| 6671681 |
System and technique for suggesting alternate query expressions based on prior user selections and their query strings |
| Dec-30-2003 |
An invention for monitoring user choices and selections on a search result web page and providing alternative query expressions to further narrow and enhance the user's search. Monitoring and recording... |
| 6671670 |
System and method for pre-processing information used by an automated attendant |
| Dec-30-2003 |
The invention concerns method and system for pre-processing entries in a directory listings. An automated attendant or automated directory listings assistant may use the pre-processed entries. A first... |
| 6668278 |
Information retrieval system using an internet multiplexer to focus user selection |
| Dec-23-2003 |
The invention provides a method and system for receiving incoming information from multiple information sources, both interactive and passive, and for engagingly presenting that information to a recipient... |
| 6668251 |
Rendering discriminator members from an initial set of result data |
| Dec-23-2003 |
A search is refined, where a user enters a keyword, and a database comprising terms is searched for terms comprising the keyword. Every unique member in the terms is assigned an importance value to produce... |
| 6665709 |
Method, apparatus, and system for secure data transport |
| Dec-16-2003 |
A platform allowing for the secure file transfer from one location to another (internet or intranet) with virtually impregnable encryption, secure data storage, and a simple web-based user interface. A... |
| 6665681 |
System and method for generating a taxonomy from a plurality of documents |
| Dec-16-2003 |
A system and method for generating a taxonomy is provided in which the taxonomy is generated based on clusters of phrases and a topical library. The taxonomy permits a user of a text processing system... |
| 6665665 |
Compressed document surrogates |
| Dec-16-2003 |
Disclosed is a method and device for storing information about Web documents such as pages or sites in a manner which may be used in conjunction with inverted term lists to facilitate the retrieval of... |
| 6665667 |
Method of and an apparatus for retrieving and delivering documents and a recording media on which a program for retrieving and delivering documents are stored |
| Dec-16-2003 |
Retrieval conditions inputted from a plurality of users are registered. According to the retrieval conditions, a retrieval is conducted for a text inputted. As a result of the retrieval, similarity of... |
| 6665668 |
Document retrieval method and system and computer readable storage medium |
| Dec-16-2003 |
A document retrieval system is provided which has a document display interface which is easy to recognize the important portions even if a document retrieved by using a query expression designated by a... |
| 6665666 |
System, method and program product for answering questions using a search engine |
| Dec-16-2003 |
The present invention is a system, method, and program product that comprises a computer with a collection of documents to be searched. The documents contain free form (natural language) text. We define... |
| 6665659 |
Methods and apparatus for distributing and using metadata via the internet |
| Dec-16-2003 |
A system for selectively distributing information from a multiplicity of Internet resources to a user in a way that make it easier for the user to quickly identify information of particular interest. The... |
| 6665657 |
Method and system for cross browsing of various multimedia data sources in a searchable repository |
| Dec-16-2003 |
The present invention introduces a system and method for organizing, storing, retrieving and searching through binary representations of information in many forms and formats. Data is stored in its original... |
| 6665655 |
Implicit rating of retrieved information in an information search system |
| Dec-16-2003 |
An information retrieval system allows a user to search a database of informational items for a desired informational item, and presents the search result in the form of matching index entries in the order... |
| 6662152 |
Information retrieval apparatus and information retrieval method |
| Dec-9-2003 |
Character data of a word or phrase in a document is designated. Desired data is retrieved from a predetermined database on the basis of the designated character data. One sentence including at least the... |
| 6658428 |
Representation of technical content using object-oriented abstraction of meaning |
| Dec-2-2003 |
An object-based, semantic representation for documents as information containers, using a controlled taxonomy, facilitates the extraction of meaning from such information containers to provide high-level,... |
| 6658412 |
Computer-based method and system for linking records in data files |
| Dec-2-2003 |
The present invention relates to computer-based technology for linking or matching records in data files, based on at least one identifier in common, with a threshold probability that records are linked,... |
| 6654751 |
Method and apparatus for a virus information patrol |
| Nov-25-2003 |
