| 7043686 |
Data compression apparatus, database system, data communication system, data compression method, storage medium and program transmission apparatus |
| May-9-2006 |
It is one object of the present invention to perform data compression to encode the structure part of a document in a tree local language, such as XML or ASN.1. A data compression apparatus for encoding... |
| 7043497 |
System and method for capturing and storing web site visitor profile information in a data warehouse |
| May-9-2006 |
A customer relationship management system for storing and managing information for an E-Business retailer. The customer relationship system includes a database system for storing and organizing said information,... |
| 7043496 |
Data managing method, data managing system, data managing apparatus, data handling apparatus, computer program, and recording medium |
| May-9-2006 |
A client unit 1 which a user uses to request for data, an agent unit 2 which keeps encrypted document data and attributes information, a document managing unit 3 which executes user authentication, access... |
| 7043494 |
Fast, deterministic exact match look-ups in large tables |
| May-9-2006 |
A combined hash table/bucket trie technique facilitates fast, deterministic, memory-efficient exact match look-ups on extremely large tables. A limited number of hash keys which collide on the same location... |
| 7043493 |
Hierarchical file system and anti-tearing algorithm for a limited-resource computer such as a smart card |
| May-9-2006 |
A limited resource computer such as one based upon an integrated circuit card ("smart card") or embedded processor employs a full hierarchical file system consistent with desktop and laptop computers,... |
| 7043492 |
Automated classification of items using classification mappings |
| May-9-2006 |
The present invention allows an item to automatically be classified using its attributes based on a classification schema and a knowledge base. The invention can include selecting an attribute of the item... |
| 7043491 |
Partition exchange technique for operating a data warehousing system |
| May-9-2006 |
A method and apparatus for operating a database system is provided. One or more partitions are identified from a data structure in the database system. An identifier is assigned to at least one of the... |
| 7043490 |
Method, system, and program product to support multiple content-management data models |
| May-9-2006 |
Methods, systems, and program products for managing multimedia content. These are built upon a combination of a high level content model for specific multimedia content types and a low level physical for... |
| 7043489 |
Litigation-related document repository |
| May-9-2006 |
A litigation-related document repository for management and exchange of documents independent of courts or other tribunals. Users can upload litigation-related documents for on-line case folders in order... |
| 7043488 |
Method and system for storing hierarchical content objects in a data repository |
| May-9-2006 |
A web-based system, method and program product are provided for storing content objects (e.g., a custom compilation or prepublished work) in a data repository as a group of hierarchically related content... |
| 7043486 |
Process and system for tracking versions of field documentation data collection configurations in a complex project workflow system |
| May-9-2006 |
A process is provided for capturing a state of a data input interface at a particular time in a complex workflow system. The data input interface provides an interface for entering actual data to populate... |
| 7043477 |
Navigating media content via groups within a playlist |
| May-9-2006 |
Grouping and navigating media files within a playlist on a computer-readable medium. Invention software selects media files according to a grouping criterion to define a group from the media files. The... |
| 7043476 |
Method and apparatus for data mining to discover associations and covariances associated with data |
| May-9-2006 |
Data mining techniques are provided which are effective and efficient for discovering useful information from an amorphous collection or data set of records. For example, the present invention provides... |
| 7043472 |
File system with access and retrieval of XML documents |
| May-9-2006 |
A XML-aware file system exploits attributes encoded in a XML document. The file system presents a dynamic directory structure to the user, and breaks the conventional tight linkage between sets of files... |
| 7042804 |
Device and method for managing memory in an electronic watch |
| May-9-2006 |
The device for managing memory in an electronic watch of the diary type includes a non-volatile memory (15) connected to a microprocessor unit (14). The unit is programmed to manage data and/or parameter... |
| 7039646 |
Method and system for compressing varying-length columns during index high key generation |
| May-2-2006 |
A computer-based method for compressing varying-length columns of a non-leaf page high key generated during splitting of an index tree leaf page from a key pair including a last key of a splitting leaf... |
| 7039645 |
Managing content of an electronic catalog by collaboration with another electronic catalog |
| May-2-2006 |
The present invention allows one catalog to be managed using the content of another catalog. In one embodiment, the invention can include reading records from a plurality of different source databases,... |
| 7039644 |
Problem determination method, system and program product |
| May-2-2006 |
A problem determination method, system and program product are provided. Specifically, the present invention identifies problems with software programs by inserting compiled problem determination probes... |
| 7039643 |
System, method and apparatus for converting and integrating media files |
| May-2-2006 |
The present invention teaches a digital media file conversion and integration system including a server coupled to the Internet to allow users to download media files to a server the Internet. The system... |
| 7035883 |
Storage control system and method |
| Apr-25-2006 |
