Database Design Patents (Class 707/790)
  • Patent number: 8522261
    Abstract: A design-time status schema model describes the progress of a data object through a computing process. The status schema model includes status variables, processing actions and constraints for performing actions. The status schema model also may describe permitted changes to a status variable in response to performing an action. At runtime, the status schema model is used to control processing performed by, or on, an instance of a data object corresponding to the status schema model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Frank Michael Kraft, Guenter Pecht-Seibert, Klaus Meyer, Bernhard Thimmel, Patrick Josef Bardroff, Gregor Schilberth, Wasim Sadiq
  • Patent number: 8521682
    Abstract: Method, system, and computer program product for transferring data from transactional data sources to partitioned databases are provided. One or more messages from a transactional data source are read. Each message includes one or more records to be inserted into a database comprising a plurality of partitions. One of the partitions of the database in which the one or more records of each message are to be inserted is then identified. A transaction is initiated to insert the one or more records of each message into the one partition and to delete the one or more messages from the transactional data source. The transaction is committed only when insertion of the one or more records of each message into the one partition and deletion of the one or more messages from the transactional data source succeed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jing-Song Jang, James Michael Mcardle, Michael John Elvery Spicer
  • Patent number: 8516007
    Abstract: A merge application creates a particular set of documents for a particular matter. The merge application receives a selection of a particular master template corresponding to the particular set of documents, where the selected master template specifies a plurality of slave templates, and also receives a selection of a data structure from a database with data relating to the particular matter. The selected master template and the selected data structure are employed to produce the set of documents for the particular matter in an electronic form, where a corresponding document of the set is produced for each specified slave template in the selected master template. Each corresponding document is produced according to common content in the slave template and data in the selected data structure in the database referred to by placeholders in the slave template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Isauro Bargas, Maheshwer Annamalai, Anil C. Abraham
  • Patent number: 8515997
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for manipulating data sets. In accordance with one implementation, a computerized system is provided for storing, managing, indexing, interrelating, and/or retrieving data sets in a manner independent of the data model. The system includes an element module configured to store and uniquely identify elements and an element relation module configured to store relationships between the elements in the element module. The computerized system may also comprise a class module configured to store attributes of elements in a class and a type definition module configured to define the class and the attributes related to the class. The computerized system may further comprise a state machine module, the state machine module including a state machine transition module and a status module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Enterprise Elements, Inc.
    Inventor: Bruce Randall DeWoolfson
  • Patent number: 8515996
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to automatically populating a database of names and secrets in an authentication server by sending one or more lists of one or more names and secrets by a network management software to an authentication server. Furthermore, some embodiments provide that the lists being sent are encrypted and/or embedded in otherwise inconspicuous files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: Larry Dean Hofer
  • Patent number: 8510348
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for creating and using imbedded Shortcodes. An imbedded Shortcode (ISC) and Shortcode may be uniquely associated with a full name that identifies an item of interest. The Shortcode may be visually identified when the full name is displayed by the ISC, which is select characters of the full name that are visually distinguished from the other characters of the full name. Thus, subsequent reference to the associated full name and its item of interest may be identified simply by using the Shortcode instead of the full name. For example, a user of an electronic device may observe the full name with the ISC in a visual display, and sequentially enter the characters of the Shortcode from the ISC into the electronic device to obtain additional information regarding the item of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: WGRS Licensing Company, LLC
    Inventor: S. Lee Hancock
  • Patent number: 8510265
    Abstract: Environmental information required for configuring a data storage system for using a file mapping protocol is collected and qualified via a spreadsheet used as an input file to a configuration program. The configuration program provides a comparison of the present configuration to the new configuration specified in the spreadsheet, and provides to a system administrator an option of applying or skipping the new configuration for each of multiple classes of configuration objects including iSCSI targets on storage array controllers, file server interfaces for host access to file mapping information, file systems, and iSCSI clients on the host processors. Once the system administrator approves the selected configuration changes, the configuration utility produces a series of control commands for execution by a control command interpreter of a file server in order to change configuration settings in the file server and in the storage array controllers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: David Boone, Michael S. Traudt, Karl M. Connolly, Nagaraj Chidambarathanupillai
  • Patent number: 8495113
    Abstract: A computer implemented method, system and/or computer program product dynamically display ancillary content on a webpage. A text entry is detected as an input to a find engine that locates and highlights the text entry within a main body of a webpage being displayed on a computer. A scope of the text entry is determined based on the textual context of the text entry and the type of webpage being displayed. An in-place adjustment is then utilized to automatically retrieve and display ancillary content on the webpage based on the textual context of the text entry and the type of webpage being displayed without refreshing the main body of the webpage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lea T. Leite, Jonathan Palgon, Arun K. Ramamurthy, Roberto Vila
