| 6931410 |
Method, apparatus, and program for separate representations of file system locations from referring file systems |
| Aug-16-2005 |
A system provides referencing from one file system server to another through the use of a file system location database, improving movement and replication of file systems. When a file system is moved... |
| 6931391 |
Systems and methods for generating prediction queries |
| Aug-16-2005 |
Systems and methods are provided for generating prediction queries to help a user build and execute prediction queries. A user interface (UI) is provided that is easy to use and understand in connection... |
| 6928487 |
Computer system, method, and business method for automating business-to-business communications |
| Aug-9-2005 |
An apparatus, method, and method for doing business allows two business partners to communicate with each other in an architected manner. A first company monitors for changes to its internal data structure... |
| 6928452 |
Tiered and content based database searching |
| Aug-9-2005 |
A method and apparatus for facilitating efficient database searching for records referenced by a data reference, the method including examining a data reference and related information to identify markup... |
| 6928458 |
System and method for translating synchronization information between two networks based on different synchronization protocols |
| Aug-9-2005 |
A system and method is described for translating events originally identified as "change" events in one replication protocol to "add" events in another replication protocol where appropriate. More particularly,... |
| 6928456 |
Method of tracking objects for application modifications |
| Aug-9-2005 |
A method of directly reading addresses from flash memory using an object tracking table is described. Some applications such as K-Java typically require their data to be stored contiguous in memory. In... |
| 6928451 |
Storage system having means for acquiring execution information of database management system |
| Aug-9-2005 |
A storage system for providing a preferable data access performance by performing controls considering database management system (DBMS) execution information or database process priorities, by acquiring... |
| 6928450 |
Storage apparatus acquiring static information related to database management system |
| Aug-9-2005 |
A storage apparatus acquires static constituent information of a database management system (DBMS) through a network by using a DBMS information acquisition/communication program, DBMS information communication... |
| 6928448 |
System and method to match linguistic structures using thesaurus information |
| Aug-9-2005 |
A system and method for evaluating similarity among multiple data structures are provided. In one embodiment, a number of entries are created in a database and a relative entropy value corresponding to... |
| 6928449 |
Mechanism for facilitating backtracking |
| Aug-9-2005 |
In processing a source entity with a transformation entity, an action set forth in a portion of the transformation entity is executed. A portion of the source entity is the subject of this action. This... |
| 6928446 |
System and method for data storage and retrieval |
| Aug-9-2005 |
An improved method for creating and searching data files in a database is described. The system and method uses a memory in which is stored a main data file having a plurality of data records each having... |
| 6928443 |
Framework for creating search systems of networked resources |
| Aug-9-2005 |
A modular and flexible framework for creating search systems of networked resources. The framework utilizes an abstraction layer between a user of network resources and the underlying resource types and... |
| 6928432 |
System and method for indexing electronic text |
| Aug-9-2005 |
A new and useful updating tool is provided for indexing electronic text in a highly integrated electronic text indexing and search system. The integrated system encompasses a concept model, a query model,... |
| 6928433 |
Automatic hierarchical categorization of music by metadata |
| Aug-9-2005 |
A method, performed by software executing on the processor of a portable music playback device, that automatically files tracks according to hierarchical structure of categories to organize tracks in a... |
| 6928428 |
Distributed confidential contextual querying |
| Aug-9-2005 |
For distributed querying of confidential information, a querying data structure is constructed from the confidential information on the computer at which the confidential information resides. The querying... |
| 6928427 |
Efficient computational techniques for authorization control |
| Aug-9-2005 |
In an authorization system, access is defined by rules, roles and active rules. These definitions are preprocessed to form a bit array for each of a plurality of roles representing the rules that apply... |
| 6925468 |
Configuring systems for generating business transaction reports using processing relationships among entities of an organization |
| Aug-2-2005 |
