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20080243781 | MANAGING DISTRIBUTED INDEX DATA - This disclosure provides various embodiments of systems, methods, and software for managing distributed index data. For example, in one embodiment, software for managing distributed index data may identify a query for one or more data objects from a data repository using a generic index, map the query to one of a plurality of logically distributed indices according to at least one rule, and execute the mapped query using the particular distributed index to retrieve the one or more data objects. Each distributed index may be in a disparate index repository that is on a disparate storage device. In some aspects, the one or more rules may include a plurality of business rules, as well as at least one technical rule, which may be stored in a rules repository. In further aspects, an administration view may be presented to a client such that one of the business rules is customized. | 10-02-2008 |
20090150431 | Managing relationships of heterogeneous objects - Software for managing relationships between heterogeneous objects is operable to identify a target object. The software automatically determines related objects using at least one object type application programming interface (API) for an object type associated with the target object. The software is further operable to populate a relationship data structure based on the determined relationships. The software can then provide the relationship data structure to a requesting module. | 06-11-2009 |
20090150906 | Automatic electronic discovery of heterogeneous objects for litigation - Software for automatically managing electronic discovery receives a request for electronic objects, where the request is associated with a litigation matter and the requested objects comprise at least a first object of a first object type and a second object of a second object type. The example software is further operable to automatically execute an electronic discovery process for the objects based on the request and a rules repository to identify a plurality of discovery objects. | 06-11-2009 |
20090164979 | SYSTEM LANDSCAPE TRACE - This disclosure provides various implementations for supporting multiple system and application tracing. In one aspect, software can generate a globally unique identifier (GUID) for a first business process associated with a trace and transmit the GUID to a remote computer for association with a second business process related to the first business process. In another aspect, the software can identify a GUID for a trace that is executing for a first business process that is associated with a first application. The software can then associate the GUID with a second trace for a second business process related to the first business process, where the second business process is associated with a second heterogeneous application disparate from the first application. In some instances, the GUID may comprise a combination of a system identifier, a business process identifier, and a time identifier. | 06-25-2009 |
20100287553 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND SOFTWARE FOR CONTROLLED INTERRUPTION OF BATCH JOB PROCESSING - This disclosure provides various embodiments of software, systems, and techniques for controlled interruption of batch job processing. In one instance, a tangible computer readable medium stores instructions for managing batch jobs, where the instructions are operable when executed by a processor to identify an interruption event associated with a batch job queue. The instructions trigger an interruption of an executing batch job within the job queue such that the executed portion of the job is marked by a restart point embedded within the executable code. The instructions then restart the interrupted batch job at the restart point. | 11-11-2010 |
20120030180 | ARCHIVE-SYSTEM-INDEPENDENT ARCHIVE-TYPE OBJECTS - This disclosure provides various embodiments for archiving a business object. At least one particular business object is identified for archiving. The particular business object has associated data including type data corresponding to a business object type of the at least one particular business object, structured business data, and unstructured attachment data. At least one archive-type object is created corresponding to the particular business object by enriching the unstructured attachment data with type-specific metadata including data identifying at least one attribute of the business object type. The archive-type object is archive-system-independent. The at least one archive-type object is exported to at least one archiving system for storage in at least one memory device of the archiving system. | 02-02-2012 |
20130018926 | Generating Report of Identifiers and Time ValuesAANM Schmidt; OlafAACI WalldorfAACO DEAAGP Schmidt; Olaf Walldorf DEAANM Fischer; Martin P.AACI HeidelbergAACO DEAAGP Fischer; Martin P. Heidelberg DE - Among other disclosure, a computer-implemented method for business process reporting includes receiving, at a server device, a first identifier of a business document, the business document being an instance of a business document type and having a first timestamp. The method includes polling multiple systems with the first identifier using the server device, the polling requesting (i) second identifiers for related objects of the business document according to a relationship model that is local to the system being polled, and (ii) metadata associated with the second identifiers, including second timestamps associated with the related objects; performing polling of at least some of the multiple systems with the second identifiers and any subsequently received identifiers using the server device, until the polling has been performed for all received identifiers. The method includes generating a report regarding the business document, the report including at least the received identifiers and all received timestamps. | 01-17-2013 |
