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| 8189995 | Record carrier, apparatus and method for storing video having playback control using conditional arithmetic operation A record carrier (1) of the invention stores at least video-related user data and control data in digital form. The control data enables playback control of the user data, which control data comprises at least play control data which defines user data items w... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190587 | In-place image promotion To promote an image, an identification of at least one of an symbol name and an existing symbol value associated with the symbol name is received. An identification of a new symbol value is also received. It is then determined that a binary file that is a component ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8180772 | Electronic data retrieving apparatus An electronic data retrieving apparatus is provided that increases the retrieval accuracy without deteriorating the retrieval efficiency by reflecting differences between the numbers of word appearances due to genres of electronic data in the setting of the retrieva... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176022 | Locking protocol using dynamic locks and dynamic shared memory The present invention discloses a Locking Protocol using Dynamic Locks and Dynamic Shared Memory which provides a method whereby a designated critical section monitors object status through employment of counters attached to the object=s definition that will increme... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176036 | Join paths across multiple databases Methods, systems and computer instructions on computer readable media are disclosed for optimizing a query, including a first join path, a second join path, and an optimizer, to efficiently provide high quality information from large, multiple databases. The methods... | 05/08/2012 |
| RE43339 | Audio and video signal recording and reproduction apparatus and method An audio and video recording and reproduction apparatus and method is described, which uses a movable storage memory such as a memory card, so that audio and video signals are easily accessed without separate editing devices. The apparatus uses a separable memory so... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166059 | Optimization of queries on a repository based on constraints on how the data is stored in the repository Constraints that restrict how corresponding identifiable groups of files are stored in a database, are enforced on corresponding file data. In response to a query on any data from an identifiable group of files, the effect of the constraint on how the corresponding ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160420 | Optical disk for high resolution and general video recording, optical disk reproduction apparatus, optical disk recording apparatus, and reproduction control information generation apparatus The present invention has an objective of realizing compatibility of an optical disk having a high resolution video signal recorded thereon and a system for reproducing the optical disk, with a conventional system for producing a standard resolution video signal. A ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156095 | Server device, user interface appliance, and media processing network Components for a control and data processing infrastructure for multiple networked media peripherals are based on chained device connections using a transport-layer independent asymmetric control protocol such as PTP. These components provide a user interface which ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155500 | Optical disk for high resolution and general video recording, optical disk reproduction apparatus, optical disk recording apparatus, and reproduction control information generation apparatus The present invention has an objective of realizing compatibility of an optical disk having a high resolution video signal recorded thereon and a system for reproducing the optical disk, with a conventional system for producing a standard resolution video signal. A ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8145649 | Method for selecting electronic advertisements using machine translation techniques A system for selecting electronic advertisements from an advertisement pool to match the surrounding content is disclosed. To select advertisements, the system takes an approach to content match that takes advantage of machine translation technologies. The system of... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140500 | Spectral measurement with assisted data analysis A system is provided wherein spectrometer measurements, and/or measurements from other analytical instruments, are transmitted to a processing station which determines the component substances of the sample(s) subjected to the measurements. The names of the componen... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140502 | Preserving individual information privacy by providing anonymized customer data A method of preserving individual information privacy for each of a plurality of customers while providing aggregated information about the plurality of customers includes storing static customer data and dynamic customer data of the plurality of customers in a prot... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8126847 | Single file restore from image backup by using an independent block list for each file Image-based data restoration restores an entire image of a volume or selective files. A restore engine receives a request to restore data from a backup image that includes a plurality of data blocks and metadata describing attributes of the data blocks. In response ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126945 | Data management apparatus for generating one file having combination of plurality of files, data management method, and data management program In order to reduce the volume of data having combination of a plurality of data, MFP includes an element determination portion to determine at least one of a plurality of files stored beforehand as an element, an ordinal rank determination portion to determine an or... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122034 | Method and system for incremental search with reduced text entry where the relevance of results is a dynamically computed function of user input search string character count A method and system are provided for processing a search request received from a user operating a text input device. The search request is directed at identifying a desired item from a set of items. Each of the items of the set of items has one or more associated te... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117175 | Methods and apparatus for querying multiple data streams A method and apparatus for querying multiple streams of data traffic are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method specifies interfaces or data sources in accordance with their properties. In turn, the method then accepts a query for querying multiple data streams an... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117172 | Compact encoding methods, media and systems A method for compact encoding including providing a first value field allocated in a first portion of a memory, wherein a portion of the first value field is utilized to store a fixed-size variable. A most significant zero bit (MSZB) is located in the first value fi... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116609 | Method and apparatus for traversing a multiplexed data packet stream A method for traversing a multiplexed data packet stream including choosing a starting location in a multiplexed data packet stream; making a bi-directional search from the starting location to locate a nearest system stream object; and traversing the system stream ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117210 | Sampling image records from a collection based on a change metric An image-record subject is identified for a plurality of image records in an image collection. Then, a sampling change-metric related to a changing characteristic of the image-record subject is identified, and sampling of at least a portion of the image collection o... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8107794 | Optical disk for high resolution and general video recording, optical disk reproduction apparatus, optical disk recording apparatus, and reproduction control information generation apparatus The present invention has an objective of realizing compatibility of an optical disk having a high resolution video signal recorded thereon and a system for reproducing the optical disk, with a conventional system for producing a standard resolution video signal. A ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8094992 | Information recording device and method, program storage medium, and program The present invention relates to an information recording device and method, a program storage medium, and a program, wherein updated file system information can be recorded without changing a logical address. As shown to the upper side in FIG. 18, in the eve... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8086591 | Combining domain-tuned search systems The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or techniques that effectuate combining domain-tuned search systems. The system can include mechanisms that obtain queries, written descriptions, or illustrative web-pages regarding a particular area of interest, and g... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082245 | Providing location information within a virtual world Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for providing information describing locations to users of an immersive virtual environment. In one embodiment, patterns of locations visited by various users of the virtual environment may be stored in a searchable da... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078031 | Video tape indexing system and method A video tape indexing system in which program broadcast identification information is entered into the system for use in recording the program. When the program is recorded, the system stores indexing information in an index memory. The system monitors a broadcast c... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8065283 | Term synonym generation Synonyms for a term to be indexed are dynamically generated by applying one or more rules (e.g., splitting, deletion or addition of characters, and concatenation of portions) to the term, each synonym generated either including only a portion and not all of the term... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060464 | Data-centric distributed computing A distributed computing system provides a data management system in communication with a software management system and enables the software applications to move to the data to be processed in a distributed computing environment. The software management system store... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060500 | Method and system for selecting a healthcare provider with minimal office wait times A method and system for selecting a healthcare provider includes a process for selecting a healthcare provider whereby healthcare provider list data is obtained, along with various data regarding the healthcare providers on the healthcare provider list, and the data... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055630 | Estimating recovery times for data assets Estimating a recovery time for a data asset is provided. A request is received to project a recovery time for a data asset that uses a repository. A determination is made as to whether there are one or more existing recovery times for other data assets and other rep... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055119 | Method for creating, updating, and recording seamless presentation information of moving picture data in a rewritable recording medium This invention provides a method for creating, updating, and recording information for seamless presentation of moving picture data in a rewritable recording medium. When recording moving picture data on a rewritable recording medium, seamless presentation informati... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8037045 | Computer system and file storage/read-out method When storing data (D1), spread on a memory (10), into a file storage unit (50), a user α assigns a meaningful filename-for-user, such as “sales book for April.” Storage control unit (35) converts this “sales book for April” to a ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8032556 | Systems and methods for user profile data delivery Systems and methods for delivery of user profile data are disclosed. An exemplary method includes detecting a request for a full copy of a user profile data package maintained by a user profile data source subsystem, creating an illusion that the request has been fu... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8032553 | Email integrated task processor The present system provides a task manager that extracts information relating to tasks from a task oriented email. The system then integrates the task within the system by connecting the email programs, the task management programs, and a database, to automatically ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8024356 | Database-managed image processing A method, apparatus, system, and article of manufacture provide the ability to track the processing of image data in a collaborative environment. A dependency graph that represents an image composition is obtained. Metadata for each element of the dependency graph a... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8024376 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program An information processing apparatus is provided, the apparatus being capable of automating an editing work or the like of captured moving image without providing a specific arrangement, for example, to a moving-image capturing apparatus. An information processing ap... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8024760 | Video switch There is provided video switching circuitry for use in a KVM switch and similar devices. Video signal switching circuitry can supply video signals from a one of a plurality of video sources connected to the circuit to a display device connected to the circuit. The h... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7995897 | Video recording and reproducing method, and video reproducing apparatus and method A video recording method used for a video recording apparatus which enables recording of both moving and still pictures on a recording medium, including: recording moving pictures encoded by a first encoding method, recording first still pictures encoded by a second... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7996366 | Method and system for identifying stale directories Aspects for identifying stale contents in a file system include processing a set of attributes of each file in the file system. These aspects further also include determining access times at the directory level, recursively, from all the files in lower-level directo... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7996391 | Systems and methods for providing search results A method includes generating search results in response to a user query, where at least one of the search results includes a group of links. The group of links may represent links to web pages within a same web site and may be identified based on at least one factor... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7987216 | SVC file data sharing method and SVC file thereof A method of sharing data of a scalable video coding (SVC) file and the SVC file are provided. The SVC file includes: a scalable base track including at least one scalable layer entry each storing metadata of the at least one scalable layer; and at least one sub trac... | 07/26/2011 |
