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| 8131664 | Row-level security in a relational database management system An access control system provides multilevel and mandatory access control for a database management system. The access control systems provide access control at the row level in a relational database table. The database table contains a security label column within ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 7975218 | Apparatus and method for forming document group structure data and storage medium The apparatus for forming a document group structure data contains a base document specifying section that specifies plural documents to be positionally fixed on the tree structure as base documents based on an input from a user, an upper tree structure forming sect... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7941745 | Method and system for tagging electronic documents A document processing system and method are disclosed which are capable of performing inverse retrieval in response to a request issued by a user and providing retrieved document data to the user. Characteristic information indicating a specified electronic document... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7860820 | System using content generator for dynamically regenerating one or more fragments of web page based on notification of content change Disclosed herein are embodiments of a system and method for the provisioning of dynamically generated content. One embodiment can interface a content delivery system and a content management system at the fragment level. Depending upon how a page is organized, a fra... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7856413 | Dynamic search criteria on a search graph A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, display icons representing search terms on a search graph, having at least one axis. The axis represents a search criteria. The position of the icon specifies a value (such as an importan... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7840589 | Systems and methods for using lexically-related query elements within a dynamic object for semantic search refinement and navigation A method and system for dynamically refining and navigating between alternative search query elements are disclosed. The method and system are applicable to searching an information system such as the Internet, an intranet, or any database, lexicon, or collection of... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7814043 | Content information analyzing method and apparatus This invention is to automatically extract noteworthy information from a large amount of information. First, a disclosure unit of an individual opinion such as a statement in a personal Web page or a bulletin board is extracted from collected content information, an... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7783590 | Task selection apparatus and task selection assistance method The present invention provides a task selection assistance apparatus, and a task selection assistance method, which enable burdens on a user to be alleviated in selecting a task for solving a problem. A domain candidate determining portion 210 determines doma... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7778954 | Systems, methods, and software for presenting legal case histories A system and method for automatically determining a plurality of pieces of different information about a textual document from the text of the textual document are provided in which one or more particular characteristics of the text of the textual document are ident... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7779342 | Hypervideo: information retrieval at user request Disclosed is a method and device for selecting documents, such as Web pages or sites, for presentation to a user, in response to a user expression of interest, during the course of presentation to the user of a document, such as a video or audio selection, whose con... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7769707 | Data diameter privacy policies Privacy of data can be preserved while utility of the output is maximized by selecting from an appropriately calculated distribution of noise values to add to an output. A distribution that includes a high likelihood of large noise values may lead to less useful out... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7765464 | Method and system for dynamically assembling presentations of web pages A web designer defines attributes including business rules, properties and standard user interface library components. These attribute definitions allow look and feel specifications of a web page to be dynamically changed without requiring code modifications to any ... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7756864 | System and method for performing a search and a browse on a query A search and a browse on a single user query is performed. A refined query is selected from the results of the first user query. Thereafter, a list of concepts from a first directory associated with the refined query is obtained. The concepts are defined in a hierar... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7752160 | Method for unordered relational database retrieval returning distinct values The retrieval of distinct tuples in a relational database management system. In response to a request from a consumer process for distinct tuples in a relational database table matching a defined criteria, a distinct operator component sequentially requests tuples f... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7752161 | Access management system, access administration apparatus, access administration program, access administration method, and recording medium An access management system includes an access administration apparatus which permits access to a database when the access request satisfies an access permission condition, and a policy determination apparatus which determines whether the access permission condition... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7747556 | Query-based notification architecture A data repository monitoring system that utilizes queries to generate notifications in response to the identification of new and changed content. The system includes a monitoring component that monitors a plurality of disparate repositories in order to identify the ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7739220 | Context snippet generation for book search system A book search system and media for generating a book index corresponding to a collection of books and for providing context snippets related to a search string formulated by a user based on the book index are provided. The book index includes a word hash that repres... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7734565 | Query string matching method and apparatus In one implementation, a method is provided for increasing relevance of database search results. The method includes receiving a subject query string and determining a trained edit distance between the subject query string and a candidate string using trained cost f... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7734567 | Document data analysis apparatus, method of document data analysis, computer readable medium and computer data signal A document data analysis apparatus, the document data analysis apparatus being connected to a database storing plural document groups which a citation relationship is defined, each of the plural document groups including plural documents, includes: inputting unit th... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7734566 | Information retrieval method with efficient similarity search capability Embodiments of the present invention include methods for retrieving information from an information base. In one embodiment, the present invention includes specifying a first query including one or more specified attribute values corresponding to one or more attribu... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7730010 | Method, system, and apparatus for maintaining user privacy in a knowledge interchange system A method, system, and apparatus are provided for maintaining user privacy in a knowledge interchange (“KI”) system. A user may provide privacy preferences relating to their participation in the KI system. The user may identify specific keywords, noun phrases, an... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7730011 | Attributes of captured objects in a capture system Regular expressions used for searching for patterns in captured objects can be grouped into attributes. Such attributes can be associated with captured objects using tags stored in a database. In one embodiment, the present invention includes capturing an object bei... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7725422 | Search engine The present invention provides for a method of updating an internet search engine database with the results of a user's selection of specific web page listings from the general web page listing provided to the user as a result of his initial keyword search entry. By... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7720790 | Dynamic selection of frequent itemset counting technique Techniques are provided for (1) extending SQL to support direct invocation of frequent itemset operations, (2) improving the performance of frequent itemset operations by clustering itemset combinations to more efficiently use previously produced results, and (3) ma... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7716159 | Adaptive sales assistant A computer-implemented method includes providing one or more initial questions, including a first question, selected from a database of possible questions, where the one or more provided questions are selected based on a sales phase of a sales opportunity. A first r... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7716158 | System and method for context sensitive searching A method and system which allow the addition of context into a search involves the use of state monitors in the computing environment. The state monitors record information such as the installed hardware, software, user preferences, and operating modes. The state in... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7711678 | Software transaction commit order and conflict management Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for applying ordering to transactions in a software transactional memory system. A software transactional memory system is provided with a feature to allow a pre-determined commit order to be specified for a pluralit... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7711677 | Dynamic discovery of attributes of storage device driver configuration A method, computer program product and system that enables dynamic determination of device attributes and dynamic configuration of device drivers for storage devices in a heterogeneous storage environment. Attributes of a device are dynamically determined by an appl... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7707143 | Systems, methods, and computer program products that automatically discover metadata objects and generate multidimensional models Systems, methods, and computer products that include an automated discovery process that discovers useful metadata objects from an intelligent starting point thereby generating at least one multidimensional model for OLAP analysis. Further, generation of the intelli... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7707142 | Methods and systems for performing an offline search Methods and systems that perform an offline search for an article are described. In one aspect of the invention, the aspect includes receiving a search query, determining whether the search query has been previously entered, if the search query has been previously e... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7707144 | Optimization for aggregate navigation for distinct count metrics A method and apparatus for performing a distinct count metric by utilizing aggregate navigation. For a distinct count query of an identifier of a detail table, where the query specifies zero or more restrictions, an aggregate table associated with the detail table i... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7707140 | Information retrieval system and method employing spatially selective features A geo-coded database stores advertiser records which include location information. Received search requests are matched with database records based on location information in the search requests and the record location information. In this manner, a user can search ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7707141 | Use of a set based approach to constructing complex queries for managing resources built from a set of simple underlying operations The present invention relates to a system and methodology for resource query management. The system includes a resource manager, a query engine and a filter component. The system facilitates construction and management of a resource query across resource type(s) tha... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7707145 | Method for control, analysis and simulation of research, development, manufacturing and distribution processes A method for control, analysis and simulation of research, development, manufacturing and distribution processes, in which the data relevant for describing the process are mapped in a four-dimensional coordinate space with the orthogonal coordinate axes source, sink... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7707139 | Method and apparatus for searching and displaying structured document A process for document registration is executed with a structured document of a file as an input. An analyzed structured document and information for document search are generated and stored in databases, respectively. A query input is analyzed, a document search in... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7707146 | System and method of searching for providing clue-based context searching The invention is directed to a system and method of reordering conventional search results provided by a remote search engine such as Google. The invention may leverage a chronological timeline of user action information to infer relationships between objects in a s... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7702618 | Information retrieval system for archiving multiple document versions 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. Index data for multiple v... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7702617 | System and method for distributed querying and presentation of information from heterogeneous data sources A method, system, business method, and computer program product for retrieving and organizing networked data, wherein fetch rules and extraction rules enable a user to automatically collect and extract information from a remote network site. The fetch rules reproduc... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7702619 | Methods and systems for joining database tables using indexing data structures A method for identifying joined rows in a database comprising a plurality of tables. The method comprises selecting a group of tables directly or indirectly joined with each other, selecting an order of the group based on relationships among the tables, generating a... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7702620 | System and method for ranked keyword search on graphs Arrangements and methods for providing for the efficient implementation of ranked keyword searches on graph-structured data. Since it is difficult to directly build indexes for general schemaless graphs, conventional techniques highly rely on graph traversal in runn... | 04/20/2010 |
