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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7430566 | Statistical bigram correlation model for image retrieval The disclosed subject matter improves iterative results of content-based image retrieval (CBIR) using a bigram model to correlate relevance feedback. Specifically, multiple images are received responsive to multiple image search sessions. Relevance feedback is used ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7428525 | Virtual street addressing radius A single geocoded data layer is created by converting centroid related data to a line by adding or subtracting a distance at a predetermined direction from the centroid to derive an endpoint from the centroid defining the line (taking the form of a radial extending ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428529 | Term suggestion for multi-sense query Systems and methods for related term suggestion are described. In one aspect, term clusters are generated as a function of calculated similarity of term vectors. Each term vector having been generated from search results associated with a set of high frequency of oc... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428555 | Real-time, computer-generated modifications to an online advertising program A method and system for real-time, computer-generated modifications to an online advertising program is disclosed. One aspect of the invention involves a method at a computer associated with an ad placement provider. The method involves receiving a plurality of data... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7425963 | Hierarchical image feature-based visualization A method of visualizing and retrieving data files includes displaying a plurality of images representing data files on a display device using a first distance metric between each data file. A portion of the images is redisplayed on the display device using a refined... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7426403 | Methods and apparatus for data communication for mobile electronic devices According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for discovering the presence of at least one source and target mobile device, automatically displaying a graphical interface to show the dataset from the source mobile device, and initiating the transmission of ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7426526 | Method and system for the creation and reuse of concise business schemas using a canonical library An exemplary feature is a method for using XML Schema based standards. The method consists of constructing a reduced schema for a specific interaction from a collection of reusable artifacts. The method further consists of publishing the reduced schema in a reposito... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7426689 | System and method of processing text based entries A system and method are provided for identifying text information and making such information available for applications. The system includes an electronic device communicating text information and an application for performing a function. The system also includes m... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7426509 | Method and apparatus for document filtering using ensemble filters A technique for representing an information need and employing one or more filters to select documents that satisfy the represented information need, including a technique of creating filters that involves (a) dividing a set of documents into one or more subsets suc... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7426510 | Binary data categorization engine and database A system, method and computer program product are provided for categorizing data. In use, features are extracted from binary data. Such extracted features are compared with a predetermined set of features. Based, at least in part, on the comparison, the binary data ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7426505 | Method for identifying word patterns in text A method for identifying word patterns in text is conducted in real time and is highly suitable for network and Internet use. The method involves receiving a stream of text, breaking the stream of text into a plurality of threads, tokenizing the words in each thread... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7424480 | System and method for storing and accessing data in an interlocking trees datastore A tree-based datastore comprising a forest of interconnected trees is generated and/or accessed. The tree-based datastore comprises a first tree that depends from a first root node and may include a plurality of branches. Each of the branches of the first tree ends ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7424484 | Path-based ranking of unvisited web pages Path-based ranking of unvisited Web pages for WWW crawling is provided, via identifying all the paths beginning with a “seed” URL and leading to visited relevant web pages as “good-path set”, and for each unvisited web page, identifying the paths beginning f... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7424468 | Internet protocol address look-up device An IP address look-up device is for looking up an IP address of an IP packet in order to forward the IP packet. The device includes a ternary CAM including pairs of data string and mask string, with the data string having a prefix of an IP address and the mask strin... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7424473 | System and method for asset tracking with organization-property-individual model A system for asset tracking, comprising a universally accessible property tracking database. The database is based on an organization-property-individual model, and uses automatic close-match searching to match lost and found items. Any type of property can be repor... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7424486 | Selection of search phrases to suggest to users in view of actions performed by prior users A search engine system uses information about historical query submissions to a search engine to suggest previously-submitted, related search phrases to users. The related search phrases are preferably suggested based on a most recent set of query submission data (e... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7421154 | Image processing method The image searching method extracts or recognizes specific information for an image that exists in the image and/or accompanies it, allows either the specific information itself or related information thereof to be appendant to image data for the image, stores the i... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421495 | System and method for monitoring network devices A method and system for monitoring hardware information associated with a network device in an enterprise system are provided. In one embodiment, a method for monitoring hardware information associated with a network device in an enterprise system includes retrievin... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421126 | Method and system for searching form features for form identification A method of and system for identifying a target form for increased efficiency in an automated data capture process is described. Forms are scanned and stored as digitized images. Regions are defined on the form relative to corresponding reference points between the ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421423 | Method and apparatus for implementing a conditional payload server A system and method for implementing a conditional payload server are provided. A request for a payload corresponding to a subset of client attributes is obtained. Additionally, one or more payload(s) is obtained in which each payload defines criteria for delivering... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418440 | Method and system for extraction and organizing selected data from sources on a network Described is a system and method for employing user created database-structured queries and data extraction engines to crawl through Websites extracting and organizing data from selected sources on a network, such as the Internet. The structure of a query processed ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418505 | IP address lookup using either a hashing table or multiple hash functions The present invention relates to an IP address lookup method and hardware architecture. There is provided an IP address lookup method using a hashing table, the hashing table being constructed with an SRAM, the hashing table including main tables and sub-tables corr... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418663 | Contact picker interface An interface for enabling a user to quickly access contact information automatically displays a list of expected contacts that are most likely to be selected by the user when attention is directed to an appropriate object requiring contact information. When a contac... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418657 | Automatically inserting relevant hyperlinks into a webpage A methodology through which a host site may automatically insert relevant links into a set of text. In this methodology, the contents of the text are compared against a database containing character strings, and the character strings from the database contained in t... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415669 | Method and apparatus for viewing electronic commerce-related documents The present invention includes a method of providing users with formatted access to XML and similar documents received from trading partners using a general purpose viewer or browser. Particular aspects of the present invention are described in the claims, specifica... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415472 | Comparison tree data structures of particular use in performing lookup operations Comparison tree data structures of particular use in performing lookup operations are disclosed. A data structure typically includes first and second elements of a subtree, the subtree including a root node. The first and the second elements each include: a node val... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415463 | Programming tree data structures and handling collisions while performing lookup operations Inter alia, methods, apparatus, data structures, computer-readable medium, mechanisms, and means for programming routes and access control lists in comparison tree data structures and their use such as in performing lookup operations for use in routers, packet switc... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7414988 | Server for updating location beacon database A location beacon database and server, method of building location beacon database, and location based service using same. Wi-Fi access points are located in a target geographical area to build a reference database of locations of Wi-Fi access points. At least one v... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415456 | Network support for caller identification based on biometric measurement Actual caller identification is provided. Biometric information is collected from a calling party. For example, retinal scan or facial recognition information is collected from a calling party. An element of a communications network receives the biometric informatio... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415464 | System, method and computer-readable medium for providing pattern matching A system, method and computer-readable medium are disclosed for identifying representative data using sketches. The method embodiment comprises generating a plurality of vectors from a data set, modifying each of the vectors of the plurality of vectors and selecting... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412444 | Efficient indexing of hierarchical relational database records According to various embodiments, systems, and methods, a sorting construct (TREE_SORT) is generated to efficiently traverse hierarchical data structures in relational databases. A TREE_SORT construct is generated by transforming a value that represents the sequenti... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412443 | Method and data structure for performing regular expression searches in a fixed length word language Given a language with all words in a fixed length, and a set of regular expressions composed only from characters in the alphabet of the language or the “?” sign (any single character), the method of the invention defines a data structure that is used to efficie... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412507 | Efficient cascaded lookups at a network node Performing cascading lookups at a network node involves using first header information from a packet to search a first set of search criteria for a match, identifying a tag associated with the match, and using second header information from the packet and the tag to... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412512 | Indirect addressing method and system for locating a target element in a communication network A method of guaranteeing that a communication network server can reach an element that is remote from the network using a path or link which is automatically updated when the remote element is moved within the network. The method employs indirect addressing (lookup ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412332 | Method for analyzing polysaccharides A data structure, tangibly embodied in a computer-readable medium, representing a polymer of chemical units is disclosed. The data structure includes an identifier including a plurality of fields for storing values corresponding to properties of the polymer. The pol... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412599 | Administrative remote notification system and method Apparatus and method are provided for performing remote notification of records, each having a respective record identifier. A record-user mapping associates with each record identifier a respective one or more user names. For each record upon which remote notificat... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412708 | Methods and systems for capturing information Systems and methods for capturing information are described. In one embodiment, an event having an associated article is identified, article data associated with the article is identified, and a capture score for the event is determined based at least in part on art... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412093 | Hybrid apparatus for recognizing answer type An apparatus and a hybrid method for recognizing answer type are disclosed. The apparatus includes: a morpheme analyzer for analyzing morphemes of an input text; a syllabic answer type recognizer for extracting a predetermined size syllable from a morpheme list and ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412436 | System and interface for manipulating a database An interface exposes methods for use in manipulating a database. The interface receives requests in terms of entities (or objects). ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412441 | Predictive phonetic data search Predictive phonetic data search is described. In an embodiment, a search request to locate a term is received, where the term can be a word, a group of words, and/or any combination of characters and numbers. A numeric index is then searched to locate a number that ... | 08/12/2008 |
