| 6304946 |
System and method for optimizing cache write backs to disks |
| Oct-16-2001 |
A system and method for increasing efficiency in a mass storage system such as a RAID (redundant array of inexpensive disks) array with a cache memory. Multi-host mass storage systems employ a data structure... |
| 6298342 |
Electronic database operations for perspective transformations on relational tables using pivot and unpivot columns |
| Oct-2-2001 |
A "pivot" operation rotates the data items in a relational database table so that certain data values in the table become column names of the pivoted table, and the data items of a specified value column... |
| 6295556 |
Method and system for configuring computers to connect to networks using network connection objects |
| Sep-25-2001 |
A method and system for configuring computers to connect to networks using network connection objects. For each connection to a network, configuration information for connecting to that network is maintained... |
| 6292880 |
Alias-free content-indexed object cache |
| Sep-18-2001 |
A method for caching information objects is provided. Information objects are stored in portions of a non-volatile storage device called arenas, which are contiguous regions from which space is allocated... |
| 6289355 |
Fast log apply |
| Sep-11-2001 |
The present invention discloses a technique for restoring a database in a computer. In accordance with the present invention, the database contains objects and is stored on a data storage device connected... |
| 6289342 |
Autonomous citation indexing and literature browsing using citation context |
| Sep-11-2001 |
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... |
| 6289337 |
Method and system for accessing information using keyword clustering and meta-information |
| Sep-11-2001 |
A system for accessing information stored in a distributed information database provides a community of intelligent software agents. Each agent can be built as an extension of a known viewer for a distributed... |
| 6285999 |
Method for node ranking in a linked database |
| Sep-4-2001 |
A method assigns importance ranks to nodes in a linked database, such as any database of documents containing citations, the world wide web or any other hypermedia database. The rank assigned to a document... |
| 6282541 |
Efficient groupby aggregation in tournament tree sort |
| Aug-28-2001 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for a computer implemented groupby aggregation system. Groupby aggregation is performed when a statement is executed in a database stored on a data storage... |
| 6282532 |
Device and method for multidimensional pattern analysis |
| Aug-28-2001 |
The present invention concerns a device and a method for pattern analysis of large volumes of data in order to make it possible to distinguish tendencies to co-variations and developments in time from... |
| 6275822 |
Maintaining very large indexes supporting efficient relational querying |
| Aug-14-2001 |
The merger of a small sort vector with a big sort vector by the use of low limit and high limit pointers which are initialized to point into the big sort vector for each entry in the small sort vector.... |
| 6272491 |
Method and system for mastering locks in a multiple server database system |
| Aug-7-2001 |
A method and apparatus are provided for managing resources in a system that has multiple nodes. Each resource of a plurality of resources is assigned to a lock club of a plurality of lock clubs. A master... |
| 6272486 |
Determining the optimal number of tasks for building a database index |
| Aug-7-2001 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for a computer-implemented building indexes system. Indexes are built for a database that is stored in a data storage device coupled to a computer. An amount... |
| 6271693 |
Multi-function switched-current magnitude sorter |
| Aug-7-2001 |
A signal sorter for magnitude sorting among a number of signals is disclosed that allows for magnitude sorting of a number of signals in an ascending or descending ordered manner governed by the clock... |
| 6266665 |
Indexing and searching across multiple sorted arrays |
| Jul-24-2001 |
Indexing and searching across multiple sorted arrays. In one embodiment, a method. First, for a plurality of arrays, each array having a plurality of elements indexable by a pointer for the array, finding... |
| 6260042 |
Quick difference and update for tree structure data |
| Jul-10-2001 |
Efficient differencing and update mechanisms operate directly on the native representation of the data. No irrelevant differences are introduced by the process. The difference reports generated are stated... |
| 6260038 |
Clustering mixed attribute patterns |
| Jul-10-2001 |
A technique for clustering data points in a data set that is arranged as a matrix having n objects and m attributes. Each categorical attribute of the data set is converted to a 1-of-p representation of... |
| 6260036 |
Scalable parallel algorithm for self-organizing maps with applications to sparse data mining problems |
| Jul-10-2001 |
