| 6748376 |
Method and system for database manipulation |
| Jun-8-2004 |
A method and apparatus are described to perform cascading search methodologies records in a database. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a free-form search string, comprising one or more... |
| 6748374 |
Method for generating a relational database query statement using one or more templates corresponding to search conditions in an expression tree |
| Jun-8-2004 |
A method and system for representing objects in a relational database is provided. In one aspect, the invention provides a method and system for storing directory information objects in a relational database... |
| 6745199 |
Information processing apparatus and information processing method, and program storing medium |
| Jun-1-2004 |
A tree display is made in a tree display area of a play list display area as of the contents files were classified in a directory structure, but in reality the contents files are not classified in a directory... |
| 6745183 |
Document retrieval assisting method and system for the same and document retrieval service using the same |
| Jun-1-2004 |
Achieving efficient analysis of search results, which is required for the examination of search queries, by listing up both title information of a retrieved document group and the whole information. By... |
| 6745182 |
Method for searching for data in at least two databases, and database system having at least two databases |
| Jun-1-2004 |
A method and system for searching for data in at least two databases. To allow simultaneous access to two or more databases, a search term is entered. On the basis of the entered search term, the predecessor... |
| 6745181 |
Information access method |
| Jun-1-2004 |
A method of accessing information includes processing a query, searching a collection of data for a set of results matching the query, selectively reducing the set of results to generate a subset of results,... |
| 6745180 |
Data supply controlling device, method, and storage medium which facilities information searching by user |
| Jun-1-2004 |
A data supply controlling device comprises a data base for user data which stores user data matched with each user. The data base of user data can be queried in accordance with the user data so that a... |
| 6742035 |
Directory-based volume location service for a distributed file system |
| May-25-2004 |
In a hierarchically organized distributed file system, resources belong to the containers in which they are located. These resources do not have to be co-located with the, containers in which they are... |
| 6742021 |
Navigating network-based electronic information using spoken input with multimodal error feedback |
| May-25-2004 |
A system, method, and article of manufacture are provided for navigating an electronic data source by means of spoken language. When a spoken input request is received from a user, it is interpreted. Additional... |
| 6742003 |
Apparatus and accompanying methods for visualizing clusters of data and hierarchical cluster classifications |
| May-25-2004 |
A system that incorporates an interactive graphical user interface for visualizing clusters (categories) and segments (summarized clusters) of data. Specifically, the system automatically categorizes incoming... |
| 6741998 |
System, method and computer program for mapping a hierarchical display of process data of multi-database origins |
| May-25-2004 |
The present invention provides a method for analyzing a process based on displaying data to a user from a plurality of different sources and a machine-readable medium for implementing such a method. The... |
| 6741988 |
Relational text index creation and searching |
| May-25-2004 |
In an environment where it is desire to perform information extraction over a large quantity of textual data, methods, tools and structures are provided for building a relational text index from the textual... |
| 6741959 |
System and method to retrieving information with natural language queries |
| May-25-2004 |
A search machine finds and ranks documents in a database based on a set of rules that match characteristics of the database with a natural language query. The system includes a lexicon component which... |
| 6738787 |
Method and apparatus for displaying and header scrolling a hierarchical data structure |
| May-18-2004 |
Methods and apparatus can scroll a displayed hierarchical data structure. A hierarchical data structure can include a first parent node and a plurality of child nodes of the parent node, the plurality... |
| 6738766 |
Apparatus and methods for providing personalized application search results for wireless devices based on user profiles |
| May-18-2004 |
An exemplary method for providing personalized application search results in a mobile device comprises the steps of receiving a search request from a user, the search request including at least one search... |
| 6738765 |
Relational text index creation and searching |
| May-18-2004 |
In an environment where it is desire to perform information extraction over a large quantity of textual data, methods, tools and structures are provided for building a relational text index from the textual... |
| 6738764 |
Apparatus and method for adaptively ranking search results |
