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5761389 Data analyzing method and system  
A data analyzing method and system for generating a rule based on data items in a data base, wherein the rule expresses relational features of the data items. The invention includes a user...
5757925 Secure platform independent cross-platform remote execution computer system and method  
A method of operating a computer system including a client computer with a user input mechanism and a display for displaying a user interface including user interface elements, an application...
5757661 Garment grading system  
A computer system of the invention for grading includes means for automatically generating grading rules from a measurement scale. Advantageously, the system includes a database including one or...
5758031 Rule generating apparatus and method  
A plurality of rule groups are stored in a hard disk (14) in advance, and each group generally includes a plurality of rules. A data file is stored on a floppy disk (16) and includes input- and...
5754737 System for supporting interactive text correction and user guidance features  
A method for interactively correcting text and providing user guidance includes monitoring user input to identify predefined events. In response to identifying predefined events, the predefined...
5751914 Method and system for correlating a plurality of events within a data processing system  
A method and system are disclosed for efficiently correlating a plurality of events within a data processing system to determine an action to be performed. According to the present invention, a...
5737497 Test system with inference circuit  
A rule based processing system that is optimized for implementation in hardware. The system includes a set of logic gates that are used to implement a rule network connected to a working memory...
5737494 Assessment methods and apparatus for an organizational process or system  
Method and apparatus for computer-aided assessment of organizational process or system. Method and apparatus are adapted to display computer displayed questions to an assessor, who then inputs...
5737739 System that accesses a knowledge base by markup language tags  
An expert system, such as could be used for service of a complicated physical device such as a printer or copier, exploits a knowledge base which is written in a markup language format such as...
5734798 Method and apparatus for extracting a gate modeled circuit from a fet modeled circuit  
A method of extracting a gate model from a fet model using a computer implemented expert system apparatus to perform the steps of recognizing power, ground and clock signals; recognizing inverters;...
5732191 Method and apparatus for rule evaluation in a fuzzy inference processor  
In a process an apparatus for operating a fuzzy inference processor in which it is verified, in sequence for each input variable, whether the conditions of a number of rules are fulfilled, and in...
5727127 Method for controlling a primary industry plant of the processing industry  
A method for controlling a primary industry plant of the processing industry, for example, in a steel plant or a rolling mill in order to, for instance, produce strips of steel or non-ferrous...
5724486 Method for structuring an expert system utilizing one or more polynomial processors  
Polynomial processors learn expert system rules, for either business or real-time applications, to improve the robustness and speed of execution of the expert system. One or more polynomial...
5721810 Method of automatically controlling and verifying telecommands in satellite control system  
A method of automatically controlling and verifying telecommands in a satellite control system in which a satellite status analyzing/processing unit and a telecommand producing/executing unit are...
5720006 Expert system inference circuit  
A rule based processing system that is optimized for implementation in hardware. The system includes a set of logic gates that are used to implement a rule network connected to a working memory...
5720009 Method of rule execution in an expert system using equivalence classes to group database objects  
A pattern match method is the primary component of any rule-based inference engine or database search method. Equivalence class projection is used in a discrimination match network, such that only...
5720033 Security platform and method using object oriented rules for computer-based systems using UNIX-line operating systems  
A security platform, for stand-alone or networked processors using UNIX or similar operating systems, limits access to system resources, including software and hardware, by personnel using the...
5719692 Rule induction on large noisy data sets  
Efficient techniques for inducing rules used in classifying data items on a noisy data set. The prior-art IREP technique, which produces a set of classification rules by inducing each rule and then...
5715373 Method and apparatus for preparing a suite of test scripts for testing a proposed network management application  
A method and system for preparing a suite of test scripts for testing a proposed network management application. The proposed network management application, termed a subsystem control facility...
5701400 Method and apparatus for applying if-then-else rules to data sets in a relational data base and generating from the results of application of said rules a database of diagnostics linked to said data sets to aid executive analysis of financial data  
A system for applying artificial intelligence technology to data stored in databases and generates diagnostics that are user definable interpretations of information in the database. The...
5644770 Coupling rules to an object-oriented program  
A method of coupling rules to a data domain of an object-oriented computer program. During run time, the coupling permits the computer to use rules to directly access user-defined objects for both...
5642471 Production rule filter mechanism and inference engine for expert systems  
A mechanism for filtering production rules which express conditions to be satisfied, identifies during successive inference cycles rules whose conditions are satisfied for deduced facts. The...
5619621 Diagnostic expert system for hierarchically decomposed knowledge domains  
A forward chaining expert system is disclosed for use in analyzing categorization problems such as in diagnosing device malfunctions. The expert system is particularly useful in diagnosing...
5586025 Rule-based electronic agent system and method thereof  
Rules registered in the electronic secretary system are defined by separating each of them into a trigger descriptor part, a condition part for object data retrieval, and an action part, and a flag...
5581664 Case-based reasoning system  
A case-based reasoning system which is smoothly integrated into a rule-based reasoning system, thus coordinating case-based reasoning techniques and rule-based reasoning techniques in a unified...
