Query Augmenting And Refining (e.g., Inexact Access)

Query Augmenting And Refining (e.g., Inexact Access) patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.

11/09/06 - 20060253439 - Matching engine for querying relevant documents
A system generates an output of documents having with a particular relevance range. The system receives an initial document comprising text, a list of documents for matching, each document comprising text, and a minimum substring match length. The system normalizes the text of the documents of the list of documents. ...

11/09/06 - 20060253438 - Matching engine with signature generation
A system and a method generates at least one signature associated with document. In one embodiment, a document comprised of text is received and parsed to generate a token set. The token set includes a plurality of tokens. Each token corresponds to the text in the document that is separated ...

11/09/06 - 20060253437 - System and methods for identifying the potential advertising value of terms found on web pages
The present invention provides a method and system for identifying terms in a requested Web document which can be used to identify other web page documents in which the user is likely to have an interest. Terms on previously prepared lists are compared to the content of the Web page ...

11/02/06 - 20060248078 - Search engine with suggestion tool and method of using same
A method and a tool for suggesting search terms and other information during information search based on characters entered by users. Search terms may be suggested based on a heuristic that may take into account frequency of use and indexing of a database. ...

11/02/06 - 20060248077 - Document management system, document management method, and recording medium storing program for document management
There is provided a scanned-document management system including a first user identification information reading unit that acquires identification information of a user who operates a document reading unit; an attribute information generating unit that acquires information of a user identified by the user identification information acquired by the first user ...

11/02/06 - 20060248076 - Automatic expert identification, ranking and literature search based on authorship in large document collections
Disclosed is an author-centric search that facilitates identifying a source commonly associated with a topic by, for example, providing a ranked listing of experts in a field of knowledge related to a search phrase. The search phrase can be captured and parsed into the individual words (e.g., substrings) of the ...

11/02/06 - 20060248075 - Content search device and its method
A content search device includes a content obtaining unit which obtains a content; an attribute information obtaining unit which obtains attribute information about the content; a search key storing unit which stores a search key and the attribute information about the content associated with the search key; a search key ...

11/02/06 - 20060248074 - Term-statistics modification for category-based search
A method for searching a document collection includes providing an index of terms indicating the documents in which the terms appear. A first statistical distribution of each of at least some of the terms in the index and a second statistical distribution of each of at least some of the ...

11/02/06 - 20060248073 - Temporal search results
In certain implementations, a system and/or method is provided for providing search results in response to a search query. In this implementation a temporal profile of the search query is built from temporal data associated with documents retrieved in response to the search query. From features of the temporal profile ...

11/02/06 - 20060248072 - System and method for spam identification
A system and method are provided for improving a user search experience by identifying spam results in a result set produced in response to a query. The system may include a user interface spam feedback mechanism for allowing a user to indicate that a given result is spam. The system ...

11/02/06 - 20060248071 - Automated document localization and layout method
A method which includes segmenting the content of a document into one or more original document structures, determining which of the one or more original document structures are to be localized, replacing the original document structures to be localized with new content, and automatically adjusting the layout of the document ...

11/02/06 - 20060248070 - Structuring document based on table of contents
A document is organized as a plurality of nodes associated with a table of contents. The nodes are clustered into a plurality of clusters based on a similarity criterion. One of the clusters is identified as corresponding to a highest or lowest level of the table of contents based on ...

10/26/06 - 20060242140 - Latent semantic clustering
An embodiment of the present invention provides a computer-based method for automatically identifying clusters of conceptually-related documents in a collection of documents, including the following steps: generating a document-representation of each document in an abstract mathematical space; identifying a plurality of document clusters in the collection of documents based on ...

10/26/06 - 20060242139 - Interestingness ranking of media objects
Media objects, such as images or soundtracks, may be ranked according to a new class of metrics known as “interestingness.” These rankings may be based at least in part on the quantity of user-entered metadata concerning the media object, the number of users who have assigned metadata to the media ...

10/26/06 - 20060242138 - Page-biased search
A system for searching for information is disclosed. The system comprises a search module that obtains a set of results that is responsive to a query. The system also includes a biasing module that ranks members of the set of results based at least in part upon a member of ...

10/19/06 - 20060235842 - Web page ranking for page query across public and private
Documents (web pages) are linked together preferably by Semantic Web links. A pages value is determined in part according to the number of links that link to it. The contribution of a link to the pages value is determined based on a user's accessibility of the page having the link. ...

10/19/06 - 20060235841 - Page rank for the semantic web query
Semantically linked pages are queried based on a user supplied interest vector. The interest vector provides a weight for presenting results from the query of pages. The interest vectors are used to calculate the importance of pages of a query based on the weight of semantic links associated with the ...

10/12/06 - 20060230036 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program
The present invention provides a method for extracting a characteristic word for a given keyword. The user specifies a keyword as domain knowledge in order to extract a characteristic word from a text such as a text related to a field serving as a domain. For example, the user desires ...

10/12/06 - 20060230035 - Estimating confidence for query revision models
An information retrieval system includes a query revision architecture that integrates multiple different query revisers, each implementing one or more query revision strategies. A revision server receives a user's query, and interfaces with the various query revisers, each of which generates one or more potential revised queries. The revision server ...

10/05/06 - 20060224581 - Information retrieval system
In an information retrieval system for retrieving in a data group to be searched, which is stored in a database, a logic model expressing a logic guide in a searching process is developed by additionally registering synonyms and the like to a search keyword by a number of users. By ...

10/05/06 - 20060224580 - Natural language based search engine and methods of use therefor
There is provided a search engine or other electronic search application that receives an inputted query in natural language. The search engine then analyzes the query in accordance with the syntactic relationships of the natural language in which it was presented, weights the syntactic relationships, and generates a result to ...

10/05/06 - 20060224579 - Data mining techniques for improving search engine relevance
The subject invention relates to systems and methods that automatically learn data relevance from past search activities and apply such learning to facilitate future search activities. In one aspect, an automated information retrieval system is provided. The system includes a learning component that analyzes stored information retrieval data to determine ...

10/05/06 - 20060224578 - Optimized cache efficiency behavior
A method is provided for storing and providing responses to keyword search queries and other queries. One of a plurality of memory devices for storing a query answer is selected based on a hash value of the query. The hash value is used to select a permutation for ordering the ...

10/05/06 - 20060224577 - Automated relevance tuning
A system and method for optimizing the performance of a document ranker in a search engine. Weights are assigned to the document features considered by the document ranker. The weights are optimized to produce the highest possible relative ranking for a group of test documents in response to an associated ...

09/28/06 - 20060218142 - Document managing system, method and apparatus, printing apparatus and information processing apparatus for the system, program for implementing the method, and storing medium storing the program
A document managing system that is capable of realizing enhanced operability in inputting a search condition or the like when any of registered documents is searched for and printed. A document is registered in a document managing apparatus. A search condition to search through the registered documents for a specific ...

09/28/06 - 20060218141 - Method and apparatus for a ranking engine
A computer-implemented method is provided for ranking files from an Internet search. In one embodiment, the method comprises assigning a score to each file based on at least one of the following factors: recency, editorial popularity, clickthru popularity, favorites metadata, or favorites collaborative filtering. The files may be organized based ...

