| 6671706 |
Method and system for editing the content of a web site with a facsimile transmission |
| Dec-30-2003 |
A method of updating a Web site maintained by a web server capable of receiving and responding to requests for information from Web clients and coupled to a computer database comprising the steps of transmitting... |
| 6671703 |
System and method for file transmission using file differentiation |
| Dec-30-2003 |
The present invention provides a system and method for efficiently transferring files using file differentiation. In architecture, the system includes a client device with a device file, a server device... |
| 6671682 |
Method and system for performing tasks on a computer network using user personas |
| Dec-30-2003 |
A plurality of user personas relating to various criteria for performing tasks for a user is created. A policy manager for various criteria, which apply to the user regardless of any one persona among... |
| 6668251 |
Rendering discriminator members from an initial set of result data |
| Dec-23-2003 |
A search is refined, where a user enters a keyword, and a database comprising terms is searched for terms comprising the keyword. Every unique member in the terms is assigned an importance value to produce... |
| 6665837 |
Method for identifying related pages in a hyperlinked database |
| Dec-16-2003 |
A method is described for identifying related pages among a plurality of pages in a linked database such as the World Wide Web. An initial page is selected from the plurality of pages. Pages linked to... |
| 6665664 |
Prime implicates and query optimization in relational databases |
| Dec-16-2003 |
An improved normalization methodology enabling better optimization of SQL queries is described. The normalization methodology effectively handles three-valued SQL search conditions and operates in reduced... |
| 6665661 |
System and method for use in text analysis of documents and records |
| Dec-16-2003 |
Methods and systems are provided that enable text in various sections of data records to be separately catalogued, indexed, or vectorized for analysis in a text visualization and mining system. A text... |
| 6665655 |
Implicit rating of retrieved information in an information search system |
| Dec-16-2003 |
An information retrieval system allows a user to search a database of informational items for a desired informational item, and presents the search result in the form of matching index entries in the order... |
| 6662185 |
Methods and systems for plant performance analysis |
| Dec-9-2003 |
Methods and systems for assessing wide-area performance of a crop variety using a linear mixed model that incorporates geostatistical components and includes parameters for fixed effects, random effects... |
| 6662176 |
Database indexing and rolling storage method for time-stamped normalized event data |
| Dec-9-2003 |
A database indexing and rolling storage method for normalized event data. Indexing of the normalized event database meets the goals of a manageable storage database and fast accessibility. A log reference... |
| 6662175 |
Semantic query optimization using value correlation |
| Dec-9-2003 |
A method and computer system for optimizing queries to a database are disclosed. The database includes a first table (T1) having a primary key (PK) column and a first correlated value column (CV.sub.1)... |
| 6662173 |
Access control of a resource shared between components |
| Dec-9-2003 |
A resource including a plurality of elements, such as a cache memory having a plurality of addressable blocks or ways, is shared between two or more components based on the operation of an access controller.... |
| 6662152 |
Information retrieval apparatus and information retrieval method |
| Dec-9-2003 |
Character data of a word or phrase in a document is designated. Desired data is retrieved from a predetermined database on the basis of the designated character data. One sentence including at least the... |
| 6658437 |
System and method for data space allocation using optimized bit representation |
| Dec-2-2003 |
A database management system that stores and retrieves large data objects (LOBs) from a database storage of a computer system storage device containing a LOB data space having LOB data values of a database.... |
| 6658413 |
Multidimensional database system with intermediate lockable intersections |
| Dec-2-2003 |
A multi-dimensional database includes hierarchical levels. The data is hierarchical, with aggregatable data measures, so that changes in a first intersection will cause changes in other intersections for... |
| 6658409 |
Message data reception device and method for controlling display of message data items and other data items related to the message |
| Dec-2-2003 |
A portable data processing device with a data communication function is provided which includes an antenna, a receiver, a decoder, a RAM for storing a plurality of data items, and a CPU. The CPU retrieves,... |
| 6658403 |
Apparatus and method for managing electronic original data |
| Dec-2-2003 |
An electronic document is registered as electronic original data in an apparatus different from the computer environment of a user. At this time, a registration certificate for uniquely identifying the... |
| 6658402 |