20130117289 | CONTENT MIGRATION FRAMEWORK - The present disclosure involves computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for supporting migration of unstructured data stored in enterprise content management systems. A computer-implemented method includes generating a search for content matching at least one content search rule, receiving a list of matched documents, wherein each document in the list of matched documents is associated with at least a source repository identifier and a unique document identifier, calculating a target repository identifier and at least one metadata change instruction for each unique document identifier using at least one migration rule, and modifying metadata for the document associated with each unique document identifier using the calculated at least one metadata change instruction. | 05-09-2013 |
20140222756 | AUTOMATIC MIGRATION FOR ON-PREMISE DATA OBJECTS TO ON-DEMAND DATA OBJECTS - Methods, systems, apparatus, and computer programs encoded on computer storage medium for automatically migrating on-premise data objects used by an on-premise application to on-demand data objects used by an on-demand application including retrieving mapping rules corresponding to the on-premise data objects from a rule repository; extracting data corresponding to on-premise data objects that are affected during execution of the on-premise application, the on-premise application being executed within an on-premise computing environment, the data being stored in an on-premise database based on an on-premise database schema; generating an export file comprising the data; generating an import file based on the export file and the mapping rules, the import file comprising the data; and providing the import file to an on-demand computing environment that hosts the on-demand application, the import file being process-able by the on-demand computing environment to write the data from the import file into an on-demand database. | 08-07-2014 |
20140365659 | LOAD CONTROLLER FRAMEWORK - The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer-implemented methods for controlling service load in a cloud-based system. An example method includes receiving a first request for the network service from a client, evaluating a load condition associated with the network service, the load condition indicating an availability of the network service to receive requests, returning a unique token associated with the first request to the client in response to the load condition indicating that the network service is not available to receive the requests, receiving a second request for the network service from the client, the second request including at least a portion of the first request and the unique token, evaluating the load condition associated with the network service, and prioritizing the second request based on the unique token in response to the load condition indicating that the network service is available to receive the requests. | 12-11-2014 |
20160063056 | GENERIC UTILIZATION OF ON-PREMISE QUERY FRAMEWORKS BY NEW ON-DEMAND APPLICATIONS - The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and computer program products for allowing reuse of existing query frameworks to build new on-demand services. One design-time computer-implemented method includes transmitting a request for available reports to a report repository which is transmitted to a generic report provider on a backend enterprise reporting planning (ERP) system, transmitting a request to a report catalog user interface for a selected report returned by the generic report provider, transmitting a request for metadata to the generic report provider. One run-time computer-implemented method includes receiving a data request for bound result set elements provided by on-demand services, checking authorization for access using an authorizations repository, requesting routing information for applicable back-end ERP systems from a report repository, routing requests to a generic report provider of an appropriate backend ERP system, and triggering a report execution using a corresponding adapter for a query framework on the ERP system. | 03-03-2016 |
20160098293 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND SOFTWARE FOR CONTROLLED INTERRUPTION OF BATCH JOB PROCESSING - This disclosure provides various embodiments of software, systems, and techniques for controlled interruption of batch job processing. In one instance, a tangible computer readable medium stores instructions for managing batch jobs, where the instructions are operable when executed by a processor to identify an interruption event associated with a batch job queue. The instructions trigger an interruption of an executing batch job within the job queue such that the executed portion of the job is marked by a restart point embedded within the executable code. The instructions then restart the interrupted batch job at the restart point. | 04-07-2016 |
