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7349895 Semi-automatic annotation of multimedia objects  
A multimedia object retrieval and annotation system integrates an annotation process with object retrieval and relevance feedback processes. The annotation process annotates multimedia objects,...
7349898 Approximate and exact unary inclusion dependency discovery  
A method and apparatus for analyzing potential inclusion dependencies between columns of database tables is provided. A client issues a command, e.g., a SQL statement, to a database server. The...
7346651 Method of searching information site by item keyword and action keyword  
A method is designed for searching contents information presented by a plurality of information sites over a network based on a query sent from a client terminal to a searching server through the...
7346613 System and method for a unified and blended search  
A system, method, and computer-accessible medium for a unified search of disparate resources are provided. The system and method determine the most relevant disparate resources in which to search...
7346490 Method and system for describing and identifying concepts in natural language text for information retrieval and processing  
A method for information retrieval that matches occurrences of concepts in natural language text documents against descriptions of concepts in user queries. Said method, implemented in a computer...
7346605 Method and system for searching and monitoring internet trademark usage  
A system for searching and reporting an incidence of at least one trademark, tradename, celebrity name, and/or famous name on the Internet, which includes a computer system having a connection to...
7346604 Method for ranking hypertext search results by analysis of hyperlinks from expert documents and keyword scope  
A computer-implemented method and system for determining search results for a search query for hypertext documents. The hypertext documents are reviewed to determine expert documents. When a query...
7346625 Methods and apparatus for performing structural joins for answering containment queries  
Techniques are provided for performing structural joins for answering containment queries. Such inventive techniques may be used to perform efficient structural joins of two interval lists which...
7346668 Dynamic presentation of personalized content  
Methods and systems for dynamically presenting personalized content are disclosed. Articles may be collected, each article having content, attributes of the content, and content metadata...
7346601 Efficient evaluation of queries with mining predicates  
A method for evaluating a user query on a database having a mining model that classifies records contained in the database into classes when the query comprises at least one mining predicate that...
7346606 Rendering advertisements with documents having one or more topics using user topic interest  
Ambiguities with respect to a user topic interest may be resolved so that useful topic-relevant ads can be presented. Such ambiguities may be resolved by monitoring user behavior, determining a...
7346615 Using match confidence to adjust a performance threshold  
If some aspect of serving or scoring an ad is subject to a performance (e.g., click-through rate, etc.) threshold, such a threshold may be adjusted using a confidence factor of the ad targeting...
7343375 Collection and correlation over time of private viewing usage data  
A method, apparatus and article of manufacture for collecting, storing and processing usage data from a device. Usage data is extracted from the device, wherein the usage data is associated with a...
7343371 Queries-and-responses processing method, queries-and-responses processing program, queries-and-responses processing program recording medium, and queries-and-responses processing apparatus  
A query-and-response processing method for analyzing the intention of a query provided by a user reduces search result information to an amount manageable for the user, sorts out the result...
7343367 Optimizing a database query that returns a predetermined number of rows using a generated optimized access plan  
An apparatus and method to optimize a query access plan in a computer database system. In preferred embodiments, the query optimizer determines the query can be optimized and generates for the...
7343365 Computer system architecture for automatic context associations  
A computer system models human memory by deriving associations between objects, events, and the context of the computer user or users. These associations can be dynamically generated, changing...
7340475 Evaluating dynamic expressions in a modeling application  
Development and use of a computer program in an arbitrary language are facilitated by representing expressions to be dynamically evaluated in a simple syntax compatible with a standard language....
7340448 Method, apparatus, and computer program product for implementing enhanced query governor functions  
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for implementing enhanced query governor functions. Query execution includes first checking for a timeout value for a query. Responsive...
7340456 System, apparatus and method for using and managing digital information  
A system, apparatus and method for using, identifying, interacting and managing digital information in a useful and convenient manner. When a digital representation of information is loaded, an...
7340454 Processing index action requests for search engines  
One implementation provides a method included in performing an action on a searchable index of content that is electronically stored in a knowledge base. The method includes receiving an input...
7340447 Partitioning data access requests  
A system with multiple data stores receives a data access request that includes one or more variables. The system determines which data store can service the data access request by using mappings...
7340450 Data search system and data search method using a global unique identifier  
Data and/or services associated with a given object are easily searched by using a search system having a global unique object identifier, a metadata store, an input for entering the global unique...
7340465 Active messaging system and method  
As a user is drafting an electronic document (e.g., a word processing document, spreadsheet, etc.), the user may enter a predefined string of characters that represents a placeholder for...
7340452 Parallel single cursor model on multiple-server configurations  
A cursor that is generated from an original database statement includes a master plan that is shared among the various participants involved in the parallel execution of the operations specified in...
7340472 Organizing and storing hierarchical data in a database having dual structures  
A data viewer for displaying information selected from hierarchically organized data enables hierarchical searching by displaying hierarchical levels, or alternatively, by implementing an index...
