260 results about "Database maintenance" patented technology

A security service of computer networks having a policy builder, an LDAP-compliant database, a validator and an API. The policy builder component provides a graphical user interface to be used by a policy manager to define access policies for users seeking to access network services and resources. The graphical user interface has a grid of nodes representing access policies. The grid is arranged to correspond to a defined tree structure representing services and resources and a business relationship tree structure representing users. The graphical user interface permits the policy manager to define policy builder plug-ins for access policy customization. The LDAP-compliant database maintains the policy builder plug-ins. The validator component receives requests from users and queries the LDAP-compliant database to obtain relevant access policies as defined by the policy manager. The system provides for double inheritance of access policies such that where there is no express definition of an access policy for a node, the access policies are propagated according to the hierarchical structures of the data. The validator includes validator plug-ins for carrying out access policies corresponding to the access policies defined by policy builder plug-ins.

A computer system and method is disclosed for collecting resource rate information associated with a plurality of resource profiles and providing resource rate statistical data for a specific resource profile via a web-based interface. Each resource profile is defined from hierarchical profile selections to identify a job category, and each job category has one or more skills associated therewith. A database maintains the resource profiles and associated resource rate information. The resource rate information is collected from a variety of sources, including business entities that interface with the database to upload actual resource rate information (e.g., actual salaries, wage rates and other compensation information) for one or more resource profiles associated with the business entity.

A system and method is disclosed which enables network administrators and the like to quickly analyze the data produced by log-producing devices such as network firewalls and routers. Unlike systems of the prior art, the system disclosed herein automatically parses and summarizes log data before inserting it into one or more databases. This greatly reduces the volume of data stored in the database and permits database queries to be run and reports generated while many types of attempted breaches of network security are still in progress. Database maintenance may also be accomplished automatically by the system to delete or archive old log data.

A database maintenance system and method are particularly suitable for maintaining a consistency of data between two or more database tables having schemas that may be heterogeneous (e.g., restructuring views of each other). Typically, one table is a base table and a second table is a restructuring view of the base table and may have been generated for faster query response, research, or the like. The restructuring view may have occurred naturally, or the base table may have been converted to the restructuring view using a series to of operators and optionally, a middleware schema. The restructuring view maintenance system is preferably configured to monitor changes to the base table, including changes to data and to metadata. The maintenance system is configured to receive notification of a modification to a base table, investigate the modifications, and determine which operator(s) have been used to convert the base table to the restructuring view. For each modification to the base table, the system then determines, according to the type of modification and the type of transformation used, which of a selected group of actions to take to map the modification onto the restructuring view. The selected group of actions may include variously: insert, update, delete, rename relation, drop table, and rename column, according to the type of modification and the mapping of the relationship between the base table and the target table.

A system and method for donations using online interactive games with players using social networks. Users play games wherein winning results in others donating to their selected recipient, such as a cause, charity, school, etc. A database maintains user information, recipient information, and tracks donation credits. Users play games, donate to recipients, and have players donate to their selected recipients. The system and method can automatically match users as teammates, competitors, and tournament members. The system and method facilitate game play, collection of funds, and payment of collected funds to selected recipients. The funds benefit recipients, and new supporters are identified to the recipients.

A method is provided to verify a database copy of a primary database which has been replicated. A secondary physically consistent copy of the primary database is put in a state of quiesce while the primary database is allowed to resume update activity. The consistent copy, in a state of quiesce, can be used for database maintenance activities or as a recovery source should the primary database be damaged, but the consistent copy is first checked for integrity by using a Verify option before such recovery source is utilized.

A method to schedule and perform database maintenance, where the database includes information regarding one or more information storage media moveably disposed in a data storage and retrieval system, which includes selecting a first time period, commencing that first time period at a first time and ending that first time period at a third time, performing one or more database queries during that first time period, recording the number of database queries performed during each of the two or more first time intervals, determining the least utilized first time interval where that least utilized first time interval commenced at a second time, calculating a first time difference between the first time and the second time, and scheduling database maintenance at a fourth time. A data storage and retrieval system comprising a computer useable medium having computer readable program code disposed therein to implement Applicants' method to schedule and perform database maintenance. A computer program product usable with a programmable computer processor having computer readable program code embodied therein to implement Applicants' method to schedule and perform database maintenance.

An autofill browser extension or smartphone app provides for the secure storage and autofill populating of webforms with personal user information. A popup menu of stored answers appears in front of or next to a form requesting a user to fill it out. The user selects the right answer to each question and simply drags and drops it, or picks and places it in the corresponding spot in the webform. If the answer needs to be a new one, the user clicks on the box for it in the webform, enters the answer. In alternative embodiments that answer can be automatically added to the menu. Autofill database maintenance is easy and intuitive. A template describing the construction and URL location of the webform is automatically registered with a server and that enables a community of users to share in quicker, easier, form fills.

