| 6856988 |
Automated system and method for generating reasons that a court case is cited |
| Feb-15-2005 |
A computer-automated system and method identify text in a first "citing" court case, near a "citing instance" (in which a second "cited" court case is cited), that indicates the reason(s) for citing (RFC).... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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,... |
| 6847958 |
Method of managing index data in main memory database |
| Jan-25-2005 |
Several methods of processing index data in an index node having a circular-queue type structure for adding, deleting, and searching a value in the index node are disclosed. According to the present invention,... |
| 6847850 |
Process control loop analysis system |
| Jan-25-2005 |
The system and method disclosed herein allow a user to retrieve data from various process control loops and organize that data in dynamic manner to allow for multiple types of data analysis. A user may... |
| 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... |
| 6839879 |
Method and system for time-stamping and managing electronic documents |
| Jan-4-2005 |
A method and system for time-stamping and managing electronic documents are described. A document manager obtains time-stamp certificates for the electronic documents. Document identifiers and associated... |
| 6839723 |
Information management system |
| Jan-4-2005 |
An information management system of the present invention includes an information management apparatus and an information request apparatus. The information management apparatus acquires, each time a state... |
| 6839707 |
Web-based system and method for managing legal information |
| Jan-4-2005 |
The disclosed invention, a Legal Management System (LMS), is a fully integrated web-based interactive database to automate the management process for storing, disseminating and searching information in... |
| 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... |
| 6834122 |
Visualization and processing of multidimensional data using prefiltering and sorting criteria |
| Dec-21-2004 |
Complex multidimensional datasets generated by digital imaging spectroscopy can be organized and analyzed by applying software and computer-based methods comprising sorting algorithms. Combinations of... |
| 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.... |
| 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... |
| 6829734 |
Method for discovering problem resolutions in a free form computer helpdesk data set |
| Dec-7-2004 |
A method and structure for discovering problem resolution in a helpdesk data set of problem tickets is based on using an enumerated set of phrases that have been identified as indicating diagnosis, instruction,... |
| 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,... |
| 6829618 |
Disc layout and optimization process |
| Dec-7-2004 |
A method and apparatus for Disc Layout and Optimization (DLO) receives input such as a list of disc elements, a list of scene links, compiled code files, and still media files. The DLO also obtains information,... |
| 6829608 |
Systems and methods for discovering mutual dependence patterns |
| Dec-7-2004 |
A new form of pattern is provided, referred to as a mutual dependence pattern or m-pattern. The m-pattern captures mutual dependence among a set of items. Intuitively, the m-pattern represents a set of... |
| 6826578 |
Method, system, and computer product for collecting and distributing clinical data for data mining |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A method for collecting and distributing clinical data for data mining. The method comprises selecting a local report for collection, where the local report is a structured reporting object and includes... |
| 6826576 |
Very-large-scale automatic categorizer for web content |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A method and apparatus for efficiently classifying and categorizing data objects such as electronic text, graphics, and audio based documents within very-large-scale hierarchical classification trees is... |
| 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... |
| 6820081 |
System and method for evaluating a structured message store for message redundancy |
| Nov-16-2004 |
A system and method for evaluating a structured message store for message redundancy is described. A header and a message body are extracted from each of a plurality of messages maintained in a structured... |
| 6810426 |
Methods and systems providing fair queuing and priority scheduling to enhance quality of service in a network |
| Oct-26-2004 |
Integrated Bandwidth Latency Scheduler apparatus, method and system (collectively, IBLS) combines Fair Queuing and Priority Schedulers in a single stage to provide bandwidth fairness guarantees as well... |
| 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... |
| 6807558 |
Utilization of information "push" technology |
| Oct-19-2004 |
An apparatus and computer-implemented method for distributing information to a plurality of client devices on a network is disclosed. The computer-implemented method includes the steps of: 1) receiving... |
| 6804671 |
Pluggable tablespaces for database systems |
| Oct-12-2004 |
A pluggable tablespace is enabled by logically partitioning a database into a set of tablespaces and storing all of the tablespaces disk pointers in tablespace-relative format. A pluggable set of tablespaces... |
| 6804670 |
Method for automatically finding frequently asked questions in a helpdesk data set |
| Oct-12-2004 |
A system and method automatically identify candidate helpdesk problem categories that are most amenable to automated solutions. The system generates a dictionary wherein each word in the text data set... |
| 6804664 |
Encoded-data database for fast queries |
| Oct-12-2004 |
A new and efficient way of structuring databases enabling efficient query processing, reduced database storage requirements, and more flexible content targeting is described. A database is defined having... |
| 6801920 |
System for remote management of applications of an industrial control system |
| Oct-5-2004 |
A system for providing remote configuration management for an industrial control system (ICS) over a wide area network (such as the Internet), including keeping track of each application used by each device... |
| 6795817 |
Method and system for improving response time of a query for a partitioned database object |
| Sep-21-2004 |
