Bell Telephone Laboratories

Lucent Technologies Inc.

At+t Corp.

British Telecommunications Public Limited Company

John D Gabbe

Bethany Scott Robinson

Vineet Mittal

Charles Norris Judice

Michael J Hodgson

Allen Ginsberg

Thomas B London

David Richard Griffiths

Matthew S Hecht

William R Brook

Lindsay A Campbell

Brian R Henderson

Stephen I Daleman

Jonathan Legh-Smith

Paul Muschamp

Kenneth A Lang

John V Briel

John A Wojciechowski, Jr

A system comprises an input for product selection data; a marketplace product store for storing marketplace product definitions; a product selection store for storing data defining a selection of one or more products from the marketplace product store; an enterprise capability store for storing data defining capability of an enterprise in relation to supply of one or more products; and a product fulfillment data store for storing one or more product descriptions. At least one link is generated between each product description in the product fulfillment data store to data stored in the enterprise capability store, and at least one link is generated between each product description in the product fulfillment data store to data stored in the product selection store. The links are determined by a requirement in the respective product description for specified data in the enterprise capability store and the product selection store, such that a valid product description is dependent on presence of the specified data.

Data management system

A method and processing system for the indexing of data for one or more users involving the steps of receiving primary data, delineating episode data from the primary data, generating media representations to correspond with the episode data, generating a table of contents from the episode data and media representations in real time, and storing and/or presenting the table of contents on a graphical user interface. Primary data may constitute audio data, video data, text data, combinations of these as well as any medium-generated data which may be in or converted to digital form. Episode data is generated on the basis of significant video images determined by scene changes and other information. In addition, episode data may be based on a significant audio change, delineated from the primary data, e.g. based on speaker changes and other information. Media representations are iconic images, symbolic representations or graphical images which refer to episode data to ultimately aid the user in making decisions from reviewing the real time table of contents.

Method and system for operating a data processor to index primary data

Operation of a computer system after a main memory failure is enabled by storing a read-only access shadow copy of its data structures in another memory having an independent failure mode. The shadow copy is periodically updated at a series of checkpoints. Where the data structure is a linked list, updating without recopying is enabled by prelinking the list item in the read-only list to the beginning of a second read/write list, which is appended to the first list at the next checkpoint.

Technique for enabling operation of a computer system with a consistent

An associative information retrieval system accepts information from a user and generates a query mask utilizing nested superimposed code words to search through and to find partial matches with the content of an auxiliary store. The auxiliary store contains similarly generated code words each produced from attribute values of records on a central store. The user information is put through the system on a character-by-character basis and the user is fed back information on the number of possible matches. The feedback informs the user on the incremental progress of the search produced in response to each newly entered character and also as part of a sequence that it may form with previously entered characters. The feedback information helps the user direct the search which the person does by supplying additional characters. When the number of possible matches is reduced to a manageable list, the index codes associated with the partially matching stored code words in the auxiliary store are used to locate complete records from a central store for display to the user to complete the retrieval process. In this latter process, false drops are eliminated by matching characters used to form the query mask directly with those of the records which were located via the nested superimposed code words.

Associative information retrieval continuously guided by search status

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