| 6182070 |
System and method for discovering predictive association rules |
| Jan-30-2001 |
A system and method for determining the significance of association rules which are mined from a dataset is provided. Predictive association rules may also be generated based on the significance of an... |
| 6182067 |
Methods and systems for knowledge management |
| Jan-30-2001 |
Methods for knowledge management which may be performed within a data processing system. In one method, documents held in a database are displayed. Usage information relating to each document in the database... |
| 6182060 |
Method and apparatus for storing, retrieving, and processing multi-dimensional customer-oriented data sets |
| Jan-30-2001 |
Method and apparatus for storing, retrieving, and processing customer-oriented data sets in which relatively large sets of customers and their transactions or the like may be quickly and efficiently analyzed.... |
| 6181807 |
Methods and related apparatus for fingerprint indexing and searching |
| Jan-30-2001 |
A method for indexing and searching a plurality of reference fingerprints to determine if a sample fingerprint matches one of the reference fingerprints includes the steps of: determining respective index... |
| 6181678 |
Binary-tree data element sorting device and ATM spacer comprising such a device |
| Jan-30-2001 |
In order to sort data elements each including a sort key, storage means are organized according to a binary tree of 2.sup.n -1 nodes which are each able to contain an element and are distributed in n successive... |
| 6178414 |
Method and apparatus for updating and searching an ordered list of values stored within a memory resource |
| Jan-23-2001 |
A method of inserting a target element into an ordered list of elements stored at respective locations in a memory resource, and on which a binary search may be conducted, is described. The ordered list... |
| 6173285 |
Information processing apparatus with bookmark function |
| Jan-9-2001 |
An information processing apparatus with a bookmark function includes a memory, a display section, and a CPU for placing a bookmark in data, which are stored in the memory in a plurality of modes, respectively,... |
| 6173281 |
Method and computer program product for processing and combining data sets including bitmaps |
| Jan-9-2001 |
A method and computer program product are provided for processing and combining data sets including bitmaps in a computer system. A plurality of initial data subsets to be combined are processed and data... |
| 6167393 |
Heterogeneous record search apparatus and method |
| Dec-26-2000 |
A method and apparatus disclosed may be implemented in a digital computer to query a set of arbitrarily structured records. Arbitrarily structured records are structured differently from each other. A... |
| 6154740 |
System and method for displaying a sorted list by determining sort points in a key field |
| Nov-28-2000 |
A system for, and method of, displaying a sorted list on a display device and a computer incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a sort-point identifier that... |
| 6141658 |
Computer system and method for managing sales information |
| Oct-31-2000 |
A computer system is used for managing product knowledge related to products offered for sale by a selling entity. The computer system includes a memory arrangement with at least one processing unit being... |
| 6138115 |
Method and system for generating a decision-tree classifier in parallel in a multi-processor system |
| Oct-24-2000 |
A method and system are disclosed for generating a decision-tree classifier in parallel in a multi-processor system, from a training set of records. The method comprises the steps of: partitioning the... |
| 6128708 |
Method for testing and mitigating shared memory contention in multi-processor systems |
| Oct-3-2000 |
The method of the present invention provides a procedure for testing shared-memory multi-processor (SMMP) performance by formulating and modifying a given memory contention matrix (MCM), which is generated... |
| 6128628 |
Meta data processing for converting performance data into a generic format |
| Oct-3-2000 |
A system and method for processing performance metric data and converting the data from Universal/Uniform Data Format (UDF) to a form readable by data analysis/reporting tools such as SAS IT Service Vision.... |
| 6128614 |
Method of sorting numbers to obtain maxima/minima values with ordering |
| Oct-3-2000 |
A technique for sorting packed numbers of two operands into minima or maxima operand with their indices to identify the origin of those selected values. After packing two source operands with a plurality... |
| 6128613 |
Method and apparatus for establishing topic word classes based on an entropy cost function to retrieve documents represented by the topic words |
| Oct-3-2000 |
A computer-based method and system for establishing topic words to represent a document, the topic words being suitable for use in document retrieval. The method includes determining document keywords... |
| 6125361 |
Feature diffusion across hyperlinks |
| Sep-26-2000 |
