| 7010535 |
Binary search engine and method |
| Mar-7-2006 |
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... |
| 7010527 |
Linguistically aware link analysis method and system |
| Mar-7-2006 |
A method and system for determining relevance rankings for pages identified in a search query is provided. In response to the search query, an information retrieval system identifies candidate pages/documents... |
| 7010523 |
System and method for online analytical processing |
| Mar-7-2006 |
A system and method for analyzing data is described, in which an application programming interface (API) is provided to permit an online analytical processing (OLAP) application to manipulate data and... |
| 7010524 |
Validating multiple execution plans for database queries |
| Mar-7-2006 |
Validation of large numbers of alternative execution plans for a database query, either an exhaustive enumeration of the complete space of alternatives, or else an unbiased random sample, is performed... |
| 7010525 |
Method and system for ensuring system awareness with data base connection on demand |
| Mar-7-2006 |
A method and system for establishing a situation for use in an event-driven application receives one or more events, and queries an external database for obtaining auxiliary data defining relevant external... |
| 7010521 |
Optimized database appliance |
| Mar-7-2006 |
A system from processing database queries allows for cost and locale based distribution for execution of database queries. The database queries are executed on execution engines that provide flexible configuration... |
| 7010519 |
Method and system for expanding document retrieval information |
| Mar-7-2006 |
An apparatus for expanding a character string. The character string that is entered to search includes a character string dividing device to divide the entered character string into partial character strings.... |
| 7010518 |
System and method for user defined data object hierarchy |
| Mar-7-2006 |
The invention provides a configuration tool to allow a user to build a custom-selected data object hierarchy, for business intelligence or other purposes. Under conventional data storage technologies,... |
| 7010522 |
Method of performing approximate substring indexing |
| Mar-7-2006 |
Approximate substring indexing is accomplished by decomposing each string in a database into overlapping "positional q-grams", sequences of a predetermined length q, and containing information regarding... |
| 7010520 |
Method and system for searching documents with numbers |
| Mar-7-2006 |
A system and method for using numbers to query a corpus of documents, particularly but not exclusively for data spaces that have low reflectivity, i.e., for a point xi described by one or more... |
| 7010516 |
Method and system for rowcount estimation with multi-column statistics and histograms |
| Mar-7-2006 |
The invention provides methods for optimizing a database management system process of a query. The methods are suitable for execution in a properly configured computer system. In an embodiment of the invention,... |
| 7010144 |
Associating data with images in imaging systems |
| Mar-7-2006 |
A steganographic embedder associates data with an image by encoding the data, a link to the data, or a combination of both into the image. The embedder may be located in an image capture device or an external... |
| 7008134 |
Disc management system |
| Mar-7-2006 |
An optical storage media management system and process for storing and organizing a relatively large collection of optical discs in the form of a display binder with a plurality of display sheets including... |
| 7007239 |
Method and apparatus for accessing a contacts database and telephone services |
| Feb-28-2006 |
Sophisticated computer-enhanced mobile telephones require intuitive user interfaces in order to allow a user to take advantage of all the available features. The present invention discloses an intuitive... |
| 7007228 |
Encoding geographic coordinates in a fuzzy geographic address |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A system and method for searching, accessing, retrieving, representing and browsing geographic or location related information from the Web (i.e.: HTML documents that describe physical places), including... |
| 7007037 |
Opaque types |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A method and apparatus are provided for handling within a database system data items that are associated with data types whose native structure is not known to the database system. The data items are stored... |
| 7007040 |
Method and apparatus for storing and updating information in a multi-cast system |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A method and apparatus for storing and updating information in a multicast system is represented by a tree data structure. The method and apparatus defines and populates a set of keys for each node in... |
| 7007038 |
Defect management database for managing manufacturing quality information |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A manufacturing quality information database structure is useful for tracking quality information relating to a manufacturing process. Accurate tracking of symptoms, defects, and actions (repairs) is achieved... |
| 7007026 |
System for controlling access to and generation of localized application values |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A system and method for controlling generation of and access to localized application values to applications. The system includes an administrative interface linked to a running application and to a communications... |
| 7007019 |
Vector index preparing method, similar vector searching method, and apparatuses for the methods |
| Feb-28-2006 |
In the present invention, a similar vector is searched from a several hundreds dimensional vector database at a high speed, by a single vector index, and in accordance with either measure of an inner product... |
| 7007015 |
Prioritized merging for full-text index on relational store |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A full-text search index system and method is generated by creating instances of a database index from an in-memory inverted list of keywords associated with a text identifier and the occurrences of the... |
| 7007016 |
Support for concurrent active SQL statements having shared SQL context information |
| Feb-28-2006 |
An SQL database management system for executing SQL requests from applications. The SQL database management system includes a hierarchical arrangement of data structures comprising packages, section entries,... |
| 7007014 |
Canonicalization of terms in a keyword-based presentation system |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A presentation system accepts presentations or references to presentations from prospective presenters, some or all of which are stored in a database and referenced by keywords such that presentations... |
| 7007008 |
Category searching |
| Feb-28-2006 |
Performing a category search to identify categories of web sites that relate to a search term includes receiving at least one search term that then is compared with a hierarchy of category identifiers,... |
| 7007013 |
Fast computation of spatial queries in location-based services |
| Feb-28-2006 |
This invention provides methods, systems and apparatus for performing fast computation of metric queries. To achieve this, in an example embodiment, the present invention segments metric regions into disjoint... |
