32nd week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 52 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090198667 | Generating Search Result Summaries - Embodiments are configured to provide a summary of information associated with one or more search results. In an embodiment, a system includes a summary generator that can be configured to provide a summary of information including one or more snippets associated with a search term or search terms. The system includes a ranking component that can be used to rank snippets and the ranked snippets can be used when generating a summary that includes one or more ranked snippets. In one embodiment, the system can be configured to include one or more filters that can be used to filter snippets and the filtered snippets can be used when generating a summary. Other embodiments are available. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198668 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING DOCUMENTS RELEVANT TO THE CONTENT OF A WEBSITE - A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to identify a user of a website, retrieve one or more keywords describing content on the website, and search for reports corresponding to the one or more keywords. The reports are filtered based on data access permissions associated with the user. A highly ranked report is displayed on the website. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198669 | CONFIGURATION-BASED SEARCH - A system that tunes search results is presented. During operation, the system receives content to be searched. The system then iteratively performs the following operations until search results meet specified criteria. The system generates an index of the content based on a set of configuration parameters. Next, the system performs a search against the index to produce the search results. The system then determines whether the search results meet the specified criteria. If the search results do not meet the specified criteria, the system modifies one or more of: the set of configuration parameters; and the content. If the search results meet the specified criteria, the system saves the set of configuration parameters into a configuration file which can be used to generate the index for the content. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198670 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING AND ORGANIZING DATA CORRESPONDING TO AN EVENT - A system and method for analyzing data from a plurality of computer environments. The computer environments are authenticated and data is imported to a memory location. The data is converted into a uniform format to enable expedited searching by one or more authenticated users. The data may be marked so that a user may determine which computer environment provided the data. The system may also create one or more indexes of the data to assist one or more users in searching the data. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198671 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING SUBPHRASE QUERIES - A system for generating subphrase queries. The system includes a sequence label modeling engine and a regression modeling engine. The sequence label modeling engine generates a plurality of subphrase queries by indexing through each token in a search phrase and labeling each token based on an association to other tokens in the search phrase. The regression modeling engine scores each subphrase query at least partially on the association according to a scoring model. The regression modeling engine identifies the subphrase query with the highest score which may then be used for identifying a sponsored search list or a web search item. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198672 | CONTEXT-SENSITIVE QUERY EXPANSION - A method for processing a search query having a plurality of search terms for searching for documents includes segmenting the query to identify two or more units, expanding the query by selecting one or more substitutable units for at least one unit in the query, and calculating a substitution probability for each substitutable unit. For each substitutable unit, a co-occurrence probability is calculated with each of the remaining units in the search query. An occurrence probability is then calculated for each substitutable unit, and a score is calculated based on the combination of the substitution probability, the co-occurrence probability, and occurrence probability. The documents are ranked in an order determined by the score. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198673 | Forum Mining for Suspicious Link Spam Sites Detection - An anti-spam technique for protecting search engine ranking is based on mining search engine optimization (SEO) forums. The anti-spam technique collects webpages such as SEO forum posts from a list of suspect spam websites, and extracts suspicious link exchange URLs and corresponding link formation from the collected webpages. A search engine ranking penalty is then applied to the suspicious link exchange URLs. The penalty is at least partially determined by the link information associated with the respective suspicious link exchange URL. To detect more suspicious link exchange URLs, the technique may propagate one or more levels from a seed set of suspicious link exchange URLs generated by mining SEO forums. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198674 | INFORMATION-RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND SOFTWARE WITH CONCEPT-BASED SEARCHING AND RANKING - To improve traditional keyword based search engines, the present inventors devised, among other things, systems, methods, and software that use word co-occurrence probabilities not only to identify documents conceptually related to user queries, but also to score and rank search results. One exemplary system combines inverse-document-frequency searching with concept searching based on word co-occurrence probabilities to facilitate finding of documents that would otherwise go unfound using a given query. The exemplary system also allows ranking of search results based both on both keyword matching and concept presence, promoting more efficient organization and review of search results. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198675 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR USING COMMUNITY DEFINED FACETS OR FACET VALUES IN COMPUTER NETWORKS - A database search method and system utilize user community defined facets and facet values for refining searches. The system provides access to a database having a plurality of records in respective categories of information. Each record has one or more facets to the respective category of information. The system enables user input of a search term formed of a first parameter indicative of at least one category of information of the database. In response to the user input, the invention system displays (a) a set of search results, including records from the database of the at least one category of information, and (b) a listing of facets and/or facet values of the records in the search results. The listing of facets and/or facet values serve as suggested additional parameters for further refining the search terms or guiding user navigation of the database. In response to user selection of a facet value from the listing, the system refines the search term resulting in a refined search term formed of the first parameter plus the user selected facet and/or facet value. A search of the database is rerun using the refined search term. The facets and facet values are defined by a computer network community of users over time and through use of the network community portal. Another embodiment is an advertising engine that displays targeted advertisements to the user based on refined search. Another embodiment is a method that utilizes refined search to help the user with navigation of a site (e.g., website or other computer network site) as a component of a GUI. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198676 | Indexing Documents for Information Retrieval - Information retrieval systems such as web search systems locate documents amongst millions and even billions of possible documents on the basis of query terms. In order to achieve this document indexes are created. We propose creating new fields in the documents to store feedback information. This information comprises query terms used in a particular search as well as information about whether a particular document retrieved is given positive or negative feedback for example. Indexes are created on the basis of this feedback information in addition to other available information. As a result relevance of search results is improved. Multiple fields of information are available for given documents (such as abstract fields, title fields, anchor text fields as well as our feedback fields). Any search algorithm which deals with multiple fields as well as multiple query terms and which provides for differential weighting of document fields is used. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198677 | Document Comparison Method And Apparatus - A document comparison and identification method comprises the steps of: identifying (S | 2009-08-06 |
