| 6718322 |
SQL-based analytic algorithm for rule induction |
| Apr-6-2004 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for performing data mining applications in a relational database management system. At least one analytic algorithm for rule induction is performed by a... |
| 6718323 |
Automatic method for quantifying the relevance of intra-document search results |
| Apr-6-2004 |
A method for finding and ranking portions of documents responsive to a query is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: providing at least one database containing documents; providing a query relating... |
| 6711568 |
Method for estimating coverage of web search engines |
| Mar-23-2004 |
A computerized method is used to estimate the relative coverage of Web search engines. Each search engine maintains an index of words of pages located at specific URL addresses in a network. The method... |
| 6711569 |
Method for automatic selection of databases for searching |
| Mar-23-2004 |
A method for automatic selection of databases for improving the efficiency of data capture and management systems. The method for automatic selection of databases includes obtaining a candidate database... |
| 6711564 |
System and method for opening and activating applications, windows or data sets based on search criteria |
| Mar-23-2004 |
A method and system for locating data in another application, window or data set. The particular data form (application, window or data set) is located using search criteria derived from a first active... |
| 6708166 |
Method and apparatus for storing data as objects, constructing customized data retrieval and data processing requests, and performing householding queries |
| Mar-16-2004 |
Compressed data objects are stored in a remote data store and are accessible to end users for data retrieval and processing. Descriptive information about data objects and processing logic is displayed... |
| 6708165 |
Wide-spectrum information search engine |
| Mar-16-2004 |
A method and computer program product for comparing documents includes segmenting a judgment matrix into a plurality of information sub-matrices where each submatrix has a plurality of classifications... |
| 6708164 |
Transforming query results into hierarchical information |
| Mar-16-2004 |
A computerized system and method for transforming the results of a query into a hierarchical information stream, such as an extensible Markup Language (XML) data stream is disclosed. A database server... |
| 6704731 |
Conditional reply processing method, conditional reply giving agent system device, and program storage medium |
| Mar-9-2004 |
If an intermediary agent device or a database agent device cannot uniquely reply to an inquiry message issued from a user agent device, it generates a conditional reply message and returns the generated... |
| 6704729 |
Retrieval of relevant information categories |
| Mar-9-2004 |
Large stores of information are often organized in a hierarchical taxonomy to aid a search and retrieval of the information. The hierarchical taxonomy generally consists of related categories of information,... |
| 6704727 |
Method and system for generating a set of search terms |
| Mar-9-2004 |
A method and system for providing a set of search terms in response to a user input are disclosed. A first set of search terms is selected from a master set of search terms based upon a match between the... |
| 6704728 |
Accessing information from a collection of data |
| Mar-9-2004 |
A method of accessing information from a collection of data includes receiving a query, augmenting the query with canonical non-terminal concepts, generating an inverse index of the collection of data,... |
| 6704724 |
Parallel optimizer hints with a direct manipulation user interface |
| Mar-9-2004 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for directly manipulating a query for a relational database management system (RDBMS). The query is transformed into an operator tree that is displayed on... |
| 6701311 |
Customer self service system for resource search and selection |
| Mar-2-2004 |
A customer self service system and method for performing resource search and selection. The method includes steps of providing an interface enabling entry of a query for a resource and specification of... |
| 6701312 |
Data ranking with a Lorentzian fuzzy score |
| Mar-2-2004 |
The present mechanism relates to a method for searching a document database such as the Internet and ranking the results obtained from such a search. The mechanism also relates to ranking of a set of numerical... |
| 6701310 |
Information search device and information search method using topic-centric query routing |
| Mar-2-2004 |
An information search device capable of selecting topic search engines (i.e., search engines that focus on specific topics) that are appropriate to a user's search keywords when searching the Web on the... |
| 6701309 |
Method and system for collecting related queries |
| Mar-2-2004 |
A method for collecting related queries, comprising the steps of obtaining a first query and a second query that have been submitted during a search for data, and determining whether the first query and... |
