Patents Examined by Amresh Singh
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Patent number: 7849099Abstract: A check-out document cannot be updated by another operator unless an operator who checked out that document cancels the check-out status or checks in the document. To remove this inconvenience, document data is set in an exclusive state with respect to another user, and a password required to cancel the exclusive state is generated. The exclusive state of the document data is canceled based on an instruction of a user who instructed the exclusive state or an instruction of the other user with the password, thus updating the document data.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2007Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Mikihiko Kamekawa
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Patent number: 7849102Abstract: Real time availability data (free/busy data) is provided for potential meeting attendees and/or assets. An availability service is queried for availability data for one or more attendees and/or meeting assets. The availability service determines the identity of an electronic mailbox server on which is stored current real time calendaring data for the desired attendees and/or assets. The requested data is retrieved by the availability service from one or more mailbox servers having data for each attendee and/or asset. Potential attendees may set permissions on their respective availability data to restrict the amount and types of data that may be retrieved by a given data requester. Data queries and data responses may be structured according to the Extensible Markup Language (XML) and application programming interfaces (API) may be exposed for allowing requesting applications to efficiently call the availability service for availability data.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2005Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Dan Murillo, Jason Mayans, Suryanarayana Murty Gorti, William R. Avery, Alvin Mok
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Patent number: 7840558Abstract: A unique system and method that facilitates searching for items offered for sale or otherwise in an online classifieds environment. The system and method involve allowing a user to search for such items according to the item's location or geo-tag information. The geo-tag information for each item can be approximate such as the city, state, or zip code or more specific such as the street address where the item is located. The amount of geo-tag information disclosed to any other user can depend on the type of item being offered. One or more geo-tagged items can be returned in response to a query. The items can be returned in a list or a map format wherein the items can be pinpointed according to their locations. The map of the area around and near the item's location can provide useful information to the user to facilitate determining which item(s) to pursue.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2005Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Garry R. Wiseman, Mark Atherton
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Patent number: 7836060Abstract: A multi-way nested search utilizes one or more knowledge bases to allow a search engine to search through a database of target documents to find the best match for a given situation. In one node of the search, a user can input one or more search terms in an input string that can be searched against the database of target documents to select and score a resulting set of documents. In another node, a reference document can be input and search terms extracted for searching against the database of target documents to select and score a resulting set. In yet another node, a reverse search can be conducted in which the reference document is scored against the result set of target documents from the reference document search. These various search results and scores can be combined using combining functions to ultimately produce the most relevant set of target documents for the user. The user can control how much weigh is given to each search.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2007Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Monster Worldwide, Inc.Inventor: Earl Rennison
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Patent number: 7836088Abstract: A relationship engine provides for the management of relationship information between entities. The relationship information indicates the level (or degree) of relationship between an entity and another entity or entities. The relationship engine allows applications to access the relationship information that is being managed by the relationship engine. For example, when an application needs to process an interaction between one entity and another entity, the application can query the relationship engine for the relationship between the entities. The application can then base its processing behavior at least in part on the relationship information obtained from the relationship engine.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2006Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Ankur Chavda, Justin M. Maguire, Mickey Monaghan, Lola Jacobsen
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Patent number: 7827180Abstract: A system assigns identities to received content portions by determining if the content portion has an assigned content identifier, and if so, applying the assigned content identifier to the content portion received. If the content portion does not have an assigned content identifier, the system selects an unassigned content identifier, from the set of unassigned content identifiers, for assignment to the content portion and assigns the unassigned content identifier to the content portion so that the unassigned content identifier becomes an assigned content identifier in a set of assigned content identifiers. The system associates a persistence metric to the assigned content identifier. The persistence metric indicates an importance of longevity of the assignment between the content portion and the content identifier. The system performs a recover operation to unassign content identifiers in the set of assigned content identifier based on a persistence metric of those assigned content identifiers.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2005Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Intenational Business Machines CorporationInventors: Heather D. Achilles, Nicholas D. Matsakis, Patrick R. McManus, Eugene Kuznetsov
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Patent number: 7827206Abstract: A rules change management system and method. The system comprises a first computing system comprising a first memory system. The first memory system comprises a rules change management engine. The first computing system receives a set of meta-rules associated with rules stored in a second memory system within a second computing system. The set of meta-rules are stored in the first memory system. The computing system receives a request to change a rule of the rules. The rules change management engine applies at least one associated meta-rule of the set of meta-rules to the request. The rules change management engine determines if the request may be executed based on the applying.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2005Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Peter Holmes, Joshy Joseph, Naveen Sachdeva
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Patent number: 7818287Abstract: Disclosed is a storage management system including at least one client, a first server having a primary storage, a second server having a secondary storage, and an intermediate device logically arranged between the client and the first and second servers. The primary storage includes a stub file in which there is recorded the position information of the real file migrated from the primary storage to the secondary storage. The intermediate device exercises control so that, when a file access request of the primary storage of a first server, issued by the client, is received by the intermediate device, the intermediate device receives the file access request and, if the file to be accessed is a stub file, and the access request necessitates accessing to the real file, the intermediate device accesses the real file of the secondary storage using the information of the stub file to return a response.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2005Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Takashi Torii, Satoshi Yamakawa, Yoshihiro Kajiki
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Patent number: 7818354Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a content reproduction apparatus for accessing desired content with a simple user operation. The content reproduction apparatus has a flash memory for storing content, a flash memory reader, a CODEC, an amplifier, and headphones for reproducing this content, a microcomputer system for controlling these components. The microcomputer reproduces group identification information for identifying each of content groups and detects key operations during the reproduction of group identification information, thereby reproducing other group identification information.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2006Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shin Kuramoto, Takanao Komori
