| 7031962 |
System and method for managing objects and resources with access rights embedded in nodes within a hierarchical tree structure |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A system and method for controlling access to data within a hierarchically organized document, such as an XML document. Elements may have their access rights specified, for example as a variable in an... |
| 7031941 |
Method and system for managing configuration of mechanical equipment |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A method and system is disclosed for maintaining a database of configurations of mechanical equipment. A functional configuration database is established to store functional information about an end item... |
| 7031911 |
System and method for automatic detection of collocation mistakes in documents |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A method and computer-readable medium are provided that construct a collocation mistake pattern database for use in writing in a first language by a person whose native language is a second language. The... |
| 7031846 |
Method, system, and computer software for the presentation and storage of analysis results |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A computer program product, and related systems and methods, are described that processes emission intensity data corresponding to probes of a biological probe array. The computer program includes a genotype... |
| 7031844 |
Cluster analysis of genetic microarray images |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A method for determining relative incidence of a binding substance within two biological samples is provided. The two samples are labeled with luminescent materials having different chromatic properties.... |
| 7024644 |
IC signal path resistance estimation method |
| Apr-4-2006 |
Diffusion effects during an IC fabrication process cause actual dimensions of adjacent conductors in an IC to vary from nominal dimensions specified by data defining the IC layout. A computer-aided design... |
| 7024458 |
System and method for managing mail and file |
| Apr-4-2006 |
A system and a method for managing mails and files are proposed, which are applied to a network environment e.g. Internet, allowing received mails or files to be classified and systematically stored in... |
| 7024424 |
Auto playlist generator |
| Apr-4-2006 |
A system and method for generating a list is provided. The system includes a seed item input subsystem, an item identifying subsystem, a descriptive metadata similarity determining subsystem and a list... |
| 7024418 |
Relevance calculation for a reference system in an insurance claims processing system |
| Apr-4-2006 |
An improved method and system for providing context-sensitive help and interactive search capability in an insurance claims processing system. A help information database may include one or more index... |
| 7024425 |
Method and apparatus for flexible storage and uniform manipulation of XML data in a relational database system |
| Apr-4-2006 |
Techniques are provided for XML data storage and query rewrites in relational databases. According to certain embodiments of the invention, a mechanism is provided to allow the user to store an XML document... |
| 7024419 |
Network visualization tool utilizing iterative rearrangement of nodes on a grid lattice using gradient method |
| Apr-4-2006 |
A visualization system and method for visualization of network data, which is data that represents elements and links between elements. The network data is converted into a data structure, which represents... |
| 7024423 |
Order management method and system |
| Apr-4-2006 |
A method and system for generating service forms and service orders in an order management system. To avoid entry-related mistakes, a master form is used to enter verified data about a customer and the... |
| 7024416 |
Semi-automatic index term augmentation in document retrieval |
| Apr-4-2006 |
Disclosed are methods and systems for indexing or retrieving materials accessible through computer networks. |
| 7024420 |
Run-time access techniques for database images |
| Apr-4-2006 |
Techniques to provide run-time access to a database image through a target database management system (DBMS) are described. An empty database in the target DBMS (the "target database") is created having... |
| 7024422 |
Estimation of clustering for access planning |
| Apr-4-2006 |
A method for computing clustering factor that is particularly suitable for use with existing indexes. The clustering factor is generated, by first determining clustered storage locations of records in... |
| 7024412 |
Systems and methods for database configuration migration |
| Apr-4-2006 |
Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for database configuration migration. In an embodiment, the method includes receiving an instruction to hold constant a configuration... |
| 7024413 |
Method of externalizing legacy database in ASN.1-formatted data into XML format |
