| 7013308 |
Knowledge storage and retrieval system and method |
| Mar-14-2006 |
A system and method for representing, storing and retrieving real-world knowledge on a computer or network of computers is disclosed. Knowledge is broken down into permanent atomic "facts" which can be... |
| 7013311 |
Providing XML cursor support on an XML repository built on top of a relational database system |
| Mar-14-2006 |
A system and method are provided for XML query cursor implementation through the steps of query translation and processing, query result navigation, and positioned update. An XML query cursor implemented... |
| 7013310 |
Method and apparatus for retrieving and processing data |
| Mar-14-2006 |
Data is captured from a web site or other data source. Data is extracted from the web page using a data harvesting script or other data acquisition routine. The extracted data is then normalized and stored... |
| 7013309 |
Method and apparatus for extracting anchorable information units from complex PDF documents |
| Mar-14-2006 |
A method for extracting Anchorable Information Units (AIUs), from a Portable Document Format (PDF) file, which may either be created using either an editor or by scanning in documents. The method includes... |
| 7013307 |
System for organizing an annotation structure and for querying data and annotations |
| Mar-14-2006 |
A method and apparatus for capturing annotations about database material in a way that allows queries with conditions or predicates on both the database material and the annotations. Database material... |
| 7013298 |
Method and system for automated data storage and retrieval |
| Mar-14-2006 |
A system and method for creating links between first records stored on a database and references to the first records within a second record, the system including a data reference list including keywords... |
| 7013306 |
XML input definition table for transforming XML data to internal format |
| Mar-14-2006 |
An apparatus for and method of accommodating an XML document within a legacy data base management system. The XML document is defined by a Document Type Definition (DTD). The XML document is converted... |
| 7013300 |
Locating, filtering, matching macro-context from indexed database for searching context where micro-context relevant to textual input by user |
| Mar-14-2006 |
A data extraction tool is provided for cataloging information in an information source for searching by a user. The tool mines information from the information source and organizes the information, or... |
| 7013301 |
Audio fingerprinting system and method |
| Mar-14-2006 |
An audio fingerprinting system and method. A server receives an audio fingerprint of a first audio piece, searches a database for the audio fingerprint, retrieves an audio profile vector associated with... |
| 7013290 |
Personalized interactive digital catalog profiling |
| Mar-14-2006 |
A system and method of interactive cataloging of products and services by end users across multiple sales and marketing channels provide each end user with access to domain-independent catalog data from... |
| 7010555 |
System and method for compacting a computer system heap |
| Mar-7-2006 |
A system and method for incrementally compacting a computer system heap is presented. A heap, such as a garbage-collected heap in a Java environment, is divided into logical regions. When the heap is becoming... |
| 7010550 |
System for and method of golf performance recordation and analysis |
| Mar-7-2006 |
A system for and method of golf performance recordation and analysis are provided. In accordance with the present invention, a user records hole-level and shot-level performance data for rounds of golf... |
| 7010552 |
Optimizing command execution in database systems that provide support for updatable scrollable cursors |
| Mar-7-2006 |
A procedure optimizes command execution in a database system. According to one embodiment, the database system stores data records on data pages, and provides an identifier for each data page. The identifier... |
| 7010549 |
Method and system for enabling training of field service personnel and field service of machines |
| Mar-7-2006 |
A method and system are disclosed for enabling training of field service personnel such as field engineers and field service of machines such as medical diagnostic machines, e.g., CT, MRI, and x-ray machines.... |
| 7010542 |
Result set formatting and processing |
| Mar-7-2006 |
The select list for the query is thus constructed such that it produces a result set having a predefined structure. Columns representing identifier properties of an entity are added to the select list.... |
| 7010544 |
Method and system for capturing, managing and disseminating manufacturing knowledge |
| Mar-7-2006 |
An 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... |
| 7010541 |
Man-hour management system |
| Mar-7-2006 |
A man-hour management system (1 in FIG. 2) which manages man-hours for producing a product, comprising a walk man-hour conversion table (12) for performing registration management of... |
| 7010543 |
Determining a characteristic function from a matrix according to a scheme |
| Mar-7-2006 |
Computer-supported methods and systems are disclosed for determining a characteristic function from a matrix that contains a defined number of data records having classifiable features. The matrix may... |
| 7010540 |
System and method for maintaining a user's state within a database table |
| Mar-7-2006 |
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... |
| 7010538 |
Method for distributed RDSMS |
| Mar-7-2006 |
A method and potential embodiment for processing streaming data records is described which provides facilities for defining and naming multiple input and output data streams (along with their related transformation,... |
| 7010529 |
Method and mechanism for dependency tracking at low granularity levels |
| Mar-7-2006 |
A method and mechanism for tracking dependencies at low granularity levels in a database system is disclosed. An embodiment utilities commit time values at low granularity levels which are associated with... |
| 7010524 |
Validating multiple execution plans for database queries |
| Mar-7-2006 |
Validation of large numbers of alternative execution plans for a database query, either an exhaustive enumeration of the complete space of alternatives, or else an unbiased random sample, is performed... |
| 7010522 |
Method of performing approximate substring indexing |
| Mar-7-2006 |
Approximate substring indexing is accomplished by decomposing each string in a database into overlapping "positional q-grams", sequences of a predetermined length q, and containing information regarding... |
| 7010515 |
Text comparison apparatus |
| Mar-7-2006 |
A text comparison apparatus computes the occurrence count of text elements, stores those text elements that have an occurrence count of at least a occurrence count threshold for storage in a text element... |
| 7010516 |
Method and system for rowcount estimation with multi-column statistics and histograms |
| Mar-7-2006 |
The invention provides methods for optimizing a database management system process of a query. The methods are suitable for execution in a properly configured computer system. In an embodiment of the invention,... |
| 7010497 |
System and method for evaluating and/or monitoring effectiveness of on-line advertising |
| Mar-7-2006 |
A system and a method for measuring and monitoring effectiveness of on-line advertising are provided. The system and method provide a code attached to, for example, an advertising banner of a company that... |
