| 6813394 |
Image storage method and apparatus |
| Nov-2-2004 |
A plurality of images and a feature of each of these images are stored in one image file. An attribute information area stores attribute information necessary to read out and display the images stored... |
| 6810462 |
Storage system and method using interface control devices of different types |
| Oct-26-2004 |
A storage has NAS and SAN functions and a high degree of freedom to configure a system to reduce the management and operation cost. The storage includes a plurality of interface slots in which a plurality... |
| 6810400 |
Representing database permissions as associations in computer schema |
| Oct-26-2004 |
A database schema includes database classes that represent various database objects (e.g., tables, views, etc.) and user classes that represent users and roles of the database. The database schema also... |
| 6810394 |
Methods and apparatus for searching for and identifying information of interest to users |
| Oct-26-2004 |
An information system. The system provides a user interface for selecting subject matter of interest to a user as well as various components for retrieving information items, for classifying information... |
| 6807573 |
Scheme for managing nodes connected to a home network according to their physical locations |
| Oct-19-2004 |
A scheme for managing nodes connected to a home network according to their physical location is disclosed. A communication device constituting each node is formed by at least one communication unit for... |
| 6807545 |
Method and system for retrieving documents via an electronic data file |
| Oct-19-2004 |
A method for retrieving documents via an electronic data file, characterized in that keys are used for the retrieval which find one or several relations between the textual data of the documents concerned. |
| 6807544 |
Method and system for information retrieval based on parts of speech conditions |
| Oct-19-2004 |
An information retrieval navigation method permitting either the operator or the customer not equipped with a sufficient knowledge of a given product to obtain a sufficient retrieval result is disclosed,... |
| 6807542 |
Method and apparatus for selective and quantitative rights management |
| Oct-19-2004 |
A method, apparatus, and computer implemented instructions for managing rights to a service in a data processing system. A request is received from a user for the service. The rights to the service are... |
| 6804688 |
Detecting and tracking new events/classes of documents in a data base |
| Oct-12-2004 |
Detecting and tracking of new events/classes of documents are disclosed. A method for detecting new events and/or classes of documents and tracking evolution thereof in a database, said new events and/or... |
| 6804685 |
Voice message managing method, in particular for a voice data recording/playing/editing electronic device |
| Oct-12-2004 |
The voice message managing method for a voice data recording/playing/editing electronic device, said electronic device including a memory device having a first memory area and a second memory area, includes... |
| 6804672 |
Method and mechanism for dependency tracking |
| Oct-12-2004 |
A method and mechanism for tracking dependencies at low granularity levels in a database system is disclosed. An embodiment utilities commit time values at low granularity levels which are associated with... |
| 6804669 |
Methods and apparatus for user-centered class supervision |
| Oct-12-2004 |
Techniques are provided for incorporating human or user interaction in accordance with the design and/or performance of data mining applications such as similarity determination and classification. Such... |
| 6804666 |
Information processor, processing method therefor, and program storage medium |
| Oct-12-2004 |
An information processor for recoding at least two different types of content-related data. The first recording means records a predetermined number of types of data related to a first content as a first... |
| 6804663 |
Methods for optimizing the installation of a software product onto a target computer system |
| Oct-12-2004 |
Database tables may be created in a modular fashion and maybe efficiently merged together. Differences between various versions of software products also be recorded in database transforms. The database... |
| 6801921 |
Method and system for managing multiple database storage units |
| Oct-5-2004 |
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... |
| 6801919 |
Object oriented database interface encapsulation that allows for chronologically overlapping transactions in a multi-threaded environment |
| Oct-5-2004 |
A method for allowing chronologically overlapping database transactions in a multi-threaded environment without the need for explicit thread synchronization for database access. Literal database connections... |
| 6801915 |
Paired keys for data structures |
| Oct-5-2004 |
A plurality of data records is provided, each data record having paired keys comprised of a first key and a second key. The first key identifies each data record in a certain manner and the second key... |
