| 6832350 |
Organizing and categorizing hypertext document bookmarks by mutual affinity based on predetermined affinity criteria |
| Dec-14-2004 |
An apparatus, program product, and method utilize a "bookmark affinity" to facilitate organizing by mutual affinity stored storage location addresses, or "bookmarks," each for a given hypertext document.... |
| 6832287 |
System for fast tape file positioning |
| Dec-14-2004 |
The present invention provides fast read performance for accessing a file from a multiplicity of files when its corresponding Block ID is unavailable, by furnishing new file-positioning commands, allowing... |
| 6832217 |
Information inquiry support apparatus, information inquiry support method, information distribution apparatus, and information distribution method |
| Dec-14-2004 |
An information inquiry support apparatus including means for creating a profile, that is, an evaluation table about each one of plural key words expressing the information content, relating to the user's... |
| 6832218 |
System and method for associating search results |
| Dec-14-2004 |
A method for associating search results is provided. According to the method, an original list of search results is provided to a first user in response to a first query, and the search results selected... |
| 6832220 |
Method and apparatus for file searching, accessing file identifiers from reference page |
| Dec-14-2004 |
Given a destination(s) and search criteria, the destination(s) is searched to identify files that satisfy the search criteria. For each such file, a file identifier (such a uniform resource locator (URL))... |
| 6829621 |
Automatic determination of OLAP cube dimensions |
| Dec-7-2004 |
Means and a computerized method for determining variable dimensions for a multi-dimensional database table, whereby the database table also comprises at least one pre-defined measure dimension for storing... |
| 6829613 |
Techniques for controlling distribution of information from a secure domain |
| Dec-7-2004 |
Techniques for controlling distribution of information from a secure domain by automatically detecting outgoing messages which violate security policies corresponding to the secure domain. Semantic models... |
| 6829606 |
Similarity search engine for use with relational databases |
| Dec-7-2004 |
The invention provides a system and method for defining a schema and sending a query to a Similarity Search Engine to determine a quantitative assessment of the similarity of attributes between an anchor... |
| 6829605 |
Method and apparatus for deriving logical relations from linguistic relations with multiple relevance ranking strategies for information retrieval |
| Dec-7-2004 |
A method and apparatus are provided for improving the precision of information retrieval systems that use logical form searching techniques. Under one embodiment of the invention, several logical form... |
| 6829603 |
System, method and program product for interactive natural dialog |
| Dec-7-2004 |
This patent describes a novel system, method, and program product that are used in interactive natural language dialog. One or more presentation managers operating on a computer system present information... |
| 6829604 |
Rules analyzer system and method for evaluating and ranking exact and probabilistic search rules in an enterprise database |
| Dec-7-2004 |
A rules analyzer system and method is provided for an enterprise system to evaluate and rank exact and probabilistic search rules for searching a computer database of records according to the efficiency... |
| 6826597 |
Providing clients with services that retrieve data from data sources that do not necessarily support the format required by the clients |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A method and system for allowing clients to retrieve data from data sources that do not necessarily support the same protocols and formats as the clients. The clients issue service requests. A pre-processor... |
| 6826566 |
Identifier vocabulary data access method and system |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A method of organizing, managing, and providing interactive access to data in a database is disclosed, along with a program and a system for implementing the method. Associations between each data Item... |
| 6826572 |
System and method allowing advertisers to manage search listings in a pay for placement search system using grouping |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A system for advertisers to efficiently manage their search listings in placement database search system includes grouping means for managing multiple categories for the search listings and query means... |
| 6826569 |
Method for identifying patterns |
| Nov-30-2004 |
The method identifies repeating patterns in sequential event streams, in which each event (A1, B, C, D, A2) is of a pre-determined event type (A, B, C, D) and occurs at a specified position within an event... |
| 6826564 |
Scalable and programmable query distribution and collection in a network of queryable devices |
| Nov-30-2004 |
In a network, a query originator injects queries of network devices into the network at a query node using query messages. The network transports the query messages to the network devices, or to network... |
