| 5819267 |
Know-how management apparatus, and method |
| Oct-6-1998 |
A know-how management apparatus that enters a poster of an article of know-how on an item into a list as a consultant for the item, retrieves a consultant from the list when the item is retrieved, and... |
| 5812998 |
Similarity searching of sub-structured databases |
| Sep-22-1998 |
A grouped data base 10 includes a plurality of sub-databases 10A, in which data have been stored, for respective ones of data sets having specific classification data ("male", "female", "annual income... |
| 5809298 |
File server |
| Sep-15-1998 |
The present invention was made in order to provide a file server, wherein a distributing device for storing parts of data to be stored by a server between the server for providing data and a terminal device... |
| 5802518 |
Information delivery system and method |
| Sep-1-1998 |
The secure electronic distribution of research documents over the world wide web to investors who are authorized to receive said research documents. A repository server receives research documents from... |
| 5802510 |
Universal directory service |
| Sep-1-1998 |
A directory system, for use with a communication network and in which a network presence is provided for an entity having attributes, stores the attributes and responds to queries. The attributes may have... |
| 5794231 |
Method for application-program database interface |
| Aug-11-1998 |
The method provides for treating an embedded static SQL program that resides with the CLI application (rather than at the database manager) in an analogous manner to stored procedures. When the CLI application... |
| 5781898 |
Data retrieval condition setting method |
| Jul-14-1998 |
When an operator inputs a unit retrieval condition and a logic symbol, a condition input section stores them in a condition storage section. A condition display section displays them alternately one after... |
| 5778365 |
File management device |
| Jul-7-1998 |
The present invention provides a file management device for managing a file accessed by a plurality of users which comprises setting means for setting a plurality of attribute values related to a particular... |
| 5778357 |
Market information machine |
| Jul-7-1998 |
A computerized data retrieval system, especially for commodity price information databases, having a windowing system which aids a user in creating and revising formal search language queries, a database... |
| 5765154 |
Resource management system |
| Jun-9-1998 |
A resource management system, of the type wherein processes are applied to real resources, which are resources previously input into a computer system that performs information processing, to obtain new... |
| 5761661 |
Data management system and method |
| Jun-2-1998 |
The present invention consists of a data management system having a centrally located host computer, at least one trading partner output data file that communicates with the host computer, a data management... |
| 5737591 |
Database view generation system |
| Apr-7-1998 |
A database view generation system for viewing a result set of data extracted from a database by a query. The database view generation system includes selecting a viewpoint from among at least one field... |
| 5732265 |
Storage optimizing encoder and method |
| Mar-24-1998 |
An encoder and method, such as for use in CD-ROM pre-mastering software, optimizes storage on a computer readable recording medium by eliminating redundant storage of identical data streams for duplicate... |
| 5701464 |
Parameterized bloom filters |
| Dec-23-1997 |
A method and apparatus for determining validity of a key. A bloom filter is updated in a first computer system (e.g. a client system) at periodic intervals by providing the system's requirements of the... |
| 5680614 |
Relational database management system |
| Oct-21-1997 |
In a database management system of the present invention, a trigger definition means which defines activation condition an contents of a triggered operation activated upon execution of updating for a table... |
| 5668987 |
Database system with subquery optimizer |
| Sep-16-1997 |
Database system and methods are described for improving execution speed of database queries (e.g., for decision support) by optimizing execution of nested queries or "subqueries," such as are commonly... |
| 5560006 |
Entity-relation database |
| Sep-24-1996 |
An entity-relation database is disclosed to include a plurality of entity fields containing arrays of data elements, the data elements being related to each other in predefined sets, with each predefined... |
| 5544357 |
Database accelerator |
| Aug-6-1996 |
A hardware accelerator for managing a computer database. The accelerator includes a key memory for storing a map of record key values to record address values, a search processor for searching the key... |
| 5452445 |
Two-pass multi-version read consistency |
| Sep-19-1995 |
The present invention describes a method and apparatus that forces all parts of an update transaction to commit automatically using a two-phase commit. The present invention uses the two-phase commit messages... |
| 5444840 |
Multiple image font processing |
| Aug-22-1995 |
A sequence of documents is delivered to an optical scanner in which each document is scanned to form a digital image representation of the content of the document. In one embodiment, the image representation... |
| 5162992 |
Vector relational characteristical object |
| Nov-10-1992 |
This invention relates to a method of identifying attributes when documents are grouped to form document relationships within a document management system. Document groupings frequently require the identification... |
| 4774657 |
Index key range estimator |
| Sep-27-1988 |
A key estimator estimates the number of keys over a key range defined by key endpoints in an index to a data space. The number of keys in the key range required to be processed for a particular operation... |
| 4758947 |
List processing method and apparatus |
| Jul-19-1988 |
Disclosed is a slave processor (100) for a multiprocessor logic circuit fault simulator. The slave processor has a hardware-based list processor (110) for performing set algebra operations on fault lists... |
| 4531186 |
User friendly data base access |
| Jul-23-1985 |
Data base administrator (10) creates program communication blocks (11), and programmer (12) writes programs (13) using the program communication blocks (PCBs) to store data in bulk storage device (14).... |
| 4099242 |
One-pass general associative search processor |
| Jul-4-1978 |
An apparatus for searching stored data in accordance wit a search specification established by a digital computer. The data is stored in data tracks which form the storing medium on a memory device. The... |
| 7043504 |
System and method for parallel primary and secondary backup reading in recovery of multiple shared database data sets |
| May-9-2006 |
A recovery utility apparatus for expediting recovery time during failure of one or more database data sets is provided. A backup copy restore utility is configured to read and restore a backup copy of... |
| 7043470 |
Method and apparatus for improving querying |
| May-9-2006 |
