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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8161025 | Patent mapping The present subject matter provides systems, methods, software, and data structures for patent mapping, storage, and searching. Some such embodiments include mapping patent documents, claims, and claim limitations. Some further embodiments provide for searching a un... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8086858 | Secure method of termination of service notification A method for notifying a client device of termination of at least one service provided to the client device by a server system within an enterprise network is disclosed. The method includes the step of establishing authentication data and notification data, where th... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8019736 | Systems and methods for combining a plurality of terrain databases into one terrain database A present novel and non-trivial system and methods for exacting terrain elevation data contained in a plurality of terrain elevation databases or data sets, combining the terrain elevation data contained in each terrain elevation data set to produce a single, combin... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7996448 | Recording medium, and method and apparatus for reproducing data from the recording medium A method and apparatus for reproducing data from a recording medium are disclosed. The method and apparatus calls for downloading data associated with data read from the recording medium. The downloaded data is stored in a local storage using an organization ID dire... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7996399 | Presenting media guidance search results based on relevancy Systems and methods for presenting search results based on relevancy in an interactive media guidance application are disclosed. After performing a user-initiated or automatic search for media content, the interactive media guidance application determines which of t... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7996430 | File retrieval device and file retrieval method A file retrieval device, operable to retrieve a valid file name for reading a plurality of file main bodies from a recording medium in which the plurality of file main bodies and file related information that includes a file names respectively allocated to the plura... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7996387 | Techniques for extending user-defined indexes with auxiliary properties In one embodiment, a database server registers one or more functions included in a user-defined index that includes one or more auxiliary properties. The one or more functions are operable to generate index entries of the user-defined index for the one or more auxil... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7996427 | Unified system for accessing metadata in disparate formats A method and system for accessing media metadata from metadata stored in different native formats is disclosed. A repository contains a plurality of containers for storing media metadata, wherein a first container in the repository stores metadata in the first nativ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7996377 | CIM data quarantine One aspect of the present invention includes performing a quarantine of inaccessible data within a CIM dataset that is managed by a storage service, and a recovery of this data within the CIM dataset once it becomes accessible. In one embodiment, after a first reque... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7996422 | System and method for adaptive media playback based on destination Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer readable-media for adaptive media playback based on destination. The method for adaptive media playback comprises determining one or more destinations, collecting media content that is relevant to or describes the ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7991793 | System and method for utilizing generational file names for diagnostic data files A system and associated method for utilizing file names for diagnostic data files generated by a runtime environment. The method employs a file counter base that defines a predefined maximum number of files permitted in a file system, a generation number that indica... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7979409 | Method and system for checking availability of automounted file systems A method, an apparatus, a system, and a computer program product are presented for determining whether a file system, which contains a file system resource that is to be the target of a file system operation, is currently mounted by a data processing system. A first... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7979413 | Automatic generation of embedded signatures for duplicate detection on a public network In accordance with an aspect of the invention, a method and system are disclosed for constructing an embedded signature in order to facilitate post-facto detection of leakage of sensitive data. The leakage detection mechanism involves: 1) identifying at least one se... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7979434 | System and method for storing and retrieving digital content with physical file systems A system and method for retrieving and storing digital documents with physical file storage systems are provided. The disclosed system and methods allow a user to retrieve digital documents from a conventional file storage system and to seamlessly categorize and sto... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7979457 | Efficient search of supplier servers based on stored search results A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection search engine. User actions may be detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination may be made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is sea... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7974968 | Direct call threaded code A pre-pass and direct call mechanism which replaces the interpreter. The mechanism moves static decisions out of the repeated runtime path, into a pre-pass operation. Advantageously, the mechanism reduces runtime overhead, and improves overall performance of the DBM... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974955 | Inhibiting non-critical access based on measured performance in a database system A database system has a contention monitor which determines when the level of contention for accessing or inserting records in the database rises above a threshold, and inhibits non-critical access to the database to reduce the level of contention. In a preferred em... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974991 | Word-processing document stored in a single XML file that may be manipulated by applications that understand XML A word processor including a native XML file format is provided. The well formed XML file fully represents the word-processor document, and fully supports 100% of word-processor's rich formatting. There are no feature losses when saving the word-processor documents ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7970779 | Application interface including dynamic transform definitions An application programming interface configured to transform data responsive to a transform process definition. The transform process definition is interpreted concurrently with the transformation process. This interpretation dynamically determines navigation within... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970755 | Test execution of user SQL in database server code Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with test execution of user SQL in server code are described. One example method includes producing a reproduced execution environment that reproduces a portion of an execution environment in which a user SQL runs. ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970761 | Automatic identification of components for a compound document in a content management system A content management system (CMS) includes a component identification mechanism for identifying components in a component-centric way that takes into account specified conditions for a link location in a compound document as well as component relationships and condi... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970731 | Enhanced trade compliance system: country of origin certifications Methods and systems are described that allow supplier information to be captured and processed for imported or exported products that have multiple supply sources. Each of the products may be classified under a plurality of HTS (Harmonized Tariff Schedule) codes, wh... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970738 | Always on and updated operation for document logs A method and an apparatus for handling updated or new entries for a document log are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a user input of a document identifier for a document and displaying information from metadata entries associated with th... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970778 | Automatically persisting data from a model to a database Projects often involve multiple teams of developers in different locations. The different teams make updates to a central or shared database(s) that can store information about the project, such as progress. Each team or even different members of the different teams... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970751 | System and method for performing local searches across user defined events The instant invention presents a system and method for performing local searches across one or more events created by one or more users. The system of the present invention comprises an event data structure comprising one or more user defined events, each event asso... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7966335 | Collaborative content evaluation In an example embodiment, a system for determining respective reputation values for a users of a network-based community is provided. The respective reputation values may be based on a user attribute associated with the user. The system may comprise a processor-impl... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7962512 | 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... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7962510 | Using content analysis to detect spam web pages Evaluating content includes receiving content, analyzing the content for web spam using a content-based identification technique, and classifying the content according to the analysis. An index of analyzed contents may be created. A system for evaluating content inc... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7962499 | System and method for identifying and mitigating redundancies in stored data In an example of an embodiment of the invention, a repeating pattern is identified within stored data comprising a plurality of data files, each data file comprising at least a header section and a data section stored in an unknown format. At least one occurrence of... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7958092 | Maintaining data consistency between integrated applications The present disclosure facilitates the interoperability between different local applications. Related local data objects are referenced via global objects or reference containers within a global data model or a global address space of an integration solution. The pr... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7958107 | Fuzzy keyword searching A fuzzy, or ambiguous, keyword searching process and systems for implementing the fuzzy keyword searching process are provided. In general, one or more keyword search terms are first identified for a search. Next, a user is enabled to adjust a logical fuzziness, or ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953762 | Infrastructure and architecture for development and execution of predictive models A system that enables development and execution of predictive models comprises a centralized data management system, a data extraction tool a model validation tool and a model execution tool. In embodiments, a data management system includes a data management server... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949670 | Language neutral text verification A resource string associated with output text is identified. A regular expression pattern is generated from the resource string. The regular expression pattern is matched to the output text. A verification result based on the matching of the regular expression patte... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949637 | Storage management for fine grained tiered storage with thin provisioning A system for managing data includes providing at least one logical device having a table of information that maps sections of the logical device to sections of at least two storage areas. Characteristics of data associated with a one section of the logical device ma... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949649 | Automatically acquiring acoustic and cultural information about music There are disclosed methods, apparatus, and storage media for building a music metadata library. Acoustic metadata for one or more music tracks may be automatically acquired from a plurality of client computing devices. Cultural metadata for the one or more music tr... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945566 | System and method of information filtering In one embodiment the present invention includes a computer-implemented method of information filtering. The method includes storing a user goal. The method further includes generating search results corresponding to the user goal. The method further includes contin... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7945600 | Techniques for organizing data to support efficient review and analysis Techniques for organizing a corpus of electronic documents. The electronic documents are organized in a manner that facilitates review of the documents. The documents are organized into a concept-based hierarchical collection of folders based upon contents of the do... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941438 | Method and apparatus for automatic generation of information system user interfaces A system for automatic software production including specification and automatic generation of user interfaces is disclosed. A graphical editor presents diagrams and textual interactive dialogs which are used to enter requirements data defining the desired structure... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937379 | Fragmentation of a file for instant access Techniques for fragmenting a file or a collection of media data are disclosed. According one aspect of the techniques, a file pertaining to a title is fragmented into a header and several tails or segments. The header is a continuous portion of the file while the se... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937391 | Consumer product review system using a comparison chart A system for presenting keywords obtained from users in a review process. The keywords are displayed along with a use value that reflects the number of times users have voted or selected the keyword as being relevant or effective in a review of a product. The keywor... | 05/03/2011 |
