| 7043508 |
Systems, methods and apparatus for creating stable disk images |
| May-9-2006 |
A system and method of identifying methods of quiescing a storage object. Data is received identifying the storage object and a freeze list is generated. The freeze list includes one or more freeze methods... |
| 7043504 |
System and method for parallel primary and secondary backup reading in recovery of multiple shared database data sets |
| May-9-2006 |
A recovery utility apparatus for expediting recovery time during failure of one or more database data sets is provided. A backup copy restore utility is configured to read and restore a backup copy of... |
| 7043501 |
Method for analyzing demographic data |
| May-9-2006 |
A computer implemented method of generating an ordered list of geographical locations having similarities in preselected categories relative to a first geographical location. |
| 7043488 |
Method and system for storing hierarchical content objects in a data repository |
| May-9-2006 |
A web-based system, method and program product are provided for storing content objects (e.g., a custom compilation or prepublished work) in a data repository as a group of hierarchically related content... |
| 7043499 |
Method and apparatus for accessing a database through a network |
| May-9-2006 |
A system includes a client which can communicate through a network and a database layer with any of several databases. The client communicates with the database layer using a public network communication... |
| 7043497 |
System and method for capturing and storing web site visitor profile information in a data warehouse |
| May-9-2006 |
A customer relationship management system for storing and managing information for an E-Business retailer. The customer relationship system includes a database system for storing and organizing said information,... |
| 7043498 |
System and method for connecting to a set of phrases joining multiple schemas |
| May-9-2006 |
A system and method for connecting to a set of phrases joining multiple schemas is disclosed. A phrase identifying particular content corresponding to a particular schema is submitted by an affiliated... |
| 7043496 |
Data managing method, data managing system, data managing apparatus, data handling apparatus, computer program, and recording medium |
| May-9-2006 |
A client unit 1 which a user uses to request for data, an agent unit 2 which keeps encrypted document data and attributes information, a document managing unit 3 which executes user authentication, access... |
| 7043494 |
Fast, deterministic exact match look-ups in large tables |
| May-9-2006 |
A combined hash table/bucket trie technique facilitates fast, deterministic, memory-efficient exact match look-ups on extremely large tables. A limited number of hash keys which collide on the same location... |
| 7043495 |
Techniques for JEDEC file information integrity and preservation of device programming specifications |
| May-9-2006 |
A method of generating a file suitable for programming a programmable logic device. The method generally comprises the steps of (A) generating a programming item from a plurality of parameters that define... |
| 7043490 |
Method, system, and program product to support multiple content-management data models |
| May-9-2006 |
Methods, systems, and program products for managing multimedia content. These are built upon a combination of a high level content model for specific multimedia content types and a low level physical for... |
| 7043476 |
Method and apparatus for data mining to discover associations and covariances associated with data |
| May-9-2006 |
Data mining techniques are provided which are effective and efficient for discovering useful information from an amorphous collection or data set of records. For example, the present invention provides... |
| 7043477 |
Navigating media content via groups within a playlist |
| May-9-2006 |
Grouping and navigating media files within a playlist on a computer-readable medium. Invention software selects media files according to a grouping criterion to define a group from the media files. The... |
| 7043480 |
Systems and methods for communicating from an integration platform to a lightweight directory access protocol based database |
| May-9-2006 |
A method for communicating from an integration platform to a directory server includes receiving user-entered information at the integration platform. The integration platform generates an event based... |
| 7039897 |
Modeling a target system by interpolating |
| May-2-2006 |
In a method of modeling a target system, a data structure is populated with points, where each point includes at least one target value associated with at least one system parameter value of the target... |
| 7039859 |
Generating visual editors from schema descriptions |
| May-2-2006 |
A visual editor is automatically generated from an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) schema and then used to edit the data contained in corresponding XML documents. The entities within an XML schema are... |
| 7039659 |
Method and apparatus for making differential independent data copies in a data processing system |
| May-2-2006 |
Data is copied from a source storage device to a destination storage device in a differential mode. An extents track defines all tracks to be transferred during a first copying operation. Complementary... |
| 7039650 |
System and method for making multiple databases appear as a single database |
| May-2-2006 |
A database merging apparatus includes a database pair generator that creates a database pair from a first database, a probe set generator that creates a database probe set from a second database and a... |
| 7039649 |
Method and apparatus for maintaining data integrity |
| May-2-2006 |
Techniques are provided for controlling data access to maintain data integrity. A request is received to perform an action on a data element. The request is analyzed based on at least one data access rule... |
| 7039648 |
Method and software system for creating customized computerized libraries |
| May-2-2006 |
A system and a method for automatically generating a customized soft documentation library from a plurality of software based libraries provided by product suppliers. The library is organized in a manner... |
| 7039643 |
System, method and apparatus for converting and integrating media files |
| May-2-2006 |
The present invention teaches a digital media file conversion and integration system including a server coupled to the Internet to allow users to download media files to a server the Internet. The system... |
| 7039647 |
Drag and drop technique for building queries |
| May-2-2006 |
A method, system and computer program product for building a search query in a data processing system having a graphical user interface is provided. Responsive to user input, a graphical component representing... |
| 7039645 |
Managing content of an electronic catalog by collaboration with another electronic catalog |
| May-2-2006 |
The present invention allows one catalog to be managed using the content of another catalog. In one embodiment, the invention can include reading records from a plurality of different source databases,... |
| 7039640 |
System and method for geocoding diverse address formats |
| May-2-2006 |
A method and system for providing geocodes in response to complete or partial address information is disclosed. The disclosure teaches embodiments that are naturally upgraded to integrate changing spatial... |
| 7039638 |
Distributed data clustering system and method |
| May-2-2006 |
A distributed data clustering system having an integrator and at least two computing units. Each computing unit is loaded with common global parameter values and a particular local data set. Each computing... |
| 7039627 |
Method and apparatus for performing a radix search by selecting one of a valid table and a transition table |
| May-2-2006 |
