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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6308185 | Methods and apparatus for generational dynamic management of computer memory The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for performing generational garbage collection within computer memory. According to one aspect of the present invention, a computer-implemented method for dynamically managing memory which includes a ... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6305008 | Automatic statement completion Automatic statement completion is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes an editor to provide for developing source code for a computer program, and a database containing information on entities in the source code. The system also includes a comp... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6289436 | ASIC control system and method An image formation system ASIC control system and method capable of selectively clearing only registers and other storage units, requiring initialization in response to the internal state and external state of an image formation system ASIC are provided. ... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6289334 | Apparatus and method for decomposing database queries for database management system including multiprocessor digital data processing system An improved system for database query processing by means of "query decomposition" intercepts database queries prior to processing by a database management system ("DBMS"). The system decomposes at least selected queries to generate multiple subqueries fo... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6282545 | Mechanism for information extraction and traversal from an object base including a plurality of object classes A method and computer program extracts information from both software and non software sources. The system facilitates the traversal and filtering of the extracted information. Object oriented programming techniques are used in the implementation of the s... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6282383 | Method of monitoring and initiating operational commands in an image processing device A method of monitoring the operational status of and initiating image processing device control commands on one or more image processing devices from a remote location, said image processing devices each having a control computer for controlling operation... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6272489 | Visually oriented, easily navigable search facility A technique, system, and computer program for providing a visually oriented, easily navigable search facility. Templates containing field names and possible default values are stored for each available task for this user, preferably in a memory cache or d... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6266675 | System and method for using a relational database to enable the dynamic configuration of an application program A computer-based system for using a relational database to dynamically configure an application program easily comprises a relational database including first table means containing first data, second table means containing configuration data, and an engi... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6260049 | Automated shelf management system and process for tracking and purging file folders in a file storage facility An automated system and process for managing paper files, particularly medical records contained in file folders and the like, in a file storage system having a predetermined size or limited expansion capacity. A shelf manager system includes a computer p... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6260037 | Method and computer program product for implementing skip key processing for database grouping queries involving aggregate operations by using one or more indices A method and computer program product are provided for implementing skip key processing for database grouping queries involving aggregate operations using one or more indices in a computer system. First checking for a selected entry in a current group in ... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6253200 | Structured query language to IMS transaction mapper A process to access an IMS transaction based computer system from a structured query language (SQL) application program without revising or migrating the transaction based system. Binary virtual table mappings are built. An SQL statement from the SQL appl... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6247043 | Apparatus, program products and methods utilizing intelligent contact management Apparatus, program products, and methods implement various intelligent contact management operations to improve the productivity of users of electronic messaging systems and the like. To perform an intelligent name lookup, for example, a subset of the use... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6247008 | Relational database access system using semantically dynamic objects A relational database access system and method provides a new data representation and a query technique which allows information system end users to access (query) relational databases without knowing the relational structure or the structure query langua... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6247016 | Decision tree classifier with integrated building and pruning phases A method of data classification using a decision tree having nodes is disclosed, along with an apparatus for perming the method. Periodically or after a certain number of nodes of the tree are split, the partially built tree is pruned. During the building... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6233580 | Word/number and number/word mapping A compactly stored word list that includes a directed graph data structure is used for word to number (W/N) and number to word (N/W) mapping. Each word accepted by the data structure is mapped to a unique corresponding number within a dense set of numbers... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6229537 | Hosting windowed objects in a non-windowing environment Hosting windowed objects in a non-windowing environment is disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a computerized system includes a non-windowing environment, such as that provided by Java, and a windowed object, such as an ActiveX control. The win... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6230243 | Method, system and program products for managing changed data of castout classes Changed data of castout classes of a coupling facility cache are managed in order to be able to efficiently determine the age of the oldest changed data in the cache. A directory entry representing a changed datum is placed in a data structure correspondi... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6223184 | Method for cataloging datastore characteristics and defining and generating datastore persistent objects A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for cataloging datastore characteristics and defining and generating datastore persistent objects. A computerized system includes an external non-object-oriented datastore and a class definition tool that de... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6223171 | What-if index analysis utility for database systems What-if index analysis utility provides the ability to analyze the performance of the existing configuration of a database system with respect to one or more workloads of queries and to propose a hypothetical configuration for the database system to analy... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6219673 | Method for using a non-object-oriented datastore as a generic persistent datastore for persistent objects A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for using a non-object-oriented datastore as a generic persistent datastore for persistent objects. A computerized system in accordance with the principles of the present invention provides a "bridge" that i... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6216203 | Data processing method using record division storing scheme and apparatus therefor A record having a fixed length data portion and a variable length data portion is stored in memory units, each capable of being inputted/outputted independently, in unit of sub-record while the fixed length data portion is divided into a plurality of fixe... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6216152 | Method and apparatus for providing plug in media decoders A method and apparatus for providing plug-in media decoders. Embodiments provide a "plug-in" decoder architecture that allows software decoders to be transparently downloaded, along with media data. User applications are able to support new media types as... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6212517 | Keyword extracting system and text retrieval system using the same A system for providing keywords to facilitate a search in a text retrieval system. For each of texts constituting a text base, the system creates a word ID of each of words used in the text and a word occurrence count of a corresponding word. The word occ... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6205443 | Overlapping subdocuments in a vector space search process The present invention is a method and apparatus for retrieving information from a database. Initially, the documents within the database are divided into mutually exclusive subdocuments that generally correspond to paragraphs of text. The present inventio... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6202066 | Implementation of role/group permission association using object access type Security administration in a computer system is simplified by defining a new and independent entity called an Object Access Type (OAT). OATs comprise access control specifications associating roles with permissions, and associating the roles with a set of... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6199062 | Reverse string indexing in a relational database for wildcard searching A method of hierarchical LDAP wildcard searching in an LDAP directory service having a relational database management system (DBMS) as a backing store. The relational database normally includes a forward index of the character strings in the database. The... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6192376 | Method and apparatus for shadowing a hierarchical file system index structure to enable error recovery The method of the invention updates a tree arranged index for an hierarchical file system (HFS). The index includes at least one index value, i.e., an index page, that is logically positioned between an index anchor value and a sequence page. The sequence... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6192367 | Data file editor presenting semi-formatted view A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture, and a memory structure for displaying and editing data fields in a data file is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a monitor, communicatively coupled to a computer, a window, displayable on the monitor, the... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6185572 | Method for representing data from non-relational, non-object-oriented datastores as queryable datastore persistent objects A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for representing data from non-object-oriented external datastores as queryable datastore persistent objects. A computerized system in accordance with the principles of the present invention includes a "brid... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6185568 | Classifying data packets processed by drivers included in a stack A method and computer program product for classifying data being processed by drivers included in a stack. The computer program product is a centralized packet classifier that receives classification requests from drivers or other clients according to a d... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6182064 | Method and system for identifying an object located among a number of multiple interconnected computing systems Provided are a method and system for locating data stored within an environment having multiple interconnected computing systems. The method and system achieve their objects via the following actions. A superset of one or more elements comprised of data l... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6175933 | Recovery of file transfers in a data processing system A system, method and program product for recovering records transferred by a file transfer program from a file transfer client to a file transfer server for storing in an I/O device by the server, wherein the file comprises multiple records in one or more... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6173294 | Method for combining card marking with remembered set for generational garbage collection with more than two generations A system for garbage collection of memory objects in a memory heap. The system includes a memory heap that is partitioned into few generations, each generation being partitioned into cards. The generations are associated with remembered sets and card mark... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6169993 | Method, data structure, and computer program product for object state storage In an interface-based binary object system capable of supporting multiple interfaces into objects created by class templates, a repository of stored object states is formed that can be accessed by later created objects. Such later created objects may be o... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6169992 | Search engine for remote access to database management systems A system is disclosed for remotely accessing database management systems (5130) and performing guided iterative queries of knowledge bases (110) over a communication circuit such as the Internet (5124). The system includes a Web browser (5120) having a Ja... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6167400 | Method of performing a sliding window search A method of performing a sliding window search includes the steps of: (a) creating an associative database of a plurality of data strings; (b) receiving a first window of a data block; (c) iconizing the first window of the data block to form a first icon;... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6163782 | Efficient and effective distributed information management A method stores, indexes, searches and retrieves data information in a large data storage and retrieval system. Large amounts of data information, subject to searching and retrieval, are broken down and stored in sub-collections. Each sub-collection separ... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6163778 | Probabilistic web link viability marker and web page ratings Hypertext information links are typically contained in documents accessible by networks. Data is gathered regarding the results of attempted access to documents identified by these links. The link's viability is calculated based on the number of successfu... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6161102 | Method and apparatus for searching for information in a data processing system and for providing scheduled search reports in a summary format A method and apparatus for processing information in a data processing system which is coupled to an information storage device having information stored therein. The method includes defining on a first processor a first search request which includes at l... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6151597 | Host DBMS simulator and simulation method thereof A host DBMS simulator and simulation method thereof which can simulate an exchanger application program made out into CHILL/C in one's host system by a user using a host system under the exchanger's execution environment and similar simulation environment... | 11/21/2000 |