| 6801914 |
Persistent client-server database sessions |
| Oct-5-2004 |
A client-server database system enables persistent client-server database sessions, without modification to a client-side application, a database system, or native client-side database drivers. The client... |
| 6801673 |
Section extraction tool for PDF documents |
| Oct-5-2004 |
A method of extracting a section of a page from a portable document format file ("pdf"): The method includes receiving indication of a user-defined region on a pdf file page, designating an extraction... |
| 6799181 |
Method and system for data mining automation in domain-specific analytic applications |
| Sep-28-2004 |
Automated data mining using domain-specific analytic applications for solving predefined problems, including populating input data schema, the input data schema having a format appropriate to solution... |
| 6799180 |
Method of processing signals and apparatus for signal processing |
| Sep-28-2004 |
The present invention provides a system and method for navigating through source content to identify a desired feature within the source content, semantic source metadata being associated with portions... |
| 6795903 |
System and method for searching for duplicate data |
| Sep-21-2004 |
The invention concerns a method (200) and system (100) for searching for duplicate data. The method (200) includes the steps of: generating (212) at least one identifier from at least one portion of a... |
| 6795854 |
Operating system for structured information processing |
| Sep-21-2004 |
An embodiment of the present invention includes an extensible and dynamic software operating environment supporting applications which process structured information, and particularly an environment supporting... |
| 6795829 |
Method for building a peripheral information database |
| Sep-21-2004 |
A novel method for building a computer peripheral information database for a plurality of peripherals operably connected to a network for sharing between a plurality of users provide a valuable tool for... |
| 6795826 |
Fuzzy content network management and access |
| Sep-21-2004 |
A system and a method for managing information encapsulates the information as objects. The objects are related by a degree to other objects in a content network. The relationships between the objects... |
| 6795822 |
Text communication method and text communication system |
| Sep-21-2004 |
A text communication system is that reduces user's burden of typing text messages. An acting device is provided with a dictionary containing rules regarding conversion of text messages, with the dictionary... |
| 6795816 |
Method and device for translating telecommunication network IP addresses by a leaky-controlled memory |
| Sep-21-2004 |
A method and device for translating telecommunication network Internet Protocol addresses by using a leaky-controlled memory. In substance, a hash computer and a memory with locations for the keys (or... |
| 6792427 |
Rules-based, automatic generation of journal entries |
| Sep-14-2004 |
A system for record keeping that utilizes the advances in computer technology and alleviates problems such time constraints by monitoring information about a person or resource and automatically generating... |
| 6792418 |
File or database manager systems based on a fractal hierarchical index structure |
| Sep-14-2004 |
Database system (10) which comprises a fractal hierarchical index database (13), and a processing unit (19). The processing unit (19) is employed to evaluate an input string (12) describing an element... |
| 6789096 |
Real time sessions in an analytic application |
| Sep-7-2004 |
A method and system thereof for performing real time transformations of dynamically increasing databases is described. A session, identified as a real time session, is initialized. The real time session... |
| 6789095 |
File management method, program therefore, recording medium containing the program, and file management apparatus for performing the method |
| Sep-7-2004 |
A file management method displays representations of files belonging to a predetermined folder and representations of files belonging to a subfolder of the predetermined folder in a virtual form in which... |
| 6789092 |
Status monitoring system |
| Sep-7-2004 |
A method is described for use with a server serving requested records among a multiplicity of records, and with a predetermined list of record identifiers, and with a first file containing information... |
| 6789088 |
Multimedia description scheme having weight information and method for displaying multimedia |
| Sep-7-2004 |
The present invention relates to multimedia indexing using a weight description scheme, and more particularly, to a weight description scheme and a multimedia indexing method using the same which is capable... |
| 6789082 |
Method and apparatus to facilitate fast network management protocol replies in large tables |
| Sep-7-2004 |
