30th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 43 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090187497 | Electronic Register - This invention pertains to software that is created to manage financial data. This invention focuses on electronically managing accounts that the user has with a financial institution. The invention would replace paper transaction registers. The invention is an electronic version of the paper register. This invention helps account holders manage accounts in real time both accurately and quickly. The user would enter transaction information as it occurs in real time and the software would calculate and store the information. The user would then have the option to transfer/send that information to another user with the push of a button. The user on the receiving end will be able to view the latest transaction and the changes it made to the account. People that share an account at a financial institution will be able to better balance their accounts by updating each other of any transactions with this invention. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187498 | Apparatus and method for performing accounting in wireless communication system - An apparatus and method for processing accounting in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes creating an accounting data base (DB) for a mobile station (MS), determining whether a state transition of the MS occurs, if the state transition of the MS occurs, updating state information in the accounting DB, and transmitting the accounting information including the state information to an accounting server. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187499 | System, Method and Computer Program Product for Providing Demand Response Functionality - A system, method and computer program product for providing demand response in a power grid is provided. In one embodiment, the computer system may include a first module configured to store user profile data for a plurality of users in memory and wherein user profile data includes load shed participation data for at least some of the plurality of users, information identifying one or more load control devices associated with each of the plurality of users, and location data of a premises associated with the user. The system may include a second module configured to select a multitude of the users based, at least in part, on the load shed participation data of the profile data, a third module configured to transmit a first control message to a load control device of the selected users, wherein the control message comprises a request to reduce a load. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187500 | Accounts payable tax rules processing system and method - A system for generation of accounts payable processing system tax rules is provided. A tax account system generates an account for a tax jurisdiction. An over-tax rule system generates one or more rules for processing a tax amount in excess of a required tax amount associated with the tax jurisdiction. An under-tax rule system generates one or more rules for processing a tax amount that is less than the required tax amount associated with the tax jurisdiction. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187501 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING, COORDINATING AND MANAGING A COMPETITIVE MARKETPLACE - A system and method for facilitating, coordinating and managing the operation of a competitive marketplace via the Internet. The system and method collect bids for market services from a plurality of customers, calculators a clearing piece for the market service and calculates settlement information based on the clearing piece calculated and the bids collected. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187502 | System and Method for the Automated Brokerage of Financial Instruments - Disclosed herein in a preferred embodiment is an automated financial instrument brokerage system wherein a front end layer interacts with customers to generate activity requests for an intermediate layer. The intermediate layer preferably processes the activity requests and places financial instrument orders on a financial market if appropriate. A backend layer preferably provides data to the intermediate layer for processing activity requests. Multiple heterogeneous front end customer applications may be supported by the same intermediate layer. Further, multiple backend layer applications may interact with the intermediate layer in a manner transparent to the front end layer. Further, scalability can be achieved be partitioning various tasks of the intermediate layer onto separate servers, and more preferably on separate redundant servers. Load balancers may then be used in the intermediate layer to provide distributed access to these servers. Also disclosed herein is a caching technique whereby turnaround time for processing activity requests can be reduced by reducing the number of times that the intermediate layer needs to interact with the backend layer. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187503 | GENERATING CONTENT TO SATISFY UNDERSERVED SEARCH QUERIES - Generating content to satisfy search engines queries is described. A knowledge base including a plurality of prior search queries for a search engine and corresponding prior search results provided by the search engine is accessed and a plurality of underserved search queries are identified, wherein each of the underserved search queries comprises a search query pattern having a below threshold number of search results. Each of the underserved search queries are heuristically related to one another. The plurality of underserved search queries are aggregated into a taxonomy category having a set of associated attributes, the attributes descriptive of the plurality of underserved search queries. Targeted content is generated based on the attributes, wherein the targeted content is tailored satisfy the underserved search queries. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187504 | NON-TRADITIONAL FUTURES CONTRACT AND ASSOCIATED PROCESSING SYSTEMS - A computer implemented method and system is disclosed for trading a non-traditional futures contract representative of a price of an individual underlying commodity and/or an option on such a contract. The method and system comprises receiving a request from a customer to establish a position in the non-traditional futures contract of an individual underlying commodity. A contract price of the non-traditional futures contract is determined based on the current market price of the individual underlying commodity. The system and method determine whether available funds within an account corresponding to the customer exceed a predetermined amount. The non-traditional futures contract for the individual underlying commodity is established without any obligation to deliver or receive the commodity. The difference between the contract price and the market price of the individual underlying commodity at the expiration of the contract is calculated and the customer's account is settled based on the difference between the contract price and the market price of the individual underlying commodity at the expiration of the contract. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187505 | ONLINE SAVINGS NETWORK - Implementing an online savings network includes creating a network account for an owner and associating an investment account to the network account. The investment account is associated with savings parameters and is owned by the owner. A first contributor is invited to join the online savings network and a condition is established in response to an input by the first contributor that, when satisfied, triggers an automatic contribution of financial assets to the investment account by the first contributor, wherein the financial assets have a value that is relative to a value of a contribution by the owner. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187506 | System in which new production creates new money - An economic system includes a method of keeping consumption equal to production by creating new money only in response to new production. The method includes the steps of an employer ordering new production including one of a new good and/or service and an earner performing the new production for the employer. The earner's account is credited new money for the value of their contribution of the new production. The employer's account is debited a like amount of money as the amount of the new money equal to the company's profit from the new production by a clearing house and a percent of the debited like amount of money is distributed by a prearranged formula to prevailing governments in lieu of taxes. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187507 | SECURE FINANCIAL TRANSACTION NETWORK - A secure financial transaction network works with payment cards that includes a magnetic device readable by a legacy card reader that presents dynamic magnetic data such that each use of an individual card produces a cryptographic series of variations of a respective user access code according to an encryption program seeded with secret encryption keys or initialization vectors. Data processing generates a cryptographic series of variations of respective user access codes for each and all of the plurality of payment cards, to transmit to third parties for payment card manufacturing only tables of said cryptographic series of variations of respective user access code and not said secret encryption keys or initialization vectors, and to authorize financial transaction requests from a payments processor if a user access code it receives in a transaction request is a member of said cryptographic series of variations of respective user access codes for the particular one of the plurality of payment cards. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187508 | Business method for using a phone to transact financial transactions - A business method for using phones to transact financial transactions in a secured and verified manner. The business method for using phones to transact financial transactions comprises registering the user with a registration system. Having the user initiate a financial transaction over a specific telephone. Verifying if the initiated user financial transaction is legitimate. Lastly, transferring funds in accordance with user instructions previously provided. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187509 | Methods of Facilitating the Use and Occupancy of Land | 2009-07-23 |