| Apr-4-2006 |
A computer-readable medium is encoded with a method of externalizing legacy data from a legacy database on a data resource into an Extensible Markup Language ("XML")-compliant format where the format is... |
| 7024411 |
Method, system and computer program product for providing backup data for use in studying claims |
| Apr-4-2006 |
A method for providing backup data utilizing a remote maintenance system acquires claim information and generates a necessary backup data item from the claim information. Further, it accesses a product... |
| 7024402 |
Spatial data mining method, spatial data mining apparatus and storage medium |
| Apr-4-2006 |
A spatial data mining apparatus for calculating an optimal distance from a database, wherein spatial information, such as addresses, is stored, includes an input mechanism, for the input of an objective... |
| 7024347 |
Transaction conflict testing method and apparatus |
| Apr-4-2006 |
In verifying a logic operation of an information processing apparatus, an I/O emulator and a test program are operated in cooperation with each other and input data to the I/O emulator is automatically... |
| 7020839 |
Contents receiving system and contents receiving method |
| Mar-28-2006 |
A user can select a style sheet applied to an XML document as broadcast program information on a screen. In addition, the user can select display mode/non-display mode of broadcast program information.... |
| 7020663 |
System and method for the delivery of electronic books |
| Mar-28-2006 |
An electronic book on a computer readable medium, e.g., a CD or the like, has "real-life" pre-recorded audio (preferably, in MP3 format) and visual text (preferably, in RTF format) seamlessly linked together... |
| 7020661 |
Techniques for pruning a data object during operations that join multiple data objects |
| Mar-28-2006 |
Techniques for eliminating one or more portions of a data object from any join step of an operation that joins multiple data objects include determining that an operation joins a first data object and... |
| 7020657 |
Scalable hardware scheduler time based calendar search algorithm |
| Mar-28-2006 |
Apparatus, program product and method that schedules movement of packets within network devices, such as network processors, includes a time based calendar in which a segmented hierarchical routine is... |
| 7020658 |
Data file management system and method for browsers |
| Mar-28-2006 |
A data file management system for web browsers includes a program configured to search data files upon an activation of an event. |
| 7020659 |
System and method for managing bi-directional relationships between objects |
| Mar-28-2006 |
A bi-directional relationship manager is described for setting a new reference value for managing bi-directional relationships between objects in an object model. The bi-directional relationship manager... |
| 7020655 |
Representing database permissions as associations in computer schema |
| Mar-28-2006 |
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... |
| 7020611 |
User interface selectable real time information delivery system and method |
| Mar-28-2006 |
An information delivery system including a client device and server interconnected by a network passes data files in accordance with a well known protocol. The server creates an audio version of a displayed... |
| 7020599 |
Mean time to recover (MTTR) advisory |
| Mar-28-2006 |
A method for simulating different MTTR settings includes determining a simulated MTTR setting and providing a simulated checkpoint queue. The simulated checkpoint queue is associated with the simulated... |
| 7020561 |
Methods and systems for efficient comparison, identification, processing, and importing of gene expression data |
| Mar-28-2006 |
The present invention provides systems and methods for analyzing gene expression, gene annotation, and sample information in a relational format supporting efficient exploration and analysis, including... |
| 7020536 |
Method of building a defect database |
| Mar-28-2006 |
First, a wafer with a plurality of defects generated in a first semiconductor process is provided. A defect inspection is performed to detect the defects on the wafer. Then, an automatic defect classification... |
| 7020351 |
Method and apparatus for enhancing and indexing video and audio signals |
| Mar-28-2006 |
A method and apparatus for indexing digital video and audio signals using a digital database. A user may index the digital images by content within the images, through annotation, and the like. The database... |
| 7020254 |
Escalation tracking system |
| Mar-28-2006 |
A system for tracking billing escalation records includes a processing device configured to provide for creating, tracking and forwarding escalation records, and databases adapted to communicate with the... |
| 7017023 |
Generalized architecture for automatic storage configuration for diverse server applications |
| Mar-21-2006 |