A virus information patrol (VIP) data collector is provided to monitor virus information repositories and to collect selected virus descriptor data into a VIP database in accordance with a VIP configuration... |
| 6654738 |
Computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium for a document retrieval service that retrieves documents with a retrieval service agent computer |
| Nov-25-2003 |
A document retrieval assistance method has a user interface with an interactive guidance function. In response to a search query, search results including a title list of retrieved documents is displayed... |
| 6654742 |
Method and system for document collection final search result by arithmetical operations between search results sorted by multiple ranking metrics |
| Nov-25-2003 |
A method and a system for sorting a specific collection of documents in various orderings, and defining a new ranking metrics by composing multiple ranking to provide a user with highly relevant search... |
| 6654740 |
Probabilistic information retrieval based on differential latent semantic space |
| Nov-25-2003 |
A computer-based information search and retrieval system and method for retrieving textual digital objects that makes full use of the projections of the documents onto both the reduced document space characterized... |
| 6654739 |
Lightweight document clustering |
| Nov-25-2003 |
A procedure for clustering documents that operates in high dimensions, processes tens of thousands of documents and groups them into several thousand clusters or, by varying a single parameter, into a... |
| 6651071 |
User interface educational database system for monitoring proficiency, performance and evaluation of student |
| Nov-18-2003 |
An educational institution requires that each student demonstrate proficiency in a plurality of abilities in order to receive a degree. A database is employed to store a portfolio of information evidencing... |
| 6651067 |
Method and apparatus for creating a data set with pending results |
| Nov-18-2003 |
A method and apparatus for creating a data set with pending results are described. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a user request to process data and processing the user request to begin... |
| 6651058 |
System and method of automatic discovery of terms in a document that are relevant to a given target topic |
| Nov-18-2003 |
A computer program product is provided as an automatic mining system to discover terms that are relevant to a given target topic from a large databases of unstructured information such as the World Wide... |
| 6651056 |
Readership information delivery system for electronically distributed investment research |
| Nov-18-2003 |
A system for delivering rankings information on readership of investment research reports is provided, which comprises the use of a plurality of readership information reports each including at least an... |
| 6651057 |
Method and apparatus for score normalization for information retrieval applications |
| Nov-18-2003 |
A method and apparatus for normalizing a score associated with a document is presented. Statistics relating to scores assigned to a set of training documents not relevant to a topic arc determined. Scores... |
| 6647384 |
Method and apparatus for managing user profiles including identifying users based on matched query term |
| Nov-11-2003 |
A method of authorizing a user profile access request includes the step of detecting the access request from an inquiring user to access a user profile of a target user. Responsive to the detected access... |
| 6647381 |
Method of defining and utilizing logical domains to partition and to reorganize physical domains |
| Nov-11-2003 |
One or more logical domains may be utilized for partitioning and reorganizing a single physical domain or a search space constituted by a plurality of physical domains. Logical domains include at least... |
| 6643658 |
Hierarchical data network address resolution |
| Nov-4-2003 |
A network server stores database tables for use in resolving labels into network addresses as requested by a remote browser client. Each user has an associated address-table which stores user defined labels... |
| 6643644 |
Method and apparatus for retrieving accumulating and sorting table formatted data |
| Nov-4-2003 |
This invention provides a method and apparatus for searching for and tabulating table-format data that not only has the functions of a conventional data table but also greatly increases the speed of searching... |
| 6643649 |
Utility for cross platform database query |
| Nov-4-2003 |
The present invention provides a utility for cross platform database query. In a preferred embodiment, the utility resides at an object server in a data system. The utility obtains a set of data items... |
| 6643642 |
Hierarchical mapped database system for identifying searchable terms associated with data nodes |
| Nov-4-2003 |
A system for storing and retrieving records in a database storage unit by employing a hierarchical data map. In one embodiment, a system according to the invention includes a user interface, a search engine,... |
| 6643643 |
Method of searching or browsing multimedia data and data structure |
| Nov-4-2003 |
