| 6574625 |
Real-time bookmarks |
| Jun-3-2003 |
The present invention generally provides a method, article of manufacture and apparatus for selecting and displaying real-time bookmarks. Bookmarks are configured and displayed according to predetermined... |
| 6567824 |
Integrated inventory management system |
| May-20-2003 |
A method is provided for inventory management which includes an initial step of receiving a customer request for an inventory item and then generating a table or menu of one or more inventory items that... |
| 6564263 |
Multimedia content description framework |
| May-13-2003 |
A framework is provided for describing multimedia content and a system in which a plurality of multimedia storage devices employing the content description methods of the present invention can interoperate.... |
| 6564227 |
Customer support system |
| May-13-2003 |
A customer support system uses information concerning device located at customer and supports the customer. A customer support center collects customer information using a communication line, and stores... |
| 6563769 |
Virtual jukebox |
| May-13-2003 |
A collection management system, or virtual jukebox, is provided for a collection of recordings that is independent of the physical media upon which the material is recorded. The system forms a part of... |
| 6553379 |
Address data storage device |
| Apr-22-2003 |
The present invention relates to an address storage device for a vehicle, particularly a motor vehicle, with several apparatuses using at least parts of address data, the address storage device comprising... |
| 6553366 |
Analytic logical data model |
| Apr-22-2003 |
A method, apparatus (1), and article of manufacture for performing data mining applications (110) in a relational database management system (114). An analytic logic data model (LDM) provides logical entity... |
| 6546404 |
Data migration tool |
| Apr-8-2003 |
A data migration tool cooperates with a script file defining, for one or more products, one or more criteria for files to be captured to a backup store from a machine to be migrated, an indication of where... |
| 6546399 |
Multimedia search system |
| Apr-8-2003 |
A database search system that retrieves multimedia information in a flexible, user friendly system. The search system uses a multimedia database consisting of text, picture, audio and animated data. That... |
| 6539400 |
Information gathering and personalization techniques |
| Mar-25-2003 |
A portable device comprising a processor, an amount of memory, and one or more environmental sensors is carried about the body, and periodically data is recorded from the sensors. When connected to a personal... |
| 6532077 |
Image processing system |
| Mar-11-2003 |
A plurality of original documents which are fed in sequence by a document feeder are prescanned. The prescanned image is stored, and a plurality of original document images are previewed on the basis of... |
| 6529918 |
File system |
| Mar-4-2003 |
According to the a processing command for the copy function or the like, the copying machine sends the processing conditions like the user ID or the coping density as appended data along with the document... |
| 6523021 |
Business directory search engine |
| Feb-18-2003 |
A system and method for efficiently searching directory listing information to obtain more relevant results is provided. In a computer system running a computing application, it is advantageous to provide... |
| 6519618 |
Real estate database search method |
| Feb-11-2003 |
The present invention provides a method of searching a plurality of MLS databases including accessing a plurality of MLS databases, resolving an array of schemas from the plurality of MLS databases, establishing... |
| 6519608 |
Ceramic design transfer process |
| Feb-11-2003 |
A method of hand painting ceramic objects as disclosed, which allows user selection of an object to be painted and a design to be applied. A composite three dimensional image is formed of the design, as... |
| 6519607 |
Image driven operating system |
| Feb-11-2003 |
A method of controlling a computing device, comprising the steps of: capturing an image; electronically comparing the captured image to at least one stored image having a command associated therewith,... |
| 6519600 |
Computerized asset management system |
| Feb-11-2003 |
The invention concerns a system for managing resources, which can take the form of (a) computer-compatible information, such as data files and programs, and (b) non-computer-compatible information, such... |
| 6519599 |
Visualization of high-dimensional data |
| Feb-11-2003 |
Visualization of high-dimensional data sets is disclosed, particularly the display of a network model for a data set. The network, such as a dependency or a Bayesian network, has a number of nodes having... |
| 6516323 |
Telecom karaoke system |
| Feb-4-2003 |
A telecom karaoke system is configured by linking a musical data receiving terminal for receiving from a host base station necessary data for musical performance and a WWW page access terminal for accessing... |
| 6513047 |
Management of user-definable databases |
| Jan-28-2003 |
A method and computer program product for managing and manipulating user-defined and system databases in a computing system. A database interface, which can be a graphical user interface, accesses a database... |
| 6507847 |
History database structure for Usenet |
| Jan-14-2003 |
A database structure is disclosed that is particularly suited to Usenet servers. The database is thread-hot, synchronized, and highly parallel. In addition, the database structure enables high speed read/write... |
| 6505186 |
Method of managing feature data |
| Jan-7-2003 |
The present invention offers a feature data management method which provides data indicating created time and destroyed time of geographic object for feature data, thereby increasing the speed and facilitating... |
| 6502107 |
Visual database system |
| Dec-31-2002 |
The visual database system comprises at least one visual data input device for inputting visual data, a visual database system device for storing the visual data, and at least one visual data output device... |
| 6502096 |
Computerized asset management system |
| Dec-31-2002 |
The invention concerns a system for managing resources, which can take the form of (a) computer-compatible information, such as data files and programs, and (b) non-computer-compatible information, such... |
| 6484184 |
Database network system |
| Nov-19-2002 |
A database network system is capable of recognizing in a short time (within several minutes) the state of damage or the like of city lifelines (waterworks, electricity, and gas supplies) over a whole city.... |
| 6480847 |
Database repository with deferred transactions |
