| 6847959 |
Universal interface for retrieval of information in a computer system |
| Jan-25-2005 |
The present invention provides convenient access to items of information that are related to various descriptors input by a user, by means of a unitary interface which is capable of accessing information... |
| 6847958 |
Method of managing index data in main memory database |
| Jan-25-2005 |
Several methods of processing index data in an index node having a circular-queue type structure for adding, deleting, and searching a value in the index node are disclosed. According to the present invention,... |
| 6847955 |
System and method for mining unstructured data sets |
| Jan-25-2005 |
A method for mining incomplete data sets that avoids the process of having to extrapolate the attributes, and instead concentrate on the use of conceptual representations in order to mine the data sets.... |
| 6845377 |
Retrieval system and method using distance index |
| Jan-18-2005 |
Similarity retrieval is performed through the use of a distance index which contains a concatenated key and pointer information and retains a dictionary type order in the concatenated key. The concatenated... |
| 6845371 |
Multimedia data structure reflecting change of user relevance feedback and method of determining weights of image features of multimedia data |
| Jan-18-2005 |
A method of searching for images in a database system determines weights of desired image features by taking into consideration both recent user relevance feedback information and whole feedback information.... |
| 6845369 |
System, apparatus and method for using and managing digital information |
| Jan-18-2005 |
A system, apparatus and method for using, identifying, interacting and managing digital information in a useful and convenient manner. When a digital representation of information is loaded, an index is... |
| 6842763 |
Method and apparatus for improving message availability in a subsystem which supports shared message queues |
| Jan-11-2005 |
The invention relates to communicating message data between application programs, the message data relating to units of work performed by the application programs. A plurality of message queuing subsystems... |
| 6842755 |
System and method for automatic retrieval of structured online documents |
| Jan-11-2005 |
A method and system for automatic retrieval of a document linking to a starting document that has a static address on a data network. A sequence of commands that cause a browser in a computer system to... |
| 6842749 |
Method to use the internet for the assembly of parts |
| Jan-11-2005 |
A method that comprises: 1) sending to a manufacturer a customer request for assembly instructions for a grouping of components; and 2) presenting to assemblers a set of assembly instructions which are... |
| 6842748 |
Usage based strength between related information in an information retrieval system |
| Jan-11-2005 |
An information retrieval system in accordance with the principles of the present invention maintains a database that defines a relational association between a plurality of informational items in the system.... |
| 6842741 |
Recording medium with electronic ticket definitions recorded thereon and electronic ticket processing methods and apparatuses |
| Jan-11-2005 |
An electronic ticket comprises a ticket ID 233, an issuer ID 237, right information 239 of the electronic ticket, and issue, transfer and redeem conditions 240, 241 and 242, the entire block of these pieces... |
| 6839878 |
Mechanism for displaying content using control structure for authoring systems |
| Jan-4-2005 |
The field of distributed authoring systems, and more particularly the implementing of authoring controls within the authoring system. Moreover, there is provided a selection mechanism which employs control... |
| 6839703 |
Information apparatus, table retrieval apparatus, table retrieval method, and recording medium |
| Jan-4-2005 |
A retrieval key to be used for the retrieval of a table is divided into a plurality of divided retrieval keys consisted of a plurality of bit strings. Each divided retrieval key is provided with a corresponding... |
| 6839701 |
Hitmask for querying hierarchically related content entities |
| Jan-4-2005 |
A web-based system, method and program product are provided for searching a content object (e.g., a custom compilation or prepublished work) stored in a data repository as a group of hierarchically related... |
| 6839700 |
Load balancing content requests using dynamic document generation cost information |
| Jan-4-2005 |
Methods, systems, computer program products, and methods of doing business by performing load balancing of content requests using information regarding the cost of dynamically creating the requested document... |
| 6836780 |
Method and system for accessing data in legacy applications |
| Dec-28-2004 |
A method and apparatus is presented for mapping legacy application data. The mapping process consists of trail recording, mapping, and template creation. In the trail recording phase, user interaction... |
| 6836776 |
System and method for managing hierarchical objects |
| Dec-28-2004 |
A system and method for storing hierarchical objects. The system stores a list of hierarchies as a single object. The object includes all information relating to a particular data element. The data element... |