Business data (including transactional data) may be gathered, stored, sorted, and/or collated into financial service organization (FSO) reports used by various entities of a FSO. A processing relationship... |
| 6925469 |
Digital entertainment service platform |
| Aug-2-2005 |
The present invention is directed to an open business platform that provides an end-to-end solution for managing, distributing, and/or retailing digital media assets from various content suppliers. In... |
| 6925470 |
Method and apparatus for database mapping of XML objects into a relational database |
| Aug-2-2005 |
A method and apparatus for representing an XML data structure as a fixed set of tables in relational database involves grouping at least one XML node and possibly any sub-node into a relationship, generating... |
| 6925461 |
Parallel random proxy usage for large scale web access |
| Aug-2-2005 |
A system and method efficiently and anonymously retrieves large scale Web data through a restricted query interface. A number of proxy servers are utilized to permit parallel access to a target Web server... |
| 6925456 |
Information searching apparatus and method for online award entry |
| Aug-2-2005 |
Location information of content information (whose location is unpublished on a network) transmitted by a location unpublished information transmitting unit is stored to a database. A web page (containing... |
| 6925459 |
Apparatus and method for hindering multiple http submission requests |
| Aug-2-2005 |
An apparatus and method inhibit multiple submission requests by placing an intermediate web page between the page where the user submits information and the following page. After a preset period of time... |
| 6925436 |
Indexing with translation model for feature regularization |
| Aug-2-2005 |
An audio indexing system including, in addition to a speech recognition subsystem for converting the audio information into a textual form and an indexing subsystem for extracting the features to be used... |
| 6925389 |
Process for discriminating between biological states based on hidden patterns from biological data |
| Aug-2-2005 |
The invention describes a process for determining a biological state through the discovery and analysis of hidden or non-obvious, discriminatory biological data patterns. The biological data can be from... |
| 6925197 |
Method and system for name-face/voice-role association |
| Aug-2-2005 |
A method for providing name-face/voice-role association includes determining whether a closed captioned text accompanies a video sequence, providing one of text recognition and speech to text conversion... |
| 6922704 |
Method for generating application specific input files |
| Jul-26-2005 |
A method for generating application-specific input files for applications that require input files in varying file formats, where data for specifying industrial equipment are stored in a database of a... |
| 6922696 |
Lattice-based security classification system and method |
| Jul-26-2005 |
Despite advances in recent years in the area of mandatory access control in database systems, today's information repositories remain vulnerable to inference and data association attacks that can result... |
| 6922700 |
System and method for similarity indexing and searching in high dimensional space |
| Jul-26-2005 |
A system and method for providing similarity indexing and searching in multi-dimensional databases. In one aspect, given a set of data points in a multidimensional space, the values of the data points... |
| 6922697 |
Structured document preparation method and computer-readable recording medium on which a structured document is recorded |
| Jul-26-2005 |
The invention provides a structured document preparation method wherein a plurality of different logical structures can be defined with a single document type definition so that structured documents of... |
| 6922698 |
System and method for interfacing index based and iterator based application programming interfaces |
| Jul-26-2005 |
A system and method for interfacing index based and iterator based file management routines. In general, the disclosed system maintains an iterator cache having multiple iterators. Each active iterator... |
| 6922692 |
Directed non-cyclic graph walking system and method |
| Jul-26-2005 |
A system and method for efficiently walking a directed non-cyclic graph of data using multiple analysis tools. Provided is a graph walking system, including: a binding system for binding a graph observer... |
| 6922690 |
System and method for creating a datum reference frame |
| Jul-26-2005 |
A system and method for creating a datum reference frame includes selecting a first datum, wherein the first datum comprises a plurality of faces. A first definition for the selected first datum is determined.... |
| 6920460 |
Systems and methods for managing partitioned indexes that are created and maintained by user-defined indexing schemes |
| Jul-19-2005 |
Domain indexes (indexes created and maintained by user-defined indexing schemes) are managed on partitioned database objects that store data using a system-managed approach. Partition maintenance operations... |
