| 6502094 |
Relation path viability prediction |
| Dec-31-2002 |
There is provided a process for predicting whether a query will produce a result in an information system formed of objects having different instances and relations between the objects. An instance-to-object... |
| 6502091 |
Apparatus and method for discovering context groups and document categories by mining usage logs |
| Dec-31-2002 |
An apparatus is provided for relating user queries and documents. The apparatus includes a client, a server, and a database being mutually coupled to a communications pathway. The client is configured... |
| 6501501 |
Construction and civil engineering database generator and display |
| Dec-31-2002 |
A device generates a database suited for maintenance of construction and civil engineering works, particularly very long and narrow bridges, roads, and slope faces. A device also displays the database.... |
| 6499029 |
User interface providing automatic organization and filtering of search criteria |
| Dec-24-2002 |
A user interface for querying and displaying records from a database employs a physical metaphor for the process of constructing queries and viewing results. The criteria are represented in displays as... |
| 6496824 |
Session management over a stateless protocol |
| Dec-17-2002 |
A method for session management over a stateless protocol the steps of comparing a first plurality of identifiers contained in a first request with a second plurality of identifiers contained in a second... |
| 6496818 |
Semi-automatic index term augmentation in document retrieval |
| Dec-17-2002 |
Disclosed are methods and systems for indexing or retrieving materials accessible through computer networks. |
| 6496820 |
Method and search method for structured documents |
| Dec-17-2002 |
A registration method for structured documents includes the steps of: preparing correspondence data between a string and a string occurrence position within a structured document for each structured document,... |
| 6493711 |
Wide-spectrum information search engine |
| Dec-10-2002 |
A method and apparatus are provided for searching for information. The method includes the step of segmenting a judgement matrix into a plurality of information sub-matrices where each submatrix has a... |
| 6493710 |
Method and apparatus for reducing costs associated with manipulating data |
| Dec-10-2002 |
A method and apparatus are provided for performing an array DML operation. During the performance of the operation on a data item in the array, and if an error occurs, then error information is stored... |
| 6493706 |
Arrangement for enhancing weighted element searches in dynamically balanced trees |
| Dec-10-2002 |
A processor-based system configured for searching in dynamically balanced trees is configured for linking the most often-searched elements of the tree to optimize search performance. Data elements include... |
| 6493701 |
Database system with methodogy providing faster N-ary nested loop joins |
| Dec-10-2002 |
A database system implementing a methodology or technique that can be used to optimize processing of nested loop joins of three or more tables (n-ary NLJs for n>2) more efficiently is described. In... |
| 6493692 |
Information search apparatus and method, and computer readable memory |
| Dec-10-2002 |
An apparatus has an image content word holding unit for storing multimedia information, and content words each of which verbalizes a concept expressed in the multimedia information, and an associative... |
| 6490579 |
Search engine system and method utilizing context of heterogeneous information resources |
| Dec-3-2002 |
A system and method for facilitating the retrieval of information from a system of distributed computers or information resources is disclosed. In particular, the system and method of the present invention... |
| 6487552 |
Database fine-grained access control |
| Nov-26-2002 |
A method and mechanism are provided for accessing data. Values are stored for a set of context attributes associated with a session between a database user and a database server. The database system includes... |
| 6487553 |
Method for reducing search results by manually or automatically excluding previously presented search results |
| Nov-26-2002 |
A method and apparatus which enables a user to streamline the number of results presented to the user during a search session most typically performed over the Internet. The present invention allows the... |
| 6487549 |
Generating union queries using tensor representations |
| Nov-26-2002 |
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... |
| 6484177 |
Data management interoperability methods for heterogeneous directory structures |
| Nov-19-2002 |
A method for use with a data management system (DMS) enabling a directory service such as the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and Microsoft's Active Directory to interact with centralized... |
| 6484166 |
Information management, retrieval and display system and associated method |
| Nov-19-2002 |
An information management, retrieval and display system searches through an informational resource, such as a document (e.g., a treaty), a number of individual documents (e.g., Web pages resident on the... |