A system and method for ranking wide area computer network (e.g., Web) pages by popularity in response to a query. Further, using a query and the response thereto from a search engine, the system and method... |
| 6119120 |
Computer implemented methods for constructing a compressed data structure from a data string and for using the data structure to find data patterns in the data string |
| Sep-12-2000 |
A method for constructing a data structure for a data string of characters includes producing a matrix of sorted rotations of the data string. This matrix defines an A array which is a sorted list of the... |
| 6119114 |
Method and apparatus for dynamic relevance ranking |
| Sep-12-2000 |
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for implementing dynamic relevance ranking. The method includes the step of registering a profile. A newly received document is dynamically filtered... |
| 6115722 |
Method for checking tablespaces involved in referential integrity |
| Sep-5-2000 |
A recover or reload utility determines if a check utility is to be executed. If a check utility is to be executed, the recover or reload utility records the dependent tablespace names to virtual storage... |
| 6112209 |
Associative database model for electronic-based informational assemblies |
| Aug-29-2000 |
An indexing system and linking method for an assembly of electronic-based informational items stored in and ordered by a plurality of records uniquely identified over a plurality of relational data tables... |
| 6112205 |
Data processing equipment and method for classifying data into classes in accordance with a plurality of thresholds for quantizing data |
| Aug-29-2000 |
Pixel data are sequentially compared in the circuit blocks 41A through 47A, smaller pixel data are supplied to the circuit blocks 51B through 54B, and further, smaller pixel data are supplied to the circuit... |
| 6108658 |
Single pass space efficent system and method for generating approximate quantiles satisfying an apriori user-defined approximation error |
| Aug-22-2000 |
A system and method for finding an .epsilon.-approximate .phi.-quantile data element of a data set with N data elements in a single pass over the data set. The .epsilon.-approximate .phi.-quantile data... |
| 6108653 |
Method and apparatus for fast and comprehensive DBMS analysis |
| Aug-22-2000 |
A fast and comprehensive analysis of a database table is peformed by reading a header block describing the location of blocks storing data information of a database table. The data blocks of the database... |
| 6108650 |
Method and apparatus for an accelerated radius search |
| Aug-22-2000 |
A method and apparatus for performing an accelerated radius search. A search category is built having a density value corresponding to a geographic area. A first search radius is generated based upon the... |
| 6105024 |
System for memory management during run formation for external sorting in database system |
| Aug-15-2000 |
The memory management system is operational in a database system and functions to gracefully transition data from the allocated memory space to run files on disk only as needed. The memory management system... |
| 6105022 |
Structured-text cataloging method, structured-text searching method, and portable medium used in the methods |
| Aug-15-2000 |
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... |
| 6101496 |
Ordered information geocoding method and apparatus |
| Aug-8-2000 |
Ordered information data 22 is combined with prior geocoded data 21 to improve geocoding. The combined records are sorted by precision 33. The two highest precision groups are interpolated to further geocode... |
| 6088705 |
Method and apparatus for loading data into a database in a multiprocessor environment |
| Jul-11-2000 |
This invention provides a method and apparatus for loading data having a predetermined order of data records from a source into a database using parallel processing. Using one or more reading agents, data... |
| 6076082 |
Information filtering method and apparatus for preferentially taking out information having a high necessity |
| Jun-13-2000 |
A user initially judges whether each of pieces of information input as learning information is necessary or unnecessary, matrix elements of an affirmative metric signal indicating the records of the necessary... |
| 6073135 |
Connectivity server for locating linkage information between Web pages |
| Jun-6-2000 |
A server computer is provided for representing and navigating the connectivity of Web pages. The Web pages include links to other Web pages. The links and Web page s have associated names (URLs). The names... |
| 6073131 |
Method and system for sorting a plurality of groups of records in a data processing system |
| Jun-6-2000 |
The present invention provides a method and system for sorting a plurality of groups of records in a data processing system. The method and system comprises providing a main address space and a plurality... |
| 6070163 |
Computerized handbook of processes |
| May-30-2000 |
A computer system for displaying representations of processes, including models of complex business transactions in an information management system. The system includes a memory for storing the representations... |
| 6067354 |
Method and system for processing data records from a telephone data repository to a receiving system |
