| 6708168 |
Method and apparatus for searching a data stream for character patterns |
| Mar-16-2004 |
Methods and apparatus for parallel searching through a data stream. Using a register bank and comparators, the device performs a brute force search through a data stream to quickly find one or more patterns... |
| 6708167 |
Method for searching multimedia data using color histogram |
| Mar-16-2004 |
The present invention relates to a multimedia search method for searching multimedia objects using color histogram. The present invention provide a multimedia retrieval method and a multimedia feature... |
| 6704745 |
Transforming data between first organization in a data store and hierarchical organization in a dataset |
| Mar-9-2004 |
Data is separated from source. Datasets store tables of data and a graph of the relationships between the tables. The relationship can change at any time. The relationships are described by metadata that... |
| 6704730 |
Hash file system and method for use in a commonality factoring system |
| Mar-9-2004 |
A system and method for a computer file system that is based and organized upon hashes and/or strings of digits of certain, different, or changing lengths and which is capable of eliminating or screening... |
| 6704739 |
Tagging data assets |
| Mar-9-2004 |
Computer-implemented methods and apparatus for tagging data assets are disclosed. The disclosed methods include a method of responding to a user request that a computer program application open a data... |
| 6704731 |
Conditional reply processing method, conditional reply giving agent system device, and program storage medium |
| Mar-9-2004 |
If an intermediary agent device or a database agent device cannot uniquely reply to an inquiry message issued from a user agent device, it generates a conditional reply message and returns the generated... |
| 6704727 |
Method and system for generating a set of search terms |
| Mar-9-2004 |
A method and system for providing a set of search terms in response to a user input are disclosed. A first set of search terms is selected from a master set of search terms based upon a match between the... |
| 6704728 |
Accessing information from a collection of data |
| Mar-9-2004 |
A method of accessing information from a collection of data includes receiving a query, augmenting the query with canonical non-terminal concepts, generating an inverse index of the collection of data,... |
| 6701313 |
Method, apparatus and computer readable storage medium for data object matching using a classification index |
| Mar-2-2004 |
A method of data object generation and matching and an apparatus to perform data object generation and matching uses a predetermined classification index relating to a specific subject to allow two or... |
| 6701312 |
Data ranking with a Lorentzian fuzzy score |
| Mar-2-2004 |
The present mechanism relates to a method for searching a document database such as the Internet and ranking the results obtained from such a search. The mechanism also relates to ranking of a set of numerical... |
| 6701310 |
Information search device and information search method using topic-centric query routing |
| Mar-2-2004 |
An information search device capable of selecting topic search engines (i.e., search engines that focus on specific topics) that are appropriate to a user's search keywords when searching the Web on the... |
| 6701014 |
Method and apparatus for matching slides in video |
| Mar-2-2004 |
The present invention performs a method for matching slides to video comprising, generating keyframes from the video, extracting geometric keyframe features from the keyframes and geometric slide features... |
| 6697804 |
Deploying plurality of sanpshots storing parameterized data description language strings with substitutable parameter causes database object to instantiated |
| Feb-24-2004 |
Mass deployment of snapshots is fostered by allowing collections of snapshots, called refresh groups, to be defined by a template. The template allows for a parameterized snapshot definition query or other... |
| 6697803 |
Generating searchable data entries and applications therefore |
| Feb-24-2004 |
New techniques for generating entries in a content addressable memory (CAM) capable of comparison operations such as "greater than" and "less than" decisions are described. The techniques can be used with... |
| 6697801 |
Methods of hierarchically parsing and indexing text |
| Feb-24-2004 |
Methods of hierarchically parsing and indexing text are provided. A source text is parsed to identify first level text entities and lower level text entities wherein the lower level text entities are subsets... |
| 6697802 |
Systems and methods for pairwise analysis of event data |
| Feb-24-2004 |
Techniques for mining or discovering one or more patterns in an input data set, wherein the input data set is characterized by attributes, comprises the following steps. First, the technique includes mapping... |
| 6694335 |
Method, computer readable medium, and system for monitoring the state of a collection of resources |
| Feb-17-2004 |
A system and method for synchronizing changes among multiple copies of data is disclosed. The system and method allows the data to be synchronized without any copying or transferring of those portions... |
