| 6772139 |
Method and apparatus for facilitating use of hypertext links on the world wide web |
| Aug-3-2004 |
A database server contains pointers to useful information, such as on the World Wide Web. Users of the server may have hypertext links added automatically into documents they submit. Users may additionally... |
| 6772137 |
Centralized maintenance and management of objects in a reporting system |
| Aug-3-2004 |
An object management system in a reporting system. The system includes an object data repository and an object server in a reporting system. The object data repository may maintain a definition and other... |
| 6769016 |
Intelligent SPAM detection system using an updateable neural analysis engine |
| Jul-27-2004 |
A system, method and computer program product are provided for detecting an unwanted message. First, an electronic mail message is received. Text in the electronic mail message is decomposed. Statistics... |
| 6769001 |
System and method supporting nonlocal values |
| Jul-27-2004 |
To support values of properties, a class includes fields to support values in preallocated memory space and with an option data structure which supports, in instances of the class, references to option... |
| 6768997 |
System and method for creating a search query using movable elements in a graphical user interface |
| Jul-27-2004 |
A system and method for creating a Boolean search query. The system includes a field determining object which determines searchable fields of a database. The fields may be arranged as selectable tiles... |
| 6768996 |
System and method for retrieving an abstracted portion of a file without regard to the operating system of the current host computer |
| Jul-27-2004 |
A universally available system and method are used to provide information to a system user as to the contents stored in a memory. In one embodiment, a CD ROM is used to store data thereon and the data... |
| 6768984 |
Method and apparatus for process design |
| Jul-27-2004 |
A process is managed by creating a future revision of a base. Data are input into the future revision of the base. The future revision of the base is made current, revising the base. A control tracks the... |
| 6766322 |
Real estate disclosure reporting method |
| Jul-20-2004 |
A process for the full disclosure of potential detrimental conditions affecting property transactions organizes the spectrum of disclosure issues that are important to lenders and prospective buyers. The... |
| 6763345 |
List building system |
| Jul-13-2004 |
A system implementable using a programmable processor includes a plurality of pre-stored commands for building an inventory of audio, musical, works or audio/visual works, such as music videos. A plurality... |
| 6763344 |
Method of and system for dynamically controlling access to data records |
| Jul-13-2004 |
A system for controlling access to records stored in a database queries the database to obtain an initial result set of records. The method then applies access rules to the records of the initial result... |
| 6763343 |
Preventing duplication of the data in reference resource for XML page generation |
| Jul-13-2004 |
A method and computer program product for generating XML documents that include data content and style information from a plurality of data sources. A first file includes control statements that reference... |
| 6760756 |
Distributed virtual web cache implemented entirely in software |
| Jul-6-2004 |
A method and system are provided for optimizing the local caching of one or more data components available from a server node. Each of plural nodes connected to a local area network is provided with a... |
| 6760727 |
System for customer contact information management and methods for using same |
| Jul-6-2004 |
A system and method for providing complete customer contact management across a variety of customer contact channels so that businesses, or clients (i.e., those businesses using the services of the system... |
| 6760724 |
Approximate query processing using wavelets |
| Jul-6-2004 |
A method for querying electronic data. The query method comprises creating wavelet-coefficient synopses of the electronic data and then querying the synopses in the wavelet-coefficient domain to obtain... |
| 6757867 |
Method and system in an electronic spreadsheet for adding or removing elements from a cell named range according to different modes |
| Jun-29-2004 |
Some "summary" information in a cell named range is preserved when some spreadsheet elements rows, columns, or pages are added or removed from the cell named range. A range summary cell is defined by specifying... |
| 6757717 |
System and method for data access |
| Jun-29-2004 |
The invention provides a system for data access in a packet-switched network, including a sender/computer including an operating unit, a first memory, a permanent storage memory and a processor and a remote... |
| 6754661 |
Hierarchical storage systems for holding evidentiary objects and methods of creating and operating upon hierarchical storage systems |
| Jun-22-2004 |
Hierarchical storage systems for holding objects used for evidentiary purposes, and methods of manipulating such systems are described. A logical store is provided and one or more physical stores are associated... |