  • Patent number: 8495176
    Abstract: A content management system (CMS) includes a value-add application with a first set of XML content services, one or more dedicated XML processing servers with a second and other sets of XML content services, and a core CMS with a third set of XML content services. The content management system may be designed to provide XML content services at any of these three tiers of processing. A first threshold is defined that allows the value-add application to determine when to offload XML content services to a dedicated XML processing server. A second threshold is defined that allows the core CMS to determine when to offload XML content services to a dedicated XML processing server. Callback services are included that allow each tier of XML content services to send or receive additional information to complete the XML processing. The result is a content management system that is very powerful and flexible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David G. Herbeck, John E. Petri
  • Patent number: 8495093
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for dynamically adjusting node sizes in a multiway trie data structure. Upon inserting a key/value pair in a node in a multiway trie data structure that causes the number of entries in the multiway trie data structure to exceed a threshold, a splitting method is implemented. The splitting method involves doubling the width of the node in the multiway trie data structure thereby resizing the node in a resized multiway trie data structure. Furthermore, a sub-node of the original node may be split into two sections and stored in two child level nodes of the resized node under certain circumstances. Hence, only the original node and its direct successors are resized. Such a data structure outperforms hash tables by taking advantage of patterns found in the key distribution to optimize both storage requirements and access speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas Baudel
  • Patent number: 8489430
    Abstract: A system and methods for coordinating and displaying a short name of a drug are disclosed. The short name may be a subset of the prescribed drug's name, it may be an independent name, or it may be a graphical symbol. Short names for multiple drugs of a patient may be related by a common naming convention. Short names may be printed onto a reference card along with an indication corresponding to the drug's dosing regime. Short names may also be printed onto medicament container labels, additional instruction sheets, labels used for stocking and the like. The short name may be selectable and may be stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Walgreen Co.
    Inventor: J. Randolph Lewis
  • Patent number: 8489638
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product for storing data in a disk storage system is presented. A dictionary data structure is defined and stored on the disk storage system. Key-value pairs can be inserted and deleted into the dictionary data structure, with full transactional semantics, at a rate that is faster than one insertion per disk-head movement. Keys can be looked up with only a logarithmic number of transfers, even for keys that have been recently inserted or deleted. Queries can be performed on ranges of key-value pairs, including recently inserted or deleted pairs, at a constant fraction of the bandwidth of the disk. The dictionary employs indirect logging for physical block logging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignees: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Research Foundation of State University of New York
    Inventors: Bradley C. Kuszmaul, Michael A. Bender, Martin Farach-Colton
  • Patent number: 8484250
    Abstract: An organizational model of a hierarchical system can be distributed across various elements of an enterprise. Such elements include representations of the system that are maintained on higher-level business servers and other representations that serve control elements of the system such as programmable logic controllers and/or other industrial control components. In one aspect, an industrial automation system is provided. The system includes at least one controller to instantiate a portion of an organizational hierarchy. A communications component in the controller interacts with at least one other portion of the organizational hierarchy to facilitate data exchange and control between various components of an enterprise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sujeet Chand, Stephen C. Briant, Kenwood H. Hall, Gavan W. Hood, John J. Baier, Michael D. Kalan
  • Publication number: 20130173235
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of predicting appearance after undergoing a medical procedure. The present invention may be utilised to assist a patient in deciding whether to undergo a procedure, or in selecting a particular procedure to produce a desired post-procedural appearance. The present invention identifies one or more precedent cases, where the same or a similar procedure was performed. These precedent cases are then analysed to calculate an observed change for each precedent case. The observed changes are then averaged to produce a final change function. This change function can then be applied to a pre-procedural model of the relevant body part of the patient, to produce a predicted post-procedural model of the patient's body part. In this way, the post-procedural appearance of the body part can be accurately predicted, based on a statistical analysis of historical data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: MY ORTHODONTICS PTY LTD
    Inventor: Simon Freezer
  • Patent number: 8478786
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to determining a data insertion point in a data layout based on relative cardinalities between data objects and to determining a data insertion point in a data layout based on defined hierarchies between data objects. In an embodiment, a computer system receives a user input indicating that an additional portion of information is to be added to an existing data layout which includes multiple different data objects. The computer system accesses the data objects to determine relative cardinalities between the data objects in the data layout. The computer system determines an optimal data insertion point for inserting the additional portion of information based on the determined relative cardinalities between the data objects. The computer system also inserts the additional portion of information in the existing data layout at the determined optimal data insertion point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher A. Hays, Carolyn Khanh Chau, Robert A. Meyers
  • Patent number: 8478784
