| 6535876 |
Method and apparatus for profile score threshold setting and updating |
| Mar-18-2003 |
A novel approach for filtering documents involves the use of delivery ratio threshold setting technique to set an initial profile score threshold and the use of beta-gamma regulation for dynamic threshold... |
| 6532464 |
Method of assessing environmental load and apparatus of doing the same |
| Mar-11-2003 |
There is provided a method of assessing total environmental load of an object product, including the steps of (a) collecting first data about environmental load at each of nodes relating to the object... |
| 6532467 |
Method for selecting node variables in a binary decision tree structure |
| Mar-11-2003 |
A method for selecting node variables in a binary decision tree structure is provided. The binary decision tree is formed by mapping node variables to known outcome variables. The method calculates a statistical... |
| 6532458 |
Sampling for database systems |
| Mar-11-2003 |
A database server supports weighted and unweighted sampling of records or tuples in accordance with desired sampling semantics such as with replacement (WR), without replacement (WoR), or independent coin... |
| 6529904 |
Deployment of snapshots with parameterized data description language strings |
| Mar-4-2003 |
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... |
| 6529902 |
Method and system for off-line detection of textual topical changes and topic identification via likelihood based methods for improved language modeling |
| Mar-4-2003 |
A system (and method) for off-line detection of textual topical changes includes at least one central processing unit (CPU), at least one memory coupled to the at least one CPU, a network connectable to... |
| 6529903 |
Methods and apparatus for using a modified index to provide search results in response to an ambiguous search query |
| Mar-4-2003 |
A system allows a user to submit an ambiguous search query and to receive potentially disambiguated search results. In one implementation, a search engine's conventional alphanumeric index is translated... |
| 6529900 |
Method and apparatus for data visualization |
| Mar-4-2003 |
A method and system are provided for visualization of information stored in database records. Data visualizations offer a view of the underlying database records and are created and stored with in the... |
| 6529892 |
Apparatus, method and product for multi-attribute drug comparison |
| Mar-4-2003 |
A computer-implemented apparatus or method, or a software product, for generating a composite quantitative comparison of drug products based on multiple attributes of them. A set of name-attribute similarity... |
| 6529586 |
System and method for gathering, personalized rendering, and secure telephonic transmission of audio data |
| Mar-4-2003 |
An audio information delivery system collects electronic data via Internet or other conveyance, and responsive to customer inquiries, selectively retrieves data from local stores in areas of interest to... |
| 6526435 |
Method and system for downloading selected rows within a listing using HyperText Transport Protocol (HTTP) |
| Feb-25-2003 |
A method is described in which a client computer generates an HTTP request and transmits the request to a server computer that has access to a listing such as an e-mail listing, a directory listing, or... |
| 6526410 |
Method and apparatus for structured document difference string extraction |
| Feb-25-2003 |
A document difference extraction method and apparatus which is used for extracting the difference between structured documents properly meeting the sense of a document editor taking the logical meaning... |
| 6526405 |
Determining similarity between event types in sequences |
| Feb-25-2003 |
Determining a degree of relative similarity between event types in event sequences by examining the context of the event types facilitates similarity analysis of large sets of event sequences. A method... |
| 6526404 |
Information system using human resource profiles |
| Feb-25-2003 |
A system is provided for use as a source of information and for providing to a user who makes a request for information, an answer to that request. The system includes an information library that includes... |
| 6526400 |
Information search apparatus and method |
| Feb-25-2003 |
An image search apparatus acquires associative words in relation to an input query word, and makes a keyword search of image information on the basis of the obtained associative words and input query word.... |
| 6523028 |
Method and system for universal querying of distributed databases |
| Feb-18-2003 |
A method and system for accessing information or data from distributed databases is disclosed. Generally, the method includes the steps of receiving an unstructured query from a user, generalizing the... |
| 6523029 |
System and method for embedded information retrieval in a distributed free-text application environment |
| Feb-18-2003 |
An embedded information retrieval system is provided including a free-text parser, a knowledge-based query generator, a distributed query dispatcher, and a persistent feedback retrieval manager. When the... |
| 6523030 |
Sort system for merging database entries |
| Feb-18-2003 |
