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US20080177857 AUTONOMIC OPTIMIZATION OF PRESENCE SERVER PERFORMANCE  
A presence system comprises a presence server and a plurality of users in a distributed community of users that are associated with the presence server. The presence server selects a set of...
US20080177850 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING A SHARED ELECTRONIC MAIL ACCOUNT  
A method of managing a shared electronic mail account co-owned by at least two owners includes intercepting electronic mail account configuration settings received from the at least two owners;...
US20080177837 Dynamic Media Content For Collaborators With Client Locations In Dynamic Client Contexts  
Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for delivering dynamic media content to collaborators. Embodiments include providing collaborative event media content, wherein the...
US20080177835 Methods and Apparatus for Managing and Distinguishing Instant Messaging Sessions and Threads  
A method of managing instant messaging communication over a computer network is provided. One or more instant messaging session windows are organized in an instant messaging session manager. At...
US20080177834 CONTENT MONITORING IN A HIGH VOLUME ON-LINE COMMUNITY APPLICATION  
Disclosed are embodiments a system and method for managing an on-line community. Electronic postings are pre-screened based on one or more metrics to determine a risk value indicative of the...
US20080177833 PEER-TO-PEER MULTI-PARTY VOICE-OVER-IP SERVICES  
A system and computer program product for establishing multi-party VoIP conference audio calls in a distributed, peer-to-peer network where any number of nodes are able to arbitrarily and...
US20080177829 Data Communications Through A Split Connection Proxy  
Data communications through a split connection proxy in a data communications protocol, including receiving in a proxy from a client, asynchronously with respect to any other messages between the...
US20080177823 SYSTEM AND PROGRAM FOR DUAL AGENT PROCESSES AND DUAL ACTIVE SERVER PROCESSES  
Disclosed is a system and program for task processing and monitoring of configuration and state information. A first server process and a second server process are detected. A first agent process...
US20080177816 Method And Decimal Arithmetic Logic Unit Structure To Generate A Magnitude Result of a Mathematic  
A method to generate a magnitude result of a mathematic operation of two decimal operands within one cycle in a decimal arithmetic logic unit structure, wherein the decimal operands are in...
US20080177813 METHOD FOR FAST RELEVANCE DISCOVERY IN TIME SERIES  
A method for measuring time series relevance using state transition points, including inputting time series data and relevance threshold data. Then convert all time series values to ranks within...
US20080177812 HASH ALGORITHM USING RANDOMIZATION FUNCTION  
A pseudo-random number generator is employed to provide the same results normally produced by hash functions. In particular, input character string data is employed to sequentially adjust the seed...
US20080177810 QoS-Enabled Lifecycle Management for File Systems  
In an exemplary aspect of the invention, a method is disclosed for lifecycle management for file systems. The method comprises the following steps. At least one storage container adapted to support...
US20080177807 BACKING-UP AND RESTORING FILES INCLUDING FILES REFERENCED WITH MULTIPLE FILE NAMES  
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for backing-up and restoring files including files referenced with multiple file names. Files to backup are determined. A determination is...
US20080177802 SECURELY DELETING DATA IN A TRANSACTIONALLY CONSISTENT MANNER  
A process is disclosed by which data is securely deleted in a transactionally consistent manner. This may be accomplished by committing a preparation transaction for a data object within a system...
US20080177795 COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND SYSTEM FOR DELIVERING A TECHNICAL FRAMEWORK  
An Enterprise Service Delivery Technical Architecture includes a Technical Model, and a Technical Delivery Framework, and is designed to facilitate the development of complete enterprise service...
US20080177786 METHOD FOR THE SEMI-AUTOMATIC EDITING OF TIMED AND ANNOTATED DATA  
The present invention relates to methods for editing timed and annotated data, the method comprising the steps of acquiring a multimedia data stream, segmenting the multimedia stream into...
