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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7383314 | User preference information structure having multiple hierarchical structure and method for providing multimedia information using the same A user preference information structure having a multiple hierarchical structure in which an information is provided to a user according to a user preference in a multi-media environment consisting of an information provider and an information user, comprising ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379937 | Frequent pattern mining apparatus, frequent pattern mining method, and program and recording medium therefor Efficiently mining frequent subgraphs contained commonly in a plurality of objects by considering abstraction. A frequent pattern mining apparatus which mines a set of frequent subgraphs contained in a plurality of objects including: a conceptual hierarchy database ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379940 | Focal point compression method and apparatus A method for compressing (16) and decompressing files is provided. The method includes creating a list of shift-invariant focal points (108) of neighborhoods in the stream and comparing those focal points (108) to a list of focal points (106 | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379978 | Electronic item management and archival system and method of operating the same An electronic item management and archival system for managing and archiving items. Each item includes at least one of image data, audio data, and video data. The system includes a server configured to receive items, archive at least one of the received items to an ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376636 | Geocoding using a relational database A geographic data relational database and a spatial library of routines that access and analyze spatial data are used to convert an identified location to a set of geographic coordinate pairs. A geocoder engine applies the spatial library routines to the geographic ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376650 | Method and system for redirecting a request using redirection patterns Embodiments of the present invention relates to a method, system and computer-readable medium for redirecting a request URL. This redirection includes receiving the request URL from a user. The request URL includes data related to a patterned URL and data related to... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376661 | XML-based symbolic language and interpreter An XML-based symbolic computer language, interpreter, and corresponding execution environments are disclosed. The XML-based symbolic computer language, called “OLIN” (One Language Intelligent Network) enables a computer program to be written as an XML-compliant ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376664 | Method for evaluating a transformer design A preferred method for evaluating a transformer design using data representing test results from a plurality of transformers and stored in a data base includes comparing the data representing test results to predetermined criteria for the test results to determine w... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376672 | System and methods for providing adaptive media property classification A system and methods are provided for automatically classifying data according to perceptual properties of the data to form a classification chain that is suited to the searching and sorting of large databases of media entities. During classification, experts assign... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376634 | Method and apparatus for implementing Q&A function and computer-aided authoring The present invention provides a method for implementing Q&A function for an electronic document, a method for computer-aided authoring, a method for browsing an electronic document, a computer-aided authoring apparatus, a browser capable of providing Q&A function, ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373346 | Methods and apparatus for improved security services An apparatus and method for providing and/or obtaining security services includes a database of information which relates to security services provided for at least one client. A computer that is Internet accessible hosts the database. The database includes security... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373373 | Systems and methods for host/client communications A method for determining the contents of a host response to a client query by detecting patterns expected in the data displayed in the host response, and outputting the data in the format of the detected pattern to the client. The pattern may be expressed using exte... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373359 | Methods and apparatus for extraction and tracking of objects from multi-dimensional sequence data An object tracking technique is provided which, given: (i) a potentially large data set; (ii) a set of dimensions along which the data has been ordered; and (iii) a set of functions for measuring the similarity between data elements, a set of objects are produced. E... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373670 | Method and apparatus for setting access restriction information Access restriction information that an old storage device has is transferred to a new storage device. A management server 2200 obtains a port management TL 2445 that the old storage device 2400 has, through a LAN 2600 which is separated f... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373635 | System and method for efficient development of configurable software systems in a large software development community An automated software process for acquiring and distributing information regarding design guidelines relevant to developers of a software system. The system supports developer decisions regarding design guidelines for operational characteristics, such as “points o... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373424 | Exactly once protocol for message-based collaboration Methods and systems for reliably exchanging a message among collaborating applications are disclosed. The methods and systems utilize a central exchange infrastructure (XI) for executing collaborative business processes among heterogeneous applications. Reliable mes... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373426 | Network system using name server with pseudo host name and pseudo IP address generation function The host name to be used in responding to the reverse look-up request from the correspondent is generated at the name server side and returned as a response, and/or the IP address to be used in responding to the normal look-up request from the correspondent is gener... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373594 | Managing the release of electronic content using a template without version logic A facility for rendering a dynamic electronic document is described. The dynamic electronic document has both a current and a future edition. The current edition incorporates a current version of a content item, while the future edition incorporates a future version... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373341 | Computer readable medium, method and apparatus for preserving filtering conditions to query multilingual data sources at various locales when regenerating a report A computer readable medium, system, apparatus and method are disclosed for generating and regenerating query results in reports whereby conditions for filtering a query against multilingual databases are preserved independent of language and/or locale. According to ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373344 | Method and apparatus for displaying system management information, computer product for the same, and operation management system An apparatus for displaying system management information includes a combination storing unit that stores display pattern information that is obtained by combining, in subjective basis, system management information provided by a plurality of system management units... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369954 | Event tracing with time stamp compression and history buffer based compression An improved method, apparatus, and computer instructions for generating trace data. In response to detecting a trace event, a determination is made as to whether identifiers for the trace event match recorded identifiers for a record in a set of previously recorded ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369961 | Systems and methods for structural clustering of time sequences Arrangements and methods for performing structural clustering between different time series. Time series data relating to a plurality of time series is accepted, structural features relating to the time series data are ascertained, and at least one distance between ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370035 | Methods and systems for search indexing The present invention provides for quick and efficient searching. One embodiment includes a first instruction configured to read at least a first search string and a second search string entered into a same first search field, and a second instruction configured to ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370034 | System and method for performing electronic information retrieval using keywords Output documents similar to an input document are identified. A query is formulated using a list of best keywords from the input document to search for a first set of output documents. The list of best keywords is defined with a maximum number of keywords less than ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370044 | System and method for managing and updating information relating to economic entities Methods and systems for managing and updating information relating to economic entities using sets of unique identifiers. A universe database contains record entries. Each of the record entries is associated with a unique universe identifier. A customer database con... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370045 | Method and apparatus for implementing a corporate directory and service center A method and apparatus for implementing a corporate directory and service center is described. The method includes and the apparatus performs querying for common characteristics, displaying information in a varied manner of displays and switching between the manners... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370002 | Modifying advertisement scores based on advertisement response probabilities Advertisement response probabilities are utilized to alter advertisement scores. A plurality of possible advertisements is accessed from, for example, an advertisement database or advertisement pipeline. A response probability for each advertisement is determined. A... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369575 | Bandwidth matching device and method for operating the same Broadly speaking, a bandwidth matching device is provided for transforming a number of incoming data streams each having a first bandwidth into an outgoing data stream having a second bandwidth. More specifically, the bandwidth matching device provides an assembler ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370060 | System and method for user edit merging with preservation of unrepresented data A system and method for preserving unrepresented data in a document exchanged between applications. Applications handling the document, or computing devices executing the applications may have different capabilities with respect to a particular feature of the docume... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370066 | System and method for offline editing of data files A system and method that enables a user to edit a data file offline is described. This system and method can enable a user to edit a data file without the user having to discover or deploy a solution application governing the data file. For security, this system and... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370120 | Method and system for reducing network latency in data communication Methods and systems for accelerating data communication by reducing network latency particularly by data compression in which requested data is recursively compressed by an encoder and sent to the requester in codes which may or may not be understood by the requeste... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370022 | Building plans for household tasks from distributed knowledge A system and a method are disclosed that provide plans for autonomous machines such as humanoid robots to perform indoor task. Human subjects contribute plans to a knowledge database. Information in the knowledge database is pre-processed to identify task steps and ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370057 | Framework for evaluating data cleansing applications A system evaluates a first data cleansing application and a second data cleansing application. The system includes a test data generator, an application execution module, and a results reporting module. The test data generator creates a dirty set of sample data from... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370029 | Method of changing system configuration in shared-nothing database management system A shared-nothing database management system employs a method of adding and removing a database server without significantly affecting the processing performance for accessing a table from a user or an application. A scheduler module creates a schedule which separate... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370316 | Mining model versioning One implementation provides a computer system that allows front-end software applications to use multiple versions of a data mining model during execution of analytical tasks. In this implementation, the computer system includes a model version selection module that... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370296 | Modeling language and method for address translation design mechanisms in test generation Methods and systems are disclosed that enhance the ability of a test generator to automatically deal with address translation in a processor design, and without need for creating specific code. A model of the address translation mechanism of a design-under-test is r... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370366 | Data management system and method A data management system and method are provided. Specifically, the present invention includes a system for controlling access to data and ensuring that the confidentiality of the data is maintained. In addition, the present invention provides a system for updating ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369507 | Process for learning the basic finite automation of a protocol implementation The present invention relates to a process for learning a basic finite automaton of a protocol implementation, which process is characterized by the following steps: a) categorizing the times (1, 2, 3) within an example communication into equivalence classes ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370036 | Facilitating identification of entire web pages when each web page is rendered from multiple portions and interest is expressed based on content of the portions A server system which stores data indicating the identifiers of web pages associated with which each portion has been previously rendered. The data facilitates identification of the entire web pages even if interest is expressed based on content of the portions. For... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370052 | Efficiently and reliably providing message related data The principles of the present invention extend to efficiently and reliably providing message related data. Generally, data fields of electronic messages and attachments are created in accordance with an electronic message schema hierarchy. An electronic message can ... | 05/06/2008 |
