270 results about "Online database" patented technology

The present invention relates to linking on-line data to printed documents, such as business cards, envelopes, stickers, stationary, letterhead, résumés, etc. In one embodiment, a card-user registers with an on-line database and receives a gallery item including a steganographically-embedded unique identifier. The gallery item, such as a graphical background, text, shading, graphic, etc., is integrated and then printed with a document. The printed document can then be presented an optical-scanner, which outputs data. The output data is decoded to identify the unique identifier. The unique identifier is then used to index into the on-line database to retrieve information related to the proprietor of the document. In one embodiment, the on-line database includes features such as providing an immediate contact number, translation and/or pronunciation ability, and storage of audio/video files.

The present invention relates to a system which enables cooperative rich media content management, sharing, and publishing across a distributed set of Web sites, Web servers, and media servers based on control information in an online database. Media files are housed on any number of heterogeneous media repositories. The system of the present invention is used for managing, sharing, and publishing rich media content including video, images, animations, audio, etc. Authorized viewers access media files through dynamically generated content and media links embedded on Web sites. Content administrators publish media entries to any number of such distributed Web sites, and can set viewer permissions for individual video entries when published on specific Web sites. Content administrators can also dynamically establish media sharing and access relationships.

A method and system for collecting and using in combination data from information sources in a correlated manner to deliver more relevant and effective advertising is provided. Website owners register with a service provider, submit relevant information about their website and download website analytics software enabling relevant data to be tracked by and transmitted to the service provider's online database. Service provider also collects data from other information sources including an online website exchange, webcrawlers and other software (e.g. toolbars, cookies, javascript) that track the navigation history of individual Internet users and their demographic information. Service provider correlates and analyzes submitted data from some or all of the information sources to determine scores, meaningful ranking and other useful information regarding the efficacy of websites for potential advertisers. Potential advertisers perform search requests on the service provider's database using advertiser-specific parameters to retrieve a portfolio of advertising opportunities that are optimally matched with the advertiser's specifications. The advertisers may edit the results and submit a request via service provider to the one or multiple website owners to implement the portfolio of resulting and/or revised advertising opportunities.

An online primary database is automatically configured to enable a physically consistent snapshot of the primary database at the secondary database to be uniquely mirrored to a secondary remote database as backup while allowing the specialized control audit images to be created at the primary database.

A karaoke home entertainment center for streamlining karaoke show; reduce stress, problems and time pressure on the KJ & to prevent piracy. The inventive device includes Ultimate Karaoke Book, Karaoke Rental Systems, ProPlayer, Karaoke Shoppe Download Centre, Karaoke Burning Station, Downloadable Karaoke CD+G Player, Video Library Pro, DRM and Licensing encryption engine, Pre-manufactured CD DRM. The Book eliminates the majority of KJ typing when creating or updating their book. Book with minimal player forms the Karaoke Rental System. ProPlayer incorporates super encryption Dongle or soft encryption, which permits “back-up” copy but can only be used with the original dongle. Karaoke Shoppe Download Center consists of basic computer system that can access our on-line database or come pre-loaded with encrypted songs. Karaoke burning Station Kiosk is either counter-top or stand-alone kiosks that can contain and deliver cds. Downloadable Karaoke CD+G Player is a quality karaoke player that doesn't require a special piece of hardware (other than a personal computer). It can download and play karaoke songs and be given away for free. Video Library Pro is an adaption of the book and player above designed for video professionals. There are two forms of DRM and Licensing encryption engine that perform the function of file protection. Together they form the Karaoke Home Entertainment Center.

A system and method for the identification of users and objects using biometric techniques is disclosed. This invention describes a biometric based identification and authorization systems which do not require the incorporation of an on-line database of stored complete biometrics for the security infrastructure. In order to remove the connectivity requirements, an off-line biometric system is achieved by incorporating an identity verification template (IVT) on a storage device/token (e.g., magnetic strip or smart-card) during the user's registration which provides for a reliable storage medium; however, there are no security requirements required of the token even to protect the privacy of the stored biometric. The IVT does not contain complete information of the user's biometric but allows for the verification of the user when that user later provides a biometric reading. To deal with errors that may be introduced into later scans of the biometric (for example at the time of verification) error correcting techniques, well known in the art of communication and error control systems, are incorporated into the system. The system is also usable in the online model. Moreover, it may also be used to enable cryptographic operations by being used to partially compose or encrypt private keys for cryptographic operation.

An online database method, comprising marking a plurality of gemstones with respective identifiers; maintaining a database linking the identifiers with at least a portion of at least one of a transaction history and a subjective description of the plurality of gemstones; updating the database with an economic value based on transactions involving respective gemstones; determining normalization parameters for extracting objective parameters determinative of value for each of a plurality of gemstones from the respective subjective description of the gemstones; and predicting a market value for a respective gemstone based on the subjective description of the respective gemstone, the normalization parameters, and the transaction history of a plurality of gemstones.