20090198678 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND SOFTWARE FOR ENTITY RELATIONSHIP RESOLUTION - To facilitate access to public records, the present inventors devised, among other things, an entity resolution system. The exemplary system includes master records database of 300 million entities, which is partitioned into multiple distinct portions. The exemplary system extracts entity information from input public records and constructs one or more blocking queries against specific portions of the master records database to identify one or more sets of candidate records. Feature vectors are defined for the candidate records and machine learning techniques, such as Support Vector Machine, are used to determine which of the candidate records from the master records database match the input public records. Candidate records that match are logically associated with public records, enabling ready access via direct or indirect queries. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198679 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND SOFTWARE FOR EVALUATING USER QUERIES - The present inventor devised, among other things, an information retrieval system that determines whether a query is ambiguous or not and based on this determination either continues or aborts a search process. One query evaluation extracts word pairs from an input query and uses features of the extracted word pairs, for example the number of word pairs and their frequencies within a document collection, to determine if the query is ambiguous or not. Another evaluation measures topical convergence, using query related caselaw headnotes that are associated with topics in a legal taxonomy. And yet another checks topical convergence through the lens of full caselaw documents and secondary legal documents, such as law review articles, specifically the minimum number of case law and secondary legal documents that are necessary to span a set of top ranked topics identified using the query. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198680 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - User characteristic information acquired from the login information of a user is stored as attribute information associated with the document information of a registered document. In accordance with login of the user, a document associated with the acquired user characteristic information is acquired based on the acquired user characteristic information and the stored user characteristic information. A display content to display pieces of information for identifying the acquired document is created. As the attribute information of the document, a weight representing the relevance between the document and each of a plurality of items included in the user characteristic information is stored in association with each other. A display content to classify, based on the weight of each item, the pieces of information for identifying the acquired document and display the information is created. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198681 | REAL PROPERTY EVALUATION AND SCORING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method for evaluating a parcel of real estate includes recording a location and intended use of the parcel, generating a geocoded graphic of an area including the parcel, and defining a trade area. Boundaries of the trade area are demarcated on the graphic, and databases are accessed to determine characteristics of the trade area. The characteristics are processed into an objective score. A customized report is generated including the score and an analysis of the characteristics, and is displayed on the computer in a downloadable format. A server for generating the report includes a computer-readable medium, a processor, and an algorithm. The algorithm records a location and intended use of the parcel on the computer-readable medium, determines a trade area, accesses data sources to determine a set of trade area characteristics, and processes the characteristics using the processor to calculate an objective score based on the intended use. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198682 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESTRICTING ACCESS RIGHTS ON USER PROFILE INFORMATION USING A NEW NOTION OF PEER - The present invention relates to the field of Network portals and in particular to a method and system for restricting access rights on user profile information using a new notion of peer groups, wherein a given user's peer group is defined to be the set of users containing all the members of all the user's communities, wherein the individual communities are defined within the web portal wherein on said web portal a plurality of composite applications are implemented, wherein each composite application ( | 2009-08-06 |
20090198683 | FAST ADAPTIVE DOCUMENT FILTERING - Data structures, stored on various types of computer-readable media, include information related to user profiles and/or to various documents. The information included in these data structures is arranged and stored in manner that allows for rapid user profile updating to be performed as new or changed documents are processed in a document filtering system. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198684 | System and Method for Determining Semantically Related Terms - The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for determining semantically related terms. Generally, one or more seed terms are received from a user. A system searches a first index comprising a plurality of terms and one or more webpages associated with each term of the plurality of terms to determine a plurality of webpages associated with the seed terms. The system then searches a second index comprising a plurality of webpages and one or more terms associated with each webpage of the plurality of webpages to determine a plurality of potential terms associated with the plurality of webpages associated with the seed terms. At least one term of the plurality of potential terms is suggested to a user. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198685 | ANNOTATION SYSTEM FOR CREATING AND RETRIEVING MEDIA AND METHODS RELATING TO SAME - The invention described herein is generally directed to a method and apparatus for creating and retrieving audio data. In one implementation the invention comprises an annotation system configured to record, store, and retrieve media. The annotation system contains a set of client-processing devices configured to capture media for subsequent playback. Each client-processing device typically contains a record button to initiate the capture and is configured upon performing the capture operation to trigger an association of a unique ID with the media. The client-processing devices are further configured to upload the media and a unique ID to a server for purposes of storage. The server obtains the media and unique ID for subsequent retrieval and provides the media and the unique ID to at least one client-processing device from the set of client processing devices. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198686 | Method and System for Indexing Information about Entities with Respect to Hierarchies - Systems and methods for indexing, associating or compositing data records and hierarchies from various information sources are disclosed. Embodiments of the present invention may provide the ability to link data records and thus to link data records to known hierarchies of data records. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention may provide the capability to associate data records in varying information sources and to thereby associate incoming data record with existing data records or existing data hierarchies such that an incoming data record may not only be associated with an existing data record comprising information about the same entity but may additionally be associated with other members of the data hierarchy in the same manner as the existing data record. In addition to associating an incoming data record with an existing data record and incorporating the incoming data record into an existing data hierarchy, embodiments of the present invention may provide the capability of reconciling an incoming data hierarchy to which an incoming data record belongs with an existing data hierarchy belongs such that the two data hierarchies may be composited. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198687 | PLAN SOLVER - Systems and methods for supply chain management and identification of feasible plans. Identification of feasible plans includes simultaneous breadth and depth satisfaction of demands. Demands are satisfied using multiple sources of supply, consideration of substitute items, generation of supply, and/or reallocation of supply previously pegged for satisfaction of a lower priority demand. Reallocation optionally includes consideration of items and demands associated with multiple level codes. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198688 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMICALLY REARRANGING SEARCH RESULTS INTO HIERARCHICALLY ORGANIZED CONCEPT CLUSTERS - Methods of and systems for dynamically rearranging search results into hierarchically organized concept clusters are provided. A method of searching for and presenting content items as an arrangement of conceptual clusters to facilitate further search and navigation on a display-constrained device includes providing a set of content items and receiving incremental input to incrementally identify search terms for content items. Content items are selected and grouped into sets based on how the incremental input matches various metadata associated with the content items. The selected content items are grouped into explicit conceptual clusters and user-implied conceptual clusters based on metadata in common to the selected content items. The clustered content items are presented according to the conceptual clusters into which they are grouped. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198689 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA PRESERVATION AND RETRIEVAL - A system and method for searching for computer environments, authenticating the computer environments, and copying data from the authenticated computer environments to a memory location. The data is marked or bound to the computer system it was copied from which provides a user with assurance that the data was obtained from a specific, authenticated source. The computer environments and the memory location may be coupled over a network. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198690 | INFORMATION COMPARISON METHOD - An information comparison method, suitable for a server, is provided. The server is connected to clients. The method includes following steps. First, assign at least two comparing objects among the server and the clients. Next, set a comparing information. Then, obtain the set comparing information from the comparing objects through the server. Afterwards, perform a comparing operation on the set comparing information according to formats of the obtained comparing information. And then, generate a comparing result. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198691 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING FAST PHRASE INPUT - A user interface for receiving text in a device adapted to receive key input, the device having access to a dictionary database and including a controller arranged to match the key input against the dictionary database to find matching input candidates, wherein the key input corresponds to at least one character and the matching input candidate corresponds to a candidate phrase including at least one word and wherein each of the at least one character matches a first character of the at least one word of the candidate phrase and wherein the order of the at least one characters of the key input is the same as the order of the at least one words having a first character matching the at least one characters in the candidate phrase. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198692 | Methods, Systems and Computer Program Products for Analogy Detection Among Entities Using Reciprocal Similarity Measures - Analogies among entities may be detected by obtaining associative counts among the entities and computing similarity measures among given entities and other entities, using the associative counts. First and second entities are then identified as being analogies if the first entity has a strongest similarity measure with respect to the second entity and the second entity also has a strongest similarity measure with respect to the first entity. The similarity measures may be calculated using a normalized entropy inverted among a given entity and other entities. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198693 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ORDERING ITEMS WITHIN DATASETS - Methods and apparatus permit displaying items of datasets resulting from executing queries on a database in an order specified by a hierarchy. The hierarchy has a number of categories arranged in an order. Each item is associated with one of the categories. The items in a dataset can be ordered by determining which category each item belongs to and looking up the ordinal position of that category in the hierarchy. A list of categories represented in the dataset may be provided. Items may be classified in two or more hierarchies. A user may be permitted to select one of the hierarchies according to which the items should be sorted. The criteria used to classify the items may be different from the criteria used to query the database to obtain the dataset. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198694 | Resolving conflicts in a transactional execution model of a multiprocessor system - In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for resolving conflicts, including receiving data access requests from multiple requestors at a home agent that owns the data, determining whether any of the requests are transactional requests, any of the requestors obtains the data forwarded from another agent, and a highest priority transactional requestor, and based at least in part on the determining, sending from the home agent a first message to the highest priority transactional requestor to indicate that the highest priority transactional requestor is to not abort its transaction and a second message to the other requestor to indicate that the corresponding requestor is to abort its transaction. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198695 | Method and Apparatus for Supporting Distributed Computing Within a Multiprocessor System - A locking mechanism for supporting distributed computing within a multiprocessor system is disclosed. A lock control section and a stage control section are assigned to a data block within a system memory. In response to a request for accessing the data block by a processing unit, a determination is made by a memory controller whether or not the lock control section of the data block has been set. If the lock control section of the data block has been set, the access request is denied. Otherwise, if the lock control section of the data block has not been set, another determination is made whether or not a current processing stage of the requesting processing unit matches a processing stage indicated by the stage control section. If the current processing stage of the requesting processing unit does not match the processing stage indicated by the stage control section, the access request is denied; otherwise, the access request is allowed. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198696 | Emergency medical record - A system and retrieval of an emergency medical record of a patient comprising the step of receiving the emergency medical record of the patient and an online database. The system further comprises the step of storing the emergency medical record in the online database and providing access to the online database by using a communications network. Access to the network is provided by entering a member number and a unique user defined validation code to maximize privacy and security. The system further comprises the step of retrieving the emergency medical record at the online database. The system comprises the final step of providing the emergency medical record to a requestor by one of the following methods: viewing the online display, printing the online display, faxing the emergency medical record to a requester, and e-mailing the emergency medical record to a requestor. The method may further comprise the step of entering the record delivery information including the fax number and at least one of the following: the facility name, the requestor name, and the facility phone number. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198697 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO DATA VIA A DATA-CENTRIC SECURITY MODEL - A method and system for controlling access to data via a data-centric security model. A business data classification scheme is defined as a hierarchy that includes data types aligned with business operations. A data element is labeled with a data label. The data label includes multiple attributes associated with a data-centric security model. A first attribute is a data type of the data element. A second attribute includes security requirements. Data control rules are automatically generated for an enforcement of the security requirements. The enforcement grants or denies to a user an access to the data element via a predefined action. The enforcement is based on a predefined association among the predefined action, a predefined role that includes the user, the data type and, optionally, a purpose for performing the predefined action. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198698 | System and Method for Adding Multi-Leval Security to Federated Asset Repositories - A system and method for adding multi-level security to federated asset repositories is provided. A multi-level security (MLS) manager receives normalized taxonomies from repository managers, which manage repositories that include assets assigned various security levels. In turn, the MLS manager integrates the taxonomies into a composite taxonomy. When a portal receives a request from a user, the portal sends a taxonomy request to the MLS manager that includes the user's user identifier. The MLS manager retrieves the composite taxonomy, identifies the user's security level, filters the composite taxonomy based upon the user's security level, and provides the filtered composite taxonomy to the portal. In turn, the portal generates a user interface view based upon the filtered composite taxonomy and provides the user interface view to the user, which utilizes the user interface view to request and receive access to assets from one or more federated repositories. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198699 | REMOTE SPACE EFFICIENT REPOSITORY - A method for storing data includes establishing a space efficient storage system including a virtual repository, a staging repository and a remote repository. The virtual repository includes a first pointer to the staging repository, and the staging repository includes a second pointer to the remote repository. The method further includes receiving data at the virtual repository, storing the received data in the staging repository based on the first pointer, and determining a data access frequency based on the storage in the staging repository. In addition, the method includes comparing the determined data access frequency to a threshold frequency and transferring the stored data to the remote repository based on the second pointer and comparison and storing the stored data at the staging repository based on the comparison. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198700 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF DEEP METADATA ASSOCIATED WITH MEDIA CONTENT - Methods and systems verify and control the quality of metadata associated with a media data file. The metadata may be used, for example, by media content recommendation systems. In one embodiment, a first attribute is selected from metadata associated with a media data file and an attribute dependency corresponding to the first attribute is determined. The metadata may be searched to determine whether it includes a second attribute that satisfies the dependency. If the dependency is not satisfied, the metadata is flagged for reevaluation. The metadata may also be flagged for reevaluation, for example, if the metadata includes inconsistent attributes, if the total number of assigned attributes within the metadata does not exceed a predetermined value, or if an expected attribute dimension is missing or does not include an expected number of defined attributes. In certain embodiments, user selections are controlled to provide consistent attribute combinations. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198701 | DYNAMIC WEBCAST CONTENT VIEWER METHOD AND SYSTEM - A data accessing method and system. The method includes receiving by a computing system from a first user, a first user profile comprising user preference data associated with the first user. The computing system receives and stores Webcast data associated with a Webcast that has been broadcasted for an entity. The Webcast data comprises audio/video data. The computing system receives from the first user, a first request for access to the first Webcast data. The computing system associates the user preference data with a first set of specified portions of the audio/video data. The computing system retrieves a first portion of audio/video data of the first set of specified portions of the audio/video data. The computing system presents the first portion of audio/video data to the first user. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198702 | SYNCHRONIZATION INFRASTRUCTURE FOR NETWORKED DEVICES, APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES IN A LOOSELY COUPLED MULTI-MASTER SYNCHRONIZATION ENVIRONMENT - The subject disclosure relates to an efficient multi-master synchronization infrastructure is provided enabling loosely coupled networked client and server devices, applications and services to efficiently convey and receive synchronization knowledge across interconnecting network(s). A set of synchronization methods and standardized interfaces are also provided that enable rich offline application experiences and collaboration among devices, applications and services predicated on the efficient synchronization infrastructure. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198703 | INTELLIGENT DATA STORAGE SYSTEM - An intelligent data storage system, comprising: one or more intelligent storage devices each comprising one or more processors, a memory, and a storage medium configured to store source data; and one or more application hosts each comprising one or more processors and a memory, communicatively coupled to said one or more intelligent storage devices and configured to generate an execution plan, comprising at least one data filtering parameter, to divide said execution plan into one or more fragments comprising said at least one data filtering parameter, and to provide said one or more fragment to said one or more intelligent storage devices, wherein said intelligent storage device is configured to execute said execution plan fragment on the source data to generate result data selected from the source data based on said at least one data filtering parameter. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198704 | Method for automated network file and directory virtualization - A system and method for managing the locations of files in a network such that application programs in client computers that need access to those files do not need reconfiguration when those locations are changed. Further, the system and method allows the resolution of the ‘virtual’ location known to the client computer or application to a current physical location to be performed using a single referral. In addition, the system and method provides for the automatic updating of the ‘namespace’ that tracks the relationship of ‘virtual’ location to current physical location. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198705 | SERVER, DATA TRANSFER METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A receiving unit receives a processing request from a client, requesting acquisition of data including a plurality of elements from a database. An acquiring unit acquires first data and data structure information from the database in response to the first processing request. A generating unit replaces a first element with a first identifier and generates a second data including the first identifier and the second elements. A transmitting unit transmits the second data to the client. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198706 | System and method for managing facility location data - The present disclosure provides a method for managing facility location data. The method includes receiving a location data record from a first client application, validating the location data record by applying one or more validation rules to the location data record, and standardizing the location data record by converting one or more non-standard components of the location data record into one or more standardized components. The method also includes generating a standardized location data record from the standardized components, and publishing the standardized location data record to one or more subscribing applications. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198707 | System and method for managing firewall log records - The present disclosure provides a method for managing communication records that includes receiving a plurality of firewall log records from at least a firewall system, consolidating the plurality of firewall log records by filtering out a plurality of duplicate records, and associating the plurality of firewall log records with a plurality of contexts to create a plurality of record-context combinations. The method also includes analyzing and storing the consolidated firewall log records, and producing at least one image file from the plurality of records-context combinations. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198708 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING METADATA ASSOCIATED WITH ENTITIES IN A COMPUTING SYSTEM - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates managing metadata associated with entities and entity types in a computing system. During operation, the system initializes a global static metadata cache containing global static metadata at the computing system. Next, the system initializes a global dynamic metadata cache containing global dynamic metadata at the computing system. The system then receives a command to initialize a session at the computing system. In response to the command, the system determines a realm for the session, wherein the realm is a virtual private partition of the computing system. The system then initializes a realm-scoped dynamic metadata cache containing realm-scoped dynamic metadata associated with the realm at the computing system. Finally, the system executes operations on the computing system in compliance with the global static metadata, the global dynamic metadata, and the realm-scoped dynamic metadata. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198709 | APPLICATION TIER DATA DICTIONARY - A method of tracking dependencies in an application file, including analyzing the application file to identify at least one dependency in the application file, extracting information from the application file related to the dependency to allow identification of an entity to which the application file has a dependency from the information, and storing the dependency for the application file in the application tier data dictionary. A system has a memory, at a first tier, to store an application tier data dictionary and at least one application file, and a processor at the first tier to determine dependencies in the application file, store the dependencies in the application tier data dictionary, communicate with a second tier, separate from the first tier, as needed to access information with regard to the dependencies, and store the information in the application tier data dictionary. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198710 | REMOTE SPACE EFFICIENT REPOSITORY - A method for storing data includes establishing a space efficient storage system including a virtual repository, a staging repository and a remote repository. The virtual repository includes a first pointer to the staging repository, and the staging repository includes a second pointer to the remote repository. The method further includes receiving data at the virtual repository, storing the received data in the staging repository based on the first pointer, and transferring the stored data to the remote repository based on the second pointer. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198711 | USER-TARGETED ADVERTISING - Structured data sets including one or more attributes are identified, each structured data set associated with, for example, a particular user. Values corresponding the at least one of the one or more attributes in each structured data set are identified. A condition established by a content provider, for instance, an advertiser, is compared to the identified values to determine if the condition is satisfied. When the condition is satisfied, one or more content items are identified to the users associated with the structured data sets containing identified values satisfying the condition. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198712 | METADATA FOR SOFTWARE AIRCRAFT PARTS - A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for creating a data structure residing on a computer recordable medium for verifying whether a software aircraft part can be loaded. The data structure comprises a set of aircraft identification objects. An aircraft identification object within the set of aircraft identification objects contains a level of specificity about a set of aircraft on which the software aircraft part can be loaded. The set of aircraft identification objects are capable of being read from the computer recordable medium to verify whether the software aircraft part can be loaded in an aircraft. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198713 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - When stored stream data is deleted/edited, the packet sequence completely included in a deletion range is deleted from the stream data, and the stream data is segmented into first stream data before the start point of the deletion range and second stream data after the end point of the deletion range. First and second stream management data corresponding to the first and second stream data are generated. The index value of the packet including the start point of the deletion range is written in the header of the first stream management data. The index value of the packet including the end point of the deletion range is written in the header of the second stream management data. In addition, an index base value for correcting the index value is written in the header of the second stream management data. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198714 | Document processing and management approach for reflecting changes in one representation of a document to another representation - A method of propagating changes from a DOM tree. The method comprising watching a subset of the DOM tree, the subset matching a template. A change is made in the watched subset of the DOM tree. A representation of the DOM tree is automatically updated to reflect the change in the watched subset. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198715 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PSEUDO-CONVERSION OF TABLE OBJECTS - A method for converting a table object from a first partitioning type to a second partitioning type includes steps or acts of gathering information including a definition of a clustering index of the table object; converting the table object of the first partitioning type into a virtual table object of the second partitioning type by virtually applying the information to a clustering index of the table object such that the virtual table object represents how the table object will appear when it is explicitly converted; and presenting the virtual table object to a user for viewing and manipulating as a table of the second partitioning type before generating an explicit conversion to said second partitioning type. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198716 | METHOD OF BUILDING A COMPRESSION DICTIONARY DURING DATA POPULATING OPERATIONS PROCESSING - A system and method for synchronously building a Ziv-Lempel dictionary during online insert processing. In one embodiment the invention includes a method for processing information that includes the steps of initiating a process for adding data to a data object including a table and determining if a predetermined condition exists for triggering the creation of a compression dictionary. The compression dictionary is then created if the predetermined condition exists. Once created, the dictionary may then be inserted into the data object. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198717 | METHOD FOR CLUSTERING AUTOMATION AND CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUES - A method and system for use in an information retrieval system that provides related informational items that can be automatically classified and summarized in a hierarchical manner. The system comprises the steps and means for the presentation and analysis of mined data through the application of four distinct processes, namely, feature selection, clustering, classification and summarization. The implementation of each of these techniques is a single process without regard to order. Individual informational items are analyzed, and relevant features extracted. Individual groups of informational items, otherwise known as clusters, are identified, and rules are determined to allow the assignment of informational items to the previously mentioned groups. Descriptive and meaningful titles are then identified for the groups. Various methods of presenting searched information to an end user are also provided. A method of adaptive clustering is also provided. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198718 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PARALLEL EXECUTION OF A PROCESS - One embodiment of the invention is directed to executing a computer program that manipulates data stored in a distributed manner on a parallel server. At least one portion of the computer program treats the data from a global perspective, wherein commands to the parallel server are not specific to the manner in which the data is distributed on the parallel server. In addition, at least one portion of the computer program treats the data from a local perspective, wherein commands to the parallel server are specific to the manner in which the data is distributed on the parallel server. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198719 | METHODS AND APPARTUSES FOR ASSISTING THE PRODUCTION OF MEDIA WORKS AND THE LIKE - Systems and methods for assisting one or more users in the production of a media work from a plurality of recordings are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, digital versions of the recordings are stored on a file-storage server accessible over a communications network. A media-library server provides an organized way for users to access and view the digital versions, and to associate various data files with the digital versions, such as transcription files, logging files, and storyboard documents. The exemplary media library generates web pages that enable users to search and access the digital versions from an internet browser running on a conventional personal computer. The browser also enables users to view the digital versions with a browser-compatible media viewer. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198720 | METHOD FOR CREATING A PROCESS NOMENCLATURE - Techniques for creating a nomenclature to represent one or more groups within a process are provided. The techniques include obtaining a process, wherein the process comprises one or more groups, and creating a nomenclature to represent the one or more groups, wherein the nomenclature facilitates usability of the process in at least one of an operation and design environment. Techniques are also provided for generating a database of one or more processes, wherein each process is represented by a nomenclature. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198721 | COMPUTING RESOURCE SELECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A selection method and system. The method includes enabling, by a computing system for a requester, access to the computing system. The computing system comprises a memory system. The memory system comprises group based access control data and computing resource data organized based on an XML schema that comprises a recursive format used to support a plurality of branch levels in a resource tree. The computing system associates first group data of the group based access control data with the requester. The computing system receives from the requester, a first request for accessing the computing resource data. The computing system associates the first group data with a first group of computing resources of the computing resource data. The computing system generates a first list comprising attribute values for the first group of computing resources. The computing system stores the first list. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198722 | System and method for deriving the minimum number of bytes required to represent numeric data with different physical representations - For individual data items described by XML Schema elements and attributes of simple type, the type definitions are capable of defining the range of numeric data. Once the range is known, it is possible to deduce the number of bytes required for a given physical representation (primitive or inherited). A method is provided (as an example) for determining the minimum number of bytes required for twos complement integer, packed decimal and extended decimal representations. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198723 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WEB-BASED DATA MINING OF DOCUMENT PROCESSING INFORMATION - The subject application is directed to a system and method for web-based data mining of document processing device information. User identification data corresponding to an identity of multiple users is first received at each of a plurality of document processing devices. Device status data is then received corresponding to document processing operations at each of the devices, with a portion of status data associated with user identification data. Structured machine data, including user identification data and device data in machine reasoning format, is then output from each document processing device to a data network. Structured machine data is then received from each of the document processing devices via the associated network. A database is then generated from received machine data, and query data is received relative to operation of the document processing devices. A report is generated based upon response data extracted from the database according to the query data. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198724 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONDUCTING NETWORK ANALYTICS - A log file from a server is analyzed and entries in the log file are deleted, combined, or condensed to create a list of page views that more accurately reflects traffic to a server. The list of page views may be added to a database for searching, sorting, and analyzing the page views. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198725 | VISUALIZING TREE STRUCTURES WITH DIFFERENT EDGE LENGTHS - A system described herein includes a receiver component that receives multiple data elements, wherein each of the data elements has a common attribute, and wherein the several data elements are hierarchically related. The system may further include an assignor component that independently assigns each of the multiple data elements to one of a plurality of layers, wherein a data element is assigned to a layer based at least in part upon a value of the common attribute that corresponds to the data element. The system may also include a renderer component that receives assignments made by the assignor component and graphically renders a tree structure based at least in part upon the assignments. Furthermore, a color bar can be generated that includes one or more rows based at least in part upon content of the tree structure. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198726 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ORGANIZING CONTENTS - A method and apparatus to organize content, which can systematically and efficiently organize and manage contents. The method includes creating a content list and providing the content list to a user; providing a user interface to the user to organize content included in the content list in units of time periods; storing organization schedule information organization schedule information obtained by the user interface as extensible Markup Language (XML) information; and transmitting the organization schedule information and enabling the content to be provided to the user according to the organization schedule information. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198727 | TRACE-BASED DATABASE SCHEMA EVOLUTION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method, system, and computer program storage product perform an integrated trace-based database schema evolution. An original design model is imported. The original design model is edited. A set of alterations of the original design model resulting from editing the original design model is traced. The set of alterations is recorded. A schema evolution script and a data migration script are generated based on the set of alterations that have been recorded. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198728 | GENERATING, AND UPDATING CALENDAR EVENTS FROM NON-CALENDAR SOURCES - Calendar events are pulled from an information source, such as a website, having listed events. A user subscribes to an information source where information containing time-stamped events appears. Alternatively, a user specifies a keyword for searching on the information source. If there are any changes on the information source in regard to a user-specified keyword, the event is automatically linked to the user's calendar. In yet another aspect, a publisher of the information source uses a tag set to tag running text on their information source, e.g. website, such that there is no need for the publisher of an information source to maintain a calendar of the events described in the information source. In yet another aspect, the publisher of the information source is not informed of who subscribes to the information source or what keywords the users specify in regard to the information source to provide user anonymity. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198729 | System And Method Of Obtaining Interrelated Data In A Database - A system and method are provided for obtaining interrelated data for a database. The method can include the operation of calculating a data row set for a driving table in the database using at least one archive policy. A further operation is obtaining explicit and implicit application relationships between a second level table and the driving table. The driving table can be linked to the second level table to identify data rows eligible for archiving in the second level table. In addition, partition identifiers can be copied from the driving table rows to the second level table data rows in order to enable merging of application partitions as needed. Additional data rows can be found in the driving table based on the application relationship between the second level table and the driving table. The data rows collected from the tables can be archived. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198730 | Method and system for managing the lifecycles of media assets - There is provided a method for managing the lifecycles of one or more media assets. The method comprises importing the one or more media assets into a system for managing the lifecycles of the one or more media assets, determining one or more metadata tags for association with the one or more media assets by evaluating the one or more media assets with one or more tagging filters, associating the one or more metadata tags with the one or more media assets after determining one or more metadata tags for association with the one or more media assets, and grouping the one or more media assets according to the one or more metadata tags associated with the one or more media assets by evaluating the one or more metadata tags with one or more grouping filters to generate one or more media asset groups. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198731 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MODULARIZING WINDOWS IMAGING FORMAT - A method and system may include capturing a computer system in a file-based manner that promotes single-instancing of files and thus prevents the occurrence of duplicate files, separating the captured computer system into primary file resources and ancillary file resources, and creating a parent image and a child image that refers to the parent image. The method and system may further include writing the primary file resources on the parent image, and writing the ancillary file resources onto the child image. The child image may include a resource-only file and a metadata-only file which provides instructions on how to recreate the file resources stored in the parent image and the child image. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198732 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEEP METADATA POPULATION OF MEDIA CONTENT - Methods and systems generate deep metadata associated with media content. The deep metadata may be used, for example, by media content recommendation systems. In one embodiment, a database includes a plurality of media files that are each associated with respective data models and metadata sets. A new media file is categorized by microgenre and automatically analyzed to generate a new data model. The new data model is compared to the database to determine a particular data model stored therein that satisfies a similarity threshold. In one embodiment, the comparison is limited to data models that are associated with the same microgenre as that of the new media file. A set of metadata associated with the particular data model stored in the database is then assigned to the new media file. In an example embodiment, the new media file is an audio file and the database is a music database. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198733 | HEALTHCARE RESOURCE LOCATOR - The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates identifying a medical facility for an emergency medical situation. An interface can receive a portion of data related to an emergency medical incident and a corresponding location. A match component can evaluate the portion of data to select a medical facility in which to transport a patient involved in the emergency medical incident, wherein the medical facility can be ascertained based on a distance between the location of the emergency medical incident and a location for the selected medical facility and traffic related to a route there between. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198734 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING OBJECT ASSOCIATION BASED ON INTERACTION TIME USING A LOCATION TRACKING SYSTEM - A system is provided for associating an object with a locale or a second object based on interaction time. The system includes and object identifier linked with an object for providing data identifying the object and a location determining module for determining the location of the object. The location determining modules includes an object location module for determining the location of the object based at least in part on the data and an object association module for associating the object with a second object or locale. The object association module is configured to determine whether the object is in proximity to the second object or the locale for a time period greater than or equal to a threshold time and create an associating between the object and the second object or the locale. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198735 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING USER REGISTRATION ON CE DEVICE OVER NETWORK - A method and an apparatus for managing device users over a network are provided. The method of managing users of a device in which network communication is possible, includes: inputting a request of a device user to manage a device user list; providing a user identifier candidate list including at least one user identifier based on the device user request; and managing the device user list based on a user's selection of at least one user identifier in the user identifier candidate list. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198736 | Time-Based Multiple Data Partitioning - A method, computer program product and computer system for dynamic data partitioning in a database system, which partitions data in a database system using at least one time-base data-partitioning scheme, maintains multiple time and data partitioning schemes, and utilizes database operations that work with partitions from time-based multiple data-partitioning schemes. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198737 | System and Method for Archive Verification - Embodiments provide systems and methods for archive verification of media in a library. A method of archive verification may comprise loading a specified media into a drive at intervals, sending one or more commands to the drive, wherein the drive attempts to read the specified media or data on the specified media in accordance with the one or more commands, collecting data associated with the specified media from the drive and determining the readability of the specified media or data on the specified media. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198738 | System and Method for an Adaptive List Prefetch - A method, system, and computer program product are provided for retrieving records into a main memory. A first number of gaps and a first total gap size are received for a list of records from a database subsystem. A determination is made of a first average gap size using the first number of gaps and the first total gap size. A determination is made as to whether the first average gap size is greater than a prestaging threshold value. Responsive to the first average gap size being equal to or less than the prestaging threshold value, a prestaging flag is set for the list of records. Then, the list of records is retrieved into the main memory using prestaging. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198739 | FILE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE - A file management system for managing a number of files stored in an image capturing device includes a classifying unit, a calculating unit, a selecting unit, and a processing unit. The classifying unit is configured for classifying the files in a storage unit of the image capturing device into different clusters according to the file suffixes. The measuring unit is configured for measuring how much memory is currently occupied by the files in the storage unit, size of each cluster and percentage of total available memory occupied by each of the clusters to display the percentages on a display panel. The selecting unit is configured for selecting a desired cluster in response to user input at the input unit. The processing unit is configured for accessing the measurements of the selected cluster(s) and generating a view revealing the measurements on a display panel. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198740 | DATA SHARING - A system is provided for sharing data over a network. The system includes a plurality of portable electronic devices among which data may be shared, and a data share server through which data to be shared between the plurality of portable electronic devices is routed via the network. The data share server includes a data share unit for receiving data to be shared from a source portable electronic device among the plurality of portable electronic devices via the network, and for forwarding the data to be shared to a destination portable electronic device via the network. In addition, the data share server includes a data storage unit for copying the data to be shared and maintaining the copy for subsequent sharing among the plurality of portable electronic devices. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198741 | VIDEO GAME TITLE PROFILE AWARDS - Techniques for recognizing the accomplishments of a game player are disclosed herein. In particular, a user identification profile is provided so that digital items awarded to the user for meeting specified performance criteria in a video game or some other event may be associated with such user identification profile. The digital item may be something that is usable within the current video game title, in a later version or the next generation of a particular video game title, or even in a different video game by the same developer. One technique involves receiving an identification representative of the digital item awarded to the user, associating the digital item with the user identification profile corresponding to the user, and storing an indication that the digital item is associated with the user identification profile. In this way, the indication may be utilized to display the digital item in the user identification profile. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198742 | Method and System for Obtaining Files from a Set of Sources - A method and a system are described that involve obtaining information about a plurality of inbox objects, wherein each inbox object is linked to another inbox object via a set of operations, each operation having a priority. The set of operations are executed on a subset of the plurality of inbox objects to generate a modified subset of the plurality of inbox objects. The modified subset is scanned to extract a list of files. The extracted files are used by a maintenance procedure to replace files in a system with older information and thus to update the system. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198743 | DATA REPAIR METHOD AND SYSTEM - A data repair method and system. The method includes enabling by a computing system for a user, access to the computing system. The computing system comprises a database. The computing system retrieves from the database, first data associated with the user. The computing system generates a first data object from the first data. The computing system analyzes the first data object. The computing system determines that the first data object comprises an invalid data value. The computing system determines a first data value comprising a valid data value. The computing system retrieves the first data value from the database. The computing system replaces the invalid data value with said first data value. The computing system generates from the first data object, a first updated data object comprising the first data value. The computing system stores the first updated data object. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198744 | ELECTRONIC FILE MANAGING APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC FILE MANAGING METHOD - An electronic file managing apparatus and an electronic file managing method, which are intended to manage electronic files in units of conceptual folders and to facilitate the visual recognition of management status, are provided. The electronic file managing apparatus for managing files or folders includes a file change detecting unit for detecting that a file or folder is copied to a location manageable by the electronic file managing apparatus, and that the copied file or folder is changed, and a virtual folder managing unit for managing the copied or changed file or folder and a copy or change source file or folder as virtual folders by making an association between the copied file or folder and the copy or change source file or folder. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198745 | VIRTUALIZATION SWITCH, COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND DATA COPY METHOD - A virtualization switch connected to a host computer and a plurality of physical storage devices includes a plurality of communication line connection terminals and storage virtualizing unit allowing the host computer to recognize a storage area generated by combining some or all of storage areas of the plurality of physical storage devices as a virtual storage device, a plurality of copy process unit copying data in the storage area, and control unit controlling a copy process operation by assigning copy sessions based on instructions from the host computer to the plurality of copy process unit. When the number of copy process units is larger than number of copy sessions, the control unit performs control to distribute part of a copy process in the one or copy process units that are currently performing the copy process to the one or more copy process units that are not performing the copy process. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198746 | GENERATING ANONYMOUS LOG ENTRIES - Assigning session identifications to log entries and generating anonymous log entries are provided. In order to balance users' privacy concerns with the need for analysis of the log entries to provide high quality search results, non-user-specific data fields, such as a user's location (e.g., city, state, and latitude/longitude) and connection speed, are inserted into the log entries, and user-specific data fields, such as the IP address and cookie identifications, are deleted from the log entries. In addition or alternatively, prior to anonymization of the log entries, session identifications are assigned to identified groups of log entries. The groups are identified based on factors such as the user's identification, the IP address, the time of search, and differences between the search terms used in the search queries. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198747 | Memory Card Reader Device for Recovering Memory Card - Disclosed is a memory card reader recovering memory card. The memory card reader recovering memory card according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise a first interfacing unit interfacing with a memory card, a first storing unit storing a recovery program for recovering any deleted or impaired data in the memory card, a control unit executing the recovery program for the deleted or impaired data at a recovery mode and a display unit displaying a file list of both data stored in the memory card and the data recovered on a display screen. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198748 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR RELOCATING STORAGE POOL HOT SPOTS - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for relocating storage pool hot spots. An identification module identifies a hot spot on a first storage pool if accesses to the first storage pool exceed an access threshold. The first storage pool is part of a plurality of storage pools. Each storage pool comprises a plurality of logical segments from a plurality of storage devices. Each storage device is of a specified class. A migration module dynamically migrates data of a first logical segment to a second storage pool. The migration is transparent to a host and the data of the first logical segment is continuously available to the host. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198749 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENTLY MANAGING INCREMENTAL DATA BACKUP REVISIONS - A system and methods for building an efficient incremental data backup system capable of managing high frequency backups sessions, and capable of efficiently expiring backup revisions and locating the useless data elements is disclosed. A reduced set of data elements that have a non-zero probability of becoming redundant when a backup revision expires is prepared while each backup revision is being processed by the backup system. The backup system also maintains data structures, which reduce the number of searches that should be performed for each such data element before it can be realized that the data element is exclusively needed to support the expired backup revision, and therefore could be removed from the second tier storage. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198750 | SOUND CONTROL CALCULATOR DEVICE - A sound control calculator device is described. The sound control calculator device has a long case. The case at least has a sound hole, a key hole, and a window disposed at the periphery thereof and a circuit board disposed therein. The circuit board at least includes a microphone, a recording key, a voice recognition chip, and a display screen for operation thereon. The display screen is just aligned with the window at an upper cover. A password is input at the microphone, and an acoustic signal is converted into numerals by the voice recognition chip and operated, and then is displayed on the display screen. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198751 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING FUNCTIONALITIES OF COMPUTER SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for controlling functionalities of a computer system are provided. The apparatus comprises a key, a serial input unit, and a processing unit. The key is used for enabling an adjustment function of a computer system. The serial input unit is used for generating an adjustment signal for modifying a parameter corresponding to the adjustment function. The adjustment signal is omni-directional and continuously variable. The processing unit connected to the key and the serial input unit is used for modifying the parameter according to the adjustment signal so as to execute the adjustment function when the adjustment function is enabled. As a result, a more intuitive way to control the computer system is provided so as to increase the convenience of using the computer system. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198752 | ASCII to Binary Decimal Integer Conversion in a Vector Processor - A system, method, and apparatus for the constant time, branchless conversion of decimal integers of varying size in ASCII format to a decimal integer in binary decimal format in a vector processor. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198753 | Data processing method by passage between different sub-band domains - The invention concerns data processing by passage between different subband domains, of a first number L to a second number M of subband components. After determining a third number K, least common multiple between the first number L and the second number M: a) if K is different from L, it consists in arranging in blocs, by a serial/parallel conversion, an input vector X(z) to, obtain p | 2009-08-06 |
