| 5249260 |
Data input system |
| Sep-28-1993 |
In an expert system of an operating system e.g. an industrial plant it is desired to input data in the form of relationships between operating parameters of the system to a database. However, if such data... |
| 5237654 |
Hierarchical inter-panel process flow control |
| Aug-17-1993 |
An inter-panel process flow control method and system for enabling an uninhibited change of scope from the active panel to another panel visible on a display screen. The process relies on object-oriented... |
| 5228116 |
Knowledge base management system |
| Jul-13-1993 |
An inference engine in a knowledge base system may be invoked by an application program (e.g., a COBOL program), by arranging to detect, in the program, instructions whose syntax complies with the syntax... |
| 5226111 |
Organization of theory based systems |
| Jul-6-1993 |
A method of controlling the operation of a computer database system. The method of the invention is particularly adapted for use in processing a query in a computer system which has an inference engine,... |
| 5206931 |
Picture file system |
| Apr-27-1993 |
A picture file system including a recording medium having a picture zone and a reduced picture zone divided therein. In a picture recording mode, a full-size picture data is recorded in the picture zone... |
| 5181162 |
Document management and production system |
| Jan-19-1993 |
An object-oriented document management and production system in which documents are represented as collections of logical components, or "objects", that may be combined and physically mapped onto a page-by-page... |
| 5161109 |
Up/down loading of databases |
| Nov-3-1992 |
A communication system for processing information for distribution, including: a central data station, a plurality of user stations, a communication link interconnecting the user stations with the central... |
| 5093911 |
Storage and retrieval system |
| Mar-3-1992 |
A system is described in which a user enters a search term at a user location, that search term being associated with a plurality of image objects which are stored at a plurality of geographically diverse... |
| 5047959 |
Flexible data display |
| Sep-10-1991 |
A data display, preferably having screens or windows, is built from data in a data base according to a hierarchy of display knowledge. Therefore, the data values themselves are separate from the knowledge... |
| 4941125 |
Information storage and retrieval system |
| Jul-10-1990 |
A digital camera is used to scan documents and generate a corresponding digital output signal. A data processor receives the digital output signal and generates corresponding index information. The video... |
| 4914586 |
Garbage collector for hypermedia systems |
| Apr-3-1990 |
A database of interests is maintained in a distributed computing system to register the individual interests of users in centrally stored non-textual media files, such as digital voice, music, scanned-in... |
| 4907188 |
Image information search network system |
| Mar-6-1990 |
In an image information search network system of the invention, image information file storing units of search stations installed at a plurality of different locations relatively distant from each other... |
| 4862345 |
Process plant instrumentation design system |
| Aug-29-1989 |
An improved process plant instrumentation design system is disclosed in which the amount of data that must be input is greatly reduced by using default information whenever possible. The system also automatically... |
| 4851999 |
General-purpose management system |
| Jul-25-1989 |
A general-purpose management system displays a single general format on a display unit so that items redundant in plural types of management to be performed independently, as well as items peculiar to... |
| 4805119 |
User terminal for videotex |
| Feb-14-1989 |
A method and apparatus for retrieving picture information stored in an information center and subsequently storing the picture information in a user terminal by registering in the information center retrieval... |
| 4800485 |
On-line documentation facility |
| Jan-24-1989 |
Users of an on-line documentation facility in a computer system are provided with the capability of specifying modifications to be made to the documentation that would otherwise be provided by the system. |
| 4758947 |
List processing method and apparatus |
| Jul-19-1988 |
Disclosed is a slave processor (100) for a multiprocessor logic circuit fault simulator. The slave processor has a hardware-based list processor (110) for performing set algebra operations on fault lists... |
| 4695975 |
Multi-image communications system |
| Sep-22-1987 |
A device for automatic translation of natural language words into corresponding visual images has an addressable video disc memory storing a large number of images, an image dictionary memory for storing... |
| 4672532 |
Software/hardware integration control system |
| Jun-9-1987 |
A method and control system for integrating machine independent software written in a high level language with the hardware and software characteristics of a selected processor system to generate an executable... |
| 4645873 |
Transactional telecommunication system |
| Feb-24-1987 |
A transactional system serves subscribers in a plurality of localities, and includes a national data base having a plurality of groups of addressed segments of data storage. Each group stores data pertaining... |
| 4597058 |
Cartridge programming system |
| Jun-24-1986 |
A cartridge programming system is provided for loading selected computer programs into a reprogrammable plug-in cartridge memory. A host computer controls a plurality of remote programming terminals. The... |
| 4546434 |
Method for designing apparel |
| Oct-8-1985 |
A method for visually composing and editing original apparel designs including the steps of providing a plurality of configurations of individual garment components, such as bodices, sleeves, collars,... |
| 4485454 |
Electronic document information filing system |
| Nov-27-1984 |
In a document information filing system of the present invention, the document picture information and the filing information are recorded in a longitudinal video recorder (LVR). When one of the codes... |
| 4366481 |
Vending machine acquisition system |
| Dec-28-1982 |
Data from vending machines are acquired by a resident data acquisition unit (DAU) implanted in each vending machine. This unit senses coins in, coins out, products dispensed and door openings, among other... |
| 4306219 |
Vending machine acquisition system |
| Dec-15-1981 |
Data from vending machines are acquired by a resident data acquisition unit (DAU) implanted in each vending machine. This unit senses coins in, coins out, products dispensed and door openings, among other... |
| 4153931 |
Automatic library control apparatus |
| May-8-1979 |
An on-line computerized system useful in automatic document control and inventory systems such as that needed in libraries with a large number of books, records, films, and other items. In the library... |
| 7043501 |
Method for analyzing demographic data |
| May-9-2006 |