| 7010146 |
Database constructing system |
| Mar-7-2006 |
In order to provide a database constructing system in which information from a plurality of persons can be automatically collected without being limited to a customer visiting a store and personal goods... |
| 7007034 |
File structure for storing content objects in a data repository |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A data structure and method are provided for storing a content object stored (e.g., a custom compilation or prepublished work) as a group of hierarchically related content entities Each content entity... |
| 7007048 |
System for information life cycle management model for data migration and replication |
| Feb-28-2006 |
The invention provides a system for information lifecycle management of storage data on a storage network architecture. The system provides for bi-directional data transfer between an information lifecycle... |
| 7007037 |
Opaque types |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A method and apparatus are provided for handling within a database system data items that are associated with data types whose native structure is not known to the database system. The data items are stored... |
| 7007035 |
Parallel object-oriented decision tree system |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A data mining decision tree system that uncovers patterns, associations, anomalies, and other statistically significant structures in data by reading and displaying data files, extracting relevant features... |
| 7007036 |
Method and apparatus for embedding configuration data |
| Feb-28-2006 |
The present invention provides an apparatus and a method for embedding information from a first configuration data set having data structures into an embedded processing system, wherein embedding the information... |
| 7007026 |
System for controlling access to and generation of localized application values |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A system and method for controlling generation of and access to localized application values to applications. The system includes an administrative interface linked to a running application and to a communications... |
| 7007024 |
Hashing objects into multiple directories for better concurrency and manageability |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A data storage methodology wherein a hashing algorithm is applied to break a directory object experiencing frequent concurrent accesses from a number of client or manager applications into a predetermined... |
| 7007018 |
Business vocabulary data storage using multiple inter-related hierarchies |
| Feb-28-2006 |
Techniques for responding to a request for data from a server operated by an entity or enterprise on a network include generating and storing a first concept in association with a first relationship of... |
| 7007016 |
Support for concurrent active SQL statements having shared SQL context information |
| Feb-28-2006 |
An SQL database management system for executing SQL requests from applications. The SQL database management system includes a hierarchical arrangement of data structures comprising packages, section entries,... |
| 7007012 |
Process for searching for files when drive configurations of processing apparatuses are changed |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A music piece managing unit judges whether or not a music piece file name corresponding to a music piece ID received from a playing processing unit exists in a corresponding music piece file storing unit,... |
| 7007009 |
Representation for data used in query optimization |
| Feb-28-2006 |
Optimizers must work with numeric data from a variety of sources including column statistics, estimated filter factors, record counts estimated costs and the like. Embodiments provided herein define and... |
| 7006979 |
Methods and systems for creating models for marketing campaigns |
| Feb-28-2006 |
Methods and systems for increasing efficiency of a marketing campaign are disclosed. The method uses a system including a database containing customer demographic data and includes the steps of building... |
| 7003528 |
Method and system for web management |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A web management system including a file system caching web pages in a web site. The web management system parses attributes to generate the web pages and stores the web pages in the file system. |
| 7003526 |
System and method for loading commercial web sites |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A system and method in a network computer environment for loading data into a database using a browser are provided. One or more raw informational items are obtained from a data source. The raw informational... |
| 7003527 |
Methods and apparatus for managing devices within storage area networks |
| Feb-21-2006 |
Mechanisms and techniques provide a management application providing an enterprise storage area network application programming interface for managing elements in a storage area network. The management... |
| 7003522 |
System and method for incorporating smart tags in online content |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A system and method is provided for integrating and executing smart tags in online content for display by a computing application on a client computer without the deployment of client side code. The computing... |
| 7003525 |
System and method for defining, refining, and personalizing communications policies in a notification platform |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A system and method is provided for personalizing and refining policies within a general notification platform. The system includes a profile definition and selection system that receives contextual information... |
| 7003523 |
Configurable software system for automatically storing computer files |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A configurable software system for automatically storing and indexing computer files. Information about the usage characteristics of a computer file are compared against a second set of data, for example,... |
| 7000180 |
Methods, systems, and processes for the design and creation of rich-media applications via the internet |
| Feb-14-2006 |
Rich-media applications are designed and created via the Internet. A host computer system, containing processes for creating rich-media applications, is accessed from a remote user computer system via... |
| 7000182 |
assistant for creation of layouts or reports for databases |
| Feb-14-2006 |
An assistant for the creation of layouts/reports for databases is disclosed. A layout for a database is the arrangement of information for the database such as for data entry or screen viewing, and a report... |
| 6999977 |
Method and apparatus for change data capture in a database system |
| Feb-14-2006 |
A method of change data captured is disclosed, in which modifications made to on-line transaction processing (OLTP) tables (e.g. inserts, updates, and deletes) are maintained in a database object, referred... |
| 6999972 |
System for processing objects for storage in a document or other storage system |
| Feb-14-2006 |
The invention is directed to a system for processing data to be stored in a document-imaging system that includes a posting processor programmed for receiving at least one object containing the data; a... |
| 6999970 |
Write-back to cells |
| Feb-14-2006 |
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... |
