| 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... |
| 6871147 |
Automated method of identifying and archiving nucleic acid sequences |
| Mar-22-2005 |
A method of identifying and archiving a nucleic acid sequence includes a) creating a directory of files in a computer, for storing information related to the nucleic acid sequence; b) inputting a raw nucleic... |
| 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... |
| 6868424 |
Electronic filing system with file-placeholders |
| Mar-15-2005 |
In an electronic document filing system, placeholder objects are used to provide an explicit representation of document files which are not yet present but which are explicitly expected by the system.... |
| 6868421 |
Method of converting geospatial database into compressive database for multiple dimensional data storage |
| Mar-15-2005 |
A method of converting a geospatial database into a compressive database for multiple dimensional data storage by constructing computer storage data language or format includes the steps of partitioning... |
| 6868423 |
Production and preprocessing system for data mining |
| Mar-15-2005 |
Disclosed is means capable of solving trouble in managing data formats and procedures and capable of carrying out advanced preprocessing more intuitively. A data aggregate to be inputted to a mining engine... |
| 6868169 |
System and method for geographical indexing of images |
| Mar-15-2005 |
A system and method are provided for organizing a number of digital images. The system and method advantageously provide a geographical context for viewing the digital images. In one embodiment, a method... |
| 6865593 |
Dynamic integration of web sites |
| Mar-8-2005 |
A method for displaying information includes identifying computer-readable service code at a service site, which code, when read by a client computer via a network, causes the computer to display at least... |
| 6865578 |
Method and apparatus for the design and analysis of market research studies |
| Mar-8-2005 |
This invention automates the most common processes in market research study design and analysis. By combining a database framework designed to hold all the data elements used in a market research survey,... |
| 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... |
| 6865575 |
Methods and apparatus for using a modified index to provide search results in response to an ambiguous search query |
| Mar-8-2005 |
A system allows a user to submit an ambiguous search query and to receive potentially disambiguated search results. In one implementation, a search engine's conventional alphanumeric index is translated... |
| 6865527 |
Method and apparatus for computing data storage assignments |
| Mar-8-2005 |
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for designing storage systems. Stores are clustered into workloads by using one clustering technique or a combination of two or more clustering techniques... |
| 6865433 |
Method, system, and storage medium for optimizing scheduling activities in a manufacturing environment |
| Mar-8-2005 |
Exemplary embodiments include a method, system, and storage medium for optimizing scheduling activities in a manufacturing environment. The method includes receiving a planned factory cycle time value... |
| 6862600 |
Rapid parameter passing between multiple program portions for efficient procedural interaction with minimum calls and/or call backs |
| Mar-1-2005 |
Systems and methods are described for rapid parameter passing. A method includes enumerating a set of parameters; providing an indication in a first set of arrays of whether to acquire from first program... |
| 6862596 |
System and method for retrieving and displaying data, such as economic data relating to salaries, cost of living and employee benefits |
| Mar-1-2005 |
A system and method for retrieving and displaying data, such as economic data. The method can include receiving over a computer network a user request for a first item of economic data, retrieving the... |
| 6862591 |
Configuration utility |
| Mar-1-2005 |
A telephone caller account management system is disclosed. The system includes a server computer having a customer account database created therein and a workstation in communication with the server computer.... |
| 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... |
| 6862553 |
Diagnostics method and apparatus for use with enterprise controls |
| Mar-1-2005 |
A data construct set and method for use with an industrial process which is controlled according to execution code wherein a processor running the code generates requests to mechanical resources to cause... |
| 6862559 |
Methods and apparatuses for measuring diversity in combinatorial structures |
| Mar-1-2005 |
A method for computing a diversity measure H(m) for combinatorial structures involves identifying all M possible substructures having m elements from among the n elements of the combinatorial structure.... |
| 6859910 |
Methods and systems for transactional tunneling |
| Feb-22-2005 |
Methods and systems for executing an electronic transaction are provided, including parsing pages of a web server that execute a transaction to separate static from transactional content, identifying and... |
| 6859810 |
Declarative specification and engine for non-isomorphic data mapping |
| Feb-22-2005 |
A mapping engine is provided to populate data elements of a first data structure of a first data representation with values of corresponding data elements of a second data structure of a second data representation,... |
| 6859809 |
Processing edit decision list data |
| Feb-22-2005 |
A processing system for processing data representing edit decision lists having edit decisions with edit data, representing the type of edit to take place, and frame range data, representing the frames... |
| 6859808 |
Mapping logical row identifiers for primary B+tree-like structures to physical row identifiers |
| Feb-22-2005 |
A mapping mechanism for a primary B+tree in a database management system. The primary B+tree includes a plurality of rows. The mapping mechanism includes introducing a mapping table that includes a plurality... |
| 6857123 |
Method and apparatus for a Meta Data Service in a data processing system |
| Feb-15-2005 |
As a solution to the problem of distributed knowledge of data object definitions, data object definitions are removed from the source code. A Meta Data Service is created and made available on a network... |
| 6856996 |
Method, system, and program for accessing rows in one or more tables satisfying a search criteria |
| Feb-15-2005 |
Provided is a method, system, and program for accessing rows of data from a base table satisfying a search criteria. An initial request to access rows in the base table is received, including the search... |
