Abstract: An XML processing system and methods of processing XML data are disclosed. An example disclosed method includes obtaining an extensible stylesheet language transformation (XSLT) stylesheet; transforming, via the processor, data of an extensible markup language (XML) data stream into transformed XML data using the XSLT stylesheet; and generating, via the processor, a printable representation of the data of the XML data stream based on the transformed XML data.

Abstract: An authoring tool for authoring wrap packages of cards. The authoring tool includes a set of tools that enable an author to create a new card of a wrap selected from a variety of card templates. In various embodiments, the card templates include textual, video, image/photo, document, gallery, chat, widgets, global components, location/GPS, transact, appointment, and end-of-wrap card templates. When a particular card template is selected, the template is then duplicated to create the new card. Thereafter, the author may author the card to include various components, content, attributes, layouts, styles triggers and/or behaviors. As the cards of the wrap are created, the authoring tool provides the author with the ability to order the sequence of the cards. The authoring tool thus enables authors to selectively create wrap packages that include media that conveys a narrative story and application functionality.

Abstract: Method and apparatuses for constructing a grammar to describe interactions among a plurality of devices in a network are disclosed. An aspect receives, by a network interface of a device, device capabilities of each of the plurality of devices, generates, by a reduced device list generator of the device, a reduced device list representing groupings of the plurality of devices based on the device capabilities, models, by an interaction sequence modeler of the device, one or more sequences of interactions among the plurality of devices using the reduced device list, constructs, by a grammar construction module of the device, the grammar based on the modeled one or more sequences of interactions, and stores the grammar in a memory of the device.

Abstract: A data processing method, program, and apparatus for identifying a document within a block of text. A block of text is tokenized into a plurality of text tokens according to at least one rule parser. Each of the plurality of text tokens is sequentially compared to a plurality of document tokens to determine if the text token matches one of the plurality of document tokens. The plurality of document tokens correspond to a plurality of documents which have been tokenized according to the one or more rule parsers. Each matched text token is filtered according to predetermined filtering criteria to generate one or more candidate text tokens. It is then determined whether sequence of candidate text tokens that occur in sequential order within the block of text match sequence of document tokens. If so, then it is determined that the document has been identified within the block of text. The document can correspond to an artist, a song names, and misspellings and aliases thereof.

Abstract: A character correcting method of a display apparatus includes displaying a sentence including at least two words in a character input window; displaying, if one of the at least two words is selected, a first user interface (UI) in which the at least one selected word is displayed by a character unit; and, displaying, if one of a plurality of characters displayed in the first UI is selected, a second UI around the selected character, the second UI is configured to edit the selected character.

Abstract: A boundary word identification unit (103) identifies a boundary word belonging to a plurality of categories among words gathered in dictionary growth processing. Then, a category membership degree calculation unit (104) calculates, for each category to which the boundary word belongs, a category membership degree indicating a degree to which the boundary word belongs to the category on the basis of information recorded in a gathering process memory unit (108). Next, a category update unit (105) determines the category to which the boundary word belongs on the basis of the category membership degree calculated by the category membership degree calculation unit (104) and updates information stored in a gathered-by-category word memory unit (109) so that the determination result is reflected.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting grammatical errors includes: a sentence analyzer to break up an input sentence into units of morphemes; an example builder to break up example text into units of morphemes and build an example-based index database (DB); and an error detector to generate morpheme sequences by binding the morphemes broken up from the input sentence in a preset window (n-window) size, the generated morpheme sequences comprising forward morpheme sequences and backward morpheme sequences, determine frequencies of appearance of morpheme sequences identical to the forward morpheme sequences and backward morpheme sequences by searching the example-based index DB, and detect grammatical errors in the input sentence by combining the determined frequencies of appearance.

Abstract: Individuals receive overwhelming barrage of information which must be filtered, processed, analyzed, reviewed, consolidated and distributed or acted upon. However, prior art tools for automatically processing content, such as for example returning search results from an Internet or database search for example are ineffective. Prior art search techniques merely provide large numbers of “hits” with at most removal of multiple occurrences of identical items. However, it would be beneficial to present searches as a series of multi-document clusters wherein occurrences of commonly themed content are clustered allowing the user to rapidly see the number of different themes and review a selected theme. Further, it would be beneficial, in repeated searches, for new clusters to be identified automatically as well as new items of content associated with existing clusters to be associated to these clusters.

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are described herein that are configured to perform aggregation of phrase specifications. In some example embodiments, a method is provided that comprises identifying two or more generalized phrase specifications. In some example embodiments, the two or more generalized phrase specifications contain at least one aggregatable constituent. The method of this embodiment may also include generating an aggregated phrase specification from the two or more generalized phrase specifications. In some example embodiments, the aggregated phrase specification comprises a combined noun phrase generated from the aggregatable constituents and one or more additional constituents based on a determined level of generalization.