    Abstract: A system receives output geographic information en masse from a server. The output geographic information corresponds to input geographic information provided to the server en masse. The system builds a database that indexes at least some of the output geographic information to at least some of the input geographic information, attempts to locate specific output geographic information in the database, and determines the specific output geographic information by calculation if the specific output geographic information cannot be located in the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: SAP Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Segler, Philipp Hassler, Thorsten Bender
  • Patent number: 8478790
    Abstract: A database management system implemented in a cloud computing environment. Operational nodes are assigned as controller-nodes, compute-nodes or storage-nodes. The number of operational nodes, and their assignment as compute-nodes or storage-nodes can vary. Queries specify tables, with each such table assigned to a respective group of storage nodes. The number of operational nodes executing a given query may change by (a) changing the compute-nodegroup associated with a connection, or (b) adding or removing nodes from the compute-nodegroup; and/or distributing data from the tables among the nodes in a storage nodegroup. State information is maintained for each client connection, such that steps are executed assuming that the state exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: ParElastic Corporation
    Inventor: Mrithyunjaya Annapragada
  • Patent number: 8478785
    Abstract: In a computerized data mining context, user input relating to positive and negative information is incorporated into node proximity measurements on a weighted, directed graph. Starting from a source node, links are added to nodes for which positive feedback is received. Where negative information is received, a sink node is substituted for nodes receiving negative information. Nodes neighboring that sink node have links added to the sink. These changes yield an altered graph. Afterwards, proximity information is determined from the altered graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hani T. Jamjoom, Huiming Qu, Hanghang Tong
  • Patent number: 8473452
    Abstract: A system and method for creating a unique alias associated with an individual identified in a health care database such that health care data, and particularly pharmaceutical-related data, can be efficiently gathered and analyzed. The system has a first data store for storing at least one record where each record includes a plurality of identification fields which when concatenated uniquely identify an individual, and at least one health care field corresponding to health care data associated with the individual. The system also has a second data store, and a processor. The processor selects a record of the first data store, then selects a subset of the plurality of identification fields within the selected record, and concatenates the selected subset of identification fields. Then the processor stores the concatenated identification fields in a record in the second data store with the at least one health care field from the selected record of the first data store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: IMS Health Incorporated
    Inventors: N. Stephen Ober, John Grubmuller, Maureen Farrell, Charles Wentworth, Tom Gilbert, Kevin Barrett, Steven Davis, Erik Nordman, Randell Grenier
  • Patent number: 8468122
    Abstract: A system and method for representing, storing and retrieving real-world knowledge on a computer or network of computers is disclosed. Knowledge is broken down into permanent atomic “facts” which can be stored in a standard relational database and processed very efficiently. It also provides for the efficient querying of a knowledge base, efficient inference of new knowledge and translation into and out of natural language. Queries can also be processed with full natural language explanations of where the answers came from. The method can also be used in a distributed fashion enabling the system to be a large network of computers and the technology can be integrated into a web browser adding to the browser's functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Evi Technologies Limited
    Inventor: William Tunstall-Pedoe
  • Patent number: 8468141
    Abstract: A tangible computer-readable medium encoded with an executable set of instructions for accessing a database with a terminal is provided. A detecting code segment detects connection properties of the database. A determining code segment automatically determines, based on the connection properties of the database and from a plurality of database connectivity drivers stored in a memory, one of the plurality of database connectivity drivers that enables communication with the database. A loading code segment loads the one of the plurality of database connectivity drivers on the terminal to enable the terminal to communicate with the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Adam Schade
  • Patent number: 8468087
    Abstract: The present invention generally provides for systems and methods for netting payments and collateral. Generally, systems and methods of the present invention maximize market liquidity and minimize financial risk and collateral burdens of participants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
    Inventor: Peter Axilrod
  • Patent number: 8468123
    Abstract: The present invention involves a server for providing remote users a Lifecycle marketing system based on information in a data store of the customer enterprise. The server includes a database storing customer enterprise data. The customer enterprise data includes rules, criteria, and stages. Query software is capable of accessing data in enterprise data stores. Lifecycle definition software accesses the database and is capable of creating a lifecycle framework in the database based on information on contacts included in the enterprise data stores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Right On Interactive
    Inventors: Amol Dalvi, Stephen T. Burk
  • Publication number: 20130144916
    Abstract: Exemplary systems and methods for predictive visualization of patients are provided. In various embodiments, a system comprises a map and a location engine. The map includes a plurality of groupings and interconnections of the groupings, each grouping having one or more patient members that share biological similarities, each interconnection interconnecting groupings that share at least one common patient member, the map identifying a set of groupings and a set of interconnections having a medical characteristic of a set of medical characteristics. The location engine may be configured to determine whether a new patient shares the biological similarities with the one or more patient members of each grouping thereby enabling association of the new patient with one or more of the set of medical characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Inventor: Ayasdi, Inc.
