| 6883006 |
Additions on circular singly linked lists |
| Apr-19-2005 |
During a scan operation in a circular, singly linked list having a number of list entries each of which has an associated next pointer field and a root pointer register that includes a root pointer that... |
| 6883004 |
Automated invoice receipt and management system |
| Apr-19-2005 |
An automated invoice management system includes a network circuit for communicating invoice transactions with a plurality of client systems. The automated invoice management system receives an import invoice... |
| 6882994 |
Method and system for querying database, as well as a recording medium for storing a database querying program |
| Apr-19-2005 |
The present invention provides techniques for answering a user's query to a database system. An embodiment provides a database querying method in which a first data item is obtained from a Data Base Management... |
| 6882931 |
Navigation system |
| Apr-19-2005 |
A map data reading and processing section acquires map information belonging to a hierarchical structure classified depending on coverage of a road map, a remote controller specifies a bypass region to... |
| 6882895 |
Method and program for manufacturing a product having locally specific properties |
| Apr-19-2005 |
A method for manufacturing a product having locally specific properties, the geometric form of which is described by a collection of polygonal basic figures in particular in STL (structural triangulation... |
| 6879983 |
Method and apparatus for retrieving data representing a postal address from a plurality of postal addresses |
| Apr-12-2005 |
A method for retrieving a desired postal address from a plurality of postal addresses. The invention can feature receiving input data having input terms for finding the desired postal address from a first... |
| 6877012 |
Method and system for database management for data mining |
| Apr-5-2005 |
Customer data is displayed to a user for making decisions in dealing with customers. The displayed data is generated based upon characteristic rules that are generated with respect to predetermined data... |
| 6877010 |
System and method for computer-assisted manual and automatic logging of time-based media |
| Apr-5-2005 |
A customizable logging and content management system for indexing multimedia, including a synchronized timer object that provides a time reference upon request in connection with the media, and a logger... |
| 6877009 |
System and method for compiling and displaying a pruned information set |
| Apr-5-2005 |
The processing system 10 is disclosed which uses a user interface 12 to interact with the search and control engine 16 and the display engine 18. The search and control engine 16 operates on a data set... |
| 6877003 |
Efficient collation element structure for handling large numbers of characters |
| Apr-5-2005 |
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for facilitating use of a collation element that supports a large number of characters. The system operates by receiving the collation element... |
| 6874121 |
Document editor for editing structure documents |
| Mar-29-2005 |
A document editor is designed for editing structured documents. The document editor allows a user to select a linear range within the document and apply editing operations to the range. In this regard,... |
| 6874059 |
System and method for using anonymous tokens for efficient memory management |
| Mar-29-2005 |
A mechanism for managing pointers or handles to transient objects is disclosed. An anonymous token is assigned to an object. When an anonymous token is needed for an object, an unused token value is obtained... |
| 6874016 |
Information searching device |
| Mar-29-2005 |
A system for efficiently organizing data or information into an associative memory device, such as a ternary content addressable memory (TCAM), for subsequent searching divides the TCAM is divided into... |
| 6874004 |
Method and system for detecting cross linked files |
| Mar-29-2005 |
A method for detecting and correcting cross-linked files while accessing data on a storage media. Each file includes control file information that defines a plurality of blocks on storage media allocated... |
| 6873989 |
Graphical display of IMS space usage characteristics |
| Mar-29-2005 |
A method and system for graphically displaying space management data of IMS databases. In one embodiment, the method involves receiving a plurality of records from an IMS database. The plurality of records... |
| 6873972 |
Systems and methods for credit line monitoring |
| Mar-29-2005 |
In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and a system for tracking bank credit lines and borrowing. The method involves tracking credit ratings of a bank, requesting the bank to establish a... |
| 6873943 |
Method and system of vectorial cartography |
| Mar-29-2005 |
A method of retrieving an object contained in a domain .delta. within a space .DELTA. containing a set of objects described in an initial matrix M, including construction of a subset .omega. of objects... |
| 6871346 |
Back-end decoupled management model and management system utilizing same |
