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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20080275911 | EMULATED STORAGE SYSTEM Systems and methods for efficient storage of data are provided. For instance, a method that includes acts of receiving a data stream to be stored on a first storage system, the data stream comprising a data object and metadata that describes attributes of the data objec... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080275910 | Method and apparatus for automatic generation of information system user interfaces A method and apparatus for the specification and automatic generation of user interfaces of information system (computer programs) is provided. The method is based in pattern language to specify requirements in an un-ambiguous mode and with precise semantics. The patter... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080270460 | Creating a data structure that specifies relationships between networked objects Embodiments of the present invention pertain to creating a data structure that specifies relationships between networked objects. According to one embodiment, information indicating a degree to which a computer potentially satisfies a condition between a software progra... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080270457 | Media Application A media application server, comprising a network interface and a processor adapted to establish voice connections with opposite end devices and to perform on the connections at least one media application task for signals of a plurality of different signal formats, the ... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080270461 | Data containerization for reducing unused space in a file system An apparatus and method for containerization of multiple data objects within a block of a single container. The apparatus and method may pack multiple data objects together in a block of a logical container in a file system. The method may include receiving data in the ... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080270462 | System and Method of Uniformly Classifying Information Objects with Metadata Across Heterogeneous Data Stores Described are a system and method for classifying information objects with metadata across heterogeneous data stores. A metadata model includes a plurality of interconnected nodes. A least one of the nodes corresponds to a metadata instance and at least one of the nodes... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080270463 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREFOR The present invention discloses a method for processing document data to achieve document interoperation, and the method comprises: by an application, issuing instruction(s) indicating retrieving information from first unstructured data to a first platform software; by ... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080270464 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREFOR The present invention discloses a system of processing document data for document interoperation, comprising an application, embedded in a machine readable medium, which initiates an operation on a document by issuing instruction(s) describing the operation to a platfor... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080270459 | Hosted multi-tenant application with per-tenant unshared private databases Technologies are described herein for providing a hosted multi-tenant application that utilizes per-tenant unshared private databases. A shared middle-tier is utilized in conjunction with private, unshared databases for each of the tenants. The private, unshared databas... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080270458 | Systems and methods for displaying information about business related entities Enhanced methods, systems, and techniques for displaying information about financial markets are provided. Example embodiments provide a Business Knowledge Mapping System (“BKMS”), which generates and provides graphical representations of relationships between busin... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080263085 | DESCRIBING EXPECTED ENTITY RELATIONSHIPS IN A MODEL Defining target data types within an instance of a target data type definition for inclusion in a reference data type definition to declare expected entity relationships in a model. The model corresponds to, for example, software, a business process, or an organizationa... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080263087 | Forming Information for the Calendar Application of an Electronic Device The invention relates to an electronic device, which includes a calendar application (CAL), in which event (EVENT) information is arranged to be maintained and processing means (CPU, OCR), which are arranged to form event information from the image information for the c... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080263088 | Spatial Data Management System and Method A spatial data management system including a spatial database maintained in computer memory, the spatial database including one or more position data sets, the position data sets including respective objective identifiers, geographical data and date/time data. The syste... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080263089 | Transaction-Based Storage System and Method That Uses Variable Sized Objects to Store Data The present invention provides a storage system for storing variable sized objects. The storage system is preferably a transaction-based system that uses variable sized objects to store data. The storage system is preferably implemented using arrays disks that are arran... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080263138 | Method and system for managing specimen data An innovative system and method for laboratories, hospitals and others to manage stored specimens is described and claimed. One problem commonly encountered by medical researchers is the inability to effectively and efficiently track the large number of specimens genera... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080263073 | DETECTING APPARATUS, SYSTEM, PROGRAM, AND DETECTING METHOD A detecting apparatus including a cluster storing unit that stores, for each of clusters into which execution time of previously executed monitored tasks are classified, the range of execution times belonging to the cluster, an acquiring unit that acquires an execution ... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080263084 | Configuration Management Database and System A configuration management database (CMDB) comprising a plurality of statements, where in the statements comprise a first item identifying a resource, a second item identifying an object, and a third item identifying a relationship between the resource and the object, a... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080263086 | Systems and methods for information exchange using object warehousing Embodiments of the present invention improve information exchange, and in particular, the exchange of data objects between different software systems. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method of exchanging information comprising analyzing the attribute... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080256030 | FINE-GRAINED AUTHORIZATION FRAMEWORK A system and method for controlling access to an instance method on an instance-specific basis by intercepting an invocation of the instance method on an instance.... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080256124 | SCHEMA MAPPING SPECIFICATION FRAMEWORK A method, system and program product for specifying, in a schema mapping framework, a mapping between a source schema and a target schema. The source and target schemas are schemas included in respective groups of registered, heterogeneous schemas. The source and target... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080256123 | System and Method for Obtaining Object Data In a method and a system for obtaining object data representative of an object, the object is provided with at least one identification carrier on which identification data are stored, the method including:—reading identification data from the identification carrier w... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080256122 | Time intelligence for application programs Techniques to implement time intelligence for application program are described. An apparatus may include a calendar application module. The calendar application module may be arranged to define and generate a calendar for an application program, the calendar applicatio... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080249995 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ATTRIBUTE MANAGEMENT IN A NAMESPACE A computer-based method and system for managing attributes of objects in a namespace and for allowing multiple views into the namespace. The namespace system allows the objects identified by the names of the namespace to be hierarchically organized. The namespace system... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080250061 | Method and Apparatus For Supporting Mobility of Content Bookmark The present invention relates to a bookmark of media contents, more particularly to method and apparatus for supporting mobility of bookmarks set on media contents. The media content playing method according to the present invention stores bookmark information in agency... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080250020 | ONTOLOGICAL REPRESENTATION OF KNOWLEDGE A technique provides for an ontological representation of knowledge included in one or more contexts. A system and method based on the technique allows the creation, editing, and evolution of the ontology in the normal course of business as entities interact and communi... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080250063 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERFACING MULTIPLE TYPES OF OBJECT IDENTIFIERS AND OBJECT IDENTIFIER READERS TO MULTIPLE TYPES OF APPLICATIONS A method for interfacing an object identifier reader to at least one application is disclosed. The method may include receiving object identifier data from the object identifier reader. The object identifier data may include information and formatting characters. The me... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080250062 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR LINKING OBJECTS CREATED IN A RAPID APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to invoke a rapid application development graphical user interface to define fields associated with a set of objects. The creation of new objects derived from the set of objects is facilitated using the... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080247551 | Information processing apparatus and computer readable medium An information processing apparatus includes: an acceptance unit that accepts formed information to be formed on a medium and target information to be recorded as an information image together with an image based on the formed information; a specification acceptance uni... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080243725 | Systems And Methods For Tracking State-Based Transactions Systems and methods track state-based transactions. Event tokens from devices of one or more networks are collected, formatted, normalized and stored in association with state-based transactions. Each of the transaction instances, and the associated event tokens, is pro... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080244373 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically creating a media presentation entity using media objects from a plurality of devices The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically creating an MPE using media objects from a plurality of devices. According to one aspect, the method includes receiving a plurality of media objects from a plu... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080243912 | Method of providing business intelligence The present invention provides a method of determining business intelligence in real time. A business process or operation can be defined by a number of inter-related business entities. The inter-relationship between the values associated with each business entity can b... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080243911 | SHARING A SINGLE INSTANCE OF A USER DEFINED TYPE Methods, systems and apparatus for implementing behavior of a user defined type (UDT) in a database by providing a data table with multiple rows and generating a UDT table having only a single row. An instance of a UDT is created and stored in the single row of the UDT ... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080243913 | Partial sub-lock for delta object management A system may include creation a first database object associated with a primary key and a first delta ID m, association of a first pointer with the first database object, creation of a data structure associating the first pointer with a first index m, a second index m a... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080235272 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING OBJECT TO RELATIONAL ONE-TO-MANY MAPPING Instructions are generated to manipulate target objects and relationships in a relational database when a source object having a one-to-many relationship of privately owned type with the target objects is manipulated. To generate instructions, mapping meta-data is used ... | 09/25/2008 |
| 20080235271 | Classification Dictionary Updating Apparatus, Computer Program Product Therefor and Method of Updating Classification Dictionary A classification dictionary updating apparatus includes an update proposal receiving unit that receives a proposal for updating a hierarchical classification dictionary which has a hierarchical structure which includes a class that defines the hierarchical structure, a ... | 09/25/2008 |
| 20080235269 | DETECTING GRANULAR DATA STORE CHANGES A system and program product for detecting granular data store changes in a computing environment. Data values stored in a first relational database are changed. Each data value is stored in a row and a column of the first relational database. Rows (i.e., changed rows) ... | 09/25/2008 |
| 20080235070 | Method and System For Processing and/or Managing Typesetting Orders For Advertisements in Print and/or Online Media and Corresponding Computer Program and Corresponding Computer-Readable Storage Medium and Data Management Method For Distributed Object-Oriented Workflow Systems The invention is directed to a method and a system for processing and/or managing typesetting orders for advertisements in print and/or online media, as well as a corresponding computer program and a corresponding computer-readable storage medium, which can be used, in ... | 09/25/2008 |
| 20080229156 | Method and Apparatus for Hardware Awareness of Data Types A method, apparatus, and computer instructions in a processor for associating a data type with a memory location. The type is associated with a location by means of metadata that is generated and manipulated by hardware instructions that are typically generated by a com... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080229234 | THIN CLIENT GRAPHICAL PRESENTATION AND MANIPULATION APPLICATION A distributed graphical presentation and manipulation application executes as a thin client application in a network. The networked graphical presentation and manipulation application can generally be used without requiring a user to install any specific software prior ... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080228812 | Method and System for Metamodeling Using Dynamic Ontology Objects A system and method for providing ontology objects for use in a metamodeling environment is disclosed herein. The method comprises (a) providing a framework for creating a metamodel, wherein the metamodel comprises one or more entities, relationships, and semantics and ... | 09/18/2008 |
