| 7006922 |
Stellar icon for data representation and system and method forming the stellar icon |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A stellar icon for representing multivariate data includes finger members corresponding to constituents of a sample with a length corresponding to an expression of an attribute of the constituent. The... |
| 7003730 |
Graphical user interface to build event-based dynamic searches or queries using event profiles |
| Feb-21-2006 |
The present invention generally provides methods, systems and articles of manufacture for programmatically providing a user interface for creating queries. In one embodiment, the graphical user interface... |
| 7003530 |
Algorithm for selecting audio content |
| Feb-21-2006 |
An algorithm for selecting audio content including an audio database, a user preference learning routine, and an audio selection routine. The user preference learning routine is capable of explicitly learning... |
| 7003529 |
System for adaptively identifying data for storage |
| Feb-21-2006 |
The invention is directed to a system for adaptively identifying data to be stored in a document-processing system that includes an identification processor programmed for identifying the existence of... |
| 7003524 |
Polymorphic database |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A database contains an application program operative with data stored in a records data set (RDS) and a categories data set (CDS). The RDS contains an arbitrarily organized series of RDS entries, each... |
| 7003523 |
Configurable software system for automatically storing computer files |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A configurable software system for automatically storing and indexing computer files. Information about the usage characteristics of a computer file are compared against a second set of data, for example,... |
| 7003518 |
Multimedia searching method using histogram |
| Feb-21-2006 |
Disclosed is a multimedia searching method and apparatus that can achieve a high performance and provide a interoperability by defining a histogram using uniformly quantized bin values as a standard histogram,... |
| 7003517 |
Web-based system and method for archiving and searching participant-based internet text sources for customer lead data |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A text mining system for collecting business intelligence about a client, as well as for identifying prospective customers of the client, for use in a lead generation system accessible by the client via... |
| 7003515 |
Consumer item matching method and system |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A method of determining at least one match item corresponding to a source item. A database of multiple items such as songs is created. Each song is also represented by an n-dimensional database vector... |
| 7003508 |
Partitioning data in a parallel database system |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A parallel database system includes multiple processing units and associated storage modules. To achieve even distribution of workload, rows of a table are distributed as evenly as possible across the... |
| 6999974 |
Method and system for improving a text search |
| Feb-14-2006 |
A method and system for improving text searching is disclosed. The method and system provides a network of document relationship and utilizes the network of document relationships to identify the region... |
| 6999973 |
Information gathering facility employing dictionary file containing multiple inquires |
| Feb-14-2006 |
An information gathering facility is provided which includes a dictionary file data structure having a plurality of inquiries for ascertaining state information on a computer system. The plurality of inquiries... |
| 6999970 |
Write-back to cells |
| Feb-14-2006 |
Maintaining data used for performing "what-if" analysis is disclosed. The systems and methods of the invention define an efficient mechanism allowing a user to specify how base values from a database are... |
| 6999962 |
Shared document repository with coupled recommender system |
| Feb-14-2006 |
A web-based shared document repository includes recommender system functions to allow users of the repository to input reviews of documents contained in the repository and to read inputted reviews. The... |
| 6996578 |
Work standard creation system and method, distributed client/server system, and computer program storage medium |
| Feb-7-2006 |
In a work standard creation system, a work related to each work standard is described using an operation phrase representing an operation of the work, an object phrase representing a target of the operation,... |
| 6996577 |
Method and system for automatically grouping objects in a directory system based on their access patterns |
| Feb-7-2006 |
A method and system is provided for grouping one or more interested objects in a directory system based on their corresponding accesses patterns with regard to other objects. The access pattern of an interested... |
| 6996565 |
System and method for dynamically mapping dynamic multi-sourced persisted EJBs |
| Feb-7-2006 |
