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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100054601 | Image Tagging User Interface A global tag for an image is received identifies one or more objects in the image, and a region-specific tag for the image identifies one or more objects in a region of the image. The global tag and the region-specific tag are stored with the image. Displayed, along wit... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100053192 | Information Processing Apparatus, Program, and Information Processing Method An information processing apparatus including a storage section storing a plurality of content data and characteristics data of the plurality of content data, and a creation section for creating a moving image having movement according to the characteristics data of eac... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057781 | MEDIA IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD The present invention relates to a media identification system and method. The system and method includes a media source, a signal controlling device, a communication device, a server and a user interface. The media source can be in various formats, such as audio, video... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100054715 | IMAGE SCALING ARRANGEMENT Methods and system for transferring images between devices are disclosed. For example, differently scaled images by a host device may automatically and/or selectively be transferred to a media player for display. In turn, appropriately scaled images may be transferred a... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057777 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING MULTI-POPULATION STATISTICAL MEASURES USING MIDDLEWARE Embodiments relate to systems and methods for the generation of multi-population statistical measures on a set of data sources. A set of applications such as online analytical processing (OLAP) applications can access the combined data of a set of data sources via an ag... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057776 | DYNAMIC EXTENSION FIELDS FOR BUSINESS OBJECTS A system may include generation of extension metadata defining an extension field of a core node of a business object, and generation of a runtime metadata buffer comprising enhanced metadata, the enhanced metadata based on core metadata of the business object and the e... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057843 | USER-TRANSPARENT SYSTEM FOR UNIQUELY IDENTIFYING NETWORK-DISTRIBUTED DEVICES WITHOUT EXPLICITLY PROVIDED DEVICE OR USER IDENTIFYING INFORMATION A technique for uniquely identifying devices without explicitly provided device or user identifying information in a networked client-server environment, e.g., the Mobile Internet, in which content is downloaded from a server to a device browser executing at a client de... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057782 | Media Playback System with Multiple Video Formats Embodiments of the invention provide a process for a user viewing a media item. The process comprises the user viewing the media item on a first device in a first format, and the user pausing the media item at a stop time. The stop time is saved in the first format and ... | 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 |
| 20100057540 | TERM CATERING SYSTEM AND TERM CATERING METHOD In a term catering system, a management device held by a delivery agent and a manufacturer of cooking appliances outputs reservation sequence information including sequence identification data corresponding to a reserved cooking menu for each customer and obtains feedba... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057539 | Internet-based location intelligence system An internet-based location intelligence system comprising,
| 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057483 | Software tool for developing patent submissions A computer readable medium configured to store instructions for executing the following steps (A) accepting a first number of user parameters to be organized as a patent idea, (B) accepting a second number of user parameters to add to the patent idea, and (C) automatica... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057742 | MRW INTERFACE AND METHOD FOR SUPPORT OF MERCHANT DATA PROCESSING A method begins by receiving, from a requesting device, a request to access a record within an entity profile database. The method continues by authenticating the requesting device. When the requesting device is authenticated, the method continues by determining status ... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057766 | Enterprise Process Database Systems and methods for providing an enterprise level view of an organization's data including an SOA business process server, an enterprise meta model and an enterprise database. The SOA business process server and enterprise meta model are synchronized by automated to... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057780 | ACTION EXECUTION MANAGEMENT FACILITY FOR SERVICE CONFIGURATION ITEMS A system for managing execution of actions corresponding to service configuration items in accordance with embodiments of the invention may include a discovery section for discovering information regarding a configuration item, and a repository for storing a set of data... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057831 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROMOTION OF CALCULATIONS TO CLOUD-BASED COMPUTATION RESOURCES Embodiments relate to systems and methods for the promotion of calculations to cloud-based computation resources. One or more applications, such as spreadsheet applications, can prepare the calculation of a relatively large-scale computation, such as running statistical... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100058186 | REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND REPRODUCING METHOD A reproducing apparatus includes a storage section, a judgment section, an analysis section, a classification section, an input section, and a reproduction section. The storage section stores a plurality of pieces of audio data. The judgment section judges, based on a l... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100058162 | AUTOMATIC CUSTOMIZATION OF DIAGRAM ELEMENTS Manually changing properties of each diagram element placed in a drawing becomes tedious. A significant amount of time is spent manually customizing diagram elements creating or editing a drawing. Functionality can be implemented within a drawing application to allow au... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057779 | METHODS OF RENDERING RECOMMENDED MEDIA ASSETS TO A USER BY EMPLOYING A HANDHELD MEDIA PLAYER Methods of rendering of unpaid media assets from an on-line merchandiser to a user are disclosed by the use of handheld media players. One embodiment uses the idle screen to display metadata of an unpaid asset when another paid asset is being played. Another embodiment ... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057778 | MEDIA RECOMMENDATION AND ACQUISITION SYSTEM A method of providing a media recommendation is provided. The method includes receiving user provided information at a first device from a second device. The user provided information includes user preference information and user device information. The received user pr... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057751 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING A PRODUCTION RULE FOR A MEMORY MANAGEMENT ANALYSIS A method for evaluating a production rule for usage as a test input process for a memory management analysis is carried out via a server process. The server process accesses at least a database of a manufacturing execution system. At least one user table is retrieved ou... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057586 | Offer Reporting Apparatus and Method A computerized method for storing purchase information for a product in a price database to generate a purchase history includes receiving in a price database a set of sales information for a product, wherein the set of sales information includes a product identifier fo... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100053698 | COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD A computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for managing image information, the process includes: accepting image information and registration destination information that indicates a registration destination of the image informa... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100050269 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT Whether a combination method defined in an output rule satisfies a combination condition of each content specified in a play list is judged in order of priority defined in a priority list. Based on the judgment result, the output rule is edited in such a manner that the... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049704 | Map information processing apparatus, navigation system, and map information processing method A map information processing apparatus includes: a map information storage portion in which multiple pieces of map information can be stored; an accepting portion that accepts a map output instruction and a map browse operation sequence; a map output portion that reads ... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049624 | COMMODITY MARKETING SYSTEM A commodity marketing system includes: a mobile terminal performing communication for performing user authentication; a communication device recognizing the mobile terminal and performing communication; a customer database performing user authentication of a person who ... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049714 | FAST SEARCH REPLICATION SYNCHRONIZATION PROCESSES A method and medium for performing a replication process are provided. The method includes receiving a request to perform an initial load of a first persistence of at least one business object node to replicate the at least one business object node to a second persisten... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049600 | NETWORK-BASED SWEEPSTAKES SYSTEM AND METHOD A system and method for automatically enrolling users of a website or other network-based service in sweepstakes. A user of 4 user computer system connects to a host computer system hosting a website or other network-based service and is awarded points for access... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049620 | MERCHANT DEVICE SUPPORT OF AN INTEGRATED OFFER NETWORK A method begins by initiating communication with a transactional processing entity device. The method continues by receiving a profile inquiry message from the transactional processing entity device. The method continues by providing a response to the profile inquiry me... | 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 |
| 20100049743 | USER INTERFACE IN AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT) SYSTEM A method and system for improving user interfaces in IT systems is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes using a remote maintenance function by a user of a user interface in order to allow a technician to take control of a data transmission connection during ... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049545 | AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION OF TASKS THAT MUST BE COMPLETED BEFORE A CLINICAL TRIAL DATABASE CAN BE LOCKED Management of a database lock for a clinical trial study is provided. A database is provided that includes clinical trial data and the status of the data for a plurality of patients. Lock criteria is defined for the study from a plurality of selectable subsets of the cl... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100046791 | IMAGE-BASED INVENTORY CONTROL SYSTEM USING ADVANCED IMAGE RECOGNITION Systems for monitoring an inventory condition of objects based on captured images are described. An exemplary system includes at least one storage drawer, each storage drawer including a plurality of storage locations for storing objects; and a data storage device stori... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100045518 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC GEOTAGGING A mobile terminal and method for automatic geotagging are disclosed. The mobile terminal includes a camera for capturing an image and for generating image data, a location information module for determining location information of the mobile terminal, and a controller c... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100046842 | Methods and Systems for Content Processing Cell phones and other portable devices are equipped with a variety of technologies by which existing functionality can be improved, and new functionality can be provided. Some relate to visual search capabilities, and determining appropriate actions responsive to differ... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049577 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A PROJECT TASK The invention relates to a system and method for monitoring and controlling the performance of a task, such as for example, the construction of a building. The specific modules required to complete the task are identified and, in turn, the functions required to complete... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100047801 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA DRIVEN MANAGEMENT OF INDIVIDUAL SEEDS A method for managing seed includes non-destructively sampling individual seeds to assist in providing evaluation data for each of the individual seeds, storing the evaluation data and seed identifiers associated with each of the individual seeds in a data store, select... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049471 | WEIGHT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING ZERO-READOUT WEIGHT SENSOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF USING SAME A method of, and a system for, controlling, managing and maintaining a client's weight are performed by placing a weight sensor device in a location that is convenient to the client, periodically generating weight signals at the sensor device, providing a computer syste... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049739 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BOUNDED ANALYSIS OF MULTIMEDIA USING MULTIPLE CORRELATIONS Multimedia content usage is on the rise and hence, it is becoming increasingly necessary to automatically analyze the multimedia content in order enhance the effective applicability and usage of the content. The richness of a multimedia content demands multi-fold analys... | 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 |
