| 6678675 |
Techniques for searching for best matches in tables of information |
| Jan-13-2004 |
Techniques for searching for best matches in tables of information are provided. A first tree is traversed according to a first value for a first field and as information is encountered at each node, the... |
| 6678606 |
Tamper detection for vehicle controller |
| Jan-13-2004 |
A system and method are disclosed for detecting tampering with the software, software parameters, and calibration data used by a vehicle controller. During authorized installation of controller memory... |
| 6675164 |
Parallel object-oriented data mining system |
| Jan-6-2004 |
A data mining system uncovers patterns, associations, anomalies and other statistically significant structures in data. Data files are read and displayed. Objects in the data files are identified. Relevant... |
| 6675163 |
Full match (FM) search algorithm implementation for a network processor |
| Jan-6-2004 |
Novel data structures, methods and apparatus for finding a full match between a search pattern and a pattern stored in a leaf of the search tree. A key is input, a hash function is performed on the key,... |
| 6671684 |
Method and apparatus for simultaneous highlighting of a physical version of a document and an electronic version of a document |
| Dec-30-2003 |
A method and an apparatus for simultaneous highlighting of a paper document is described. The device includes a highlighter. A scanner is used and configured to capture at least one highlighted mark place... |
| 6671681 |
System and technique for suggesting alternate query expressions based on prior user selections and their query strings |
| Dec-30-2003 |
An invention for monitoring user choices and selections on a search result web page and providing alternative query expressions to further narrow and enhance the user's search. Monitoring and recording... |
| 6671679 |
Optimizing database entries |
| Dec-30-2003 |
A data processing apparatus is operated to optimize the amount of information represented by entries in a database. The operation comprises forming prior distributions over the parameters of entries in... |
| 6665679 |
Method and system for symbolical linkage and intelligent categorization of information |
| Dec-16-2003 |
The present invention provides a method and system for the archival and retrieval of symbolically and categorically linked information preferably in the form of documents or data records. The method and... |
| 6665670 |
Method and system for graphical representation of multitemporal, multidimensional data relationships |
| Dec-16-2003 |
A method and system for determining the likely uniqueness and novelty of a subject concept, such as a patent, in comparison with other published references embodying other concepts by examining the subject... |
| 6665668 |
Document retrieval method and system and computer readable storage medium |
| Dec-16-2003 |
A document retrieval system is provided which has a document display interface which is easy to recognize the important portions even if a document retrieved by using a query expression designated by a... |
| 6665669 |
Methods and system for mining frequent patterns |
| Dec-16-2003 |
This invention provides methods apparatus and data structures useful for mining databases for frequent items. The invention uses a frequent pattern tree to represent the contents of a database in a manner... |
| 6662185 |
Methods and systems for plant performance analysis |
| Dec-9-2003 |
Methods and systems for assessing wide-area performance of a crop variety using a linear mixed model that incorporates geostatistical components and includes parameters for fixed effects, random effects... |
| 6662189 |
Method of performing data mining tasks for generating decision tree and apparatus therefor |
| Dec-9-2003 |
A method of performing data mining tasks using a decision tree comprising, when insertion data is input, applying the insertion data to a decision tree created by a data set before the data is inserted... |
| 6662180 |
Method for searching in large databases of automatically recognized text |
| Dec-9-2003 |
A method for searching for a query word in a database of automatically recognized text generated, for example by an optical character recognition (OCR) system or a speech recognition (SR) system finds... |
| 6662152 |
Information retrieval apparatus and information retrieval method |
| Dec-9-2003 |
Character data of a word or phrase in a document is designated. Desired data is retrieved from a predetermined database on the basis of the designated character data. One sentence including at least the... |
| 6658412 |
Computer-based method and system for linking records in data files |
| Dec-2-2003 |
The present invention relates to computer-based technology for linking or matching records in data files, based on at least one identifier in common, with a threshold probability that records are linked,... |
| 6654908 |
Method for and system producing shared usage of intercommunication fabric error logging registers in a multiprocessor environment |
| Nov-25-2003 |
A method and system allows multiple compute elements to independently read and clear error register logs, discard invalid data and ensure that a user receives information stored in error log registers.... |
