| 6970844 |
Flow designer for establishing and maintaining assignment and strategy process maps |
| Nov-29-2005 |
A system, method and carrier medium for modeling a Financial Service Organization (FSO) business in a computer software program and for storing the model of the FSO business in a database. An object-oriented... |
| 6968346 |
XML-based system and method for collaborative web-based design and verification of system-on-a-chip |
| Nov-22-2005 |
A computer-based design framework for collaborative design of a product by distributed design team members. The design framework comprises: a virtual database management system, which receives data from... |
| 6968345 |
Technique to enable support for symbolic link access by windows clients |
| Nov-22-2005 |
A widelink directive provides an enhanced level of indirection with respect to a resource, such as a unit of storage, attached to a destination, such as a storage system. The widelink has a scope of indirection... |
| 6968343 |
Methods and systems for integrating process modeling and project planning |
| Nov-22-2005 |
Methods and system consistent with the present invention provide a workflow modeling and project planning integration tool that allows a user to model a business process or workflow, to create and activate... |
| 6968341 |
System and method for post-analyzing, and sequentially visualizing plurality of predefined metrics in a stored dynamic data values associated identifiers within determined time range |
| Nov-22-2005 |
The present invention discloses a method and system for post-analyzing and sequentially viewing metrics for a stored dynamic heterogeneous data space. For example, performance data for a content delivery... |
| 6968340 |
Technique for navigating components of a model having complex relationships |
| Nov-22-2005 |
A technique, system, and computer program for displaying and editing components of data which may have complex many-to-many (i.e. non-hierarchical) relationships, using a program such as a browser. The... |
| 6968337 |
Method and apparatus for identifying an unknown work |
| Nov-22-2005 |
A system for determining an identity of a received work. The system receives audio data for an unknown work. The audio data is divided into segments. The system generates a signature of the unknown work... |
| 6966049 |
Software development tool employing workflows for developing user interactive programs |
| Nov-15-2005 |
A software development tool employing workflows for developing user interactive programs is described. The tool includes means for displaying a workspace on a computer screen, and means for displaying... |
| 6965920 |
Profile responsive electronic message management system |
| Nov-15-2005 |
A system and method for the central specification and management of how messages are distributed to recipients with the steps of: a recipient profile system for entering and storing rules about how to... |
| 6965904 |
Query Service for electronic documents archived in a multi-dimensional storage space |
| Nov-15-2005 |
A method and computer program product for locating data in a system including a plurality of archive units, and answering a query directed to an archive unit. Locating includes broadcasting a query to... |
| 6965895 |
Method and apparatus for analyzing manufacturing data |
| Nov-15-2005 |
A method for data mining information obtained in an integrated circuit fabrication factory ("fab") that includes steps of: (a) gathering data from the fab from one or more of systems, tools, and databases... |
| 6965891 |
Method and mechanism for partition pruning |
| Nov-15-2005 |
A method and system for performing partition pruning for queries that include a non-single table predicate is disclosed. According to an embodiment of the invention, this type of query is processed by... |
| 6964055 |
System and method for communicating using a framework |
| Nov-8-2005 |
A method is provided that includes: receiving, by a framework, a request communicated by a source, the request including an associated functionality. The method also includes integrating, by an abstraction... |
| 6963881 |
Method and system for automated tracing of an agricultural product |
| Nov-8-2005 |
A method and system of tracing an agricultural product relates to recording of at least one of planting information, growing information, harvesting information, chemical information, and weather information... |
| 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... |
| 6963874 |
Web-site performance analysis system and method utilizing web-site traversal counters and histograms |
| Nov-8-2005 |
A data collection system collects statistics related to each visit to each web-page within a web-site. In addition to collecting path information related to traversals to and from each web-page, the system... |
| 6963871 |
System and method for adaptive multi-cultural searching and matching of personal names |
| Nov-8-2005 |
