| 6853992 |
Structured-document search apparatus and method, recording medium storing structured-document searching program, and method of creating indexes for searching structured documents |
| Feb-8-2005 |
A query in which a sibling relationship among document parts, which are elements of a structured document, can be designated as a search condition is input, and a query tree which represents the query... |
| 6853985 |
Media information distribution and recording system, and apparatus and program-recorded medium for the system |
| Feb-8-2005 |
A media information distribution and recording system for distributing media information from a central apparatus to terminal apparatus through a network and for recording the media information on a detachable... |
| 6850953 |
Creating multiple sets of data by spawning a secondary virtual machine |
| Feb-1-2005 |
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed for having a primary process spawn a secondary process to create multiple data sets, thereby allowing the primary process to continue performing... |
| 6850952 |
Method and apparatus for populating multiple data marts in a single aggregation process |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A method of populating multiple data marts in a single operation from a set of transactional data held in a database in a single aggregation process, in which aggregate values are calculated only once,... |
| 6850951 |
Method and structure for relationally representing database objects |
| Feb-1-2005 |
In the present invention, a database structure is defined such that a database table having a plurality of objects each having an associated data is formed. A second table containing the relationship of... |
| 6850949 |
System and method for generating a dynamic interface via a communications network |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A system, method, and computer program product for dynamically adapting selections in an automatic phone support system is described. The invention may integrate a dynamic knowledge base of responses with... |
| 6850948 |
Method and apparatus for compressing textual documents |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A method and apparatus are disclosed for compressing textual documents encoded using a tag-based markup language, such as XML or SGML documents, in a manner that allows a compressed document to be processed... |
| 6850947 |
Method and apparatus with data partitioning and parallel processing for transporting data for data warehousing applications |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A method and apparatus for transporting data for a data warehouse application is described. The data from an operational data store (the source database) is organized in non-overlapping data partitions.... |
| 6850946 |
Method and system for a building database manipulator |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A Building Database Manipulator to build databases for a variety of physical environments including definitions of buildings, terrain and other site parameters, by scanning in or rapidly editing data.... |
| 6850937 |
Word importance calculation method, document retrieving interface, word dictionary making method |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A known method for selecting words (or word sequences), which is an important aspect of information retrieval, involves the problems of inability to eliminate high-frequency common words and of often arbitrary... |
| 6850928 |
System and method for automatically retrieving proprietary and standard directory object formats |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A system for, and method of, automatically retrieving a directory object from a database and a directory server incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a request... |
| 6847982 |
Intelligent data inventory and asset management system method and apparatus |
| Jan-25-2005 |
A computerized process of intelligently inventorying data and managing assets includes the steps of initially inventorying a plurality of hardware, software, and data files on-site by assigning a hexadecimal... |
| 6847975 |
Proxy processing method |
| Jan-25-2005 |
A proxy processing method to flexibly add/modify customized operations, such as customized user authentication and accounting, is provided. A state transition engine stores state information and moves... |
| 6847974 |
Method and apparatus for intelligent data assimilation |
| Jan-25-2005 |
An intelligent data assimilation system including an ontology description, workflows, and logical search objects. The logical search objects operably connect to external and internal data providers and... |
| 6847973 |
Method of managing slowly changing dimensions |
| Jan-25-2005 |
A method of managing slowly changing dimensions in a dimensional database, such as a dimensional data mart, is disclosed. The method consists of providing a dimension template for each dimension undergoing... |
| 6847972 |
Apparatus for classifying or disambiguating data |
| Jan-25-2005 |
A computing system has a data storage device for storing a database including a classified vocabulary of terms. A processor of the apparatus is arranged to associate each term with a number of different... |