A method and mechanism to improve the response time of a query that is executed against a partitioned database object. Only a subset or portion of the partitions are accessed during each pass through the... |
| 6789075 |
Method and system for prioritized downloading of embedded web objects |
| Sep-7-2004 |
A method retrieves a web file and sorts one or more information element references according to a priority attribute associated with each reference. After ranking the information element references by... |
| 6785684 |
Apparatus and method for determining clustering factor in a database using block level sampling |
| Aug-31-2004 |
An apparatus and method perform block-level sampling on a database, process the data to generate one or more matrices, and process the one or more matrices to generate a clustering factor for a selected... |
| 6785677 |
Method for execution of query to search strings of characters that match pattern with a target string utilizing bit vector |
| Aug-31-2004 |
The method of the present invention is useful in a computer system including at least one client. The program executes a method for matching a pattern string with a target string, where either string can... |
| 6785669 |
Methods and apparatus for flexible indexing of text for use in similarity searches |
| Aug-31-2004 |
A method of performing a flexible similarity search is provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of: (i) constructing an indexed representation of one or more documents to be used in... |
| 6785666 |
Method and system for parsing navigation information |
| Aug-31-2004 |
A method and system for providing customers with access to and analysis of event data is provided. The event data may be stored in log files and supplemented with data from other sources, such as product... |
| 6778985 |
Implementing descending indexes with a descend function |
| Aug-17-2004 |
A method and apparatus is disclosed for implementing descending indexes in a database management system. A key value to be inserted within an index is decomposed into individual data bytes, such as an... |
| 6778982 |
Online content provider system and method |
| Aug-17-2004 |
An online content system is disclosed for creating, compiling and presenting content to subscribers. A subscriber interface is configured to present search, review and listing operations in a flexible... |
| 6775667 |
Method and system for providing a hardware sort for a large number of items |
| Aug-10-2004 |
A method and system for sorting a number of items in a computer system is described. The sort is based on values of a key. Each item has a value. The method and system include providing stages, providing... |
| 6772179 |
System and method for improving index performance through prefetching |
| Aug-3-2004 |
The present invention provides a prefetch system for use with a cache memory associated with a database employing indices. In one embodiment, the prefetch system includes a search subsystem configured... |
| 6772166 |
SQL-based analytic algorithm for clustering |
| Aug-3-2004 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for performing data mining applications in a relational database management system. An analytic algorithm for clustering is performed by the computer. The... |
| 6772165 |
Electronic document processing system and method for merging source documents on a node-by-node basis to generate a target document |
| Aug-3-2004 |
A target document (25) is generated by merging four source documents (2-5). There are three merge operations, an operation (10) for two source documents (2, 13), an operation (13) for an intermediate target... |
| 6772149 |
System and method for identifying facts and legal discussion in court case law documents |
| Aug-3-2004 |
A computer-implemented method of gathering large quantities of training data from case law documents (especially suitable for use as input to a learning algorithm that is used in a subsequent process of... |
| 6772141 |
Method and apparatus for organizing and using indexes utilizing a search decision table |
| Aug-3-2004 |
A search decision table comprises a plurality of references to indexes, such as full text indexes, where each index corresponds to one or more informational resources. The search decision table has a plurality... |
| 6768997 |
System and method for creating a search query using movable elements in a graphical user interface |
| Jul-27-2004 |
A system and method for creating a Boolean search query. The system includes a field determining object which determines searchable fields of a database. The fields may be arranged as selectable tiles... |
| 6766315 |
Method and apparatus for simultaneously accessing a plurality of dispersed databases |
| Jul-20-2004 |
A method and apparatus for intelligent Internet searching, the apparatus residing as a software application on a user's computer (the client). A single subject database of sources of directly and indirectly... |
| 6763352 |
Incremental maintenance of summary tables with complex grouping expressions |
| Jul-13-2004 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for the incremental maintenance of summary tables with complex grouping expressions where the change (insert/delete/update) of a single row of the base data... |
| 6763349 |
Dynamic taxonomy process for browsing and retrieving information in large heterogeneous data bases |
| Jul-13-2004 |
A process is disclosed for retrieving information in large heterogeneous data bases, wherein information retrieval through visual querying/browsing is supported by dynamic taxonomies; the process comprises... |
| 6763344 |
Method of and system for dynamically controlling access to data records |
| Jul-13-2004 |
A system for controlling access to records stored in a database queries the database to obtain an initial result set of records. The method then applies access rules to the records of the initial result... |
| 6760720 |
Search-on-the-fly/sort-on-the-fly search engine for searching databases |
| Jul-6-2004 |
A Sort-on-the-Fly/Search-on-the-Fly search engine provides an intuitive mechanisms for searching databases, allowing a user to access data in the database without having to know anything about the database... |
| 6754660 |
Arrangement of information for display into a continuum ranging from closely related to distantly related to a reference piece of information |
| Jun-22-2004 |
A method of configuring information for display includes assigning continuum labels to pieces of information, or information units, accessible by a computer system. The continuum labels may be used in... |
