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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185915 | Meta-architecture for multi-tiered enterprise software application and system A method for dynamic manipulation of a multi-tiered enterprise software application comprises providing a meta-architecture in a presentation tier of a multi-tiered enterprise software application. The meta-architecture comprises at least screen content associated w... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180834 | System, method, and computer program product for filtering messages and training a classification module The present invention provides systems, methods, computer program products, and combinations and subcombinations thereof for filtering received messages. The invention includes a client system having filtering logic, a statistical classifier module, and a classifier... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180328 | Wireless manager and method for configuring and securing wireless access to a network The disclosure provides a wireless manager operable to receive a request from a mobile device to wirelessly communicate with a network, wherein the request may include information to dynamically identify a location associated with the mobile device. The wireless man... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8170903 | System and method for weighting configuration item relationships supporting business critical impact analysis A system and method for generating a business critical impact analysis report includes steps of: inserting a rank value field in each configuration item relationship type definition; inserting a rank value field in each single relationship between configuration item... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166147 | Power usage reduction system and method A computer implemented method includes collecting information from multiple network devices regarding utilization over a predetermined period of time. Unused device resources are identified, along with device resources that may be consolidated. Such identifications ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161233 | Multi-stream restore system and method A computer system and process restores files on multiple disk drives from a plurality of backup files on a plurality of media types and at a plurality of locations. The system receives at a processor a restore command, and partitions the restore command into two or ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156222 | Autonomic control of a distributed computing system using finite state machines In general, this disclosure describes techniques of managing resources in a service-oriented distributed computing system. As described in this disclosure, one or more control nodes provide for the efficient and automated allocation and management of resources withi... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151245 | Application-based specialization for computing nodes within a distributed processing system A distributed processing system is described that employs “application-based” specialization. In particular, the distributed processing system is constructed as a collection of computing nodes in which each computing node performs a particular processing role wi... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150797 | Method and apparatus for enhancing directory performance A method for enhancing directory service performance includes determining one or more data types to be loaded. Retrieving data objects that includes the determined data types from storage. Preloading object name and determined data type data into a directory service... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149723 | Systems and methods for discovering machines A method for discovering computers connected to a computer network, including receiving a packet containing address information of a computer connected to the computer network that sent the packet, extracting the address information from the packet, and adding the a... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145939 | Detection and reduction of excessive SNMP traffic Various embodiments herein include at least one of systems, methods, and software to detect and reduce messages from network entity management clients that are not utilized by a network management system. Once identified, the network management system may send a com... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8141106 | Managing elements residing on legacy systems In certain embodiments, a method includes receiving, from a user of a local system, a request for a list of elements residing on the local system. Elements residing on the local system and elements residing on a legacy system are identified. The legacy system is inc... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140624 | Automated deployment and configuration of applications in an autonomically controlled distributed computing system A distributed computing system conforms to a multi-level, hierarchical organizational model. One or more control nodes provide for the efficient and automated allocation and management of computing functions and resources within the distributed computing system in a... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140492 | Method and apparatus for transposing data trees According to one embodiment, a method for transposing data trees includes translating a first data tree and a second data tree into a first format. A label within the second data tree is replaced with a label within the first data tree if the data in the first data ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135789 | Analyzing content of multimedia files A method for analyzing content of multimedia files is presented. The method comprises processing messages from mail servers, determining a type of the message, executing a convert module and obtaining text content of the message when said type is audio, extracting t... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135751 | Distributed computing system having hierarchical organization A distributed computing system conforms to a multi-level, hierarchical organizational model. One or more control nodes provide for the efficient and automated allocation and management of computing functions and resources within the distributed computing system in a... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135732 | System and method for providing network-based services to users with high availability A suite of network-based services, such as the services corresponding to Microsoft® SharePoint™, are provided to users with high availability. To maintain the availability of the services, the configuration parameters of a first server are updated on an ongoing b... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135631 | Systems, methods, and software arrangements for improving uniformity of assets within an entity A computer-readable medium having computer-readable instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by a computer arrangement, configures the computer arrangement to perform a new plurality of steps. Those steps include retrieving data from a database. The data is... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131928 | Restoring striped volumes of data According to one embodiment, a backup is searched for data to be restored from a striped volume. The backup comprises multiple disks divided into stripes. The stripes that contain data to be restored from the striped volume are identified as desired stripes, and a c... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130924 | Methods and apparatus for processing and display of voice data Apparatus and methods for creating a composite data source having a common data representation from disparate sources of voice data. Data transmission links are established to heterogeneous messaging data sources, requests for voice data is sent using data access pr... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126895 | Method, apparatus, and computer program product for indexing, synchronizing and searching digital data A system, method and computer program product provide a search module for searching digital data. The search module operates, according to an embodiment, by indexing stored data without interrupting use of the stored data, synchronizing the indexed data with data st... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126768 | Application change request to deployment maturity model The invention provides a system and method of improving change management structure of an organization, wherein change management structure includes process definitions for managing change requests to software applications. In one embodiment, the invention may inclu... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8112472 | Method and apparatus for supporting multiple versions of a web services protocol Methods and apparatuses for supporting multiple versions of a web services protocol are provided. A data object is stored in a repository. The data object in the repository is indexed by using a first identifying key conforming to a first web services protocol and i... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108828 | System for generating optimized computer data field conversion routines A system converts data from input field types to output field types. The system receives a plurality of input attributes and output attributes from an application program, dynamically generates a plurality of data field conversion routines for each set of input attr... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108559 | Standardizing clocks in a networked computing environment A method includes communicating, at a first time and from a first to a second machine, a first time correction amount. The method includes receiving, at a second time and from the second machine, a first corrected time of the second machine that is a first current c... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108442 | System for compression and storage of data According to one embodiment, a data storage system includes a storage medium coupled to a compression appliance. The compression appliance is operable to selectively compress data that is stored on the storage medium. The compression appliance selectively compresses... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108357 | System and method to restore computer files A computerized process receives at a processor a request to restore a file to memory. One or more media types and one or more media residencies that are associated with a plurality of backups of the file are identified. Each of the media types and media residencies ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8104033 | Managing virtual machines based on business priorty According to one embodiment, a method for managing one or more virtual machines includes generating a request for at least one performance characteristic for at least one virtual machine, the at least one virtual machine being associated with a processing group, the... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8104023 | Adding functionality to existing code at exits New code is added to existing object code in order to add new functionality. For example, a call to start a profiler function can be added at the beginning of a Java method and a call to stop the profiler function can be added at the exits of the Java method. A meth... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103867 | Method and system for obtaining digital signatures A digital signature system includes a database holding access control rules that identify documents authorized users are allowed to have electronically signed and a signing system capable of receiving signature requests from a plurality of authorized users, each sig... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103610 | Dynamic categorization of rules in expert systems wherein a profile definition yields classification data that classifies rules and allows for rules to be searchable Various embodiments include one or more of systems, methods, software, and data structures for dynamic categorization of rules and collections of rules within a rule base, such as a rule base of an expert system. One embodiment provides a computerized method that in... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099578 | Method and system for finding scrolled regions within a tile cache In a method embodiment, a method includes periodically polling data sent to an output. The output is operable to render the data into a human-perceptible form. The method further includes determining if at least one partition of a first plurality of discrete partiti... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099484 | Using mobile agents to perform operations of an information life-cycle management system Facilitating performance of an operation in an information life-cycle management system comprising management elements organized levels includes generating a mobile agent operable to perform the operation. The mobile agent is embodied in executable code and is opera... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099439 | System and method for generating a unified service model In accordance with a particular embodiment of the present disclosure, configuration items are received. The configuration items include configuration data for at least one service. Key indicators are received. The key indicators include metrics for the performance o... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099425 | Relational model for management information in network devices Apparatuses and methods for system management in a heterogeneous environment are provided. For example, relational query from a software application requesting management information from a specified information source is received and translated to native protocol m... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099394 | Persistent data storage for data files of application data A system for efficiently storing application data which allows a practically infinite number of physically separate storage devices to be used as archival storage means by one or more application programs. Application data is organized among the devices such that fi... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098809 | System and method for self-supporting applications A method and system self-supportable devices and applications are provided. The method and system in one embodiment allows devices and applications to automatically communicate and service themselves, for example, by checking knowledgebase services and other service... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095115 | Wireless manager and method for configuring and securing wireless access to a network The disclosure provides a wireless manager operable to receive a request from a mobile device to wirelessly communicate with an enterprise network, with the request including information operable to dynamically identify a location of the mobile device. The wireless ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8091040 | Method and system for displaying a plurality of discrete files in a compound file A method for managing and displaying related information in a graphical user interface includes storing each of a plurality of related datasets in a discrete file. A compound file is stored linking the discrete data files to each other. A common window for the combi... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090691 | System and method for variable block logging with log-ahead buffers A system for logging database transactions comprises a memory (comprising a direct access storage device) operable to store a database, a database log, and a plurality of log buffers associated with the database log. Each log buffer is operable to store at least one... | 01/03/2012 |