09/28/06 - 20060218140 - Method and apparatus for labeling in steered visual analysis of collections of documents
A method of labeling in steered visual analysis of a collection of documents, the method comprising receiving a query against a database including a collection of documents; representing contents of the query as a matrix; rotating document vectors associated with respective documents to match the matrix to produce a matrix ...

09/28/06 - 20060218139 - Document management apparatus and method
A document operation unit operates on a plurality of documents in response to a user's operation request. A document relation data acquirement unit acquires relation data among the plurality of documents. The relation data includes an identifier of the user, a date of an operation, a kind of the operation, ...

09/28/06 - 20060218138 - System and method for improving search relevance
A system and method for performing context based document searching is provided. A grid of content tiles is constructed corresponding to a desired concept space. Each content tile is assigned a content tag and is associated with a series of feature values. The feature values are trained to correspond to ...

09/28/06 - 20060218137 - Method of and an apparatus for retrieving and delivering documents and a recording media on which a program for retrieving and delivering documents are stored
Retrieval conditions inputted from a plurality of users are registered. According to the retrieval conditions, a retrieval is conducted for a text inputted. As a result of the retrieval, similarity of the text is calculated for each retrieval condition. The text is delivered to users of which the retrieval condition ...

09/28/06 - 20060218136 - Processing data records for finding counterparts in a reference data set
The present invention relates to a method of processing a data record for finding a counterpart in a reference data set. In the data record a value of a data field is determined, where the data field represents an identifier. At least one synonym candidate for the value of the ...

09/21/06 - 20060212446 - Method and system for assessing relevant properties of work contexts for use by information services
An information retrieval system for automatically retrieving information related to the context of an active task being manipulated by a user. The system observes the operation of the active task and user interactions, and utilizes predetermined criteria to generate context representation of the active task that are relevant to the ...

09/21/06 - 20060212445 - Method, system, and computer readable medium for managing resource links
Resource links also known as Unified Resource Links (URL's), bookmarks, hyperlinks etc. located ina category hierarchy. The resource links are used to navigate on the world wide web, on a local machine, on the internet, or on an intranet. A method of assessing a users competence in a category in ...

09/21/06 - 20060212444 - Methods and systems for utilizing contextual feedback to generate and modify playlists
Systems and methods of generating and modifying a playlist using contextual information are disclosed. For example, a user may provide an input seed such as a song name or artist name. The input seed is compared to database items and a playlist is generated as a result. In some examples, ...

09/21/06 - 20060212443 - Contextual interactive support system
The present invention provides a method and a graphical user interface for contextual interactive support. The method includes providing information indicative of a plurality of words selected from a document set, receiving information indicative of a selected subset of the plurality of words, and determining context representations associated with each ...

09/21/06 - 20060212442 - Methods of presenting and providing content to a user
Methods of presenting and providing content to a user are disclosed. For example, a user may provide an input seed such as a song name or artist name. The input seed is compared to database items and a playlist is generated as a result. The playlist has an identifier corresponding ...

09/21/06 - 20060212441 - Full text query and search systems and methods of use
The invention is a method for textual searching of text-based databases including databases of compiled internet content, scientific literature, abstracts for books and articles, newspapers, journals, and the like. Specifically, the algorithm supports searches using full-text or webpage as query and keyword searches allowing multiple entries and an information-content based ...

09/14/06 - 20060206479 - Keyword effectiveness prediction method and apparatus
Methods, apparatuses, and articles for computing a predictive measure for an advertising effectiveness metric for the one or more advertising keywords based at least in part on one or more feature values of the keywords employing a prediction function of the effectiveness metric, are described herein. In various embodiments, the ...

09/14/06 - 20060206478 - Playlist generating methods
Methods of generating a playlist for a user are disclosed. For example, an input seed from the user associated with one or more items in a database is received. The input seed may be a song name or artist name. Characteristics that correspond to the input seed are identified. One ...

09/14/06 - 20060206477 - Computing probabilistic answers to queries
A system that supports arbitrarily complex SQL queries with “uncertain” predicates. The query semantics are based on a probabilistic model and the results are ranked, much like in Information Retrieval, based upon their probability. An optimization algorithm is employed that can efficiently compute most queries. The algorithm attempts to determine ...

09/14/06 - 20060206476 - Reranking and increasing the relevance of the results of internet searches
Techniques are provided for reranking and increasing the relevance of the results Internet searches. A search query is initially parsed into individual units. Each unit corresponds to one or more words that represents a natural concept. A concept network is analyzed to locate concepts that are related to the units ...

09/14/06 - 20060206475 - System and method for generating attribute-based selectable search extension
A system and related techniques generate alternative search terms derived from a set of search results. A user may input a set of search terms such as keywords or other inputs, and receive a set of search results back, for instance in rank order of estimated relevance to the user's ...

09/14/06 - 20060206474 - System for modifying queries before presentation to a sponsored search generator or other matching system where modifications improve coverage without a corresponding reduction in relevance
Techniques are provided for modifying queries to increase the number of sponsored links that are returned in response to the queries. A query modification system uses a predefined set of rules that are designated to modify a query to increase the chance that the modified query will match more sponsored ...

09/07/06 - 20060200462 - System and method for retrieving and organizing information from disparate computer network information services
A system and method is provided for accessing information from a plurality of searchable information sources. The method includes the steps of: analyzing a user search query to determine a subject matter of the query; and selecting a sub-set of information from the plurality of information sources based upon the ...

09/07/06 - 20060200461 - Process for identifying weighted contextural relationships between unrelated documents
A system that builds a network using a document collection wherein the documents are collected and represented as a plurality of nodes in a network matrix. The documents that are to be analyzed are bound to the network (corpus) at a discrete node corresponding to the document. The documents are ...

09/07/06 - 20060200460 - System and method for ranking search results using file types
Search results of a search query on a network are ranked according to an additional ranking function for the prior probability of relevance of a document based on document property. The document property may be the document's file type, the file size, the document language, or another query-independent property of ...

09/07/06 - 20060200459 - Tiered access to integrated rating system
Tiered-access to data from which integrated ratings on companies is derived to users at machines connected to a distributed computer network. All users are presented with a name of a particular company in association with a computed integrated rating through a first interface component. Only a subset of the users ...

08/31/06 - 20060195443 - Information prioritisation system and method
The present invention relates to an information prioritisation system which is preferably implemented using at least one computer system. This prioritisation system may be adapted to execute the steps of initially receiving an input results set with this results set including a subset of at least one advertiser result. The ...

08/31/06 - 20060195442 - Network promotional system and method
A search engine (1) capable of providing a listing of destinations (4) in response to searches for a user-inputted search term (6), said search engine (1) further providing at least one suggestions (10) listing derived from users previously inputted search terms (6) and/or destinations (4) selected, characterized in that at ...

08/31/06 - 20060195441 - System and method for delivering content to users on a network
Targeted content may be provided to a designated set of one or more interconnected resources. Programmatic operations are executed using resources that are private to the one or more interconnected devices. The operations, when executed, cause or result in (i) monitoring activities of one or more users of the designated ...

08/31/06 - 20060195440 - Ranking results using multiple nested ranking
A unique system and method that facilitates improving the ranking of items is provided. The system and method involve re-ranking decreasing subsets of high ranked items in separate stages. In particular, a basic ranking component can rank a set of items. A subset of the top or high ranking items ...