Web client controlled system, method, and program to get a proximate page when a bookmarked page disappears |
| Dec-2-2003 |
A system, method and program of the invention enables an alternate page to be received by a client when the desired page is not found at a Web server. Other pages that were close to the desired page in... |
| 6654742 |
Method and system for document collection final search result by arithmetical operations between search results sorted by multiple ranking metrics |
| Nov-25-2003 |
A method and a system for sorting a specific collection of documents in various orderings, and defining a new ranking metrics by composing multiple ranking to provide a user with highly relevant search... |
| 6654735 |
Outbound information analysis for generating user interest profiles and improving user productivity |
| Nov-25-2003 |
A system for automatically generating user interest profiles and delivering information to users learns a user's interests by monitoring the user's outbound communication streams, i.e., the information... |
| 6654734 |
System and method for query processing and optimization for XML repositories |
| Nov-25-2003 |
A computer program product is provided as a system for querying a repository of XML documents. The data in the XML documents are viewed by a query system as a graph that allows queries on content, structure,... |
| 6651052 |
System and method for data storage and retrieval |
| Nov-18-2003 |
An improved method for creating and searching data files in a database is described. The system and method uses a memory in which is stored a main data file having a plurality of data records each having... |
| 6651050 |
Co-presence data retrieval system which indicates observers of data |
| Nov-18-2003 |
A data retrieval system has a data server, a co-presence server and at least one awareness co-presence client. The data server retrieves at least one data object from among a plurality of data objects... |
| 6651049 |
Interactive mining of most interesting rules |
| Nov-18-2003 |
A method and structure for identifying database association rules includes mining first database association rules, the first database association rules having ratings with respect to a plurality of metrics,... |
| 6651048 |
Interactive mining of most interesting rules with population constraints |
| Nov-18-2003 |
A method and structure for identifying database association rules includes mining first database association rules, the first database association rules having ratings with respect to a plurality of metrics... |
| 6647441 |
Method of maximizing servicing capability of large numbers of I/O descriptors |
| Nov-11-2003 |
The present invention comprises an efficient and portable method and algorithm module for servicing large numbers of IO descriptors which may interface to a large network environment or to a large number... |
| 6647392 |
Method and apparatus for the request brokering of standardized reports |
| Nov-11-2003 |
A report catalog tool and a method for selecting and requesting a report from a catalog of standardized reports. The catalog tool comprises a distributable database having one or more documents, each said... |
| 6647380 |
Production and inventory control system and computer program product for controlling production and inventory |
| Nov-11-2003 |
A production and inventory control system, comprises a first business application system for executing a first business application, a second business application system for executing a second business... |
| 6643643 |
Method of searching or browsing multimedia data and data structure |
| Nov-4-2003 |
A method of searching or browsing multimedia data which can effectively search or browse an image is disclosed. In the present method, the searching or browsing is performed in consideration of at least... |
| 6643638 |
System and method for storing and computing data and functions |
| Nov-4-2003 |
A computer system and method is to store and manage data and to construct application programs. This system accepts uniform input expressions db-terms, by which the stored data can be referenced and user... |
| 6643637 |
Method, system, and program for using a fetch request to make data available to an application program |
| Nov-4-2003 |
Provided is a method, system, program, and data structures for making data available to an application program. A result table is generated including rows corresponding to a subset of rows in a base table... |
| 6643636 |
Optimizing a query using a non-covering join index |
| Nov-4-2003 |
A method, database system and computer program are disclosed for optimizing a SQL query, in which the SQL query includes a WHERE clause and a FROM clause. An evaluation is done to determine whether a non-covering... |
| 6643635 |
Methods for dynamically accessing, processing, and presenting data acquired from disparate data sources |
| Nov-4-2003 |
Methods for acquiring and transforming data for business analysis, and computer readable media having program instructions for enabling the same are provided. One exemplary method identifies a set of data... |
| 6640224 |
System and method for dynamic index-probe optimizations for high-dimensional similarity search |
| Oct-28-2003 |