A method and apparatus for retrieving and organizing data using a self-organizing map in a parallel transaction data base system. With this invention, input records of data are represented as n dimensional... |
| 6256645 |
Storage manager which sets the size of an initial-free area assigned to a requesting application according to statistical data |
| Jul-3-2001 |
A storage manager located between a plurality of requesting applications and a memory shared between the applications, has: a receiving unit for receiving a present memory access request from a first of... |
| 6256622 |
Logical division of files into multiple articles for search and retrieval |
| Jul-3-2001 |
A single file, such as an HTML document, is logically divided into multiple articles that can be individually recognized and ranked by search engines. The segmentation of a document into separate articles... |
| 6256621 |
Database management system and query operation therefor, including processing plural database operation requests based on key range of hash code |
| Jul-3-2001 |
A database management system for executing database operations in parallel by a plurality of nodes and a query processing method are described. The database management system contains a decision management... |
| 6253218 |
Three dimensional data display method utilizing view point tracing and reduced document images |
| Jun-26-2001 |
When the user directs to change the view point within a virtual 3-D coordinate space having thereon displayed reduced images as a list of data by successively inputting a view point moving in an arbitrary... |
| 6253204 |
Restoring broken links utilizing a spider process |
| Jun-26-2001 |
Information links, such as hypertext links, found in network based documents, such as those found on the World Wide Web, sometimes break, i.e. fail to result in retrieval the desired document. Techniques... |
| 6249785 |
Method for predicting ratings |
| Jun-19-2001 |
Predictions are based primarily upon similarities in pairs of ratings, irrespective of the actual value of the ratings. A table is used to translate each pair of ratings into rankings that are used to... |
| 6247009 |
Image processing with searching of image data |
| Jun-12-2001 |
Information indicating image data and the number of times (the number of votes) the image data was found upon search are managed in an image management unit in correspondence with each other in units of... |
| 6243701 |
System and method for sorting character strings containing accented and unaccented characters |
| Jun-5-2001 |
A system and method for sorting accented character strings involves creating an expanded character string containing the characters in their base form (without accents) and corresponding ordinal values... |
| 6240409 |
Method and apparatus for detecting and summarizing document similarity within large document sets |
| May-29-2001 |
A method and apparatus are disclosed for comparing an input or query file to a set of files to detect similarities and formatting the output comparison data are described. An input query file that can... |
| 6240406 |
System and method for optimizing queries with aggregates and collection conversions |
| May-29-2001 |
Systems and methods for optimizing database queries involving aggregates identify instantiations of rules in an internal language representation of the original query, and then applies the rules to those... |
| 6233583 |
Report generator for use within a lotus notes database system |
| May-15-2001 |
A computer program product is provided that facilitates report generation within a Lotus Notes database system by providing a user interface which allows a general user with no knowledge of the database... |
| 6230153 |
Association rule ranker for web site emulation |
| May-8-2001 |
A method and apparatus that allows association rules defining URL-URL relationships, and URL-URL relationships that are strongly influenced by a web site's topology, to be identified and respectively qualified.... |
| 6226632 |
Structured-text cataloging method, structured-text searching method, and portable medium used in the methods |
| May-1-2001 |
A text cataloging method includes a step of cataloging already-analyzed-text data obtained from an analysis of a logical structure of a text to be cataloged in a text database, a step of creating a structure... |
| 6226629 |
Method and apparatus determining and using hash functions and hash values |
| May-1-2001 |
A method and apparatus that determines and uses two nearly uniform independent hash functions. The hash functions are created using only linear arithmetic and 4-byte machine register operations and, thus,... |
| 6219670 |
Method and apparatus for filtering a table list before opening with a graphical user interface |
| Apr-17-2001 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for a filter table list utility. Information is displayed on a monitor attached to a computer. An open database window is displayed in which search criteria... |
| 6219663 |
Method and computer program product for implementing pushdown query in a distributed object management system |