08/31/06 - 20060195439 - System and method for determining initial relevance of a document with respect to a given category
A system and method are provided for determining document relevance determination to a selected category for a document contained within a linked network of documents. The network may be represented by a network map including nodes representing documents and edges representing links between the documents. The method may include identifying ...

08/24/06 - 20060190448 - Method, system, and computer program product for creating navigation views based on historical user behavior
The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for creating navigation views based on historical user behavior. The method comprises: tracking pages navigated by a user through a site to provide tracking data; generating a complete site view displaying all pages in the site; generating a reduced ...

08/17/06 - 20060184522 - Systems and methods for generating and processing evolutionary documents
An evolutionary document system comprises: a multi-function printer, a recognition module, an evolutionary document processing module, a list of document identifiers and corresponding actions, and an evolutionary document creation module. The MFP includes software and control routines for processing and creating evolutionary documents. The recognition module is operable on the ...

08/17/06 - 20060184521 - Compressed document surrogates
Disclosed is a method and device for storing information about Web documents such as pages or sites in a manner which may be used in conjunction with inverted term lists to facilitate the retrieval of documents of interest from the Web. The method involves constructing compressed surrogates for documents, such ...

08/10/06 - 20060179051 - Methods and apparatus for steering the analyses of collections of documents
A method for steering the analysis of a collection of documents includes receiving query terms for use in querying a database including a collection of documents; representing at least some of the query terms in a matrix; rotating document vectors associated with the documents to match the matrix to produce ...

08/10/06 - 20060179050 - Probabilistic model for record linkage
A method for probabilistic record linkage includes providing a record pair comprising a plurality of fields, providing a plurality of scenarios, each scenario relating to a distribution of patterns among a plurality of attribute statuses, and comparing the record pair to determine a record difference. The method includes determining a ...

08/03/06 - 20060173839 - Method for re-ranking documents retrieved from a multi-lingual document database
A computer-implemented method for processing documents in a multi-lingual document database includes generating an initial ranking of retrieved multi-lingual documents using an information retrieval system and based upon a user search query, and processing vocabulary words based upon occurrences thereof in at least some of the retrieved multi-lingual documents. Respective ...

08/03/06 - 20060173838 - Content navigation service
A system, method, and computer program product for presenting items within a list of items based on an individual user profile, a social network of friends of the user or a mood of the user. The system generates the individual profile of the user, determines passive friends of the user ...

08/03/06 - 20060173837 - Systems, methods, and media for awarding credits based on provided usage information
Systems, methods and media for awarding credits based on provided usage information are disclosed. More particularly, hardware and/or software for collecting and disseminating usage information related to electronic documents and for awarding usage credits to users in exchange for providing usage information are disclosed. Embodiments include receiving an indication of ...

08/03/06 - 20060173836 - Method for selecting products of a process automation engineering device via internet
In a method for selecting products via the Internet, an Internet connection is established between a customer-side client-computer, which contains a planning module, and a manufacturer-side server, which contains a product database. After selecting at least one product line from the product database by querying of basic data via the ...

07/27/06 - 20060167870 - Adjudication means in method and system for managing service levels provided by service providers
A method and system for managing a service level of a service provided by a service provider to a customer under a service level agreement. The measurement data is adjudicated to correct the measurement data in accordance with at least one adjudication element that identifies a rule specifying how to ...

07/20/06 - 20060161543 - Systems and methods for providing search results based on linguistic analysis
A system and method providing search results based on linguistic analysis is provided. The method comprises receiving content from one or more documents associated with search parameters entered by a user. Language associated with the content based on linguistic parameters is then analyzed. A score is assigned to the content ...

07/20/06 - 20060161542 - Systems and methods that enable search engines to present relevant snippets
The subject invention relates to systems and methods that provide search and/or query-relevant information and/or links thereto to a user as and/or with a search and/or query result. This information can be determined form summary information that can be included within a tag, header, body, meta-data, etc. of the data. ...

07/20/06 - 20060161541 - System and method for prefetching and caching query results
A system and method are provided for implementing information from an advertising system within a search system that includes a search system cache. The method may include accessing information contained within an advertising database of the advertising system, and generating search results based on the accessed information. The method may ...

07/06/06 - 20060149728 - Capturing and presenting site visitation path data
Node sequence data, such as website visitation records, are filtered, analyzed, and summarized in reports. An administrator can designate particular target paths of interest in terms of a checkpoint node sequence. Node sequences are filtered based on the checkpoint node sequence, without regard to any additional or tangential nodes appearing ...

07/06/06 - 20060149727 - Content control
The invention relates to content which can be accessed via a user device 20. In order to allow preventing users of a user device in an efficient and flexible way from consuming content to which they should not have access, a second device 26 stores an indication 29 of at ...

07/06/06 - 20060149726 - Segmentation of web pages
A system and method for segmentation of web pages is provided. In one embodiment, the invention is a method. The method includes receiving a request for a web page. The method also includes splitting the web page into displayable sections. The method further includes serving a first section of the ...

07/06/06 - 20060149725 - Managing electronic documents
A method of reducing a user's work load relating to administrating an electronic document includes displaying an electronic document to a user in a computer system, and receiving an input from the user, the input specifying a future time when a predefined action is to be automatically taken with regard ...

06/29/06 - 20060143171 - System and method for processing a text search query in a collection of documents
The present system processes a text search query on a collection of documents in which a text search query is translated into conditions on index terms. The system groups documents in blocks of N and generates and stores a block posting index enumerating blocks in which the index term occurs ...

06/29/06 - 20060143170 - Processing data-stream join aggregates using skimmed sketches
A method of estimating an aggregate of a join over data-streams in real-time using skimmed sketches, that only examines each data element once and has a worst case space requirement of O(n2/J), where J is the size of the join and n is the number of data elements. The skimmed ...

06/22/06 - 20060136412 - Document management system and document management method
There is provided a document management system for retrieving document information from storage unit which correlates and stores user information, keyword information set for every user, and document information, the document management system including a first retrieval unit configured to retrieve document information from the storage unit using a first ...

06/22/06 - 20060136411 - Ranking search results using feature extraction
Methods and computer-readable media are provided for ranking search results using feature extraction data. Each of the results of a search engine query is parsed to obtain data, such as text, formatting information, metadata, and the like. The text, the formatting information and the metadata are passed through a feature ...

06/22/06 - 20060136410 - Method and apparatus for explaining categorization decisions
Feature selection is used to determine feature influence for a given categorization decision to identify those features in a categorized document that were important in classifying the document into one or more classes. In one embodiment, model parameters of a categorization model are used to determine the features that contributed ...

06/15/06 - 20060129552 - Relevancy-based database retrieval and display techniques
Techniques to retrieve, rank and display data objects retrieved form a database are described. In particular, methods to assign a global ranking value to a data object based on a combination of that object's link-based (e.g., vector-space cluster analysis) and text-based (e.g., word frequency) ranks are described. Additional techniques to ...