7337167 Estimating a number of rows returned by a recursive query  
A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, estimate a number of rows that a recursive query will retrieve from a table by recursively probing an index associated...
7337170 System and method for planning and generating queries for multi-dimensional analysis using domain models and data federation  
Data integration and data analysis using computing equipment, software as well as hardware, includes a system and method for integrating data from various data sources, structured and unstructured,...
7333984 Methods for document indexing and analysis  
The present invention describes a method that is based on an analysis of document information, and which can be used for conducting and potentially accelerating business opportunity assessments and...
7333980 Searching queries using database partitioning  
A computer-implemented method and apparatus of searching a plurality of queries against at least one database containing a plurality of records. The plurality of queries is partitioned into a set...
7333978 Searching to identify web page(s)  
Given a destination(s) and search criteria, the destination(s) is searched to identify files that satisfy the search criteria. For each such file, a file identifier (such a uniform resource locator...
7333979 Image processing apparatus having web server function  
An image processing apparatus, a method of creating a Web page, an image processing system, an information processing apparatus, and an information processing system are disclosed. The image...
7333976 Methods and systems for processing contact information  
Systems and methods for processing contact information are described. In one embodiment, an entity name is identified from an event associated with an article, wherein the entity name is associated...
7333981 Transformation of a physical query into an abstract query  
Embodiments of the invention provide methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for transforming a physical query (e.g., written in SQL) into an abstract query than can be run against an...
7333973 Method, apparatus, and computer program product for locating data in large datasets  
To analyze a data set having a one-to-many relation, the number of simultaneous occurrences of data in which two data elements are coexistent is obtained for all combinations of two data elements....
RE40063 Data processing and method for maintaining cardinality in a relational database  
A relationships processing computing system provides for the recording and extraction of data objects (entities) and for development data representing a queried relationship between data objects...
7330849 Retrieval and display of data objects using a cross-group ranking metric  
Techniques to assign a ranking value to objects in a database such as a collection of cross referencing documents, the World-Wide Web or a hyperlinked database are described. The ranking value...
7328204 Process and system for sparse vector and matrix representation of document indexing and retrieval  
A new data structure and algorithms which offer at least equal performance in common sparse matrix tasks, and improved performance in many. This is applied to a word-document index to produce fast...
7328440 Interface between front-end systems and back-end systems  
An interface ( 1 ) interfaces between front-end systems and back-end systems ( 10, 11, 12 ) in a manner whereby their communication formats may be different and they may change. There is an engine...
7328207 Extensions for query persistence across requests with dynamic update for writeback  
A method is described herein for causing an analytical database server to store query results in a memory. In the method, a first header element and a request to query an analytical database is...
7328209 System for ontology-based semantic matching in a relational database system  
The method for processing data in a relational database wherein ontology data that specifies terms and relationships between pairs of said terms expressed in an OWL document is stored in the...
7328206 Extensions for adding and removing calculated members in a multidimensional database  
Systems, clients, servers, methods, and computer-readable media of varying scope are described in which, two extensions for a multidimensional database query language extensions,...
7328208 Method and system for improving a text search  
A method and system for improving text searching is disclosed. The method and system provides a network of document relationship and utilizes the network of document relationships to identify the...
7324985 Methods and systems for database statement execution plan optimization  
The methods and systems for database statement execution plan optimization exploit bind variable data available on the network to build and optimize an execution plan for the statement. A system...
7324989 Method of performing data searches on a network  
A method of performing data searches on a network includes the step of maintaining a database of electronic documents on a computer system forming a node on the network, such that each electronic...
7325016 Monitoring database performance by obtaining SQL addresses for SQL statements  
The present invention provides a method and system for monitoring the process performance of a database that accepts and records SQL statements and that records the status of a session of use of...
7324991 Sampling in a multidimensional database  
Sampling may be supported in a multidimensional database by integrating it into metadata and/or data navigation requests. Additionally, biasing may be introduced to allow a user to focus results.
7321895 Timeline condition support for an abstract database  
Embodiments of the invention relate data retrieved from the logical fields of an abstract database using a timeline. The logical fields specified by a database abstraction model are extended to...
7321892 Identifying alternative spellings of search strings by analyzing self-corrective searching behaviors of users  
A computer-implemented process identifies useful alternative spellings of search strings submitted to a search engine. The process takes into consideration spelling changes made by users, as...
7321891 Processing database queries  
Methods, computer programs, and database systems for analyzing one or more queries are disclosed. Queries may include one or more conditions and one or more sub-queries, with each sub-queries...
7321896 Component management system, component management device, and computer-readable recording medium  
A component management system comprises a storage device for storing a plurality of components related to hardware and firmware which are necessary for the development, manufacture, inspection, and...