A method of searching or browsing multimedia data which can effectively search or browse an image is disclosed. In the present method, the searching or browsing is performed in consideration of at least... |
| 6640221 |
System and method for configuring, sequencing and viewing joins in a query |
| Oct-28-2003 |
A system and method for configuring, sequencing and viewing joins in a query is provided. The system includes an advanced joins viewer that may be invoked from an SQL Query Tool. A graphical user interface... |
| 6640226 |
Ranking query optimization in analytic applications |
| Oct-28-2003 |
A method of optimizing ranking queries in analytic applications. The method involves dividing a ranking query constructed by a user into multiple sub-commands. These sub-commands are based on the relationship... |
| 6640224 |
System and method for dynamic index-probe optimizations for high-dimensional similarity search |
| Oct-28-2003 |
A system and method for optimizing I/O to low-level index access during bulk-routing through a taxonomy to classify documents, e.g., Web pages, in the taxonomy. In a first optimization, bulk-routing is... |
| 6640225 |
Search method using an index file and an apparatus therefor |
| Oct-28-2003 |
A search method that uses an index file consisting of a key file that includes key character strings, and a position data file that includes position data corresponding to the key character strings, a... |
| 6640219 |
Analyzing data files |
| Oct-28-2003 |
Data files (205) are categorised in order to facilitate the searching for information. The analysis is performed in order to identify items which may be considered as having high value without actually... |
| 6636849 |
Data search employing metric spaces, multigrid indexes, and B-grid trees |
| Oct-21-2003 |
Systems and methods for generating indexes and fast searching of "approximate", "fuzzy", or "homologous" matches for a large quantity of data in a metric space are provided. The data is indexed to generate... |
| 6636848 |
Information search using knowledge agents |
| Oct-21-2003 |
A method for searching a corpus of documents, such as the World Wide Web, includes defining a knowledge domain and identifying a set of reference documents in the corpus pertinent to the domain. Upon inputting... |
| 6633885 |
System and method for web-based querying |
| Oct-14-2003 |
A system and method for exporing a web-accessible database includes providing a GUI that a user can manipulate to quickly modify the results of a query to expand or contract the results set, without requiring... |
| 6633867 |
System and method for providing a session query within the context of a dynamic search result set |
| Oct-14-2003 |
A computer program product is provided as a session search system and associated method that provide a novel type of query referred to as "session query". In the context of a session query, a user issues... |
| 6631386 |
Database version control subsystem and method for use with database management system |
| Oct-7-2003 |
A version control system is described for use in connection with a database management system to facilitate versioning of a database table, the system including a database table and a version control module.... |
| 6631373 |
Segmented document indexing and search |
| Oct-7-2003 |
There is provided a text search apparatus capable of dividing a structured document such as an HTML document into segments, and presenting segments containing a given search key as the search result, thereby... |
| 6631372 |
Search engine using sales and revenue to weight search results |
| Oct-7-2003 |
A search engine selects one or more search hits from among a plurality of hits, wherein a hit is a reference to a page or a site, based on a user interest, comprising an input module for accepting a query... |
| 6631371 |
Database fine-grained access control |
| Oct-7-2003 |
A method and mechanism are provided for accessing data. Values are stored for a set of context attributes associated with a session between a database user and a database server. The database system includes... |
| 6631367 |
Method and apparatus to search for information |
| Oct-7-2003 |
A method includes querying a plurality of search engines for properties to identify for which content categories the search engines are suited. A query to locate content is communicated to those of the... |
| 6631365 |
Method and apparatus for analyzing the quality of the content of a database |
| Oct-7-2003 |
The present invention provides a method for scoring a searchable electronic catalog such as are in use in e-commerce and industrial materiel systems. Such catalogs are typically configured as databases... |
| 6629097 |
Displaying implicit associations among items in loosely-structured data sets |
| Sep-30-2003 |
A system for discerning and displaying relational structure and conceptual similarities among items in a target group of data items. Root terms are extracted from descriptions of the data items, and are... |
| 6629096 |
System and method for performing a mindflow process |
| Sep-30-2003 |
A system for performing a mindflow process includes a memory coupled to a processor. The memory stores a number of knowledge modules. Each knowledge module comprises a process having a number of subprocesses.... |
