| 6823333 |
System, method and apparatus for conducting a keyterm search |
| Nov-23-2004 |
A keyterm search is a method of searching a database for subsets of the database that are relevant to an input query. First, a number of relational models of subsets of a database are provided. A query... |
| 6823337 |
One writer, multiple readers, shared data table concurrent access |
| Nov-23-2004 |
A one writer, multiple readers, shared data table concurrent access process includes providing a plurality of data elements. The data elements include a serialization mechanism. A second data element is... |
| 6823335 |
Information search apparatus and method, and storage medium |
| Nov-23-2004 |
An information search apparatus includes query condition input means for inputting a query condition, storage means for storing a plurality of image data which undergo a search, first similarity calculation... |
| 6823330 |
Site home navigation control |
| Nov-23-2004 |
A method is provided for locating and navigating to the site home of a network site in an information network such as the Internet, an Intranet, or the like from a site page within the network site. In... |
| 6823334 |
Metadata system for managing data mining environments |
| Nov-23-2004 |
Managing a data mining environment, the data mining environment having a data mining tool and a data mining model. Embodiments include registering in a data set control table registered data sets, the... |
| 6823331 |
Concept identification system and method for use in reducing and/or representing text content of an electronic document |
| Nov-23-2004 |
A concept identification system useful in reducing and/or representing text content of an electronic document and in highlighting the content of the document. A concept knowledge base comprises a plurality... |
| 6823332 |
Information storage and retrieval device |
| Nov-23-2004 |
A method of providing directed search for a web site address identified via a media channel and a method for creating a directed search database of web sites identified via a media channel. A preferred... |
| 6820092 |
Map information providing system and map information searching method |
| Nov-16-2004 |
A map information providing system for providing map data to a terminal device via a data transmission path, includes: a first server, the first server including a first storage unit for storing map data;... |
| 6820089 |
Method and system for simplifying the use of data mining in domain-specific analytic applications by packaging predefined data mining models |
| Nov-16-2004 |
Development of domain-specific analytic applications having predefined data mining models, including identifying a business problem to be solved; selecting a data mining algorithm appropriate for solving... |
| 6820090 |
Method for generating quantiles from data streams |
| Nov-16-2004 |
In a method for acquiring statistical information from data, an initial cumulative distribution function (CDF) that characterizes an initial set of data is acquired. The acquisition of this CDF comprises... |
| 6820075 |
Document-centric system with auto-completion |
| Nov-16-2004 |
An information space is created using a document. Entities from the document and its information space are used to create a database of entities. An auto-completion system uses contextual information surrounding... |
| 6820084 |
Method and system for pushing information to a client an information processing system |
| Nov-16-2004 |
A user-centered push system monitors user activity to build a dynamic model representing probable user interests. The model is used to drive a search for information relevant to these interests. Such information,... |
| 6820082 |
Rule based database security system and method |
| Nov-16-2004 |
A rule-based database security system and method are disclosed. A method for processing requests from a user to perform an action with respect to data stored in an electronic database includes defining... |
| 6820080 |
Dependent object processing for triggers |
| Nov-16-2004 |
Methods, systems and articles of manufacture are provided for setting a state of triggers between operative and inoperative. In an operative state the trigger may be called during triggering I/O operations... |
| 6820076 |
Database system facilitating parametric searching |
| Nov-16-2004 |
In one aspect of the invention, a computer-implemented database system (10) includes a first table (22a) including rows each corresponding to a keyword and each including an identifier uniquely identifying... |
| 6820079 |
Method and apparatus for retrieving text using document signatures |
| Nov-16-2004 |
A method and apparatus for retrieving similar or identical textual passages among different documents is disclosed. Normal discourse structures along with textual content attributes are used to encode... |
| 6820078 |
Method and system for the automated collection and display of database information via a communications network |
| Nov-16-2004 |
A method and system for gathering end-user data over a network infrastructure using input pages generated from Requestor specifications and for outputting end-user data based on output generated from Requestor... |