The present invention is a method for operating a computer system to minimize the number of disk storage access operations used in creating an inverted database. This method divides a database into several... |
| 6523031 |
Method for obtaining structured information exists in special data format from a natural language text by aggregation |
| Feb-18-2003 |
A method for obtaining structured information from a natural language text by aggregation. The aggregation includes steps of reading in a natural language text, recognizing sentences and sentence constituents... |
| 6523022 |
Method and apparatus for selectively augmenting retrieved information from a network resource |
| Feb-18-2003 |
An apparatus and corresponding method for selecting multimedia information, such as video, audio, graphics and text residing on a plurality of Data Warehouses, relational database management systems (RDMS)... |
| 6523020 |
Lightweight rule induction |
| Feb-18-2003 |
A lightweight rule induction method is described that generates compact Disjunctive Normal Form (DNF) rules. Each class may have an equal number of unweighted rules. A new example is classified by applying... |
| 6519592 |
Method for using data from a data query cache |
| Feb-11-2003 |
Disclosed is a system for performing online data queries. The system for performing online data queries is a distributed computer system with a plurality of server nodes each fully redundant and capable... |
| 6519590 |
System and method for performing a mindflow process using a mindflow document archive |
| Feb-11-2003 |
A system for retrieving documents includes a memory coupled to a processor. The memory stores a number of documents, each document comprising a number of first answers to a first group of questions and... |
| 6519587 |
Database query system and method |
| Feb-11-2003 |
The invention includes an information retrieval system having a server and a plurality of clients. The server has access to one or more data storage media on which the server maintains a database. The... |
| 6519585 |
System and method for facilitating presentation of subject categorizations for use in an on-line search query engine |
| Feb-11-2003 |
A system method for facilitating presentation of subject categorizations for use in an on-line search query engine is described. A synonym list is built including a set of synonym entries. Each synonym... |
| 6519586 |
Method and apparatus for automatic construction of faceted terminological feedback for document retrieval |
| Feb-11-2003 |
Iterative information retrieval from a large database of textual or text-containing documents is facilitated by automatic construction of faceted representations. Facets are chosen heuristically based... |
| 6519578 |
System and method for processing knowledge items of a knowledge warehouse |
| Feb-11-2003 |
A system for processing knowledge items includes a memory coupled to a processor. The memory stores a number of knowledge items. The processor identifies a number of first questions for presentation to... |
| 6517587 |
Networked architecture for enabling automated gathering of information from Web servers |
| Feb-11-2003 |
A data-gathering and reporting system for collecting WEB summaries from the Internet for individual subscribers to a Portal subscription system has a plurality of gatherer servers each connected to the... |
| 6516311 |
Method for linking on the internet with an advertising feature |
| Feb-4-2003 |
This invention pertains to a method for finding a web page based on telephone numbers with a feature of utilizing the finding method to build traffic to view advertisements. Pursuant to the method, there... |
| 6516312 |
System and method for dynamically associating keywords with domain-specific search engine queries |
| Feb-4-2003 |
A computer program product is provided as a system for use with a search engine and a search engine repository to dynamically associate keywords within a search result set encountered in an abstract of... |
| 6516308 |
Method and apparatus for extracting data from data sources on a network |
| Feb-4-2003 |
A method and apparatus is provided for producing a general data extraction procedure capable of extracting data from data sources on a network regardless of data format. The general data extraction procedure... |
| 6513101 |
Expiring host selected scratch logical volumes in an automated data storage library |
| Jan-28-2003 |
Disclosed are a data storage library and library computer processor implemented methods for expiring logical volumes in response to expiration selection from a host. A library server maintains a mapping... |
| 6513031 |
System for improving search area selection |
| Jan-28-2003 |
A method of aiding a user in searching a computer environment includes retrieving a search query from a user, accessing a user profile and selecting a search area based on the search query and the user... |
| 6513036 |
Method and apparatus for searching and presenting search result from one or more information sources based on context representations selected from the group of other users |
| Jan-28-2003 |
A method and an apparatus for searching and presenting electronic information from one or more information sources where the retrieval and presentation of information depends on context representations... |
