Patents Examined by Anteneh Girma
  • Patent number: 8560538
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a content database storing contents with metadata and a keyword associated with each content, the metadata which accompanies each content and includes a plurality of items of data, a user database storing user identifiers with a specific item of the metadata associated with each user identifier, an acquiring unit acquiring new content and new metadata, an identifier extracting unit extracting a user identifier from the new metadata, a specific item specifying unit specifying a specific item associated with the extracted user identifier based on the user database, a keyword extracting unit extracting from the content database keywords associated with data identical to data of the specific item in the new metadata, a keyword selecting unit selecting a keyword from the extracted keywords, and a registration unit registering in the content database the selected keyword in association with the new content and the new metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shibata, Hiroyuki Sasaki
  • Patent number: 8560367
    Abstract: A system for managing litigation documents including a computer-readable medium having a litigation management application. The application has computer-executable instructions for managing documents. The system includes a server that executes the instructions for managing documents on the computer-readable medium. The system has a database containing document information. The database is arranged with the server such that the server can access and modify document information in the database. The application includes a first documents tab that receives inputs from a first user to upload documents to the database for display in the first documents tab. The application has a second documents tab that receives inputs from a second user. The application generates a notification for delivery to the second user when the first user uploads a document to the database. The application can display the document in the second documents tab when the first user uploads the document to the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Mercury Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Roth, Aaron Yaffa
  • Patent number: 8560569
    Abstract: Accordingly a method and interface allows an attribute data base used by an Information Manager to be quickly populated and accurately maintained. A single Bulk Attribute Retrieval Request triggers the primary storage device to collect object attribute information. The method allows for selective collection of objects and attributes by providing filters and attribute lists in the Requests. The Request may be used to provide an incremental scan with appropriate time stamp filtering. In addition, the size of the results can be controlled by the IM by eliminating attributes that are not of interest to the IM. The Request is advantageously issued over a FileMover interface, which is an HTTP connection, and encoded in XML, allowing the IM to easily customize the Request as desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Ivan Basov, Christian J. Chuba, Stephen A. Fridella, Uday K. Gupta, Xiaoye Jiang, Christopher Stacey, Jiannan Zheng, Eyal Zimran
  • Patent number: 8554782
    Abstract: A novel system, computer readable storage medium and method for creating re-usable queries over complex data including hierarchies, trees and graphs is described. This is achieved by an object-oriented query language, where a class is a logical property of a data item, and inheritance is implication between such properties. Virtual method calls execute all relevant method implementations in most specific classes. Expressions can be multi-valued, thus avoiding the need for naming intermediate results. All constructs closely follow the syntax of mainstream object-oriented languages like Java.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Semmle Limited
    Inventors: Mathieu Verbaere, Oege De Moor, Elnar Hajiyev
  • Patent number: 8554784
    Abstract: Discovering peer-to-peer content using metadata streams involves capturing, for each of a plurality of devices, a content and metadata stream that describes a context of the content. The metadata streams are sent to a metadata repository contemporaneously with the capture of the content by the respective devices. Network queries of the streaming metadata are enabled via the metadata repository, and, in response to the network queries, peer-to-peer access of the content is facilitated from one or more of the devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Jukka Kalevi Nurminen, Olli Johannes Karonen, Heikki Juiiani Kokkinen
  • Patent number: 8554793
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for providing custom settings in an on-demand service environment. In an embodiment and by way of example, a method providing custom settings in an on-demand service environment is provided. The method embodiment includes naming the custom object, creating fields for the custom object, assigning a behavior for each field, setting the custom object to a specified type, and if the custom object is of a hierarchical type, then assigning permissions to users with regarding the created fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Richard Unger, Fiaz Hossain, Taggart C Matthiesen, Craig Weissman
  • Patent number: 8554725
    Abstract: Data replication includes generating replication data that is part of a replicated file system to be sent over a communication channel to a destination replication device; adding additional verification information to at least a portion of the replication data to prevent data corruption; and sending the replication data and the additional verification information over the communication channel to the destination replication device. The replication data with additional verification information is sent over the communication channel using a reliable protocol that allows the replication data to be verified by the reliable protocol at the destination replication device. The reliable protocol is a protocol capable of detecting most but not all data corruption introduced by the communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventor: Haihong Wang
  • Patent number: 8543613
    Abstract: Additional information is provided in a checkpoint image such that direct pointers can be included in the checkpoint image. Thus, an in-memory database management system can be restored from the checkpoint image in the event of a failure without causing any significant performance drawbacks to the database management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Vilho T. Raatikka
  • Patent number: 8533176
    Abstract: A method of searching data on a computer system includes accepting a search query, searching multiple applications on the computer system for data related to the search query wherein the data can be in a variety of formats and displaying search results wherein the search results comprise data related to the search query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Prabhat Pandey, Sachin Jindal, Neelkamal Tyagi, Sutirtha Saha, Imran Basha
  • Patent number: 8533221
    Abstract: Methods of providing services using a web marketing platform are described. The web marketing platform acts as a proxy associated with a host company and can intercept traffic passing to and from the host company. In an embodiment, an interface is provided which enables clients to easily request services. One example service is the provision of targeted content to users within web pages from sites hosted by the host company and in such an example, the actual content can be analyzed in real time to provide improved targeting based on the content, user behavior or any other criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: 5th Tier Limited
    Inventors: Brewster Fahys Barclay, Rufus Simon Tobias Evison
  • Patent number: 8527487
