| 6847850 |
Process control loop analysis system |
| Jan-25-2005 |
The system and method disclosed herein allow a user to retrieve data from various process control loops and organize that data in dynamic manner to allow for multiple types of data analysis. A user may... |
| 6845487 |
Method and an apparatus for implementing a key frame |
| Jan-18-2005 |
The invention relates to a key frame such as a KeyFrameDS. A list of key, length, and value (KLV) attribute groups are used in the KeyFrameDS. The KeyFrameDS may be modified by changing, for example, an... |
| 6845380 |
Method and system of valuing transformation between extensible markup language (XML) documents |
| Jan-18-2005 |
A method and system of valuing transformation between XML documents. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention discloses a method for calculating a transformation cost for a transformation... |
| 6845379 |
Sound data processing system and processing method |
| Jan-18-2005 |
In a sound data setting apparatus for setting an output format of each sound to output sounds corresponding to a plurality of sound data, metadata indicating contents of each sound data is acquired and... |
| 6845370 |
Advanced information gathering for targeted activities |
| Jan-18-2005 |
An agent based system assists in preparing an individual for an upcoming meeting by helping him/her retrieve relevant information about the meeting from various sources based on preexisting information... |
| 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... |
| 6842781 |
Download and processing of a network management application on a network device |
| Jan-11-2005 |
A method and system is provided for performing a network management task on a network device. The network device loads a network management application capable of performing the network management task... |
| 6842775 |
Method and system for modifying mail rules |
| Jan-11-2005 |
A method in a data processing system for modifying rules to process electronic messages. User input is detected moving an electronic message into a folder, wherein a rule is associated with the folder,... |
| 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... |
| 6842750 |
Symbolic simulation driven netlist simplification |
| Jan-11-2005 |
The present invention is directed to a simplification method for an arbitrary library. In aspects of the present invention, the method does not rely on specific properties of the library elements and has... |
| 6842748 |
Usage based strength between related information in an information retrieval system |
| Jan-11-2005 |
An information retrieval system in accordance with the principles of the present invention maintains a database that defines a relational association between a plurality of informational items in the system.... |
| 6842747 |
Method and apparatus for a disc drive interface |
| Jan-11-2005 |
Aspects of the invention include a method and apparatus to transfer data from a peripheral device directly to a disc drive storage system. In one aspect, the disc drive uses a transfer protocol that determines... |
| 6839722 |
Method for referencing time-related entries in different files in a planning program |
| Jan-4-2005 |
A method for referencing time-related entries in different files in a planning program for project planning, and for determining and optically reproducing any time delays in the project implementation,... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 6839711 |
Configurable space-time performance trade-off in multidimensional data base systems |
| Jan-4-2005 |
A multi-dimensional database includes data organized into hierarchical levels. For each level within a dimension, predefined thresholds are set to determine which intersections are precomputed and which... |
| 6836780 |
Method and system for accessing data in legacy applications |
| Dec-28-2004 |
A method and apparatus is presented for mapping legacy application data. The mapping process consists of trail recording, mapping, and template creation. In the trail recording phase, user interaction... |
| 6836778 |
Techniques for changing XML content in a relational database |
| Dec-28-2004 |
Techniques are provided for changing data for an XML construct in an SQL/XML compliant database management system (DBMS). The DBMS allows instances of XML type to represent XML constructs, such as XML... |
| 6836774 |
Hierarchical caching techniques for efficient dynamic page generation |
| Dec-28-2004 |
A system for implementing a distributed electronic publishing environment with dynamic content. With this approach, the design of the page and content of the page remain separate, and yet automatic page... |
| 6836763 |
Billing system and method |
| Dec-28-2004 |
A bill editor, generator, messaging and insert system and method comprises a portion of a bill production processor designed to create monthly billing statements which are sent to customers and which detail... |
| 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... |
| 6834276 |
Database system and method for data acquisition and perusal |
| Dec-21-2004 |
A data acquisition and perusal system and method including a database selection module, a database index generator module and a search module. The database selection module enables selection of a plurality... |
| 6834279 |
Method and system for inclusion hash joins and exclusion hash joins in relational databases |
| Dec-21-2004 |
A method, system and apparatus for performing an inclusion hash join and an exclusion hash join using a hash join are provided. The inner and outer tables are transposed to left and right tables, respectively.... |
| 6834275 |
Transaction processing system using efficient file update processing and recovery processing |
| Dec-21-2004 |
A transaction processing system capable of easily and efficiently realizing the file update processing by a plurality of transactions operating in parallel as well as the recovery processing at a time... |
| 6833842 |
Quantitative decision support program |
| Dec-21-2004 |
A word processing tool for idea generation represents text-identified ideas of a database in either the form of a text outline or in the form of a tree structure of nodes. Ideas of a given level can be... |
| 6832226 |
Method of providing data dictionary-driven web-based database applications |
| Dec-14-2004 |
A method for creating a web-based database application that is data dictionary driven is disclosed. A web site, containing various computer programs, data for a database application and a data dictionary... |
| 6832220 |
Method and apparatus for file searching, accessing file identifiers from reference page |
| Dec-14-2004 |
Given a destination(s) and search criteria, the destination(s) is searched to identify files that satisfy the search criteria. For each such file, a file identifier (such a uniform resource locator (URL))... |
| 6831668 |
Analytical reporting on top of multidimensional data model |
| Dec-14-2004 |