| 6697822 |
Method of maintaining database records |
| Feb-24-2004 |
The present invention provides a way of managing databases when updating records in a local database where individual records in a source database are changed on a regular basis, but each record maintains... |
| 6697804 |
Deploying plurality of sanpshots storing parameterized data description language strings with substitutable parameter causes database object to instantiated |
| Feb-24-2004 |
Mass deployment of snapshots is fostered by allowing collections of snapshots, called refresh groups, to be defined by a template. The template allows for a parameterized snapshot definition query or other... |
| 6697800 |
System and method for determining affinity using objective and subjective data |
| Feb-24-2004 |
A method of determining a relationship between a search item provided by a user and a plurality of objective items, wherein each objective item in the plurality includes a plurality of objective item properties... |
| 6697802 |
Systems and methods for pairwise analysis of event data |
| Feb-24-2004 |
Techniques for mining or discovering one or more patterns in an input data set, wherein the input data set is characterized by attributes, comprises the following steps. First, the technique includes mapping... |
| 6694330 |
System and method for identifying the raw materials consumed in the manufacture of a chemical product |
| Feb-17-2004 |
A system and method are disclosed that allow a user to identify, within a certain level of confidence, the raw materials consumed in the manufacture of a particular chemical product. In addition, the system... |
| 6694329 |
Methods of organizing information |
| Feb-17-2004 |
A method of organizing information into a concept network, to facilitate the creation and sharing of knowledge, includes the steps of: categorizing ideas and thoughts into concepts; creating links between... |
| 6694313 |
Method for compression of a telephone number database in a telecommunications system, and a corresponding telecommunications system |
| Feb-17-2004 |
A method for the compression of a telephone number database in a telecommunications system. The telephone number database contains a plurality of data records each having a specific dialing pattern, and... |
| 6694307 |
System for collecting specific information from several sources of unstructured digitized data |
| Feb-17-2004 |
A system for collecting specific information from several sources of unstructured digitized data. The system receives at least one instruction governing the collection of the specific information. The... |
| 6691108 |
Focused search engine and method |
| Feb-10-2004 |
A focused search engine and method are directed to crawling vast search spaces comprising markup language documents, for example. Both topic distillation and site distillation methodologies are incorporated... |
| 6687746 |
System apparatus and method for hosting and assigning domain names on a wide area network |
| Feb-3-2004 |
Embodiments of the instant invention are directed to a domain management system, apparatus and method for hosting and assigning domain names. Embodiments of the domain management system comprise a name... |
| 6687712 |
Scientific information viewing system, and a host computer and a viewing computer therefor |
| Feb-3-2004 |
An uploading computer, a host computer and a viewing computer are interconnected through communication lines. The host computer hierarchizes software information received from the uploading computer by... |
| 6687697 |
System and method for improved string matching under noisy channel conditions |
| Feb-3-2004 |
Described is a system and method for improving string matching in a noisy channel environment. The invention provides a method for identifying string candidates and analyzing the probability that the string... |
| 6687695 |
SQL-based analytic algorithms |
| Feb-3-2004 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for performing data mining applications in a relational database management system. At least one analytic algorithm (110) is performed by a computer directly... |
| 6687690 |
Employing a combined function for exception exploration in multidimensional data |
| Feb-3-2004 |
There is provided a method for providing a function for use in detecting a presence of an exception in multidimensional data. The method comprises the steps of (a) partitioning the multidimensional data... |
| 6684240 |
Method of setting parental lock levels based on example content |
| Jan-27-2004 |
A method of setting acceptable content rating parameters for filtering content in a ratings-enabled media wherein the acceptable content rating parameters delimit the threshold content ratings levels of... |
| 6684208 |
System and method for quantifying an extent to which a data mining algorithm captures useful information in input data |
| Jan-27-2004 |
A system and method for estimating the point of diminishing returns for additional information in data mining processing applications. The present invention provides a convenient method of estimating the... |