| Mar-22-2005 |
Presented is a web-based enterprise management compliant management framework whose back end components are decoupled from the various user interfaces available for accessing the management system. In... |
| 6871187 |
Translator for use in an automated order entry system |
| Mar-22-2005 |
Translations for data structures for transferring catalog and system order information between a manufacturer and a customer. The translations and data structures are configured to allow custom systems... |
| 6868528 |
Systems and methods for creating and displaying a user interface for displaying hierarchical data |
| Mar-15-2005 |
A graphical user interface for displaying hierarchical data, such as extensible markup language (XML) data, in hypertext markup language (HTML) format in a convenient and efficient manner. For data having... |
| 6868436 |
Method and system for filtering unauthorized electronic mail messages |
| Mar-15-2005 |
A computer system and method for filtering unauthorized electronic mail messages that are sent by senders to a user. The system includes a list of the identifications of the senders who are authorized... |
| 6868422 |
Knowledge acquisition in expert systems |
| Mar-15-2005 |
A method of knowledge acquisition for entering data into a computer database in a readily computable format, comprises eliciting a set of data statements using an analysis structure determined from an... |
| 6868420 |
Method for traversing quadtrees, octrees, and N-dimensional bi-trees |
| Mar-15-2005 |
A method traverses a bi-tree stored in a memory to locate application specific data stored in the memory and associated with the bi-tree. The bi-tree comprises a spatial partitioning of an N-dimensional... |
| 6868419 |
Method of transmitting data including a structured linear database |
| Mar-15-2005 |
A method, system and type of database for transmitting data is disclosed in which the data is organized into a structured linear database. The structured linear database includes a routing header portion,... |
| 6868418 |
Methods and systems for performing reliable asynchronous notification of high-level document operations |
| Mar-15-2005 |
A mechanism is described for the reliable notification to client applications of the implementation of predefined high-level document commands in a database. The database management system is issued a... |
| 6868410 |
High-performance location management platform |
| Mar-15-2005 |
An apparatus and method for rapid translation of geographic latitude and longitude into any of a number of application-specific location designations or location classifications, including street address,... |
| 6865577 |
Method and system for efficiently retrieving information from a database |
| Mar-8-2005 |
A method for fast and efficient record retrieval in large databases using cyclical redundancy check (CRC) computations as hash functions. Two hash values are computed for each record's key using the CRC-CCITT... |
| 6865576 |
Efficient schema for storing multi-value attributes in a directory service backing store |
| Mar-8-2005 |
A database schema for storing application data in a relational database backing store of a directory service. The application data has at least some entries with multiple value attributes. According to... |
| 6865572 |
Dynamically delivering, displaying document content as encapsulated within plurality of capsule overviews with topic stamp |
| Mar-8-2005 |
A method and system for the dynamic presentation of the contents of a plurality of documents on a display is disclosed. The method and system comprises receiving a plurality of documents and providing... |
| 6862602 |
System and method for rapidly identifying the existence and location of an item in a file |
| Mar-1-2005 |
A system and method for rapidly identifying the existence and location of an item in a file using an improved hash table architecture. A hash table is constructed having a plurality of hash buckets, each... |
| 6862601 |
Method, system, and program for transforming files from a source file format to a destination file format |
| Mar-1-2005 |
Provided is a method, system, and program for transforming files from a source file format to a destination file format. A data structure is generated in a computer readable medium indicating available... |
| 6862599 |
Software-based methodology for the storage and retrieval of diverse information |
| Mar-1-2005 |
Using a novel methodology for organizing information both in non-persistent and persistent computer storage devices, limitations common to traditional data storage models are eliminated. The invention... |
| 6862598 |
Link tree forming apparatus, link tree forming method, and link tree forming program |
| Mar-1-2005 |
A link tree is able to be formed in a visually logical and natural form for a plurality of objects displayed on a screen. At the time of setting individually selectable links to form an overall object... |
| 6862590 |
Converting expressions to execution plans |
| Mar-1-2005 |
Methods, systems, and computer program products for converting a single expression referencing multiple branches within a hierarchical schema into multiple expressions referencing a single branch of the... |