5487134 Real-time rule based processing system  
A rule based processing system that is optimized for implementation in hardware. The system includes a set of logic gates that are used to implement a rule network connected to a working memory...
5450527 Method for converting an existing expert system into one utilizing one or more neural networks  
A technique for converting an existing expert system into one incorporating one or more neural networks includes the steps of separating the knowledge base and inference engine of the existing...
5446830 Efficient nonmonotonic reasoning apparatus and methods  
The use of nonmonotonic or "common sense" reasoning has often been advocated to speed up reasoning systems. The difficulty has always been that nonmonotonic reasoning requires consistency checks,...
5422980 Inference processing method and apparatus  
A storage area for holding instantiation is provided together with a work area in order to rapidly generate a conflict set. When a condition of a rule is met, the instantiation of the rule is...
5408587 Expert system with a frame explanation system  
An explanation system for use in an expert system is described. The rule base used in the inference engine of the expert system is divided into groups of rules called rule classes. With each rule...
5377354 Method and system for sorting and prioritizing electronic mail messages  
A method and apparatus for prioritizing a plurality of incoming electronic mail messages for a user uses a user created and modified rules-control (12) which is stored in a rules-store (12)....
5317677 Matching technique for context sensitive rule application  
A knowledge-based system (10) which combines case-based reasoning, heuristic search and deductive rule application. The resulting inference engine is sensitive to the context of problem solving....
5301260 Inference processor using data consistency holder  
Disclosed is an inference processor having a compiler-type rule processor and an interpreter-type rule processor. The compiler-type rule processor includes a rule file for storing user-defined...
5276775 System and method for building knowledge-based applications  
A method and system (10) associates a deductive reasoning system having a forward deductive reasoning portion (13), a backward deductive reasoning portion (15), and a frame template portion (18)...
5261086 Performance analyzing and diagnosing system for computer systems  
A performance analyzing and diagnosing system enables a user with little knowledge or experience to evaluate the performance of a computer system. An external memory stores know-how rules and...
5259066 Associative program control  
Methods and an arrangement providing improved expert system performance. A mathematically based method is used in building a rule base that guarantees a complete and consistent rule set, providing...
5251268 Integrated method and apparatus for character and symbol recognition  
An apparatus and method for recognizing written items including characters and symbols is disclosed. A scanner is utilized for scanning the characters and symbols. A recognition module is used to...
5247447 Exception processor system  
An exception processing system for use in conjunction with manufacturing facilities, and automated manufacturing cells in particular is provided. The exception processor is adapted to receive...
5228116 Knowledge base management system  
An inference engine in a knowledge base system may be invoked by an application program (e.g., a COBOL program), by arranging to detect, in the program, instructions whose syntax complies with the...
5218669 VLSI hardware implemented rule-based expert system apparatus and method  
The hardware-implemented rule-based expert system of this invention is suitable for performing high speed inferencing in artificial intelligence (AI) applications, and is characterized by being...
5204939 Rule base processing system and rule evaluation control method therein  
A rule base processing system for processing rules with an inference engine is provided with a control block and a number of knowledge source blocks containing the rules. The control block contains...
5197115 Inferential system and inferential method  
An inferential method is disclosed, where fact information and a time tag assigned thereto are matched and stored. A rule group is stored. A pattern match of the fact information and the rule group...
5191638 Fuzzy-boolean multi-stage inference apparatus  
An inference conducted by use of fuzzy knowledge can be directly written in inference rules. It is possible to use ambiguous language expressions and freely describe flexible knowledge, although...
5179632 Fast method for a bidirectional inference  
In an inference method using a rule, a rule condition part network and rule consequence part network are generated, an integral network of both the networks is used for inference. With this...
5165011 System for switching a rule group  
A system is disclosed for switching a selected one out of a plurality of rule groups to an inference device which operates on applied input data using the selected rule group. A starting rule group...
5136523 System for automatically and transparently mapping rules and objects from a stable storage database management system within a forward chaining or backward chaining inference cycle  
A system for mapping rules and objects from a database system during an inference cycle includes a database system a knowledge request translator, and an inference system. The database system...
5129043 Performance improvement tool for rule based expert systems  
A monitoring system monitors an expert system application while such application executes for a period of time. The monitoring system records selected performance data relative to the operating...
5119318 Expert control system for real time management of automated factory equipment  
An expert control system for the real time management of an automated factor is disclosed. Variables within rule base trees of the expert control system are preferably restricted to taking on only...
5119470 Computer based inference engine device and method thereof for integrating backward chaining and forward chaining reasoning  
An inference engine device adapted for use in a computer-controlled expert system, the computer-controlled expert system having a computer and a knowledge base of objects and rules, the objects...
5051923 Knowledge inferential processing apparatus  
A knowledge inferential processing apparatus comprises an external interface section for inputting and outputting information between the knowledge inferential processing apparatus and the exterior...