| 6754545 |
Method for systematically assessing the quality of medical appliances that are in operation |
| Jun-22-2004 |
A method for systematically assessing the quality of medical appliances (11, 21, 31, 41) of a generic type that are in operation, in the case of which method data acquired during a regular inspection of... |
| 6751624 |
Method and system for conducting a full text search on a client system by a server system |
| Jun-15-2004 |
A full text search involving an index of a string of characters on a client for use on a server. The client searches for data and file information to share and creates a character string containing the... |
| 6751610 |
System and method for organizing data |
| Jun-15-2004 |
A system and method for organizing raw data from one or more sources. The content of the raw data is converted into an appropriate number system and stored in a format that facilitates the use of efficient... |
| 6748379 |
Graphical representation of disorganized database records in an IMS database |
| Jun-8-2004 |
A method and system for displaying database record organization characteristics of IMS databases. In one embodiment, the method involves receiving information associated with a plurality of database records... |
| 6745186 |
Product and method for organizing and searching digital images |
| Jun-1-2004 |
A computer software product and a method of organizing and searching images. The digital images may be obtained from a plurality of hard copy prints that are digitally scanned. The digital image are analyzed... |
| 6745178 |
Internet based method for facilitating networking among persons with similar interests and for facilitating collaborative searching for information |
| Jun-1-2004 |
A method in a computer network for identifying users with similar interests is described. The method includes accepting a first query statement from a first user and storing a first item of information... |
| 6741988 |
Relational text index creation and searching |
| May-25-2004 |
In an environment where it is desire to perform information extraction over a large quantity of textual data, methods, tools and structures are provided for building a relational text index from the textual... |
| 6738780 |
Autonomous citation indexing and literature browsing using citation context |
| May-18-2004 |
An autonomous citation indexing system which can be used as an assistant agent automates and enhances the task of finding publications in electronic form, including publications located on the world wide... |
| 6738771 |
Data processing method, computer readable recording medium, and data processing device |
| May-18-2004 |
The object of the present invention is to provide a data processing method, a computer readable recording medium, and a data processing device with which it is possible to compactly store and surely and... |
| 6738770 |
System and method for filtering and sorting data |
| May-18-2004 |
System and method for filtering and sorting data. The system includes data management system for displaying a data table having a plurality of rows and columns of data cells. Each of the columns in the... |
| 6738769 |
Sorting multiple-typed data |
| May-18-2004 |
A sorting system and method that sorts records based on multiple fields by converting the fields to a common data type and sorting the common data type fields using a single sorting algorithm whereupon... |
| 6738768 |
System and method for efficient information capture |
| May-18-2004 |
Provided is a system and method for enabling a user to efficiently capture information from a data processing system user interface. A user performs information capture actions such as browsing user interface... |
| 6738767 |
System and method for discovering schematic structure in hypertext documents |
| May-18-2004 |
An underlying schema is discovered for an HTML document or a set of HTML documents, authored in various styles. Prior domain knowledge regarding punctuation, keywords, synonyms and HTML tags is used to... |
| 6738763 |
Information retrieval system having consistent search results across different operating systems and data base management systems |
| May-18-2004 |
An information retrieval system whereby identical search results can be derived irrespective of the kind of DBMS or OS. A keyword normalizing device normalizes a keyword transmitted from a client through... |
| 6738759 |
System and method for performing similarity searching using pointer optimization |
| May-18-2004 |
The present invention is a computer-implemented method for optimizing the detecting and scoring of similarities between documents in a source database and search criteria. It uses a set of hierarchical... |
| 6738758 |
Adaptive bucket indexing mechanism to effectively manage service activation requests |
| May-18-2004 |
A method for decomposing a service activation request (SAR) into sub-requests for specific network resources and classifying the SAR with an adaptive bucket value based on the dynamic performance characteristics... |
| 6735550 |
Feature classification for time series data |
| May-11-2004 |
A processing system uses image processing technology to classify features in time series data. In atmospheric applications, the features can be used to detect outliers and/or failure modes in time series... |
