| 6839713 |
System and software for database structure in semiconductor manufacturing and method thereof |
| Jan-4-2005 |
The functionality of various process control and data collection system embodiments may be improved by employing the database methodology disclosed herein during the requirements-analysis phase for data... |
| 6839703 |
Information apparatus, table retrieval apparatus, table retrieval method, and recording medium |
| Jan-4-2005 |
A retrieval key to be used for the retrieval of a table is divided into a plurality of divided retrieval keys consisted of a plurality of bit strings. Each divided retrieval key is provided with a corresponding... |
| 6839704 |
Information storage, retrieval and delivery system and method operable with a computer network |
| Jan-4-2005 |
A system and method for collecting, indexing, searching, accessing and downloading data over local and global computer networks. Data is reposed in a central database, indexed and interrelated by attributes... |
| 6839702 |
Systems and methods for highlighting search results |
| Jan-4-2005 |
A system highlights search terms in documents distributed over a network. The system generates a search query that includes a search term and, in response to the search query, receives a list of one or... |
| 6836801 |
System and method for tracking the use of a web tool by a web user by using broken image tracking |
| Dec-28-2004 |
The present invention provides a web tool usage tracking method and system. One embodiment generally involves providing to a web user access to a web tool. In providing the web tool, one or more web page... |
| 6836776 |
System and method for managing hierarchical objects |
| Dec-28-2004 |
A system and method for storing hierarchical objects. The system stores a list of hierarchies as a single object. The object includes all information relating to a particular data element. The data element... |
| 6836769 |
Client-server multitasking |
| Dec-28-2004 |
A client-server multitasking process comprising: receiving a request comprising searching criteria, comprising search queries, at least two of which comprise different query values directed to different... |
| 6836780 |
Method and system for accessing data in legacy applications |
| Dec-28-2004 |
A method and apparatus is presented for mapping legacy application data. The mapping process consists of trail recording, mapping, and template creation. In the trail recording phase, user interaction... |
| 6836781 |
Method for streamlined representation of roads in a geographic database |
| Dec-28-2004 |
A method of representing a road network in a geographic database that facilitates determining routes between locations along the road network. In the geographic database, the road network is represented... |
| 6836771 |
Method and apparatus for storing sparse and dense subtrees in a longest prefix match lookup table |
| Dec-28-2004 |
We present a lookup table which allows sparse subtree descriptors and dense subtree descriptors to be stored in the same memory. A subtree entry in the memory stores a dense subtree descriptor for a dense... |
| 6836772 |
Key word deriving device, key word deriving method, and storage medium containing key word deriving program |
| Dec-28-2004 |
The present invention produces class-specific key words from a document set. In particular, an importance of a word is defined to take into account the number of documents in a corresponding class. A class... |
| 6836770 |
Method for transforming SQL queries |
| Dec-28-2004 |
A computer-implemented method for transforming an SQL query having a WHERE clause having nested SELECT expressions. The expression in the WHERE clause being transformed by the iterative application of... |
| 6836768 |
Method and apparatus for improved information representation |
| Dec-28-2004 |
A information search and navigation system indexes, categorizes and condenses data from text or other documents. In various embodiments, the invention further can utilize user information goals, document... |
| 6834288 |
Content-based similarity retrieval system for image data |
| Dec-21-2004 |
An image retrieval system for retrieving image similarities from a database is proposed. The image retrieval system uses a universal query mechanism (UQM) to locate statistically silent common features... |
| 6834280 |
Systems and methods for determining semiotic similarity between queries and database entries |
| Dec-21-2004 |
A semiotic analysis system, computer readable medium and method are described. The system has a computer and a searchable database in communication with the computer. The database has a piece of media,... |
| 6834279 |
Method and system for inclusion hash joins and exclusion hash joins in relational databases |
| Dec-21-2004 |
A method, system and apparatus for performing an inclusion hash join and an exclusion hash join using a hash join are provided. The inner and outer tables are transposed to left and right tables, respectively.... |
| 6834277 |
Normalized transaction processing for search engine |
| Dec-21-2004 |
An apparatus and method for transaction processing for a search transaction is disclosed. Search queries from users are received by an intermediate computing device. Each search query includes a user address... |