| 6920458 |
Model repository |
| Jul-19-2005 |
A model repository is provided for storing selected data models generated by a data mining application. The model repository is a structure that may be organized into a plurality of levels, including a... |
| 6920457 |
Virtual database of heterogeneous data structures |
| Jul-19-2005 |
The described database (100) for receiving information, the described method and information management program (90), and the described apparatus for receiving and administering information in the form... |
| 6920459 |
System and method for context based searching of electronic catalog database, aided with graphical feedback to the user |
| Jul-19-2005 |
A method and system for context based searching of category wise arranged electronic catalog database is provided. The confidence value for each of the retrieved categories is displayed graphically as... |
| 6920451 |
Method for the manipulation, storage, modeling, visualization and quantification of datasets |
| Jul-19-2005 |
There is described a method for manipulation, storage, modeling, visualization, and quantification of datasets, which correspond to target strings. A number of target strings are provided. An iterative... |
| 6920447 |
Concurrent data recall in a hierarchical storage environment using plural queues |
| Jul-19-2005 |
A technique for recalling data objects stored on media. A queue is created for each medium on which data objects are located, where each request to recall a data object is placed on the queue corresponding... |
| 6920445 |
Contents browsing system with multi-level circular index and automated contents analysis function |
| Jul-19-2005 |
Disclosed is a circular index structure. The contents feature analyzer analyzes the contents and stores information about virtual locations to be located on the indexes of the respective contents, and... |
| 6915377 |
Recording/reproduction apparatus and group-based editing method |
| Jul-5-2005 |
A recording/playback apparatus is characterized in that management information for managing data recorded on a recording medium is provided in a format allowing tracks to be bundled into groups and managed... |
| 6915315 |
Self archiving log structured volume with intrinsic data protection |
| Jul-5-2005 |
A data backup system for use with a server running a storage application that writes and reads data blocks. The system includes a self archiving log structured volume for copying blocks from an active... |
| 6915307 |
High performance object cache |
| Jul-5-2005 |
The foregoing needs and other needs are addressed by the present invention, which provides, in one aspect, a mechanism for locating a data object. According to an aspect of the present invention, key values... |
| 6915308 |
Method and apparatus for information mining and filtering |
| Jul-5-2005 |
The present invention combines a data processing structure with a graphical user interface (GUI) to create an information analysis tool wherein multiple functions are combined in a network to extract information... |
| 6915306 |
Automatic generation of data models and accompanying user interfaces |
| Jul-5-2005 |
Techniques to generate data models for an item master having a number of items. Each item is associated with a number of attributes and each attribute is associated with a set of values. In one method,... |
| 6915305 |
Restructuring view maintenance system and method |
| Jul-5-2005 |
A database maintenance system and method are particularly suitable for maintaining a consistency of data between two or more database tables having schemas that may be heterogeneous (e.g., restructuring... |
| 6915301 |
Dynamic object properties |
| Jul-5-2005 |
A computer operated apparatus for generating a visual information system is disclosed. A virtual world associated with an application is built using building blocks such as scenes, data sources, global... |
| 6915304 |
System and method for converting an XML data structure into a relational database |
| Jul-5-2005 |
The present invention provides systems and methods for converting between an XML data structure and a relational database. It enables the storage of an XML document in such a way that: the relational data... |
| 6915303 |
Code generator system for digital libraries |
| Jul-5-2005 |
A technique for creating a custom database is provided. A system description of a structure of a database is received. A structure for the custom database is generated based on the system description.... |
| 6915300 |
Method and system for searching indexed string containing a search string |
| Jul-5-2005 |
Systems and methods for indexing and searching the inner structure of a string over a language having a vocabulary and a grammar using bit vectors. The index preserves the inner grammatical structure of... |
| 6915302 |
Method, system, and program for accessing files in a file system |
| Jul-5-2005 |
Disclosed is a system, method, and program for processing an input file in a file system, wherein the input file has an input file name. A function is applied to map the input file name to a value. A data... |
