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Data Processing: Database And File Management Or Data Structures > Database Or File Accessing > Sorting SortingSorting 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 - 20060253441 - Database and index organization for enhanced document retrieval A customized, specialty-oriented database and index of a subject matter area and methods for constructing and using such a database are provided. Selection and indexing of articles is done by experts in the topic with which the database is concerned. As a result, articles are indexed in a manner that ... 11/09/06 - 20060253440 - Eliminating file redundancy in a computer filesystem and establishing match permission in a computer filesystem The present invention provides a method and system of eliminating file redundancy for at least one computer file in a computer filesystem and a method and system of establishing match permission for at least one computer file in a computer filesystem. The present invention provides a method and system of ... 11/02/06 - 20060248081 - Color selection method and system A method and a system are disclosed that make it possible to select and present colors based on a semantic search thus making the color selection process more human-compatible. A word-based search mechanism makes it easier to translate a designer's inspiration to color selection. The colors selected by using the ... 11/02/06 - 20060248080 - Information processing system and method A system for and method of processing information relating to the execution of instructions by a database management system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving an instruction; receiving execution information relating to the execution of the instruction by the database management system; comparing the instruction to one or more previously ... 11/02/06 - 20060248079 - Method and apparatus for finding a perfect hash function and making minimal hash table for a given set of keys A representation used in a computer system to represent a set of data items that correspond to and are accessible by means of a set of keys. The representation includes an array of the data items and a bit string associated with the array. Each key is mapped onto a ... 10/26/06 - 20060242148 - System and method for integrating ancillary data in dicom image files The invention comprises a system and method for integrating electronic patient information with an electronic medical image file. In one embodiment, at least one information processor is provided that is operable to communicate over a communication network. A database is provided on the at least one information processor, wherein the ... 10/26/06 - 20060242147 - Categorizing objects, such as documents and/or clusters, with respect to a taxonomy and data structures derived from such categorization A Website may be automatically categorized by (a) accepting Website information, (b) determining a set of scored clusters (e.g., semantic, term co-occurrence, etc.) for the Website using the Website information, and (c) determining at least one category (e.g., a vertical category) of a predefined taxonomy using at least some of ... 10/26/06 - 20060242146 - Methods and systems for monitoring tumor burden Methods and systems for quantification of a selected attribute of an image volume are provided. The system is configured to receive an image dataset for a volume of interest, process the dataset for a selected attribute based at least on one of shape and texture to obtain a plurality of ... 10/19/06 - 20060235849 - Portable laser projection device for medical image display A medical image display system includes an image storage and image processing device for storing, processing and outputting image data relating to a patient's body and/or additional image data. The system also includes a portable laser projection device that projects the image data and/or additional image data onto a projection ... 10/19/06 - 20060235848 - Method and apparatus for searching, filtering and sorting data in a wireless device There is shown and described a definition for defining searching, filtering and sorting requests which seeks to provide a more succinct and efficient language in order to minimize transmission size and parsing/processing requirements while facilitating common and useful search/filter/sort contingencies. The language allows for filtering a data set by comparing ... 10/19/06 - 20060235847 - Traversing data in a repeatable manner Traversing hierarchical data is disclosed. A first list of items in a first level of the data is received and sorted in an order. The data of the first level is processed in the order of the sorted first list. If any other level of data is encountered during processing, ... 10/19/06 - 20060235846 - List update employing neutral sort keys A method, system and program product for updating a list. A first list associated with a first platform includes a first plurality of data entries which includes a first plurality and a second plurality of keys. A second list associated with a second platform includes a second plurality of data ... 10/12/06 - 20060230040 - Methods and systems for providing a response to a query Methods and systems for providing a response to a user's query based on other users' picks. For one embodiment of the invention, user responses are correlated to determine an affinity among users. User affinity is then used to modify the presentation of the search results. For one embodiment the location ... 10/05/06 - 20060224587 - Systems and methods for modifying search results based on a user's history A user's prior searching and browsing activities are recorded for subsequent use. A user may examine the user's prior searching and browsing activities in a number of different ways, including indications of the user's prior activities related to advertisements. A set of search results may be modified in accordance with ... 09/28/06 - 20060218146 - Interactive user-controlled relevance ranking of retrieved information in an information search system The present invention presents an apparatus and system for providing an ability to conduct a secondary search using results provided by a first search capability. This secondary search is integrated with the first search and functions as an added tool or accessory. The present invention allows for user control of ... 