| 6745180 |
Data supply controlling device, method, and storage medium which facilities information searching by user |
| Jun-1-2004 |
A data supply controlling device comprises a data base for user data which stores user data matched with each user. The data base of user data can be queried in accordance with the user data so that a... |
| 6745181 |
Information access method |
| Jun-1-2004 |
A method of accessing information includes processing a query, searching a collection of data for a set of results matching the query, selectively reducing the set of results to generate a subset of results,... |
| 6742021 |
Navigating network-based electronic information using spoken input with multimodal error feedback |
| May-25-2004 |
A system, method, and article of manufacture are provided for navigating an electronic data source by means of spoken language. When a spoken input request is received from a user, it is interpreted. Additional... |
| 6742003 |
Apparatus and accompanying methods for visualizing clusters of data and hierarchical cluster classifications |
| May-25-2004 |
A system that incorporates an interactive graphical user interface for visualizing clusters (categories) and segments (summarized clusters) of data. Specifically, the system automatically categorizes incoming... |
| 6741995 |
Method for dynamically creating a profile |
| May-25-2004 |
According to the invention, techniques for profiling of human behavior based upon analyzing data contained in databases, data marts and data warehouses. In an exemplary embodiment, the invention provides... |
| 6741992 |
Flexible rule-based communication system and method for controlling the flow of and access to information between computer users |
| May-25-2004 |
Flexible rule-based information system allows information originators, administrators, recipients, and requesters (collectively, "users") to control and influence the flow of and access to information.... |
| 6741986 |
Method and system for performing information extraction and quality control for a knowledgebase |
| May-25-2004 |
A system and method of information extraction and storage extracts information from a plurality of articles in a distributed manner and stores the extracted information in an information store. In one... |
| 6741985 |
Document retrieval system and search method using word set and character look-up tables |
| May-25-2004 |
A computer-operated document retrieval system includes a lexicon of words contained in system documents, and a document look-up table that relates words by unique word numbers to the documents. A word... |
| 6741983 |
Method of indexed storage and retrieval of multidimensional information |
| May-25-2004 |
A tree-structured index to multidimensional data is created using naturally occurring patterns and clusters within the data which permit efficient search and retrieval strategies in a database of DNA profiles.... |
| 6741984 |
Method, system and storage medium for arranging a database |
| May-25-2004 |
An exemplary embodiment is a method, system and storage medium for arranging a database corresponding to a first Web site accessed by a user. The system includes a host system for preparing a plurality... |
| 6741982 |
System and method for retrieving data from a database system |
| May-25-2004 |
A fast and efficient system and method for retrieving data from a database system by a process external to the database system is provided, in which the database system accepts and processes data requests... |
| 6741959 |
System and method to retrieving information with natural language queries |
| May-25-2004 |
A search machine finds and ranks documents in a database based on a set of rules that match characteristics of the database with a natural language query. The system includes a lexicon component which... |
| 6738780 |
Autonomous citation indexing and literature browsing using citation context |
| May-18-2004 |
An autonomous citation indexing system which can be used as an assistant agent automates and enhances the task of finding publications in electronic form, including publications located on the world wide... |
| 6738775 |
Database communication system and method for communicating with a database |
| May-18-2004 |
A computer system includes one or more local users and one or more remote users. Each of the local users and remote users communicate with a database via respective telecommunications lines and/or an intermediate... |
| 6738774 |
Method for benchmarking standardized data element values of agricultural operations through an internet accessible central database and user interface |
| May-18-2004 |
A method for uploading an agricultural operation's standardized data element values to a central database through an Internet accessible user interface and enabling users to benchmark the standardized... |
| 6738766 |
Apparatus and methods for providing personalized application search results for wireless devices based on user profiles |
| May-18-2004 |
An exemplary method for providing personalized application search results in a mobile device comprises the steps of receiving a search request from a user, the search request including at least one search... |
| 6738763 |
