| 6985895 |
Performing spreadsheet-like calculations in a database system |
| Jan-10-2006 |
A method and system for performing spreadsheet-like operations in a database system is described herein. As explained, a database language is extended to introduce new clauses ("spreadsheet-like clauses"),... |
| 6985893 |
Usage based strength between related help topics and context based mapping thererof in a help information retrieval system |
| Jan-10-2006 |
An information retrieval system allows a user to navigate through a plurality of informational items for a desired informational item, and upon selection of an informational item, presents other informational... |
| 6985887 |
Apparatus and method for authenticated multi-user personal information database |
| Jan-10-2006 |
A method of assuring integrity of a personal information in a data base containing personal information provided by multiple users uses in various embodiments physiological identifiers associated with... |
| 6985325 |
Updateable centralized data position information storage system |
| Jan-10-2006 |
A method of centralized data position information storage comprising the steps of arranging a byte stream of data into partitioned logical data, providing an updateable centralized storage area being operable... |
| 6983362 |
Configurable fault recovery policy for a computer system |
| Jan-3-2006 |
Computer systems and methods of data processing are disclosed in which fault/event management is carried out in accordance with a configurable fault recovery policy. In addition, computer systems and methods... |
| 6983272 |
System and method for influencing a position on a search result list generated by a computer network search engine |
| Jan-3-2006 |
A system and method for enabling information providers using a computer network such as the Internet to influence a position for a search listing within a search result list generated by an Internet search... |
| 6983269 |
Apparatus for indirect directory searches and method therefor |
| Jan-3-2006 |
A system and method for performing an indirect directory search is implemented. In the indirect search, entry attributes that reference other objects may selectively be searched. An attribute syntax for... |
| 6981217 |
System and method of obfuscating data |
| Dec-27-2005 |
A system and method of generating index information for electronic documents. The system includes a client, one or more information retrieval (IR) engines, such as a search engine, which are each in communication... |
| 6981001 |
Method and systems for default mapping mechanization |
| Dec-27-2005 |
Methods and systems are provided for acquiring and assembling customer facility location data from multiple sources. The customer facility location data is subsequently used for the automated dispatching... |
| 6980995 |
Method, computer program product, and system for automatically generating a hierarchial database schema report to facilitate writing application code for accessing hierarchial databases |
| Dec-27-2005 |
A database definition, logical database view, extended field definition and control statement information are accessed to build an in-memory representation of selective information contained therein. Utilizing... |
| 6980986 |
System and method for bookmark set search and execution refinement |
| Dec-27-2005 |
The refinement of existing search output. The present invention further improves upon the prior art in that: (1) it provides a means for employing the automation of the selection process; (2) it further... |
| 6980985 |
Distributed evalulation of directory queries using a topology cache |
| Dec-27-2005 |
A technique for performing query evaluation on distributed directories utilizes the creation of a "topology cache" defining the hierarchical relationship between the various directory servers (i.e., identifying... |
| 6980981 |
Method, system, and program for selecting a join order for tables subject to a join operation |
| Dec-27-2005 |
Provided are a method, system, and program for selecting a join order for tables subject to a join operation. An estimation is made of a join cost to perform joins on permutations of at least two of the... |
| 6980980 |
Summary-detail cube architecture using horizontal partitioning of dimensions |
| Dec-27-2005 |
A database architecture and method for processing data in a multidimensional database, including performing Web usage analysis. A summary cube contains the members of an upper level of a dimension and... |
| 6980979 |
Method and apparatus for customizing Java API implementations |
| Dec-27-2005 |
A method and system is provided for customizing Java API implementations. A plurality of class files is obtained, wherein the class files are capable of being used together to provide a plurality of functional... |
| 6978275 |
Method and system for mining a document containing dirty text |
| Dec-20-2005 |
A method and system for mining a document containing dirty text. Dirty text is removed or replaced and the document is processed using a variety of text mining techniques. In one embodiment, dirty text... |
