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US20090292947 CASCADING INDEX COMPRESSION  
Techniques for maintaining a cascading index are provided. In one approach, one or more branch node compression techniques are applied to the main index of a cascading index. In an approach, a...
US20090292722 REAL TIME EXPERT DIALOG SERVICE  
Methods and systems provide for establishment of online dialogs between a person and a user of an online community where those people are not necessarily familiar with each others areas of...
US20090292679 CASCADING INDEX COMPRESSION  
Techniques for compressing branch nodes in an index are provided. The branch nodes may be part of a main index of a multi-level index that also includes one or more journal indexes. A Bloom filter...
US20090292669 TECHNIQUE FOR REMOVING SUBQUERY USING WINDOW FUNCTIONS  
Methods for transforming a query to remove redundant subqueries in HAVING clauses are provided. The methods provided transform queries that contain subqueries in HAVING clauses with tables and join...
US20090292668 SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR PARTIAL REDISTRIBUTION, PARTIAL DUPLICATION OF ROWS OF PARALLEL JOIN OPERATION ON SKEWED DATA  
A system, method, and computer-readable medium that facilitate management of data skew during a parallel join operation are provided. Portions of tables involved in the join operation are...
US20090287640 PROVIDING NOTIFICATION OF A REAL-WORLD EVENT TO A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE USER  
An approach that provides transmission and notification of a real-world event to a virtual universe user is described. In one embodiment, there is a method for notifying a resident that is on-line...
US20090287639 Embedding Densities in a Data Structure  
A method, apparatus and program product that determine a density for each key value of a plurality of key values in a table over at least one range of rows in the database table, and store the...
US20090287638 AUTONOMIC SYSTEM-WIDE SQL QUERY PERFORMANCE ADVISOR  
A method, computer program product and computer system for providing SQL query performance advices to optimize SQL queries of a database, which includes providing a query cache to store records of...
US20090287637 Determining a Density of a Key Value Referenced in a Database Query Over a Range of Rows  
A method, apparatus and program product that determine a density of a key value referenced in a database query over at least one range of rows, and utilize the determined density to optimize the...
US20090285396 Database processing on externally encrypted data  
Various techniques are described for processing externally encrypted data by database management system. Specifically, techniques are described for incorporating encrypted data stored in a first...
US20090281987 INTEGRATED DISTRIBUTED QUERY PROCESSOR FOR DATA GRIDS  
A method for processing a distributed query in a network of computational resources is provided. The method includes receiving a user-defined freshness criterion and a distributed query from a...
US20090281986 Generating Database Query Plans  
Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for optimizing database queries for energy efficiency. In general, a query optimizer is configured to compare energy requirements of query plans, and...
US20090281985 TECHNIQUES FOR TRANSFORMING AND LOADING DATA INTO A FACT TABLE IN A DATA WAREHOUSE  
Techniques for transforming records prior to loading the records into a data warehouse in an efficient manner. In one embodiment, instead of using lookup transformations, a database operation such...
US20090281894 Method and Apparatus for Inferring Topics for Web Pages and Web Ads for Contextual Advertising  
A method and apparatus are provided for inferring topics for web pages and web ads for contextual advertising. In one example, the method includes receiving clicked ads from an ads log database,...
US20090276525 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATING HETEROGENEOUS SENSOR DATA IN UBIQUITOUS SENSOR NETWORK  
Provided is an apparatus and method for integrating heterogeneous sensor data in a ubiquitous sensor network. The method includes steps of receiving an integrated query for heterogeneous sensor...
US20090276397 METHOD FOR ANALYZING, DECONSTRUCTING, RECONSTRUCTING, AND REPURPOSING RHETORICAL CONTENT  
A system and method are disclosed for analyzing, deconstructing, reconstructing, and repurposing rhetorical content. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for...
US20090276396 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE COMMUNICATION WITH A COMPUTER  
A system for natural language communication with a computer, comprising a database configures to store at least one table the table configured to store associations between concepts in a text...
US20090276395 QUERY OPTIMIZATION IN A MULTI-TENANT DATABASE SYSTEM  
More efficient querying of a multi-tenant database using dynamic tuning of database indices. A layer of meta-data associates data items with tenants, e.g., via tags, and the meta-data is used to...
US20090276394 OBTAINING A PLAN FOR EXECUTING A QUERY IN A RELATIONAL DATABASE  
A plan for executing a query in a relational database is obtained. A query for accessing data in the relational database is received. The query specifies N tables in the relational database from...
US20090276393 Implementing Aggregation Combination Using Aggregate Depth Lists and Cube Aggregation Conversion to Rollup Aggregation for Optimizing Query Processing  
A process combines multiple grouping sets into single rollup sets with depth lists defining the levels of grouping that must be performed. Grouping sets are identified that are contained within...
US20090276391 CREATION OF NEURO-FUZZY EXPERT SYSTEM FROM ONLINE ANALYTICAL PROCESSING (OLAP) TOOLS  
A method for automatic generation of a Neuro-Fuzzy Expert System (Fuzzy Logic Expert System implemented as a Neural Network) from data. The method comprising a Data Interface allowing description...
US20090271364 OPTIMIZED STORAGE AND ACCESS METHOD FOR A HISTORIAN SERVER OF AN AUTOMATED SYSTEM  
Exemplary embodiments of the disclosure relate to a method and a system for the storage and processing of process values of a technical process or a technical installation in a historian server...
US20090271363 ADAPTIVE CLUSTERING OF RECORDS AND ENTITY REPRESENTATIONS  
Disclosed is a system for, and method of, determining whether records and entity representations should be linked. The system and method include assigning to each pair of entity references a match...
US20090271362 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEM  
A method for controlling a relational database system, wherein a query statement to be processed, which consists of keywords, is first analyzed by applying a recursive transition network (RTN) and...
