Abstract: Techniques are provided for more efficient multi-row atomic, consistent, isolated and durable (ACID)-compliant transactions with snapshot isolation semantics (or just “multi-row transactions” for short). In some embodiments, the techniques are implemented in a computing system that includes a client application, a lightweight in-memory lease-based lock service, a multi-row transaction orchestrator, and an underlying database system. The transaction orchestrator implements a read protocol and a write protocol that provides support to the client application for carrying out multi-row transactions against the underlying database system irrespective of whether the database system itself supports multi-row transactions. The transaction orchestrator explicitly maintains transaction-level locks obtained from the lease-based lock service as part of the transaction protocol.

Abstract: Examples are generally directed towards converting complex structure attributes into flattened data. A configuration capture component analyzes a set of objects associated with a set of complex structure attributes. A complex structure attribute is an attribute of an object that is an array attribute or a nested object attribute. The configuration capture component performs a hash type conversion to convert nested object attributes into flattened data. The configuration capture component performs an array type conversion to convert nested array attributes into flattened data. The flattened data is stored or imported in a set of flattened data files. An expansion component converts the flattened data files back into the complex structure attributes without losing or corrupting the complex structure data.

Abstract: Systems and methods use a ZFS file system in a Windows-based computing environment without protocol conversion or native ZFS support on Windows-based computing devices. Windows-based computing devices may obtain native Windows-based access to data in a storage volume that is managed by a Unix-based storage management server executing a ZFS volume manager and file system. ZFS clones may be served as logical unit numbers to Windows-based computing devices. The ZFS nature of the accessed storage volume is unbeknownst to the Windows-based machines. This enables Windows-based utilities, applications, and tools executing on a Windows-based computing device to operate upon the data in ZFS-managed space the same as they might have operated on a workspace in an array-created hardware snapshot in the prior art. Users may use storage space from their Windows-based computing devices according to a Windows-based file system such as NTFS.

Abstract: Columns of a table are stored in either row-major format or column-major format in an in-memory DBMS. For a given table, one set of columns is stored in column-major format; another set of columns for a table are stored in row-major format. This way of storing columns of a table is referred to herein as dual-major format. In addition, a row in a dual-major table is updated “in-place”, that is, updates are made directly to column-major columns without creating an interim row-major form of the column-major columns of the row. Users may submit database definition language (“DDL”) commands that declare the row-major columns and column-major columns of a table.

Abstract: There is provided methods, apparatuses and computer program products for obtaining access to contents. In a method a content for at least one segment of a media presentation is defined. A meta information element for the media presentation is provided. Further, meta data relating to the content of the at least one segment is included to the meta information element. The meta data comprises information on how to access the content of the segment. A reference to the meta data of the content is included in the segment.

Abstract: An on-demand learning system provides an enhanced leaning environment capable of delivering relevant content on virtually any topic to specific learners. The learning system implements technical features that facilitate curation and subject matter validation of many different types of content. The technical architecture of the learning system also supports intelligent matching of learners to subject matter areas, creation of specific subject matter boards, and resilient maintenance of the boards.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for collecting data regarding resource views. In one aspect, a method includes generating a tag that includes instructions that, upon execution of the instructions, cause a device to perform operations including identifying content located in at least one particular portion of a structured resource. The particular portion can be specified by the instructions. The operations may include generating resource view data that includes parameters identifying the device and at least a portion of the identified content. The operations may include sending the resource view data to a server. A request for the tag may be received. The tag may be provided in response to the request.

Abstract: A social networking aggregator computer program that filters user updates from several sources and merges them with geo-tagging data to provide real-time “weather maps” of symptoms and ailments, which can then be used to forecast where and when illnesses spread. Data sources include, but are not limited to popular social media “user broadcasting” platforms, social network sites and smartphone applications.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system, method and medium for associating portions of advocational documents with portions of tribunal decisions in view of common or similar characteristics that are identified between the associated entities. In addition, the associated advocational document portions are imparted with certain characteristics resulting from such an association, such as inheriting the topic of the associated tribunal decision portion or inheriting general characteristics of the decision such as judge or jurisdiction. This allows for the subsequent retrieval of advocational documents in view of various criteria associated with a decision or portion thereof.

Abstract: Migrating content between enterprise content management systems is described. A source object identifier is identified for metadata tables for content for a source enterprise content management system, based on a migration job definition. The metadata tables are retrieved from the source enterprise content management system, based on the source object identifier. A target object identifier is identified for a target enterprise content management system, based on the metadata tables and the migration job definition. An object identifier map is created that maps the source object identifier to the target object identifier. The metadata tables are stored to the target enterprise content management system, based on the object identifier map. The content for the source enterprise content management system is retrieved. The content is stored as content for the target enterprise content management system.

