| 6721727 |
XML document stored as column data |
| Apr-13-2004 |
A technique is provided for creating metadata for fast search of XML documents stored as column data. Data is stored in a data store connected to a computer. A main table is created in a relational database... |
| 6718365 |
Method, system, and program for ordering search results using an importance weighting |
| Apr-6-2004 |
Disclosed is a technique for providing, accessing, and using bookmark data to supplement information in a search engine database. The bookmark data indicates saved user selected network addresses, e.g.,... |
| 6718332 |
Seamless importation of data |
| Apr-6-2004 |
A data transfer interface for importing data from a source system to a target system, including a source data adapter having an attribute definition transcriber for generating transcribed data, and a target... |
| 6718322 |
SQL-based analytic algorithm for rule induction |
| Apr-6-2004 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for performing data mining applications in a relational database management system. At least one analytic algorithm for rule induction is performed by a... |
| 6718320 |
Schema mapping system and method |
| Apr-6-2004 |
A schema mapping system and method are particularly suitable for expressing a schema mapping between two database schemas that may be heterogeneous (restructuring views of each other). The schema mapping... |
| 6714979 |
Data warehousing infrastructure for web based reporting tool |
| Mar-30-2004 |
A data warehousing infrastructure for telecommunications priced call detail data is integrated with a Web/Internet based reporting system providing a common GUI enabling the requesting, customizing, scheduling... |
| 6714943 |
Method and mechanism for tracking dependencies for referential integrity constrained tables |
| Mar-30-2004 |
A method and mechanism for dependency tracking in a database system is disclosed. According to an embodiment, dependency tracking for a referentially constrained object is performed by tracking change... |
| 6714929 |
Weighted preference data search system and method |
| Mar-30-2004 |
A search engine for databases, data streams, and other data sources allows user preferences as to the relative importance of search criteria to be used to rank the output of the search engine. A weighted... |
| 6714928 |
Development system providing HTML database control object |
| Mar-30-2004 |
A Database Development System is described that provides methodologies for creating an HTML or Web database control object (the "HTML DataWindow") for use in a Client/Server Database System The HTML DataWindow... |
| 6711568 |
Method for estimating coverage of web search engines |
| Mar-23-2004 |
A computerized method is used to estimate the relative coverage of Web search engines. Each search engine maintains an index of words of pages located at specific URL addresses in a network. The method... |
| 6708164 |
Transforming query results into hierarchical information |
| Mar-16-2004 |
A computerized system and method for transforming the results of a query into a hierarchical information stream, such as an extensible Markup Language (XML) data stream is disclosed. A database server... |
| 6704740 |
Method for analyzing product performance data |
| Mar-9-2004 |
A method for analyzing product performance relational data is disclosed. The method includes selecting a database query from a set of preselected database queries by choosing a plurality of predefined... |
| 6704735 |
Managing object life cycles using object-level cursor |
| Mar-9-2004 |
A technique for managing life cycles of objects which are created by mapping layer software in response to retrieving data from a relational database. Object-level cursors are defined, where an object... |
| 6704731 |
Conditional reply processing method, conditional reply giving agent system device, and program storage medium |
| Mar-9-2004 |
If an intermediary agent device or a database agent device cannot uniquely reply to an inquiry message issued from a user agent device, it generates a conditional reply message and returns the generated... |
| 6704727 |
Method and system for generating a set of search terms |
| Mar-9-2004 |
A method and system for providing a set of search terms in response to a user input are disclosed. A first set of search terms is selected from a master set of search terms based upon a match between the... |
| 6704726 |
Query processing method |
| Mar-9-2004 |
The process and architecture for database query processing includes techniques allowing a query to be made of various heterogeneous data sources by a client application using an adapter device specific... |
| 6704725 |
Method of searching multimedia data |
| Mar-9-2004 |
A method of searching multimedia data is disclosed. In the present invention, an image is searched based upon normalized feature information which has been normalized. By normalizing the feature information,... |
| 6704724 |
Parallel optimizer hints with a direct manipulation user interface |