| May-18-2004 |
A method of ranking search results includes producing a relevance score for a document in view of a query. A similarity score is calculated for the query utilizing a feature vector that characterizes attributes... |
| 6738760 |
Method and system for providing electronic discovery on computer databases and archives using artificial intelligence to recover legally relevant data |
| May-18-2004 |
A method for providing electronic discovery on computer systems and archives is provided by using artificial intelligence to produce smart search agents to retrieve relevant data, particularly legally... |
| 6738755 |
Query optimization method for incrementally estimating the cardinality of a derived relation when statistically correlated predicates are applied |
| May-18-2004 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for incrementally estimating the cardinality of a derived relation when statistically correlated predicates are applied. A plurality of query execution plans... |
| 6738716 |
Database system for predictive cellular bioinformatics |
| May-18-2004 |
A system for acquiring knowledge from cellular information. The system has a database comprising a database management module ("DBMS"). The system also has a variety of modules, including a population... |
| 6738678 |
Method for ranking hyperlinked pages using content and connectivity analysis |
| May-18-2004 |
A computerized method determines the ranking of documents including information content. The present method uses both content and connectivity analysis. An input set of documents is represented as a neighborhood... |
| 6735622 |
Transferring constraint descriptors between light-weight devices for document access |
| May-11-2004 |
Information about documents is transferred between machines in the form of constraint descriptors. A first machine can obtain a constraint descriptor that includes information about a set of constraints... |
| 6735594 |
Transparent parameter marker support for a relational database over a network |
| May-11-2004 |
A method and system for retrieving data from a database over a network includes: generating an executable statement at a gateway in accordance with a macro language file, where the executable statement... |
| 6735591 |
Universal information warehouse system and method |
| May-11-2004 |
The present invention, the Information Warehouse, is a method and apparatus for gathering, storing and organizing information related to all the aspects of any organization, using a novel classification... |
| 6735587 |
Maintaining pre-computed aggregate views incrementally in the presence of non-minimal changes |
| May-11-2004 |
Methods and apparatus implementing a technique for incrementally maintaining pre-computed aggregate views. In general, the technique includes: receiving a pre-computed aggregate view derived from one or... |
| 6735586 |
System and method for dynamic content retrieval |
| May-11-2004 |
Systems and methods for collecting information distributed over a computer network are described. Problems addressed by the invention include the marking of content distributed over a network, the instant... |
| 6735585 |
Method for search engine generating supplemented search not included in conventional search result identifying entity data related to portion of located web page |
| May-11-2004 |
It is determined that an entity is registered as having control over the use of at least a portion of a World-Wide Web address for a first set of computer data that is accessible in accordance with Internet... |
| 6735583 |
Method and system for classifying and locating media content |
| May-11-2004 |
A computer-based method and system for classifying and locating media content is provided. In preferred embodiments, a dynamically modifiable, structured vocabulary system is used to drive a media classification... |
| 6732098 |
Relational text index creation and searching |
| May-4-2004 |
In an environment where it is desire to perform information extraction over a large quantity of textual data, methods, tools and structures are provided for building a relational text index from the textual... |
| 6732097 |
Relational text index creation and searching |
| May-4-2004 |
In an environment where it is desire to perform information extraction over a large quantity of textual data, methods, tools and structures are provided for building a relational text index from the textual... |
| 6732095 |
Method and apparatus for mapping between XML and relational representations |
| May-4-2004 |
A method to convert data between a relational format and an XML document, by creating a set of XML Mapping Definition from metadata; selecting relational data from a relational application database, and... |
| 6732094 |
Method and apparatus that evaluate an expression based upon database results |
| May-4-2004 |
One step of a method of evaluating an expression includes generating a database query that is representative of the expression. Another step of the method includes processing the database query to obtain... |
| 6732093 |
Systems and methods for performing temporal logic queries |
| May-4-2004 |
