| 6791585 |
Computer method and system for reconciling disparate data archival mediums |
| Sep-14-2004 |
A computer method suitable for reconciling disparate data archival mediums. The method obviates the need for writing programs that are specific or uniquely tailored to each data archival medium, wherein... |
| 6789115 |
System for collecting, analyzing, and reporting high volume multi-web server usage |
| Sep-7-2004 |
A system for capturing, analyzing, storing and reporting system-users' usage of multiple internet and/or intranet web servers. At each web server in the system, the actions by the system-user create a... |
| 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... |
| 6789089 |
Automated planning method |
| Sep-7-2004 |
A computer-based automated planning method utilizes a record for an individual which record contains achievements obtained from one or more sources. Each achievement is translated into a course equivalent... |
| 6789085 |
System and method for maintaining a user's state within a database table and for accommodating null values |
| Sep-7-2004 |
A system and method are provided for delivering batches of data to a client, while maintaining the client's state in the accessed database. The system and method eliminate the need for a web server to... |
| 6789086 |
System and method for retrieving registry data |
| Sep-7-2004 |
Retrieving information form from the registry include by creating a registry interface database containing information regarding registry data and uniquely identifying every registry entry for a registry... |
| 6789084 |
Method for generating numerical values indicative of frequencies of selected features in objects, and a computer system implementing the method |
| Sep-7-2004 |
A method is described that includes arranging columns of a matrix in sum total order, wherein the matrix has one or more rows, and multiple intersecting columns. Rows represent objects, and columns represent... |
| 6789083 |
Methods and system for browsing large text files |
| Sep-7-2004 |
A system and associated methods for rapidly displaying large text files. The system preferably includes a client process in communications with a server process. In a first embodiment, the client process... |
| 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... |
| 6789072 |
Method and apparatus for searching recorded digital data streams using packet arrival time information |
| Sep-7-2004 |
A method and apparatus for recording time information for received digital data streams to be recorded on a recording medium such as a digital video disk and searching the recorded digital data streams... |
| 6785694 |
Defining a sequence of files in the same file container by placing a numerical value in a header of the file |
| Aug-31-2004 |
A method and system for defining a sequence of files by placing a numerical value in the header of the file, without using an index. Newly-positioned files are positioned between existing files by the... |
| 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... |
| 6785688 |
Internet streaming media workflow architecture |
| Aug-31-2004 |
A method and system for utilizing metadata to search for media, such as multimedia and streaming media, includes searching for the media, receiving results, extracting metadata associated with the media,... |
| 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... |
| 6785687 |
System for and method of efficient, expandable storage and retrieval of small datasets |
| Aug-31-2004 |
An adaptive digital tree data structure supports scalability by encoding type bits within unused data bits of the root pointer word or, as the population increases to support it, into an additional word.... |
| 6785683 |
Categorization and presentation tool for code resources |
| Aug-31-2004 |
A technique for rapid retrieval and navigation of assets stored on a computer system involves defining a taxonomy and classification rules according to asset-specific criteria, identifying the stored assets,... |
| 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... |
| 6785669 |
Methods and apparatus for flexible indexing of text for use in similarity searches |
| Aug-31-2004 |
A method of performing a flexible similarity search is provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of: (i) constructing an indexed representation of one or more documents to be used in... |
| 6785582 |
Integrated tracking system |
| Aug-31-2004 |
The present invention relates to an integrated tracking system and method for providing a company and its customers with information about part and repair status. The tracking system broadly comprises... |
| 6782505 |
Method and system for generating structured data from semi-structured data sources |
| Aug-24-2004 |
A system and method for generating structured data outputs from a semi-structured data source. The steps of this method include generating an example output from an example generator. The example output... |
| 6782392 |
System software architecture for a passenger entertainment system, method and article of manufacture |
| Aug-24-2004 |
A passenger entertainment system is configured and operated using system software to route and process passenger transactions from requesting computer processors and dispatch appropriate resources to fulfill... |
| 6782401 |
Method and apparatus for implementing a reliable open file system |
| Aug-24-2004 |
Systems and methods of servicing requests of a first file system communicated in accordance with a first storage protocol using a storage system that is responsive to requests communicated according to... |
| 6782390 |
Execution of multiple models using data segmentation |
| Aug-24-2004 |
A method executed on a computer for modeling expected behavior is described. The method includes scoring records of a dataset that is segmented into a plurality of data segments using a plurality of models... |
| 6782391 |
Intelligent knowledge base content categorizer (IKBCC) |
| Aug-24-2004 |
Disclosed is a method for improving the quality of Metadata and information resident on an Internet self-service resource such as a knowledge base (KB). The present invention assists in reducing and/or... |
| 6782380 |
Method and system for indexing and searching contents of extensible mark-up language (XML) documents |
| Aug-24-2004 |
A method and a computer system for indexing and searching the data content of nested field records, such as those in Extensible Markup Language (XML). The system includes an indexing and searching engine... |
| 6782319 |
Method for organizing map data |
| Aug-24-2004 |
A method of organizing map data on a physical storage medium is disclosed. The map data represents geographic features located in a geographic region. The method identifies at least one dense area in the... |
| 6779151 |
Storing objects in a spreadsheet |
| Aug-17-2004 |