A method of posting information to an online database regarding driving behavior of motorists is provided. The posting is based on identifying driver's by license plate number. The online database may be accessible by the public, registered website users, insurance companies, and/or law enforcement.

A database table reorganization is defined to permit online access of the table during the reorganization. Records are reorganized in the database table by vacating records from a defined number of pages and then filling the pages with records in accordance with a desired ordering for the records. Temporary pointers to the new locations of moved records are used to prevent table scanner access to the database table from missing or duplicating records while scanning the database table during reorganization. Removal of the temporary pointers is synchronized with the completion of scanning of all table scanners that are commenced during a time when records are being moved as part of a vacating or filling step.

Some information retrieval systems, such as the Westlaw™ system, empower users to search thousands of databases. One problem with some systems is that the large number of databases makes it difficult for some users to identify the right database(s) to search. Accordingly, the inventors devised, among other things, new options for helping users target searches on the right databases. One exemplary option enables users to search sample-based database profiles. Another enables users to navigate to a category or subcategory in an online database directory and search databases or database profiles associated with the category. And, yet another enables users to select a query-category and receive a list of relevant database choices, a list of links into a database directory, or a sequence of follow-up questions. One or more of these or other disclosed innovations enable users to execute more effective search strategies, while potentially reducing computational burdens on information retrieval systems.

An online database of patient-to-patient healthcare provider recommendations is provided. This database may provide a resource for choosing a physician, and a community of support for those facing medical challenges. Patients who have had a positive experience with a physician can register this physician online, and subsequent patients can search for a physician by a variety of categories, such as, e.g., location, specialty, or physician name. Registrants may have the ability to recommend more than one physician if they so choose. All registrations may be verified by the online service for current license status, correct contact information, and for positive recommendations. This database may be provided and maintained by a central server and accessed by users over the world wide web using a conventional browser application.

A system and method for buying and selling life insurance policies includes an online database for storing information concerning in-force policies as needed for evaluation by a potential buyer. Owners of policies, either directly or through agents, who might be willing to sell their policies, register with the online website with critical financial and medical underwriting information relating to their policies, as needed for evaluation by a potential buyer. In the online database such information is organized and categorized as to parameters of various medical and financial information, to be reviewed online in an orderly manner by investors and potential buyers of policies. A membership preferably is required for a potential buyer to have access to the online information. In a preferred implementation of the system, an auction is held online to obtain essentially the best price for each policy.

A mechanism that allows enterprise authorities to be informed when security-sensitive decisions or actions have been or are attempting to be made by users of untrusted code executing in the trusted computing base. The mechanism may be implemented as an abstract class that is part of the trusted computing base. The class provides a framework abstract enough to permit multiple possible notifications (e.g., providing an e-mail to a system operator, sending an Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) alert, making an entry in an online database, or the like) in the event that a given action is taken by a user of untrusted code. The abstract class may provide a default notification, or the class may be extended to enable an authority to provide its own set of customized notifications.

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for maintaining metadata for offline repositories in online databases for efficient access. In one embodiment the apparatus includes a metadata module configured to maintain metadata pertaining to one or more data record copies of a data record. At least one of the one or more data record copies is stored in an offline storage medium. The apparatus further comprises a query processor module configured to retrieve metadata pertaining to the one or more data record copies in accordance with the metadata stored in the metadata module.

A system for transferring patients to or between hospitals comprising an online database storing information about at least two hospitals or physicians, a transfer request template, and a response template. Also provided is a physician interface for an originator, such as a physician, to populate the transfer request template to produce a completed transfer request, and to provide for selection of a selected hospital or selected physician. A hospital interface allowing a potential receiving hospital or receiving physician to view the completed transfer request and to provide a response. The server is further equipped with a communication module to transmit and receive communications between the originator and the potential receiving hospital or receiving physician. A processor executes the module which is stored on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium.

Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for automating insurance underwriting by integrating information from multiple online databases and creating decision making advice useful to insurance underwriters. One system includes a client, database, and server. The client allows an underwriter to enter applicant information, enter customized risk modifiers, and receive an underwriting decision. The database provides additional applicant information. This information can include one or more of prescription drug history, credit history, motor vehicle records, and geocentric mortality risk. The server obtains the applicant information, calculates the applicant's risk, makes an underwriting decision. Another system calculates a prescription drug risk for an applicant from pharmacy benefits management data, drug risk category data, and application data. Another system calculates a geocentric mortality risk for an applicant from census data, mortality data, credit information, and application data. Preset external modifiers are added to systems and methods of calculating risk in order to allow the underwriter to customize the risk results.

