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7526470 System and method for measuring and improving search result relevance based on user satisfaction  
Systems and methods for measuring and improving search result relevance based on user satisfaction are disclosed. An event log is preferably scanned to determine the start and the end of a session....
7526181 System and method for automatically customizing a buffered media stream  
A “media stream customizer” customizes buffered media streams by inserting one or more media objects into the stream to maintain an approximate buffer level. Specifically, when media objects...
7526469 Method and system of database management with shared area  
Database processing including processing for a shared table is efficiently executed. Processing for a database including a shared table which can be referred to by a plurality of database...
7523104 Apparatus and method for searching structured documents  
A synonym search section searches a synonym dictionary for synonym group identifiers indicating synonym groups to which tags included in first structure-designating information from a terminal...
7523124 Methods and apparatus for improving data warehouse performance  
Methods and apparatus for improving data warehouse performance are disclosed. An example method to format data received from a data warehouse includes receiving an analysis instruction, retrieving...
7523031 Information processing apparatus and method capable of processing plurality type of input information  
An information processing apparatus has: an input unit capable of inputting a plurality type of information such as hand-written information, key information and speech information; and a knowledge...
7523131 Techniques for efficiently storing and querying in a relational database, XML documents conforming to schemas that contain cyclic constructs  
To associate XML data objects (“child objects”), stored in rows of relational or object-relational tables, with the appropriate XML data objects (“parent objects”) from which the child...
7523433 System and method for automated analysis and hierarchical graphical presentation of application results  
A method for analyzing and presenting application results, said method comprising the steps of creating at least one log file representing a result file of an application; tagging the at least one...
7523105 Clustering web queries  
Systems and methods for clustering Web queries are described. In one aspect, one or more of a same document and a plurality of similar documents selected by a user in response to a plurality of...
7523106 Computerized data mining system, method and program product  
Under the present invention, a data exploration system, a customized model system and an existing model system are provided. The data exploration system analyzes user data to identify statistical...
7523117 Method for data clustering and classification by a graph theory model—network partition into high density subgraphs  
A computer based method is provided for clustering related data representing objects of interest and information about levels of relatedness between objects. A weighted graph G is established on a...
7523090 Creating data charts using enhanced SQL statements  
A method and system for providing customized filters to restrict datasets retrieved from a database are described. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a data access query that combines...
7523200 Dynamic access decision information module  
A dynamic information retrieval service is provided that can be configured to retrieve entitlement information from a plurality of providers. Any application that requires entitlement data may make...
7523128 Method and system for discovering relationships  
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for relationship discovery. According to one embodiment of the present invention, arbitrarily complex relationship discovery rules...
7519620 Replication system, method and program for replicating a plurality of databases into a replica database  
Data of a plurality of master tables can be replicated in one replica table. A job to access a plurality of tables can be executed by accessing one replica table, and hence the job execution time...
7519529 System and methods for inferring informational goals and preferred level of detail of results in response to questions posed to an automated information-retrieval or question-answering service  
A system and method for inferring informational goals and preferred level of details in answers in response to questions posed to computer-based information retrieval or question-answering systems...
7519590 Method and system for performing phrase/word clustering and cluster merging  
Text classification has become an important aspect of information technology. Present text classification techniques range from simple text matching to more complex clustering methods. Clustering...
7519952 Detecting an integrity constraint violation in a database by analyzing database schema, application and mapping and inserting a check into the database and application  
A system (and method) of detecting an error in a database interaction, includes providing information about at least one of at least first and second software systems, and a mapping between at...
7519580 Search criteria control system and method  
A method and system is provided for controlling search criteria when searching databases using active controls. In one aspect, a search criteria control bar (SCCB) displays results of a search by...
7519585 Selection context filtering  
A method and system for the graphical formulation of filter queries is disclosed which enables data queries to be easily chosen via selection from a menu. A signal is received to filter, or query,...
7519588 Keyword characterization and application  
Methods, apparatuses, and articles for receiving a collection of documents and/or objects determined to be potentially relevant to a keyword, and processing the collection of documents and/or...
7519578 Ubiquitous search framework  
A mechanism is provided to a user which allows “ubiquitous” searching—searching of possibly heterogeneous search repositories. In one embodiment, this search mechanism is provided by means of...
7519528 Building concept knowledge from machine-readable dictionary  
This invention relates to a computer system and methods, apparatus and systems for building concept knowledge from a machine-readable dictionary. The machine-readable dictionary includes a...
7516225 Experience/preference information providing system  
Upon receiving a request for preparing a recommended CD list in Step S 71 , the experience/preference information providing server stores the member ID of the user requested a recommended CD list...
7516126 Method and apparatus to perform a multi-field matching search  
A method and apparatus to perform a multi-field matching search. A search unit groups single fields of a multiple-field source into a search target having multiple-field keys (MFKs) whose single...