| 6832350 |
Organizing and categorizing hypertext document bookmarks by mutual affinity based on predetermined affinity criteria |
| Dec-14-2004 |
An apparatus, program product, and method utilize a "bookmark affinity" to facilitate organizing by mutual affinity stored storage location addresses, or "bookmarks," each for a given hypertext document.... |
| 6832238 |
Local transaction management |
| Dec-14-2004 |
The present invention defines a transaction management contract between an application server and a resource adapter and its underlying resource manager that allows an application server to utilize local... |
| 6832221 |
Filing system and method for avoiding filing of identical document data |
| Dec-14-2004 |
A file system includes a processing device that processes first data with at least one of a copying function to read image data of an original document and record the read image data on a sheet, a transmitting... |
| 6832217 |
Information inquiry support apparatus, information inquiry support method, information distribution apparatus, and information distribution method |
| Dec-14-2004 |
An information inquiry support apparatus including means for creating a profile, that is, an evaluation table about each one of plural key words expressing the information content, relating to the user's... |
| 6832217 |
Information inquiry support apparatus, information inquiry support method, information distribution apparatus, and information distribution method |
| Dec-14-2004 |
An information inquiry support apparatus including means for creating a profile, that is, an evaluation table about each one of plural key words expressing the information content, relating to the user's... |
| 6832218 |
System and method for associating search results |
| Dec-14-2004 |
A method for associating search results is provided. According to the method, an original list of search results is provided to a first user in response to a first query, and the search results selected... |
| 6832220 |
Method and apparatus for file searching, accessing file identifiers from reference page |
| Dec-14-2004 |
Given a destination(s) and search criteria, the destination(s) is searched to identify files that satisfy the search criteria. For each such file, a file identifier (such a uniform resource locator (URL))... |
| 6832222 |
Technique for ensuring authorized access to the content of dynamic web pages stored in a system cache |
| Dec-14-2004 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for processing a request that requires the dynamic generation of a web page. In accordance with the present invention, a request to generate a dynamic web... |
| 6832219 |
Method and system for storing and querying of markup based documents in a relational database |
| Dec-14-2004 |
An apparatus, article of manufacture and computer-based markup serialization method is provided for transferring data contained in a markup based document, such as an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document,... |
| 6831663 |
System and process for automatically explaining probabilistic predictions |
| Dec-14-2004 |
The system and method of the present invention automatically assigns "scores" to the predictor/variable value pairs of a conventional probabilistic model to measure the relative impact or influence of... |
| 6829668 |
System for finding data related to an example datum on two electronic devices |
| Dec-7-2004 |
A system and method for finding items related to an example item or a set of example items in a low processing power device with limited storage are provided. The system comprises relationship agents,... |
| 6829616 |
Method, system, and program for implementing a database trigger |
| Dec-7-2004 |
Provided is a method, system, and program for implementing a database trigger. Upon detecting a trigger event, a determination is made of at least one row in a base table affected by the trigger event.... |
| 6829610 |
Scalable storage system supporting multi-level query resolution |
| Dec-7-2004 |
A massively scalable architecture for providing a highly reliable storage system that is capable of handling hundreds of millions of users and tens of billions of files. The system includes one or more... |
| 6829605 |
Method and apparatus for deriving logical relations from linguistic relations with multiple relevance ranking strategies for information retrieval |
| Dec-7-2004 |
A method and apparatus are provided for improving the precision of information retrieval systems that use logical form searching techniques. Under one embodiment of the invention, several logical form... |
| 6829602 |
System and method for using a compressed trie to estimate like predicates |
| Dec-7-2004 |
A compressed trie has nodes including multiple character sub-strings. Such multiple character storage reduces the number of nodes in the trie, thereby reducing the amount of memory required for storing... |
| 6829599 |
System and method for improving answer relevance in meta-search engines |
| Dec-7-2004 |
A user of a meta-search engine submits a query formulated with operators defining relationships between keywords. Information sources are selected for interrogation by the user or by the meta-search engine.... |
