| 6856968 |
Interactive search process for product inquiries |
| Feb-15-2005 |
A business process utilizes computer software and electronic customer/supplier connections to supply information, receive requests for quotation, supply quotations, receive purchase orders, and perform... |
| 6853992 |
Structured-document search apparatus and method, recording medium storing structured-document searching program, and method of creating indexes for searching structured documents |
| Feb-8-2005 |
A query in which a sibling relationship among document parts, which are elements of a structured document, can be designated as a search condition is input, and a query tree which represents the query... |
| 6853993 |
System and methods for predicting correct spellings of terms in multiple-term search queries |
| Feb-8-2005 |
A search engine process predicts the correct spellings of search terms within multiple-term search queries. In one embodiment, when a user submits a multiple-term search query that includes a non-matching... |
| 6853978 |
System and method for manufacturing and configuring intelligent electronic devices to order |
| Feb-8-2005 |
A system and method of specifying built and configured to order intelligent electronic devices ("IED's") is disclosed. A customer interacts with an order processing interface to specify the type and model... |
| 6853950 |
System for determining changes in the relative interest of subjects |
| Feb-8-2005 |
A system for determining changes in the interest of a subject over a time period. The system measures the volume of news articles for a subject over a time period and makes a comparison to a previous volume... |
| 6853389 |
Information searching apparatus, information searching method, and storage medium |
| Feb-8-2005 |
An information searching apparatus for searching for information calculates a matching degree, which indicates a degree at which searching conditions used for searching for the information are satisfied,... |
| 6851089 |
Software application and associated methods for generating a software layer for structuring semistructured information |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A wrapper builder application provides a variety of features for facilitating the creation of wrappers that are used to extract information from Web sites. In one aspect, the wrapper builder application... |
| 6850988 |
System and method for dynamically evaluating an electronic commerce business model through click stream analysis |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A system and method for dynamically evaluating an electronic commerce business model through click stream analysis is disclosed. An electronic commerce business model is incorporated into a Web site. The... |
| 6850951 |
Method and structure for relationally representing database objects |
| Feb-1-2005 |
In the present invention, a database structure is defined such that a database table having a plurality of objects each having an associated data is formed. A second table containing the relationship of... |
| 6850945 |
Systems, methods and apparatus for creating stable disk images |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A system and method of identifying methods of quiescing a storage object. Data is received identifying the storage object and a freeze list is generated. The freeze list includes one or more freeze methods... |
| 6850935 |
Automatic index term augmentation in document retrieval |
| Feb-1-2005 |
Disclosed are methods and systems for automatically assigning index terms to electronic documents such as Web pages or sites in a manner which may be used to facilitate the retrieval of electronic documents... |
| 6850937 |
Word importance calculation method, document retrieving interface, word dictionary making method |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A known method for selecting words (or word sequences), which is an important aspect of information retrieval, involves the problems of inability to eliminate high-frequency common words and of often arbitrary... |
| 6850931 |
Method and system for searching information using coded marks |
| Feb-1-2005 |
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... |
| 6850934 |
Adaptive search engine query |
| Feb-1-2005 |
Embodiments provide a method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for searching for information on a network of computers using a modified search query. The search query is modified using translation... |
| 6850932 |
Method, system, and program for merging query search results |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A system for interacting with a database report is disclosed. The database is responsive to a query to produce an associated report comprising one or more objects, each object comprising a plurality of... |
| 6850926 |
Data processing apparatus, data processing method, and recording medium |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A data processing system providing a result of filtering an item desired by an individual user. On receipt of a request from a user terminal for executing a process of filtering a predetermined item, a... |
| 6850928 |
