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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7756811 | Agenda awareness in a communication client A method is provided for promoting agenda awareness in a communication client. A system user's agenda of tasks with associated contact information is provided to the communication client. Matches are sought between the associated contact information from the agenda ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7747557 | Application of metadata to documents and document objects via an operating system user interface Methods, systems and computer products provide for applying metadata to documents and/or document objects in local and/or remote file storage systems. Application of metadata (flags) to documents and/or document objects allows a user to easily locate and utilize fla... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7711679 | Phrase-based detection of duplicate documents in an information retrieval system An information retrieval system uses phrases to index, retrieve, organize and describe documents. Phrases are identified that predict the presence of other phrases in documents. Documents are the indexed according to their included phrases. Related phrases and phras... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7702631 | Method and system to produce and train composite similarity functions for product normalization A method and system to produce and train composite similarity functions for record linkage problems, including product normalization problems, is disclosed. In one embodiment, for a group of products in a plurality of products, a composite similarity function is con... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7702630 | Longest prefix match lookup using hash function A method and apparatus are used for finding the longest prefix match in a variable length prefix search when searching a direct table within a routing table structure of a network processor. The search through the routing table structure is expedited by hashing a fi... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7702629 | Method and device for high performance regular expression pattern matching Disclosed herein is an improved architecture for regular expression pattern matching. Improvements to pattern matching deterministic finite automatons (DFAs) that are described by the inventors include a pipelining strategy that pushes state-dependent feedback to a ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7702628 | Implementing a fully dynamic lock-free hash table without dummy nodes One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that performs operations on a hash table that is fully dynamic and lock-free. This hash table is implemented with a linked list containing data nodes and a bucket array containing bucket pointers, wherein the... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7698270 | Method and apparatus for identifying, extracting, capturing, and leveraging expertise and knowledge The invention comprises a set of complementary techniques that dramatically improve enterprise search and navigation results. The core of the invention is an expertise or knowledge index, called UseRank that tracks the behavior of website visitors. The expertise-ind... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7698269 | URL shortening and authentication with reverse hash lookup A shortened identifier, such as a shortened URL, is used to access data, a service, and/or another resource that is associated with a full identifier, such as a full URL. In an exemplary embodiment, a hash key is generated from the full URL and included with a domai... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7698271 | Conceptual network generating system, conceptual network generating method, and program product therefor A conceptual network generating system that generates a conceptual network showing conceptual relations between words, the conceptual network generating system including: a first searching unit that searches a knowledge source storing search sentences; a first gener... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7693835 | Client apparatus, device verification apparatus, and verification method A client apparatus for utilizing services by executing service programs includes a policy holding unit, a verification unit, a verification result holding unit, and a verification result notification unit. The policy holding unit holds a service-specific verificatio... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7693836 | Method and apparatus for determining peer groups based upon observed usage patterns The invention comprises a set of complementary techniques that dramatically improve enterprise search and navigation results. The core of the invention is an expertise or knowledge index, called UseRank that tracks the behavior of website visitors. The expertise-ind... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7689558 | Application monitoring using profile points A system and method for application monitoring using profile points. An embodiment of a method includes installing an agent in a computer application. The agent will generate an event when there is an entry into a method or when there is an exit from a method. The m... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7689610 | Automated grouping of messages provided to an application using string similarity analysis Messages which are provided to an application are monitored. Similarities between the messages are determined based on a distance algorithm, in one approach, and messages which are similar are assigned to a common group. For example, the messages may be HTTP message... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7689557 | System and method of textual information analytics This invention provides a method and system for analyzing and deriving analytical insights from textual information. The information structuration process determines the structure in which the text information is rendered. A cyclical extraction process using the par... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7685121 | Structure and method for maintaining ordered linked lists A hierarchically-organized linked list structure have a first level comprised of sections of sequentially-ordered segments, and a second level comprised of representatives of each of said sections at the first level. A method for maintaining the hierarchically-organ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7680788 | Music search engine A music search method for finding a desired song in a song database. The method comprises generating a difference sequence for each song in the song database by determining the relative difference between adjacent notes. Next, a note sequence is chosen for the song ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7680789 | Indexing and searching numeric ranges Index entries representing ranges of values are queried with a query value to determine if the query value is in one of the ranges. Numeric ranges are represented in an index and queries are constructed to match index entries. Search terms are constructed from the q... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7680790 | Method and apparatus for approximate matching of DNA sequences A method and device are disclosed for an associative and approximate, analog or digital scanning of databases that allows for the asynchronous accessing of data from a mass storage medium. The invention includes providing dedicated analog and digital circuitry and d... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7676467 | User segment population techniques A facility for identifying users that have an interest in a selected subject is described. For each of a number of actual users, the facility establishes a user behavior record describing the behavior of the actual user. The facility also establishes a user behavior... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7676468 | Apparatus and method for identifying patterns in a multi-dimensional database An apparatus to identify patterns in a multi-dimensional database is described. In particular, a computer-readable medium to direct a computer to function in a specified manner is provided. The computer-readable medium comprises instructions to automatically identif... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7676466 | System and method for providing enhanced questions for matching in a network environment An apparatus for providing a feature in a network environment is provided that includes a central web site operable to interface with one or more end users and to manage information related to one or more of the end users. The central web site includes a set of ques... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7672940 | Processing an electronic document for information extraction The present invention relates generally to automatically processing electronic documents. In one aspect, features and/or properties of words are identified from a set of training documents to aid in extracting information from documents to be processed. The features... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7672941 | Pattern matching using deterministic finite automata and organization of such automata A deterministic finite state machine is operated to detect any one of a plurality of digital signatures each corresponding to a succession of characters and each defined by a sequence of states in the state machine. The machine is organized such that for each state ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7672942 | Method and apparatus for matching non-normalized data values Enables locating and merging potential data record matches. Enables locating duplicates through the definition of matching strategies. Each strategy may include transformations, matching rules and scoring thresholds to implement fuzzy matches that match closely rela... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7668824 | Interface device, inferring system, and visual expression method When a start key is operated, an inferring process of estimating a demand of a user is executed on the basis of preset situation data, a user profile, and situation data manually input via a situation setting key. Based on the inference result, a genre list and a co... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7668826 | Predicting apparatus, predicting method, and computer product A structuring unit generates a combination pattern of the attribute values by combining an attribute value of the assessment target data with an attribute value indicating a unspecified value. A reconstructing unit searches data matching the combination pattern from... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7668827 | Display interface for navigating search results Navigating a collection of nodes by selecting a first node, generating a context list, and displaying the first node and list are discussed. Each context of a context collection includes a second node essentially referencing the first node. Another aspect includes a... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7668825 | Search system and method A search system and method are provided that uses taxonomies, entities, facets, and ontologies to provide a user with a more comprehensive set of search results in response to a query. The search system has an indexing engine that performs one or more indexing steps... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7664748 | Systems and methods for changing symbol sequences in documents A computer-readable medium includes instructions for causing at least one processor to perform a method. The method may include receiving a symbol sequence into a document, identifying another symbol sequence in the document whose probability of matching the receive... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7657524 | System and/or method for comment migration Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with comment migration are disclosed. ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7653626 | Method for detecting regularly appearing patterns Methods for detecting regularly appearing pattern without excessive memory. The method comprises providing a matrix, and each row of the matrix comprises a location index and a count value. The count value is associated with the location index for indicating the num... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7653624 | File system change tracking In some embodiments, a method for tracking changes comprises reviewing a first file system entry and a second file system entry, where the first and second entries are reviewed in a canonical order; providing a record file, wherein a record is associated with the re... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7653625 | Method for validation of proper ownership for resale of goods A method and apparatus is disclosed using the internet (or similar) to provide, publish and maintain a database for stolen items. The method and apparatus further disclose the utilization of this database as a backbone for an internet portal, providing for automated... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7647318 | Management interface having fine-grain access control using regular expressions Techniques for controlling access to resources within a device are described. A device is described, for example, that includes a computer-readable medium and a management interface. The computer-readable medium stores configuration data and authorization data. The ... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7644082 | Abbreviated index Abbreviated index of parameter patterns. An abbreviated index includes indicators that a parameter pattern may be in a set of parameter patterns. To create the abbreviated index, indicators for overlapping parameter patterns of a given parameter pattern are placed i... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7644079 | System and method for temporal data mining A system for temporal data mining includes a computer readable medium having an application configured to receive at an input module a temporal data series and a threshold frequency. The system is further configured to identify, using a candidate identification and ... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7644080 | Method and apparatus for managing multiple data flows in a content search system A content search system for determining whether a plurality of input strings each belonging to any one of a number of different process flows matches one or more of a plurality of regular expressions, including a search circuit for searching the input strings for th... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7644076 | Clustering strings using N-grams A method and computer program for clustering a string are described. The string includes a plurality of characters. R unique n-grams T1 . . . R are identified in the string. For every unique n-gram TS, if the frequency of TS in a set... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7644078 | System and method for mining of temporal data A system for temporal data mining includes a computer readable medium having an application configured to receive at an input module a temporal data series having events with start times and end times, a set of allowed dwelling times and a threshold frequency. The s... | 01/05/2010 |