09/21/06 - 20060212449 - Method and apparatus for generating relevance-sensitive collation keys A method and apparatus for generating collation keys that can be used by sorting methods so as to arrange a sequence of data objects in order of their semantic relevance to the user or their relevance to an operating context. The constituent data values of each data object are “weighted” ... 09/21/06 - 20060212448 - Method and apparatus for ranking candidates A method and apparatus for ranking candidates is provided. Preferably, the method includes steps of and/or apparatus performs steps of receiving candidate referrals from a plurality of referrers, generating a predicted prospect ranking (PPR) based at least in part on received candidate referrals, and displaying a candidate list ranked by ... 09/14/06 - 20060206483 - Method for domain identification of documents in a document database A method for processing documents in a document database includes determining vocabulary words for each document, and determining a respective relevancy for each vocabulary word based upon occurrences thereof in all of the documents. Similarities are determined between the documents based upon the vocabulary words and their respective relevancies. At ... 09/07/06 - 20060200466 - System and method for filtering and organizing items based on common elements A system and method for filtering and organizing items from computer memories based on common elements is provided. Filters are provided for manipulating the items. The filters are essentially tools for narrowing down a set of items. The filters can be dynamically generated based on the properties of the separate ... 08/24/06 - 20060190452 - Sort digits as number collation in server Systems and methods that supply a sort order for strings with defined digit and non-digit tokens, via employing a normalization procedure that assigns numeric values to the digit based tokens, and that further leverages on existing database collations. As such, plugging a particular collation into the sort engine determines a ... 08/17/06 - 20060184527 - System and method for load shedding in data mining and knowledge discovery from stream data Load shedding schemes for mining data streams. A scoring function is used to rank the importance of stream elements, and those elements with high importance are investigated. In the context of not knowing the exact feature values of a data stream, the use of a Markov model is proposed herein ... 07/27/06 - 20060167877 - Inbound link incoming mail stream The present subject matter relates to automated mail processing techniques for the sorting of in-bound mail for distribution within a large company or enterprise. More particularly, the present subject matter relates to the automated processing of an incoming mail stream by transforming gathered address mail information from the in-bound mail ... 07/27/06 - 20060167876 - Multimedia integration description scheme, method and system for mpeg-7 The invention provides a system and method for integrating multimedia descriptions in a way that allows humans, software components or devices to easily identify, represent, manage, retrieve, and categorize the multimedia content. In this manner, a user who may be interested in locating a specific piece of multimedia content from ... 07/27/06 - 20060167875 - Prescriptive architecture for application development A prescriptive architecture for application development is provided. In some embodiments, the architecture comprises a service, a receiver, a sender, and a transport. The service functions to perform the actual business logic, is decorated with service deployment metadata; and is operable to communicate via types. The receiver is coupled to ... 07/20/06 - 20060161546 - Method for sorting data Several techniques for sorting item are described, generally referred to as (1) common prefix skipping quicksort; (2) key substring caching; and (3) adaptive quicksort. With common prefix skipping quicksort, common prefix bytes among all key values for a partition are computed while performing a quicksort partitioning operation, and the known ... 07/20/06 - 20060161545 - Method and apparatus for ordering items within datasets Methods and apparatus permit displaying items of datasets resulting from executing queries on a database in an order specified by a hierarchy. The hierarchy has a number of categories arranged in an order. Each item is associated with one of the categories. The items in a dataset can be ordered ... 07/13/06 - 20060155703 - Method and apparatus for detecting a table of contents and reference determination In a method for identifying a table of contents in a document, an ordered sequence of text fragments is derived from the document. A table of contents is selected as a contiguous sub-sequence of the ordered sequence of text fragments satisfying the criteria: (i) entries defined by text fragments of ... 07/06/06 - 20060149734 - Location extraction A system receives a search query that includes a set of search terms, determines whether at least one of the search terms corresponds to the name of a geographic area, and determines whether the geographic area corresponds to an unambiguous geographic area when at least one of the search terms ... 06/22/06 - 20060136416 - Apparatus and method for storing messages in a portable wireless terminal Disclosed is a method for storing a message in a portable wireless terminal assigning a predetermined memory area to a plurality of message folders. The method includes checking the number of messages stored in the message folders when a new message needs to be stored; comparing the checked number of ... 06/22/06 - 20060136415 - Method, system, and program product for executing a scalar function on a varying number of records within a rdbms using sql Application of a scalar function across a varying number of records within an RDBMS using the RDBMS's SQL capabilities. This is accomplished by determining a last row in a group of rows, sorting the rows and passing the sorted rows to a scalar function, where the scalar function accepts each ... 06/15/06 - 20060129555 - System and method for indexing and prefiltering A method and system are provided for selecting advertisements for presentation to a user in response to a user search query. The system may include a keyword server for parsing the user search query and an index server for receiving the parsed search query. The index server may include an ... 