| 6732108 |
Class file archives with reduced data volume |
| May-4-2004 |
A method for packaging program resources includes collecting a set of the program resources that comprises a plurality of object files, which contain data structures having entries that are constants and... |
| 6728792 |
Priority queue with arbitrary queuing criteria |
| Apr-27-2004 |
A method in a computing system (100) includes the steps of enqueuing items in a functional queue prioritized according to sort criteria (132), modifying the sort criteria (132) while the functional queue... |
| 6728728 |
Unified binary model and methodology for knowledge representation and for data and information mining |
| Apr-27-2004 |
A knowledge tool, which includes a binary dataset for representing relationship patterns between objects and methods of its use. The use of the binary representation is based on an algorithm of data clustering... |
| 6725259 |
Ranking search results by reranking the results based on local inter-connectivity |
| Apr-20-2004 |
A search engine for searching a corpus improves the relevancy of the results by refining a standard relevancy score based on the interconnectivity of the initially returned set of documents. The search... |
| 6725228 |
System for managing and organizing stored electronic messages |
| Apr-20-2004 |
A computer-based system catalogs and retrieves electronic messages saved in a message store. The system automatically organizes each saved message into multiple folders based on the contents and attributes... |
| 6725214 |
Apparatus and method to support management of uniform resource locators and/or contents of database servers |
| Apr-20-2004 |
Methods and Systems for finding a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that points to a most updated authoritative source of information contained in database systems, including crawling websites to determine... |
| 6721759 |
Techniques for spatial representation of data and browsing based on similarity |
| Apr-13-2004 |
The present invention provides improved techniques for spatial representation of data and browsing based on similarity. For example, improved techniques for spatial representation of image data and browsing... |
| 6721748 |
Online content provider system and method |
| Apr-13-2004 |
An intelligent data content provider system and method for subscriber postings and queries are monitored and evaluated to determine what types of content to retrieve, how to organize such content, and... |
| 6718326 |
Packet classification search device and method |
| Apr-6-2004 |
A packet classification search device and method are implemented which are capable of searching rules of packet classification having very long search bit width at high speed while using a CAM which has... |
| 6714934 |
Method and system for creating vertical search engines |
| Mar-30-2004 |
A vortal is a specific type of search engine that provides information and resources related only to one (or a small number) specific topic. These sites typically contain focused information, such as "vertical"... |
| 6711588 |
File management method for file system |
| Mar-23-2004 |
Disclosed is a file management method for a file system that has a storage device to save data blocks and a main memory of computer, the storage device and the main memory being provided with a management... |
| 6710791 |
Portable information gathering apparatus and information management method |
| Mar-23-2004 |
A portable information gathering apparatus and information managing method in the same make it possible to capture information entered through an input/display tablet, image information entered through... |
| 6708214 |
Hypermedia identifier input mode for a mobile communication device |
| Mar-16-2004 |
A mobile communication device operable to allow a user to access hypermedia content via a wireless link is configured to allow a user to more easily input hypermedia identifiers, such as Uniform Resource... |
| 6708184 |
Method and apparatus for producing and accessing composite data using a device having a distributed communication controller interface |
| Mar-16-2004 |
An apparatus and method for producing composite data by a server computer with a distributed communication controller interface involves deforming a template creating a mapping relationship between co-registered... |
| 6708169 |
Apparatus and method for generating a merged symbol file for verifying symbolic data |
| Mar-16-2004 |
An apparatus and method for cataloging symbolic data for use in performance analysis of computer programs is provided. The apparatus and method stores symbolic data for loaded modules during or shortly... |
| 6704730 |
Hash file system and method for use in a commonality factoring system |
| Mar-9-2004 |
A system and method for a computer file system that is based and organized upon hashes and/or strings of digits of certain, different, or changing lengths and which is capable of eliminating or screening... |
| 6701314 |
System and method for cataloguing digital information for searching and retrieval |
| Mar-2-2004 |
The system and method for searching and retrieving information stored in heterogeneous information repositories. A portal server retrieves user requests through a computer network and looks up information... |
| 6697793 |
System, method and apparatus for generating phrases from a database |
| Feb-24-2004 |
A phrase generation is a method of generating sequences of terms, such as phrases, that may occur within a database of subsets containing sequences of terms, such as text. A database is provided and a... |
| 6694335 |
Method, computer readable medium, and system for monitoring the state of a collection of resources |
| Feb-17-2004 |
A system and method for synchronizing changes among multiple copies of data is disclosed. The system and method allows the data to be synchronized without any copying or transferring of those portions... |
| 6691149 |
System for distributing music data files between a server and a client and returning the music data files back to the previous locations |
| Feb-10-2004 |
A data communication system for distributing music data files between a server and a client removably connected to the server. The system transfers music data files and corresponding management data from... |
| 6691135 |
Method and system for automated tracing of an agricultural product |
| Feb-10-2004 |
At least one of pre-planting information, planting information, growing information, harvesting information, chemical information, weather information, adjacent crop information, processing information,... |
| 6691097 |
Technique for detecting a shared temporal relationship of valid time data in a relational database management system |
| Feb-10-2004 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for detecting shared temporal relationships in a relational database. In accordance with the present invention, an invocation of a shares operation that... |
| 6687746 |
System apparatus and method for hosting and assigning domain names on a wide area network |
| Feb-3-2004 |
Embodiments of the instant invention are directed to a domain management system, apparatus and method for hosting and assigning domain names. Embodiments of the domain management system comprise a name... |
| 6687705 |
Method and system for merging hierarchies |
| Feb-3-2004 |
A system and method for merging product information from a first hierarchy into a second hierarchy. A Naive Bayes classification model is generated using both text data and attribute (numerical) data pertaining... |
| 6687688 |
System and method for data management |
| Feb-3-2004 |
The present invention provides a data management system that efficiently uses data areas and significantly increases search efficiency. According to this invention, in the data management system coordinate... |
| 6684313 |
Managing storage contention in automated storage systems |
| Jan-27-2004 |
An automated process of assigning storage resources to logical units ("LU's") is informed of contention avoidance, in order to yield reduced contention. LU's are defined and assigned to logical groups.... |
| 6684177 |
Computer implemented scalable, incremental and parallel clustering based on weighted divide and conquer |
| Jan-27-2004 |
A technique that uses a weighted divide and conquer approach for clustering a set S of n data points to find k final centers. The technique comprises 1) partitioning the set S into P disjoint pieces S.sub.1,... |
| 6681224 |
Method and device for sorting data, and a computer product |
| Jan-20-2004 |
The sorting device comprises a distribution monitoring and cell splitting section which analyzes a distribution of a sort target data group consisting sort target data and obtains an appearance frequency... |
| 6678684 |
Worldwide early warning network and method of use |
| Jan-13-2004 |
A method for determining appropriate measures for catastrophic events comprises the steps of programming a computer to continuously scan electronic news media reports for at least one of a selected group... |
| 6675179 |
Recording and/or reproducing apparatus, portable recording and reproducing apparatus, data transfer system, data transfer method, and data recording and reproducing method |
| Jan-6-2004 |
A recording and/or reproducing apparatus for recording and/or reproducing data to and/or from a recording medium having a data area in which data are stored and a management data area in which management... |
| 6675163 |
Full match (FM) search algorithm implementation for a network processor |
| Jan-6-2004 |
Novel data structures, methods and apparatus for finding a full match between a search pattern and a pattern stored in a leaf of the search tree. A key is input, a hash function is performed on the key,... |
| 6671698 |
Method and system for automated tracing of an agricultural product |
| Dec-30-2003 |
A method and system of tracing an agricultural product relates to recording of at least one of planting information, growing information, harvesting information, chemical information, and weather information... |
| 6662152 |
Information retrieval apparatus and information retrieval method |
| Dec-9-2003 |
Character data of a word or phrase in a document is designated. Desired data is retrieved from a predetermined database on the basis of the designated character data. One sentence including at least the... |
