Query processing (i.e., searching)

CL 707 SC 3
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...
7043531 Web-based customer lead generator system with pre-emptive profiling
May-9-2006 A web-based customer lead generator system. The system is based on an application service model, with the programming for the system being accessible to users of the system via web browsers and the Internet....
7043521 Search agent for searching the internet
May-9-2006 A method and apparatus are provided for obtaining information over the internet. The method includes the steps of uploading a search agent from a searching terminal to a website to be searched and executing...
7043497 System and method for capturing and storing web site visitor profile information in a data warehouse
May-9-2006 A customer relationship management system for storing and managing information for an E-Business retailer. The customer relationship system includes a database system for storing and organizing said information,...
7043498 System and method for connecting to a set of phrases joining multiple schemas
May-9-2006 A system and method for connecting to a set of phrases joining multiple schemas is disclosed. A phrase identifying particular content corresponding to a particular schema is submitted by an affiliated...
7043483 System and method allowing advertisers to manage search listings in a pay for placement search system using grouping
May-9-2006 A system for advertisers to efficiently manage their search listings in placement database search system includes grouping means for managing multiple categories for the search listings and query means...
7043481 System, method and software for creating, maintaining, navigating or manipulating complex data objects and their data relationships
May-9-2006 The invention provides systems, methods and software for creating, maintaining, accessing, navigating and persisting complex data objects and associated data stores. In one aspect, the invention also provides...
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...
7043479 Remote-directed management of media content
May-9-2006 A remote media player and methods for managing content. The media player includes storage to store content files. A user interface allows the user to make content selections. The content selections are...
7043471 Search engine account monitoring
May-9-2006 A system and method of generating an ordered search list via a search engine by determining various account balances to determine where a search listing will appear, if at all, in a search results list....
7043472 File system with access and retrieval of XML documents
May-9-2006 A XML-aware file system exploits attributes encoded in a XML document. The file system presents a dynamic directory structure to the user, and breaks the conventional tight linkage between sets of files...
7043469 Method and system for slow materialization of scrollable cursor result sets
May-9-2006 The present invention provides a system and a method for materializing records in a result set in response to a query. The computer system comprises a server and a client. The server has a database and...
7043470 Method and apparatus for improving querying
May-9-2006 In a method of improving querying, a plurality of items of information are transformed into a plurality of vectors, where each item of information of the plurality of items of information is mapped to...
7039897 Modeling a target system by interpolating
May-2-2006 In a method of modeling a target system, a data structure is populated with points, where each point includes at least one target value associated with at least one system parameter value of the target...
7039864 Method and apparatuses for management of unconsciously captured documents
May-2-2006 Methods and apparatuses for management of unconsciously captured documents are described. Various documents generated by networked devices are unconsciously captured and stored according to a non-semantic...
7039659 Method and apparatus for making differential independent data copies in a data processing system
May-2-2006 Data is copied from a source storage device to a destination storage device in a differential mode. An extents track defines all tracks to be transferred during a first copying operation. Complementary...
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...
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...
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...
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...
7039632 System and method for managing a manufacturing process operation
May-2-2006 A system and method for managing a manufacturing processing operation by integrating one or more data retrieval systems with a user station. Data stored on one or more data retrieval systems is communicatively...
7039630 Information search/presentation system
May-2-2006 An information search/presentation system includes a 3D image converter, landmark database, search engine, and 3D image browser. The 3D image converter outputs 3D image data on the basis of aerial photographs...
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...
7039629 Method for inputting data into a system
May-2-2006 The invention relates to a method for inputting data into a system. In order to make it easier for users to input data, the invention provides that, in response to an input by a user, one or more terms...
7039626 Information providing apparatus
May-2-2006 An information providing device assisting the users who meet each other accidentally in forming a community includes a user database (306) managing user information, an information database (307,...
7039627 Method and apparatus for performing a radix search by selecting one of a valid table and a transition table
May-2-2006 A method performs a radix search data structure. The method selects a reference table based on a value of a selectable parameter. The reference table includes at least one of a valid reference table and...
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...
7039018 Technique to improve network routing using best-match and exact-match techniques
May-2-2006 A method and apparatus to search for routing information is described. According to an embodiment, a technique is described to search for routing information that uses a first technique on at least a portion...
7036074 Apparatus and method for controlling display of database search items
Apr-25-2006 Stored in a database are a general-purpose table which contains, on a field-by-field basis, element data corresponding to the fields, an item-mane definition table which stipulates, filed by field an item...