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Patent number: 7809688Abstract: Systems and methods for generating incremental backups are provided. In one implementation a method is provided. The method includes receiving, while a current view is displayed in a user interface, a first user input requesting that a history view associated with the current view be displayed. The history view is displayed in response to the first user input, the history view including at least a first visual representation of an earlier version of the current view, the earlier version including a first element. A second user input is received while the history view is displayed. The second user input requests that the current view be modified according to the earlier version, at least with regard to the first element.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2006Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Pavel Cisler, Steve Ko, Kevin Tiene, Mike Matas, Gregory N. Christie, Gene Zyrl Ragan, Robert Ulrich, Scott Forstall, Marcel Mwa van Os
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Patent number: 7809687Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for searching. In one implementation, a method is provided. A current view of a search application is displayed in a user interface. The current view of the search application includes a search result including one or more elements. A first user input is received while the current view of a search application is displayed. The first user input requests that a history view associated with the current view of the search application be displayed. The history view includes search results based on a search of system data from an archive. The history view is displayed in response to the first user input, the history view including search results having a first item not present in the one or more elements.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2006Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Pavel Cisler, Yan Arrouye, Dominic Giampaolo, Dave Lyons, Peter McInerney
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Patent number: 7809761Abstract: A system and method of tracking a data object of a data management system. A tracking object is associated with a first data object, the tracking object including a first status data having a first status value representing a status of the first data object. Upon the creation and/or modification of a second data object that is associated with the first data object, the first status data is automatedly updated with a second status value based on the creating and/or modifying of the second data object.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2005Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: IDX Investment CorporationInventor: John R. Ferguson
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Patent number: 7801927Abstract: This invention is to provide a technique for properly correcting video metadata related to and synchronized with the video. This video metadata correction apparatus includes: a section identification unit that identifies a section including incorrect video metadata based on information concerning video metadata in a first video metadata storage for storing the information concerning the video metadata as sensor information synchronized with video and a first video feature value, which correlates with the information concerning the video metadata and is extracted from the video; and a corrector that corrects the video metadata in the identified section based on the first video feature value or a second video feature value, which correlates with the information concerning the video metadata and is extracted from the video. In this manner, only an incorrectly measured part can be corrected in an effective manner.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2006Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Soutaro Kaneko, Masami Mizutani, Eishi Morimatsu
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Patent number: 7797330Abstract: The present invention is provided with a text string/material correspondence table in which material data for creating computer graphics is associated with a set of the material names of material data, and a hierarchical structural description which describes a feature of material data in a hierarchical structure. Material data corresponding to the feature is searched using the hierarchical structural description when a feature is input, searched material data is stored, and searched material data and the material name of material data are registered with the text string/material correspondence table. Material data corresponding to the material name is acquired using the text string/material correspondence table when a material name is input, and computer graphics are created using acquired material data.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2005Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Koichi Emura, Toshiyuki Tanaka, Yuji Okada, Katsunao Takahashi
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Patent number: 7792840Abstract: Disclosed relates to a structure of two-level n-gram inverted index and methods of building the same, processing queries and deriving the index that reduce the size of n-gram inverted index and improves the query performance by eliminating the redundancy of the position information that exists in the n-gram inverted index. The inverted index of the present invention comprises a back-end inverted index using subsequences extracted from documents as a term and a front-end inverted index using n-grams extracted from the subsequences as a term. The back-end inverted index uses the subsequences of a specific length extracted from the documents to be overlapped with each other by n?1 (n: the length of n-gram) as a term and stores position information of the subsequences occurring in the documents in a posting list for the respective subsequences.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2006Date of Patent: September 7, 2010Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologyInventors: Kyu-Young Whang, Min-Soo Kim, Jae-Gil Lee, Min-Jae Lee
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Patent number: 7779013Abstract: A system and method for determining a quantitative measure of search efficiency of related Web pages. An information goal is specified. A target Web page is identified within a plurality of Web pages. The information goal is searched via a search function in the Web pages to identify potential Web pages that include at least one hyperlink referencing and proximal cues relating to distal content included in another potential Web page. An activation network is formed. A directed graph is built, including nodes corresponding to the potential Web pages and arcs corresponding to the hyperlinks. A weight is assigned to each arc to represent a probability of traversal of the corresponding hyperlink based on a relatedness of keywords in the information goal to the proximal cues. A traversal through the activation network to the node corresponding to the target Web page is evaluated as a quantitative measure of search efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2005Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Ed H. Chi, William S. Liu
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Patent number: 7743049Abstract: The present invention provides a content data retrieval apparatus capable of appropriately narrowing down the range of search targets even in the case where a distribution of attribute values of a group of contents regarded as search targets is uneven.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2005Date of Patent: June 22, 2010Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Tadashi Yoshida, Hitoshi Araki, Yoshiteru Kawasaki, Masato Yuda, Kazuya Nomura
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Patent number: 7680865Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus and an image processing method, which can improve security and reinforce privacy protection for cache data and management data generated when an operator employs a browser function, and which can efficiently utilize storage resources of the apparatus. In the image processing apparatus having a browser function, data generated by an operator employing the browser function is stored in the RAM. Herein, it is determined whether or not the operator employing the browser function is a particular operator such as a system administrator. In a case where the browser function is employed by an operator other than the particular operator, the data stored in the RAM is deleted. Meanwhile, in a case of the particular operator, the data is stored in a hard disk drive (HDD).Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2005Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hirohiko Tashiro, Satoshi Ookuma, Kaori Yamada