Abstract: A system and method for translating data from a source language to a target language is provided wherein machine generated target translation of a source sentence is compared to a database of human generated target sentences. If a matching human generated target sentence is found, the human generated target sentence may be used instead of the machine generated sentence, since the human generated target sentence is more likely to be a well-formed sentence than the machine generated sentence. The system and method does not rely on a translation memory containing pairs of sentences in both source and target languages, and minimizes the reliance on a human translator to correct a translation generated by machine translation.

Abstract: Various embodiments described herein facilitate multi-lingual communications. The systems and methods of some embodiments may enable multi-lingual communications through different modes of communications including, for example, Internet-based chat, e-mail, text-based mobile phone communications, postings to online forums, postings to online social media services, and the like. Certain embodiments may implement communications systems and methods that translate text between two or more languages (e.g., spoken), while handling/accommodating for one or more of the following in the text: specialized/domain-related jargon, abbreviations, acronyms, proper nouns, common nouns, diminutives, colloquial words or phrases, and profane words or phrases.

Abstract: A language translation application on a user device includes a user interface that provides relevant textual and graphical feedback mechanisms associated with various states of voice input and translated speech.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a speech translation apparatus includes a speech recognizer, a detector, a machine translator and a controller. The speech recognizer performs a speech recognition processing in chronological order on utterances of at least one first language made by a plurality of speakers to obtain a recognition text as a speech recognition result. The detector detects segments of meaning of the recognition text to obtain segments of text. The machine translator translates the segments of text into a second language different from the first language to obtain translated texts. The controller controls, if an utterance overlaps with another utterance in the chronological order, an order of displaying the translated texts corresponding to the overlapped utterances.

Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for managing hardware components in a cloud computing environment. A mobile device captures an image of a bar code placed on a rack that is associated with an identifier that references an Internet resource of the management software that manages the rack. The mobile device transmits a request to the management software for information regarding a component in the rack, where the request includes a unique identifier (e.g., serial number) associated with the component. The management software uses the unique identifier to identify the component of interest and transmits information regarding the component of interest to the mobile device. In this manner, the client device can conveniently access the management software as well as conveniently acquire information dynamically from the management software about specific hardware components in these racks while the user is on the floor of the data center.

Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for managing hardware components in a cloud computing environment. A mobile device captures an image of a bar code placed on a rack that is associated with an identifier that references an Internet resource of the management software that manages the rack. The mobile device transmits a request to the management software for information regarding a component in the rack, where the request includes a unique identifier (e.g., serial number) associated with the component. The management software uses the unique identifier to identify the component of interest and transmits information regarding the component of interest to the mobile device. In this manner, the client device can conveniently access the management software as well as conveniently acquire information dynamically from the management software about specific hardware components in these racks while the user is on the floor of the data center.

Abstract: There is provided a display control apparatus including a display environment detection unit configured to detect a display environment of content, a clustering condition setting unit configured to set a clustering condition of the content based on the display environment, a clustering unit configured to execute clustering of the content based on the clustering condition, and a display control unit configured to display the content on a display unit based on a result of the clustering.

Abstract: An approach is provided for retrieving electronic documents. The approach provides a Web-based graphical user interface that allows users to construct complex queries that include Boolean clauses, proximity clauses and/or keyword phrases, without requiring the users to have a working knowledge of query languages. The Web-based graphical user interface also allows users to specify a semantic meaning for one or more search terms. The approach also allows users to generate various reports for search results. Various filters may be applied to manage the amount of reporting data and semantic meanings may be applied to increase relevancy. A time cost estimator provides an estimated review time for search results. Also included are approaches for using the results of simple searches to perform advanced searches, for estimating the cost and/or time for reviewing search results and for performing tagging analysis and for using logical custodians.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides various systems and methods for indexing digital (electronic) documents. The systems and methods may utilize various software, hardware, and firmware modules to identify notations, such as sheet names, anchors, and anchor references on construction documents. The identified notations are indexed and used to create hyperlinked pages that are easily navigable. In some embodiments, the hyperlinked pages may include previous- and next-sheet hyperlinks that allow for direct navigation within a set of pages, according to an order provided in an index.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to recording and providing media files based on a location. Such systems and methods maybe transacted by a client application or a processor in communication with one or more electronic devices. In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, methods may include receiving from a first device: a media file; data comprising information identifying a location associated with the media file; storing the media file and data in a database; receiving from a second device information identifying a location of the second device; determining a geographic radius of the second device based upon user selection; determining if one or more media files stored in the database are associated with a location in the geographic radius of the second device; and sending the one or more media files to the second device.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to recording and providing media files based on a location. Such systems and methods maybe transacted by a client application or a processor in communication with one or more electronic devices. In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, methods may include receiving from a first device: a media file; data comprising information identifying a location associated with the media file; storing the media file and data in a database; receiving from a second device information identifying a location of the second device; determining a geographic radius of the second device based upon user selection; determining if one or more media files stored in the database are associated with a location in the geographic radius of the second device; and sending the one or more media files to the second device.