Methods of performing temporal logic queries, and systems for performing temporal logic queries, are disclosed. Data associated with statistical reliability criteria are annotated in a data source. Baseline... |
| 6732091 |
Method and an apparatus for the processing of queries to a database |
| May-4-2004 |
An apparatus and a method of processing queries to a relational database stored on a computer readable medium including a representation of relations between sections in tables in the database. The method... |
| 6732086 |
Method for listing search results when performing a search in a network |
| May-4-2004 |
The present invention provides a method and system for listing network search results. The network has a plurality of sites. Each site has a plurality of pages. The method and system comprise searching... |
| 6728707 |
Relational text index creation and searching |
| Apr-27-2004 |
In an environment where it is desire to perform information extraction over a large quantity of textual data, methods, tools and structures are provided for building a relational text index from the textual... |
| 6728705 |
System and method for selecting content for displaying over the internet based upon some user input |
| Apr-27-2004 |
The present invention provides a method for displaying information from the Internet. In one embodiment, the invention generates a plurality of content modules, each content module comprising a subset... |
| 6728700 |
Natural language help interface |
| Apr-27-2004 |
A help interface capable of receiving user-defined queries in a natural language and selecting the most appropriate answer from a plurality of potential answers, includes facilities for parsing and storing... |
| 6728697 |
Partial delegation of complex OLAP queries with application to zero suppression condition evaluation |
| Apr-27-2004 |
The present invention introduces a mechanism to partition the processing work required on data from a variety of proprietary OLAP data sources in such a way that as much as possible of the processing can... |
| 6728598 |
Arithmetic processing device, inter-object communication method, and robot |
| Apr-27-2004 |
An arithmetic processing device for inter-object data communication has an object manager for connecting objects so as to enable exchange of data between the objects, and a connection data supplying unit... |
| 6725216 |
Partitioning search key thereby distributing table across multiple non-contiguous memory segments, memory banks or memory modules |
| Apr-20-2004 |
A system and method for retrieving information in a distributed table by partitioning a search key. A packet processor may generate a search key for a received packet of data. The packet processor may... |
| 6724931 |
Compilable plain english-like language for extracting objects from an image using a primitive image map |
| Apr-20-2004 |
The invention features a method wherein a recognition environment utilizers pseudo-English as a programming language to extract simple and complex objects with image--and/or map--data as inputs. Based... |
| 6721847 |
Cache hints for computer file access |
| Apr-13-2004 |
An application program (6) may issue a file access request to an operating system (4) accompanied by a caching hint. This caching hint may be selected in dependence upon the file type and file size of... |
| 6721736 |
Methods, computer system, and computer program product for configuring a meta search engine |
| Apr-13-2004 |
The invention is directed to a method performed by a meta search engine. In the method a search response provided from the primary search engine in a search response presentation is processed by the meta... |
| 6721735 |
Method and apparatus for synchronizing databases in a network management system |
| Apr-13-2004 |
In an environment where databases are shared, it is important that the information contained within the databases be consistent among databases containing the respective information. Thus, there is a need... |
| 6721733 |
Information search and retrieval system |
| Apr-13-2004 |
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,... |
| 6721732 |
Method and system for pre-filling search criteria into a form |
| Apr-13-2004 |
A method and system for automatically saving a user's search criteria and pre-filling the search criteria into the search form on the user's next visit. The invention saves the user from having to remember... |
| 6721731 |
Method, system, and program for processing a fetch request for a target row at an absolute position from a first entry in a table |
| Apr-13-2004 |
Provided is a method, system, program, and data structures for making data available to an application program. A result table is generated including rows corresponding to a subset of rows in a base table... |
| 6721730 |
Left outer join elimination on key |
| Apr-13-2004 |
A query optimization technique that determines whether any column from a right quantifier of a left outer join query is projected out of the query. If not, then all predicates in an ON clause are removed... |
| 6721729 |
Method and apparatus for electronic file search and collection |
| Apr-13-2004 |
A integrated method for searching and reporting the search of electronic data files by receiving a plurality of first and second search concepts from the user, forming the first and second concepts into... |
