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7249151 Method, system, program, and data structure for cleaning a database table  
Disclosed is a method, system, program, and data structure for performing a clean operation on an input table. The input table to clean is indicated in an input data table name. At least one rule...
7246066 System and method for automated coordination and communication of sporting event information via the world wide web  
The present invention relates to a system and method for coordinating a competitive sporting event. The present invention comprises receiving information from multiple users regarding the user's...
7246113 Systems and methods for selecting a material that best matches a desired set of properties  
Material selection systems and methods for quickly identifying which existing material best matches a desired set of properties are described so that product development time can be minimized....
7246125 Clustering of databases having mixed data attributes  
A computer data processing system. A method for clustering data in a database comprising providing a database having a number of data records having both discrete and continuous attributes....
7246104 Method and apparatus for information delivery with archive containing metadata in predetermined language and semantics  
Provided is an information delivery system that includes a storage device and a set of physical data objects holding content. The data objects are mapped by metadata held in an archive. The archive...
7243101 Program, image managing apparatus and image managing method  
An image managing apparatus for managing a plurality of image data units includes: an image data acquiring unit for acquiring the image data units; an attribute information acquiring unit for...
7243100 Methods and apparatus for mining attribute associations  
Attribute association discovery techniques that support relational-based data mining are disclosed. In one aspect of the invention, a technique for mining attribute associations in a relational...
7243102 Machine directed improvement of ranking algorithms  
Improving ranking algorithms for information retrieval. The ranking algorithms operate on search results obtained from a search engine. Input information including information describing a first...
7243300 Automated document production from a search environment  
A method of presenting search results ( 104 ) obtained from a search conducted over a computer network ( 720 ) is disclosed. The search is performed using searching criteria ( 102 ) and returns...
7240353 Functionality recommendation system  
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method and computer instructions for recommending functionality to users of a system with one or more users. In an embodiment, a...
7240044 Query optimization by sub-plan memoization  
Database system query optimizers use several techniques such as histograms and sampling to estimate the result sizes of operators and sub-plans (operator trees) and the number of distinct values in...
7240050 Methods and apparatus for generating automated graphics using stored graphics examples  
A technique is provided for generating automated graphics in response to a user request. A measure of similarity between the user request and one or more stored graphics examples is determined. At...
7236973 Collaborative master data management system for identifying similar objects including identical and non-identical attributes  
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for sharing data. The technique includes receiving data in a central system from one or more client systems, performing a matching...
7233953 Method for improving functionality of the binary representation of MPEG-7 and of other XML-based contents descriptions  
A method is provided wherein two different schema branch codes are used, whereby one of the two is utilized far more frequently and, as a consequence, effects a compression. The schema branch code...
7234019 Method and apparatus for implementing a search engine using an SRAM  
A search engine system including a memory bank coupled to a bank selection signal, mask logic for receiving constructed keys and incoming key masks and for providing masked keys, hash function...
7231381 Media content search engine incorporating text content and user log mining  
Text features corresponding to pieces of media content (e.g., images, audio, multimedia content, etc.) are extracted from media content sources. One or more text features (e.g., one or more words)...
7231384 Navigation tool for exploring a knowledge base  
The disclosure relates to a system that allows a user to enter a search query, to explore a knowledge base through a hierarchical model of concepts each of which is mentioned in one or more...
7231390 Apparatus and method for providing sequence database comparison  
A method and system of comparing a query and a subject database using a distributed computing platform is disclosed. The databases are divided into data elements having a size within a specified...
7231419 System and method for adaptively selecting and delivering recommendations to a requester  
A system and method for employing a number of producer modules to produce and deliver recommendations to a requester. Each of the recommendations having associated therewith a confidence level....
7231590 Method and apparatus for visually emphasizing numerical data contained within an electronic document  
A method and apparatus are provided for visually emphasizing all of the numerical data contained in an electronic document. A determination is made as to whether a request to emphasize all of the...
7228297 Database system, database server, and method of controlling the operation of a database server  
A database system is provided with a search unit for searching image attribute information that has been stored in a relational database management system. A search interface is provided between...
7228302 System, tools and methods for viewing textual documents, extracting knowledge therefrom and converting the knowledge into other forms of representation of the knowledge  
Systems, tools, methods and recordable media for text mining textual documents and extracting and associating entities and interactions mined with other data formats, such as diagrammatic displays...
7225188 System and method for performing regular expression matching with high parallelism  
A system and method for searching data strings, such as network messages, for one or more predefined regular expressions is provided. Regular expressions are programmed into a pattern matching...
7225200 Automatic data perspective generation for a target variable  
The present invention leverages machine learning techniques to provide automatic generation of conditioning variables for constructing a data perspective for a given target variable. The present...
7225401 Case-based system and method for generating a custom document  
What is disclosed is a case-based method which specifies previously created documents as cases in a case base, and provides a generalized method for using these previous documents to create a new...
