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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7680803 | Open content interface for EH&S systems Methods and apparatus for providing an open content interface from importing EH&S data. The invention provides a computer-implemented method that includes: receiving a first input specifying a substance described in a database of an EH&S system; identifying product ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7680804 | System and method for navigating and indexing content According to one embodiment, a content data store maintains the one or more content items in accordance with a programmable indexing schemes, with each container in the comprising storage for one or more references to one or more content items. Systems and methods a... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7676477 | Utilities for deriving values and information from within an interlocking trees data store A method for accessing a KStore including at least one K path having at least one subcomponent node and at least one root node includes providing a utility routine and accessing the KStore using the utility routine. The accessing may include traversing the at least ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7676478 | Data warehousing systems and methods having reusable user transforms Data warehousing systems and methods are described herein. In one example methodology, a plurality of transformation templates are stored in a transformation library, each transformation template including software objects that describe how to transform extracted da... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7676476 | Data types with incorporated collation information The subject invention pertains to a system and method of incorporating collation information into data types. In particular, the subject invention provides for parameterizing data types with collation information such that a comparison between two different collatio... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7672955 | Method and system for platform-independent file system interaction A method and system are disclosed for platform-independent file system interaction that can abstract the system-level idiosyncrasies associated with multi-platform, multi-language, multi-encoding file system interactions. One embodiment of the method of this inventi... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7672957 | User interface configured to display mechanical fabric and semantic model of a legacy computer application generated, graphical view navigating links between mechanical nodes and semantic nodes based on relevant business rules According to one aspect of the invention, a software transformation system is provided that may include a business asset extraction sub-system. The business asset extraction sub-system is typically configured to analyze a legacy computer application and create a mec... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7672956 | Method and system for providing a search index for an electronic messaging system based on message threads When a message having at least one attachment is obtained for indexing, it is indexed as N+1 separate documents, where N is the number of attached documents. If the message is part of a message thread, then information regarding the last message in the thread is ret... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7668842 | Playlist structure for large playlists Enabling efficient navigation of a playlist of media files stored on a computer-readable medium. Aspects of the invention define a playlist structure to have one or more playlist units. Each playlist unit identifies one or more media files in the playlist and includ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7668843 | Identification of anomalous data records Identifying anomalies or outliers in a set of data records employs a distance or similarity measure between features of record pairs that depends upon the frequencies of the feature values in the set. Feature distances may be combined for a total distance between re... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7668841 | Virtual write buffers for accelerated memory and storage access A method for accelerating storage access in a network. The method comprises receiving a data record having a plurality of data segments. The data segments are stored in a local memory of a network controller (NC). A virtual write buffer (VWB) entry is assigned for t... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7668844 | Recording medium, and method and apparatus for reproducing data from the recording medium A recording medium, and a method and apparatus for reproducing data from the recording medium are disclosed. A disc package for effectively reproducing data having different attributes recorded in the recording medium, and a method and apparatus for reproducing data... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7664758 | Integrated database system and method for accessing a plurality of databases An integrated database system comprises a plurality of database systems connected to one another through a network, each of the plurality of database systems managing its own stored data independently of the other database systems and accessing the stored data in ac... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664762 | Semantically aware relational database management system and related methods A semantically aware relational database management system includes suitable programming to relate attributes of the relational database to semantic equivalents of such attributes. In response to receiving a query, the relational database management system performs ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664759 | Method and system for storing self-descriptive tabular data with alphanumeric and binary values A method and system for storing and retrieving alphanumeric (83) and binary data values (78) includes storing in a tabular data archive (60) an open tabular format XML file (62) containing a plurality of alphanumeric data values (83 | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664760 | Inferred relationships from user tagged content A tagged content inference system and method is provided. The system facilitates browsing of content with a pseudo-hierarchical feel using algorithmically-deduced relationships between items based on user applied tags. Based, at least in part, upon tagged content, a... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664761 | Apparatus and method for searching data for a similar article An apparatus and method for quickly retrieving and outputting assemblies or subassemblies similar to a target assembly or subassembly for similar determination are provided. Data concerning assemblies, and the subassemblies and parts contained in the assemblies is r... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7660802 | Method and apparatus for generating components for pattern-based system design analysis using a characteristics model A method for analyzing a target system that includes obtaining a characteristics model, generating at least one selected from the group consisting of a schema, characteristics store API, and a characteristics extractor, using the characteristics model, obtaining a p... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660801 | Method and system for generating a serializing portion of a record identifier Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to software for automatically generating alphabetic or alphanumeric representations for assigning as serializing portions of record identifiers. ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660804 | Joint optimization of wrapper generation and template detection A method and system for generating wrappers for hierarchically organized documents by jointly optimizing template detection and wrapper generation is provided. A wrapper generation system generates a wrapper for documents with similar templates by identifying a clus... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660803 | Policy-based management method and system for printing of extensible markup language (XML) documents There are provided a policy-based extensible markup language (XML) document print management method and system, using a policy object defining a print layout and an access authority to output data, on the basis of the information of a user requesting to print the XM... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657545 | Automated application discovery and analysis system and method An object oriented design for an automated modeling system for mapping and monitoring the business roles and impact of elements within an IT Infrastructure that make up specific applications or business processes, spanning not only network elements, hosts, servers a... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657546 | Knowledge management system, program product and method An ontology directory service tool, computer program product and method of automatically discovering ontology file categories. A web search unit searches a network (e.g., the Internet) for semantic data files, e.g., semantic web pages. A preprocessing unit generates... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657541 | Displaying and analyzing document flows A system and a method for displaying and analyzing a business process based on the document flow of that business process. The graphical user interface may graphically display a set of documents relevant to a business process and the linkages between the set of docu... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657540 | Method and system for linking and delinking data records Exemplary systems and methods for linking entity references to entities and identifying associations between entities are presented. In particular, a method for delinking one or more entity references linked to a same entity is provided, where the one or more entity... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657542 | Software life cycle availability over the internet A method and apparatus to afford a technical application for gathering, storing, tracking, and using requirements, engineering software for those requirements, and releasing finished enterprise software. A method is described that gathers requirements into a constra... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657543 | Method and system for creating and using shadow roots A method for storing a first copy of an object, including obtaining the object including a globally unique identifier (GUID), generating a first derived GUID using the GUID of the object, storing the first copy of the object identified by the first derived GUID in a... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657544 | Storage medium storing program, method and apparatus presenting guide captions for categorizing files An apparatus for presenting information of document files, the document files being stored on a document database where the document files are categorized and stored into any of predefined category bins, the apparatus includes: a selecting section that selects at le... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657548 | Method for dynamically distributing items for changes based on group membership Membership in a group is defined, either manually or by rule. Items are distributed to the members of the group as the items are associated with the group. When a container hierarchy changes (by adding, removing, or changing the properties of an object), the object ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657547 | Hierarchy modification A hierarchy of nodes is created, each node being one of associated with an item retrieved according to a condition and associated with a category of information including the item. It is determined whether at least one of the nodes is redundant in the hierarchy. The... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7653637 | Indirect persistent storage for plugin in container Indirect persistent storage of data in a file that is associated with an application program and is capable of having an embedded OLEObject includes creating the OLEObject by way of a Component Object Model add-in that supplements the application program, and using ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7653638 | Data ecosystem awareness A user input is received. The user input creates or alters an association that links at least two elements within a system of data. A user is provided with, based at least in part on the association, an indication of relevant data. ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7653640 | Two-way and multi-master synchronization over web syndications Synchronization of a web syndication item over a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) format between a publisher and a subscriber. The publisher creates the web syndication item by including a media content associated therewith. The synchronization metadata is defined to... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7653639 | Computer algorithms and methods for product safety The invention comprises systems, methods and a computerized data management device for creating and using data relating to a medical or non-medical product or device to enhance the safety of the product or device. A vast amount of data regarding adverse events assoc... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7653636 | Systems and methods for streaming XPath query An improved XML query system represents an XML document as a stream of discrete ‘events,’ with each event representing a portion of the document as the document is being parsed. Expression-based event matching such as XPath can be performed against the event str... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7653635 | Systems and methods for interoperable multimedia content descriptions Systems and methods for generating standard description records from multimedia information are provided. The system includes at least one multimedia information input interface (180) receiving multimedia information, a computer processor, and a data storage ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7650345 | Entity lookup system In an electronic document such as a map, an entity lookup system associates primitive data with entity data though parallel or corresponding grids of a primitive quad-tree and an entity quad-tree. A key is assigned to grids in the primitive quad-tree in association ... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7650346 | User-defined type consistency checker A system that facilitates checking the consistency of a user-defined data type in relation to a database environment. The invention can employ a user-defined type (UDT) storage format whereby values can be self-describing, including the runtime type of the value. Th... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7650343 | Data warehousing, annotation and statistical analysis system The present invention relates to a database storage structure for the storage of a plurality of results from an experiment on a sample. The database storage structure includes a result storage table for storing the results from the experiment, one or more first anno... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7650344 | System and method of managing software product-line customizations A method of managing application service provider product line variations is disclosed. The method includes receiving a client customization request, creating a configuration managed file tailored to the client customization request, binding the configuration manage... | 01/19/2010 |