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"To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth--all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances."
Lee deForest, American radio pioneer ; 1957
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7590617 | System providing desktop integration of patient information and document management A desk top system patient information management system includes an integration interface for an existing healthcare system that provides access to a separate and existing document management system. The integration interface provides modifications (added controls) ... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7483839 | Computerized prescription system for gathering and presenting information relating to pharmaceuticals A wirelessly deployable, electronic prescription creation system for physician use captures into a prescription a patient condition-objective of the prescribed treatment and provides for patient record assembly from source elements, with privacy controls for patient... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7424479 | System and method to perform mobile printing from handheld devices A system and method for printing a file on a remote printer via an electronic message. A personal electronic device transmits an electronic message requesting a listing of available electronic files. The personal electronic device then receives an electronic message... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7409387 | Materialized query table matching with query expansion Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for materialized query table matching are provided that include receiving a database query, retrieving a materialized query table (MQT) from data storage accessible to a database management system, selecting a join... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7403951 | System and method for measuring SVG document similarity A system and method for measuring the similarity between SVG documents. The present invention involves reducing the respective documents to their minimal logical representations and then analyzing the representations using tree isomorphism techniques. Applications c... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403916 | Method and system for correcting payee names and adjusting an account balance for a financial statement Payee names in received financial statements can be substituted for the benefit of users. The financial statements can be electronically received from a financial services provider. The financial statements typically comprise transaction entries that comprise an ori... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7392240 | System and method for searching and matching databases A system and method for finding a business entity in a database that matches input data. A web services interface accepts a match request and provides a best match. A pre-processing layer cleans, parses, and standardizes input data into terms. An application layer i... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7392242 | Query costing in a multidimensional database The cost of running a query (having a query range) on a multidimensional database may be estimated using a process factors criteria beyond merely the number of affected records. First, a materialized view of the database may be represented as a container of tuples, ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7383245 | Data retrieving method, data retrieving apparatus, data compression method and data compression apparatus A data compression apparatus includes a characterizing point extracting part which extracts data expressing characterizing points included in a plurality of data showing a result of carrying out simulation a quantized data generating part which generates quantized d... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383279 | Unified reporting A framework is provided that uniformly stores in a central repository data collected from various locations in an enterprise computing network. One or more measurements for data of interest in the central repository are pre-calculated. The pre-calculated measurement... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7376669 | System for automatically initiating a computer security and/or screen saver mode A system for automatically switching a computer to a password protected screen saver mode when a computer user leaves the proximity of the computer. The system includes a proximity sensor that determines whether or not an individual is located proximate the computer... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376635 | Theme-based system and method for classifying documents A classification system (10) having a controller (12), a document storage memory (14), and a document input (16) is used to classify documents (20). The controller (12) is programmed to generate a theme score from a pluralit... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376638 | System and method for addressing inefficient query processing A system and method for analyzing predicate usage and proposing solutions to improve query performance. The system comprises a system for collecting performance statistics for database queries; an aggregation system that organizes the performance statistics based on... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373340 | Computer implemented method and according computer program product for storing data sets in and retrieving data sets from a data storage system A computer implemented method for storing data sets in and retrieving data sets from a data storage system in a given number and sorted by a data attribute of the data set comprises storing data sets each including one or more attr... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373366 | Method, system, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for taking and managing snapshots of a storage volume A method, system, apparatus, and computer-readable medium are provided for taking snapshots of a storage volume. According to aspects of one method, each snapshot is represented as a unique sequence number. Every fresh write access to a volume in a new snapshot life... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370054 | Method and apparatus for indexing a hash table which is organized as a linked list One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that implements a hash table that is fully dynamic and lock-free. During a lookup in the hash table the system first uses a hash key to lookup a bucket pointer in a bucket array. Next, the system follows the ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366742 | System and method for distributed discovery and management of frozen images in a storage environment A system for distributed discovery and management of frozen images includes a first and a second computer host, a first and a second frozen image agent and a frozen image server. Each of the first and second frozen image agents may be configured to identify one or m... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363312 | Combining data descriptions A method embodied in a computer program product for combining first and second attribute sets each comprising at least one attribute and value pair by which a named attribute is assigned a value that comprises one of a end value and a further attribute set involves ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359910 | Scalable transformation and tree based query language node—set selection A method and apparatus for transforming large messages using a scalable process. This scalable process decomposes the message into nodes and node values. Navigation between related tree node tree is carried out based upon the decomposed message. Following decomposit... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356538 | Configurable business controls task notification A method for performing business control task notification is proposed. The method comprises processing a combination of one or more databases and one or more user profiles to generate a schedule template and receive a request for a schedule. A computer program prod... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356537 | Providing contextually sensitive tools and help content in computer-generated documents A method and system are provided for creation, implementation, and use of computer-generated “smart” documents to which functionality is attached for providing contextually sensitive tools, controls and help content to users of those documents. Portions of docum... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353238 | Apparatus and methods for determining and processing medical outcomes A data processing system is provided for determining clinical outcomes of medical data gathered by the system. The system can allow a person to define a medical study and can then administer the medical study and can collect and analyze data from potentially geograp... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349908 | Method for specifying a dynamic construct in a storage management system A dynamic construct is associated with one or more operational parameters of one or more components of a storage management system, wherein a pointer to the construct is retained in metadata for the storage management system, the values of the construct are stored i... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343370 | Plan generation in database query optimizers through specification of plan patterns Methods and systems receive a query, receive a control statement that represents at least a portion of a desired execution plan associated with the query, and produce an execution plan that conforms to the desired plan to the extent that the produced plan preserves ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7337196 | Record relationship processing A method and implementing computer system are provided in which a unique primary key is generated to identify an original message which is received for processing. The record for the original message is stored at the primary key. As the message is propagated to the ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330863 | Method and systems for hyperlinking files According to the method of the invention, a set of target files is linked to a main file by encoding the target addresses or URLs of these target files into the primary filename of the main file. Separator characters are used to distinguish the primary filename of t... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7321897 | Binary dependency database The present invention facilitates the analysis of binaries, components, configurations, and their footprints for component design and optimization. Complete and meaningful binary, component, configuration, and footprint information allows formal methods for componen... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7313554 | System and method for indexing queries, rules and subscriptions This invention introduces a new concept called virtual construct intervals (VCI), where each predicate interval is decomposed into one or more of these construct intervals. These VCIs strictly cover the predicate interval. Namely, every attribute value covered by th... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310633 | Methods and systems for generating textual information Methods and systems for generating textual information are disclosed. In one exemplary embodiment, a method of generating textual information is disclosed that comprises identifying a plurality of candidate summaries related to textual information based at least in ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7308450 | Data protection method, authentication method, and program therefor To provide a data protection method which allows data to be protected even when there is any access beyond administrator's intention. The data protection method for accepting an access request for a file stored in a file system of a storage device and referring or u... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7308454 | Data integration An inventory management system includes a database for storing object oriented network inventory data. Data on network components is input into the database as different selected classes of objects. An object identifier is selectively added dependent on the class of... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7308444 | Information handling mechanism Conventional electronic information retrieval systems using specialist databases assume that the database being searched is appropriate to the search being conducted. The invention solves the problem that the above assumption may be incorrect. It does this by... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305380 | Systems and methods for performing in-context searching A system limits search results based on context information. The system obtains the context information and a search query, and obtains a set of references to documents in response to the search query. The system then filters the set of references based on the conte... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305406 | Computer aided authoring, electronic document browsing, retrieving, and subscribing and publishing Provides methods, apparatus, and systems for computer aided authoring. Included are: a method for browsing an electronic document, an apparatus for aided authoring, an electronic document browser, a method for retrieving an electronic document, a system for retrievi... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302435 | Media storage and management system and process A system and method for managing a plurality of content items employs a plurality of storage volumes that may be checked out, with or without previously archived content items stored on them, and that may be checked in, with or without new or changed content items s... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302440 | Methods and apparatus for statistical data analysis and reduction for an enterprise application The invention provides methods of time-wise data reduction that include the steps of inputting data from a source; summarizing that data according to one or more selected epochs in which it belongs; and generating for each such selected epoch one or more RDF triples... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302454 | Method and system for data processing with data backup The invention relates to backup processing for performing backup of data used in an information processing device having a storage unit. When data has been updated, updated bit information indicating that the data has been updated is stored in an update bitmap manag... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7299245 | Determining similarity of recipes Determining similarity among recipes is disclosed. A computer-implemented method of one embodiment of the invention receives a first recipe. The method determines one or more second recipes that are similar to the first recipe, and then outputs the one or more secon... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7299233 | Copying apparatus, method of controlling the same, and program for implementing the method There is provided a copying apparatus and a method of controlling the same which are capable of performing a proper search for an original file even when the image quality of the original is heavily degraded such that the additional information cannot be read or is ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7296032 | Digital media organization and access Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for accessing and organizing data items, including items of digital media, such as digital images, video stream, audio stream, text documents and the like. An object model ... | 11/13/2007 |
