| 7043531 |
Web-based customer lead generator system with pre-emptive profiling |
| May-9-2006 |
A web-based customer lead generator system. The system is based on an application service model, with the programming for the system being accessible to users of the system via web browsers and the Internet.... |
| 7043474 |
System and method for measuring image similarity based on semantic meaning |
| May-9-2006 |
A method includes deriving a plurality of semantic categories for representing important semantic cues in images, where each semantic category is modeled through a combination of perceptual features that... |
| 7043473 |
Media tracking system and method |
| May-9-2006 |
A method for identifying a media file transmitted over a network includes creating a plurality of known media file identifiers, each for a respective one of a plurality of known media files, using an identifier... |
| 7043475 |
Systems and methods for clustering user sessions using multi-modal information including proximal cue information |
| May-9-2006 |
Techniques for clustering user sessions using multi-modal information including proximal cue information are provided. The topology, content and usage of a document collection or web site are determined.... |
| 7043471 |
Search engine account monitoring |
| May-9-2006 |
A system and method of generating an ordered search list via a search engine by determining various account balances to determine where a search listing will appear, if at all, in a search results list.... |
| 7039647 |
Drag and drop technique for building queries |
| May-2-2006 |
A method, system and computer program product for building a search query in a data processing system having a graphical user interface is provided. Responsive to user input, a graphical component representing... |
| 7039640 |
System and method for geocoding diverse address formats |
| May-2-2006 |
A method and system for providing geocodes in response to complete or partial address information is disclosed. The disclosure teaches embodiments that are naturally upgraded to integrate changing spatial... |
| 7039639 |
Optimization of system performance based on communication relationship |
| May-2-2006 |
A method and apparatus for optimizing information-retrieval related system performance based on users' communication relationships. Users' interactions and relationships with each other are tracked by... |
| 7035968 |
Content addressable memory with range compare function |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A content addressable memory (CAM) device having a range compare function. A boundary value is stored within a plurality of CAM cells within the CAM device. A range compare operation is performed to determine... |
| 7035925 |
Parsing navigation information to identify interactions based on the times of their occurrences |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A method, system and computer-readable medium for analyzing interaction or usage data, such as for customers, is described. Various data parsing information may be defined and used as part of the analysis,... |
| 7035849 |
Rules analyzer system and method for evaluating and ranking exact and probabilistic search rules in an enterprise database |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A rules analyzer system and method is provided for an enterprise system to evaluate and rank exact and probabilistic search rules for searching a computer database of records according to the efficiency... |
| 7035850 |
Access control system |
| Apr-25-2006 |
An access control system and its method that can prevent access to read or write into a file, no matter what user right the access request source uses to attempt an unauthorized access. This invention... |
| 7032174 |
Automatically adding proper names to a database |
| Apr-18-2006 |
The correct spelling of resolved email names is automatically stored in a custom dictionary. Thereafter, a spell checker will recognize the name during the spell checking process, because the name is stored... |
| 7032167 |
Method and apparatus for a document parser specification |
| Apr-18-2006 |
The present disclosure presents a system for parsing based upon content type, and provides a content-rich set of parsing rules that can be optimized for a wide variety of applications. The present system... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 7024408 |
Text-classification code, system and method |
| Apr-4-2006 |
Disclosed are a computer-readable code, system and method for classifying a target document in the form of a digitally encoded natural-language text as belonging to one or more of two or more different... |
| 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... |
| 7024406 |
Driver and method for processing a database statement |
| Apr-4-2006 |
A method and software for processing a database statement submitted by a client application to a database system is described. A database statement is precompiled based on a string received from the client... |
| 7024042 |
Word recognition device, word recognition method, and storage medium |
| Apr-4-2006 |
The capacity of a character feature dictionary is reduced, and stored as a feature dictionary. The capacity is reduced by clustering feature vectors in units of columns or rows for character features,... |
| 7024019 |
Method and system for identifying mail pieces having similar attributes to suspected contaminated mail pieces |
| Apr-4-2006 |
A method and system to identify mail pieces that have similar attributes to mail pieces suspected of being contaminated are provided. A data center communicates with each postal unit where mail enters... |
| 7020651 |
Similarity search engine for use with relational databases |
| Mar-28-2006 |
The invention provides a system and method for defining a schema and sending a query to a Similarity Search Engine to determine a quantitative assessment of the similarity of attributes between an anchor... |
| 7020650 |
Information processing system for e-mail, information processing method and program storage medium therefor |
| Mar-28-2006 |
At the time of receiving an e-mail, a music melody correlated with a respective e-mail sender is automatically reproduced. The system and the method of the invention comprising the steps of: downloading... |