| 6826567 |
Registration method and search method for structured documents |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A registration/search method for structured documents where correspondence data is prepared between a fixed-length-string and a string occurrence position within a structured document for all fixed-length-strings... |
| 6826559 |
Hybrid category mapping for on-line query tool |
| Nov-30-2004 |
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... |
| 6823491 |
System and method for a dynamically integrated search engine |
| Nov-23-2004 |
A system and method for dynamically integrating a site specific search engine. In one embodiment, a hidden HTML tag is used on web pages to identify the site specific search engine for the web site. When... |
| 6823334 |
Metadata system for managing data mining environments |
| Nov-23-2004 |
Managing a data mining environment, the data mining environment having a data mining tool and a data mining model. Embodiments include registering in a data set control table registered data sets, the... |
| 6820076 |
Database system facilitating parametric searching |
| Nov-16-2004 |
In one aspect of the invention, a computer-implemented database system (10) includes a first table (22a) including rows each corresponding to a keyword and each including an identifier uniquely identifying... |
| 6819339 |
Web browser with multilevel functions |
| Nov-16-2004 |
A architecture is provided to enable a client web browser to conduct and manage a multilevel search. The browser includes an application layer interface. The application layer interface is for coupling... |
| 6816867 |
System, method, and user interfaces for mining of genomic data |
| Nov-9-2004 |
A data mining tool is described that includes a data structure populator that stores one or more first sets of data selected for querying into a first data structure. The tool also has a query builder... |
| 6816858 |
System, method and apparatus providing collateral information for a video/audio stream |
| Nov-9-2004 |
A system and method is disclosed for performing Automatic Stream Analysis for Broadcast Information which takes speech audio as input, converts the audio stream into text using a speech recognition system,... |
| 6816857 |
Meaning-based advertising and document relevance determination |
| Nov-9-2004 |
The present invention is directed to a system in which a semantic space is searched in order to determine the semantic distance between two locations. A further aspect of the present invention provides... |
| 6813617 |
Dynamic generation of optimizer hints |
| Nov-2-2004 |
A fine-grained access control mechanism uses policy functions that are associated with a database object (e.g. table and view). The policy functions are invoked, when, for example, a database server detects... |
| 6813618 |
System and method for acquisition of related graphical material in a digital graphics album |
| Nov-2-2004 |
Reference material in a digital graphics album is specified. Annotation data is extracted from the reference material and may be processed by a natural language processor to produce search keywords. In... |
| 6810516 |
Mechanism allowing separation of graphical display of object status from underlying data |
| Oct-26-2004 |
A system that isolates all of the information that determines the look and feel of status displays of a GUI into one file is described. This file can be quickly edited to change the appearance when needed.... |
| 6810404 |
Computer-based document management system |
| Oct-26-2004 |
A computer-based electronic document and/or paper-based document management application program. The program provides an efficient way to automatically import, index, categorize, store, search, retrieve,... |
| 6810394 |
Methods and apparatus for searching for and identifying information of interest to users |
| Oct-26-2004 |
An information system. The system provides a user interface for selecting subject matter of interest to a user as well as various components for retrieving information items, for classifying information... |
| 6810396 |
Managed access of a backup storage system coupled to a network |
| Oct-26-2004 |
A data storage is configured to manage access between a backup storage system coupled to a network and hosts connected to the network. The data storage includes a storage device partitioned into a number... |
| 6810375 |
Method for segmentation of text |
| Oct-26-2004 |
A computerized method, and a corresponding apparatus, for segmentation of a stream of text elements comprising analyzed tokens into one or more initial clauses is disclosed. In the method, a predetermined... |
| 6807544 |
Method and system for information retrieval based on parts of speech conditions |
| Oct-19-2004 |
An information retrieval navigation method permitting either the operator or the customer not equipped with a sufficient knowledge of a given product to obtain a sufficient retrieval result is disclosed,... |
| 6804678 |
Non-blocking parallel band join algorithm |
| Oct-12-2004 |
