319 results about "Cataloging" patented technology

Systems and methods for managing electronic data are disclosed. Various data management operations can be performed based on a metabase formed from metadata. Such metadata can be identified from an index of data interactions generated by a journaling module, and obtained from their associated data objects stored in one or more storage devices. In various embodiments, such processing of the index and storing of the metadata can facilitate, for example, enhanced data management operations, enhanced data identification operations, enhanced storage operations, data classification for organizing and storing the metadata, cataloging of metadata for the stored metadata, and/or user interfaces for managing data. In various embodiments, the metabase can be configured in different ways. For example, the metabase can be stored separately from the data objects so as to allow obtaining of information about the data objects without accessing the data objects or a data structure used by a file system.

A Wireless mobile communication (WMC) device may maintain user preference information, which is unique to the WMC device capabilities and the device user. The WMC device may modify and/or update the user preference information based on device use and information ascertained from applications running on the WMC device itself; for example scheduling applications. The user preference information may be utilized to create context data tags for generated data on the WMC device. Context data tags may comprise such information as time/date stamping, subject information, and/or location information. The context data tags may be utilized to tag the generated data, enabling continuous and improved cataloging. Improved cataloging may enable improved searchability of tagged data. Tagged data alternatively and/or additionally may be transferred and stored in a remote device for improved and secure back-up storage. The remote device may utilize context data tags for cataloging and storing received data.

A scalable method, system, and apparatus for non-intrusively auditing and improving security assessments includes capturing, storing, presenting, displaying, inspecting, monitoring, and analyzing data flow in client-server security assessments and/or network/infrastructure security assessments. The invention provides interested parties with a mechanism to non-intrusively audit in real-time the vulnerability test effort, as well as review, replay, and analyze all aspects of the security assessment during and after the test. For web application assessments, the data capture includes one of the following or some combination: an intermediary with all data passing through the intermediary; a sniffer that can passively extract all data being communicated between the application and tester; and a plurality of computing modules (e.g., software, appliances, etc.) installed in the tester environment or within the application system environment (e.g., software installed on the tester's computer, or on the computer where the intermediary is running, or software installed on the application systems proxy or web server, or an appliance in either environment) for storing, processing, analyzing, reporting, and displaying the data.

A method for cataloging and reporting Internet merchant data uses a data center for receiving a plurality of site activity messages regarding two or more seller sites and provides a standardized taxonomy schema with a node for each of two or more products. The method derives from the plurality of site activity messages a sales metric for the two or more products and for a specific time period, aggregates the sales metric data for each of the two or more seller sites and the two or more products, then derives a comparative report for the sales metric for the two or more seller sites, by reference to at least one of the two or more products in the standardized taxonomy schema.

A system and method for remote capture, identification, cataloging, and modeling of processes remotely captures the processes performed by a user on a machine, for example, a computer. Capture may include capturing input to the computer and manual tasks via video and/or audio capture. The tasks are identified, cataloged and stored. Modeling is possible by streaming the captured data back to a computer. The captured data may be edited and the edited versions compared or benchmarked by performing simulations of each.

A method and system are provided for integrating and managing the distribution of content items residing at multiple disparate content repositories. The system includes an integration module for receiving metadata relating to the content items from one or more content providers, a content module for managing the metadata, and a distribution module for controlling distribution of the content items to one or more content destinations. The method includes receiving metadata relating to the content items from one or more content providers, managing the metadata, and managing distribution of the content items to one or more content destinations.

Communication about an event is achieved through a call for media, allowing diverse forms of media such as text, audio, picture, and video to be associated with the call for media for a past, present and/or future event, an event being definable by location, a set time, an object, a state of being, an individual, any combination thereof and others, etc. Calls for media need not be stated as direct requests, but may simply be an event name, to which users may respond with related media. Associating specific communication with an event allows all forms of media used or captured to be related to the event for easier tagging, cataloging, or archiving, while also creating a way to alert others that media is desired for an event and can aggregate this media from one or many users, organize and prioritize event-related media to create presentations of the event, etc.

The invention discloses a digital multimedia information transmission platform, which comprises an acquisition system, a manufacturing system, a media resource system, a management system and a release system, wherein the acquisition system consists of control equipment, outside network material receiving server and an foreign signal, studio signal and magnet tape material acquisition and collection subsystem; the manufacturing system consists of a program editing system, a program examination system, a background packing and synthesizing system and a resource manager; the media resource system consists of a media resource cataloging and searching work station, a transcoding server, a database server, a storage management and migration server and a system management working station; the management system consists of a uniform user identification system and a network management system; the release system serving as an external interface module of a multimedia center encrypts finished products in multiple formats and executes related release according to outside service demands; and the platform is an integrated production line of digital media contents and also a digital media resource comprehensive service system platform and can realize overall media resource sharing.

