http://www.freshpatents.com/Data-processing--database-and-file-management-or-data-structures-dtnewntc707.php USPTO Class 707 - Data processing: database and file management or data structures en-us Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 1000 Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 141 31 http://www.freshpatents.com/index.php?rss=true http://www.freshpatents.com/images/freshpatentsnav_rss.gif http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030164.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A system, method and computer readable storage medium is provided for collecting search requests from a variety of sources, analyzing those search requests in order to determine current trends in searches and other interne entries, and utilizing the search trend information to make enterprise data available to searching users through... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030165.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A system and method for providing transactional data privacy while maintaining data usability, including the use of different obfuscation functions for different data types to securely obfuscate the data, in real-time, while maintaining its statistical characteristics. In accordance with an embodiment, the system comprises an obfuscation process that captures data... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030167.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Embodiments are directed to efficiently migrating data from one version of a service to another version and to temporarily transitioning a user to a different service for evaluation. A computer system pre-transfers user data from a first service to a second, different service before an indication is received that the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030166.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 The inter-system communications techniques include a system, and/or a method. In some embodiments of these techniques, the method includes receiving data from a first system. The method further includes storing the received data in an in-memory database. The method further includes determining a second system to inform of the received... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030168.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A first tenant-nonspecific database table on a repository accessible to an application server of a multi-tenant software delivery architecture can maintain a first record designating a first predefined generic field of a plurality of predefined generic fields. The first record can include an organization-specific master data field definition of the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030169.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 An instance persistence command for an update to a state of an instance of an application can be issued. In response to the persistence command, a transaction with an instance store can be initiated. As part of the transaction, a first representation of the update can be stored in the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030170.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A method for maintaining a data storage system is disclosed. The method may include monitoring a first data storage node. The method may also include detecting a condition regarding the first data storage node, and the condition may indicate that at least one file stored on the first data storage... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030171.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A system and method are provided for performing storage operations relating to a first secondary copy of electronic data. A storage policy or storage preferences may dictate that a replication copy should be used in storage operations performed to a particular client, sub-client, data, media or other item. Based on... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030172.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A system and method for transferring data between different types of systems, and in particular uses log-based replication to transfer data between, e.g. a MySQL database or system, and another type of database or system. In accordance with an embodiment, the system can be used to perform a one-time or... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030173.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 An apparatus and method of synchronizing a datum between a plurality of stores uses version vectors associated with the datum in each store. Each version vector has one or more entries, and each entry has an identifier and a value. The identifier identifies a store that has modified the datum,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030174.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Systems and methods for providing an efficient partitioned resource server are disclosed. The partitioned resource server includes a plurality of individual servers, and the individual servers support a storage service. The systems and methods provide archiving processes for partitioned resources. To this end, the systems and process include a snapshot... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030177.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 The invention is a hierarchical backup system. The interconnected network computing devices are put into groups of backup cells. A backup cell has a manager software agent responsible maintaining and initiating a backup regime for the network computing devices in the backup cell. The backups are directed to backup devices... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030176.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 An encryption for a distributed global online backup system with global two-stage deduplication in the absence of an indexing database where data blocks are encrypted using their SHA-1 signatures as encryption keys.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030175.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A method for reducing the data analysis overhead on a production system is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, such a method includes replicating production data from a primary site to a remote site. A control data set containing information for directing analysis of the production data is generated at the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030178.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Architecture for replicating a database through log shipping. A replication service replicates data using one or more new internal application program interfaces (APIs), a replay configuration API which abstracts configuration information for each destination (or target) instance. APIs for log file management as part of the replication process are provided... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030179.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 In one embodiment, a method includes storing files in at least one directory in a first storage tier on at least one random access storage medium, creating an index file which includes entries for each file stored in the directory in the first storage tier on the at least one... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030180.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 This disclosure provides various embodiments for archiving a business object. At least one particular business object is identified for archiving. The particular business object has associated data including type data corresponding to a business object type of the at least one particular business object, structured business data, and unstructured attachment... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030181.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Content archival and retrieval, in which connections with multiple, different enterprise applications operated by an organization are established. In addition, a connection with a central archival system is established and content to archive is received from the multiple, different enterprise applications. The central archival system is controlled to archive, in... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030182.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A computer-based method for media composition of a family of related time-based media programs. The method involves creating a master program with time-based elements of video and/or audio as well as time-based and non-time-based metadata, creating a derivative program that includes derivative elements, defining an inheritance relationship between the master... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030183.