| 6978274 |
System and method for dynamically evaluating latent concepts in unstructured documents |
| Dec-20-2005 |
A system and method for dynamically evaluating latent concepts in unstructured documents is disclosed. A multiplicity of concepts are extracted from a set of unstructured documents into a lexicon. The... |
| 6978261 |
Using database management system's infrastructure to invoke a stored procedure for creating and preparing a database application |
| Dec-20-2005 |
Using a database management system's own infrastructure to invoke a stored procedure for creating and preparing a database application. The stored procedure automates the pre-compile, compile, linker,... |
| 6978260 |
System and method for storing data |
| Dec-20-2005 |
The present invention is directed to a system and method for storing a composite table of data. The invention involves storing a set of initial fields in an initial table, with each field having a plurality... |
| 6976018 |
Method and apparatus to search for information |
| Dec-13-2005 |
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... |
| 6976015 |
Method for extracting data from a relational database using a reduced query |
| Dec-13-2005 |
A database manager and a corresponding method for having a database manager extract information from a relational database having, e.g., a star configuration (i.e. having a hub table and related so-called... |
| 6976014 |
Mediate software tool applicable to server for access to a SQL database |
| Dec-13-2005 |
A mediate software tool for access to a SQL database is applicable to a server for expanding the capacity of a SQL engine so as to service more people simultaneously. The mediate software tool comprises... |
| 6973467 |
Table format data presenting method, inserting method, deleting method, and updating method |
| Dec-6-2005 |
A method to perform the insertion, deletion and updating of data in table-format data quickly and appropriately. A CPU 12 accepts a record number as a subscript, generates a subscript conversion array... |
| 6973458 |
Scheme for constructing database for user system from structured documents using tags |
| Dec-6-2005 |
A scheme for constructing a database in a user system, which can automatically store those portions of the structured documents which contain important contents without exerting a burden on the user is... |
| 6973450 |
Method and system for searching information |
| Dec-6-2005 |
A method and system for enabling a user to search stored information by providing a user with a printed search request form. The search request form includes information relating to a search request and... |
| 6970890 |
Method and apparatus for data recovery |
| Nov-29-2005 |
A method for recovering data in a storage device is provided in which information related to a first data structure is defined with a plurality of copies of a second data structure and the information... |
| 6970885 |
Method and system for enabling training of field service personnel and field service of machines |
| Nov-29-2005 |
A method and system are disclosed for enabling training of field service personnel such as field engineers and field service of machines such as medical diagnostic machines, e.g., CT, MRI, and x-ray machines.... |
| 6970874 |
Populating data cubes using calculated relations |
| Nov-29-2005 |
The current invention discloses methods for transforming a set of relations into multidimensional data cubes. A syntheses process is disclosed that dynamically and with minimal user input eliminates ambiguities... |
| 6970861 |
Web-based system and method for engineering project design |
| Nov-29-2005 |
A system and method of engineering project design using a real-time interface with a global computer network comprises a database for approved engineering specific Universal Record Locator (URL) links... |
| 6968334 |
Method and business process to maintain privacy in distributed recommendation systems |
| Nov-22-2005 |
A distributed recommendation system and method are disclosed that provides greater privacy for the user's private data. The method distributes the tasks of a recommendation system between wireless devices... |
| 6968331 |
Method and system for improving data quality in large hyperlinked text databases using pagelets and templates |
| Nov-22-2005 |
A computing system and method clean a set of hypertext documents to minimize violations of a Hypertext Information Retrieval (IR) rule set. Then, the system and method performs an information retrieval... |
| 6968330 |
Database query optimization apparatus and method |
| Nov-22-2005 |
A database query optimizer processes an expression in a database query, and generates therefrom an operand list and a corresponding truth table that may be represented by a list of binary characters, where... |
| 6965886 |
System and method for analyzing and utilizing data, by executing complex analytical models in real time |
| Nov-15-2005 |
A system and method for collecting, filtering, analyzing, distributing and effectively utilizing highly relevant events (such as key business events) in real time, from huge quantities of data. The present... |