US20080177773 CUSTOMIZED MEDIA SELECTION USING DEGREES OF SEPARATION TECHNIQUES  
A method and interface for providing media content to users across a network. The method includes the steps of presenting a media interface to the user that indicates the content provider for the...
US20080177771 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-LOCATION COLLABORATION  
Disclosed are a method and system of conducting multi-location collaboration. The method comprises the steps of establishing a collaboration session among the multiple remote users, each of the...
US20080177770 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING DISTRIBUTED AND HYBRID QUERIES IN IMPERFECT ENVIRONMENTS  
Method, system, and program product for configuring and using a federated database and data structure management system with error prone data. The design of the metadata and queries includes the...
US20080177755 CREATION AND PERSISTENCE OF ACTION METADATA  
File transitions are identified that are to be tracked and at least one element of metadata is generated that characterizes each identified file transition to be tracked. Upon receiving a request...
US20080177754 Adaptive vicinity prefetching For filesystem Metadata  
Network latencies are reduced by detecting a metadata access call for filesystem metadata contained in a filesystem node of remotely located filesystem. The metadata corresponding to the metadata...
US20080177742 EFFICIENT SUPPORT OF CONSISTENT CYCLIC SEARCH WITH READ-COPY-UPDATE  
A method, system and computer program product for modifying data elements in a shared data element group that must be updated atomically for the benefit of readers requiring group integrity. A...
US20080177740 DETECTING RELATIONSHIPS IN UNSTRUCTURED TEXT  
Disclosed are embodiments of a system and a method for detecting relationships described in unstructured text-based electronic documents. The system and method incorporate the use of an input file...
US20080177736 DOCUMENT CLUSTERING BASED ON COHESIVE TERMS  
A method and a storage medium, that includes instructions for causing a computer to implement the method, for document categorization is presented. The method includes identifying terms occurring...
US20080177735 MOVEMENT-BASED DYNAMIC FILTERING OF SEARCH RESULTS IN A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE  
A movement-based filtering mechanism in a graphical user interface allows a user to filter search results by simply moving a pointer, such as a mouse. One or more attributes are displayed to the...
US20080177722 SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROGRESSIVE QUERY PROCESSING  
A method, system, and computer program product to make query processing more robust in the face of optimization errors. The invention validates the statistics and assumptions used for compiling a...
US20080177714 MOVEMENT-BASED DYNAMIC FILTERING OF SEARCH RESULTS IN A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE  
A movement-based filtering mechanism in a graphical user interface allows a user to filter search results by simply moving a pointer, such as a mouse. One or more attributes are displayed to the...
US20080177712 METHOD FOR RETRIEVING CONSTANT VALUES USING REGULAR EXPRESSIONS  
Disclosed is a method of retrieving constant values. The method comprises compiling key-value pairs into a unified regular expression, evaluating the unified regular expression against a...
US20080177698 Performance Degradation Root Cause Prediction in a Distributed Computing System  
A method of identifying at least one resource in a distributed computing system which is a potential root cause of performance degradation of the system includes the steps of: computing operational...
US20080177697 MONITORING USAGE OF COMPONENTS IN A DATABASE INDEX  
Database indexes include multiple fields that are used to track how the components of the index are used. An index component monitoring mechanism tracks how the components of the index are used,...
US20080177696 METHOD FOR MAINTAINING A SAMPLE SYNOPSIS UNDER ARBITRARY INSERTIONS AND DELETIONS  
A method of incrementally maintaining a stable, bounded, uniform random sample S from a dataset R, in the presence of arbitrary insertions and deletions to the dataset R, and without accesses to...
US20080177686 Apparatus And Method For Predicting A Metric Associated With A Computer System  
An objective function is dynamically chosen from a pool of available objective functions, and a prediction model is dynamically chosen from a pool of available prediction models. Points of...
US20080177648 CONFIDENCE BASED WEB SERVICE APPLICATION ASSEMBLY  
A composite application may be assembled from one or more component services, and at least one component service of the composite application is monitored. A determination is made of a probability...