| Mar-9-2004 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for directly manipulating a query for a relational database management system (RDBMS). The query is transformed into an operator tree that is displayed on... |
| 6704723 |
Method and system for providing business intelligence information over a computer network via extensible markup language |
| Mar-9-2004 |
A method and system is provided for exchanging information over a computer network. A network server computer system receives a query request from at least one client computer system over a computer network.... |
| 6701333 |
Method of efficient migration from one categorization hierarchy to another hierarchy |
| Mar-2-2004 |
A method of efficiently migrating data from one categorization hierarchy to a new hierarchy. A mapping is created which describes where a document in one hierarchy will be placed in a new hierarchy. The... |
| 6701328 |
Database management system |
| Mar-2-2004 |
This embodiment of the invention has a container 26c within which multiple groups of data, each optionally including one or more attributes (or attribution items), are stored without destroying their relational... |
| 6701321 |
Method and apparatus for navigation of relational databases on distributed networks |
| Mar-2-2004 |
Relational databases are browsed in a manner that mirrors the interactive browsing of world wide web pages. A schema-based navigational layer is used on top of conventional physical, logical and conceptual... |
| 6701310 |
Information search device and information search method using topic-centric query routing |
| Mar-2-2004 |
An information search device capable of selecting topic search engines (i.e., search engines that focus on specific topics) that are appropriate to a user's search keywords when searching the Web on the... |
| 6701309 |
Method and system for collecting related queries |
| Mar-2-2004 |
A method for collecting related queries, comprising the steps of obtaining a first query and a second query that have been submitted during a search for data, and determining whether the first query and... |
| 6697819 |
Reusable database access component |
| Feb-24-2004 |
Providing economical interconnectivity between application programs and database content is obviated by the described database management system interface. The system of the invention includes at least... |
| 6697804 |
Deploying plurality of sanpshots storing parameterized data description language strings with substitutable parameter causes database object to instantiated |
| Feb-24-2004 |
Mass deployment of snapshots is fostered by allowing collections of snapshots, called refresh groups, to be defined by a template. The template allows for a parameterized snapshot definition query or other... |
| 6697802 |
Systems and methods for pairwise analysis of event data |
| Feb-24-2004 |
Techniques for mining or discovering one or more patterns in an input data set, wherein the input data set is characterized by attributes, comprises the following steps. First, the technique includes mapping... |
| 6697795 |
Virtual file system for dynamically-generated web pages |
| Feb-24-2004 |
A virtual filesystem for allowing a large number of data files to be created, deleted, and rearranged by a peripheral device incorporating the filesystem without requiring the host computer system to delete... |
| 6694459 |
Method and apparatus for testing a data retrieval system |
| Feb-17-2004 |
A method for testing data retrieval systems that uses codes embedded within the test data set to confirm that retrieved data is legal, valid, is the right type of data, belongs to the right owner, and... |
| 6694338 |
Virtual aggregate fields |
| Feb-17-2004 |
A method comprising defining one or more aggregate virtual fields for a first document using meta-data associated with the first document is disclosed. |
| 6694330 |
System and method for identifying the raw materials consumed in the manufacture of a chemical product |
| Feb-17-2004 |
A system and method are disclosed that allow a user to identify, within a certain level of confidence, the raw materials consumed in the manufacture of a particular chemical product. In addition, the system... |
| 6694326 |
Graphical filter dialog window system and method for same |
| Feb-17-2004 |
A dialog window for use in a filtering process provides filtering criteria based upon a limited number of object properties. Each property has an associated criterion input comprising an operator input... |
| 6694324 |
Determination of records with a specified number of largest or smallest values in a parallel database system |
| Feb-17-2004 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for selecting one or more of the highest ranking records in a database system that has one or more processing units. At each processing unit, a candidate... |
| 6694313 |
Method for compression of a telephone number database in a telecommunications system, and a corresponding telecommunications system |
| Feb-17-2004 |
