Relational Databases (epo) Patents (Class 707/E17.045)
  • Patent number: 11768687
    Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate thread scheduling is disclosed. The apparatus includes logic to store barrier usage data based on a magnitude of barrier messages in an application kernel and a scheduler to schedule execution of threads across a plurality of multiprocessors based on the barrier usage data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Balaji Vembu, Abhishek R. Appu, Joydeep Ray, Altug Koker
  • Patent number: 11734234
    Abstract: Embodiments include a search and match computing system configured to: access, from a third party computing system, a query regarding at least one entity; determine if the query is a structured query or an unstructured query; process the query with at least one of an application programming interface configured to receive structured queries or a second application programming interface receive unstructured queries; initiate a search and match application configured to execute queries on at least one of: a relational data scheme or a non-relational data scheme; receive search results from the at least one of: the relational data scheme or the non-relational data scheme; and process the received search results to generate an output data packet for access by the third party computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Mary Ann Ortega Rodriguez, Helen Kaminsky, Manas Kumar Das, Maneesh Raswan
  • Patent number: 10423647
    Abstract: In a datacenter setting, a summary of differences and similarities between two or more states of the same or similar systems are predicted. Initially, a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural network is trained with to predict a summary describing the state change between at least two states of the datacenter. Given a set of training data (at least two datacenter states that are annotated with a state change description), the LSTM neural network learns which similarities and differences between the datacenter states correspond to the annotations. Accordingly, given a set of test data comprising at least two states of a datacenter represented by context graphs that indicate a plurality of relationships among a plurality of nodes corresponding to components of a datacenter, the LSTM neural network is able to determine a state change description that summarizes the differences and similarities between the at least two states of the datacenter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: CA, Inc.
    Inventors: Jaume Ferrarons Llagostera, David Solans Noguero, David Sanchez Charles, Alberto Huelamo Segura, Marc Sole Simo, Victor Muntes Mulero
  • Patent number: 9015136
    Abstract: A temporary state service protocol is utilized by clients to temporarily store and access data within rows of a database between different requests made by end users. Each client creates and manages one or more items for storing data in rows of the database independently from other clients. An Application Programming Interface (API) is used to create and interact with the data that is temporarily stored in items within rows of the database. Different clients may share data within a single item and the data may persist beyond a session ending. Different rows of the database may be related such that a procedure affecting one of the rows affects its related rows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: John Hartley Toews, Jacob Richard Pitts
  • Patent number: 8996521
    Abstract: A method for storing data caveats for databases is described. The method includes storing at least one record in at least one content table in a database. The method includes storing at least one data caveat having a relationship to the content table in at least one record in a caveat table. A data caveat has a relationship to the content table when the data caveat applies to: a record in the content table or the content table in entirety. The method also includes storing, in a memory device, an indication of the relationship. Articles of manufacture are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Melissa J. Buco, Yixin Diao, David M. Loewenstern, Florian Pinel, Larisa Shwartz
  • Patent number: 8990205
    Abstract: A method for storing data caveats for databases is described. The method includes storing at least one record in at least one content table in a database. The method includes storing at least one data caveat having a relationship to the content table in at least one record in a caveat table. A data caveat has a relationship to the content table when the data caveat applies to: a record in the content table or the content table in entirety. The method also includes storing, in a memory device, an indication of the relationship. Articles of manufacture are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Melissa J. Buco, Yixin Diao, David M. Loewenstern, Florian Pinel, Larisa Shwartz
  • Patent number: 8977741
    Abstract: A cloud computing service stores customer data on a server that is located outside of a network security system of the customer. The cloud computing service automatically monitors the customer data to identify one or more access events that originate from a resource within the cloud computing service. For each access event, the service identifies a resource and a data set. The resource may include an identifier associated with a human operator or a software application that performed the access event, and the data set may include customer data that the resource accessed during the access event. The service may create a report of each access event and the information corresponding to the data set for each access event, and it may cause the report to be transmitted to the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Dan Fredinburg, Jaideep Mirchandani
  • Patent number: 8949225
