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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6002866 | Partitioning within a partition in a disk file storage system A new file system partition is added to an existing partition in disk storage space by creating a new file in the existing storage space of the existing partition and giving this file the attributes of a partition. This new file having partition attribute... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5842010 | Periodic wireless data broadcast A periodic wireless data transmission has improved access latency obtaining information regarding users' interest in the information and by arranging the information on an transmission in order of descending popularity. In one embodiment, each adjacent pa... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5838967 | Image filing apparatus and method for storing image data and directory information An addition unit adds information for managing a plurality of image-data files to directory information packets. A managing unit utilizes the added information for managing the plurality of image-data files. A retrieving unit retrieves, in accordance with... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5802515 | Randomized query generation and document relevance ranking for robust information retrieval from a database A method and apparatus for randomly selecting terms from an input string to form a plurality of search queries is described. Each of the plurality of search queries can be provided to a database to locate database entries in the database. Database entries... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5734887 | Method and apparatus for logical data access to a physical relational database Logical Data Access to the physical structure of a relational database is provided for one or more Applications. Applications are developed using the logical entity types and logical entity type attribute names as described in a logical data model. The Ap... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5692175 | Decision modeling and analysis for object oriented data access and analysis system A system for accessing and analyzing data through a central processing unit. The system includes a non-modal user interface to provide a user access to the system. A number of application graphics objects allow the user to visually interact with a plurali... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5689703 | Method and system for referring to and binding to objects using identifier objects A method and system for referring to and binding to objects using a moniker object is provided. In a preferred embodiment, a moniker object contains information to identify linked source data and provides methods through which a program can bind to the li... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5687367 | Facility for the storage and management of connection (connection server) A Connection Server provides very flexible structures for the identification of objects to be interconnected, the identification of the links which connect them, and the auxiliary information needed to materialize objects when they are referenced. The con... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5684991 | Modification metadata set, abstracted from database write requests In a microprocessor-based computer system, file backups are performed by monitoring modified areas of one or more files, through the write statements which give rise to the modifications. A meta-data database is constructed containing information relating... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5682533 | Updating software within a telecommunications switch without interrupting existing communication and neither moving nor converting data A system and method for exchanging an old software version for a new version within a telecommunications switch without a system restart. The switch includes memory, a software loading subsystem, a database management subsystem, and a program exchange sub... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5678038 | Storing and retrieving heterogeneous classification systems utilizing globally unique identifiers A system including a method for cohesively storing and retrieving heterogeneous classification systems. The database schema of the present invention is constructed of three data substructures, the Attribute Classification, Attribute Value Instance and Att... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5675783 | CD-ROM XA data disc featuring display position data recorded thereon A data disc, on which there are recorded main text data including map data for displaying a picture, map data pointer information as pointer information for the map data, item data for retrieving the main text data, display position data indicating the di... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5666528 | System and methods for optimizing database queries System and methods are provided for optimizing the access of information, particularly in response to ad hoc queries or filters. The system of the present invention includes a computer having a memory and a processor, a database for storing information in... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5666531 | Recordable CDROM accessing system The Recording Technique provides a directory which indicates the location of only the last version of any stored information or modified entry of stored information, prior versions being transparent to the operating system. The Recording Technique further... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5664172 | Range-based query optimizer A computerized query optimizer for use with a database system having an ordered set of records. The optimizer employs a scanner and an evaluator. A query is composed as ranges of record values related by logical operators. The query is converted to a Bool... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5664178 | Method and system for organizing internal structure of a file A method and system for storing data in a file is provided. The present invention provides for data to be organized within a compound document as a file bundle. A file bundle is a file system file that contains sub-files, which may be organized hierarchic... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5659730 | Computerized index file interrogation and comparison A method of comparing files takes three passes through data tables in memory to generate tables containing pointers to matches and mismatches by employing a method of keyword-index translation in which a keyword is taken from a first data table in a first... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5659726 | Data embedding A method of embedding auxiliary information into a set of host data, such as a photograph, television signal, facsimile transmission, or identification card. All such host data contain intrinsic noise, allowing pixels in the host data which are nearly ide... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5659729 | Method and system for implementing hypertext scroll attributes Embodiments of the present invention use a new extension to the HTML language to support remotely specified named anchors. A remotely specified named anchor, when embedded within a source document, instructs a browser program to access a portion of a dest... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5649184 | Symmetric/asymmetric shared processing operation in a tightly coupled multiprocessor In a data base processing system using a multiprocessor system, the data base processing system includes: a storage unit provided in the shared memory for storing data base management information representing either an object of a shared processing operat... