International Business Machines Corporation

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Roger A Reinsch

James Allen Reimer

Melvin R Zimowski

Bruce Gilbert Lindsay

Robert J Grafe

Robert Peter Resch

Patricia G Selinger

John G Adair

Daniel J Coyle, Jr

Richard A Demers

Richard R Sanders

Jacob Slonim

Robert Dean Jackson

Robert D Jackson

Robert A Gilles

Dusan Ecimovic

Michael E Murphy

Robert L Sunday

A system and method for providing on demand access to information related to a movie while the movie is being presented to a user, where the movie was generated from the movie related information, are described. The system operates by presenting the movie to the user, and then receiving from the user a query pertaining to the movie. The system determines a frame of the movie that was being presented to the user when the user issued the query (the system may extract this information from the query, or may extract this information from the movie itself). The system identifies, as specified by the query, portions of the movie related information relating to the frame, and retrieves those portions of the movie related information. These retrieved portions of the movie related information are presented to the user. Also discussed is a manager to enable users to create personalized versions of movies, and personalized collections of items. Also discussed is a system and method for providing to users on demand access to merchandise information related to a movie, and for providing on demand connectivity to merchants, while the movie is being presented to the users.

System, method, and computer program product for presenting multimedia

A system and method for providing on demand access to information related to a movie while the movie is being presented to a user, where the movie was generated from the movie related information. The system operates by presenting the movie to the user, and then receiving from the user a query pertaining to the movie. The system determines a frame of the movie that was being presented to the user when the user issued the query (the system may extract this information from the query, or may extract this information from the movie itself). The system identifies, as specified by the query, portions of the movie related information relating to the frame, and retrieves those portions of the movie related information. These retrieved portions of the movie related information are presented to the user. The system includes a manager to enable users to create personalized versions of movies, and personalized collections of items. The system includes a system and method for providing to users on demand access to merchandise information related to a movie, and for providing on demand connectivity to merchants, while the movie is being presented to the users.

System and method for enabling the creation of personalized movie

A system and method for providing on demand access to information related to a movie while the movie is being presented to a user, where the movie was generated from the movie related information, are described. The system operates by presenting the movie to the user, and then receiving from the user a query pertaining to the movie. The system determines a frame of the movie that was being presented to the user when the user issued the query (the system may extract this information from the query, or may extract this information from the movie itself). The system identifies, as specified by the query, portions of the movie related information relating to the frame, and retrieves those portions of the movie related information. These retrieved portions of said movie related information are presented to the user. Also discussed is a manager to enable users to create personalized versions of movies, and personalized collections of items. Also discussed is a system and method for providing to users on demand access to merchandise information related to a movie, and for providing on demand connectivity to merchants, while the movie is being presented to the users.

System and method for providing merchant information and establishing

System and method for linking and presenting movies with their

The invention establishes the context in which data exchanged between dissimilar relational database management systems can be mutually understood and preserved, and data conversions can be minimized. The invention accomplishes this by establishing layers of descriptive information which isolate machine characteristics, levels of support software, and user data descriptions. Optimized processing is achieved by processing the different descriptor levels at different times during the development and execution of the database management systems. Minimal descriptive information is exchanged between the cooperating database management systems. Any data conversions that may be necessary are done only by the receiver of the data, and only at the point where it is necessary to have the data represented in the receiver's native format for processing. For sending and receiving systems which match, data conversion is completely avoided, even when the data may have been forwarded through intermediate DBMS systems which do not match. For sending and receiving systems which do not match, data conversion is minimized. The data conversion routines and tables in each system are also minimized by requiring conversion only INTO a system's native format, never FROM its native format into some other format.

Method and combination for minimizing data conversions when data is

The invention provides transaction synchronization in the form of COMMIT processing in a distributed, heterogeneous database system wherein some resources are synchronized to a transaction by a single-phase commit procedures while other resources synchronize by multi-phase commit procedures. The invention invests an application requestor at an application site with authority to represent all single-phase commit resources in multi-phase commit processing.