| 6484162 |
Labeling and describing search queries for reuse |
| Nov-19-2002 |
A system and method associates a label and description with a search query such that the query, label, and description can be stored in a shared query repository so that queries can be retrieved by multiple... |
| 6480860 |
Tagged markup language interface with document type definition to access data in object oriented database |
| Nov-12-2002 |
An apparatus and method defines a markup language for accessing data in a database. The markup language is preferably defined in extensible markup language (XML) by creating suitable document type definitions... |
| 6480853 |
Systems, methods and computer program products for performing internet searches utilizing bookmarks |
| Nov-12-2002 |
Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for allowing a Web server search engine to search a user's bookmarks stored within the user's browser on a client device. A user's search request... |
| 6480843 |
Supporting web-query expansion efficiently using multi-granularity indexing and query processing |
| Nov-12-2002 |
A method and apparatus for efficient query expansion using reduced size indices and for progressive query processing. Queries are expanded conceptually, using semantically similar and syntactically related... |
| 6480844 |
Method for inferring behavioral characteristics based on a large volume of data |
| Nov-12-2002 |
A method provides for mining information from large volumes of data regarding transactions. The method provides for inferring a behavioral characteristic of a party to the transaction based on a large... |
| 6480840 |
Method and computer program product for subjective image content similarity-based retrieval |
| Nov-12-2002 |
A user preference for a desired image is determined by using one or more examples and counterexamples of a desired image in order to define the user preference. A relative preference of a user for one... |
| 6480838 |
System and method for searching electronic documents created with optical character recognition |
| Nov-12-2002 |
A method, system and computer product for processing search requests in order to compensate for characters and character strings misread during OCR scanning is disclosed. After an alphanumeric search request... |
| 6480835 |
Method and system for searching on integrated metadata |
| Nov-12-2002 |
A method and system are disclosed for searching a set of documents using compact integrated metadata. Each document comprises a set of terms. The metadata comprises a set of topic profiles, each topic... |
| 6477551 |
Interactive electronic messaging system |
| Nov-5-2002 |
A method and apparatus for interacting with incoming text information, e.g., a user query. The method of the present invention categorizes the incoming text information, and may also provide associated... |
| 6477538 |
Data display apparatus and method for displaying data mining results as multi-dimensional data |
| Nov-5-2002 |
A data display apparatus and method for displaying the result of a data mining process as multi-dimensional data. In one embodiment, the multi-dimensional data is displayed on a parallel coordinate axis.... |
| 6477534 |
Method and system for generating a statistical summary of a database using a join synopsis |
| Nov-5-2002 |
A method for generating an approximate answer to a query in a database environment in which the database has a plurality of base relations. A query relating to a database is received, and an approximate... |
| 6477529 |
Apparatus and method for dynamically limiting information sent to a viewing device |
| Nov-5-2002 |
A system and method for transporting user-restricted data from a gateway device to a handheld viewing device is provided. The gateway device includes an information translator, content filters, and storage.... |
| 6477528 |
File management system, electronic filing system, hierarchical structure display method of file, computer readable recording medium recording program in which function thereof is executable |
| Nov-5-2002 |
A file management system in a computer having a file system, which manages by a hierarchical management system, comprises file retrieval condition specifying means to specify file retrieval condition,... |
| 6477524 |
Method for statistical text analysis |
| Nov-5-2002 |
A method for retrieving relevant stories from a collection of stories. The method comprises the steps of identifying at least one query term, applying a cooccurrence matrix to the query term to provide... |
| 6473770 |
Segment aggregation and interleaving of data types in a geographic database and methods for use thereof in a navigation application |
| Oct-29-2002 |
A geographic database for use with a navigation application program that provides navigation features to an end-user. The geographic database includes a plurality of data records of a first type and a... |
| 6473753 |
Method and system for calculating term-document importance |
| Oct-29-2002 |
A weighting system for calculating the term-document importance for each term within each document that is part of a collection of documents (i.e., a corpus). The weighting system calculates the importance... |