Dynamic Multi-sourced Persisted Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) instances are dynamically created on a J2EE compliant Application Server to access data contained in multiple data source systems. This Dynamic... |
| 6996560 |
Method, system, and device for typing customers/prospects |
| Feb-7-2006 |
Exemplary embodiments provide a computer-assisted method for typing customers/prospects, including the activities of: refining a survey via bestfit clustering; refining survey results via composition analysis;... |
| 6996555 |
Device searching apparatus |
| Feb-7-2006 |
The present invention provides an apparatus for searching a device on a network. The device searching server acquires a search condition from the device searching client, searches a device on the network... |
| 6995309 |
System and method for music identification |
| Feb-7-2006 |
A system and method that allows users to find a song name, artist and performance without having to proceed through many false results. In one aspect, the system and method use signal matching to produce... |
| 6993538 |
System and process for identifying objects and/or points nearby a given object or point |
| Jan-31-2006 |
A system and process is presented that identifies nearby objects and/or points in relation to a base object or point. An object or point is nearby if it resides within a prescribed area around the base... |
| 6993537 |
Data recovery system |
| Jan-31-2006 |
The invention relates to the recovery of data in a database of database records, following a failure of a media containing said database. The data recovery uses a backup of the database and a log of log... |
| 6993536 |
Information processing apparatus, information delivery system, information processing method, and recording medium |
| Jan-31-2006 |
A multimedia file has a format in which actual data is embedded in a file structure. The multimedia information is assembled in blocks, each composed of a header area and a data area, and has a hierarchical... |
| 6993534 |
Data store for knowledge-based data mining system |
| Jan-31-2006 |
In a data mining system, data is gathered into a data store using, e.g., a Web crawler. The data is classified into entities and stored into underlying vertical and horizontal tables respectively representing... |
| 6993533 |
Relational database drill-down convention and reporting tool |
| Jan-31-2006 |
A system generates linked sets of drill-down-enabled reports of increasing levels of detail from one or more databases. Linking relationships between reports are defined using the query language of the... |
| 6993528 |
Methods and systems for allowing third party client applications to influence implementation of high-level document commands |
| Jan-31-2006 |
A mechanism is described for allowing third party client applications to affect how high-level document commands are implemented in a database. After a high-level document command meeting certain criteria... |
| 6993526 |
Electronic catalog system, catalog data printing method, server, and computer readable recording media recording program used in server |
| Jan-31-2006 |
An electronic catalog system sends catalog address information to a mobile phone through a wireless communication, sends catalog data adaptable to address information selected by the mobile phone to a... |
| 6993180 |
Method and system for automated grouping of images |
| Jan-31-2006 |
A method of automated content-based grouping of digital images without using auxiliary metadata and training data set, comprises the steps of computing a color correlogram from image pixel values for each... |
| 6992786 |
Method and system for online creation and ordering of customized material for printing |
| Jan-31-2006 |
The present invention relates to a method and a system for online creation and ordering of customized material for printing, where each customer at front end, through a computerized interface, participates... |
| 6990504 |
Method and system for transmitting secured electronic documents |
| Jan-24-2006 |
A system and method of filing documents electronically or otherwise where the documents are secured from modification. The security provides proof that the items to be submitted have remained unchanged... |
| 6990502 |
Reviewing cached user-group information in connection with issuing a digital rights management (DRM) license for content |
| Jan-24-2006 |
A computer network has storage devices organized into X levels and storing element-group information. To determine whether an element is a member of any target groups, each target group is validated by... |
| 6990501 |
Method for organizing laboratory information in a database |
| Jan-24-2006 |
The present invention is in the field of database information organization. More specifically, the present invention relates to the organization of laboratory procedure information for use in a database. |
| 6990500 |
Scientific information inquiry-answer system, and a host computer and an inquiring computer therefor |
| Jan-24-2006 |
In a system of this invention, an inquiring computer supplies a host computer with inquiry information indicated open or closed to third parties. The host computer applies inquiry information indicated... |
| 6990499 |