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for automatic construction of information organization structure for related information browsing. The method comprises: inputting a target entity; retrieving information objects related to the target entity from an information object set; extracting topics related to the target entity; searching an existing structure resource to identify existing structures and entities which are relevant to the target entity based on the extracted topics; and selecting a matched structure, which is used for organizing the retrieved information objects related to the target entity, from the identified existing structures by comparing the target entity with each of the identified entities. Compared with the prior arts, the present invention can largely improve the readability of the relevant generated information organization structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: NEC (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Changjian Hu, Kai Zhao, Min Zhao, Likun Qiu
  • Patent number: 8527546
    Abstract: Additional information is provided in a checkpoint image such that direct pointers can be included in the checkpoint image. Thus, an in-memory database management system can be restored from the checkpoint image in the event of a failure without causing any significant performance drawbacks to the database management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Vilho T. Raatikka
  • Patent number: 8527517
    Abstract: A knowledge base system is provided which includes a relations table which includes slots for a predicate identifier and first and second arguments of a respective relation. Each predicate identifier encodes a key for a respective entry in a predicate table. The predicate identifier also encodes argument types for the two arguments in the respective row of the relations table. Some of the argument types are associated with respective linked tables. This allows one of the arguments in a row of the relations table to serve as a key to an entry in the respective linked table on the condition that the predicate identifier for that row encodes the associated argument type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Salah Ait-Mokhtar
  • Patent number: 8527478
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention relate generally to updating of interconnected features stored in a repository while maintaining highly consisting views of the repository data. More specifically, the invention relates to updating some features in bulk while providing for incremental updates for other features which are not completely independent of the bulk edits. The bulk edits are grouped into stages or “epochs” associated with various manageable states, including, for example, a building state, an approval state, a live state, and an abandoned state. The current view of the data is thus based on the status of each of the epochs. At the same time, incremental edits may be performed where the incremental edits are independent of the current live bulk epoch. This allows the system to maintain consistent views of the data until an entire group of features moves into the live state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Seth Goldman, David Eustis, Tudor Hulubei, John Danaher
  • Patent number: 8521773
    Abstract: A method and system for web mining and clustering is described. The method includes receiving and dividing input data into a plurality of primitive datasets. Additionally, one or more combinations of the plurality of primitive datasets may be created. Further, a model for each primitive dataset in the plurality of primitive datasets and each of the one or more combinations of the plurality of primitive datasets may be generated. Subsequently, a cost associated with a model corresponding to each primitive dataset in the plurality of primitive datasets, and each of the one or more combinations of the plurality of primitive datasets may be computed. Further, a sum of the costs associated with the models corresponding to each primitive dataset in the plurality of primitive datasets may be compared with the cost associated with each model corresponding to each of the one or more combinations of the plurality of primitive datasets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: NBCUniversal Media, LLC
    Inventors: Scott Charles Evans, Abha Moitra, Thomas Stephen Markham, Steven Matt Gustafson
  • Patent number: 8515897
    Abstract: A method and program product for automatically generating reports matching user interests represented in a dynamically adjusted user interest analytic model (UIAM). A Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) query is generated based on a user visit to a business intelligence application. Based on initial user visit(s), a cube-based UIAM is constructed by including a representation of a first set of user interest(s) in a first set of UIAM item(s). The cube-based UIAM is transformed into a data warehouse-based UIAM. Based on subsequent user visit(s), UIAM items are updated to represent a second set of user interest(s) and UIAM item scores are adjusted to specify how frequently and recently user interests are indicated by the user visits. An update of data in the data warehouse is detected. Reports representative of user interest(s) represented by the updated UIAM items having the top k scores are generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Xue F. Gao, Anh Q. Lu
  • Patent number: 8515982
    Abstract: Methods and systems for interacting with multiple three-dimensional (3D) object data models are provided. An example method may involve receiving an annotated template of a first three-dimensional (3D) object data model. The annotated template may be associated with a given category of objects and may include one or more annotations to one or more aspects of an object described by the first 3D object data model. The method may also include determining matching correspondences between the first 3D object data model and a second 3D object data model that is a given object in the given category. For the one or more matching correspondences, an annotation that is associated with a correspondence point of the first 3D object data model may be applied as a call-out to a matching correspondence point of the second 3D object data model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Hickman, James J. Kuffner, Jr., Anthony Gerald Francis, Jr., Arshan Poursohi, James R. Bruce, Thor Lewis, Chaitanya Gharpure
  • Patent number: 8510315
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for prioritizing one or more travel itineraries based on an itinerary query. Respective candidate itineraries from a set of candidate itineraries are ranked based on one or more ranking factors for the candidate itineraries, where the candidate itineraries were identified from a location-interest graph using the query. A desired number of the ranked candidate itineraries are re-ranked based on a one or more historical travel sequences, such that one or more prioritized travel itineraries can be identified in response to the itinerary query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Zheng, Xing Xie
  • Patent number: 8504535
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for employing an erasure coding storage scheme and a redundant replication storage scheme in a data storage system. Data objects that are greater than a size threshold and accessed less frequently than an access threshold are stored in an erasure coding scheme, while data objects that are sized less than a size threshold or accessed more often than an access threshold are stored in a redundant replication storage scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gang He, James Christopher Sorenson, III
  • Patent number: 8499010
    Abstract: Garbage collection processes are automatically tuned on a system comprising a plurality of virtual machines running on a physical processing device with multiple physical processors. Tuning is implemented for each garbage collection process, by updating a load variable to reflect that a new garbage collection process has started, the load variable having a value that is based at least in part on a number of garbage collection processes that are currently running on the system. Tuning further comprises creating a number of garbage collection threads based at least in part on the current value of the load variable and/or number of processors, where the garbage collection threads are used to perform at least a portion of at least one phase of the new garbage collection process. Tuning further comprises re-updating the load variable to reflect completion of the new garbage collection process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Charles R. Gracie, Andrew R. Low, Ashutosh Mehra, Prashanth K. Nageshappa