Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to data management apparatuses and methods of an energy management system. In some embodiments, the data management apparatus includes: a control unit configured to process data collected from a power system; and a real-time database composed of the processed data. The control unit may receive an input for entry selection for data inquiry on the real-time database irrespective of a hierarchy of a data entry and inquire data from the real-time database based on the received input.

Abstract: A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for managing a computing environment, such as a cloud data repository. In some embodiments, such may include modifying an object or a component of an object at runtime and storing the modified object or modified component of an object in a storage device. In some embodiments, the component of an object being modified may include traits. In some embodiments, traits may be hierarchical data structures, including hierarchical data structures having more than one version. These hierarchical data structures may also contain or be associated with metadata, and may also make up the metadata of a host object. Embodiments provide that policies may be applied to these traits.

Abstract: An embodiment provides a real-time or dynamic collaborative computer data collection form prototype builder. An embodiment integrates several concepts in order to streamline the computer data collection form development process. In an embodiment a dataset is used to collect data entry form requirements and attributes about the user interface which are used by a program to render a computer data collection form. Change implementation is facilitated by permitting changes in the underlying data set to be reflected in the computer data collection form, e.g., as re-rendered by the system.

Abstract: The capturing of rich database metadata includes: capturing partitioned column metadata of a database as mappings defined by a plurality of constraint statements; defining non-standard user-defined types of the database according to a schema; defining physical representations of columns of the database according to the schema; and storing the defined mappings, the defined user-defined types, and the defined physical representations of columns to a catalog of the database. Application enumerated data values in the database may also be defined according to the XML schema and stored to the catalog of the database. In this manner, the database management system may manage application constraints, user-defined types, and physical representations of data for applications referencing the same database using the metadata information stored in the catalog of the database.

Abstract: An item record in an item database contains an item description generated by a seller of an item. A server machine is configured to access the item database, analyze the item description, and extract descriptive information by inferring an attribute and a corresponding attribute value from the item description. The attribute and its attribute value constitute an attribute-value pair. The server machine uses the attribute-value pair to map the item record to a product record stored in a product database. The mapping of the item record to the product record is based on comparing the attribute-value pair of the item record to a reference attribute-value pair in the product record to identify the product record. The mapping is performed upon detection of a match between the attribute-value pairs.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of transferring content from a file and a database. In this case, the file includes content instances, each content instance being associated with a respective field, and each field having a respective type. The transfer is achieved by determining the type of each field, and then storing each content instance in a store in accordance with the determined field type of the associated field. Each content instance can then be transferred to the database in accordance with the determined field type. A similar procedure is provided for creating XML files based on content within the database.

Abstract: Reshaping of streams is provided to facilitate utilizing the streams without rapidly increasing memory requirements as the size of the stream increases. The streams can be pushed to alternative storage upon being reshaped, for example, such as to a persistent storage. If the streams lose structure, for example if a hierarchical stream is reshaped into a flat structure for storage in a database, structural information can be stored along with the streams and utilized to shape the stream to its original structure upon request for data, for example. Streams can be pulled from an exposing device or application, and portions of the stream can be transformed and stored according to a set of stop elements; the stop elements can be associated with functions that take action on the stream upon reaching a stop element, such as transforming and storing a portion thereof.

Abstract: Computer-implemented methods for mapping an element of a source information model to an element of a target information model, forming a cluster of elements for mapping across information models, and evaluating a mapping of elements across information models, and a system and computer program product thereof. The method of mapping an element of a source information model to an element of a target information model includes: receiving information for mapping a first element in a source cluster to an element in the target information model; mapping the first element to the target element using the received information for mapping the first element to the target element; and mapping all other elements in the source cluster to the target element.

Abstract: In one embodiment the present invention includes a computer-implemented method of improving performance of schema matching. The method includes storing a matching topology that maps a first data structure to a second data structure. The method further includes identifying a first portion of the matching topology that is a candidate for improvement as determined according to an incidence graph. The method further includes rewriting the first portion of the matching topology with a second portion according to the incidence graph.

Abstract: The invention concerns a system and method for implementing and/or administering a competitive rewards database. Member data is received from at least one member computer via a data feed. The (raw) member data is automatically mapped and incorporated into the competitive rewards database. A data capture tool, preferably coupled to a data network, is operable to adjust the mapping of member data. A rewards workbench, preferably coupled to a data network, is generally operable to query the competitive rewards database.