Information retrieval system having consistent search results across different operating systems and data base management systems |
| May-18-2004 |
An information retrieval system whereby identical search results can be derived irrespective of the kind of DBMS or OS. A keyword normalizing device normalizes a keyword transmitted from a client through... |
| 6738765 |
Relational text index creation and searching |
| May-18-2004 |
In an environment where it is desire to perform information extraction over a large quantity of textual data, methods, tools and structures are provided for building a relational text index from the textual... |
| 6738764 |
Apparatus and method for adaptively ranking search results |
| May-18-2004 |
A method of ranking search results includes producing a relevance score for a document in view of a query. A similarity score is calculated for the query utilizing a feature vector that characterizes attributes... |
| 6738755 |
Query optimization method for incrementally estimating the cardinality of a derived relation when statistically correlated predicates are applied |
| May-18-2004 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for incrementally estimating the cardinality of a derived relation when statistically correlated predicates are applied. A plurality of query execution plans... |
| 6738678 |
Method for ranking hyperlinked pages using content and connectivity analysis |
| May-18-2004 |
A computerized method determines the ranking of documents including information content. The present method uses both content and connectivity analysis. An input set of documents is represented as a neighborhood... |
| 6735593 |
Systems and methods for storing data |
| May-11-2004 |
The system and methods described herein relate to novel database architectures useful for storing data in versatile formats that can be utilized by a wide range of software applications. The architecture... |
| 6735588 |
Information search method and apparatus using Inverse Hidden Markov Model |
| May-11-2004 |
An information search method and apparatus employ an Inverse Hidden Markov Model (IHMM) for stochastically searching for a reference information model among a plurality of predetermined reference information... |
| 6735587 |
Maintaining pre-computed aggregate views incrementally in the presence of non-minimal changes |
| May-11-2004 |
Methods and apparatus implementing a technique for incrementally maintaining pre-computed aggregate views. In general, the technique includes: receiving a pre-computed aggregate view derived from one or... |
| 6735585 |
Method for search engine generating supplemented search not included in conventional search result identifying entity data related to portion of located web page |
| May-11-2004 |
It is determined that an entity is registered as having control over the use of at least a portion of a World-Wide Web address for a first set of computer data that is accessible in accordance with Internet... |
| 6735583 |
Method and system for classifying and locating media content |
| May-11-2004 |
A computer-based method and system for classifying and locating media content is provided. In preferred embodiments, a dynamically modifiable, structured vocabulary system is used to drive a media classification... |
| 6735578 |
Indexing of knowledge base in multilayer self-organizing maps with hessian and perturbation induced fast learning |
| May-11-2004 |
A system and a method for an automated intelligent information mining includes receiving product-related queries and respective product-related information from various text sources; extracting multiple... |
| 6732100 |
Database access method and system for user role defined access |
| May-4-2004 |
Method and system for determination and granting of access to data and files by the file or database creator, owner or manager or by group or user access profiles. The database is partitionable among data... |
| 6732097 |
Relational text index creation and searching |
| May-4-2004 |
In an environment where it is desire to perform information extraction over a large quantity of textual data, methods, tools and structures are provided for building a relational text index from the textual... |
| 6732098 |
Relational text index creation and searching |
| May-4-2004 |
In an environment where it is desire to perform information extraction over a large quantity of textual data, methods, tools and structures are provided for building a relational text index from the textual... |
| 6732093 |
Systems and methods for performing temporal logic queries |
| May-4-2004 |
Methods of performing temporal logic queries, and systems for performing temporal logic queries, are disclosed. Data associated with statistical reliability criteria are annotated in a data source. Baseline... |
| 6732096 |
Optimizing an aggregate join query |
| May-4-2004 |
A method and computer system for optimizing queries to a database are disclosed. The query specifies one or more data-to-be-aggregated columns (DAC), one or more explicit aggregation keys (EAK) and one... |
| 6732091 |
Method and an apparatus for the processing of queries to a database |
| May-4-2004 |
An apparatus and a method of processing queries to a relational database stored on a computer readable medium including a representation of relations between sections in tables in the database. The method... |
