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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100057761 | Method, apparatus, computer program and user interface for enabling user input A method, apparatus, computer program and user interface wherein the method includes: presenting an image on a display; editing the image in response to detection of user input to create an edited image; automatically creating a data file, defining the edited image, in ... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057760 | GENERIC DATA RETRIEVAL A schema builder includes a read service for reading data from a multi-node hierarchical deep schema configured database and a write service for writing data to the multi-node hierarchical deep schema configured database. A transformation module transforms schemas betwe... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057759 | Linking of Parent-Child Data Records in a Legacy software Modernization System A system and method for linking parent and child data records during data migration is disclosed. One embodiment comprises sequentially receiving a plurality of data records from an arbitrary source of records without running a query on the source of records, generating... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057762 | System and Method of Ontological Subject Mapping for Knowledge Processing Applications The present invention discloses methods, systems, and tools for knowledge processing by building maps of ontological subjects for compositions or the contents accompanying a request for service by a user. In one embodiment of the invention the method assigns and calcula... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057515 | DYNAMIC ORDER WORKFLOW TEMPLATE INSTANTIATOR AND DECOUPLER An application integration system greatly improves the configurability and efficiency of integration of multiple disparate applications, such as those found in telecommunications service provider architecture. The application integration system disassembles messages int... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100058122 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED ERROR PRIORITY DETERMINATION OF CALL HOME RECORDS An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for data priority determination. A receiving module receives a data package. A parsing module parses out priority indicators from the data package. A comparison module compares the priority indicators to entries in a priori... | 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 |
| 20100046554 | COMBINING MATERIAL AND DATA A method of generating a file at a header metadata creator apparatus, the method including: generating, at the header metadata creator apparatus, a file, the file including: a file header, a file body, and a file footer, wherein the file header includes at least KLV enc... | 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 |
| 20100049726 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPRESSION OF PARTIALLY ORDERED DATA SETS A system and method for compression of partially ordered data sets is provided. A first record of the data set is compressed by encoding the record using a Fibonacci encoding technique. Thereafter, for each subsequent record N, the N−1st record is subtracte... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049684 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY Provided are methods and systems for knowledge discovery utilizing knowledge profiles.... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049727 | COMPRESSING XML DOCUMENTS USING STATISTICAL TREES GENERATED FROM THOSE DOCUMENTS Compressing data from a markup language document such as an XML document includes the steps of creating from the document a path based statistical tree built according to a given set of rules, and compressing the document by using the statistical tree. In an embodiment,... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049729 | TRANSFORMING A HIERARCHICAL DATA STRUCTURE ACCORDING TO REQUIREMENTS SPECIFIED IN A TRANSFORMATION TEMPLATE Method for transforming an input data structure to an output data structure according to requirements specified in a transformation template. The method includes translating an input data structure in an input container format to an output data structure in a different ... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100045698 | Client Side Multi-Component Image Composition A method is provided for displaying a client-side multi-component image. A plurality of image component channels derived from captured images of a sample are stored in a server, the plurality of image component channels being stored in the form of a plurality of image d... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100046743 | APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING DATA COMPRESSION PROCESSING USING ALGEBRAIC TORUS A compressing unit compresses an element on an algebraic torus into affine representation according to a compression map. A determining unit determines whether a target element on the algebraic torus to be compressed is an exceptional point representing an element on th... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049550 | PERSONALIZED BODY IMAGE Delivery of health information to a patient suffering from a chronic condition is personalized by displaying the health information directly on a customized image of a body. The patient's medical record, standards of care for the condition, prescribed treatments, and pa... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049728 | INTERACTIVE GENERATION OF INTEGRATED SCHEMAS Methods, systems and computer program products for interactive generation of integrated schemas. Exemplary embodiments include a method for schema integration, the method including recasting a first source schema into a first graph of concepts with HasA relationships, r... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100042640 | Migration Apparatus Which Convert SAM/VSAM Files of Mainframe System into SAM/VSAM Files of Open System and Method for Thereof Provided are a migration apparatus and method for converting a sequential access method (SAM)/virtual storage access method (VSAM) file of a mainframe system into an appropriate SAM/VSAM file for an open system. The migration apparatus includes: an information obtaining... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042639 | CONFIGURATION FILE FRAMEWORK TO SUPPORT HIGH AVAILABILITY SCHEMA BASED UPON ASYNCHRONOUS CHECKPOINTING In various exemplary embodiments, a method and related system for configuration file management in a network element comprise one or more of the following: upon initialization of the network element, reading a first configuration file that is in a character-encoded form... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042377 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN (CAD) Device, system, and method of Computer-Aided-Design (CAD). A system of CAD may include a server to provide data of a CAD model to at least one client, wherein the server is capable of providing to the client section information defining a plurality of geometric sections... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100036862 | 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... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100036863 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSFORMATION OF LOGICAL DATA OBJECTS FOR STORAGE A method and system for compressing a raw logical data object (201) for storage in a storage device operable with at least one storage protocol, creating, reading, writing, optimizatic in and restoring thereof. Compressing the raw logical data object (201)... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100036860 | DATA MANAGMENT APPARATUS, DATA EDITING APPARATUS, AND DATA READING APPARATUS AND RESPECTIVE METHODS THEREOF A data file can be efficiently edited by a plurality of users. A source object is created from various data files, such as a structured document file or the like. A plurality of partial objects are created from a source object. A client terminal downloads a partial obje... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100036233 | Automatic Methods for Combining Human Facial Information with 3D Magnetic Resonance Brain Images The present invention relates to compositions and methods for provided fused images of external and internal body scans by fusing data generated from color external laser scans with internal magnetic resonance (MR) images. In particular, the present inventions relate to... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100036821 | File Uploading Method with Function of Abstracting Index Information in Real Time and Web Storage System Using the Same A file uploading method with a function of abstracting index information in real time and a web storage system using the same are provided. The file uploading method includes: performing a data filtering on an upload target file transmitted from a user through an online... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100036861 | Method and System for Implementing Parallel Transformations of Records An improved approach is described for implementing transformations of data records in high concurrency environments. Each transformation is performed in parallel at the source when the data record is first generated. According to one approach for data integrity validati... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100030795 | Maintaining referential integrity while masking Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with maintaining referential integrity while masking database columns are described. One example method includes determining a transitive closure for dependency relationships involving a column to be masked and other co... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100030796 | EFFICIENT COLUMN BASED DATA ENCODING FOR LARGE-SCALE DATA STORAGE The subject disclosure relates to column based data encoding where raw data to be compressed is organized by columns, and then, as first and second layers of reduction of the data size, dictionary encoding and/or value encoding are applied to the data as organized by co... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100030797 | 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 the... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100023542 | CONVERTING PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF COMMON WAREHOUSE MODEL TO ELEMENTS OF RELATIONAL DATABASE A method and a system for converting physical aspects of a common warehouse model (CWM) to corresponding database management system (DBMS) items in a relational database by processing in a hierarchical manner the physical aspects and creating the corresponding DBMS item... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100024030 | RESTARTABLE TRANSFORMATION AUTOMATON Data transformation is lazily performed to facilitate reduced memory footprint, among other things. Rather than constituting an entire data structure, information is saved to enable iterative construction the structure. Moreover, an interface is afforded that appears to... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100023539 | XML/DATABASE/XML LAYER ANALYSIS An automated method for testing XML/Database/XML layers. To the extent that XML is the de facto communication standard for today's middleware products, most of the middleware products need to produce/accept XML data at some interfaces. This data either comes from or nee... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100023540 | EDITING DEVICE AND EDITING METHOD USING METADATA A waiting time until editing starts is shortened. Metadata that are a part of metadata are transferred from an optical disc set in a disc unit to an HDD in an editing device. The metadata are text data including a clip ID and continuing time information of material data... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100023538 | DISCLOSURE BOOTH Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for facilitating the disclosure of information from a disclosing party. Such a system may comprise a computing device including an operating system executing within the computing device; a software application operating in con... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100023541 | Universal Data Management Interface A universal data management interface (UDMI) system includes a processing system generates a visual interface through which a user can access, manage, and manipulate data on plural different types of remote databases. The UDMI connects to multiple standard database mana... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100017373 | ENCODER, DECODER, THEIR METHODS, PROGRAMS THEREOF, AND RECORDING MEDIA HAVING PROGRAMS RECORDED THEREON In encoding for putting one or more files and/or one or more files in a folder into a single archive file, original hierarchy information and standard hierarchy information generated by converting characters in a special character coding in each file name to characters ... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100017423 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSFORMATION OF LOGICAL DATA OBJECTS FOR STORAGE A method and system for transforming a logical data object for storage in a storage device operable with at least one storage protocol, creating, reading, writing, optimization and restoring thereof. Transforming the logical data object comprises creating in the storage... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100017424 | DATA COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION Data decompression apparatus is disclosed which is arranged to act on compressed data comprising: an ordered stream of references to groups of previously decoded data items; an ordered stream of direct representations of data items to be decoded; and an ordered stream o... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100017422 | FILE SYSTEM INTERFACE FOR CIM Systems and methods for managing systems using common information models (CIM) are presented. According to a method embodiment, CIM functions are provided, and a file system interface for the CIM functions is provided. An embodiment of a method receives file operation c... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100017408 | Automatic Email Consolidation for Multiple Participants The invention is a data processing means wherein human perceptible elements of electronic information are gathered, prepared, formatted, or otherwise processed in forming a unified collection of such information storable as a distinct entity. In particular, the inventio... | 01/21/2010 |