| 6654751 |
Method and apparatus for a virus information patrol |
| Nov-25-2003 |
A virus information patrol (VIP) data collector is provided to monitor virus information repositories and to collect selected virus descriptor data into a VIP database in accordance with a VIP configuration... |
| 6654738 |
Computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium for a document retrieval service that retrieves documents with a retrieval service agent computer |
| Nov-25-2003 |
A document retrieval assistance method has a user interface with an interactive guidance function. In response to a search query, search results including a title list of retrieved documents is displayed... |
| 6654741 |
URL mapping methods and systems |
| Nov-25-2003 |
The invention provides for flexible, convenient, and dynamic URL mapping methods and systems by providing generalized approaches which specify patterns in term of recognizable syntax. The recognizable... |
| 6654740 |
Probabilistic information retrieval based on differential latent semantic space |
| Nov-25-2003 |
A computer-based information search and retrieval system and method for retrieving textual digital objects that makes full use of the projections of the documents onto both the reduced document space characterized... |
| 6651059 |
System and method for the automatic recognition of relevant terms by mining link annotations |
| Nov-18-2003 |
A computer program product is provided as an automatic mining system to identify a set of relevant terms from a large text database of unstructured information, such as the World Wide Web (WWW), with a... |
| 6651056 |
Readership information delivery system for electronically distributed investment research |
| Nov-18-2003 |
A system for delivering rankings information on readership of investment research reports is provided, which comprises the use of a plurality of readership information reports each including at least an... |
| 6651058 |
System and method of automatic discovery of terms in a document that are relevant to a given target topic |
| Nov-18-2003 |
A computer program product is provided as an automatic mining system to discover terms that are relevant to a given target topic from a large databases of unstructured information such as the World Wide... |
| 6651057 |
Method and apparatus for score normalization for information retrieval applications |
| Nov-18-2003 |
A method and apparatus for normalizing a score associated with a document is presented. Statistics relating to scores assigned to a set of training documents not relevant to a topic arc determined. Scores... |
| 6651048 |
Interactive mining of most interesting rules with population constraints |
| Nov-18-2003 |
A method and structure for identifying database association rules includes mining first database association rules, the first database association rules having ratings with respect to a plurality of metrics... |
| 6651049 |
Interactive mining of most interesting rules |
| Nov-18-2003 |
A method and structure for identifying database association rules includes mining first database association rules, the first database association rules having ratings with respect to a plurality of metrics,... |
| 6650778 |
Image processing method and apparatus, and storage medium |
| Nov-18-2003 |
The image of a processing target is input. A feature quantity extraction device obtains a feature quantity distribution of the input image, and makes it binary. When desired template data is selected by... |
| 6650777 |
Searching and filtering content streams using contour transformations |
| Nov-18-2003 |
Methods and systems are provided for locating objects within a content stream, by transforming prospective objects and evaluating the results to identify meaningful semantic values. Transformation is accomplished... |
| 6647400 |
System and method for analyzing filesystems to detect intrusions |
| Nov-11-2003 |
A system and method are disclosed for detecting intrusions in a host system on a network. The intrusion detection system comprises an analysis engine configured to use continuations and apply forward-... |
| 6647157 |
Image search apparatus and method |
| Nov-11-2003 |
The two-dimensional power spectrum of an input image, which is obtained by computing its two-dimensional Fourier transform, is segmented into a plurality of blocks (5.times.5) on the two-dimensional coordinate... |
| 6643681 |
System for constructing network community |
| Nov-4-2003 |
A network community system capable of spontaneously, autonomously forming and managing a network community space allowing interactive communication, exchange of opinions and exchange of information among... |
| 6643647 |
Word string collating apparatus, word string collating method and address recognition apparatus |
| Nov-4-2003 |
In a word string collating method for collating an input word string and address data in an address dictionary when a word string using part of a plurality of words of a word string such as address information... |
| 6643646 |
Analysis of massive data accumulations using patient rule induction method and on-line analytical processing |
