Patents Examined by Gary J Koo
  • Patent number: 7756880
    Abstract: A method provides content items located on a server to a client, the server being able to communicate with the client via a communication network. The method includes generating a content recommendation list comprising several content recommendation list entries in dependence on a user feedback profile, each content recommendation list entry representing a content item, and transferring the content recommendation list from the server to the client. The method also includes providing a representation of the content recommendation list entries through a client user interface, each entry being selectable and arranged such that for each entry, user feedback may be generated and corresponding user feedback information sent to the server and that upon selection of an entry at a predetermined position in the content recommendation list, a recommendation list request is transferred to the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: RealNetworks GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Sighart, Ruben Inoto, Christian Weiler, Rainer Burgstaller
  • Patent number: 7747570
    Abstract: A method for transmission of data for two or three dimensional geometrical entities uses a computer system, for modeling and/or manipulation of geometrical entities. The computer system comprises at least one program for modeling and/or manipulation and at least one display program, the at least one modeling and/or manipulation program transmits the data associated with the geometrical entities for display to the at least one display program, by calling up display functions located within the at least one display program. An exporting program for data associated with geometrical entities is substituted in at least one of the at least one display programs, the exporting program having the same display functions as the at least one display program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventor: Francois le Masne de Chermont
  • Patent number: 7720841
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method, information processing system, and computer readable medium for managing data collection in a distributed processing system. The method includes dynamically collecting at least one statistical query pattern associated with a selected group of information processing nodes. The statistical query pattern is dynamically collected from a plurality of information processing nodes in a distributed processing system. At least one operating attribute distribution associated with an operating attribute that has been queried for the selected group is dynamically monitored. The selected group is dynamically configured, based on the query pattern and the operating attribute distribution, to periodically push a set of attributes associated with the each information processing node in the selected group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaohui Gu, Philip S. Yu, Shu-Ping Chang
  • Patent number: 7693885
    Abstract: A computer system includes a host computer; a storage system for obtaining a snapshot, at a specific point in time, of a data volume, storing data written to the data volume after the specific point in time as a journal, and applying the journal to the snapshot for data recovery; and a management computer. In the computer system, the management computer instructs the storage system to determine whether data at a recovery point after a recovery point of the latest snapshot can be recovered within a specific period of time and to apply, if it has been determined that the data cannot be recovered within the specific period of time, a journal to the latest snapshot to update the latest snapshot to a new snapshot in such a manner that the data can be recovered within the specific period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Wataru Okada, Masahide Sato, Hironori Emaru
  • Patent number: 7689610
    Abstract: Messages which are provided to an application are monitored. Similarities between the messages are determined based on a distance algorithm, in one approach, and messages which are similar are assigned to a common group. For example, the messages may be HTTP messages which include a URL, HTTP header parameters and/or HTTP post parameters. The messages are parsed to derive a string which is used in the distance calculations. Additionally, application runtime data such as response times is obtained and aggregated for the group. Further, a representative message can be determined for each group for comparison to subsequent messages. Results can be reported which include a group identifier, representative message, count and aggregated runtime data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Computer Associates Think, Inc.
    Inventors: Jyoti Kumar Bansal, David Isaiah Seidman, Mark J. Addleman
  • Patent number: 7644068
    Abstract: A user wishes to view a record, such as one that includes a person's medical history, located in a record storage area. In order to prevent the user from viewing records other than the specific record in which the user is interested, a record selection manager iteratively requests attribute information from the user to disambiguate which record to provide until the record selection manager identifies a reduction completion result, which the record selection manager then provides to the user. Using the invention described herein, the record selection manager conceals records included in the records storage area until it identifies a reduction completion result and, at that point, the record selection manager provides only the reduction completion result to the user to view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey James Jonas, David Charles Martin
  • Patent number: 7409414
    Abstract: A computer system includes a host computer; a storage system for obtaining a snapshot, at a specific point in time, of a data volume, storing data written to the data volume after the specific point in time as a journal, and applying the journal to the snapshot for data recovery; and a management computer. In the computer system, the management computer instructs the storage system to determine whether data at a recovery point after a recovery point of the latest snapshot can be recovered within a specific period of time and to apply, if it has been determined that the data cannot be recovered within the specific period of time, a journal to the latest snapshot to update the latest snapshot to a new snapshot in such a manner that the data can be recovered within the specific period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Wataru Okada, Masahide Sato, Hironori Emaru