| 6847969 |
Method and system for providing personalized online services and advertisements in public spaces |
| Jan-25-2005 |
A method and system for providing, personalized and integrated online services for communications and commercial transactions both in private and public venues. The invention provides personalized information... |
| 6847966 |
Method and system for optimally searching a document database using a representative semantic space |
| Jan-25-2005 |
A term-by-document matrix is compiled from a corpus of documents representative of a particular subject matter that represents the frequency of occurrence of each term per document. A weighted term dictionary... |
| 6847888 |
Method and apparatus for geographic shape preservation for identification |
| Jan-25-2005 |
A method for transforming a map based on associated geospatial data. A map is segmented into logical segments representing map-based entities. The geospatial data is then associated with the logical segments.... |
| 6847384 |
Translating objects between software applications which employ different data formats |
| Jan-25-2005 |
A mechanism for translating objects between applications that use different formats is described. As described, a source object is generated using a source application. The source object is then translated... |
| 6845378 |
Integrated data bank combining system |
| Jan-18-2005 |
Companies and other organizations store extensive datasets having overlapping data contents in different data base systems whose data base structures are incompatible with one another. The invention is... |
| 6845377 |
Retrieval system and method using distance index |
| Jan-18-2005 |
Similarity retrieval is performed through the use of a distance index which contains a concatenated key and pointer information and retains a dictionary type order in the concatenated key. The concatenated... |
| 6845376 |
Method for accessing hierarchical data via JDBC |
| Jan-18-2005 |
The method of the present invention is useful in a computer system executing a Java application and a hierarchical database. The program executes a method for providing data access from the Java application... |
| 6845375 |
Multi-level partitioned database system |
| Jan-18-2005 |
A database system with multi-level partitioning is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of storage facilities with each storage facility storing data that represents rows of database tables. In each... |
| 6845373 |
Text stream filter |
| Jan-18-2005 |
A method and apparatus for filtering an input text stream includes receiving a definition of a filter configuration and modifying the input text stream according to the filter configuration so as to generate... |
| 6842856 |
System and method for dynamic management of a startup sequence |
| Jan-11-2005 |
A system, comprising a plug-in data structure to store plug-in data, the plug-in data structure including an initial list and an end list and a plug-in manager to read the plug-in data structure and start... |
| 6842796 |
Information extraction from documents with regular expression matching |
| Jan-11-2005 |
Techniques are provided for enumerating regularly identifiable or stereotypical phrases that people commonly use to convey particular information, and where exactly in these phrases the particular information... |
| 6842761 |
Full-text relevancy ranking |
| Jan-11-2005 |
A method and system for ranking relevancy of metadata associated with media on a computer network, such as multimedia and streaming media, include categorizing the metadata into sets of metadata. The categories... |
| 6842758 |
Modular method and system for performing database queries |
| Jan-11-2005 |
A query engine residing on computer-readable media includes a library of data drivers and an intelligent dataset. Each data driver in the library is operable to execute a predefined database operation.... |
| 6842757 |
Methods and systems for dynamic and default attribute binding |
| Jan-11-2005 |
Every attribute or property of an element in a declarative environment such as XML may be bound to an external data source or defaulted when binding fails to resolve. The failure to resolve the binding... |
| 6842756 |
Method for eliminating state objects in java transaction service using object transaction service coordinator |
| Jan-11-2005 |
A method for eliminating state objects by using an object transaction service coordinator is disclosed. The method provides the state object delete unit and the state object delete adapter in the java... |
| 6839715 |
Installable schema for low-overhead databases |
| Jan-4-2005 |
A relational database has a data file stored separately from a representation of the schema of the relational data in the data file. Schema representation files of several different types are generated... |
| 6839714 |
System and method for comparing heterogeneous data sources |
| Jan-4-2005 |