An automated method is provided for generating investment criteria for an investment vehicle that includes a pool of escrow deposits from a plurality of merger and acquisition transactions. An escrow history database is maintained of data derived from historical behavior of escrows from a plurality of previous merger and acquisition transactions. An escrow pool database is maintained of current escrow deposit data from a plurality of current merger and acquisition transactions. The escrow pool database includes the current deposit amounts in the pool of escrow deposits, and stated terms governing the release of each deposit amount in the pool of the escrow deposits. A set of investment criteria for selecting an asset pool is generated using a processor operating on the escrow history database and the escrow pool database. The set of investment criteria includes maturity metrics selected from the group consisting of weighted average maturity, convexity, and maturity distribution profile.

A method and system for managing locks for one or more resources in a distributed system including multiple distributed computing nodes, is provided. One implementation involves maintaining a database as a shared storage accessible by plural participating nodes for storing shared lock information, each participating node locally managing a local list of locks, the participating nodes cooperating in providing decentralized lock management across the nodes using the local and shared lock information, to achieve granting and releasing of locks for synchronizing access to one or more resources.

A security service of computer networks having a policy builder, an LDAP-compliant database, a validator and an API. The policy builder component provides a graphical user interface to be used by a policy manager to define access policies for users seeking to access network services and resources. The graphical user interface has a grid of nodes representing access policies. The grid is arranged to correspond to a defined tree structure representing services and resources and a business relationship tree structure representing users. The graphical user interface permits the policy manager to define policy builder plug-ins for access policy customization. The LDAP-compliant database maintains the policy builder plug-ins. The validator component receives requests from users and queries the LDAP-compliant database to obtain relevant access policies as defined by the policy manager. The system provides for double inheritance of access policies such that where there is no express definition of an access policy for a node, the access policies are propagated according to the hierarchical structures of the data. The validator includes validator plug-ins for carrying out access policies corresponding to the access policies defined by policy builder plug-ins.

A system and method for managing captured network traffic data is provided. The invention comprises a plurality of capture agents, each being configured to capture the network traffic associated with one or more applications. Each application is associated with one or more capture agents according to an application profile that is stored and maintained in a capture server. When analysis of an application's network traffic is required, the capture server contacts the corresponding capture agents according to the application profile. The capture server then effects the identification and archiving of the network traffic that corresponds to a user-defined capture condition. A database at the capture server maintains a record that associates the corresponding network traffic with the user-defined capture condition such that the corresponding network traffic can later be retrieved and analyzed using an analysis engine.

A customized, specialty-oriented database and index of a subject matter area and methods for constructing and using such a database are provided. Selection and indexing of articles is done by experts in the topic with which the database is concerned. As a result, articles are indexed in a manner that allows facile, rapid retrieval of highly relevant articles with few or no false positives with much reduced database maintenance cost through frugal limitation of number of documents in the database, number of terms in a Master Index, and number of codes assigned to each document. A thesaurus allows indexing and search in accordance with terminology familiar to different anticipated groups of users (e.g. doctors, patients, nurses, technicians, and the like). Key articles collections and rapid access to documents therein are also provided.

A method of achieving synchronous playback of media content over the internet, such as digital video and audio, when the media content is stored on a host that does not have synchronous broadcasting software installed. Users select media sources that are accessible from one or more content servers and create a broadcast playlist. A database maintains a virtual-time record of the broadcast. A server receives a client request for the broadcast, retrieves the virtual-time record from the database, and delivers it to the client. The client then accesses the remotely-stored media source and plays it in a media player, synchronously with all other clients receiving the broadcast.

The invention discloses a system and a method for deleting repeating data. The delete system for deleting the repeating data is of a distributed-type structure, and is mainly composed of a client side, a management server and memory node servers. The client side is mainly used for receiving user requests for saving files / restoring the files, and segmentation files / composition files. The management server has the main functions of fingerprint value comparison, fingerprint map database maintenance, erasure code encoding and data compression. The memory node servers are mainly used for storing compressed data blocks. The client side and a management server end are connected through a local area network, and the management server is connected with the memory node server ends through the local area network. A user saves and restores the files through the client side. The erasure code encoding and the data compression are carried out on segmentation blocks, the compressed data blocks are stored in the different memory node servers in a scattered mode, once a part of memory nodes break down, the saved data in the rest memory nodes can be used for carrying out file restoring, the reliability of the system for deleting the repeating data is improved, and waste of a memory space is reduced.