| Apr-17-2001 |
A method and computer program product are provided for implementing pushdown queries in a distributed object management system. A pushdown query to a system datastore is performed for a query type returning... |
| 6205457 |
Ordered ole file structure |
| Mar-20-2001 |
An ordered object linking and embedding (OOLE) file is a valid object linking and embedding (OLE) file whose sectors are placed in a predetermined order. If the OOLE file is an image file, it may be used... |
| 6205442 |
Bitmap index compression |
| Mar-20-2001 |
A method and apparatus for compressing data is provided. The invention compresses an input bit stream into a compressed output bit stream. The input bit streams are byte aligned and classified. Bytes with... |
| 6205441 |
System and method for reducing compile time in a top down rule based system using rule heuristics based upon the predicted resulting data flow |
| Mar-20-2001 |
The present invention applies one or more pruning heuristics to the expression, the binding, and/or the substitute during a database query optimization process. The heuristics identify certain rules that... |
| 6202068 |
Database display and search method |
| Mar-13-2001 |
A method for efficiently and expediently searching a database so that large quantities of data may be visualized to reveal and readily identify underlying patterns and/or obscure, latent relationships... |
| 6202062 |
System, method and article of manufacture for creating a filtered information summary based on multiple profiles of each single user |
| Mar-13-2001 |
An agent based system assists in obtaining information from an article of interest and utilizes the information to take user directed action based on the information from the target article. The system... |
| 6199064 |
Method and apparatus for sorting data blocks |
| Mar-6-2001 |
A method of sorting a block of data is provided which includes ordering a plurality of data values into a source data block. A non-unique sort order, based on a limited number of comparisons of the data... |
| 6195765 |
System and method for testing an application program |
| Feb-27-2001 |
A system (8) for testing an application program (20) includes a normal operating environment (12) within which the application program (20) is intended to execute when not being tested. A shared database... |
| 6195659 |
Method and apparatus for morphological clustering having multiple dilation and erosion of switchable grid data cells |
| Feb-27-2001 |
A technique for automatically identifying clusters of data from a set of data samples, by employing multiple morphological operations of a grid of data cells representative of the data samples. The data... |
| 6195656 |
Bitmap segmentation |
| Feb-27-2001 |
A method and apparatus for segmenting bitmaps in a bitmap index is provided. A segmented bitmap includes a plurality of bitmap segments that are used to indicate which records in a body of records that... |
| 6192150 |
Invariant texture matching method for image retrieval |
| Feb-20-2001 |
A method and apparatus matches texture patterns in a way that is invariant to the intensities, scales, and orientations of the texture patterns. The texture matching apparatus includes a texture feature... |
| 6189005 |
System and method for mining surprising temporal patterns |
| Feb-13-2001 |
A system and method for data mining is provided in which temporal patterns of itemsets in transactions having unexpected support values are identified. A surprising temporal pattern is an itemset whose... |
| 6185555 |
Method and apparatus for data management using an event transition network |
| Feb-6-2001 |
The present invention provides a method and computer program for managing data by storing one or more data records in a database, creating a management plan having one or more states, selecting one or... |
| 6185553 |
System and method for implementing cooperative text searching |
| Feb-6-2001 |
Two or more client users, connected by one or more networks to the server, cooperatively search a database. The server has a data structure that has two or more cooperative user identifiers. Each cooperative... |
| 6185551 |
Web-based electronic mail service apparatus and method using full text and label indexing |
| Feb-6-2001 |
In a computerized distributed mail system, a plurality of client computers are connected to each other via a network. Each client computer is configured to execute client mail application programs. A mail... |
| 6182088 |
File system and file management method |
| Jan-30-2001 |
The present invention relates to a file system using a disc memory storage and a method of managing the file system. Just like the ordinary server, a first block table Tb1 with the offset number of the... |
| 6182071 |
Sorting and summing record data including generated sum record with sort level key |
| Jan-30-2001 |
The data processing apparatus implements high speed sorting and sum processing by detecting coinciding keys and non-coinciding level keys and performs a layered summing using a plurality of sort keys.... |