06/15/06 - 20060129551 - Method and apparatus for leisure & entertainment merchandising
Leisure & entertainment attraction information is available from commercial attraction-provider servers. Users subscribe to a computerized service to facilitate making arrangements for visiting such attractions. Subscribers fill in wish-lists to specify their level of interest in specific attractions, in getting together with specific other subscribers, and in arranging their preferred ...

06/15/06 - 20060129550 - Associating documents with classifications and ranking documents based on classification weights
A method and apparatus for associating documents with classification values and ranking documents based on classification weights is provided. It is determined if a document is associated a classification. If the document is associated with a classification, then it is determined if a classification value, which is associated with the ...

06/15/06 - 20060129549 - Topic-focused web navigation
A method includes, in a network of interconnected computer systems, storing a first list of links represented as universal resource locators (URLs) that match a first search request, displaying a first page in response to a navigational input, highlighting links on a second displayed page that match links contained in ...

06/15/06 - 20060129548 - Device and method for comparing digital text documents
The invention relates to a method for comparing and analysing digital documents. The present invention is founded on the basic principle of searching for unambiguous roots in both documents. These roots are units which occur in both documents and in each case are unique. These roots can be individual words, ...

06/15/06 - 20060129547 - Information processing device and information processing method, recording medium, and computer program
The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and an information processing method, a recording medium, and a program that make it possible to generate a positive history vector and a negative history vector. In step S71, a negative history vector is generated from initially registered contents. When it ...

06/08/06 - 20060123000 - Machine learning system for extracting structured records from web pages and other text sources
A method for extracting a structured record (190) from a document (100) is described where the the structured record includes information related to a predetermined subject matter (120), with this information being organized into categories within the structured record. The method comprises the steps of identifying a span of text ...

06/08/06 - 20060122999 - Apparatus for and method of producing graphics contents and computer-readable recording medium storing computer program for executing the method
An apparatus for and method of producing graphics contents and a computer-readable recording medium storing a computer program for executing the method are provided. The apparatus produces graphics contents using a query item, which is a query object indicating graphics contents that a user desires to produce. The apparatus includes: ...

06/08/06 - 20060122998 - System, method, and service for using a focused random walk to produce samples on a topic from a collection of hyper-linked pages
A focused random walk system produces samples of on-topic pages from a collection of hyper-linked pages such as Web pages. The focused random walk system utilizes a focused random walk to produce a focused sample, which is a random sample of Web pages focused on a topic. The focused random ...

06/08/06 - 20060122997 - System and method for text searching using weighted keywords
A system for text searching. The system comprises an interface, a search module, and a weighting module. The interface receives a search query comprising a plurality of keywords and weighting factors associated therewith. The search module executes a search process using the keywords, and generates a search result comprising a ...

05/25/06 - 20060112095 - User preference techniques for support vector machines in content based image retrieval
Searching multimedia information which allows determining preferences based on very little amounts of data. The preferences are nonparametrically determined. Each preference is quantized into one of a plurality of bins. By doing the quantization, the distances between positive and negative samples are increased. The quantization amount may change depending on ...

05/25/06 - 20060112094 - Method, system, and software for correcting uniform resource locators
A uniform resource locator (URL) entered into a browser may be altered to correct misspellings or other errors in the URL. The prefix, the domain name and the domain extension may all be spell checked, compared with lists of homophones, compared with commonly misspelled URLs, and compared with similar URLs ...

05/25/06 - 20060112093 - Method, system, and program for collecting statistics of data stored in a database
The present invention relates to collecting statistics automatically for data in a database. There is provided a method for automated statistics collection comprising determining a likelihood that statistics for data have changed; and collecting statistics for data in response to the likelihood. Indicators of the likelihood that statistics have changed ...

05/25/06 - 20060112092 - Content-based image retrieval method
Although negative example can be highly useful to better understand the user's needs in content-based image retrieval, it was considered by few authors. A content-based image retrieval method according to the present invention addresses some issues related to the combination of positive and negative examples to perform a more efficient ...

05/18/06 - 20060106794 - Methods and systems for allowing third party client applications to influence implementation of high-level document commands
A mechanism is described for allowing third party client applications to affect how high-level document commands are implemented in a database. After a high-level document command meeting certain criteria is received in a database management system, the system identifies one or more third party client application that are to be ...

05/18/06 - 20060106793 - Internet and computer information retrieval and mining with intelligent conceptual filtering, visualization and automation
The present invention presents embodiments of methods, systems, and computer-readable media for the retrieval, mining, filtering and visualization of information stored on a plural of computers connected to the Internet and on a local computer. Embodiments of this invention generate a conceptual search query using a description provided by a ...

05/18/06 - 20060106792 - Multiple index based information retrieval system
An information retrieval system uses phrases to index, retrieve, organize and describe documents. Phrases are identified that predict the presence of other phrases in documents. Documents are the indexed according to their included phrases. The document index is partitioned into multiple indexes, including a primary index and a secondary index. ...

04/20/06 - 20060085415 - Multiple conditions dynamic data sorting apparatus and method
The invention provides a data sorting apparatus, which sorts a plurality of contact data according to their events. The data sorting apparatus includes a memory module, a mapping module, a calculation module and a sorting module. The memory module is used to store the contact data and events, where each ...

04/20/06 - 20060085414 - System and methods for reference resolution
Reference resolution may be modeled as an optimization problem, where certain techniques disclosed herein can identify the most probable references by simultaneously satisfying a plurality of matching constraints, such as semantic, temporal, and contextual constraints. Two structures are generated. The first comprises information describing one or more referring expressions and ...

04/13/06 - 20060080314 - System with user directed enrichment and import/export control
A system for enriching document content using enrichment themes includes a directed search service and an import-export service. The directed search service allows users to author documents while querying information providers using the directed searches that are inserted as part of the authored documents. The import-export service enables meta-document exchanges ...

04/13/06 - 20060080313 - Midware system 10 and method
A method and system for users to connect, extract, query and transform data from multiple databases, independent of their format, type, and location. The system comprises a setup portion, a meta database, and a user portion. The setup portion establishes datasets for use by the system with the user portion. ...

04/13/06 - 20060080312 - Methods, systems and computer program products for associating records in healthcare databases with individuals
Methods, systems and computer program products for associating healthcare records in healthcare databases with an individual are provided. One or more attribute types are located in first and second records. The one or more attribute types being associated with the individual. A weighted score is determined for the located at ...

04/13/06 - 20060080311 - Agent-based method for distributed clustering of textual information
A computer method and system for storing, retrieving and displaying information has a multiplexing agent (20) that calculates a new document vector (25) for a new document (21) to be added to the system and transmits the new document vector (25) to master cluster agents (22) and cluster agents (23) ...

04/06/06 - 20060074906 - Self-organization approach to semantic interoperability in peer-to-peer information exchange
In the exchange of information in a peer-to-peer information system network, the problem of semantic interoperability of the communication system used by the agent associated with every peer is addressed not by imposing a universal pre-defined ontology over universally defined conceptual schemata, but instead using mechanisms, inspired from natural language, ...

04/06/06 - 20060074905 - Systems and methods of retrieving topic specific information
The present invention provides systems and methods of searching web pages relevant to a specific topic based on quality of individual pages. The rank of a page for a keyword may be a combination of analytic rank and editorial rank. The analytic rank of a page may be calculated by ...