A non-blocking parallel band join method and apparatus partitions tuples of two relations for localized processing. At each processing node, the tuples are further partitioned such that join operations... |
| 6804670 |
Method for automatically finding frequently asked questions in a helpdesk data set |
| Oct-12-2004 |
A system and method automatically identify candidate helpdesk problem categories that are most amenable to automated solutions. The system generates a dictionary wherein each word in the text data set... |
| 6804666 |
Information processor, processing method therefor, and program storage medium |
| Oct-12-2004 |
An information processor for recoding at least two different types of content-related data. The first recording means records a predetermined number of types of data related to a first content as a first... |
| 6802042 |
Method and apparatus for providing calculated and solution-oriented personalized summary-reports to a user through a single user-interface |
| Oct-5-2004 |
An Internet-connected portal system has a data repository, a data-gathering system, a request processor, a plurality of report algorithms, and a report processor. The request processor receives a request... |
| 6801910 |
Method and system for guiding drilling in a report generated by a reporting system |
| Oct-5-2004 |
A method and system for guiding drilling into a report are disclosed. Through the use of the invention, a user can drill within a first report dimension or from the first report dimension into a second... |
| 6801909 |
System and method for obtaining user preferences and providing user recommendations for unseen physical and information goods and services |
| Oct-5-2004 |
A system and method for searching data repositories and for obtaining user preferences and providing user recommendations for unseen physical and information goods and services. The system includes, for... |
| 6801906 |
Method and apparatus for finding information on the internet |
| Oct-5-2004 |
When a search is made for information on the Internet, certain search parameters are saved in the user's system. If a subsequent related search is made, these search parameters are transferred to the internet... |
| 6799176 |
Method for scoring documents in a linked database |
| Sep-28-2004 |
A method is presented for scoring documents stored in a network. The method includes identifying links from linking documents to linked documents in the network and determining an importance of the identified... |
| 6799175 |
System and method of determining and searching for patterns in a large database |
| Sep-28-2004 |
Techniques are provided for finding query responses from database queries using an interactive process between a user (e.g., a person entering a query to a database) and a computer system (e.g., a computing... |
| 6795832 |
Rule based compatibility module |
| Sep-21-2004 |
A rule based compatibility module provides a single unified mechanism for testing rules where testing results depend on various combinations of database queries, computable values, and/or run-string parameters.... |
| 6795819 |
System and method for building and maintaining a database |
| Sep-21-2004 |
The invention relates generally to similarity scoring engines. More particularly, the invention is a computer-implemented similarity scoring system and method that allows for using similarity scoring to... |
| 6795818 |
Method of searching multimedia data |
| Sep-21-2004 |
A method of searching multimedia data is disclosed. In the present invention, weights of features in a specific image are automatically learned by grouping images stored in a search system, giving an initial... |
| 6791585 |
Computer method and system for reconciling disparate data archival mediums |
| Sep-14-2004 |
A computer method suitable for reconciling disparate data archival mediums. The method obviates the need for writing programs that are specific or uniquely tailored to each data archival medium, wherein... |
| 6789087 |
Information processing apparatus for processing a photographed image of a person |
| Sep-7-2004 |
When radiography or other photography is executed on a mass basis, by use of an information processing apparatus that processes a photographed images as digital image signals, identification information... |
| 6789076 |
System, method and program for augmenting information retrieval in a client/server network using client-side searching |
| Sep-7-2004 |
In a system, method and program for identifying information accessible over a client/server network, search results obtained by a search engine running on a server may be improved by utilizing computing... |
| 6789075 |
Method and system for prioritized downloading of embedded web objects |
| Sep-7-2004 |
A method retrieves a web file and sorts one or more information element references according to a priority attribute associated with each reference. After ranking the information element references by... |
| 6785684 |
Apparatus and method for determining clustering factor in a database using block level sampling |
| Aug-31-2004 |
An apparatus and method perform block-level sampling on a database, process the data to generate one or more matrices, and process the one or more matrices to generate a clustering factor for a selected... |