| 6754662 |
Method and apparatus for fast and consistent packet classification via efficient hash-caching |
| Jun-22-2004 |
In accordance with a method and apparatus for classifying data packets, a packet classification architecture includes a cached hash table that stores a subset of classification identifiers (i.e. classIDs)... |
| 6754653 |
Method, system, and program for processing a fetch request for a target row in a table that precedes as current row |
| Jun-22-2004 |
Provided is a method, system, program, and data structures for making data available to an application program. A result table is generated including rows corresponding to a subset of rows in a base table... |
| 6754649 |
Apparatus and method for storing data in a storage medium, while saving storage areas which are used for holding a data path name and become necessary in response to the storing of data |
| Jun-22-2004 |
An apparatus and method for storing and retrieving data files from a storage medium are disclosed. A storage medium stores one or more data files and address information showing the path of each data file.... |
| 6754648 |
Method for storing and managing data |
| Jun-22-2004 |
A method for storing and managing data on a storage medium connected to a computer system, wherein the data consists of a plurality of data elements and a plurality of tags, wherein each of the data elements... |
| 6751649 |
Server for searching for information in a network of databases |
| Jun-15-2004 |
The invention relates to a server to facilitate searching for information in a network of databases, such as the Internet, said server including a database containing the addresses of the databases of... |
| 6751605 |
Apparatus for recognizing input character strings by inference |
| Jun-15-2004 |
A character recognition apparatus for inferring the entire character string solely from a user-input handwritten keyword and displaying the inferred result as a candidate character string. The apparatus... |
| 6751604 |
Method of displaying temporal and storage media relationships of file names protected on removable storage media |
| Jun-15-2004 |
A data protection system that integrates a database with Windows Explorer in the Microsoft Windows 9X and NT Environments that mimics the Windows Explorer user interface, enabling the user to apply already... |
| 6751607 |
System and method for the identification of latent relationships amongst data elements in large databases |
| Jun-15-2004 |
A database tool comprises a computer-implemented method for quick low-intensity processing to identify latent relationships among data elements in very large databases and to determine whether a keyword... |
| 6751603 |
Autocomplete method and apparatus for data file selection |
| Jun-15-2004 |
A method for identifying one file in a plurality of files facilitates a user rapidly selecting the file. In an input operation, at least one character that was input by a user is received. In a find file... |
| 6748569 |
XML server pages language |
| Jun-8-2004 |
A method and computer program product for generating XML documents using a script language that extends the capabilities of XML. The script language includes control statements for including data content... |
| 6748371 |
Data mining techniques for enhancing product manufacturing management |
| Jun-8-2004 |
A computer method for enhancing product manufacturing management. The method includes the steps of providing a demand database comprising a compendium of individual demand history; providing a manufacturing... |
| 6748285 |
Integrated system for designing product packaging |
| Jun-8-2004 |
A distributed system having a central server, one or more remote supplier nodes, one or more remote manufacturer nodes, and one or more remote client nodes that communicate with one another via the Internet.... |
| 6745192 |
System and method for providing a multi-tiered hierarchical transient message store accessed using multiply hashed unique filenames |
| Jun-1-2004 |
A system and method for providing a multi-tiered hierarchical transient message store accessed using multiply hashed unique filenames is described. A hierarchical message store is maintained. The hierarchical... |
| 6741981 |
System, method and apparatus for conducting a phrase search |
| May-25-2004 |
A phrase search is a method of searching a database for subsets of the database that are relevant to an input query. First, a number of relational models of subsets of a database are provided. A query... |
| 6741979 |
System and method for flexible indexing of document content |
| May-25-2004 |
A system and method for flexible indexing of document content for facilitating the rapid search and retrieval of large collections of documents. The method for flexible indexing of document content includes... |
| 6741977 |
Image recording/reproducing apparatus in monitor system |
| May-25-2004 |
For image recording/reproduction in a monitoring system, a monitoring image signal as inputted is converted into a plurality of time-serial digitized monitoring image frames to be stored temporarily in... |
| 6741978 |
