| 6876998 |
Method for cross-linguistic document retrieval |
| Apr-5-2005 |
The present mechanism provides a method and apparatus for retrieving documents that are stored in a language other than the language that is used to formulate a search query. This invention decomposes... |
| 6874062 |
System and method for utilizing a hierarchical bitmap structure for locating a set of contiguous ordered search items having a common attribute |
| Mar-29-2005 |
A system and method is provided for locating, within a set of ordered items, N contiguous items having a desired attribute. The system utilizes a hierarchical bitmap structure. At the lowest level, a bitmap... |
| 6874028 |
System and method for unified registration information collection |
| Mar-29-2005 |
A client computer collects registration information and uploads the collected information to one or more remote registration databases. The collection and/or uploading of registration information for multiple... |
| 6874016 |
Information searching device |
| Mar-29-2005 |
A system for efficiently organizing data or information into an associative memory device, such as a ternary content addressable memory (TCAM), for subsequent searching divides the TCAM is divided into... |
| 6874002 |
System and method for normalizing a resume |
| Mar-29-2005 |
A computer based system and method for creating a standardized or normalized resume format, extracting resume information from the normalized resume, and automatically inputting the resume information... |
| 6873991 |
System and method for organizing information |
| Mar-29-2005 |
A system and method for accessing and manipulating, for multiple application types, of information stored in at least one database, in accordance with at least one data key, which information may be displayed... |
| 6873982 |
Ordering of database search results based on user feedback |
| Mar-29-2005 |
An apparatus, program product, and method rely on user interaction in the ordering search results returned by a search engine. Each of a plurality of records in a database is associated with a user feedback... |
| 6873981 |
Method and system for parsing navigation information |
| Mar-29-2005 |
A method and system for providing customers with access to and analysis of event data is provided. The event data may be stored in log files and supplemented with data from other sources, such as product... |
| 6873983 |
Information use frequency prediction program, information use frequency prediction method, and information use frequency prediction apparatus |
| Mar-29-2005 |
The information use frequency prediction device is provided with a comparison section for shifting a second time series data related to the use frequency of a first keyword, sequentially on the time base... |
| 6873958 |
Method and system for selecting items to replace insured items |
| Mar-29-2005 |
A web-based method for identifying items to replace insured items includes receiving item specification information from at least one of a user, a manufacturer, a distributor, a system administrator, and... |
| 6871202 |
Method and apparatus for ranking web page search results |
| Mar-22-2005 |
A method and apparatus for ranking a plurality of pages identified during a search of a linked database includes forming a linear combination of two or more matrices, and using the coefficients of the... |
| 6871198 |
Composing and cataloging item configuration data |
| Mar-22-2005 |
An improvement for composing and cataloging item configuration data is disclosed. One embodiment of the invention includes identifying a base item, identifying a part number for the base item, breaking... |
| 6871186 |
System and method for dynamic profiling of users in one-to-one applications and for validating user rules |
| Mar-22-2005 |
A system and method for generating and validating a user profile (25) for a user based on a static profile (10) and a dynamic profile (15) of the user. The method and system compresses the dynamic rules... |
| 6868525 |
Computer graphic display visualization system and method |
| Mar-15-2005 |
An improved human user computer interface system, providing a graphic representation of a hierarchy populated with naturally classified objects, having included therein at least one associated object having... |
| 6868415 |
Information linking method, information viewer, information register, and information search equipment |
| Mar-15-2005 |
On an information registering equipment, content of interest rendered by media, such as a video image of interest distributed by TV broadcasting is captured and displayed. Position/area on the image are... |
| 6868414 |
Technique for serializing data structure updates and retrievals without requiring searchers to use locks |
| Mar-15-2005 |
The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for reliably and efficiently serializing access to data structures (i.e. updates and retrievals) without requiring searchers... |
| 6868413 |
System and method for customizing and processing business logic rules in a business process system |
| Mar-15-2005 |