| 6513037 |
Method of and arrangement for executing a data base query |
| Jan-28-2003 |
A data base query submitted in natural speech normally requires a dialog with the data base system, which repeatedly prompts the user to submit further statements. From each speech utterance submitted... |
| 6513032 |
Search and navigation system and method using category intersection pre-computation |
| Jan-28-2003 |
A user can access database documents across category hierarchies by executing a computer program that operates on a pre-computed intersection list. The intersection list comprises a plurality of report... |
| 6513029 |
Interesting table-subset selection for database workload materialized view selection |
| Jan-28-2003 |
An index and materialized view selection wizard produces a fast and reasonable recommendation for a configuration of indexes, materialized views, and indexes on materialized views which are beneficial... |
| 6513028 |
Method, system, and program for searching a list of entries when search criteria is provided for less than all of the fields in an entry |
| Jan-28-2003 |
Disclosed is a system, method, and program for searching a list of entries. Each entry is comprised of multiple fields. Each field in the entry may include one of a range of possible values for that field.... |
| 6510424 |
Electronic notification agent |
| Jan-21-2003 |
In a data processing system, a method for fetching information through a data network comprising: transmitting information to a client unit for causing the client unit to display a user interface enabling... |
| 6507842 |
System and method for importing and exporting test executive values from or to a database |
| Jan-14-2003 |
A system and method for importing and exporting test executive values from or to a database. A test executive may provide the user various places, referred to as variables and properties, in which data... |
| 6507843 |
Method and apparatus for classification of data by aggregating emerging patterns |
| Jan-14-2003 |
Emerging patterns (EPs) are itemsets having supports that change significantly from one dataset to another. A classifier, CAEP, is disclosed using the following main ideas based on EPs: (i) Each EP can... |
| 6507841 |
Methods of and apparatus for refining descriptors |
| Jan-14-2003 |
A database containing data items, such as images, text, audio records or video records, in both summary and complete forms, is searched by reference to descriptors associated with the data items, in response... |
| 6507836 |
Data search method with each data item displayed in a filter at a position associated with an attribute value of the data item |
| Jan-14-2003 |
A data search method capable of representing a complex search condition with a reduced number of filters and allowing high data visibility is used in a data search system including a storage disposed to... |
| 6507830 |
Retrieval system, retrieval method and computer readable recording medium that records retrieval program |
| Jan-14-2003 |
A retrieval system enables high-speed and high-precision pattern retrieval. A retrieval dictionary generation unit classifies learned patterns into plural clusters, and generates a retrieval dictionary... |
| 6505202 |
Apparatus and methods for finding information that satisfies a profile and producing output therefrom |
| Jan-7-2003 |
A system for evaluating information. The system defines a set of properties and one or more values for each property and then assigns property-value combinations to items of information and to profiles.... |
| 6505196 |
Method and apparatus for improving access to literature |
| Jan-7-2003 |
A method and apparatus for improving access to literature is described. Embodiments of the invention comprise an access mechanism that searches current and past literature (e.g., journal publications or... |
| 6505197 |
System and method for automatically and iteratively mining related terms in a document through relations and patterns of occurrences |
| Jan-7-2003 |
A computer program product is provided as an automatic mining system to identify a set of related terms on the World Wide Web that define a relationship, using the duality concept. Specifically, the mining... |
| 6505194 |
Search user interface with enhanced accessibility and ease-of-use features based on visual metaphors |
| Jan-7-2003 |
A user interface for querying and displaying records from a database employs a physical metaphor for the process of constructing queries and viewing results. In one embodiment, the search criteria are... |
| 6505195 |
Classification of retrievable documents according to types of attribute elements |
| Jan-7-2003 |
A document storage stores a plurality of documents belonging to a certain field. The administrator of a host device uses a classification attribute selector to select the types of attributes suitable for... |
| 6502093 |
Approach for publishing data in a relational database system |
| Dec-31-2002 |
A method and apparatus are provided for implementing a content-based publish-and-subscribe system in a relational database system. A subscriber may request for messages by using a query language supported... |
