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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| 20120131654 | PROPAGATING SECURITY IDENTITY INFORMATION TO COMPONENTS OF A COMPOSITE APPLICATION Various methods and systems for propagating identity information in a composite application are presented. State data of a composite application, as executed for a particular entity, may be transferred to and stored by a computer-readable storage medium. The state data ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131641 | OPTIMIZING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CO-LOCATED PROCESSES In one set of embodiments, methods, systems, and apparatus are provided to enable secure local invocation of a web service in response to receiving a request from a first composite application to invoke a web service operation of a second composite application, where th... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131469 | RUNTIME USAGE ANALYSIS FOR A DISTRIBUTED POLICY ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM In one set of embodiments, methods, systems, and apparatus are provided for determining, by a server, a policy association between a web service policy and a policy subject associated with an application hosted by the server, the policy association being made while the ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131166 | SERVER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS A system for managing one or more services during the provision of an application to a user is provided. The system comprises an application component operably connected to a network and configuration data for the user. The configuration data specifies: one or more part... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131164 | ATTACHING WEB SERVICE POLICIES TO A GROUP OF POLICY SUBJECTS In one set of embodiments, methods, systems, and apparatus are provided to attach one or more quality of service policies to resources in an enterprise system by receiving a first global policy attachment that references an attachment attribute value and a first service... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131091 | IDENTIFYING COMPATIBLE WEB SERVICE POLICIES Methods, systems, and devices are described for identifying compatible web service policies between a web service and a web service client. A first and second set of one or more identifiers linked to web service policies supported by the web service and web service clie... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131057 | NON-DETERMINISTIC AUDIT LOG PROTECTION Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a system that performs non-deterministic auditing. The system audits an operation, a record associated with which is maintained in an audit log. In one embodiment, the system subsequently determines whether the operation sat... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131033 | AUTOMATED SCHEME FOR IDENTIFYING USER INTENT IN REAL-TIME An intent guessing system receives partial user queries as they are entered by the user. The partial user queries are compared with different intents derived from previously logged queries. Guesses are made as to which of the intents are associated with the partial user... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130946 | OFFLINE MOBILE RFID EVENT PERSISTENCY AND SYNCHRONIZATION In various embodiments, RFID events are stored in a normalized format on mobile device configured by metadata pushed by a centralized data hub. RFID events are pre-processes with filtering logic by a mobile interrogator/reader before being inserted into tables of a loca... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130726 | PRODUCT PRICING OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM A product pricing system determines a product price. The system receives product pricing constraints and multinomial logit (“MNL”) calibration parameters. The system then generates a calibrated MNL model using the calibration parameters and encodes the MNL model and... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120109985 | EVALUATING EVENT-GENERATED DATA USING APPEND-ONLY TABLES Techniques are provided for evaluating base events, compound events, and logical update events in an event processing system. In one embodiment, the base events, compound events, and logical update events are definitions in a particular syntax language that specify cond... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109984 | Filtering of Custom Attributes of Computer Objects for Display A computer-readable medium, computer-implemented method, and system are provided for filtering of custom attributes. A custom attribute is an attribute of an object defined by a user. Once a user has defined one or more custom attributes, the user can filter a set of ob... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109889 | Automated Topology-Based Statistics Monitoring And Performance Analysis A computer is programmed to parse a network that interconnects databases in a distributed database system, into a number of paths, wherein each path starts in a source database that is a source of changes and ends in a destination database that uses the changes to repli... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109805 | SIMPLIFYING MIGRATION FROM ONE FINANCIAL CONSOLIDATION APPLICATION TO ANOTHER Facilitating the migration of financial data from a first financial consolidation application (FCA) to a second FCA. According to one aspect, transactions classified according to categories in the first FCA are migrated to the second FCA associated with values of dimens... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109801 | Managing Schedules In a Financial Close Management System A computer-readable medium, computer-implemented method, and financial close management system are provided that manage a schedule. A schedule is a core object of the financial close management system, and is an expression of a template. Managing a schedule can include ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109790 | INTEGRATION OF APPLICATIONS WITH A FINANCIAL CLOSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM A computer-readable medium, computer-implemented method, and financial close management system are provided that includes a integration framework that allows an end user to leverage services or interfaces from external applications as part of a business process, such as... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109712 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING FORECASTS A method and system for defining and generating forecasts. The forecast system receives a forecast definition from a user, generates a forecast in accordance with the forecast definition, stores a forecast snapshot of the generated forecast, and presents to users foreca... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084797 | TRANSACTION IN MEMORY OBJECT STORE Techniques for rating and committing events in an event processing system are provided. Events can be rated at a rating system according to information that is stored locally on the rating system. Rated events can be stored in a database system with these rated events b... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084754 | Streamlining Unit Testing Through Hot Code Swapping Methods and systems are described for testing methods and other functions by swapping external functions for mock functions. A test case definition is entered by a programmer, which can specify the expected number of arguments and argument values of external function or... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084750 | Method for Efficiently Managing Property Types and Constraints In a Prototype Based Dynamic Programming Language Methods and systems for managing property types, constraints, and other property validations in prototype-based dynamic programming languages, such as the JavaScript® programming language, are presented. A property definition is created for a target class by a programm... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084708 | PRESENTATION OF HIERARCHICAL DATA IN MULTIPLE CONSISTENT VIEWS Hierarchical data can be consistently presented in multiple different views. One method involves extracting object information describing at least one object from a database. The object information includes hierarchical information indicating a position of the object wi... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084593 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A CURRENT TIME VALUE A method for providing applications with a current time value includes receiving a trap for an application to access a time memory page, creating, in a memory map corresponding to the application, a mapping between an address space of the application and the time memory... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084271 | REPRESENTING AND MANIPULATING RDF DATA IN A RELATIONAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Techniques for generating hash values for instances of distinct data values. In the techniques, each distinct data value is mapped to hash value generation information which describes how to generate a unique hash value for instances of the distinct data value. The hash... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084253 | TRANSACTION IN MEMORY OBJECT STORE Techniques for rating and committing events in an event processing system are provided. Events can be rated at a rating system according to information that is stored locally on the rating system. Rated events can be stored in a database system with these rated events b... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084090 | EPROCUREMENT CHANGE REQUEST PROCESS The present invention is directed to methods and systems for implementing a procurement change request process. The method includes receiving a request to edit a requisition order from a requestor. The requisition order has been previously completed and the requisition ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072918 | GENERATION OF GENERIC UNIVERSAL RESOURCE INDICATORS Various arrangements for creating and using generic universal resource indicators are presented. To create a generic universal resource indicator, one or more parameters of a universal resource indicator may be identified. An interface that permits a parameter of the on... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072817 | ENTERPRISE APPLICATION WORKCENTER A first computer system displays a user interface that includes a first portion and a non-overlapping, second portion. The first portion includes a first pagelet that comprises a plurality of first active links. The first portion also includes a second pagelet that incl... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072781 | PREDICTIVE INCIDENT MANAGEMENT An incident predictor system is described herein for predicting impactful incidents in which server computer system operations fail or perform poorly. According to one embodiment of the invention, the incident prediction system trains a generalized linear model (GLM) to... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072780 | Continuous System Health Indicator For Managing Computer System Alerts A method is provided for detecting when users are being adversely impacted by poor system performance. A system health indicator is determined that is based on the amount of work that is blocked waiting for each of a set of an external events and combined with a heurist... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072776 | FAULT ISOLATION USING CODE PATHS Techniques are provided for isolating faults in a software program by providing at least two code paths that are capable of performing the same operation. When a fault occurs while the one of the code paths is being used to perform an operation, data that indicates the ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072770 | Data Corruption Diagnostic Engine A computer is programmed to execute a diagnostic procedure either on a pre-set schedule or asynchronously in response to an event, such as an error message, or a user command. When executed, the diagnostic procedure automatically checks for integrity of one or more port... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072598 | USE OF GENERIC UNIVERSAL RESOURCE INDICATORS Various arrangements for creating and using generic universal resource indicators are presented. To create a generic universal resource indicator, one or more parameters of a universal resource indicator may be identified. An interface that permits a parameter of the on... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072564 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ETHERNET OVER INFINIBAND VIRTUAL HUB SCALABILITY IN A MIDDLEWARE MACHINE ENVIRONMENT A system and method can support a middleware machine environment that include one or more gateway nodes. One or more gateways that resides on the one or more gateway nodes are provided in a subnet with a plurality of host servers, wherein each host server is associated ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072563 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING WELL DEFINED SUBNET TOPOLOGY IN A MIDDLEWARE MACHINE ENVIRONMENT A system and method can support a middleware machine environment. The middleware machine environment can include a subnet manager and a plurality of fabric components, wherein each said fabric component is associated with a subnet management agent (SMA). The subnet mana... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072562 | PERFORMING PARTIAL SUBNET INITIALIZATION IN A MIDDLEWARE MACHINE ENVIRONMENT A system and method can perform subnet initialization in a middleware machine environment. In accordance with one embodiment, a plurality of management nodes in the middleware machine environment can be interconnected so that a plurality of subnet managers that are asso... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072498 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRE-RENDERING EXPECTED SYSTEM RESPONSE A method for pre-rendering a system response. In one embodiment, the method includes a mobile device sending a first page request to a secondary system via a wireless communication link. The secondary system sends a first reply to the mobile device in response to the se... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072477 | Method and Apparatus for Polymorphic Serialization Polymorphic serialization is disclosed. In one embodiment polymorphic serialization may include generating a first reply in response to receiving a first request from a first device, the first reply including first content in a first serialization format. The first repl... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072455 | SUPPORT FOR A PARAMETERIZED QUERY/VIEW IN COMPLEX EVENT PROCESSING The present invention includes a method for providing parameterized queries in complex event processing (CEP). The method includes providing a query template which includes one or more bind variables, providing sets of parameters corresponding to the one or more bind va... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072431 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPLEMENTING FULFILLMENT MANAGEMENT Embodiments of the invention include a method of implementing fulfillment management. The method includes receiving order information, wherein the order information includes one or more order lines, selecting at least one of the one or more order lines, scoring the one ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072426 | SELF-SERVICE SOURCES FOR SECURE SEARCH A flexible and extensible architecture allows for secure searching across an enterprise. Such an architecture can provide a simple Internet-like search experience to users searching secure content inside (and outside) the enterprise. The architecture allows for the craw... | 03/22/2012 |