Abstract: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for composing information into a generic information cell structure, which includes an information vacuole and a cell, is provided. In another embodiment, attaching generic tags, which correspond to the generic information cell structure, is provided. In another embodiment, generating structural and positional identification, fetching information characteristics, decomposing an information element into an atom class, processing the information element, and forming a native data manipulation statement, is provided. In another embodiment, a data repository, which includes an information element name and an atom type is provided. In yet another embodiment, a data directory, which includes a cell structure storage location identification, is provided. In one embodiment, a method of routing data by receiving a data store location identification for information, is provided. The data store identification may be externally defined and/or run-time defined.

Abstract: To perform economics management, data relating to reservoir-related services is received from a plurality of data sources. The received data is mapped into a cube-based data structure. In response to a query, data is retrieved from the cube-based data structure.

Abstract: A system for database redirection having a first machine where a database may be partitioned into several sub-schemas. Some of the sub-schemas may be moved to other machines for storage and access according to machine performance, size, availability, location, security technology type, and/or other criteria. Partitioning databases and moving or assigning resulting sub-schemas to the same or other machines may be done at an application start-up or during run-time of the first machine.

Abstract: A navigation technique for a vehicle employs an inertial reference system to derive a first position indication and a first velocity value. A first receiver processes signals of a global positioning system from which a second position indication and a second velocity value are derived. A second receiver processes signals from a plurality of distance measuring equipment stations at fixed positions on the earth and determines the distance between the vehicle and each of those stations. A third position indication is derived from those distances. A Kalman filter function is applied to the first, second and third position indications and to the first and second velocity values to compensate for uncertainty in the first position indication and in the first velocity value and thereby produce a vehicle position estimate and a vehicle velocity estimate.

Abstract: A method of searching and downloading mobile telephone file, a server of the locality domain of a mobile terminal receives a keyword information of a searching request, searches the resource in the mobile communication network, and returns the searched resource list to the mobile terminal, the mobile terminal receives data resource information selected by user according as the resource list, he mobile terminal sends the request of downloading the needed resource to the server of the locality domain, and the server of the domain of the mobile terminal sends the resource to the mobile terminal. An apparatus of searching and downloading mobile telephone lie is provided also, which includes a storage, a receiving mould, a sending mould, a request mould, and can also include a data base, a communication interface and a statistic mould. A system of searching and downloading mobile telephone file is provided also.

Abstract: An item record in an item database contains an item description generated by a seller of an item. A server machine is configured to access the item database, analyze the item description, and extract descriptive information by inferring an attribute and a corresponding attribute value from the item description. The attribute and its attribute value constitute an attribute-value pair. The server machine uses the attribute-value pair to map the item record to a product record stored in a product database. The mapping of the item record to the product record is based on comparing the attribute-value pair of the item record to a reference attribute-value pair in the product record to identify the product record. The mapping is performed upon detection of a match between the attribute-value pairs.

Abstract: A method for archiving biomedical data generated by a data collection device, includes the steps of automatically determining a data format in which the collection device is configured to store the biomedical data onto a computer-readable storage medium, based on the data format, extracting the biomedical data from the storage medium, and transmitting the extracted data to a database in which the extracted data is archived.

Abstract: A method for consistently and dynamically mapping and maintaining a customized method set of tags particular to an extension point page, includes: extending static customized method content to the extension point page by: mapping static customized method content to an extension point page; wherein the extension point page is configured with collaborative content and dynamic content; filtering the dynamic content based on a set of tags associated with the extension point page; synchronizing the extension point page's tags to ensure that the dynamic content rendered in the extension point page has a set of updated tags to retrieve current syndicated content; wherein a method author defines the extension point page in the customized method; and wherein a method user views the extension point page.

Abstract: A network operating center for a network comprising known-location and unknown-location nodes can be configured to receive from each unknown-location node estimates of the distances from that node to each of its neighbor nodes. The network controller can then choose an initial location estimate for each unknown-location node and compute distances from the initial location estimates to the corresponding neighbor nodes. The network operating center can then choose subsequent location estimates of the unknown-location nodes by minimizing an error criterion based on a comparison of the received neighbor node distance estimates with the computed neighbor node distances.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for identifying and assessing public health events, and a corresponding system and apparatus, includes capturing public health-related information from structured and unstructured sources, where the information is contained in one or more documents, extracting meta-data from the captured public health-related information, creating an index of the extracted meta-data; archiving the meta-data and the documents, where the index links meta-data to its associated document, processing the extracted meta-data according to one or more detection algorithms to determine if an anomaly exists, and where an anomaly exists, providing a public health event notification, and monitoring and evaluating the responses to the public health events.