| 6847971 |
Lightweight data replication |
| Jan-25-2005 |
A lightweight row transfer protocol is described that can be easily handled by thin clients, such as JAVA.TM. applications using CORBA. The lightweight row transfer protocol serves to reduce bandwidth... |
| 6847961 |
Method and system for searching information using sensor with identifier |
| Jan-25-2005 |
A method/system for enabling searching of stored information, the system including: a search request form 538 including information relating to a search request, the search request form 538 including coded... |
| 6845380 |
Method and system of valuing transformation between extensible markup language (XML) documents |
| Jan-18-2005 |
A method and system of valuing transformation between XML documents. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention discloses a method for calculating a transformation cost for a transformation... |
| 6845379 |
Sound data processing system and processing method |
| Jan-18-2005 |
In a sound data setting apparatus for setting an output format of each sound to output sounds corresponding to a plurality of sound data, metadata indicating contents of each sound data is acquired and... |
| 6845378 |
Integrated data bank combining system |
| Jan-18-2005 |
Companies and other organizations store extensive datasets having overlapping data contents in different data base systems whose data base structures are incompatible with one another. The invention is... |
| 6845377 |
Retrieval system and method using distance index |
| Jan-18-2005 |
Similarity retrieval is performed through the use of a distance index which contains a concatenated key and pointer information and retains a dictionary type order in the concatenated key. The concatenated... |
| 6842763 |
Method and apparatus for improving message availability in a subsystem which supports shared message queues |
| Jan-11-2005 |
The invention relates to communicating message data between application programs, the message data relating to units of work performed by the application programs. A plurality of message queuing subsystems... |
| 6842753 |
Sampling for aggregation queries |
| Jan-11-2005 |
Aggregation queries are performed by first identifying outlier values, aggregating the outlier values, and sampling the remaining data after pruning the outlier values. The sampled data is extrapolated... |
| 6842747 |
Method and apparatus for a disc drive interface |
| Jan-11-2005 |
Aspects of the invention include a method and apparatus to transfer data from a peripheral device directly to a disc drive storage system. In one aspect, the disc drive uses a transfer protocol that determines... |
| 6839722 |
Method for referencing time-related entries in different files in a planning program |
| Jan-4-2005 |
A method for referencing time-related entries in different files in a planning program for project planning, and for determining and optically reproducing any time delays in the project implementation,... |
| 6839715 |
Installable schema for low-overhead databases |
| Jan-4-2005 |
A relational database has a data file stored separately from a representation of the schema of the relational data in the data file. Schema representation files of several different types are generated... |
| 6839714 |
System and method for comparing heterogeneous data sources |
| Jan-4-2005 |
The present invention is a computer-implemented system and method that allows data in different databases to be shared without requiring the data to be remodeled to fit an existing data convention. The... |
| 6839713 |
System and software for database structure in semiconductor manufacturing and method thereof |
| Jan-4-2005 |
The functionality of various process control and data collection system embodiments may be improved by employing the database methodology disclosed herein during the requirements-analysis phase for data... |
| 6839712 |
Pre-processing code to identify and modify format of keys |
| Jan-4-2005 |
A method, computer program product and data processing system for identifying and modifying the format of keys in a resource file source code and in the associated a program code. In one embodiment of... |
| 6839711 |
Configurable space-time performance trade-off in multidimensional data base systems |
| Jan-4-2005 |
A multi-dimensional database includes data organized into hierarchical levels. For each level within a dimension, predefined thresholds are set to determine which intersections are precomputed and which... |
| 6839703 |
Information apparatus, table retrieval apparatus, table retrieval method, and recording medium |
| Jan-4-2005 |
A retrieval key to be used for the retrieval of a table is divided into a plurality of divided retrieval keys consisted of a plurality of bit strings. Each divided retrieval key is provided with a corresponding... |
| 6839568 |
User setting information management method and management system for portable telephone |
| Jan-4-2005 |
In a user setting information management method, when a predetermined event occurs, user setting information stored in the built-in memory of a portable telephone is read out and saved in a backup flash... |
