Query formulation, input preparation, or translation

CL 707 SC 4
7043755 Method and device for model resolution and its use for detecting attacks against computer systems
May-9-2006 The present invention relates to a method and device for model resolution and its use for detecting attacks against computer systems. The device comprises adapter software for translating the information...
7043504 System and method for parallel primary and secondary backup reading in recovery of multiple shared database data sets
May-9-2006 A recovery utility apparatus for expediting recovery time during failure of one or more database data sets is provided. A backup copy restore utility is configured to read and restore a backup copy of...
7043482 Automatic and secure data search method using a data transmission network
May-9-2006 A method for searching data stored in at least one database (32, 34) accessible from an external server of a data transmission network (14), including sending a query (36) for every database from a local...
7039871 Secure data access in a multidimensional data environment
May-2-2006 A web-based data access system is described that allows users to securely access, manipulate and share information. The data access system includes a database that stores multidimensional data and transactional...
7039648 Method and software system for creating customized computerized libraries
May-2-2006 A system and a method for automatically generating a customized soft documentation library from a plurality of software based libraries provided by product suppliers. The library is organized in a manner...
7039647 Drag and drop technique for building queries
May-2-2006 A method, system and computer program product for building a search query in a data processing system having a graphical user interface is provided. Responsive to user input, a graphical component representing...
7039640 System and method for geocoding diverse address formats
May-2-2006 A method and system for providing geocodes in response to complete or partial address information is disclosed. The disclosure teaches embodiments that are naturally upgraded to integrate changing spatial...
7039636 Document retrieval method and document retrieval system
May-2-2006 Word boundary identification operations such as morpheme analysis is performed on documents to be registered, and the top positions and the end positions of words are identified. Word boundary information...
7039635 Dynamically updated quick searches and strategies
May-2-2006 In response to characters entered within a Find dialog box, a minifind window is dynamically updated to provide corresponding search strategies and quick matches from content search data that are being...
7039634 Semantic querying a peer-to-peer network
May-2-2006 In a method of semantic querying in a peer-to-peer network, an item of information is mapped into a semantic vector based on the latent semantic indexing algorithm or any IR algorithms that can derive...
7039633 Hyper video: information retrieval using multimedia
May-2-2006 Disclosed is a method and device for selecting documents, such as Web pages or sites, for presentation to a user, in response to a user expression of interest, during the course of presentation to the...
7039631 System and method for providing search results with configurable scoring formula
May-2-2006 A system and method for scoring documents in a search, wherein the scoring algorithm may be reconfigured dynamically. When a query is submitted, a score data structure is created for each document to be...
7039255 Method for searching multimedia using progressive histogram
May-2-2006 A method of receiving or sending data. The data includes a chart (i.e., a histogram). The chart may be grouped into categories (i.e., bins). The order of the categories in the chart is according to the...
7035869 System and method of optimizing database queries in two or more dimensions
Apr-25-2006 A method and system for storing and retrieving spatial data objects from a spatial database is discussed. The system stores multi-dimensional objects within the database by determining their position in...
7035849 Rules analyzer system and method for evaluating and ranking exact and probabilistic search rules in an enterprise database
Apr-25-2006 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...
7035847 Server for synchronization of files
Apr-25-2006 A server stores files. Distributed clients access the server, to learn about changes made to the files on the server, and to push local changes of the files onto the server. A synchronization application...
7031961 System and method for searching and recommending objects from a categorically organized information repository
Apr-18-2006 A search and recommendation system employs the preferences and profiles of individual users and groups within a community of users, as well as information derived from categorically organized content pointers,...
7031960 Database program with automatic creation of user features
Apr-18-2006 Integrated document management system automatically creates pull down lists and pop up buttons based on the project specifications.
7031954 Document retrieval system with access control
Apr-18-2006 An electonic document retrieval system and method for a collection of information distributed over a network having documents stored in web or document servers in which an access control list relates user...
7031941 Method and system for managing configuration of mechanical equipment
Apr-18-2006 A method and system is disclosed for maintaining a database of configurations of mechanical equipment. A functional configuration database is established to store functional information about an end item...
7028253 Agent for integrated annotation and retrieval of images
Apr-11-2006 A method for integrated retrieval and annotation of stored images involves running a user application in which text entered by a user is continuously monitored to isolate the context expressed by the text....
7024406 Driver and method for processing a database statement
Apr-4-2006 A method and software for processing a database statement submitted by a client application to a database system is described. A database statement is precompiled based on a string received from the client...
7024405 Method and apparatus for improved internet searching
Apr-4-2006 Method and apparatus for improved Internet searching. A user defines their search objective using topic trees. The user is provided a set of tools that allow for the creation and modification of these...
7024404 Retrieval and display of data objects using a cross-group ranking metric
Apr-4-2006 Techniques to assign a ranking value to objects in a database such as a collection of cross referencing documents, the World-Wide Web or a hyperlinked database are described. The ranking value assigned...
7024402 Spatial data mining method, spatial data mining apparatus and storage medium
Apr-4-2006 A spatial data mining apparatus for calculating an optimal distance from a database, wherein spatial information, such as addresses, is stored, includes an input mechanism, for the input of an objective...
7024401 Partition boundary determination using random sampling on very large databases
Apr-4-2006 A system and method utilizing random sampling for partition analysis on very large databases. The method utilizes a random sampling algorithm that provides results accurate to within a few percentage points...