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for of processing database queries using the resource description framework (RDF) language through a gateway service. The method commences by receiving a database query (e.g., an SQL query) from an application, the query being in a first query language format, then converting the query into a SPARQL query format and submitting the converted query to a SPARQL endpoint. The SPARQL endpoint processes the SPARQL query (e.g., by accessing an RDF repository), and sends back the query results. A gateway service (e.g., a SPARQL gateway) then receives the SPARQL query results from the SPARQL endpoint and transforms the SPARQL query results into a format corresponding to the first query language format so the initiating application can process it natively. Several performance features are disclosed, including a method for achieving a quality of service level by concurrently submitting multiple SPARQL queries with different LIMIT clauses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Zhe Wu, Karl Rieb
  • Publication number: 20140304262
    Abstract: Event based metadata synthesis is provided. In some embodiments, event based metadata synthesis includes determining time and location information for a first digital asset (e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Samy Makki, Jörg Ehrlich, Stefan Makswit, Patrick Wollek
  • Patent number: 8788511
    Abstract: A system and associated method for manipulating a Siebel database (SDB) with a Structured Query Language (SQL) statement utilizes a SQL-eScript parser, which uses a business component (BC) on a Siebel data model of the SDB, which has data elements corresponding to the data elements of the SQL statement to be performed against the SDB. In the SDB, data of the SDB is stored in relational database tables, accesses to the SDB must utilize a BC which describes and references a part of the Siebel data model. The SQL-eScript parser enables users to access the SDB by use of the SQL statement by interpreting the SQL statement and automatically identifying and utilizing a BC on the Siebel data model having all data elements of the SQL statement and performing eScript BC methods corresponding to operations of the SQL statement in updating the SDB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Raoul Mayr
  • Patent number: 8782017
    Abstract: Techniques for generating hash values for instances of distinct data values. In the techniques, each distinct data value is mapped to hash value generation information which describes how to generate a unique hash value for instances of the distinct data value. The hash value generation information for a distinct data value is then used to generate the hash value for an instance of the distinct data value. The hash value generation information may indicate whether a collision has occurred in generating the hash values for instances of the distinct data values and if so, how the collision is to be resolved. The techniques are employed to normalize RDF triples by generating the UIDS employed in the normalization from the triples' lexical values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Souripriya Das, Eugene Inseok Chong, Zhe Wu, Melliyal Annamalai, Jogannathan Srinivasan
  • Publication number: 20140101153
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for naming methodologies for a hierarchical system. In one embodiment, a computer implemented method of organizing instance names in a hierarchical system includes receiving a description of a hierarchical system that includes plurality of instances arranged in different branches in a plurality of hierarchical levels in a physical data structure, creating an instance name data structure configured to describe the corresponding instances in the hierarchical system, where the instance name data structure comprises a map of indexes and a corresponding array of offsets configured to access naming information in a subsequent level, and associating names of instances in the hierarchical system to a corresponding set of unique integers which are arranged in a sequential manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Inventor: Bruce McGaughy
  • Publication number: 20140095517
    Abstract: In token compression, a column value is represented by a encoded token. During early predicate evaluation, the result that a decoded token in a column does not satisfy a predicate condition in a predicate conjunction is recorded in a cache as a “FALSE”. Such a result not only means that when the column contains that token that the predicate condition is not satisfied, but also that a predicate conjunction containing the predicate condition is not satisfied. When performing early predicate evaluation on a subsequent row on a token in a column, the conjunction result cache is referred to. If the cache records a FALSE for that token in that column, then it is known the predicate conjunction cannot be satisfied by the decoded token.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Vineet Marwah, Teck Hua Lee, Amit Ganesh
  • Publication number: 20140095521
    Abstract: A data augmentation machine may form all or part of a data augmentation system that is configured to augment data. The data augmentation machine may be configured (e.g., by one or more software modules) to access data (e.g., by crawling one or more public or private networks), extract metadata based on the data (e.g., from the data and its source), create a link to additional data (e.g., based on the extracted metadata), and augment the extracted metadata (e.g., by storing augmented metadata with the extracted metadata). Such augmented metadata may be presented (e.g., within a user interface), published publicly (e.g., on a webpage), published privately (e.g., in a report available only to premium subscribers of a data augmentation service), or any suitable combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: DISCERN, Inc.
