| 6532478 |
File loader in information processing system of multiprocessor configuration |
| Mar-11-2003 |
A file loader including a processor configuration management unit for managing status information of processors, a function database management unit for managing storage information of running files corresponding... |
| 6532477 |
Method and apparatus for generating an audio signature for a data item |
| Mar-11-2003 |
A system generates an audio signature for a data item based on a source identifier associated with the data item. The system receives a source identifier along with a data item and maps the source identifier... |
| 6532457 |
Look-ahead tree structure |
| Mar-11-2003 |
A method and system for storing and retrieving data using a radix-search tree is disclosed. The method encorporates: (a) storing a plurality of nodes, each of the nodes having node-attributes, in a radix-search... |
| 6529953 |
Scalable computer network resource monitoring and location system |
| Mar-4-2003 |
A computer network resource monitoring and locating system includes one or more hierarchical management information bases (HMIBs) through which a user can locate or obtain information relevant to managing... |
| 6529909 |
Method for translating an object attribute converter in an information services patterns environment |
| Mar-4-2003 |
A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for translating an object attribute to and from a database value. A database is provided and a conversion process is determined for converting an... |
| 6529914 |
Object-oriented programming model for accessing hierarchical databases |
| Mar-4-2003 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for accessing a hierarchical database using an object-oriented programming model. The database is modeled into an objects framework, wherein the objects... |
| 6529906 |
Techniques for DLM optimization with re-mastering events |
| Mar-4-2003 |
Techniques for optimizing a distributed lock manager (DLM) for faster reconfiguration includes distributing over a cluster of one or more active nodes, management of locks on shared resources. A system... |
| 6529908 |
Web-updated database with record distribution by email |
| Mar-4-2003 |
A remotely updatable database system method and computer readable medium. The system includes a user interface, a database of information records, a database manager, and a message server. The system functions... |
| 6529904 |
Deployment of snapshots with parameterized data description language strings |
| Mar-4-2003 |
Mass deployment of snapshots is fostered by allowing collections of snapshots, called refresh groups, to be defined by a template. The template allows for a parameterized snapshot definition query or other... |
| 6529894 |
Communicating network information using universal resource locators |
| Mar-4-2003 |
A method and apparatus are provided for communicating network information among network devices using protocols based on Universal Resource Locators. In one embodiment, an apparatus for retrieving SNMP... |
| 6526422 |
Striding-type generation scanning for parallel garbage collection |
| Feb-25-2003 |
A multiprocessor, multi-program, stop-the-world garbage collection program is described. The system initially over partitions the root sources, and then iteratively employs static and dynamic work balancing.... |
| 6526407 |
Method for supporting multiple file-systems in file input/output operations |
| Feb-25-2003 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for handling access to multiple file-systems from a program written in a high-level language such as COBOL, programming language compilers and run-time environments.... |
| 6526397 |
Resource management facilitation |
| Feb-25-2003 |
A method and system for resource management. In particular, a resource management system adapted to manage the resources, both machine and human, in call centers. The system calculates and displays statistics... |
| 6526399 |
Method and system for grouping and displaying a database |
| Feb-25-2003 |
A database grouping and display system that groups a database by row and column in response to a user input. The database grouping and display system displays a raw, ungrouped database and allows a user... |
| 6526398 |
Generating labels indicating gaps in retrieval of electronic documents |
| Feb-25-2003 |
A method and apparatus for document management including assigning labels to gaps in document production. The gaps may correspond to events that caused an individual to begin and/or cease production/modification... |
| 6526171 |
Image object managing method, an image processing apparatus using said method, and a recording media for programs achieving the same |
| Feb-25-2003 |
In an image object managing technology, a copyright and a right of portraits of images such as mobile pictures can be easily managed. When a producer creates a stream of video images, an identical identifier... |
| 6523042 |
System and method for translating to and from hierarchical information systems |
| Feb-18-2003 |