| May-23-2000 |
The present invention provides a method and system for processing data records from a telephone data repository to a receiving system having a message queue and a response queue. The method for processing... |
| 6065007 |
Computer method, apparatus and programmed medium for approximating large databases and improving search efficiency |
| May-16-2000 |
A novel and unique method, apparatus and programmed storage medium for approximating large data distributions of a database in order to allow a user to accurately analyze the entire data distribution using... |
| 6065006 |
DVD system for seamless transfer between titles on a DVD disc which minimizes memory consumption |
| May-16-2000 |
The set up information associated with at least some of a DVD disc's titles are stored in a DVD player's local memory. Items are chosen for storage based upon the likelihood that a title will be played.... |
| 6065005 |
Data sorting |
| May-16-2000 |
A method is described for operating a data processing system having a plurality of processors to sort a set of data records each having an associated key for governing the sort process. The method comprises... |
| 6061682 |
Method and apparatus for mining association rules having item constraints |
| May-9-2000 |
A method for discovering association rules in a database that employs item constraints for extracting desired data relationships from a data base, thereby reducing the execution time of the rule discovery... |
| 6061679 |
Creating and searching a data structure ordered by ranges of key masks associated with the data structure |
| May-9-2000 |
A data structure, which includes a plurality of sub-data structures, is created. The sub-data structures are ordered based on ranges of key masks associated with the sub-data structures. In particular,... |
| 6058405 |
SIMD computation of rank based filters for M.times.N grids |
| May-2-2000 |
One way of filtering graphics images to remove pixel dropout and shot noise while preserving overall image quality is to use non-linear filters based on rank order of an M.times.N grid of pixel values... |
| 6058398 |
Method for automatically linking index data with image data in a search system |
| May-2-2000 |
A method for automatically linking index data with image data is disclosed. A first recording medium has both an index data base and first link data recorded thereon, and a second recording medium has... |
| 6058392 |
Method for the organizational indexing, storage, and retrieval of data according to data pattern signatures |
| May-2-2000 |
A computer control program directs a method whereby a computer reads a data entry record group from a data stream, wherein the data entry record group comprises one or more data entry records containing... |
| 6055533 |
Software system utilizing a filtered priority queue and method of operation |
| Apr-25-2000 |
A software system (2) utilizing a filtered priority queue (10) is provided. A filtering module (4) is operable to access a plurality of data records of entities (16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26 and 28) of a-priority... |
| 6052765 |
Method for optimized placement of virtual volumes on a physical cartridge |
| Apr-18-2000 |
The present invention provides a method for selectively storing data files on a multiple volume cartridge (MVC) device which maximizes the likelihood of gaps in stored data appearing at the end of a cartridge.... |
| 6052683 |
Address lookup in packet data communication networks |
| Apr-18-2000 |
An apparatus for performing an address lookup to find a longest matching prefix for an N-bit input address in a packet data communication system that includes a memory (e.g. RAM) for storing a table containing... |
| 6041330 |
System and method for generating year 2000 test cases |
| Mar-21-2000 |
An innovative rule based method and system for creating test cases for the Year 2000 compliance testing of software systems is described. Using the method and system of the present invention, the user... |
| 6038569 |
System for data structure loading with concurrent image copy |
| Mar-14-2000 |
Data is loaded to a data structure while an image copy of the data structure is concurrently formed. After data records are obtained from one or more data sources, each of the data records is associated... |
| 6035296 |
Sorting method, sort processing device and data processing apparatus |
| Mar-7-2000 |
A controller of a data processing device is comprised of a multiprocessing control unit, an input-data processing control unit, and an output-data processing control unit so as to effect multiprocessing... |
| 6035295 |
Computer system and method of data analysis |
| Mar-7-2000 |
A neural network based data comparison system compares data stored within a database against each other to determine duplicative, fraudulent, defective and/or irregular data. The system includes a database... |
| 6026406 |
Batch processing of updates to indexes |
| Feb-15-2000 |
A method and apparatus for batch processing of updates to indexes is provided. A plurality of index update records are generated that identify a plurality of index update operations to be made to an index.... |
