242results about "Data processing applications" patented technology

The invention is a modular backup and retrieval system. The software modules making up the backup and retrieval system run independently, and can run either on the same computing devices or on different computing devices. The modular software system coordinates and performs backups of various computing devices communicating to the modules. Actions of modules on one of the computing devices acts as a system manager for a network backup regimen. A management component acts as a manager for the archival and restoration of the computing devices on the network. It manages and allocates library media usage, maintains backup scheduling and levels, and supervises or maintains the archives themselves through pruning or aging policies. The management component is not hard wired in its functionality, but may adapt to changing circumstances in these policies. A second software module acts as a manager for each particular library media.

This invention is a system and method for managing replication of data in a data storage environment by grouping logical devices. The system is enabled for configuring, monitoring, and controlling replication processes in accordance with a replication policy that is particularly useful when combined with grouping of logical devices used in replication. The invention is useful for replicating essentially an entire copy of a production-level database such that the copy may be used essentially as the production-level database itself.

A method, apparatus (1), and article of manufacture for performing data mining applications (110) in a relational database management system (114). An analytic logic data model (LDM) provides logical entity and attribute definitions for advanced analytic processing (112) performed by the relational database management system directly against the relational database.

A computer-implemented method and system for determining search results for a search query for hypertext documents. The hypertext documents are reviewed to determine expert documents. When a query is received, the expert documents are ranked in accordance with the query. Then the target documents of the ranked expert documents are ranked to determine the search result set.

Disclosed is a computer implemented method of facilitating provisioning of social activity data to a mobile device based on user preferences is disclosed. The computer implemented method may include receiving, using a communication device, at least one selection corresponding to a plurality of filtering icons corresponding to a plurality of activities. Further, the computer implemented method may include receiving, using the communication device, a location indicator from the mobile device. Further, the computer implemented method may include filtering, using a processing device, social activity data based on the at least one selection of plurality of filtering icons to generate a filtered social activity data. Further, the computer implemented method may include transmitting, using the communication device, the filtered social activity data to the mobile device.

Methods and systems for accelerating data communication by reducing network latency particularly by data compression in which requested data is recursively compressed by an encoder and sent to the requester in codes which may or may not be understood by the requester. The requester can subsequently request data corresponding to unknown codes. The request-reply sequence is also recursive and continues until the requested data is present at the requester. To further accelerate communication, a persistently connected network is employed, together with a new socket layer capable of combining multiple messages from different machines, threads, and/or processes into single TCP/IP packets to be relayed along message hubs in the persistent network. These features are introduced singly and combined to create a new caching network. A new content distribution network can take advantage of these data communication improvements since requested content can be distributed in caches in a caching network.

A computer-implemented process identifies useful alternative spellings of search strings submitted to a search engine. The process takes into consideration spelling changes made by users, as detected by programmatically analyzing search string submissions of a population of search engine users. In one embodiment, an assessment of whether a second search string represents a useful alternative spelling of a first search string takes into consideration (1) an edit distance between the first and second search strings, and (2) a likelihood that a user who submits the first search string will thereafter submit the second search string, as determined by monitoring and analyzing actions of users.

A method for transmitting personal health information from a databank to a health facility. An individual's health information is stored in a database, and the information is sent to authorized users as needed. The information is stored in the database by coding an individual's private file with a unique identifying number or alpha-numeric sequence. The individual is provided with an electronically readable identifier (ERI) that corresponds to the unique identifying number or alpha-numeric sequence. The ERI can be scanned by medical personnel with the appropriate scanner. The scanner is authenticated by the database, and the information corresponding to that individual is sent back to the scanner for use by the emergency medical personnel. The health information can also be sent to a hospital. The entire process requires authentication of the medical personnel and validation of the ERI for security purposes.

A system and method of managing the logistics of trays and lots of medical inventory, such as surgical implants, from the manufacturer's initial release until final discharge by the end user healthcare provider. The system is driven by one or more software applications running on a central, secure server accessible by remote handheld telecommunication devices. The software platform comprises several assemblies integrated into the system, the assemblies including: a database access layer assembly, a business rules assembly, an entity or business object assembly, a web service assembly, a database connection assembly, a presentation assembly for a handheld device and a presentation assembly for a website and windows program. Additional features of the system could include a geographic map, an inventory list of trays and corresponding lots, an imaging assembly to read barcodes or other optic identifiers, an Food and Drug Administration news assembly incorporating a live RSS news feed for releases about product defects or recalls, a web browser, and a notebook assembly to enter customized notes in free form text.

