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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20090287898 | Method and apparatus for I/O priority control in storage systems In exemplary embodiments a storage control unit is able to provide and track priority control among virtual ports created for corresponding physical ports and/or volume groups made up of one or more volumes, and thereby ensure application of priority settings. According... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090287923 | Reverse Mapping Method and Apparatus for Form Filling In the presently preferred embodiment of the invention, every time a user submits a form the client software tries to match the submitted information with the stored profile of that user. If a match is discovered, the program tags the field of the recognized data with a... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090287807 | MANAGING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM There is provided a managing apparatus including a management-side communication unit that communicates with an information processing apparatus, which includes a first communication unit that communicates in a non-contact manner with an information processing terminal ... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090287686 | PLAYBACK DEVICE A playback device includes a communication component, an operation component and a playback control component. The communication component is configured to communicate with a network device via a network. The operation component is configured to select a random playback... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090287941 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM An information processing apparatus which makes it possible to store encrypted data of packets in a decrypted state, and improve the efficiency of data analysis. A network interface receives encrypted data which has been encrypted, and data which has not been encrypted,... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090287657 | NETWORK SEARCH ENGINE UTILIZING CLIENT BROWSER ACTIVITY INFORMATION An Internet infrastructure that supports searching of web links selects search results by processing browser activity information along with one or more of favorite lists, and related metadata, user profiles, and trends based on browser activity behavior and favorite be... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090287671 | SUPPORT FOR INTERNATIONAL SEARCH TERMS - TRANSLATE AS YOU CRAWL A search engine server supports delivery of search results to a web browser of a client device. The client device is communicatively coupled to the search engine server via the Internet. The system identifies new web pages in a source language during crawling, translate... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090287701 | System and Method for Receiving and Displaying User Inputted Travel-Related Messages A computer-implemented system and method that provides travel-related information to communication devices through a communication network. Travel-related messages are transmitted by users such as travelers at communication devices and are received at a travel update sy... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090287783 | METHOD OF SOCIAL INTERACTION BETWEEN COMMUNICATION DEVICE USERS A method of social interaction between communication device users across a network (14, 16), the method including: at a first communication device (18, 20), selecting a user communication group of a communication group type corresponding to one of: (a) a k... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090287550 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING DRIVE THRU PERFORMANCE In one embodiment, the method comprises operating one or more monitoring devices for recording and interpreting vehicle presence data and communicating vehicle presence data to a remote database. The method further comprises generating performance reports, the performan... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090287715 | FILE SHARING METHOD AND FILE SHARING SYSTEM FOR GETTING AN ACCESSIBLE ADDRESS THROUGH AN ADDRESS MAPPING SERVER A file sharing method includes: transferring content information related to a to-be-shared file to an address mapping server; and the address mapping server providing an accessible address mapped to the to-be-shared file according to the content information. One advanta... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090287712 | Configurable Persistent Storage on a Computer System Using a Database A method for persistent data storage on a computer system with a kernel by retrieving configuration information regarding a system operation request and then deciding based on the configuration information whether to execute it with special persistent storage or to not ... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090287702 | HIGH PERFORMANCE DATA LAYOUT AND PROCESSING A method, a system, and a computer-readable medium are provided which provide an efficient data layout for image data and fast access to samples of an image stored in hierarchical z-order format. An array of image data of a physical entity is ordered in a hierarchical z... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090287716 | NETWORK-BASED DATABASE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM The present invention is a communication system. Further, the present invention relates to a database communication system that allows for communication between disparate databases.... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090287656 | NETWORK SEARCH ENGINE UTILIZING CLIENT BROWSER FAVORITES An Internet infrastructure that supports search operations that are restricted by user favorite lists, related user metadata, and user trends that are based on client-stored user favorite behavior. The Internet infrastructure contains a search engine server coupled to a... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090282000 | WEB BROWSER ACCESSIBLE SEARCH ENGINE WITH STATISTICS GATHERING PERSISTENCE A search engine server interacts with a client devices and web servers to enhance the quality of search service based on statistics that are gathered by the system. The search engine server monitors the quality of service and data format (i.e. encoding needed for secure... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090280842 | COMPUTER-BASED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING A FILE REQUEST IN RESPONSE TO A MESSAGE RECEIVED FROM A USER MOBILE DEVICE The invention provides a computer-based method of transmitting a file, including receiving a message from a user mobile device at a service computer system, determining at the server computer system whether the message includes a search identifier, extracting at least o... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090281719 | Method and system for displaying social networking navigation information A mapping system associated with a social network includes determining that a social networking map object (“MO”) is outside a visible area of a map displayed; calculating the direction, distance and travel-time to the MO (e.g. a social network member, a location, a... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090282021 | WEB BROWSER ACCESSIBLE SEARCH ENGINE WHICH ADAPTS BASED ON USER INTERACTION A search engine (SE) is capable of adapting based on the user's interaction with search results/WebPages. Information, based on user interaction, is subsequently used to modify the priority of search results to create a more relevant search list that provides the user m... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090282066 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEVELOPING DATA INTEGRATION APPLICATIONS WITH REUSABLE SEMANTIC IDENTIFIERS TO REPRESENT APPLICATION DATA SOURCES AND VARIABLES A method and system for developing data integration applications with reusable semantic identifiers to represent application data sources and variables. Methods include receiving a set of physical data identifiers that identify physical data fields, associating semantic... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090282050 | SYNCHRONIZING MEDIA FILES AVAILABLE FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES Apparatus and methods for synchronizing media files available from multiple sources provide a mechanism to enhance user interaction with multimedia devices. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090282051 | METHOD OF IDENTIFYING AND SELECTING EVENTS An embodiment for method for identifying and selecting events and routing them into the marketing mix, creating event marketing and marketing portfolios. In the method, events may be extracted from a database of events. The extracted events may then be passed through on... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090282047 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOCIAL INFERENCE BASED ON DISTRIBUTED SOCIAL SENSOR SYSTEM A method (and system) for data acquisition includes extracting information from user communications and allowing a user to control the information to be extracted. The method of data acquisition may include downloading a user's sent materials from a communication data r... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090282048 | APPLICATION-CONFIGURABLE DISTRIBUTED HASH TABLE FRAMEWORK A distributed hash table infrastructure is described that supports pluggable modules for various services. Transport providers, security providers, and other service providers may be swapped, providing flexibility in supporting various devices and networking configurati... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090282052 | TRACKING IMPLICIT TRAJECTORY OF CONTENT SHARING A facility for tracking the sharing of distinguished content is described. When a user seeks to access the distinguished content from a client computer system using a URL associated with the distinguished content, the facility determines whether a user identifier is rep... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090282049 | MULTI-PARTNER CUSTOMS BROKING Systems and methods for customs broking are discussed. The computer implemented method comprises receiving a first data group from a first user, determining a second data group based on the first data group, the second data group configured to identify data elements, re... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090282022 | WEB BROWSER ACCESSIBLE SEARCH ENGINE THAT IDENTIFIES SEARCH RESULT MAXIMA THROUGH USER SEARCH FLOW AND RESULT CONTENT COMPARISON An Internet infrastructure contains a search server that delivers search result pages of web sites to client devices based upon a search string. Maxima categories are provided that sort search results or web pages based upon popularity and/or context similarity. A web b... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090282024 | CASE SEARCH SYSTEM, CASE DATABASE, CASE SEARCH APPARATUS, CASE SEARCH METHOD, AND PROGRAM A case search system for searching for a case that serves as a reference in a design or operation of a wireless network. The case search system includes a case database in which, for a case of design or operation of a wireless network, envi... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090282023 | SEARCH ENGINE USING PRIOR SEARCH TERMS, RESULTS AND PRIOR INTERACTION TO CONSTRUCT CURRENT SEARCH TERM RESULTS An Internet infrastructure contains a search server that delivers search result pages of search results or web sites to client devices based upon a search string. The search results provided to the user take into account prior search terms entered by the user, and may t... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090282046 | TECHNIQUES FOR ACCESSING REMOTE FILES Techniques for accessing remote files are presented. A local user, via a local client, requests access to a file. A local file system determines that the file is associated with a junction. The junction is resolved and an associated remote file system is contacted by th... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090282053 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR ASSOCIATING DYNAMIC SOUND CONTENT WITH A WEB PAGE IN A BROWSER Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for associating dynamic sound content with a web page in a browser. A request for text data is received from the browser. The requested text data is retrieved from a source, such as a database, and converted int... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090276531 | Media File Sharing, Correlation Of Metadata Related To Shared Media Files And Assembling Shared Media File Collections The present invention provides for systems and methods for communicating media files and creating a collection of media files, also referred to herein as a master media file. In addition, the systems and methods of the present invention provide for the creation of autom... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090276718 | VIRTUAL WORLD TELEPORTATION The present invention is directed to teleporting avatars between disparate virtual worlds. A system is disclosed that includes a facility for creating a persona profile for an avatar in a first virtual world when the avatar wants to be teleported out of the first virtua... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090276768 | Software Parameter Management A method and apparatus is disclosed for allowing the updating and overriding of software parameters used by one or more software programs. The parameters are preferably in cache. When the system needs any such parameter, it first checks cache, then a preferably remotely... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090276407 | SERVER ARCHITECTURE AND METHODS FOR STORING AND SERVING EVENT DATA An event history server system stores event data descriptive of user-specific events that occur in browsing sessions of users. A query interface of the event history server system enables applications to selectively retrieve the event data based on various event paramet... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090276406 | Litigation-related document repository A litigation-related document repository for management and exchange of documents independent of courts or other tribunals. Users can upload litigation-related documents for on-line case folders in order to exchange documents with other parties to a dispute or other use... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090276423 | FILE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND STORAGE SYSTEM The present invention provides a file management system and method, and a storage system that can prevent file-multiplexing in a storage apparatus, and efficiently use the storage capacity of the storage apparatus. The storage apparatus stores first management informati... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090276284 | PEER TO PEER NETWORK PERSONAL ASSISTANT Methods and computer storage media for communicating an electronic gift suggestion for a first user to a second user are provided. Accessing an online social network profile for a first user created by the first user in an online social network. Determining one or more ... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090276077 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS CONTROL AND MONITORING BY USING PCA MODELS OF REDUCED SIZE By dividing a complex set of parameters of a production process in forming semiconductor devices into individual blocks, respective PCA models may be established for each block and may thereafter be combined by operating on summary statistics of each model block in orde... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090276433 | Electronic submission of application programs for network-based distribution An improved system and method for submitting, distributing and/or managing digital products with respect to a product distribution site are disclosed. The submission of digital products to the product distribution site is able to be performed by numerous submitters in a... | 11/05/2009 |