| 6836768 |
Method and apparatus for improved information representation |
| Dec-28-2004 |
A information search and navigation system indexes, categorizes and condenses data from text or other documents. In various embodiments, the invention further can utilize user information goals, document... |
| 6834290 |
System and method for developing a cost-effective reorganization plan for data reorganization |
| Dec-21-2004 |
The invention is a reorganization planning system having a reorganization planner, a database management system, and one or more database files. The reorganization planner communicates with the database... |
| 6834288 |
Content-based similarity retrieval system for image data |
| Dec-21-2004 |
An image retrieval system for retrieving image similarities from a database is proposed. The image retrieval system uses a universal query mechanism (UQM) to locate statistically silent common features... |
| 6834281 |
Method and apparatus to support multi-node direct access to file system data |
| Dec-21-2004 |
Disclosed is a method for supporting coherent multi-node access to file system data. The method can be employed in a network having first and second nodes coupled to each other via a first communication... |
| 6834279 |
Method and system for inclusion hash joins and exclusion hash joins in relational databases |
| Dec-21-2004 |
A method, system and apparatus for performing an inclusion hash join and an exclusion hash join using a hash join are provided. The inner and outer tables are transposed to left and right tables, respectively.... |
| 6834278 |
Transformation-based method for indexing high-dimensional data for nearest neighbour queries |
| Dec-21-2004 |
We disclose a transformation-based method for indexing high-dimensional data to support similarity search. The method, iDistance, partitions the data into clusters either based on some clustering strategies... |
| 6834277 |
Normalized transaction processing for search engine |
| Dec-21-2004 |
An apparatus and method for transaction processing for a search transaction is disclosed. Search queries from users are received by an intermediate computing device. Each search query includes a user address... |
| 6834276 |
Database system and method for data acquisition and perusal |
| Dec-21-2004 |
A data acquisition and perusal system and method including a database selection module, a database index generator module and a search module. The database selection module enables selection of a plurality... |
| 6832350 |
Organizing and categorizing hypertext document bookmarks by mutual affinity based on predetermined affinity criteria |
| Dec-14-2004 |
An apparatus, program product, and method utilize a "bookmark affinity" to facilitate organizing by mutual affinity stored storage location addresses, or "bookmarks," each for a given hypertext document.... |
| 6832220 |
Method and apparatus for file searching, accessing file identifiers from reference page |
| Dec-14-2004 |
Given a destination(s) and search criteria, the destination(s) is searched to identify files that satisfy the search criteria. For each such file, a file identifier (such a uniform resource locator (URL))... |
| 6832216 |
Method and system for mining association rules with negative items |
| Dec-14-2004 |
By introducing the concept of negation into an association rule, the number of combinations of items, serving as candidates of the association rule containing negative items, becomes enormous for mining.... |
| 6831663 |
System and process for automatically explaining probabilistic predictions |
| Dec-14-2004 |
The system and method of the present invention automatically assigns "scores" to the predictor/variable value pairs of a conventional probabilistic model to measure the relative impact or influence of... |
| 6829668 |
System for finding data related to an example datum on two electronic devices |
| Dec-7-2004 |
A system and method for finding items related to an example item or a set of example items in a low processing power device with limited storage are provided. The system comprises relationship agents,... |
| 6829623 |
Method and system for managing multiple database storage units |
| Dec-7-2004 |
The system manages at least a database in multiple database storage units, and the database is duplicated for redundancy. The system maintains the database redundancy for security. The system enables the... |
| 6829622 |
Apparatus and method for mobile device synchronization |
| Dec-7-2004 |
Many portable computing devices include data based applications such as schedules, contact managers, and the like, which can be synchronized with another computing device, such as a desktop computer, whereby... |
| 6829621 |
Automatic determination of OLAP cube dimensions |
| Dec-7-2004 |
Means and a computerized method for determining variable dimensions for a multi-dimensional database table, whereby the database table also comprises at least one pre-defined measure dimension for storing... |
| 6829616 |
Method, system, and program for implementing a database trigger |
| Dec-7-2004 |
Provided is a method, system, and program for implementing a database trigger. Upon detecting a trigger event, a determination is made of at least one row in a base table affected by the trigger event.... |