04/06/06 - 20060074904 - Content delivery rendering engine
A method and apparatus for a content delivery rendering engine. An embodiment of a method includes establishing a matching rule for generation of a web page; receiving a request for the web page; obtaining content for the web page from a database, with the content for the web page being ...

04/06/06 - 20060074903 - System and method for ranking search results using click distance
Search results of a search query on a network are ranked according to an additional click distance property associated with each of the documents on the network. The click distance is measurement of the number clicks or user navigations from a page or pages on the network designated as highest ...

04/06/06 - 20060074902 - Forming intent-based clusters and employing same by search
A method is provided for analyzing a plurality of search sessions to identify intent-based clusters therein. Each session comprises at least one received query from a user and a corresponding set of returned search results, and each set of search results includes or refers to at least one piece of ...

04/06/06 - 20060074901 - Canonical abstraction for outerjoin optimization
A system, apparatus, and program storage device implementing a method of optimizing queries used for searching a computerized database, wherein the method comprises providing a query comprising a sequence of inner joins and outerjoins; and rewriting the query by producing a sequence of outer Cartesian products for the query; producing ...

04/06/06 - 20060074900 - Selecting keywords representative of a document
The method makes use of a given ontology to select keywords representative of a given document. The method finds all the terms in an ontology that occur in a document, and computes their frequency of occurrences in the document. The method then propagates these values from the leaves upwards to ...

03/30/06 - 20060069678 - Method and apparatus for text classification using minimum classification error to train generalized linear classifier
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for generating a classifier for classifying text. Minimum classification error (MCE) techniques are employed to train generalized linear classifiers for text classification. In particular, minimum classification error training is performed on an initial generalized linear classifier to generate a trained initial classifier. A boosting algorithm, ...

03/16/06 - 20060059144 - Method, system, and computer program product for searching for, navigating among, and ranking of documents in a personal web
A method, apparatus, and computer program product for a personal search engine that includes a hybrid web composed of: the similarity web, and directed hyperlinks. Components include a parser (extracting words from documents); a text relevance analyzer; a link analysis method; the similarity web; a similarity analyzer; and hyperlinks. Other ...

03/16/06 - 20060059143 - User interface for conducting a search directed by a hierarchy-free set of topics
A computer implemented method, and a software product for directing a search aided by a set of topics, the topics not necessarily having a hierarchy. Each topic is attached to at least one information item of a plurality of information items, such as a Web page identified by a URL. ...

03/16/06 - 20060059142 - System and method of modifying an on-line dating search using inline editing
A method, system, and apparatus are directed towards enabling a subscriber of an online dating service to perform a search for potential candidates to a long-term relationship. Various search criteria may be employed to generate an initial list of candidates. The invention employs the search criteria to identify a potential ...

03/16/06 - 20060059141 - System and method for providing information via a network
An efficient method and system is provided for promptly providing recommended information on a product or service giving consideration to a site user trend. It comprises a recommended information providing server for managing information on users and user terminals used by users to access the recommended information providing server. The ...

03/09/06 - 20060053108 - System and method for predicting human posture using a rules-based sequential approach
According to one embodiment of the invention, a computerized method for predicting posture of a living object includes storing a plurality of posturing rules for a respective activity in a storage location, receiving a start posture of a first living object for the activity, receiving a location of a target ...

03/02/06 - 20060047651 - Facility for highlighting documents accessed through search or browsing
An information highlighting facility assists the user in evaluating relevance of accessed documents to the user's information need. The accessed documents may, for example, be identified by a search engine in response to a user query. When accessing documents identified as relevant by a search engine from other networked computers, ...

03/02/06 - 20060047650 - Trainable record searcher
A trainable record searcher is described. The trainable record searcher includes an iterative rules engine including at least an existing knowledge set, a plurality of rules, developed and entered to the iterative rules engine by at least one expert in at least one field of interest, a plurality of records ...

02/23/06 - 20060041551 - Reducing index size for multi-level grid indexes
Techniques of querying an index of first objects comprised of a plurality of index entries and a pool of second objects are provided. The techniques include evaluating the index of the first objects to produce a group of one or more possible candidates based on whether one or more index ...

02/23/06 - 20060041550 - Method and apparatus for responding to end-user request for information-personalization
The present invention relates to an advanced search engine. The advanced search engine may include a client component for monitoring an end-user's browsing activity, a remote server (may comprise one or more computers) for storing and processing data received from the client component, and a module that process web pages ...

02/23/06 - 20060041549 - Mapping web sites based on significance of contact and category
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for mapping Web sites based on significance of contact and category. A Web browser's contact with one or more Web sites is detected. A portion of content is gathered from each of the contacted Web sites. A weight and/or ...

02/23/06 - 20060041548 - System and method for estimating user ratings from user behavior and providing recommendations
A recommendation system and method for generating a set of recommended items for a user who browses items from an item data store. The recommendation system estimates ratings for at least some of the items previously viewed by the user, and then constructs a representation of the user's implicit ratings ...

02/23/06 - 20060041547 - Business intelligence monitoring tool
An improved method and apparatus for auditing database queries, wherein comments are added by a server prior to the server forwarding the queries to the database system. The comments are then used to derive audit information, which is correlated with other audit information in a different server, to produce a ...

02/23/06 - 20060041546 - Consulting system using network, content making method and recording medium for storing a program to perform the system and method
The present invention discloses a consulting system using network, a content making method and a recording medium for storing a program to perform the system and method. While a user replies questions given in a system, a consulting system using network supplies personalized final answers. The consulting system using network ...

02/16/06 - 20060036598 - Computerized method for ranking linked information items in distributed sources
A computerized method used by a distributed Web search engine for computing a ranking score associated with an item, such as a Web page, comprising the steps of: (1) generating a grouping of items in the Web according to Web sites, geographic criterion, and/or field, (2) determining links among groups; ...

02/16/06 - 20060036597 - Information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program
The present invention includes an information processing apparatus performing a process for a plurality of object contents that each has a characteristic represented by a plurality of different characteristic amounts and becomes an object of search or recommendation. The apparatus includes weight calculation means for calculating, from preference degrees of ...

02/16/06 - 20060036596 - Method and system for summarizing a document
A method and system for calculating the significance of a sentence within a document is provided. The summarization system calculates the significance of the sentences of a document and selects the most significant sentences as the summary of the document. The summarization system calculates the significance of a sentence based ...

02/16/06 - 20060036595 - Role-based dynamically customizable dashboards
The present invention provides for sharing information among a plurality of dashboards. Employment of at least one metric of a first dashboard is monitored. An indicia of the monitored metric is transmitted. The indicia of the monitored metric is received. An indicia associated with the monitored metric is displayed on ...

02/09/06 - 20060031219 - Method and apparatus for informational processing based on creation of term-proximity graphs and their embeddings into informational units
A method for processing a document in a set of documents is disclosed comprising the steps of generating a topological search query comprising a set of search terms having a defined interrelationship between at least two of the terms, and generating a non-linear representation for at least one document in ...

02/09/06 - 20060031218 - Intelligent query system and method using phrase-code frequency-inverse phrase-code document frequency module
An intelligent query system and method used in a search and retrieval system provides an end-user the most relevant, meaningful, up-to-date, and precise search results. The system and method allows an end-user to benefit from an experienced recommendation that is tailored to a specific industry. For example, the system and ...

