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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100057739 | AUTOMATED BROWSER HISTORY SORTING BASED UPON LOCATION A location associated with a computing device is determined. Browser history information is retrieved from a storage device. The browser history information is sorted based upon the determined location. The sorted browser history information is presented to a user of th... | 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 |
| 20100049809 | System and method for determining source of an email A system and method for determining if a received email is human or machine generated. Each received email is stored temporarily after the sender's address is extracted. A record from a database of challenges is randomly selected. Each record in the database is an image... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100042625 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING OBJECTS Embodiments of a classification pipeline disclosed herein have the ability to both collect data as it occurs and dynamically redact it, allowing ongoing statistics to be gathered and maintained while simultaneously constraining the total amount of storage capacity that ... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100039675 | Relevant Messages Associated with Outgoing Fax Documents Using Previous Facsimile Systems and methods of the present invention allow for incorporation of relevant messages, such as commercial advertisements, in outgoing faxes and/or for presentation of relevant messages with outgoing faxes. Text may be extracted from a current and/or previously sent ... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100039676 | Relevant Messages Associated with Incoming Fax Documents Using Multiple Facsimiles Systems and methods of the present invention allow for incorporation of relevant messages, such as commercial advertisements, in incoming faxes and/or for presentation of relevant messages with incoming faxes. Text may be extracted from a current and/or previously sent ... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100039674 | Relevant Messages Associated with Outgoing Fax Documents Using Multiple Facsimiles Systems and methods of the present invention allow for incorporation of relevant messages, such as commercial advertisements, in outgoing faxes and/or for presentation of relevant messages with outgoing faxes. Text may be extracted from a current and/or previously sent ... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042624 | METHOD FOR SORTING DATA Techniques for sorting a sequence of one or more input objects are provided. The techniques include identifying a property that is exhibited by a sequence of one or more input objects, determining whether each input object from the sequence of one or more input objects ... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100036807 | Systems and Methods to Sort Information Related to Entities Having Different Locations Systems and methods sort location dependent information based on selecting multiple groups of information according to location, ordering the groups based on location, and ordering the information within the groups based on at least one or more other criteria. The size(... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100031003 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PARTITIONING AND SORTING A DATA SET ON A MULTI-PROCESSOR SYSTEM The present invention provides a method and apparatus for partitioning, sorting a data set on a multi-processor system. Herein, the multi-processor system has at least one core processor and a plurality of accelerators. The method for partitioning a data set comprises: ... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100030760 | DATA INPUT APPARATUS AND DATA INPUT METHOD When an input acknowledging unit acknowledges the input of pre-conversion data from the user via the user interface, an ordinary conversion processing unit that uses a dictionary database displays a candidate of converted data. When the input of search data is acknowled... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100023490 | Method of, and Apparatus for, Controlling the Transportation of Articles, and Arrangement for Transporting a Plurality of Articles A method and apparatus for controlling transportation of a plurality of articles include providing each article with the specification of a destination to which the article is to be transported. Each article passes through a sorting installation at least twice. During b... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100023518 | ORDERING TELEMETRY MESSAGES A method for ordering telemetry messages containing attributes individually not sufficient to establish total ordering is provided. An initial rank value is assigned for a first telemetry message. For a subsequent telemetry message, it is determined if an attribute of t... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100017393 | Entry Selection from Long Entry Lists A method, device, and computer program product for locating a desired entry in a list containing multiple list entries for use with a limited text display is described. A list of entries is partitioned into a number of sub-parts such that the desired entry is contained ... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100017398 | DETERMINING RELEVANCY AND DESIRABILITY OF TERMS A system and method to sort search results based upon a desirability value is illustrated. This desirability value may be based upon the difference between a demand value and a supply value. Demand may be based upon user activity such as click-throughs, purchases, price... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100017408 | Automatic Email Consolidation for Multiple Participants The invention is a data processing means wherein human perceptible elements of electronic information are gathered, prepared, formatted, or otherwise processed in forming a unified collection of such information storable as a distinct entity. In particular, the inventio... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100010997 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESCORING A PLAYLIST A method and system are provided for rescoring media items in a playlist in response to associated user events. In one embodiment, media items in a playlist are scored based on user preferences of an associated user, and the playlist is sorted based on the scores of the... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20100010913 | INTERACTIVE COMPUTING ADVICE FACILITY THROUGH A SEARCH INTERFACE In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for helping a user make a decision through the use of a computing facility, where the computing facility may be a machine learning facility. The process may begin with an initial question being ... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20100005093 | KNOWLEDGE FILTER A method and system for sharing knowledge is disclosed. The method and system comprises receiving information input into a database and organizing items of information in the database. The method and system further includes collecting ratings and comments associated wit... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090324105 | VIDEO CODING SYSTEM, SORTING SYSTEM, CODING METHOD AND SORTING METHOD A video coding system specifying sorting information included in an image has a VCS accumulating an image and an off-line OCR applying character recognition to the image. The VCS accumulates an image including the sorting information described in characters. When the im... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090319524 | DATABASE AND INDEX ORGANIZATION FOR ENHANCED DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL A customized, specialty-oriented database and index, of a subject matter area and methods for constructing and using such a database are provided. Selection and indexing of articles is done by experts in the topic with which the database is concerned. As a result, artic... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090319536 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING A DATA FILE OVER A DATA NETWORK In one form the invention provides a method of modifying a data file for transmission over a data network. The method comprises the steps of receiving the original data file and creating a header file, the header file including the length in bytes of the original data f... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090319478 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE OF A FILE SYSTEM IN A COMPUTING DEVICE A computing device filesystem is provided with separate presorted arrays of pointers to subdirectory and file entries along with the standard unsorted and mixed flat file lists which comprise directories in filesystems such as FAT. When included in boot ROMs on mobile b... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090313250 | TECHNIQUES FOR FILTER SHARING Techniques for filter sharing are described. An apparatus may comprise a shared filter manager component for an application program. The shared filter manager component may be operative to manage shared filtering operations for the application program. The shared filter... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090313157 | Systems and methods for general aggregation of characteristics and key figures Computer-implemented methods, computer systems, and computer programs product are provided for automated generic and parallel aggregation of characteristics and key figures of unsorted mass data being of specific economic interest, particularly associated with financial... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090313585 | METHOD AND COMPUTERIZED USER INTERFACE FOR PRESENTATION OF MULTIPLE IMAGE DATA SETS In a method and user interface for the presentation of multiple image data sets within the scope of a comparative evaluation, a determination is made of at least three organization parameters that describe a sorting of images within an image data set and/or across image... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090313222 | COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON AND DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS A data processing program generates a layered list structure which is a data structure formed of a plurality of layers. The layered list structure includes a data element layer which includes a plurality of data elements, each including a substance of predetermined data... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090313287 | IDENTIFYING OBJECTS WITHIN A MULTIDIMENSIONAL ARRAY Data is commonly stored in multidimensional arrays. Users and computer applications may request or interact with the data objects. As larger amounts of data are stored, the resources used to maintain and manipulate the data increase. An effective way to manage resources... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090313031 | Systems and Methods To sort Listings of Different Types Systems and methods are provided to facilitate the presentation of listings of different types as an ordered list. For example, subscription listings and pay for performance listings can be sorted into a mixed list to balance the protection of subscriptions for stable a... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090313251 | Sortable and Updateable Compilation and Archiving Platform and Uses Thereof A compilation and archiving platform is disclosed that includes at least one piece of information, wherein each piece of information comprises at least one tag and wherein the at least one piece of information is organized in a predetermined logical order in the platfor... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090299961 | FACE SEARCH IN PERSONALS A device, system and method to enable searching of personal profiles in the context of on-line dating that includes the ability to determine the personal profiles that have images that most closely resemble a target image.... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090299628 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR POSITIONAL COMMUNICATION Methods and systems for positional communication are described. In one embodiment, a plurality of electronic communications for a user may be accessed. Positional information associated with the user may be accessed. User interface data for the plurality of electronic c... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090300016 | TECHNIQUES FOR FILTERING DATA Techniques for obtaining filtering criteria used to filter a data set are described. A user interface includes a plurality of filters having an associated hierarchy. The user interface includes user interface elements corresponding to the plurality of filters with a str... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090300083 | Method And Apparatus for Copying Objects in An Object-Oriented Environment Using A Multiple-Transaction Technique A large number of objects, such as objects representing beams and columns in an object-oriented enterprise engineering system, may be copied in a model database by partitioning the objects according to certain criteria into a number of ordered small copy groups and copy... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090300015 | AGING AND COMPRESSING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT A method and system for optimizing data storage in a storage device. A trigger corresponding to predefined events is received, initiating the optimization of file storage in a storage device. The files are sorted into a list of candidate files according to metadata corr... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090292975 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ITERATIVE ERROR-ERASURE DECODING Methods and apparatus are provided for improved iterative error-erasure decoding. A signal is decoded by obtaining a plurality of symbols associated with the signal and one or more corresponding reliability values; generating at least one erasure list comprised of L sym... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090292704 | ADAPTIVE AGGREGATION: IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE OF GROUPING AND DUPLICATE ELIMINATION BY AVOIDING UNNECESSARY DISK ACCESS A method for use with an aggregation operation (e.g., on a relational database table) includes a sorting pass and a merging pass. The sorting pass includes: (a) reading blocks of the table from a storage medium into a memory using an aggregation method until the memory ... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090292556 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTING PATIENT REFERRALS Practitioners are certified to perform a medical procedure, such as an orthodontic procedure. Certified practitioners are maintained in a referral directory and classified within tiers based on criteria such as the number of procedures that they have performed. Inquirie... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090287701 | System and Method for Receiving and Displaying User Inputted Travel-Related Messages A computer-implemented system and method that provides travel-related information to communication devices through a communication network. Travel-related messages are transmitted by users such as travelers at communication devices and are received at a travel update sy... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090287702 | HIGH PERFORMANCE DATA LAYOUT AND PROCESSING A method, a system, and a computer-readable medium are provided which provide an efficient data layout for image data and fast access to samples of an image stored in hierarchical z-order format. An array of image data of a physical entity is ordered in a hierarchical z... | 11/19/2009 |