7020670 Document constraint descriptors obtained from user signals indicating attribute-value relations
Mar-28-2006 Document constraint descriptors are obtained from user signals. User signals are received indicating a set of attribute-value relations that can apply to documents. The user signals are used to obtain...
7020648 System and method for identifying and utilizing a secondary index to access a database using a management system without an internal catalogue of online metadata
Mar-28-2006 A system for identifying and utilizing a secondary index to access a database using a management system without an internal catalogue of online metadata. The system receives an application request to access...
7020647 Utilize encoded vector indexing for database grouping
Mar-28-2006 An apparatus and method to significantly improve performance of certain group queries using an encoded vector index (EVI) is disclosed. An EVI provides the data necessary to generate query results for...
7016977 Method and system for multilingual web server
Mar-21-2006 The method, system and computer program product disclosed herein provides a web server capability to produce translated web pages in alternate languages based on an extraction of the web page layout from...
7016895 Text-classification system and method
Mar-21-2006 Disclosed are a computer-readable code, system and method for classifying a target document in the form of a digitally encoded natural-language text as belonging to one or more of two or more different...
7016894 Systems and methods for retrieving data from an unnormalized database
Mar-21-2006 Systems, methods, and storage mediums for retrieving data are provided. A data definition information having at least one display item and at least one calculation item for representing an unnormalized...
7013341 Output area interpretation control
Mar-14-2006 An apparatus for and method of utilizing an Internet terminal coupled to the world wide web to interface with an existing proprietary data base management system through a user interface which permits...
7013323 System and method for developing and interpreting e-commerce metrics by utilizing a list of rules wherein each rule contain at least one of entity-specific criteria
Mar-14-2006 A system, method and computer program product for developing and interpreting e-commerce metrics is disclosed. The method involves collecting pages that are commonly transmitted over a computer network...
7013300 Locating, filtering, matching macro-context from indexed database for searching context where micro-context relevant to textual input by user
Mar-14-2006 A data extraction tool is provided for cataloging information in an information source for searching by a user. The tool mines information from the information source and organizes the information, or...
7013289 Global electronic commerce system
Mar-14-2006 A comprehensive system effectuates global electronic commerce on the Internet across frontiers of nations, cultures, and languages. Referral Websites serving various locales offer Buyers the opportunity...
7013280 Disambiguation method and system for a voice activated directory assistance system
Mar-14-2006 A method for correcting ambiguations in directory assistance systems includes the steps of receiving and processing a directory assistance request from a caller. If the processing results in an ambiguation...
7013263 Online interaction processing
Mar-14-2006 Methods and apparatus to process online interactions from numerous sources, coming from different time frames and systems. One embodiment includes a facilitator, an interaction processor, and an action...
7010751 Methods for the electronic annotation, retrieval, and use of electronic images
Mar-7-2006 The present invention provides software for electronically annotating electronic images, such as drawings, photographs, video, etc., through the drag-and-drop of annotations from a pre-defined, but extendable,...
7010544 Method and system for capturing, managing and disseminating manufacturing knowledge
Mar-7-2006 An independent method for configuring and extracting detailed manufacturing knowledge for fabricating an object, tool or part and storing the data to a data file or data structure. The method includes...
7010525 Method and system for ensuring system awareness with data base connection on demand
Mar-7-2006 A method and system for establishing a situation for use in an event-driven application receives one or more events, and queries an external database for obtaining auxiliary data defining relevant external...
7007049 Device memory management during electronic file updating
Feb-28-2006 In performing memory management, an upgrade client of a host device identifies and reserves memory blocks large enough to accommodate new software components by performing sequential searches of first...
7007026 System for controlling access to and generation of localized application values
Feb-28-2006 A system and method for controlling generation of and access to localized application values to applications. The system includes an administrative interface linked to a running application and to a communications...
7007019 Vector index preparing method, similar vector searching method, and apparatuses for the methods
Feb-28-2006 In the present invention, a similar vector is searched from a several hundreds dimensional vector database at a high speed, by a single vector index, and in accordance with either measure of an inner product...
7007017 Method for automatic discovery of query language features of web sites
Feb-28-2006 A method for automatically determining query language operators of a Web information source, includes providing a set of known query operators, each known query operator in the set operating according...
7007016 Support for concurrent active SQL statements having shared SQL context information
Feb-28-2006 An SQL database management system for executing SQL requests from applications. The SQL database management system includes a hierarchical arrangement of data structures comprising packages, section entries,...
7007015 Prioritized merging for full-text index on relational store
Feb-28-2006 A full-text search index system and method is generated by creating instances of a database index from an in-memory inverted list of keywords associated with a text identifier and the occurrences of the...
7007011 Method for representing the vertical component of road geometry and computing grade or slope
Feb-28-2006 A geographic database represents roads including an altitudinal component of the geometry of the roads. The altitudinal component of the geometry of roads is represented using data that indicate straight...
7007010 System and method for proximity searching position information using a proximity parameter
Feb-28-2006 A computer implemented proximity searcher searches position field information (representing geographical positions) stored in database records, to identify database positions falling within a predetermined...
7007009 Representation for data used in query optimization
Feb-28-2006 Optimizers must work with numeric data from a variety of sources including column statistics, estimated filter factors, record counts estimated costs and the like. Embodiments provided herein define and...