Patents.

Automatically optimize performance of package execution

Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that automatically optimize package execution performance. A profiling phase executes each task in a control flow package and measures performance metrics, such as task execution length, task memory usage, task correlation to CPU versus input/output operations, network bandwidth, and running applications. An optimization phase optimizes subsequent executions of the package by using the performance metrics to make appropriate adjustments to the package. The profiling phase and optimizing phase are repeated over a period of time as appropriate to improve the package's performance without requiring a user to make adjustments to the tasks in the package.

Method, apparatus and computer program product for integrating heterogeneous systems

Disclosed are a method, computer program product and apparatus for integrating resource and coordinator components in a heterogeneous computer system. The technique disclosed involves the introduction of a negotiation phase into the resource enlistment or registration process wherein the resource component and coordinator component request and respond with indicators showing the quality of service that each supports, thus jointly establishing at runtime a quality of service to be supported for the resource and coordinator pairing. The qualities of service may include commit phase support and recovery support.

Method for more efficiently managing complex payloads in a point of sale system

A method for managing complex payload using on a point of sale (POS) printer is described. The complex payload includes a plurality of commands.

Terahertz detection cell (Cellule de détection térahertz)

A detection cell for radiation in a 3-30 THz spectral band, comprising a polar semiconductor crystal with a Reststrahlen band covering the detection band and coupling means allowing coupling between an interface phonon polariton and incident radiation.

Fault-tolerant vehicle stability control

Type inference for object-oriented languages

Systems and methods facilitate type inference in a computer-programming environment. Type inference can be applied to generic method or function invocation in object-oriented languages to determine a type argument list left implicit by a programmer. One or more type arguments can be identified as a parameter type to which all other types in a set of associated parameter types can be converted.

Compositional query comprehensions

The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can facilitate query comprehension that are constructed in a compositional manner. In accordance therewith, the query comprehensions can be assembled together in virtually in order without common requirements that force query operators of a query expression to follow ordering/syntactic rules. In addition, the architecture can provide for query expressions that arbitrarily composable and which can be terminated at any point. If the query expression terminates without a Select or Return clause at the end, the architecture can facilitate generation of an implicit Select or Return, and output results.

System and method for providing access to video programs and other data using customer profiles

A system and method of presenting data from a plurality of data sources or objects which simultaneously distributes many sources of such data to many customers. Customer profiles are developed for the recipient describing how important certain characteristics of the data are to each customer.

Lithium reservoir system and method for rechargeable lithium ion batteries

Detecting software race conditions

System and method for categorizing credit card transaction data

Proxy for video on demand server control

Method and apparatus for responding to end-user request for information-ranking

An advanced search engine that collects web pages for keywords of proven interest, fetches web pages requested by end-users, generates snippets or abstracts, eliminates duplicates, ranks the importance of the web pages, and provides relevant web pages in response to an end-user search request.

Administering A Patient In A Hospital

Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for administering a patient in a hospital. Embodiments include identifying, by a room optimizer module, upon the patient checking into the hospital, a set of patient attributes, each patient attribute describing an aspect of the health of the patient; selecting, by the room optimizer module, an optimized room for the patient in dependence upon the patient attributes and a set of room attributes of a plurality of rooms available, and indicating, by the room optimizer module, the selection of the optimized room to a hospital administrator.

Automatic generation of rewrite rules for URLs

A rewrite component automatically generates rewrite rules that describe how uniform resource locators (URLs) can be rewritten to reduce or eliminate different URLs that redundantly refer to the same or substantially the same content. The rewrite rules can be applied to URLs received when crawling a network to increase the efficiency of the crawl and the corresponding document index generated from the crawl.

Method of providing information via a printed substrate and two-mode sensing device

A method of enabling a user to initiate an action via a printed substrate comprising user information and coded data indicative of a region identity associated with the substrate and of a plurality of locations on the substrate. The method comprises receiving, in a computer system and from a sensing device operable in a plurality of modes, mode data indicative of one of said modes and interaction data indicative of the region identity and at least one position.