06/01/06 - 20060117009 - Declarative aspects and aspect containers for application development An aspect container being operable to generate an instance of itself at run time is provided. The aspect container comprises logic operable to create an instance of the aspect container by reading configuration information specifying a sequence of one or more aspects from an aspect container configuration file corresponding to ... 06/01/06 - 20060117008 - File management apparatus and file management program A file management apparatus and a file management program are provided which are capable of reflecting, upon occurrence of updates of files in a group of files to be managed the updates in an appropriate manner without the need to perform complicated or troublesome work, as well as achieving effective ... 05/25/06 - 20060112099 - Product feature and relation comparison system A method of presenting data regarding products. Feature categories are assigned to each product category based on available data. A weighted importance is assigned to each feature category of each product category based on the available data. The items in the product category are ranked according to the weighted importance ... 05/25/06 - 20060112098 - Client-based generation of music playlists via clustering of music similarity vectors A “Music Mapper” automatically constructs a set coordinate vectors for use in inferring similarity between various pieces of music. In particular, given a music similarity graph expressed as links between various artists, albums, songs, etc., the Music Mapper applies a recursive embedding process to embed each of the graphs music ... 05/25/06 - 20060112097 - Encoding data to be sorted Key conditioning involves the construction of a byte orderable array from values for a possibly multi-field key concatenated key, for comparison by a sort routine. Byte-orderable sort keys are conditioned prior to execution of a sort routine, to facilitate an accurate and/or efficient sort procedure. For example, key conditioning may ... 05/18/06 - 20060106798 - Vision-based document segmentation Vision-based document segmentation identifies one or more portions of semantic content of a document. The one or more portions are identified by identifying a plurality of visual blocks in the document, and detecting one or more separators between the visual blocks of the plurality of visual blocks. A content structure ... 05/11/06 - 20060101017 - Search ranking system A computer based media, method and system for prioritizing search results for an individual, a group, a team, a division, an organization or some combination thereof. ... 05/11/06 - 20060101016 - Medical image transfer apparatus, program and recording medium A medical image transfer apparatus comprises: a receiving member to receive a plurality of medical images including accompanying information; an extracting member to extract the accompanying information included in each of the medical images; and a transferring member to determine a transfer order of the medical images based on the ... 05/04/06 - 20060095432 - Disclosure control system and method A service change information acquisition program acquires service change information. According to this information, a disclosure scope change program changes the disclosure scope of the document described in document access control information and accumulates it as a disclosure history. A position information acquisition program compares the position information to the ... 05/04/06 - 20060095431 - System to generate an aggregate interest indication with respect to an information item A method and system is provided to process sale listings published via a network-based publishing system. The system may include monitoring and ranking components. The monitor component may monitor activity pertaining to at least one of a plurality of sale listings on behalf of a user of the system. The ... 05/04/06 - 20060095430 - Web page ranking with hierarchical considerations The described systems, methods and data structures are directed to ranking Web pages with hierarchical considerations. The hierarchical structures and the linking relationships of the World Wide Web are used to provide a page importance ranking for Web searches. The linking relationships are aggregated to a high level node at ... 05/04/06 - 20060095429 - Networked system for routing medical images A method for dynamically routing medical data related to a patient (12) in a communications network (16) obtains the medical data about the patient at a first site and obtains patient profile data having information associated with the patient (102). The patient profile data is processed to identify, from a ... 04/27/06 - 20060089930 - Method of testing a multi-processor unit microprocessor A method of testing a multi-processor unit microprocessor. The method includes: (a) selecting and testing, with a selected parameter set of a group of parameter sets, a processor unit of a microprocessor having two or more processor units; (b) comparing the operation of the selected processor unit to a selected ... 04/06/06 - 20060074910 - 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 ... 03/16/06 - 20060059153 - Computer constructions of a lexical tree To reduce the memory space of the computer representation of a lexical tree and to find a word rapidly therein, the words are sorted in lexicographical order and the tree is then constructed by iteration. A prefix of the preceding and following words and a suffix of the following word ... 03/16/06 - 20060059152 - Browse history presentation system A user has been unable to efficiently acquire desired information from a website even if it is a website that the user has browsed at least once before. There is provided an information processing device, which comprises: a browse history analysis portion which extracts information conforming with a predetermined subject ... 03/16/06 - 20060059151 - System and method for focused routing of content to dynamically determined groups of reviewers A mechanism for routing content, e.g., an electronic document, an invention disclosure, etc., to a person or group of persons, e.g., a reviewer/review team, for review and evaluation of the electronic document. This mechanism involves receiving the content and analyzing the content to generate identifiers of subject matter of the ... 