| 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... |
| 6675350 |
System for collecting and displaying summary information from disparate sources |
| Jan-6-2004 |
A system is described for collecting and displaying summary information from disparate sources. The system provides for user customization of data acquisition parameters for locating articles to be summarized,... |
| 6671711 |
System and method for predicting web user flow by determining association strength of hypermedia links |
| Dec-30-2003 |
The present invention also provides a system and method for predicting user traffic flow in a collection of hypermedia documents by determining the association strength of the hypermedia links. Hypermedia... |
| 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... |
| 6671679 |
Optimizing database entries |
| Dec-30-2003 |
A data processing apparatus is operated to optimize the amount of information represented by entries in a database. The operation comprises forming prior distributions over the parameters of entries in... |
| 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... |
| 6668211 |
Arithmetic processing device, object-to-object communication method and robot |
| Dec-23-2003 |
An arithmetic processing device, an object-to-object communication method and a robot, such as an entertainment robot, in which software suited to a current robot configuration is set. The software is... |
| 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... |
| 6665664 |
Prime implicates and query optimization in relational databases |
| Dec-16-2003 |
An improved normalization methodology enabling better optimization of SQL queries is described. The normalization methodology effectively handles three-valued SQL search conditions and operates in reduced... |
| 6665663 |
Outerjoin and antijoin reordering using extended eligibility lists |
| Dec-16-2003 |
An optimization technique that reorders outerjoins and antijoins with inner joins in a bottom-up optimizer of a relational database management system (RDBMS). Each join predicate is associated with a normal... |
| 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... |
| 6665640 |
Interactive speech based learning/training system formulating search queries based on natural language parsing of recognized user queries |
| Dec-16-2003 |
A real-time speech-based learning/training system distributed between client and server, and incorporating speech recognition and linguistic processing for recognizing a spoken question and to provide... |
| 6662188 |
Metadata model |
| Dec-9-2003 |
A metadata model defines model objects to represent one or more data sources. The metadata model comprises a data access layer, a business layer and a package layer. The data access layer contains data... |
| 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... |
| 6658411 |
Message-file storing/retrieving system by computer |
| Dec-2-2003 |
In message retrieval, a system is provided wherein both a message to be retrieved and a message related to the original message are acquired as a result of retrieval. The original message read from a DB... |
| 6658410 |
System and method for intermediating information |
| Dec-2-2003 |
A system extracts a member who matches with search option given by a target member who searches the other members. The target member is informed of URL indicating an open profile web page of the extracted... |
| 6658409 |
Message data reception device and method for controlling display of message data items and other data items related to the message |
| Dec-2-2003 |
A portable data processing device with a data communication function is provided which includes an antenna, a receiver, a decoder, a RAM for storing a plurality of data items, and a CPU. The CPU retrieves,... |
| 6658151 |
Extracting information from symbolically compressed document images |
| Dec-2-2003 |
A method and apparatus for extracting information from symbolically compressed document images. A deciphering module generates first and second text strings by deciphering respective sequences of template... |
| 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... |
| 6654741 |
URL mapping methods and systems |
| Nov-25-2003 |
The invention provides for flexible, convenient, and dynamic URL mapping methods and systems by providing generalized approaches which specify patterns in term of recognizable syntax. The recognizable... |
| 6654737 |
Hypertext-based database architecture |
| Nov-25-2003 |
A database which consists of HTML, XML or other standard-format, hypertext documents is disclosed. For each "record" in the database there is a master document and multiple related documents, called "view... |
| 6651133 |
Method and data storage device for writing a minimum number of memory cells in a memory device |
| Nov-18-2003 |
The preferred embodiments described herein provide a memory device and methods for use therewith. In one preferred embodiment, a method is presented for using a file system to dynamically respond to variability... |
| 6651072 |
Method and apparatus for providing shared data to a requesting client |
| Nov-18-2003 |
A method and apparatus for providing object data stored in a database management system to a receiving client. The method comprises the steps of receiving a database query from the client on a first communication... |
| 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... |
| 6651049 |
