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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8122017 | Enhanced retrieval of source code Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products are provided for indexing tags in source code. Implementations provide an enhanced retrieval of source code, in which a score for each of a plurality of files is derived based on a quantity of refe... | 02/21/2012 |
| 7930310 | Global resource method and system A method and system for selecting a candidate. The method includes associating by a computing system, groups of suppliers with geographical areas. The computing system receives a selection of a first skill from a requester. The requester is located within a first ge... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7904468 | Method and software for facilitating interaction with a personal information manager application at a wireless communication device Software executable by a wireless communication device may include instructions for receiving at least one markup language document containing a markup language definition defining a query of a notional database table. The notional database table may be characterize... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7849068 | Remotely updating a status of a data record to cancel a workstation deployment A system and program product for updating a data record of a database to cancel a deployment of a computer workstation. A deployment status is changed from a starting status to a deployed status via intermediate statuses and then the deployment is canceled. From a d... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7730079 | Query comprehensions The subject disclosure pertains to interaction with one or more collections of data. Queries and domains are presented as separate entities. A number of compositional operators are provided to manipulate a generic collection of data at a low level. Query comprehensi... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7565630 | Customization of search results for search queries received from third party sites A third party website provides a search interface to a general search engine. A site profile of the third party website describes various topics, keywords, or domains that are potentially relevant or of interest to users who access the third party website. The topic... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7421660 | Method and apparatus to visually present discussions for data mining purposes A method of organizing information is disclosed. The method comprises providing a visualization of actor communications in the context of one or more discussion, a discussion including at least one actor and at least one documented communication. ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7398479 | Method and system for calendar-based image asset organization A calendar-based image asset organizer, including a user interface for designating at least one date range, an image date reader for determining a date associated with an image, and an image query manager for identifying images having an associated date within the d... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7383513 | Graphical condition builder for facilitating database queries A graphical condition builder is provided that presents a graphical representation of a search query. In an embodiment, the graphical condition builder presents a graphical and numerical preview indicating the size of the expected query results set. In an embodiment... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7376912 | Interactive user interface for displaying supply chain information An interactive user interface is disclosed. According to various embodiments, the interface includes a first field and at least one additional field. The first field lists a focal item and the at least one additional field contains a listing of items related to the ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7356779 | Analytical reporting on top of multidimensional data model An analytical reporting functionality provides full-fledged dynamic reporting capabilities on top of a multidimensional data model. A GUI facilitates replicating the same reporting data for various elements of a dimension. Additionally, direct interaction with the r... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356778 | Method and system for visualization and operation of multiple content filters A system for operation and visualization of multiple content filters, including a plurality of filter interfaces for setting parameters of corresponding content filters that filter a catalog of assets, each content filter having a lock status being in a locked or an... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7334195 | System and process for presenting search results in a histogram/cluster format A user interface system and process for graphically displaying the results of a standard search, such as a database search, to a user on a display device via an interactive search results window in which the user views and filters search results items. These results... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7313783 | Generic management software application for all industries and method thereof Visual Flow Interface (VFI) is a generic management software tool for any user in different industries which is similar to implementing a Graphical User Interface (GUI) on Database Applications for the front end. VFI revolutionizes the principle of Management Inform... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313756 | Schema editor extensions A method of providing an extension mechanism to an schema editor such that custom properties may be defined for nodes within an XSD schema. The custom properties allow the schema editor to define characteristics of non-XML data within XSD schemas in a standard fashi... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7302646 | Information rearrangement method, information processing apparatus and information processing system, and storage medium and program transmission apparatus therefor An information processing system, for processing information obtained from multiple sites that are connected via the Internet 10, includes: a webcrawler 13, for crawling sites, across the Internet 10, which are registered in a registered site DB... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7296021 | Method, system, and article to specify compound query, displaying visual indication includes a series of graphical bars specify weight relevance, ordered segments of unique colors where each segment length indicative of the extent of match of each object with one of search parameters A method of searching a collection of data that includes specifying a compound query having two or more search parameters; identifying data objects in the collection that match the search parameters; and providing results that include both an identification of match... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7283951 | Method and system for enhanced data searching Methods and systems for syntactically indexing and searching data sets to achieve more accurate search results are provided. Example embodiments provide a Syntactic Query Engine (“SQE”) that parses, indexes, and stores a data set, as well as processes natural la... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7281218 | Manipulating a data source using a graphical user interface A target audience for a marketing campaign is selected using a graphical user interface. A first graphical representation of a customer data attribute is dragged from a first window and dropped in a second window. A second graphical representation of a customer data... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7274378 | Customized wall map printing system An electronic wall map design and printing system enables a user to select or specify the size, coverage area and detail level of a wall map and to customize the wall map based on the user's needs via a fully automated electronic interface. For ease of viewing durin... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7269598 | Extended functionality for an inverse inference engine based web search An extension of an inverse inference search engine is disclosed which provides cross language document retrieval, in which the information matrix used as input to the inverse inference engine is organized into rows of blocks corresponding to languages within a prede... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269786 | Navigating an index to access a subject multi-dimensional database A technique for navigating an index to access a subject multi-dimensional database stored on a data store connected to the computer. Initially, a deviations spreadsheet comprising cells is displayed. Then, upon user selection of a cell in the deviations spreadsheet,... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7246327 | Interactive, menu-driven interface to database An interactive, menu-driven interface to a cellular site information database is disclosed. The user may enter a form name such as channel, cell, trkgrp, trkmem, etc. into a form selection screen. The user may enter the operation desired to be performed on the form ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7243099 | Computer-implemented method, system, apparatus for generating user's insight selection by showing an indication of popularity, displaying one or more materialized insight associated with specified item class within the database that potentially match the search A database access component provides access to a database comprising a plurality of searchable items, one or more of the items being registered with one or more item classes, each item class being associated with at least one insight pertaining to items registered t... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7236972 | Identifier vocabulary data access method and system A method of organizing, managing, and providing interactive access to data in a database is disclosed, along with a program and a system for implementing the method. Associations between each data Item and at least one ItemSelector are established and stored. A pred... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7231612 | Computer-executable method for improving understanding of business data by interactive rule manipulation Methods and systems operating in accordance with the present invention provide an interactive directed data analysis tool. The tool provides a user interface that receives a model from a data mining system. The tool computes specified business metrics representing b... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7225412 | Visualization toolkit for data cleansing applications A system views results of a data cleansing application. The system includes a results visualization module and a learning visualization interface module. The results visualization module organizes output of the data cleansing application into a predefined format. Th... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7203908 | Character communication device A character communication device which is connected to a network and enables at least communication by using characters. The device comprises a candidate term display means (S104) for displaying a group of candidate terms prepared for message communication in... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7174514 | Engine to present a user interface based on a logical structure, such as one for a customer relationship management system, across a web site A flowchart-based tool can be used to build a logical structure. In the context of a customer relationship management (CRM) system, the logical structure can comprise an ordered set of questions and branching logic that are presented to a customer of the business wh... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7162701 | User interface for a decision support system Methods are provided for navigation user interface mechanisms. In one embodiment, a directed summary of (i) what caused the value of a selected cell within a tabular view of data; or (ii) context into which the value of the selected cell fits as part of a larger ove... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162484 | Method and system for hierarchical visibility marks for hierarchical elements in hierarchical database structure, filtering hierarchical elements, hide any hierarchical element not having either a user hierarchical visibility mark or a propagated hierarchical visibility mark A new interface and methods allow a new versatility both in both managing a database, and in presenting hierarchical database information in a more useful way. User marks are used to determine the visibility of the elements at the various hierarchical levels in a hi... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162473 | Method and system for usage analyzer that determines user accessed sources, indexes data subsets, and associated metadata, processing implicit queries based on potential interest to users The present invention relates to systems and methods providing content-access-based information retrieval. Information items from a plurality of disparate information sources that have been previously accessed or considered are automatically indexed in a data store,... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7159011 | System and method for managing an online message board A database management system employs a number of community and customized software search robots. The robots interact with subscribers to access, retrieve and post content according to content groupings and classifications that reflect the collective shared interest... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7155426 | SQL debugging using stored procedures A method, apparatus and article of manufacture is provided for SQL debugging within a computer system network. The method uses stored procedures via a console for debugging of SQL instructions located in a server, wherein preferably only one database communication l... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7149972 | Display of follow-up information relating to information items occurring in a multimedia device The invention relates to a multimedia device, which detects at least one information item in an audio and/or video data stream processed by the multimedia device, saves the detected information items as a function of a weighting consisting of the time of occurrence ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7127676 | Method and system for providing a separate browser window with information from the main window in a simpler format Browsing in collaboration space is done by presenting to a user an interface to collaboration space. Responsive to the user opening a main window, presenting a selector and results of a search in the main window. Responsive to selection of the selector, a separate q... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7120641 | Apparatus and method for extracting data In an information processing apparatus, information is obtained from an internet and a template is selected from a plurality of templates in each of which at least one item is set to be extracted. Data corresponding to the item set in the selected template is extrac... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7107594 | Method and system for providing a version-independent interface to a computer resource A method and system for exposing a version-independent interface to a computer resource. The interface system exposes a version-independent interface to a computer resource, such as a database or computer program. The interface system also provides a version-depende... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7103854 | System and method for associating text and graphical views of map information A system and method for manipulating digital map information, that allows the operator to view or modify map object or item attributes from either a graphical window or a text window. In one embodiment, when the user selects a map item within the graphical window ( | 09/05/2006 |