7222090 Method and system for parsing purchase information from web pages  
A method for parsing purchase information from code in a Web page. The method includes detecting at least one known product keyword and at least one product data string following that product...
7219034 System and methods for display of time-series data distribution  
A system and methods for displaying data distribution information for time-series data is described. The methods include computing a condensed quantile function that may be used to generate...
7219105 Method, system and computer program product for profiling entities  
The present invention provides a method, system and computer program product for profiling an entity based on information obtained form at least one information source. Various contexts associated...
7219184 Method and apparatus for longest prefix matching in processing a forwarding information database  
A hardware circuit implemented on a DRAM foundry is provided for finding the longest prefix key match. The hardware circuit includes the use of prefix search engines to store prefix keys. Each...
7219097 Authentication history certification system and method thereof  
To provide a system and its method for receiving inquiries for personal histories or performing certification of histories collectively. The present invention provides an authentication history...
7219073 Method for extracting information utilizing a user-context-based search engine  
A data extraction tool is provided for cataloging information in an information source for searching by a user. The tool mines information from the information source and organizes the information,...
7216129 Information processing using a hierarchy structure of randomized samples  
A method is provided for retrieving information from massive databases (i.e., databases with millions of documents) in real time, that allows users to control the trade-off between accuracy in...
7213011 Efficient processing of multi-column and function-based in-list predicates  
Described herein are approaches for generating execution plans for database commands that include an in-list predicate. The approaches can be used to generate execution plans that exploit the power...
7209932 Method, system, and program for allocating tasks to a plurality of processors  
Provided are a method, system, and program to allocate tasks among a plurality of processes within a distributed processing environment. Each process secures a list of elements and performs a first...
7209910 Method and apparatus for determining a set of large sequences from an electronic data base  
The instant invention relates to a method of and an apparatus for determining a set of large sequences from an electronic data base comprising a set D={d 1 , . . . , dn} of transactions di...
7207067 Enforcing data protection legislation in Web data services  
A system and method are provided for enabling Web services to enforce multiple countries' data protection laws and regulations during data collection, data processing storage and data transfer. The...
7203679 Determining structural similarity in semi-structured documents  
Documents are represented based on their structure, which arises from the relationship between various elements in the document. After representing documents based on their structure in vector...
7203680 System and method for encoding and detecting extensible patterns  
Given an input sequence of data, a rigid pattern is a repeating sequence, possibly interspersed with don't-care characters. The data can be a sequence of characters or sets of characters or even...
7203382 Pattern matching and pattern recognition system, associative memory apparatus, and pattern matching and pattern recognition processing method  
A plurality of reference words based on a second distance index that allows coding of a first distance index are registered in an associative memory core in advance. In a first pipeline stage, a...
7203725 Withdrawal of requests of target number of requests responses received  
A method of querying a user profile commences with a first access to a public portion of a knowledge profile for each of a plurality of potential targets of the electronic document, the public...
7203358 Method and device for measuring similarity between images  
A method is disclosed for measuring similarity between images, comprising the performance of the following steps for each of the images: segmentation of the image into segments, classification of...
7200714 Concatenated multi-dimensional associative search engines  
A packet co-processing system for improving the performance of an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), including: a set of N search engines, logically disposed so as to form a chain of...
7200592 System for synchronizing of user's affinity to knowledge  
A system and method for synchronizing profile data based on one or more changes in affinity to knowledge data in a system. The profile data may include at least an affinity of a person to knowledge...
7200599 Automated generator of input-validation filters  
An implementation of a technology, described herein, for facilitating the automated generation of input-validation software filters. The implementation of the invention provides an easy graphical...
7200413 Methods and system for enhanced directory assistance using wireless messaging protocols  
Directory assistance provides telephone number look up services to callers based on the business or caller name as listed in a telephone directory. In the prior art, directory assistance provides a...
7197503 Intelligent retrieval and classification of information from a product manual  
An intelligent information-mining system extracts desired intelligent information from unstructured text data in documents to categorize the unstructured text data based on the extracted desired...
7197471 System and method for assessing demographic data accuracy  
A system and method for assessing demographic data accuracy from third party data vendors is provided. Third party demographic data is compared to self-reported demographic data; hence compared to...
7197510 Method, system and program for generating structure pattern candidates  
A structure pattern candidate generating system is disclosed for automatically generating many kinds of complicated structure pattern candidates and facilitating selection of a structure pattern...
7194471 Document classification system and method for classifying a document according to contents of the document  
A document classification system and method reflects operator's intention in a result of classification of document so that an accurate result of classification can be achieved. The document to be...
7194465 Apparatus and method for identifying patterns in a multi-dimensional database  
An apparatus to identify patterns in a multi-dimensional database is described. In particular, a computer-readable medium to direct a computer to function in a specified manner is provided. The...