Abstract: Digital media categorization can include receiving information including a plurality of media objects and a metadata tag descriptive of at least a first media object; comparing the first media object with a second media object; and selectively associating the first media object's metadata tag with the second media object based on a result of the comparison. Each media object can include a digital image.

Abstract: A system and method for reporting and analysis of media consumption data. A request is received over a network from a requesting user for consumption data relating to at least one media object, the request comprising an identification of the media objects. Spatial, temporal, topical, and social data available to the network relating to consumption of the media object are retrieved using a global index of data available to the network. The spatial, temporal, topical, and social data available to the network relating to consumption of the media objects are transmitted, over the network to the requesting user.

Abstract: A process, computer program product, and apparatus provide for a contextual media presentation. The process, computer program product, and apparatus receive a plurality of planned and/or completed user experiences. Further, the process, computer program product, and apparatus select a plurality of media files that are contextually relevant to the received user experiences. In addition, the process, computer program product, and apparatus sort a list of the plurality of media files to generate a sorted list of media files. The process, computer program product, and apparatus send the sorted list of media files to a player for playback.

Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to systems and methods for facilitating file attribute correction. A computer system may receive a request to enumerate a first directory stored on a data storage. For a first file in the first directory, the computer system may determine that the first file has a corresponding first entry in an attribute cache, determine that the first entry for the first file indicates native file attributes that match the first file, and return for the first file at least one logical attribute indicated by the first entry.

Abstract: Implementations are provided herein for a self-healing scalable ring communication topology that enables a multi-stream restartable backup. A standard network management protocol tree-walk process can be altered to support parallel tree-walk. Parallel tree-walk provides for splitting a backup directory among multiple sessions, where each session, in parallel, can walk the tree of portions of a backup directory and stream the results to separate backup storage devices. By allowing multiple backup sessions to work together to back up a single root directory, the backup process becomes more scalable to very large scale data storage systems. In addition, if a single stream of a multi-stream backup experiences a failure, only that stream need be restarted and other streams of the backup can continue without or with very little interruption.

Abstract: Techniques and mechanisms are provided to allow for selective optimization, including deduplication and/or compression, of portions of files and data blocks. Data access is monitored to generate a heat index for identifying sections of files and volumes that are frequently and infrequently accessed. These frequently used portions may be left non-optimized to reduce or eliminate optimization I/O overhead. Infrequently accessed portions can be more aggressively optimized.

Abstract: The present invention is an improvement to a computer system for processing, storing and searching DICOM medical imaging objects and non-DICOM files. The improvement is the addition of a directory manager, a user interface and a search manager that allows users to define a hierarchy of directories that link to both DICOM and non-DICOM files. Contents of files are indexed, including metadata so they are searchable. The system automatically creates directories representing DICOM series and studies by analyzing metadata in DICOM image files. DICOM devices can send DICOM data directly to directories in the file system using the DICOM protocol.

Abstract: Deduplication dictionaries are used to maintain data chunk identifier and location pairings in a deduplication system. When access to a particular data chunk is requested, a deduplication dictionary is accessed to determine the location of the data chunk and a datastore is accessed to retrieve the data chunk. However, deduplication dictionaries are large and typically maintained on disk, so dictionary access is expensive. Techniques and mechanisms of the present invention allow prefetches or read aheads of datastore (DS) headers. For example, if a dictionary hit results in datastore DS(X), then headers for DS(X+1), DS(X+2), DS(X+read-ahead-window) are prefetched ahead of time. These datastore headers are cached in memory, and indexed by datastore identifier. Before going to the dictionary, a lookup is first performed in the cached headers to reduce deduplication data access request latency.

Abstract: An embodiment of the invention introduces a method for accessing big data, which contains at least the following steps. A data access request is received from one of a plurality of database frontends of different kinds. A data access operation is performed for the data access request by using an API (Application Programming Interface) to manipulate one of a plurality of cloud file systems of different kinds.