02/09/06 - 20060031217 - Method and apparatus for ontology-based classification of media content
A method and apparatus for ontology-based classification of media content are provided. With the method and apparatus, initial confidence values of classifiers in a hierarchical classification structure are modified based on relationships between classifiers. A confidence value for a classifier is boosted by a boosting factor based on a correspondence ...

02/02/06 - 20060026156 - Method for linking de-identified patients using encrypted and unencrypted demographic and healthcare information from multiple data sources
A longitudinal database of de-identified patient healthcare transaction data records linked by longitudinal linking tags (IDs) is provided. A new healthcare transaction data record, which may include alphanumeric identification code attributes, third party attributes and/or demographic attributes, is assigned an linking ID associated with a previous healthcare transaction data record ...

02/02/06 - 20060026155 - Information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program
An input unit supplies a logic operation expression made up of a plurality of retrieval keys and logic operators between the retrieval keys, entered by the user, to a control unit. A similarity calculating unit calculates similarities between key contents designated by the retrieval keys and a plurality of retrievable ...

02/02/06 - 20060026154 - System and method for adaptive database caching
A local database cache enabling persistent, adaptive caching of either full or partial content of a remote database is provided. Content of tables comprising a local cache database is defined on per-table basis. A table is either: defined declaratively and populated in advance of query execution, or is determined dynamically ...

02/02/06 - 20060026153 - Hypercube topology based advanced search algorithm
The present invention is a system and method of conducting an adaptive search from a plurality of data sources utilizing a hypercube topology. The system includes a search engine which utilizes a hypercube architecture having a plurality of hypercubes. Each hypercube indexes several data sources in a manner such that ...

02/02/06 - 20060026152 - Query-based snippet clustering for search result grouping
A clustering architecture that dynamically groups the search result documents into clusters labeled by phrases extracted from the search result snippets. Documents related to the same topic usually share a common vocabulary. The words are first clustered based on their co-occurrences and each cluster forms a potentially interesting topic. Keywords ...

01/26/06 - 20060020593 - Dynamic search processor
The present invention provides systems and methods in which user-created and user-selectable personas are used to enhance a search string for submission to a search engine. The persona information can also be used to filter or rank search results. A given user can combine multiple characteristics in various ways to ...

01/19/06 - 20060015493 - Enhanced records manager and related methods
A system for enabling an RMA for different system applications residing on the same computer system while avoiding enablement of the RMA for each of the system applications separately is provided. The system includes a monitoring module to monitor system application directories, a record generation module to generate an RMA-managed ...

01/12/06 - 20060010128 - Storage medium storing program, method and apparatus presenting guide captions for categorizing files
An apparatus for presenting information of document files, the document files being stored on a document database where the document files are categorized and stored into any of predefined category bins, the apparatus includes: a selecting section that selects at least some of document files stored on the document database ...

01/05/06 - 20060004747 - Automated taxonomy generation
In a hierarchical taxonomy of document, the categories of information may be structured as a binary tree with the nodes of the binary tree containing information relevant to the search. The binary tree may be ‘trained’ or formed by examining a training set of documents and separating those documents into ...

12/29/05 - 20050289140 - Search query processing to provide category-ranked presentation of search results
A search engine system displays the results of a multiple-category search according to levels of relevance of the categories to a user's search query. A query server receives a search query from a user and identifies, within each of multiple item categories, a set of items that satisfy the query. ...

12/29/05 - 20050289139 - Information processing apparatus and method, information recording medium, and computer program
An information processing apparatus includes a content usage control information analyzer configured to read content usage control information recorded on an information recording medium and to perform content usage processing according to the content usage control information. The content usage control information analyzer determines whether the usage of content corresponding ...

12/29/05 - 20050289138 - Aggregate indexing of structured and unstructured marked-up content
A system and method for near real-time, high performance analysis, including indexing and searching, of large amount of structured and unstructured content represented in XML format using summary information along multiple groupings. This operational data store system and method provides a new data structure representation and query technique which allows ...

12/22/05 - 20050283474 - Knowledge system
A method of assembling a knowledge database containing question and answer pairs, the method comprising the steps of: extracting questions from a multiplicity of electronic communications; enabling the sender of the communication to examine and select or deselect the extracted question(s); classifying each question based upon the content of the ...

12/22/05 - 20050283473 - Apparatus, method and system of artificial intelligence for data searching applications
An apparatus, method, and system for a Artificial Intelligence for Data Searching Applications (AIDSA) that improves upon search systems. The AIDSA enables searchers to better target their searches and yield better search results by intelligently identifying, interrelating, and executing searches including synonyms of keywords. In one embodiment, the AIDSA expands ...

12/15/05 - 20050278323 - System and methods for constructing personalized context-sensitive portal pages or views by analyzing patterns of users' information access activities
The present invention relates to a system and methodology to assist users with data access activities and that includes such activities as routine web browsing and/or data access applications. A coalesced display or montage of aggregated information is provided that is focused from a plurality of sources to achieve substantially ...

12/15/05 - 20050278322 - System and method for mining time-changing data streams
A general framework for mining concept-drifting data streams using weighted ensemble classifiers. An ensemble of classification models, such as C4.5, RIPPER, naive Bayesian, etc., is trained from sequential chunks of the data stream. The classifiers in the ensemble are judiciously weighted based on their expected classification accuracy on the test ...

12/01/05 - 20050267883 - Methods and systems for simplifying access to video content
A method, computer readable medium, and system for simplifying access to content includes requesting content in response to activation of a link associated with the content. Operating environment information about a recipient system is also obtained in response to the activation. One of a plurality of versions of the content ...

11/24/05 - 20050262074 - 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 to at least the request, technical and logical information for locating and processing the foreign data source are automatically identified. Foreign ...

11/17/05 - 20050256868 - Document search system
A document search system including an input device configured to derive an electronic source document from an original hardcopy document, a processor configured to generate an electronic search report based on search criteria defined in relation to the electronic source document, and an output device configured to automatically present the ...

11/17/05 - 20050256867 - Search systems and methods with integration of aggregate user annotations
Computer systems and methods allow users to annotate content items found in a corpus such as the World Wide Web. Annotations, which can include any descriptive and/or evaluative metadata related to a document, are collected from a user and stored in association with that user. Users are able to annotate ...

11/17/05 - 20050256866 - Search system and methods with integration of user annotations from a trust network
Computer systems and methods incorporate user annotations (metadata) regarding various pages or sites, including annotations by a querying user and by members of a trust network defined for the querying user into search and browsing of a corpus such as the World Wide Web. A trust network is defined for ...

11/17/05 - 20050256865 - Method and system for indexing and searching databases
A search system generates an index for databases by generatively sampling the databases and uses that index to identify and formulate queries for searching the databases. The generated index is referred to as a domain-attribute index and contains a domain-level index and site-level indexes. A site-level index for a database ...

11/17/05 - 20050256864 - Fast comparison using multi-level version format
A system and method to implement a technique to compare a collection of files. A reference index is extracted from a reference version file. The reference index specifies contents of a reference directory at a binary level. A target index is extracted from a target version file. The target index ...