20090198754 | Order adaptive finite impulse response filter and operating method thereof - A device for allocating a number of taps of a designated finite impulse response filter is disclosed. The device comprises a plurality of designated finite impulse response filters having fixed number of taps, a plurality of allocation finite impulse response filters having fixed number of taps, a control unit and an estimate unit. Depending on intensities of responses to interferences, at least one of the allocation FIR filters may be coupled in series to any one of the designated finite impulse response filters, thereby to provide a signal having excellent quality. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198755 | SCALED SIGNAL PROCESSING ELEMENTS FOR REDUCED FILTER TAP NOISE - An adaptive transversal filter having tap weights W | 2009-08-06 |
20090198756 | REPRESENTATION OF DATA TRANSFORMATION PROCESSES FOR PARALLELIZATION - One or more operations are defined to be used against a repository of one or more items. One or more associations between each of the one or more items are also defined. A classification is associated with the one or more operations for an execution environment within a transformation graph, wherein the classification defines whether the operation can be executed in parallel or not in parallel with other operations. The operations are processed based on the classification. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198757 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR AVOIDING ROUNDING ERRORS AFTER PERFORMING AN INVERSE DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMATION - The present invention provides a method for avoiding rounding errors during rounding of values after performing an inverse discrete cosine transformation. In a first step a) coefficient values of a plurality of coefficients are summed up, wherein the coefficients belong to a block of coefficients. In a second step b), it is evaluated if the sum of the coefficient values is even numbered or odd numbered. In a third step c), then the coefficient block is transformed by means of the inverse discrete cosine transformation into a block of image pixels, wherein each image pixel comprises an image pixel value. In a fourth step d), a block of manipulation values is added or subtracted to the block of image pixel values of the block of image pixels, if the evaluation of the sum of the coefficient values has provided that the sum is even numbered, for generating a manipulated image pixel block, wherein the manipulation value block is formed such that rounding errors during a subsequent rounding operation can be avoided. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198758 | METHOD FOR SIGN-EXTENSION IN A MULTI-PRECISION MULTIPLIER - A method for implementing sign extension within a multi-precision multiplier is described. The method includes receiving a first input within a multiplier core of the multiplier, receiving a second input within the multiplier core, and creating partial products in the multiplier core using the first and second inputs. The method also includes summing up the partial products in a partial product reduction tree in the multiplier core. The method also includes performing sign extension within the partial product reduction tree of the multiplier core by adding a value to a partial product of the partial product reduction tree. The method further includes computing an output from the partial product reduction tree, the output including a final product of the first and second inputs signed extended to a desired width. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198759 | Circuits for computational set theory - The present invention provides a set of analog circuit modules and procedures for assembling them into circuits that represent fundamental expressions and operations in mathematics, and more specifically to circuits for performing computations on problems formulated as constraints in Set Theory. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198760 | Validating service components through data mining - A method and apparatus for validating service components via data mining. In one embodiment, the method includes making service components to be available for use in a production environment of a service subscriber, receiving data produced by instances of the service components in the production environment, and storing the received data in at least one database. The method may further include identifying a service component that is being evaluated, retrieving, from the database, data produced by instances of the service component being evaluated, and providing the retrieved data to a recipient, where the retrieved data indicates effectiveness of the service component being evaluated. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198761 | MESSAGE ENCODING/DECODING USING TEMPLATED PARAMETERS - Communication of a compressed message over a communication channel between message processors. The compressed message may be expressed in terms of an expressed or implicit template identification, and values of one or more parameters. Based on the template identification, the meaning of the one or more parameters may be understood, whereas the meaning of the parameter(s) may not be understood without a knowledge of the template. The template provides semantic context for the one or more parameters. The transmitting message processor may have compressed the message using the identified template. Alternatively or in addition, the receiving message processor may decompress the message using the identified template. The template itself need not be part of the compressed message as transmitted. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198762 | Mechanism to Provide Reliability Through Packet Drop Detection - A method and a data processing system for completing checkpoint processing of a distributed job with local tasks communicating with other remote tasks via a host fabric interface (HFI) and assigned HFI window. Each HFI window has a send count and a receive count, which tracks GSM messages that are sent from and received at the HFI window. When a checkpoint is initiated by a master task, each local task forwards the send count and the receive count to the master task. The master task sums the respective counts and then compares the totals to each other. When the send count total is equal to the receive count total, the tasks are permitted to continue processing. However, when the send count total is not equal to the receive count total, the master task notifies each task of the job to rollback to a previous checkpoint or kill the job execution. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198763 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING BLOG SERVICE BY USING MOBILE TERMINAL, AND MOBILE BLOG CASTER THEREFOR - A method and system to provide a blog by using a mobile terminal, and a mobile blog (MB) caster therefor, the method including: receiving blog data including one or more pieces of downsized data from an MB caster; selecting a piece of downsized data from among the one or more pieces of downsized data; obtaining metadata corresponding to the selected piece of downsized data; accessing a web blog server; and downloading original data corresponding to the metadata from the web blog server. Since the blog is created and provided by using the downsized data, instead of the original data, a blog server operation can be realized by using only existing mobile devices. Furthermore, the mobile terminal does not have to be connected to the Internet (or the web blog server) for a blog service. Also, it is possible to provide the blog at very high speed. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198764 | Task Generation from Monitoring System - A publication/subscription distribution mechanism receives alerts from an enterprise monitoring system, formats the alerts into a task capable of being managed by a task management application, categorizes the task into one or more subscription categories, and distributes the tasks to subscribers for the subscription categories. The distribution mechanism may automatically translate between an enterprise monitoring system and several different task management applications and may enable automated tracking of error conditions and their resolutions from detection to completion. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198765 | Digital asset usage accountability via event journaling - A technique for establishing a perimeter of accountability for usage of digital assets such as data files. The accountability model not only tracks authorized users' access to files, but monitors passage of such files to uncontrollable removable storage media or through network connections and the like which may indicate possible abuse of access. In accordance with a preferred embodiment, an autonomous independent agent process running at a point of use, such as in the background of a client operating system kernel, interrupts requests for access to resources. The agent process senses low level system events, filters, aggregates them, and makes reports to a journaling server. The journaling server analyzes sequences of low level events to detect when aggregate events of interest occur, such as “FileEdit”, network file transfers and the like. Reports can be generated to provide an understanding of how digital assets have been accessed, used or communicated by individuals in an enterprise. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198766 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF DYNAMICALLY ALLOCATING RESOURCES ACROSS MULTIPLE VIRTUAL MACHINES - An apparatus and method for dynamically allocating resources across multiple virtual machines. The method monitors the activities of the applications in each virtual machine running on a hosting server, determines the activities of the applications in each virtual machine based on the activities of the monitored applications, prioritizes each virtual machine based on the determined priorities of the applications in each virtual machine, and dynamically adjusts the resource allocation of each virtual machine on the hosting server based on the priority of each virtual machine. The resources of the hosting server can be dynamically allocated to each virtual machine according to the real-time resource requirement of the active applications, and the applications of different virtual machines can negotiate the resource allocation on the hosting server. | 2009-08-06 |