  • Patent number: 8447782
    Abstract: In a storage processor having a provider framework, one embodiment is directed to a method for providing an object. The method includes receiving, by a data access layer of the provider framework, an object request from a client device, the object request identifying at least one object. The method includes applying, by the data access layer, a mapping module to the object request to access object data associated with the object request. The method includes generating, by the data access layer, the at least one object identified in the object request. The method includes forwarding, by the data access layer, the at least one object to the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Utkarsh Vipul, Lorenzo Bailey, Ken Kim, Yong Wang, Xuan Tang, Muhamad Djunaedi
  • Patent number: 8443004
    Abstract: A computer system and method is to manage business data and logic in a uniformed manner. It is based on the theory of total recursive functions. As a result, it is a monolith consolidating the multiple-component architecture of traditional technologies in the fields of programming language and database management. Secondly, the properties of the theory of total recursive functions are uniquely demonstrated by a set of built-in operators of the system. Therefore, it offers novel approaches to many challenges in the fields of artificial intelligence and knowledge management facing the traditional technologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Inventor: Kevin Houzhi Xu
  • Publication number: 20130117316
    Abstract: The various embodiments herein provide a method and system for modeling a data. The method for modeling data comprises steps of extracting the data from a plurality of data sources, identifying a plurality of entities from the plurality of data, defining occurrence of a relationship between the plurality of entities, capturing recurrences of the relationship between the plurality of entities based on one or more common interactions between the plurality of entities and creating a data model indicating the occurrences and recurrences of the relationship between the plurality of the entities. The data model is adapted to store data corresponding to the plurality of entities, the relationship between the plurality of entities and the common interactions between the plurality of entities. The plurality of entities includes contents of a digital data artifact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Inventor: Sridhar Gopalakrishnan
  • Patent number: 8438146
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention may provide an approach for managing electronic records in a content management system. The content management system may use a container structure to create, edit, and manage electronic records in a coordinated way. The container structure may include a master container and a plurality of sub-containers. An associated method generally may include receiving a request comprising a record and one or more properties associated with the record; determining, from the one or more properties associated with the record, a date; based on the date of the record, associating the record with a sub-container of the container structure; and managing disposition of the sub-container based on an associated policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Jean-Marc Costecalde
  • Patent number: 8434060
    Abstract: Optional components are delivered to a software platform as a database load. A component is deployed to an application server of a first system. The component comprises at least a portion of the software to be delivered as a database load to a second system that implements the software platform. A component export tool in the first system identifies database table structures and database table entries created by the deployment of the component. The component export tool generates a load delivery package based on the identified database table structures and database table entries and then exports the load delivery package to the second system. A component load tool in the second system generates application tables based on the identified database table structures in the shipment package. The database table entries are then imported into the generated application packages in the load delivery package so that the component can be loaded into the software platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Volker Driesen, Peter Eberlein
  • Patent number: 8421796
    Abstract: The present invention provides a visualization method and apparatus for multidimensional data. According to an embodiment, there is provided a visualization method for multidimensional data including a plurality of parameters to be viewed which are related to a given object, including: displaying the plurality of parameters to be viewed which are related to a given object in different layers along a Z axis of a 3-D coordinate system, wherein each of the plurality of parameters is displayed in a 2-D plane; determining one of the 2-D planes as an interested plane; and in response to focusing on an object instance of the object by a user, linking and displaying locations of the object instance on other planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Song Song, James Tien-Cheng Yeh, Jie Xin Jiao, Xiao Feng Wang, Peng Zhu, Ying Wang
  • Patent number: 8407262
    Abstract: Methods and systems for generating an entity diagram include, in one exemplary embodiment, a user using a processor that executes the program code to generate the entity diagram. The process for generating the entity diagram includes generating an entity diagram with one or more entities and one or more relationships, grouping the one or more entities by a first dimension, and grouping the one or more entities by a second dimension. The process further includes rearranging the groups based on the grouping according to the first dimension, rearranging the entities based on the grouping according to the second dimension, and adjusting one or more relationship links corresponding to the one or more relationships. After the one or more entities and relationships are rearranged and adjusted, the user may access an updated entity diagram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Shao-Hsin Hsu, Chih-Ping Sun, Zhi-Hua Sun, Jia-Bin Yian