Mapping database users to operating system users in a computer schema |
| Jan-24-2006 |
Described above is a schema extension of the Common Information Model (CIM), designed to model manageable aspects of a database server such as a Structure Query Language (SQL) server. The database schema... |
| 6990497 |
Dynamic streaming media management |
| Jan-24-2006 |
The described subject matter provides for managing and streaming media content. A server/client component accesses a first playlist that is in a native data format. A translator component translates the... |
| 6990496 |
System and method for automated classification of text by time slicing |
| Jan-24-2006 |
For use in an information processing system, there is disclosed a system and method for automatically classifying text. The system comprises a text classifier controller that reads text having one or more... |
| 6990495 |
System and method for finding persons in a corporate entity |
| Jan-24-2006 |
A graphical user interface-based contact information system allows users to see obtain not only contact information in a quick, efficient manner, but also allows users to see organizational charts and... |
| 6990486 |
Systems and methods for discovering fully dependent patterns |
| Jan-24-2006 |
A new form of pattern referred to as a fully dependent pattern or d-pattern is provided. The d-pattern captures dependence among a set of items based on a dependency test. An efficient algorithm is provided... |
| 6990479 |
Communication system and method of non-intrusive performance data polling |
| Jan-24-2006 |
The present invention discloses a communication system including an entire object including multiple objects connected with the networks and storing the object's own data, a database including a polling... |
| 6988180 |
Method and apparatus for lock-free, non-blocking hash table |
| Jan-17-2006 |
A method and apparatus are provided for an efficient lock-free, non-blocking hash table. Under one aspect, a linked list of nodes is formed in the hash table where each node includes a protected pointer... |
| 6988111 |
Mapping between part numbers that are based on different part numbering schemes |
| Jan-17-2006 |
A computer-implemented method for mapping between part numbers that are based on different part numbering schemes includes receiving a first part number associated with an item, the first part number associated... |
| 6988110 |
Storage system class distinction cues for run-time data management |
| Jan-17-2006 |
A data management system has at least one class distinction cue associated with a class of data entities. The class distinction cue comprises data management guidance information and priority information... |
| 6988101 |
Method, system, and computer program product for providing an extensible file system for accessing a foreign file system from a local data processing system |
| Jan-17-2006 |
An extensible file access method for accessing a first foreign file system from a data processing system with a first native file system, said first foreign file system and said first native file system... |
| 6988097 |
Negotiation system and method for electronic commerce |
| Jan-17-2006 |
A search system, an information-providing system and an information search method. "Response information" such as a checkmark for indicating exclusion and a message added by a customer terminal and "additional... |
| 6988096 |
Adaptive content delivery system and method |
| Jan-17-2006 |
The present invention relates to delivering adaptive content to a user via a user output device, typically a computer. In general, user information associated with a particular user is retrieved and activity... |
| 6988095 |
Systems and methods for performing parametric searches |
| Jan-17-2006 |
Systems and methods for parametrically searching databases. Database definitions may be provided by users. Interface definitions may be provided by users. Interfaces may be provided dynamically. |
| 6988093 |
Process for indexing, storage and comparison of multimedia documents |
| Jan-17-2006 |
A method of comparing two multimedia documents includes a three-step registration process. Each document is analyzed to extract concrete or abstract single medium or multimedia elements (meta-segments)... |
| 6987221 |
Auto playlist generation with multiple seed songs |
| Jan-17-2006 |
The present invention relates to systems and/or methods that generate playlist(s) for a library or collection of media items via selecting a plurality of seed items, at least one of which is an undesirable... |
| 6985922 |
Method, apparatus and system for processing compliance actions over a wide area network |
| Jan-10-2006 |
The method, apparatus and system are provided for obtaining information regarding compliance with local laws via client computers to upload information to a centralized server preferably over a wide area... |
| 6985913 |
Electronic book data delivery apparatus, electronic book device and recording medium |
| Jan-10-2006 |
An electronic book device receives from an external delivery source book data representing the contents of a book, a reciter images, for example, of famous persons who read aloud the contents of the book... |