11/03/05 - 20050246335 - Method and system for modifying orders
A system for modifying an order without requiring changes in the manufacturing processes associated with that order, or while minimizing such changes, may include a storage system having a database. The system may include a processor configured to load the database with orders that dealers want to modify, and to ...

11/03/05 - 20050246334 - Location determination and location tracking in wireless networks
The present invention is directed to systems and methods which monitor a network environment, collect client information available online, and refine location determinations of individual clients based on observed information as well as online information. More particularly, the present invention is directed to systems and methods which monitor the wireless ...

11/03/05 - 20050246333 - Method and apparatus for classifying documents
A method of classifying documents is characterized by a process of assigning a title to an object document. The method is also characterized by a process of obtaining data representing the relationship between keywords and document titles. The former process features a mathematical operation between the data and the frequencies ...

10/27/05 - 20050240581 - Management control of pharmaceutical substances
A computerised identity matching management process for the supply of a pharmaceutical substance to an authorised person. The process identifies a person who is requesting the supply of the substance which includes the steps of a management computer receiving a request, from capture apparatus waiting to commence a biometric capture ...

10/20/05 - 20050234907 - Information-processing system, information-processing apparatus and method, recording medium and program
Disclosed herein is an information-processing system including a first information-processing apparatus and a second information-processing apparatus, in which: the first information-processing apparatus has transmission unit for transmitting a metadata utilization condition representing information on rights required for utilizing metadata relevant to a content to the second information-processing apparatus; and the ...

10/20/05 - 20050234906 - Segmentation of strings into structured records
An system for segmenting strings into component parts for use with a database management system. A reference table of string records are segmented into multiple substrings corresponding to database attributes. The substrings within an attribute are analyzed to provide a state model that assumes a beginning, a middle and an ...

10/20/05 - 20050234905 - Methods and apparatuses for capturing and storing content related to an event
In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect an event; search for an event profile corresponding to the event; detect content and description information corresponding to the content; and associate the content with the event based on the description information and the event profile. ...

10/20/05 - 20050234904 - Systems and methods that rank search results
The present invention provides systems and methods that rank search results. Such ranking typically includes determining a relevance of individual search results via one or more feature-based relevance functions. These functions can be tailored to users and/or applications, and typically are based on scoped information (e.g., lexical), digital artifact author ...

10/06/05 - 20050223000 - System and method for influencing a position on a search result list generated by a computer network search engine
A system and method for enabling information providers using a computer network to influence a position for a search listing within a search result list. A database stores accounts for the network information providers. Each account contains contact and billing information. In addition, each account contains at least one search ...

10/06/05 - 20050222999 - Context providing method, system, and apparatus
A context providing method includes the collection step of collecting context information representing a situation of a target via a network, the generation step of applying a predetermined rule to the collected context information and information associated with a context entity which generates/utilizes the context information, thereby generating new context ...

09/29/05 - 20050216459 - Methods and systems, for ontological integration of disparate biological data
Methods, systems and computer readable media for correlating data from data sets to higher level categories of characterization of the data. Data from a first set of data is analyzed to determine where members of the first set map to an ontology. Data from a second set of data is ...

09/29/05 - 20050216458 - Apparatus and methods for interactively displaying information relating to a vehicle
Methods and an apparatus are provided for producing owners manual information related to operation of a vehicle. The apparatus comprises a display system, an input device configured to generate a control signal in response to actuation by an operator of the vehicle, and a control module that is configured to ...

09/22/05 - 20050210026 - Software architecture and system for performing validated clinical studies of pharmaceutical related products
Software, and a master system with hardware and connections, for validated drug clinical studies includes: creating data collection documents with unique identifiers; having operators complete security identification verification before proceeding; having secured operators fill out and sign specified data collection documents; creating permanent records of the preceding; tracking by unique ...

09/22/05 - 20050210025 - System and method for predicting the ranking of items
An interactive method of responding to a request to predict how a user would rank items which may be unfamiliar to that user. The invention uses reports provided by a plurality of users containing the order in which the users ranked a selection from a list of items. Items are ...

09/22/05 - 20050210024 - Search system using user behavior data
Context-based user behavior data is collected from a search mechanism. This data includes, for a given query, user feedback (implicit and explicit) on the query and context information on the query. This information can be used, for example, to evaluate a search mechanism or to check a relevance model. This ...

09/22/05 - 20050210023 - Query optimizer using implied predicates
Improved query optimizer using implied predicates. The system facilitates allowing a query optimizing component to introduce into a query, extra predicates that facilitate the following: render the same results as the original query; are used as dictated by rules passed to the optimizing component—these rules specify whether the new predicate ...

09/15/05 - 20050203901 - Searching a range in a set of values in a network with distributed storage entities
Methods for searching a range in a set of values in a network with distributed storage nodes. An example of a method for searching a range in a set of values in a network with distributed storage nodes according to the invention comprises the following steps. First, the range is ...

09/15/05 - 20050203900 - Associative retrieval system and associative retrieval method
A method and system for retrieving information from a set of documents using one retrieval keyword or more is capable of remarkably increasing the relevance ratio of a retrieval result. The system includes a category dictionary for storing category information containing morphemes included in the documents in a hierarchical structure, ...

09/15/05 - 20050203899 - Systems, methods, software and interfaces for integration of case law with legal briefs, litigation documents, and/or other litigation-support documents
The present inventors recognized room for improving convention informational retrieval systems, particularly those intended for retrieval of legal information. Accordingly, they devised systems, methods, and software that facilitate the retrieval of related non-opinion legal documents in response to queries for legal opinions. Non-opinion documents may include briefs, pleadings, depositions, court ...

09/08/05 - 20050198027 - Document retrieval system recognizing types and values of numeric search conditions
A document retrieval system has an index information generator that generates index information about the frequency of occurrence of non-numeric terms in documents, and index information about the numeric values of numeric terms and the types of quantities they represent. Numeric terms received as search conditions are processed by a ...

09/08/05 - 20050198026 - Code, system, and method for generating concepts
Disclosed are a computer-readable code, system and method for generating candidate novel concepts in one or more selected fields. The system operates to generate strings of terms composed of combinations of word and optionally, word-group terms that are descriptive of concept elements in such field(s), and uses a genetic algorithm ...

09/01/05 - 20050192959 - Topic net generation method and apparatus
A topic net management unit 1 reads one record portion of data from a collection of data in table format (S1). Subsequently, from among the field data included in the record that was read, the topic net management unit 1 generates, based on the definitions of the topic classes, nodes ...

09/01/05 - 20050192958 - System and method to provide and display enhanced feedback in an online transaction processing environment
The present invention is a system for and method to collect, calculate, and display user feedback ratings in an online transaction processing (OLTP) environment. The invention utilizes a client, a network, a Web site host system, and rule-based decision making, to 1) enable users and other systems to submit transaction ...

09/01/05 - 20050192957 - Method and system for profiling users based on their relationships with content topics
An affinity generation system according to the present invention analyzes a profiled user's authorship and document usage within an ‘intranet’ to create a set of affinities between documents and topical classifications used in a hierarchical content catalog. These affinities are weighted depending on the system usage and amount of collected ...

