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US20080215869 MANAGING CONFIGURATION OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS ON A COMPUTER NETWORK  
A system configuration manager provides a graphical user interface that allows a system administrator to easily administer configuration settings for different computer systems and platforms on a...
US20080215863 Method and Apparatus for Autonomically Initiating Measurement of Secondary Metrics Based on Hardware Counter Values for Primary Metrics  
A method, apparatus, and computer instructions in a data processing system for processing instructions are provided. Instructions are received at a processor in the data processing system. If a...
US20080215837 Storage System With Multiple Copy Targeting and Disk Failure Protection  
An apparatus is disclosed in which a storage controller cooperable with a host and a plurality of controlled storage is provided to localize an impact of a failure to a target disk in an affected...
US20080215830 EMPLOYING A DATA STRUCTURE OF READILY ACCESSIBLE UNITS OF MEMORY TO FACILITATE MEMORY ACCESS  
A data structure of readily accessible units of memory is provided. The data structure includes designations of one or more units of memory that while represented in the data structure do not need...
US20080215827 SELECTING STORAGE CLUSTERS TO USE TO ACCESS STORAGE  
Provided are a method, system and program for selecting storage clusters to use to access storage. Input/Output (I/O) requests are transferred to a first storage cluster over a network to access...
US20080215815 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF IMPROVING TASK SWITCHING AND PAGE TRANSLATION PERFORMANCE UTILIZING A MULTILEVEL TRANSLATION LOOKASIDE BUFFER  
A system and method of improved task switching in a data processing system. First, a first-level cache memory casts out an invalidated page table entry and an associated first page directory base...
US20080215790 Memory systems for automated computing machinery  
Design structures embodied in machine readable medium are provided. Embodiments of the design structure include a memory system comprising: a memory controller; a memory bus terminator; a high...
US20080215784 REALTIME-SAFE READ COPY UPDATE WITH PER-PROCESSOR READ/WRITE LOCKS  
A technique for realtime-safe detection of a grace period for deferring the destruction of a shared data element until pre-existing references to the data element have been removed. A per-processor...
US20080215772 SYSTEM METHOD STRUCTURE IN NETWORK PROCESSOR THAT INDICATES LAST DATA BUFFER OF FRAME PACKET BY LAST FLAG BIT THAT IS EITHER IN FIRST OR SECOND POSITION  
A method and structure for determining when a frame of information comprised of one or more buffers of data being transmitted in a network processor has completed transmission is provided. The...
US20080215764 MANAGING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS UTILIZING A DIGITAL SEAL  
A method for storing electronic documents can include associating a digital seal with at least one electronic document. An image within a user interface can be displayed, wherein the image is a...
US20080215761 Systems, Methods, and Media for Database Synchronization on a Network  
Systems, methods and media for database synchronization on a network are disclosed. More particularly, hardware and/or software for database synchronization on a network protected with firewalls...
US20080215741 SYSTEM AND ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE FOR ESTABLISHING AND REQUESTING STATUS ON A COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCE  
Provided are a system and article of manufacture for establishing and requesting status on a computational resource. An operation is performed to establish a computational resource, wherein the...
US20080215738 SHARING A SHARED RESOURCE ACROSS LOGICAL PARTITIONS OR SYSTEMS  
An apparatus and method for sharing a resource (such as a modem or virtual private network) allow virtualizing the shared resource in a simple and efficient manner that allows both accepting and...
US20080215729 Method and Apparatus for Cross-Tier Management in Multi-Tier Computing System Architecture  
Techniques are disclosed for providing cross-tier management in a multi-tier computing system architecture. For example, a method for managing a computing system, wherein the computing system...
US20080215717 Web Based Unified Communication System and Method, and Web Communication Manager  
The present invention provides a Web based unified communication system and method, and Web based communication manger. In the present invention, generating a SMIL document, based on a...
US20080215699 METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MESSAGE MAPPING OF COMMUNICATIONS  
A method, system, and computer program product for implementing message mapping of communications is provided. The method includes receiving a communication and a time-stamp of the communication...