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20150370376 | Force Determination Based on Capacitive Sensing - A device configured to determine the location and magnitude of a touch on a surface of the device. The device includes a transparent touch sensor that is configured to detect a location of a touch on the transparent touch sensor. The device also includes a force-sensing structure disposed at the periphery of the transparent touch sensor. The force sensor includes an upper capacitive plate and a compressible element disposed on one side of the upper capacitive plate. The force sensor also includes a lower capacitive plate disposed on a side of the compressible element that is opposite the upper capacitive plate. | 12-24-2015 |
20150370396 | Force Sensing Based on Capacitance Changes - A force sensing device for electronic device. The force inputs may be detected by measuring changes in capacitance, as measured by surface flex of a device having a flexible touchable surface, causing flex at a compressible gap within the device. A capacitive sensor responsive to changes in distance across the compressible gap. The sensor can be positioned above or below, or within, a display element, and above or below, or within, a backlight unit. The device can respond to bending, twisting, or other deformation, to adjust those zero force measurements. The device can use measure of surface flux that appear at positions on the surface not directly the subject of applied force, such as when the user presses on a part of the frame or a surface without capacitive sensors. | 12-24-2015 |
20160054826 | Ultrasound-Based Force Sensing - A force sensing device for computer or electronic devices. The force sensing device is configured to determine an amount of force applied, and changes in amounts of force applied, by the user when contacting a device, such as a touch device, and which can be incorporated into devices using touch recognition, touch elements of a graphical user interface, and touch input or manipulation in an application program. Additionally, the force sensing device may determine an amount of force applied, and changes in amounts of force applied, by the user when contacting a device, such as a touch device, and in response thereto, provide additional functions available to a user of a touch device, track pad, or the like. | 02-25-2016 |
20160062497 | Ultrasound-Based Force Sensing and Touch Sensing - An input/output device for a computing device including one or more touch sensors and one or more force sensors. The touch sensors sense data including one or more locations at which a contact or near-contact occurs. The force sensor sense data including a measure of an amount of force presented at the one or more locations at which a contact occurs. The touch sensors and the force sensors responsive to signals occurring in response to whether the signals are in response to contact or in response to an amount of force. The input/output device also includes one or more circuits coupled to the touch sensors and to the force sensors, and capable of combining information from both sensors. | 03-03-2016 |
20160062498 | Ultrasound-Based Force and Touch Sensing - A touch input/output device for a computing device. The touch device includes a touch sensor for providing touch location information and a force sensor for providing force of touch information. The touch sensor determines touch location information. The force sensor determines the force of touch information. Both the touch sensor and the force sensor are integrated into a circuit responsive to signals, the signals occurring at discernible times in response to whether the signals are in response to contact or in response to an amount of force. Additionally, the touch device includes a circuit coupled to the touch sensor and to the force sensor, and capable of combining information from the touch sensors and from the force sensors. | 03-03-2016 |
20160062530 | Ultrasound-Based Force Sensing of Inputs - An electronic device that senses home button inputs through ultrasonic force sensing. The electronic device may correlate that amount of force that a user applies to the home button with a specific home button command. In certain embodiments, the system may combine the force of touch information with other information that is sensed for a particular touch to correlate the touch input with a greater number of home button commands. A home button embodiment discussed herein may include a home button image that is displayed on a touch sensitive panel. In other embodiments, a home button may be located outside of the boundaries of a touch sensitive panel. | 03-03-2016 |
20160098131 | Force Sensor Incorporated into Display - A force-sensitive device for electronic device. The force inputs may be detected by measuring changes in capacitance, as measured by surface flex of a device having a flexible touchable surface, causing flex at a compressible gap within the device. A capacitive sensor responsive to changes in distance across the compressible gap. The sensor can be positioned above or below, or within, a display element, and above or below, or within, a backlight unit. The device can respond to bending, twisting, or other deformation, to adjust those zero force measurements. The device can use measure of surface flux that appear at positions on the surface not directly the subject of applied force, such as when the user presses on a part of the frame or a surface without capacitive sensors. | 04-07-2016 |