| Nov-4-2003 |
A method of analyzing data contained in a very large database or data warehouse includes applying first a patient rule induction method with selected input variables and an output variable to develop a... |
| 6643645 |
Retrofitting recommender system for achieving predetermined performance requirements |
| Nov-4-2003 |
Retrofitting recommender systems, so that they can scale to large data, is disclosed. The principal notion is to reduce data requirements of existing recommender engines by performing a type of data reduction... |
| 6643643 |
Method of searching or browsing multimedia data and data structure |
| Nov-4-2003 |
A method of searching or browsing multimedia data which can effectively search or browse an image is disclosed. In the present method, the searching or browsing is performed in consideration of at least... |
| 6642929 |
Image search method, based on an invariant indexation of the images |
| Nov-4-2003 |
Efforts are made to construct a digital index that represents properties or the appearance of portions of an image so as to automatically rediscover in it a sample of the image during a subsequent search,... |
| 6640228 |
Method for detecting incorrectly categorized data |
| Oct-28-2003 |
A method for detecting incorrect categorization of data includes obtaining a database containing a plurality of entry-category pairs, calculating a score for each entry-category pair that corresponds to... |
| 6640227 |
Unsupervised automated hierarchical data clustering based on simulation of a similarity matrix evolution |
| Oct-28-2003 |
A method for automated hierarchical clustering as a result of simulation of a similarity matrix evolution by the use of an algorithm for matrix transformation inducing a cooperative exchange of information... |
| 6636858 |
Method for formatting, associating organizing, and retrieving data of and from a database stored in a computer system |
| Oct-21-2003 |
A database system comprising a novel process for the formatting, association, storage and retrieval of amorphous, structured or ordered data. The database system enables the dynamic accumulation and integration... |
| 6636850 |
Aggregate score matching system for transaction records |
| Oct-21-2003 |
Method and apparatus that compares each field in two records to determine if the records match. The comparison function can be selected from among varied comparison function that enable close matches by... |
| 6636849 |
Data search employing metric spaces, multigrid indexes, and B-grid trees |
| Oct-21-2003 |
Systems and methods for generating indexes and fast searching of "approximate", "fuzzy", or "homologous" matches for a large quantity of data in a metric space are provided. The data is indexed to generate... |
| 6633882 |
Multi-dimensional database record compression utilizing optimized cluster models |
| Oct-14-2003 |
Apparatus and method for use in querying a database containing data records. The database is characterized by a compression scheme to provide data clustering information. In accordance with a exemplary... |
| 6633869 |
Managing object relationships using an object repository |
| Oct-14-2003 |
A method for maintaining consistency between objects in a computer system by defining relationship patterns. A relationship pattern is a collection of entities having relationships with a common entity... |
| 6631466 |
Parallel string pattern searches in respective ones of array of nanocomputers |
| Oct-7-2003 |
A high-speed parallel pattern searching system is disclosed. The high-speed parallel pattern searching system allows the body of a data packet to be searched for one or more patterns such as a string or... |
| 6631400 |
Statement regarding federally sponsored research or development |
| Oct-7-2003 |
A method for managing bulk e-mail distribution can include the steps of matching a target recipient profile with a group of target recipients; transmitting a set of bulk e-mails to the target recipients... |
| 6631365 |
Method and apparatus for analyzing the quality of the content of a database |
| Oct-7-2003 |
The present invention provides a method for scoring a searchable electronic catalog such as are in use in e-commerce and industrial materiel systems. Such catalogs are typically configured as databases... |
| 6629099 |
Paralleled content addressable memory search engine |
| Sep-30-2003 |
A parallel search engine able to receive commands via a search instruction input and data words via a search data input. The commands received, which are optionally programmable, control operation of a... |
| 6629098 |
Method and system for validating data submitted to a database application |
| Sep-30-2003 |
A system and method for validating data entry in which an exception set class is defined and where, during a validation process, each data entry field is reviewed to determined whether or not certain predetermined... |
| 6629095 |
System and method for integrating data mining into a relational database management system |
| Sep-30-2003 |
An integrated data mining and relational database management system is provided on a server. The data mining engine determines characteristics of relationships between input data values and an output data... |