| 6856997 |
Apparatus and method for providing file structure for multimedia streaming service |
| Feb-15-2005 |
In a file structure for a streaming service and a method for providing a streaming service, a file structure includes a header object having basic information about a file and information for an application... |
| 6856995 |
Method for enumerating data pages in a stateless, distributed computing environment |
| Feb-15-2005 |
The present invention discloses a method for enumerating data pages in a stateless, distributed computing environment. A user operating a uses interface calls a stateless application, which in turn invokes... |
| 6856989 |
Dynamic link |
| Feb-15-2005 |
A file system for file sharing includes a web server that creates a temporary directory for each session between the web server and a client computer. When the client computer requests a file located in... |
| 6856413 |
User interface for an information-processing system |
| Feb-15-2005 |
A user interface for an information-processing system having workstations for users and a number of printers on which it is possible to print files made at a workstation, all connected by a network. The... |
| 6854087 |
Document editing apparatus |
| Feb-8-2005 |
The invention provides an apparatus for reproducing the state in which an editor has added and described a comment to a document while what description content the editor is viewing so that the intention... |
| 6853998 |
Customer self service subsystem for classifying user contexts |
| Feb-8-2005 |
A system and method for classifying user context in a customer self service system that performs resource search and selection and includes a context attribute database comprising types of user contexts... |
| 6853960 |
Communications apparatus, communication system, plug-in module control method, and computer-readable recording medium where program for executing by computer is recorded |
| Feb-8-2005 |
A communications apparatus includes a required plug-in judgement unit for judging a plug-in module required for specific contents, and a plug-in deletion unit, when a specific amount of a memory storage,... |
| 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... |
| 6850950 |
Method facilitating data stream parsing for use with electronic commerce |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A parsing technique suitable for use in electronic commerce that avoids the disadvantages of known monolithic parsers. The parsing system generates code specific to each input document and data stream... |
| 6850952 |
Method and apparatus for populating multiple data marts in a single aggregation process |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A method of populating multiple data marts in a single operation from a set of transactional data held in a database in a single aggregation process, in which aggregate values are calculated only once,... |
| 6850951 |
Method and structure for relationally representing database objects |
| Feb-1-2005 |
In the present invention, a database structure is defined such that a database table having a plurality of objects each having an associated data is formed. A second table containing the relationship of... |
| 6850949 |
System and method for generating a dynamic interface via a communications network |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A system, method, and computer program product for dynamically adapting selections in an automatic phone support system is described. The invention may integrate a dynamic knowledge base of responses with... |
| 6850937 |
Word importance calculation method, document retrieving interface, word dictionary making method |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A known method for selecting words (or word sequences), which is an important aspect of information retrieval, involves the problems of inability to eliminate high-frequency common words and of often arbitrary... |
| 6850933 |
System and method for optimizing queries using materialized views and fast view matching |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A transformation-based optimizer generates rewritings by applying local algebraic transformation rules on subexpressions of a query. Application of a transformation rule produces substitute expressions,... |
| 6850934 |
Adaptive search engine query |
| Feb-1-2005 |
Embodiments provide a method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for searching for information on a network of computers using a modified search query. The search query is modified using translation... |
| 6850929 |
System and method for managing file system extended attributes |
| Feb-1-2005 |
An extended attribute data page includes extended attribute information about a number of files. The page is divided into areas, each area corresponding to a different file. A given area is further divided... |
| 6850905 |
Modular service payroll system |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A payroll system and method for determining compensation of employees for work during a pay period on one or more projects. The invention utilizes minimum employee compensation amount and the unit rate... |
| 6847989 |
Method and system for creating mail rules from existing mail |
| Jan-25-2005 |
A method in a data processing system for creating rules to process electronic messages. User input is detected moving an electronic message into a folder. In response to this user input, the characteristics... |
| 6847979 |
Conceptual factoring and unification of graphs representing semantic models |
| Jan-25-2005 |
Techniques for factoring one or more source graphs into a composite graph containing nodes representing analogous elements of the source graphs and a variability graph containing nodes representing differences... |
| 6847977 |
Grouping multimedia and streaming media search results |
| Jan-25-2005 |
A method and system for grouping metadata search results associated with media on a computer network, such as multimedia and streaming media include binning and iterative masking. The media metadata has... |
| 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... |
| 6847978 |
Automatic database statistics creation |
| Jan-25-2005 |
A system for automatic statistics creation comprises a query optimizer which automatically generates statistics derived from data in a database and selects an executable procedure from a plurality of procedures... |
| 6847976 |
Method and apparatus for significance testing and confidence interval construction based on user-specified distribution |
| Jan-25-2005 |
A computer and computer implemented method and program product for analyzing statistical data in which the data to be analyzed need not be transformed into a "Normal" distribution, thus avoiding introduction... |
