PREFERENCES - A method for providing a content based on a user's preference(s) includes analyzing meta-data information of a pre-stored content, determining at least one preference based on the analyzed meta-data information, transmitting the at least one preference to a content-providing server; searching, at the content-providing server, for at least one content corresponding to the at least one preference, extracting general information of at least one content found to correspond to the at least one preference and transmit the general information to the portable terminal. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150949 | CLIENT-SIDE REPOSITORY IN A NETWORKED DEDUPLICATED STORAGE SYSTEM - A storage system according to certain embodiments includes a client-side repository (CSR). The CSR may communicate with a client at a higher data transfer rate than the rate used for communication between the client and secondary storage. During copy operations, for instance, some or all of the data being backed up or otherwise copied to secondary storage is stored in the CSR. During restore operations, copies of the data stored in the CSR is accessed from the CSR instead of from secondary storage, improving performance. Remaining data blocks not stored in the CSR can be restored from secondary storage. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150950 | Remote Control for Video Media Servers - Systems and methods are described for remote control of a media server computer from a controller device, typically a laptop computer, where remote operation of the media server, including the selection of videos and other digital media may be performed from the controller while normal TV programming (cable, satellite, or broadcast) is viewed on the TV. Other embodiments describe background operations performed on the controller device, the media server, or both, such that new videos may be located on the web or locally on the LAN while a current video is playing on the media server and viewed on the TV. Methods are also described for more reliably establishing network connections between the controller and media server, and systems and methods are described for implementing a multi-video display on the media server where videos to be played on the media server are played on and selected by a controller device. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150951 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, RECORDING MEDIUM AND MAINTENANCE SUPPORT SYSTEM - An aspect of the invention is a system for acquiring execution information of a process executed in a computer which receives an execution request of a process and a request to start acquiring execution information of the process from a client. An application execution part of a server part executes the process based on the execution request. An execution information acquirement control part of the server part stores execution information of the process executed by the application execution part in a storage device based on the request to start acquiring execution information. The stored execution information is displayed in response to a display request. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150952 | DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A solution for managing communicative interactions between network elements is described herein. A system incorporating teachings of the present disclosure may include a processor module that monitors communications between a program resident on a user machine and a server program resident on a computing device remote from the user. The processor module may be utilized to effectively reduce the number of communications actually transmitted between the client program and the server program. For example, the processor module may intercept certain client initiated communications intended for the server program, process those communications without server program involvement, and respond to the client program. | 2012-06-14 |
20120150953 | AUDIO-VIDEO DATA SWITCHING AND VIEWING SYSTEM - A computer system and method providing for viewing and switching of audio-video data. The system comprises: a plurality of audio/video sources containing information referring to an event; a streaming server, streaming the contents of a first audio signal and a first video signal from the audio and video sources to a user; a feed distributor controllably feeding the first audio signal and first video signal to the streaming server; and a user-operated control unit communicating with the feed distributor and controlling operation of the feed distributor, so as to instruct the feed distributor to switch between audio or video. Switching between audio signals occurs without altering the video signals and switching between video signals occurs without altering the audio signals. | 2012-06-14 |