| 6829600 |
Merge delete statement for database operations |
| Dec-7-2004 |
Conditional functionality is provided for database merge operations. A merge operation, for merging data from a source to a destination, involves performing a default operation for each source record.... |
| 6826753 |
Managing parallel execution of work granules according to their affinity |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A method and apparatus are provided for managing work granules being executed in parallel. A task is evenly divided between a number of work granules. The number of work granules falls between a threshold... |
| 6826745 |
System and method for smart scripting call centers and configuration thereof |
| Nov-30-2004 |
The invention provides user configurable and reconfigurable scripting, methods of scripting, and systems for scripting for use by call centers, technical support centers, and marketers. Scripts are interactive... |
| 6826572 |
System and method allowing advertisers to manage search listings in a pay for placement search system using grouping |
| Nov-30-2004 |
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... |
| 6826574 |
Automatic profiler |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A method and system for generating and utilizing a profile of a user of a computer-based information handling system is disclosed. The information handling system is searched by a profiler for files stored... |
| 6826567 |
Registration method and search method for structured documents |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A registration/search method for structured documents where correspondence data is prepared between a fixed-length-string and a string occurrence position within a structured document for all fixed-length-strings... |
| 6826559 |
Hybrid category mapping for on-line query tool |
| Nov-30-2004 |
Disclosed is a system for performing online data queries. The system for performing online data queries is a distributed computer system with a plurality of server nodes each fully redundant and capable... |
| 6826563 |
Supporting bitmap indexes on primary B+tree like structures |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A method for building bitmap indexes on a primary B+tree used for storing data in the database that has a mapping table associated with it. The bitmap index is built by using the mapping table row identifiers. |
| 6826561 |
Method and apparatus for performing a binary search on an expanded tree |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A method and apparatus for searching an electronically stored table of information including a plurality of table entries and facilitating high speed searching of a table to provide a longest matching... |
| 6826557 |
Method and apparatus for characterizing and retrieving query results |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A system and method used to characterize query results and retrieve the query results based on the characterization. An informational resource is queried and query results are received. The filter arguments,... |
| 6826556 |
Techniques for deploying analytic models in a parallel |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for performing data mining applications in a relational database management system. A relational database management system, executed by the computer, manages... |
| 6826560 |
Subscription and notification with database technology |
| Nov-30-2004 |
The present invention teaches in general how to efficiently exploit active database technology and extensible database technology, i.e. triggers and user-defined functions for processing subscriptions.... |
| 6826558 |
Test generator for database management systems providing tight joins |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A test generator produces a set of database query-language statements comprised of randomly chosen elements for testing one or more database management systems on arbitrary databases. The statements are... |
| 6826543 |
System and method for matching an offer with a quote |
| Nov-30-2004 |
Described is a system and method that satisfies offers from customers with quotes from suppliers in a way that increases the likelihood of achieving an acceptable match. The system of the present invention... |
| 6826296 |
Method and system for providing a probe array chip design database |
| Nov-30-2004 |
Systems and method for organizing information relating to the design of polymer probe array chips including oligonucleotide array chips. A database model is provided which organizes information interrelating... |
| 6823491 |
System and method for a dynamically integrated search engine |
| Nov-23-2004 |
A system and method for dynamically integrating a site specific search engine. In one embodiment, a hidden HTML tag is used on web pages to identify the site specific search engine for the web site. When... |
| 6823342 |
Method and system for capturing, managing, and disseminating manufacturing knowledge |
| Nov-23-2004 |
A independent method for configuring and extracting detailed manufacturing knowledge for fabricating an object, tool or part and storing the data to a data file or data structure. The method includes extracting... |