  • Patent number: 8407253
    Abstract: A method for stabilizing a knowledge graph includes: generating a knowledge graph in which same entities in a semantic relation list between entities provided as an input are represented as a single node based on names and types of the entities; computing, on the knowledge graph, semantic similarities between all potential entity pairs of same entity types by comparing, for each potential entity pair, a type of relation associated with an entity in the entity pair and an opponent entity to the entity; and selecting, based on the semantic similarities, a representative entity from each of semantically similar entity pairs on the knowledge graph and integrating an opponent entity to the representative entity into the representative entity. The method further includes computing relation weighted values between the entities by using a graph analysis and statistic information, and adding the weighted values to the knowledge graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Pum Mo Ryu, Myung Gil Jang, HyunKi Kim, YiGyu Hwang, Soojong Lim, Jeong Heo, Chung Hee Lee, Hyo-Jung Oh, Changki Lee, Miran Choi, Yeo Chan Yoon
  • Patent number: 8402059
    Abstract: Improved Internet Directory System including an upper-level Directory Provider referencing a plurality of independently owned for-profit Category Directory Websites, the Category Directory Websites referencing websites relating to a category and being identified as participating in the System by at least a mark or URL, and including a business model imposed on the Category Directory Websites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Inventors: Susan Q. Sanders, Glen N. Sanders, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8396142
    Abstract: A system, method and computer-readable medium for encoding and decoding digital information over a channel is provided. Type Mapping is employed and is based on the partitioning of vectors over an alphabet into “types” and using enumeration for the encoding and decoding process. Type mapping allows for signal alphabets of arbitrary size and date rate flexible coding. Tradeoffs between optimal rate versus Signal to Noise Ratio are provided and works as a compliment to the Forward Error Control that may be employed in communications products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chris Heegard, Syed Nadeem Ahmed, Brian Chadwick Joseph
  • Patent number: 8392464
    Abstract: Tables are created in such a way that allows rich querying using standard database routines and other tools. Developers and repository users are provided with a set of schema guidelines that describe how the software related items are to be categorized in the tables and how to use such tables for rich querying. For example, one such guideline provides for course-grained versioning of items (e.g., artifacts, metadata, etc.)—as opposed to the fine grained object principle of unit change found in most repository systems such as the entity-property-value scheme. The developers or providers then use these guidelines to optimally categorize, in a natural way, their metadata and other software related items for storing copies thereof in the repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony C. Bloesch, Dennis W. Minium, Keith W. Short
  • Patent number: 8392969
    Abstract: A method for managing multi-tenancy database access, including receiving credentials from a user associated with a first organization and a second organization, validating the credentials received from the user, logging the user into an access module, generating a first realm ID associated with the credentials and a first access type, generating a second realm ID associated with the credentials and a second access type, storing the first realm ID, the second realm ID, and the credentials in an authentication module, generating a connection request, establishing a connection from the access module to a data repository based on the connection request, generating a first identifier associated with the first realm ID and a second identifier associated with the second realm ID after establishing the connection; and storing the first identifier, the first realm ID, the second identifier, and the second realm ID in the data repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Thom Orr Park, James Lee Showalter, Jeffrey Moreno Collins, Deepak Goel
  • Patent number: 8386538
    Abstract: A mobile device includes a file information acquiring unit, a file information display unit that displays the file information acquired on a display unit, a file presence identifying unit that determines whether or not a file specified by file information designated by a user from among the file information displayed on the display unit is stored in a storage unit, a first file transmitting unit that transmits the stored file to another mobile device when the file presence identifying unit determines that the file is stored in the internal storage unit, a file acquiring unit that downloads the file specified by the designated file information from the server when the file presence identifying unit determines that the file is not stored in the internal storage unit, and a second file transmitting unit that transmits the file acquired by the file acquiring unit to the other mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Takahiro Imamichi, Takaaki Harada
  • Patent number: 8386513
