| 6931395 |
Method and apparatus for optimizing queries in a logically partitioned computer system |
| Aug-16-2005 |
A database query optimizer for a computer system having dynamically configurable logical partitions generates an optimized query strategy which is dependent on a logical partition configuration. When the... |
| 6931394 |
Law retrieval system, law retrieval apparatus and law retrieval program |
| Aug-16-2005 |
The present invention is a law retrieval apparatus composed of: data storage means including a constitution and statute database and a judicial case database, and including at least one database out of... |
| 6931392 |
Real-time decision support system |
| Aug-16-2005 |
A computer-implemented real-time decision support system including means for receiving complex queries posed by a plurality of users; means for providing for each of the queries an executable query process... |
| 6931391 |
Systems and methods for generating prediction queries |
| Aug-16-2005 |
Systems and methods are provided for generating prediction queries to help a user build and execute prediction queries. A user interface (UI) is provided that is easy to use and understand in connection... |
| 6928487 |
Computer system, method, and business method for automating business-to-business communications |
| Aug-9-2005 |
An apparatus, method, and method for doing business allows two business partners to communicate with each other in an architected manner. A first company monitors for changes to its internal data structure... |
| 6928442 |
Enforcement and policing of licensed content using content-based identifiers |
| Aug-9-2005 |
Data files are distributed across a plurality of computers. The computers may form a network such as a content delivery network (CDN) or a peer-to-peer network. The network may operate as a TCP/IP network... |
| 6928454 |
Method and system for color matching decorative products |
| Aug-9-2005 |
A method of identifying decorative products based on matching with paint colors. The method includes the use of a relational database having data on various decorative product types which are cross-referenced... |
| 6928455 |
Method of and apparatus for controlling access to the internet in a computer system and computer readable medium storing a computer program |
| Aug-9-2005 |
The present invention provides a method of and apparatus for controlling internet browsing and computer readable medium storing a computer program carrying out the method of the present invention. The... |
| 6928438 |
Culturally correct ordering of keyed records |
| Aug-9-2005 |
The invention relates to culturally sensitive sorting of records. The invention provides a method and a computer system for sorting a set of keyed records based on a preferred locale specification having... |
| 6928441 |
Electronic catalogs that provide hierarchical access for buyers of goods and services |
| Aug-9-2005 |
A catalog system for Internet commerce that supports a hierarchy of buyers specified by a customer includes: a general catalog, a buyer attributes database, and a terms and conditions database. A contract... |
| 6928432 |
System and method for indexing electronic text |
| Aug-9-2005 |
A new and useful updating tool is provided for indexing electronic text in a highly integrated electronic text indexing and search system. The integrated system encompasses a concept model, a query model,... |
| 6928433 |
Automatic hierarchical categorization of music by metadata |
| Aug-9-2005 |
A method, performed by software executing on the processor of a portable music playback device, that automatically files tracks according to hierarchical structure of categories to organize tracks in a... |
| 6928425 |
System for propagating enrichment between documents |
| Aug-9-2005 |
A system provides a plurality of controls for enriching the content of a meta-document. A meta-document includes document content and personalities that describe enrichment themes. The system is adapted... |
| 6928431 |
Dynamic end user specific customization of an application's physical data layer through a data repository abstraction layer |
| Aug-9-2005 |
A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for accessing data independent of the particular manner in which the data is physically represented. In one embodiment, a plurality of data repository... |
| 6928430 |
Prefix match search scheme |
| Aug-9-2005 |
A search scheme (10) in which a controller (14) provides a search key (16) to a search engine (18, 36). In one variation, the search engine (18) provides a match address... |
| 6928429 |
Simplifying browser search requests |
| Aug-9-2005 |
A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for searching for information. In response to receiving an input string, the input string is parsed for a universal resource identifier and a search string,... |
| 6928428 |
Distributed confidential contextual querying |
| Aug-9-2005 |
For distributed querying of confidential information, a querying data structure is constructed from the confidential information on the computer at which the confidential information resides. The querying... |
| 6928427 |
