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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100058156 | FTP DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MERCHANT DATA PROCESSING A method begins by receiving at least a portion of a merchant master file. The method continues, for a merchant data file, by determining whether a corresponding merchant profile record exists within a merchant profile database. The method continues, when the correspond... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057785 | MINIMAL EXTENSIONS REQUIRED FOR MULTI-MASTER OFFLINE AND COLLABORATION FOR DEVICES AND WEB SERVICES The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates managing data consistency in connection with a plurality of devices. A collection of devices can be associated with a user. A web service can receive a portion of data from at least one device... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100049751 | Methods and Apparatuses for Data Protection Methods and apparatuses for data protection against corrupted write operations. In one embodiment, a technique of crash protection uses an atomically updated global transaction indicator to switch a set of data structures from one set of versions to another set. In one ... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049753 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING APPLICATION DATA IN A DATA REPLICATION SYSTEM Performing data management operations on replicated data in a computer network. Log entries are generated for data management operations of an application executing on a source system. Consistency point entries are used to indicate a time of a known good, or recoverable... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049749 | System of synchronizing data between storage devices and method thereof A system of synchronizing data in different storage devices and the method thereof are provided to remove the inconvenience in synchronizing data between storage devices. By detecting the process execution status, data synchronization is triggered to transmit data. The ... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100042658 | METHOD FOR CAD KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT A knowledge model of CAD knowledge may be created using a modeling language such as SysML to improve maintainability and re-usability of knowledge, thereby reducing workload. The SysML knowledge model may be stored in a knowledge repository coupled to a knowledge server... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042659 | DEPLOYMENT OVERVIEW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD A deployment overview management system, method, and associated apparatus facilitates deployment of a computer system. Feedback is provided to the deployment overview management system by prior-deployed, and other, computer systems. The feedback forms metadata that is a... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100036893 | ARCHITECTURE FOR ACCESSING A DATA STREAM BY MEANS OF A USER TERMINAL XML communication protocol between a user terminal, such as a radio alarm clock, and a services platform via the Internet network for accessing an audio file available from a data streaming server.... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100036892 | DETERMINATION OF AN UPDATED DATA SOURCE FROM DISPARATE DATA SOURCES A method and system for determining an updated data source from first and second disparate data sources. A first and second data list is received from the first and second data sources, respectively. The data elements in the first data list matching data elements in the... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100030789 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM An active device attaches a sequential number representing a notification number to update record information for recording an event that data is stored, then notifies a preliminary device of the update record information, and, accumulates the update record information.... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100031244 | Software updating device and computer-readable storage medium storing software updating program A software updating device includes: a software updating section that obtains through communication an update file for a software installed in an information processing device, and that updates the software using the update file; an update file selecting section that se... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100030791 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POWER AWARE DATA STORAGE A power aware data storage system comprises storage configured to store physical data files, the storage comprising several types of storage that are associated with different access times and power consumption; a storage authority coupled with the storage, the storage ... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100030819 | Method, system and apparatus to seamlessly manage and access files across multiple devices A method, system and apparatus to seamlessly manage and access files across multiple devices in a network, comprising steps of maintaining a local database in each of the devices, synchronizing the local databases of the devices using transaction logs and sync controlle... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100030818 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR APPLYING ONCE A TRANSACTION DELIVERED IN A MESSAGE PUBLISHED ASYNCHRONOUSLY IN A DISTRIBUTED DATABASE An improved system and method for applying once a transaction delivered in a message published asynchronously in a distributed database is provided. In various embodiments, apply once messaging may be achieved for asynchronous publication by having a persistent log stor... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100030816 | Bursting in a Content Management System When a document is checked into a content management system repository, parts of the document may be stored as separate chunks in the repository based on bursting rules associated with that document. These chunks may be associated with chunk-specific bursting rules seve... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100030817 | STATEMENT CATEGORIZATION AND NORMALIZATION Systems, methods and computer program products for statement categorization and normalization are described herein. An embodiment includes a statement categorizer and a statement normalizer. The statement categorizer categorizes statements to reduce or even eliminate in... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100030783 | Metadata Driven Mobile Business Objects A system, method, and computer program product are provided for abstracting data in a remote data source. A method operates by defining the data source, defining a data synchronization methodology for communication with the data source, and providing an abstraction laye... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100023559 | OPTIMIZING GRACE PERIOD DETECTION FOR PREEMPTIBLE READ-COPY UPDATE ON UNIPROCESSOR SYSTEMS A technique for optimizing grace period detection following a data element update operation that affects preemptible data readers. A determination is made whether the data processing system is a uniprocessor system or a multiprocessor system. Grace period detection proc... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100017443 | METHOD, TERMINAL, AND SYSTEM FOR SOFT-DELETING, RESTORING, AND SYNCHRONIZING DATA A method, terminal, and system for soft-deleting, restoring, and synchronizing data are provided. The method for synchronizing data includes: synchronizing, by a server and a terminal, server data not marked as soft-deleted during data synchronization. The method for so... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100017442 | Information Management Server, Information Processing System, Communication Method and Program An embodiment of the invention includes an information management server with a registration unit that registers a status change condition of a database and a notification action so that they are associated with each other. Also, the information management server includ... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100010993 | Distributed personal information aggregator A method of aggregating personal information available from public sources over a network. The method includes the steps of receiving at a computer server, data associated with a person, the data being publicly available over a network, and including at least a first na... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20100005124 | AUTOMATED METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND REPAIRING LOGICAL DATA DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN DATABASE REPLICAS IN A DATABASE CLUSTER A method and system for monitoring and maintaining the consistency of replicated databases in a shared-nothing database cluster architecture is presented. The method involves the continuous monitoring of the database transaction logs that are maintained by the autonomou... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20100005097 | CAPTURING AND RESTORING DATABASE SESSION STATE Techniques are described herein for capturing and restoring database session state. Production database server components save the session state of each of a plurality of database sessions. The components store workload units that are processed in these sessions. The co... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090327356 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED TRANSITION BETWEEN ALTERNATING INDIVIDUAL AND COMMON CHANNEL PROGRAMMING VIA SYNCHRONIZED PLAYISTS Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, apparatus and system for a synchronized playlist calculation, which is used to calculate playlists and filler media for seamless transitions during the alternation of individual and common channel programming. In va... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090327355 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COORDINATING A POINT-IN-TIME COPY AMONG MULTIPLE DATA PROVIDERS A system and method for coordinating a point-in-time copy (PITC) of a file or set of data distributed (e.g., striped) across multiple data providers (e.g., filers, file servers, storage arrays). A service coordinator receives a PITC request for a parent file, initialize... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090327295 | MAINTENANCE OF EXO-FILE SYSTEM METADATA ON REMOVABLE STORAGE DEVICE An interface between a host computing device and a transient storage device (TSD) eliminates the need for a full directory crawl of the storage volume on the TSD to maintain a metadata database. The metadata database is incrementally updated instead of being completely ... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090327354 | NOTIFICATION AND SYNCHRONIZATION OF UPDATED DATA Techniques for notification and synchronization are described. Some techniques may comprise receiving a synchronization request and establishing an updating session connection. The updating session may be based on a delay interval parameter specifying a length of a dela... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090327817 | Coordinating Updates to Replicated Data Techniques for coordinating updates to replicated data are disclosed. For example, in a system comprised of a plurality of nodes, a method for maintaining consistent copies of data across said nodes comprises the following steps. A copy of an object o1 is maintai... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090327299 | REPLICATING MODIFICATIONS MADE TO CONTENTS OF A SHARED FOLDER Replicating modifications made to contents of a shared folder. As a part of replicating modifications made to contents of a shared folder, modifications made to a shared folder located on a first computer system and replicated in a second folder that is located on a sec... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090327248 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING THE INTEGRATION BETWEEN A SEARCH ENGINE AND ONE OR MORE FILE SERVERS In one aspect of the invention, a search engine parses files stored among one or more file servers in order to create and maintain index information used by the search engine to perform searches. For a given file server, the population of files presented to the search e... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090319540 | SYNCHRONIZATION ADAPTER FOR SYNCHRONIZING DATA TO APPLICATIONS THAT DO NOT DIRECTLY SUPPORT SYNCHRONIZATION A synchronization adapter is coupled to the application that does not support synchronization and generates the necessary synchronization metadata for all data in the application that is to be synchronized. The synchronization adapter then combines the metadata to the a... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090319578 | SYNCHRONIZATION AND DATA REVIEW SYSTEM A method and system control data collection and display parameters in two or more data modules in a dynamic system. The method and system provide the ability to collect and display data in a dynamic system having two or more data modules communicatively coupled thereto.... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090319585 | APPLICATION-AWARE AND REMOTE SINGLE INSTANCE DATA MANAGEMENT A method and system for reducing storage requirements and speeding up storage operations by reducing the storage of redundant data includes receiving a request that identifies one or more files or data objects to which to apply a storage operation. For each file or data... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090319910 | AUTOMATIC CONTENT AND AUTHOR EMPHASIS FOR SHARED DATA Architecture for emphasizing changes in collaborative or shared documents. A user can now quickly see what content was changed (hence, unread content) since the last time the user viewed the document or page. A tool automatically tracks and annotates the new content and... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090319305 | AUTOMATED SERVICE FEES ASSESSMENT METHODS AND SYSTEM A computer travel system and methods for assessing travel service fees are described. System of the invention communicates, on one end, with a travel agent from a travel front office and, on the other end, with a system administrator who manages a price scheme database ... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090299698 | Co-Resident Software Performance Tracking A method for determining the operating status of a proposed application configuration on a first client including receiving updates from a plurality of clients, each update including a client identification, a previous state indication, a current state indication, and a... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090300071 | File Synchronization Between Multiple Nodes Methods and products for storing data for synchronizing one or more files between two or more nodes. One embodiment of the method includes commencing to create a metadata object associated with a file to be synchronized: determining a file location on the or each node; ... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090300072 | ADAPATIVE AND DYNAMIC DATA SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM FOR MANAGING DATA AND INVENTORY A system and method for adaptive and dynamic synchronization includes a data synchronization controller which enables synchronization of a plurality of different data types between a main computer and one or more remotely disposed computer elements. The controller inclu... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090292668 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR PARTIAL REDISTRIBUTION, PARTIAL DUPLICATION OF ROWS OF PARALLEL JOIN OPERATION ON SKEWED DATA A system, method, and computer-readable medium that facilitate management of data skew during a parallel join operation are provided. Portions of tables involved in the join operation are distributed among a plurality of processing modules, and each of the processing mo... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090289892 | SIMULATION OF WRITING ON GAME CONSOLES THROUGH THE USE OF MOTION-SENSING TECHNOLOGY A method and system of utilizing a game console with motion sensing technology is provided. The present invention, in various implementations, provides for a method for generating one or more symbols in response to one or more gestures using an input device of a gaming ... | 11/26/2009 |
