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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6567848 | System for coordinating communication between a terminal requesting connection with another terminal while both terminals accessing one of a plurality of servers under the management of a dispatcher An information terminal connected to one of a plurality of servers which are allocated by a dispatcher is connected to another information terminal via its allocated server. When a Web Browser 111 is connected to a Web Server 143 via a Dispatcher 120, a c... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6556222 | Bezel based input mechanism and user interface for a smart watch A wearable mobile computing device/appliance (e.g., a wrist watch) with a high resolution display that is capable of wirelessly accessing information from the network and a variety of other devices. The mobile computing device/appliance includes a user in... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6525997 | Efficient use of display real estate in a wrist watch display A wearable mobile computing device/appliance (e.g., a wrist watch) with a high resolution display that is capable of wirelessly accessing information from the network and a variety of other devices. The mobile computing device/appliance includes a user in... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6499038 | Method for selecting objects to be cached, method for discarding cached objects, and computer The present invention is directed to a method for dynamically changing objects to be cached in accordance with the processes performed. More particularly, the method for selecting objects to be cached in a data structure of classes of objects hierarchical... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6477117 | Alarm interface for a smart watch A wearable mobile computing device/appliance (a wrist watch) with a high resolution display that is capable of wirelessly accessing information from a network and a variety of other devices. The mobile computing device/appliance includes a user interface ... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6415297 | Parallel database support for workflow management systems The invention suggests means for defining a portion of the system-repository of a Workflow-Management-System (WFMS) or a system with comparable functionality to be maintained in a parallel database by a Database-Management-System (DBMS). The WFMS comprise... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6408295 | System and method of using clustering to find personalized associations A system and method for developing association rules which are personalized for a customer. The method includes partitioning (clustering) a set of records corresponding to transactions of items into discrete segments so that different parts of the data sh... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6389416 | Depth first method for generating itemsets A system and method for generating itemset associations in a memory storage system comprising many transactions, with each transaction including one or more items capable of forming the itemset associations. The method involves generating a lexicographic ... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6374297 | Method and apparatus for load balancing of web cluster farms A system and method for balancing a load among a web server farm includes two components: 1) a static component that functions to create the logical assignment of web sites to servers; and, 2) a dynamic component that performs real-time web site customer ... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6363397 | Method for selecting objects to be cached, method for discarding cached objects, and computer The present invention is directed to a method for dynamically changing objects to be cached in accordance with the processes performed. More particularly, the method for selecting objects to be cached in a data structure of classes of objects hierarchical... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6311206 | Method and apparatus for providing awareness-triggered push A method and a computer program device for pushing data from at least one source entity to at least one client entity over a network, a client entity being characterized as having a particular operating state. The method and computer program device compri... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6311179 | System and method of generating associations A method for automatically generating associations of items included in a database. A user first specifies a support criteria indicating a strength of desired associations of items contained in the said database. Then, a recursive program is executed for ... | 10/30/2001 |
