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7617177 Methods and systems for providing benchmark information under controlled access  
An electronic data structure comprises benchmark information and an authorizing section for access to said benchmark information. A method processes and stores data objects by means of one or more...
7617262 Systems and methods for monitoring application data in a data replication system  
Performing data management operations on replicated data in a computer network. Log entries are generated for data management operations of an application executing on a source system. Consistency...
7617193 Interactive user-controlled relevance ranking retrieved information in an information search system  
The present invention presents an apparatus and system for providing an ability to conduct a secondary search using results provided by a first search capability. This secondary search is...
7617247 Apparatus and method for controlling user interface  
The user describes in advance conflict process rules, which indicate descriptions for avoiding conflicts that occur between setup data, in a conflict process rule description file (301). An...
7617180 Efficient lock management  
A current transaction accessing a data object is disclosed. Accessing could include determining that previous transaction information about a previous transaction is associated with the data...
7617205 Estimating confidence for query revision models  
An information retrieval system includes a query revision architecture that integrates multiple different query revisers, each implementing one or more query revision strategies. A revision server...
7617188 System and method for audio hot spotting  
Audio hot spotting is accomplished by specifying query criterion to include a non-lexical audio cue. The non-lexical audio cue can be, e.g., speech rate, laughter, applause, vocal effort, speaker...
7617184 Scalable hierarchical data-driven navigation system and method for information retrieval  
A data-driven, hierarchical information navigation system and method enable search of sets of documents or other materials by certain common attributes that characterize the materials. The...
7617213 Method and apparatus for facilitating optimistic authorization in a database  
A method, computer-readable storage medium, and an apparatus are provided to facilitate authorizing a user during a database transaction. The method starts by receiving a request at the database to...
7617179 System and methodology for cost-based subquery optimization using a left-deep tree join enumeration algorithm  
A system providing methodology for cost-based enumeration of subqueries using a left-deep tree join enumeration algorithm is described. In one embodiment, for example, in a database system, a...
7617250 Semantic file system  
A data model represents semantic information associated with objects stored in a file system. The data model includes a first object identifier, a second object identifier and a relation...
7617235 Method and system for creating a domain index  
A domain index for a partitioned database can be created using a user-defined indexing scheme. Partition maintenance operations performed on the partitioned database objects cause corresponding...
7617196 Context-sensitive term expansion with multiple levels of expansion  
Methods, articles of manufacture, and systems for searching collections of data using context sensitive expanded term searching are provided. The collection of data may be a relational database,...
7617211 System and method for automatically synchronizing security-relevant information between a relational database and a multidimensional database  
A security management system and method for managing access security in an IT-environment comprises a relational database of the ROLAP type and a data warehouse of the MOLAP type. The system shares...
7617229 Management and use of data in a computer-generated document  
Methods and systems provide for breaking a computer-generated document into a number of components where the components have explicit relationships with each other. A relationship representation is...
7617186 System, method and computer program for successive approximation of query results  
A method, system, and computer program for generating successive approximations of the result of a query. The query is applied to successively larger samples of the data to produce successively...
7617260 Data set version counting in a mixed local storage and remote storage environment  
Provided are techniques for storing local versions of a data set. A first number that indicates how many local versions of the data set are to be stored in local storage given an amount of...
7617187 Dataset search using reduced collation set  
A method of searching for objects in a second database using a query from a first database includes receiving a first query from the first database where the first query is generated using a...
7617212 System and method for controlling access to a database  
A database access controlling system controls the access to a database from a database access layer in an application, especially a relational database, with data sets that are being accessed...
7617207 Contact relationship systems and methods  
The invention generally relates to systems and methods for establishing and managing relationships with contacts. The contact relationship systems generally include databases for storing profile...
7617257 System for persistent caching of LDAP metadata in a cluster LDAP server topology  
Systems and methods for providing consistent metadata in a cluster database system are disclosed. Each node contains a number of LDAP server instances, as well as a monitor process. Each node...
7617200 Displaying context-sensitive ranked search results  
Methods and apparatus assessing, ranking, organizing, and presenting search results associated with a user's current work context are disclosed. The system disclosed assesses, ranks, organizes and...
7617265 Indexing method of database management system  
When operating a database management system that consists of a plurality of database servers and enables the database servers to transfer data between them by partitioning a data area into small...
7617249 Method and system of handling document operation requests on documents having large collections with constrained memory  
A method and system of handling document operation requests on documents with large collections and constrained memory is disclosed. In some embodiments, when one or more collection elements of a...
7617204 Conditional navigation through hierarchical lists  
The present invention provides a method and system for conditional navigation through hierarchical lists. Filtering parameters are associated with members in a list, such as a hierarchical list....
