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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100057737 | DETECTION OF NON-OCCURRENCES OF EVENTS USING PATTERN MATCHING Techniques for detecting non-occurrence of an event within a time period following the occurrence of another event. In one embodiment, language extensions are provided to a language that enable queries to be formulated for detecting non-occurrences using that language.... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057738 | Identification and Verification of Common Cluster Files Residing on Nodes in a Cluster In accordance with a particular embodiment of the present disclosure, common cluster files residing on nodes in a cluster may be managed by compiling a first list of all files stored on all nodes of the cluster, compiling a second list indicative of unique files and the... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057734 | MUSIC PROCESSING METHOD, MUSIC PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM There is provided a music processing method including the steps of: determining code values according to a volume transition in every certain period starting from a coding start position on a time axis in music data; and generating a characteristic pattern indicating a ... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057736 | TECHNIQUES FOR PERFORMING REGULAR EXPRESSION-BASED PATTERN MATCHING IN DATA STREAMS Techniques for detecting patterns in one or more data streams. A pattern to be detected may be specified using a regular expression. Events received in a data stream are processed during runtime to detect occurrences of the specified pattern in the data stream.... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057735 | FRAMEWORK FOR SUPPORTING REGULAR EXPRESSION-BASED PATTERN MATCHING IN DATA STREAMS Techniques for detecting patterns in one or more data or event streams. A pattern to be detected may be specified using a regular expression. Events received in a data stream are processed during runtime to detect occurrences of the specified pattern in the data stream.... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057732 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING SOCIAL NETWORK INTERSECTION IN INSTANT MESSAGING A method and computer program product for identifying one or more instant messaging contacts associated with a first instant messaging contacts list, and identifying one or more instant messaging contacts associated with a second instant messaging contacts list. The one... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057733 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING ACCESS TO ENTERPRISE INFORMATION A method for enabling access to enterprise information may include analyzing text including a plurality of text strings and identifying a defined pattern within the text strings as corresponding to a particular entity. The particular entity may be associated with differ... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100049712 | SEARCH METHOD AND SEARCH PROGRAM A search device creates as many stack frames as the number obtained by adding one to the number of search condition character strings contained in an out-of-search-condition character string in a stack, sequentially inputs character strings in a text into automaton data... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049711 | CONTENT-BASED MATCHING OF VIDEOS USING LOCAL SPATIO-TEMPORAL FINGERPRINTS A computer implemented method computer implemented method for deriving a fingerprint from video data is disclosed, comprising the steps of receiving a plurality of frames from the video data; selecting at least one key frame from the plurality of frames, the at least on... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049710 | System and method for optimized filtered data feeds to capture data and send to multiple destinations There is provided a system and method for optimized filtered data feeds to capture data and send to multiple destinations. There is provided a system comprising a memory and a processor. The memory has a database associating data feed patterns to one or more of a plural... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049713 | PATTERN MATCHING DEVICE AND METHOD Provided is a pattern matching device comprising memories. On each of the combinations of the values of an N number (N: a natural number) of pattern detection signals outputted from a circuited NFA (Non-deterministic Finite Automaton), the memories store both identifier... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049709 | Generating Succinct Titles for Web URLs Methods, computer programs, and systems for generating a link title for a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) within a context webpage to be shown as a web result are provided. The method evaluates generation parameters for a plurality of sources for picking words from the l... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100042623 | System and method for mining and tracking business documents Systems and methods are described that mine and track archived business documents for discovering business knowledge and intelligence using data mining, machine learning, statistics, and computational linguistics, from different linguistic sources according to their mea... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042622 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPILING A SET OF DOMAIN NAMES TO RECOVER In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a method and system that receives a seed term, obtains a corpus of candidate terms, where each candidate term comprises the seed term or variants of the seed term, obtains network traffic information associated with ea... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042620 | System and Methods for Managing Complex Service Delivery Through Coordination and Integration of Structured and Unstructured Activities The invention allows for the integration of structured and unstructured human activities in the context of delivering one or more service. The systems and method described improve efficiency and quality of service delivery by increasing overall productivity and by provi... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100036842 | Fast identification of complex strings in a data stream A method for detecting and locating occurrence in a data stream of any complex string belonging to a predefined complex dictionary is disclosed. A complex string may comprise an arbitrary number of interleaving coherent strings and ambiguous strings. The method comprise... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100030779 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND LINKING USERS HAVING MATCHING CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION A system and method for identifying and linking users having matching confidential information, the system comprising: a database for storing user information in a manner such that one or more data fields representing at least a portion of the user information are assoc... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100030780 | IDENTIFYING RELATED OBJECTS IN A COMPUTER DATABASE Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for identifying related objects in a computer database. In one representative implementation: (a) a feature vector that describes an existing object is obtained; (b) comparison scores are generated betwee... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100030777 | Method for taking automated inventory of assets and recognition of the same asset on multiple scans A computer system comprising a matching platform that has the capability to examine attributes from multiple scans on multiple attributes and determine which attributes from each scan pertain to the same attribute so the attribute is not counted twice. Extensible module... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100030778 | RETRIEVING AND SHARING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS USING PAPER In an embodiment of the invention, an electronic document (e-document) can be searched and found by capturing an image of the printed document. Instead of typing in a file name or searching through multiple directories, the user simply takes a picture of the document wi... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100028870 | DESIGN OF SYNTHETIC NUCLEIC ACIDS FOR EXPRESSION OF ENCODED PROTEINS Methods for determining a property that affects expression of polynucleotides are provided. A plurality of polynucleotides each encoding a polypeptide sequence is constructed. A frequency that a sequence element is used in a first polynucleotide is different than in a s... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100023505 | Search method, similarity calculation method, similarity calculation, same document matching system, and program thereof Same document group creation means (11) acquires a ratio of common words and characters between documents in order to obtain a predetermined similarity greater than a predetermined threshold value between the documents. According to the ratio, words or characters... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100023516 | INFORMATION HANDLING An information handling apparatus in which textual metadata is generated in respect of a current information item in an ensemble of information items including: a mechanism that detects one or more predetermined properties of the current information item; a mechanism th... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100023517 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTING DATA-POINTS FROM A DATA FILE The present invention provides a method, system and computer program product for extracting data-points from a data file. A data-point is extracted in a data-base by pointing at a portion of computer recognizable text in the data file by a pointing device. The data-poin... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100023515 | DATA CLUSTERING ENGINE A method of managing a plurality of records, in which each record comprises a plurality of fields, involves determining a match signature for each record by evaluating a deterministic cluster definition against each record. The deterministic cluster definition comprises... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100024037 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING IDENTITY THEFT SECURITY A system and method of providing identity theft security is provided. The system and method utilizes a computer program that identifies, locates, secures, and/or removes from computers, computer systems and/or computer networks personally identifying and/or other sensit... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100023514 | TOKENIZATION PLATFORM A tokenization platform and method is described for accurately tokenizing character strings, including but not limited to non-delimited character strings of the type commonly used in Internet domain names and computer filenames, to accurately identify words and phrases ... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100017406 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM A switching information acquiring unit 110 acquires information of switching from a screen displayed by a first application program to a screen displayed by a second application program. A character string extracting unit 104 detects character strings from... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100017407 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND INVENTORY SYSTEM USING THE SAME A system recognizes an arrangement of an object and counts the number of objects, comprising: a sensor for measuring a distance between the sensor and an object; a moving mechanism for moving the sensor; and a computer that is connected with the sensor and includes an o... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100017405 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING NON-EXACT MATCHING SEARCH IN SERVICE REGISTRY SYSTEM WITH CUSTOM DICTIONARY A system and associated method for searching a service registry system with a service name. The service registry system receives a request to search a service description with the service name. The service registry system first searches a registry for a service identifi... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100014781 | Example-Based Two-Dimensional to Three-Dimensional Image Conversion Method, Computer Readable Medium Therefor, and System An example-based 2D to 3D image conversion method, a computer readable medium therefor, and a system are provided. The embodiments are based on an image database with depth information or with which depth information can be generated. With respect to a 2D image to be co... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100017353 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DATA ANALYSIS AND FEATURE RECOGNITION Systems and methods for automated pattern recognition and object detection. The method can be rapidly developed and improved using a minimal number of algorithms for the data content to fully discriminate details in the data, while reducing the need for human analysis. ... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100017392 | Intent match search engine Method and apparatus for a query based search engine that searches a database of linked documents. In some embodiments, the method and apparatus computes reliability degrees of the documents, abstracts each document to generate its abstracts, provides a search query int... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100017404 | Method and Apparatus to Elegantly and Automatically Track Emails and its Attachments for Enhanced User Convenience An automated, embedded & intelligent E-mail Attachment Document manager automatically tracks email and their associated attachments and assists users in locating an email message (email-chain/thread) that is the original source from where the email attachment docume... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100017397 | DEFINING A DATA STRUCTURE FOR PATTERN MATCHING An information processing apparatus according to the present invention comprises a generation section configured to generate an ordered tree structure by defining transition edges between nodes using, as transition conditions, respective constraints from one or more con... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100011212 | RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID) BASED AUTHENTICATION METHODOLOGY USING STANDARD AND PRIVATE FREQUENCY RFID TAGS Disclosed is a self-contained hardware-based authentication system that incorporates different authentication protocols for access to soft and/or hard assets with different security levels. The system embodiments include the use of a RFID device that comprises dual RFID... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20100010995 | METHODS OF CODING AND DECODING, BY REFERENCING, VALUES IN A STRUCTURED DOCUMENT, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS The present invention concerns a method of coding an XML-type structured document, a corresponding decoding method and associated systems. The method of coding a structured document (502) comprising at least values to be coded, using... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20100010996 | METHOD FOR THE ALLOCATION OF DATA ON PHYSICAL MEDIA BY A FILE SYSTEM THAT ELIMINATES DUPLICATE DATA The present invention is a method for the allocation of data on physical media by a file system that eliminates duplicate data. Efficient searches are employed using a unique algorithm when a compare on hash is used to achieve realtime operation of the file system. The ... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20100010992 | Methods And Systems For Resolving A Location Information To A Network Identifier Methods and systems are described for resolving location information to a network identifier. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving information identifying a geospatial query region. The method also includes generating a query message including an outside-scope... | 01/14/2010 |
| 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 |