    Inventors: Harry Blount, Travis Shanahan, James Clark, Dana Guido
  • Publication number: 20140074771
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for generating a relational query. Information is collected from a query specification and a model for an On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) query having at least a first expression and a second expression. The collected information is used to generate a relational query to retrieve report data to be used to satisfy the first expression and the second expression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiaowen He, Lin Luo, Martin Petitclerc
  • Publication number: 20140074872
    Abstract: Relational database modeling and triggers are employed and coordinated to maintain and manage tunable parameters and characteristics of a Workload Optimized System. The database model is initialized with pre-defined values as per definition of Workload Optimized Systems, which models the optimal configuration of the workload-optimized system, capturing various performance configurations, security and other related system and software configuration. The values present the optimal values for the entire solution. A daemon is run to monitor for changes in the tunable configuration settings, which also updates the current values of the configuration parameters on the RDBMS. SQL Triggers are implemented on the database to identify cases where corrective actions are required to the configuration parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP.
    Inventors: Sandip Amin, Rishika Kedia, Anbazhagan Mani, Vasu Vallabhaneni
  • Publication number: 20140046920
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for determining an available space in one or more data blocks. A physical data storage area associated with one or more portions of a database may be determined. An available space in each data block of one or more data blocks in the physical data storage area may be determined. A number of new data rows that can be added to each data block may also be determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Inventor: Kevin P. Shuma
  • Publication number: 20140032484
    Abstract: A method for providing a data binding abstraction. The method includes serving an interactive document via a digital data communications network using a server. The method includes generating, with intelligence in the document, a data binding request to resolve a data value placeholder that has no static data location or source reference. With a data binding web service, the method includes generating a data dictionary request that includes a placeholder identifier. The method includes using the data binding web service to process a data dictionary response which includes placeholder content for the placeholder to determine a source of the data value. The method includes the data binding web service accessing the determined data source to obtain the data value and providing the interactive document with a response including the placeholder identifier and the resolved placeholder data value. The interactive document then replaces the placeholders with the returned data value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: ADOBE SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Stefan Cameron, Kevin Paul Matassa
  • Publication number: 20140032581
    Abstract: A system for transparent navigation of relational data models is provided. The system may include a request detector, a relationship detector, and an address evaluator. The request detector may be configured to receive a request for a node in the data schema. The relationship detector may be configured to determine that the request includes information associated with the relationship aspect. The address evaluator may be configured to resolve the information associated with the relationship aspect into the requested node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Inventor: Jeff Young
  • Patent number: 8639729
    Abstract: Various embodiments of systems and methods for executing a customized business process in a business process framework are described herein. A user selection of a solution type corresponding to a business process is received from a user interface. In response to the user selection, a query is executed to retrieve application types and corresponding sub-application types from a business logic stored in a database. Configurable attributes are generated based upon the application types and the corresponding sub-application types. Based upon the application types, the sub-application types and the configurable attributes, the business process is customized to create a customized business process. Based upon a configuration information, a user input to the customized business process is captured from the user interface. The user input is validated by comparing the user input with the business logic. The customized business process that is validated is further executed in the business process framework.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventor: Chatur B Patil
  • Publication number: 20140025675
    Abstract: Diverse drawings, documents, files and notes in different formats describing buildings in their finished and installed state are electronically aggregated into sets of as-built drawings for convenient and rapid future access.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Stephen Pineau, Turkay Buyucetin
  • Publication number: 20130325908