20090187510 | Calculating Method for Systematic Risk - A calculating method for systematic risk comprises the steps of: calculating and obtaining predetermined number of true values of beta coefficient of a stock; establishing an original data series from the true values of beta coefficient; taking the accumulated generating operation (AGO) on the original data series to obtain a accumulated generating operation series; applying the MEAN operation to the accumulated generating operation series to obtain a mean series; using the original data series and the mean series to establish an grey differential equation; expressing the grey differential equation into a grey differential equation matrix; calculating particular parameters in the grey differential equation based on the least square method; applying the particular parameters into a whiting responsive equation to obtain a forecasting value of the accumulated generating operation series; and taking the inverse accumulated generating operation (IAGO) on the forecasting value of the accumulated generating operation series to obtain a forecasting value of beta coefficient. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187511 | LIVE ALERTS - Systems and methods for monitoring the trading of financial instruments are provided. Trading messages are received at a live alert server. The messages are analyzed with a set of predetermined limits and rules. When a predetermined limit or rule is violated, an email message is sent to a regulator or other trading entity. The email message may include a hyperlink that may be selected to generate a real-time report relating to the limit or rule. When hyperlink is selected, a query is sent to a query server where the real-time report is generated and transmitted back to the requesting party. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187512 | Asset-backed investment instrument and related methods - An asset-backed investment instrument that increases deferred tax liabilities for an investor and, therefore, is attractive to any investor that benefits from deferred tax liabilities, such as certain insurance companies. Ownership of an asset underlying the investment instrument is transferred to an investing entity. The transferred asset is leased from the investing entity for a predetermined period. The lease may include a like-kind exchange feature to lengthen the predetermined period of the lease and to allow the accrued deferred tax liabilities to remain outstanding for a longer period of time. The lease may also include a Terminal Rental Adjustment Clause to remove the risk of a change in an estimated residual value from the investing entity. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187513 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UPFRONT VEHICLE PRICING - Systems and methods for upfront vehicle pricing management may include an independently owned online system which may provide a consumer with an upfront dealership price for a vehicle trim as a category. A vehicle pricing management system may collect vehicle pricing information from multiple sources, provide pricing feedback information, and provide alerts for various pricing changes. Dealers and other non-broker entities may be able to interact with the system and submit dealership prices, and may receive real-time feedback in terms of price effectiveness for the dealer and yield of consumer buy-in. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187514 | INTERACTIVE WEB BASED EXPERIENCE VIA EXPERT RESOURCE - A system providing an interactive web based experience via an expert resource is provided. In this system, virtual experts field questions from end users, letting the users have control over an information-on-demand experience. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187515 | QUERY SUGGESTION GENERATION - Described herein is a system that facilitates assigning indications of usefulness to query suggestions. The system includes a query suggestion generator component that receives a query and generates a query suggestion based at least in part upon the received query. A model component outputs an indication of usefulness with respect to the query suggestion, wherein the model component is a machine-learned model of user behavior with respect to query suggestions. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187516 | SEARCH SUMMARY RESULT EVALUATION MODEL METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Methods and systems are provided herein for establishing and/or using an evaluation model that is adapted to determine a model judgment value based, at least in part, on measured summary feature values associated with a search result summary. The evaluation model may be established through a learning process based, at least in part, on human judgment values associated with a set of search result summaries. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187517 | MODIFICATION OF RELATIONAL MODELS - Described herein is a system that facilitates modifying a relational model. The system includes a first model component that is a relational model that includes a plurality of atoms. The system further includes a modifier component that automatically assigns values to a plurality of atoms in the relational model by clustering atoms of the relational model to create a second model component, wherein the second model component is a relational model. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187518 | AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING AN OPTIMAL SET OF ATTRIBUTES TO FACILITATE GENERATING BEST PRACTICES FOR CONFIGURING A NETWORKED SYSTEM - A method and system for automatically identifying an optimal set of attributes of entities included in a networked system. Entity types are ranked based on information gain. A first classification accuracy relative to a first entity type is determined. The first entity type is the top-ranked entity type or a first aggregate entity type. A second entity type is selected base on the ranking. A database join of a first set of attributes associated with the first entity type and a second set of attributes associated with the second entity type is performed. A second classification accuracy relative to a second aggregate entity type generated by the join is determined. In response to determining that the second classification accuracy is not greater than the first classification accuracy, an optimal set of attributes contributing to a problem in the networked system is identified as the first set of attributes. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187519 | Learning Device Interaction Rules - Devices and methods are disclosed for establishing interaction among electronic devices of an environment. The device has a transmitter, receiver, memory for storing interaction rules, and a processor for learning the interaction rules in association with the transmitter, receiver, and other devices of the environment. The device also includes components for performing the device specific functions and a state sensor for determining the logical or physical state of the device. Methods involve observing at one or more devices change of state activity among the plurality of devices through receiving a change of state message that is transmitted to the one or more devices. A set of rules are learned at the one or more devices based upon observing the change of state activity. The learned set of rules are then applied at the one or more devices to automatically control changes of state of devices within the plurality of devices. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187520 | Demographics from behavior - A system and method for modeling online users' behavior for predicting demographic information is disclosed. The system allows advertisement providers to target anonymous users based on a user's browsing history, search queries, as broken down into behavioral targeting categories, as well as other features, such as behavioral targeting segments. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187521 | PREDICTIVE MONITORING FOR EVENTS AT COMPUTER NETWORK RESOURCES - Computer resources in a computer network can be predictively monitored where those resources are conventionally monitored using a monitoring rule. For predictive monitoring, the current values of the parameters of the monitoring rule are tracked at regular intervals. The current values are used in an “inverted” or predictive form of the conventional monitoring rule to derive a predictive value that is indicative of the imminence of a defined event. The monitoring system may be instructed to report a predictive value that exceeds a predetermined percentage of the final value at which the resource event will be deemed to have occurred. The earlier report increases the chances the network manager will have sufficient time to take appropriate preemptive action to prevent actual occurrence of the event. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187522 | System and Method for Privacy Preserving Predictive Models for Lung Cancer Survival Analysis - A computer-implemented method for privacy-preserving data mining to determine cancer survival rates includes providing a random matrix B agreed to by a plurality of entities, wherein each entity i possesses a data matrix A | 2009-07-23 |
20090187523 | Adaptive method and system with automatic scanner installation - A self-adaptive resource management method ( | 2009-07-23 |