A system, method and computer readable medium for providing a snapshot of a subset of a file system. A first snapshot of a first set of source files in a file system is generated. The first snapshot includes an inode corresponding to each source file in the first set of files. Stored in each inode is a first identifier associated with the first set of files and a second identifier associated with the time of the first snapshot. Next, a second snapshot of a second set of source files is taken. The second snapshot includes an inode corresponding to each source file in the second set of files. Stored in each inode are a first identifier and a second identifier. Subsequent snapshots are taken every first period and every second period for the first set of files and the second set of files, respectively.

A method of playing multimedia content comprising reading, at a local machine, local multimedia content stored on a portable storage medium; and utilizing a control structure stored on the separate storage medium to alter the playback of the local multimedia content stored on the portable storage medium. A method of providing multimedia content comprising the steps of reading, at a local machine, local multimedia content stored on a portable storage medium; and downloading a control structure to control the display of the local multimedia content.

Network based intrusion detection analyzes DB access attempts prior to transport into the host computer system and accordingly, mitigate resource overhead. However, host computer systems often employ local access such as a DBA account. Monitoring access attempts via the network monitor may not encompass such local access attempts. A data security device which intercepts both local and remote access attempts to the database resource monitors all database access attempts for auditing and security analysis. The data security device receives local access transactions via a local agent on the host. The local agent identifies and integrates with an interprocess communication (IPC) mechanism on the host computer system. The local agent implements an IPC interception mechanism to direct local database access attempts to the local agent, which then forwards the intercepted attempts to the data security device for further analysis. The network data security device therefore observes local access attempts via interception and transmission to the data security device, thereby consolidating analysis and logging of the data access attempts via the data security device.

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for the direct retrieval of hierarchical data from an SAP system. The apparatus includes an input module, a table hierarchy module, a query builder module, a query execution module, and a response builder module. The input module receives a table business object comprising a query criteria. The table hierarchy module determines a table hierarchy associated with the table business object. The query builder module builds a native SAP query based on the table hierarchy and the query criteria. The query execution module executes the native SAP query directly on an SAP database. The response builder module returns results of the native SAP query.

A proxy directory server discovers the topology of distributed directory server immediately after starting up and before accepting client requests. Immediately after starting up, the proxy server executes queries to extract the structured data corresponding to directory distribution information from the distributed directory servers. Dynamic topology reconfiguration of the distributed directory is achieved by any dynamic configuration changes made to the topology information directly at the proxy during operation being propagated by means of directory update operations to the distributed directory servers.

In an automatic remote metering system in accordance with the invention a method is provided for reprogramming each client utility meter from a host computer by downloading a reprogram first program from the host to a corresponding hub utility meter fourth memory portion via a communications link, verifying integrity of the reprogram first program, and downloading the reprogram first program from the hub utility meter to the client utility meter via a radio frequency link and overwriting the client utility meter first program code with the reprogram first program code.

A system, method, and apparatus for reminding users with declining cognitive abilities that remote assistance from a caregiver is available and for providing a simplified way of requesting the assistance. The assistance may be provided through a videoconference on a patient assistance apparatus, which may comprise a screen, speaker, and microphone. The apparatus may remind the user when the user is present at or near the apparatus, which may be detected through a motion or proximity sensor. When the user is near, the apparatus may output an assistance inquiry message which proactively asks whether the user needs assistance. The apparatus may then receive a verbal or other form of inputted response. Based on the user's response, the apparatus may initiate a videoconference with the remote caregiver. The apparatus may also output a message inquiring whether the user is present, which may allow a remote caregiver to initiate a videoconference.

A method for compressing files utilizing a dictionary within a data-processing system is disclosed. A binary file commonly available to a data-compressing system during compression and to a data-decompressing system during decompression can be served as a dictionary file. A first dictionary array is initially generated utilizing the dictionary file. Each entry within the first dictionary array includes a set of unique bit patterns from the dictionary file. An input file is parsed into multiple blocks, with each block having the same length as each entry within the first dictionary array. The input file is then compared against the first dictionary array, and each entry within the first dictionary array that includes the same bit patterns as a block from the input file is marked accordingly. A second dictionary array that includes all the marked entries from the first dictionary array is subsequently generated, and this second dictionary array is utilized in the compression of the input file. During compression, any block from the input file having a bit pattern found in the second dictionary array will be replaced by a corresponding index to the second dictionary array.

