| 7043482 |
Automatic and secure data search method using a data transmission network |
| May-9-2006 |
A method for searching data stored in at least one database (32, 34) accessible from an external server of a data transmission network (14), including sending a query (36) for every database from a local... |
| 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.... |
| 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... |
| 7039633 |
Hyper video: information retrieval using multimedia |
| May-2-2006 |
Disclosed is a method and device for selecting documents, such as Web pages or sites, for presentation to a user, in response to a user expression of interest, during the course of presentation to the... |
| 7039634 |
Semantic querying a peer-to-peer network |
| May-2-2006 |
In a method of semantic querying in a peer-to-peer network, an item of information is mapped into a semantic vector based on the latent semantic indexing algorithm or any IR algorithms that can derive... |
| 7039635 |
Dynamically updated quick searches and strategies |
| May-2-2006 |
In response to characters entered within a Find dialog box, a minifind window is dynamically updated to provide corresponding search strategies and quick matches from content search data that are being... |
| 7035873 |
System and methods for providing adaptive media property classification |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A system and methods are provided for automatically classifying data according to perceptual properties of the data to form a classification chain that is suited to the searching and sorting of large databases... |
| 7035864 |
Hierarchical data-driven navigation system and method for information retrieval |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A data-driven, hierarchical information navigation system and method enable search of sets of documents or other materials by certain common attributes that characterize the materials. The invention includes... |
| 7035855 |
Process and system for integrating information from disparate databases for purposes of predicting consumer behavior |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A process and system for integrating information stored in at least two disparate databases. The stored information includes consumer transactional information. According to the process and system, at... |
| 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... |
| 7035848 |
System and method for structured news release generation and distribution |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A mechanism for the structured generation of a news release includes in one embodiment, (a) separately specifying the content of each of a plurality of predetermined sections of the news release; (b) storing,... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 7024407 |
Word sense disambiguation |
| Apr-4-2006 |
Systems and methods for word sense disambiguation, including discerning one or more senses or occurrences, distinguishing between senses or occurrences, and determining a meaning for a sense or occurrence... |
| 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... |
| 7024402 |
Spatial data mining method, spatial data mining apparatus and storage medium |
| Apr-4-2006 |
A spatial data mining apparatus for calculating an optimal distance from a database, wherein spatial information, such as addresses, is stored, includes an input mechanism, for the input of an objective... |
| 7020742 |
System for fast tape file positioning |
| Mar-28-2006 |
The present invention provides fast read performance for accessing a file from a multiplicity of files when its corresponding Block ID is unavailable, by furnishing new file-positioning commands, allowing... |
| 7020670 |
Document constraint descriptors obtained from user signals indicating attribute-value relations |
| Mar-28-2006 |
Document constraint descriptors are obtained from user signals. User signals are received indicating a set of attribute-value relations that can apply to documents. The user signals are used to obtain... |
| 7020654 |
Methods and apparatus for indexing content |
| Mar-28-2006 |
Mechanisms and techniques provide a system that operates in a computerized device to index content. Such a system allows registration of content indexing services and then receives repository content of... |
| 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... |
| 7020649 |
System and method for incrementally maintaining non-distributive aggregate functions in a relational database |
| Mar-28-2006 |
A system for incrementally maintaining non-distributive aggregate functions in a relational database includes a data storage device in which a relational database is stored. A processor communicates with... |
| 7020648 |
System and method for identifying and utilizing a secondary index to access a database using a management system without an internal catalogue of online metadata |
| Mar-28-2006 |
A system for identifying and utilizing a secondary index to access a database using a management system without an internal catalogue of online metadata. The system receives an application request to access... |
| 7016977 |
Method and system for multilingual web server |
| Mar-21-2006 |
The method, system and computer program product disclosed herein provides a web server capability to produce translated web pages in alternate languages based on an extraction of the web page layout from... |
| 7016912 |
Write-back to cells |
| Mar-21-2006 |
Maintaining data used for performing "what-if" analysis is disclosed. The systems and methods of the invention define an efficient mechanism allowing a user to specify how base values from a database are... |
| 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... |
| 7016895 |
Text-classification system and method |
| Mar-21-2006 |
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... |
| 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... |
| 7013308 |
Knowledge storage and retrieval system and method |
| Mar-14-2006 |
A system and method for representing, storing and retrieving real-world knowledge on a computer or network of computers is disclosed. Knowledge is broken down into permanent atomic "facts" which can be... |
| 7010527 |
Linguistically aware link analysis method and system |
| Mar-7-2006 |