    Abstract: A method for effective data storing allowing reducing storage requirements and speeding up various storage operations by reducing storage of redundant data is disclosed. The method includes receiving new informational objects (such as computer files) for storage and breaking down the new informational objects into multiple data objects. Each data object is analyzed to determine whether an identical data object already exists in a database. If an identical data object already exists in the database, the new data object is not stored. If, on the other hand, an identical data object does not exist in the database already, the new data object is stored. Furthermore, for each informational object to be stored, relational links are generated which associate the data objects and their storage locations with the informational object such that the informational object can be easily recreated when required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Inventor: Richard Verschoor
  • Publication number: 20130318128
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving a query in a controller. A data store stores data in a relational database. The database comprises a plurality of fields and a plurality of data elements. Each field is associated with a portion of the data elements. The database is arranged as at least one table, and the query identifies data of an object to be stored in a data set. The method further comprises determining, by the controller, whether the relational database includes a field associated with a class of the object; and if the relational database does not include a field associated with the class of the object, adding a column to the relational database, the added column having a field corresponding to the class. The method further comprises adding the data of the object to the relational database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: SAP AG
    Inventors: Tobias Friedrich Zahn, Steffen Geissinger
  • Publication number: 20130275476
    Abstract: In managing a relational database, a relational manager sets a foreign key lookup value to an unavailable state in a source table row containing each of a foreign key value and the foreign key lookup value in a source table in a relational database, wherein the foreign key value references a primary key value in a referenced row in a separate destination table in the relational database. The relational manager, responsive to looking up, for the foreign key value, in a data structure separate from the source table, a location of the referenced row in the relational database, when the foreign key lookup value is set to the unavailable state, updating the foreign key lookup value with the location, wherein the foreign key lookup value in the source table is looked up for identifying the location of the referenced row for subsequent retrievals of the referenced row for the foreign key value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Allan T. Chandler
  • Publication number: 20130262525
    Abstract: According to a present invention embodiment, a system determines a relationship between source and target database tables, and includes a computer system including at least one processor. Potential pivot keys of the target database table are determined, and maps are created for each potential pivot key between the database tables based on distinct values. Transformations for each map are generated that enable target data to be produced from source data. The transformations for each potential pivot key are analyzed and the potential pivot key with the transformations that generate the greatest amount of matching data is selected as the resulting pivot key. The database table columns corresponding to the resulting pivot key are determined to be associated by the relationship. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for determining a relationship between source and target database tables in substantially the same manner described above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Leon Burda, Salil Datta, Alexander Gorelik, Dongmei Ren, Lev M. Tsentsiper
  • Publication number: 20130262432
    Abstract: A system and method for improved processing of an SQL query made against a relational database is disclosed. In one example embodiment, the method includes parsing the SQL query, received against the relational database, to obtain each operator and associated one or more operands and sequence of execution of the operators. Further, it is determined whether all needed closure-friendly operators exist. Furthermore, any available closure-friendly operators are obtained from a pattern repository if all needed closure-friendly operators do not exist. In addition, remaining or all non-available closure-friendly operators are dynamically generated. Moreover, the available closure-friendly operators and the dynamically generated closure-friendly operators are grouped into one or more patterns and impact of each pattern on a queried relational database and a database schema is classified. Also, the SQL query is executed using the one or more patterns based on sequence of the execution of the operators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventor: SUDIPTA GHOSH
  • Publication number: 20130254238
    Abstract: Techniques for processing relational data with a user-defined function (UDF) are provided. Relational input data being requested by the UDF, from within a relational database system, is intercepted and normalized. The UDF is called with the normalized input data and as the UDF produces output data in response to the normalized input data that output data is captured and normalized. In an embodiment, the normalized output data is used to dynamically update a data model within the relational database for the input data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: Teradata US, Inc.