US20080215698 Method and Apparatus for Adding Recipients to Sent Email  
A data processing system for resending a previously sent email message. A new recipient for the previously sent email message is selected. The new recipient of the previously sent email message is...
US20080215697 AUTOMATED EMAIL ACTIVITY MANAGEMENT  
A system for organizing email includes a modeler operable to infer a temporal sequential process from a corpus of unlabeled email messages, and a categorizer operable to accept an incoming message...
US20080215695 Publish/Subscribe Messaging System  
The invention relates to a message broker for managing subscription requests in a multicast messaging system. The messaging system comprises a plurality of publishers publishing information to the...
US20080215693 Systems, Methods, and Media for Communication with Database Client Users  
Systems, methods and media for communicating with a database client user are disclosed. Embodiments may include a database messaging system having a database server and one or more database...
US20080215676 SHARING A SHARED RESOURCE ACROSS LOGICAL PARTITIONS OR SYSTEMS  
An apparatus and method for sharing a resource (such as a modem or virtual private network) allow virtualizing the shared resource in a simple and efficient manner that allows both accepting and...
US20080215673 Data Processing Method For Generating Service Interface Descriptions  
A data processing method is disclosed. The data processing method comprises the step of receiving a request for a service interface description of a service from a client at a server, wherein the...
US20080215665 Method for Generating an Updates Status Alert in a Device  
A method for generating an update status alert at a receiving device, the receiving device operating in a network of participating devices, each participating device broadcasting status information...
US20080215659 Round for Reround Mode in a Decimal Floating Point Instruction  
a round-far-reround mode (preferably in a BID encoded Decimal format) of a floating point instruction prepares a result for later rounding to a variable number of digits by detecting that the least...
US20080215648 EFFICIENT PARALLEL BITWISE SWEEP DURING GARBAGE COLLECTION  
A method, system, and program for efficient parallel bitwise sweeps of larger objects during garbage collection are provided. During a bitwise sweep, a helper thread scans a mark vector looking for...
US20080215631 ENHANCING WEB EXPERIENCES USING BEHAVIORAL BIOMETRIC DATA  
A computerized method that provides a Web page having control structures for gathering behavioral biometrics. The method can receive behavioral biometric data in accordance with the control...
US20080215618 Natural Language Interaction with Large Databases  
A method includes applying at least one tag to at least one data element stored in a database the tag having at least one associated rule, utilizing the at least one associated rule to generate at...
US20080215596 SELECTING STORAGE CLUSTERS TO USE TO ACCESS STORAGE  
Provided are a method, system and program for selecting storage clusters to use to access storage. Input/Output (I/O) requests are transferred to a first storage cluster over a network to access...
US20080215586 Simulating Multi-User Activity While Maintaining Original Linear Request Order for Asynchronous Transactional Events  
A system and article of manufacture maintain the original order of a sequence of transactions originating from a source database and being replicated to a target database. A lockable object is...
US20080215585 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATION, REPRESENTATION, AND DELIVERY OF DOCUMENT CORPUS ENTITY CO-OCCURRENCE INFORMATION  
To respond to queries that relate to co-occurring entities on the Web, a compact sparse matrix representing entity co-occurrences is generated and then accessed to satisfy queries. The sparse...
US20080215582 Generating Statistics on Text Pattern Matching Predicates for Access Planning  
Statistics for a pattern matching predicate are generated using stored character statistics. A first structure stores, for each of a plurality of character positions, frequently occurring...
US20080215580 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE DATABASE CACHING  
A local database cache enabling persistent, adaptive caching of either full or partial content of a remote database is provided. Content of tables comprising a local cache database is defined on...
US20080215578 Materialized Query Table Matching With Query Expansion  
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for materialized query table matching are provided that include receiving a database query, retrieving a materialized query table (MQT) from data...
US20080215555 Hybrid Approach for Query Recommendation in Conversation Systems  
Techniques are disclosed for combining natural language generation with query retrieval for context appropriate query recommendation. For example, a computer-implemented method for generating a...