7617199 Characterizing context-sensitive search results as non-spam  
Methods and apparatus assessing, ranking, organizing, and presenting search results associated with a user's current work context are disclosed. The system disclosed assesses, ranks, organizes and...
7617263 Method and computer-readable medium for providing an official file repository  
A method and computer-readable medium are provided for storing files in an official file repository. According to the method, a generic interface is exposed that includes a first method for...
7617195 Optimizing the performance of duplicate identification by content  
In accordance with the disclosure, there is provided a method for identifying duplicate documents comprising drafting a first document and creating a near unique representative string based on the...
7617219 Enhanced handling of repeated information in a web form  
A presentation interface for rendering Web form content can include a Web form, a repeated item section, and a collection control section. The Web form can be written in a markup language based...
7617197 Combined title prefix and full-word content searching  
A system for searching an object environment includes harvesting and indexing applications to create a search database and one or more indexes into the database. A scoring application determines...
7617185 Methods and systems for providing a visualization graph  
A visualization graph is provided on a computer by storing data corresponding to a plurality of entities and/or nodes, wherein a semantic net includes the entities and/or nodes and wherein the...
7617215 Method and arrangement for setting up and updating a user interface for accessing information pages in a data network  
The aim of the invention is to establish and update a user interface allowing a user to access data pages in a data network. Said aim is achieved by the fact that selected data pages are made...
7617242 Method and apparatus for reproducing play lists in record media  
A recording and reproducing system includes a DVD-RAM medium having a plurality of data files of storing predetermined data, file recording means of recording, in a play list file held by the...
7617256 Remote file updates through remote protocol  
An improved remote protocol enables efficient and reliable updating of files on a remote server. A gather-copy extension to a remote protocol enables a client to instruct a server to gather...
7617251 Systems and methods for freezing the state of digital assets for litigation purposes  
Systems and methods for managing digital assets in a distributed computing environment are described. Meta-data for the digital assets is stored separately from the digital assets. Meta-data for...
7617194 Supervised ranking of vertices of a directed graph  
A method and system for ranking importance of vertices of a directed graph based on links between the vertices and some prior knowledge of importance of the vertices is provided. A ranking system...
7617182 Document clustering based on entity association rules  
For each document in a document set, entities are identified and a set of association rules, based on appearance of the entities in the paragraphs of the documents in the set, are derived....
7617202 Systems and methods that employ a distributional analysis on a query log to improve search results  
The present invention provides systems and methods that employ a statistical distributional analysis to improve content search engine search results. In particular, a substring and/or a string...
7617239 Modeling of activity data  
An activity class is defined which includes multiple data elements that are common to various activity types. The activity class identifies relationships of an activity with various entities...
7617221 Rendering database queries with blank space  
A computer-implemented method includes selecting a first member of a first dimension of a database to be included at a first location in a report. The first member includes first data to be...
7617191 Search service that accesses and highlights previously accessed local and online available information sources  
Methods, systems and program storage devices for generating search engine search results. Online files relevant to a requested search query are located by a search engine, while simultaneously...
7617183 Method and apparatus for operating a database  
A method of processing a database service query is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a service query, applying principles of logic to the service query to obtain a sum of...
7617192 Method and system for capability content search with mobile computing devices  
A computer system and method for processing a search query directed to a database first inquires of multiple searchlet applications as to whether each respective searchlet is capable of performing...
7617201 System and method for analyzing statistics in a reporting system  
A system and method for monitoring and analyzing statistics regarding informational and transactional data is provided. Data distribution servers provide e-mail and other messages of topical...
7617223 Converting physical aspects of common warehouse model to elements of relational database  
A method and a system for converting physical aspects of a common warehouse model (CWM) to corresponding database management system (DBMS) items in a relational database by processing in a...
7617237 Encoding device, encoding method, decoding device, decoding method, program and machine readable recording medium containing the program  
A device divides a table (60) including element information contained in tree-structure information and position information in a corresponding tree-structure into an element information value (61)...
7617254 Method and mechanism for relational access of recovery logs in a database system  
The present invention is directed to a method and mechanism for accessing recovery log information in a database system. The data stored in the recovery log is presented as a relational database...
7617176 Query-based snippet clustering for search result grouping  
A clustering architecture that dynamically groups the search result documents into clusters labeled by phrases extracted from the search result snippets. Documents related to the same topic usually...
7617233 Method, system, and computer program product for sharing information between hypertext markup language (HTML) forms using a cookie  
The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for automatically sharing information between HTML forms using a cookie. A method in accordance with the present...
7617222 Transferring data and storing metadata across a network  
Data is now able to be transferred back and forth between computer systems which have disparate file systems, e.g., between a computer having a hierarchical file system and a computer having a...