| 6473755 |
Overlapping subdocuments in a vector space search process |
| Oct-29-2002 |
The present invention is a method and apparatus for retrieving information from a database. Initially, the documents within the database are divided into mutually exclusive subdocuments that generally... |
| 6473752 |
Method and system for locating documents based on previously accessed documents |
| Oct-29-2002 |
A system for locating computer documents or data of interest to a user without specification by the user of topics of interest. The system detects the selection of computer documents by the user of the... |
| 6470352 |
Data display apparatus and method for displaying data mining results as multi-dimensional data |
| Oct-22-2002 |
A data display apparatus and method for displaying the result of a data mining process as multi-dimensional data. In one embodiment, the multi-dimensional data is displayed on a parallel coordinate axis.... |
| 6470336 |
Document image search device and recording medium having document search program stored thereon |
| Oct-22-2002 |
A document search device searches for a keyword in a recognition result obtained by character recognition performed on a document image. The keyword includes at least one first character, and a character... |
| 6470337 |
Information retrieval system using a hierarchical index for narrowing a retrieval result and its method and storing medium with information retrieval program stored therein |
| Oct-22-2002 |
An information retrieval system for retrieving desired data from a retrieved subject database with data to be retrieved stored therein, which obtains the index corresponding to the retrieved subject data... |
| 6470333 |
Knowledge extraction system and method |
| Oct-22-2002 |
An information retrieval apparatus for processing a query for retrieval of information from a database has a mechanism for locating a number of features and feature fragments in an index database; an evaluating... |
| 6466933 |
Delayed delivery of query results or other data from a federated server to a federated client until such information is needed |
| Oct-15-2002 |
A technique for delayed delivery of query results or other data from a federated server to a federated client until such information is needed. One or more commands are executed at a client computer to... |
| 6466931 |
Method and system for transparently caching and reusing query execution plans efficiently |
| Oct-15-2002 |
A method and system for transparently caching and reusing database query execution plans. The method and system include caching a first query that contains a first constant. A first query is associated... |
| 6463431 |
Database evaluation system supporting intuitive decision in complex multi-attributive domains using fuzzy hierarchical expert models |
| Oct-8-2002 |
A database evaluation system provides for intuitive end user analysis and exploration of large databases of information through real time fuzzy logic evaluation of utility preferences and nearest neighbor... |
| 6463432 |
Apparatus for and method of retrieving images |
| Oct-8-2002 |
In order to retrieve images similar to a key image out of objective images, feature values of the key image and feature values of each objective image are obtained. On the basis of the feature values of... |
| 6463433 |
Distributed computer database system and method for performing object search |
| Oct-8-2002 |
A distributed computer database system including one or more front end computers and one or more computer nodes interconnected by a network into a search engine for retrieval of objects including images,... |
| 6460034 |
Document knowledge base research and retrieval system |
| Oct-1-2002 |
A knowledge base search and retrieval system, which includes factual knowledge base queries and concept knowledge base queries, is disclosed. A knowledge base stores associations among terminology/categories... |
| 6460035 |
Probabilistic data clustering |
| Oct-1-2002 |
A component of a data clusterer is used to determine a conditional probability density of an object (data point) lying in a cluster. The object has a discrete ordinal attribute value within a finite range... |
| 6460033 |
Browsing methods, articles and apparatus |
| Oct-1-2002 |
A plurality of items are browsed using a non-unary tree which relates the plurality of items and a browsing sequence. A signal is outputted to display content associated with a current item in the browsing... |
| 6459810 |
Method and apparatus for forming variant search strings |
| Oct-1-2002 |
An exemplary embodiment of the invention is a method for forming variant search strings. The method includes receiving a search string and parsing the search string to locate a mistaken search string character.... |
| 6457028 |
Method and apparatus for finding related collections of linked documents using co-citation analysis |
| Sep-24-2002 |
A method and apparatus for identifying related collections of linked documents. In the method the links from a set of related documents are analyzed to identify a plurality of document collections. By... |