System and method for automatically retrieving proprietary and standard directory object formats |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A system for, and method of, automatically retrieving a directory object from a database and a directory server incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a request... |
| 6850929 |
System and method for managing file system extended attributes |
| Feb-1-2005 |
An extended attribute data page includes extended attribute information about a number of files. The page is divided into areas, each area corresponding to a different file. A given area is further divided... |
| 6850930 |
Method for transforming words to unique numerical representation |
| Feb-1-2005 |
Multiple words in a text are transformed to unique numerical representations for text mining applications. A web server receives the text, including multiple words in a natural language. A key-word extractor... |
| 6850913 |
Method for administering certification data |
| Feb-1-2005 |
The invention permits requests for certification information for a certification that has been performed for a product, a service, a system, an organizational process, etc. For this purpose, an Internet... |
| 6850906 |
Real-time financial search engine and method |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A real-time financial search engine retrieves financial updates in real-time. A condensation memory in the real-time financial search engine stores financial data in a compacted space that allows computation... |
| 6848077 |
Dynamically creating hyperlinks to other web documents in received world wide web documents based on text terms in the received document defined as of interest to user |
| Jan-25-2005 |
The user receiving a World Wide Web (Web) page is provided with an implementation for predetermining subject matter, terms and words for which the user desires to have hyperlinks in a received web document.... |
| 6847974 |
Method and apparatus for intelligent data assimilation |
| Jan-25-2005 |
An intelligent data assimilation system including an ontology description, workflows, and logical search objects. The logical search objects operably connect to external and internal data providers and... |
| 6847967 |
Information set importance determination system and information set importance determination method |
| Jan-25-2005 |
The information set importance determination system of the present invention includes a page information management unit for managing an attribute of page information constituting hyper-media information,... |
| 6847969 |
Method and system for providing personalized online services and advertisements in public spaces |
| Jan-25-2005 |
A method and system for providing, personalized and integrated online services for communications and commercial transactions both in private and public venues. The invention provides personalized information... |
| 6847966 |
Method and system for optimally searching a document database using a representative semantic space |
| Jan-25-2005 |
A term-by-document matrix is compiled from a corpus of documents representative of a particular subject matter that represents the frequency of occurrence of each term per document. A weighted term dictionary... |
| 6847961 |
Method and system for searching information using sensor with identifier |
| Jan-25-2005 |
A method/system for enabling searching of stored information, the system including: a search request form 538 including information relating to a search request, the search request form 538 including coded... |
| 6847962 |
Analyzing, optimizing and rewriting queries using matching and compensation between query and automatic summary tables |
| Jan-25-2005 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for optimizing database queries using a derived summary table, wherein a definition of the summary table is based on a full select statement, including,... |
| 6847964 |
Method of using a computer to facilitate decision making |
| Jan-25-2005 |
This is a method of using a computer to facilitate decision making where a database can be searched with feed forward information provided to the user. A number of criteria are provided to a user of the... |
| 6847963 |
Method and system for appending search strings with user profile qualities |
| Jan-25-2005 |
A system and method is provided which allows item searches based on the qualities of the items. Additionally, the system suggests items to a customer or user based on his/her profile information that is... |
| 6847960 |
Document retrieval by information unit |
| Jan-25-2005 |
A method of searching a search space comprising a plurality of pages in response to a query comprising a plurality of keywords includes identifying at least one information unit. Where a query includes... |
| 6845486 |
User support method and user support apparatus |
| Jan-18-2005 |
User support method and user support apparatus for facilitating a user to find desired information from an enormous size of Web sites in a user friendly manner so as to make efficient use thereof. A front... |
| 6845484 |
Technique and method which dynamically generates various depth levels of abstracts for text based data sources on demand |
| Jan-18-2005 |
The present invention discloses a method for dynamically generating an abstract from a search result abstract retrieved from a search engine. Preferably embodied as a software program, the present invention... |
