| 6256631 |
Automatic creation of hyperlinks |
| Jul-3-2001 |
Creating hyperlinks in a document is performed according to structural indicators within a set of documents. The documents are parsed for at least one structural indicator, preferably of a type of structural... |
| 6253254 |
Hyper media object management |
| Jun-26-2001 |
A method and apparatus that uses a hypermedia approach to managing distributed objects. A first embodiment of the present invention uses the World Wide Web hypermedia system. A user initializes browser... |
| 6253208 |
Information access |
| Jun-26-2001 |
An information access system is provided to create and maintain a rapidly accessible index to information extracted from information sources accessible over the Internet. The information access system... |
| 6253187 |
Integrated inventory management system |
| Jun-26-2001 |
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... |
| 6247013 |
Hyper text reading system |
| Jun-12-2001 |
A hyper text reading system which assures an advantage by protecting the right of a contents provider. A link source confirmation unit confirms a link source of an anchor included in a hyper text. The... |
| 6240419 |
Compression store addressing |
| May-29-2001 |
Variable-length data, comprising of compressed pages, is stored in a memory so that access to any sub-page or line within a page may be started given a single address corresponding to the location of a... |
| 6240410 |
Virtual bookshelf |
| May-29-2001 |
A virtual bookshelf system provides a user a way to browse and locate information associated with a plurality of documents. The virtual bookshelf system contains classification information to classify... |
| 6237009 |
Lease renewal service |
| May-22-2001 |
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... |
| 6236988 |
Data retrieval system |
| May-22-2001 |
A data retrieval system in which a plurality of objects having a multi-level hierarchical relationship are stored is disclosed. Thus, each object has a respective parent and a set of children. The system... |
| 6233580 |
Word/number and number/word mapping |
| May-15-2001 |
A compactly stored word list that includes a directed graph data structure is used for word to number (W/N) and number to word (N/W) mapping. Each word accepted by the data structure is mapped to a unique... |
| 6230154 |
Database element retrieval by example |
| May-8-2001 |
A system and method for database element retrieval. A query comprises identifying which elements in the database are close or similar to an example which is specified in the query. The query is performed... |
| 6226617 |
Product disposal system |
| May-1-2001 |
A treatment processing system for determining proper and appropriate treatment methods and procedures in accordance with states of discarded articles and outputting the determined procedures. Treatment... |
| 6216130 |
Geographic-based information technology management system |
| Apr-10-2001 |
Systems and methods for managing geographic and other data structures. Using an administrator application, an administrator identifies geographic data structures deemed to be of interest to an organization... |
| 6215506 |
Portrait drawing apparatus |
| Apr-10-2001 |
A portrait drawing apparatus for storing for each facial part a plurality of attributes thereof (race, sex, age-group, specific shape such as snub or aquiline for nose, etc.) and for allowing the facial... |
| 6209000 |
Tracking storage for data items |
| Mar-27-2001 |
A method and system for tracking storage for data items is provided. First, an index is built to access the data items. Then a first plurality of index entries for locating a first set of blocks are stored... |
| 6205457 |
Ordered ole file structure |
| Mar-20-2001 |
An ordered object linking and embedding (OOLE) file is a valid object linking and embedding (OLE) file whose sectors are placed in a predetermined order. If the OOLE file is an image file, it may be used... |
| 6202200 |
Multi-tier debugging |
| Mar-13-2001 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for providing a programming development environment that supports the development of Internet and Intranet applications. More specially, the present invention... |
| 6202060 |
Data management system |
| Mar-13-2001 |
A portable computer system manages data conveniently for a user. The system has a processor, a program storage device coupled to the processor, an input recognizer adapted to receive non-cursive handwritings... |
| 6198904 |
Interactive learning system |
| Mar-6-2001 |
An interactive learning system is disclosed that includes a note-making facility, a mentor facility, and an editor facility as its major subsystems. The note-making facility allows the user to create notes... |
| 6182069 |
Video query system and method |
| Jan-30-2001 |
Search of video images in a database is enhanced by specification of at least one object and a background in stored frames and in queries of the database. Video information is stored in the database by... |
| 6178419 |
Data access system |
| Jan-23-2001 |
A method of automatically creating a database on the basis of a set of category headings uses a set of keywords provided for each category heading. The keywords are used by a processing platform to define... |
| 6169995 |
Link information maintenance management method |
| Jan-2-2001 |
A link information management method is capable of reducing the number of steps of a link maintenance processing of link information indicating a correspondence relationship between geographical information... |
| 6167404 |
Multimedia plug-in using dynamic objects |
| Dec-26-2000 |
The present invention concerns a multimedia presentation computer program that includes method and apparatus for sharing presentation functions between portions of the program by means of an interface... |
| 6154755 |
Index imaging system |
| Nov-28-2000 |
An index imaging system includes: a scanner for scanning a plurality of photographic images to produce a corresponding plurality of digital images; a computer connected to the scanner for receiving the... |
| 6151600 |
Electronic information appraisal agent |
| Nov-21-2000 |
An electronic information appraisal agent which operates within an electronic information distribution system and includes an electronic information server having multiple electronic information units.... |
| 6148296 |
Automatic generation of database queries |
| Nov-14-2000 |
A computer program for automatically generating queries to a database management system (DBMS) is disclosed. The computer program receives a high level specification of the data sought to be retrieved... |