20090187524 | COLLABORATIVE REASONING IN A COGNITIVE TOOL - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to group cognition and provide a method, system and computer program product for collaborative reasoning. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for collaborative reasoning in a cognitive tool can be provided. The method can include arranging shared entities in a collaborative reasoning shared knowledge base into different models for different end users in different investigations, creating claims for the shared entities in the different models across the different investigations, subscribing the different end users for notification of changes to the claims and shared entities, and providing notice to the subscribed different end users responsive to detecting a change in a claim in one of the different models. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187525 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NETWORK ASSOCIATION INFERENCE, VALIDATION AND PRUNING BASED ON INTEGRATED CONSTRAINTS FROM DIVERSE DATA - A network inference and validation engine is presented which combines data of different types into a network associations' inference and performs validation of existing networks based on constraints from several data sets or previously known linkages. The engine would assist scientists to integrate information from various sources into a network of association, validate previously known associations against the supplied constraint data sets and prune or modify existing connections based on subsequent experiments. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187526 | Systems And Methods For Modeling Consequences Of Events - Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for decision making under uncertainty. A causality framework is provided to define relationships between an alternative (Ai) of a set of alternatives and at least one performance indicator of a set of performance indicators. A k-concurrent lottery (Li) associated with the alternative (Ai) is conducted, the alternative (Ai) having consequences over k ones of the set of performance indicators. The k-concurrent lottery (Li) is homogenized over the set of performance indicators if the k ones is less than a number of the set of performance indicators. An expected utility of the k-concurrent lottery (Li) for each one of the set of alternatives is computed. One alternative is selected from the set of alternatives, the selection occurring in accordance with a selection criteria based on the expected utility. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187527 | PAYLOAD ESTIMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of payload estimation of weight bearing machinery, the method comprising the steps of: (a) creating a series of Kalman filter approximations to the weight bearing machinery for different levels of payload; (b) determining from the series an approximation to the current operating characteristics of the weight bearing machinery; and, (c) utilizing the parameters derived from the step (b) to determine an estimated payload of the weight bearing machinery. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187528 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING RISK - A system and method for assessing a risk outcome that is affected by other risks. The risks and risk outcome are identified, and a relationship among the risks are defined where all of the risks directly or indirectly influence the risk outcome. An influence of each risk on at least one of the other risks or the risk outcome is defined. A portion of the risk relationship hierarchy and a subset of the risks is displayed graphically. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187529 | Method of Generating Behavior for a Graphics Character and Robotics Devices - The present invention relates to a method for determining behaviour of an autonomous entity within an environment using a weighted memory of observed objects, including the steps of: processing the weighted memory; generating an image of the environment from the perspective of the entity; recognizing visible objects within the image from a list of object types; storing data about the visible objects within the memory; and processing object data extracted from the memory in accordance with each object's type using an artificial intelligence engine in order to determine behavior for the entity. A system and software for determining behavior of an autonomous entity are also disclosed. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187530 | ENABLING USERS TO EDIT VERY LARGE XML DATA - Enabling users to edit data encoded in extended markup language (XML). In one embodiment, an XML data to be edited is received and preprocessed to generate a tabular data corresponding to the XML data. The generated tabular data is stored in the form of a staging table in a database. On receiving a request indicating that a portion of the XML data is to be replaced by a new portion, a query corresponding to the request is generated. The query is directed to the staging table in the database and is designed to cause the portion to be replaced by the new portion in the tabular data. The query is then performed on the database to replace the portion with the new portion in the tabular data. Once the edits are completed, new XML data containing the edits is constructed from the modified tabular data. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187531 | USER EXPERIENCE FOR VIEWING BUSINESS DATA VIA PERSONAL INFORMATION APPLICATION - Architecture that provides a user experience (UX) for accessing business information (e.g., sales, accounts, opportunities) via an office application. In a specific implementation, a personal information manager (PIM) application includes a familiar UX that introduces a business context (e.g., sales) to tasks in the PIM application. Forms included as part of the PIM application (whether a contact form, appointment form, or a new form) comprise a new page (e.g., sales-related) that allows the user to view and navigate to business data related information that pertains to a task. For example, when accessing a business contact, the user can also navigate to and/or view opportunities associated with the contact. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187532 | MODIFIER MANAGEMENT WITHIN PROCESS MODELS - A system for managing values associated with properties of elements within a process model can include a storage element for storing the process model and a processing element. The processing element can be configured to identify within the process model an element, to identify an object containing the element, to assign a value for a property of the element, and to retrieve the value for the property of element. The value for property of the element can be stored in location selected from one among an element modifier applied to the element, an object modifier applied to the object, a default set of values for the object, and a default set of values for the element, where the location for storing the value of the property of the element is selected such that the location has a higher relative priority than a location for storing a previous value for the property of the element. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187533 | AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING AN OPTIMAL SET OF ATTRIBUTES TO FACILITATE GENERATING BEST PRACTICES FOR CONFIGURING A NETWORKED SYSTEM - A method and system for automatically identifying an optimal set of attributes of entities included in a networked system. Entity types are ranked based on information gain. A first classification accuracy relative to a first entity type is determined. The first entity type is the top-ranked entity type or a first aggregate entity type. A second entity type is selected basal on the ranking. A database join of a first set of attributes associated with the first entity type and a second set of attributes associated with the second entity type is performed. A second classification accuracy relative to a second aggregate entity type generated by the join is determined. In response to determining that the second classification accuracy is not greater than the first classification accuracy, an optimal set of attributes contributing to a problem in the networked system is identified as the first set of attributes. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187534 | TRANSACTION PREDICTION MODELING METHOD - Methods of generating a transactions prediction model using a computer for optimizing a number of transactions associated with a database system are presented, the methods including: capturing a database workload, where the database workload includes a number of statements corresponding with the transactions over a specified period of time, where each of the number of statements includes a variable parameter; generating a number of first generalized statements from the number of statements by replacing the variable parameter with a constant value; generating a number of second generalized statements, where if two or more of the number of first generalized statements are the same grouping the two or more of the number of first generalized statements to correspond with the number of second generalized statements; creating a number of transactions classes, where each of the number of transaction classes includes at least one of the number of first generalized statements. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187535 | Method and Apparatus for Improved Information Transactions - Methods and systems for analyzing an image, such as a newspaper or magazine pager or the like including text by mapping the image to determine regions of text and analyzing portions of the image in accordance with characteristics of selected regions of the text to develop a desired ordering of at least the selected regions in accordance with a textual relationship between the selected regions. The desired order may be related to the order in which the selected regions, and or words therein, are to be presented in a different format appropriate for a specific use, such by a human reader, for transferring the text over a network, for use in a database or by a search function, word processor or printer. Normalizing, columnizing, regionalizing, frameset building and article tracing functions may be used to develop the desired order in related regions in an article within the image. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187536 | System and Method Providing Object Messages in a Compute Environment - The present invention provides a system, method and computer-readable media for creating object messages within a compute environment such as a cluster or grid. The method comprises upon an event affecting the availability or performance of an object within a cluster environment, retrieving messages related to the event from messages logs in different layers of a cluster environment. Next, the method comprises aggregating the retrieved messages into a single location, associating the aggregated messages with the object and, if a user submits a job and the performance of the job within the cluster environment is affected by the event, notifying the user of the event using the associated messages. Administrators may also create messages and associate the messages with objects such as nodes or reservations. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187537 | Social network searching with breadcrumbs - A method for data presentation includes assembling a set of documents in response to a search query by a user having a social network. A respective person is identified with each of a group of documents in the set. For at least one document in the group, a chain of one or more links is found in the social network between the respective person and the user. A search results page is displayed, including an identification of the at least one document together with a sequence of breadcrumbs corresponding to the one or more links in the chain. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187538 | Method of Prioritizing Similar Names of Locations for use by a Navigation System - Locations having similar names are identified and placed in groups. The naming similarity includes how names or portions of names are spelled and/or pronounced. The names within the groups are then ranked by priority. The ranking is calculated using one or more attributes in a geographic database, such as the number of road segments associated with a named location, the population associated with a named location, distance to a named location, and administrative level of a named location. The ranking may be used during destination entry, when providing route guidance and/or maps, and when providing additional information to a user of a navigation system, such as demographic information. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187539 | SOLUTION PROVIDING NAVIGATION-INDEPENDENT ACCESS TO ELEMENTS OF A SOFTWARE INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT (IDE) USING UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATORS (URLS) - The present invention discloses a navigation-independent system for accessing the elements of a software integrated development environment (IDE) using uniform resource locators (URLs). Such a system can include a set of URL-accessible IDE elements, a set of URLs, and a URL operation tool. The set of URL-accessible IDE elements can represent a multitude of functional objects accessible by the software IDE. Each URL-retrievable IDE element can include a set of meta data that contains key words describing the URL-accessible IDE element. Each URL in the set of URLs can be configured to provide a navigation-independent mechanism for accessing a corresponding URL-accessible IDE element. The URL operation tool can be configured to associate URLs with URL-accessible IDE elements and execute URL operations on the URL-accessible IDE elements. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187540 | PREDICTION OF INFORMATIONAL INTERESTS - Described herein is a system that includes a receiver component that receives an indication that a user has accessed a search engine to initiate a search session. An analyzer component predicts informational interests of the user upon receipt of the indication and outputs an informational item that corresponds to the predicted informational interests of the user, wherein the analyzer component is configured to output the informational item prior to the user issuing a query to the search engine. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187541 | COMPUTER METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTEXTUAL MANAGEMENT AND AWARENESS OF PERSISTENT QUERIES AND RESULTS - Presented is a computer system and user interface for seamlessly integrating the creation and submission of persistent queries, and for collecting and presenting the real-time results of those queries, into the context of one's work and directly structured work artifacts. Users are provided a real-time awareness of what is happening to their persistent queries and their results, from within the work context of the artifact and program application used during creation and submission of the queries. Rather than having to visit a separate alerting application, the user is able to manage queries and query results directly from a subject application, such as a problem-solving application. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187542 | METADATA SEARCH INTERFACE - A system and method for implementing a metadata search interface is disclosed. The technology creates a configuration file for the metadata search interface comprising a predicate describing a search parameter of the metadata search interface. The configuration file further comprises a control attribute which associates the predicate with a control describing how a display element displayed on the metadata search interface is displayed and a correlation between the display element and the predicate. The technology further comprises generating the metadata search interface in runtime based upon the control. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187543 | Asset management system - A system and apparatus for managing and updating the status of various assets, including but not limited to real estate properties, is disclosed. The system can be used by and provides differing capabilities for all of property managers, banks, and realtors. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187544 | MANAGING A HIERARCHY OF DATABASES - Monitoring an activity profile for a given row of a database and determining a target database for a given row based on the activity profile of the given row. Identifying any row related to the given row and moving the given row and any row related to the given row into the target database while preserving referential integrity. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187545 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DATA PROCESSING WITH INDEX SEARCH - In a database management apparatus for managing a database where an index is used in a search for data, the data is stored in a table that has attributes of the data as columns. The index is created in association with at least one column. The columns include an index key column for which the index is created without data being stored. Upon reception of a request to register the data in the table including the index key column, the data in columns other than the index key column is registered. An index of the index key column is updated using data corresponding to the index key column. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187546 | Method, System and Computer Program Product for Duplicate Detection - A method of duplicate detection for data items in a stream of data items, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a data item from the stream of data items; applying at least two different hashing algorithms to the data item to generate hash keys that identify elements in a first bloom filter data structure having a plurality of elements; checking a state of each of the identified elements to determine if the data item is a potential duplicate, the determination depending on whether the identified elements are indicated as having been also identified for a previous data item received from the stream; and in response to the determination that the data item is a potential duplicate, checking an index of hash keys to determine if at least one of the generated hash keys exists in the index to identify the data item as an actual duplicate. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187547 | Comprehension of Digitally Encoded Texts - Methods, computer program products and systems for facilitating computer-assisted user comprehension of digitally encoded texts. In one embodiment of the present invention, the user is provided with the ability to perform multiple searches with different dictionaries or search engines, according to the user's needs. The user has the option of marking the words (or sentences) with several different symbols or colors or text highlighting and associating each of these marking to a specific dictionary or search engine. Searches of each of the selected text portions is performed within the associated dictionary databases, and the user is provided with the results of the searches for facilitating comprehension of the text. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187548 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY CLASSIFYING SEARCH RESULTS - Disclosed is a system and a method for automatically classifying search results. The system includes a search engine server for obtaining and providing search results with regard to a search word entered by the user, grouping the obtained search results according to meanings of the search word, and providing the grouped search results; a related word database for storing related words classified into groups according to meanings of the search word; and a group determination system for receiving search results from the search engine server, comparing the contents of the search results with the related words stored in the related word database to determine which group of the related word database the search results belong to, and storing search results at a predetermined place when the search results are not grouped. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187549 | Real-time Chat and Conference Contact Information Manager - An extension or accessory to a real-time, online virtual collaboration session, meeting and messaging system, which scans a participant's contact list for partially complete contact records, accesses an administered contact information store such as a corporate personnel contact database, and completes the partially complete records in the participant's contact list. This enables each participant in such an online meeting or conversation to rely upon his or her contact list to contain a consistent level of information regarding each participant in previously conducted meetings and conversations, avoids the entry of inaccurate and deceptive participant information into the contact list, and allows for reliable communication to the members of a participant's contact list. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187550 | SPECIFYING RELEVANCE RANKING PREFERENCES UTILIZING SEARCH SCOPES - A mechanism for expressing a user preference to a set of documents based on user knowledge about the document corpora. The user preference input to the system can be positive, negative, or both. A set of documents that can be identified with a query can define a search scope definition. The search scope is mapped into an input ranking feature for a ranking function. The search scope definition is employed as a soft preference ranking feature, and thus, used to bias ranking via relevance feedback. The mechanism facilitates increasing or decreasing the final ranking score of a document based on whether the document falls into the user scope. The ranking weight can be configured by the user ad-hoc, or when relevance judgments are available, using machine learning techniques to find the optimal weights to optimize ranking. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187551 | SEARCH RESULTS WHEN SEARCHING FOR RECORDS OF A BUSINESS OBJECT - Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for searching records of a business object using a keyword search. According to one embodiment, a method of searching for one or more records of a business object can comprise converting one or more records of the business object to one or more keyword lists and searching for records of the business object based on the keyword lists and the search criteria. Converting records of the business object to one or more keyword lists can comprise converting one or more attributes of each of the records to one or more keyword-value pairs and saving the keyword-value pairs in the keyword lists. Searching for records of the business object based on the keyword lists comprises applying a keyword search to the keyword-value pairs of the keyword lists. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187552 | System and Methods for Generating Data Analysis Queries from Modeling Constructs - A method for automatically generating data analysis queries from at least one modeling construct includes selecting a preconfigured template identifying at least one metric or dimension; retrieving dashboard model data comprising the preconfigured template; filtering to the dashboard model data using at least one user-specific access control; and automatically generating a query for at least one database. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187553 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING VERIFICATION OF AN ENTITY BASED ON BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS - A method, system and computer program product for facilitating verification of an entity against a reference database. The entity comprises a plurality of attributes. The method obtains a set of attributes from the plurality of attributes based on a set of predefined parameters. Further, the method selects a set of algorithms corresponding to each attribute belonging to the set of attributes. Thereafter, the method executes one or more algorithms belonging to a set of algorithms corresponding to each attribute. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187554 | SPECIFYING WEIGHTED SEARCH TERMS FOR A SEARCH ENGINE - A content searching data processing system can be configured for specifying weighted search terms for a search engine. The system can include a search engine executing in a host server. The search engine can be coupled to a search index and can be configured for communicative coupling to different content browsers executing in respective clients over a computer communications network. Finally, the system can include weighted search term logic coupled to the search engine. The logic can include program code enabled to render a search term entry user interface in which variable weights are specified for corresponding search terms, to assign the variable weights to the corresponding search terms and to issue a search to the search engine with the search terms and variable weights and to return results of the search to a requesting one of the content browsers. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187555 | FEATURE SELECTION FOR RANKING - This disclosure describes various exemplary methods, computer program products, and systems for selecting features for ranking in information retrieval. This disclosure describes calculating importance scores for features, measuring similarity scores between two features, selecting features that maximizes total importance scores of the features and minimizes total similarity scores between the features. Also, the disclosure includes selecting features for ranking that solves an optimization problem. Thus, this disclosure identifies relevant features by removing noisy and redundant features and speeds up a process of model training. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187556 | COMPUTER METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GRAPHICAL INQUIRY SPECIFICATION WITH PROGRESSIVE SUMMARY - A computer method and system provides for graphical specification of inquiries and includes a corresponding progressive summary. The inquiries operate on stream data. Users graphically specify an inquiry in a graphical user interface according to an ontology. The invention system generates a plain-text translation of the graphical description of the inquiry and displays the generated plain-text description in a progressive summary in the graphical user interface. The system continually updates and generates the display of the plain-text description during user construction of the inquiry. This provides feedback to the user for improved construction of the inquiry. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187557 | ARRANGING SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS - Search engine results arranged according to one or more first criteria (e.g., relevancy) are obtained. The results are assigned groups within chosen or calculated relevancy ranges. The results are then resorted within each group according to one or more second criteria (e.g., payment). The groups maintain original placement relative to each other during resorting. A list of at least some of the resorted results is then created for various uses, including search or further manipulation. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187558 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING SEARCH RESULTS - Methods and systems related to the display of primary and secondary search results are provided. Search results are displayed to the user without requiring the user to perform any tasks to view the entire set of search results. The user may then request secondary searches based on the displayed primary search results through performing a single action. Secondary search results are displayed along with the primary search results. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187559 | METHOD OF ANALYZING UNSTRUCTURED DOCUMENTS TO PREDICT ASSET VALUE PERFORMANCE - A method and system is disclosed for determining the changes in valuation of an asset of interest and then using high or low betweeness centrality values as an indicator for near term future changes in asset value. The present invention searches a broad set of electronically based documents, such as Web pages, blog entries, and online forum posts that are relevant to the asset of interest, in a manner that identifies the interlinking characteristics between the documents. It also weights query terms (=asset of interest) by information retrieval metrics, and calculates the sentiment of their context. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187560 | STRING PATTERN CONCEPTUALIZATION METHOD AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR STRING PATTERN CONCEPTUALIZATION - A conceptualization method uses maximum or other substrings of a string pattern to find specific N-tuples of substring triples with N≧2 and m=1 . . . N inside a reference set (SET_r_i) of strings (STR_n_i). Each N-tuple is considered as a candidate for representing related concepts. Each concatenation of the substrings triples is an explicit member of the reference set (SET_r_i). Each middle substring out of middle substrings is unequal to another middle substring out of middle substrings within the substring triples found inside the reference set (SET_r_i). Each prefix substring (X_i) is equal to all other prefix substrings (X_i) within the substring triples found inside the reference set (SET_r_i). Each suffix substring (Z_i) is equal to all other prefix substrings (Z_i) within the substring triples found inside the reference set (SET_r_i). Either the prefix substring (X_i) or the suffix substring (Z_i) is not empty. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187561 | CONTENT SEARCH METHOD AND SYSTEM - Provided are a content search method and system, and more particularly, a content search method and system which enable a user to easily access desired search results by reducing the need to input a keyword again or navigate through pages of search results. The content search method includes: receiving a keyword and extracting a list of contents which correspond to the received keyword; adjusting relative weights of one or more attribute information of the contents by using a user interface which can adjust the relative weights; and sequentially listing the contents based on the adjusted weights and providing the contents accordingly. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187562 | SEARCH METHOD - A search method for causing a computer to execute the search method of searching for and retrieving, when a search formula to document data having a hierarchy structure whose elements are delimited by an element identifier is obtained, data corresponding to the search formula from the document data, stores, when the search formula is obtained, the search formula to a memory device; determines, when the data corresponding to the search formula is searched for and retrieved from the document data, whether or not a hierarchy management is necessary to the search formula based on the search formula; and searches for and retrieves, when the hierarchy management is not necessary to the search formula, the document data corresponding to the search formula without executing the hierarchy management. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187563 | Methods for Generating and Indicating a Time Relevant Status for an Operating Entity - A method for generating an operating status at a defined time for an operating entity, comprising the steps of: generating one or more time rules for hours of operation of the operating entity; determining an operating status value by comparing the time with the time rules; and matching an operating status to said operating status value. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187564 | Processor for Fast Phrase Searching - Phrases in a corpus of documents including stopwords are found using a data processor arranged to execute phrase queries. Memory stores an index structure which maps entries in the index structure to documents in the corpus. Entries in the index structure represent words and other entries represent stopwords found in the corpus coalesced with prefixes of respective adjacent words adjacent to the stopwords. The prefixes comprise one or more leading characters of the respective adjacent words. A query processor forms a modified query by substituting a stopword with a search token representing the stopword coalesced with a prefix of the next word in the query. The processor executes the modified query. Also, index structures including coalesced stopwords are created and maintained. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187565 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDLING ITEM LISTINGS WITH GENERIC ATTRIBUTES - A system for storing a plurality of items across different categories in a database including a database that stores a data structure that has item entries for items of different categories. Each item entry includes one or more associated attributes. The attributes may be shared by multiple items across more than one category. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187566 | ASSOCIATING DOCUMENTS WITH CLASSIFICATIONS AND RANKING DOCUMENTS BASED ON CLASSIFICATION WEIGHTS - A method and apparatus for associating documents with classification values and ranking documents based on classification weights is provided. It is determined if a document is associated a classification. If the document is associated with a classification, then it is determined if a classification value, which is associated with the document, is associated with a weight. If the classification value is associated with a weight, then a rank of the document is adjusted based on the weight that is associated with the classification value. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187567 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING VALID CITATION PATTERNS IN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - A system and method are provided for comparing portions of document text with potential citation components, determining if individual portions correspond to a citation component, and determining if a set of portions correspond to a valid citation pattern. A set of valid citation patterns is provided. Each citation pattern may include a specified combination of citation components. The invention further relates to identifying potential citation components from text in a document, analyzing a pattern of the identified citation components by comparing the pattern to a set of stored citation patterns to determine if the potential citation is a type of citation, and if so, is it a valid (and/or invalid) citation pattern. Once citation patterns have been determined in the document, annotations may be inserted into the document, and subsequent action may be taken, for example, generating a list of citations, providing research services, error-handling, and/or providing other options related to the citations. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187568 | FREE STRING MATCH ENCODING AND PREVIEW - A system for entering data in a format that is easy to use, enabling selection of encoding format and displaying the resulting search data string in format to enable generation of byte sets for supplying to free string match algorithm for application to network data. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187569 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A WEB- BASED PEOPLE PICTURE DIRECTORY - An online system and a method for a web-based people picture directory provides collaborative identification of people pictured in the directory. The method includes creating profile templates for each person on earth and storing these profile templates in a central database. Next, populating the profile templates with publicly available basic information and publishing the public profile information in the web-based people picture directory. Next, retrieving a first person's own profile template, uploading the first person's personal pictures and identifying and tagging images of other persons depicted in the first person's personal pictures. Next, cross-correlating and matching the identified images of the other persons depicted in the first person's uploaded personal pictures with profile templates corresponding to the other persons and when there is a match uploading the first person's pictures depicting the identified persons' images into the corresponding profile templates of the depicted persons. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187570 | APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING SUBSCRIPTIONS - An apparatus for controlling subscriptions comprising: a detector operable to detect to a subscription associated with a wildcard topic string; and an analyzer, responsive to the detection of the subscription associated with a wildcard topic string and a topic string of a topic node matching the wildcard topic string, for analyzing a first attribute of the topic node; and means for determining whether a subscriber associated with the subscription should receive a message associated with the topic string of the topic node. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187571 | Method Of Putting Items Into Categories According To Rank - A method of putting items into categories according to rank divides the items into a plurality of groups. The method then performs a first ranking of the items in each group, such that each item has a set of befores and a set of afters. A set of befores is the set of items that are ranked higher an item; a set of afters is the set of items that are ranked lower than an item. The method selects at least one set of items for a subsequent ranking. The method then performs the subsequent ranking of the items of the selected set of items. The method then cascades the befores and afters of the items of the selected set of items according to the subsequent ranking. The method then determines which, if any, of the items are categorized and removes any categorized items from consideration. The method repeats the selecting, subsequent ranking, cascading, and determining steps all items have been categorized. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187572 | Systems and methods for providing access to instructional content - Methods and apparatus are provided for locating trustworthy how-to content (e.g., on the Internet), and providing access to such content (e.g., via a web site). Some embodiments provide a method for making trustworthy how-to content accessible, which method includes locating an item of how-to content made available for access by a provider; creating at least one how-to entry corresponding to the item of how-to content which enables a user to access the how-to content and which includes some indication of the source (and thus also, to a user familiar with the source, an indication of the quality) of the how-to content; and providing the user with access to the how-to entry via at least one network (e.g., the Internet). | 2009-07-23 |