| 6820074 |
Null-line based radial interpolation of gridded data |
| Nov-16-2004 |
A method and software are disclosed for processing data values of a data array at equally spaced locations in two dimensions where the desired data values are nulls in the data array. The method and software... |
| 6820073 |
System and method for multiple pass cooperative processing |
| Nov-16-2004 |
A system for collaborative processing, comprising a controlling module with access to at least one relational database capable of performing a first set of functions on the data in the database and at... |
| 6820077 |
Method and system for navigating a large amount of data |
| Nov-16-2004 |
Methods for navigating a large amount of data are disclosed. In one embodiment, the present invention accesses a source of formatted warehoused data. The present invention then displays a grid on a display... |
| 6819797 |
Method and apparatus for classifying and querying temporal and spatial information in video |
| Nov-16-2004 |
A method and apparatus for classifying or annotating image and video content by assigning each class of event, action, region or object a unique symbol and then building symbol strings to represent sequences... |
| 6819339 |
Web browser with multilevel functions |
| Nov-16-2004 |
A architecture is provided to enable a client web browser to conduct and manage a multilevel search. The browser includes an application layer interface. The application layer interface is for coupling... |
| 6816879 |
System and method for serving pre-generated presentation views of requested data |
| Nov-9-2004 |
A system and method are provided for generating presentation views of data in advance of a request for, or an operation involving, the data. A trigger initiates the generation of a presentation view after... |
| 6816868 |
Database system |
| Nov-9-2004 |
A database system that accommodates any type of phenomenon or thing, with a simple table structure and an extremely small-scale program. Category identification information of the content to be registered,... |
| 6816867 |
System, method, and user interfaces for mining of genomic data |
| Nov-9-2004 |
A data mining tool is described that includes a data structure populator that stores one or more first sets of data selected for querying into a first data structure. The tool also has a query builder... |
| 6816864 |
System and method for handling set structured data through a computer network |
| Nov-9-2004 |
A system and method for handling set structured data through a computer network is disclosed. A client computer sends a request to retrieve or set data maintained by a Web application server. The client... |
| 6816854 |
Method and apparatus for database query decomposition |
| Nov-9-2004 |
An improved system for database query processing by means of "query decomposition" intercepts database queries prior to processing by a database management system ("DBMS"). The system decomposes at least... |
| 6816853 |
Method and system for efficiently evaluating a query against partitioned data |
| Nov-9-2004 |
A method and mechanism to execute a query against a partitioned database object. Data processed or created for an earlier partition is maintained even after further processing is performed against a subsequent... |
| 6816852 |
Information processing method, device and program conduct |
| Nov-9-2004 |
Information processing method, device and program product capable of retrieving image data suitable for certain image data as a color scheme by a simple operation, in which (1) a piece of image data is... |
| 6813620 |
Binary search engine and method |
| Nov-2-2004 |
A network device including a memory, a queue management unit, a memory management unit, and a search switching unit. The memory includes a plurality of memory banks. The queue management unit is configured... |
| 6813617 |
Dynamic generation of optimizer hints |
| Nov-2-2004 |
A fine-grained access control mechanism uses policy functions that are associated with a database object (e.g. table and view). The policy functions are invoked, when, for example, a database server detects... |
| 6813616 |
System and method for building a semantic network capable of identifying word patterns in text |
| Nov-2-2004 |
A semantic network is disclosed herein that is useful for identifying word patterns in text. The semantic network may be used to identify word patterns accurately and substantially in real time. The semantic... |
| 6813618 |
System and method for acquisition of related graphical material in a digital graphics album |
| Nov-2-2004 |
Reference material in a digital graphics album is specified. Annotation data is extracted from the reference material and may be processed by a natural language processor to produce search keywords. In... |
| 6813395 |
Image searching method and image processing method |
| Nov-2-2004 |
The image searching method extracts or recognizes specific information for an image that exists in the image and/or accompanies it, allows either the specific information itself or related information... |
| 6810516 |
Mechanism allowing separation of graphical display of object status from underlying data |
| Oct-26-2004 |
A system that isolates all of the information that determines the look and feel of status displays of a GUI into one file is described. This file can be quickly edited to change the appearance when needed.... |
| 6810462 |
Storage system and method using interface control devices of different types |
| Oct-26-2004 |
A storage has NAS and SAN functions and a high degree of freedom to configure a system to reduce the management and operation cost. The storage includes a plurality of interface slots in which a plurality... |
| 6810402 |
Method and computer program product for color coding search results |
| Oct-26-2004 |
Colors are associated with source locators such as URLs that identify sources found by a search, in order to enable a searcher to see at a glance how closely the search results match keywords that convey... |
| 6810399 |
Property extensions |
| Oct-26-2004 |
The present invention relates to a repository which stores properties of database objects. The repository includes a first store for storing a number of predetermined properties, and a second store for... |
| 6810394 |
Methods and apparatus for searching for and identifying information of interest to users |
| Oct-26-2004 |
An information system. The system provides a user interface for selecting subject matter of interest to a user as well as various components for retrieving information items, for classifying information... |
| 6810393 |
Information processing apparatus and method, and storage medium |
| Oct-26-2004 |
A search condition is accepted (S803), a search module which matches that search condition is generated (S809), and a database is searched for data (S810, S811, S812). The database search results by the... |
| 6810375 |
Method for segmentation of text |
| Oct-26-2004 |
A computerized method, and a corresponding apparatus, for segmentation of a stream of text elements comprising analyzed tokens into one or more initial clauses is disclosed. In the method, a predetermined... |
| 6807576 |
Method and system for determining and graphically representing frame classification rule relationships |
| Oct-19-2004 |
A method and system for graphically representing relationships between a plurality of filter rules in a computer system is disclosed. The computer system includes a display. Each of the plurality of filter... |
| 6807538 |
Passenger entertainment system, method and article of manufacture employing object oriented system software |
| Oct-19-2004 |
A passenger entertainment system operates using system software to provide services including audio and video on-demand, information dissemination, product and service order processing, and video teleconferencing... |
| 6807546 |
Database system with methodology for distributing query optimization effort over large search spaces |
| Oct-19-2004 |
In a database system, a method for optimization of a query is described. When a query is received which requests data from a database, a plurality of plans which can be used for obtaining data requested... |
| 6807545 |
Method and system for retrieving documents via an electronic data file |
| Oct-19-2004 |
A method for retrieving documents via an electronic data file, characterized in that keys are used for the retrieval which find one or several relations between the textual data of the documents concerned. |
| 6807539 |
Method and system for retrieving search results from multiple disparate databases |
| Oct-19-2004 |
The present invention generally relates to a method and system for retrieving search results. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and system for retrieving search results concurrently... |
| 6804714 |
Multidimensional repositories for problem discovery and capacity planning of database applications |
| Oct-12-2004 |
A distributed decision support system is described for use in the area of problem discovery and capacity planning for database applications. The use of data navigation, particularly drill down, roll up,... |
| 6804688 |
Detecting and tracking new events/classes of documents in a data base |
| Oct-12-2004 |
Detecting and tracking of new events/classes of documents are disclosed. A method for detecting new events and/or classes of documents and tracking evolution thereof in a database, said new events and/or... |
| 6804684 |
Method for associating semantic information with multiple images in an image database environment |
| Oct-12-2004 |
A method of generating captions or semantic labels for an acquired image is based upon similarity between the acquired image and one or more stored images that are maintained in an image database environment,... |
| 6804675 |
Online content provider system and method |
| Oct-12-2004 |
An intelligent data content provider system and method permits users to access both community content as well as customized content that they compile based on their own preferences. The system monitors... |