7516418 Automatic tracking of user data and reputation checking  
A unique system and method that facilitate automatic tracking of user data and providing on-demand site or merchant reputation information is provided. The system and method involve monitoring user...
7516198 Arrangement for providing content-based quality of service for a service flow based on parsing XML tags detected from a server response to a client request  
A network node, for example a router, is configured for assigning network parameters for an identified flow of data packets associated with an application service, based on detecting quality of...
7516127 Reporting module definition language system and method  
In one embodiment, a method for data management includes receiving a request for information associated with an incompatible foreign data source and the compatible native data source. In response...
7516121 Efficient evaluation of queries using translation  
Techniques are provided for processing a query including receiving the query, where the query specifies certain operations; determining that the query includes a first portion in a first query...
7516136 Transcoding media files in a host computing device for use in a portable computing device  
Media data files stored in a first computing device are transcoded for transferring to a second, portable computing device. The device parameters of the second computing device are determined by...
7516128 Method for cleansing sequence-based data at query time  
A method for cleansing anomalies from sequence-based data at query time. Sequence-based data such as RFID data is loaded into a database. A cleansing rule is received at a cleansing rules engine....
7516129 Method of indexing digitized entities in a data collection to facilitate searching  
The invention relates to indexing of digitized entities in a large and comparatively unstructured data collection, for instance the Internet, such that text-based searches with respect to the data...
7512713 System and method for rendering independent persistence of information by performing a time driven query on an aggregated schematized queryable report  
A system and methods providing a rendering independent persistence of information is provided. In an illustrative implementation, data is provided having some predefined structure. In operation,...
7512666 Global network of web card systems and method thereof  
A global network of systems of personal and business information management comprises a plurality of servers, each server having at least a local database and a local search engine, and a plurality...
7512599 Query duration types  
A request to execute a query is received in a database system. In response, the database system determines that a collection of data elements to be returned by the query corresponds to a first data...
7512602 System, method and computer program product for performing unstructured information management and automatic text analysis, including a search operator functioning as a weighted and (WAND)  
Disclosed is a system architecture, components and a searching technique for an Unstructured Information Management System (UIMS). The UIMS may be provided as middleware for the effective...
7512605 Document clustering based on cohesive terms  
A method and a storage medium, that includes instructions for causing a computer to implement the method, for document categorization is presented. The method includes identifying terms occurring...
7512600 Use of multi-join operator and rules as framework for join tree processing in database systems  
Methods and systems receive a normalized query tree and analyze the tree to collect information about join operators and their children, and tables in an associated query. This information is then...
7512592 System and method of XML query processing  
A method of processing queries, e.g., XPath expressions, related to an XML document includes generating a plurality of tokens based on the contents of the XML document. At least one query...
7512588 Architecture to enable search gateways as part of federated search  
An architecture to enable search gateways as part of a federated search supports searching for data in one or more heterogeneous data sources. The one or more heterogeneous data sources are within...
7509301 Systems and methods for data processing  
Systems and methods are provided for data processing. As disclosed herein, such systems and methods may include providing a data model with a set of entity types and set of attributes for each...
7509313 System and method for processing a query  
The invention provides a system and method of processing a query directed to a database. The invention comprises implementing the steps of: obtaining the query from a user; and disambiguating the...
7509311 Use of statistics on views in query optimization  
A query optimizer produces a preferred execution plan by utilizing statistics on views. These provide the optimizer with statistical information beyond that available on tables, for example, with...
7509303 Information retrieval system using attribute normalization  
Information retrieval system that allows a user to retrieve data having different attributes from different databases is provided. The information retrieval system associates a search attribute of...
7509312 Method and apparatus for managing peer-to-peer search results  
One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for processing a search request message received over a network includes computing a threshold value in accordance with the search request message...
7505958 Metadata management for a data abstraction model  
A method, system and article of manufacture for managing metadata associated with a data abstraction model abstractly describing data in a database. One embodiment provides a method of managing...
7505985 System and method of generating string-based search expressions using templates  
Described are a system and method for generating a search expression for use in searching heterogeneous repositories. An application program receives user-supplied input. A template is selected...
7505999 Automated business correspondence  
Automated generation of business correspondences includes accessing a template to retrieve a business form. The business form is encoded within a word processing application encoded, but also...
7505967 Displaying metrics from an alternative representation of a database  
A system and method comprises selecting at least one metric from an alternative representation of a database to create a request based on the at least one metric, invoking an interpreter associated...
7505961 System and method for providing search results with configurable scoring formula  
A system and method for scoring documents in a search, wherein the scoring algorithm may be reconfigured dynamically. When a query is submitted, a score data structure is created for each document...