| 6882997 |
Wavelet-based clustering method for managing spatial data in very large databases |
| Apr-19-2005 |
The method termed WaveCluster for mining spatial data. WaveCluster considers spatial data as a multidimensional signals and applies wavelet transforms, a signal-processing technique, to convert the spatial... |
| 6882999 |
URL mapping methods and systems |
| Apr-19-2005 |
An input URL string is searched for a particular pattern, the pattern being defined in a manner such that the search may be satisfied while allowing variability among constituent parts of the input URL... |
| 6882998 |
Apparatus and method for selecting cluster points for a clustering analysis |
| Apr-19-2005 |
A method of clustering data includes choosing an initial cluster point and proximate data points from a set of data points. A revised data set is defined that excludes the initial cluster point and the... |
| 6882994 |
Method and system for querying database, as well as a recording medium for storing a database querying program |
| Apr-19-2005 |
The present invention provides techniques for answering a user's query to a database system. An embodiment provides a database querying method in which a first data item is obtained from a Data Base Management... |
| 6882970 |
Language recognition using sequence frequency |
| Apr-19-2005 |
A system is provided for comparing an input query with a number of stored annotations to identify information to be retrieved from a database. The comparison technique divides the input query into a number... |
| 6877097 |
Security access method and apparatus |
| Apr-5-2005 |
A portable biometric device enables a designated person to unlock any one portal exclusive of other portals of a secure entity and or a secure service by choosing which of their personal biometric characteristics... |
| 6873983 |
Information use frequency prediction program, information use frequency prediction method, and information use frequency prediction apparatus |
| Mar-29-2005 |
The information use frequency prediction device is provided with a comparison section for shifting a second time series data related to the use frequency of a first keyword, sequentially on the time base... |
| 6873984 |
Data mining recommendation web beans and JSP tag libraries |
| Mar-29-2005 |
A method, system, and computer program product for providing data mining functionality into Web page design that provides improved ease of design without the need for extensive custom programming. The... |
| 6871200 |
Registration and monitoring system |
| Mar-22-2005 |
A method and system are provided whereby rights in graphic works such as digital photographs and the like may be registered, and potential infringements of those rights monitored. The method includes storing... |
| 6871186 |
System and method for dynamic profiling of users in one-to-one applications and for validating user rules |
| Mar-22-2005 |
A system and method for generating and validating a user profile (25) for a user based on a static profile (10) and a dynamic profile (15) of the user. The method and system compresses the dynamic rules... |
| 6868415 |
Information linking method, information viewer, information register, and information search equipment |
| Mar-15-2005 |
On an information registering equipment, content of interest rendered by media, such as a video image of interest distributed by TV broadcasting is captured and displayed. Position/area on the image are... |
| 6865573 |
Data mining application programming interface |
| Mar-8-2005 |
An application programming interface, computer program product implementing the application programming interface, and a system implementing the application programming interface, which provides an advanced... |
| 6862610 |
Method and apparatus for verifying the identity of individuals |
| Mar-1-2005 |
A method for verifying the identity of users connected to a computer network comprises providing fractional information queries to users, wherein responses to these individual queries are not sufficient... |
| 6862601 |
Method, system, and program for transforming files from a source file format to a destination file format |
| Mar-1-2005 |
Provided is a method, system, and program for transforming files from a source file format to a destination file format. A data structure is generated in a computer readable medium indicating available... |
| 6862559 |
Methods and apparatuses for measuring diversity in combinatorial structures |
| Mar-1-2005 |
A method for computing a diversity measure H(m) for combinatorial structures involves identifying all M possible substructures having m elements from among the n elements of the combinatorial structure.... |
| 6862501 |
Method for producing 3D perspective view avionics terrain displays |
| Mar-1-2005 |
Methods for generating information for displaying terrain on an aircraft display system that significantly reduces the computation and data load for producing the terrain display. This is accomplished... |
| 6859806 |
System and method for legal docketing using a customizable rules subset |
| Feb-22-2005 |
The invention described is a computer based method for on-line legal docketing using an electronic customizable client rules subset. The method of the invention comprises of the following steps. Under... |
| 6859804 |
Using histograms to introduce randomization in the generation of ensembles of decision trees |
| Feb-22-2005 |
A system for decision tree ensembles that includes a module to read the data, a module to create a histogram, a module to evaluate a potential split according to some criterion using the histogram, a module... |
| 6859803 |
Apparatus and method for program selection utilizing exclusive and inclusive metadata searches |
| Feb-22-2005 |
An apparatus and method for conducting exclusive and inclusive metadata searches to identify and select multimedia programs. The apparatus of the invention including a metadata search controller that compares... |
| 6859802 |
Image retrieval based on relevance feedback |
| Feb-22-2005 |
An improved image retrieval process based on relevance feedback uses a hierarchical (per-feature) approach in comparing images. Multiple query vectors are generated for an initial image by extracting multiple... |
| 6856987 |
Information search apparatus and method, and computer readable memory |
| Feb-15-2005 |
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... |
| 6856987 |
Information search apparatus and method, and computer readable memory |
| Feb-15-2005 |
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... |
| 6853998 |
Customer self service subsystem for classifying user contexts |
| Feb-8-2005 |
A system and method for classifying user context in a customer self service system that performs resource search and selection and includes a context attribute database comprising types of user contexts... |
| 6853994 |
Object oriented based, business class methodology for performing data metric analysis |
| Feb-8-2005 |
A method for extracting desired data from a digital database comprising the steps of specifying desired data elements to be extracted from an operational database, generating executable code from the identified... |