A method and system for determining relevance rankings for pages identified in a search query is provided. In response to the search query, an information retrieval system identifies candidate pages/documents... |
| 7007039 |
Method of building multidimensional workload-aware histograms |
| Feb-28-2006 |
In a database system, a method of maintaining a self-tuning histogram having a plurality of existing rectangular shaped buckets arranged in a hierarchical manner and defined by at least two bucket boundaries,... |
| 7007018 |
Business vocabulary data storage using multiple inter-related hierarchies |
| Feb-28-2006 |
Techniques for responding to a request for data from a server operated by an entity or enterprise on a network include generating and storing a first concept in association with a first relationship of... |
| 7007019 |
Vector index preparing method, similar vector searching method, and apparatuses for the methods |
| Feb-28-2006 |
In the present invention, a similar vector is searched from a several hundreds dimensional vector database at a high speed, by a single vector index, and in accordance with either measure of an inner product... |
| 7007017 |
Method for automatic discovery of query language features of web sites |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A method for automatically determining query language operators of a Web information source, includes providing a set of known query operators, each known query operator in the set operating according... |
| 7007015 |
Prioritized merging for full-text index on relational store |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A full-text search index system and method is generated by creating instances of a database index from an in-memory inverted list of keywords associated with a text identifier and the occurrences of the... |
| 7007008 |
Category searching |
| Feb-28-2006 |
Performing a category search to identify categories of web sites that relate to a search term includes receiving at least one search term that then is compared with a hierarchy of category identifiers,... |
| 7007006 |
Method for recommending indexes and materialized views for a database workload |
| Feb-28-2006 |
The invention herein provides method and apparatus, including software for determining a set of materialized views or indices of the contents or a subset of the contents of a database in a data processing... |
| 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... |
| 7003725 |
Method and system for normalizing dirty text in a document |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A method and system of normalizing dirty text in a document. The present invention creates a thesaurus that evolves over time as new document collections are analyzed. This thesaurus, which is used by... |
| 7003530 |
Algorithm for selecting audio content |
| Feb-21-2006 |
An algorithm for selecting audio content including an audio database, a user preference learning routine, and an audio selection routine. The user preference learning routine is capable of explicitly learning... |
| 7003516 |
Text representation and method |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A computer method for representing a natural-language document in a vector form suitable for text manipulation operations is disclosed. The method involves determining (a) for each of a plurality of terms... |
| 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... |
| 7003512 |
System and method for multiple pass cooperative processing |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A system for collaborative processing, comprising a controlling module with access to at least one relational database capable of performing a first set of functions on the data in the database and at... |
| 7003514 |
Method and apparatus for restricting a fan-out search in a peer-to-peer network based on accessibility of nodes |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A method, apparatus, and computer implemented instructions for restricting a fan-out type search of a distributed database. A search request is received indicating that a requesting node originating the... |
| 7003513 |
Method and system of weighted context feedback for result improvement in information retrieval |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A method and a system for re-ranking an existing result set of documents. A user starts a search by entering search term(s). The search term(s) is (are) transferred to a search engine which generates a... |
| 7003505 |
Information retrieving apparatus and method therefor, and memory medium storing program therefor |
| Feb-21-2006 |
In an information retrieval apparatus for retrieving, from a database, information of a predetermined number in the descending order to degree of matching with the entered retrieving condition, in displaying... |
| 7003442 |
Document file group organizing apparatus and method thereof |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A document organizing apparatus performs a statistical process and a character string process for keywords of documents, extracts an equivalent relation, a hierarchical relation, and an associative relation... |
| 6999971 |
Apparatus and method for parametric group processing |
| Feb-14-2006 |
A method of parametric group processing includes forming a parametric index from an indexed database. A first parametric group and a second parametric group corresponding to elements in the parametric... |
| 6999960 |
Apparatus and method to coordinate requests provided to a data storage and retrieval system |
| Feb-14-2006 |
A method to coordinate requests submitted to a data storage and retrieval system from two or more operator input stations, whereby an initialization request comprising a requested operation is provided... |
| 6999959 |
Meta search engine |
| Feb-14-2006 |
A computer implemented meta search engine and search method. In accordance with this method, a query is forwarded to one or more third party search engines, and the responses from the third party search... |
| 6999958 |
Runtime query optimization for dynamically selecting from multiple plans in a query based upon runtime-evaluated performance criterion |
| Feb-14-2006 |
An apparatus, program product and method perform runtime query optimization during execution of a query to select from among multiple available plans, or implementations, capable of implementing the query.... |
