Patents Examined by Bruce Moser
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Patent number: 8655857Abstract: Integrating a new class into a class hierarchy is disclosed. A new class having a place in a class hierarchy is received. Metadata, associated with the new class, that includes the new class's place in the class hierarchy is also received. Hierarchy data associated with a previously compiled class is dynamically modified to reflect the place of the new class in the class hierarchy.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2006Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: EMC CorporationInventors: Alex Oscherov, Meir Amiel, Victor Spivak, David Buccola
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Patent number: 8655863Abstract: A search device includes a first search section and a second search section. The first search section searches, for second image data sharing a common attribute with first image data being processed by an image processing apparatus, a storage section in which image data processed by the image processing apparatus is stored. The second search section searches the storage section for third image data processed by the image processing apparatus within a time period from a predetermined time before a reference time to a predetermined time after the reference time, the reference time being a point of time at which the second image data was processed by the image processing apparatus. This makes it possible to prevent a search omission in the search device for searching for the second image data sharing a common attribute with the first image data.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2008Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masakatsu Nakamura
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Patent number: 8645351Abstract: This invention relates to an advertisement machine which provides advertisements to a user searching for desired information within a data network. The machine receives, from a user, a search request including a search argument corresponding to the desired information and searches, based upon the received search argument, a first database having data network related information to generate search results. It also correlates the received search argument to a particular advertisement in a second database having advertisement related information. The search results together with the particular advertisement are provided by the machine to the user.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2012Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Rockstar Consortium US LPInventors: Richard Prescott Skillen, Frederick Caldwell Livermore
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Patent number: 8631036Abstract: This invention relates to an advertisement machine which provides advertisements to a user searching for desired information within a data network. The machine receives, from a user, a search request including a search argument corresponding to the desired information and searches, based upon the received search argument, a first database having data network related information to generate search results. It also correlates the received search argument to a particular advertisement in a second database having advertisement related information. The search results together with the particular advertisement are provided by the machine to the user.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2012Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: Rockstar Consortium US LPInventors: Richard Prescott Skillen, Frederick Caldwell Livermore
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Patent number: 8615533Abstract: A system and method for managing an enterprise is provided. The system and method may be based on a layered architecture including a data center that may store all documents and data abstractions for an enterprise. One or more services may interact with an enterprise resource planning system and/or a customer relationship manager to facilitate interaction with the documents and data abstractions. A client access point of the system may include a graphical user interface that includes one or more enterprise management functions for managing the enterprise documents and/or data abstractions. The enterprise management functions may include a user proposal manager, an enterprise proposal manager, a proposal library, a content health manager, an archive library, a bid center, a contracts manager, a resume manager, a debriefing center, and/or a projects manager.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2011Date of Patent: December 24, 2013Assignee: i3solutionsInventors: Christopher Johnson, Michael Branson
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Patent number: 8600937Abstract: The invention is a system and method for quickly cloning a backup (file system) volume. Present volume cloning methods are based on creating copies of individual save sets written to a backup volume. However, this requires the steps of reading data blocks to cull the backed up data, stored as data chunks, from the chunk headers that separate and describe each data chunk, then writing the data chunks to new media. As a result, cloning a backup volume is time consuming and tedious. The invention applies the features and benefits of advanced file system devices (“AFTDs”) to volume cloning. AFTDs store data as streams, rather than chunks, since AFTDs store data on disk media rather than on tape with tape blocks. As such, data stored on AFTDs are not separated by chunk headers. Instead, an AFTD contains a single volume label file that identifies the AFTD volume. The invention is a system and method for cloning backup volumes stored on AFTDs.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2008Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: EMC CorporationInventor: Daniel Ravan
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Patent number: 8595269Abstract: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for managing master data in a master data management (MDM) environment using classification hierarchies. According to one embodiment of the disclosed technology, a method of classifying master data includes receiving a classification hierarchy defining one or more dimensions and one or more relations between a set of hierarchy levels, generating a dimensional level by associating at least one of the dimensions with a hierarchy level, the dimension defining a set of valid values for nodes associated with the dimensional level, associating one or more nodes with the dimensional level, and generating master data classifications for an MDM environment based on the classification hierarchy and the associated nodes, where one or more objects of the master data classifications are assigned valid values based on the associated nodes.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2011Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Infosys LimitedInventors: Alexandru M. Farcasiu, Subramanian Radhakrishnan
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Patent number: 8595217Abstract: Techniques for using database metric results are provided. Structure Query Language (SQL) statements are parsed for multiple metric calculations. Each metric calculation is dynamically processed against a database to obtain combined results. The combined results are fed to remaining portions of the SQL statements as a source for or a driver to the remaining portions of the SQL statements.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2009Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Teradata US, Inc.Inventors: Paul H. Phibbs, Marianne Ruegsegger, Linette Draper
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Patent number: 8595190Abstract: In one general aspect, an apparatus can include a completion identifier configured to identify, for completion processing, a large object (LOB) deleted from an auxiliary table within a DB2 database environment based on a space map record associated with the large object where the auxiliary table functions as an auxiliary space to a base table. The apparatus can also include a completion analyzer configured to identify a resource where an image of the large object is stored at a time before the deletion of the large object from the auxiliary table.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2011Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.Inventors: Oscar J. Garza, Michael J. Hanus, Kenneth M. McDonald, Kenneth J. Durfee
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Patent number: 8589377Abstract: This invention relates to an advertisement machine which provides advertisements to a user searching for desired information within a data network. The machine receives, from a user, a search request including a search argument corresponding to the desired information and searches, based upon the received search argument, a first database having data network related information to generate search results. It also correlates the received search argument to a particular advertisement in a second database having advertisement related information. The search results together with the particular advertisement are provided by the machine to the user.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2012Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Rockstar Consortium US LPInventors: Richard Prescott Skillen, Frederick Caldwell Livermore