Mobile remote communication device provided with sensor module and printer module

A mobile remote communication device configured to sense data encoded on a surface of a print medium and print a security identification on the print medium. The device includes a medium supply path, a sensor module on the medium supply path to sense encoded data including a print medium identifier, means to discriminate the print medium identifier from the data, and a printer module. (Japanese published application.)

Query pattern to enable type flow of element types

The claimed subject matter relates to a formalization of operator patterns that can facilitate type flow of element types between an operator in a first clause of an expression to an operator in a next clause of the expression. The type that flows to, and the operator extant in, the next clause can be combined to infer the element type of the next clause. As such, type-checking, autocompletion and other advantageous features can be accomplished incrementally without the need for a prior full translation of the expression.

Compact aggregation working areas for efficient grouping and aggregation using multi-core CPUs

A system for creating compact aggregation working areas for efficient grouping and aggregation on multi-core CPUs.

System for valuating employees

System for enabling access to information

A system for enabling a user to access information, comprising: a printed substrate comprising user information and coded data indicative of a region identity associated with the substrate and of a plurality of locations on the substrate; and a sensing device comprising an optical sensor for sensing at least some of the coded data, a mode selector for allowing the user to select a mode of operation, and a processor for generating mode data using the selected mode and interaction data.

Video on demand methods and systems

Checkpointing and restoring user space data structures used by an application

Anonymous types

A computer-implemented system for representing data comprises a position indicator that indicates a position of a datum within a group, a name indicator that optionally names the datum, and a value of the datum. A type to be assigned to the datum is derived from at least one of a name of the datum and the position of the datum within the group. Methods of using the system are also provided.

Syntactic program language translation

The subject disclosure pertains to computer programming languages and translation or conversion thereof. Rather than a complicated semantics preserving translation or conversion from a first source language to a second target language, the conversion can be one of syntax. The conversion can be accomplished, for example, via employment of a map that defines the relation between the syntax of the first language and the second language. The semantics of at least a part of the first language can be defined by the second target language. Thus, the first language can be open-ended and/or semantically extensible based on the second language.

Optimized garbage collection techniques

Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing optimized garbage collection. A garbage collector is provided for managing a garbage collection process. An optimized garbage collection feature is provided that allows the garbage collection process to be suggested.

Automatic generation of solution deployment descriptors

Method and apparatus for elegant mapping between data models

Data is requested by an XML application conforming to the XML data model. The data is stored in an SQL database conforming to the relational data model. A mapping component transforms the XML query into an SQL query using a mapping component comprising instructions obtained from an instruction set defined by a mapping algebra. The transformed operation is used to retrieve the data. Once retrieved, the algebraically defined mapping component transforms the SQL data from data conforming to the relational data model to data conforming to the XML data for use in the XML application.

Layered type systems

The subject disclosure pertains to layering of a plurality of type systems. A development environment and language compilers can support multiple data models and their type systems in the same program. Elements of a program such as expressions can then be associated with several types from the multiple type systems. Compilers can employ the information provided by additional type systems to improve static type checking. Furthermore, the information can be bubbled up to a user in a plurality of forms including but not limited to intelligent assistance, auto-completion, tool tips, error information, and return types to enhance the program development experience.

Query comprehensions

The subject disclosure pertains to interaction with one or more collections of data. Queries and domains are presented as separate entities. A number of compositional operators are provided to manipulate a generic collection of data at a low level. Query comprehensions can specify interactions with one or more collections at a higher or more intuitive level. The query comprehensions can be translated or mapped to operators that can be employed to interact with one or more data collections and return results where applicable.

Lithium reservoir system and method for rechargeable lithium ion batteries

Mapping documents to a relational database table with a document position column

Method and structure for unstructured domain-independent object-oriented information middleware

A structure and method are provided which can model and use information in a systematic, domain-independent manner, which can flexibly represent declarative data such as concepts, instances, relations and contexts and data views, and which may serve as a middleware module for user applications. The invention teaches a syntax and functionality of a set of software objects that represent, store and dynamically retrieve information on behalf of user applications.