    Inventors: Lihua Yan, Zhenrong Li, Ejaz Haider
  • Publication number: 20130238621
    Abstract: The subject disclosure is directed towards providing data for augmenting an entity-attribute-related task. Pre-processing is preformed on entity-attribute tables extracted from the web, e.g., to provide indexes that are accessible to find data that completes augmentation tasks. The indexes are based on both direct mappings and indirect mappings between tables. Example augmentation tasks include queries for augmented data based on an attribute name or examples, or finding synonyms for augmentation. An online query is efficiently processed by accessing the indexes to return augmented data related to the task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kris K. Ganjam, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Mohamed A. Yakout, Surajit Chaudhuri
  • Publication number: 20130232143
    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: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventor: Salah Ait-Mokhtar
  • Publication number: 20130232142
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to identify users of handheld computing devices are disclosed. An example method includes generating, via a logic circuit, a first handling pattern indicative of a manner in which a handheld computing device is moved while the handheld computing device is presenting media; and storing the first handling pattern and corresponding user identification information in a database, handling patterns stored in the database to identify users of the handheld computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Inventors: Christen Nielsen, Scott Cooper
  • Publication number: 20130204881
    Abstract: Embodiments of apparatus, systems and methods facilitate knowledge dissemination and promote knowledge acquisition, in part, by automatically presenting elements of an interlinked knowledge base to optimize learning efficiency. In some embodiments, content associated with a plurality of linked subject items in a knowledge base is disseminated to a user based on rankings determined using a priority value associated with candidate subject items. The candidacy is determined and the priority value is computed based on, at least in part, user-specific understanding values corresponding to the candidate subject items; user-specific understanding values of at least one of a plurality of basic subject items linked to the candidate subject items, and user-specific understanding values of at least one of plurality of advanced subject items linked to the candidate subject items. Content associated with the plurality of candidate subject items may be displayed to the user in order of rank based upon user interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: SU-KAM INTELLIGENT EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventor: Julius Su
  • Publication number: 20130205253
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for completing schedule information. A device displays keyword information corresponding to at least one piece of character information, and at least one piece of recommended schedule information selected from a plurality of domains and having a correlation with the keyword information, in response to inputting the at least one piece of character information. Schedule information is automatically completed according to at least a selection of a piece of recommended schedule information from the displayed at least one piece of recommended schedule information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-hyun RYU, Nam-wook Kang, Sin-ae Kim, Young-sun Kim, Seung-eok Choi
  • Publication number: 20130198237
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments involve a processor receiving a function call formatted to interact with a relational database. The function call references an object in the relational database by referencing at least one table of the relational database and at least one column of the at least one table. The processor transforms the function call into a transformed function call formatted for interacting with a hierarchical data structure. The hierarchical data structure comprises a plurality of nodes, wherein each node has a single parent node. The processor applies the transformed function call to one or more nodes of the hierarchical data structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandru Bogdan Serban, Andrei Fierbinteanu
  • Publication number: 20130198165
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for generating statistical views in a database system. In one embodiment, a request is received to execute a database workload. One or more constraints pertaining to executing the database workload is retrieved. The database workload is evaluated to generate multiple statistical view candidates. The statistical view candidates are refined based on the one or more constraints. One or more statistical views are then generated based on the refined statistical view candidates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Qi Cheng, John F. Hornibrook, Ting Y. Leung, Xin Wu, Daniel C. Zilio, Calisto P. Zuzarte
  • Publication number: 20130179458
    Abstract: A system and associated method for manipulating a Siebel database (SDB) with a Structured Query Language (SQL) statement utilizes a SQL-eScript parser, which uses a business component (BC) on a Siebel data model of the SDB, which has data elements corresponding to the data elements of the SQL statement to be performed against the SDB. In the SDB, data of the SDB is stored in relational database tables, accesses to the SDB must utilize a BC which describes and references a part of the Siebel data model. The SQL-eScript parser enables users to access the SDB by use of the SQL statement by interpreting the SQL statement and automatically identifying and utilizing a BC on the Siebel data model having all data elements of the SQL statement and performing eScript BC methods corresponding to operations of the SQL statement in updating the SDB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Raoul Mayr
  • Publication number: 20130173653
