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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100057702 | System and Method for Searching Enterprise Application Data A search modeling tool is provided that can communicate with multiple enterprise applications to create object definitions describing searchable data stored in each application. The object definitions may be used to extract searchable data from the applications, thus al... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100058320 | Managing Distributed System Software On A Gaming System Mechanisms for determining the coherency of a console are described herein. A manifest may be used to check the installed software components, and their versions, to determine which user experience groups are coherent based upon the installed software packages and their... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057696 | Display Processing Apparatus, Display Processing Method, and Computer Program Product According to one embodiment, an display processing apparatus includes, an operation receiver, a relation calculator, a display information generator, and a display controller. The operation receiver receives operation to select a key content of a first type. The relatio... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057682 | Information Feeds of a Social Network Various embodiments can be configured to provide a social networking computing environment. In an embodiment, a networked computing system can be used to provide informational feeds and commenting functionality to users of a social computing environment. In one embodime... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057690 | Automated information-provision system Various system embodiments of the present invention are directed to an automated concierge system through which users of the automated concierge system can request and obtain many types of information and services. Unlike traditional search engines and electronic query-... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100058202 | METHOD SYSTEM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING ENABLING AN INTERACTIVE AND SOCIAL SEARCH ENGINE A system for an interactive and social search engine includes a search component responding to a user's search request for generating a listing of search results including site addresses. A display component displays the listing along with a rating control for each site... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057695 | POST-PROCESSING SEARCH RESULTS ON A CLIENT COMPUTER Described is a technology by which a deep query response comprising a large number of URLs is processed at a client-side recipient into a secondary set of search results. A client requests a deep query response (e.g., hundreds of URLs) related to a query, generally in c... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057674 | FLOATING LICENSES FOR A REAL TIME LICENSE SYSTEM A license management system, including a license server to store and manage at least one license, each license corresponding to one or more software features; a portable client device to request a temporary license from the server corresponding to one or more of the at ... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057678 | IMPORT/EXPORT MODELING SYSTEM A device is provided for use in modeling an import/export system. The device includes a communication interface, a processor, and a computer-readable medium including computer-readable instructions. Upon execution by the processor, the computer-readable instructions cau... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057681 | Searching for Codes in Texts Searching for codes hidden in texts, such as the Bible, may involve application of a cipher to the text and then searching the enciphered text for codes.... | 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 |
| 20100057688 | ADAPTIVE MULTI-CHANNEL ANSWERING SERVICE FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for automated selection of a channel of support dependant upon the behavior of the customer. In one embodiment, a method for agile channeling inquiries to a customer relationship manageme... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057712 | INTEGRATED COMMUNITY-BASED, CONTRIBUTION POLLING ARRANGEMENT Disclosed are apparatus and methods for facilitating online user polling over a computer network. In general, a particular web property is a web service or site that is related to a particular type of subject matter or service. A user of a particular web property can se... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057855 | TRACKING SUBJECT MATTER IN AN E-MAIL DISCUSSION Methods, systems, and computer readable media for tracking subject matter of an e-mail discussion are described. A query e-mail is received, wherein the query e-mail includes an initial request and wherein the query e-mail commences the e-mail discussion. At least one m... | 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 |
| 20100057694 | SEMANTIC METADATA CREATION FOR VIDEOS A computing system creates and stores semantic metadata on content, such as videos, that enables efficient searching of the content. The existing metadata of a video file, for example, is examined and a keyword list is created. The processes used to derive the keyword l... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057539 | Internet-based location intelligence system An internet-based location intelligence system comprising,
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 20100057677 | SOLUTION SEARCH FOR SOFTWARE SUPPORT A search middleware may be used to receive search requests regarding a software incident associated with a software application. The search requests may be populated with attribute values determined based on context data associated with the software application and coll... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057679 | SEARCH USING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE DIMENSIONS A search system receives business intelligence dimensions and at least one text search term. The system generates and displays key performance indicators based on the business intelligence dimensions, and generates and displays search results based on the text search te... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057680 | DYNAMIC CONFIGURATION OF SERVICES USING A SYNDICATION FEED A configuration file is received by a publish-subscribe service and published to a syndication feed. The received configuration file is associated with a class of services. The configuration file is then sent to subscribers of the syndication feed. The subscribers of th... | 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 |