20160103542 | Force Sensor Incorporated into Display - A force-sensitive device for electronic device. The force inputs may be detected by measuring changes in capacitance, as measured by surface flex of a device having a flexible touchable surface, causing flex at a compressible gap within the device. A capacitive sensor responsive to changes in distance across the compressible gap. The sensor can be positioned above or below, or within, a display element, and above or below, or within, a backlight unit. The device can respond to bending, twisting, or other deformation, to adjust those zero force measurements. The device can use measure of surface flux that appear at positions on the surface not directly the subject of applied force, such as when the user presses on a part of the frame or a surface without capacitive sensors. | 04-14-2016 |
20160103544 | Force Determination Employing Sheet Sensor and Capacitive Array - A device configured to sense a touch on a surface of the device. The device includes a cover and a force-sensing structure disposed below the cover. The force-sensing structure may be positioned below a display and used in combination with other force-sensing elements to estimate the force of a touch on the cover of a device. | 04-14-2016 |
20160103545 | Temperature Compensating Transparent Force Sensor Having a Complliant Layer - An optically transparent force sensor that may compensate for environmental effects, including, for example, variations in temperature of the device or the surroundings. In some examples, two force-sensitive layers are separated by a compliant layer. The relative electrical response of the two force-sensitive layers may be used to compute an estimate of the force of a touch that reduces the effect of variations in temperature. In some examples, piezoelectric films having anisotropic strain properties are used to reduce the effects of temperature. | 04-14-2016 |
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20130076614 | ACCESSORY DEVICE - Accurate and reliable techniques for determining information of an accessory device in relation to an electronic device are described. | 03-28-2013 |
20130154998 | Electronic Device with Noise-Cancelling Force Sensor - An electronic device may have a housing in which components such as a display are mounted. A strain gauge may be mounted on a layer of the display such as a cover layer or may be mounted on a portion of the housing or other support structure. The layer of material on which the strain gauge is mounted may be configured to flex in response to pressure applied by a finger of a user. The strain gauge may serve as a button for the electronic device or may form part of other input circuitry. A differential amplifier and analog-to-digital converter circuit may be used to gather and process strain gauge signals. The strain gauge may be formed form variable resistor structures that make up part of a bridge circuit that is coupled to the differential amplifier. The bridge circuit may be configured to reduce the impact of capacitively coupled noise. | 06-20-2013 |
20130221988 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR TESTING FLEX CABLE SHIELDING - Methods and devices for testing flex cable shielding of a consumer electronic device are provided. In one example, a method may include applying a signal across a first portion of the flex cable shielding and a second portion of the flex cable shielding. The method may also include detecting a parameter associated with the signal. The method may include determining a health of the flex cable shielding based at least partially on the detected parameter. | 08-29-2013 |
20140016043 | Touch Screen Display with Transparent Electrical Shielding Layer - A polarizer includes a polarizer component having a top surface and an opposite bottom surface. The bottom surface is configured to couple to a color filter layer for a liquid crystal display. The polarizer also includes a transparent conducting layer disposed over the top surface. The transparent conducting layer being configured to electrically shield the LCD from a touch panel. The polarizer further includes a coating layer disposed over the transparent conducting layer. | 01-16-2014 |
20140092052 | Frustrated Total Internal Reflection and Capacitive Sensing - Detecting force and touch using FTIR and capacitive location. FTIR determines applied force by the user's finger within infrared transmit lines on a touch device. A pattern of such lines determine optical coupling with the touch device. Capacitive sensing can determine (A) where the finger actually touches, so the touch device more accurately infers applied force; (B) whether finger touches shadow each other; (C) as a baseline for applied force; or (D) whether attenuated reflection is due to a current optical coupling, or is due to an earlier optical coupling, such as a smudge on the cover glass. If there is attenuated reflection without actual touching, the touch device can reset a baseline for applied force for the area in which that smudge remains. Infrared transmitters and receivers are positioned where they are not visible to a user, such as below a frame or mask for the cover glass. | 04-03-2014 |
20160097882 | Touch Screen Display with Transparent Electrical Shielding Layer - A polarizer includes a polarizer component having a top surface and an opposite bottom surface. The bottom surface is configured to couple to a color filter layer for a liquid crystal display. The polarizer also includes a transparent conducting layer disposed over the top surface. The transparent conducting layer being configured to electrically shield the LCD from a touch panel. The polarizer further includes a coating layer disposed over the transparent conducting layer. | 04-07-2016 |