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5640561 | Computerized method and system for replicating a database using log records A method and system are provided for continuously maintaining replicas of an active database in a backup system for disaster recovery purposes. Redo records transmitted from an active system are received into a dataspace work area in a backup system memor... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5640554 | Parallel merge and sort process method and system thereof When a list to be sorted is divided into L sorted merge objective lists, each of the merge objective lists is formed of a plurality of blocks (where L is any natural number larger than or equal to 2). For each block, a block information record having a bl... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5640557 | Method and system for processing logic blocks in a data processing system A method and apparatus for evaluating a plurality of logical elements connected to each other by a plurality of connectors, wherein a change of state may occur in at least one of the plurality of logical elements. A state data field is established for eac... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5640556 | Synchronous/asynchronous client server access based upon database file record attribute The present invention is for increasing operational speed for appending or updating data in a remote database system of the client-server type. When an operational unit of a client node accesses a record file in a server node, and when an attribute associ... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5630127 | Program storage device and computer program product for managing an event driven management information system with rule-based application structure stored in a relational database A rule-based application structure utilizes rules which are stored separately from application programs. The rules are stored in a relational database as objects. A user can modify existing rules and create new rules which are then restored in the databas... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5625820 | System managed logging of objects to speed recovery processing System control over the logging of objects in order to meet the user specified recovery requirements. Under the fixed recovery time environment, the user chooses a length of time to be spent on object recovery, and the system dynamically manages the loggi... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5623653 | Document control, routing, and processing apparatus A document processing apparatus comprises: a storing portion for storing document data; an instruction generation portion for generating a first set of instructions and second sets of instructions with regard to the document data in response to a first us... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5623659 | Parent/child subset locking scheme for versioned objects For concurrent access by a plurality of users to a data set in a memory, a computer system first searches for a write lock on a first portion of the data set which the user wishes to access. For no write lock detected, the request is granted by allowing w... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5619690 | Computer system including a computer which requests an access to a logical address in a secondary storage system with specification of a local address in the secondary storage system When file and command management means in a secondary storage system is instructed to store a new file by a command containing file identification information from a host computer, the means transfers it to new file address determination means, which then... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5619694 | Case database storage/retrieval system A case database storage/retrieval system comprises a database for storing as a case contents occurred on an object, a script storage section for storing at least one script which describes a typically conducted series of operation and condition descriptio... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5619691 | File sharing method and system for multiprocessor system A file sharing method and system for a multiprocessor system has an auxiliary storage unit that is shared in use by a plurality of processors each adopting virtual storage management. An auxiliary page table for storing on a page-by-page basis addresses o... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5617566 | File portion logging and arching by means of an auxilary database In a hierarchical storage management system, files are automatically archived when they have not been accessed for a specified period. With large database files, the file cannot be archived, even though only a small number of records has been used. In thi... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5617567 | Data processing system and method for retrieving and entity specified in a search path record from a relational database A relationships processing computing system provides for the recording and extraction of data objects (entities) and for development data representing a queried relationship between data objects (entities). The set of entities and relationships may be exp... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5617120 | Two-relation icon ranking and selecting method An object (icon) selecting method selects an object of a pictorial pattern for use in designing a pictorial symbol representing a system function. The method includes a first step of associating a system function with objects representing pictorial symbol... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5617119 | Protection of an electronically stored image in a first color space by the alteration of a digital component in a second color space Digitized images are associated with English language captions and other data, collectively known as the metadata associated with the images. A natural language processing database removes ambiguities from the metadata, and the images and the metadata are... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5614927 | Protecting confidential information in a database for enabling targeted advertising in a communications network A system and method are disclosed for protecting a database against deduction of confidential attribute values therein. A memory 160 is provided for storing the database and a processor 155 is provided for processing the database. Using the processor, the... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5610810 | Apparatus for correcting errors in a digital-to-analog converter Adjustment of a gain and an offset of a data processing apparatus for controlling the operation of a copying machine or the like can be performed all at once without requiring adjustment of individual components making up the apparatus, such as an A/D con... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5608900 | Generation and storage of connections between objects in a computer network A system and method for creating a knowledge base continuously developed through a method of repetitiously connecting various sources of locally and remotely located sources of data. The various sources of data can include reports, articles, books, audio ... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5604901 | Interrogation index file comparison A method of comparing files takes three passes through data tables in memory to generate tables containing pointers to matches and mismatches by employing a method of keyword-index translation in which a keyword is taken from a first data table in a first... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5603021 | Methods for composing formulas in an electronic spreadsheet system An electronic spreadsheet system of the present invention includes a Formula Composer having a preferred interface and methods for assisting a user with composing spreadsheet formulas. The Composer provides the user with simultaneous formula outline and s... | 02/11/1997 |
