Questions tagged [data-processing-database]
US patent class 707: data processing: database and file management or data structures
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Data Scraping on USPTO
Anyone performed data scraping on USPTO?
someone has a tool/code that can be used to extract data from USPTO and have it as SQL DB?
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US 8,903,797 - System and method for loading objects for object-relational mapping
I recently found the patent System and method for loading objects for object-relational mapping US 8,903,797.
I develop Ruby on Rails web applications that follow the Active record pattern for Object ...
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Idea of Suggesting Application by time
I have this idea in a very vague form which I have not seen implemented yet but maybe someone can tell me if it is out there already or not. It might not be worth a patent as its just an addition but ...
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Web-updated database with record distribution by email - Issued Patent - PRIOR ART REQUEST
AN OVERBROAD PATENT ON a remotely updatable database with a user interface - This issued patent from 1998 is being used by a troll Data Distribution Technologies LLC to sue a variety of real estate ...
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Is this patent US6323569 B1 still valid? Valid till? End date?
I would like to know is patent "US6323569 B1" still valid? its end date?
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Why did IBM buy patent (6,904,428) about an “intranet mediator”?
From what I see, US patent 6,904,428 (by the Illinois Institute of Technology) is a search algorithm process. Any ideas why IBM thought they needed it?
An intranet mediator for obtaining direct ...
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How does this patent affect digital downloads of multimedia at sites like Dropcards.com?
How does patent application US20100325182 affect dropcards.com and similar websites that allow users to send in their media and artwork then furnish the users with unique cards? Users hand out the ...
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Prior art for linked list (secondary and tertiary traversal)?
This is the first I've heard of this patent for linked lists and traversals filed in 2002.
Note that the claim is not a patent on a linked list itself (discussion on Hacker News), but apparently on a ...
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Are data structures patentable?
US7028023 seems to be a patent for a data structure (a variation on a linked list with an extra pointer to the item after the next item). Are data structures generally considered patentable, if so, ...
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Prior art for Apple's "unified search" patent
US patent 8,086,604 is the one Apple used to temporarily get sales of Samsung's Galaxy Nexus blocked. It covers using a single UI to search multiple data sources, including both local and remote ones....
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US 2012/0254255: automatic diary
I've been looking for prior art for a Samsung patent application KR 10-2011-0029154, published as US 2012/0254255, priority date 2011-03-31.
Just 2 hits off the first 10 for a google search on "...
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Patent on comparing two values which are put through a hash function to determine if the same
I came across this patent titled “Similarity-based access control of data in a data processing system” (priority date: 1995-04-11).
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Similarity of data items is determined by analyzing ...
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Relational Database - Using Objects to Access A Relational Database (DataTern) - Issued Patent - PRIOR ART REQUEST
DataTern has Patent No. 5,937,402 on using objects to access a relational database. The patent was issued in 1999, and obviously people were using objects to access databases since the 80's.
Basically,...
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Prior art for SEO
Patent Application #20120016857 appears to be for Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). Here is its claim 1:
A computer-readable medium comprising computer-readable instructions for providing search ...
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Prior art for a simple versioning system on a document database
US Patent Application US20120226658: Data model versioning for document databases
Claim #1 describes an extremely simple versioning system for a document database:
A method, comprising:
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