02/23/06 - 20060041553 - Method and apparatus for responding to end-user request for information-ranking 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 ... 02/16/06 - 20060036600 - Database aggregation query result estimator Aggregation queries are performed by first identifying outlier values, aggregating the outlier values, and sampling the remaining data after pruning the outlier values. The sampled data is extrapolated and added to the aggregated outlier values to provide an estimate for each aggregation query. Outlier values are identified by selecting values ... 02/16/06 - 20060036599 - Apparatus, system, and method for identifying the content representation value of a set of terms An apparatus, system, and method are provided for identifying the content representation value of a set of terms. The apparatus includes an input module, a rules module, a sorting module, and an output module. The input module parses a document to identify a set of terms used in the document. ... 02/09/06 - 20060031221 - Apparatus and method for retrieval of documents A system for support and management of search for documents is presented. The system includes a knowledge-database, query interface and communication to a database of documents to be searched. Information generated during a search session is collected by the system and is added to the knowledge-database. The information is ranked ... 02/09/06 - 20060031220 - System and method for providing multi-variable dynamic search results visualizations A system and method are provided for enabling a user to search for documents that the user has previously viewed on its local machine. The system includes three main components: the desktop integration module, the index module, and the graphical user interface module. The desktop integration module is an application ... 02/02/06 - 20060026158 - Sorting method utilizing memory space efficiently, machine-readable medium thereof, and related apparatus The present invention discloses a sorting method using a memory as an auxiliary tool to sort a plurality of items stored in a storage device. The method includes the following steps: (a) retrieving full information of an item to be sorted from the storage device; (b) comparing only partial information ... 01/05/06 - 20060004754 - Methods and apparatus for dynamic classification of data in evolving data stream A technique for classifying data from a test data stream is provided. A stream of training data having class labels is received. One or more class-specific clusters of the training data are determined and stored. At least one test instance of the test data stream is classified using the one ... 12/22/05 - 20050283476 - System and method for filtering and organizing items based on common elements A system and method for filtering and organizing items from computer memories based on common elements. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, filters are provided for manipulating the items. The filters are essentially tools for narrowing down a set of items. In one embodiment, the filters are dynamically ... 12/15/05 - 20050278331 - Information management apparatus, information management method and program An information management apparatus which manages information files by sorting them into folders, comprises a selection unit to select an arbitrary folder and a folder operation unit capable of individually opening/closing a sub folder immediately below the selected folder or in a lower layer. ... 12/15/05 - 20050278330 - Apparatus, system, and method for sorting character representations of data An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for sorting character representations of data under the present invention, a character-encoded sort data value is identified in a data line of a data set. The sort data value is a character encoding of a predefined numbering system such as hexadecimal or binary ... 12/15/05 - 20050278329 - Method and system for merging wafer test results A system for merging product characterization information with a characterized product employs a merging rule database and a product characterization database. A merging processor receives the product characterization information and the merging criteria to create a characterization information result. The characterization information result is created by extracting a trigger merging ... 12/15/05 - 20050278328 - Sorting and filtering techniques for products, namely posters and artwork A system and method for sorting and filtering products selected by a user. The products may be displayed on a graphical user interface, such as an Internet browser, on a user's computer. The user's computer is communicatively coupled to a web server that creates web pages in response to a ... 12/15/05 - 20050278327 - Multi-column multi-data type internationalized sort extension method for web applications A method for implementing a front-end user sort request includes receiving a list request, decomposing the list request and creating a sort entry object using a list of column values initially retrieved from a data storage medium. A sort routine is performed on at least a first column of the ... 12/08/05 - 20050273463 - System for calculating client sessions information A multi-browser history aggregation system is provided including a client computer, a web browser with which the client is operative to selectively retrieve a web page from a server, where the browser is operative to monitor any interaction between the client and the server and store a description of the ... 10/27/05 - 20050240583 - Literature pipeline A literature pipeline corresponds to a document navigation system having a datastore of direct links between pre-defined core concepts found in a document corpus. A link identification module identifies indirect links between core concepts selected by a user based on connection of direct links through at least one core concept ... 10/06/05 - 20050223003 - Collator and register A collator which has a detachable and portable storage media and is connected with a server by way of a network, collates information for confirming a person acquired by a multimedia information acquisition unit, in plurality collation processing stages, with respective collation information for confirming a person prestored divisionally in ... 