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates fast network management protocol replies in large tables. The system operates by first receiving a request for a next row from... |
| 6789081 |
Information management technique |
| Sep-7-2004 |
An information management technique includes gathering and storing data from a plurality of sources of data. The gathered and stored data is then filtered and prioritized. The filtered and prioritized... |
| 6789079 |
Integrated service platform |
| Sep-7-2004 |
The present invention discloses an integrated service platform (ISP). Under the real-time mode, the ISP of the present invention comprises the devices of: an engineering data analysis database (EDB); an... |
| 6789075 |
Method and system for prioritized downloading of embedded web objects |
| Sep-7-2004 |
A method retrieves a web file and sorts one or more information element references according to a priority attribute associated with each reference. After ranking the information element references by... |
| 6789071 |
Method for efficient query execution using dynamic queries in database environments |
| Sep-7-2004 |
A system and method allowing for optimization of query execution in database environments is provided. In an illustrative implementation, a database having distributed partitioned views is provided such... |
| 6785689 |
Consolidation of multiple source content schemas into a single target content schema |
| Aug-31-2004 |
A computer-implemented method for mapping multiple source content schemas into a single target content schema. For each source schema to be mapped, a source class tree representing the source schema classes... |
| 6785686 |
Method and system for creating and utilizing managed roles in a directory system |
| Aug-31-2004 |
Role is a comprehensive grouping mechanism. In a client-server directory system, roles transfer some of the complexity to the directory server. A role is defined by its role definition entry. Any client... |
| 6785682 |
Data processing system, method and computer program product |
| Aug-31-2004 |
The present invention relates to a data processing system, method and computer program product for improving the operation of, for example, a message broker. By not constructing messages from stored data... |
| 6785672 |
Methods and apparatus for performing sequence homology detection |
| Aug-31-2004 |
In a sequence homology detection aspect of the invention, a computer-based method of detecting homologies between a plurality of sequences in a database and a query sequence comprises the following steps.... |
| 6785667 |
Method and apparatus for extracting data objects and locating them in virtual space |
| Aug-31-2004 |
The invention provides method and apparatus for viewing information. In one embodiment, the system of the invention enables the user to view displayed information in a way that is comparable to a selected... |
| 6782531 |
Method and apparatus for ordering data processing by multiple processing modules |
| Aug-24-2004 |
Data processing is performed by multiple "plug-in" processing modules controlled by an execution management framework. The framework includes an order determining mechanism that controls the plug-in processing... |
| 6782394 |
Representing object metadata in a relational database system |
| Aug-24-2004 |
Techniques used in database systems for dealing with metadata associated with multimedia objects. The database system includes a generic representation for metadata values. The representation includes... |
| 6778992 |
Flexible and hierarchical user interfaces defined using a data definition language |
| Aug-17-2004 |
A flexible and hierarchical user interface, defined using a data definition language, such as the extensible Markup Language (XML), is disclosed. In one embodiment, such an interface is defined by at least... |
| 6778978 |
Determining a workbasket identification for an item in a data store |
| Aug-17-2004 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for executing a command in a computer to retrieve data from a data store connected to the computer. A request to identify a workbasket in which an item resides... |
| 6778976 |
Selectivity estimation for processing SQL queries containing having clauses |
| Aug-17-2004 |
The estimate of the selectivity of a HAVING clause in an SQL query is carried out within a specified time constraint by determining a selectivity estimate for each member in a sample set of group sizes... |
| 6778973 |
Method for selection of events based on proximity |
| Aug-17-2004 |
This invention provides a system for matching a user with an item in the nature of an activity, sporting or other event, or facility, referred to collectively as an ASEF, based on a request made by a user... |
| 6778972 |
System and method for providing integrated management of electronic information |
| Aug-17-2004 |
A system and method for managing electronic information using a computer system for one or more users. The method comprises creating an electronic folder and storing the folder in an electronic folder... |
