International Business Machines Corporation

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David Alan Wall

Douglas R Fish

Hoa Thu Tran

Richard Joseph Stevens

Joel C Dubbels

Brian John Cragun

Cale T Rath

Jordi A Albornoz

Travis Michael Drucker

Thomas John Eggebraaten

Sean James Martin

Lee David Feigenbaum

Janice R Glowacki

Richard D Dettinger

William Craig Rapp

Clifton Malcolm Nock

Schuman M Shao

James L Wright

Christine A Grev

Konstantin N Konstantinov

Jeffrey Peter Lee

Robert L Rubin

This disclosure describes, in one aspect, a device for electrochemical quantitation of autoantibodies. Generally, the device includes a housing that defines a plurality of channels and at least two reaction zones. A first reaction zone includes a porous membrane and a first electrode assembly in fluid communication with a first channel. The first reaction zone also includes a first plurality of autoantigens immobilized to the porous membrane. The first electrode assembly is in communication with an amperometric reader. A second reaction zone includes a porous membrane and a second electrode assembly in fluid communication with a second channel. The second reaction zone includes a second plurality of autoantigens immobilized to the porous membrane. The second electrode assembly is in communication with the amperometric reader. Finally, the device includes a source of negative pressure in fluid communication with the first reaction zone and the second reaction zone.

Electrochemical quantitation of autoantibodies

Administering medical digital images including receiving a request for an image processing transaction to process the medical digital image; storing the medical image in one or more medical image caches; creating a medical image business object representing the business transaction; storing the medical image business object in the medical image metadata database; selecting, in dependence upon workflow selection rules and the attributes of the medical image business object, one or more clinical workflows to process the medical image; processing the medical image of the request with the clinical workflows, thereby creating a resultant business object and resultant medical image; routing the resultant medical image to a destination.

Administering medical digital images in a distributed medical digital image computing environment with medical image caching

Administering a business transaction, including: receiving a request for a business transaction, the request containing data to be processed by the business transaction and metadata describing the data and the request; creating, in dependence upon classification rules, the data to be processed by the business transaction, and the metadata describing the data and the request, a business object representing the business transaction; selecting, in dependence upon workflow selection rules and attributes of the business object, one or more workflows to process the data to be processed by the business transaction; processing the data to be processed by the business transaction with the workflows, thereby creating a resultant business object and resultant data; and routing, in dependence upon content routing rules and the attributes of the resultant business object, the resultant data to a destination.

Processing system using metadata for administering a business transaction

Administering medical digital images including receiving a medical image business object representing a transaction carrying out a type of service request made by a health care provider; selecting, in dependence upon workflow selection rules and the attributes of the medical image business object, one or more clinical workflows to process the medical image according to the transaction; and processing the medical image of the request with the clinical workflows, thereby creating a resultant business object and resultant medical image including selecting, by the workflow dispatcher in dependence upon metadata for computational units in the distributed medical digital image computing environment, particular computational units in the distributed medical digital image computing environment to perform particular services of the one or more clinical workflows, deploying the particular services to the particular computational units, and executing the services on the computational units upon which they are deployed.

Administering medical digital images with intelligent analytic execution of workflows

Managing failover operations on a cluster of computers, including: identifying, by a failover hold module, a failure to access data storage in the cluster of computers; preventing the execution of all read operations directed to the data storage that were received after the failure to access data storage was identified; executing all write operations directed to the data storage that were received after the failure to access data storage was identified, including writing data to a cache; identifying that a failover to alternative data storage is complete; executing the held read operations, including reading data from the alternative data storage; and copying, from cache to the alternative data storage, the data written to the cache as part of the write operations.

Managing failover operations on a cluster of computers

Methods, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for providing secure access to data. Public UDTFs, private UDTFs and a metadata processor are utilized to facilitate secure access to data residing in a variety of data repositories. User security attributes and UDTF attributes are gathered. A table is queried based on the gathered attributes.

Providing secure access to data with user defined table functions

Techniques are provided for accessing data within data repositories. Public UDTFs, private UDTFs and a metadata processor are utilized to provide access to data residing in a variety of data repositories.

Providing access to data with user defined table functions

The present invention generally provides methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for managing an annotation system that includes storing annotations for a document family, i.e., a series of versions of a data source. Annotations created for one version of the data source may be viewed in context from both subsequent and prior versions of the same data source. Embodiments of the invention associate annotations with both a data source 'family identifier' as well as a 'version identifier.' Other than adding a family ID to the data source, the data source remains unchanged. The family ID is maintained across different versions of the data source, whereas version IDs are determined for a specific version of the data source. Version IDs can be constructed from each data source directly, and do not need to be stored.

Associating annotations with document families

Methods, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for providing secure access to data. Public UDTFs, private UDTFs and a metadata processor are utilized to facilitate secure access to data residing in a variety of data repositories.

System and method for providing secure access to data with user defined table functions

Methods, systems and articles of manufacture are provided for accessing data within data repositories. Public UDTFs, private UDTFs and a metadata processor are utilized to provide access to data residing in a variety of data repositories.

System and method for providing access to data with user defined table functions

Method for associating annotations with document families

The availability of one or more databases targeted by a federated query may be determined prior to running the federated query against the targeted databases. In response to determining one or more of the targeted databases are unavailable, a user may be notified. The user may also be presented with options for running the federated query. The options may include being notified when all of the targeted databases are available, automatically running the federated query (in the background) when all of the targeted databases are available, and modifying the query to run against currently available databases.

Federated query management

Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for proving global annotation services are disclosed. Global annotations are used to annotate a data element independently from the internal representation of a data element employed by a particular software application. Data elements are normalized into a form used by a global annotation system to identify the data element, and corresponding global annotations, independent from the application in which the data element may appear. An annotation cache may be used to store the global annotations that have been created for a particular data source, improving the efficiency of the global annotation system.

Method and system for efficient and scalable detection and management of global annotations

An improved method, system, and article of manufacture for issuing a query against multiple data sources that may not each contain all the fields involved in the query is provided. A diverse query targeting the multiple data sources may be decomposed into individual query predicates. For each data source, an effective query may be generated by removing, from the diverse query, individual predicates involving fields not contained in the data source. Partial results received in response to issuing the effective queries against their corresponding data sources may be merged using any suitable technique.

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Rochester, MN, United States of America

David Alan Wall