| 6941302 |
Managing changes to a directory of electronic documents |
| Sep-6-2005 |
A method and apparatus are provided for managing changes to a directory of electronic documents. A custom directory is created and stored based on the contents of a master directory. The master directory... |
| 6941299 |
Method for querying a database |
| Sep-6-2005 |
The invention relates to a method for querying a database with database contents that have a database structure. The query is made in a query structure, which differs from the database structure in that... |
| 6941294 |
Method and apparatus for digital media management, retrieval, and collaboration |
| Sep-6-2005 |
A system stores digital media records, and comprising a vocabulary file of words keyed to the digital media records. A search query is received by computer from a user, the search query including words.... |
| 6941296 |
Internet search supporting apparatus and method, and internet search supporting program using the method |
| Sep-6-2005 |
A character string input in a URL input region of a browser is obtained. An HTTP request is sent, and a return code with respect thereto is confirmed. In the case where the return code is not a predetermined... |
| 6941291 |
Method and device for a user profile repository |
| Sep-6-2005 |
A method and device for providing access, via a single point, to information stored on multiple data sources. One embodiment comprises a method in which first an interface (port) receives a call specifying... |
| 6941293 |
Methods and apparatus for determining equivalent descriptions for an information need |
| Sep-6-2005 |
Methods and apparatus determine equivalent descriptions for an information need. In one implementation, if adjacent entries in a query log contain common terms, the uncommon terms are identified as a candidate... |
| 6938170 |
System and method for preventing automated crawler access to web-based data sources using a dynamic data transcoding scheme |
| Aug-30-2005 |
A protection system and associated method prevent the automatic crawler access to a company's web-based data, without impacting the ability of an interactive user, such as a consumer, to access the data... |
| 6934767 |
Automatically expanding abbreviated character substrings |
| Aug-23-2005 |
A server machine receives an input string of characters from a client machine, and the string includes at least one abbreviated substring preceded and followed by word delimiters. Each abbreviated substring... |
| 6934715 |
Method for collecting and storing data regarding terms and conditions of contractual agreements |
| Aug-23-2005 |
A method is disclosed for collecting and storing data in a database of a computer system regarding a contractual agreement comprising: establishing a plurality of data fields in said database corresponding... |
| 6934712 |
Tagging XML query results over relational DBMSs |
| Aug-23-2005 |
A method for publishing relational data as XML by translating XML queries into queries against a relational database. Conversion of the relational database into an XML database is not required. Each relational... |
| 6931418 |
Method and system for partial-order analysis of multi-dimensional data |
| Aug-16-2005 |
A method and system for performing data analysis where multiple, categorical dimensions and statistical measures are used. The method includes preparing multi-dimensional data into nodes and arranging... |
| 6931415 |
Text information browsing aid apparatus, digital content creation system, digital content distribution system, and storage medium |
| Aug-16-2005 |
A digital content distribution system that is suitable to provide digital content readable and output the digital content in a layout viewable for the user is provided. A content distribution terminal... |
| 6931416 |
Ephemeral list for object-action navigation |
| Aug-16-2005 |
An Ephemeral List navigation panel provided in conjunction with an Object-Action navigation tool which is a temporary "parking space" for objects encountered within other portions or modules of the Object-Action... |
| 6931405 |
Flexible subscription-based event notification |
| Aug-16-2005 |
Subscription-based notification using event channels that each correspond to a particular scope. Each channel manages notifications through the use of a a schema definition. The event subscriptions identify... |
| 6931397 |
System and method for automatic generation of dynamic search abstracts contain metadata by crawler |
| Aug-16-2005 |
A computer program product is provided as an abstract update system that improves Internet searching by automatically generating accurate and dynamic search abstracts. The abstract update system enables... |
| 6931398 |
Retrieval apparatus, retrieval method and retrieval program |
| Aug-16-2005 |
By comprising a question sentence input unit for receiving a question sentence for retrieval, a retrieval execution unit for retrieving data from a database storing data to be retrieved and extracting... |
| 6928430 |
Prefix match search scheme |
| Aug-9-2005 |
A search scheme (10) in which a controller (14) provides a search key (16) to a search engine (18, 36). In one variation, the search engine (18) provides a match address... |
