The patent describes a single location and application on a network where a user can organize public, group, and private/personal information and have this single, location accessible to the public. A new, ontology-driven portal that organizes all three categories of data according to various “facets” using underlying ontologies to define each “facet” and wherein any type of information can be classified and linked to other types of information is disclosed. An application that enables a user to effectively utilize and manage knowledge and data the user posses and allows other users to effectively and seamlessly benefit from the user's knowledge and data over a computer network is also disclosed. A method of processing content created by a user utilizing a semantic, ontology-driven portal on a computer network is described. The semantic portal application provides the user with a content base, such as a semantic form or meta-form, for creating a semantic posting. The semantic portal utilizes a knowledge data structure, such as a taxonomy or ontology, in preparing a semantic posting based on the information provided by the user via the content base. The semantic portal application prepares a preview of a semantic posting for evaluation by the user. The semantic posting is then either modified by the user or accepted and posted by the user for external parties to view.

Semantic web portal and platform

A method and system for reducing storage requirements and speeding up storage operations by reducing the storage of redundant data includes receiving a request that identifies one or more data objects to which to apply a storage operation. For each data object, the storage system determines if the data object contains data that matches another data object to which the storage operation was previously applied. If the data objects do not match, then the storage system performs the storage operation in a usual manner. However, if the data objects do match, then the storage system may avoid performing the storage operation.

System and method for storing redundant information

Described in detail herein are systems and methods for single instancing blocks of data in a data storage system. For example, the data storage system may include multiple computing devices (e.g., client computing devices) that store primary data. The data storage system may also include a secondary storage computing device, a single instance database, and one or more storage devices that store copies of the primary data (e.g., secondary copies, tertiary copies, etc.). The secondary storage computing device receives blocks of data from the computing devices and accesses the single instance database to determine whether the blocks of data are unique (meaning that no instances of the blocks of data are stored on the storage devices). If a block of data is unique, the single instance database stores it on a storage device. If not, the secondary storage computing device can avoid storing the block of data on the storage devices.

Block-level single instancing

A system for controlling configuration settings for mobile data communication devices and services includes a redirection server and a policy generation system. The redirection server detects a triggering event in a host system and in response to the triggering event continuously redirects data items from the host system to a wireless network. Each mobile data communication device receives data items from the wireless network and includes a device configuration stored in a memory location on the mobile data communication device. The device configuration of each mobile data communication device controls one or more functions of the mobile data communication device. The policy generation system receives a policy setting from a user interface and stores the policy setting in a user information record associated with a mobile data communication device. The redirection server detects the policy setting in the user information record and in response to detecting the policy setting transmits the policy setting over the wireless network to the mobile data communication device associated with the user information record. The mobile data communication device automatically modifies the device configuration to include the policy setting. Methods of controlling a configuration setting in mobile data communication devices are also disclosed.

System and method for controlling configuration settings for mobile communication devices and services

An enterprise application system including a run-time transformation server, and a message broker for routing and transforming data in the form of messages between a source application and a target application, including a plug-in for preparing requests to the run-time transformation server and for processing responses from the run-time transformation server. A method is also described and claimed.

Run-time architecture for enterprise integration with transformation generation

Metadata is obtained from a database and provided to an object model that uses the database for persisting the state of its objects. The metadata provides the object model with constraints, size limits, or other limiting information about a database so that the object model can anticipate and handle potential errors that could occur at the database level. Rather than keeping the metadata embedded within the database, the object model obtains access to the metadata and can adopt policies for dealing with those constraints and limits. In addition, the object model is also provided with heuristics that can be applied to storage processing of attributes. In this manner, the object model becomes metadata-aware and can handle database operations more intelligently and thus propagate fewer errors to the client.

Method and system for an object model with embedded metadata and mapping information

A method and system for migrating data between databases is provided. Metadata is obtained from a source database and used to determine the manner in which the data within the source database should be migrated to a target database. The metadata provides a mechanism for structuring queries to retrieve the data within the source database in a generic manner, thereby providing a generic determination of the structure of the data to be migrated. The dependencies among tables in the source database are discovered, thereby providing an order to the migration operations to be performed when migrating the data. This order ensures that the data can be migrated correctly in the presence of referential integrity (foreign key) constraints. In addition, custom mapping operations may be performed during the migration operations so that the data from the source database is modified before writing the data to the target database.

Method and system for a generic metadata-based mechanism to migrate relational data between databases

A method for updating operational parameters of a monitoring agent on a client in a distributed data processing system is presented. The monitoring agent filters the outgoing network data traffic from the client to a server and determines whether an outgoing transaction is addressed such that an application on the server receives the outgoing transaction as a request to change the operational parameters of the monitoring agent. The outgoing transaction is parsed for a destination address and matched with a destination address stored as an operational parameter of the monitoring agent on the client. The destination address may be a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) embedded within a Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP) request. In response to a positive determination, the monitoring agent then sends a request to the server to send to the monitoring agent an update of the operational parameters of the monitoring agent.

Method and system for dynamic update of an application monitoring agent using a non-polling mechanism

An apparatus and method for deleting objects from an object-relational system in a customizable and database independent manner. The apparatus and method provide a customizable and database independent mechanism for the deletion of object data from a relational database. The method implemented by the apparatus determines the dependency structure of a relational database using database metadata. The dependency structure is then utilized to determine the type of deletion to be performed on data representations of the object and its related objects, i.e., parent or child objects. The deletion actions include cascade deletion and nullify columns deletion. Appropriate SQL statements are then automatically generated at run-time to perform the deletion of the object data from the relational database.

Joseph Mulavelil George

Papers

Method and system for an object model with embedded metadata and mapping information

Method and system for a generic metadata-based mechanism to migrate relational data between databases

Method and system for dynamic update of an application monitoring agent using a non-polling mechanism

Apparatus and method for deletion of objects from an object-relational system in a customizable and database independent manner