Method for synchronizing transaction processing in a distributed

A system and method for providing on demand access to information related to a movie while the movie is being presented to a user, where the movie was generated from the movie related information, are described. The system operates by presenting the movie to the user, and then receiving from the user a query pertaining to the movie. The system determines a frame of the movie that was being presented to the user when the user issued the query (the system may extract this-information from the query, or may extract this information from the movie itself). The system identifies, as specified by the query, portions of the movie related information relating to the frame, and retrieves those portions of the movie related information. These retrieved portions of said movie related information are presented to the user. Also discussed is a manager to enable users to create personalized versions of movies, and personalized collections of items. Also discussed is a system and method for providing to users on demand access to merchandise information related to a movie, and for providing on demand connectivity to merchants, while the movie is being presented to the users.

Computer program product and program storage device for linking and

A system and method for providing on demand access to information related to a movie while the movie is being presented to a user, where the movie was generated from the movie related information. The system operates by presenting the movie to the user, and then receiving from the user a query pertaining to the movie. The system determines a frame of the movie that was being presented to the user when the user issued the query (the system may extract this information from the query, or may extract this information from the movie itself). The system identifies, as specified by the query, portions of the movie related information relating to the frame, and retrieves those portions of the movie related information. These retrieved portions of said movie related information are presented to the user. The system includes a manager to enable users to create personalized versions of movies, and personalized collections of items. The system includes a system and method for providing to users on demand access to merchandise information related to a movie, and for providing on demand connectivity to merchants, while the movie is being presented to the users.

Heterogenous database communication system in which communicating

The invention establishes the context in which data exchanged between dissimilar relational database management systems can be mutually understood and preserved. The invention accomplishes this by establishing layers of descriptive information which isolate machine characteristics, levels of support software, and user data descriptions. Optimized processing is achieved by processing the different descriptor levels at different times during the development and execution of the database management systems. Minimal descriptive information is exchanged between the cooperating database management systems. For systems which match, data conversion is completely avoided. For systems which do not match, data conversion is minimized.

Method and system for describing and exchanging data between

Application programs which are developed and scheduled within a first computing system environment are permitted to access relational data registered at a remote database management system (DBMS) operating in a second computing environment dissimilar to the first computing environment. Access to data through the DBMS from an application execution site remote from the DBMS is supported by a process, logically subordinate to the application program which maps application program data access requests to the DBMS.

Query language execution on heterogeneous database servers using a

Apparatus systems and methods for image analysis, including identification, location and analysis of both patterns of distribution of target images and tracking of a high speed target image. An example is scanning shotgun targets. A target, representing a field of view having multiple images distributed therein, is wrapped around a transparent drum illuminated from the interior, rotating the drum in front of a high aspect ratio slit, optically folding the slit aperture into a series of adjacent overlapping zones the aggregate aspect ratio of which is low, scanning the moving target with a video camera, digitizing the camera image signals, electronically processing the signals to identify bright image areas (e.g. shot holes), processing the information to determine the image location and analyzing the location information to determine image distribution patterns. The system and methods are applicable to a wide variety of image detection and analysis including: astronomy; satellite photos of sites; gatherings of people, things, animals, crops in fields; and movement of objects through the field of view such as objects on a conveyor belt, traffic, ballistic objects, and the like.

Apparatus and method for image pattern analysis

Computer programs for capture and analysis of digitized image data signals comprising frame, scan line and digitizer stripe numbers, and edge-detection or bright-spot data relating to images in a field of interest, which includes the steps of converting the edge-detection data to bright spot, reducing the amount of data processed by eliminating duplicate data, normalizing the data into X and Y coordinates, finding image features of interest, selecting features to be reported, and reporting type, number, pattern or location of the image features in the field. An example is processing of shotgun target images scanned by a video camera (whose signals are digitized) through a slit viewing a rotating illuminated drum on which a target has been placed. Other uses include: astronomical image analysis; satellite photos of sites; gatherings of people, things, animals or crops in fields; and movements of objects through a field of view such as objects on a conveyor belt, traffic, ballistic objects, and the like.

Method of capture and analysis of digitized image data

Video signal digitizer for processing scan line information representing image information from a video camera scanning a field of view having multiple images distributed therein. The digitizer defines by number digitizer stripes corresponding to image bright spots along a scan line, it tracks the scan lines by number and records the number of each video frame scan. The digitizer includes: analog process controller; event, scanning, state and queue controllers; event history recording memory; status display; an output queue device; and an I/O port. The digitizer can operate in bright-spot or edge-detection modes, and permits one-pass high resolution image verification, identification and location without edge matching or mosaic processing.

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Roger A Reinsch