A method for the compression of a telephone number database in a telecommunications system. The telephone number database contains a plurality of data records each having a specific dialing pattern, and... |
| 6694312 |
Database processing method and apparatus for processing data by analyzing query input |
| Feb-17-2004 |
In a database management system including a request reception server and a plurality of execution servers, each having a plug-in program module incorporated by a user, the request reception server analyzes... |
| 6694311 |
Method and apparatus for fast query approximation using adaptive query vector projection |
| Feb-17-2004 |
Methods and apparatus are provided for querying by similarity in large collections of high-dimensional vectors by adaptively projecting each query vector into a library of projection elements; by selecting... |
| 6694310 |
Data flow plan optimizer |
| Feb-17-2004 |
An optimizer for a data transformation system. The optimizer optimizes data flow plans that describe how data is to be transformed from the form it has in a data source to the form required in a data destination.... |
| 6694307 |
System for collecting specific information from several sources of unstructured digitized data |
| Feb-17-2004 |
A system for collecting specific information from several sources of unstructured digitized data. The system receives at least one instruction governing the collection of the specific information. The... |
| 6694305 |
Method, system, and program for processing modifications to data in tables in a database system |
| Feb-17-2004 |
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... |
| 6691131 |
Functional memory based on a trie structure |
| Feb-10-2004 |
The invention relates to a method for implementing a functional memory and to a memory arrangement. The memory is implemented as a directory structure comprising a tree-shaped hierarchy having nodes at... |
| 6691120 |
System, method and computer program product for data mining in a normalized relational database |
| Feb-10-2004 |
A method and system for preparing a data record with multidimensional attributes for processing by a data-mining tool includes the steps of identifying a normalized data record, which includes an existing... |
| 6691114 |
Geographical information distribution system, geographical information distribution method, geographical information distribution server, and user service providing server |
| Feb-10-2004 |
A server of a geographical information distributor includes: a map database that stores map data; a search object database that stores data concerning search objects to be displayed on a map; and a search... |
| 6691109 |
Method and apparatus for high-performance sequence comparison |
| Feb-10-2004 |
A computer-implemented method and apparatus for performing remote sequence comparison. Multiple query sequences are searched against one or more sequence databases. The method includes partitioning the... |
| 6691099 |
Method and system for histogram determination in a database |
| Feb-10-2004 |
A method and system for determining when to collect, save, and/or utilize histograms is disclosed. A mechanism for automatically deciding when to collect histograms upon request from the user is provided.... |
| 6687696 |
System and method for personalized search, information filtering, and for generating recommendations utilizing statistical latent class models |
| Feb-3-2004 |
The disclosed system implements a novel method for personalized filtering of information and automated generation of user-specific recommendations. The system uses a statistical latent class model, also... |
| 6684246 |
Method and system for tracking clients |
| Jan-27-2004 |
A method and system for tracking access by clients to a server object of a server class. The client tracking system provides a derived client tracking server class that includes an overriding implementation... |
| 6681222 |
Unified database and text retrieval system |
| Jan-20-2004 |
A unified database/text retrieval system converts exact database type queries into text inclusion type queries suitable for text retrieval systems through the use of pseudo keywords. Boolean combination... |
| 6681220 |
Reduction and optimization of information processing systems |
| Jan-20-2004 |
Techniques for arranging operations performable on information in an information processing system are provided. In a system having a plurality of information producers and a plurality of information subscribers,... |
| 6681218 |
System for managing RDBM fragmentations |
| Jan-20-2004 |
A relational database system manages data fragments in a database by converting a query or fragmentation expression to an intermediate range representation; mapping the intermediate range representation... |
| 6681217 |
Boolean text search combined with extended regular expression search |
| Jan-20-2004 |
In the field of computer text search engines, regular expression text pattern matching is combined with an extended set of Boolean operators. A pre-processor is described which will convert mixed Boolean-GREP... |