10/06/05 - 20050223002 - System and method for rating electronic documents A system and method for rating an electronic document such as an advertisement. Rating information is received from one or more evaluators. A signal relevant to a criteria is received and a determination is made whether to deliver the document in response to the signal based on the criteria and ... 09/01/05 - 20050192961 - Automatic elimination of functional dependencies between columns In business systems, one or more methods can be used to reduce an amount of redundant data. In one implementation, a method to reduce redundancy within a data model in a database, in which the data model is represented by at least one table, includes determining a number of distinct ... 08/11/05 - 20050177569 - Identifying the items most relevant to a current query based on items selected in connection with similar queries The present invention provides a software facility for identifying the items most relevant to a current query based on items selected in connection with similar queries. In preferred embodiments of the invention, the facility receives a query specifying one or more query terms. In response, the facility generates a query ... 08/04/05 - 20050171949 - Method and system for mapping strings for comparison A method and system for mapping a number of characters in a string, wherein the string comprises a combination of characters representing indexed expressions and a combination of characters representing non-indexed expressions. One embodiment produces a weight array that can be utilized to compare a first and second string having ... 07/28/05 - 20050165782 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program for implementing information processing method, information processing system, and method for information processing system An information processing apparatus selects a proper content that well matches preference of a user and recommends it. A matrix calculator acquires M (one or more) feature vectors CCV whose elements are given by weight values assigned to a total of N (two or more) pieces of content meta information ... 07/28/05 - 20050165781 - Method, system, and program for handling anchor text Disclosed is a method, system, and program for processing anchor text for information retrieval. A set of anchors that point to a target document is formed. Anchors with same anchor text are grouped together. Information is computed for each group. Context information is generated for the target document based on ... 07/28/05 - 20050165780 - Scheme for creating a ranked subject matter expert index A method of organizing electronic document-related information at least includes generating a collection of electronic documents, forming from the collection, at least one cluster of documents based upon a user's selection of a subject, and determining for each author of documents in the cluster, the number of times each the ... 07/14/05 - 20050154726 - Reference data recognition and learning method and pattern recognition system In an associative memory, when a reference data having the minimum distance with respect to an input data is detected as winner, it is determined whether or not a distance between the input data and winner is less than a threshold value. If the distance is less than the threshold ... 07/07/05 - 20050149524 - Automated system and method for generating reasons that a court case is cited A computer-automated system and method identify text in a first “citing” court case, near a “citing instance” (in which a second “cited” court case is cited), that indicates the reason(s) for citing (RFC). The automated method of designating text, taken from a set of citing documents, as reasons for citing ... 07/07/05 - 20050149523 - Automated system and method for generating reasons that a court case is cited A computer-automated system and method identify text in a first “citing” court case, near a “citing instance” (in which a second “cited” court case is cited), that indicates the reason(s) for citing (RFC). The automated method of designating text, taken from a set of citing documents, as reasons for citing ... 07/07/05 - 20050149522 - Correlating genealogy records systems and methods A method of consolidating genealogy records includes partitioning the records using at least one index file to form one or more partitions, sorting the records in a partition based on a data element in the records, comparing records within a sort range, based on the comparison, identifying same person records, ... 06/30/05 - 20050144169 - Automated system and method for generating reasons that a court case is cited A computer-automated system and method identify text in a first “citing” court case, near a “citing instance” (in which a second “cited” court case is cited), that indicates the reason(s) for citing (RFC). The automated method of designating text, taken from a set of citing documents, as reasons for citing ... 06/30/05 - 20050144168 - Storage system with a data sort function A storage system, which can execute sort processing of data without affecting online service, is disclosed. A storage control device 12 receives a sort instruction specifying a record group for sorting and a sort key from a host device 1, reads the record group from an external storage device 11 ... 06/30/05 - 20050144167 - Parallel merge/sort processing device, method, and program In the basic form of merge processing, that is sort processing, two sorted partial data string pairs are input, and one series of sorted data string is output as a whole. Conventionally, high parallelism of this processing has been considered difficult. A method for dividing a sorted partial data string ... 06/23/05 - 20050138030 - Methods, computer systems, and computer program products for outputting data at a user-interface in a computer system Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for outputting data at, for example, a user-interface in a computer system. According to one aspect, a method may be provided that comprises receiving categorized data at the user-interface based on data from each of at least two computer programs. The categorized ... 06/09/05 - 20050125405 - Distinct display of differentiated rights in property The invention provides a method and system capable of interacting with a server device, with the effect of being able to conveniently present, in a distinct way, those objects not already owned by the user. Multiple views of collections of objects are presented to the user. The portion of the ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |