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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7647372 | Method and system for facilitating marketing dialogues Systems and methods for carrying on marketing dialogues are disclosed. Specifically, embodiments of the systems and methods presented may allow marketing dialogues to be carried on with a set of participants by sending a communication to each of the participants. An... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7627688 | Method and system for detecting gaps in a data stream Systems and methods are described which allow the detection of gaps in a set of data. These systems and methods may include defining streams of data from a network topology, associating incoming data with one or more of these streams, and processing these streams. A... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7603430 | System and method of associating events with requests Embodiments of the present invention can associate events, including non page events, such as the generation of dynamic content, with HTTP requests. One embodiment of the present invention can include receiving a set of HTTP request data including a request time sta... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7603371 | Object based system and method for managing information One embodiment of the present invention provides a software product comprising a set of computer instructions stored on a computer readable medium. The computer instructions can be executable by a computer processor to maintain a profile object representing profile ... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7600001 | Method and computer system for unstructured data integration through a graphical interface A system and method for transferring data between an unstructured data source and a structured destination. In one embodiment, data is transferred by extracting data from an unstructured data source, creating a graphical representation of the hierarchy of data withi... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7596564 | Method and system for cache management of a cache including dynamically-generated content A method and system are disclosed for cache management and regeneration of dynamically-generated content (“DGC”) in a client-server computer network. One embodiment of the method of this invention comprises the steps of; in response to a regeneration event, iden... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7590665 | System and method for the synchronization of a file in a cache Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and computer program product for bi-directional synchronization of a cache. One embodiment of the method of this invention includes: receiving a database asset from a database; storing the database asset as a cac... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7464385 | Method and system for performing bulk operations on transactional items Bulk operations on a large number of items may be processed by a computer with a reduced likelihood of exceeding a timing or hardware limitation of a system. An instruction or its related information can be examined to determine if the instruction may potentially in... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7461120 | Method and system for identifying a visitor at a website server by requesting additional characteristic of a visitor computer from a visitor server A method and system can be used to identify visitors at a network site (e.g., a website) by using a combination of an address (e.g., IP address) and characteristic(s) of an individual visitor computer. Examples of the characteristic of the individual visitor compute... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7437268 | Systems and methods for analyzing data Systems and methods for collecting and categorizing data and initiating analyses of the data based on the detection of conditions associated with the data. One embodiment is a method including the steps of collecting data from a data source, categorizing or otherwis... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7415484 | Method and system for modeling of system content for businesses A method and system of managing content at a network site can allow easier use by business users. A higher level of abstraction can be used to allow business users to create their own objects that may reference or contain other objects or records as managed by a con... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7389320 | Method and system for facilitating marketing dialogues A system for facilitating marketing dialogues permits multiple instances of multiple scripts to be active at the same time, where each of these dialogues can be at a different place in its script. The dialogues permit interactive communications between the user of t... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7370335 | System and method for providing a public application program interface One embodiment of the system of this invention can include software programming stored in a computer readable memory. The software programming can comprise a public API layer further comprising an object model containing generic software objects representing underly... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7349942 | Storage medium having a manageable file directory structure A file-mapping method and system can better manage the number of items (i.e., files, subdirectories, or a combination of them) within any single directory within a storage medium. The method and system can be used to limit the number of items within the directory, d... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349890 | System and method for dynamically applying content management rules Embodiments of the present invention provide software products and methods of managing content that substantially eliminate or reduce the disadvantages of previously developed content management systems and methods. More particularly, one embodiment of the present i... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7321953 | Method and system for optimizing resources The present invention provides a system and method for optimizing a cache that substantially eliminates reduces the disadvantages of previously developed cache management systems. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention provide a system of optimizing... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7293070 | Method and system for deploying web components between portals in a portal framework Disclosed are embodiments of a method, system and computer program product for deploying components of a site between systems in a portal framework. In one embodiment, file assets as well as non-file assets of at least one component of a site designated for export a... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7278105 | Visualization and analysis of user clickpaths Methods and data processing system readable media have been created to graph user clickstream data over a network or at a network site to yield meaningful and visually esthetic information. In one set of embodiments, the method can comprise (i) performing a signific... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7272786 | Metadata, models, visualization and control A method or data processing system readable medium can be used for modifying a target document. The data processing system medium or method may use metadata and rendering instructions to modify a target document to make the target document more user-friendly, more i... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7266840 | Method and system for secure, authorized e-mail based transactions Method and system for secure off-line transactions using a security access token for authentication and authorization of transactions. The user requests and receives the token from an application server of a desired service while on-line, logs off, prepares a transa... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7251687 | Method for click-stream analysis using web directory reverse categorization A method can be used to profile a user using network addresses, category information, and corresponding temporal information when the user requested or received information from those network addresses. A table can be created that includes the user identifier, categ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7197474 | Method of modeling product demand subject to a large number of interactions A data processing system-implemented method or data processing system readable medium can be used to model operating parameter(s) for a vendor. Detailed analysis of the impact of prices or other variables, on the demand of each item, is performed. These allow us to ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7194506 | Method and system for cache management of locale-sensitive content A method and system are disclosed for cache management and regeneration of dynamically-generated locale-sensitive content (DGLSC) in one or more server computers within a client-server computer network. One embodiment of the method of this invention can comprise rec... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7188216 | Method and system for an extensible caching framework Systems and methods which provide an extensible caching framework are disclosed. These systems and methods may provide a caching framework which can evaluate individual parameters of a request for a particular piece of content. Modules capable of evaluating individu... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7155506 | Method for continous, frame-specific click-stream recording A data processing system-implemented method can be used to better track a user's movements between network addresses. The method can comprise sending a frame identifier and a requested (current) network address at a first time. The method can also comprise finding a... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7146369 | Method and system for native-byte form handling A method and system are provided for native-byte form handling, one embodiment comprising a method for encoding user-submitted native-byte form data in a client-server computer network. A user, at a client computer, can select a Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7127486 | Method and system for facilitating marketing dialogues A system for facilitating marketing dialogues permits multiple instances of multiple scripts to be active at the same time, where each of these dialogues can be at a different place in its script. The dialogues permit interactive communications between the user of t... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7062515 | System and method for the synchronization of a file in a cache Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for bi-directional synchronization of a cache. One embodiment of the system of this invention includes a software program stored on a computer readable medium. The software program can be executed by a... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7028024 | Information retrieval from a collection of information objects tagged with hierarchical keywords The present invention can include a data processing system-implemented method or a data processing system readable media having software code for carrying out the method. The method can comprise formulating queries, searching for a plurality of information objects, ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7024452 | Method and system for file-system based caching A method and system for file-system based caching can be used to improve efficiency and security at network sites. In one set of embodiments, the delivery of content and storing content component(s) formed during generation of the content may be performed by differe... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6996612 | Method of providing information related to activity of a user and a data processing system program product Information related to activity of a user may be provided using a method or a data processing system program product to perform the method. In one embodiment, the method includes sending a first view request to a first electronic site, receiving a first view from th... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6892377 | Method and system for platform-independent file system interaction A method and system are disclosed for platform-independent file system interaction that can abstract the system-level idiosyncrasies associated with multi-platform, multi-language, multi-encoding file system interactions. One embodiment of the method of this inventi... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6882995 | Automatic query and transformative process A computer-implemented method of retrieving information in a first markup language through a query engine and presenting the information in any required markup language. A user inputs a query and may invoke a number of transformative sequences. These sequences conta... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6865574 | Method for client-side personalization A method for data processing system readable medium can be used for communications between a user and a network site. The method or medium may allow a user to determine what, if any, personal information should be transmitted to the network site. In one embodiment, ... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6850941 | Method and system for native-byte form handling A method and system are provided for native-byte form handling, one embodiment comprising a method for encoding user-submitted native-byte form data in a client-server computer network. A user, at a client computer, can select a Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) ... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6732185 | Method and system for managing message pacing A system for managing message volume and timing, which permits messages from multiple sources to be spaced apart over time, with the pacing controlled in part by the type or priority of the message. The system permits the volume of messages to be reduced by aggregat... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6687793 | Method and system for optimizing resources for cache management The present invention provides a system and method for optimizing a cache that substantially eliminates reduces the disadvantages of previously developed cache management systems. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention provide a system of... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6438540 | Automatic query and transformative process A computer-implemented method of retrieving information in a first markup language through a query engine and presenting the information in any required markup language. A user inputs a query and may invoke a number of transformative sequences. These sequ... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6330592 | Method, memory, product, and code for displaying pre-customized content associated with visitor data Visitor interests can be tracked by including "keyword directives" in content contained within the web site. These keyword directives specify a keyword indicating the type of category of information represented by the content. As the content is delivered ... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6263332 | System and method for query processing of structured documents A computer-implemented method of retrieving information in a first markup language through a query engine and presenting the information in any required markup language. A user inputs a query and may invoke a number of transformative sequences. These sequ... | 07/17/2001 |
