| 6898611 |
Declarative pinning |
| May-24-2005 |
A system and method is provided for efficiently pinning references to the managed heap. The system and method allow for references to managed objects to be declared as pinned during a call to unmanaged... |
| 6889231 |
Asynchronous information sharing system |
| May-3-2005 |
Techniques for sharing information in a wide variety of contexts allows both an explicit capture process and an implicit capture process to add information items to a staging area. An information sharing... |
| 6882441 |
Automated typesetting system |
| Apr-19-2005 |
An automated typesetting system is disclosed for use in the production of commercially-printed products, such as engraved, embossed, or lithographed letterhead, envelopes, business cards, and the like.... |
| 6871163 |
Behavior-based adaptation of computer systems |
| Mar-22-2005 |
Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer program products, for behavior-based adaptation of one or more computer systems. A method in accordance with the invention includes receiving rules that... |
| 6868422 |
Knowledge acquisition in expert systems |
| Mar-15-2005 |
A method of knowledge acquisition for entering data into a computer database in a readily computable format, comprises eliciting a set of data statements using an analysis structure determined from an... |
| 6865581 |
Job analysis system |
| Mar-8-2005 |
A method of performing job analyses and delivering or providing access to the results of the job analyses by creating a list of job requirements and working conditions for each discrete task of a job,... |
| 6862597 |
Printing system |
| Mar-1-2005 |
When a recording medium is set in a slot of a CD-ROM drive, a DVD drive or a smart media drive, a system control section of a printing apparatus controls a display control section to cause a display panel... |
| 6862591 |
Configuration utility |
| Mar-1-2005 |
A telephone caller account management system is disclosed. The system includes a server computer having a customer account database created therein and a workstation in communication with the server computer.... |
| 6862590 |
Converting expressions to execution plans |
| Mar-1-2005 |
Methods, systems, and computer program products for converting a single expression referencing multiple branches within a hierarchical schema into multiple expressions referencing a single branch of the... |
| 6862588 |
Hybrid parsing system and method |
| Mar-1-2005 |
A system and method are provided for parsing a markup file. The present system includes a hybrid parser that employs both a lightweight parser and a heavy weight parser to parse a markup file. The lightweight... |
| 6859809 |
Processing edit decision list data |
| Feb-22-2005 |
A processing system for processing data representing edit decision lists having edit decisions with edit data, representing the type of edit to take place, and frame range data, representing the frames... |
| 6845382 |
Pet identification system and method |
| Jan-18-2005 |
A system and method for identification and retrieval of lost pets such as dogs. The system includes methods to obtain accurate noseprints either by chemical transfer system or with closeup photography... |
| 6842761 |
Full-text relevancy ranking |
| Jan-11-2005 |
A method and system for ranking relevancy of metadata associated with media on a computer network, such as multimedia and streaming media, include categorizing the metadata into sets of metadata. The categories... |
| 6839718 |
Configurable persistence in applets |
| Jan-4-2005 |
Disclosed are novel methods and apparatus for providing configurable persistence in applets. In an embodiment, an apparatus for persisting data is disclosed. The apparatus includes: a persistence manager... |
| 6829619 |
Information providing server |
| Dec-7-2004 |
An information providing server is connected via the Internet to a mediation server and a reference terminal. The mediation server, when receiving a request for searching a home page, request the server... |
| 6829570 |
Oilfield analysis systems and methods |
| Dec-7-2004 |
An oilfield data analysis system is based on a four-tier software model which includes a "shared earth model" and a federation of "directory services". The first tier is a universal graphical user interface... |
| 6826569 |
Method for identifying patterns |
| Nov-30-2004 |
The method identifies repeating patterns in sequential event streams, in which each event (A1, B, C, D, A2) is of a pre-determined event type (A, B, C, D) and occurs at a specified position within an event... |
| 6823347 |
Propagating commit times |
| Nov-23-2004 |
A method and mechanism for propagating commit times between a plurality of database servers is provided. A database server maintains a set of one or more values that indicate which timestamps have been... |
| 6820096 |
Smart calendar |
| Nov-16-2004 |
The idea of this invention is to be able to create an external calendar that is connected to the Internet which can provide instant copies of the calendar, rewrite information on one calendar to another,... |
| 6820094 |
Computer-based document management system |
| Nov-16-2004 |
A computer-based electronic document and/or paper-based document management application program. The program provides an efficient way to automatically import, index, categorize, store, search, retrieve,... |
| 6820091 |
Dynamic buffer allocation |
| Nov-16-2004 |
An automatic tuning of the assignment of data sets of an application program to the buffer pools in the main storage is provided. Buffer pool usage statistics data are generated including a performance... |
| 6819785 |
Image reporting method and system |
| Nov-16-2004 |
A method and system are provided to report the findings of an expert's analysis of image data. The method and system are based on a reporting system that forms the basis of an image management system that... |
| 6816868 |
Database system |
| Nov-9-2004 |
A database system that accommodates any type of phenomenon or thing, with a simple table structure and an extremely small-scale program. Category identification information of the content to be registered,... |
| 6816849 |
Advanced internet interface |
| Nov-9-2004 |
An Internet interface is disclosed for tailoring of a web page to an individual user without requiring a user to disclose information that specifically identifies the user. The interface includes a user... |
| 6813622 |
Media storage and retrieval system |
| Nov-2-2004 |
A system for the management of relational information between media sources, which includes a plurality of procedures to set and query the information. Relations are established either via interaction... |
| 6810404 |
Computer-based document management system |