| 6694330 |
System and method for identifying the raw materials consumed in the manufacture of a chemical product |
| Feb-17-2004 |
A system and method are disclosed that allow a user to identify, within a certain level of confidence, the raw materials consumed in the manufacture of a particular chemical product. In addition, the system... |
| 6694329 |
Methods of organizing information |
| Feb-17-2004 |
A method of organizing information into a concept network, to facilitate the creation and sharing of knowledge, includes the steps of: categorizing ideas and thoughts into concepts; creating links between... |
| 6694313 |
Method for compression of a telephone number database in a telecommunications system, and a corresponding telecommunications system |
| Feb-17-2004 |
A method for the compression of a telephone number database in a telecommunications system. The telephone number database contains a plurality of data records each having a specific dialing pattern, and... |
| 6694307 |
System for collecting specific information from several sources of unstructured digitized data |
| Feb-17-2004 |
A system for collecting specific information from several sources of unstructured digitized data. The system receives at least one instruction governing the collection of the specific information. The... |
| 6691135 |
Method and system for automated tracing of an agricultural product |
| Feb-10-2004 |
At least one of pre-planting information, planting information, growing information, harvesting information, chemical information, weather information, adjacent crop information, processing information,... |
| 6691124 |
Compact data structures for pipelined message forwarding lookups |
| Feb-10-2004 |
The invention provides a method and system for lookup (such as for example, lookup of message header information) that records information in a relatively large database in a relatively compact structure,... |
| 6691122 |
Methods, systems, and computer program products for compiling information into information categories using an expert system |
| Feb-10-2004 |
Embodiments of methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for compiling information into information categories using an expert system. For example, multiple information categories may... |
| 6691110 |
System and method for discovering patterns with noise |
| Feb-10-2004 |
A system and method for determining patterns in a data sequence constructs a compatibility matrix which provides a probability between an actual occurrence of an item and an observed occurrence of that... |
| 6691105 |
System and method for geographically organizing and classifying businesses on the world-wide web |
| Feb-10-2004 |
A method and search engine for classifying a source publishing a document on a portion of a network, includes steps of electronically receiving a document, based on the document, determining a source which... |
| 6691111 |
System and method for implementing a natural language user interface |
| Feb-10-2004 |
A system and method for implementing a natural language user interface includes a plurality of software applications, a means for entering text, and a natural language search engine. The natural language... |
| 6687705 |
Method and system for merging hierarchies |
| Feb-3-2004 |
A system and method for merging product information from a first hierarchy into a second hierarchy. A Naive Bayes classification model is generated using both text data and attribute (numerical) data pertaining... |
| 6687696 |
System and method for personalized search, information filtering, and for generating recommendations utilizing statistical latent class models |
| Feb-3-2004 |
The disclosed system implements a novel method for personalized filtering of information and automated generation of user-specific recommendations. The system uses a statistical latent class model, also... |
| 6687692 |
Method and apparatus for providing an expression data mining database |
| Feb-3-2004 |
According to the invention, a system and method for organizing expression information in a way that facilitates data mining. A database model is provided which may organize information relating to, e.g.,... |
| 6687697 |
System and method for improved string matching under noisy channel conditions |
| Feb-3-2004 |
Described is a system and method for improving string matching in a noisy channel environment. The invention provides a method for identifying string candidates and analyzing the probability that the string... |
| 6687695 |
SQL-based analytic algorithms |
| Feb-3-2004 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for performing data mining applications in a relational database management system. At least one analytic algorithm (110) is performed by a computer directly... |
| 6687689 |
System and methods for document retrieval using natural language-based queries |
| Feb-3-2004 |
A system and associated methods identify documents relevant to an inputted natural-language user query. One associate method includes: selecting a set of keywords from the user query; determining at least... |
| 6687694 |