| 6144375 |
Multi-perspective viewer for content-based interactivity |
| Nov-7-2000 |
A method and apparatus for interactively viewing a real-world environment. The viewer includes a user interface having a first window for displaying a two-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional... |
| 6134557 |
Materials and supplies ordering system |
| Oct-17-2000 |
The present invention comprises a computer program which displays a number of objects in some form of organized, often hierarchial, fashion commonly known as a categorization table. In summary, the ordering... |
| 6134552 |
Knowledge provider with logical hyperlinks |
| Oct-17-2000 |
A system and method is described for the efficient management and storage of documents in a multi-user environment by implementing a three-tiered content model for storage and a context resolution mechanism... |
| 6131097 |
Haptic authoring |
| Oct-10-2000 |
Methods are presented for authoring geometrical databases which incorporate touch or haptic feedback. In particular, a database of geometrical elements incorporates attributes necessary to support haptic... |
| 6131088 |
Electronic catalog system and method |
| Oct-10-2000 |
Methods for accessing product information data and detecting pirated copies of a serialized software program include transmitting a data request query related to a selected product from a remote computer... |
| 6122626 |
Sparse index search method |
| Sep-19-2000 |
The invention relates to a method of searching a plurality of values in an ordered list. Given a data set consisting of data items. With each data item one or more attribute values are associated, which... |
| 6122575 |
APU troubleshooting system |
| Sep-19-2000 |
A system, method, and computer program product assist a technician in troubleshooting an aircraft auxiliary power unit (APU). A portable computer is couplable of download the fault data captured in a memory... |
| 6112051 |
Random problem generator |
| Aug-29-2000 |
A random problem generator selects a formula from a database of formulas, randomly generates an initial condition necessary to solve the selected formula, and generates a question involving the selected... |
| 6111567 |
Seamless multimedia branching |
| Aug-29-2000 |
Described above are methods of authoring multimedia titles and of storing and delivering multimedia content that implements guaranteed seamless branching on digital media with high seek latency and a fixed... |
| 6108664 |
Object views for relational data |
| Aug-22-2000 |
A method and apparatus for presenting and modifying data from a set of tables in a database is provided. A view that is defined is based on a set of one or more tables that may include relational tables... |
| 6108661 |
System for instance customization |
| Aug-22-2000 |
The system for instance customization functions to place code behind documents in a multi-program environment in a manner that eliminates the object instance management problems of existing systems. The... |
| 6098067 |
Remote computer management system |
| Aug-1-2000 |
A computer management system for managing files and executing applications on multiple, remote networked computers from a single server. A hierarchical system is defined where each computer is a named... |
| 6081810 |
Report database system |
| Jun-27-2000 |
A method is described for storing and retrieving reports from a computer database with control of access to the database and to the reports. The reports are stored in a current database (16) for a selected... |
| 6078928 |
Site-specific interest profiling system |
| Jun-20-2000 |
A system for capturing, developing and profiling an individual's interests in various sites, exhibits or items on display at an institution or facility and providing site- and/or theme-specific information... |
| 6076093 |
Real-time interactive directory |
| Jun-13-2000 |
An interactive directory provided for a workstation having a connected video monitor and adapted for network access has an interactive display for displaying status for individual entities, being persons... |
| 6067549 |
System for managing regulated entities |
| May-23-2000 |
A regulatory agency with the responsibility of administering regulations uses a system with joint-usage capabilities, including data about regulated entities that are subject to the laws and rules administered... |
| 6047292 |
Digitally encoded recording medium |
| Apr-4-2000 |
A digital rotary recording medium includes at least an audio component, an audio video component, and an application. The application component contains at least a browser or application program function.... |
| 6041332 |
Product-independent performance monitoring tool kit |
| Mar-21-2000 |
A method for configuring software to monitor, generate, acquire, collect, store and analyze Performance Monitoring (PM) data from telecommunication equipment, includes the steps of maintaining a library... |
| 6032157 |
Retrieval method using image information |
| Feb-29-2000 |
For retrieving attribute information through image information which is not linked with the attribute information: displaying on a display screen the first image information corresponding with attribute... |
| 6032149 |
Vehicle electrical schematic management system |
| Feb-29-2000 |
A method for managing the production of vehicle electrical schematics includes entering into a computer manual changes to preexisting schematics and to textual connector pages that pertain to the schematics.... |
| 6026381 |
Financial market classification system |
| Feb-15-2000 |
A system for classifying investment products into a set of hierarchical buckets based on existing CUSIP numbers and other prospectus information is disclosed herein. A bucket is an investment product classification... |
| 6018739 |
Biometric personnel identification system |
| Jan-25-2000 |
A distributed biometric identification system and architecture for rapidly identifying individuals using fingerprint and photographic data. The present architecture includes a centralized server coupled... |
| 6006237 |
Postal automated delivery system |
| Dec-21-1999 |
A postal delivery system equipped with a computer database system, input peripheral devices, user input devices, a printer, and a terminal. The computer database system processes the data generated from... |
| 6006234 |
Logical groupings within a database |
| Dec-21-1999 |
A method, system and computer-readable medium is provided for grouping database objects into logical groupings in order to simplify administrative and other operations that need to be performed by the... |