An automated name searching system incorporates an automatic name classifier and a multi-path architecture in which different algorithms are applied based on cultural identity of the query name. The name... |
| 6963865 |
Method system and program product for data searching |
| Nov-8-2005 |
A method and apparatus for searching data to locate a portion identified by a search query. The data may comprise text files in a database. The search query comprises two or more data fragments expected... |
| 6961909 |
System for displaying a hierarchical directory |
| Nov-1-2005 |
A segmented-tree system for web browser display of a selected part of a tree-structured directory of hierarchically-related entities in a computer system. In the segmented-tree design of the present system,... |
| 6961763 |
Automation system for controlling and monitoring devices and sensors |
| Nov-1-2005 |
An architecture for an automation system is disclosed that includes look-up services, a soft-state store, and a publication/subscription eventing component. The look-up services maintain a database of... |
| 6961735 |
Method and a bridge for coupling a server and a client of different object types |
| Nov-1-2005 |
A computer system has clients and servers of different object models, such as SOAP, CORBA and EJB for providing distributed application services. To connect a SOAP client to a CORBA or EJB server, a bridge... |
| 6961733 |
System and method for storing and accessing data in an interlocking trees datastore |
| Nov-1-2005 |
A tree-based datastore comprising a forest of interconnected trees is generated and/or accessed. The tree-based datastore comprises a first tree that depends from a first root node and may include a plurality... |
| 6961732 |
Web based process capability data collection and reporting system |
| Nov-1-2005 |
A system is provided that is accessible through a computer network and is used for collecting and tracking process capability data for manufacturers of parts. The recipient of the parts can input information... |
| 6961730 |
Mapping database file class to operating system file class in a computer schema |
| Nov-1-2005 |
Described herein 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... |
| 6961728 |
System and methods for highly distributed wide-area data management of a network of data sources through a database interface |
| Nov-1-2005 |
Methods and a system that provide a network of data sources in terms of a traditional database schema, convert traditional database queries into network messages, and route those messages to those data... |
| 6961724 |
Method and apparatus for image retrieval |
| Nov-1-2005 |
A method and an apparatus for retrieving images which allows easy retrieval of a desired image from an image database stored in an electronic or optical recording medium or a communication network. As... |
| 6961441 |
Method and apparatus for steganographic embedding of meta-data |
| Nov-1-2005 |
An electronic device, such as a digital camera, includes sensors to acquire subject data, such as an electro-optical image, as well as additional sensors to acquire meta-data such as temperature, humidity,... |
| 6959429 |
System for developing data collection software applications |
| Oct-25-2005 |
A software system for creating new data collection applications for processing input data. User information is provided through a series of screen interfaces to a first program portion, which uses a series... |
| 6959312 |
Fast provisioning of storage in a network of production computers for minimizing inter-customer delay |
| Oct-25-2005 |
A fast provisioning unit is disclosed that contains a basic unit, a duplicating unit and a control unit. The basic unit has a production computer and two or more hard drives each connected to the production... |
| 6959307 |
Process and system for a client object to perform a remote method invocation of a method in a server object |
| Oct-25-2005 |
An adapter is generated by introspecting on the interfaces of an Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) running on a CORBA server. The adapter resides on the Java client-side and contains a remote proxy of the CORBA... |
| 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... |
| 6959301 |
Maintaining and reconstructing the history of database content modified by a series of events |
| Oct-25-2005 |
A method and a system for maintaining the history of database content when the database is modified by a sequence of events, where each event may be one of a load or a load retraction, is provided. The... |
| 6959287 |
Method and system for conducting a target audit in a high volume transaction environment |
| Oct-25-2005 |
A target audit methodology to provide a transaction-based detail of errors in an environment with a high volume of transactions. The primary components comprise a distributed computer network, such as... |
| 6957388 |
Scenario editing device capable of automatically supplementing scenario on the basis of received additional data |
| Oct-18-2005 |
