586 results about "Data entity" patented technology

An informatics system permits data entities from a wide range of data sources to be accessed and evaluated. The sources of the data entities may be simply data sources, such as for articles and other non-patient or population specific information, as well as controllable and prescribable sources, such diagnostic imaging, clinical and other sources forming part of the patient care path. The entities are organized, analyzed in accordance with a domain framework, which may be altered by a user to focus on factors and informational components of interest. Holistic and integrated understanding of such factors are there fore available, and refinement of healthcare processes can be made to provide improved care in a more time and cost effective manner.

A method and system for information retrieval are provided whereby at least one search criterion is received from a user; a query is created based on the at least one search criterion; the query is executed to generate results, each of the results corresponding to a respective data entity which satisfies the at least one search criterion; the results are arranged into an order, the order being determined at least in part by a characteristic of the data entity corresponding to each result and a previous act by a user with respect to the data entity corresponding to each result; and the results are displayed to the user.

The present invention is related to method and apparatus for versioning. Versioning information is stored as metadata associated with data entities. A hierarchical relationship between the entities allows the definition of an editorial sequence and separate revisions within that sequence as well as relationships between sequences in a self-contained format.

Various embodiments of a computer system and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer system includes hosts coupled to a backup medium. The backup medium stores data segments and objects, each object referencing one or more segments. A second host conveys a write request to a first host identifying a data entity comprising segments referenced by a first object. The first host restores a copy of the data entity and creates a second object referencing the segments that were referenced by the first object in response to receiving the write request. The first host adds segment references to the second object in response to receiving a change that adds data to the copy or deletes a portion of a segment from the copy. The first host removes a segment reference from the second object if a change deletes all of a segment from the copy.

Systems, computer readable media and methods for updating a flash memory device involve procedures for transferring, from a flash memory device to an external controller, only a portion of a data entity; and determining, by the external controller, based upon the portion of the data entity, whether to complete a copy back operation of the data entity or to correct errors of the data entity. If it is determined to correct errors of the data entity, then the procedure includes (a) completing a transfer of the data entity to the external controller; (b) error correcting the data entity to provide an amended data entity; and (c) writing the amended data entity to the flash memory device. If, however, it is determined to complete the copy back operation then the procedures includes completing the copy back operation of the data entity by transferring the data entity within the flash memory device.

A method of enabling a real entity to access a service on a communication network using a virtual entity, the method including the steps of establishing a user account including at least first data corresponding to the identity of the real entity and second data corresponding to the virtual entity and not identifying the real entity, storing the first and second data in a first database, linking between the first and second data in the first database, storing the second data at a second database, associating the second database with a communication network site, connecting the communication network site to the communication network, receiving the second data from an unidentified user on the communication network site, identifying the unidentified user as the virtual entity based on receiving the second data, and allowing the virtual entity to access the service.

A system and method are disclosed that allow a navigation system that uses a geographic database to also use the data in traffic messages broadcast by a traffic broadcast system. One aspect of a present system and method includes the formation, storage, and use of location reference data records in a geographic database used by a navigation system. These location reference data records identify certain other kinds of data records that represent physical geographic features, such as data records that represent segments of roads, as being associated with certain location reference numbers. These location reference records may be included in a geographic database installed in the vehicle or may be provided to vehicles via a wireless communication link. Another aspect of a present system and method includes the formation, storage, and use of one or more indices that relate location reference numbers used by a traffic broadcast system to location reference records in a geographic database used by the navigation system. Another aspect of a present system and method is the formation, storage, and use of data that identify, for each location reference number, the immediately previous and the immediately next location reference number. Still another aspect of a present system and method includes the programming, and methods of use thereof, that query the geographic database and return the data entities associated with certain identified location reference numbers.

Multiple computers are connected to a data storage unit that includes a file system, which further includes multiple data entities, including files, directories and the file system itself. The file system also includes, for each data entity, an owner field for indicating which computer, if any, has exclusive or shared access to the data entity, along with a time field for indicating when a lease of the data entity began. When a computer wants to lease a data entity, the computer uses a disk reservation capability to temporarily lock the data storage unit, and, if the data entity is not currently leased, the computer writes its own identification value into the owner field and a current time into the time field for the data entity, to claim the data entity for a renewable lease period. If a prior lease of a data entity has expired, another computer may break the lease and claim ownership for itself.

A method of collecting market research information is disclosed. A geographic database contains data entities that represent geographic features, such as roads, located in a geographic region. Advertising zones are defined within the geographic region. Users of mobile computing platforms are provided with geographically-related services that use the geographic database. As users of the mobile computing platforms travel in the geographic region, the locations of the mobile computing platforms are determined. Demographic information of the mobile computing platform is associated with the position of the mobile computing platform. A market research record identifies which of the mobile computing platforms are located within or passing through one of the advertising zones.

Various embodiments of a computer system and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer system includes a host coupled to a backup store. The host backs up a dataset to the backup store. The dataset comprises data entities and application-specific metadata describing the data entities. The application-specific metadata enables an application to use the data entities. The host: mounts the backup store for read/write access by the application, accesses the backup store with the application, selects a data entity, and performs an operation on the data entity in the backup store using the application. The operation may comprise verifying that the data entity is valid and usable in the context of the application or creating an archival backup of the data entity on a backup medium. The backup store may be a disk-based backup store and the backup medium may be a tape-based backup medium.

