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7376648 Computer-implemented methods and systems for entering and searching for non-Roman-alphabet characters and related search systems  
A computer-implemented method for selecting a desired Roman or non-Roman-alphabet character or objects from a set of non-Roman characters or objects may include steps of providing an association...
7376640 Method and system for searching an information retrieval system according to user-specified location information  
A method and system for searching an information retrieval system for items of interest that are in proximity to geographical locations provided by the user. The information retrieval system can...
7376647 Method for evaluating activity-based costs of a company  
Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide a survey tool for allocating costs of a company. A survey is presented to an employee of the company via a network, for example,...
7376644 Knowledge portal for accessing, analyzing and standardizing data  
A method and system is provided to access one or more historical incident databases, for example, CDC, CPSC, DTI, AAPCC and the like, for standardizing the potentially differing categories and...
7376639 Selectivity estimation for conjunctive predicates in the presence of partial knowledge about multivariate data distributions  
A method for consistent selectivity estimation based on the principle of maximum entropy (ME) is provided. The method efficiently exploits all available information and avoids the bias problem. In...
7373343 Requirements management semantics modeling  
Described is a method and system of requirements management including the expression in a requirements management tool of a relationship selected from the group consisting of a satisfaction...
7373342 Including annotation data with disparate relational data  
Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture that may be used for identifying and indicating annotations made for a variety of different type (i.e., heterogeneous) data objects are provided....
7373336 Content augmentation based on personal profiles  
A method, process and system for performing content augmentation of personal profiles includes (a) building a user history of a plurality of augmented content information of relevant TV programs;...
7373349 Process for data driven application integration for B2B  
Aspects of the present embodiments provide an eCommerce environment adapted to accept and process various message types (e.g. cXML and mXML). In general, requests are provided from a requesting...
7370042 Method and system for the architecture and implementation of a conscious machine  
Systems and methods are described for conscious digital data processing systems. These may include storing data in a set of associated nodes and performing relational operations on this data. In...
7370030 Method to provide management of query output  
A method, system and article of manufacture for processing queries that are executed against a database. In one embodiment, the database environment imposes a limit on the number of columns capable...
7370040 Searching with adaptively configurable user interface and extensible query language  
Most search engines include user interfaces and query languages which are tailored for use with specific file types. Thus, a user interface for searching one type file can be quite different than...
7370033 Method for extracting association rules from transactions in a database  
Apriori algorithms are popular data mining techniques for extracting association rules from a body of data. The computational complexity of these algorithms is reduced by representing itemset...
7370034 System and method for performing electronic information retrieval using keywords  
Output documents similar to an input document are identified. A query is formulated using a list of best keywords from the input document to search for a first set of output documents. The list of...
7370043 Method and system for upgrade validation of database query plans  
A method, computer program, and system are disclosed for validating query plans for an upgrade. Environment information corresponding to a target system is received. A query used on the target...
7370039 Method and system for optimizing configuration classification of software  
A method and system to minimize to redundancy in testing a new software system by utilizing a knowledge base is provided. The knowledge base may be represented in a form of a decision tree...
7370056 Navigation in a hierarchical structured transaction processing system  
A method performed in a system having multiple navigable nodes interconnected in a hierarchical arrangement involves receiving an input containing at least one word identifiable with at least one...
7370041 Information processing method, information processing system, information registration apparatus, information acquisition apparatus, and computer memory product  
An information acquisition apparatus receives summary information and displays the outline information included in the summary information. When a document information acquisition request is given,...
7370062 SQL predicate migration  
A method of rewriting a Structured Query Language (SQL) statement in order to prevent processing of a join between a master table and a detail table in a database is disclosed. The method includes...
7370026 Method and apparatus for providing personalized supplemental programming  
A method and apparatus for providing personalized supplemental programming is provided. In one embodiment, the invention can include searching text for a keyword, the text associated with primary...
7366717 Method and apparatus for mapping between XML and relational representations  
A method to convert data between a relational format and an XML document, by creating a set of XML Mapping Definition from metadata; selecting relational data from a relational application...
7366710 Apparatus for retrieving and presenting digital data  
An apparatus for retrieving and presenting digital data, includes a network that includes data archives containing digital data, a terminal that can be connected to the network, a retrieval device...
7366765 Outboard clustered computer systems manager utilizing commodity components  
An apparatus for and method of implementing a cluster lock processing system using highly scalable, off-the-shelf commodity processors. The cluster lock processing system is the central component...
7363298 Optimized cache efficiency behavior  
A method is provided for storing and providing responses to keyword search queries and other queries. One of a plurality of memory devices for storing a query answer is selected based on a hash...
7363293 Access control method and device in an embedded system  
A method and device to control the access to a data memory space of a computer system by an active process stored in a program space of the system. When the active process attempts to perform an...