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20090048319 | Method of Using a Micronutrient as Safener for a Triazole for Controlling Harmful Fungi - A method of using a micronutrient selected from the group consisting of salts and adducts of Mg, Ca, B, Mn, Fe, Co and Zn and Mo as a safener for a triazole, selected from the group consisting of azaconazole, bitertanol, bromuconazole, cyproconazole, difenoconazole, diniconazole, enilconazole, epoxiconazole, fenbuconazole, fluquinconazole, flusilazole, flutriafol, hexaconazole, imibenconazole, ipconazole, metconazole, myclobutanil, penconazole, propiconazole, prothioconazole, simeconazole, tebuconazole, tetraconazole, triadimenol, triadimefon and triticonazole or salts or adducts thereof for controlling harmful fungi. | 02-19-2009 |
20110301029 | Composition and Method for Improving Plant Health - The present invention relates to plant-protecting active ingredient mixtures comprising, as active components, a neonicotinoid and one or two fungicides selected from pyraclostrobin and boscalid, in synergistically effective amounts and to a method of improving the health of plants by to the plants or the locus thereof by applying said mixtures. | 12-08-2011 |
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20100050720 | Passive nutrient removal material mixes - Materials, compositions, substances and methods and systems for stormwater treatment in wet ponds, dry ponds and a green roof system. A first embodiment provides in-situ treatment unit within the retention pond by withdrawing the stored stormwater to circulate the stored stormwater into the in-situ treatment unit to sorb nitrogen from the stored stormwater. A second embodiment provides uses a riprap apron, a perforated riser located at the bottom of the riprap apron and a geotextile media encased in a sorption media jacket around the perforated riser. A third embodiment provides a green roof stormwater treatment system that includes protection for waterproofing and insulating the roof, a pollution control media layer for filtration and sorption of solids and dissolved materials found in stormwater, a growing media for growing vegetation, and a cistern to store the runoff stormwater between irrigation events. The green roof system includes recycling runoff stormwater by irrigating the green roof with the stored stormwater. | 03-04-2010 |
20100051540 | Retention/Detention Pond And Green Roof Passive Nutrient Removal Material Mixes - Materials, compositions, substances and methods and systems for stormwater treatment in wet ponds, dry ponds and a green roof system. A first embodiment provides in-situ treatment unit within the retention pond by withdrawing the stored stormwater to circulate the stored stormwater into the in-situ treatment unit to sorb nitrogen from the stored stormwater. A second embodiment provides uses a riprap apron, a perforated riser located at the bottom of the riprap apron and a goetextile media encased in a sorption media jacket around the perforated riser. A third embodiment provides a green roof stormwater treatment system that includes protection for waterproofing and insulating the roof, a pollution control media layer for filtration and sorption of solids and dissolved materials found in stormwater, a growing media for growing vegetation, and a cistern to store the runoff stormwater between irrigation events. The green roof system includes recycling runoff stormwater by irrigating the green roof with the stored stormwater. | 03-04-2010 |
20100059437 | Passive Underground Drainfield For Septic Tank Nutrient Removal Using Functionalized Green Filtration Media - Methods, systems and compositions for a green sorption media for bioretention soil amendments in drainfields for on-site waste water systems filled with the green sorption media to foster an anaerobic or anoxic environment saturated. The green sorption media includes one or more recycled materials, including tire crumb, sawdust, orange peel, coconut husks, leaf compost, oyster shell, soy bean hulls and one or more naturally occurring materials including peat, sands, zeolites, and clay. The wastewater filtration system for a passive drainfield includes the green sorption material mixture, a cell including baffled compartments and a riser, the cell filled with green sorption material mixture to provide an alternating cycle of aerobic and anoxic environments, an influent distribution system to distribute the influent over the cell, and a piping system arranged for dosing the cell to sustain the functionality of the green sorption material mixture to remove nutrient content in wastewater. | 03-11-2010 |
20100062933 | Functionalized green filtration media for passive underground drainfield for septic tank nutrient removal - Methods, systems and compositions for a green sorption media for bioretention soil amendments in drainfields for on-site waste water systems filled with the green sorption media to foster an anaerobic or anoxic environment saturated. The green sorption media includes one or more recycled materials, including tire crumb, sawdust, orange peel, coconut husks, leaf compost, oyster shell, soy bean hulls and one or more naturally occurring materials including peat, sands, zeolites, and clay. The wastewater filtration system for a passive drainfield includes the green sorption material mixture, a cell including baffled compartments and a riser, the cell filled with green sorption material mixture to provide an alternating cycle of aerobic and anoxic environments, an influent distribution system to distribute the influent over the cell, and a piping system arranged for dosing the cell to sustain the functionality of the green sorption material mixture to remove nutrient content in wastewater. | 03-11-2010 |