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Patent number: 8589438Abstract: A system including multiple application servers for accessing shared data and a centralized control unit for centrally controlling a lock applied to the shared data by each of the application servers. Each application server includes a distributed control unit for controlling a lock applied to the shared data by the application server and a selection unit for selecting any one of distributed mode in which a lock is acquired from the distributed control unit or a centralized mode in which a lock is acquired from the centralized control unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2009Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Miki Enoki, Hiroshi Horii, Tamiya Onodera, Yohsuke Ozawa
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Patent number: 8583673Abstract: Review and filtering of search results is facilitated by providing additional types of results beyond links to existing documents can be provided in addition to or in place of links to existing documents. These additional results can facilitate modifying a search request to filter out unwanted documents. The additional results, when in the form of content display objects and/or application display objects, can also provide the user with varying levels of information detail. In some preferred embodiments, an ontology based knowledge base can be leveraged in order to facilitate providing and filtering the results.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2009Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Najm Tarek, Phani K Vaddadi, Rajeev Prasad, Viswanath Vadlamani, Eric Schoonover
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Patent number: 8583630Abstract: A system receives, from a first user, a communication request for a second user and determines, in response to receiving the communication request, whether a trigger is satisfied. The system may aggregate, in response to determining that the trigger is satisfied, content of different types to form multimedia content and provide the multimedia content to the first user.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2011Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Paul T. Schultz, Robert A. Sartini
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Patent number: 8554787Abstract: The invention provides a method of processing data including, receiving a URL at a server computer system, utilizing the URL at the server computer system to extract a plurality of server search results from a data store, and transmitting the server search results from the server computer system to the user computer system.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2012Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Clear Channel Management Services, Inc.Inventor: Brian D. Fesen
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Patent number: 8554727Abstract: A method and system of tiered quiescing is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a representation data of a multi-tier network, embedding a flag marker at a transaction event based on at least of an event data and a timing data, and quiescing, based on the representation data, a set of modules of the multi-tier network associated with at least one of the event data and the timing data using the flag marker. The representation data may be generated based on a transaction modeling of data flows between the set of modules of the multi-tier network (e.g., the set of modules may each operate in different tiers of the multi-tier network). In addition, a series of consistency points may be determined based on the transaction modeling of data flows between the sets of modules of the multi-tier network.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2006Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Inmage Systems, Inc.Inventor: Rajeev Atluri
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Patent number: 8549011Abstract: When a user enters an information retrieval query, a topic feed is generated for publication or distribution to a set of followers or recipients who have elected to receive the topic feed from the user or based on the subject matter content of the query. The topic feed is distributed and includes the query. Experts in subject matter can be identified based on the user's queries and other text in the topic feed that the followers interact with.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2011Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Steven Ickman, Thomas Matthew Laird-McConnell, William Lawrence Portnoy, Christopher McConnell, Lili Cheng, David Arthur Raskino, Gregory Scott Melander
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Patent number: 8543593Abstract: A system for automating the assembly, processing and delivery of documents includes a plurality of transport clients, a work queue, a scheduler, a plurality of rendering objects, a plurality of transport objects and a routing table. The transport clients are each responsible for acquisition of data necessary to generate the response. Once a work item is received from a transport client, it is added to the work queue. The scheduler manages the work queue including sending work items to an identified rendering object and thereafter to a transport client. Each of the rendering objects includes knowledge of the database as well as processes for extracting information from a database and applying rules on the extracted data. The scheduler assigns work items to be processed by the rendering objects, and once completed, the work items are returned to the scheduler for further processing by a transport object.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2010Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Data Control CorporationInventor: Rodney Bennett
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Patent number: 8543589Abstract: Methods and apparatus for integrating relational and hierarchical data, schema definitions, and queries in a data processing system are provided. One or more schema definitions are converted into an intermediate schema language component of an intermediate data language when one or more schema definitions are provided. One or more query expressions are converted into an intermediate query language component of the intermediate data language when one or more query expressions are provided. The intermediate schema language component or the intermediate query language component is compiled in an intermediate data language processing engine into a run-time representation in accordance with a relational-hierarchical analysis.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2009Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Andrey Khorlin, Robert Evan Strom, Lu Tian
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Patent number: 8538966Abstract: A database stores a plurality of files assigned by a user to a plurality of categories representing notable events in a life of the user. The database can also store individual journal entries associated with the files. The user is prompted through a questionnaire to select a trigger event, for example, a death of the user, for making publicly available a file of the plurality of files and to approve terms of a legal document so that the user can designate a portion of the plurality of files, and optionally associated journal entries, to be made publicly available after the trigger event. Then third parties can be provided access the designated portion of the plurality of files after and responsive to the user-selected trigger event. A recipient entity, established for acquiring rights to the files, may determine conditions, including payment, for such access.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2009Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Inventors: Randall Reese, Keith Culotta
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Patent number: 8521748Abstract: In a method for managing metadata in a relational database system using a processor, the metadata is created in a form of rough values corresponding to collections of values, wherein each rough value represents summarized information about values, the values are elements of the corresponding collection of values, and each rough value is substantially smaller than the corresponding collection of values. A collection of values is assigned to a structure dictionary, wherein each of the values represents the value of a row for an attribute and has a unique ordinal number within the collection, and wherein the structure dictionary contains structures defined based on at least one of interaction with a user of the system via an interface, automatic detection of structures occurring in data, and predetermined information about structures relevant to data content that is stored in the system. A match granule is formed, and for each structure in the structure dictionary, a structure granule is formed.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2011Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Infobright Inc.Inventors: Dominik Slezak, Graham Toppin, Marcin Kowalski, Arkadiusz Wojna