| 6366907 |
Real-time search engine |
| Apr-2-2002 |
Disclosed is described a method for creating a real-time search engine over the Internet which provides a search response containing data object descriptions and server descriptions of data objects that... |
| 6363401 |
Enhanced two-phase commit protocol |
| Mar-26-2002 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for performing a two-phase commit protocol for a transaction in a system having a plurality of data sources. An availability status is verified for all of... |
| 6363384 |
Expert system process flow |
| Mar-26-2002 |
An expert network analysis system includes multiple phases which offer a user the ability, at the user's option, to establish pretest conditions through a prompted interview which focuses the performance... |
| 6356908 |
Automatic web page thumbnail generation |
| Mar-12-2002 |
A method for presenting content from the page in a distributed database. In a preferred embodiment, a page of data from the database is presented to a user. The page has a plurality of links to linked... |
| 6356903 |
Content management system |
| Mar-12-2002 |
A content management system for information delivery systems, including web based systems, that organizes the content of the information separately from the appearance of the presented information. The... |
| 6356893 |
Message searching system and terminal |
| Mar-12-2002 |
A message searching and system and a terminal, which display messages to terminal users based on their individual characteristics profile, even when a plurality of users use the same terminal and even... |
| 6356863 |
Virtual network file server |
| Mar-12-2002 |
A virtual file server for generating content data in response to computer operating system requests involving a remote file system. According to a preferred embodiment, the virtual file server receives... |
| 6353831 |
Digital library system |
| Mar-5-2002 |
The invention is a digital library system that includes: 1) a data capture mechanism that includes data transfer and cataloguing mechanisms, 2) an asset management system for access and storage management... |
| 6353822 |
Program-listing appendix |
| Mar-5-2002 |
Methods and apparatus for assisting a user in retrieving documents or other data items of interest operates in tandem with a conventional document-retrieval facility, such as a web browser, by tracking... |
| 6351746 |
Cool ice icons |
| Feb-26-2002 |
An apparatus for and method of utilizing an internet terminal coupled to the world wide web to access an existing proprietary data base management system. The internet terminal is capable of accessing... |
| 6351744 |
Multi-processor system for database management |
| Feb-26-2002 |
A multi processor system is interconnected through a memory means to multiple numbers of database engines on which there can operate multiple numbers of user programs in order to select buffers which have... |
| 6347396 |
Disturbance free update of data |
| Feb-12-2002 |
To improve the efficiency for an update process in a software processing device with a plurality of memory partitions (4,14) it is proposed to continue the execution of old software on original data stored... |
| 6343295 |
Data lineage |
| Jan-29-2002 |
A system for tracking the lineage of data in a database. Data within the tables are tracked by attaching lineage information to the data, preferably, by adding a lineage identifier to each row in a table.... |
| 6343290 |
Geographic network management system |
| Jan-29-2002 |
A geographic network management system (GNMS) comprises a web server, a database server, and a map server. A user browser connected to the GNMS transmits a search criteria to the web server. The web server... |
| 6341280 |
Inline tree filters |
| Jan-22-2002 |
A common interface solution to the problem of burgeoning information sets, referred to as inline tree filters, structures the represented data in a hierarchical tree. Inline filters are information-filtration... |
| 6339773 |
Data extractor |
| Jan-15-2002 |
A data extractor system for extraction, deformatting, and postformatting of data available on the WWW. A user, connected to the Internet/Web, contacts a fee-based intermediate data service which provides... |
| 6338065 |
Information sharing apparatus |
| Jan-8-2002 |
The present invention provides an information sharing apparatus that realizes global information sharing based on partial information which is locally released by communication. The information sharing... |
| 6336116 |
Search and index hosting system |
| Jan-1-2002 |
The system initiates a search at a first network site for user-specified data in a remote database at a second network site and conducts the search at a third network site (e.g., at a host computer's site).... |
| 6332142 |
Management information base attribute discriminator |
| Dec-18-2001 |
A management information base (MIB) attribute discriminator process is employed for organizing MIB attributes for system network management station (NMS) software. The NMS software monitors and configures... |
| 6327611 |
Electronic document routing system |
| Dec-4-2001 |
An electronic document routing system in a computer network environment integrates into the existing framework of the Internet browser using a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) type. An ordered... |
| 6327591 |
Adaptive distributed information network |
| Dec-4-2001 |
An adaptive distributed network includes a plurality of information centers connected over a network. Each information center holds any number of information units. The plurality of information applications... |
| 6324565 |
Dynamically generated document cache system |
| Nov-27-2001 |
A system for dynamically generating documents utilizes document programs and data at a content providing server to generate those documents. When an intermediate server requests a dynamically generated... |
| 6324542 |
Enterprise connectivity to handheld devices |
| Nov-27-2001 |
A FormLogic (FL) client/server system and method to access existing enterprise data sources on an occasional basis. The system includes a FL builder program to generate a communications agent that encapsulates... |
| 6324539 |
Cool ice state management |
| Nov-27-2001 |
An apparatus for and method of utilizing an internet terminal coupled to the world wide web to access an existing proprietary data base management system having a dialog-based request format. The user... |
| 6321226 |
Flexible keyboard searching |
| Nov-20-2001 |
A search engine implements a multi-level search scheme. A first level involves performing a keyword search based on character matching. A second level, performed only if the first level yields no results,... |