7363581 Presentation generator  
A presentation generator may access one or more data sources structured into data fields. The user may create or modify a template by inserting one or more tags corresponding to data fields in the...
7363287 OLAP query generation engine  
A system and method for generating an On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) query. A query object is provided that supports a plurality of OLAP servers which use different structured query formats....
7363300 System and method for influencing a position on a search result list generated by a computer network search engine  
A system and method for enabling information providers using a computer network to influence a position for a search listing within a search result list. A database stores accounts for the network...
7363348 Method and system in an office application for providing content dependent help information  
Method, system and program product for providing on-line help information in an office application which includes one or more objects. The on-line help information is dependent on content of a...
7363617 Database breakpoint apparatus and method  
An apparatus and method define the concept of a “database breakpoint.” One or more conditions in the database are specified as a database breakpoint in a debug environment for debugging a...
7359897 System and method for document management and retrieval  
A system and method for managing and retrieving electronic documents in a document management system. Multiple virtual record containers are contained in a document management system, with each...
7359895 Spiral string matching method  
A string matching method is provided for searching a text received in a string matching system for any of a predetermined set of patterns, each of the text and the patterns including a string of...
7359896 Information retrieving system, information retrieving method, and information retrieving program  
In this invention, a database in which a keyword and an attribute of the keyword are stored together with a document ID for discriminating a source document is arranged, at least one keyword and/or...
7359891 Hot topic extraction apparatus and method, storage medium therefor  
A hot topic extraction apparatus for extracting a hot topic from information includes an information collection unit, an information storage unit, and a hot topic extraction unit. The information...
7359900 Digital audio track set recognition system  
A system and method are provided for matching a track set from a digital audio recording to metadata relating to the recording. Track duration data is obtained for the track set, and the track...
7359898 Scoring mechanism selection along multiple dimensions  
Techniques for selecting a scoring mechanism from a plurality scoring mechanisms for processing queries are provided. The techniques comprise the steps of, for each scoring mechanism of multiple...
7359913 K-means clustering using structured query language (SQL) statements and sufficient statistics  
A database includes a storage to store a data set and a controller to use one or more SQL (Structured Query Language) statements to perform computations associated with a clustering algorithm e.g.,...
7356523 Dynamic optimization of prepared statements in a statement pool  
An apparatus, program product and method dynamically optimize prepared statements resident in a statement pool to permit subsequent reuses of such statements to utilize the optimized...
7356524 Query runtime estimation using statistical query records  
A method for estimating a runtime of a query of a data repository may abstract, extract, or otherwise generate one or more parameters of the query. Thereafter, the abstracted parameters may be...
7356526 Estimating the compilation time of a query optimizer  
A compilation time estimator provides a quantified estimate of the optimizer compilation time for a given query optimizer. The estimator automates the optimizer to choose the right level of...
7356528 Phrase matching in documents having nested-structure arbitrary (document-specific) markup  
A method of searching a document having nested-structure document-specific markup (such as Extensible Markup Language (XML)) involves 112 receiving a query that designates at least (A) a phrase...
7356758 System and method for run-time report resolution of reports that include prompt objects  
A report resolution system that includes prompt objects used to define every aspect of a report and specifically an object-prompt object. To resolve a report with prompt objects, a report instance...
7353223 Directed graph for distribution of time-constrained data  
In synchronizing data across a database, time-dependent and time-constrained data may be synchronized, using grouping value(s) that may themselves be time-dependent. When a time constraint...
7353268 Network system, server, web server, web page, data processing method, storage medium, and program transmission apparatus  
A network system includes a client for browsing a web page, a conversion server for providing a function for performing a predetermined process for the web page, and a web server for storing the...
7349918 Method and system for searching binary files  
In the past, it has not been possible to perform searches within documents stored in a proprietary, binary format, such as Microsoft Word documents and Adobe Acrobat documents. The present...
7349916 Information organization using markup languages  
The presentation of information in HTML files is desirably en hanced by the use of one or more separate scripting Javascript™ files, referenced from the HTML file, which uses information...
7349893 Hierarchical user interface query automation  
A query can request user interface information from a user interface element hierarchy. Calls from a client program seeking user interface information related target user interface can be handled...
7349897 Structured indexes on results of function applications over data  
Indexed views or materialized views are used as a secondary index on a base table with multi-valued attributes. This provides for using the index to search in the nested data. Moreover, indexing is...
7349957 Network management method and tool  
A method for providing network management using a remote device. The method may include receiving an end-user message from an end-user device configured to communicate with a network management...
7349896 Query routing  
A search query is submitted to one or more information sources associated with a category of the query. The category of the query is indicated by a query ontology that relates queries to query...