| 6963886 |
Storing data items on a data carrier |
| Nov-8-2005 |
The invention provides storing data items on a data carrier provided with a file system using sectors, wherein a data file is provided representing a data item, the data file being composed of blocks of... |
| 6963876 |
System and method for searching extended regular expressions |
| Nov-8-2005 |
A system and method for searching extended regular expressions. The system enables users to submit searches for extended regular expressions. The searches may be arbitrarily complex. Searches may also... |
| 6963864 |
Human resources information internet accessible database |
| Nov-8-2005 |
A database of subscriber data includes employee data for a plurality of employees and is correlated to a plurality of employee attributes. A query from a specific subscriber includes at least one desired... |
| 6961727 |
Method of automatically generating and disbanding data mirrors according to workload conditions |
| Nov-1-2005 |
A method of automatically generating and decommissioning mirrors of data contained in physical storage volumes in computer system is disclosed. Physical storage volumes and portions of volumes are monitored... |
| 6959306 |
Methods for dynamically accessing, processing, and presenting data acquired from disparate data sources |
| Oct-25-2005 |
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... |
| 6959305 |
Unique identification of SQL cursor occurrences in a repetitive, nested environment |
| Oct-25-2005 |
A cursor query identifier is defined to uniquely identify cursors in a relational database system that supports nested routine invocation. The identifier includes a cursor nesting level value that corresponds... |
| 6959295 |
System and method for providing news updates |
| Oct-25-2005 |
A system and method for providing news relating to a specified subject to a subscriber, wherein a plurality of Web sites relating to a category to which the specified subject relates is selected, the relevancy... |
| 6957313 |
Memory matrix and method of operating the same |
| Oct-18-2005 |
An apparatus and method for storing, manipulating, processing, and transferring data in a memory matrix (105). The matrix (105) includes a number of multi-ported memory devices (250)... |
| 6957225 |
Automatic discovery and use of column correlations in tables |
| Oct-18-2005 |
Methods are provided for automatically discovering correlations between values in columns of tables. A set of significantly correlated columns is identified by identifying correlated columns, and by determining... |
| 6957222 |
Optimizing an outer join operation using a bitmap index structure |
| Oct-18-2005 |
A method, computer program and database system are disclosed for performing an outer join of at least a first table T1 and a second table T2. The join has join conditions. Each of the tables has an associated... |
| 6957213 |
Method of utilizing implicit references to answer a query |
| Oct-18-2005 |
A method of utilizing implicit references to answer a query includes receiving segments of text, wherein individual segments have elements. Implicit references are inferred between elements of the segments.... |
| 6957210 |
Optimizing an exclusion join operation using a bitmap index structure |
| Oct-18-2005 |
A method, computer program and database system are disclosed for performing an exclusion join of at least a first table T1 and a second table T2, where each of the tables has an associated Star... |
| 6957209 |
Sizing servers for database management systems via user defined workloads |
| Oct-18-2005 |
Methods for determining database management system server hardware requirements as a function of user-supplied transactions per second requirements, maximum processor utilization, and server type. Methods... |
| 6954748 |
Remote data access and integration of distributed data sources through data schema and query abstraction |
| Oct-11-2005 |
The present invention generally is directed to a system, method and article of manufacture for accessing data independent of the particular manner in which the data is physically represented. In one embodiment,... |
| 6952701 |
Simultaneous array configuration and store assignment for a data storage system |
| Oct-4-2005 |
A technique for designing a data storage system in which a configuration for memory devices and assignments of data stores to the devices are developed. A data structure having a plurality of nodes is... |
| 6952691 |
Method and system for searching a multi-lingual database |
| Oct-4-2005 |
A system and method of searching a database in which documents of different languages are included. The system includes a synonym or keyword dictionary which is bi-directional and allows for translation... |
| 6950816 |
Built in headroom for a preemptive multitasking operating system sizer |
| Sep-27-2005 |
A method for calculating and recalculating hardware requirements for a database management system computer. One method includes establishing default values for hardware utilization limits such as percent... |
