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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7315981 | XPath evaluation method, XML document processing system and program using the same To efficiently search an evaluation result of a plurality of XPath expressions with respect to a data file such as an XML document: an evaluation result of an XPath expression is obtained by generating a data structure with a redundant element by evaluating what com... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7216129 | Information processing using a hierarchy structure of randomized samples A method is provided for retrieving information from massive databases (i.e., databases with millions of documents) in real time, that allows users to control the trade-off between accuracy in retrieved results and response times. The method may be applied to databa... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7062687 | Apparatus and method for setting a data rate in a wireless communication system An apparatus and method for setting a transfer rate of information units in a variable data-rate transmission scheme for a wireless communication system is disclosed. For that, a total counter for counting a total number of received information units, an error count... | 06/13/2006 |
| 6959308 | Archiving and retrieval method and apparatus The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for maintaining an organized and automated archiving and retrieval system including a personal bibliography of original documents or other original real objects as well as an electronic archive containing copies o... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6950984 | Method, system for, and program product for generating a display rule for a structured document, and for changing a structured document and its document type definition A technique is provided for automatically and visually generating a display rule for a structured document based on an exemplary operation. Base display rule generation means 21 generates a first display rule 29, which is a base, by using a document ty... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6911978 | Information processing system, information processing method, computer program, storage medium, and program transmission apparatus It is an object of the present invention to prepare information that is defined by a search query and the act of collecting and analyzing the information for a specific purpose, and to provide new information collection and analysis means for the management of knowl... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6728952 | Identification of vacuous predicates in computer programs A computer system identifies a predicate in a computer language containing constant expressions as vacuous. The system identifies distinct variables contained in the predicate and represents the predicate by a set of bounding rectangles. The bounding rectangles are ... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6675321 | Data processing apparatus, method and computer program with optimized key-pointing operation for log record storage A data processing apparatus has a direct access non-volatile memory storage device having a plurality of extent files for storing log records therein; an allocating unit for allocating a current extent file to be used for storing log records; a writing un... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6647360 | Scrolling of database information Methods and apparatus for scrolling database records, particularly in a client-server computing system, are disclosed. A database holds records, accessible by a server, that each include a unique identifier. A client requests the server to retrieve a set ... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6618725 | Method and system for detecting frequent association patterns A text-mining system and method automatically extracts useful information from a large set of tree-structured data by generating successive sets of candidate tree-structured association patterns for comparison with the tree-structured data. The number of ... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6535233 | Method and apparatus for adjusting the display scale of an image In a graphical application which allows an image to be displayed according to a display scale, a method of adjusting the display scale during modification of the image. The method responds to user selection of a modification to be performed on the image b... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6489966 | Graphic processing device A superior graphic processing device is provided that performs parallel and fast edge function processing for coverage calculations during an anti-aliasing process. The edge function for each sub-pixel of a pixel can be described separately for the base e... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6473773 | Memory management in a partially garbage-collected programming system Memory management to support calls between objects in language environments support automatic garbage collection and language environments requiring explicit control of object destruction is provided. Reference counting is used to automatically control th... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6460035 | Probabilistic data clustering A component of a data clusterer is used to determine a conditional probability density of an object (data point) lying in a cluster. The object has a discrete ordinal attribute value within a finite range of attribute values. The conditional probability d... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6448958 | Remote control method, server and recording medium To make window systems which are widely used in personal computers and applications for personal computers operable in a portable information terminal which does not have a sufficient processing capability, input information such as a key input from opera... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6448766 | Method of imaging a magnetic field emanating from a surface using a conventional scanning force microscope Magnetic characterization of the magnetic field emanating from an RWH device is presented using a magnetostrictive layer as a probe between the device and the scanned SFM tip. The findings suggest a very promising technique to resolve magnetic fields late... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6418398 | Optimization with ruin recreate The present invention relates to an automatic method of computerized optimization of a technical system like for instance routing systems such as a transportation routing system or a communication network. The invention teaches an optimization method of a tech... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6388343 | Power supply unit and electronic apparatus for preventing a leak current A leak current is prevented from flowing during a power off state in a power supply unit having a remote power on/off function by using the momentary switch. In a state of power off, i.e. a state in which a switch SW2 is turned off, power is not applied t... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6385654 | File transferring apparatus and method thereof A user's burden is decreased when transferring a file via a network by simplifying the directory changing operation at each node. FTP-C-S/W 114 displays a current directory and a directory/file included therein of a local node and a remote node in a GUI p... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6370272 | Multiple frame data hiding method and data detection method Data hidden in a plurality of contents is protected from illegal access by a third party. An embedding process is performed by using a frame pattern (mark) that is composed of multiple embedded block patterns comprising several different types and wherein... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6362842 | Operation picture displaying apparatus and method therefor An icon/window which a user is selecting is precisely predicted to improve the operability of a GUI. This invention displays a GUI picture, including an icon/window and a pointer of a mouse or the like in a display screen of a computer, predicts an icon w... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6359627 | Method for selecting a graphic primitive and a recording medium To select a graphic primitive hidden behind a graphic primitive displayed in foreground, a point on the display screen is pointed to by a pointing device. A CPU detects graphic primitives that include the specified point based on the position and the size... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6356911 | Shortest path search system An efficient method and system is provided for searching for the shortest paths between a source and multiple destinations, and between multiple sources and multiple destinations. The speed of the conventional Dijkstra method, which is the basic calculati... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6356889 | Method for determining optimal database materializations using a query optimizer A method for determining optimal database materializations utilizing a query optimizer in a database management system. The method takes one or more queries as inputs and using the query optimizer in the database management system generates a series of vi... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6353452 | Data item display method and device, and recording medium storing a program for controlling display of data item In order to make sure that a user does not attempt to build an invalid database query in which tables are incorrectly joined on fields that cannot be joined due to an incompatibility of data types, after the user selects a source data field the incompatib... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6347309 | Circuits and method for shaping the influence field of neurons and neural networks resulting therefrom The improved neural network of the present invention results from the combination of a dedicated logic block with a conventional neural network based upon a mapping of the input space usually employed to classify an input data by computing the distance be... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6344874 | Imaging system using a data transmitting light source for subject illumination The invention provides an imaging system including a camera with an image sensor sensitive to light and a light emitter with the camera to transmit image data from the camera. It includes a controller to control the light emitter to illuminate a subject i... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6317826 | Booting a computer system from a network A client computer system (10) is adapted to connect to a server (16) across a network (20). The client system includes memory (25 or a storage medium) into which an operating system is loadable. The client includes a network card (12) having a PROM (14) a... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6317704 | Method for generating a mesh and a computer therefor A method is provided for generating a quadrilateral mesh and a hexahedral mesh. First, a geometric model, which is an object of meshing, is input. The model is either two-dimensional or three-dimensional. Multiple bubbles of a plurality of types are gener... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6311198 | Method and system for threading documents In order to efficiently thread n chronologically ordered documents, a similarity among the n documents is calculated and the similarity is employed to create a similarity matrix using time constraints, and is converted into an adjacency matrix for identif... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6304888 | High speed numerical integration method and system To provide a numerical integration system and method, suitable for a high-order dimensional Monte Carlo calculation and having high convergence speed without incurring a calculation time penalty, a multi-dimensional sequence is first converted into a one-... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6304966 | Data hiding method and system using statistical properties A data hiding method enables embedded information to be extracted without providing original media data as information and enables the information to be extracted with relatively low calculation cost. The data hiding method embeds information indicating a... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6291140 | Low-cost photoplastic cantilever A method of manufacturing a cantilever with tip comprising the steps of forming a tip-like indent in a substrate, depositing a photoresist layer which fills said tip-like indent and covers at least a part of said substrate, and photolithographically struc... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6289399 | Computer and parameter setting method To provide power management for a computer, the computer includes: a resource manager for examining a running application and a usage status of an examination object device; and a policy manger for receiving, from the resource manager, information about t... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6282291 | Method and apparatus for encrypting input bit sequence An output bit sequences is derived from an initial bit sequence and this output bit sequence is used to encrypt an input bit sequence in a first mode of operation or not to so encrypt the input bit sequence in a second mode of operation. The mode of opera... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6249747 | Investigation and/or manipulation device An investigation and/or manipulation tool for a sample which is locally deformed when subjected to a local heat treatment includes a power supply for heating a tip of the tool wherein the tool has a structure such that the power supplied to the tip heats ... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6230206 | System for internode deadlock avoidance in parallel database system using as overflow buffer a temporary table storage allocated to the parallel database application program being executed The invention provides a method and apparatus including a programming product for a parallel data processing system having a plurality of nodes interconnected by communication paths, in which one or more sets of data present at one or more source nodes of... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6219689 | Parallel transaction processing system A parallel transaction processing system performs efficient parallel processing of multiple tasks and includes a queue for storing a plurality of transaction data which can be processed independently, a control table containing control information for the... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6218086 | Method of forming ultrasmall structures and apparatus therefor The present invention discloses a method of forming ultrasmall (nano) structures in a thin film provided on a substrate by means of a tip which is movable relative to the surface of the thin film. According to principles of the invention, the penetration ... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6192293 | System for meshing curved surface by generating and controlling the number of bubbles in parametric space A curved surface to be meshed and a tensor at each point on the curved surface are inputted. Then, bubbles are generated in parametric space corresponding to the curved surface and in accordance with tensors transformed according to the relationship betwe... | 02/20/2001 |
