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7584173 Edit distance string search  
A process determines for a search string which, if any, of the strings in a text list have edit distance from the search string less than a threshold. The process uses dynamic programming on a grid...
7584185 Page re-ranking system and re-ranking program to improve search result  
A page re-ranking system includes a super page producing part that produces a super page where page contents are combined between multiple versions for each of multiple Web pages that can be...
7584210 Method and apparatus for creation and maintenance of database structure  
The invention provides a method for configuring a database system to store information regarding a plurality of items, the method comprising: establishing a database on a computer system;...
7584188 System and method for searching and matching data having ideogrammatic content  
A method of searching and matching non-phonetic or ideogrammatic input data to stored data, including the steps of receiving input data comprising a search string having a plurality of elements,...
7584177 Determination of a desired repository  
A system receives a search query from a user and searches a group of repositories, based on the search query, to identify, for each of the repositories, a set of search results. The system also...
7584100 Method and system for clustering using generalized sentence patterns  
A method and system for clustering documents based on generalized sentence patterns of the topics of the documents is provided. A generalized sentence patterns (“GSP”) system identifies a...
7584217 Photo image retrieval system and program  
A photo image retrieval system stores photo images and a text data, and extracts and displays any photo image using an input retrieval sentence as an index. A photo image database records photo...
7584251 E-mail messaging system and method for enhanced rich media delivery  
A multi-user e-mail messaging system is described that is interfaced through the Internet and includes a first user group sharing a first server, which first server is interfaced to the Internet....
7584172 Control for selecting data query and visual configuration  
Searches in data repositories are facilitated by a control displayed in a computer user interface. The control is capable of presenting a plurality of search options that a user can select for...
7584175 Phrase-based generation of document descriptions  
An information retrieval system uses phrases to index, retrieve, organize and describe documents. Phrases are identified that predict the presence of other phrases in documents. Documents are the...
7583793 Message notification instant messaging  
Methods, apparatus and systems for message notification in instant messaging are provided in which a message in an instant messaging session is received at a client application. The content of the...
7584079 Method of configuring a product  
A complex product is composed of several parts, where each part may depend on the other. As a consequence of these inter-dependencies, the selection of one part might exclude other parts from being...
7584174 Update dependency control for multi-master replication  
The invention proposes a directory server system having a master server and a non-master server, each server being capable of storing directory server data comprising updates. The master server is...
7584178 Query condition building using predefined query objects  
A method, system and article of manufacture for query processing and, more particularly, for managing execution of a query against data in a database. One embodiment comprises receiving a query...
7584179 Method of document searching  
A method of searching is performed by providing a term for use in searching of information. The term is useful in determining documents relating to the term. In response to the provided term,...
7584176 Methods and apparatuses to cancel query  
Methods and apparatuses to cancel database queries from a web application user interface in a networked database application. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a user request to...
7584192 Collection and analysis of document traffic in an electronic marketplace  
Systems and techniques to generate statistical reports on transactions conducted via an electronic marketplace are based on data extracted from the transaction documents. In general, in one...
7581237 Method and apparatus for generating television program recommendations based on prior queries  
A method and apparatus are disclosed that generate television program recommendations based on queries that have previously been performed by a user on an electronic program guide. A conventional...
7580929 Phrase-based personalization of searches in an information retrieval system  
An information retrieval system uses phrases to index, retrieve, organize and describe documents. Phrases are identified that predict the presence of other phrases in documents. Documents are the...
7580923 Binding for multi-part identifiers  
Methods and computer-readable media for binding a query containing one or more multi-part identifiers in a database. An attempt is made to bind a multi-part identifier that has at least one part to...
7580942 Indexing and ranking processes for directory assistance services  
A computer-implemented method is disclosed for providing a directory assistance service. The method includes generating an indexing file that is a representation of information associated with a...
7580924 Method and system for collection, analysis, and display of semiconductor manufacturing information  
A server system for receiving and processing manufacturing data from a plurality of semi-conductor manufacturers is disclosed. The server system includes: a file capture module for receiving the...
7580949 Query conditions on related model entities  
Embodiments of the invention provide methods, systems and articles of manufacture for constructing a database abstraction model over an underlying physical database. Typically, queries of the...
7580829 Apparatus and method for reordering of multiple language databases for text disambiguation  
The invention provides a process for selecting and ordering one or more sets of linguistic objects. The invention orders a current list of items for selection that comprises a first list of one or...
7581168 Method, system, and computer-readable medium for determining whether to reproduce chart images calculated from a workbook  
A method, system, and computer-readable medium are provided for determining whether to reproduce a chart image from the contents of a spreadsheet application workbook on a server. A calculation...
