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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7437384 | Revivifivation display method for outline fonts based on stroke centerlines technology A revivification display method specialized for outline fonts that based on Stroke Centerline Technology of self-defined data format, which can be applied to any operating system to enforce the function of multi-font Chinese and multi-language characters. Because th... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437731 | Coordinated collaboration system in an integration platform A centralized integration system is provided for enabling two or more heterogeneous applications to exchange communications with one another. Metadata is stored in a first repository form in order to configure instructions for performing one or more conversion opera... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437376 | Scalable object model Scalable object model design is described. In an embodiment, one or more objects corresponding to a form are instantiated in response to a request for the form from a first client device, and an events manager is instantiated through which the one or more objects re... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437378 | Schema-dominant mapping user interface A scalable graphical user interface that may be used to map two or more schemas is provided. Elements of a dominant schema are displayed in a first column. Elements of a subordinate schema are displayed in a second column. A user may drag elements of the subordinate... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437383 | System and method for searching heterogeneous electronic directories The present invention comprises a computerized system and method for searching heterogeneous electronic directories. An embodiment of the system includes a database, containing data necessary to perform a search, a user interface, and a component for performing the ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433879 | Attribute based association rule mining A data processing system processes data sets (such as low-resolution transaction data) into high-resolution data sets by mapping generic information into attribute-based specific information that is stored in a database. The extracting frequent pattern information f... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433863 | SQL code generation for heterogeneous environment This invention relates generally to a system for processing database queries, and more particularly to a method for generating high level language or machine code to implement query execution plans. in one preferred embodiment, the method begins by receiving a subje... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433862 | Declarative pinning A system and method is provided for efficiently pinning references to the managed heap. The system and method allow for references to managed objects to be declared as pinned during a call to unmanaged code. The references are then reported as pinned to a garbage co... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433867 | Information processing apparatus, information delivery system, information processing method, and recording medium A multimedia file has a format in which actual data is embedded in a file structure. The multimedia information is assembled in blocks, each composed of a header area and a data area, and has a hierarchical structure in which a block is embedded in another block. He... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433868 | Information providing method, information providing system, terminal apparatus, and storage medium storing information providing program An information providing method, information providing system, terminal apparatus, and storage medium storing an information providing program, which enable to extract actually desired information and appropriately extract information desired next, are provided. A p... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433869 | Method and apparatus for document clustering and document sketching A first embodiment of the invention provides a system that automatically classifies documents in a collection into clusters based on the similarities between documents, that automatically classifies new documents into the right clusters, and that may change the numb... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433876 | Semantic web portal and platform The patent describes a single location and application on a network where a user can organize public, group, and private/personal information and have this single, location accessible to the public. A new, ontology-driven portal that organizes all three categories o... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433919 | Information processing system An information processing system includes a server computer system which holds pieces of data as processing objects and characteristic values calculated on the basis of the pieces of data while associating the pieces of data with the characteristic values respective... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433894 | Method and system for searching a multi-lingual database A system and method of searching a database in which documents of different languages are included. The system includes a synonym or keyword dictionary which is bi-directional and allows for translation of keywords between a first language and other languages. The t... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433891 | Data management interface capable of providing enhanced representation of imported electronic content Embodiments of a data management interface (DMI) and associated methods are generally described. According to but one example embodiment, a method is introduced comprising importing content describing product inventory from one or more disparate data sources of such... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433892 | Method, system and program product for imposing policy modification constraints Meta data specifying modification constraints for one or more of the attributes of an (operational) policy is generated/provided. Thereafter, the meta data is associated with the policy so that the constraints specified by the meta data can govern the modification o... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433885 | System and method for multi-dimensional organization, management, and manipulation of data The Quantum Matrix system is a multi-dimensional, multi-threaded exchange environment for data organization, management, and manipulation. Data is organized into a multi-dimensional structure of nodes. Nodes may represent data, absence of data, or another set of nod... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433882 | Data management system and computer program A data management system is provided that manages sets in an orderly fashion. Sets are hierarchically organized according to implications thereof and stored in a set storage device 20. When a set in the relatively upper level of the hierarchy is specif... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433880 | Method and system for high speed encoding, processing and decoding of data A system, method and computer program for processing data having a plurality of data values contained in a plurality of data fields of varying types and lengths that includes encoding data values of the data fields into integer values, forming one or more first bina... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433878 | Method and system for interfacing with accounting systems An interface file definition is used to translate data files in a particular format to another format. Data from a centralized source is translated into a format that set forth in an interface file definition. The interface file definition is created by entering the... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430638 | Adaptive input / output compressed system and data cache and system using same To improve caching techniques, so as to realize greater hit rates within available memory, of the present invention utilizes a entropy signature from the compressed data blocks to supply a bias to pre-fetching operations. The method of the present invention for cach... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430567 | Multidimensional data object searching using bit vector indices Prior to searching a multidimensional feature space populated with data objects, each dimension in the feature space is divided into a number of intervals. When a query is received, a single interval that is overlapped by the query is selected from each dimension. A... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430561 | Search engine system for locating web pages with product offerings A search engine system assists users in locating web pages from which user-specified products can be purchased. Web pages located by a crawler program are scored, based on a set of criteria, according to likelihood of including a product offering. A query server acc... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430562 | System and method for efficient date retrieval and processing A system and method for efficient data retrieval and processing in an online analytical processing system, a reporting system, a business intelligence system, or a data mining system. The system provides for retrieval and processing of a data result set from a plura... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430525 | System and method for sharing information among provider systems A system is provided wherein information is provided once, and that information is provided to multiple provider systems. Information provided by a user is stored and implemented for each provider as needed. The information is provided by a user to a central server ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430557 | System and method for improving database reorganization time The invention provides a system and method for the reorganization of a database in a computing system. The method includes determining operations necessary to effect the reorganization of the database, estimating the completion time for the operations, and schedulin... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430558 | Transfer of table instances between databases A method, system, and computer program product for transferring N table instances X1, X2, . . . , XN of a table T from a source database S to destination databases D1, D2, . . . , DN, respectively. Th... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430559 | Generalized idempotent requests A system and methodology that facilitate persistence for an execution state is provided. The system and methodology employ generalized “idempotent” request(s) that have the property they only execute a request once, and always return the result of that first exe... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430560 | Multi-level compressed lock-up tables formed by logical operations to compress selected index bits A lookup is performed using multiple levels of compressed stride tables in a multi-bit Trie structure. An input lookup key is divided into several strides including a current stride of S bits. A valid entry in a current stride table is located by compressing the S b... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7428535 | Automatic relevance filtering A technique for use in a computer is disclosed. The method includes determining a context and a data requirement for a candidate action to be selected, the selection specifying an action in a workflow; and filtering the candidate actions for relevance in light of th... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428542 | Method and system for combining nodes into a mega-node A method and system for combining nodes in a file used for loading a node graph. The method includes defining a first node in the file as a mega-node of the file. The XML file includes a plurality of nodes arranged in parent/child relationships. The method proceeds ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428524 | Large scale data storage in sparse tables Each of a plurality of data items is stored in a table data structure. A row identifier and column identifier are associated with each respective data item, and each respective item is stored at a logical location in the table data structure specified by its row ide... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428526 | Household level segmentation method and system A method and system for classifying consumers in clusters of similar behavioral and demographic characteristics. Demographic and behavioral data of consumers is used to generate a plurality of classification trees. The plurality of classification trees are searched ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428548 | Computer readable medium for storing large data files An enhanced file format to store large quantities of variable-sized data records on a storage medium and to permit efficient access and control over data stored in the enhanced file format. A file format is the structure of a file that defines the way it is stored a... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428549 | Method and apparatus for editing a production data store by shadowing content Improvements in the creation, maintenance and management of web based information are provided. A development environment conducive to separation of tasks and data, works in combination with the means to present views of changed information for approval to users. Da... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428558 | Persistent restore of virtual devices Restoring data includes providing data in a first storage area of a first type that contains sections of data, providing data in a second storage area of a second type wherein the second type has, for each section of data thereof, either a pointer to a corresponding... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428547 | System and method of organizing data to facilitate access and streaming File formats systems and methods are disclosed that provide a framework that integrates concepts, such as objects based audio-visual representation, meta-data and object oriented programming, to achieve a flexible and generic representation of the audiovisual inform... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428546 | Systems and methods for data modeling in an item-based storage platform Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a data store comprising Items, Elements, and Relationships. An Item is a unit of data storable in a data store and further comprises said Element and said Relationship. An Element is an instance of a type ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428551 | “Gird plus T Tree” index method for quick orientation in massive memory database “Grid Plus T Tree” multidimensional index method in memory database partitions the whole record sets to different grid cells. Every grid data unit is connected with one data barrel, which loads records, through the grid directory. Every data unit is only mapped ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428545 | Knowledge inferencing and data visualization method and system A method and system has an architecture that employs a unique hybrid approach for data mining that integrates advanced three-dimensional computer visualization and inference-based data generalization techniques. The present method and system is geared towards the in... | 09/23/2008 |