    Abstract: A sequence of events may be planned by drawing on knowledge of existing sequences of events, and combining those events in accordance with a set of constraints. In one example, the sequences of events are events in a social agenda, such as dinner, drinks, movie, etc. Actual social agendas that users have carried out are monitored (with the users' permission), and these events are stored in a database. A sequence of events may be referred to as an existing path. Using the database, a system can respond to a query such as “plan an evening in Seattle,” or “plan an evening in that includes a movie” by querying the database to determine what sequences have already happened, and either retrieving an existing sequence or synthesizing a new one from existing sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian Beckman, Eyal Ofek, Gur Kimchi, Elad Gerson, Richard A. Clawson
  • Publication number: 20130166560
    Abstract: A method includes identifying interrelated files stored on one or more storage devices for each topic grouping. The interrelated files correspond to a particular topic grouping and are determined based on metadata associated with the interrelated files. A relative importance for each of the interrelated files within each topic grouping is determined. The relative importance indicates an importance of each of the interrelated files in a corresponding topic grouping relative to the other files in the corresponding topic grouping based on metadata associated with the interrelated files. A montage of visual representations of the interrelated files for each topic grouping is displayed using a visual indication of the relative importance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Inventors: Adrian Secord, Andrea Mangini
  • Publication number: 20130144901
    Abstract: A database server receives a data request from a client. In response to the data request, the database server selects, from a database, actual data that satisfies criteria specified by the data request. The database server retrieves the selected actual data from the database. Also in response to the data request, the database server redacts the retrieved data in real time without modifying the actual data contained within the database. This may be accomplished by the prior insertion of masking operators into a top SELECT clause of a query representation generated during semantic analysis. The database server returns the redacted data to the client as a reply to the data request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Min-Hank Ho, Javed Samuel, Peter Knaggs, Dah-Yoh Lim, Paul Youn
  • Publication number: 20130138695
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying one or more rows in a relational database that have each been modified since a first point in time, wherein each of the rows is associated with a respective table in the relational database; for each of the identified rows, updating a respective file in an external representation of the table associated with the row to reflect the modification to the row wherein the respective file is not stored in the database; and creating a first version of the relational database in a version control system using the external representation including one or more of the updated files, wherein the first version of the database comprises one or more files in the version control system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: AUTODESK, INC.
    Inventor: Traian Iavorov Stanev
  • Publication number: 20130124482
    Abstract: System and methods are provided. In one embodiment, a system includes a master data archiver configured to store a data related to a turbomachine system and a first data collector service system configured to collect the data from the master data archiver. The system also includes a second data collector service system communicatively coupled to the first data collector system and configured to pull or to push the data from the first data collector system and a first data archiver configured to receive at least some of the data from the second data collector system. The system further includes an asset model database storing a plurality of turbomachine tags, wherein the turbomachine tags are configured to categorize the data and a data access system (DAS) configured to provide data access to the first data archiver, the asset model database, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Youcef Atamna, Minh Ngoc Huynh, Eric Thomas Pool
  • Publication number: 20130117328
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and method of retrieving a plurality of data memory containers from a database. One example method of operation may include displaying the plurality of data memory containers on a graphical user interface, receiving a selection of one or more of the data memory containers, and displaying a moving array of the plurality of data objects included in the selected one or more data memory containers. The objects may be images or other user defined data files that are distributed to a virtual house application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Inventors: Thana Shagrithaya, Bala Shagrithaya
  • Publication number: 20130117334
    Abstract: An automated event viewing method for storing data for a process automation system. The method includes assigning a plurality of collected process data values from a physical process to a stream, and writing the stream on non-transitory machine readable storage to obtain a stored data stream having an original sampling rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: PERRY NORDH, ANDY GRIFFITHS
  • Publication number: 20130110879
    Abstract: Reference data is defined declaratively and deployed imperatively to both new and existing databases. By designating a reference data set as open or closed, reference data can be overwritten or spared. Reference data can be included in schema comparison. Reference data defined in scripts can be validated against corresponding table definitions and non-compliant values can be reported.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fabian O. Winternitz, William E. Gibson, Yang Gao, Haroon Ahmed
  • Publication number: 20130103724