| 6732095 |
Method and apparatus for mapping between XML and relational representations |
| May-4-2004 |
A method to convert data between a relational format and an XML document, by creating a set of XML Mapping Definition from metadata; selecting relational data from a relational application database, and... |
| 6732094 |
Method and apparatus that evaluate an expression based upon database results |
| May-4-2004 |
One step of a method of evaluating an expression includes generating a database query that is representative of the expression. Another step of the method includes processing the database query to obtain... |
| 6732088 |
Collaborative searching by query induction |
| May-4-2004 |
A method and system to facilitate searching a data collection, such as the World Wide Web, that takes advantage of the collective ability of all users to create queries to the data collection. First, a... |
| 6732087 |
Information storage, retrieval and delivery system and method operable with a computer network |
| May-4-2004 |
A system and method for collecting, indexing, searching, accessing and downloading of data over local and global computer networks. The data is reposed in a central database, where it is indexed and interrelated... |
| 6728720 |
Identifying preferred indexes for databases |
| Apr-27-2004 |
Preferred indexes for a relational database are identified. Queries from users are received and a sample of user queries are analysed to identify candidate indexes. Index permutations are identified by... |
| 6728707 |
Relational text index creation and searching |
| Apr-27-2004 |
In an environment where it is desire to perform information extraction over a large quantity of textual data, methods, tools and structures are provided for building a relational text index from the textual... |
| 6728706 |
Searching products catalogs |
| Apr-27-2004 |
Searching online catalog databases by shoppers is improved by performing similarity searching on searches performed by the shopper, in conjunction with adjusting the similarity metric used during the search... |
| 6728697 |
Partial delegation of complex OLAP queries with application to zero suppression condition evaluation |
| Apr-27-2004 |
The present invention introduces a mechanism to partition the processing work required on data from a variety of proprietary OLAP data sources in such a way that as much as possible of the processing can... |
| 6725251 |
Local-file-transfer method and local-filed-transfer system for client-server system |
| Apr-20-2004 |
A WWW client-server system is provided with a local-file-transfer method and a local-file-transfer system which achieve significant reduction in operator work load in comparison with conventional keyboard... |
| 6721737 |
Method of ranking items using efficient queries |
| Apr-13-2004 |
A method is provided for ranking a plurality of items. The method comprises initializing a (D-1) dimensional weight space including a feasible region, where D is equal to a number of attributes and a point... |
| 6721736 |
Methods, computer system, and computer program product for configuring a meta search engine |
| Apr-13-2004 |
The invention is directed to a method performed by a meta search engine. In the method a search response provided from the primary search engine in a search response presentation is processed by the meta... |
| 6721735 |
Method and apparatus for synchronizing databases in a network management system |
| Apr-13-2004 |
In an environment where databases are shared, it is important that the information contained within the databases be consistent among databases containing the respective information. Thus, there is a need... |
| 6721734 |
Method and apparatus for information management using fuzzy typing |
| Apr-13-2004 |
A technique for analyzing affect in which ambiguity in both emotion and natural language is explicitly represented and processed through fuzzy logic. In particular, textual information is processed to... |
| 6721729 |
Method and apparatus for electronic file search and collection |
| Apr-13-2004 |
A integrated method for searching and reporting the search of electronic data files by receiving a plurality of first and second search concepts from the user, forming the first and second concepts into... |
| 6718363 |
Page aggregation for web sites |
| Apr-6-2004 |
Disclosed is a method and device and computer storage medium for determining whether two pages linked on the World Wide Web are a part of the same World Wide Web site. The method involves examining and... |
| 6718365 |
Method, system, and program for ordering search results using an importance weighting |
| Apr-6-2004 |
Disclosed is a technique for providing, accessing, and using bookmark data to supplement information in a search engine database. The bookmark data indicates saved user selected network addresses, e.g.,... |
| 6718324 |
Metadata search results ranking system |
| Apr-6-2004 |
A system and method of metadata search ranking is disclosed. The present invention utilizes a combination of popularity and/or relevancy to determine a search ranking for a given search result association.... |