A computer implemented method of generating an ordered list of geographical locations having similarities in preselected categories relative to a first geographical location. |
| 7043500 |
Subtractive clustering for use in analysis of data |
| May-9-2006 |
A data analysis system and/or method, e.g., a data mining/data exploration method, using subtractive clustering is used to explore the similarities and differences between two or more multi-dimensional... |
| 7043496 |
Data managing method, data managing system, data managing apparatus, data handling apparatus, computer program, and recording medium |
| May-9-2006 |
A client unit 1 which a user uses to request for data, an agent unit 2 which keeps encrypted document data and attributes information, a document managing unit 3 which executes user authentication, access... |
| 7043494 |
Fast, deterministic exact match look-ups in large tables |
| May-9-2006 |
A combined hash table/bucket trie technique facilitates fast, deterministic, memory-efficient exact match look-ups on extremely large tables. A limited number of hash keys which collide on the same location... |
| 7043490 |
Method, system, and program product to support multiple content-management data models |
| May-9-2006 |
Methods, systems, and program products for managing multimedia content. These are built upon a combination of a high level content model for specific multimedia content types and a low level physical for... |
| 7043488 |
Method and system for storing hierarchical content objects in a data repository |
| May-9-2006 |
A web-based system, method and program product are provided for storing content objects (e.g., a custom compilation or prepublished work) in a data repository as a group of hierarchically related content... |
| 7043482 |
Automatic and secure data search method using a data transmission network |
| May-9-2006 |
A method for searching data stored in at least one database (32, 34) accessible from an external server of a data transmission network (14), including sending a query (36) for every database from a local... |
| 7043481 |
System, method and software for creating, maintaining, navigating or manipulating complex data objects and their data relationships |
| May-9-2006 |
The invention provides systems, methods and software for creating, maintaining, accessing, navigating and persisting complex data objects and associated data stores. In one aspect, the invention also provides... |
| 7043477 |
Navigating media content via groups within a playlist |
| May-9-2006 |
Grouping and navigating media files within a playlist on a computer-readable medium. Invention software selects media files according to a grouping criterion to define a group from the media files. The... |
| 7043476 |
Method and apparatus for data mining to discover associations and covariances associated with data |
| May-9-2006 |
Data mining techniques are provided which are effective and efficient for discovering useful information from an amorphous collection or data set of records. For example, the present invention provides... |
| 7043473 |
Media tracking system and method |
| May-9-2006 |
A method for identifying a media file transmitted over a network includes creating a plurality of known media file identifiers, each for a respective one of a plurality of known media files, using an identifier... |
| 7043408 |
Computer-aided design neutral graphical data interface |
| May-9-2006 |
A universal CAD-neutral data management system capable of two-way exchange of information between a CAD-neutral database and any one of a variety of proprietary CAD graphics platforms. An updateable CAD-neutral... |
| 7043357 |
Extensible navigation systems |
| May-9-2006 |
Computer-assisted navigation is achieved with component-oriented programming and instructions that provide a distributed component programming navigation system. The computer-assisted navigation is achieved... |
| 7039655 |
System and method for providing a digital media supply chain operation system and suite of applications |
| May-2-2006 |
The present invention is directed to an intelligent media router (IMR) for processing media that has been either natively created as data or has been digitized from another source. The IMR comprises a... |
| 7039654 |
Automated bot development system |
| May-2-2006 |
An automated system (100) and method for developing Complete Context™ Bots (30) for an organization. After extracting data from existing narrowly focused systems, mission measures and... |
| 7039653 |
Computer-based method and system for guiding a purchaser to select an appliance and a venting arrangement suitable for the appliance |
| May-2-2006 |
Computer-based method and system for providing guidance to a purchaser for selecting an appliance that generally requires venting are provided. The guidance includes recommendations regarding a venting... |
| 7039652 |
System and method for providing index data of multimedia contents |
| May-2-2006 |
A system and method for providing index data service of multimedia contents are disclosed, wherein the system comprises: a data server system for providing multimedia data services through a wire or wireless... |
| 7039647 |
Drag and drop technique for building queries |
| May-2-2006 |
A method, system and computer program product for building a search query in a data processing system having a graphical user interface is provided. Responsive to user input, a graphical component representing... |
| 7039646 |
Method and system for compressing varying-length columns during index high key generation |
| May-2-2006 |
A computer-based method for compressing varying-length columns of a non-leaf page high key generated during splitting of an index tree leaf page from a key pair including a last key of a splitting leaf... |
| 7039643 |
System, method and apparatus for converting and integrating media files |
| May-2-2006 |
The present invention teaches a digital media file conversion and integration system including a server coupled to the Internet to allow users to download media files to a server the Internet. The system... |
| 7039640 |
System and method for geocoding diverse address formats |
| May-2-2006 |
A method and system for providing geocodes in response to complete or partial address information is disclosed. The disclosure teaches embodiments that are naturally upgraded to integrate changing spatial... |
| 7039630 |
Information search/presentation system |
| May-2-2006 |
An information search/presentation system includes a 3D image converter, landmark database, search engine, and 3D image browser. The 3D image converter outputs 3D image data on the basis of aerial photographs... |
| 7039626 |
Information providing apparatus |
| May-2-2006 |
An information providing device assisting the users who meet each other accidentally in forming a community includes a user database (306) managing user information, an information database (307,... |
| 7036127 |
Legacy CORBA name space integration using web application servers |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A method, apparatus, and computer implemented instructions for binding object references from a remote name space into a local name space using a Web application. Information is collected to generate a... |