| 7007007 |
Test generator for database management systems providing tight joins |
| Feb-28-2006 |
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... |
| 7007012 |
Process for searching for files when drive configurations of processing apparatuses are changed |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A music piece managing unit judges whether or not a music piece file name corresponding to a music piece ID received from a playing processing unit exists in a corresponding music piece file storing unit,... |
| 7007009 |
Representation for data used in query optimization |
| Feb-28-2006 |
Optimizers must work with numeric data from a variety of sources including column statistics, estimated filter factors, record counts estimated costs and the like. Embodiments provided herein define and... |
| 7007010 |
System and method for proximity searching position information using a proximity parameter |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A computer implemented proximity searcher searches position field information (representing geographical positions) stored in database records, to identify database positions falling within a predetermined... |
| 7007011 |
Method for representing the vertical component of road geometry and computing grade or slope |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A geographic database represents roads including an altitudinal component of the geometry of the roads. The altitudinal component of the geometry of roads is represented using data that indicate straight... |
| 7006689 |
Image search system and image search method thereof |
| Feb-28-2006 |
An image search system for determining a similarity of an image whose feature are represented by either one of image features amounts, a color distribution features or a frequency distribution features,... |
| 7003719 |
System, method, and software for inserting hyperlinks into documents |
| Feb-21-2006 |
On the Internet, millions of documents are electronically linked via embedded hyperlinks. The hyperlinks, which function as network addresses for specific documents, can be selected by a user to "jump"... |
| 7003730 |
Graphical user interface to build event-based dynamic searches or queries using event profiles |
| Feb-21-2006 |
The present invention generally provides methods, systems and articles of manufacture for programmatically providing a user interface for creating queries. In one embodiment, the graphical user interface... |
| 7003529 |
System for adaptively identifying data for storage |
| Feb-21-2006 |
The invention is directed to a system for adaptively identifying data to be stored in a document-processing system that includes an identification processor programmed for identifying the existence of... |
| 7003517 |
Web-based system and method for archiving and searching participant-based internet text sources for customer lead data |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A text mining system for collecting business intelligence about a client, as well as for identifying prospective customers of the client, for use in a lead generation system accessible by the client via... |
| 7003523 |
Configurable software system for automatically storing computer files |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A configurable software system for automatically storing and indexing computer files. Information about the usage characteristics of a computer file are compared against a second set of data, for example,... |
| 7003520 |
Information search apparatus and method, and computer readable memory |
| Feb-21-2006 |
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... |
| 7003516 |
Text representation and method |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A computer method for representing a natural-language document in a vector form suitable for text manipulation operations is disclosed. The method involves determining (a) for each of a plurality of terms... |
| 7003512 |
System and method for multiple pass cooperative processing |
| Feb-21-2006 |
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... |
| 7003518 |
Multimedia searching method using histogram |
| Feb-21-2006 |
Disclosed is a multimedia searching method and apparatus that can achieve a high performance and provide a interoperability by defining a histogram using uniformly quantized bin values as a standard histogram,... |
| 7003519 |
Method of thematic classification of documents, themetic classification module, and search engine incorporating such a module |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A method of thematically classifying documents, in particular for making up or updating thematic databases (42) for a search engine, includes the steps of selecting documents representative of each... |
| 7003510 |
Table module compiler equivalent to ROM |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A method of constructing a circuit for a Boolean function includes receiving as input a Boolean function of a number n of input variables wherein the number n of input variables may be varied over a range;... |
| 7003511 |
Mining and characterization of data |
| Feb-21-2006 |
Method and system for identifying and characterizing publications containing a specified search-phrase, using number of, and relative frequency of, occurrences of the search-phrase (and, optionally, of... |
| 7003505 |
Information retrieving apparatus and method therefor, and memory medium storing program therefor |
| Feb-21-2006 |
In an information retrieval apparatus for retrieving, from a database, information of a predetermined number in the descending order to degree of matching with the entered retrieving condition, in displaying... |
| 7000089 |
Address assignment to transaction for serialization |
| Feb-14-2006 |
The assignment of an address to a transaction for serialization purposes is disclosed. A simulated address is assigned to a transaction of a first type. The simulated address may be determined by selecting... |
| 7000007 |
System and method for internet broadcast searching |
| Feb-14-2006 |
An Internet Broadcast Search Paradigm (IBSP) is disclosed, which causes a search for information on the world wide web to be distributed to all website computers on a network. The IBSP three basic embodiments:... |
| 6999974 |
Method and system for improving a text search |
| Feb-14-2006 |
A method and system for improving text searching is disclosed. The method and system provides a network of document relationship and utilizes the network of document relationships to identify the region... |
| 6999971 |
Apparatus and method for parametric group processing |
| Feb-14-2006 |
A method of parametric group processing includes forming a parametric index from an indexed database. A first parametric group and a second parametric group corresponding to elements in the parametric... |
| 6999967 |
Semantically reducing the number of partitions involved in a join |
| Feb-14-2006 |
A method, computer program and system for joining two tables, t1 and t2 are described. Each table contains rows and columns and is divided into one or more partitions. A correlation... |
| 6999962 |
Shared document repository with coupled recommender system |
| Feb-14-2006 |
A web-based shared document repository includes recommender system functions to allow users of the repository to input reviews of documents contained in the repository and to read inputted reviews. The... |
