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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100057757 | SYSTEM OF GROWTH AND AUTOMATED MIGRATION Disclosed herein is a combination of workflow management tools to make up a logical system that supports the needs of both simple and complex workflow environments. Team members may access a central database to collaborate on a project via user interfaces with work item... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100058324 | MULTIPLE ORGANIZATION SUPPORT IN A NETWORKED SYSTEM Some embodiments of multiple organization support in a networked system have been presented. In one embodiment, a centralized server manages a networked system, which includes the centralized server and a set of computing machines coupled to each other within an interna... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057685 | INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM An information storage and retrieval system includes a first data structure and a second data structure. The first data structure is configured to store documents. Each document includes a plurality of data portions. The second data structure is configured to store addr... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057756 | CREATING REPORTS USING DIMENSION TREES A method and apparatus for creating reports using dimension trees The method may include presenting trees of dimensions associated with one or more source databases, receiving a user selection of one of the dimension trees, and presenting a view of the selected dimensio... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100058286 | SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR RENDERING COMPUTER-BASED INTERACTIONS AS GROUP ACTIVITIES Disclosed herein is a system and a method for creating and facilitating computer-based interactions amongst a group of individuals during a group activity. In an embodiment herein, an activity player is provided for rendering instances of the group activity. A library o... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057676 | BLOCK COMPRESSION USING A VALUE-BIT FORMAT FOR STORING BLOCK-CELL VALUES Particular embodiments store multidimensional block data using a value-bit format. A block of data is determined that includes a first dimension and a second dimension. The occurrences of unique values in the block of data is then determined. If the number of unique val... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057689 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF RECORDS OF A TABLE USING BOOKMARKS A method and system for controlling an application server in order to provide application services to clients while maintaining synchronization between records of tables of a database server. An application server retrieves records of tables and stores them locally on t... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057753 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING VISUAL INSIGHT PROVENANCE OF A USER Generally, methods and apparatus are provided for obtaining a user's insight provenance. A logical record of visual analytic activity of a user is maintained by recording one or more visual analytic actions. An exemplary method determines a set of action features of the... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057755 | FILE SYSTEM WITH FLEXIBLE INODE STRUCTURES Techniques for managing inodes of a file system are described herein. According to one embodiment, in response to a request received at the file system for committing a file to a storage, an inode data structure from a first inode pool of the file system is assigned to ... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057754 | PERSISTING A GROUP IN AN INSTANT MESSAGING APPLICATION A system described herein includes a receiver component that receives a request to create a persistent messaging group for an instant messaging application, wherein the request includes an indication of one or more entities that are desired to be members of the persiste... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057769 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING AN EDITABLE LIFECYCLE EVENT DISTRIBUTION LIST WITH A SERVICE METADATA REPOSITORY A system and method for creating an editable service metadata asset lifecycle event notification distribution list in a service metadata repository. The system provides the capability for a distribution list owner to create a distribution list of one or more distributio... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057743 | WEB-BASED SERVICES FOR QUERYING AND MATCHING LIKES AND DISLIKES OF INDIVIDUALS A method for centrally providing a profile of a user's degree of preference for one or more items across categories in a plurality of domains of interest in a taxonomy of preferences is described. In one embodiment, the method includes identifying a user's degree of pre... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057763 | Information Management System An information management system creates data structures based entirely on the content of source files, then compares these data structures to discover synergies and commonalities. In one embodiment, the system accepts a first collection of source files, and extracts te... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057758 | Alpha numeric media program stream selection Alpha Numeric Media Program Stream Selection uses a method of database lookup and conversion from easily human understood mnemonics to the computer machine level instructions necessary to present the desired programming for various media presentation devices. In one imp... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100058105 | Environment Wide Configuration System An installation and configuration system consolidates workloads of multiple applications and services, including applications or services that may be installed or configured on multiple server devices or remotely hosted services. The system gathers environmental informa... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057691 | Method, server extensionand database management system for storing annotations of non-XML documents in an XML database The present invention relates to a method for storing annotations of non-XML documents (10) in an XML database (1), the XML database (1) being adapted for storing a corresponding shadow XML document (20) for each of the non-XML documents (... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100058355 | FIREWALL DATA TRANSPORT BROKER A message broker system is described that allows exchanging data reliably through a firewall without introducing firewall exceptions. The message broker system uses a broker running on each side of the firewall and a database. The sending broker creates a localized tran... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100049722 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR REDUCING ROW REDISTRIBUTION COSTS FOR PARALLEL JOIN OPERATIONS A system, method, and computer-readable medium for optimizing execution of a join operation in a parallel processing system are provided. A plurality of processing nodes that have at least one row of one or more tables involved in a join operation are identified. For ea... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049723 | Spreadsheet risk reconnaissance network for automatically detecting risk conditions in spreadsheet documents within an organization using principles of objective-relative risk analysis A spreadsheet risk reconnaissance network including one or more spreadsheet file servers registered with the network, supporting at least one user organization, and communicating with a data processing center. A research agent is installed on at least one spreadsheet fi... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049716 | MEDIA VALIDATION SYSTEM A media validation system including a plurality of media storage devices which contain a quantity of content thereon, a user computer processor assembly structured to operatively access a select media storage device, a verification module, and a communicative link betwe... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049565 | Method of computing spreadsheet risk within a spreadsheet risk reconnaissance network employing a research agent installed on one or more spreadsheet file servers A method of computing spreadsheet risk within a spreadsheet risk reconnaissance network employing a research agent installed on one or more spreadsheet file servers registered on the network, and one or more spreadsheet file servers for supporting one or more user organ... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049694 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXTENDING A RELATIONAL SCHEMA According to one embodiment, a method of accessing data stored in a data store by using a query is provided and includes receiving a first query in a standardized-language at an relational database interface, the first query identifying a first data type. A provider reg... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049724 | PROCESS AND A SYSTEM FOR UPDATING A DATA STRUCTURE IN A RELATIONAL DATABASE USED WITHIN A MANUFACTURING EXECUTION SYSTEM A process for updating a data structure in a relational database used within a manufacturing execution system, contain the steps of defining within the database the data structure and defining SQL scripts having specific rules. The rules contain a header describing an i... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049738 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USER INTERFACE DIAGNOSTIC ACTIVITY LOGGING The subject application is directed to a system and method for user interface diagnostic activity logging. Parameter data is first acquired corresponding to selected data acquisition parameters. Sequence data is then acquired corresponding to instructions for control of... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049725 | REMOTE FEATURE ACTIVATOR FEATURE EXTRACTION A database record controls a license to use a computational component. An input receives an order identifier associated with an order related to a computational component and an interface retrieves order information associated with the identifier. The order information ... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100042634 | Delivery Enablement Workforce Utilization Tool Integration Methods, computer-readable media, and apparatuses support data entry and aggregate work entries for an account. Different work codes are mapped to different categories for an account. Work entries are aggregated for the different categories in a report or in an invoice ... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042633 | MESSAGING TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD One embodiment of the invention includes a message tracking system. The system comprises a message agent programmed to detect messages transmitted from one application to at least one other application. The system also comprises a detector programmed to determine a prot... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042635 | Landing page maker The present invention relates to a method, system and computer program product for managing one or more landing pages. The method, system and computer program product enables creation of a landing page by using one or more pre-coded templates. The created landing pages ... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042631 | METHOD FOR PARTITIONING A QUERY Techniques for partitioning a query are provided. The techniques include establishing one or more criterion for partitioning a query, wherein the query comprises one or more tables, materializing a first of the one or more tables, partitioning the first of the one or mo... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042632 | Log File Time Sequence Stamping In certain embodiments, a method for log file time sequence stamping is provided. The method includes connecting to a console port of one or more data sources and receiving data from the data sources. The data may be logged with both an independent time stamp and a sequ... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042636 | INTERNET SERVER SYSTEM, METHOD OF CREATING VIRTUAL MACHINE OF THE INTERNET SERVER AND METHOD OF STARTING THE SAME An internet server system for providing a virtual machine (VM) to a user, a method of creating a VM and an account, and a method of starting a VM via a webpage are provided. The internet server system includes at least one client apparatus, a computing server, a thin cl... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042721 | Dynamic application placement with allocation restrictions, vertical stacking and even load distribution A solution to a variant of a class constrained multiple knapsack problem. Previous solutions require that memory demand of every application be identical and do not consider minimizing placement changes. Previous techniques do not consider optimizing placement to improv... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042643 | Virtual masked database Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with virtual masked databases are described. One example system includes a masking logic to mask an unmasked column of a database table to produce a masked column. The masked column is then added to the database creatin... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042605 | VERSIONING RELATIONAL DATABASE DISJOINT RECORDS An inventive system and method for versioning relational database disjoint records comprises a relational database, configuration files translated into query files, and a version control system, wherein each query file is stored and checked into the version control syst... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042645 | System with a data aggregation module generating aggregated data for responding to OLAP analysis queries in a user transparent manner A system for supporting OLAP analysis over a network. The system comprises an OLAP server for enabling an OLAP user to perform OLAP analysis via interaction with a client machine on the network. The system also includes a data aggregation module comprising a multi-dimen... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042944 | System And Method For Generating Representations Of Message-Related Relationships A system and method for generating graphical representations of message-related relationships is provided. Messages exchanged between at least two entities are analyzed. Data elements are extracted from the messages. Concepts are identified based on the extracted data e... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042598 | Coupled node tree backup/restore apparatus, backup/restore method, and program A coupled node tree has a root node and a node pair, the node pair being a branch node, which includes position information of a link target node pair, and a leaf node, which includes a search target index key, or a pair of branch nodes, or a pair of leaf nodes located ... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042718 | System And Method For Tracking User Activity Related To Network Resources Using A Browser A method and system are described for tracking user activity related to network resources using a browser. According to an exemplary embodiment, a user-initiated activity related to a network resource is detected in the browser. The detected user-initiated activity is a... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042637 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF DATABASE DIVISIONAL MANAGEMENT FOR PARALLEL DATABASE SYSTEM A method and a system of database divisional management for use with a parallel database system comprising an FES (front end server), BES's (back end servers), an IOS (I/O server) and disk units. The numbers of processors assigned to the FES, BES's and IOS, the number o... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042638 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SYNCHRONIZING DATA SOURCES A method is provided for synchronizing data sources. The method includes receiving at least first and second data tables. The data tables have one or more mutually similar fields and one or more dissimilar fields from one another. First normalized, second normalized, an... | 02/18/2010 |
