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7171619 Methods and apparatus for accessing document content  
Mechanisms and techniques provide a system for accessing documents using a graphical user interface. The system can be employed in a web browser like software application. In operation, the system...
7167859 Database security  
Disclosed is a system, method, and apparatus for calculating metrics by using hierarchical level metadata to describe the various structures within the database. The hierarchical level metadata...
7165080 Method and apparatus for facilitating refinement of a search  
A receiver receives from a search engine search results consisting of at least one search item associated with at least one context item relating to the search item. A modifier modifies the search...
7165068 System and method for electronic catalog classification using a hybrid of rule based and statistical method  
The present invention provides for a method and system for the classification of electronic catalogs. The method provided has a lot of user-configured features and also provides for constant...
7165105 System and method for logical view analysis and visualization of user behavior in a distributed computer network  
A method for logical view visualization of user behavior in a networked computer environment that includes sites that a user may visit and wherein the sites comprise pages that the user may view...
7158962 System and method for automatically linking items with multiple attributes to multiple levels of folders within a content management system  
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for automatically linking items with multiple attributes to multiple levels of folders within a content management system. The present...
7155033 Coarse representation of visual object's shape for search/query/filtering applications  
A method of coarse representation of a visual object's shape for search/query/filtering applications uses a binding box that fully encompasses the object of interest within the image to extract a...
7152063 Scheme for filtering documents on network using relevant and non-relevant profiles  
A document filtering scheme capable of reducing the number of erroneously selected non-relevant documents without reducing the number of correctly selected relevant documents is disclosed. a...
7152055 Method and system for reducing document file size by deleting unused and duplicate template data  
A computer generated document file comprises content data and template data including, for example, formatting information. The size of the document file is reduced by removing unused and/or...
7149960 Method and apparatus for controlling creation and management of pages of portal content in a directory  
Portal pages and overlays are assigned globally unique identifiers (GUIDs). Users are granted permission to view portal pages and overlays by having their user object in the container hierarchy be...
7149780 Method for determining e-mail address format rules  
A method for determining e-mail address formatting rules corresponding to particular domain names, whereby e-mail address data is collected and sorted based on domains. Based on the gathered data...
7149736 Maintaining time-sorted aggregation records representing aggregations of values from multiple database records using multiple partitions  
Multiple aggregation groups, which can be multiple partitions in an aggregated data table, are formed. Each group includes multiple aggregation records; each aggregation record includes an...
7143109 Information storage and retrieval system for storing and retrieving the visual form of information from an application in a database  
The visual form of data from a computer program is received and stored in a database. The visual form of the data may be received, for example, in response to a print operation by the computer...
7143085 Optimization of server selection using euclidean analysis of search terms  
Euclidean analysis is used to define queries in terms of a multi-axis query space where each of the keywords T 1 , T 2 , . . . T i , . . . T n is assigned an axis in that space. Sets of test...
7139756 System and method for detecting duplicate and similar documents  
A system and a method are described for rapidly determining document similarity among a set of documents, such as a set of documents obtained from an information retrieval (IR) system. A ranked...
7139757 Contextual relevance engine and knowledge delivery system  
A method and apparatus are described for providing a user with contextually relevant content from a library of information. According to one embodiment of the present invention, metadata tagged...
7136882 Storage device manager  
An apparatus and method for managing data on a storage device. In one embodiment, the apparatus is embodied in computer readable program code and comprises a management interface. The apparatus and...
7136787 Generation of continuous mathematical model for common features of a subject group  
A method for generating a continuous mathematical model of a feature common to subjects in a subject group includes selecting a sample data set from each subject in the subject group, selecting a...
7136870 Method and apparatus for accessing and displaying multimedia content  
A multimedia delivery engine and associated database for accessing and displaying varied multimedia content, whether stored on local storage devices or stored remotely on an Internet server, as one...
7133859 Category specific sort and display instructions for an electronic device  
A method and system providing category based sort and display instructions for a computer system having a database of information stored therein are described. A database of contact information is...
7130851 System and method for maintaining and displaying user ordered lists  
A system and method for updating a source copy of an ordered list (the source list) comprising a plurality of list items according to modifications made to the order of the list items in a local...
7130470 System and method of context-based sorting of character strings for use in data base applications  
A method and system for context-based sorting of character strings. A first sorting weight of a current character of a character string is determined from a first table. The first sorting weight is...
7130847 Prefix search method  
Prefix searches for directing internet data packets are performed in a prefix search integrated circuit. The integrated circuit includes an array of search engines, each of which accesses a prefix...
7124268 Sorting method and apparatus using a CAM  
Method and apparatus for using a Content Addressable Memory for sorting a plurality of data items is presented. The data items to be sorted are stored in the Content Addressable Memory. A plurality...
7120624 Optimization based method for estimating the results of aggregate queries  
A method for estimating the result of a query on a database having data records arranged in tables. The database has an expected workload that includes a set of queries that can be executed on the...