20090187573 | REPRESENTING MODELS IN SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT LIFECYCLE (SDLC) TOOLS USING A NETWORK OF INTERNET RESOURCES - In the present solution, as set of SDLC resources can be established, where each is separately addressable through a unique URL and is able to be managed through a simple set of operations. For example, a set of RESTful operations (GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE) can be used for the operations. Database management technologies can be leveraged for storing and indexing resources, but the underlying database schema for the solution can operate on a resource level, which results in the resources being stored as-is. Thus, storage (even when database based) of resources for the solution can be considered an Internet server exposing a space of URL addressable objects. Because the solution leverages Internet technologies and standards, it is scalable, standards based, extensible, and traceable. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187574 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NETWORK INTERACTION BETWEEN COMPUTING DEVICES - The present specification provides, amongst other things, a method and system for network interaction between computing devices. In one embodiment a wireless client machine is provided that includes a mini web-browser that is configured to access a secure web-page from a web-server. The secure web-page includes an interactive form. The wireless client machine is also configured to access a schema that corresponds to the secure web-page. The wireless client machine is configured to render the secure web-page using the contents of the schema. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187575 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USE IN PROVIDING INFORMATION TO ACCESSING CONTENT - The present embodiments provide methods, apparatuses, and systems for use in identifying one or more sources of content by receiving a request to supply a listing of registered content providers; identifying a first registered content identifier (ID); evaluating a first metadata directly associated with the first registered content ID, and identifying multiple registered content providers; identifying, for each identified content providers, a cost to access the first content, and a link to access the corresponding content provider; generating a listing of content providers comprising a list of each of the identified content providers and their corresponding costs and links; and communicating over the distributed network the listing of content providers. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187576 | TAG SYNDICATES - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to social bookmarking and provide a method, system and computer program product for tag syndicates in a social bookmarking system. In an embodiment of the invention, a tag syndicate method can be provided. The method can include establishing different tag syndicates, each tag syndicate providing a specified set of users of a social bookmarking system. The method further can include selecting at least one tag syndicate for use in conducting a content operation, and performing a content operation utilizing the social bookmarking system based upon the selected tag syndicate or syndicates. In this regard, the content operation can be a visible operation such as a type ahead operation, or a logical operation such as sorting content search results. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187577 | System and Method Providing Audio-on-Demand to a User's Personal Online Device as Part of an Online Audio Community - A system for a site in a communications network that holds a profile of favorite information sources for each of a plurality of registered users. The system includes a server to check the relevancy of items of audio content from radio and TV stations and items of audio-rendered RSS content from Web sites and pod-casts relative to the profiles. The server also transmits a list of the relevant content to each of the plurality of users accordingly. The system also includes a database for current and archival storage of the content and an RSS server to act as an RSS feed reader to format XML code into an easily readable format. Thus, each of the plurality of users is provided with a service enabling him to request items from the list and to listen to the requested relevant audio content at his convenience using a personal handheld device. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187578 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information processing device is provided that performs content transfer with a content storage device on which is stored content that has content identification information, the information processing device including: a storage portion that stores content that has content identification information and records at least one of a first attribute and a second attribute that correspond to the content identification information for each of the content; a content extractor that extracts, from among the content stored in the storage portion, the content for transfer to the content storage device; and a transmission portion that transmits the content extracted by the content extractor to the content storage device in an order that is based on the first attribute and the second attribute, while giving priority to the first attribute. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187579 | System, Method and Product for Processing Utility Data - A system, method and computer program product for providing data from a plurality of physically separate databases storing utility data to a plurality of software applications is provided. In one embodiment, the computer system comprises a first set of adaptors for accessing a plurality of measurement databases that store measurement data supplied via a plurality of nodes and derived from measurements of a plurality of parameters of a power grid, a second set of adaptors configured to access one or more databases that store property data comprising data of the plurality of network nodes, a third set of adaptors configured to access one or more connectivity databases that store connectivity data comprising the connectivity of the plurality of nodes, a node map stored in a memory that includes data sufficient for associating each of the plurality of nodes with at least one of the plurality of separate databases, and a data interface responsive to requests from the plurality of software applications and configured to identify one or more of the adaptors to which to provide data requests based on the node map. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187580 | INTEGRATED VIEW OF MULTI-SOURCED INFORMATION OBJECTS - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to user interface rendering for information objects and provide method, system and computer program product for an integrated view of multi-sourced information objects. In an embodiment of the invention, an attention manager data processing system can be provided. The system can include integrated view logic executing in a computing device and an attention manager user interface generated by program code of the integrated view logic. The user interface can include a grid of quadrants. Each quadrant can correspond to a unique combination of importance and urgency. The quadrant further can include representations of underlying information objects from multiple different sources of information objects. Correspondingly, each information object can include a respective importance and urgency consistent with a corresponding one of the quadrants. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187581 | CONSOLIDATION AND ASSOCIATION OF STRUCTURED AND UNSTRUCTURED DATA ON A COMPUTER FILE SYSTEM - The present invention discloses systems and methods used to consolidate and associate structured and unstructured data together on a file system. File systems are far more efficient for handling unstructured data than conventional databases. File systems can also contain a large volume of structured data serialized in XML (extensible Markup Language). File systems have a lower purchase and maintenance cost than conventional databases. Unfortunately, file systems don't provide fast access to structured data like most databases. File systems also lack the ability to associate data together like relational databases. Solutions to the structured-data access and data association problems are demonstrated in the present invention. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187582 | EFFICIENT UPDATE METHODS FOR LARGE VOLUME DATA UPDATES IN DATA WAREHOUSES - A system and method for ensuring large and frequent updates to a data warehouse. The process leverages a set of temporary staging tables to track the updates. A set of intermediate steps are performed to accomplish bulk deletions of the outdated changed records, and perform modifications to the map tables for models such as snowflake. Finally, bulk load operations load the updates and insert them into the final dimension tables. The process ensures performance comparable to insertion-only schemes with at most only slight performance degradation. Furthermore, a modified process is applied on the newfact data warehouse dimension model. The process can be readily adapted to handle star schema and other hierarchical data warehouse models. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187583 | ENHANCED LABEL CLAIM VALIDATION - The enhanced validation of a label claim, in which identification information uniquely identifying an item that has moved through a node in a supply chain is received, the item being marked with a label claim. Event data associated with the uniquely identified item is received from the node, and received event data that validates or invalidates the label claim is output, in real time or near real time to receiving the identification information. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187584 | Query-aware sampling of data streams - A system, method and computer-readable medium provide for assigning sampling methods to each input stream for arbitrary query sets in a data stream management system. The method embodiment comprises splitting all query nodes in a query directed acyclic graph (DAG) having multiple parent nodes into sets of independent nodes having a single parent, computing a grouping set for every node in each set of independent nodes, reconciling each parent node with each child node in each set of independent node, reconciling between multiple child nodes that share a parent node and generating a final grouping set for at least one node describing how to sample an input stream for that node. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187585 | COMPARING VERY LARGE XML DATA - Comparing very large XML data. In one embodiment, a first and second XML data received for comparison are stored in the form of respective multiple rows in a database. A first and second set of rows (respectively corresponding to the first and second XML data) having the same value corresponding to a key are retrieved from the database and examined to form a comparison result. The same operations may be performed for each value of the key (and also other keys) present in either of the XML data sets. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187586 | SELECTING VARIOUS ALGORITHMS TO COMPRESS COLUMNS OF ANALYTIC DATA IN A READ-ONLY RELATIONAL DATABASE IN A MANNER THAT ALLOWS DECOMPRESSION OF THE COMPRESSED DATA USING MINIMAL SYSTEM RESOURCES - A method, computer program product and system for balancing compression efficiency against access performance. Source data is read from a database row by row and column by column within each row. Algorithm(s) are selected to compress the data read for each column. Algorithms are selected in a manner that closely maximizes the amount of data stored in a given amount of disk space but requires minimal system resources to decompress the compressed data. These algorithms are stored in a control block. Further, parameters that allow the read data to be stored in a compressed manner efficiently are stored in the control block. Upon a second reading of the source data, data is compressed column by column using the appropriate algorithms and parameters. The compressed data may then be decompressed using the appropriate algorithms and parameters. In this manner, a better balance may be realized between compression efficiency and access performance. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187587 | Managing feature data based on spatial collections - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with registering a WFS feature type are described. One example method includes creating a feature instance table and a set of collection item tables to register the WFS feature type. Elements in the feature instance table and a collection item table may be related by a feature instance primary key value. The example method may also include producing an r-tree based spatial index for spatial content collection items stored in the set of collection item tables. The method may also include selectively processing a WFS request to manipulate (e.g., insert, delete, update) a WFS feature instance based, at least in part, on the feature instance table and the set of collection item tables. The method may also include selectively processing a WFS query associated with a WFS feature instance based, at least in part, on the r-tree based spatial index. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187588 | DISTRIBUTED INDEXING OF FILE CONTENT - Described herein is technology for, among other things, distributed indexing of file content. Content-based indexing the file involves determining whether content-based index information for the file is available from an external source. This avoids repeating already-performed content analysis, which is time consuming and computationally intensive especially for non-text files. The content-based index information, if it is available, is received from the external source and may be stored. If the content-based index information is not available or is not complete, content-based index information for the file is generated and stored. Moreover, the generated content-based index information is shared with the external source. Once content analysis of the file is performed to generate content-based index information for the file, the content-based index information is available and sharable as needed. There is no need to repeat the same content analysis on the file. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187589 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING DATA CLUSTERS - A method and system for managing data clusters is provided. A first data cluster is generated having a first data object and a second data object. The first data cluster has a strict hierarchy between the first data object and the second data object. A first object reference from the first data object to the second data object is extracted. The first object reference is stored in a first reference container. A second object reference from the first data object to a third data object is extracted. The third data object is stored in a second data cluster. The second object reference is stored in a second reference container. The second object reference is stored in a second reference container. A memory access is provided to the first data cluster based on the first object reference and the second object reference | 2009-07-23 |
20090187590 | DATABASE CREATION METHOD, DATABASE DEVICE AND DESIGN DATA EVALUATION METHOD - A database creation method relating to semiconductor ICs, the database registering function block cells constituting a design data of semiconductor IC and evaluation values corresponding to the function block cells such that the function block cells are associated with the evaluation values, for each of the semiconductor ICs, the creation method includes judging whether or not that function block cells constituting a design data of desired semiconductor IC include an unregistered function block cell which is not registered in the database, calculating an unregistered evaluation value corresponding to the unregistered function block cell when the function block cells constituting the design data of the desired semiconductor IC are judged to include the unregistered function block cell, and updating the database by registering the unregistered function block cell and the unregistered evaluation value such that the unregistered function block cell is associated with the unregistered evaluation value. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187591 | Retrieving database records for aggregation without redundant database read operations - Various exemplary embodiments are a computer-readable medium encoded with a database, a system including a database, and a related method including one or more of the following: a plurality of tables, each table configured to store a respective data set comprising at least one row of data and each table associated with a respective unique counter type of a plurality of unique counter types, wherein the respective unique counter type substitutes for an entry shared by each row of data in the respective data set; determining a counter from a set of data stored in the database; generating a plurality of tables; and inserting at least one row from the set of data into each table of the plurality of tables. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187592 | WEB DOCUMENT USER EXPERIENCE CHARACTERIZATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Methods and systems are provided that may be used to characterize in some manner the performance that a user may experience when accessing a web document. An exemplary method may include accessing at least one performance characteristic associated with at least a portion of a computing environment adapted for sharing at least one web document, and establishing user experience information associated with the web document based, at least in part, on the performance characteristic. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187593 | Methods and Apparatus for Targeted Media Content Delivery and Acquisition in a Wireless Communication Network - Apparatus, methods and computer program products are provided for targeted media content acquisition on a wireless device. The wireless device selects media content to receive based on a resident user profile, locally constructed based on passive user data, active user data and user inference data drawn from the passive and active user data. Additionally, aspects provide for grouping of the media content prior to distribution, including communicating groups of related data in unison to limit the number of times that a wireless device needs to tune-in and/or wake-up to receive the media content, thereby reducing power consumption. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187594 | Method and System for Creation and Reuse of Concise Business Schemas Using a Canonical Library - An exemplary feature is a method for using XML Schema based standards. The method consists of constructing a reduced schema for a specific interaction from a collection of reusable artifacts. The method further consists of publishing the reduced schema in a repository thereby allowing the reduced schema to be reused. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187595 | MANAGING CONFIGURATION ITEMS - There is provided a method for managing a plurality of configuration items. The method includes holding, at a repository, for each configuration item, one set of data indicating at least one predetermined attribute of the configuration item and a relationship with another configuration item. The method also includes detecting, at a discovery section, information on configuration items. The discovery section performs subsequent detection based on at least one of a predetermined attribute and a predetermined relationship in a new set of data created from the information detected by the discovery section. | 2009-07-23 |
20090187596 | Managing Configuration Items - A computer system is disclosed that includes a repository, a discovery section, a determining section, and a data creating section. The repository holds, for each configuration item, data indicating at least one predetermined attribute of the configuration item and a relationship with another configuration item. The discovery section detects information on configuration items. The determining section determines association of a first configuration item with a second configuration item and association of the first configuration item with a third configuration item. The data creating section creates common data including an attribute common to attributes of the first configuration item associated with the second configuration item and attributes of the first configuration item associated with the third configuration item and plural derived data items, each including an attribute that is not common thereto. The common data and the plural derived data items are stored in the repository. | 2009-07-23 |