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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8078505 | Method and system for automatically updating a seller application utilized in a network-based transaction facility According to the present invention, there is provided a method for automatically updating a seller application upon connecting to a network-based transaction facility. The method includes receiving a request, by a seller application, to connect to the network-based ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8006178 | Markup language stylization Markup language stylizations that may be applied to a source document are defined in overlay documents such that no special tags or markers are required in the source document to enable stylization via the overlay document. A manifest document defines an association... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7925967 | Metadata quality improvement A method and system for improving the quality of original metadata associated with media on a computer network, such as multimedia and streaming media, includes analyzing each field of the URL of the multimedia and streaming media. Each field is analyzed to identify... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7882428 | Method for improving the functionality of a binary representation A method for improving functionality of a binary representation of an XML-based content description, wherein a structure of any instance of an XML document corresponds to a tree-like data structure is provided. The method includes providing that each tree node repre... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7873593 | Vehicle information display A communication system for a vehicle includes an interior assembly and an in-vehicle communication control that is located in the vehicle remote from the interior assembly. A human-machine interface is located at the interior assembly and is connected to the in-vehi... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7809672 | Association of data with a product classification schema A computer-implemented system (10) for associating target data with a product classification schema includes a data association module (39) that accesses the product classification schema. The schema includes a taxonomy that includes a hierarchy of cla... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7809673 | Methods and apparatus for interfacing external systems with vehicle electronic systems One embodiment is directed to providing access between external systems and embedded vehicle electronic systems. That is, an interface module may receive information from a system external to the vehicle, determine an embedded system of the vehicle to which to provi... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7774295 | Database track history A computer-implemented method of providing a track history of information previously requested from a database. The method includes: providing a track history of user-selectable records that have corresponding metadata items applicable to identify a data set from a ... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7770099 | Enhanced human computer user interface system for searching and browsing documents A system and method for presenting document records to a user through a display interface, comprising means for processing data of the first type through a first applet and data of the second type through a second applet and separately extracting data of the two dif... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7765177 | Method, system and program for archiving files Provided are a method, system, and program for archiving files. A hierarchical file system having directories is provided. An archival retention policy is associated with at least one of the directories in the hierarchical file system, wherein the retention policy a... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7761784 | Presentation generator A presentation generator may access one or more data sources structured into data fields. The user may create or modify a template by inserting one or more tags corresponding to data fields in the template. The template may also have one or more processing instructi... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7752535 | Categorization of summarized information A system for categorizing transactions includes a collection function gathering information concerning transactions, including at least date, description and amount of the transactions, for a particular person or enterprise, and a processing function categorizing in... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7752542 | Dynamic external entity resolution in an XML-based content management system Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system, and article of manufacture for dynamically resolving external entity references in a document managed by a content management system (CMS). In one embodiment, a wrapper transform may be applied to a source trans... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7747939 | Generating free form reports within a data array Free form reports may be generated within a data array system such as a spreadsheet computer application. A user may select dimension members of a data source, such as an online analytical processing (OLAP) data cube. The user may position the dimension members as h... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7720789 | System and method of member unique names A member unique name (MUN) structure and MUN translation system and method are provided. The MUN structure comprises a canonical business key for uniquely identifying a member across different dimensional data sources within a business enterprise and at least one of... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7716156 | Systems and methods for sharing data from web accessed calculators Various embodiments disclosed herein are directed to managing and sharing data between web accessed calculators. The systems include a data store to persist calculator inputs and outputs and share them with other calculators and with customer service representatives... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7711675 | Database simulation of data types The present invention is a method for comparing object data in an object domain with database data in a database domain. The method includes applying a first transfer function to the object data so as to generate a first transformed data. The method also includes ap... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7711676 | Tracking usage of data elements in electronic business communications Methods and apparatus, including computer program products for tracking usage of business data elements include receiving an electronic document that includes instances of business data elements and identifying an instance of a particular business data element in th... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7707137 | Method and apparatus for browsing media content based on user affinity One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for browsing a collection of metadata to locate media content associated with an item of metadata. The system operates by receiving a selection of an affinity from a user, wherein the affinity specifies a bas... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7707136 | System and method for providing high availability data A computer-implemented data processing system and method writes a first plurality of copies of a data set at a first plurality of hosts and reads a second plurality of copies of the data set at a second plurality of hosts. The first and second pluralities of copies ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7702612 | Print data editing apparatus and print data editing program stored in a computer readable medium The relationship between an object and a database item, such as a title item, family name item, address item, city name item, and birth day item are displayed with a link line which connects the object with a database item such that the relationship can be readily o... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7702614 | Index updating using segment swapping An information retrieval system uses phrases to index, retrieve, organize and describe documents. Phrases are extracted from the document collection. Documents are the indexed according to their included phrases, using phrase posting lists. The phrase posting lists ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7702611 | Method for automatically performing conceptual highlighting in electronic text User's interests can be explicitly determined via keywords that the user specifies, and/or are implicitly constructed from user browsing and reading activity. User interests may be expressed as an interest profile. Conceptual keywords related to user interests are s... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7702610 | Performing sequence analysis as a multipart plan storing intermediate results as a relation A usage model and the underlying technology used to provide sequence analysis as part of a relational database system. Included components include the semantic and syntactic integration of the sequence analysis with an existing query language, the storage methods fo... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7702613 | System and methods for validating and distributing test data Software-based systems and methods that may be used to validate and distribute test data are disclosed. In some embodiments, the data distribution method comprises combining data requests from multiple users into a single request, copying test data from enterprise d... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7698626 | Enhanced document browsing with automatically generated links to relevant information Additional documents are automatically located that are relevant to an original document, such as a document being read by a user, and also potentially relevant to personal information of the user. The additional documents may be located based on descriptive informa... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7693813 | Index server architecture using tiered and sharded phrase posting lists An information retrieval system uses phrases to index, retrieve, organize and describe documents. Phrases are extracted from the document collection. Documents are the indexed according to their included phrases, using phrase posting lists. The phrase posting lists ... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7693812 | Querying data and an associated ontology in a database management system A method, apparatus, and computer program for querying data and an associated ontology in a database. An ontology is associated with data in database. Responsive to receiving a query from a requestor, relational data in the database is identified using the query to ... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7693811 | Generating unique identifiers for logical partitions A computer-implemented method, apparatus, and computer-usable program code to generate unique identifiers for a logically partitioned and/or virtualized data processing system. A number of computing entities supported by the data processing system are identified to ... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7689532 | Using embedded data with file sharing Peer-to-peer file sharing is increasing in popularity on the Internet, faster than any product known in history. Although file-sharing can enable massive piracy, it has many advantages for distribution of information including scalability. Alternatively, file-sharin... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7689535 | Method for providing a unified view of a domain model to a user Techniques for providing a unified view of a domain model to a user are described herein. In one embodiment, in response to a first search query received from a client via a first search mechanism (e.g., outside of the relational DB) for a list of persistent objects... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7689533 | Method and apparatus for using storage properties in a file system A method and apparatus of identifying and using storage properties within a file system. In particular, the invention exposes the storage property of an underlying storage volume i.e., mirrored storage, RAID storage, standard storage, archival storage and the like, ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7689534 | Affecting database file performance by allowing delayed query language trigger firing Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for processing database triggers having delay attributes. In general, delay attributes may selectively introduce a delay between the firing of a trigger and the execution of the triggered action. The delay may be based... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7685094 | Common schema for aggregating information exchange requirements A new approach to aggregating a plurality of information exchange requirements (IERs) into a common schema is disclosed. A device has a digital storage medium that includes a data structure for implementing a plurality of information exchange requirements each havin... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7685091 | System and method for online information analysis The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to online information analysis. In general, in one implementation, a system includes a collection engine configured to accumulate document information retrieved from publicly accessible network resource... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7685092 | Automatic problem-oriented transformation of database performance data Methods and systems, including computer program products, for monitoring and analyzing a database performance problem stored in a separate performance database with cube-based analysis program tools. The methods and systems include means for detecting one or more pe... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7685093 | Method and system for comparing attributes such as business names Embodiments of systems and methods for comparing attributes of a data record are presented herein. Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present invention generate a weight based on a comparison of the name (or other) attributes of data records. More particularly, em... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7685090 | Detecting duplicate records in databases The invention concerns a detection of duplicate tuples in a database. Previous domain independent detection of duplicated tuples relied on standard similarity functions (e.g., edit distance, cosine metric) between multi-attribute tuples. However, such prior art appr... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7680758 | Method and apparatus for isolating execution of software applications A method for isolating access by application programs to native resources provided by an operating system redirects a request for a native resource made by an application program executing on behalf of a user to an isolation environment. The isolation environment in... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7680760 | System and method for labeling a document A system and method for selecting a proxy keyword for an unknown document. An unknown document is received by a receiver. A plurality of candidate documents and corresponding keywords are determined for the unknown document. Using the keywords from the candidate doc... | 03/16/2010 |