7580920 System and method for graceful degradation of a database query  
A method to achieve acceptable query performance even when a database query optimizer chooses an inefficient query plan due to poor cardinality (row count) estimation includes generating a batch...
7580919 Query interface to policy server  
An exemplary scalable access filter that is used together with others like it in a virtual private network to control access by users at clients in the network to information resources provided by...
7580945 Look-ahead document ranking system  
A method and system is provided for calculating importance of documents based on transition probabilities from a source document to a target document based on looking ahead to information content...
7580925 Efficient storage and search of word lists and other text  
A computer readable storage medium tangibly embodying machine-readable digital data arranged to facilitate expedited searching. The data includes a plurality of words residing in a table having...
7580955 Information processing apparatus, system and method, and recording medium  
An information processing apparatus for providing content data to terminal units includes a content data storage unit, a communication unit, an input information storage unit, an analysis unit, and...
7580926 Method and apparatus for representing text using search engine, document collection, and hierarchal taxonomy  
Embodiments of a data representation system for describing specific data sets, such as documents, web pages, or search engine queries, based on data tokens, such as words or n-grams, contained in a...
7580922 Methods for relating data in healthcare databases  
Methods, systems and computer program products for relating facts stored in healthcare databases are provided. At least two fact tables stored in a healthcare database including data meeting a...
7580921 Phrase identification in an information retrieval system  
An information retrieval system uses phrases to index, retrieve, organize and describe documents. Phrases are identified that predict the presence of other phrases in documents. Documents are the...
7577671 Using attribute inheritance to identify crawl paths  
A system and method for identifying crawl paths of a web cruise operation, where each crawl path represents successive uniform resource locator (URL) nodes in a parent/child relationship. One or...
7577642 Techniques of XML query optimization over static and dynamic heterogeneous XML containers  
A method and apparatus for optimizing XML queries over heterogeneous XML tables is provided. A query that targets a container (e.g. table or collection) that contains a plurality of XML documents...
7577668 Information transmission system and information transmission method  
A high reliability information transmission system which can continue transmission upon at the occurrence of multiple failures. The system includes two transmission lines and transmission terminals...
7577921 Method and system for performing search using acronym  
Techniques for facilitating efficient local search using acronym are disclosed. According to one aspect of the techniques, a graphic user interface is provided to accept inputs from a user; letters...
7577650 Method and system for ranking objects of different object types  
A method and system for ranking objects of different object types based on their popularity is provided. A ranking system calculates the popularity of objects based on relationships between the...
7577718 Adaptive dissemination of personalized and contextually relevant information  
An information dissemination system identifies the interests of a user from information derived from various sources, such as, by way of example, the user's calendar entries, emails, World Wide Web...
7577641 Computer-implemented system and method for analyzing search queries  
Systems and methods for handling input search engine data. A data store is searched based upon one or more data items contained within the input search engine data. The result of searching the data...
7577670 Method and apparatus for inferring address and subnet relationships  
Methods and systems are disclosed for inferring address and subnet relationships. An exemplary method includes identifying a first address associated with a subnet; determining a length of a prefix...
7577676 Interactive broadcast or input method and system  
The invention is generally but not exclusively concerned with problems associated with production of interactive television, particularly an interactive televised auction, where input must be...
7577655 Systems and methods for improving the ranking of news articles  
A system ranks results. The system may receive a list of links. The system may identify a source with which each of the links is associated and rank the list of links based at least in part on a...
7577665 User characteristic influenced search results  
Improved mobile content presentation capabilities are disclosed for mobile communications facilities, such as cell phones. Information relating to the user characteristics associated with a mobile...
7577636 Network-extensible reconfigurable media appliance  
Extensible reconfigurable media appliance for security and entertainment captures images digitally for storage. Digital effects and filters are applied to incoming video stream on-the-fly or to...
7577644 Augmented search with error detection and replacement  
In an example embodiment, the present invention provides methods and logic for enhancing augmented search, including contextual search, conducted by a search engine. In some instances, a contextual...
7577643 Key phrase extraction from query logs  
A method, media and data structure for extraction of key-phrase-content pairs are provided. Query logs having user queries and corresponding web results are processed to generate a content-to-key...
7577651 System and method for providing temporal search results in response to a search query  
In certain implementations, a system and/or method is provided for providing search results in response to a search query. In this implementation a temporal profile of the search query is built...
7577647 Combining nested aggregators  
A method and system for transforming a query tree that includes more than one aggregator. The method includes identifying a first aggregator in the query tree, identifying a second aggregator that...
7577640 Highly available, highly scalable multi-source logical database with low latency  
A database architecture providing high availability and scalability is provided. According to embodiments of the present invention, multiple data sources are supported by multiple source databases....