| 6408291 |
Precomputing reference collections in a decision support system |
| Jun-18-2002 |
A computer-implemented process for accelerating operations of a real time decision support system executing on a computer including the steps of determining the elements of a query, determining sources... |
| 6408093 |
Method for comparing object ranking schemes |
| Jun-18-2002 |
A method for comparing a ranking scheme for an object, such as a document image, with a known standard, or ideal ranking scheme for a comparative assessment of the performance and reliability of the two... |
| 6405206 |
Method and apparatus for searching information, and a recording medium on which is recorded an information searching program |
| Jun-11-2002 |
When searching information from the Internet, for example, it is difficult to effectively and accurately obtain the information which the user desires. Moreover, it is also difficult to display the searched... |
| 6405207 |
Reporting aggregate results from database queries |
| Jun-11-2002 |
A facility for multidimensional, multilevel databases has a query syntax for specifying that aggregate-data cells representing higher levels of the database in a report include only the data from certain... |
| 6405197 |
Method of constructing and displaying an entity profile constructed utilizing input from entities other than the owner |
| Jun-11-2002 |
A method of constructing a profile comprising terms indicative of a characteristic of an entity commences when first electronic mail address, associated with a first entity, is created within a knowledge... |
| 6405198 |
Complex data query support in a partitioned database system |
| Jun-11-2002 |
In a database processing system with a partitioned database that provides relational extenders to support storage of and access to complex data types, metadata table rows are collocated with corresponding... |
| 6405196 |
System and method for interfacing index based and iterator based application programming interfaces |
| Jun-11-2002 |
A system and method for interfacing index based and iterator based file management routines. In general, the disclosed system maintains an iterator cache having multiple iterators. Each active iterator... |
| 6405190 |
Free format query processing in an information search and retrieval system |
| Jun-11-2002 |
A search and retrieval system pre-processes an input query to map a contextual semantic interpretation, expressed by the user of the input query, to a boolean logic interpretation for processing in the... |
| 6405191 |
Content based publish-and-subscribe system integrated in a relational database system |
| Jun-11-2002 |
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... |
| 6405188 |
Information retrieval system |
| Jun-11-2002 |
Methods and systems for providing an improved IR system that performs information retrieval by using probabilities. When performing information retrieval, the improved IR system utilizes both the prior... |
| 6405172 |
Voice-enabled directory look-up based on recognized spoken initial characters |
| Jun-11-2002 |
A novel voice-enabled directory look-up system is disclosed. In one embodiment, an operator reads the first few characters from each of the first and last names of a mail addressee. The system captures... |
| 6401118 |
Method and computer program product for an online monitoring search engine |
| Jun-4-2002 |
An online monitoring search engine. The invention is a system, method and computer program product that allows an organization, company, or the like to monitor the Internet (or any computer network) for... |
| 6401091 |
Business information repository system and method of operation |
| Jun-4-2002 |
A business information repository system (10) is provided that is coupled to a distributed network (12). The business information repository system (10) includes a user interface that is coupled to a control... |
| 6401087 |
Information retrieval system, apparatus and method for selecting databases using retrieval terms |
| Jun-4-2002 |
An information retrieval system, apparatus, and method are provided, for automatically selecting suitable database(s) from among a plurality of databases via a simple operation, with excellent accuracy.... |
| 6401086 |
Method for automatically generating a summarized text by a computer |
| Jun-4-2002 |
The method enables the sentence-based automatic summarization of a text on a computer. For this purpose, subject-related lexica are used that provide a relevance measure for each word contained therein.... |
| 6401084 |
System and method for correcting spelling errors in search queries using both matching and non-matching search terms |
| Jun-4-2002 |
A search engine process is disclosed for predicting the correct spelling of search terms within multiple-term search queries. In one embodiment, when a user submits a multiple-term search query that includes... |
| 6397212 |
Self-learning and self-personalizing knowledge search engine that delivers holistic results |
| May-28-2002 |
