| 6487552 |
Database fine-grained access control |
| Nov-26-2002 |
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... |
| 6487551 |
Externalizing very large objects in a relational database client/server environment |
| Nov-26-2002 |
The present invention discloses a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for transmitting data having non-standard data types between computers. A query is executed to retrieve data from a database.... |
| 6487549 |
Generating union queries using tensor representations |
| Nov-26-2002 |
Query results and statistics regarding them are generated using a novel representation of an n-attribute relation as an order n relational tensor. Orders of the relational tensor respectively correspond... |
| 6484190 |
Subset search tree integrated graphical interface |
| Nov-19-2002 |
An efficient and intuitive means, method and apparatus for displaying and searching information organized in a hierarchical manner. The presented method for displaying and searching information utilizes... |
| 6484177 |
Data management interoperability methods for heterogeneous directory structures |
| Nov-19-2002 |
A method for use with a data management system (DMS) enabling a directory service such as the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and Microsoft's Active Directory to interact with centralized... |
| 6484161 |
Method and system for performing online data queries in a distributed computer system |
| Nov-19-2002 |
Disclosed is a system for performing online data queries. The system for performing online data queries in a distributed computer system with a plurality of server nodes each fully redundant and capable... |
| 6484160 |
Process for optimizing accesses to a database |
| Nov-19-2002 |
The invention relates to a process for optimizing accesses to a database. This process allows client applications to request a CMIS-DB server, via an online configuration, to customize the generic representation... |
| 6480852 |
Method and system for rating bookmarks in a web browser |
| Nov-12-2002 |
A bookmark display method executable in a computer system having a processor, a display and a browser. The display method begins by associating a rating with a given bookmark entry (e.g., a bookmark or... |
| 6480842 |
Dimension to domain server |
| Nov-12-2002 |
A system including a method for navigating between dimensions and domains allows for an interactive response to a query based on data stored in at least one online transaction processing (OLTP) database... |
| 6480841 |
Information processing apparatus capable of automatically setting degree of relevance between keywords, keyword attaching method and keyword auto-attaching apparatus |
| Nov-12-2002 |
A retrieval apparatus allows keywords to be attached simply and automatically. A feature quantity extractor 15 extracts feature quantities of a registration-target image to obtain a p-dimensional feature... |
| 6480840 |
Method and computer program product for subjective image content similarity-based retrieval |
| Nov-12-2002 |
A user preference for a desired image is determined by using one or more examples and counterexamples of a desired image in order to define the user preference. A relative preference of a user for one... |
| 6480838 |
System and method for searching electronic documents created with optical character recognition |
| Nov-12-2002 |
A method, system and computer product for processing search requests in order to compensate for characters and character strings misread during OCR scanning is disclosed. After an alphanumeric search request... |
| 6480837 |
Method, system, and program for ordering search results using a popularity weighting |
| Nov-12-2002 |
Disclosed is a method, system, program, and data structures for ordering electronic files subject to searching. At least one keyword is associated with each file. A physical location of each file is identified... |
| 6480833 |
Method of resolving overloaded routines, system for implementing the same and medium for storing processing program therefor |
| Nov-12-2002 |
An overloaded routines resolving method of analyzing an invocation for the group of overloaded routines to determine the routine to be called, the method including: the routine group sorting step of sorting... |
| 6477536 |
Virtual cubes |
| Nov-5-2002 |
Systems and methods for creating and maintaining virtual cubes are disclosed. A virtual cube is a logical representation of a subset of the dimensions and measures of at least one physical cube maintained... |
| 6477527 |
System, method, and program for object building in queries over object views |
| Nov-5-2002 |
The system, method, and program of this invention enables an object language application to issue a query over a view and to receive back, as query results, handles to application type objects which can... |
| 6477526 |
System for and method of providing map information |
| Nov-5-2002 |
The route calculation server receives starting point data and destination data corresponding to a starting point and a destination which a user designates by the user terminal, and calculates a route from... |
| 6477525 |
