| 6574624 |
Automatic topic identification and switch for natural language search of textual document collections |
| Jun-3-2003 |
A method for iteratively drilling-down on a user's textual free-form natural language query uses a session history to interpret successive queries in the context of previous queries on a topic or topics... |
| 6574622 |
Apparatus and method for document retrieval |
| Jun-3-2003 |
Document retrieval system and method are disclosed which can diminish a gap between the user's retrieval intention in information retrieval and the configuration of a query as well as document representations... |
| 6574620 |
Portable browsing interface for information retrieval |
| Jun-3-2003 |
An integrated searching/browsing mechanism employs user-constructed information hierarchies that represent a cognitive framework for the organization of information. The hierarchies are independent of... |
| 6571251 |
Case-based reasoning system and method with a search engine that compares the input tokens with view tokens for matching cases within view |
| May-27-2003 |
A case-based reasoning system includes a case database capable of storing a plurality of cases that each include one or more attributes. A view generator in the case-based reasoning system generates a... |
| 6571240 |
Information processing for searching categorizing information in a document based on a categorization hierarchy and extracted phrases |
| May-27-2003 |
Processing automatically information in a document to be incorporated into databases to be searched, retrieved and learned. This would significantly enhance categorizing information in the domain so that... |
| 6571243 |
Method and apparatus for creating extractors, field information objects and inheritance hierarchies in a framework for retrieving semistructured information |
| May-27-2003 |
According to the invention, a system and method for extracting information from a semistructured information source. The system includes a listing stack for holding extracted information. A means for matching... |
| 6571242 |
Methods and systems for updating a land use and land cover map using postal records |
| May-27-2003 |
Systems and methods are presented to classify a region on a map, or to update a preexisting classification of the region. The method utilizes postal records, associated with geographic positions, and corresponding... |
| 6571238 |
System for regulating flow of information to user by using time dependent function to adjust relevancy threshold |
| May-27-2003 |
Method and apparatus for regulating a flow of information to one or more users is disclosed. A system includes a relevancy threshold for a user and an incoming message having a relevancy score, the relevancy... |
| 6571239 |
Modifying a key-word listing based on user response |
| May-27-2003 |
This invention provides methods, apparatus, system, and article of manufacture which solve the problem of mismatch between the keywords employed by a user in making a query and those assigned by the manual... |
| 6571233 |
Optimization of SQL queries using filtering predicates |
| May-27-2003 |
A technique for optimizing execution of a query that accesses data stored on a data store connected to a computer. Query predicates involving different data types are identified. A second query predicate... |
| 6567936 |
Data clustering using error-tolerant frequent item sets |
| May-20-2003 |
A generalization of frequent item sets to error-tolerant frequent item sets (ETF) is disclosed, together with its application in data clustering using error-tolerant frequent item sets to either build... |
| 6567805 |
Interactive automated response system |
| May-20-2003 |
A computerized system responds, not just to a single query issued by a user, but to a query in the context of a dialog with the user. The system, which is referred to as an interactive automated response... |
| 6567803 |
Simultaneous computation of multiple moving aggregates in a relational database management system |
| May-20-2003 |
An On-Line Analytic Processing (OLAP) system identifies a plurality of simultaneously computable moving aggregate functions in a query. The identified moving aggregate functions are then partitioned into... |
| 6567797 |
System and method for providing recommendations based on multi-modal user clusters |
| May-20-2003 |
A system and method for browsing, retrieving, and recommending information from a collection uses multi-modal features of the documents in the collection, as well as an analysis of users' prior browsing... |
| 6567800 |
System and method for searching information stored on a network |
| May-20-2003 |
A system and method for searching websites that use category information to narrow the range of a website content search. Website content is retrieved through a network and stored. A user starts a search... |
| 6567103 |
Graphical search results system and method |
| May-20-2003 |
A system and method of creating a graphical presentation, such as a video, based on surfing the results of a web search. The graphical presentation may be constructed from the results of a search wherein... |
| 6564213 |
Search query autocompletion |
| May-13-2003 |