| 7020645 |
Systems and methods for state-less authentication |
| Mar-28-2006 |
Systems and methods for providing user logon and state-less authentication are described in a distributed processing environment. Upon an attempted access by a user to an online resource, transaction,... |
| 7020601 |
Method and apparatus for processing source information based on source placeable elements |
| Mar-28-2006 |
The present invention provides an improved method and apparatus for translating a source language to a target language. The invention uses placeables (e.g., proper nouns, titles and names, dates, times,... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 7016896 |
Pattern search method, pattern search apparatus and computer program therefor, and storage medium thereof |
| Mar-21-2006 |
A fast search is performed of a large text database, while suppressing an increase in the data size of the data structure used for the process. A pattern search method for searching a target character... |
| 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... |
| 7013323 |
System and method for developing and interpreting e-commerce metrics by utilizing a list of rules wherein each rule contain at least one of entity-specific criteria |
| Mar-14-2006 |
A system, method and computer program product for developing and interpreting e-commerce metrics is disclosed. The method involves collecting pages that are commonly transmitted over a computer network... |
| 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... |
| 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.... |
| 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... |
| 7010526 |
Knowledge-based data mining system |
| Mar-7-2006 |
In a data mining system, data is gathered into a data store using, e.g., a Web crawler. The data is classified into entities. Data miners use rules to process the entities and append respective keys to... |
| 7007020 |
Distributed OLAP-based association rule generation method and system |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A distributed OLAP-based method and system for generating association rules. An architecture is provided for processing transaction data to generate summary information, customer profiles, and association... |
| 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... |
| 7006714 |
Image retrieval device, image retrieval method and storage medium storing similar-image retrieval program |
| Feb-28-2006 |
An image retrieval device and method capable of high speed image retrieval. The image retrieval device has a first coefficient transforming section to transform a first group of image feature descriptors... |
| 7003764 |
Method and apparatus for dynamic configuration of a lexical analysis parser |
| Feb-21-2006 |
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for the lexical analysis of computer source code. The lexical analyzer is dynamically configured at runtime to recognize a one or more reserved words... |
| 7003517 |
Web-based system and method for archiving and searching participant-based internet text sources for customer lead data |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A text mining system for collecting business intelligence about a client, as well as for identifying prospective customers of the client, for use in a lead generation system accessible by the client via... |
| 7003520 |
Information search apparatus and method, and computer readable memory |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A search request input processing unit holds an input query word in a query word holding unit. An associative word unfolding processing unit acquires associative words in association with the query word... |
| 7003515 |
Consumer item matching method and system |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A method of determining at least one match item corresponding to a source item. A database of multiple items such as songs is created. Each song is also represented by an n-dimensional database vector... |
| 7003518 |
Multimedia searching method using histogram |
| Feb-21-2006 |
Disclosed is a multimedia searching method and apparatus that can achieve a high performance and provide a interoperability by defining a histogram using uniformly quantized bin values as a standard histogram,... |
| 7003519 |
Method of thematic classification of documents, themetic classification module, and search engine incorporating such a module |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A method of thematically classifying documents, in particular for making up or updating thematic databases (42) for a search engine, includes the steps of selecting documents representative of each... |
| 7003504 |
Data processing system |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A data processing system is provided for storing and managing multiple data entries. The data processing system employs a data structure which allows the storage and management of a vast number of interrelated... |
| 7002463 |
System and apparatus for determining abnormalities in daily activity patterns |
| Feb-21-2006 |
One or more sensors for detecting daily activity patterns are provided in a person's home. A data processing apparatus includes databases for storing activity data from the sensors, a statistical analysis... |
| 7000178 |
Electronic document classification system |
| Feb-14-2006 |
An electronic document classification system for classifying electronic documents received through a network is provided. The classification system comprises a criteria table for storing predetermined... |
| 6996573 |
Screening of data packets in a gateway |
| Feb-7-2006 |
A method for processing data packets in a gateway element comprises the steps of: comparing a data packet to screening information comprising a set of rules, and processing a data packet according to a... |
| 6996560 |
Method, system, and device for typing customers/prospects |
| Feb-7-2006 |
Exemplary embodiments provide a computer-assisted method for typing customers/prospects, including the activities of: refining a survey via bestfit clustering; refining survey results via composition analysis;... |
