70 results about "Descendent" patented technology

Methods, programs (120) and apparatus (100) are disclosed for accessing and heterogenous data sources (150-153) and presenting information obtained therefrom. Specifically, the data sources may have hierarchical data, which may be presented by identifying a context data node from the data, the context data node having one or more descendent data nodes. At least one data pattern is determined in the descendent data nodes. At least one display type is assigned to the current context data node on the basis of the at least one data pattern. Thereafter, the method presents at least a subset of the descendent data nodes according to one of the assigned display types. Also disclosed is a method of browsing an hierarchically-represented data source. A user operation is interpreted to identify a context data node from the data source, the context data node having one or more descendent data nodes. At least one data pattern in the descendent data nodes is then determined and at least one display type is assigned to the current context data node on the basis of the at least one data pattern. A subset of the descendent data nodes is then presented according to one of the assigned display types, the subset including at least one hyperlink (3401,3402) having as its target a descendant data node of the current context data node. A further user operation is then interpreted to select the at least one hyperlink, the selection resulting in the current context data node being replaced with the data node corresponding to the target of the selected hyperlink. These steps may be repeated until no further hyperlinks to descendent data nodes are included in the subset. Other methods associated with access and presentation are also disclosed.

Techniques for managing XML data in an SQL compliant DBMS include receiving an SQL statement. The SQL statement includes a particular operator that operates on a first instance of XML type that represents a first set of XML elements. During execution of the SQL statement, the particular operator is evaluated by generating an ordered collection of instances of XML type. Each different instance in the ordered collection is based on a different XML element from the first set; and there is an instance in the ordered collection for every XML element from either the first set or from the first set and its descendents. When descendents are included, each entry in the ordered collection indicates a level in the XML tree. In another aspect, an aggregate operator in the SQL statement operates on a collection of instances, with associated levels, to generate a single instance of XML type.

The system has a collection of a plurality of objects. Each object defines a node in a k-partite graph, such that, the nodes can e divided into a number of mutually exclusive sets such that all of the nodes are in exactly one of the sets; further edges occur only between nodes in different sets; The system also has a simplification process that aggregates one or more of the nodes into one or more categories and identifies a category node corresponding to each category. The category node inherits the mode and the edges of all the nodes in the respective category. Further, the system contains Directed Acyclic Graphs Indices (DAGIs) whose nodes may have a 1-1 mapping with the nodes in the k-partite graph. These indices can be used to aggregate and hide nodes in the k-partite graph. Aggregation occurs by selecting one or more non-leaf nodes in the DAGI and aggregating all descendent nodes. Hiding occurs by selecting some set of DAGI nodes, thus selecting some corresponding set of nodes in the k-partite graph, and requesting this set of nodes be hidden which effectively removes them from further consideration until they are restored by explicit request.

An XML matching engine and method are provided, where policy rules expressed using XPath/XQuery policies are matched to streaming XML documents. Two distinct data structures are used: a combined modified DFA data structure for storing simple XPath queries (no wildcards or descendents) and a modified AFilter structure for storing complex queries (with wildcards or/and descendents). As the matching engine receives XML tags from XML parser, matching is performed in both structures in parallel.

The memorial with cremains provides a transparent or translucent glass memorial containing the cremains of the deceased with an article(s) of significance to the deceased and/or family and descendents. A method of forming the memorial comprises melting the glass to at least a plastic consistency, mixing the cremains therein, adding the article(s) of significance either in its entirety or disintegrated, optionally adding an inscribed placard within the molten glass, forming the glass to the desired shape, cooling the glass, and adding an inscription directly to the glass or separate placard if not included within the glass earlier. The glass may comprise or contain glass from another article favored by the deceased, e.g., a wine glass or bottle from a favorite beverage, etc. The article included therein may survive in its solid state or may be melted and fused with the glass, depending upon its melting point relative to the glass.