A system for facilitating online searches suggests query autocompletion strings (terms and/or phrases) to users during the query entry process, wherein the suggested strings are based on specific attributes... |
| 6564205 |
Querying parallel database system that execute stored procedures using abstract data type attributes, retrieving location information of data, sub-data between first and second server |
| May-13-2003 |
A parallel database system retrieval method and system for transferring from database operation servers to a front end server only those data items that are used in subsequent processing, thereby shortening... |
| 6564204 |
Generating join queries using tensor representations |
| May-13-2003 |
Query results and statistics regarding them are generated using a novel representation of an n-attribute relation as an order n relational tensor. Orders of the relational tensor respectively correspond... |
| 6560600 |
Method and apparatus for ranking Web page search results |
| May-6-2003 |
A method and apparatus for ranking a plurality of pages identified during a search of a linked database includes forming a linear combination of two or more matrices, and using the coefficients of the... |
| 6557042 |
Multimedia summary generation employing user feedback |
| Apr-29-2003 |
A multimedia server computer or other device can provide multimedia content, as well as summaries of the multimedia content, to one or more client computers. Each of the users of a client computer is identified... |
| 6556986 |
Database management method of invoking a function retrieving index type definition, cataloging particular index which has not yet been supported by a database system |
| Apr-29-2003 |
A method and a system for executing a general database processing independent of a specific user-defined function are provided. In an implementation method, index definition information for setting a specific... |
| 6556990 |
Method and apparatus for facilitating wildcard searches within a relational database |
| Apr-29-2003 |
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates performing an efficient wildcard search on a field within a relational database table. The system operates by receiving a query... |
| 6556989 |
Quantifying the level of interest of an item of current interest |
| Apr-29-2003 |
Quantifying the level of interest of an item of current interest is disclosed. An indication that an item is of current interest is received. The indication is processed to determine an intensity value.... |
| 6553382 |
Data management system for retrieving data based on hierarchized keywords associated with keyword names |
| Apr-22-2003 |
This invention provides a data management method and a data management system for automatically merging hierarchical keywords and attribute information into other hierarchical keywords and attribute information,... |
| 6553372 |
Natural language information retrieval system |
| Apr-22-2003 |
A natural language information retrieval (NLIR) system employing a hash table technique to reduce memory requirements and a proxy process module to improve processing speed on multi-processor platforms.... |
| 6553347 |
Automatic virtual negotiations |
| Apr-22-2003 |
A method for conducting "one to one" commercial negotiations through an electronic medium such as the Internet. The negotiation process consists of sending persuasive texts to the user by the system, including... |
| 6550057 |
Piecemeal retrieval in an information services patterns environment |
| Apr-15-2003 |
A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for providing a warning upon retrieval of objects that are incomplete. An object is provided with at least one missing attribute. Upon receipt of... |
| 6549939 |
Proactive calendar notification agent |
| Apr-15-2003 |
In a data processing system, a method for fetching information through a data network includes the following steps: (1) receiving a user profile comprising user preferences; (2) using an agent for periodically... |
| 6549908 |
Methods and apparatus for interpreting user selections in the context of a relation distributed as a set of orthogonalized sub-relations |
| Apr-15-2003 |
Methods and apparatus for distributing a first relation amongst a set of orthogonal sub-relations are disclosed. As a method, an orthogonal sub-relation of the set of orthogonal sub-relations is identified... |
| 6549898 |
Method of and an apparatus for retrieving and delivering documents and a recording media on which a program for retrieving and delivering documents are stored |
| Apr-15-2003 |
Retrieval conditions inputted from a plurality of users are registered. According to the retrieval conditions, a retrieval is conducted for a text inputted. As a result of the retrieval, similarity of... |
| 6549897 |
Method and system for calculating phrase-document importance |
| Apr-15-2003 |
A method and system for generating a weight for phrases within each document in a collection of documents. Each document has terms such as words and numbers. Each phrase comprises component terms. Each... |
| 6549895 |
Method and apparatus for analyzing data retrieval using index scanning |
| Apr-15-2003 |
A method and computer program product for analyzing data retrieval using index scanning in a database management system. The method involves scanning an index associated with a table in the database management... |