Efficient computational techniques for authorization control |
| Aug-9-2005 |
In an authorization system, access is defined by rules, roles and active rules. These definitions are preprocessed to form a bit array for each of a plurality of roles representing the rules that apply... |
| 6928230 |
Associating recordings and auxiliary data |
| Aug-9-2005 |
In order to match up individual recordings in a sequence (150) of recordings with corresponding items in a sequence (151) of separately-stored auxiliary data items concerning those recordings,... |
| 6925646 |
Inheritance of object's properties and out of different application contexts in properties file objects |
| Aug-2-2005 |
Apparatus and methods are provided for accessing and retrieving attribute name value pairs from properties data stores, such as properties files. According to one embodiment, attribute values may be associated... |
| 6925600 |
Information processing apparatus for storing processing hysteresis data, and method therefor |
| Aug-2-2005 |
When an information processing apparatus performs the process, it stores hysteresis data itemizing the process type, the apparatus in charge of processing, the person for instructing the process, the process... |
| 6925472 |
Tree structure to pass data values to prepared statement object |
| Aug-2-2005 |
A method of processing a query in a system in an object oriented programming environment, includes using a code to create a condition filter in a standard query language statement, the condition filter... |
| 6925463 |
Method and system for query processing by combining indexes of multilevel granularity or composition |
| Aug-2-2005 |
A method to process a query for information stored in a relational database using indexes which have different granularity and/or composition is provided. The method involves selecting indexes of various... |
| 6925460 |
Clustering data including those with asymmetric relationships |
| Aug-2-2005 |
The present invention relates to a method, system and computer program product for clustering data points and its application to text summarization, customer profiling for web personalization and product... |
| 6925462 |
Database management system, and query method and query execution program in the database management system |
| Aug-2-2005 |
The present invention relates to an optimization method in a database management system having the function of accessing external databases. Conventionally, whether functions contained in a query can be... |
| 6925461 |
Parallel random proxy usage for large scale web access |
| Aug-2-2005 |
A system and method efficiently and anonymously retrieves large scale Web data through a restricted query interface. A number of proxy servers are utilized to permit parallel access to a target Web server... |
| 6925458 |
System and method for providing an activity schedule of a public person over a network |
| Aug-2-2005 |
A system and method are disclosed for providing timely and efficient scheduled media information of upcoming media activities of public persons to interested individuals over a network, such as the Internet.... |
| 6925459 |
Apparatus and method for hindering multiple http submission requests |
| Aug-2-2005 |
An apparatus and method inhibit multiple submission requests by placing an intermediate web page between the page where the user submits information and the following page. After a preset period of time... |
| 6925433 |
System and method for context-dependent probabilistic modeling of words and documents |
| Aug-2-2005 |
A computer-implemented system and method is disclosed for retrieving documents using context-dependant probabilistic modeling of words and documents. The present invention uses multiple overlapping vectors... |
| 6925389 |
Process for discriminating between biological states based on hidden patterns from biological data |
| Aug-2-2005 |
The invention describes a process for determining a biological state through the discovery and analysis of hidden or non-obvious, discriminatory biological data patterns. The biological data can be from... |
| 6925207 |
Method for fast return of abstracted images from a digital images database |
| Aug-2-2005 |
A method for expediting a search of a digital image database comprises, for each digital image, constructing a set of at least two abstracted images varying in level of detail and searching the abstracted... |
| 6922699 |
System and method for quantitatively representing data objects in vector space |
| Jul-26-2005 |
A system and method for browsing, retrieving, and recommending information from a collection uses multi-modal features of the documents in the collection, as well as an analysis of users' prior browsing... |
| 6922704 |
Method for generating application specific input files |
| Jul-26-2005 |
A method for generating application-specific input files for applications that require input files in varying file formats, where data for specifying industrial equipment are stored in a database of a... |
| 6922691 |
Method and apparatus for digital media management, retrieval, and collaboration |
| Jul-26-2005 |
