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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8131787 | Information, transformation and reverse transformation processing A transformation processing system input data including a data record area for storing target date and a transformation processing identification information record area for storing transformation processing identification information about transformation processing... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8112382 | Process for data driven application integration for B2B Aspects of the present embodiments provide an eCommerce environment adapted to accept and process various message types (e.g., cXML and mXML). In general, requests are provided from a requesting entity to an application hosting entity. Data from incoming requests ar... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8095497 | Process for data driven application integration for B2B Aspects of the present embodiments provide an eCommerce environment adapted to accept and process various message types (e.g., cXML and mXML). In general, requests are provided from a requesting entity to an application hosting entity. Data from incoming requests ar... | 01/10/2012 |
| 7917461 | Mechanism for handling file level and block level remote file accesses using the same server An apparatus for handling file level and block level remote file accesses. The apparatus includes a block level server. The apparatus includes a file level server. The apparatus includes a storage layer implementing an inode layer performing inode operations, and st... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7840524 | Method and apparatus for indexing, searching and displaying data A computer research tool for indexing, searching and displaying data is disclosed. Specifically, a computer research tool for performing computerized research of data including textual objects in a database or a network and for providing a user interface that signif... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7836093 | Image record trend identification for user profiles Systems and methods for generating user profiles based at least upon an analysis of image content from digital image records are provided. The image content analysis is performed to identify trends that are used to identify user subject interests. The user subject i... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7827120 | Community awareness management systems and methods A system and method links one or more disparate community awareness management (CAM) datasets for a community awareness program (CAP) with one or more spatial layers to create linked CAM datasets. One or more data attributes common to a CAM dataset and a spatial lay... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7809674 | Supporting B+tree indexes on primary B+tree structures with large primary keys A system for organizing and accessing a database. The system includes a primary B+tree index, a secondary B+tree index, a plurality of mapping table row identifiers stored in the secondary B+tree index and a plurality of database addresses for leaf blocks of the pri... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7788289 | Tracking user access of a network management system A system records information relating to performing a logical activity on a group of devices. The information includes information transmitted to each device in the group of devices and information received from each device in the group of devices. The system also u... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7765179 | Method and apparatus for resolving domain names of persistent web resources A method and apparatus are disclosed for providing persistent storage of Web resources. Uniform Resource Locators (“URLs”) that identify Web resources are augmented to include a time stamp. A web browser and a web server are disclosed that accommodate a time sta... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7761492 | Systems and processes for determining costs associated with internal software development Systems and processes may receive and analyze billing information and/or business expenditures to determine costs associated with jobs corresponding to an internal development of software for internal use. The billing information and/or business expenditures may be ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7743013 | Data partitioning via bucketing bloom filters Multiple Bloom filters are generated to partition data between first and second disjoint data sets of elements. Each element in the first data set is assigned to a bucket of a first set of buckets, and each element in the second data set is assigned to a bucket of a... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7739222 | Binary trees for detecting inventory problems in an enterprise model A binary tree structure for detecting inventory problems. A first embodiment detects on-hand inventory problems. A second embodiment detects inventory requirements problems. Both embodiments use a binary tree whose nodes store time values and delta values. (FIG. ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7716165 | Analysis of third party networks A method of analyzing customer behavior, where customers are engaged in customer-to-customer transactions in the third-party network, includes the transformation of data representing the customer-to-customer transactions from a data representation to a network repre... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7711685 | Method and system for an extensible macro language A method and system for an extensible macro language is provided. The system for providing the extensible macro language includes a parser and a macro handler for processing macro commands not previously defined in the macro language. The parser analyzes keywords in... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7711686 | Method and apparatus for indexing, searching and displaying data A computer research tool for indexing, searching and displaying data is disclosed. Specifically, a computer research tool for performing computerized research of data including textual objects in a database or a network and for providing a user interface that signif... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7707151 | Method and apparatus for migrating data One aspect is directed to a method for performing data migration from a first volume to a second volume while allowing a write operation to be performed on the first volume during the act of migrating. Another aspect is a method and apparatus that stores, in a persi... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7707152 | Exposing rich internet application content to search engines Systems and methods which facilitate search engine discovery of and/or access to application program content are shown. Declarative code may be provided within the procedural code of a rich Internet application in order to identify various states, and their associat... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7707492 | System for converting data to a markup language Systems and methods are provided through which data parseable against a document type definition by generating a list of a possible paths of an input element that is not encoded against the document type definition, determining the path that is the best fit with the... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7703003 | XML document frameworks An apparatus may be configured to generate document data representing a document for use in providing a service comprising a number of different activities that are to be carried out in providing the service. The apparatus may enable a user to retrieve previously st... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7702638 | Systems and methods for off-line modeling a business application Systems and methods consistent with the invention may analyze a business application's data, operations, and relationships and create a corresponding object oriented programming (OOP) model corresponding to the business application entities. In one embodiment the OO... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7702639 | System, method, software architecture, and business model for an intelligent object based information technology platform In one aspect, the invention provides an architecture and query and processing methodology, advantageously implemented in software, for an information technology platform using Intelligent Molecular Objects or objects of a more general character. In another aspect, ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7702637 | Systems and methods for fragment-based serialization A method and system for fragment-based serialization places one or more object members in fragments. Fragments may comprise a header and a payload. A header can provide useful information about the fragment, such as an indication of fragment type and an indication o... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7702636 | Federated system and methods and mechanisms of implementing and using such a system A federated system and methods and mechanisms of implementing and using such a system is disclosed. In some embodiments, one or more mappings are created between a taxonomy view at a node and one or more taxonomies of one or more data sources. The one or more data s... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7702640 | Stratified unbalanced trees for indexing of data items within a computer system According to one embodiment, a system may include a number of computing nodes configured to implement a number of index data structures each configured to map ones of a plurality of input values to one or more corresponding data items. Each of the index data structu... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7698286 | Method and apparatus for managing internet transactions The object-oriented approach used by the present invention provides the ability to develop and manage Internet transactions. Local applications can be accessed using any workstation connected to the Internet regardless of the workstation's configuration. Some or all... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7698285 | Compression of multidimensional datasets Techniques are described for compressing multidimensional datasets. For instance, a compression module obtains lists of indices of data along dimensions of the multidimensional dataset. The compression module calculates lists of offset values from the lists of coord... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7698283 | System and method for organizing data A system and method for organizing raw data from one or more sources. The content of the raw data is converted into an appropriate number system and stored in a format that facilitates the use of efficient mathematical operations. The number system is selected to ha... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7698284 | Systems and methods for deploying a tenant in a provider-tenant environment The present invention discloses methods and systems for hosting tenants over a network in a computer-based environment in which a provider may receive data structures corresponding to a first tenant, determine which of the data structures are specific to the first t... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7693846 | Data management system and method for data synchronization A data management system and method that collectively manages material data by synchronizing the material data stored in a material server with an OA server. The method includes sequentially storing material data including generated video/audio signals in at least a... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7693847 | Administering workload groups A method, system and computer program for mapping business concepts related to the processing of requests on a database system to database system feature settings is disclosed. Rules limit the requests that will be submitted to the database system for processing and... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7693853 | Method and apparatus for retrieving data representing a postal address from a plurality of postal addresses A method for retrieving a desired postal address from a plurality of postal addresses. The invention can feature receiving input data having input terms for finding the desired postal address from a first database of postal addresses where each postal address is for... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7693848 | Method and apparatus for structuring documents based on layout, content and collection A method and apparatus is provided for converting a document in a first format essentially comprising a flat layout structure into a structured document in a hierarchical form in accordance with predetermined attributes identified from the input format. The process ... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7693844 | Configuring processing relationships among entities of an organization A system, method and carrier medium for configuring processing relationships among entities of a Financial Service Organization (FSO). The system, method and carrier medium may be used for processing and reporting FSO business data including transactional data. A bu... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7693845 | Database systems, methods and computer program products using type based selective foreign key association to represent multiple but exclusive relationships in relational databases Database systems, methods and/or computer program products provide for multiple but exclusive relationships between tables in a relational database. The multiple but exclusive relationship may be enforced based on a type associated with a record in a relating table.... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7693849 | Masking object data based on user authorization Provided are a method, system, and program for processing a request for an object from a user. Layout information for the requested object is accessed, wherein the layout information delineates fields in the object. A determination is made from access control inform... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7693850 | Method and apparatus for adding supplemental information to PATRICIA tries Method and apparatus for adding annotations to an index are disclosed. Annotation is defined as any supplemental information that may be stored in an index node in addition to the usual key and data references. Adding annotations to the index opens numerous applicat... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7693851 | Systems and methods for implementing a shared space in a provider-tenant environment The present invention discloses methods and systems for tenants to execute application software hosted by a provider in a computer-based environment in which a provider may store a shared data structure associated with the application software, such that each of the... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7693852 | Method of presentation for data records Data records contain identification data and user data and are either contained in a highest grouping level or are directly subordinate to precisely one data record group. Each data record group is either contained in the highest grouping level or is directly subord... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7689573 | Prefetch appliance server In a system in which a DB is built in a virtualization environment, a management server obtains DB processing information such as a DB processing execution plan and a degree of processing priority from a DBMS, predicts data to be accessed in the near future and the ... | 03/30/2010 |
