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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20080307435 | Event Processing Finite State Engine and Language In various embodiments, a method for processing event streams includes receiving a finite state machine defined in response to a set of processing components, a set of states, and a set of entry points. Event data associated with an event stream is also received. The ev... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080307071 | RETRIEVING SPECIFIC HIERARCHICAL INFORMATION USING WEB SERVICES Retrieving specific hierarchical information using web services. In one embodiment, a user sends a request containing an operation to be performed and a data indicating the specific information of interest to a web service. The web service determines the specific hierar... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080306981 | Extensible Document Transformation Language: An Innovative Way of Generating Business Document and Report In various embodiments, a method for generating documents in native application formats includes receiving a document template as a first document according to a native format. The first document is parsed to generate an Extensible Document Transformation Language (XDTL... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080305533 | Recombinant Microorganisms For Increased Production of Organic Acids Disclosed are recombinant microorganisms for producing organic acids. The recombinant microorganisms express a polypeptide that has the enzymatic activity of an enzyme that is utilized in the pentose phosphate cycle. The recombinant microorganism may include recombinant... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080303667 | RFID and Sensor Signing System In various embodiments, a method for signing tags associated with objects includes receiving a first identifier associated with a tag. A first signature is generated for the tag based on the identifier and a public key. The first identifier and the first signature are t... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080302871 | RFID Key Rotation System In various embodiments, a method for tracking objects includes receiving an internal identifier associated with an object. A first key or external identifier for a tag is associated with the internal identifier. A second external identifier is generated and the second e... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080301257 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONSUMER ENTITLEMENTS IN PORTAL SERVICES A system to support consumer entitlement that allows Producer web applications to decide which portlets to be offered to Consumer web applications can comprise: a role set which includes a plurality of roles; a Consumer web application adapted to interact with end users... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080295038 | AUTOMATED TREEMAP CONFIGURATION Systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments of the present invention provide for representing a plurality of source data values as graphical elements in a default treemap visualization, where each data value is associated with a plurality of data dimensio... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080284569 | Guaranteed RFID Event Delivery An RFID event tracking and management system provides a standardized approach that can be utilized by various industry verticals. Guaranteed event delivery can ensure that any event data captured by an RFID device is written to persistent storage. A first guaranteed com... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080284597 | Security Using EPCIS Data And A Virtual Private Database An RFID event tracking and management system provides a standardized approach that can be utilized by various industry verticals. Loss of captured event data, such as RFID generated through an RFID event, can be prevented through a series of guarantee semantics. Approac... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080284598 | RFID Data Integrity and Event Compensation An RFID event tracking and management system provides a standardized approach that can be utilized by various industry verticals. Loss of captured event data, such as RFID generated through an RFID event, can be prevented through a series of guarantee semantics. Approac... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080288446 | Queries with soft time constraints Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with supporting queries with soft time constraints are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes logic for accepting a query having a soft time constraint. The example system may also include logi... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080288451 | FRAMEWORK FOR METADATA-DRIVEN DYNAMIC REPORTING SYSTEMS AND METHODS Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for dynamically reporting information stored in a repository. According to one embodiment, a method for dynamically reporting information stored in one or more data repositories can comprise retrieving report meta... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080288473 | Queries with hard time constraints Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with supporting queries with hard time constraints are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes logic for accepting a query having a hard time constraint. The example system may also include logi... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080288548 | Desensitizing data in cloning Systems, methods, media, and other embodiments associated with desensitizing data in cloning are described. One example method embodiment includes identifying a column to be desensitized and preparing a set of executable instructions to desensitize the column. The examp... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080289019 | FRAMEWORK FOR AUTOMATED DISSEMINATION OF SECURITY METADATA FOR DISTRIBUTED TRUST ESTABLISHMENT Methods, systems, and machine-readable media for disseminating security metadata from one distributed entity to another in an automated fashion are disclosed. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a computer-implemented method for distributing security m... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080288966 | CALL CONTROL ENABLER ABSTRACTED FROM UNDERLYING NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for controlling a media session. According to one embodiment, a method for controlling a communication session can comprise receiving a request to perform a call control function from an application via a northbou... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080288961 | Industry Vertical RFID Database Models An RFID event tracking and management system provides a standardized approach that can be utilized by various industry verticals. A series of industry-specific data models can be built upon a common data model using an object-oriented database and relational mapping too... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080288713 | FLASH-AWARE STORAGE OPTIMIZED FOR MOBILE AND EMBEDDED DBMS ON NAND FLASH MEMORY Reliable storage for database management systems (DBMS) running on memory devices such as NAND type flash memory utilizes minimum I/O overhead and provides maximum data durability. A virtual page map is utilized between the flash memory and a page access component to re... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080282235 | Facilitating Assessment Of A Test Suite Of A Software Product Facilitating assessment of a test suite of a software product. In an embodiment, an inventory is maintained containing the features of the software product and one or more execution flows operative when a feature is provided by the software product. Information related ... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080281954 | Capability requirements for group membership A method and apparatus for adding a node to a group of nodes is provided. Group capability data is stored in volatile memory of a group manager for a group. The group capability data identifies capability requirements for members of the group. The group manager provides... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080281938 | Selecting a master node in a multi-node computer system Selecting a master node in a multi-node computer system is described. Each node of the multi-node computer system selects a timeout value (e.g., randomly). Each node starts a timer, which is set to expire at the selected timeout value of its corresponding node. The node... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080281805 | MEDIA CONTENT TAGS A tag file associated with a content file provides a user with access to related content. A content provider can request that information be associated with selected content, such that when a user views the selected content a selectable element is generated and displaye... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080281608 | Providing Collaboration services to Business Applications to correlate user collaboration with the business application An aspect of the present invention provides collaboration services to business applications and such a service is provided by a mediator and a collaboration application. The collaboration service offers a user of the business application the ability to collaborate with ... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080278496 | RENDERING DATA VISUALIZATION WITH MINIMAL ROUND-OFF ERROR Systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments of the present invention provide for the rendering of data visualizations with minimal round-off errors. The data visualization method represents a dataset as graphical elements within a graphical layout area by... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080275844 | CRAWLABLE APPLICATIONS Systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments of the present invention provide for a computer based method for crawling application data from an application data store. The applications data store has business objects of an application stored thereon. The m... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080275919 | INDEX MAINTENANCE FOR OPERATIONS INVOLVING INDEXED XML DATA A method and system are provided for maintaining an XML index in response to piece-wise modifications on indexed XML documents. The database server that manages the XML index determines which nodes are involved in the piece-wise modifications, and updates the XML index ... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080275896 | PRESERVING USER CODE IN OTT-GENERATED CLASSES An object type translator (OTT) determines one or more database object types. The one or more database object types are mapped to a first structural language type definition code. After being generated, the user may add user code to the first structural language type de... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080275742 | NESTED HIERARCHICAL ROLLUPS BY LEVEL USING A NORMALIZED TABLE Nested hierarchies can be efficiently analyzed by normalizing a portion of the hierarchy as defined by a limiting factor for the hierarchy. In a project hierarchy wherein each project contains a task hierarchy, each task hierarchy can be normalized. Further, the project... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080268813 | DEVICE BILLING AGENT Access devices using billing agents and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises capturing, at an access device, a communication to be transmitted from the access device. The method further comprises determining billing information about the commun... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080270948 | SUITE-WIDE NAVIGATION Novel tools for navigating among a suite of business applications, including without limitaion menu systems for business application suites. In some cases, the menu is customized for a particular user of the business application suite. Hence, for example, a menu might c... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080250121 | FACILITATING CONFIGURATION OF MULTIPLE INSTANCES OF AN APPLICATION ON A SERVER CLUSTER Facilitating configuration of multiple instances of an application executing in a server cluster. A centralized storage is provided at which configuration data for multiple application instances potentially executing on different servers (of a server cluster) is stored.... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080250074 | Recoverable last resource commit A method and apparatus for reducing logging overhead in systems where at least some of the participants conform to the two-phase commit protocol is provided. Transaction logging is eliminated at the transaction manager. The fault recovery mechanism is altered to obtain ... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080249985 | Facilitating Identification of Star Schemas in Database Environments Facilitating identification of star schemas in database environments. In an embodiment, queries are examined to determine the joins required. The two tables of each join are added as a relationship in the star schema.... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080250317 | USER INTERFACE DESIGN FOR ENABLING NON-SEQUENTIAL NAVIGATION, PREVIEW AND REVIEW OF BRANCHING AND LOOPING WIZARDS The present invention generally relates to systems and methods for providing improved wizard navigation. A roadmap for the wizard is provided that enables non-sequential navigation through the wizard. Wizard steps that are not enabled for user interaction may be availab... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080243865 | Maintaining global state of distributed transaction managed by an external transaction manager for clustered database systems In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a transaction tracking mechanism is provided by a database server cluster to keep track of a global state of a distributed transaction. The global state of the distributed transaction comprises one or more statu... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080244210 | ELIMINATING FRAGMENTATION WITH BUDDY-TREE ALLOCATION This disclosure describes solutions for reducing the amount of fragmentation on a computer memory device, such as a hard disk, random access memory device, and/or the like. In an aspect, this disclosure describes systems, methods and software for allocating storage spac... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080243848 | USER SPECIFIC LOGS IN MULTI-USER APPLICATIONS User specific logs in multi-user applications. Level data associating a user of a multi-user application with a respective log level is received. The multi-user application then records an amount of information determined by the log level corresponding to the user prese... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080235272 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING OBJECT TO RELATIONAL ONE-TO-MANY MAPPING Instructions are generated to manipulate target objects and relationships in a relational database when a source object having a one-to-many relationship of privately owned type with the target objects is manipulated. To generate instructions, mapping meta-data is used ... | 09/25/2008 |
| 20080235230 | USING LOCATION AS A PRESENCE ATTRIBUTE Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for determining location of a principal. According to one embodiment, a method of providing location information for a principal can comprise receiving a presence event related to the principal. A location of the ... | 09/25/2008 |