A software architecture for automatically (i.e., programmatically) determining a storage configuration of a storage system for a certain software application. Software programs which determine the storage... |
| 7016982 |
Virtual controller with SCSI extended copy command |
| Mar-21-2006 |
A nested translated extended copy function provides direct storage-to-storage copying with no data passing through the virtual controller. In one embodiment, a method for performing an extended copy operation... |
| 7016976 |
UniqueID-based addressing in a directory server |
| Mar-21-2006 |
A method of addressing an entry in a directory server including generating a unique identifier for the entry, creating an encoded address by encoding the unique identifier into a distinguished name, and... |
| 7016917 |
System and method for storing conceptual information |
| Mar-21-2006 |
A system and method for storing conceptual information. The system stores concepts as a single object. The object includes all information relating to the concept. Therefore, the object is a self-defining... |
| 7016916 |
Method of searching multimedia data |
| Mar-21-2006 |
A method of searching multimedia data is disclosed in which a search for an image can re-performed by automatically updating weights of features and/or weights of feature elements in the respective feature... |
| 7016914 |
Performant and scalable merge strategy for text indexing |
| Mar-21-2006 |
A full-text search index system and method is generated by creating instances of a database index from an in-memory inverted list of keywords associated with a text identifier and the occurrences of the... |
| 7016915 |
Method for processing XML queries over relational data and meta-data using a relational database system |
| Mar-21-2006 |
A system, method, and computer program product for processing XML queries over relational data and meta-data using a relational database system. The invention runs a query to generate a view definition,... |
| 7016913 |
Method, system, data structures, and article of manufacture for implementing a persistent object |
| Mar-21-2006 |
Provided are a method, system, data structures and article of manufacture for implementing an array of persistent elements. A class of the array of persistent elements has a constructor. A call is received... |
| 7016912 |
Write-back to cells |
| Mar-21-2006 |
Maintaining data used for performing "what-if" analysis is disclosed. The systems and methods of the invention define an efficient mechanism allowing a user to specify how base values from a database are... |
| 7016907 |
Enumerated roles in a directory system |
| Mar-21-2006 |
Role is a comprehensive grouping mechanism used in a directory server. In a client-server directory system, roles transfer some of the complexity to the directory server. A role is defined by its role... |
| 7016906 |
Data processing method and apparatus employing OLE DB and having dual schema and auto update features |
| Mar-21-2006 |
Mapping of data source schema data types relating a server side database description into a set of OLE DB data types is rendered subject to user modification by provision of a dual Schema File at a client... |
| 7016900 |
Data cells and data cell generations |
| Mar-21-2006 |
Data cells are described containing an entity identifier ("O"), an entity type ("E") an attribute type ("A"), and an attribute value ("V"). Cells with identical O and E values constitute a cell set. Pairs... |
| 7016902 |
Flexible subscription-based event notification |
| Mar-21-2006 |
Subscription-based notification using event channels that each correspond to a particular scope. Each channel manages notifications through the use of a schema definition. The event subscriptions identify... |
| 7016904 |
Method and system for rapid insertion of various data streams into sorted tree structures |
| Mar-21-2006 |
The present invention provides the method and system that redistribute the nodes of a sorted tree to enable faster data insertion. Further, the tree typically contains a fixed number of levels, each comprising... |
| 7016901 |
System and method for distributed database management of graphic information in electronic form |
| Mar-21-2006 |
A system (10) for managing a distributed database of electronic data files generally includes at least one host platform (100) disposed at a first site, at least one storage facility (200)... |
| 7016894 |
Systems and methods for retrieving data from an unnormalized database |
| Mar-21-2006 |
Systems, methods, and storage mediums for retrieving data are provided. A data definition information having at least one display item and at least one calculation item for representing an unnormalized... |
| 7013341 |
Output area interpretation control |
| Mar-14-2006 |
An apparatus for and method of utilizing an Internet terminal coupled to the world wide web to interface with an existing proprietary data base management system through a user interface which permits... |