A search engine provides intelligent multi-dimensional searches, in which the search engine always presents a complete, holistic result, and in which the search engine presents knowledge (i.e. linked facts)... |
| 6397214 |
Method and apparatus for instantiating records with missing data |
| May-28-2002 |
A method of joining two or more sets of data is provided wherein certain dimensions in the fact data are designated as being forced dimensions, and wherein for each forced dimension, a set of entries is... |
| 6397213 |
Search and retrieval using document decomposition |
| May-28-2002 |
Document query and search techniques in which documents to be searched are "decomposed" into "zones," with each zone representing a grouping of text or graphical image or a combination thereof. The zones... |
| 6397208 |
System and method for locating real estate in the context of points-of-interest |
| May-28-2002 |
An on-line interactive, Internet-based real estate service that provides property listings in the context of a set of user selected points-of-interest. The real estate service provides a database of properties... |
| 6397206 |
Optimizing fixed, static query or service selection and execution based on working set hints and query signatures |
| May-28-2002 |
A technique for using working set hints and query signatures to optimize the selection and execution of fixed, static services or queries of information from a database, object server, or similar data... |
| 6396951 |
Document-based query data for information retrieval |
| May-28-2002 |
To obtain a query for use in information retrieval, a document is scanned. The resulting text image data define an image of a segment of text in a first language. Automatic recognition is then performed... |
| 6393423 |
Apparatus and methods for electronic information exchange |
| May-21-2002 |
Methods and apparatus for facilitating information exchange between an information requestor and one or more information custodians via a network are provided. The information requestor creates an information... |
| 6393417 |
Method for providing a rapid internet search |
| May-21-2002 |
A method is provided for rapid Internet searching through the creation of a "fingerprint" of information associated with a search request made by an individual. This fingerprint is forwarded to a library... |
| 6389416 |
Depth first method for generating itemsets |
| May-14-2002 |
A system and method for generating itemset associations in a memory storage system comprising many transactions, with each transaction including one or more items capable of forming the itemset associations.... |
| 6389417 |
Method and apparatus for searching a digital image |
| May-14-2002 |
An apparatus for searching a digital image and a method therefor are provided. The digital image search apparatus includes a database processing unit for segmenting an image from the database or an image... |
| 6389415 |
System for identifying connotative meaning |
| May-14-2002 |
In a distributed method of data gathering, connotative meanings of terms are selected from predefined emotional descriptors organized into a plurality of emotional categories. Respective judges select... |
| 6389412 |
Method and system for constructing integrated metadata |
| May-14-2002 |
A method and system are disclosed for creating compact integrated metadata representing a set of documents. Each document comprises a set of terms. The metadata comprises a set of topic profiles, each... |
| 6389410 |
Method for minimizing the number of sorts required for a query block containing window functions |
| May-14-2002 |
Techniques are described for reducing the number of sort operations required for a query that contains window functions. The techniques involves determining a set of Partition By and Order By clause pairs... |
| 6385619 |
Automatic user interest profile generation from structured document access information |
| May-7-2002 |
A system generates user interest profiles by monitoring and analyzing a user's access to a variety of hierarchical levels within a set of structured documents, e.g., documents available at a web site.... |
| 6385608 |
Method and apparatus for discovering association rules |
| May-7-2002 |
A candidate-itemset generating unit generates a candidate-itemset composed of at least one candidate item to be included in the left hand side or the right hand side of the association rule. A candidate-itemset... |
| 6385607 |
Generating regression trees with oblique hyperplanes |
| May-7-2002 |
A method and apparatus is disclosed for generating a regression tree with oblique hyperplanes from a training set of records. The method is performed iteratively, stopping when a criterion has been reached.... |
| 6385603 |
Joined table expression optimization by query transformation |
| May-7-2002 |
A query optimizer analyzes a query and triggers a sequence of transformations to achieve optimal performance for joined table expressions. The transformations include pushing down predicates for joined... |
| 6385605 |
Information retrieval apparatus and a method |