A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and a memory structure for transforming a query to reduce the need for merging the results from a number of result lists. The method comprises the steps of forming at least one subquery from the query, executing the formed subquery to generate a result list comprising a plurality of first result elements, and replacing the executed subquery with a logical combination of the first result elements to form a transformed query. The apparatus comprises a means for forming at least one subquery from the query, a means for executing the formed subquery to generate a plurality of first result elements, and a means for replacing the executed subquery with a logical combination of the first result elements to form a transformed query. In one embodiment, the invention comprises a program storage device, tangibly embodying a sequence of instructions for performing the method steps described above.

An IMS includes a terminal and an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) server, and may perform a method for transmitting and receiving presence information via the IMS core unit, a registering unit, a presence information transmitting unit, a friend list unit and a presence information control unit. The IMS core unit processes an IMS protocol. The registering unit registers terminal information to the IMS server. The presence information transmitting unit transmits presence information to the IMS server. The friend list unit manages a friend list of the various terminals. The presence information control unit designates at least one friend in the friend list and requests presence information of the designated friend.

This invention discloses a method to accurately locate book in library, which comprises the following steps: determining library book information step and determining library position information, wherein, the library book information adopts RFID technique for sensing read and the position information uses infrared sensor. This invention also discloses one system to located library, which comprises electron label, RFID reader, infrared sensor, record generation unit, buffer memory, coding module and decoding module and database.

The invention relates to a method for detecting suspected online water armies for microblog, and belongs to the technical field of computer application. The method for detecting suspected online water armies for the microblog comprises the following six steps: correspondingly related microblog data collecting; data preprocessing; user characteristics extracting; training set building; water armies detection model training; and unlabeled data predicting and distinguishing. Compared with the prior art, the method for detecting suspected online water armies for the microblog has the advantages that the full utilization of the data is realized, the group discovery is conducted conveniently and quickly, a complicated classification detection model is not needed to be established, so that the complexity of an algorithm is reduced, the modularity of the algorithm is relatively high, the algorithm can be put into large-scale data for calculation, and the stability is relatively high; a single user can be conducted on online water armies detection, a group of users in a certain event can be identified, the modularity of the method is extremely high and the method can be stably applied to large-scale data calculation framework.

A computer-implemented method, including receiving, with a receiver, a request, to access an electronic healthcare record of an individual or patient, transmitted from a first communication device associated with a user or provider; receiving, with the receiver or a computer, a photograph, picture, or video clip, or an audio recording or audio clip, of the user or provider; processing, with a processing device or the computer, information regarding the request; generating, with the processing device or the computer, a message which contains information regarding the request and which contains, contains a link or hyperlink to, or includes as an attachment thereto, the photograph, picture, or video clip, or the audio recording or audio clip, of the user or provider; and transmitting, with a transmitter, the processing device, or the computer, the message to a second communication device associated with the individual, the patient, or a caregiver.

Methods, systems and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention configure a computing system with a logging service that interacts with implementation objects associated with particular types of storage devices through a storage interface. The implementation objects may include processes used to access the storage devices during logging operations. The logging service may also be configured to adjust which storage device is to be used for logging operations without restarting the computing system. This adjustment may be made through a property file that includes properties specific to individual types of storage devices. The property file may be modified to include new properties by a system administrator or by the logging service during runtime operations of the computing system. The new properties may designate new storage devices to be used by the logging service to perform subsequent logging operations.

In an information searching method, information content records are provided in a computer network, each information content record including a tag indicator forming a subset less than a whole of a context hashtag record. When a search query including at least one search term is received from a user, a search is performed of an index of context hashtag records for the at least one search term. The index of context hashtag records is based on data other than only the subset less than the whole of the context hashtag record. Based on the searching, a list of context hashtag record matches is generated, and a search result is returned to the user. The search result includes a list of information content records, each information content record on the result list being associated with at least one context hashtag record on the list of context hashtag record matches.