| 6549894 |
Computerized docketing system for intellectual property law with automatic due date alert |
| Apr-15-2003 |
A computerized docketing system for legal matters, comprising a database operatively arranged to store information related to the legal matters, including actions to be taken with respect to the legal... |
| 6546403 |
Mechanism to resubmit queries in a parallel database system |
| Apr-8-2003 |
An apparatus, method and program product for resubmitting queries encompassed by a Query Management Subsystem (QMS) responsive to high availability recovery actions within itself and a database subsystem... |
| 6546391 |
High-speed lookup method and high-speed lookup apparatus |
| Apr-8-2003 |
Entries which become lookup objects and have variable length comparison conditions are divided into a plurality of groups, a representative lookup key is taken as lookup data for each group, and mask data... |
| 6546383 |
Method and device for document retrieval |
| Apr-8-2003 |
A method for document retrieval includes the steps of dividing a query character string into partial character strings, selecting one or more documents from a plurality of registered documents such that... |
| 6546387 |
Computer network information management system and method using intelligent software agents |
| Apr-8-2003 |
The present invention provides a system for managing information on a computer network having a server by gathering summary data from the information provider node indicative of event changes at the information... |
| 6546388 |
Metadata search results ranking system |
| Apr-8-2003 |
A method for presenting to an end-user the intermediate matching search results of a keyword search in an index list of information. The method comprising the steps of: coupling to a search engine a graphical... |
| 6542901 |
Formatting input data file compatible with workstation application into formatted input data file compatible with second application utilizing user-customized settings |
| Apr-1-2003 |
The present invention automatically formats input data compatible for use with a workstation application into formatted input data compatible with a host application. The input data is in one example updated... |
| 6542896 |
System and method for organizing data |
| Apr-1-2003 |
A system and method for organizing data and subsequently finding that data in a database reads raw data records from one or more sources of raw data. The content of the raw data is pre-encoded into an... |
| 6542889 |
Methods and apparatus for similarity text search based on conceptual indexing |
| Apr-1-2003 |
In one aspect of the invention, a method of performing a conceptual similarity search comprises the steps of: generating one or more conceptual word-chains from one or more documents to be used in the... |
| 6542888 |
Content filtering for electronic documents generated in multiple foreign languages |
| Apr-1-2003 |
A system for collecting and categorizing metadata about content provided via the internet or intranet, regardless of the language of generation of the content. The content of each document is assigned... |
| 6539378 |
Method for creating an information closure model |
| Mar-25-2003 |
According to the invention, a method is provided for forming an information closure of a plurality of rows in a listing stack built by a wrapper program for accessing semistructured information. This method... |
| 6539387 |
Structured focused hypertext data structure |
| Mar-25-2003 |
A structured focused hypertext data structure in which hypertext nodes store identifying information about source and target documents or pages so that their relative positions in a hierarchy and other... |
| 6539375 |
Method and system for generating and using a computer user's personal interest profile |
| Mar-25-2003 |
A method and system of this invention that provides for profiling a user of the Internet according to predefined categories of interest is described herein. This invention includes scanning content information... |
| 6539376 |
System and method for the automatic mining of new relationships |
| Mar-25-2003 |
An automatic mining system that identifies a set of relevant terms from a large text database of unstructured information, such as the World Wide Web with a high degree of confidence. The automatic mining... |
| 6539377 |
Personalized search methods |
| Mar-25-2003 |
A method of organizing information in which the search activity of previous users is monitored and such activity is used to organize articles for future users. Personal data about future users can be used... |
| 6539373 |
Contextual searching by determining intersections of search results |
| Mar-25-2003 |
A system and method for rapidly identifying the existence and location of an item in a file using an improved hash table architecture. A hash table is constructed having a plurality of hash buckets, each... |
| 6535885 |
Multikeyed table implementable on a personal digital assistant |
| Mar-18-2003 |
A multikeyed table utilizing a number of primary and secondary keys is implementable on a personal digital assistant. The table includes one or more records with each record having a plurality of fields.... |