7120863 Method, system, and program for interfacing with elements in a document  
Disclosed is a system, method, and program for generating an interface to elements in a document. The document defines a relationship of the elements and at least one attribute for each element. A...
7117451 Method and apparatus in a data processing system for list ordering with multiple selection  
A method, apparatus, and computer implemented instructions for ordering multiple elements within a set of elements in a list in a data processing system. The set of elements are presented in a list...
7117304 System and method for determining a file system layout  
Embodiments of the present invention include a method for determining a file system layout on a disk. The method includes providing a default file system layout comprising a root partition, a swap...
7117206 Method for ranking hyperlinked pages using content and connectivity analysis  
A computerized method determines the ranking of documents including information content. The present method uses both content and connectivity analysis. An input set of documents is represented as...
7117209 Record trimming method, apparatus, and system to improve processing in a sort utility  
Control statements related to record input, output, filtering, and formatting in a data processing system are scanned by a parser to find one or more trimming control parameters referenced in the...
7117199 Spatially coding and displaying information  
An interface program stored on a computer-readable medium for causing a computer system with a display device to perform the functions of: accepting search criteria from a user including a free...
7117208 Enterprise web mining system and method  
An enterprise-wide web data mining system, computer program product, and method of operation thereof, that uses Internet based data sources, and which operates in an automated and cost effective...
7113936 Optimizer improved statistics collection  
Described are techniques for performing compression and decompression of statistical data. This data may be used in connection with performing optimizations. A delta value for each statistic is...
7111000 Retrieval of structured documents  
This disclosure relates to performing a query for a search term of a database containing a plurality of structured documents. Those structured documents that do not include the search term are...
7111003 System and method for inputing data to a sort utility from a user program  
A method and system for inputing data to a sort utility from a user program. In one embodiment, first parameters may facilitate optimization for both programs, by either the user program or the...
7107265 Software management tree implementation for a network processor  
Novel data structures, methods and apparatus for a Software Managed Tree (SMT) which provides a mechanism to create tree structures that follow a search mechanism defined by a control point...
7106330 Drawing comparison apparatus  
After thinning an input image (drawing), a primitive is extracted. First, a rough primitive is extracted, and then the rough primitive becomes a primitive in a merge-split process according to a...
7107256 Information search system, method and program for user specification of result ranking calculation  
An information search system enabling an information searcher to easily surely judge whether each piece of search target information searched is important to the searcher himself or herself. The...
7107280 Method and system for the storage and use of engineering modeling alternatives with unitized data  
A database design modeling system for managing data facets for design scenarios as a collection of hierarchical unitized data alternatives is provided. The database design model allows for easy...
7103589 Method and system for searching, accessing and updating databases  
A system and method for searching, accessing updating database records on a plurality of geographically dispersed databases is provided. Update databases consisting of a plurality of update records...
7103596 Data sort method, data sort apparatus, and data sort program  
A data sort method, apparatus, and program to receive a character string of sort key items specified as keys of a data sort process, generate an automaton corresponding to a record whose final...
7100817 System and method of forestry management using radio frequency identification tags  
A system and method of forestry management using frequency identification tags. In one aspect, the present invention involves a forestry management process that comprises inserting at least one tag...
7103595 Streaming server  
A media server having at least one of a stride-based storage device space allocation scheme, stride-based method of striping data across multiple storage devices for continuous media streaming,...
7099867 Dynamic determination of keyword and degree of importance thereof in system for transmitting and receiving messages  
A message transmitting and receiving apparatus includes a memory device for storing therein a keyword in an IRC and a degree of importance thereof, a unit for detecting an occurrence of a message,...
7099859 System and method for integrating off-line ratings of businesses with search engines  
A computer program product is provided as a business rating system to rank business that are relevant to a given Internet search topic. Business ratings are stored in a ranking repository that can...
7099864 System and method for slow materialization sorting of partially ordered inputs in a database system  
The present system improves the performance of a query in a database system when a plan for the query comprises sorting an input that is at least partially sorted such that a slow materialization...
7096235 Computer implemented compact 0-complete tree dynamic storage structure and method of processing stored data  
A method and apparatus for storage, insertion, deletion, and searching of a database index using a compact representation of a 0-complete binary tree. The compact representation, termed a C 0...
7092956 Deduplication system  
A system to load data in a data warehouse includes reception of a plurality of records, determination, for each of the plurality of records, of values representing differences between a record and...
7089241 Classifier tuning based on data similarities  
A probabilistic classifier is used to classify data items in a data stream. The probabilistic classifier is trained, and an initial classification threshold is set, using unique training and...
7085777 Method and system for tracing the identity of an agricultural product  
A method and system for tracing the identity of an agricultural product comprises holding an agricultural product in a container having a tag. A container identifier of the tag is determined by...