    Abstract: A computer implemented system for integrating, searching, and updating media related databases comprising a first server for receiving digital content from at least one of a plurality of sources, a second server for receiving queries from at least one of a plurality of user computing devices, and a database access layer being utilized by the first and second servers to read and write to a plurality of databases. The plurality of databases comprise a content database and a media database. The content database receives at least one article of digital content from the first server via the database access layer and stores the at least one article. The media database contains at least one journalist data and media outlet data. A mapping module matches journalist data and media outlet data to at least one journalist data and media outlet data contained in the media database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: eNR Services Inc.
    Inventors: Jon Victor, Kurt Strumpf
  • Patent number: 8386633
    Abstract: A method and system is disclosed for processing information provided from various content providers in the form objects having states subject to periodic updates. Formatted information indicating a current state of the objects are delivered to subscribing clients in substantially real-time. An information manager module is configured to receiving raw data objects from the content providers, format the information, and broadcast current state information on various broadcast data stream. A client manager module supports multiple client communication sessions and connects to at least one broadcast data stream. Current state information received on a broadcast data stream is processed and transmitted to specific clients in accordance with processing rules specified in the client profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Goldman, Sachs & Co.
    Inventors: Andrew J. R. Smith, Deane Thomas, Randy Cowan
  • Patent number: 8386532
    Abstract: A database management system implemented in a cloud computing environment. Operational nodes are assigned as groups of controller-nodes, compute-nodes or storage-nodes. Assignments as compute-nodes or storage-nodes vary during execution of queries. Queries specify tables for an associated database operation, and respective storage nodegroup(s). The number of nodes executing a query may change by (a) changing a compute-nodegroup, or (b) adding or removing nodes from a compute nodegroup; and/or distributing data to the storage nodegroup based on a Distribution Method which may be specified by a Distribution Vector (DV) that determines at least where each row is stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Parelastic Corporation
    Inventor: Mrithyunjaya Annapragada
  • Patent number: 8359340
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and tangible computer-readable media for representing media assets. The method includes receiving an original media asset and derivative versions of the original media asset and associated descriptors, determining a lineage to each derivative version that traces to the original media asset, generating a version history tree of the original media asset representing the lineage to each derivative version and associated descriptors from the original media asset, and presenting at least part of the version history tree to a user. In one aspect, the method further includes receiving a modification to one associated descriptor and updating associated descriptors for related derivative versions with the received modification. The original media asset and the derivative versions of the original media asset can share a common identifying mark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Andrea Basso, Paul Gausman, David C. Gibbon
  • Patent number: 8359327
    Abstract: A method and system for expanding a document set as a search data source in the field of business related search. The present invention provides a method of expanding a seed document in a seed document set. The method includes identifying one or more entity words of the seed document; identifying one or more topic words identifying one or more topic words related to the based entity word in the seed document where the entity word is located; forming an entity word-topic word pair from each identified topic word and the entity word on the basis of which each topic word is identified; and obtaining one or more expanded documents through web by taking the entity word and topic word in the each entity word-topic word pair as key words at the same time. A system for executing the above method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sheng Hua Bao, Jie Cui, Hui Su, Zhong Su, Li Zhang
  • Patent number: 8352521
    Abstract: In a recording medium including stacked recording layers, management data requiring reliability is recorded in the recording layer far from the surface of the recording medium and data bodies are recorded in the recording layer close to the surface of the recording medium. Thus a data file can be read even if defects such as fingerprints and scratches occur on the surface of the recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Yamashita, Katsuya Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8352498
    Abstract: A project management system manages project schedule data using separate current and historical task schedule data structures. In general, current schedule data is stored separately from historical schedule data, so that the current schedule data may be retrieved separately from the historical task schedule data. The project management system may also maintain unscheduled tasks as “to-do lists.” Tasks may be added to a member's schedule without specifying any planned dates and the tasks are added to the database. The tasks have an associated revision number of 0 to indicate that the tasks were added, but not yet scheduled. The tasks are displayed in the member schedule editor and in Web page schedules. The tasks may then be displayed in the member schedule editor and in Web page schedules in a manner that allows a user to readily determine that the tasks are “to-do list” tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Motoyama, Avery Fong