A method performs a radix search data structure. The method selects a reference table based on a value of a selectable parameter. The reference table includes at least one of a valid reference table and... |
| 7039569 |
Automatic adaptive dimensioning for CAD software |
| May-2-2006 |
An automatic adaptive dimensioning program for CAD software in which dimension annotations are created by the CAD program automatically as an object is drawn and automatically associated with the object.... |
| 7036074 |
Apparatus and method for controlling display of database search items |
| Apr-25-2006 |
Stored in a database are a general-purpose table which contains, on a field-by-field basis, element data corresponding to the fields, an item-mane definition table which stipulates, filed by field an item... |
| 7035883 |
Storage control system and method |
| Apr-25-2006 |
According to the present invention, each of a plurality of LUs existing on a storage control system 200 is divided into a plurality of chunks. A PVOL is comprised of only FC-chunks, but an SVOL is... |
| 7035876 |
System and method for evaluating a structured message store for message redundancy |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A system and method for evaluating a structured message store for message redundancy is described. A header and a message body are extracted from each of a plurality of messages maintained in a structured... |
| 7035869 |
System and method of optimizing database queries in two or more dimensions |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A method and system for storing and retrieving spatial data objects from a spatial database is discussed. The system stores multi-dimensional objects within the database by determining their position in... |
| 7035864 |
Hierarchical data-driven navigation system and method for information retrieval |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A data-driven, hierarchical information navigation system and method enable search of sets of documents or other materials by certain common attributes that characterize the materials. The invention includes... |
| 7035867 |
Determining redundancies in content object directories |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A system for identifying files can use fingerprints to compare various files and determine redundant files. Frequency representations of portions of files can be used, such as Fast Fourier Transforms,... |
| 7035868 |
Method and system for dynamically generating digest from event footage and associated metadata |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A digest or summary is generated from an athletic footage containing a predetermined set of metadata. The metadata includes information on time, score and event types. Scenes are selected from the athletic... |
| 7035865 |
Calendar-enhanced awareness for instant messaging systems and electronic status boards |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A method, system, and product are disclosed for providing calendar-enhanced awareness/presence information for instant messaging systems and electronic status boards. This invention automates status transitions,... |
| 7035866 |
System and method providing diffgram format |
| Apr-25-2006 |
The present invention relates to a system and methodology to facilitate XML data communications and processing. A diffgram data structure is provided that includes one or more states of a plurality of... |
| 7035862 |
Method for processing information from an information repository |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A method for deriving and sorting information from an information repository including data elements individually associated with corresponding record identifiers, includes the following steps. First,... |
| 7035854 |
Content management system and methodology employing non-transferable access tokens to control data access |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A method is provided for accessing information in a content management system including a library server for generating non-transferable access tokens and an object server for storing objects to which... |
| 7035853 |
Document management method and document management device |
| Apr-25-2006 |
Editing contents for the editing-object document selected from the plural documents that are inputted from the terminal devices connected to the network and that can be owned jointly via the network and... |
| 7035847 |
Server for synchronization of files |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A server stores files. Distributed clients access the server, to learn about changes made to the files on the server, and to push local changes of the files onto the server. A synchronization application... |
| 7035845 |
Generic proxy for representing search engine partner |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A search engine receives a search query from a user and forwards the received query to a partner by way of a call to a generic proxy with the query for the partner. The generic proxy receives and processes... |
| 7035838 |
Methods and systems for organizing information stored within a computer network-based system |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A method for organizing information stored within a computer network-based system that includes a server system is provided. The server system is coupled to a centralized database and at least one client... |
| 7035723 |
Method for rapid data table initialization |
| Apr-25-2006 |
The present invention provides a fast learn algorithm for quickly providing data to a data table and a controller. Existing data is considered, such that information gathered from prior events is not arbitrarily... |
| 7032186 |
Methods and apparatus for representing resources in a computing system environment |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A computer system and method provide a systems for representing resource(s) in a computing system environment by creating an object to represent a resource in the computing system environment and assigning... |
| 7032019 |
Apparatuses for generation and collection of information based on priority and predetermined collecting conditions |
| Apr-18-2006 |
This invention has a remote machine that collects local-machine logs via a network from a plurality of local machines, each of which has memory that stores local-machine logs generated due to its specific... |
| 7031974 |
Replicating DDL changes using streams |
| Apr-18-2006 |
Techniques are disclosed for sharing information in a wide variety of contexts. An information sharing system is described that allows both an explicit capture process and an implicit capture process to... |
| 7031975 |
Method and program for creating picture data, and system using the same |
| Apr-18-2006 |
There is provided a GUI capable of mitigating troublesomeness in work by a setter/operator for performing setting of a computer. In a picture data creation method for creating, by means of a computer,... |
| 7031973 |
Accounting for references between a client and server that use disparate e-mail storage formats |
| Apr-18-2006 |
In one exemplary implementation, a client receives a record from a server. The record has a server identification key that uniquely identifies the record from any other records. If the record is viewable... |
| 7031970 |
Method and apparatus for generating summary information for hierarchically related information |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A method is provided for digesting the content of hierarchically related information. The method chooses a set of extracted sentences representing a proportion of the text associated with a subtopic, by... |
| 7031967 |
Method and system for implementing policies, resources and privileges for using services in LDAP |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A system for providing service attribute information including a directory server containing a hierarchical data store associating users with service attributes through data inheritance, wherein the hierarchical... |