Configurable pattern recognition and filtering tool |
| Feb-3-2004 |
Highly configurable software apparatus for recognizing and manipulating user-defined patterns in an input data stream. It allows the user to define unlimited combinations and sequences of patterns, and... |
| 6687693 |
Architecture for distributed relational data mining systems |
| Feb-3-2004 |
A computer-implemented data mining system includes an Interface Tier, an Analysis Tier, and a Database Tier. The Interface Tier supports interaction with users, and includes an On-Line Analytic Processing... |
| 6687691 |
Method and system for reconstructing original distributions from randomized numeric data |
| Feb-3-2004 |
A system and method for mining data while preserving a user's privacy includes perturbing user-related information at the user's computer and sending the perturbed data to a Web site. At the Web site,... |
| 6687416 |
Method for determining a correlation between images using multi-element image descriptors |
| Feb-3-2004 |
A method of determining a correlation between images, wherein each image is represented by an image descriptor. Each image descriptor comprises a peak descriptor, a set of statistic descriptors, and a... |
| 6684438 |
Method of using cache to determine the visibility to a remote database client of a plurality of database transactions |
| Feb-3-2004 |
Updates made to a central database (3) or to another partially replicated database (23-1) are selectively propagated to a partially replicated database (23-2) if the owner of the partially replicated database... |
| 6684206 |
OLAP-based web access analysis method and system |
| Jan-27-2004 |
A method and system for analyzing web access. First, a plurality of web log records are received. Next, multi-dimensional summary information is generated based on the web log records. Then, derivation... |
| 6684177 |
Computer implemented scalable, incremental and parallel clustering based on weighted divide and conquer |
| Jan-27-2004 |
A technique that uses a weighted divide and conquer approach for clustering a set S of n data points to find k final centers. The technique comprises 1) partitioning the set S into P disjoint pieces S.sub.1,... |
| 6681247 |
Collaborator discovery method and system |
| Jan-20-2004 |
A collaborator discovery method and system is presented for tracking and correlating user activities with respect to information resources on an electronic network to assist users in finding others with... |
| 6681227 |
Database system and a method of data retrieval from the system |
| Jan-20-2004 |
Since metadata pertaining to real data stored in at least one database (DB) are collected and managed at a single meta DB server, and metadata that match a retrieval request are extracted by search of... |
| 6681223 |
System and method of performing profile matching with a structured document |
| Jan-20-2004 |
A profile matching system and associated method match the path expressions in a structured or semi-structured document, such as an XML document, to an indexed resource. The system, having assigned weighting... |
| 6681060 |
Image retrieval using distance measure |
| Jan-20-2004 |
A Mahalanobis distance measure is used to identify a query image among plural images in a database. The measure may be used to rank the similarity of one or more images to the query image. A variance-covariance... |
| 6678692 |
Hierarchy statistical analysis system and method |
| Jan-13-2004 |
A search technique based on classification of database records in accordance with a predominant concept or feature, to facilitate searching of the database by specifying a concept rather than detailed... |
| 6678683 |
Document management system using an access-limited character train and password, and a method and computer-readable medium therefor |
| Jan-13-2004 |
A document management system which can flexibly cope with an access right range of a secret document while efficiently sharing document data is provided. The document management system has a data server,... |
| 6678681 |
Information extraction from a database |
| Jan-13-2004 |
Techniques for extracting information from a database are provided. A database such as the Web is searched for occurrences of tuples of information. The occurrences of the tuples of information that were... |
| 6678679 |
Method and system for facilitating the refinement of data queries |
| Jan-13-2004 |
Methods and systems for forming and testing hypotheses regarding improving the correspondence between information needs and data retrieved in response to those needs. In a preferred embodiment, user feedback... |
| 6678680 |
Music search engine |
| Jan-13-2004 |
A music search method for finding a desired song in a song database. The method comprises generating a difference sequence for each song in the song database by determining the relative difference between... |
| 6678674 |
Data retrieving method and apparatus data retrieving system and storage medium |
| Jan-13-2004 |
In a data retrieving apparatus, a data dictionary is constructed so as to include definition information concerning tables, items and calculation syntax for representing an unnormalized data structure... |