| May-7-2002 |
An information retrieval apparatus retrieves information from a database. When a retrieval request is received from a user, a first retrieval section retrieves information from the database using a retrieval... |
| 6381603 |
System and method for accessing local information by using referencing position system |
| Apr-30-2002 |
A system and method for accessing local information in a database. The database is organized with merchandise information including identifier of information provider, identifier information, position... |
| 6381598 |
System for providing cross-lingual information retrieval |
| Apr-30-2002 |
An information retrieval system providing for cross-lingual information retrieval. The method as implemented in the system causes elementary words to be extracted from a search expression. These elementary... |
| 6381599 |
Seamless integration of internet resources |
| Apr-30-2002 |
A mechanism for seamlessly searching and accessing information available through the Internet and other resources is disclosed. The present invention maintains a database of file objects available from... |
| 6377946 |
Document search method and apparatus and portable medium used therefor |
| Apr-23-2002 |
A document search method and apparatus and a portable medium used therefor are described, in which when registering a document in a data base, the logic structures of each document to be registered are... |
| 6377947 |
Information retrieval based on using and locating subdocuments |
| Apr-23-2002 |
In a novel approach for retrieving information a set of sub-documents first is established based upon a set of documents. A query is processed which operates on the set of sub-documents, causing a score... |
| 6377945 |
Search system and method for retrieval of data, and the use thereof in a search engine |
| Apr-23-2002 |
A search system for information retrieval includes a data structure in the form of a non-evenly spaced sparse suffix tree for storing suffixes of words and/or symbols, or sequences thereof, in a text T,... |
| 6374241 |
Data merging techniques |
| Apr-16-2002 |
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... |
| 6374240 |
Method and apparatus for maintaining a customer database using license plate scanning |
| Apr-16-2002 |
An apparatus is provided for generating an image of a license plate and determining license plate characters from the image. Then, a database is searched to determine if there is a customer record that... |
| 6374234 |
Aggregations performance estimation in database systems |
| Apr-16-2002 |
A method, apparatus, and software are disclosed for efficient estimation of the performance gain associated with using a set of proposed aggregations, or summaries of data, in a database. This estimate... |
| 6370525 |
Method and system for retrieving relevant documents from a database |
| Apr-9-2002 |
A method for processing a search query uses the results of a search performed on a high quality, controlled database to assess the relevance of documents retrieved from a search of an uncontrolled public... |
| 6370526 |
Self-adaptive method and system for providing a user-preferred ranking order of object sets |
| Apr-9-2002 |
A method and system for presenting a group of objects in a ranking order. Objects are ranked according to user preferences by first observing the access order of a related group of objects in relation... |
| 6370523 |
System and methods for determining a desired listing using an intersection of coverage areas and a search region |
| Apr-9-2002 |
A system and method for determining a desired listing by ranking coverage areas based on the intersection of a search region and one or more coverage areas. The desired listing is created by determining... |
| 6370518 |
Method and apparatus for displaying a record from a structured database with minimum keystrokes |
| Apr-9-2002 |
An improved query input technique is disclosed in which a user supplies a few character-based queries and is able to retrieve and display at least as portion of a record from a structured database. For... |
| 6366910 |
Method and system for generation of hierarchical search results |
| Apr-2-2002 |
A method and system for querying hierarchically classified data. The system first receives a query request and then identifies classifications of the data that may satisfy the received query request. The... |
| 6366909 |
Information presentation apparatus and information presentation method |
| Apr-2-2002 |
An information presentation apparatus includes an information organization structure editing unit, a search condition creating unit, an information collection unit, and a collection result joining unit.... |
| 6366908 |
Keyfact-based text retrieval system, keyfact-based text index method, and retrieval method |
| Apr-2-2002 |
A keyfact-based text retrieval method and a keyfact-based text index method that describes the formalized concept of a document by a pair comprising an object that is the head and a property that is the... |