| 6925488 |
Distributed intelligent information technology operations automation |
| Aug-2-2005 |
Methods and systems for efficient and effective distribution of system management messages between customer and service provider sites are provided. Customer sites each recognize characteristics of the... |
| 6925460 |
Clustering data including those with asymmetric relationships |
| Aug-2-2005 |
The present invention relates to a method, system and computer program product for clustering data points and its application to text summarization, customer profiling for web personalization and product... |
| 6925458 |
System and method for providing an activity schedule of a public person over a network |
| Aug-2-2005 |
A system and method are disclosed for providing timely and efficient scheduled media information of upcoming media activities of public persons to interested individuals over a network, such as the Internet.... |
| 6924828 |
Method and apparatus for improved information representation |
| Aug-2-2005 |
A information search and navigation system indexes, categorizes and condenses data from text or other documents. In various embodiments, the invention further can utilize user information goals, document... |
| 6922706 |
Data mining techniques for enhancing shelf-space management |
| Jul-26-2005 |
A computer method for enhancing shelf-space management. The method includes the steps of providing a shelf-space-requirements database comprising a compendium of individual shelf-space-requirements history;... |
| 6922691 |
Method and apparatus for digital media management, retrieval, and collaboration |
| Jul-26-2005 |
A system has first and second metadata streams with respect to a video stream, the first metadata stream time-coded with respect to the video stream and the second metadata stream not time-coded with respect... |
| 6920505 |
Method and apparatus for determining a navigation path for a visitor to a world wide web site |
| Jul-19-2005 |
A method and apparatus for determining a navigation path for a visitor to a Web site, the determination being based, at least in part, on one or more search terms or keywords supplied by the visitor when... |
| 6920450 |
Retrieving, detecting and identifying major and outlier clusters in a very large database |
| Jul-19-2005 |
The present invention discloses a method, a computer system, a computer readable medium and a sever. The method of the present invention comprises steps of; creating said document matrix from said documents... |
| 6915300 |
Method and system for searching indexed string containing a search string |
| Jul-5-2005 |
Systems and methods for indexing and searching the inner structure of a string over a language having a vocabulary and a grammar using bit vectors. The index preserves the inner grammatical structure of... |
| 6915297 |
Automatic knowledge management system |
| Jul-5-2005 |
An automatic knowledge management system, includes a knowledge base management module; an automatic search engine to execute the searching instructions of users to search searchable information in a knowledge... |
| 6915295 |
Information searching method of profile information, program, recording medium, and apparatus |
| Jul-5-2005 |
In a candidate data searching step, a plurality of similar candidate data is searched from a profile data group having a peculiar attribute value every different attribute on the basis of an input in which... |
| 6915287 |
System, method and computer program product for migrating data from one database to another database |
| Jul-5-2005 |
A software tool that is useful when one is attempting to migrate data from one database to another database. In one aspect of the invention, the software tool reduces the complications that may arise when... |
| 6912529 |
Method and system for storing and retrieving documents |
| Jun-28-2005 |
A system for storing and retrieving text-based documents stores each of the documents in accordance with a mark-up language that comprises mark-up elements defined by a meta-language such as XML (Extensible... |
| 6912525 |
Techniques for web site integration |
| Jun-28-2005 |
Disclosed is a method and device for finding documents, such as Web pages, for presentation to a user, automatically or in response to a user expression of interest, which documents are part of a Web site... |
| 6910037 |
Method and apparatus for providing search results in response to an information search request |
| Jun-21-2005 |
A system and method is disclosed for taking the results of a search (i.e., electronic documents) using the TFIDF of terms contained in those search result documents to quantify how related the search result... |
| 6910036 |
Database performance monitoring method and tool |
| Jun-21-2005 |
The present invention provides a method and system for monitoring the process performance of a database that accepts and records SQL statements and that records the status of a session of use of the database.... |
| 6907459 |
Systems and methods for predicting usage of a web site using proximal cues |
| Jun-14-2005 |
Techniques are provided for predicting the usage of a document collection given proximal cue information in the documents, a starting point and the user's information needs. A document collection topology... |