A Registrar may receive and register a domain name for a Registrant. The Registrant may use the domain name to facilitate access to a website that promotes a business of the Registrant. The Registrar may determine, typically either by asking the Registrant or by searching on-line databases, operational area(s) of the Registrant's business and store the domain name and the operational area(s) in a database. The database may be the DNS with this additional information, the WHOIS database or a whole new database may be created. This process may be repeated so that a database is created or updated to have a plurality of domain names where at least some of the domain names are associated with one or more operational areas of a business. Once created, the database may be accessed via a global computer network by any application that desires information related to operational areas of businesses.

The embodiment of the invention provides a resource recommendation method and device and electronic equipment. The method comprises the following steps: receiving a resource recommendation request ofa target user; according to the resource recommendation request, obtaining feature information of the target user and feature information of to-be-recommended resources associated with the target userfrom an online database, wherein the feature information of the to-be-recommended resources comprises information of multiple historical operation behavior data of the to-be-recommended resources; inputting the feature information of the target user and the feature information of the to-be-recommended resource into an online machine learning model to obtain a prediction score of the to-be-recommended resource; and selecting one or more to-be-recommended resources from the to-be-recommended resources according to the prediction score, and recommending the one or more to-be-recommended resources to the target user to complete resource recommendation for the target user.

The invention relates to an interlayer system used for searching database information and an information searching method. The interlayer system comprises an API (Application Program Interface) application server group used for receiving a searching request sent by an application layer, wherein the API application server group is used for acquiring an ID of a searched video from an index server and acquiring the video from an on-line database according to the ID of the video. After the information of the on-line database is synchronized by an off-line database, an index is created and stored in an index server group by an index creating server. In the interlayer system used for searching the database information and the information searching method provided by the invention, the interlayer system can be used for receiving the searching request based on an http protocol, and after syntax analysis and engine analysis are performed, the data can be accurately acquired. The searching for the combination of any field with a large data volume is achieved, the searching time of the database is short, a data layer is separated from the application layer, and the development of the data layer and the application layer are free from being influenced by each other.

An exercise and diet monitoring system that includes a monitoring unit that is operable to receive, store and transmit a multitude of parameters regarding an particular diet and exercise routine of a user. The exercise and diet monitoring system further includes a monitoring unit that is configured to receive inputted data via a screen. The monitoring unit further includes a plurality of motion sensors that are operable to detect the axis of motion of the monitoring unit subsequent operable coupling to exercise equipment. The system further includes an online database and software that is operable to collect, store, manipulate and generate reports utilizing the exercise parameter data collected by the monitoring unit.

When content publishers announce the availability of new content to one or more recipients, a content server automatically authorizes only those recipients of the announcement to have access to the new content. The authentication of clients is managed in an automated and user-friendly fashion. This may include instantaneous issuance of certificates, as well as quick revocation of certificates should they have been issued to the wrong individual. Quick revocation is facilitated by the fact that identities are associated with public keys in an online database where the association can quickly be undone, rather than in the certificates themselves as is traditionally the case.

The invention discloses a computation cloud platform-based microbial diversity interaction analysis system and method thereof. The system comprises a project management module, a basic analysis task submission module and an interactive result analysis module. The method comprises the following steps of: firstly uploading sequencing data to a local cluster server, establishing a project in the project management module, uploading a database of customers to the local cluster server or selecting to use an online database, and locking the project in the project management module or sharing the project to other users to be operated; in the basic analysis task submission module, carrying out parameter analysis on the sequencing data by a user through a visual interface and generating a project file after the analysis; before the analysis, judging whether data quality control is qualified or not, if the judging result is positive, carrying out the parameter analysis, and otherwise, directly returning an error; and transmitting the generated project file to the interactive result analysis module to carry out interactive analysis until an intuitively displayed report is obtained.

The invention discloses a method for improving control precision of a coiling temperature, and belongs to the technical field of laminar cooling of hot rolled strips. Following parameters are controlled in a process: setting water flow of each group of collecting pipes in a progressive decreasing way along a rolled direction; selecting cooling strategies, wherein the cooling strategies are storedin an online database, and are automatically selected by a control system according to types and specifications of steel; proportioning heat transfer coefficients: proportioning different heat transfer coefficients aiming at the water quantity of cold water of 1-22 groups of different layers and 1-22 groups of the upper and lower collecting pipes respectively, wherein the heat transfer coefficients are arranged in a range of 0.85-1.25 respectively. The invention has the advantages of improving the control precision of the coiling temperature under the condition of guaranteeing front section primary cold capacity.