| 6829610 |
Scalable storage system supporting multi-level query resolution |
| Dec-7-2004 |
A massively scalable architecture for providing a highly reliable storage system that is capable of handling hundreds of millions of users and tens of billions of files. The system includes one or more... |
| 6829607 |
System and method for facilitating user input by automatically providing dynamically generated completion information |
| Dec-7-2004 |
The system and method of the present invention automatically provides dynamically generated completion information for facilitating user input of email addresses or contact information. This completion... |
| 6829605 |
Method and apparatus for deriving logical relations from linguistic relations with multiple relevance ranking strategies for information retrieval |
| Dec-7-2004 |
A method and apparatus are provided for improving the precision of information retrieval systems that use logical form searching techniques. Under one embodiment of the invention, several logical form... |
| 6829604 |
Rules analyzer system and method for evaluating and ranking exact and probabilistic search rules in an enterprise database |
| Dec-7-2004 |
A rules analyzer system and method is provided for an enterprise system to evaluate and rank exact and probabilistic search rules for searching a computer database of records according to the efficiency... |
| 6829600 |
Merge delete statement for database operations |
| Dec-7-2004 |
Conditional functionality is provided for database merge operations. A merge operation, for merging data from a source to a destination, involves performing a default operation for each source record.... |
| 6829599 |
System and method for improving answer relevance in meta-search engines |
| Dec-7-2004 |
A user of a meta-search engine submits a query formulated with operators defining relationships between keywords. Information sources are selected for interrogation by the user or by the meta-search engine.... |
| 6826567 |
Registration method and search method for structured documents |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A registration/search method for structured documents where correspondence data is prepared between a fixed-length-string and a string occurrence position within a structured document for all fixed-length-strings... |
| 6826562 |
Method of simplifying and optimizing scalar subqueries and derived tables that return exactly or at most one tuple |
| Nov-30-2004 |
An optimization technique for SQL queries, a program storage device storing the optimization program, and an apparatus for optimizing a query is provided. A query is analyzed to determine whether it includes... |
| 6826558 |
Test generator for database management systems providing tight joins |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A test generator produces a set of database query-language statements comprised of randomly chosen elements for testing one or more database management systems on arbitrary databases. The statements are... |
| 6826557 |
Method and apparatus for characterizing and retrieving query results |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A system and method used to characterize query results and retrieve the query results based on the characterization. An informational resource is queried and query results are received. The filter arguments,... |
| 6826556 |
Techniques for deploying analytic models in a parallel |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for performing data mining applications in a relational database management system. A relational database management system, executed by the computer, manages... |
| 6826555 |
Open format for file storage system indexing, searching and data retrieval |
| Nov-30-2004 |
Data storage and retrieval methods are described in which data is stored in records within a file storage system, and desired records are identified and/or selected by searching index files which map search... |
| 6826554 |
System and method for adaptively configuring a shopping display in response to a recognized customer profile |
| Nov-30-2004 |
An electronic personal shopping system, communicating between a store platform computer and a number of reconfigurable display terminals located throughout a retail facility, each display terminal associated... |
| 6823491 |
System and method for a dynamically integrated search engine |
| Nov-23-2004 |
A system and method for dynamically integrating a site specific search engine. In one embodiment, a hidden HTML tag is used on web pages to identify the site specific search engine for the web site. When... |
| 6823346 |
Collaborative workload management responsive to a late running work unit |
| Nov-23-2004 |
A collaborative workload management system comprises a workload scheduler co-operable with a schedule to submit work units for processing on a computer system according to the schedule; and a workload... |
| 6823344 |
File manager system providing faster and more efficient interactive user access to files in computer displays |
| Nov-23-2004 |
A computer controlled user interactive display system having the customary provision of user access to the files stored therein through the display of a plurality of interactive objects which may be icons... |