Abstract: A system and method for providing a factuality assessment of a retrieved information source's statement are disclosed. The method includes receiving a user's query which identifies an information source whose statements are to be retrieved, retrieving documents which refer to the information source, mapping statements in the retrieved documents to their authors, identifying as information source statements, the mapped statements that are mapped to an author which is compatible with the information source, and for at least one of the information source's statements, assessing a factuality of the information source's statement according to the information source.

Abstract: An XPath expression is converted into a tree-based representation where each node represents an operation to be performed and the links between nodes in the tree represent the flow of data between operations. The conversion may involve creating a parse tree for the XPath expression, and then converting the parse tree into an operator tree. The operator tree is constructed in such a way that execution of the XPath expression begins at the leaf nodes of the operator tree, and the results are then passed up the tree. After each node is executed, the results are either (1) passed to a filter that filters the results with a predicate statement or (2) passed to another node to be operated upon. This occurs until no nodes remain to be executed.

Abstract: A digital video apparatus includes a media receiver, a first storage device, and an index information generating module. The media receiver is used for receiving a media stream. The first storage device is coupled to the media receiver for storing the media stream received by the media receiver. The index information generating module is coupled to the media receiver for sequentially indexing the media stream to generate index information.

Abstract: Methods and systems for analyzing an image, such as a newspaper or magazine pager or the like including text by mapping the image to determine regions of text and analyzing portions of the image in accordance with characteristics of selected regions of the text to develop a desired ordering of at least the selected regions in accordance with a textual relationship between the selected regions. The desired order may be related to the order in which the selected regions, and or words therein, are to be presented in a different format appropriate for a specific use, such by a human reader, for transferring the text over a network, for use in a database or by a search function, word processor or printer. Normalizing, columnizing, regionalizing, frameset building and article tracing functions may be used to develop the desired order in related regions in an article within the image.

Abstract: Mapping XML elements to complex relational database structures. One method includes acts for storing mark-up language representations of data in a complex relational database structure. The method includes receiving an XSD document. The XSD document defines at least one type that should be mapped to a complex relational database type. The XSD document is mapped to a relational database structure. An XML document is received. The XML document is interpreted according to the XSD document. One or more elements of the XML document are mapped to complex relational database elements based on mapping of the XSD document to the relational database structure.

Abstract: A method and system for processing a schema mapping M from a source schema S to a target schema T by executing program code on a processor of a computer system. A schema mapping M? from T to S is determined via processing the schema mapping M. The schema mapping M includes at least one constraint ?. Each constraint ? consists of a source-to-target tuple-generating dependencies (s-t tgd). The schema mapping M? includes at least one constraint ??. Each constraint ?? consists of a disjunctive tgd with constants and inequalities among the constants. The schema mapping M? is stored in at least one computer usable storage device of the computer system and/or is outputted in at least one output device of the computer system.

Abstract: Provided are techniques for data deduplication. A chunk of data and a mapping of boundaries between file data and meta data in the chunk of data are received. The mapping is used to split the chunk of data into a file data stream and a meta data stream and to store file data from the file data stream in a first file and to store meta data from the meta data stream in a second file, wherein the first file and the second file are separate files. The file data in the first file is deduplicated.

Abstract: A solution is provided that allows a user to provide an alternate set of metadata for any number of data points within a report, while in a report design environment. They may lay down a grid on the work area and specify the data by placing the relevant dimensional metadata, extracted from the source, in the grid as row headings and column headings. The user may then select either a column or a row from the grid and upon doing so may be provided with a mechanism to define alternate metadata that can describe all data points that are in the column or row in the target system. This allows for a much more user-friendly environment in which to specify metadata mappings between internal sources and external sources.

Abstract: A method of generating a searchable database system for storing and querying Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents is disclosed. A Document Type Description (DTD) associated with one or more XML documents is analyzed to determine a scope of XML documents defined by the DTD. A first set of elements associated with the DTD is identified. The first set of elements is mapped to a relational database. A second set of elements associated with the DTD to be stored in an XML database is identified. A collection of classes is created such that each class defines an object schema. The classes are mapped to a set of corresponding tables, and foreign and primary keys associated with the corresponding tables are identified.

Abstract: A network address mapping system is described. The network address mapping system can identify a set of Web pages, collects information from the Web pages indicating geographical locations (“geolocations”), and correlate the geolocations with the network addresses from which the identified Web pages are served. The collected information can be weighted based on various factors, such as its relative position in a Web page. The collected information can then be used to identify a geolocation. The network mapping system can deduce geolocations for portions of ranges of network addresses based on the score, and can infer geolocations for other portions based on the deduced geolocations. This mapping can then be stored in a database and provided as a geomapping service. The network address mapping system is able to map network addresses to geographical locations.