| 6845463 |
System for contracting out part of accepted request |
| Jan-18-2005 |
An order placement and acceptance system includes a first data processing device for sending a design data for processing and manufacture of a predetermined item, a second data processing device for obtaining... |
| 6845369 |
System, apparatus and method for using and managing digital information |
| Jan-18-2005 |
A system, apparatus and method for using, identifying, interacting and managing digital information in a useful and convenient manner. When a digital representation of information is loaded, an index is... |
| 6845370 |
Advanced information gathering for targeted activities |
| Jan-18-2005 |
An agent based system assists in preparing an individual for an upcoming meeting by helping him/her retrieve relevant information about the meeting from various sources based on preexisting information... |
| 6845373 |
Text stream filter |
| Jan-18-2005 |
A method and apparatus for filtering an input text stream includes receiving a definition of a filter configuration and modifying the input text stream according to the filter configuration so as to generate... |
| 6845371 |
Multimedia data structure reflecting change of user relevance feedback and method of determining weights of image features of multimedia data |
| Jan-18-2005 |
A method of searching for images in a database system determines weights of desired image features by taking into consideration both recent user relevance feedback information and whole feedback information.... |
| 6845372 |
Method and computer program product for implementing search engine operational modes |
| Jan-18-2005 |
A method and computer program product are provided for implementing search engine operational modes. A search request is received from a user. Responsive to the search request, an impatient score for the... |
| 6842856 |
System and method for dynamic management of a startup sequence |
| Jan-11-2005 |
A system, comprising a plug-in data structure to store plug-in data, the plug-in data structure including an initial list and an end list and a plug-in manager to read the plug-in data structure and start... |
| 6842758 |
Modular method and system for performing database queries |
| Jan-11-2005 |
A query engine residing on computer-readable media includes a library of data drivers and an intelligent dataset. Each data driver in the library is operable to execute a predefined database operation.... |
| 6842763 |
Method and apparatus for improving message availability in a subsystem which supports shared message queues |
| Jan-11-2005 |
The invention relates to communicating message data between application programs, the message data relating to units of work performed by the application programs. A plurality of message queuing subsystems... |
| 6842749 |
Method to use the internet for the assembly of parts |
| Jan-11-2005 |
A method that comprises: 1) sending to a manufacturer a customer request for assembly instructions for a grouping of components; and 2) presenting to assemblers a set of assembly instructions which are... |
| 6842750 |
Symbolic simulation driven netlist simplification |
| Jan-11-2005 |
The present invention is directed to a simplification method for an arbitrary library. In aspects of the present invention, the method does not rely on specific properties of the library elements and has... |
| 6842741 |
Recording medium with electronic ticket definitions recorded thereon and electronic ticket processing methods and apparatuses |
| Jan-11-2005 |
An electronic ticket comprises a ticket ID 233, an issuer ID 237, right information 239 of the electronic ticket, and issue, transfer and redeem conditions 240, 241 and 242, the entire block of these pieces... |
| 6842730 |
Method and system for information extraction |
| Jan-11-2005 |
A method and a system for extracting information from a natural language text corpus based on a natural language query are disclosed. In the method the natural language text corpus is analyzed with respect... |
| 6839730 |
Method and system for efficiently matching events with subscribers in a content-based publish-subscribe system |
| Jan-4-2005 |
A method is provided for efficiently solving the matching problem in content-based publish-subscribe systems. Subscribers may define arbitrary boolean predicates as conditions to subscribe to the published... |
| 6839724 |
Metamodel-based metadata change management |
| Jan-4-2005 |
A framework is provided for management of models. Management of data models or other types of models includes model change comparison and change implementation. For example, in the context of data warehouse... |
| 6839719 |
Systems and methods for representing and editing multi-dimensional data |
| Jan-4-2005 |
Systems and methods for representing, editing, and operating on multi-dimensional data efficiently, compactly, and in real-time with an intuitive graphical user interface without requiring extensive user... |
| 6839701 |
Hitmask for querying hierarchically related content entities |
| Jan-4-2005 |
A web-based system, method and program product are provided for searching a content object (e.g., a custom compilation or prepublished work) stored in a data repository as a group of hierarchically related... |