| 6862586 |
Searching databases that identifying group documents forming high-dimensional torus geometric k-means clustering, ranking, summarizing based on vector triplets |
| Mar-1-2005 |
A method and structure for performing a database search includes searching a database using a query (searching producing result items), and ranking the result items based on one or more of a frequency... |
| 6862486 |
System and method for processing data relating to conditions in a manufacturing process |
| Mar-1-2005 |
The invention provides a system and method for processing data relating to conditions in a manufacturing process. The system and method provide a time based relationship between data items of the data... |
| 6857045 |
Method and system for updating data in a compressed read cache |
| Feb-15-2005 |
In a first aspect, a method is provided for updating a compressed cache. The method includes the steps of (1) initiating an update routine for replacing first data stored within the cache with second data,... |
| 6857001 |
Multiple concurrent active file systems |
| Feb-15-2005 |
Maintenance of plural active file systems, wherein each of the active file systems initially access data shared with another of the active file systems, and wherein changes made to each of the active file... |
| 6856994 |
System and method for condensing application software |
| Feb-15-2005 |
A method is disclosed for condensing an executable computer code for execution on a virtual machine. The method comprises condensing a first computer code of a plurality of system classes into a base file... |
| 6856992 |
Methods and apparatus for real-time business visibility using persistent schema-less data storage |
| Feb-15-2005 |
The invention provides methods for enterprise business visibility that transform any of marketing, e-commerce and transactional from a plurality of legacy and other databases into resource description... |
| 6853997 |
System and method for sharing, mapping, transforming data between relational and hierarchical databases |
| Feb-8-2005 |
The present invention provides a computer-implemented system and method for transforming relational database information into a hierarchical data representation. It provides for data sharing between a... |
| 6850957 |
Information system and data access method |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A data access method in an information system including a plurality of data utilization systems connected to a network N1, and a plurality of data provision systems connected to a network, wherein a data... |
| 6850954 |
Information retrieval support method and information retrieval support system |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A set of keyword candidates having orientation, with keywords input by a user as an origin, is appropriately presented. An information retrieval support system 10, for presenting candidate words to be... |
| 6850945 |
Systems, methods and apparatus for creating stable disk images |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A system and method of identifying methods of quiescing a storage object. Data is received identifying the storage object and a freeze list is generated. The freeze list includes one or more freeze methods... |
| 6850944 |
System, method, and computer program product for managing access to and navigation through large-scale information spaces |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A system, method and computer program product for managing access to and navigating through large-scale information spaces. A digital library is created by maintaining an ontological hierarchy in a database.... |
| 6850925 |
Query optimization by sub-plan memoization |
| Feb-1-2005 |
Database system query optimizers use several techniques such as histograms and sampling to estimate the result sizes of operators and sub-plans (operator trees) and the number of distinct values in their... |
| 6848029 |
Method and apparatus for prefetching recursive data structures |
| Jan-25-2005 |
Computer systems are typically designed with multiple levels of memory hierarchy. Prefetching has been employed to overcome the latency of fetching data or instructions from or to memory. Prefetching works... |
| 6847974 |
Method and apparatus for intelligent data assimilation |
| Jan-25-2005 |
An intelligent data assimilation system including an ontology description, workflows, and logical search objects. The logical search objects operably connect to external and internal data providers and... |
| 6847972 |
Apparatus for classifying or disambiguating data |
| Jan-25-2005 |
A computing system has a data storage device for storing a database including a classified vocabulary of terms. A processor of the apparatus is arranged to associate each term with a number of different... |
| 6847970 |
Methods and apparatus for managing dependencies in distributed systems |
| Jan-25-2005 |
Techniques for managing information in a computing environment. Information associated with components of the computing environment is obtained. Then, from at least a portion of the obtained information,... |
