20th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 64 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120124013 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING DEDUPLICATED COPIES OF DATA STORING NON-LOSSY ENCODINGS OF DATA DIRECTLY IN A CONTENT ADDRESSABLE STORE - Systems and methods are disclosed for storing deduplicated images in which a portion of the image is stored in encoded form directly in a hash table, the method comprising: organizing unique content of each data object as a plurality of content segments and storing the content segments in a data store; receiving content to be included in the deduplicated image of the data object; determining if the received content may be encoded using a predefined non-lossy encoding technique and in which the encoded value would fit within the field for containing a hash signature; if so, placing the encoding in the field and marking the hash structure to indicate that the field contains encoded content; otherwise, generating a hash signature for the received content and placing the hash signature in the field and placing the received content in a corresponding content segment if it is unique. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124014 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING DEDUPLICATED COPIES OF DATA BY SENDING DIFFERENCE DATA BETWEEN NEAR-NEIGHBOR TEMPORAL STATES - Systems and methods are disclosed for using a first deduplicating store to update a second deduplicating store with information representing how data objects change over time, said method comprising: at a first and a second deduplicating store, for each data object, maintaining an organized arrangement of temporal structures to represent a corresponding data object over time, wherein each structure is associated with a temporal state of the data object and wherein the logical arrangement of structures is indicative of the changing temporal states of the data object; finding a temporal state that is common to and in temporal proximity to the current state of the first and second deduplicating stores; and compiling and sending a set of hash signatures for the content that has changed from the common state to the current temporal state of the first deduplicating store. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124015 | METHOD FOR DATABASE CONSOLIDATION AND DATABASE SEPARATION - Methods for consolidating databases while maintaining data integrity are disclosed. A source database and target database are compared, and consolidated, and the consolidated databases are used. In other examples, a database is split to support divested entities. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124016 | ACTIVE MEMORY EXPANSION IN A DATABASE ENVIRONMENT TO QUERY NEEDED/UNEEDED RESULTS - Techniques are described for estimating and managing memory compression for request processing. Embodiments of the invention may generally include receiving a request for data, determining if the requested data contains any compressed data, and sending the requesting entity only the uncompressed data. A separate embodiment generally includes receiving a request for data, determining if the requested data contains any compressed data, gathering uncompression criteria about the requested data, and using the uncompression criteria to selectively determine what portion of the compressed data to uncompress. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124017 | COMPRESSION METHOD, DECOMPRESSION METHOD, COMPRESSION UNIT, DECOMPRESSION UNIT AND COMPRESSED DOCUMENT - A structured document having at least one informational unit with at least one character is divided, according to a first base type, into sections of a second base type. The sections are compressed according to specified compression instructions for the second base type to achieve an increased rate of compression. The informational elements may be expressed in an XML language. The compression method and corresponding compression unit, decompression method and decompression unit can be applied in the area of initialization of end devices, such as in systems engineering or in the IT consumer industry. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124018 | METHOD, PROGRAM, AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING OBJECT IN COMPUTER - A method, an article of manufacture, and system for heapifying an object. The method includes: storing, in a working set, a first address of a certain object in a stack frame, copying the certain object into the heap area and holding a second address of the certain object in the heap area, following each stack frame to find a pointer pointing to the first address stored in the working set, converting the address that the pointer points to into the second address, proceeding to a next stack frame, where the address conversion includes storing an address of another object in the working set if the converted address is stored as a value of a field of the other object in the stack frame, and terminating the process in response to a lack of pointers found in the stack frame to point to the addresses stored in the working set. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124019 | COMPRESSION OF TABLES BASED ON OCCURRENCE OF VALUES - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for compression of tables based on occurrence of values. In general, a number representing an amount of occurrences of a frequently occurring value in a group of adjacent rows of a column is generated, a vector representing whether the frequently occurring value exists in a row of the column is generated, and the number and the vector are stored to enable searches of the data represented by the number and the vector. The vector may omit a portion representing the group of adjacent rows. The values may be dictionary-based compression values representing business data such as business objects. The compression may be performed in-memory, in parallel, to improve memory utilization, network bandwidth consumption, and processing performance. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124020 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD - The file size of a binder document in a document management server that manages a version of a binder document is reduced. When updating a binder document, it is determined whether an original document included in the binder document of a past version includes a same document as an original document included in the binder document of a new version. If it is determined that the original document includes the same document, reference information regarding the same document in the binder document of the past version is stored as information corresponding to the original document of the new version. On the other hand, if it is determined that the original document does not include the same document, an entity file of the original document is stored as information corresponding to the original document of the new version. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124021 | TRANSACTION LOG MANAGEMENT - Managing a log-full condition of a transaction log in a transaction processing system, where the transaction log has a plurality of log records each associated with a particular transaction. When a log-full condition is detected, the active transaction having the oldest log entry of all active transactions is identified and logging for all transactions except for the identified transaction is temporarily suspended. A dynamic transaction backout of the identified transaction is initiated, with the writing of a backout record for the identified transaction to the log being delayed. Confirmation that the backout has completed is awaited before trimming the log. Then the delayed backout record for the identified transaction is written to the log, and normal logging is resumed. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124022 | Intelligent Agent and Manager System and Method - A system having an agent manager and a plurality of agents for assisting a user in reaching a conclusion is provided in at least one embodiment. In at least one embodiment, the system is in communication with at least one database housing information to be analyzed by at least one of the agents. Further embodiments include the operation of the system and its interaction with the at least one database. In at least one further embodiment, the method includes the development and publication of the agents. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124023 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - Information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program are provided. An information processing apparatus includes the following elements. A receiver receives a command requesting for the execution of predetermined processing. A storage unit stores data and first information indicating, among a plurality of stages in a lifecycle of the information processing apparatus, the current stage determined by the stored data and second information indicating an executable command in the current stage, the executable command being determined for each of the plurality of stages. A determining unit determines on the basis of the first information and the second information whether the command received by the receiver is an executable command in the current stage. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124024 | EXTENSIBLE DATA PROVIDER QUERYING AND SCHEDULING SYSTEM - Embodiments provide a query and aggregation layer that is communicatively coupled to, and independent of, a presentation layer and a storage layer. The query and aggregation layer includes a data model configured to expose an access mechanism that is usable to access different data sources in the storage layer. A search query is received from the presentation layer, and one or more data providers identified in the search query are ascertained. At least some of the data providers are creatable on a same thread as that of the data model. Also, the search query is issued to identified data providers in the query and aggregation layer effective to cause the identified data providers to execute the search query on data sources associated with the identified data providers. Additionally, search results are received at the data model from the identified data providers and returned to the presentation layer. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124025 | Method for Querying a Search Word Via SMS and Sending a Search Engine Results to Mobile Devices - The present invention relates to a method for sending the content about which information is desired to be obtained to a number as a short message (SMS) and sending the web address (URL) of the result page of a certain search engine defined on the system to the user via WAPpush or short message. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124026 | METHOD FOR ASSIGNING ONE OR MORE CATEGORIZED SCORES TO EACH DOCUMENT OVER A DATA NETWORK - The present invention relates to a method, server and computer readable recording medium of assigning one or more categorized scores to a linked document, being linked from at least one linking document, over a data network, comprising: (a) determining one or more categorized scores of at least one linking document having at least one link to a linked document; (b) performing one or more of the following: (b.1.) analyzing one or more parameters of said at least one link from said at least one linking document to said linked document; and (b.2.) analyzing one or more parameters of said linked document; and (c) assigning one or more categorized scores to said linked document according to at least said one or more categorized scores of said at least one linking documents. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124027 | METADATA DATABASE SYSTEM AND METHOD - Systems, methods and computer readable media for computerized control and management of a metadata database. The metadata database can include event data, standards, survey questions and response, and event response templates. Event projection can be based on data retrieved from a past events database. Control can include real-time control of subsystems within the complex system and providing reports and visualizations. The visualizations can include profile graphs, bar graphs, dashboards and hyperbolic mapping. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124028 | Unified Application Discovery across Application Stores - Techniques for discovery of applications across a plurality of application stores are described herein. The discovery may be in response to a query and intent process, which may be initiated by a search query. The search query may reveal user intent to discover an application by operation of a search engine. The user intent may be matched with indexed application content. The application content may be obtained by operation of a discovery and indexing process. A crawler may discover and crawl a plurality of application stores. Additionally or alternatively, a feed store may receive direct feeds of application information and links to download locations from a plurality of application stores. Both the discovered data and direct feeds may be sent to an indexer, to create and maintain an index. Search results pages may be returned to provide users with information, links to developer websites and links to download pages from a plurality of application stores. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124029 | CROSS MEDIA KNOWLEDGE STORAGE, MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION DISCOVERY AND RETRIEVAL - A System, method and application for creating comprehensive multiple mixed media knowledge storage and management, discovery and retrieval utilizing novel indexing and querying applied to content from multiple media formats from disparate sources is disclosed. Depending on the media format the system breaks down the source information in any media into constituent units (“tokens”) using a reference corpus of labeled tokens (“training set”). The details of tokens are stored in an inverted index with available reference data such as location in the file, time, source file and additional information related to the token such as quantitative similarity to the best-match token(s) in the training set etc. During retrieval, a query comprising of single element in any media; a multimedia element or a combination of such elements including a sequence of such elements in a time line is similarly broken down into constituent units to generate a novel query structure. This enables discovery and retrieval of knowledge from multiple source documents in different media combined to provide results which could include prediction of events; discovery of events leading up to or contributing to an outcome of interest and retrieval of documents or sections thereof, all ordered by relevance depending on the query and its context. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124030 | Methods and Systems For Pathing Analysis - Methods, systems and computer program products for pathing analysis are provided. The method includes receiving at a server, a query comprising one or more nodes. The method further includes identifying one or more prior queries, wherein the one or more prior queries comprise at least one of the one or more nodes. The method accesses metadata associated with the one or more prior queries. The method then selects based on the metadata, one or more data partitions for further processing. Next, the method causes one or more computers to identify one or more paths in the selected data partitions, wherein the one or more paths comprise at least the one or more nodes. Finally, the method presents the identified paths as an output to the query. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124031 | ADDITION AND PROCESSING OF CONTINUOUS SQL QUERIES IN A STREAMING RELATIONAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Systems, methods, and media are disclosed herein that can be embodied in a traditional Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) in order to transform it into a Streaming Relational Database Management System (SRDBMS). An SRDBMS may provide functionality such as to manage and populate streams, tables, and archived stream histories and support the evaluation of continuous queries on streams and tables. Both continuous and snapshot queries support the full spectrum of the industry standard, widely used, Structured Query Language. The present technology can support a high number of concurrent continuous queries using a scalable and efficient shared query evaluation scheme, support on-the-fly addition of continuous queries into a mechanism that implements the shared evaluation scheme, reuse RDBMS modules such as relational operators and expression evaluators, and visualize results of continuous queries in real time | 2012-05-17 |
20120124032 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONCEPT VISUALIZATION - Systems and methods are described that calculate the interestingness of a set of one or more records in a database, either absolutely (i.e., compared to an overall collection of records) or relative to some other set of records. In one embodiment, the measure is a relative entropy value that has been normalized. Various applications of the measure are described in the context of an information retrieval system. These applications include, for example, guiding query interpretation, guiding view selection and summarization, intelligent ranges, event detection, concept triggers and interpreting user actions, hierarchy discovery, and adaptive data mining. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124033 | Identifying and Changing Personal Information - Systems, apparatuses, and methods for analyzing information about a user are presented which include obtaining at least one search result based on at least one search terms describing the user; presenting the at least one search result to the user; receiving an indication from the user of the desirability of a search result; and performing an action based on the desirability of the search result. Systems, apparatuses, and methods are also presented for determining a reputation score representing the reputation of a user which include collecting search results from data source, determining an effect on the reputation of the user of the search results from the data source, and calculating a reputation score for the user based on the determined effect on the reputation of the user from the search results from the data source. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124034 | CO-SELECTED IMAGE CLASSIFICATION - Co-selected images are labeled based on a topic score that is a measure of relevance of the co-selected image to a first topic to which a reference image belongs. The first topic to which the reference image belongs is identified based on a reference label associated with the reference image. The co-selected images are images that are selected for presentation subsequent to selection of the reference image during a user session. The co-selected images are identified based on selection data for user sessions in which the reference image was selected for presentation. The topic score is generated based on a frequency of selection of the co-selected image. Image search results for a second topic can be filtered to remove images that are labeled as belonging to the first topic or the image search results can be reordered to adjust the presentation positions at which images are referenced based on the topic to which the images belong. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124035 | REGISTRATION FOR SYSTEM LEVEL SEARCH USER INTERFACE - A system level search module receives system level search user interface registration information for an application of the computing device. The registration information includes an indication of how the system level search module can launch the application. The registration information is added to a registration store, and the application is included as one of one or more applications that can be searched using the system level search user interface. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124036 | BROWSING RELATED IMAGE SEARCH RESULT SETS - Methods are provided for displaying image results responsive to a search query. In addition to displaying responsive results for a query, responsive results are also provided for related queries. The results are ordered along a plurality of display axes, including at least one axis corresponding to the ordering of the various search queries. The results can be displayed in an aligned or non-aligned manner. The results can then be translated along one or more of the display axes to allow a user to browse the various results. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124037 | MULTIMEDIA DATA SEARCHING METHOD AND APPARATUS AND PATTERN RECOGNITION METHOD - The present invention relates to multimedia search method and apparatus, and a pattern recognition method. The multimedia search method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: searching for data corresponding to search condition data input by a user in search target data; selecting training data for machine learning on the basis of the search result; performing machine learning by using the selected training data; and modifying the search result by using the result of the machine learning. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124038 | Variable Length Snippet Generation - A computer system includes one or more processors and memory. The system receives a search query from a client, and obtains a search result for the search query comprising a list of matching email documents. The system, for each email document in the list of matching email documents, determines a scatter score indicating how scattered search terms of the search query are within a respective email document, selects a text portion of the respective email document in accordance with query terms of the search query and the scatter score for the respective email document, and generates a respective snippet including the selected text portion. The system transmits the search result to the client, the transmitted search result including the snippet for each email document in the list of matching email documents. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124039 | Online Search Based On Geography Tagged Recommendations - A respective submission is received from each of multiple recommending client network nodes ( | 2012-05-17 |
20120124040 | RANKING DATABASE QUERY RESULTS USING AN EFFICIENT METHOD FOR N-ARY SUMMATION - Ranking database query results using an efficient method for N-ary summation is provided. Such operation, referred to herein as “mid-fold N-ary summation” significantly reduces costs of computation for large numbers of queries, as are common in enterprise database applications. Thus, ranking query results using mid-fold N-ary summation offers improved runtime performance and reduced latency relative to using conventional N-ary summation. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124041 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING AND RANKING ELECTRONIC MAILS BASED ON PREDEFINED ALGORITHMS - A method for searching a mailbox of a user to identify and present results relevant to the user's requirements. The mailbox comprises a plurality of e-mails. The method comprises receiving an input from the user specifying the user's requirements. The received input is used to identify one or more contexts of a search. The search is then conducted in the mailbox based on the identified context(s) to identify one or more results relevant to the input. The results are e-mails and/or e-mail attachments that match the user's requirements. The identified results are then ranked according to the extent of relevance to the received input. The results are ranked based on a plurality of pre-defined conditions. The results are then presented to the user on a display at the computer according to the ranking. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124042 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RETRIEVING DATA IN A COMPUTER NETWORK - A data retrieval system comprising a first computing device communicatively coupled to a second computing device; the first computing device having a processor that supports operation of at least one software application that is used for retrieving data; the second computing device communicatively coupled to one or more storage media; the software application having a retrieval module for retrieving data from the one or more storage media; a storage and backup map that maps to the second computing device; and a data index stored on the second computing device that indicates to the retrieval module a particular location of the data that is to be retrieved by the retrieval module. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124043 | PERIOD TO DATE FUNCTIONS FOR TIME INTELLIGENCE FUNCTIONALITY - A system for extending a Time Intelligence language to provide support for period-to-date functions and for generating member sets in response to data queries is provided. The system may apply member aggregation functions and queries across a plurality of heterogeneous data sources. Each data source is aligned to a reference dimension and is said to organize data according to at least one level of granularity. In some embodiments, a member aggregation function specifies a period (e.g., year, quarter, month) and retrieves data from a data source starting with the current specified period and ending with the most recently completed period equal to the granularity of the data source. The system may allow a user to further customize a member aggregation function by specifying a granularity, a period offset, or a granularity end offset. Additionally, the system may generate a caption to display in association with the retrieved data. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124044 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PHRASE CLUSTERING - Systems and associated methods for enhanced concept understanding in large document collections through phrase clustering are described. Embodiments take as input an initial set of phrases and estimate centroids using a clustering process. Embodiments then generate new phrases around each of the current centroids using the current phrases. These new phrases are added to the current set, and the clustering process is iterated. Upon convergence, embodiments finalize clusters based on phrases of any given length. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124045 | Parallel Partitioning Index Scan - System, methods and articles of manufacture for joining data in the database tables comprising, performing an index scan on a global index of a first database table, determining rows in the first database table that may be joined with a second database table based on a needed partitioning, wherein the needed partitioning is determined using an index scan, determining a number of partitions in the second database table, and joining each of the corresponding partitions in the first database table with a corresponding partitions in the second database table. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124046 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING DEDUPLICATED COPIES OF DATA USING TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIPS AMONG COPIES - Systems and methods are disclosed for managing deduplicated images of data objects that change over time. The method includes: organizing unique content of each data object as a plurality of content segments and storing the content segments in a data store; for each data object, creating an organized arrangement of hash structures, wherein each structure, for a subset of the hash structures, includes a hash signature for a corresponding content segment and is associated with a reference to the corresponding content segment, and for each data object, maintaining an organized arrangement of temporal structures to represent a corresponding data object over time, wherein each structure is associated with a temporal state of the data object, and wherein each temporal state is associated with the hash structures representing the content of the data object during that temporal state. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124047 | MANAGING LOG ENTRIES - Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to manage log entries are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves grouping first log entries into a first group based on a matching portion among the first log entries. The example method also involves identifying a non-matching portion of the first log entries and associating an identifier with the non-matching portion. A processor is operated to generate a text string template comprising the identifier and the at least one matching portion in a human-readable format. The identifier replaces the non-matching portion in the template. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124048 | CLUSTERING APPARATUS, AND CLUSTERING METHOD - A technique extracts an object that is characteristic although the number of appearances is less demanded. A clustering apparatus includes: a similarity degree calculating section calculating a similarity degree of a combination of optional two of objects to store the calculated similarity degree in a similarity degree table, excluding a combination of one of the optional two and itself; a merging object selecting section selecting as merging objects, two objects related to the similarity degree which satisfies a predetermined reference; a new object generating section generating a new object from the merging objects; a merging object removing section removing from the similarity degree table, a similarity degree between each of the two objects selected as the merging objects and each of the objects; and a new object adding section calculating a similarity degree between the new object and each of the plurality of objects other than the new object. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124049 | PROFILE ANALYSIS SYSTEM - To recommend information useful for a user regardless of domains and services, items are defined by basic desires as action objectives of the user, a user profile is expressed by basic desire strengths, constant strengths of the desires of the user calculated from an action history of the user are compared with current desire strengths, current desire degrees are calculated, and recommended items are presented. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124050 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HS CODE RECOMMENDATION - A system for harmonized commodity description and coding system (HS) code recommendation includes an ontology editor for creating an HS code ontology based on HS codes of export and import items, and a feature vector processor for extracting feature vectors of a product of a company requesting for an HS code of the product by with reference to the description of the product in response to the request. An HS code recommendation unit extracts one or more HS codes appropriate for the product by comparing the extracted feature vectors with feature vectors of the product searched from a feature vector database. The extracted HS codes are provided to the company requesting for an HS code of the product. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124051 | ONTOLOGICAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM - An ontological information retrieval system is provided. According to an embodiment, the subject ontological information retrieval system can be utilized for computer-aided clinical Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practice. In one implementation, a graphical user interface (GUI) is provided, enabling a user to input a query with symptoms determined from a patient, and the system's parser can find instances of the symptoms in a document object model (DOM) tree of the TCM ontological information. Diagnosis based upon the symptoms can be communicated to the user through the GUI. A relevance index (RI) and/or a frequency index (F1) can be further provided for evaluating a diagnosis by comparing the symptoms determined from a patient with the expected symptoms of the diagnosed illness and returning a value based on the number of matched symptoms, or a weighted index of matched symptoms. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124052 | Contextual Assignment of an External Descriptive and Informative Quality to a Person and/or an Object Located within a Temporal Framework - A phenomenological framework of the human perception of time identifies the Future, Past, and Present perspectives of mind. The framework is visualized as a triangle, with Future, Past, and Present mental constructs serving as an anchor at each of the three corners. The triangular plane between them represents a continuum of relative intensity for each of the constructs. Each blend of intensity in the three constructs itself corresponds to a unique set of the fundamental values and behavioral characteristics that are driven by the mental characteristics. Within this temporal framework, there is a contextual assignment of an external descriptive and informative quality to any person, group, or object—based on relative and/or absolute intensities of each mental construct—that can be used with a high level of confidence in any number of ways to interact better with the object. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124053 | Annotation Framework - A fact repository contains facts having attributes and values and further having associated annotations, which are used, among other things, to vet facts in the repository and which can be returned in response to a query. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124054 | RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING DEVICE, RECORDING METHOD, DATA SEARCH DEVICE, DATA SEARCH METHOD, AND DATA GENERATING DEVICE - A data search device includes a playback unit playing back subjective data representing a subjectivity for predetermined content data from a recording medium on which the subjective data is recorded in association with the content data; a receiving unit receiving subjective data input by a user; and a searching unit searching for the content data in accordance with the subjective data played back by the playback unit and the subjective data received by the receiving unit. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124055 | SEARCHING FOR DATA OBJECTS - Method and system to search for data objects are provided. The method comprises generating an attribute index and a content index. The attribute index comprises entries associated with respective access control information for a set of data objects and generating. The content index comprises words from the set of data objects. A search query directed at the set of data objects is processed by searching the content index, searching the attribute index, and obtaining a search result based on the results of searching of the content index and the attribute index. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124056 | DISAPPEARING INDEX FOR MORE EFFICIENT PROCESSING OF A DATABASE QUERY - A disappearing index allows faster processing of a database query without the startup time of a prior art sparse index. The disappearing index starts as a full index but is trimmed of index values that point to a row in the table that is not selected by the query. Thus the traditional index disappears as it becomes a sparse index tailored to the query. The query is able to execute faster using the now sparse index since the target database table is not accessed for duplicate values in the base table of the query. The query optimizer may determine to use a disappearing index based on estimates of the number of duplicate values in the base table. When the query is complete, the created disappearing table may be discarded or used for other queries that match the selection of the query that created the disappearing index. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124057 | EXTERNAL USER IDENTIFICATION AND VERIFICATION USING REPUTATION DATA - In a system and method for user identification and verification using reputation data, a processor-implemented feedback component receives feedback data pertaining to a user of a network-based community in response to a transaction in which the user is a party. A processor-implemented tracking component tracks transaction data and metadata associated with the transaction data and the feedback data. A processor-implemented aggregation component aggregates the received feedback data and the tracked data and metadata to yield an aggregated set of data pertaining to the user. A processor-implemented reputation component generates a reputation value for the user from the aggregated set of data. If the reputation value is greater than a predetermined threshold value, the user is considered trustworthy, and if the reputation value is not greater than the predetermined threshold value, the user is not considered trustworthy. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124058 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RATING ITEMS WITHIN THE ARTS - A system and method provides for judging the fine arts in a graded fashion. Information is stored in one or more fields including literature, cinema, plays, art, music and television in at least one database on at least one computer system. A database of experts is maintained in the computer system in one or more areas including literature, cinema, plays, music, art or mental health. A set of one or more categories within each of the fields is created and stored in the database. A set of one or more facets associated with each of the categories is created. The facets for each item of the categories in the fields stored in the database are rated by an expert associated therewith and stored within the at least one database. The ratings of the items are transmitted over the Internet for view by others for determining the merit or negative attributes of a given item. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124059 | ADDRESS BOOK AUTOFILTER - A mechanism is provided for filtering an address book. Contacts are read of the address book of a user. An operative connection is maintained to a social networking site related to the user. Social networking communication data of the user is extracted from the social networking site. The contacts are ranked in the address book based on the social networking communication data of the user. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124060 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF IDENTIFYING ADJACENCY DATA, METHOD AND SYSTEM OF GENERATING A DATASET FOR MAPPING ADJACENCY DATA, AND AN ADJACENCY DATA SET - A method of creating a dataset having an adjacency list of a graph mapping a plurality of predicate edges connecting among a plurality of vertexes each set for another of a plurality of entities. The method is based on a list having a plurality of predicate triplets and a plurality of inverted predicate triplets extracted from the graph, each the triplet and the inverted predicate triplet having a subject entity and an attribute entity from the plurality of entities and a predicate edge, from the plurality of predicate edges. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124061 | Rich Search Over and Deep Integration with Applications - An application search system may maintain an index of applications available from multiple different application stores, and includes parameters, such as features and/or content of the applications. When a user submits a query, the system may derive contextual information pertaining to a user device used to submit the query, applications installed on a particular user device and/or usage information for installed applications. The system then may, in one example, determine one or more applications relevant to the search query and, depending on the contextual information derived, may provide an entry point to access a particular application at a task level, may prompt the user to install the application, or may provide a web result related to the particular application. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124062 | Application Transfer Protocol - An application transfer protocol allows users to find applications relevant to a search query in an application search system. The application transfer protocol is used with an index that maintains a database of applications that includes parameters, such as features and/or content of the application. When a user submits a query, the system determines one or more applications relevant to the search query and implements the application transfer protocol to identify and present results to a user. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124063 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPECIFYING, PREPARING AND USING PARAMETERIZED DATABASE QUERIES - A representative parameterized query in a second database query language is generated from a parameterized query in first database query language. By randomly generating a query in the first database query language, translating this query into the second database query language, and then identifying locations of relevant parameters in the translated query, parameter placeholders can then be substituted at the identified locations to provide a parameterized query in the second database query language. A representative parameterized query in the second database query language can be selected by randomly generating multiple parameterized queries and applying statistical methods including Monte Carlo methods. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124064 | TRANSFORMATION OF REGULAR EXPRESSIONS - Techniques to transform regular expressions are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor circuit and a key terms identifying module operative on the processor circuit to generate a set of one or more regular expression key terms from enabled features of a regular expression based on a set of configuration parameters, and filter one or more electronic messages using the set of regular expression key terms. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124065 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POPULATING A DATABASE WITH USER INPUT - System and methods for populating a database with information from users. A memory stores reference standards, reference keywords, and rules for the reference keywords. An on-line survey question relating to the product/service is presented to the users. Input is received from the users in response to the presented survey question and has content. The received input is stored in the database. A quantity of the content of the received input and a quality of the content of the received input is evaluated. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124066 | SECS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND SECS COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREOF - A SECS communication device and a SECS communication method thereof are presented. The SECS communication device includes a SECS-II message communication part, a translation part, and an information storage device access part, and further includes at least one set of data structure files and a message format file for defining a message content and a message format of a SECS-II message. The translation part decodes the SECS-II message into data in various information storage formats of an information storage device according to the data structure file and the message format file, and encodes the data in various information storage formats of the information storage device into the SECS-II message, so as to enable message exchange between an EAP and the information storage device through the SECS communication device. By applying the SECS communication method, cost of program development is reduced, and meanwhile, high system stability and industrial efficiency are achieved. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124067 | User Identifier Management - The different illustrative embodiments provide a method, computer program product, and apparatus for managing user identifiers presented in accordance with an illustrative embodiment. In an illustrative embodiment, a determination is made whether the new user identifier matches an existing user identifier according to a policy for a minimum degree of character variation between the new user identifier and the existing user identifier responsive to receiving a request to store a new user identifier. The request to store the new user identifier is rejected responsive to a determination that the new user identifier matches the existing user identifier according to the policy. The request is approved responsive to an absence of a determination that the new user identifier matches the existing user identifier according to the policy. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124068 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME - A document management apparatus displays a plurality of attribute information related to an electronic document selected by a user on a display screen and determines whether attribute information dragged from the plurality of attribute information displayed on the display screen has been dropped into any of the plurality of storage units displayed on the display screen. When it is determined that a drag and drop operation has been executed, searching is executed in relation to the plurality of electronic documents stored in the storage unit associated with the drop destination for an electronic document having the attribute corresponding to the dragged attribute information. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124069 | Mobile Digital Property Portfolio Management System - A mobile property portfolio management system provides the capability of generating, maintaining, searching and displaying property portfolio data from a mobile device such as a smartphone (e.g., iPhone), tablet (e.g., iPad) or any other mobile computing device. The property portfolio management system comprises a mobile or client portion, a central or server portion and optional satellite offices. The system comprises software that runs on one or more server computers as well as client or user side software that can be realized as a standalone software application or “app” that runs on the client device (e.g., desktop, mobile device, tablet, etc.) or entirely in a standard web browser. The property portfolio management system in effect provides a digital version of a property portfolio with easy access to portfolio data for both internal users and public users and is particularly useful when realized on a tablet or mobile device. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124070 | RECOMMENDING QUERIES ACCORDING TO MAPPING OF QUERY COMMUNITIES - A set of queries, such as a search log, is divided into commercial queries and non-commercial queries. A first set of query communities is determined from the non-commercial queries and a second set is determined from the commercial queries. The query communities are correlated based on the users who submitted the queries and instances where a query from the first set of query communities was followed by a query from the second set to generate a mapping between the first set of query communities and the second set. Later, a non-commercial query is received from a user, and the mapping is used to predict one or more commercial queries that the user is likely to submit in the future based on the non-commercial query. One or more of the commercial queries are presented to the user according to the mapping with search results responsive to the non-commercial query. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124071 | EXTENSIBLE SEARCH TERM SUGGESTION ENGINE - A search term suggestion engine of a computing device receives characters of user data as the characters are input. The user data is at least part of a search term to be provided to one of multiple applications to search for the search term. An indication of multiple suggestion sources is received from the one application, and one or more suggested search terms are obtained, from the multiple suggestion sources, based on the received characters. One or more suggested search terms can also be obtained from the multiple suggestion sources based on one or more linguistic alternatives for the received characters. The one or more suggested search terms are combined into a combined set of suggested search terms, and the combined set of suggested search terms is returned to a search user interface for presentation to the user. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124072 | SYSTEM LEVEL SEARCH USER INTERFACE - A system level search user interface that includes both a data entry portion and an application identification portion is displayed. User data input as a search term is displayed in the data entry portion, and identifiers of each of one or more applications of multiple applications on the computing device that can be searched using the search term are displayed in the application identification portion. The search term is provided to one application of the multiple applications for that one application to generate and display search results based on the search term while the display of at least the data entry portion of the system level search user interface is maintained. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124073 | System & Method For Recommending Content Sources - A networked computer system identifies, optimizes and recommends content sources for users. The content sources can be used for providing news feeds, search results, etc. based on taking into net useful content contributed by such sources over other sources. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124074 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TESTING CLIENT-SERVER APPLICATIONS - A database-driven testing method and system for testing client-server applications are described. The system first receives a command to test a module on a server and identifies in a database a message list corresponding to the module. The message list indicates at least a request message and an expected response message supported by the module to be tested. The system then retrieves from the database a plurality of parameters for the messages in the message list and constructs the request message based on the parameters. The system then transmits the request message to the module on the server, receives a server response message from the server in response to the request message, and compares the server response message with the expected response message. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124075 | APPLICATION INDEPENDENT DOCUMENT SUBMISSION FOR SYSTEM INTEROPERABILITY | 2012-05-17 |
20120124076 | SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA) SERVICE REGISTRY SYSTEM WITH ENHANCED SEARCH CAPABILITY - A system and associated method for searching a web service registry system by use of a search module. A first embodiment of the search module has a search controller, a name parser, a dictionary, and a name composer. The first embodiment of the search module automatically searches a service registry program product with a service name through a first application programming interface (API). If a service description matching the service name does not exist within the service registry program product, then the first embodiment of the search module generates a candidate service name within the search module. A second embodiment of the search module consists of the search controller, the name parser, and the name composer. The second embodiment utilizes a separate dictionary program product through a second API in generating the candidate service name for a second search of the service registry program product. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124077 | Domain Constraint Based Data Record Extraction - Embodiments for a Mining Data Records based on Anchor Trees (MiBAT) process are disclosed. In accordance with at least one embodiment, the MiBAT process extracts data records containing user-generated content from web documents. The web document is processed into a Document Object Model (DOM) tree in which sub-trees of the DOM tree represent the data records of the web document. Domain constraints are used to locate structured portions of the DOM tree. Anchor trees are then located as being sets of sibling sub-trees which contain the domain constraints. The anchor trees are then used to determine a record boundary (i.e. the start offset and length) of the data records. Finally, the data records are extracted based on the anchor trees and the record boundaries. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124078 | RULESET IMPLEMENTATION FOR MEMORY STARVED SYSTEMS - Provided are techniques for retrieval of data from a data store, including techniques for receiving a request for a dataset corresponding to stored data, generating a first handle to the dataset, generating a plurality of parameters corresponding to the dataset, such that each parameter of the plurality of parameters corresponds to a distinct subset of the dataset, generating a first internal handle based upon the first handle and corresponding to a first parameter of the plurality of parameters, executing a data retrieval request based upon the first internal handle to retrieve a first subset of the dataset, receiving a navigation request corresponding to the first internal handle, navigating, if possible, the first subset in accordance with the navigation request and, when navigating the first subset in accordance with the navigation request is not possible, generating a second internal handle corresponding to a second parameter of the plurality of parameters. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124079 | AUTOMATIC FILE NAMING ON A MOBILE DEVICE - A system and method of automatically naming files on a mobile device can include determining at least one of a current geographical location data of a mobile device, a current time data, and a current date data. The current geographical location data, the current time data, and the current date data can be made can be compared to at least one of a personal information manager database and a geographical location database. A filename can be automatically-generated based on the comparison, and the filename can be applied to camera data received on the mobile device. The automatically-generated filename can include information relevant to the content of the camera data, thereby enhancing the efficiency and ease of identifying and organizing camera data stored on a memory of the mobile device. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124080 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR UTILIZING DYNAMICALLY DEFINED JAVA IMPLEMENTATIONS FOR CREATION OF AN EFFICIENT TYPED STORAGE - A method for providing a patient quality monitor may include transforming patient data from a plurality of sources associated with different healthcare entities into a standard representation using a mapping to tag each piece of patient data to a common ontology, mapping the standard representation to corresponding Java class implementations, and mapping the corresponding Java class implementations to a relational database. A corresponding computer program product and apparatus are also provided. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124081 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING DATA MIGRATION - An approach is provided for data migration. Table structure data associated with a logical table is extracted from a source database. Raw data associated with the logical table is extracted from the source database. A table structure in a target database is generated based on the table structure data. The raw data is loaded into the table structure in the target database. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124082 | AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING A SET OF EVENT PROCESSING RULES FOR USE IN A COMPLEX EVENT PROCESSING SYSTEM - Automatically generating a set of event processing rules for use in a complex event processing (CEP) system and guiding a user through subsequent augmentation of such automatically-generated rules. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124083 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING COMMUNITY - A method and apparatus generate a community based on goals and intentions of its members. Context information related to a first member is collected. A list of goals that the first member wants to accomplish and a list of capabilities that the first member may provide are derived, based on the context information. A search is conducted to find a second member that has at least one of a capability matching at least one goal listed in the list of goals and a goal matching at least one capability listed in the list of capabilities. And then, a community including the first member and the second member is generated. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124084 | Method to semantically search domain name by utilizing hyponym, hypernym, troponym, entailment and coordinate term - This present invention provides a method to search Internet domain names by semantically processing the search query. It uses lexical resource to get the semantic related words for the words in the query. The semantic related words can be hyponym, hypernym, troponym, entailment and coordinate term of the words in search query. The search result will be semantically related to the words in original search query. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124085 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT TO IMPROVE SOCIAL NETWORK SYSTEMS - A method, system and program product for advancing a trust stage with a human contact, the method in embodiments comprising: adding for a user a new human contact to the one or more electronic databases; receiving and/or generating identification of a trust stage for the new human contact; receiving a project with project information comprising one or more parameters; receiving and/or determining one or more human contacts to associate with the project; determining for the user a set of next steps for advancing the trust stage for one of the human contacts associated with the project; determining if a predetermined one or more of the next steps have been performed; advancing the trust stage for the one human contact to a higher trust stage; and sending or having sent an electronic communication to the user about one or more next steps that are remaining. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124086 | Domain Constraint Path Based Data Record Extraction - Described herein are techniques for extracting data records containing user-generated content from documents. The documents may be processed into document trees in which sub-trees represent the data records of the document. Domain constraints may be used to locate structured portions of the document tree. For example, anchor trees may be located as being sets of sibling sub-trees with similar tag paths that contain the domain constraints. The anchor trees may then be used to determine a record boundary (e.g., the start offset and length) of the data records. Finally, the data records may be extracted based on the anchor trees and the record boundaries. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124087 | Method and apparatus for locating naming discrepancies - A system is provided that polls one or more caching nameservers and compares their results to a trusted or standard set of data. The set of data may be, for example, stored in a computer system or distributed among several computer systems. In one aspect, the system comprises a discrepancy detector that detects discrepancies between one or more copies of mapping information. Mapping information may be, for example, mapping stored on a Domain Name System (DNS). | 2012-05-17 |
20120124088 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MOBILE SEARCH BASED ON SEARCH TRIGGERS - An apparatus and method for mobile search using search triggers including establishing a search state for a mobile search; defining a search scheduler based on the search state; determining to collect a search trigger for the search scheduler based on the search state; updating the search state using the collected search trigger and in accordance with the search scheduler; and performing a search for a search type based on the updated search state and in accordance with the search scheduler. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124089 | USER INTEREST PATTERN MODELING SERVER AND METHOD FOR MODELING USER INTEREST PATTERN - A user interest pattern modeling server includes a history collection unit, a keyword extraction unit, a time pattern extraction unit, a keyword extension unit, a time pattern analysis unit and a pattern modeling unit. The history collection unit collects a user's use history of a content. The keyword extraction unit extracts a keyword from the use history of the content. The time pattern extraction unit extracts a first time pattern of the keyword. The keyword extension unit extracts an extended keyword through searching related words of the keyword. The time pattern analysis unit analyzes a second time pattern of the extended keyword based on the first time pattern. The pattern modeling unit models a user interest pattern for the keyword and the extended keyword based on the first and second time patterns. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124090 | Method and System for Targeted Content Distribution Using Tagged Data Streams - Methods, systems, and products target content based on profiles. A content tag associated with a content item is received and compared to a profile tag. When no match occurs, and the user profile contains no more profile tags, then another content tag is retrieved and successively compared to the profile tags until a match occurs. A score is incremented when the match occurs, and the score is compared to a threshold value. When the score satisfies the threshold value, then the content item is appropriate for presentation. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124091 | APPLICATION FILE SYSTEM ACCESS - Application file system access techniques are described. In implementations, a request is received by one or more modules via an application programming interface from an application that is executed on the computing device to access a file system of a computing device. A portion is exposed in a user interface by the one or more modules, the portion having an option that is selectable by a user to confirm that access is to be granted, the portion exposed such that the application is not aware of what is contained in the portion. Responsive to selection of the option, access is granted to the application by the one or more modules such that the application is not aware of where in the file system the access is granted. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124092 | FILE STORAGE APPARATUS AND ACCESS CONTROL METHOD - Proposed are a file storage apparatus and an access control method capable of facilitating the setting and change of an access right of a user for accessing a file. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124093 | INTELLIGENT NETWORK INTERFACE CONTROLLER - A network interface device includes a security database and a security services engine. The security database is configured to store patterns corresponding to predetermined malware. The security services engine is configured to compare data to be transmitted through a network to the patterns stored in the security database, and the security database is configured to receive updated patterns from the network. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124094 | CUSTOM WEB SERVICES DATA LINK LAYER - A data interface efficiently transports, manages, and provides data transfer. The data transfer may happen between a data storage layer and a presentation layer, as examples. The presentation layers may be graphical user interfaces that display or report complex data sets, with the data storage layer providing the source data for the presentation layers. The data interface implements a data link layer that efficiently caches, stores, and locates query results, while simultaneously handling security. The data link layer may include load balancing, efficient cache refresh, and other features. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124095 | Text-Based Information Transmission - The navigation overhead and/or the content managing/updating overhead is reduced by providing link objects with condition data being associated with the link items of the link objects so that, depending on a check as to whether the condition data is fulfilled or not, an automatic handling of a link object may be performed. For example, the automatic handling may have an automatic appointing an object ID referred to by a link item of the link object that has condition data associated therewith which is fulfilled, as a newly-selected object ID. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124096 | ADDITION AND PROCESSING OF CONTINUOUS SQL QUERIES IN A STREAMING RELATIONAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Systems, methods, and media are disclosed herein that can be embodied in a traditional Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) in order to transform it into a Streaming Relational Database Management System (SRDBMS). An SRDBMS may provide functionality such as to manage and populate streams, tables, and archived stream histories and support the evaluation of continuous queries on streams and tables. Both continuous and snapshot queries support the full spectrum of the industry standard, widely used, Structured Query Language. The present technology can support a high number of concurrent continuous queries using a scalable and efficient shared query evaluation scheme, support on-the-fly addition of continuous queries into a mechanism that implements the shared evaluation scheme, reuse RDBMS modules such as relational operators and expression evaluators, and visualize results of continuous queries in real time | 2012-05-17 |
20120124097 | REUSING SYSTEM CONFIGURATION INFORMATION AND METADATA FOR RELATED OPERATIONS - Reusing system configuration information and metadata for related operations is disclosed. It is determined that a group of content management system commands may be treated as a related set for purposes of updating content management system configuration information and/or metadata. The content management system configuration information and/or metadata are updated once for purposes of processing the group. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124098 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO MANAGE COMPLEX SYSTEMS KNOWLEDGE - Described herein are a method and system for managing complex systems knowledge. Information generated during operation of a complex system is monitored. This information is normalized to a complex system base element that is expressed according to a standardized element taxonomy. During normalization, the information inherits characteristics of the base element. Following normalization, the information is stored in an information database. This information can be used to do any one or more of design, construct, operate, automate and otherwise configure another complex system. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124099 | Expert system for subject pool selection - This invention is a method directed to the recruitment and assembly of groups that are characteristic of selected populations, specifically to the identification of representative subject pools that satisfy the disparate statistical and data security needs of diverse disciplines. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124100 | Grid Computing System Alongside a Distributed Database Architecture - Systems and methods are provided for a grid computing system that performs analytical calculations on data stored in a distributed database system. A grid-enabled software component at a control node is configured to invoke database management software (DBMS) at the control node to cause the DBMS at a plurality of the worker nodes to make available data to the grid-enabled software component local to its node; instruct the grid-enabled software components at the plurality of worker nodes to perform an analytical calculation on the received data and to send the results of the data analysis to the grid-enabled software component at the control node; and assemble the results of the data analysis performed by the grid-enabled software components at the plurality of worker nodes. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124101 | GENERATING REFERENCES TO REUSABLE CODE IN A SCHEMA - Provided are a method, system, and computer program product to generate references to reusable code in a schema. A program coded in a first programming language has data structures, wherein at least one of the data structures includes a reference to reusable code. A model file is generated identifying the reusable code, elements and attributes in a second programming language for the reference to the reusable code in the program. The data structure coded in the first programming language is processed to generate a data structure schema in a second programming language describing elements and attributes of the data structure coded in the first programming language. A reference in the data structure schema to the reusable code is generated. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124102 | METHOD FOR LOADING LARGE XML DOUCMENTS ON DEMAND - Systems and methods for loading XML documents on demand are described. The system provides a Wrapper class for the XML Document class and the Element class. A user application then utilizes the Wrapper class in the same way that the Element class and Document class would be used to access any element in the XML Document. The Wrapper class loads external components as required. The external component retrieval is completely transparent to the user application and the user application is able to access the entire XML document as if it were completely loaded into a DOM object in memory. Accordingly, each element is accessible in a random manner. In one configuration, the XML document components or external components are stored in a database in a BLOB field as a Digital Document. The system uses external components to efficiently use resources as compared to systems using Xlink and external entities. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124103 | SYSTEM, A METHOD, AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR TESTING - System, method and storage medium loaded with a program are provided for preparing tests in which a certain set of questions may be ordered in different order amongst different copies of the test. There further provided a method for setting different order of answers of a multiple-choice type of test for each question, amongst different copies of the test. Further is provided a method and tool for keeping the decoding key for deciphering and reconstructing the order of the questions and answers within the test itself thus allowing checking the answers and providing statistics on virtually any computer, regardless of the computer on which the test was composed. There is further provided a system and method for processing multiple types of inputs for the questions, such as text, graphics, images, equations and the like. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124104 | PUBLISHING AN INDUSTRY BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE MODEL - A data-driven mechanism of business rules is used to form associations between business sectors, industries, solutions, solution offerings, and industry business architecture models. The system and method includes use of a navigation hierarchy, and entity diagram to facilitate use by business consultants for access, viewing, navigation, publishing, and updating. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124105 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED GARBAGE COLLECTION OPERATIONS IN A DEDUPLICATED STORE BY TRACKING TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIPS AMONG COPIES - Systems and methods are disclosed for performing garbage collection to identify content segments no longer referenced in a deduplicating storage system in which redundant mark operations in a mark-and-sweep technique are avoided. An organized arrangement of hash structures is created for each data object, wherein each structure includes a hash signature for a corresponding content segment and is associated with a reference to the corresponding content segment, and the logical organization of the arrangement represents the logical organization of the content segments as they are represented within the data object. Additionally, for each data object, temporal states are maintained over time. Garbage collection iterates over the temporal structures and, for each temporal structure, marks the garbage collection state for the associated content segments for only the content segments that have changed relative to an immediately prior temporal state of the data object. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124106 | GARBAGE COLLECTION OF INTERNED STRINGS - Provided are techniques for a garbage-collected interned string table. Reference objects that each reference strings in the interned string table are created. The reference objects and the strings referenced by the reference objects in the interned string table are marked with a current generation. Garbage collection is performed by: advancing the current generation to a next generation; in response to the reference objects in a previous generation from the current generation advancing to an acquired references state, promoting the reference objects and the strings referenced by the reference objects in the previous generation to the current generation; and deleting the strings that are marked with the previous generation in the interned string table. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124107 | CONCURRENT ADD-HEAVY SET DATA GATHERING - Object are created such that each of the objects stores a bit that designates eventual removal of one of the objects. Further, the objects are added to a data structure that includes a set that comprises a union of a plurality of subsets such that each subset in the plurality of subsets is stored separately according to a corresponding thread and such that an added object that is added to the set by a given thread is stored in the corresponding subset. In addition, one of the objects is logically removed, without physical removal, from the set by activating the bit. Each subset is periodically swept. All objects marked with the activated bit are physically removed. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124108 | SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DYNAMICALLY RESIZING FILE SYSTEMS | 2012-05-17 |
20120124109 | AUTOMATIC MEDIA COMPRESSION IN A DIGITAL DEVICE - Some embodiments of a method to automatically compress content in a digital device have been presented. In some embodiments, available data storage space in the digital device is monitored. When the available data storage space falls below a predetermined threshold, a user of the digital device is automatically asked whether the user allows compression of one or more types of content stored on the digital device in order to increase data storage space available. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124110 | DATABASE, MANAGEMENT SERVER, AND MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - [Problems] It is allowed to make a variety of inquiries into reports at a low cost without requiring a complex report program. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124111 | SYSTEM FOR UPDATING INFORMATION STORED ON A REMOTE DEVICE - In certain embodiments of the present disclosure, a system for storing data is provided. The system includes a processor that receives an application request to update a file on a server storage device, and generates, based on the request, a command to update the file on a server storage device. The system also includes a communications module that provides, to the server storage device, the command to update the file on the server storage device. The request is formatted for a file storage protocol of a client storage device, and the command is formatted for a file storage protocol of the server storage device. The command to update the file on the server storage device is not specific to the application generating the application request. Methods and computer-readable mediums are also provided. | 2012-05-17 |
20120124112 | Portable Electronic Financial Calculator and Method of Calculating Financial Information - The present invention relates to a user-friendly, portable electronic financial calculator for automatically calculating information pertaining to savings and loans, and a method for calculating information pertaining to savings and loans using a portable financial calculator. The calculator is pre-programmed with various problems, presented in plain language, regarding the time value of money from which the user selects. The user is then asked various questions, in plain language, pertaining to the problem selected which the user answers by selecting the appropriate inputs. After all of the applicable questions are asked and answered, the calculator calculates the solution to the problem selected based on the user's inputs and based on a pre-programmed mathematical relationship between the prompted inputs and the problem selected. | 2012-05-17 |