A spreadsheet application provides a rich programming and modeling environment. The spreadsheet application of the present invention does this by recognizing a new "object" data type in addition to the... |
| 6779001 |
Transactional file system for realizing atomic update of plural files by transactions |
| Aug-17-2004 |
A transactional file system capable of realizing atomic update of plural files by transactions. In the transactional file system, a log entry containing information for validating all updates made by transaction... |
| 6778993 |
Generic attribute database system |
| Aug-17-2004 |
Embodiments of the invention provide a method and apparatus for storing multiple items across different categories in a database. One embodiment of the present invention provides a database that includes... |
| 6778994 |
Pharmacovigilance database |
| Aug-17-2004 |
A system and method for developing a pharmacovigilance database from source data and reference data. The unedited source data contains verbatim terms. The method includes parsing source data into a relational... |
| 6778995 |
System and method for efficiently generating cluster groupings in a multi-dimensional concept space |
| Aug-17-2004 |
A system and method for efficiently generating cluster groupings in a multi-dimensional concept space is described. A plurality of terms are extracted from each document in a collection of stored unstructured... |
| 6778988 |
Method and apparatus for delivering a web page to a client device based on printed publications and publisher controlled links |
| Aug-17-2004 |
The system described herein generates a search index and a hyperlink database associated with a plurality of printed publications from different publishers. The search index includes a plurality of words... |
| 6778989 |
System and method for constructing and viewing an electronic document |
| Aug-17-2004 |
The electronic document composer stored in the memory and executable by the processor is utilized for drafting a first electronic document. A sender composes the first electronic document including at... |
| 6778979 |
System for automatically generating queries |
| Aug-17-2004 |
A system generates a query using an entity extractor, a categorizer, a query generator, and a short run aspect vector. The entity extractor identifies a set of entities in selected document content for... |
| 6778986 |
Computer method and apparatus for determining site type of a web site |
| Aug-17-2004 |
Computer method and apparatus identifies content owner of a Web site. A collecting step or element collects candidate names from the subject Web site. For each candidate name, a test module (or testing... |
| 6778983 |
Apparatus and method for accessing HTML files using an SQL query |
| Aug-17-2004 |
An apparatus and method allow accessing data in an HTML file (such as a JSP or ASP file) via an SQL query. A database table is created for each HTML file, and a record is created in each database table... |
| 6778975 |
Search engine for selecting targeted messages |
| Aug-17-2004 |
A search engine receives query terms from a client. In response, the search engine executes a search on a web directory to identify zero or more documents that match the query terms. The identified documents... |
| 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... |
| 6775681 |
Evaluation of grouping sets by reduction to group-by clause, with or without a rollup operator, using temporary tables |
| Aug-10-2004 |
Methods are provided for efficiently evaluating database queries that include a grouping sets specification, by reducing the grouping sets specification to one or more combinations of groupings that are... |
| 6775682 |
Evaluation of rollups with distinct aggregates by using sequence of sorts and partitioning by measures |
| Aug-10-2004 |
Methods are provided for efficiently evaluating database queries including a rollup operator and a distinct aggregate function. Using a sequence of sorts, duplicate record elimination performed on previous... |
| 6775680 |
High level assembler metamodel |
| Aug-10-2004 |
A method of and a system for processing an enterpise an application request on an end user application and an application server. This is accomplished by initiating the application request on the end user... |
| 6775679 |
Building a meta file system from file system cells |
| Aug-10-2004 |
File system cells are linked together to form a meta file system that appears to a user or application program to be a single file system. Each file system cell may have a conventional file system format,... |
| 6775678 |
Data structure and method of storing a digital document |
| Aug-10-2004 |
A data structure is provided for storing a digital document to be rendered on a printer or viewer. The data structure includes a plurality of objects that define the content and layout of the document.... |
| 6775677 |
System, method, and program product for identifying and describing topics in a collection of electronic documents |
| Aug-10-2004 |
To identify and describe one or more topics in one or more documents in a document set, a term set process creates a basic term set from the document set where the term set comprises one or more basic... |
| 6775676 |
Defer dataset creation to improve system manageability for a database system |
| Aug-10-2004 |
A defer dataset creation system creates database objects at a computer connected to a data storage device. Initially, a command to create a database object is received. A database object definition for... |
| 6775669 |
Retrieval processing method and apparatus and memory medium storing program for same |
| Aug-10-2004 |
An information retrieval apparatus, method and memory medium storing a program therefor provide for storing, in a memory, identification information of information sources to be queried, in accordance... |
| 6775659 |
Methods and devices for mapping data files |
| Aug-10-2004 |
A method of mapping interconnections between a plurality of data files, such as files of the world wide web. The method comprises a step of, for a first file, in a display area displaying a first region.... |
| 6775402 |
Method and apparatus for creating a virtual microscope slide |
| Aug-10-2004 |
A method and apparatus are disclosed for constructing a virtual microscope slide comprised of digitally scanned images from a microscope specimen. The digitally scanned images are arranged in a tiled format... |
| 6772411 |
Software performance and management system |
| Aug-3-2004 |
A system and method for monitoring resource usage in a software system such as a database system is described. The user selects an application to monitor through a user-interface. On selection, one or... |
| 6772168 |
Object relationship management system |
| Aug-3-2004 |
A method for maintaining relationships between entities in a computer system, each entity having a plurality nodes, includes the steps of: modifying one of the plurality of nodes; searching for a plurality... |