The present invention is a computer-implemented system and method that allows data in different databases to be shared without requiring the data to be remodeled to fit an existing data convention. The... |
| 6839713 |
System and software for database structure in semiconductor manufacturing and method thereof |
| Jan-4-2005 |
The functionality of various process control and data collection system embodiments may be improved by employing the database methodology disclosed herein during the requirements-analysis phase for data... |
| 6836886 |
Method and apparatus for delivering electronic information |
| Dec-28-2004 |
A method, apparatus, system, and article of manufacture for electronically obtaining a Web page in a Web browser. A Web page is requested. In response, the browser receives a bootstrap file that comprises... |
| 6836779 |
Network transaction method |
| Dec-28-2004 |
A method of performing transactions over an electronic network includes defining data entries for objects represented in the network. The data entries including metadata represented as a web-readable document... |
| 6836777 |
System and method for constructing generic analytical database applications |
| Dec-28-2004 |
Disclosed is a system and method for constructing generic analytical database applications through the automated creation of metadata to establish an application structure controlling the availability... |
| 6836776 |
System and method for managing hierarchical objects |
| Dec-28-2004 |
A system and method for storing hierarchical objects. The system stores a list of hierarchies as a single object. The object includes all information relating to a particular data element. The data element... |
| 6834284 |
Process and system for providing name service scoping behavior in java object-oriented environment |
| Dec-21-2004 |
A process and system for providing name service scoping behavior is implemented. In an object-oriented data processing system, a request is received for an initial context for a namespace from a requesting... |
| 6834282 |
Logical and constraint based browse hierarchy with propagation features |
| Dec-21-2004 |
A logical and constraint-based hierarchical approach provides a highly flexible and expressive way in which to browse items stored in a database. The logical and constraint-based approach permits a user... |
| 6832224 |
Method and apparatus for assigning a confidence level to a term within a user knowledge profile |
| Dec-14-2004 |
A method of assigning a confidence level to a term within an electronic document, such as an e-mail, includes the step of firstly determining a quantitative indicator in the exemplary form of an occurrence... |
| 6832215 |
Method for redirecting the source of a data object displayed in an HTML document |
| Dec-14-2004 |
The invention is a method for Web authors to include a redirection tag in an HTML data object tag that redirects an application program to an alternative source file that stores underlying data associated... |
| 6829623 |
Method and system for managing multiple database storage units |
| Dec-7-2004 |
The system manages at least a database in multiple database storage units, and the database is duplicated for redundancy. The system maintains the database redundancy for security. The system enables the... |
| 6829622 |
Apparatus and method for mobile device synchronization |
| Dec-7-2004 |
Many portable computing devices include data based applications such as schedules, contact managers, and the like, which can be synchronized with another computing device, such as a desktop computer, whereby... |
| 6829608 |
Systems and methods for discovering mutual dependence patterns |
| Dec-7-2004 |
A new form of pattern is provided, referred to as a mutual dependence pattern or m-pattern. The m-pattern captures mutual dependence among a set of items. Intuitively, the m-pattern represents a set of... |
| 6828968 |
Computer generation and display of a table of data incorporating one or more color patterns |
| Dec-7-2004 |
A computer-implemented system for generating and displaying a table of data incorporating one or more color patterns includes a computer system. The computer system accesses a plurality of data records... |
| 6826573 |
Method and apparatus for queue issue pointer |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A method of generating an issue pointer for issuing data structures from a queue, comprising generating a signal that indicates where one or more of the data structures within the queue that desire to... |
| 6826447 |
Process for the creation and enrichment of a data base of a post sorting system |
| Nov-30-2004 |
This invention relates to a process for automatically creating and enriching a data base in a system for sorting mail items linked, through an INTRANET communications network, to computer stations of addressees... |
| 6825781 |
Method and system for compressing structured descriptions of documents |
| Nov-30-2004 |