A system has first and second metadata streams with respect to a video stream, the first metadata stream time-coded with respect to the video stream and the second metadata stream not time-coded with respect... |
| 6922690 |
System and method for creating a datum reference frame |
| Jul-26-2005 |
A system and method for creating a datum reference frame includes selecting a first datum, wherein the first datum comprises a plurality of faces. A first definition for the selected first datum is determined.... |
| 6920505 |
Method and apparatus for determining a navigation path for a visitor to a world wide web site |
| Jul-19-2005 |
A method and apparatus for determining a navigation path for a visitor to a Web site, the determination being based, at least in part, on one or more search terms or keywords supplied by the visitor when... |
| 6920463 |
Product information providing apparatus, product information providing method, and program and recording medium therefor |
| Jul-19-2005 |
A product information providing apparatus is connected to a product information management apparatus having product information management data. The product information providing apparatus is capable of... |
| 6920452 |
Sound pattern feedback for informational events during typing |
| Jul-19-2005 |
A word processing program uses a number of low-key alarm signals or sound patterns to communicate a variety of situations that arise during data input by a user. A personalized program is used to detect... |
| 6920448 |
Domain specific knowledge-based metasearch system and methods of using |
| Jul-19-2005 |
A system and method for performing domain-specific knowledge based metasearches. A metasearch engine is provided for accessing a searching text-based documents using generic search engines while simultaneously... |
| 6920450 |
Retrieving, detecting and identifying major and outlier clusters in a very large database |
| Jul-19-2005 |
The present invention discloses a method, a computer system, a computer readable medium and a sever. The method of the present invention comprises steps of; creating said document matrix from said documents... |
| 6920449 |
Bean generated SQL for back-end management and configuration |
| Jul-19-2005 |
A Configuration Application running on a server that responds to a web client is disclosed. The Configuration Application has a Bean Configuration Utility, a Program Bean and one or more SectionBeans within... |
| 6920447 |
Concurrent data recall in a hierarchical storage environment using plural queues |
| Jul-19-2005 |
A technique for recalling data objects stored on media. A queue is created for each medium on which data objects are located, where each request to recall a data object is placed on the queue corresponding... |
| 6920444 |
Accessing relational database using an object-oriented language |
| Jul-19-2005 |
The present invention provides for a proxy object that aids in returning a set of column names in a relational database. A predetermined method may be called which returns the proxy object, the proxy object... |
| 6920426 |
Information ranking system, information ranking method, and computer-readable recording medium recorded with information ranking program |
| Jul-19-2005 |
An information ranking system and an information ranking method as well as a computer readable recording medium recorded with an information ranking program, capable of ranking information resources on... |
| 6915314 |
System for archiving and retrieving data from a database |
| Jul-5-2005 |
An Administrator Module existing as a layer of software residing on an Originating System's computer. A Server Module existing as a layer of software residing on the Originating System or some other system... |
| 6915295 |
Information searching method of profile information, program, recording medium, and apparatus |
| Jul-5-2005 |
In a candidate data searching step, a plurality of similar candidate data is searched from a profile data group having a peculiar attribute value every different attribute on the basis of an input in which... |
| 6915294 |
Method and apparatus for searching network resources |
| Jul-5-2005 |
The present invention pertains to the field of computer software. More specifically, the present invention relates to populating, indexing, and searching a database of fine-grained web objects or object... |
| 6915293 |
Method and system for nested SQL functions for net.data on workstations |
| Jul-5-2005 |
The present invention provides a system and method for providing nesting Structured Query Language (SQL) functions. The method includes: calling a first SQL function; processing a first result table for... |
| 6915291 |
Object-oriented query execution data structure |
| Jul-5-2005 |
An apparatus, program product and method represent a database query access plan a query execution data structure including a plurality of query node objects arranged into a tree relationship to define... |
| 6915292 |
Method for updating multimedia feature information |
| Jul-5-2005 |
A method for updating multimedia feature information such as weight and reliability is provided. The method according to the present invention first performs a multimedia retrieval based on the previously... |