US20080215554 Data Plotting Extension for Structured Query Language  
Information is typically obtained from a relational database using a query in structured query language (SQL). An extension to the SQL standard is described which permits plotting the results of a...
US20080215540 OPTIMIZING A QUERY TO A PARTITIONED DATABASE TABLE USING A VIRTUAL MAINTAINED TEMPORARY INDEX THAT SPANS MULTIPLE DATABASE PARTITIONS  
A query optimizer optimizes a query to a partitioned database table by determining common characteristics of the partitions and generating a virtual maintained temporary index that spans multiple...
US20080215539 DATA ORDERING FOR DERIVED COLUMNS IN A DATABASE SYSTEM  
Optimized query execution is disclosed for queries that return data sorted by a derived column. The query optimizer is used to determine if the data is already sorted or if existing database...
US20080215538 DATA ORDERING FOR DERIVED COLUMNS IN A DATABASE SYSTEM  
Optimized query execution is disclosed for queries that return data sorted by a derived column. The query optimizer is used to determine if the data is already sorted or if existing database...
US20080215537 DATA ORDERING FOR DERIVED COLUMNS IN A DATABASE SYSTEM  
Optimized query execution for queries that return data sorted by a derived column. The query optimizer is used to determine if the data is already sorted or if existing database metadata can be...
US20080215536 AUTONOMICALLY GENERATING A QUERY IMPLEMENTATION THAT MEETS A DEFINED PERFORMANCE SPECIFICATION  
A database query optimizer allows specifying a performance specification for a query. When an access plan is created, the actual performance for executing the query using the access plan is...
US20080215535 AUTONOMICALLY GENERATING A QUERY IMPLEMENTATION THAT MEETS A DEFINED PERFORMANCE SPECIFICATION  
A database query optimizer allows specifying a performance specification for a query. When an access plan is created, the actual performance for executing the query using the access plan is...
US20080215534 COST-BASED SUBQUERY CORRELATION AND DECORRELATION  
Techniques are provided that determine that a query includes at least one subquery that may be correlated or decorrelated. An internal representation of the query that represents the subquery in...
US20080215532 DATABASE OPTIMIZATION THROUGH SCHEMA MODIFICATION  
A database optimizer collects statistics regarding applications accessing a database, and makes one or more changes to the database schema to optimize performance according to the collected...
US20080215531 DETERMINING VALIDITY RANGES OF QUERY PLANS BASED ON SUBOPTIMALITY  
A method for approximating a validity range for a domain of cardinalities of input to an optimal query plan is provided. Such a validity range is iteratively approximated using a modified...
US20080215527 APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR DEFINING A METADATA SCHEMA TO FACILITATE PASSING DATA BETWEEN AN EXTENSIBLE MARKUP LANGUAGE DOCUMENT AND A HIERARCHICAL DATABASE  
The apparatus and system are provided for defining a metadata schema to facilitate passing data between an XML document and a hierarchical database. The invention includes a database accessor, a...
US20080215461 Inventory Controls With Radio Frequency Identification  
Inventory control with inventory item attributes wherein the attributes describe an inventory item, the inventory item has an RFID identification tag having an RFID identification tag code, and the...
US20080215419 METHOD, SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR IMPLEMENTING A MULTI-STAGE, MULTI-CLASSIFICATION SALES OPPORTUNITY MODELING SYSTEM  
A method for implementing a multi-stage, multi-classification sales opportunity modeling system. The method includes receiving operational data relating to past sales activities and receiving...
US20080215404 Method for Service Offering Comparative IT Management Activity Complexity Benchmarking  
The invention broadly and generally provides a database comprising at least one record, the aforesaid at least one record comprising: (a) solution metadata relating to an information technology...
US20080215396 FACILITATING ERROR CHECKING OF SERVICE ELEMENTS  
A service element is defined and represented by a data structure. It includes one or more components and/or one or more other service elements. A service element providing a complete function is a...
US20080215379 CONTENT INSURANCE  
The present invention provides for the protection of and ability to upgrade to new formats of digital content by providing consumers of the digital content the capability of purchasing content...