| 6907425 |
System and method for searching information stored on a network |
| Jun-14-2005 |
A system and method for searching websites that uses 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... |
| 6907397 |
System and method of media file access and retrieval using speech recognition |
| Jun-14-2005 |
An embedded device for playing media files is capable of generating a play list of media files based on input speech from a user. It includes an indexer generating a plurality of speech recognition grammars.... |
| 6904433 |
Method for using query templates in directory caches |
| Jun-7-2005 |
The present invention discloses the use of generalized queries, referred to as query templates, obtained by generalizing individual user queries, as the semantic basis for low overhead, high benefit directory... |
| 6904425 |
Method and system for inquiring product exportation |
| Jun-7-2005 |
A method and system for inquiring product exportation are proposed, for allowing a user at a terminal device to inquire associated data relating to product exportation on a browser of the terminal device... |
| 6901411 |
Statistical bigram correlation model for image retrieval |
| May-31-2005 |
The disclosed subject matter improves iterative results of content-based image retrieval (CBIR) using a bigram model to correlate relevance feedback. Specifically, multiple images are received responsive... |
| 6901399 |
System for processing textual inputs using natural language processing techniques |
| May-31-2005 |
A system filters documents in a document set retrieved from a document store in response to a query. The system obtains a first set of logical forms based on a selected one of the query and the documents... |
| 6901402 |
System for improving the performance of information retrieval-type tasks by identifying the relations of constituents |
| May-31-2005 |
A system is utilized for determining a relationship between first and second textual inputs. The system identifies constituents in the first textual input, having predetermined characteristics indicative... |
| 6901398 |
System and method for constructing and personalizing a universal information classifier |
| May-31-2005 |
A system and method for personalizing an information classifier is provided. The system includes a default or universal classifier that is pre-trained with features that have relatively universal discriminatory... |
| 6898591 |
Method and apparatus for server responding to query to obtain information from second database wherein the server parses information to eliminate irrelevant information in updating databases |
| May-24-2005 |
A method and apparatus for updating databases is disclosed. A database is updated transparently using an IDL (Interface Descriptive Language) to interface with websites on the WWW (World Wide Web). Multi-media... |
| 6898594 |
Integrated database system and program storage medium |
| May-24-2005 |
By corresponding the external databases to the predicates used in query processing according to a predetermined ontology, it is allowed to issue a query through the ontology. The query thrown into the... |
| 6898588 |
Method and apparatus for viewing the effect of changes to an index for a database table on an optimization plan for a database query |
| May-24-2005 |
A method and apparatus for viewing the effect of changes to an index for a database table on an optimization plan for a database query, such as an SQL statement. A virtual table is created which mimics... |
| 6895430 |
Method and apparatus for integrating resolution services, registration services, and search services |
| May-17-2005 |
An input request may be processed by a device such as a network access apparatus, servlet, applet, stand-alone executable program, or a user interface element such as a microphone, text box object or location... |
| 6895411 |
Partial stepwise regression for data mining |
| May-17-2005 |
A computerized data mining method for determining a prediction model for a dependent data mining variable based on a multitude of independent data mining variables, comprising replacement of the independent... |
| 6895406 |
Dynamic personalization method of creating personalized user profiles for searching a database of information |
| May-17-2005 |
A method for creating a personal profile of a user for searching a database comprises the following steps: (a) words or words linked to graphical elements are presented as choices to a user in a display;... |
| 6895402 |
Detecting framing of a network resource identified by a target uniform resource locator |
| May-17-2005 |
A computer-implemented method for detecting framing of a network (such as the Internet or an intranet) resource identified by a target uniform resource locator (URL), by locating a suspect URL and an associated... |
| 6895404 |
System and method for electronically searching for information from a sorted data set |
| May-17-2005 |
A data lookup method and apparatus enables a number of users with portable wireless devices, such as WAP phones, to conveniently access a sorted data list such as a telephone directory. The sorted list... |