Accessing file data stored in non-volatile re-programmable semiconductor memories |
| May-25-2004 |
File data for an operating system may be stored in a compressed format in a re-programmable semiconductor memory. The memory may be provided with a header and data for one or more file systems all stored... |
| 6738799 |
Methods and apparatuses for file synchronization and updating using a signature list |
| May-18-2004 |
A server generates an update file for transmission to a client that permits the client to generate a copy of a current version of a subscription file from a copy of an earlier version of the subscription... |
| 6738791 |
Data synchronizing device |
| May-18-2004 |
A process is efficiently performed when a synchronization process of personal information management data that is managed on a network is performed. When synchronizing PIM data on a terminal side with... |
| 6738784 |
Document and information processing system |
| May-18-2004 |
The invention relates to an information and/or document processing system. The information processing system includes at least one user input device, a transcription center at which voice files received... |
| 6738773 |
Method and system for transforming data between disparate capacity database systems |
| May-18-2004 |
In many computer systems, the rate of data from an input source may become significantly faster than a processor's ability to respond. This situation occurs when a faster and more modern system writes... |
| 6738771 |
Data processing method, computer readable recording medium, and data processing device |
| May-18-2004 |
The object of the present invention is to provide a data processing method, a computer readable recording medium, and a data processing device with which it is possible to compactly store and surely and... |
| 6738769 |
Sorting multiple-typed data |
| May-18-2004 |
A sorting system and method that sorts records based on multiple fields by converting the fields to a common data type and sorting the common data type fields using a single sorting algorithm whereupon... |
| 6735741 |
Method system, and program for dynamic resource linking when copies are maintained at different storage locations |
| May-11-2004 |
Disclosed is a system, method, and program for linking to data from a document that includes a pointer to the data in a first storage device, which may be maintained in a network file server. A first request... |
| 6735603 |
Logical volume data structure determining configuration status of logical volume based on comparing values of examined volume epoch identifiers on each on-line extent |
| May-11-2004 |
Volume configuration data management systems and methods are described. A logical volume provider maintains an epoch number on each of the extents comprising a volume. Upon each change in the configuration... |
| 6735582 |
Pre-load cursor in a database method and system |
| May-11-2004 |
A method and system are described in a data processing system including a database for efficiently retrieving copies of data rows from the database. Query criteria is received by a server from a client... |
| 6732192 |
Disc recording scheme for enabling quick access to disc data |
| May-4-2004 |
A system for recording data to a disc shaped record medium. The data is recorded according to a universal disc format employing a hierarchical file system, and data within the hierarchical structure is... |
| 6732121 |
Method for reducing required memory capacity and creation of a database |
| May-4-2004 |
A method for reducing required memory capacity and creation of a database. In order to reduce the storage requirement of a database, the invention provides for, non-color information units to be stored... |
| 6732108 |
Class file archives with reduced data volume |
| May-4-2004 |
A method for packaging program resources includes collecting a set of the program resources that comprises a plurality of object files, which contain data structures having entries that are constants and... |
| 6732107 |
Spatial join method and apparatus |
| May-4-2004 |
A non-blocking parallel spatial join algorithm generates the spatial join result tuples continuously even in the event of memory overflow. The algorithm employs duplicate avoidance techniques to avoid... |
| 6729654 |
Print producing system and prints |
| May-4-2004 |
There is described a system for producing prints based on digital image data and for packing the prints. The system includes an inputting section to input a plurality of print-order information including... |
| 6728716 |
Client-server filter computing system supporting relational database records and linked external files operable for distributed file system |
| Apr-27-2004 |
A client-server computing system is disclosed for supporting relational database records and linked external files. The system comprises one or more servers for storing external files, and a plurality... |
| 6728701 |
Method and apparatus for database retrieval utilizing vector optimization |
| Apr-27-2004 |
A technique for optimizing the number of terms in a profile used for information extraction. This optimization is performed by estimating the number of terms which will substantively affect the information... |