Systems and methods for customizing business logic rules within a business process automation system and for processing business logic rules in a business process automation system are disclosed. The method... |
| 6865593 |
Dynamic integration of web sites |
| Mar-8-2005 |
A method for displaying information includes identifying computer-readable service code at a service site, which code, when read by a client computer via a network, causes the computer to display at least... |
| 6865585 |
Method and system for multiprocessor garbage collection |
| Mar-8-2005 |
A garbage collection system and method in a multiprocessor environment having a shared memory wherein two or more processing units participate in the reclamation of garbage memory objects. The shared memory... |
| 6865572 |
Dynamically delivering, displaying document content as encapsulated within plurality of capsule overviews with topic stamp |
| Mar-8-2005 |
A method and system for the dynamic presentation of the contents of a plurality of documents on a display is disclosed. The method and system comprises receiving a plurality of documents and providing... |
| 6865570 |
Method and system for searching information using processing sensor |
| Mar-8-2005 |
A method and system for enabling searching of stored information, the system including: a search request form including information relating to a search request, the search request form including coded... |
| 6865573 |
Data mining application programming interface |
| Mar-8-2005 |
An application programming interface, computer program product implementing the application programming interface, and a system implementing the application programming interface, which provides an advanced... |
| 6865568 |
Method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for searching and navigating a document database |
| Mar-8-2005 |
A method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for searching and navigating a document database is provided. Document categories are assigned unique numeric category identifiers. Each document in a... |
| 6865569 |
Determining materialized view coverage |
| Mar-8-2005 |
A method and apparatus determines (1) if a materialized view can be used to respond to a query for data stored in one or more base tables of a database system; and/or (2) if the materialized view needs... |
| 6865536 |
Method and system for network-based speech recognition |
| Mar-8-2005 |
Methods and systems for handling speech recognition processing in effectively real-time, via the internet, in order that users do not experience noticeable delays from the start of an exercise until they... |
| 6865370 |
Learning method and system based on questioning |
| Mar-8-2005 |
An apparatus and a system to teach a user a subject based on his questions. The system allows the user to control his learning process, and helps to fill in gaps of misunderstanding in the subject. In... |
| 6865302 |
Perception-based image retrieval |
| Mar-8-2005 |
A content-based image retrieval (CBIR) system has a front-end that includes a pipeline of one or more dynamically-constructed filters for measuring perceptual similarities between a query image and one... |
| 6862713 |
Interactive process for recognition and evaluation of a partial search query and display of interactive results |
| Mar-1-2005 |
A method for presenting to an end-user the intermediate matching search results of a keyword search in an index list of information. The method comprising the steps of: coupling to a search engine a graphical... |
| 6862710 |
Internet navigation using soft hyperlinks |
| Mar-1-2005 |
A system for internet navigation using soft hyperlinks is disclosed, in connection with an illustrative information retrieval system with which it may be used. The navigation tool provides freedom to move... |
| 6862594 |
Method and apparatus to discover services using flexible search criteria |
| Mar-1-2005 |
A service discovery protocol may allow clients in a distributed computing environment to search for services using flexible search criteria. A client may send a search message that may be formatted in... |
| 6862602 |
System and method for rapidly identifying the existence and location of an item in a file |
| Mar-1-2005 |
A system and method for rapidly identifying the existence and location of an item in a file using an improved hash table architecture. A hash table is constructed having a plurality of hash buckets, each... |
| 6862598 |
Link tree forming apparatus, link tree forming method, and link tree forming program |
| Mar-1-2005 |
A link tree is able to be formed in a visually logical and natural form for a plurality of objects displayed on a screen. At the time of setting individually selectable links to form an overall object... |
| 6862596 |
System and method for retrieving and displaying data, such as economic data relating to salaries, cost of living and employee benefits |
| Mar-1-2005 |
A system and method for retrieving and displaying data, such as economic data. The method can include receiving over a computer network a user request for a first item of economic data, retrieving the... |
| 6862591 |
Configuration utility |
| Mar-1-2005 |