Rewriting a query in terms of a summary based on one-to-one and one-to-many losslessness of joins |
| Nov-5-2002 |
A method and system are provided for processing queries. According to one aspect of the invention, a query that does not reference a particular materialized view is rewritten to reference the materialized... |
| 6477524 |
Method for statistical text analysis |
| Nov-5-2002 |
A method for retrieving relevant stories from a collection of stories. The method comprises the steps of identifying at least one query term, applying a cooccurrence matrix to the query term to provide... |
| 6473786 |
Data acquisition and remote administration system |
| Oct-29-2002 |
A data acquisition and remote administration system for use during a communication session between at least one client computer and a computerized voice mail server computer system with the at least one... |
| 6473770 |
Segment aggregation and interleaving of data types in a geographic database and methods for use thereof in a navigation application |
| Oct-29-2002 |
A geographic database for use with a navigation application program that provides navigation features to an end-user. The geographic database includes a plurality of data records of a first type and a... |
| 6473753 |
Method and system for calculating term-document importance |
| Oct-29-2002 |
A weighting system for calculating the term-document importance for each term within each document that is part of a collection of documents (i.e., a corpus). The weighting system calculates the importance... |
| 6473752 |
Method and system for locating documents based on previously accessed documents |
| Oct-29-2002 |
A system for locating computer documents or data of interest to a user without specification by the user of topics of interest. The system detects the selection of computer documents by the user of the... |
| 6470336 |
Document image search device and recording medium having document search program stored thereon |
| Oct-22-2002 |
A document search device searches for a keyword in a recognition result obtained by character recognition performed on a document image. The keyword includes at least one first character, and a character... |
| 6470335 |
System and method for optimizing the structure and display of complex data filters |
| Oct-22-2002 |
A system and method for optimizing the structure and display of complex data filters is provided. The system includes software modules for creating, optimizing and then displaying complex data filter queries... |
| 6470333 |
Knowledge extraction system and method |
| Oct-22-2002 |
An information retrieval apparatus for processing a query for retrieval of information from a database has a mechanism for locating a number of features and feature fragments in an index database; an evaluating... |
| 6470330 |
Database system with methods for estimation and usage of index page cluster ratio (IPCR) and data page cluster ratio (DPCR) |
| Oct-22-2002 |
A database system with improved query execution performance is described. In order to achieve as much accuracy as possible by optimizing large block I/O related query plans, the database system implements... |
| 6466948 |
Trainable database for use in a method and system for returning a non-scale-based parcel weight |
| Oct-15-2002 |
The invention is a method and system for determining a weight for use in a shipping application and for the establishment of a trainable weights database and a weight database training object. The method... |
| 6466934 |
External system interface method and system |
| Oct-15-2002 |
This invention relates to the field of interfaces between systems having data needs such as databases and input devices. Specific examples include SAP systems and bar-code readers. In general, these systems... |
| 6466933 |
Delayed delivery of query results or other data from a federated server to a federated client until such information is needed |
| Oct-15-2002 |
A technique for delayed delivery of query results or other data from a federated server to a federated client until such information is needed. One or more commands are executed at a client computer to... |
| 6466931 |
Method and system for transparently caching and reusing query execution plans efficiently |
| Oct-15-2002 |
A method and system for transparently caching and reusing database query execution plans. The method and system include caching a first query that contains a first constant. A first query is associated... |
| 6463443 |
Method and device for directory services for telecommunication |
| Oct-8-2002 |
For directory services for telecommunication, a data network, a terminal connected to the data network, at least one database in the data network, and a device for interactive communication between the... |
| 6463431 |
Database evaluation system supporting intuitive decision in complex multi-attributive domains using fuzzy hierarchical expert models |
| Oct-8-2002 |
A database evaluation system provides for intuitive end user analysis and exploration of large databases of information through real time fuzzy logic evaluation of utility preferences and nearest neighbor... |
| 6463428 |
User interface providing automatic generation and ergonomic presentation of keyword search criteria |