| 6314469 |
Multi-language domain name service |
| Nov-6-2001 |
A multilingual Domain Name System allows users to use Domain Names in non-Unicode or ASCII encodings. An international DNS server (or iDNS server) receives multilingual DNS requests and converts them to... |
| 6314429 |
Bi-directional conversion library |
| Nov-6-2001 |
A bi-directional conversion library is provided for translating data structures used in a computer program from a first computer programming language to data structures used by a second computer programming... |
| 6314420 |
Collaborative/adaptive search engine |
| Nov-6-2001 |
A search engine system is provided for a portal site on the internet. The search engine system employs a regular search engine to make one-shot or demand searches for information entities which provide... |
| 6314114 |
Distributed resource management |
| Nov-6-2001 |
An approach for managing resources in a distributed computing system includes establishing dedicated process pools on nodes where work is to be performed. Each dedicated process pool is associated with... |
| 6308176 |
Associating files of data |
| Oct-23-2001 |
Data files are associated with categories by processing said data files in combination with outline files. Large files (221) are divided into a plurality of file sections (223) each having a size substantially... |
| 6304874 |
Access system for distributed storage |
| Oct-16-2001 |
In a brokering system for items of software or data, submission inputs are made to a database. Each submission input includes a descriptive data set in relation to a unit of data or software, together... |
| 6301615 |
Cluster performance monitoring utility |
| Oct-9-2001 |
A system and method for monitoring the performance of one or more computers on a network. The system and method utilize the standard output of preexisting performance monitoring utilities and filters this... |
| 6301580 |
Adaptive progress indicator |
| Oct-9-2001 |
A method for informing a user of the status of a computer operation having multiple concurrent tasks, comprising maintaining multiple variables, wherein each one of said multiple variables represents the... |
| 6301574 |
System for providing business information |
| Oct-9-2001 |
An apparatus, method and data structure for communicating business information, including outsourcing information. Contractor provide information regarding their products and services into the system.... |
| 6298348 |
Consumer profiling system |
| Oct-2-2001 |
A consumer profiling system is presented in which consumer profiles are formed and updated based on their purchases. The consumer profiles contain both demographic data and product preferences. Purchase... |
| 6295559 |
Rating hypermedia for objectionable content |
| Sep-25-2001 |
A method for providing rated hypermedia content, in which the rating represents degrees of objectionable content, includes four steps: generating raw hypermedia content from a set of units containing data... |
| 6295531 |
Cool ICE data wizard |
| Sep-25-2001 |
An apparatus for and method of utilizing an internet terminal coupled to the world wide web using HTML communications protocol to access an existing proprietary data base management system having varying... |
| 6292800 |
Database system |
| Sep-18-2001 |
A database access method includes receiving a data request at a switcher system from another computer, selecting a connection to a database system from among a collection of connections, and communicating... |
| 6289460 |
Document management system |
| Sep-11-2001 |
A system for allowing predesignated users at remotely located computer-based systems to perform document management. Components of the system include public data network, a publication facility, a remote... |
| 6289344 |
Context-sensitive authorization in an RDBMS |
| Sep-11-2001 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for a computer implemented authorization system. A statement is to be executed by a computer to manipulate data in a database stored on a data storage device... |
| 6279001 |
Web service |
| Aug-21-2001 |
A system for serving web pages manages a plurality of web servers. The system provides an operator with features and tools to coordinate the operation of the multiple web servers. The system can manage... |
| 6278990 |
Sort system for text retrieval |
| Aug-21-2001 |
The present invention is a method for operating a computer system to retrieve information from a computer database. This method decomposes documents from the database into subdocuments and then inverts... |
| 6272593 |
Dynamic network cache directories |
| Aug-7-2001 |
A system and method for virtually eliminating a potential security risk inherent with the caching of network content. Random subdirectory names are generated for cache directories, while continuing to... |
| 6272523 |
Distributed networking using logical processes |
| Aug-7-2001 |
Disclosed is a system and method for load balancing on a computer network that utilizes two levels of addressing abstraction--logical and physical. Logical processes are mapped to physical processes using... |
| 6269370 |
Web scan process |
| Jul-31-2001 |
An information locator system providing for the expedient acquisition, validation and updating of information locators in a heterogenous network protocol environment. The locator system includes an information... |
| 6269369 |
Networked personal contact manager |
| Jul-31-2001 |
A network-computer-based personal contact manager system is disclosed wherein users of networked clients maintain and update a set of user information which is stored in a relational database on a networked... |
| 6266676 |
Link information management method |
| Jul-24-2001 |
A link information management method is capable of reducing the number of steps of a link maintenance processing of link information indicating a correspondence relationship between geographical information... |
| 6266667 |
Information routing |
| Jul-24-2001 |
The present invention relates to a problem with how to automatically or semi-automatically find and retrieve information for a user according to his preferences, is solved by sending an information object... |
| 6266662 |
Bitmap segmentation |
| Jul-24-2001 |
A method and apparatus for segmenting bitmaps in a bitmap index is provided. A segmented bitmap includes a plurality of bitmap segments that are used to indicate which records in a body of records that... |
| 6256640 |
System for managing regulated entities |
| Jul-3-2001 |
A regulatory agency with the responsibility of administering regulations uses a system with joint-usage capabilities, including data about regulated entities that are subject to the laws and rules administered... |