An analytical reporting functionality provides full-fledged dynamic reporting capabilities on top of a multidimensional data model. A GUI facilitates replicating the same reporting data for various elements... |
| 6831663 |
System and process for automatically explaining probabilistic predictions |
| Dec-14-2004 |
The system and method of the present invention automatically assigns "scores" to the predictor/variable value pairs of a conventional probabilistic model to measure the relative impact or influence of... |
| 6829754 |
Method and system for checking for power errors in ASIC designs |
| Dec-7-2004 |
A method for checking power errors in an ASIC design is disclosed. The method includes providing a power checker software program with one or more power checker modules that each check a particular type... |
| 6829617 |
Providing a snapshot of a subset of a file system |
| Dec-7-2004 |
A system, method and computer readable medium for providing a snapshot of a subset of a file system. A first snapshot of a first set of source files in a file system is generated. The first snapshot includes... |
| 6829618 |
Disc layout and optimization process |
| Dec-7-2004 |
A method and apparatus for Disc Layout and Optimization (DLO) receives input such as a list of disc elements, a list of scene links, compiled code files, and still media files. The DLO also obtains information,... |
| 6829620 |
Table-level unicode handling in a database engine |
| Dec-7-2004 |
A system, a program storage device and a software method for efficient handling of multiple Unicode formats in the same database on a table level is provided. The routines of the method are used to create... |
| 6829615 |
Object type relationship graphical user interface |
| Dec-7-2004 |
A computer- and software-based apparatus and method is disclosed for managing and presenting information as a domain of data objects which can be grouped according to their category or "object type," and... |
| 6829616 |
Method, system, and program for implementing a database trigger |
| Dec-7-2004 |
Provided is a method, system, and program for implementing a database trigger. Upon detecting a trigger event, a determination is made of at least one row in a base table affected by the trigger event.... |
| 6829527 |
Relational database for maintenance information for complex systems |
| Dec-7-2004 |
A relational database is for relating maintenance information that differs for each of a plurality of complex systems, such as a plurality of differing aircraft, using a common database structure so as... |
| 6826664 |
Interleaving synchronous data and asynchronous data in a single data storage file |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A method and apparatus for storing interleaved synchronous and asynchronous data in a single data storage file is disclosed. Synchronous data and asynchronous data are stored in an interleaved order. Synchronous... |
| 6826582 |
Method and system for using file systems for content management |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A file system and method serves to create and manage content. The file system includes at least one directory having at least one file containing data, but about which at least one file has no information.... |
| 6826578 |
Method, system, and computer product for collecting and distributing clinical data for data mining |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A method for collecting and distributing clinical data for data mining. The method comprises selecting a local report for collection, where the local report is a structured reporting object and includes... |
| 6826576 |
Very-large-scale automatic categorizer for web content |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A method and apparatus for efficiently classifying and categorizing data objects such as electronic text, graphics, and audio based documents within very-large-scale hierarchical classification trees is... |
| 6826571 |
Method and apparatus for dynamically customizing and extending functions of a server program to enable and restrict functions of the server |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A flexibly adaptable, i.e., configurable and/or extensible, asset management system is disclosed for processing and querying assets, representing data. The system comprises three layers: a Client Application... |
| 6826575 |
Data miner |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A system and method for selecting forecasting performance metrics from among a plurality of performance metrics includes a data mining kernel that receives performance metrics from a collection agent.... |
| 6826572 |
System and method allowing advertisers to manage search listings in a pay for placement search system using grouping |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A system for advertisers to efficiently manage their search listings in placement database search system includes grouping means for managing multiple categories for the search listings and query means... |
| 6826574 |
Automatic profiler |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A method and system for generating and utilizing a profile of a user of a computer-based information handling system is disclosed. The information handling system is searched by a profiler for files stored... |
| 6826559 |
Hybrid category mapping for on-line query tool |
| Nov-30-2004 |
Disclosed is a system for performing online data queries. The system for performing online data queries is a distributed computer system with a plurality of server nodes each fully redundant and capable... |
| 6826518 |
Method for distributed agent-based non-expert simulation of manufacturing process behavior |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A method for distributed agent based non-expert simulation of manufacturing process behavior on a single-processor computer comprises the steps of: object modeling a manufacturing technique having a plurality... |
| 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... |
| 6823342 |
Method and system for capturing, managing, and disseminating manufacturing knowledge |
| Nov-23-2004 |
A independent method for configuring and extracting detailed manufacturing knowledge for fabricating an object, tool or part and storing the data to a data file or data structure. The method includes extracting... |
| 6823255 |
System and method for distributing information for storage media |
| Nov-23-2004 |
A system and method for distributing information for storage media, and in particular, for distributing updated navigation data, such as geographical data and navigation application programs, contained... |
| 6820135 |
Modeless event-driven data transformation |
| Nov-16-2004 |
A system and method is described for event-driven data transformation. Generally, the system and method is directed to a transformation engine that iterates through one or more data sources, transforms... |