Abstract: A context-sensitive help system for obtaining insights from a target environment in an unobtrusive manner. The context-sensitive help system detects a search or opening of a help document containing a plurality of placeholders and product/component names by a user; crawls documents in the knowledgebase and extracts product and/or component names and corresponding configuration parameters or placeholders; stores the product and/or component names and placeholders in the placeholder dictionary along with links and an index to documents in the knowledgebase. The system extracts insights from the target environment in an unobtrusive manner; and replaces placeholders in the help document with values from the target environment based on the insights from the target environment; and then displays the help document to the user.

Abstract: A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for maintaining a cache index inside a deduplicated storage system is discussed. A determination is made to flush a cache buffer to the cache index, wherein both the cache buffer and the cache index comprise a plurality of cache buckets, wherein the cache buckets are stored on a plurality of logical data blocks. A write is initiated to at least one of the plurality of logical data blocks, wherein the write comprises at least one of the cache buckets. An error is received in response to the write request. The error is stored in a memory on the deduplicated storage system.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program for implementing data source security cluster are provided. Security tokens may be generated for a plurality of data sources. Clients may request a security token from each data source. The client may send the security tokens and a data query to a federation engine. The federation engine may generate a plurality of sub-queries from the query. The federation engine may match a sub-query and particular security token to a data source. The federation engine may validate each security token and send, to each data source, the matching sub-query for that data source. Each data source may send a result to a sub-query to the federation engine, which may join all of the results into a virtual view.

Abstract: A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for populating an index cache on a deduplicated storage system is discussed. A determination to flush an in-memory index to a hard drive (“HDD”) on the deduplicated storage system is made, wherein the in-memory index comprises in-memory hash buckets containing fingerprint identifiers and container identifiers. A first HDD index is loaded from the HDD into a memory, wherein the first index includes a plurality of HDD buckets. The fingerprint identifiers and the container identifiers are merged from the in-memory hash buckets into the HDD buckets. The HDD buckets are mapped to a plurality of solid state drive (“SSD”) buckets, the SSD buckets together comprising a SSD index. The fingerprint identifiers and container identifiers are inserted into the plurality of SSD buckets.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for implementing and using interactive information. In one embodiment, a user may specify certain information that should be collected by the embodiment. The embodiment may monitor or search through one or more data streams for all information matching or corresponding to the user's specifications.

Abstract: Methods and systems for recovering data containers is provided. One method includes creating a first set of one or more incremental backups for a data container; associating by a processor the first set of one or more incremental backups with the first full backup of the data container; presenting the association of the first set of one or more incremental backups with the first full backup; and restoring the data container within a recovery time period associated with the data container.

Abstract: A personalized content delivery computer system is provided comprising: (a) one or more server computers; (b) a server computer program which when executed provides: a content interest profile builder; and a content matching utility; wherein the content interest profile builder and content matching utility are linked so as to enable users of the platform interested in targeting (“targeting users”) one or more other users (“consumer” or “consumers”), using content that is likely to be of interest to the consumer; wherein the content interest profile builder intelligently harvests interest parameters for consumers, and stores the interest parameters iteratively into a content interest profile maintained for each consumer; and wherein the content matching utility determines whether content is likely to be of significant interest to a consumer, using the content interest profile for the consumer. A related method is also provided.

Abstract: This disclosure details the implementation of systems, methods and apparatuses for providing an integrated process tracking and management. The disclosure provides solutions for initiating, tracking, correlating and managing complex processes. In particular, the disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for process tracking and management particularly suited to job listing matching and management. In an implementation, the system may be configured to receive and extract base data entry metrics from a user designated input, for example a user's resume or a user designated saved job listing. The base data entry metrics may be correlated with user correlation metrics to derive search parameters for identifying supplemental data entries for a particular user.

Abstract: Techniques for implementing secure normal forms are provided. In one embodiment, in response to a request for data from a client, a database server is operable to enforce a column-level security policy that is defined for a particular column of some, but not necessarily all, rows of a table stored in a database. After retrieving a set of rows from the table and before returning a result set of rows to the client, the database server modifies the retrieved set of rows into the result set of rows by applying the security policy to each row of the retrieved set of rows, where applying the security policy to a row comprises: determining whether the security policy is satisfied for the particular column of that row; replacing, in the result set of rows, a data value in the particular column of that row with a security-NULL value when the security policy is not satisfied; and including the data value in the particular column of that row into the result set of rows when the security policy is satisfied.

Abstract: A method and system are disclosed for modeling a relational database. The method comprises the steps of defining a set of data tables to accommodate any number of levels of a business hierarchy and using these tables as a generic data model to handle various levels of requirements of the business hierarchy. This set of tables include a first control table, a second table containing hierarchy nodes in a flattened format, a third table storing unique hierarchy node names, and a fourth table describing the hierarchy nodes in one or more languages. For example, this business hierarchy may be a commodity hierarchy, a geography hierarchy and a client organization hierarchy. Also, in the preferred embodiment, no new tables are needed when a new hierarchy is introduced, and the generic data model supports different numbers of reporting levels from one hierarchy to the next hierarchy.