| 6684202 |
Computer-based system and method for finding rules of law in text |
| Jan-27-2004 |
A system and method for binary classification of text units such as sentences, paragraphs and documents as either a rule of law (ROL) or not a rule of law (.about.ROL). During a training phase of the system... |
| 6681247 |
Collaborator discovery method and system |
| Jan-20-2004 |
A collaborator discovery method and system is presented for tracking and correlating user activities with respect to information resources on an electronic network to assist users in finding others with... |
| 6681223 |
System and method of performing profile matching with a structured document |
| Jan-20-2004 |
A profile matching system and associated method match the path expressions in a structured or semi-structured document, such as an XML document, to an indexed resource. The system, having assigned weighting... |
| 6681220 |
Reduction and optimization of information processing systems |
| Jan-20-2004 |
Techniques for arranging operations performable on information in an information processing system are provided. In a system having a plurality of information producers and a plurality of information subscribers,... |
| 6681221 |
Method and system for achieving directed acyclic graph (DAG) representations of data in XML |
| Jan-20-2004 |
Method and system aspects for achieving directed acyclic graph (DAG) representations of data in XML are described. The aspects include augmenting a document type definition (DTD) for allowing description... |
| 6681222 |
Unified database and text retrieval system |
| Jan-20-2004 |
A unified database/text retrieval system converts exact database type queries into text inclusion type queries suitable for text retrieval systems through the use of pseudo keywords. Boolean combination... |
| 6681216 |
Delayed unloading of a dynamically loadable file |
| Jan-20-2004 |
A dynamically loadable file, such as a dynamically loadable device driver or library, is delayed from being unloaded from memory for improved memory management and processing operations including reduced... |
| 6678687 |
Method for creating an index and method for searching an index |
| Jan-13-2004 |
A B+ tree index for a full-text search through documents is created fast and fast searches are implemented using the index. A B+ tree index to register sets of words serving as keys and documents containing... |
| 6678679 |
Method and system for facilitating the refinement of data queries |
| Jan-13-2004 |
Methods and systems for forming and testing hypotheses regarding improving the correspondence between information needs and data retrieved in response to those needs. In a preferred embodiment, user feedback... |
| 6678674 |
Data retrieving method and apparatus data retrieving system and storage medium |
| Jan-13-2004 |
In a data retrieving apparatus, a data dictionary is constructed so as to include definition information concerning tables, items and calculation syntax for representing an unnormalized data structure... |
| 6677963 |
Computer-executable method for improving understanding of business data by interactive rule manipulation |
| Jan-13-2004 |
Methods and systems are provided for performing interactive directed data analysis. An interactive data analysis tool provides a user interface that receives a model from a data mining system. The tool... |
| 6675162 |
Method for scanning, analyzing and handling various kinds of digital information content |
| Jan-6-2004 |
Computer-implemented methods are described for, first, characterizing a specific category of information content--pornography, for example--and then accurately identifying instances of that category of... |
| 6675163 |
Full match (FM) search algorithm implementation for a network processor |
| Jan-6-2004 |
Novel data structures, methods and apparatus for finding a full match between a search pattern and a pattern stored in a leaf of the search tree. A key is input, a hash function is performed on the key,... |
| 6675161 |
Managing changes to a directory of electronic documents |
| Jan-6-2004 |
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... |
| 6671683 |
Apparatus for retrieving similar documents and apparatus for extracting relevant keywords |
| Dec-30-2003 |
Three kinds of data, i.e., a keyword frequency-of-appearance, a document length, and a keyword weight, are produced. Then, a document profile vector and a keyword profile vector are calculated. Then, by... |
| 6671680 |
Data mining apparatus and storage medium storing therein data mining processing program |
| Dec-30-2003 |
According to a display processing unit, dividing axes are arranged and the division number and a connection between classification results are simultaneously displayed by a polygonal line onto a parallel... |
| 6671682 |
Method and system for performing tasks on a computer network using user personas |
| Dec-30-2003 |
A plurality of user personas relating to various criteria for performing tasks for a user is created. A policy manager for various criteria, which apply to the user regardless of any one persona among... |