A Technology Asset Tracking System and Method tracks all technology assets including software, hardware and other devices and telecommunications equipment, plans, contracts and agreements, and usage of technology assets from acquisition and assignment to disposal / retirement. An asset database maintains details on each of the devices, including its costs and features. Business rules related to device usage, including compliance policies, are maintained and checked against phone usage to monitor compliance. The system is designed to provide enterprise level configuration and compliance management—to accumulate information about configurations, changes and other data from disparate sources and enable management and data providers to integrate their data into a coherent, seamless unit, using a familiar type of interface.

A method and system for providing an open database model that allows the combining of spatial and Attribute data in a single relational database. The integration of spatial and Attribute data allows the data to be accessed by either standard structured query language (SQL) or a GIS viewing application. The invention provides: enhanced performance by avoiding proliferation of segmentation; open dynamic segmentation; integrated temporal data; and automated database maintenance. Permanent anchor sections are provided to define spatial references. The data model allows for intersections in the interior of a link (anchor section), resulting in a more stable form of a link, or anchor section. The use of anchor sections simplifies maintenance of data associated with the anchor sections and facilitates the use of anchor sections in a distributed environment. Database views display data in a simple, tabular format. Access to a continuous archive of historical data is supported.

A database maintenance system and method are particularly suitable for maintaining a consistency of data between two or more database tables having schemas that may be heterogeneous (e.g., restructuring views of each other). Typically, one table is a base table and a second table is a restructuring view of the base table and may have been generated for faster query response, research, or the like. The restructuring view may have occurred naturally, or the base table may have been converted to the restructuring view using a series of operators and optionally, a middleware schema. The restructuring view maintenance system is preferably configured to monitor changes to the base table, including changes to data and to metadata. The maintenance system is configured to receive notification of a modification to a base table, investigate the modifications, and determine which operator(s) have been used to convert the base table to the restructuring view. For each modification to the base table, the system then determines, according to the type of modification and the type of transformation used, which of a selected group of actions to take to map the modification onto the restructuring view. The selected group of actions may include variously: insert, update, delete, rename relation, drop table, and rename column, according to the type of modification and the mapping of the relationship between the base table and the target table.

A customized, specialty-oriented database and index of a subject matter area and methods for constructing and using such a database are provided. Selection and indexing of articles is done by experts in the topic with which the database is concerned. As a result, articles are indexed in a manner that allows facile, rapid retrieval of highly relevant articles with few or no false positives with much reduced database maintenance cost through frugal limitation of number of documents in the database, number of terms in a Master Index, and number of codes assigned to each document. A thesaurus allows indexing and search in accordance with terminology familiar to different anticipated groups of users (e.g. doctors, patients, nurses, technicians, and the like). Key articles collections and rapid access to documents therein are also provided.

A flexible product distribution and payment system for computer network based electronic commerce is disclosed. Primary content data is made available to customers through a detachable local storage medium, such as a DVD or CD-ROM disc, or over a network connection. The primary content is capable of being accessed and played back through a computer or game console at the customer site. The primary content distribution may comprise a superset of content that is intended to be used by the customer. The customer is allowed to view and access the encoded primary content, and is charged only for the primary content that is used. Content that is encoded on the medium but that is not used by the customer remains on the medium but is not charged. A content database and customer database maintained at the primary customer site maintain records of products ordered and used by the customer, as well as identification and use patterns associated with the user. Authentication and use trigger data associated with the distributed content alert the primary content server computer when customer use has occurred and when a charge to the customer is appropriate.

The invention provides a method and a device for accessing a database. The method specifically includes: presetting a sharding identification generating rule; receiving a database write access request which carries to-be-written data; according the database write access request, dynamically acquiring a currently available database and database list information in the database, and acquiring a corresponding library index and a corresponding list index; according to the sharding identification generating rule, splicing the library index and the list index together with static positions to acquire a sharding identification corresponding to the database write access request; according to the sharding identification generating rule, routing the library index and the list index in the sharding identification corresponding to the database write access request; writing the to-be-written data into a data list in a database corresponding to a routing result. By the method and the device, convenience in database maintenance can be improved, and physical resources of a database system can be saved.

A system for fault and performance recovery in a communication network includes a set of network apparatuses as well as a plurality of sites connected by means of connections having a given topology. The network also includes routers for implementing given routing policies and has associated therewith at least one database maintaining information regarding the network apparatuses. The system includes test modules for executing performance tests created automatically by exploiting the information available on the topology of the connections between the various sites and by accessing the database in question. The test modules are configured for analysing the results of the performance tests to detect possible fault and performance impairment conditions of the network. In the presence of a fault and performance impairment condition detected in the network, the routers modify the routing policy to compensate for the fault and performance impairment condition.