US20090271361 Non-repeating random values in user specified formats and character sets  
Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with producing non-repeating random values for use in data masking are described. One example method includes accessing data...
US20090271360 Assigning Plan Volatility Scores to Control Reoptimization Frequency and Number of Stored Reoptimization Plans  
Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for improving the processing of database queries. Some embodiments include generating volatility scores for various plans for executing...
US20090271281 Computer-implemented reservation system  
A Web service based, real-time booking engine in which reservations Web pages include a “One Click Search” implemented using a global navigation menu located in the Web pages, facilitating easy...
US20090271179 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXTENDING KEYWORD SEARCHING TO SYNTACTICALLY AND SEMANTICALLY ANNOTATED DATA  
Methods and systems for extending keyword searching techniques to syntactically and semantically annotated data are provided. Example embodiments provide a Syntactic Query Engine (“SQE”) that...
US20090265321 INTERNET BOOK MARKING AND SEARCH RESULTS DELIVERY  
A method of enhancing search results provided over the Internet may include providing a service over the Internet to members of a group of service users, the service resulting in multiple...
US20090265308 Software and method for teaching, learning, and creating and relaying an account  
A method of relaying to a user an account regarding characters, where the account includes one embodiment of a branching story, includes: generating a plurality of electronic communicative...
US20090265307 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY PRODUCING FLUENT TEXTUAL SUMMARIES FROM MULTIPLE OPINIONS  
A system and method for automatically generating fluent textual summary from multiple opinions. The opinion summarization system comprises a feature extractor, a text generator and a feature...
US20090265306 Index Maintenance in a Multi-Node Database  
Embodiments of the invention enable a database spread over multiple nodes to allow each node to have different indexes over the data in tables, depending on how each node would benefit (or not...
US20090265305 Partial Indexes for Multi-Node Database  
Embodiments of the invention enable a database spread over multiple nodes to allow each node to have different indexes over the data in tables, depending on how each node would benefit (or not...
US20090265304 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING STATEMENTS OF INFORMATION SOURCES AND ASSOCIATING A FACTUALITY ASSESSMENT TO THE STATEMENTS  
A system and method for providing a factuality assessment of a retrieved information source's statement are disclosed. The method includes receiving a user's query which identifies an information...
US20090265303 IDENTIFYING SUPERPHRASES OF TEXT STRINGS  
Methods and apparatus are described by which “superphrases” of “seed phrases” representing basic concepts may be identified without having to compare all possible pairs of seed and...
US20090265251 Systems and Methods for Searching a Defined Area  
Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for searching a defined area. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method comprising receiving a plurality of product...
US20090259619 Online intelligent information comparison agent of multilingual electronic data sources over inter-connected computer networks  
A method and system for real-time online search processing over inter-connected computer networks, in which an offline database information is maintained for a plurality of vendor sites from the...
US20090259618 SLICING OF RELATIONAL DATABASES  
A method and a processing device may be provided for creating a shadow database, having a size being approximately a desired percentage of a size of a relational database. Referential integrity of...
US20090259617 Method And System For Data Management  
The invention provides a method, a system and a computer program product for managing the data of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools in data processing units. This data is managed by a...
US20090254523 HYBRID TERM AND DOCUMENT-BASED INDEXING FOR SEARCH QUERY RESOLUTION  
Methods and apparatuses relate to hosting an inverted index for term-based document searching. According to disclosed aspects, each bank of a plurality of banks receives a plurality of Document...
US20090254518 Methods and systems for joining database tables using indexing data structures  
A method for identifying joined rows in a database comprising a plurality of tables. The method comprises selecting a group of tables directly or indirectly joined with each other, selecting an...
US20090254517 System And Method For Generating Messages  
A method and system for generating messages are described. The method and system include retrieving information regarding a plurality of tasks from a database and based on the information...
US20090254516 ACCESSING DATA IN A COLUMN STORE DATABASE BASED ON HARDWARE COMPATIBLE INDEXING AND REPLICATED REORDERED COLUMNS  
Embodiments of the present invention provide hardware-friendly indexing of databases. In particular, forward and reverse indexing are utilized to allow for easy traversal of primary key to foreign...
US20090254515 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING GALLERY RENDITIONS THAT ARE IDENTIFIED FROM A NETWORK  
A presentation system provided for use on a network. The presentation system includes an index and one or more modules. The index that stores gallery information, the gallery including (i)...
US20090254514 HANDLING REQUESTS FOR DATA STORED IN DATABASE TABLES  
Method for handling requests for data stored in database tables is provided. The method includes receiving a request for data stored in a database table, the database table including non-hash and...
US20090254513 METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PERFORMING A QUERY USING A DECISION DIAGRAM  
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for performing a query using a decision diagram. In this regard, in response to receiving a query instruction a compression value for a...
US20090254512 AD MATCHING BY AUGMENTING A SEARCH QUERY WITH KNOWLEDGE OBTAINED THROUGH SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS  
A method is provided to match an advertisement to a search query comprising: receiving search results produced by a search engine in response to a search query; producing an ad query that includes,...
US20090249125 DATABASE QUERYING  
Data stored in relational databases can be retrieved using a relational database query language, while data stored in a multidimensional database is typically retrieved using a multidimensional...
US20090248623 ACCESSING DIGITAL IDENTITY RELATED REPUTATION DATA  
Systems and processes of the present invention allow for tracking and publishing digital identity related reputation. In an example embodiment, a Digital Identity Provider maintains a database with...
US20090248622 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INDEXING RESOURCE CONTENT IN COMPUTER NETWORKS  
A method and device index resource content in a computer network. The computer network includes at least a first computer as a search engine and at least a second computer as a resource content...