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| 8190557 | Processor and method configured for executing data transfer or data adjustment functions on OLAP based data A system and method for processing data between a source cell and a target cell in a OLAP database. The system comprises a component configured for selecting a source cell based on dimensions in the OLAP database and having a value derived from the OLAP database, an... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190575 | Disk drive maintaining multiple copies of code segments A disk drive is disclosed comprising a disk, and a head actuated over the disk. Control circuitry within the disk drive is operable to write a plurality of code segments to a primary area of the disk, and write the code segments to a backup area of the disk. The con... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190631 | Query-time and view-time security for semantic layer Aspects may include determination of a first security profile associated with a user and an information space, the information space comprising metadata indicating a plurality of objects mapped to logical entities of a hierarchical data structure, reception of a req... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8165994 | Integrated governance and version audit logging A server auditing process that stores only a single up-to-date data record along with the differences relative to previous changes in the record that allow the user to move “backward in time” to recreate previous values. The auditing feature introduces a baselin... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8156140 | Service oriented architecture enterprise service bus with advanced virtualization A method and apparatus for discovering services in a service registry. When an enterprise service bus receives a service request, the enterprise service bus determines whether the service name in the request exists in a service registry. If not, the enterprise servi... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156162 | Storage method and search method for mark event on two-dimensional space A storage method and a search method for mark events on two-dimensional space are provided. First, an event and a corresponding coordinate thereof are retrieved. Next, calculation on the coordinate of the event is performed to generate an index representing a bucket... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156159 | Data masking and unmasking of sensitive data A server is configured to receive an input file or table that includes a number of data elements, where the data elements include some sensitive data elements of different types; identify each of the different types of sensitive data elements; identify a subset of t... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150865 | Techniques for coalescing subqueries Methods for transforming queries that contain EXISTS and NOT EXISTS subqueries are provided. The methods provided transform original queries that contain EXISTS and/or NOT EXISTS subqueries in conjunctive or disjunctive combinations into transformed queries that coa... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8140597 | Computer system memory management The number of CPU cycles required to reclaim object memory space in a memory management process is reduced by using a two phase approach. A data structure exists for each object that is to be loaded into object memory space. One part of the data structure is the obj... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140527 | Retrieving personal user information for storage in a device This invention relates to a method for retrieving personal user information from a user of a device, wherein personal user information retrieved from said user is stored in the device, the method including automatically deciding if retrieving of the personal user in... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135746 | Management of symbolic links Disclosed is a method of creating a symbolic link in a source file system to a target file in a target file system, the method including querying the target file system for an identifier of the target file; incrementing a reference counter of the target file, the re... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131740 | User-specific search indexing within a virtual environment Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for searching for virtual objects of an immersive virtual environment based on user interactions within the virtual environment. Generally, embodiments provide an attribute index storing data describing attributes of v... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126917 | Method and device for transporting an object to a destination address specified incompletely A method and a device transport a postal object to an incompletely specified destination address. The object has at least one information item relating to a destination address to which the object is to be transported. A set of address components is predetermined. A... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8117207 | System and methods for evaluating feature opinions for products, services, and entities A system for evaluating a review having unstructured text comprises a segment splitter for separating at least a portion of the unstructured text into one or more segments, each segment comprising one or more words; a segment parser coupled to the segment splitter f... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117223 | Integrating external related phrase information into a phrase-based indexing information retrieval system An information retrieval system uses phrases to index, retrieve, organize and describe documents, analyzing documents and storing the results of the analysis as phrase data. Phrases are identified that predict the presence of other phrases in documents. Documents ar... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112434 | Performance of an enterprise service bus by decomposing a query result from the service registry A method, system and computer program product for improving performance of an enterprise service bus. A cache is used to store collections of service objects where each service object includes service meta-data associated with a web service application. The cache ma... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8103707 | Method and system for presenting non-linear content based on linear content metadata A system and method may include receiving a non-linear content identifier request. The system and method may further include identifying linear content metadata associated with the non-linear content identifier request, the linear content metadata representing at le... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103616 | Methods for implementation of information audit trail tracking and reporting in a storage system Embodiments of archival storage system are disclosed. The archival storage system includes one or more removable disk drives that provide random access and are readily expandable. One or more application servers can store archival data to the one or more removable d... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8090688 | Indicating review activity of a document in a content management system A content management system (CMS) monitors and logs review activity for elements in a document. A review activity policy includes one or more thresholds that define one or more ranges that define corresponding review activity levels. A schema or document type for th... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090747 | Method, system, computer-accessible medium and software arrangement for organization and analysis of multiple sets of data Exemplary embodiments of system, computer-accessible medium and method can be provided for organizing or analyzing at least two sets of data. The sets of data can be organized and/or analyzed by generating a data structure for the sets of data and comparing the data... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086624 | Determining proximity to topics of advertisements The present disclosure includes a system and method for determining proximity to topics of content items (e.g., an advertisement or “ad”). In some implementations, a method includes identifying search criteria associated with keywords of a content item. The keyw... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8078645 | Operations on multi-level nested data structure Multiple sets of data are obtained from different sources. Each data set is represented using a different format having a different syntax and organized in a multi-level nested data structure. Each data set is reformatted into a standardized table format using a dep... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078648 | Data structure for supporting a single access operation A data structure is formatted that supports a single access operation while enabling data structure verification, data integrity verification, and data extensibility. The data format utilizes error identifier fields to enable the verification of data integrity and b... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078638 | Operations of multi-level nested data structure Multiple sets of data are obtained from different sources. Each data set is represented using a different format having a different syntax and organized in a multi-level nested data structure. Each data set is reformatted into a standardized table format using a dep... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8069188 | Database system storing a data structure that includes data nodes connected by context nodes and related method A database system storing a data structure. The data structure includes a plurality of data nodes that each store a type and a value. None of the data nodes are linked directly to one another. The data structure also includes a plurality of context nodes that are ea... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8065293 | Self-compacting pattern indexer: storing, indexing and accessing information in a graph-like data structure An indexing system uses a graph-like data structure that clusters features indexes together. The minimum atomic value in the data structure is represented as a leaf node which is either a single feature index or a sequence of two or more feature indexes when a minim... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065315 | Solution search for software support A search middleware may be used to receive search requests regarding a software incident associated with a software application. The search requests may be populated with attribute values determined based on context data associated with the software application and ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065267 | Information processing device, file data merging method, file naming method, and file data output method A step or means for associating a file with a cell in a table format by, for example, pasting an icon representing the file, wherein related data to be simultaneously referenced along with the data in the cell with which the file is associated is read according to a... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060483 | Method for indexing file structures in an enterprise data system A method and system is presented which provides a TDM framework for managing self-describing measurement data. The TDM framework provides applications with a central platform for accessing measurement data across an entire enterprise system. By means of individual p... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055637 | Method for intelligent browsing in an enterprise data system A method and system is presented which provides a TDM framework for managing self-describing measurement data. The TDM framework provides applications with a central platform for accessing measurement data across an entire enterprise system. By means of individual p... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051040 | Electronic publication system A system and method for modifying publication data in a publication system are described. An example embodiment includes receiving proposed publication data and accessing a success measurement associated with past publications within a publication system. The succes... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8051053 | System and method for data storage firewall on data storage unit A system and method is introduced for implementing a storage firewall for protecting files when a storage device connects to a digital appliance. A storage device may connect to a number of appliances and is therefore at risk of getting infected with viruses and oth... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8051079 | Wish lists based on images, references, or third party beneficiaries The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can create a wish list based upon a variety of inputs and criteria. In one aspect the architecture can generate a wish list based upon one or more images of an item desired by a user. Accordingly, the archit... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046361 | System and method for classifying tags of content using a hyperlinked corpus of classified web pages An improved system and method for classifying tags of content using a hyperlinked corpus of classified web pages is provided. An anchor text index may be searched to find anchor texts that may match text of the tag, documents referenced by the matching anchor texts ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046383 | Mapping deep structured data structures Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for mapping deep structured data structures. Statements defining a mapping of source elements formatted in accordance with a first hierarchical structure to a target formatted in accordance with a second hi... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041730 | Using geographic data to identify correlated geographic synonyms One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that that uses geographic data to identify correlated geographic synonyms in search queries. A correlated geographic synonym occurs when two terms that are possible synonyms should not be considered synonyms ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8037016 | Adaptive storage system transcoder A system and method are disclosed for the transcoding of data from a first format to a second format. A data format transcoder receives a request for data from a requester. The desired format of the requested data is determined. A descriptor file containing formatti... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8037080 | Recommender system utilizing collaborative filtering combining explicit and implicit feedback with both neighborhood and latent factor models Example collaborative filtering techniques provide improved recommendation prediction accuracy by capitalizing on the advantages of both neighborhood and latent factor approaches. One example collaborative filtering technique is based on an optimization framework th... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8037043 | Information retrieval system An information retrieval system is described for retrieving a list of documents such as web pages or other items from a document index in response to a user query. In an embodiment a prediction engine is used to predict both explicit relevance information such as ju... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8032508 | System and method for URL based query for retrieving data related to a context A system and method for URL based query for retrieving data related to a context. A request is received over a network from a user for data related to a context, wherein the request is a URL comprising a context query comprising at least one context criteria. The co... | 10/04/2011 |