A method and system utilizes presence information for a plurality of presence service clients is disclosed. In one aspect, the method and system include determining the presence information for the presence service clients, individually tailoring the presence information for presentation to each of a portion of the presence service clients, and presenting the tailored presence information to the portion of the presence service clients. In another aspect, the method and system include associating a component or a data entity of a device with presence information such that the component or the data entity corresponds to a first of the presence service clients. In this aspect, the method and system also include providing a presentity for the first presence service client. A second of the presence service clients corresponds to a user. Each presentity communicates with a presence service on behalf of the first and second presence service clients.

The present invention provides a method for performing transactions on data entities in a database and a transactional database. The database comprises an ordered set of data stores with at least one static data store, wherein said static data store uses an index structure based on a non-updatable representation of an ordered set of integers according to the principle of compressed inverted indices. The method allows to generate a modifiable data store when the performed transaction comprises an insert, update or delete operation, to execute operations of the transaction on the ordered set being present at the time when the transaction has been started and, if present, on the modifiable data store and to convert data stores to a new static data store, The insert, update or delete operation are executed on the modifiable data store which is the only data store modifiable for the transaction.

A method and system for reallocating the data blocks of a logical data entity are described. According to one aspect of the invention, the physical arrangement of data blocks of a logical data entity are analyzed to determine a fragmentation level. Next the fragmentation level is compared with a fragmentation threshold previously assigned to the logical data entity. If the fragmentation level exceeds the fragmentation threshold, only those data blocks of the logical data entity that are within a predefined allocation area having a predetermined number of contiguous data blocks that are not associated with the logical data entity are reallocated.

The present invention provides techniques for managing and analyzing business information. Specific embodiments provide persons with business or other non-technical fields with the capability to create, edit, and work with data models, profiles, and reports for business and other information. Specific embodiments can enable business and other non-technical users with enhanced understanding of information, and greater capabilities to manipulate relationships between various data entities in databases, for example.

System and method for creating a database of user media and associated user comments wherein the user's comments are collected, collated, stored, and made available to users through a Commenting Theater that allows for the simultaneous representation of and access to the entirety of an archived complex group conversation without reliance upon text. The present invention provides a method for creating electronic collections of media with associated user comments contained and collated into a single entity “VoiceThread Media Player” that has an integral capacity to host a complex electronic conversation and allows content owners to manage a group conversation wherein all of the comments and referenced media remain separate and repurposable data entities and yet both the media content and the resulting conversation are presented in a unified, coherent and casually accessible manner.

A search engine system with privacy protection, including a data indexer configured to create an index of data, a search engine configured to search the index of the data in response to a query, and create a search result set including excerpts from the data, and a privacy protector configured to identify at least one data entity within at least one excerpt of the search result set that meets at least one predefined entity extraction criterion, redact the search result set by removing the data entity from the excerpt, and present the redacted search result set on a computer output device.

An engine sound synthesizer includes an engine sound storing section, and a synthetic engine sound data generating section which generates synthetic engine sound data on the basis of engine sound data stored in the engine sound storing section. The engine sound storing section stores therein plural groups of plural entities of engine sound data recorded in different driving states, the plural groups of plural engine sound data entities being stored therein in correspondence with predetermined plural driving state ranges. The synthetic engine sound data generating section generates the synthetic engine sound data by selectively reading out of the engine sound storing section plural engine sound data entities in a group corresponding to one of the driving state ranges specified by externally input driving state specification information and selectively combining the read engine sound data entities. The driving states are each defined, for example, by a throttle opening degree and an engine rotation speed.

A Repetitive Layout scheme is provided that operates on a collection of data objects, such that each data object accords to the same data object definition (data model) expressed in a structured definition language. The Repetitive Layout consists of one UI section repeated for every object in the collection. Each UI section is composed of a set of UI controls or sub-layouts. The UI controls in each section are associated with the data fields of the corresponding data object. A user of a wireless application interacting with the data objects can select UI sections and edit the controls within them via the user interface of the wireless device executing the application. Any modifications are propagated to the data objects mapped to the respective UI sections. Similarly, all modifications (driven by the application logic or incoming server messages) to the data objects are reflected in the UI section mapped to these objects. The generation and application of the repetitive layout scheme can include the steps: dynamic data entity generation (Data Composer stage); determining the collection of data objects that need to be presented by the user interface (Rules Engine stage); sorting the collection of data objects (Sorting Processor stage); generating the UI Layout (Layout Generator stage); propagating UI changes back to the Data Model having the definitions of the data objects (Data Dispatcher stage); propagating data changes to the Repetitive Layout; and propagating changes to nodes of the data model.

Systems and methods are disclosed for generating functionality representation, indexing, searching, componentizing, an analyzing source code source code unit in a one or more of code repositories. The systems and method include one or more of crawling a set of data entities in a repository system; parsing said set of data entities into abstract syntax trees (ASTs) architecture; modeling said set of data entities into a code graph (CG) architecture; establishing type ontology (TO) architecture of said set of data entities; organizing and storing said set of data entities in functionality representation index (FRI) architecture; componentizing one or more projects in the repositories into code components; and making the components discoverable by functionality and analyzable for performance, usage volume, etc.