| Oct-8-2002 |
A user interface for querying and displaying records from a database employs a physical metaphor for the process of constructing queries and viewing results. The search criteria are shown as strings of... |
| 6463426 |
Information search and retrieval system |
| Oct-8-2002 |
An image search and retrieval system and method of operation within such a system are disclosed. The image search and retrieval system includes a search engine coupled to an image analyzer, an input system,... |
| 6460045 |
Self-tuning histogram and database modeling |
| Oct-1-2002 |
Building histograms by using feedback information about the execution of query workload rather than by examining the data helps reduce the cost of building and maintaining histograms. A method of maintaining... |
| 6460043 |
Method and apparatus for operating on data with a conceptual data manipulation language |
| Oct-1-2002 |
A data services layer is disclosed which maintains a dictionary of conceptual information and physical information about the data. Machine-readable requests to access the data are in a form related to... |
| 6460041 |
Browser-based database-access engine apparatus and method |
| Oct-1-2002 |
A method and apparatus are herein described for a browser-based, database-access engine. Access to and modification of database data and schema are made available to a user remotely through a network,... |
| 6460033 |
Browsing methods, articles and apparatus |
| Oct-1-2002 |
A plurality of items are browsed using a non-unary tree which relates the plurality of items and a browsing sequence. A signal is outputted to display content associated with a current item in the browsing... |
| 6460029 |
System for improving search text |
| Oct-1-2002 |
A computer-readable medium has computer-executable instructions for retrieving a search query provided by a user and locating an ambiguity in the search query that affects the optimization of the search... |
| 6460027 |
Automatic recognition and rerouting of queries for optimal performance |
| Oct-1-2002 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for optimizing database queries uses a derived summary table, wherein a definition of the summary table is based on a full select statement that is materialized... |
| 6457018 |
Object oriented information retrieval framework mechanism |
| Sep-24-2002 |
A framework for use with object-oriented programming systems provides a reusable object oriented (OO) framework for use with object oriented programming systems that provides an information retrieval (IR)... |
| 6457009 |
Method of searching multiples internet resident databases using search fields in a generic form |
| Sep-24-2002 |
A method of enabling multiple and different remote Internet resident databases to be queried by using search fields in a generic form in a browser by entering field information only once. The multiple... |
| 6457003 |
Methods, systems and computer program products for logical access of data sources utilizing standard relational database management systems |
| Sep-24-2002 |
Methods, systems and computer program products are provided which allow for accessing at least one data source by intercepting a command to a standard relational database management system and determining... |
| 6453321 |
Structured cache for persistent objects |
| Sep-17-2002 |
A technique for creating and using a structured cache to increase the efficiency of reading persistent objects from a database. The structured cache is comprised of an object cache, an associations cache,... |
| 6453318 |
Control apparatus of structured information and method of controlling the information |
| Sep-17-2002 |
A management apparatus has a structure definition input unit for inputting the structure definition of information, a data definition input unit for inputting a data definition that represents entities... |
| 6453312 |
System and method for developing a selectably-expandable concept-based search |
| Sep-17-2002 |
A computer-implemented system and method for allowing users to interactively develop search queries is provided. The system performs query development utilizing a hierarchical concept tree stored in memory,... |
| 6449609 |
Using materialized view to process a related query containing a one to many lossless join |
| Sep-10-2002 |
A method and apparatus for transforming queries is described. According to an aspect of the present invention, a select-project-join query Q that specifies at least one semijoin is rewritten into another... |
| 6449606 |
Using a materialized view to process a related query containing an antijoin |
| Sep-10-2002 |
A method and apparatus for transforming queries is provided. A select-project-join query Q that specifies an antijoin is rewritten into another query that references the materialized view M. The common... |
| 6449605 |
Using a materialized view to process a related query containing a one to many lossless join |
| Sep-10-2002 |
A method and apparatus for transforming queries is provided. A select-project-join query Q is rewritten into another query that joins a materialized view M and a subset of the tables from Q not in the... |