When a special relationship is present between IC card owners, authority of one of the IC card owners cannot be easily given to the other owner of the IC card. However, an IC card of a second owner can issue a public key certificate of the IC card of a first owner so that the IC card of the first owner can be recognized as a child card of the IC card of the second owner. Thus, the first generation card authenticated by a route authentication station is set as an ancestor which can generate a descendent card which receives the authentication. By checking which parent card has issued the public key authentication owned by the child card, it is possible to given the authority of the parent card to the child card.

The invention provides methods for identifying related data in a directed graph (e.g., an RDF data set). A “first” step—though the steps are not necessarily executed in sequential order—includes identifying (or marking) as related data expressly satisfying the criteria. A “second” step includes identifying as related ancestors of any data identified as related, e.g., in the first step, unless that ancestor conflicts with the criteria. A “third” step of the method is identifying descendents of any data identified, e.g., in the prior steps, unless that descendent conflicts with the criteria or has a certain relationship with the ancestor from which it descends. The methods generates, e.g., as output, an indication of each of the nodes identified as related in the three steps.

A mechanism for dynamically resolving polymorphic type dependencies between parallel heterogenous run-time environments is provided. The mechanism comprises a registry of class types for software objects, in which each class type is linked to a hierarchy of bindings rooted at the binding for that class type with descendent bindings in the hierarchy relating to more specific sub-classes. At run-time a pointer to an object is received, and the received static type of that pointer can be looked up in the registry to determine the location in the hierarchy of bindings at which to make an initial query for the most specific sub-class compatible with the dynamic type of the object. Subsequently, beginning at the determined location in the hierarchy of bindings, the most specific sub-class compatible with the dynamic type of the object is determined, and a run-time binding based on the most specific sub-class identified can be selected.

Disclosed are methods for identifying topical experts from a seed set of experts by identifying “second tier” influencers for the topic. New concepts detected among a pool of experts and second tier influencers are monitored among the general population and their significance evaluated. Reports may be generated for these detected trends. Trends in social media for a concept represented in a taxonomy may be detected by monitoring content for descendent nodes for the concept. Correlations between social media activity with respect to the concept and sales of products corresponding to the concept may be made and sales predicted for the same or different products that correspond to descendants of the concept in the taxonomy.

A user interface presents views of entities and their attributes relative to any subset of associated parameters. A view may present views of entities as a function of one or more parameters. A selection of a subset of entities in one view with respect to parameters may be presented in another view with respect to different parameters. Entities may be manipulated in any supplemental view to change their values or their parameter associations. A view may present components and parameters associated with layers or any subset of layers and/or after layer compositing. A view can include resolved values of components and their attributes. A supplemental view may include visual indicators to indicate the layer or other parameter defining its resolved value. Hierarchical relationships may be presented in views, with ancestor entities expanded within a view to show its descendent entities or collapsed to hide its descendent entities.

A method of administration in a JMX environment of software systems to be administered, represented by first respective MBeans, and at least one administration application, in which the administration acts produce the exposure of MBeans in at least one MBeanServer server, characterized in that it is implemented by means of a mediation device and that it comprises the following steps: a tree structure of administration components representing first MBeans, in which each component is identified by a unique name, is constructed following the receipt of the name of an administration component, the mediation device dispatches a determined command to the administration component thus identified which, if it represents an MBean, exposes in the MBeanServer this Mbean; when the administration component possesses descendent administration components in the hierarchical structure, the mediation device propagates the command to the descendents.

An XML wrapper queries an XML document in an on-the-fly manner so that only parent nodes in the document that satisfy the query are extracted and then unnested. The parent nodes and associated descendent nodes are located using XPath expressions contained as options in data definition language (DDL) statements. The parent nodes satisfying the query and associated descendent nodes are extracted and stored outside of a database according to a relational schema. The wrapper facilitates applications that use convention SQL queries and views to operate on that information stored according to the relational schema. The wrapper also responds to query optimizer requests for costs associated with queries against external data sources associated with the wrapper.