Methods and apparatuses to compile heterogeneous data, regardless of origin, into a single, unified system, which provides customers with the ability to control the process for managing their data for viewing, categorizing/cataloging/classifying, annotating, converting, storing and exporting their data according to their own specifications. One embodiment includes: providing a user interface to a customer; receiving a plurality of heterogeneous digital files from the customer; receiving, via the user interface, a query specification from the customer to select a subset of the digital files according to the query specification; receiving, via the user interface, input to manage a workflow for review of the subset of digital files; receiving, via the user interface, input data related to the review of the subset of digital files; and generating a version of the subset of digital files based on the received input data related to the review of the subset of digital files.

The invention relates to a method and a system for cataloging news video. The method realizes automatic cataloging of the news video based on caption bars, anchorman and audio mute point information in a news program, and comprises the following steps: carrying out audio-video separation of news video stream and head leader music matching of audio data to determine the effective time range of a news program in a file; determining an audio mute point, an anchorman frame and the emerging time of a caption frame within the effective time range, and carrying out comprehensive analysis processing to determine the division time point of news items; and identifying video caption information, associating the caption information with a division result, and taking the caption information after association as cataloging semantic information. The system comprises a bar removing module and an educing module connected with a news video bar-removing result database as well as a browse module, a play module and a correction module connected in parallel between a client and the news video bar-removing result database. The method and the system solve the problems of news automatic bar removing and news item automatic semantic information labeling and realize automatic cataloging of news programs, thereby having the advantages of high efficiency and low cost.

A method, apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for deploying and instantiating multiple instances of applications in automated data centers using an application deployment template. A first mechanism is provided to deploy multiple instances of applications using an application deployment plan template. The first mechanism uses deployment parameter sets to generate corresponding deployment plans based on the deployment template. A second mechanism is provided to instantiate multiple instances of applications using deployment plan templates. A service catalog that is exposed to consumers for selection of catalog items is built on top of the second mechanism. During the cataloging and order fulfillment process, the second mechanism instantiates multiple instances of applications using the generated deployment plans and an application model to deploy multiple application instances. An existing order may also be modified or terminated responsive to a user request or service term expiration.

The invention discloses a method for splitting a news video program and a method and a system for cataloging news videos. The method for splitting the news video program comprises the following steps of: sequencing detection results according to a time sequence to obtain an event sequence by detecting characteristic information of titles of the news video, a headline, characteristic information of comperes, lens transformation, a mute point of an audio, a switching point, a keynote period sudden change point and the like; briefing the event sequence by adopting a preset symbol set and a production rule, and judging rough positions of start points and end points of news sections in the event sequence; calculating a union posterior probability of a start position of each news section near the rough start position according to the event sequence, selecting the moment with the maximum posterior probability as the accurate start position of each news section, splitting the news video, and thus obtaining the news video sections. According to the method, the adopted algorithm is stable and effective; the structural information in the news video can be summarized effectively; the accurate positions of splitting points of the news sections can be determined; and the news video can be split stably and accurately.

An audio program and message distribution system in which a host system organizes and transmits program segments to client subscriber locations. The host organizes the program segments by subject matter and creates scheduled programming in accordance with preferences associated with each subscriber. Program segments are associated with descriptive subject matter segments, and the subject matter segments may be used to generate both text and audio cataloging presentations to enable the user to more easily identify and select desirable programming. A playback unit at the subscriber location reproduces the program segments received from the host and includes mechanisms for interactively navigating among the program segments. A usage log is compiled to record the subscriber's use of the provided program materials, to return data to the host for billing, to adaptively modify the subscriber's preferences based on actual usage, and to send subscriber-generated comments and requests to the host for processing. Voice input and control mechanisms included in the player allow the user to perform hands-free navigation of the program materials and to dictate comments and messages which are returned to the host for retransmission to other subscribers. The program segments sent to each subscriber may include advertising materials which the user can selectively play to obtain credits against the subscriber fee. Parallel audio and text transcript files for at least selected programming enable subject matter searching and synchronization of the audio and text files. Speech synthesis may be used to convert transcript files into audio format. Image files may also be transmitted from the server for synchronized playback with the audio programming.

A system and method of detecting unidentified broadcast electronic media content using a self-similarity technique is presented. The process and system catalogues repeated instances of content that has not be positively identified, but are sufficiently similar as to infer repetitive broadcasts. These catalogued instances may be further processed on the basis of different broadcast channels, sources, geographic locations of broadcasts or format to further assist the identification thereof.