According to the present invention, each of a plurality of LUs existing on a storage control system 200 is divided into a plurality of chunks. A PVOL is comprised of only FC-chunks, but an SVOL is... |
| 7035871 |
Method and apparatus for intelligent and automatic preference detection of media content |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A system and method is provided for an automatic user preference detection system, comprising an accessing device to access attribute information of media content files distributed to a user by a media... |
| 7035863 |
Method, system and program product for populating a user profile based on existing user profiles |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A method, system and program product for populating a user profile based on existing user profiles is provided. Specifically, under the present invention, base characteristics are designated for a new... |
| 7035862 |
Method for processing information from an information repository |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A method for deriving and sorting information from an information repository including data elements individually associated with corresponding record identifiers, includes the following steps. First,... |
| 7035838 |
Methods and systems for organizing information stored within a computer network-based system |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A method for organizing information stored within a computer network-based system that includes a server system is provided. The server system is coupled to a centralized database and at least one client... |
| 7035723 |
Method for rapid data table initialization |
| Apr-25-2006 |
The present invention provides a fast learn algorithm for quickly providing data to a data table and a controller. Existing data is considered, such that information gathered from prior events is not arbitrarily... |
| 7035389 |
Pro-active features for telephony |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A system is provided for pro-actively suggesting communication features to users, comprising a tuple space for facilitating collaboration among software agents, a plurality of device agents for controlling... |
| 7031987 |
Integrating tablespaces with different block sizes |
| Apr-18-2006 |
Provided herein is a mechanism that allows a given database system to access data blocks from another database system, where data blocks from the given database system and data blocks from the other database... |
| 7031980 |
Music similarity function based on signal analysis |
| Apr-18-2006 |
The present invention computer method and apparatus determines music similarity by generating a K-means (instead of Gaussian) cluster signature and a beat signature for each piece of music. The beat of... |
| 7031972 |
Algorithms for block-level code alignment of software binary files |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A file differencing and updating system is provided that includes a file differencing component and a file updating component. The file differencing component, or file differencing engine, generates a... |
| 7031970 |
Method and apparatus for generating summary information for hierarchically related information |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A method is provided for digesting the content of hierarchically related information. The method chooses a set of extracted sentences representing a proportion of the text associated with a subtopic, by... |
| 7024512 |
Compression store free-space management |
| Apr-4-2006 |
An improved method, system, and a computer program storage device (e.g., including software embodied on a magnetic, electrical, optical, or other storage device) for management of compressed main memory... |
| 7024434 |
Method and system for modifying schema definitions |
| Apr-4-2006 |
A new schema implementation enables reversible changes to be made to definitions in a schema. The definitions of attributes and classes are in the form of schema objects. Each schema object has an internal... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 7024417 |
Data mining framework using a signature associated with an algorithm |
| Apr-4-2006 |
A framework is provided that enables data mining algorithms to be plugged into it without any change to algorithm software implementations, while still providing all the standard data mining tasks. It... |
| 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. |
| 7024415 |
File conversion |
| Apr-4-2006 |
A file conversion system includes a filter and conversion tool and an Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) to Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) tool. The filter and conversion tool reads a first... |
| 7024414 |
Storage of row-column data |
| Apr-4-2006 |
Table data is stored by parsing the table data into columns of values, formatting each column into a data stream, and transferring each data stream to a storage device for storage as a continuous strip... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 7020666 |
System and method for unknown type serialization |
| Mar-28-2006 |
A method of serializing and deserializing unknown data types in a strongly typed model. The method includes serializing an object to a data stream at first node and communicating the data stream to a second... |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 7020656 |
Partition exchange loading technique for fast addition of data to a data warehousing system |
| Mar-28-2006 |
A method and apparatus is provided for adding data to a database system. A data structure is formed by a plurality of partitions is stored. A first identifier is assigned to an available partition in the... |
| 7020648 |
System and method for identifying and utilizing a secondary index to access a database using a management system without an internal catalogue of online metadata |
| Mar-28-2006 |
A system for identifying and utilizing a secondary index to access a database using a management system without an internal catalogue of online metadata. The system receives an application request to access... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
