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7499915 Index for accessing XML data  
Techniques are provided for indexing XML documents. According to one embodiment, a PATH table created for storing one row for each indexed node of the XML documents. The PATH table row for a node...
7330857 Search engine with two-dimensional linearly scalable parallel architecture  
In a search engine with two-dimensional scalable architecture for searching of a collection of documents, the search engine comprises data processing units which forms set of nodes connected in a...
7308453 Meta-data approach to indexing, retrieval and management of stored messages in a portable communication device  
This invention describes a method for indexing, retrieval and managing of stored messages using a meta-data approach in a portable communication device such as a mobile electronic device or a...
7260573 Personalizing anchor text scores in a search engine  
A search engine identifies a list of documents from a set of documents in a database in response to a set of query terms. For each document in the list, the search engine determines an information...
7251654 System and method for ranking nodes in a network  
A dangling web page processing system ranks dangling web pages on the web. The system ranks dangling web pages of high quality that cannot be crawled by a crawler. In addition, the system adjusts...
7225187 Systems and methods for performing background queries from content and activity  
Most information retrieval systems start with a user's explicit query. Systems and methods are provided that perform implicit or background queries to one or more information sources based on the...
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...
7162473 Method and system for usage analyzer that determines user accessed sources, indexes data subsets, and associated metadata, processing implicit queries based on potential interest to users  
The present invention relates to systems and methods providing content-access-based information retrieval. Information items from a plurality of disparate information sources that have been...
7133870 Index cards on network hosts for searching, rating, and ranking  
Instead of using a central site including spidering software to recursively search all linked web pages and generate a search index of the Internet, index cards files are created and stored on each...
7120629 Prospects harvester system for providing contact data about customers of product or service offered by business enterprise extracting text documents selected from newsgroups, discussion forums, mailing lists, querying such data to provide customers who confirm to business profile data  
A system and method for providing profile data representing profiles of potential customers of a business enterprise. The system is based on an application service provider architecture, where the...
7107263 Multistage intelligent database search method  
An improved multistage intelligent database search method includes (1) a prefilter that uses a precomputed index to compute a list of most “promising” records that serves as input to the...
7062707 System and method of providing multiple items of index information for a single data object  
A system and method of generating index information for electronic documents. The system includes a client and one or more information retrieval (IR) engines, such as a search engine, which are...
7058516 Computer implemented searching using search criteria comprised of ratings prepared by leading practitioners in biomedical specialties  
The present invention provides a system and method for creating and maintaining a Biomedical document database, wherein the documents have been reviewed by biomedical and other experts, who have...
7007015 Prioritized merging for full-text index on relational store  
A full-text search index system and method is generated by creating instances of a database index from an in-memory inverted list of keywords associated with a text identifier and the occurrences...
6983322 System for discrete parallel processing of queries and updates  
A data driven discrete parallel processing computing system for searches with a key-ordered list of data objects distributed over a plurality of servers. The invention is a data-driven architecture...
6704728 Accessing information from a collection of data  
A method of accessing information from a collection of data includes receiving a query, augmenting the query with canonical non-terminal concepts, generating an inverse index of the collection of...
6571239 Modifying a key-word listing based on user response  
This invention provides methods, apparatus, system, and article of manufacture which solve the problem of mismatch between the keywords employed by a user in making a query and those assigned by...
6542889 Methods and apparatus for similarity text search based on conceptual indexing  
In one aspect of the invention, a method of performing a conceptual similarity search comprises the steps of: generating one or more conceptual word-chains from one or more documents to be used in...
6516337 Sending to a central indexing site meta data or signatures from objects on a computer network  
A search engine utilizes a bottom-up approach to index the content of a network instead of relying on atop-down approach as used by conventional search engines. The network being indexed may be any...
6226630 Method and apparatus for filtering incoming information using a search engine and stored queries defining user folders  
A new system for organizing received messages for a user does not require the user to examine and categorize each received message, and enables the user to conveniently and efficiently modify...
6205472 Method and apparatus for querying a user knowledge profile  
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...
6182063 Method and apparatus for cascaded indexing and retrieval  
Systems and methods consistent with the present invention respond to queries of stored information by receiving a query identifying desired information; providing the query as a search request to a...
6101491 Method and apparatus for distributed indexing and retrieval  
Systems and methods consistent with the present invention access information from databases having stored indexes of completed information corresponding to the databases by receiving a query...
6092064 On-line mining of quantitative association rules  
A computer method of online mining of quantitative association rules consisting of two stages, a preprocessing stage followed by an online rule generation stage. The required computational effort...
5915248 Data searching apparatus  
A data searching apparatus is disclosed which comprises: a request receiving portion for receiving a searching request including searching data and a registering request; a record number providing...
5748953 Document search method wherein stored documents and search queries comprise segmented text data of spaced, nonconsecutive text elements and words segmented by predetermined symbols  
A neighboring plural-character occurrence bitmap of a practical capacity capable of eliminating noises by hashing is realized, and a high speed full text search is realized equivalently, by greatly...
5634051 Information management system  
An information storage, searching and retrieval system for large (gigabytes) domains of archived textual dam. The system includes multiple query generation processes, a search process, and a...
5553284 Method for indexing and searching handwritten documents in a database  
A method for indexing electronic handwritten documents is provided. Each document includes a plurality of output symbols in an output sequence, and is modeled by a respective Hidden Markov Model...
5524240 Method and apparatus for storage and retrieval of handwritten information  
A method is provided for generating an indexed database stored in a computer system. A database is established. The database includes a plurality of data objects. Each data object is defined by a...
5367677 System for iterated generation from an array of records of a posting file with row segments based on column entry value ranges  
A query processing system for processing queries in connection with a document text base which has entries each identifying a document and a word in the document. The query processing system...
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