US20080177642 COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR RISK MANAGEMENT  
Computer-implemented methods, systems, and computer program products for risk management are provided. A computer-implemented method includes establishing guidelines for processing...
US20080177632 Weight Based Upselling  
Weight based upselling, including receiving a purchase request for an item from a customer; determining a weight of the item; identifying, in dependence upon the weight of the item, a shipping...
US20080177620 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DESIGNING A CATALOG WITH OPTIMIZED PRODUCT PLACEMENT  
The current invention provides a method, system and computer program product for designing a catalog with optimized placement of items. Past user transactions are used to estimate the effect of...
US20080177615 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MINIMIZING RISK IN CONTACT CENTER MANAGEMENT CONTRACTS  
A method (and system) for contact center management contract evaluation including determining a potential profitability/risk for contact center management based upon a proposed contract term...
US20080177613 SYSTEM TO IMPROVE PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE AND WARRANTY COST/PRICE ESTIMATION  
A method and system of predicting a maintenance schedule and estimating a cost for warranty service of systems, for example, hardware systems, is provided. The method and system in one aspect may...
US20080177606 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ALLOCATING CALLS TO CALL CENTER VENDORS  
A system (and method) for allocating a contact to a vendor includes determining a real-time allocation of contact based upon one of a client-to-service provider payment structure, a service...
US20080177586 Apparatus and Method for Identifying Process Elements  
An exemplary method for identifying process elements includes the steps of obtaining a plurality of relevant request-response pairs including request identifiers, mapping the request identifiers to...
US20080177584 Systems, Methods, and Media for Managing a Travel Itinerary  
Systems, methods and media for managing a travel itinerary of a user are disclosed. More particularly, hardware and/or software for managing the user's travel itinerary based on the location of the...
US20080177565 DESIGN MANAGING MEANS, DESIGN TOOL AND METHOD FOR WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE  
A WBS design managing means in project management, comprising: a WBS tree-like architecture designing means for implementing graphical tree-like design of the work items included in a project and...
US20080177549 RESPONDING TO RECIPIENT RATED WIRELESSLY BROADCAST ELECTRONIC WORKS  
A method, system, and program for responding to recipient ratings of wirelessly broadcast electronic works are provided. A secondary player receives a wireless broadcast of an electronic work from...
US20080177543 Stochastic Syllable Accent Recognition  
Training wording data indicating the wording of each of the words in training text, training speech data indicating characteristics of speech of each of the words, and training boundary data...
US20080177540 Method and Apparatus for Recognizing and Reacting to User Personality in Accordance with Speech Recognition System  
Techniques are disclosed for recognizing user personality in accordance with a speech recognition system. For example, a technique for recognizing a personality trait associated with a user...
US20080177538 GENERATION OF DOMAIN MODELS FROM NOISY TRANSCRIPTIONS  
A method of building a domain specific model from transcriptions is disclosed. The method starts by applying text clustering to the transcriptions to form text clusters. The text clustering is...
US20080177530 Synchronizing Visual And Speech Events In A Multimodal Application  
Exemplary methods, systems, and products are disclosed for synchronizing visual and speech events in a multimodal application, including receiving from a user speech; determining a semantic...
US20080177526 COMPUTER PROGRAM, COMPUTER APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SCHEDULING PROCESSES FOR PROJECT PROGRESS  
A method and apparatus for arranging a progress schedule of a project includes steps for causing a computer to execute multiple simulations of the project, to select the simulation results...
US20080177506 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TESTING PROCESSOR CORES  
Systems, methods and program codes are provided for testing multi-core processor chip structures. Individual processor core power supply voltages are provided through controlling individual power...
US20080176578 Using RFID and Sensored Zones to Geographically Control Cellular Phone Audio Profiles  
A system and method for automatically controlling and adjusting the audio profile of pervasive devices, like cellular phones, within controlled zones. The system and method utilizes RFID and...