    Abstract: A method of managing models in a network includes receiving at a model manager a model of a controlled system in a first format from a first system and storing the model in a second format in the model manager. Storing includes several steps that allow for the transformation of the model into a different, version-free format so that the network can adapt to changes in the first format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Hongxiang Qiu, Qiying Gong, Bo Su
  • Publication number: 20130103655
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to a multi-level database compression technique to compress table data objects stored in pages. A compact dictionary structure is encoded that represents frequent values of data at any level of granularity. More than one level of compression is provided, wherein input to a finer level of granularity is an output of a coarser level of granularity. Based upon the encoded dictionary structure, a compression technique is applied to a stored page to compress each row on the page. Similarly, a de-compression technique may be applied to decompress the compressed data, utilizing the same dictionary structures at each level of granularity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas Fanghaenel, Uttam Jain, Quanzhong LI, Guy M. Lohman, Richard S. Sidle, Ioana R. Stanoi, Robbert Van der Linden
  • Publication number: 20130097188
    Abstract: Techniques for constructing query operations associated with a report specification are described. The query operations may include a mixture of multidimensional operations and relational operations. The application of the query operations are sequenced with the computing device to reduce or eliminate certain complexities and ambiguities during generation of reports, thereby providing an improved experience for user. For example, any multidimensional rollup operation may be applied to the multidimensional representation of the data within a first timeframe and that any aggregation operation and second level filtering are applied within a second timeframe subsequent to the first timeframe. A report may be output based on a resultant data set produced by application of the query operation in accordance with the sequencing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: David C. Cummings, Glen M. Seeds
  • Publication number: 20130097150
    Abstract: An enterprise business intelligence system includes a data access service. In one example, a method comprises receiving, with a data access service, a query and a report specification from an application, wherein the data access service is positioned between the application and a data source; creating a run tree that comprises a sequence of executable decoration nodes; executing the query on the data source, thereby providing a query result set comprising query results drawn from the data source that are responsive to the query; and executing the sequence of decoration nodes on the query result set. The decoration nodes modify the query result set, thereby producing a decorated result set based on the query result set and the decoration nodes. Producing the decorated result set comprises associating members or values in the query results with corresponding positions or calculated members in the report specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: David B. Cushing, Robin N. Grosset, Charles Ng, Martin Petitclerc
  • Publication number: 20130091152
    Abstract: Identifying parameter and name/value pair separators within two or more strings of data. The identifying is performed by selecting at least one name/value pair separator candidate from the two or more strings of data, and filtering the at least one name/value pair separator candidate using one or more rules, thereby removing any of the name/value pair separator candidates that do not conform to any of the one or more rules. The identifying additionally includes selecting at least one parameter separator candidate from the two or more strings of data, and filtering the at least one parameter separator candidate using one or more rules, thereby removing any of the at least one parameter separator candidates that do not conform to any of the one or more rules. The result is a set of tuples that includes a name/value separator candidate, and a parameter separator candidate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul Ionescu, Iosif V. Onut
  • Publication number: 20130086125
    Abstract: Receiving from each of a plurality of low level monitor models an outbound event comprising information associated with a respective data source. The information received in each of the outbound events can be collected to a global monitoring context in which the information is automatically aggregated. Via a global cube associated with the global monitoring context, the information can be presented in a report. At least one new outbound event can be received. The new outbound event can include updated information associated with at least one of the data sources. Responsive to receiving the new outbound event, the information presented the report can be updated in real time to reflect the updated information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John W. Alcorn, Francisco P. Curbera, Paul T. Keyser, Geetika T. Lakshmanan, Aleksander A. Slominski
  • Publication number: 20130080484
    Abstract: Techniques are described for creating a first data abstraction model for a first database. Embodiments analyze the first database to determine a first set of structural characteristics, and analyze a second database to determine a second set of structural characteristics. The analyzed second database is associated with a second data abstraction model. The first set of structural characteristics is compared with the second set of structural characteristics to identify one or more similarities between the two sets of structural characteristics. Embodiments then create the first data abstraction model for the first database, based on the identified similarities and the second data abstraction model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: International Business Machines Corporation