Abstract: Systems and methods of data processing performance enhancement are disclosed. One embodiment includes, invoking operating system calls to optimize cache management by an I/O component; wherein, the operating system calls are invoked to perform one or more of; proactive triggering of readaheads for sequential read requests of a disk; purging data out of buffer cache after writing to the disk or performing sequential reads from the desk; and/or eliminating a delay between when a write is performed and when written data from the write is flushed to the disk from the buffer cache.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for copying data from a source medium to a target medium in a storage system by a computer system, the storage system including a storage device, a first drive configured to access the source medium, and a second drive configured to access the target medium, the method comprising: estimating a waiting time for copy target data to be transferred from the source medium, selecting migration target data of the storage device based on whether migration of data to the target medium is expected to be finished within the waiting time or not, migrating the migration target data from the storage device to the target medium by the second drive while locating and/or reading the copy target data on the source medium by the first drive, and writing the copy target data to the target medium by the second drive.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a stream of data packets originated by a visual data source is received at an edge device in a network. The data packets include at least one of video data, image data, and geo spatial data. Next, a visual data attribute is extracted at the edge device from the stream of data packets according to an edge-based extraction algorithm. The extracted visual data attribute is vectorized at the edge device via quantization vectors. The vectorized visual data attribute is then indexed at the edge device in a schema-less database that stores indexed visual data attributes.

Abstract: Provided is an image search system capable of searching for an image that differs in a specific part from an original image. A reception unit receives designation of a partial region in an original image to be processed and a process content for the partial region. A search unit searches for an image identical or similar to a processed image, which is obtained by applying a process of the process content to the partial region of the original image, based on: a plurality of kinds of feature information on a region other than the partial region of the processed image or of the original image; and at least one piece of feature information selected based on the process content from among a plurality of kinds of feature information on the partial region of the processed image or of the original image.

Abstract: A system and computer-implemented method for associating images with semantic entities and providing search results using the semantic entities. An image database contains one or more source images associated with one or more images labels. A computer may generate one or more documents containing the labels associated with each image. Analysis may be performed on the one or more documents to associate the source images with semantic entities. The semantic entities may be used to provide search results. In response to receiving a target image as a search query, the target image may be compared with the source images to identify similar images. The semantic entities associated with the similar images may be used to determine a semantic entity for the target image. The semantic entity for the target image may be used to provide search results in response to the search initiated by the target image.

Abstract: A method and system to index and search item listings in a network-based publication system, such as a network-based marketplace. For example, a listing query may be received from a user, the listing query including a query image. The query image may then be processed to generate a plurality of index sets. Each index set of the plurality of index sets may correspond to a respective portion of the query image and may comprise a set of index values. Each index value of the set of index values may be indicative of an image attribute, such as light intensity, for a respective sub-portion of the corresponding portion of the query image. At least one result image from a database of listing images may be identified by comparing the plurality of index sets for the query image to pre-compiled index sets in an index database. Each pre-compiled index set may be associated with at least one listing image which, in turn, may be associated with an item listing on a network-based marketplace.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage section and a control section. The storage section stores a plurality of templates having different predetermined designs with template attribute information, the plurality of templates each being applied to a display of a content including at least one of a document and an image with the content being laid out on the template. The control section performs a matching processing of component information, as a search key, of the content with the template attribute information, and selects, as a template corresponding to the content to be applied to the display of the content, a template whose template attribute information has a higher match rate than others.

Abstract: A system for comprehensively and effectively acquiring, as an interest graph, targets and regions of interest unique to a user is provided. A system according to the invention is a search system using as input means image information containing various objects and subjects, in which by querying an image recognition engine on the server side via a network about a selected image, the image recognition engine extracts and recognizes in real time various generic objects and the like contained in the specified image, and notifies a relevance search engine on the server side of recognized image components contained in the input image, and the relevance search engine extracts related elements for the individual image components, and visually presents a relevance graph with the extracted related elements as nodes together with the depths of relationships between the nodes.

Abstract: A distributed database system may perform a single phase commit for transactions involving updates to multiple databases of the distributed database system. A client request may be received that involves updates to multiple database of the distributed database system. The updates may be performed at a front-end database and a back-end database. Log records indicating the updates to the front-end database may be sent to the back-end database. The log records and the updates performed at the back-end database may be committed together as a single phase commit at the back-end database. In the event of a system failure of the front-end database, log records may be requested and received from the back-end database. A restoration of the front-end database may be performed based, at least in part, on the received log records.