| 6839062 |
Usage semantics |
| Jan-4-2005 |
Usage semantics allow for shaders to be authored independently of the actual vertex data and accordingly enables their reuse. Usage semantics define a feature that binds data between distinct components... |
| 6839053 |
Hand-drawing capture via interface surface and processing sensor |
| Jan-4-2005 |
A method and system for enabling user interaction with computer software running in a computer system via an interface surface and a sensing device. The interface surface contains information relating... |
| 6836777 |
System and method for constructing generic analytical database applications |
| Dec-28-2004 |
Disclosed is a system and method for constructing generic analytical database applications through the automated creation of metadata to establish an application structure controlling the availability... |
| 6834290 |
System and method for developing a cost-effective reorganization plan for data reorganization |
| Dec-21-2004 |
The invention is a reorganization planning system having a reorganization planner, a database management system, and one or more database files. The reorganization planner communicates with the database... |
| 6834283 |
Data compression/decompression apparatus using additional code and method thereof |
| Dec-21-2004 |
Words and word codes corresponding to the words are registered in advance. If an unregistered word appears when data are compressed, the code of the leading character of the word is divided into a plurality... |
| 6834278 |
Transformation-based method for indexing high-dimensional data for nearest neighbour queries |
| Dec-21-2004 |
We disclose a transformation-based method for indexing high-dimensional data to support similarity search. The method, iDistance, partitions the data into clusters either based on some clustering strategies... |
| 6832264 |
Compression in the presence of shared data |
| Dec-14-2004 |
A method for compressing a target string of symbols includes identifying a set of reference strings stored by a computer, and matching a plurality of successive substrings in the target string to respective... |
| 6832263 |
Method and apparatus for implementing a dynamically updated portal page in an enterprise-wide computer system |
| Dec-14-2004 |
A computer system configured to run predefined jobs to process data. The jobs can perform tasks such as retrieving data from a back-end database, preparing report based upon retrieved data or notifying... |
| 6832227 |
Database management program, a database managing method and an apparatus therefor |
| Dec-14-2004 |
Database optimizing method and system are provided to optimally locate data. Only data satisfying conditions desired by a user is extracted among an access log. Values of a part of the data are translated... |
| 6832226 |
Method of providing data dictionary-driven web-based database applications |
| Dec-14-2004 |
A method for creating a web-based database application that is data dictionary driven is disclosed. A web site, containing various computer programs, data for a database application and a data dictionary... |
| 6832225 |
Method and device for recording and searching for a document on a communication network |
| Dec-14-2004 |
A system for recording information relating to a document, which is accessible via a computer communication network, operates by extracting key words associated with the document, associating a binary... |
| 6829622 |
Apparatus and method for mobile device synchronization |
| Dec-7-2004 |
Many portable computing devices include data based applications such as schedules, contact managers, and the like, which can be synchronized with another computing device, such as a desktop computer, whereby... |
| 6829621 |
Automatic determination of OLAP cube dimensions |
| Dec-7-2004 |
Means and a computerized method for determining variable dimensions for a multi-dimensional database table, whereby the database table also comprises at least one pre-defined measure dimension for storing... |
| 6829616 |
Method, system, and program for implementing a database trigger |
| Dec-7-2004 |
Provided is a method, system, and program for implementing a database trigger. Upon detecting a trigger event, a determination is made of at least one row in a base table affected by the trigger event.... |
| 6829614 |
Scrambling method of the data files |
| Dec-7-2004 |
The data scrambler converts the original data files into the converted data files, respectively, while keeping the output produced by the receiver unchanged. The conversion may comprise dummy insertion,... |
| 6829608 |
Systems and methods for discovering mutual dependence patterns |
| Dec-7-2004 |
A new form of pattern is provided, referred to as a mutual dependence pattern or m-pattern. The m-pattern captures mutual dependence among a set of items. Intuitively, the m-pattern represents a set of... |
| 6829599 |
System and method for improving answer relevance in meta-search engines |
| Dec-7-2004 |
A user of a meta-search engine submits a query formulated with operators defining relationships between keywords. Information sources are selected for interrogation by the user or by the meta-search engine.... |