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Secure erase of files and unallocated sectors on storage media such that any previous data is non-recoverable. The database contains sets of data patterns used to overwrite the data on different physical media. The software programs manage the overwriting process automatically when a file has been deleted. When de-allocated sectors... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030184.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A distributed database system is provided in which a commit coordinator ensures that transactions spanning multiple database instances are committed or rolled back consistently. The commit coordinator utilizes an extended two-phase-commit process. The extension of the two-phase-commit process enables, that if within the distributed database cohorts store redundant data for... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030186.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Methods and systems for reconstructing a full query based on a partial query are disclosed. Existing interfaces for search engines may be rigid and require users to submit full queries to perform searched. The methods and systems described herein may solve these problems by allowing a flexible way for users... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030185.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A computer-implemented system and methods of re-ranking sponsored search results by a search engine in response to a search query include: retrieving one or more organic search results and a plurality of sponsored search results (“search results”), along with their respective rankings, associated with a search query; determining a degree... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030187.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A system and method for secure document management including tagging and/or remotely tracking documents exchanged between one or more users and a document repository. In some embodiments, the security policies for documents are determined based at least in part on document content, metadata associated with the document, and/or usage history... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030191.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A tracking system passively tracks and records searches conducted by actual search engine users. The recorded data for each search event preferably includes the search query submitted, the search engine used, the search result item (e.g., web page) selected, the position (e.g., page number) of this item, and the user's... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030189.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 According to some embodiments, an anchor transactional view may be defined for at least one business object data structure. The anchor transactional may have a plurality of anchor fields, each anchor field representing a data source and being associated with a field of an anchor search view. An indication of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030188.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A searchable staging data store is provided, which stores new and updated records during a period of entry of those records to an enterprise-accessible data store and update of a search index with information from those records. The searchable data store provides rapid access to the data during that period... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030190.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A method of recording and searching for a Web Page allows a user to find Web Pages he or she has browsed. A plurality of users can input key words to find Web Pages they have browsed and recorded via the history of browsed Web Pages. What is different from... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030192.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A method, system and computer program for processing materialized tables in a multi-tenant application system, wherein in the multi-tenant application system, a plurality of tenants share one or more basic-tables. According to the data access history information of the plurality of tenants, an update pattern analyzer analyzes the similarity of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030193.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A method and system for connecting users via a matrix/mesh/grid/graph of intermediate relationship routing (FIG. 3, element 50), comprising creating a collective business incentive awareness through a multi layered (per service) charge system defined by the users themselves, while utilizing and harnessing the power of P2P (Peer-to-Peer)/Client-Server, Collaboration tools, 3D/2D... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030194.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A method, communication device and system are provided for identifying and scheduling events, such as meetings and appointments identified in data items such as messages and electronic documents. Content relating to an event is identified within the data item, and date information for the identified event is determined based on... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030195.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Embodiments of the invention provide for various methods and apparatuses for searching bodies of knowledge, such as previously indexed source documents reachable over a network, search results from previous searches, and results from performing meta-searches. Search criteria is received from a client, and the bodies of knowledge are searched based... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030196.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A system providing search functionality supporting the exchange and consumption of media is disclosed. The searching of media on storage belonging to any of a pre-defined group of users of a personal media network is provided. In addition, media stored on designated servers may also be included in a search.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030197.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A method and a system for an online commentary debate. Two or more commentators are selected to participate in the debate. Transmissions from each participant are received at a server and relayed to the other participant. The transmissions also are broadcast to an online forum that is viewable by an... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030198.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for improving the management of requirements in systems and systems of systems. Multiple requirements databases may be interfaced, and language processing tools may be used to identify requirements having related content. The relevancy of requirements may be based on the semantic distance... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030199.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Systems and methods for searching databases by sound data input are provided herein. A service provider may have a need to make their database(s) searchable through search technology. However, the service provider may not have the resources to implement such search technology. The search technology may allow for search queries... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030200.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Described is a technology by which topics corresponding to web pages are used in relevance ranking of those pages. Topics are extracted from each web page of a set of web pages that are found via a query. For example, text such as nouns may be extracted from the title,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030201.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Techniques are disclosed for searching a set of documents using search terms. In one embodiment, a summary is provided for each document in the set. Search terms are received, and the set of documents are parsed using the received search terms. A first relevance value is calculated using only the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030203.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A method for establishing multiple look-up tables and a data acquisition method using multiple look-up tables are provided. In the present method, a plurality of input data is classified into a plurality of groups, and a plurality of input data and a plurality of output data corresponding to the input... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030205.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A computer-implemented approach for organizing input listings from various sources of input listings. Input listings are organized by mapping the input listings to consolidated listing that correspond to the input listings. The mapping of the input listings are based on various techniques such as a Stock Keeping Unit item-listing-to-consolidated-listing matching... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030202.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Techniques, including systems are methods, for analyzing data from multiple sources are disclosed and suggested herein. In an embodiment, external information from one or more external information sources and internal information from one or more internal information sources is received. The received external information and internal information are stored in... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030204.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Provided are categorizing unit (2) which analyzes whether or not a character string contained in text data matches any of member character strings of a category provided as parameters, and acquires a category character string provided as a parameter for a name scale of the matched member character string; and... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030206.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A topic modeling architecture is used to discover high-quality semantic classes from a large collection of raw semantic classes (RASCs) for use in generating responses to queries. A specific semantic class is identified from a collection of RASCs, and a preprocessing operation is conducted to remove one or more items... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030207.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A mobile communication terminal and a method of processing content thereof are disclosed. The terminal and method analyze inputted commands to generate condition data used to automatically executed the inputted commands when the condition for the command occurs. The mobile communication terminal includes a pre-work setting unit to set a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030210.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Methods and systems for discerning human intent based on user-generated metadata are provided. Communications from a plurality of social networks are evaluated to determine whether they are associated with contexts indicative of user intent. When a social network communication is determined to be associated with such a context, a tag... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030208.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Techniques for facilitating a video surveillance search of a person are provided. The techniques include maintaining a database of one or more attributes of one or more people captured on one or more video cameras, indexing the one or more attributes in the database extracted from the one or more... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030211.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A message processing method and system. The message processing method includes: acquiring messages and position information of the messages; clustering the messages according to the position information of the message to obtain message clusters; extracting addresses in contents of the messages in the message cluster; and building classifiers of the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030209.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Digital content, such as video, audio, multimedia, and similar files may be associated with metadata that is in some manner descriptive of the content by means of a unique identifier generated based on the content or a portion of the content. The two may be packaged in a wrapper. If... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030213.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata or non-metadata such as content. In one exemplary method, a composite document is received and it is determined whether the composite document contains at least one subdocument and if it does, the method captures metadata and/or content from the subdocument and... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030212.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Methods and systems for indexing content in a cache data structure within a content cache are disclosed. The methods and systems identify at least one characterization data associated with a received content request and input the at least one characterization data into a hash function to generate an index that... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030214.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A mechanism is provided for facilitating object search in a virtual world environment where each object is defined by a plurality of attributes and the search is performed on any attributes of the object however is not limited to a 3-D search. The co-ordinate location of each object in the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030216.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 The disclosed methods, systems, and computer-program products allow a business to generate data quality indicators for relationships in a database. In an embodiment, one or more relationships linked to a customer are retrieved from a database to form a set of relationships. A match confidence code is generated for each... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030215.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A television guide search query is received from a user. A plurality of suggested search terms are selected. Each of the plurality of suggested search terms is assigned to, and is ranked within, one of a plurality of categories A number of suggested search terms to be returned to the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030217.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A system and method for analyzing clinical data includes a reference database comprising a stored set of reference data comprising enumerated results of a reference population for a clinical test. The system also includes a patient database comprising a stored set of clinical data corresponding to a patient result for... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030220.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Management of heterogeneous data sources is described. In accordance with an embodiment method, a plurality of heterogeneous data sources is identified (410). The plurality of heterogeneous data sources can represent static data sources and management data streams received from servers for network management. The data sources can be encapsulated into... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030218.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A method, system, and article for improving performance of a Boolean combination of at least two filters to a data stream. Stream processing is applied to an expression having to or more logical operators. As the data stream is processed, efficiency of the operators in the expression is evaluated. A... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030219.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 There are provided method and apparatus for filter parameter determination and selection responsive to variable transforms in sparsity-based de-artifact filtering. An apparatus includes an encoder for encoding picture data for at least a portion of a picture. The encoder includes a sparsity-based de-artifact filter for performing sparsity-based de-artifact filtering on... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030221.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 The present invention relates generally to the field of self-validating documents in supply chain management, documentation services and method for creating the same.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030222.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A method for detecting and locating occurrence in a data stream of any complex string belonging to a predefined complex dictionary is disclosed. A complex string may comprise an arbitrary number of interleaving coherent strings and ambiguous strings. The method comprises a first process for transforming the complex dictionary into... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030223.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A core system including different program components performing distinct tasks in a workflow sequence that are initiated through status field updates of objects in database may be modified to define a new status triggering additional processes in an action management system. Once the additional processes are completed, the status field... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030224.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Systems, methods, and/or computer program products for automatic pointer activation, acquiring data not included in an obtained dataset and/or for enabling the later acquiring of data not included in the dataset. In some examples, upon automatic activation of a pointer in the dataset, data associated with the pointer may be... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030225.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Some aspects include reception of an indication of an extension field added to a node of a business object object model, and modification of a schema of a search engine index based on the extension field and before receiving an instruction to add the extension field to a search view.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030226.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A method and system for dynamically refining and navigating between alternative search query elements are disclosed. The method and system are applicable to searching an information system such as the Internet, an intranet, or any database, lexicon, or collection of documents, disk drive, images or video or audio content. A... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030228.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A method, a system and a computer program product for providing solutions for fulfilling a need of a user are provided. A query is received for capturing the need of the user. The need is processed to generate a set of actionable recommendations. Further one or more actions are identified... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030227.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A system and method for offering suggestions to a user of a mobile computing device based on information relevant to the user and a context data. The mobile computing device has access to lists of data associated with the user. The mobile computing device also has a sensor for detecting... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030231.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 An individual's personal records, e.g. medical, legal, or financial records, can be accessed without resort to a social security number, account number, or other identifying token by presenting questions designed to obtain information related to specific episodes related to the individual's personal history, e.g. medical, legal or financial records. The... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030233.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 An improved approach is described for handling parallelization of window functions, particularly window functions that do not contain partition keys or which has low cardinality for the partition keys. The approach is highly scalable and can be used to greatly improve query processing. A two stage evaluation approach is employed... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030230.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Disclosed is a method and system for gathering and pseudo-objectively classifying copyrightable material so as to facilitate identification of selected copyrightable material for licensing through a provider network. More particularly, disclosed is an end-to-end system and method that facilitates the licensing or sale of an author's copyrighted work(s) to third... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030234.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 c) generating the search query from the or each extracted parameter. b) extracting one or more search query parameters from the image and/or text data; and a) receiving image and/or text data;... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030229.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Methods, systems, and products measure health data related to a user. A time-stamped device identifier is received that uniquely identifies a communications device. A time-stamped sensor measurement is separately-received. A difference in time between the time-stamped device identifier and the time-stamped sensor measurement is determined. When the difference in time... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030235.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 An apparatus arranged to implement a priority search tree to represent a plurality of data elements, the apparatus comprising: a memory; and a processor comprising: a storage unit for storing in the memory for each of said data elements a corresponding data point for the priority search tree, said the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030232.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for exchanging and processing tag information between users with different types of communications devices. In operation, tag information is received processed to provide an alternative tag communication to selected participants in the media event. That is, at least a portion of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030236.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A system for providing access to audio files at multiple locations via a telecommunications network is described. The system includes an interface by which an end user can access at least one audio file from an online database; a system for selecting at least one audio file from the online... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030237.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Image data stored in a server can be easily removed therefrom by use of a communication terminal. There are included a communication terminal for transmitting an acquired image data and a server for storing the image data received from the communication terminal. The communication terminal transmits an acquired image data... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030238.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Embodiments of the present invention leverage information of the end-user and personal annotations/tags attached to resources and/or support related thereto (e.g., people, documents, etc.) to provide personalized support. Among other things, these embodiments allow for the mapping of expert “system”-based support to social technology to enable dynamic, localized support. In... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030239.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Computer method and apparatus manages and navigates computer implemented information. A first source information and second source information are related as parent-child information. Keywords are extracted from the first and second source information and are used to relate second source information to the first source information. This produces dynamic sets... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030240.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 An enterprise content management federation and integration system integrates a plurality of applications and federates information seamlessly by receiving, by a composite system, a request from a client system. The system then translates, by a manager system, the request from the client system. The manager system performs one or more... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030241.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 In addition, the invention accesses and/or stores data associated with tags from or into repositories, constructs and maintains data structures from these repositories and responds to queries using the data structures. This invention relates generally to a method and system for storing, retrieving, and managing data for tags that are associated... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030242.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 FIG. 7 Figure Problem: Providing a storage system which can be applied to a broad range of access forms to the file and, at the same time, in which the performance of file access control processing is improved. Solution: The storage system stores a part of the access control information of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030243.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 To eliminate restrictions on the order of writing in an access control list. A permission rule and a prohibition rule are stored in advance. A rule is read out from an access control list accepted, and a determination is made as to whether the readout rule is contained in the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030244.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A system and method are provided for summarizing multiple aspects of tags associated with media events. In the system and method, tag metadata for tags generated at one or more user interfaces associated with at least one media event is obtained. Thereafter, tags are organized into a hierarchy of tags... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030246.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A database management system stores data form a plurality of logical tables as independent copies in different format. In one specific example the system organizes tables into table groups and de-normalizes the table in each table group. It also organizes data in a second format including vertical column containers that... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030245.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A database management system stores data form a plurality of logical tables as independent copies in different format. In one specific example the system organizes tables into table groups and de-normalizes the table in each table group. It also organizes data in a second format including vertical column containers that... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030247.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A document migration system that controls release, from a source enterprise content management system, of batches of documents and metadata and loading, to a target enterprise content management system, of batches of documents and metadata that have been released from the source enterprise content management system. The document migration system... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030251.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Systems and methods are disclosed for distributing content pursuant to audit-based processes. Audit content in runtime workpapers may be dynamically constructed in response to industry-driven and response-driven rules using information from one or more of the distributed content libraries. Dynamic updates may also be provided for generated runtime workpapers constructed... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030248.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A reliable caching mechanism is provided for client-side caching of data that captures user interaction with a remote service, where users interact with the remote service through a computing device. Such instrumentation items are cached in a client-side offline queue. Within the client-side queue, the gathered instrumentation items survive between... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030250.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A method of tracking backflow assemblies is provided. The method comprises the steps of receiving backflow assembly data for water customers associated with a water supply system, generating a database based on the backflow assembly data, transmitting test reminder notifications to testers associated with the water customers, receiving test result... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030252.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Time-related properties may be modeled independent of a base object. Rather than storing time properties with the object, they may be stored independently. A given object may be stored once, even if it has a recurrent time property. The description of a “meeting,” for example, may be stored once. Each... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030249.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Systems, methods and computer-readable media are disclosed for providing a framework for generating problem situations in a computer game. In one embodiment, the framework includes a data structure representing solution candidates, fact patterns, and a solution designator. The data structure also includes a chain of inference between the solution designator... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030253.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Disclosed herein is a data generating device including: a coding section coding a plurality of kinds of data, and generating coded data; an information generating section generating a plurality of pieces of group information indicating combinations of a plurality of kinds of the data; and a file generating section generating... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030254.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 There is provided an information processing device including a search condition display controller configured to visually display search conditions that are adapted to be linked together based on an operation of a user, and to control display positions of the search conditions in response to an operation of the user,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030255.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A system for modeling electrical activity of an anatomical structure. The system includes a database that is configured to store cell set data corresponding to a group of cells of the anatomical structure. The cell set data includes a cell model that represents electrical activity of the group of cells.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030256.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 An instance of a business object view object model is instantiated based on second metadata defining the business object view object model, the instance of the business object view object model defining the query on the business object; and the result element is retrieved from a persistent storage based on... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030258.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A method for tracking modifications to tables or relationships. In one embodiment, the method includes updating a first value stored in a first field of a record in a table in response to a database system receiving a first structured query language (SQL) statement from a customer relationship management (CRM)... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030257.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 The present invention is a computer program product for modifying the behavior of an individual. The computer program product is a computer usable medium having a computer readable code embodied thereon. A first graphical user interface on a web server has a first template to be completed by a individual.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030259.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Processing arrangements and methods are provided for the automated decoding or translation of information in healthcare data records, which are coded in a non-standardized or varying formats. A data record which contains information, a portion which is recognized and another portion of which is new, is decoded or translated using... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030260.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 In accordance with exemplary embodiments, a scalable and parallel garbage collection system for incremental backups with data de-duplication may be implemented with a memory and a processor. The memory may store a changed list at a current time, a before-image list including previous versions of the first overwrite at a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030262.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Database system for storing information technology (IT) management operational data and a method and apparatus for managing IT data are provided. The database utilizes an integrated database schema. IT operational data is stored into the database using the integrated database schema and the database is accessed by plural applications and/or... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030261.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A versioned file system comprises a set of structured data representations, such as XML. Each structured data representation corresponds to a “version,” and each version comprises a tree of write-once objects rooted at a root directory manifest. Each version in the versioned file system has associated therewith a “borrow window.”... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030263.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for aggregating and presenting tags. A system configured to practice the method identifies a type for each tag describing a media event received from a tagging system, generates aggregate tags representing at least a portion of the set of tags... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030264.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A computer data processing system including a central processing unit configured with a novel integrated computer control software system for the management of data objects including dynamic and automatic organization, linking, finding, cross-referencing, viewing and retrieval of multiple objects regardless of nature or source. The inventive system provides underlying component... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120030265.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:39 -0800 A computer-implemented method enables efficient tracking of fileset IDs and inode utilizing a fileset mask and an internal inode mask. A utility dynamically updates the fileset mask and the internal inode mask to enable mapping of the number of one (1) bits in the fileset mask to a fileset identifier...