Interactive mining of most interesting rules |
| Nov-18-2003 |
A method and structure for identifying database association rules includes mining first database association rules, the first database association rules having ratings with respect to a plurality of metrics,... |
| 6651048 |
Interactive mining of most interesting rules with population constraints |
| Nov-18-2003 |
A method and structure for identifying database association rules includes mining first database association rules, the first database association rules having ratings with respect to a plurality of metrics... |
| 6647392 |
Method and apparatus for the request brokering of standardized reports |
| Nov-11-2003 |
A report catalog tool and a method for selecting and requesting a report from a catalog of standardized reports. The catalog tool comprises a distributable database having one or more documents, each said... |
| 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... |
| 6643651 |
Navigation of object lists |
| Nov-4-2003 |
This invention provides a navigation device that assists a user to navigate through a list of items. A path sequence traversed by the user through the list of items is recorded and a selection ability... |
| 6643650 |
Mechanism and apparatus for using messages to look up documents stored in spaces in a distributed computing environment |
| Nov-4-2003 |
A system and method for searching for documents within spaces in a distributed computing environment are provided. A client sends a lookup message to a space which stores documents. The lookup message... |
| 6643641 |
Web search engine with graphic snapshots |
| Nov-4-2003 |
A search engine manages the indexing of web page contents and accepts user selection criteria to find and report hits that meet the search criteria. The inventive search engine has an associated crawler... |
| 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... |
| 6640220 |
Search coprocessor subsystem having multiple search engines and dedicated key-table memory for connection to a computer system |
| Oct-28-2003 |
A search coprocessor card for attachment to a computer system has an interface to a host processor of the computer system and a processor. The processor has memory for its program and data, and is coupled... |
| 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... |
| 6638317 |
Apparatus and method for generating digest according to hierarchical structure of topic |
| Oct-28-2003 |
A digest generator apparatus calculates a lexical cohesion degree at each position in a document using a plurality of windows having different sizes, and calculates the candidate section of a topic boundary... |
| 6636847 |
Exhaustive search system and method using space-filling curves |
| Oct-21-2003 |
A search system and method for one agent or for multiple agents using a space-filling curve provides a way to control one or more agents to cover an area of any space of any dimensionality using an exhaustive... |
| 6633868 |
System and method for context-based document retrieval |
| Oct-14-2003 |
A system and method for document retrieval is disclosed. The invention addresses a major problem in text-based document retrieval: rapidly finding a small subset of documents in a large document collection... |
| 6631404 |
Method and system for conducting a contest using a network |
| Oct-7-2003 |
A method for conducting a contest using a network. A selected article of commerce is identified to a plurality of users remotely disposed at user locations on the network which bears an indicia encoding... |
| 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... |
| 6631370 |
Method for data collecting and processing |
| Oct-7-2003 |
The object of the invention is a method for collecting data from users of terminals connected to a data network, through the said data network utilizing the terminals, by presenting to the users of the... |
| 6631369 |
Method and system for incremental web crawling |
| Oct-7-2003 |
A Web crawler creates an index of documents in a document store on a computer network. In an initial crawl, the crawler creates a first full index for the document store. The first full crawl is based... |
| 6631368 |
Methods and apparatus for operating on non-text messages |
| Oct-7-2003 |
Methods and apparatus for operating on a non-text (voice or fax) message include for each of a number of voice messages, searching each voice message for signal samples having one of a plurality of sets... |
| 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... |
| 6631366 |
Database system providing methodology for optimizing latching/copying costs in index scans on data-only locked tables |
| Oct-7-2003 |
A database system is described that provides a methodology for significantly reducing latching costs associated with index pages in non-covered index scans, all without the need for using a conventional... |
| 6631363 |
Rules-based notification system |
| Oct-7-2003 |
A system and method for providing notifications to a user includes an alert manager. The alert manager receives notifications of events occurring within various executing applications, and utilizes rules... |
| 6629313 |
In-line database access statements without a pre-compiler |
| Sep-30-2003 |
Systems and methods that enable a source code file containing in-line database access statements to be compiled into object code for an application without the use of a pre-compiler are disclosed. In one... |
