The present invention permits users to obtain detailed information concerning those portions of web contents in which they are most interested and provides an information extraction system. In an embodiment, the information extraction system comprises a server and a client, connected via a communication network, wherein the server provides a data file for a client to browse; and wherein the client includes a browser for displaying the contents of the data file that is received from the server vi...

Personal information of users is used to customize the browsing experiences of the users on a World-Wide-Web site. To ensure privacy of the users' personal information, each user is assigned a unique Universal Anonymous Identifier (UAI). The UAI is generated by a trusted third party and provided to the Web site operator. The Web site operator then indexes the users' personal information by UAI. Only the user has the ability to correlate his/her true identity with his/her personal information.

A method for selectively releasing locks when rolling back to a savepoint includes: providing at least one savepoint in a transaction, where the at least one savepoint and the transaction are separate lock owners, where at least one lock is assigned to the at least one savepoint and at least one lock is assigned to the transaction; rolling back the transaction to the at least one savepoint; and releasing any locks owned by the at least one savepoint, where any locks owned by the transaction is m...

Systems and methods are described to address the problem of maintaining only unique data values accessed through name-value tuple sets. A knowledgebase represents data in tuple sets where all the data across the tuples comprise unique instances for memory conservation and system performance purposes. The knowledgebase stores and maintains unique values in a data store structure and represents the values as tuples through the tuple store structure. Modules access tuples and their values through h...

An image processing device communicable with an information processing device, includes: a first management unit for managing at least one service provided by the image processing device based on a first protocol; a second management unit for managing the at least one service provided by the image processing device based on a second protocol; a reception unit for receiving a search request for searching for a service managed by the second management unit, the search request being transmitted fro...

Systems and methods are described that allow programmatic access to search engine results and query logs in a structured form. The search results can be retrieved from the search engine in an intermediary form that contains the information that is in the HTML pages provided to web browsers (potentially with additional information). This intermediary form can then be broken down on the client machine, using local resources, to assemble the structured objects. The library also provides for caching...

In a workflow system data is exchanged using databinding constructs between the workflow and user interface layer. During an execution of a workflow a user interface instance is activated in anticipation of a user input event. The workflow is suspended and data for populating the user interface instance is provided to the user interface layer using a databinding construct from the workflow. Upon receiving user input, another instance of the workflow is loaded and data associated with the user in...

A meta data management system for use with a surveillance system includes a user interface that allows users to define rules to manage meta data from distributed devices. An application programming interface provides an application access to system data and control information. A mechanism allows the application to transparently and seamlessly integrate with different types of databases by transparently allocating and searching the data that are physically distributed at different devices.

A system is provided to improve performance of a storage system. The system comprises a multi-tier buffer cache. The buffer cache may include a global cache to store resources for servicing requests issued from one or more processes at the same time, a free cache to receive resources from the global cache and to store the received resources as free resources, and a local cache to receive free resources from the free cache, the received free resources to store resources that can be accessed by a ...

A metadata database adaptor for use with a surveillance and/or sensor system is capable of adapting metadata messages of varying formats according to needs of metadata databases. In other aspects, a metadata data model template can allow a user to define a data definition that is used to map user defined data with the metadata data model template to form XML data schema. Template mapping knowledge can then be applied for fast XML data schema to non-XML database schema generation without translat...