A telephone caller account management system is disclosed. The system includes a server computer having a customer account database created therein and a workstation in communication with the server computer.... |
| 6862586 |
Searching databases that identifying group documents forming high-dimensional torus geometric k-means clustering, ranking, summarizing based on vector triplets |
| Mar-1-2005 |
A method and structure for performing a database search includes searching a database using a query (searching producing result items), and ranking the result items based on one or more of a frequency... |
| 6862590 |
Converting expressions to execution plans |
| Mar-1-2005 |
Methods, systems, and computer program products for converting a single expression referencing multiple branches within a hierarchical schema into multiple expressions referencing a single branch of the... |
| 6862589 |
System and method for performing diagnostics using a portable device displaying diagnostic data using templates |
| Mar-1-2005 |
A diagnostic tool suite is made available to technicians servicing equipment at residential and business locations using a portable device such as a PDA. The PDA runs a main engine that can execute diagnostic... |
| 6862588 |
Hybrid parsing system and method |
| Mar-1-2005 |
A system and method are provided for parsing a markup file. The present system includes a hybrid parser that employs both a lightweight parser and a heavy weight parser to parse a markup file. The lightweight... |
| 6862559 |
Methods and apparatuses for measuring diversity in combinatorial structures |
| Mar-1-2005 |
A method for computing a diversity measure H(m) for combinatorial structures involves identifying all M possible substructures having m elements from among the n elements of the combinatorial structure.... |
| 6859808 |
Mapping logical row identifiers for primary B+tree-like structures to physical row identifiers |
| Feb-22-2005 |
A mapping mechanism for a primary B+tree in a database management system. The primary B+tree includes a plurality of rows. The mapping mechanism includes introducing a mapping table that includes a plurality... |
| 6859800 |
System for fulfilling an information need |
| Feb-22-2005 |
The invention offers new approaches to fulfilling an information need, in particular to finding a result for a query based on a large body of information such as a collection of documents. The invention... |
| 6859803 |
Apparatus and method for program selection utilizing exclusive and inclusive metadata searches |
| Feb-22-2005 |
An apparatus and method for conducting exclusive and inclusive metadata searches to identify and select multimedia programs. The apparatus of the invention including a metadata search controller that compares... |
| 6859801 |
Efficient memoryless protocol for tag identification |
| Feb-22-2005 |
The invention features a method and system for identifying a plurality of tags using an efficient memoryless protocol. The system includes a reader and a plurality of tags. The reader is adapted to maintain... |
| 6859799 |
Search engine for video and graphics |
| Feb-22-2005 |
A method of selecting graphic or video files having corresponding locators used to locate such graphic or video files using a computer. Identifiers are created by searching an area within a web page near... |
| 6859787 |
Method and system for providing order status information using an update status flag |
| Feb-22-2005 |
A method and system for providing order status information using an update status flag to receive status information pertaining to an order placed by a customer with a merchant. It is determined whether... |
| 6857044 |
Data storage device for fast multiple file write operations |
| Feb-15-2005 |
A data storage device comprising a computer useable medium having computer readable program code disposed therein for writing information on a data storage medium using fast multiple file write operations.... |
| 6856986 |
Answer collection and retrieval system governed by a pay-off meter |
| Feb-15-2005 |
The invention is a set of processes for improving the methods of a self-organizing database governed by a payoff meter process. The inventive set of processes processes enable a user who is seeking an... |
| 6856996 |
Method, system, and program for accessing rows in one or more tables satisfying a search criteria |
| Feb-15-2005 |
Provided is a method, system, and program for accessing rows of data from a base table satisfying a search criteria. An initial request to access rows in the base table is received, including the search... |
| 6856987 |
Information search apparatus and method, and computer readable memory |
| Feb-15-2005 |
A search request input processing unit holds an input query word in a query word holding unit. An associative word unfolding processing unit acquires associative words in association with the query word... |
| 6856988 |
Automated system and method for generating reasons that a court case is cited |
| Feb-15-2005 |
A computer-automated system and method identify text in a first "citing" court case, near a "citing instance" (in which a second "cited" court case is cited), that indicates the reason(s) for citing (RFC).... |