An encoding method for enabling a decoder to decode a structured document having a structure defined in a first schema not accessible to the decoder and resulting from a change of a second schema accessible... |
| 6823398 |
File system management embedded in a storage device |
| Nov-23-2004 |
A file system for accessing information on digital storage media is provided by a storage device controller embedded within the storage device. The storage device controller includes an interface component... |
| 6823350 |
Database clean-up system |
| Nov-23-2004 |
A clean-up system recaptures part of the memory or secondary storage space on a client device, such as a handheld personal computer. E-mail messages are organized in a hierarchy of folders within a database.... |
| 6823341 |
Method, system and program for providing indexed web page contents to a search engine database |
| Nov-23-2004 |
A method, system and program for providing indexed web page contents to a search engine database. In response to each user request for a web page, user access to the web page is provided from a temporary... |
| 6823333 |
System, method and apparatus for conducting a keyterm search |
| Nov-23-2004 |
A keyterm 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... |
| 6823328 |
System and method for enabling unified access to multiple types of data |
| Nov-23-2004 |
A system and method for enabling unified access to multiple data types. The invention retrieves data regardless of data format. The system does not distinguish among data formats. The system determines... |
| 6820264 |
Data gather/scatter machine |
| Nov-16-2004 |
An embodiment of the present invention is directed to a method for compiling, storing, and interpreting, as often as needed, a representation of any MPI datatype, including the steps of compiling a tree... |
| 6820091 |
Dynamic buffer allocation |
| Nov-16-2004 |
An automatic tuning of the assignment of data sets of an application program to the buffer pools in the main storage is provided. Buffer pool usage statistics data are generated including a performance... |
| 6820090 |
Method for generating quantiles from data streams |
| Nov-16-2004 |
In a method for acquiring statistical information from data, an initial cumulative distribution function (CDF) that characterizes an initial set of data is acquired. The acquisition of this CDF comprises... |
| 6820087 |
Method and apparatus for initializing data structures to accelerate variable length decode |
| Nov-16-2004 |
A method and apparatus to accelerate variable length decode is disclosed, including a method and an apparatus to initialize data structures. The initialization apparatus includes a start address storage... |
| 6820086 |
Forming linked lists using content addressable memory |
| Nov-16-2004 |
A linked list structure in a computing system includes a first entry and additional entries. Each additional entry includes a link reference to a prior entry in the linked list. The link reference for... |
| 6816906 |
Mechanism for building access control structures for authoring systems |
| Nov-9-2004 |
The present invention relates to the field of distributed authoring systems, and particularly to the implementing of authoring controls within the authoring system. Moreover, the authoring system is provided... |
| 6816865 |
Process for data driven application integration for B2B |
| Nov-9-2004 |
Aspects of the present embodiments provide an eCommerce environment adapted to accept and process various message types (e.g. cXML and mXML). In general, requests are provided from a requesting entity... |
| 6816864 |
System and method for handling set structured data through a computer network |
| Nov-9-2004 |
A system and method for handling set structured data through a computer network is disclosed. A client computer sends a request to retrieve or set data maintained by a Web application server. The client... |
| 6816856 |
System for and method of data compression in a valueless digital tree representing a bitset |
| Nov-9-2004 |
An adaptive digital tree data structure incorporates various codes within the parent pointers to indicate the state of the underlying subexpanses. The use of these codes reduces the amount of memory used... |
| 6816175 |
Orthogonal browsing in object hierarchies |
| Nov-9-2004 |
The present invention relates to means and a method executable by a computer system for navigation within a tree structure with leaf nodes representing arbitrary types of objects, i.e. of related data... |
| 6814298 |
Digital data producing system |
| Nov-9-2004 |
A digital data producing system includes a keyboard, a mouse, a data saving memory for saving sets of produced digital data, an additional character string memory for storing at least two sets of additional... |
| 6813622 |
Media storage and retrieval system |
| Nov-2-2004 |
A system for the management of relational information between media sources, which includes a plurality of procedures to set and query the information. Relations are established either via interaction... |