7035931 Volume location service for a distributed file system
Apr-25-2006 Software implementing a volume location service on a computer is responsible for instructing clients where they can find volumes on a distributed file system storing instances of desired resources. A user...
7035883 Storage control system and method
Apr-25-2006 According to the present invention, each of a plurality of LUs existing on a storage control system 200 is divided into a plurality of chunks. A PVOL is comprised of only FC-chunks, but an SVOL is...
7035873 System and methods for providing adaptive media property classification
Apr-25-2006 A system and methods are provided for automatically classifying data according to perceptual properties of the data to form a classification chain that is suited to the searching and sorting of large databases...
7035864 Hierarchical data-driven navigation system and method for information retrieval
Apr-25-2006 A data-driven, hierarchical information navigation system and method enable search of sets of documents or other materials by certain common attributes that characterize the materials. The invention includes...
7035862 Method for processing information from an information repository
Apr-25-2006 A method for deriving and sorting information from an information repository including data elements individually associated with corresponding record identifiers, includes the following steps. First,...
7035860 Trusted access by an extendible framework method, system, article of manufacture, and computer program product
Apr-25-2006 Appropriate actions are identified and associated with a selected artifact in a framework providing a customized application program. A metamodel is specified for a capture of relevant information pertaining...
7035859 Method and system for intra-table referential integrity for relational database systems
Apr-25-2006 In a relational database management system (RDBMS), a method of processing related records can include receiving a plurality of related records and inserting the plurality of related records into a single...
7035851 Reorganization of database records using partition merging
Apr-25-2006 A method for reorganizing rows from a partitioned database table is disclosed. The partitioned database table includes a plurality of populated partitions. Rows are organized in each of the populated partitions...
7035846 Methods, computer programs and apparatus for caching directory queries
Apr-25-2006 A framework for answering Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) queries from previously cached queries includes a proxy server configured to receive client directory queries. The proxy server maintains...
7035843 Evaluation of database hierarchical cubes by nesting rollup operators associated with multiple groupings
Apr-25-2006 Methods are provided for efficiently evaluating database queries including multiple rollup operators. With the computation of grouping identifiers to distinguish grouping levels of each rollup operator,...
7035840 Techniques for managing a database system including one or more database servers
Apr-25-2006 A database system that incorporates numerous features that reduce the total cost of maintaining the database system is provided. That database system includes a database appliance that executes a database...
7035844 FFS search and edit pipeline separation
Apr-25-2006 The present invention is directed to fast flexible search and edit pipeline separation. A system suitable for providing a search may include a central controller and at least one search engine. The central...
7035842 Method, system, and program for defining asset queries in a digital library
Apr-25-2006 Provided are a method, system, and program for defining asset classes in a digital library. At least one asset class is defined to include at least one attribute and attributes are defined for each asset...
7035845 Generic proxy for representing search engine partner
Apr-25-2006 A search engine receives a search query from a user and forwards the received query to a partner by way of a call to a generic proxy with the query for the partner. The generic proxy receives and processes...
7035838 Methods and systems for organizing information stored within a computer network-based system
Apr-25-2006 A method for organizing information stored within a computer network-based system that includes a server system is provided. The server system is coupled to a centralized database and at least one client...
7032174 Automatically adding proper names to a database
Apr-18-2006 The correct spelling of resolved email names is automatically stored in a custom dictionary. Thereafter, a spell checker will recognize the name during the spell checking process, because the name is stored...
7032004 Communication traffic control system on LAN, communication traffic control method and recording medium storing communication traffic control program
Apr-18-2006 A communication traffic control system of this invention is directed to reduce traffic on a LAN. In LAN (1) of a CSMA/CD type having a server computer (2), a first client computer (3),...
7031983 Method and system for using real-time traffic broadcasts with navigation systems
Apr-18-2006 A system and method are disclosed that allow a navigation system that uses a geographic database to also use the data in traffic messages broadcast by a traffic broadcast system. One aspect of a present...
7031982 Publication confirming method, publication information acquisition apparatus, publication information providing apparatus and database
Apr-18-2006 A publication information acquisition apparatus used by a user of a service converts information extracted from a newspaper into electronic information and transmits the electronic information to a publication...
7031964 Providing a directory of frequently used hyperlinks on a remote server
Apr-18-2006 Access to hypermedia servers connected to networks such as the Internet can be provided through mobile devices such as wireless telephones. Hypermedia links such as Uniform Resource Locators (URL) are...
7031968 Method and apparatus for providing web site preview information
Apr-18-2006 Client-server system for providing web site preview information of web site content and features to users. The user enters a web site URL they want to preview into a client application, which generates...