Creation and aggregation of predicted data

Methods and apparatuses for predicting set of multi-dimensional dependent data and non-measurable data from a set of multi-dimensional historical dependent and causal data are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving input data that comprises multi-dimensional historical dependent data and causal data and anticipated activity data, determining a set of multi-dimensional predicted dependent data using a predictive model and the input data, creating non-measurable data based on the set of multi-dimensional predicted dependent data and the input data.

Method, system and computer program product for identifying primary product objects

Structured message process calculus

Iterate-aggregate query parallelization

Iterate-aggregate shape queries are executable in an efficient parallel manner. Techniques are utilized that leverage properties of aggregations to implement such a query in a highly parallelized manner utilizing one or both of vertical and horizontal parallelism. More specifically, queries can be recursively evaluated in parallel utilizing partitioning and repartitioning mechanisms. Distributed query execution results over a subset of input data are repartitioned and aggregated to produce a final result.

Print remotely to a mobile device

Australian patent covering printing of content on a print medium using a mobile telecommunications device that includes a printer module, where content is requested from a server via activation of an information link on the device.

Lempel-Ziv data compression technique utilizing a dictionary pre-filled with frequent letter combinations, words and/or phrases

An adaptive compression technique which is an improvement to Lempel-Ziv (LZ) compression techniques, both for reducing required storage space and for reducing transmission time. Pre-filled compression dictionaries are utilized to address the problem in which the compression software starts with an empty dictionary.

Compile time meta-object protocol systems and methods

The subject invention pertains to a compilation system and meta-object protocol to facilitate interaction with objects of various types including but not limited to XML documents. More specifically, a delineator or dot operator can be extended to hide idiosyncratic details of interacting with objects. Code details can be generated by a compiler behind the scenes. This enables a programmer to achieve the same results while writing much simpler and intuitive code.

Interaction with nested and non-nested streams

The subject invention pertains to systems and methods for iterating over or otherwise traversing a collection of objects or elements. More specifically, mechanisms are provided for handling both conventional non-nested streams such as enumeratables as well as nested streams. Nested streams provide a more efficient mechanism for traversing certain objects such as recursive generators. One problem with nested streams is that they need to be flattened or simplified. Techniques are provided herein to allow such streams to be flattened quickly and efficiently. Moreover, systems and methods are disclosed to preserve backward compatibility of optimized nested stream processing with conventional non-nested streams.

Monitor for an information technology system

The present invention provides a means of monitoring the progress of an IT implementation of a process or activity through a defined set of situation types and event objects corresponding to said situation types whereby, if the IT implementation of the process or activity is changed, provided the event objects corresponding to the defined situation types are still generated by the new IT implementation or are able to be derived from the new IT implementation through mapping and/or the instrumentation of new events, the monitor is able to receive or retrieve said event objects and thus perform its monitoring function. This has the advantage of de-coupling the monitor from the specific IT implementation of the process or activity and thus allows a generic monitoring solution to be provided.

Method of restoring communication state of process

Garbage collection

Shopping environment including detection of unpaid items in proximity to an exit

A shopping environment includes a server and a shopping device for broadcasting a wireless signal that identifies the identity of a shopper associated with the device. A network infrastructure conveys the wireless signal information to the server.

Runtime support for nullable types

The subject disclosure pertains to systems and methods for supporting null capabilities for general purpose programming languages. Low level, runtime support for a nullable type is provided to ensure consistency and coherency. An execution component restricts support of the nullable type to programming language types that lack a null capability. The execution component may also provide support for conversion between the nullable type and a reference type.

Toggle equivalence preserving logic synthesis

System and method for generating language specific diacritics for different languages using a single keyboard layout

A diacritic chording system uses a single standard keyboard layout to generate diacritical characters used, for example, by Latin-based languages or languages based on a Roman character set, providing a universal keyboard. The key combination required to select a diacritic is consistent, independent of the language the user is typing.

Array access

Buffer allocation using probability of dropping unordered segments