| Nov-12-2002 |
A deferred transaction mechanism facilitates multi-threaded operation of database application programs. The deferred transaction mechanism allows data items to be committed from the local memory of a computer... |
| 6480759 |
Diagnostic port between independent robots |
| Nov-12-2002 |
An automated storage library structure, a structure of at least one robot operating within the automated storage library, and a method of connecting the robot to test equipment to facilitate testing is... |
| 6477541 |
Multimedia server |
| Nov-5-2002 |
A multimedia server retrieves blocks of data from a storage medium and supplies the blocks in the form of data streams to users. The streams include a group of high bit rate streams and a group of low... |
| 6470356 |
Multimedia information audiovisual apparatus |
| Oct-22-2002 |
A multimedia information audiovisual apparatus which can suitably add mark information to streaming media and manage it and enables a user to see and listen to a presentation effectively. The multimedia... |
| 6470333 |
Knowledge extraction system and method |
| Oct-22-2002 |
An information retrieval apparatus for processing a query for retrieval of information from a database has a mechanism for locating a number of features and feature fragments in an index database; an evaluating... |
| 6463444 |
Video cataloger system with extensibility |
| Oct-8-2002 |
One aspect of the invention is directed to a system and method for video cataloging. The video is cataloged according to predefined or user definable metadata. The metadata is used to index and then retrieve... |
| 6463436 |
Interactive photometric calculations system |
| Oct-8-2002 |
An interactive system on a server via which a client can remotely submit data used to making photometric calculations in which the system has one or more interrogative interfaces is provided. Data is requested... |
| 6460050 |
Distributed content identification system |
| Oct-1-2002 |
A file content classification system includes a digital ID generator and an ID appearance database coupled to receive IDs from the ID generator. The system further includes a characteristic comparison... |
| 6460037 |
Agent-based data mining and warehousing |
| Oct-1-2002 |
An agent-based networking system and process for building a data warehouse containing application specific information and for mining data therefrom. The networking system utilizes functional and resource... |
| 6457016 |
Timestamp commit |
| Sep-24-2002 |
A system and method for speeding data entry into an electronic form. the method includes providing the electronic form with a field that requires input of real-time data, and displaying the form to a user.... |
| 6446081 |
Data input and retrieval apparatus |
| Sep-3-2002 |
Input apparatus for a data processing system includes a processor, storage and graphical display in which a free-form source document is input and processed to parse a source document to locate semantically... |
| 6442542 |
Diagnostic system with learning capabilities |
| Aug-27-2002 |
A diagnostic system is provided for identifying faults in a machine (e.g., CT scanner, MRI system, x-ray apparatus) by analyzing a data file generated thereby. The diagnostic system includes a trained... |
| 6442541 |
Universal database adapters |
| Aug-27-2002 |
A set of Java Beans for facilitating data extraction from a JDBC-ODBC database in an application is disclosed. The set of beans includes a database driver manager component, DbQuery, having a plurality... |
| 6430572 |
Recipe management database system |
| Aug-6-2002 |
A scan tool recipe management database system for recipes utilized in the scanning of semiconductor wafers during the manufacture of the semiconductor wafers. The scan tool recipe management database system... |
| 6424968 |
Information management system |
| Jul-23-2002 |
An information management system is provided including a database and one or more data retrieval tools, a data retrieval tool being arranged to retrieve information according to registered interests of... |
| 6418450 |
Data warehouse programs architecture |
| Jul-9-2002 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for a data warehouse programs architecture. Data in a database stored on a data storage device is transformed. Initially, a program template is retrieved... |
| 6415295 |
Storing personal medical information |
| Jul-2-2002 |
A system and method for data compression of structured medical history information using multiple, updatable, static dictionaries in conjunction with an advanced probability-based model. The system is... |
| 6415290 |
Electronic massage management system |
| Jul-2-2002 |
An electronic message, or e-mail, management system having a digital computer for accepting e-mail messages; a program interface for automatically transferring received electronic messages to a database;... |
| 6408299 |
Type convertor registry |
| Jun-18-2002 |
A generalized mechanism manages ad-hoc type conversions in computer software. A management framework improves type conversion tasks by enabling the modularization of this task by partitioning the work... |
| 6408297 |
Information collecting apparatus |
| Jun-18-2002 |
A client terminal in the information collecting apparatus collects a Web information described in hyper text language form a Web server terminal via the Internet. This client terminal starts up a browser... |
| 6405188 |
Information retrieval system |
| Jun-11-2002 |
Methods and systems for providing an improved IR system that performs information retrieval by using probabilities. When performing information retrieval, the improved IR system utilizes both the prior... |
| 6401099 |
Asynchronous binding of named objects |
| Jun-4-2002 |
An object-oriented framework unifies retrieval and browsing of data locally and from remote computer networks. The framework includes a class of monikers that operate on behalf of a client program to asynchronously... |
| 6400378 |
Home movie maker |
| Jun-4-2002 |
The home movie editor of the present invention provides a simple but effective user interface and control mechanism which enables the user to edit video. The editor is preferably operable on a personal... |
| 6393431 |
Compact imaging instrument system |
| May-21-2002 |
An imaging instrument includes a compact hand-held housing having an electronic imaging element supported within a housing, and a plurality of interchangeable instrument heads separably attachable to the... |
| 6393427 |
Personalized navigation trees |
| May-21-2002 |
A method for constructing and maintaining a navigation tree based on external document classifiers is provided. In one embodiment, based on the returned category labels from the classifiers, a navigation... |