Database administrators input database object characteristics and constraints, and maintenance tasks such as object statistics, reorganization, copy, and recovery tasks are prioritized and balanced with a dynamically generated grid of tasks. Reorganization tasks are directly linked to statistics generation and threshold violation analysis. Recovery tasks are automatically generated from copy tasks. The dynamically generated grid distributes database objects across concurrent procedures, based on criteria such as cumulative job size so that each set of procedures process approximately the same amount of data. Maintenance procedures are built and executed in a controlled manner according to maintenance policies of an organization. The user knows what objects will be processed, prior to a maintenance window.

A system and method for managing captured network traffic data is provided. The invention comprises a plurality of capture agents, each being configured to capture the network traffic associated with one or more applications. Each application is associated with one or more capture agents according to an application profile that is stored and maintained in a capture server. When analysis of an application's network traffic is required, the capture server contacts the corresponding capture agents according to the application profile. The capture server then effects the identification and archiving of the network traffic that corresponds to a user-defined capture condition. A database at the capture server maintains a record that associates the corresponding network traffic with the user-defined capture condition such that the corresponding network traffic can later be retrieved and analyzed using an analysis engine.

A flexible product distribution and payment system for computer network based electronic commerce is disclosed. Primary content data is made available to customers through a detachable local storage medium, such as a DVD or CD-ROM disc, or over a network connection. The primary content is capable of being accessed and played back through a computer or game console at the customer site. The primary content distribution may comprise a superset of content that is intended to be used by the customer. The customer is allowed to view and access the encoded primary content, and is charged only for the primary content that is used. Content that is encoded on the medium but that is not used by the customer remains on the medium but is not charged. A content database and customer database maintained at the primary customer site maintain records of products ordered and used by the customer, as well as identification and use patterns associated with the user. Authentication and use trigger data associated with the distributed content alert the primary content server computer when customer use has occurred and when a charge to the customer is appropriate.

Document libraries that facilitate content contribution to and management of a website. In general, a document library comprises a database, a special “document library” file system folder and the documents in that folder (or within subfolders of that folder). The database maintains properties of documents in the document library file system folder, and is used to dynamically update views of the document library file system folder and views of properties of the documents. Each document folder is a folder in which content of a specified type may be read and saved.

A method of processing data at a server (302) for maintenance of a database (516) of points of interest, such as speed limit enforcement devices. Each of the devices represented in the database has at least one attribute and a confidence value indicative of the accuracy of the at least one attribute associated therewith. The confidence value is time dependent and varies according to a pre-defined decay function. A report (500) relating to an attribute of a speed limit enforcement device is received at the server (302) from a mobile device (200). The confidence value associated with the speed limit enforcement device is adjusted in accordance with the received report, and information relating to the speed limit enforcement device (520, 522) is selectively transmitted to the or another mobile device (200) based on the confidence value.

A system and method for providing event-based services are disclosed. According to one embodiment of the present invention, merchants and users subscribe with an Event Service Provider (ESP), which includes a server and database. The database maintains information relating to merchant events and subscriber's event preferences. Based on time-sensitive merchant event information, an event is published. Furthermore, the database is queried to determine the preferred subscribers based upon the subscriber's event preferences and the merchant event information relating to the published event. Lastly, an event communication is delivered to the device associated with the preferred subscriber.

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that routes a set of pairs of points during the design of an integrated circuit (IC) chip. The system comprises a routing engine which is configured to search for a path to connect a current pair of points in the set of pairs of points, wherein the path comprises a set of rectangles and vertices. The routing engine uses a routing database, which keeps track of previously routed nets that can obstruct the routing of the current pair of points. The system further comprises a satisfiability (SAT) solver which is capable of solving a set of constraints, wherein the set of constraints are associated with the routability of the set of pairs of points. The SAT solver additionally comprises a SAT database which maintains the set of constraints and a current partial solution to the set of constraints. The SAT database is used to update the routing database if the current partial solution changes.

The embodiment of the invention provides a database maintenance method and device. The problem that in the prior art, a database maintenance mode is low in efficiency is solved. A database maintained through the database maintenance method comprises multiple standard questions and multiple expansion question sets, wherein each standard question corresponds to one expansion question set. The method particularly comprises the steps that data to be stored in a the database is input to a standard classification model to obtain the matched standard questions, wherein the standard classification model is established on the basis of multiple natural language statements and the standard questions corresponding to the natural language statements respectively; the data to be stored in the database is stored in the expansion question sets, corresponding to the matched standard questions, of the database.