Abstract: A server system having one or more processors and memory sends, to a first database, a first request for data based on first data-retrieval criteria. The first database is schemaless and operates in accordance with first database processing capabilities. The server system receives, in response to the first request, a first set of data from the first database, where the first set of data is selected by the first database in accordance with the first data-retrieval criteria. The server system generates a second database from the first set of data selectively retrieved from the first database. The second database has an associated schema and operates in accordance with second database processing capabilities different from the first database processing capabilities. The server system provides access to the first set of data in the second database in accordance with the second database processing capabilities.

Abstract: Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for evaluating a database design.

Abstract: Techniques provided herein allow for management of data. In various embodiments, systems and methods prune and retain data being managed by a data management system, where the managed data can include log data aggregated from one or more servers for analysis purposes. According to some embodiments, pruning can be triggered according to one or more constraints, such as the age of managed data (e.g., retain only 30 days of managed data) or the memory space required to store the managed data (e.g., retain only 100 GB worth of managed data). The constraints that trigger data pruning can be based on a data retention policy. When triggered, pruning can be performed on a fraction of the managed data stored based on the data retention policy (e.g., 3 days of full managed data, 27 days of pruned managed data). The pruning may be performed by sampling, at a desired rate, the managed data.

Abstract: A system transfers data between source systems and a target system. The system determines a domain score for data domains of source data from the source systems based on data quality metrics for the target system. The domain score indicates data quality with respect to the target system. Corresponding processes of the target system are identified for the data domains, and a process score is determined for the identified processes based on a corresponding domain score. The process score indicates data quality with respect to the identified processes. The system cleanses the source data based on the domain score and/or process score, and validates the cleansed source data against the target system for transference. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for transferring data between source systems and a target system in substantially the same manner described above.

Abstract: A system includes reception of a plurality of findings output by runtime checks executed by a plurality of computing systems, determination of whether a first one of the findings is a duplicate of an already-stored finding, storage, in a case it is determined that the first finding is not a duplicate of an already-stored finding, of the first finding in association with a finding identifier, and generation of a message including the finding identifier and information describing a problem associated with the finding.

Abstract: The different advantageous embodiments provide a method for identifying changes in data sets. An ending version for a data set is received. A beginning version for the data set is identified. The ending version for the data set is compared with the beginning version for the data set. A number of differences is calculated between the ending version and the beginning version. A data structure is created that identifies the number of differences between the ending version and the beginning version.

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to building an index structure for a relational database (RDB) table and for querying the RDB table. An aspect includes obtaining JSON documents from a RDB table, identifying JSON objects in the JSON documents and assigning identifiers for them, and building an index structure according to values in the JSON objects such that the index structure includes at least one node that records values in a JSON object and includes the identifier of the specific JSON object. Querying the RDB table includes receiving a query request including an indicator which indicates that the query is to be performed on JSON objects, and searching the index structure based on query conditions in the query request so as to determine a target JSON object that meets the query conditions.

Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for a token management application. A data block tokenization call to a data layer service fails when a data store is unavailable. The token management application issues a temporary data token to the service calling the data layer service. The token management application completes the data block tokenization call on behalf of the service to obtain a valid data token. The valid data token is then communicated to services having the temporary data token.

Abstract: To facilitate access to public records, the present inventors devised, among other things, an entity resolution system. The exemplary system includes master records database of 300 million entities, which is partitioned into multiple distinct portions. The exemplary system extracts entity information from input public records and constructs one or more blocking queries against specific portions of the master records database to identify one or more sets of candidate records. Feature vectors are defined for the candidate records and machine learning techniques, such as Support Vector Machine, are used to determine which of the candidate records from the master records database match the input public records. Candidate records that match are logically associated with public records, enabling ready access via direct or indirect queries.

Abstract: Techniques for providing feed-based case management on an online social network. A user interface that includes a publisher and an information feed is provided. Information associated with a record is received and the record is updated in a database system. A feed item associated with the database system update is generated and provided in the information feed. The feed item includes one or more actionable selections providing a reference to the publisher. Selection of one of the one or more actionable selections causes the publisher to be operable to receive further information associated with the record. The record is capable of being updated based on the further information. In some implementations, the record is a case and the user interface serves as a single interface for all interactions required in solving the case.

Abstract: A database comprises a database interface and a database updater. The database interface receives a first set of information and a second set of information to be updated in the database. The database updater updates a second set of information in the database based at least in part on a condition that a first set of information in the database has been previously updated.

Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing customized drop-down menus in user interface displays. Drop-down menus include one or more selection options and a table having multiple fields. Drop-down menu items are particularly useful for assisting a user with assigning information synchronized into a target database from one database system, such as an Outlook file, to objects in the target database system, such as a multi-tenant database system as well as providing suggestions to the user from search results when they may want to choose one of those results or perform a different action altogether.