A system and method for optimizing I/O to low-level index access during bulk-routing through a taxonomy to classify documents, e.g., Web pages, in the taxonomy. In a first optimization, bulk-routing is... |
| 6640218 |
Estimating the usefulness of an item in a collection of information |
| Oct-28-2003 |
A measure of the usefulness of an item in a collection of information with respect to a first set of one or more criteria is determined. A first measure of the usefulness of the item with respect to the... |
| 6636870 |
Storing multidimensional data in a relational database management system |
| Oct-21-2003 |
Techniques are provided which address the problems associated with the conventional approaches for storing multidimensional data in a relational database system. According to technique, the many foreign... |
| 6636853 |
Method and apparatus for representing and navigating search results |
| Oct-21-2003 |
A method and apparatus for representing and navigating search results from a database on a computer system. A graphical user interface is generated to receive user input including a data source to search... |
| 6636849 |
Data search employing metric spaces, multigrid indexes, and B-grid trees |
| Oct-21-2003 |
Systems and methods for generating indexes and fast searching of "approximate", "fuzzy", or "homologous" matches for a large quantity of data in a metric space are provided. The data is indexed to generate... |
| 6636847 |
Exhaustive search system and method using space-filling curves |
| Oct-21-2003 |
A search system and method for one agent or for multiple agents using a space-filling curve provides a way to control one or more agents to cover an area of any space of any dimensionality using an exhaustive... |
| 6636846 |
Method for providing a system maintained materialized functionally dependent column for a database management system |
| Oct-21-2003 |
A mechanism for supporting generated materialized columns without explicitly adding triggers and a check constraint in a database management system (DBMS). When a column affecting the generated materialized... |
| 6633863 |
Database useful for configuring and/or optimizing a system and a method for generating the database |
| Oct-14-2003 |
A method and apparatus provide the ability to generate and use a database representing all solutions (legal combinations) satisfying all constraints of configuration problems on finite domains and/or intervals.... |
| 6631387 |
Apparatus for creating and managing navigation information in a rewritable recording medium |
| Oct-7-2003 |
This invention provides a method for managing navigation data for a rewritable recording medium, which are referred to for control of recording, editing, and reproduction. This method enables access to... |
| 6631367 |
Method and apparatus to search for information |
| Oct-7-2003 |
A method includes querying a plurality of search engines for properties to identify for which content categories the search engines are suited. A query to locate content is communicated to those of the... |
| 6631365 |
Method and apparatus for analyzing the quality of the content of a database |
| Oct-7-2003 |
The present invention provides a method for scoring a searchable electronic catalog such as are in use in e-commerce and industrial materiel systems. Such catalogs are typically configured as databases... |
| 6629145 |
System and method of network independent remote configuration of internet server appliance |
| Sep-30-2003 |
A server appliance self-adaptively configures to the operating parameters of a communications network to enable remote configuration control exclusively via the communications network. The server appliance... |
| 6629100 |
Network-based photosharing architecture for search and delivery of private images and metadata |
| Sep-30-2003 |
A method for executing searches for resources that span more than one private resource repository in a restricted-access resource sharing system is disclosed. The system includes at least one server node... |
| 6629098 |
Method and system for validating data submitted to a database application |
| Sep-30-2003 |
A system and method for validating data entry in which an exception set class is defined and where, during a validation process, each data entry field is reviewed to determined whether or not certain predetermined... |
| 6629097 |
Displaying implicit associations among items in loosely-structured data sets |
| Sep-30-2003 |
A system for discerning and displaying relational structure and conceptual similarities among items in a target group of data items. Root terms are extracted from descriptions of the data items, and are... |
| 6629094 |
System and method for rewriting relational database queries |
| Sep-30-2003 |
A system and method for answering a relational database query is presented. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a database query is received. It is then determined whether that query can... |
| 6629091 |
System and a method for a database search, and a medium for storing database searching programs |
| Sep-30-2003 |
A database search system searches a database through a network. The database reduces the load maintained in a server, and allows users of a client terminal to direct the search condition and to change... |