Abstract: A structured method of matching schemas that uses multiple levels of ontologies is disclosed. The method maps functions of a target system to a process ontology and maps functions of a source system to the process ontology to produce a first mapping of target functions and source functions using the process ontology. The method identifies target function parameters upon which the target functions operate and identifies source function parameters upon which the source functions operate. Then, the method maps the target function parameters to a concept ontology and maps the source function parameters to the concept ontology to produce a second mapping of the target function parameters and the source function parameters using the concept ontology. This second mapping is enhanced by mapping the target function parameters to a data-type ontology and mapping the source function parameters to the data-type ontology.

Abstract: A computerized stored library of a plurality of database mappings is provided. Each database mapping represents the manner in which fields of a source database maps to fields of a target database. When a source database needs to be mapped to a target database, one or more of the database mappings are selected from the library and used to perform a mapping. Data transformations may be performed on one or more of the fields of the source database during the mapping.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for using a federated ontology as an index to enterprise knowledge are provided. The method includes receiving a request for the enterprise knowledge, mapping the request to a concept within the federated ontology, and searching the federated ontology for the concept to identify one or more data sources holding the enterprise knowledge. The method further includes retrieving the enterprise knowledge from the identified one or more data sources as search result data, and returning the search result data.

Abstract: Pre-processing mapping information for efficient decomposition of an XML document for storage in a database. A mapping document is received that describes how all of (or a portion of) an XML document is to decomposed, the mapping document is transformed into a data structure for decomposing an XML document, and the data is made persistent for use with a subsequent decomposition operation that decomposes an XML document.

Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for modularizing data flows and for providing stand-alone execution of incomplete data flows are provided based on an improved data warehousing framework. Data flow modularization and code reuse is improved through the use of the disclosed flowlets and allows for consistent and efficient standalone testing of incomplete data flows. The disclosed details enable various refinements and modifications according to system design considerations.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system and a computer-implemented method for modifying an entry name in a directory database. The method comprises the steps of: modifying, in response to a request for modifying operation of entry names, entry mapping information in accordance with the modification that is requested for modifying operation of entry names, wherein each piece of entry mapping information is used for indicating the correspondence relation between pre-modification entry name information and post-modification entry name information; asynchronously performing modifying operation of a corresponding entry name in accordance with respective pieces of entry mapping information when a predetermined condition for updating the directory database is met.

Abstract: A method and computer-based system for retrieving, accessing and storing data otherwise stored in a plurality of IT systems arranged for operating a part of one or more electrical power networks. The method and computer-based system provide integration of otherwise separate systems such as GIS, SCADA, ERP and/or CMMS. The integration includes an XML/CIM layer for data exchange and a virtual asset register containing references to objects representing assets in the power networks. A human-machine interface and a computer program for carrying out the method.

Abstract: An apparatus for managing content including a property-modeling unit for defining properties in a predetermined format according to the content types, a category-managing-unit for creating categories mapped to the content type, a UI-providing unit for providing a screen on which property-information values are input according to the types of the generated categories, a mapping unit for mapping the property-information values to a predetermined content file. The property-information value includes one or more sets of information regarding the authority information and/or the price model of the content where each set is capable of including both the authority information and the price model.

Abstract: Various systems and methods for data exchange are provided. As just one example, a method for data exchange that includes identifying at least one target data receptacle and at least two source data receptacles are described. In addition, the exemplary method includes providing a map that includes a relationship between a source element of one of the source data receptacles and a target element of the target data receptacle, and between a source element of another source data receptacle and another target element of the target data receptacle.

Abstract: Embodiments are provided for associating a virtual column with a target physical table. The data for the virtual column originates from a source physical table where the data physically resides. In this way, users can access the data in a manner consistent with the users' logical perspective of the data.

Abstract: An XML wrapper queries an XML document in an on-the-fly manner so that only parent nodes in the document that satisfy the query are extracted and then unnested. The parent nodes and associated descendent nodes are located using XPath expressions contained as options in data definition language (DDL) statements. The parent nodes satisfying the query and associated descendent nodes are extracted and stored outside of a database according to a relational schema. The wrapper facilitates applications that use convention SQL queries and views to operate on that information stored according to the relational schema. The wrapper also responds to query optimizer requests for costs associated with queries against external data sources associated with the wrapper.