  • Patent number: 8340475
    Abstract: The present invention provides a database production method including: a representative image selection step of selecting certain images each as a representative image which represents an image content from the image content; a display processing step of causing a display apparatus to display the representative image; an operation inputting step of allowing a user to input image text information corresponding to the representative image; and a database production step of registering representative characteristic information extracted from the representative image in accordance with a predetermined extraction method and the image text information inputted at the operation inputting step in an associated relationship with each other to produce a database for acquiring, using arbitrary image characteristic information for each image extracted from an arbitrary image content in accordance with the extraction method, substance character information corresponding to an image which the arbitrary image content has.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masaru Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 8341196
    Abstract: An approach is provided for providing a contextual model based upon user context data. A context modeling platform collects context data on offline activities of a user. The context modeling platform maps the collected user context data as context data points into a multidimensional contextual model. The context modeling platform causes, at least in part, actions that result in reception of at least one multidimensional contextual model of another user. The context modeling platform compares the multidimensional contextual model of the user with the multidimensional contextual model of the another user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Pekka Immonen, Jarkko Heinonen
  • Patent number: 8341181
    Abstract: A method for performance tuning a database is described. The method includes setting a database-allowed core value between 500 megabytes and half size of memory for the database. Further, the method declares small and heavily accessed structures as memory resident structures, and sets a memory resident limit value between 0 and the database-allowed core value for the database. In addition, the method analyzes the database to determine whether read-ahead should be enabled for the data structures. The method also analyzes the database to apply a reblocking factor between 1 and 60. The method associates system buffers ranging from 1000 to 20000 with the data structures, and stores the system buffers in memory. Moreover, the method consolidates the data structures having unused space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Unisys Corporation
    Inventor: Wim te Lintum
  • Patent number: 8332380
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to search engines and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for a variable density query engine. In an embodiment of the invention, a search engine data processing system can be provided. The system can include a content index, and a variable density search engine coupled to the content index. The variable density search engine can include program code enabled to vary a density of entries in a result set according to a varying size of the result set. In this regard, in one aspect of the embodiment, the density can range from a title for each entry in the result set to a full textual description for each entry in the result set to an audiovisual element for each entry in the result set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Martin T. Moore, James K. Kebinger
  • Patent number: 8326857
    Abstract: A business intelligence (BI) server and repository are described which support a set of hierarchical relationships among the data. The BI server receives user input specifying a set of parent-child or other ancestral relationship among a set of data in a data source. The BI server generates a set of SQL queries and executes the queries to pre-populate a set of tables which specify the parent child relationships among the data in the data source. One such table is a parent-child relationship closure table that defines the inter-member relationships among the data members. Once the tables are populated, the BI server uses the closure tables to answer queries that require knowledge of the ancestral relationships among data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Roger Bolsius, Raghuram Venkatasubramanian, Ling Ni, Donko Donjerkovic, Saugata Chowdhury
  • Patent number: RE43905
    Abstract: A system, method and carrier medium for modeling a Financial Service Organization (FSO) business in a computer software program and for storing the model of the FSO business in a database. An object-oriented business model representing the FSO may be created and stored in a business model database. The one or more business objects included in the business model may be configured to describe various products, methods, functions and properties associated with an FSO. A process map business object may describe a process workflow. The process workflow may identify a sequence of tasks to be performed by an FSO production system to process an FSO transaction. The sequence of tasks associated with an FSO transaction may be consistent with pre-defined business logic for the transaction. Selecting a task object from a plurality of task objects and transferring the task object to a process map display representing the process map business object may create the process workflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Comp Sci Holdings, Limited Liability Company
    Inventor: Steven E. Bierenbaum