09/01/05 - 20050192956 - System and method for arranging concept clusters in thematic neighborhood relationships in a shaped two-dimensional visual display space
A set of clusters is selected from a concept space including clusters with concepts extracted to visualize document content. A theme is identified in each of the clusters. Each theme includes a concept ranked within the cluster. Unique candidate spines including clusters sharing at least one common theme are logically ...

09/01/05 - 20050192955 - Organizing related search results
The present invention provides system, methods, and apparatus for organizing objects obtained from data retrieval. It provides a method to assemble the objects into a set based upon their relevance ranking, associated metadata including categories, and the proximity of these categories in a graph. The method provides for selecting objects ...

08/25/05 - 20050187931 - Method and apparatus for maintaining and navigating a non-hierarchical personal spatial file system
A self-organizing personal file system is disclosed that evaluates the “importance” of terms and phrases in a document in a personal corpus relative to usage in a reference corpus. A personalized term weighting scheme assigns a weight to terms or phrases based on the frequency of occurrence of the corresponding ...

08/18/05 - 20050182765 - Techniques for controlling distribution of information from a secure domain
Techniques for controlling distribution of information from a secure domain by automatically detecting outgoing messages which violate security policies corresponding to the secure domain. Semantic models are constructed for one or more message categories and for the outgoing messages. The semantic model of an outgoing message is compared with the ...

08/18/05 - 20050182764 - System and method for arranging concept clusters in thematic neighborhood relationships in a two-dimensional visual display space
A system and method for arranging concept clusters in thematic neighborhood relationships in a two-dimensional visual display space is presented. A set of clusters is selected from a concept space. The concept space includes a multiplicity of clusters with concepts visualizing document content based on extracted concepts. A theme in ...

08/11/05 - 20050177568 - Full-text relevancy ranking
A method and system for ranking relevancy of metadata associated with media on a computer network, such as multimedia and streaming media, include categorizing the metadata into sets of metadata. The categories are broad categories relating to areas such as who, what, when, and where, such as artist, media type, ...

08/11/05 - 20050177567 - Search for specific files from the run menu
A method, program and system for searching for files in a computer system employing a Windows operating system is provided. The invention includes receiving search criteria through a Run menu command line, wherein the Run menu is opened by selecting a Start menu, and wherein the search criteria include: a ...

08/04/05 - 20050171947 - Method and system for publication and revision or hierarchically organized sets of static intranet and internet web pages
A method, system and computer program product for revising and publishing electronic documents. Two sets of electronic documents are generated and maintained on first and second computers. One set is stored on a first computer, for example, as static web pages at a company site. Another set is stored on ...

08/04/05 - 20050171946 - Methods and systems for searching and associating information resources such as web pages
Disclosed is a method for detecting additional relevant resources in relation to a predefined initial number of resources, consisting of the following steps: a) a set of referencing resources consisting of all resources being linked to at least one of the initial resources is detected; b) a set of potential ...

07/28/05 - 20050165778 - Adaptive web crawling using a statistical model
A computer based system and method of retrieving information pertaining to documents on a computer network is disclosed. The method includes selecting a set of documents to be accessed during a Web crawl by utilizing a statistical model to determine which previously retrieved documents are most likely to have changed ...

07/21/05 - 20050160092 - Reference database and method for determining spectra using measurements from an led color sensor, and method of generating a reference database
To determine spectra, integrated multiple illuminant measurements from a non-fully illuminant populated color sensor may be converted into a fully populated spectral curve using a reference database. The reference database is partitioned into a plurality of clusters, and an appropriate centroid is determined for each cluster by, for example, vector ...

07/14/05 - 20050154725 - Method applying transitive closure to group by and order by clauses
A database engine and optimizer framework support the use of transitive closure to assist in rewriting GROUP BY and ORDER BY clauses to reduce the number of referenced tables (optimally to a single table if possible) and to free the join order selected for the query plan. The SQL parser ...

07/07/05 - 20050149520 - Distributed confidential contextual querying
For distributed querying of confidential information, a querying data structure is constructed from the confidential information on the computer at which the confidential information resides. The querying data structure opaquely encapsulates queries on the confidential information as a set of query hashes and answer pairs. The querying data structure is ...

07/07/05 - 20050149519 - Document information search apparatus and method and recording medium storing document information search program therein
An apparatus for searching document information in response to a search request from a client is disclosed. When a document file is designated as a search condition by a search condition designating unit of the client, the unit causes contents of the designated file to be transmitted via a network. ...

06/30/05 - 20050144164 - System for storing and searching for tags in data stream and method for storing and searching for tags in data stream
In a system for storing and searching for tags in a data stream, a signal processing block (120) contains a tag analysis block (121) providing functionality of procedures of searching and storing tags within an audio/video data stream. The tag analysis block (121) is provided with a configuration table (122) ...

06/23/05 - 20050138028 - Processing, browsing and searching an electronic document
A method for processing electronic document and its corresponding device, a method for browsing electronic document and its corresponding browser, as well as a method for searching electronic document and its corresponding searching system are disclosed in the present invention. The method comprises at least the following steps of: generating ...

06/23/05 - 20050138027 - Filtering server, filtering system, and filtering method
In a filtering server which filters specific information desired by an information provider to be recognized by a user depending on a desire of the user and which transmits specific information which is not excluded by the filtering to the user, the specific information desired by the user to be ...

06/23/05 - 20050138026 - Processing, browsing and extracting information from an electronic document
The present invention relates to methods, apparatus and systems for processing an electronic document and its corresponding device. It provides methods for browsing an electronic document and its corresponding browser, and methods for extracting information segments from an electronic document and its corresponding system for the same. An example of ...

06/16/05 - 20050131895 - Method for searching a database and database
e. retrieving the searched elements of the database (10) based on the final set (L) of unique identifiers (EID) and the reference index (20). ...

06/16/05 - 20050131894 - System and method for providing identification and search information
A system and method for identifying an entity. In one embodiment, the system and process defines the person by assigning a distinct code for each person's information such as demographic information, personal information and traits. The identification information may be incorporated into one or more web pages associates with the ...

06/16/05 - 20050131893 - Database early parallelism method and system
A system and method for dividing a received database query into a number of parallel subqueries and then submitting the parallel subqueries to a database management system in place of the received query. During database configuration, an embodiment of the invention ensures that a database table includes a partitioning field ...

06/16/05 - 20050131892 - Natural language web site interface
A method and system for providing a natural language web site interface. A visitor to the web site (typically a customer to a commercial web site) is prompted to enter a natural language query. The query is interpreted and associated with content for that web site, which is then downloaded ...

06/09/05 - 20050125401 - Wizard for usage in real-time aggregation and scoring in an information handling system
An information handling method includes constructing aggregates for a case set, computing aggregates from detailed in-memory data that is dynamically cached, and iteratively mining data during an entity transaction to define new aggregates and refine existing aggregates based on entity responses. The aggregates are defined and refined using a wizard. ...

06/02/05 - 20050120018 - System and method for generating custom hierarchies in an analytical data structure
(N+Q) dimensions of data can be analyzed in an N-dimensional native OLAP cube by submitting an (N+Q)-dimensional custom query and converting the (N+Q)-dimensional custom query into an N-dimensional query for submission to the N-dimensional native OLAP cube. An N-dimensional result of the N-dimensional query is provided and converted into an ...

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