In a method of improving querying, a plurality of items of information are transformed into a plurality of vectors, where each item of information of the plurality of items of information is mapped to... |
| 7043469 |
Method and system for slow materialization of scrollable cursor result sets |
| May-9-2006 |
The present invention provides a system and a method for materializing records in a result set in response to a query. The computer system comprises a server and a client. The server has a database and... |
| 7039655 |
System and method for providing a digital media supply chain operation system and suite of applications |
| May-2-2006 |
The present invention is directed to an intelligent media router (IMR) for processing media that has been either natively created as data or has been digitized from another source. The IMR comprises a... |
| 7039629 |
Method for inputting data into a system |
| May-2-2006 |
The invention relates to a method for inputting data into a system. In order to make it easier for users to input data, the invention provides that, in response to an input by a user, one or more terms... |
| 7039628 |
Portable health care history information system |
| May-2-2006 |
A portable heath care records system employs a server on which the health care records of participating patients are stored. The patients are issued cards that are inserted into the patient's computer... |
| 7039627 |
Method and apparatus for performing a radix search by selecting one of a valid table and a transition table |
| May-2-2006 |
A method performs a radix search data structure. The method selects a reference table based on a value of a selectable parameter. The reference table includes at least one of a valid reference table and... |
| 7039255 |
Method for searching multimedia using progressive histogram |
| May-2-2006 |
A method of receiving or sending data. The data includes a chart (i.e., a histogram). The chart may be grouped into categories (i.e., bins). The order of the categories in the chart is according to the... |
| 7035911 |
Method and system for community data caching |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A cache module (26) at a client computer (12) controls a cache portion (28) on a storage device (24). The cache module communicates with other cache modules at other clients to... |
| 7035864 |
Hierarchical data-driven navigation system and method for information retrieval |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A data-driven, hierarchical information navigation system and method enable search of sets of documents or other materials by certain common attributes that characterize the materials. The invention includes... |
| 7035861 |
System and methods for providing data management and document data retrieval |
| Apr-25-2006 |
The invention provides a data management device which is well suited to grasp featuring parts from among a huge amount of data, which are capable of enhancing the reliability of extraction and which can... |
| 7035860 |
Trusted access by an extendible framework method, system, article of manufacture, and computer program product |
| Apr-25-2006 |
Appropriate actions are identified and associated with a selected artifact in a framework providing a customized application program. A metamodel is specified for a capture of relevant information pertaining... |
| 7035859 |
Method and system for intra-table referential integrity for relational database systems |
| Apr-25-2006 |
In a relational database management system (RDBMS), a method of processing related records can include receiving a plurality of related records and inserting the plurality of related records into a single... |
| 7035855 |
Process and system for integrating information from disparate databases for purposes of predicting consumer behavior |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A process and system for integrating information stored in at least two disparate databases. The stored information includes consumer transactional information. According to the process and system, at... |
| 7035849 |
Rules analyzer system and method for evaluating and ranking exact and probabilistic search rules in an enterprise database |
| Apr-25-2006 |
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... |
| 7035840 |
Techniques for managing a database system including one or more database servers |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A database system that incorporates numerous features that reduce the total cost of maintaining the database system is provided. That database system includes a database appliance that executes a database... |
| 7032174 |
Automatically adding proper names to a database |
| Apr-18-2006 |
The correct spelling of resolved email names is automatically stored in a custom dictionary. Thereafter, a spell checker will recognize the name during the spell checking process, because the name is stored... |
| 7031963 |
Green ice printout sorting and delivery program |
| Apr-18-2006 |
An apparatus for and method of utilizing an internet terminal coupled to the world wide web to access an existing proprietary data base management system having a dialog-based request format. The user... |
| 7031955 |
Optimization using a multi-dimensional data model |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A system (10) for optimization using multi-dimensional data includes a server (12) that uses a multi-dimensional data model to organize data stored at one or more data storage locations (14).... |
| 7031941 |
Method and system for managing configuration of mechanical equipment |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A method and system is disclosed for maintaining a database of configurations of mechanical equipment. A functional configuration database is established to store functional information about an end item... |
| 7024406 |
Driver and method for processing a database statement |
| Apr-4-2006 |
A method and software for processing a database statement submitted by a client application to a database system is described. A database statement is precompiled based on a string received from the client... |
| 7024401 |
Partition boundary determination using random sampling on very large databases |
| Apr-4-2006 |
A system and method utilizing random sampling for partition analysis on very large databases. The method utilizes a random sampling algorithm that provides results accurate to within a few percentage points... |
| 7024042 |
Word recognition device, word recognition method, and storage medium |
| Apr-4-2006 |
The capacity of a character feature dictionary is reduced, and stored as a feature dictionary. The capacity is reduced by clustering feature vectors in units of columns or rows for character features,... |
| 7020670 |
Document constraint descriptors obtained from user signals indicating attribute-value relations |
| Mar-28-2006 |
Document constraint descriptors are obtained from user signals. User signals are received indicating a set of attribute-value relations that can apply to documents. The user signals are used to obtain... |
| 7020668 |
Device for retaining important data on a preferential basis |
| Mar-28-2006 |
Data files in a storage device are ranked in the ascending order of importance. When the storage capacity of the storage device is insufficient for the addition of a new file, the files are deleted automatically... |