A method for translating to and from an hierarchical information system, comprises identifying a non-hierarchical information system containing information stored in a non-hierarchical manner; developing... |
| 6523030 |
Sort system for merging database entries |
| Feb-18-2003 |
The present invention is a method for operating a computer system to minimize the number of disk storage access operations used in creating an inverted database. This method divides a database into several... |
| 6522292 |
Information systems having position measuring capacity |
| Feb-18-2003 |
Systems are arranged to provide a user information which relates to objects of interest. A user may provide indication of a directional reference to a device. The device determines which objects are being... |
| 6519633 |
Installable file system for client in a computer network |
| Feb-11-2003 |
A client station on computer network uses an operating system such as JavaOS which is permanently stored at the server rather than on storage media at the client location. The JavaOS is loaded and installed... |
| 6519616 |
Web site quality assurance system and method |
| Feb-11-2003 |
A system and method for use in assuring the quality of a web site are disclosed. The system and method are particularly directed to the quality assurance of a telephone directory web site that, in response... |
| 6519602 |
System and method for the automatic construction of generalization-specialization hierarchy of terms from a database of terms and associated meanings |
| Feb-11-2003 |
A computer program product is provided as an automatic mining system to build a generalization hierarchy of terms from a database of terms and associated meanings, using for example the Least General Generalization... |
| 6519588 |
System and method for representing related concepts |
| Feb-11-2003 |
A system and method for storing related data is disclosed, which receives a number of concepts related to the data to be stored, forms a number of relationships linking the concepts together, and which... |
| 6519583 |
Graphical viewer for biomolecular sequence data |
| Feb-11-2003 |
Disclosed are methods, media and systems for graphically displaying computer-based biomolecular sequence information. Generally, biomolecular sequence information may be graphically depicted in a variety... |
| 6519578 |
System and method for processing knowledge items of a knowledge warehouse |
| Feb-11-2003 |
A system for processing knowledge items includes a memory coupled to a processor. The memory stores a number of knowledge items. The processor identifies a number of first questions for presentation to... |
| 6519360 |
Image processing apparatus for comparing images based on color feature information and computer program product in a memory |
| Feb-11-2003 |
An image data processing apparatus for comparing images based on color feature information of images. The image data processing apparatus has a color group sorting table that stores information for sorting... |
| 6518976 |
Graphics container |
| Feb-11-2003 |
A method of setting a graphics container in a graphics device wherein a child application draws graphics within a parent application's graphics context. A parent application begins a graphics container,... |
| 6516351 |
Enforcing uniform file-locking for diverse file-locking protocols |
| Feb-4-2003 |
The invention provides a method and system for correct interoperation of multiple diverse file server or file locking protocols, using a uniform multi-protocol lock management system. A file server determines,... |
| 6516321 |
Method for database address specification |
| Feb-4-2003 |
A method for use with a processor which automatically creates hyperlinks between references to records in a record set which appear in a second record and the records in the record set, the method for... |
| 6516312 |
System and method for dynamically associating keywords with domain-specific search engine queries |
| Feb-4-2003 |
A computer program product is provided as a system for use with a search engine and a search engine repository to dynamically associate keywords within a search result set encountered in an abstract of... |
| 6513042 |
Internet test-making method |
| Jan-28-2003 |
A method of making a tests, assessments, surveys and lesson plans with images and sound files and posting them on-line for potential users. Questions are input by a test-maker and then the questions are... |
| 6510424 |
Electronic notification agent |
| Jan-21-2003 |
In a data processing system, a method for fetching information through a data network comprising: transmitting information to a client unit for causing the client unit to display a user interface enabling... |
| 6510421 |
Performing 2-phase commit with presumed prepare |
| Jan-21-2003 |
A mechanism for performing a two-phase commit is provided. The mechanisms perform a two-phase commit in a manner that reduces the number of messages transmitted between a coordinating database system and... |
| 6507856 |
Dynamic business process automation system using XML documents |
| Jan-14-2003 |
A system for exchanging and merging messages over a network includes a server accessible by a plurality of remote browsers for transmitting a template including fields for information entry and a business... |