| 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... |
| 6853389 |
Information searching apparatus, information searching method, and storage medium |
| Feb-8-2005 |
An information searching apparatus for searching for information calculates a matching degree, which indicates a degree at which searching conditions used for searching for the information are satisfied,... |
| 6850935 |
Automatic index term augmentation in document retrieval |
| Feb-1-2005 |
Disclosed are methods and systems for automatically assigning index terms to electronic documents such as Web pages or sites in a manner which may be used to facilitate the retrieval of electronic documents... |
| 6850936 |
Data extracting method, information processing apparatus, and recording medium |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A data extraction method comprising: storing a plurality of objects to be processed in a memory device, each of the objects including a single set of two data entities which differ in attribute from each... |
| 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... |
| 6850934 |
Adaptive search engine query |
| Feb-1-2005 |
Embodiments provide a method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for searching for information on a network of computers using a modified search query. The search query is modified using translation... |
| 6850932 |
Method, system, and program for merging query search results |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A system for interacting with a database report is disclosed. The database is responsive to a query to produce an associated report comprising one or more objects, each object comprising a plurality of... |
| 6850927 |
Evaluating queries with outer joins by categorizing and processing combinations of relationships between table records |
| Feb-1-2005 |
Aspects of the invention provide methods for rewriting and computing database queries that include outer join conditions, and for determining columns that satisfy a criteria. According to one aspect, a... |
| 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... |
| 6847966 |
Method and system for optimally searching a document database using a representative semantic space |
| Jan-25-2005 |
A term-by-document matrix is compiled from a corpus of documents representative of a particular subject matter that represents the frequency of occurrence of each term per document. A weighted term dictionary... |
| 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... |
| 6845371 |
Multimedia data structure reflecting change of user relevance feedback and method of determining weights of image features of multimedia data |
| Jan-18-2005 |
A method of searching for images in a database system determines weights of desired image features by taking into consideration both recent user relevance feedback information and whole feedback information.... |
| 6845354 |
Information retrieval system with a neuro-fuzzy structure |
| Jan-18-2005 |
An intelligent information retrieval system for finding information components corresponding to an input query word. The system includes a synonym block for finding synonymous indexed keywords of the query... |
| 6842796 |
Information extraction from documents with regular expression matching |
| Jan-11-2005 |
Techniques are provided for enumerating regularly identifiable or stereotypical phrases that people commonly use to convey particular information, and where exactly in these phrases the particular information... |
| 6842751 |
Methods and apparatus for selecting a data classification model using meta-learning |
| Jan-11-2005 |
A data classification method and apparatus are disclosed for labeling unknown objects. The disclosed data classification system employs a model selection technique that characterizes domains and identifies... |
| 6842750 |
Symbolic simulation driven netlist simplification |
| Jan-11-2005 |
The present invention is directed to a simplification method for an arbitrary library. In aspects of the present invention, the method does not rely on specific properties of the library elements and has... |
| 6842741 |
Recording medium with electronic ticket definitions recorded thereon and electronic ticket processing methods and apparatuses |
| Jan-11-2005 |
An electronic ticket comprises a ticket ID 233, an issuer ID 237, right information 239 of the electronic ticket, and issue, transfer and redeem conditions 240, 241 and 242, the entire block of these pieces... |
| 6839723 |
Information management system |
| Jan-4-2005 |
An information management system of the present invention includes an information management apparatus and an information request apparatus. The information management apparatus acquires, each time a state... |
| 6839716 |
Method and system for building a dataset |
| Jan-4-2005 |
A method of building a dataset in a computing system includes extracting data meeting a predetermined criteria from at least a first database, filling the dataset with data items, extracting from the first... |
| 6839665 |
Automated generation of text analysis systems |
| Jan-4-2005 |
A system, method, and computer program for automatically generating text analysis systems is disclosed. Individual passes of a multi-pass text analyzer are created by generating rules from samples supplied... |
| 6836773 |
Enterprise web mining system and method |
| Dec-28-2004 |
An enterprise-wide web data mining system, computer program product, and method of operation thereof, that uses Internet based data sources, and which operates in an automated and cost effective manner.... |
| 6834276 |
Database system and method for data acquisition and perusal |
| Dec-21-2004 |
A data acquisition and perusal system and method including a database selection module, a database index generator module and a search module. The database selection module enables selection of a plurality... |
| 6832350 |
Organizing and categorizing hypertext document bookmarks by mutual affinity based on predetermined affinity criteria |
| Dec-14-2004 |
An apparatus, program product, and method utilize a "bookmark affinity" to facilitate organizing by mutual affinity stored storage location addresses, or "bookmarks," each for a given hypertext document.... |
| 6832221 |
Filing system and method for avoiding filing of identical document data |
| Dec-14-2004 |
A file system includes a processing device that processes first data with at least one of a copying function to read image data of an original document and record the read image data on a sheet, a transmitting... |
| 6832217 |
Information inquiry support apparatus, information inquiry support method, information distribution apparatus, and information distribution method |
| Dec-14-2004 |
An information inquiry support apparatus including means for creating a profile, that is, an evaluation table about each one of plural key words expressing the information content, relating to the user's... |
| 6832216 |
Method and system for mining association rules with negative items |
| Dec-14-2004 |
By introducing the concept of negation into an association rule, the number of combinations of items, serving as candidates of the association rule containing negative items, becomes enormous for mining.... |