| 20100057684 | REAL TIME DATAMINING A method and apparatus for real time datamining. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a user request for datamining with respect to a value from a report associated with a specific pyramid level, identifying a datamining function to be performed for statisti... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057686 | Deep Web Search A data processing system and a computer implemented method for searching registered websites including multimedia content according to a user query. The data processing system includes a mediator server with a database storing the multimedia content from the registered ... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057687 | PREDICTING FUTURE QUERIES FROM LOG DATA A system, media, and method for selecting future queries are provided. The selected future queries are used to transmit appropriate online advertising to a user that issues queries to a search engine. The search engine is coupled to a prediction component that predicts ... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057709 | SEARCH APPARATUS, SEARCH METHOD AND SEARCH PROGRAM USING PUBLIC SEARCH ENGINE The present invention provides a search apparatus, method and program using a public search engine, which is capable of acquiring necessary information without allowing confidential information to be inferred. Input of a desired search word comprising characters is rece... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057711 | EXTRACTION OF CRITICAL INFORMATION FROM DATABASE Some embodiments of extraction of critical information from a database in a networked system have been presented. In one embodiment, a subset of data from the database in the networked system is extracted. The subset of data is indexed to generate an index. Using the in... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057724 | SERVER DEVICE FOR CREATING LIST OF GENERAL WORDS TO BE EXCLUDED FROM SEARCH RESULT A server device of the present invention includes a control unit collecting texts stored in a storage unit in response to an instruction from the outside or when a predetermined time is reached, extracting words from the collected texts, determining, as a general word, ... | 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 |
| 20100057675 | Search Provider Recommendation A component presents access to a recommended search provider via a user interface element. In an example embodiment, a device-implemented method for recommending a search provider includes acts of receiving, ascertaining, and modifying. A search query input is received.... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057683 | TOPOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS SYSTEM A topographical analysis system that provides an integrated approach for gathering available topographical data and synthesizing the topographical data for various uses by various users. The topographical data may be real time data, historical data, and/or most recent d... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057692 | Method and apparatus for collecting and providing information of interest to user regarding multimedia content A method of collecting information of interest to a user regarding multimedia content is described. The method may include receiving first content about the information of interest to the user among the multimedia content, collecting metadata of the first content by usi... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057693 | SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEST CASE MANAGEMENT A method of extending features provided by a test case management (TCM) application, includes, in response to user input defining a date range and specifying at least one test target, generating a test report based on test data generated via the TCM application during t... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057407 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A SPATIAL INDEX A system, method, and computer program for creating an index structure for spatial data, comprising representing a product structure by a network of nodes and edges; setting a local geometric bound for each of said network nodes; propagating a cumulative geometric bound... | 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 |
| 20100057563 | DEPLOYMENT AND DISTRIBUTION MODEL FOR IMPROVED CONTENT DELIVERY A deployment and distribution model improves content delivery with a business incentive for placement of kiosks with one or more wireless access points in public locations so that portable media players (PMPs) can receive media content (e.g., audio, video, text, haptic ... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057583 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ORDERING VIDEO CONTENT USING A LINK A method and system for ordering content includes a content processing system and a device in communication with the content ordering system. The device displaying a link corresponding to content and accessing a content ordering system by selecting the link. The content... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100058417 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A SOCIAL NOTIFICATION FOR A SET-TOP BOX A method and system for providing a social notification for a set-top box is disclosed. An embodiment is disclosed that determines media content received by a set-top box and the media content selected for display by a first member of a social network, determines a soci... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100049590 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF UNSTRUCTURED DATA A method and system for semantically analyzing unstructured data in a customer feedback is provided. The method includes extracting data related to customer feedback from one or more input sources. The method further includes assigning weights to the one or more input s... | 02/25/2010 |