| 6507845 |
Method and software for supporting improved awareness of and collaboration among users involved in a task |
| Jan-14-2003 |
The present invention discloses methods for improving awareness of the status of a task, and for improving collaboration among users involved in a task. Methods are provided in which activity data is displayed... |
| 6507839 |
Generalized term frequency scores in information retrieval systems |
| Jan-14-2003 |
Disclosed are methods and systems for selecting electronic documents, such as Web pages or sites, from among documents in a collection, based upon the occurrence of selected terms in segments of the documents.... |
| 6507833 |
Method and apparatus for dynamically rendering components at run time |
| Jan-14-2003 |
A mechanism is provided for dynamically rendering a component instance at run time. According to the invention, a rendering engine is provided for each type of component that can be rendered, and each... |
| 6505237 |
Method and system for management of message attachments |
| Jan-7-2003 |
A method and system provide user management of electronic message transmissions between servers and client devices, particularly transmissions of files attached to electronic messages. The method and system... |
| 6505218 |
Drug document production system |
| Jan-7-2003 |
A document production system is provided for preparing documents and managing a database of information pertaining to investigational studies of medical products. The document production system includes... |
| 6505209 |
Poly vectoral reverse navigation |
| Jan-7-2003 |
This invention includes a method of navigating a collection of nodes by selecting a first node, generating a context list and displaying first node and context list. Each context of the context collection... |
| 6505214 |
Selective information synchronization based on implicit user designation |
| Jan-7-2003 |
A device and method for synchronizing information between computer systems is provided. Certain subsets of information may be synchronized, while excluding other information from the synchronization process.... |
| 6505205 |
Relational database system for storing nodes of a hierarchical index of multi-dimensional data in a first module and metadata regarding the index in a second module |
| Jan-7-2003 |
A system and method for indexing and storing multi-dimensional or multi-attribute data. Data items are recursively sorted in a selected dimension (e.g., the dimension having the greatest variance) and... |
| 6505197 |
System and method for automatically and iteratively mining related terms in a document through relations and patterns of occurrences |
| Jan-7-2003 |
A computer program product is provided as an automatic mining system to identify a set of related terms on the World Wide Web that define a relationship, using the duality concept. Specifically, the mining... |
| 6504915 |
Multiple node messaging system wherein nodes have shared access to message stores of other nodes |
| Jan-7-2003 |
A distributed messaging system comprises a first node including a first messaging platform and a first voice file, wherein the first messaging platform is provided with read/write access to the first voice... |
| 6502104 |
System message objects for communicating between an application and a database management system |
| Dec-31-2002 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for accessing a database management system. A database management system (DBMS), executed by a server computer, manages one or more datastores stored on... |
| 6502098 |
Exporting and importing of data in object-relational databases |
| Dec-31-2002 |
A computer system for transferring data from an object relational database to another such database. The data in the source database having a table type hierarchy of data tables. The system transforming... |
| 6502088 |
Method and system for improved access to non-relational databases |
| Dec-31-2002 |
The method and system of the present invention provides improved access to databases in a computer system. The present invention includes a plurality of data sources, the data sources including at least... |
| 6502087 |
Work flow management system |
| Dec-31-2002 |
A work flow management system has circulation control functions for carrying out branching, queuing, dividing, broadcasting, recovering, holding and substitute of a circulation material in the work flow... |
| 6502086 |
Mapping binary objects in extended relational database management systems with relational registry |
| Dec-31-2002 |
An automated data processing system includes a relational database engine, storage devices having a database table, registry and binary large objects created and updated by the relational database engine... |
| 6501854 |
Information processing apparatus, an information processing method and a medium |
| Dec-31-2002 |
Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus comprising: an image acquiring means for acquiring an objective image; an identification information recognizing means for recognizing, of the objective... |