| Oct-26-2004 |
A computer-based electronic document and/or paper-based document management application program. The program provides an efficient way to automatically import, index, categorize, store, search, retrieve,... |
| 6810401 |
Automated configuration system and method |
| Oct-26-2004 |
An automated configuration system (and method) is provided for facilitating the configuration of desired products, services, or other assemblages that require users to gather and assimilate disparate knowledge... |
| 6810399 |
Property extensions |
| Oct-26-2004 |
The present invention relates to a repository which stores properties of database objects. The repository includes a first store for storing a number of predetermined properties, and a second store for... |
| 6807518 |
Method for analyzing product information |
| Oct-19-2004 |
A method for analyzing vehicle information. The method utilizes a multi-dimensional relational database or a data cube and On Line Analytical Processing technology to integrate information which is acquired... |
| 6799186 |
SLA monitor calendar buffering |
| Sep-28-2004 |
The invention provides a method for increasing the efficiency of accessing interdependent data by caching the relevant data in multiple cache buffers. A user may input a preference for an amount of a first... |
| 6795825 |
Database querying system and method |
| Sep-21-2004 |
A database querying system to facilitate the retrieval of desired data from a database including information categories, object data items, a processor assembly responsive to a user query, a relationship... |
| 6792433 |
Indexing interleaved media data |
| Sep-14-2004 |
By providing an index that stores information about how to access each grouping of elements in an interleaved data stream and each element within each grouping, random access to each element in the interleaved... |
| 6789092 |
Status monitoring system |
| Sep-7-2004 |
A method is described for use with a server serving requested records among a multiplicity of records, and with a predetermined list of record identifiers, and with a first file containing information... |
| 6789090 |
Virtual network displaying system |
| Sep-7-2004 |
A network management system for managing a computer network in which media switching type infrastructures and media sharing type infrastructures are combined coexistently includes a database destined for... |
| 6785688 |
Internet streaming media workflow architecture |
| Aug-31-2004 |
A method and system for utilizing metadata to search for media, such as multimedia and streaming media, includes searching for the media, receiving results, extracting metadata associated with the media,... |
| 6779151 |
Storing objects in a spreadsheet |
| Aug-17-2004 |
A spreadsheet application provides a rich programming and modeling environment. The spreadsheet application of the present invention does this by recognizing a new "object" data type in addition to the... |
| 6778994 |
Pharmacovigilance database |
| Aug-17-2004 |
A system and method for developing a pharmacovigilance database from source data and reference data. The unedited source data contains verbatim terms. The method includes parsing source data into a relational... |
| 6775680 |
High level assembler metamodel |
| Aug-10-2004 |
A method of and a system for processing an enterpise an application request on an end user application and an application server. This is accomplished by initiating the application request on the end user... |
| 6772174 |
Data administration method |
| Aug-3-2004 |
A method is disclosed for administrating large amounts are of data being associated with a spatial entity. The data are organised in layers of data having a mutual relation, primarily defining rules for... |
| 6772162 |
Lease renewal service |
| Aug-3-2004 |
In accordance with methods and systems consistent with the present invention, a lease manager is provided for managing leases between clients and other network services. To use the lease manager, a client... |
| 6771801 |
Adaptable pre-designed photographic storyboard |
| Aug-3-2004 |
A photograph album system dynamically rearranges a template for a photograph album based on images supplied by a user. The photograph album system also allows the user to edit an existing album template... |
| 6762860 |
Network photograph service system |
| Jul-13-2004 |
In a network photograph service which provides a digital photograph service on a network, a workload on a user to input a registration ID needed upon viewing an image is reduced. In a registration ID input... |
| 6757688 |
Enhancement for multi-lingual record processing |
| Jun-29-2004 |
Customer record systems for multinational companies advantageously store both Latin character set (language of the database user) and customer-local language forms of the information so that mailings to... |
| 6757684 |
Network-based photosharing architecture |
| Jun-29-2004 |
A method and system for providing a network-based photosharing service is disclosed. The photosharing service includes a central photosharing site having a server, and a plurality of peer nodes each containing... |
| 6754675 |
Image retrieval system |
| Jun-22-2004 |
An image retrieval system contains a database with a large number of images. The system retrieves images from the database that are similar to a query image entered by the user. The images in the database... |
| 6754237 |
ISDN call processing |
| Jun-22-2004 |
Method and apparatus for setting up a connection between a first terminal and a second terminal over an Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) link having one or more bearer channels that allow a user-selected... |
| 6751630 |
Integrated multiple biomedical information sources |
| Jun-15-2004 |
Biomedical equipment data records for a medical institution are stored in a database and integrated with other information sources within and external to the institution. The equipment data may include... |
| 6748400 |
Data access system and method |
| Jun-8-2004 |
The disclosed system, method, and apparatus accesses a secure database containing information needed for minimizing injury, saving lives, and protecting property. Included in the secure database is information... |
| 6748399 |
Performance-based expert witnessing |
| Jun-8-2004 |
DNA scientific evidences include analysis fact, principles, theories, and underlying data. Courtroom admissibility of DNA scientific evidence requires courts to scrutinize their quality and suitability.... |
| 6745190 |
Member management system |
| Jun-1-2004 |
In a member managing system including a plurality of store terminals provided to a plurality of stores, respectively, in which customers purchase a product and a server for managing member information... |