A scenario editing device comprises a scenario supplementing unit supplements a scenario memorized in a scenario memory according to a scenario basic rule memorized in a scenario rule memory when it receives... |
| 6957383 |
System and method for dynamically updating a site map and table of contents for site content changes |
| Oct-18-2005 |
A web site is broken up into main topical content areas. Each area shows a list of content items that the user can link to, displayed using views. A site map and table of contents read these views to determine... |
| 6957231 |
System and method of specifying and editing alt attributes |
| Oct-18-2005 |
A computer implemented method for updating alt attribute values in a data set. The application includes a file server for storing one or more file sets. The server is communicatively coupled to an attribute... |
| 6957226 |
Searching multi-media databases using multi-media queries |
| Oct-18-2005 |
A system and method for generating responsibility vectors associated with multi-media files (e.g., audio and/or video files) is provided. The responsibility vectors are based upon responsibility of mixture... |
| 6957224 |
Efficient retrieval of uniform resource locators |
| Oct-18-2005 |
A system, method and computer program product for providing links to remotely located information in a network of remotely connected computers. The system may or may not include a server providing an interface... |
| 6957221 |
Method for capturing a physically consistent mirrored snapshot of an online database from a remote database backup system |
| Oct-18-2005 |
An online primary database is automatically configured to enable a physically consistent snapshot of the primary database at the secondary database to be uniquely mirrored to a secondary remote database... |
| 6957218 |
Method and system for creating a website for a healthcare provider |
| Oct-18-2005 |
A method and a system for creating websites for healthcare providers contained on a network are provided. Specifically, a healthcare provider such as, for example, a hospital, a nursing home, a practitioner... |
| 6954778 |
System and method for accessing directory service via an HTTP URL |
| Oct-11-2005 |
Information is retrieved from a directory service via a Hyper Text Transport Protocol (HTTP) Universal Resource Locator (URL) query string which is parsed by a diverting module. The diverting module parses... |
| 6954767 |
Server and method for searching for image using image prefetch, designating database and storage devices for searching, and setting retrieval and processing parameters for search |
| Oct-11-2005 |
In an image search server which is connected to databases storing images and to image display terminals and searches the databases in response to a request from any of the image display terminals for displaying... |
| 6954766 |
Systems and methods for organizing and validating data in documents |
| Oct-11-2005 |
The invention relates to systems and methods to validate data in a design document transmitted over a computer network from a design organization to a contract manufacturer for manufacturing a product.... |
| 6954758 |
Building predictive models within interactive business analysis processes |
| Oct-11-2005 |
A Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system that dynamically builds predictive models. The system is used by business users who are unfamiliar with the art of data mining. A model-building mechanism... |
| 6954749 |
Methods and apparatus for identifying related nodes in a directed graph having named arcs |
| Oct-11-2005 |
The invention provides methods for identifying related data in a directed graph (e.g., an RDF data set). A "first" step—though the steps are not necessarily executed in sequential order—includes... |
| 6954543 |
Automated discovery, assignment, and submission of image metadata to a network-based photosharing service |
| Oct-11-2005 |
An automated metadata discovery, assignment, and submission system is disclosed. The system includes a photosharing service coupled to a network through a server, where the server stores metadata fields.... |
| 6952708 |
Method and system for using a sync key |
| Oct-4-2005 |
A method and system for synchronization of data stores is described. A synchronization initiator sends a sync key to a synchronization partner requesting to synchronize to some checkpoint. An integer is... |
| 6952707 |
Efficient sequence number generation in a multi-system data-sharing environment |
| Oct-4-2005 |
A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and data structure for use in efficiently generating sequence numbers in a multi-system data-sharing environment. Sequence number assignment logic, performed... |
| 6952705 |
Method, system and program product that utilize a hierarchical conceptual framework to model an environment containing a collection of items |
| Oct-4-2005 |
A method, system and program product are disclosed for enabling a user to construct a conceptual hierarchical framework representing a virtual or physical environment. The framework may then be populated... |
