Facsimile routing methodology
OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT In order for a pair of facsimile units to communicate with each other, linkage must be established between the units to allow the data to be transmitted and received in a co... Read More
Inventors: Hochman, Gary; Lichter, Paul;, Assignee: All the Fax Business Systems, Inc. (New York, NY) |
Method and system for dynamic control of a messaging environment from a facsimile processor
It is one object of this invention to provide a method and system for controlling from a first facsimile processor a messaging environment coupled to a second facsimile processor. It is another object... Read More
Inventors: Weiser, Russel F.;, Assignee: Novell, Inc. (Provo, UT) |
Method and apparatus for generating images
It is principal the object of the present invention to provide both a method and an apparatus for generating images which allows several different image production orders to be processed in a simple a... Read More
Inventors: Brunner, Juergen; Rauh, Hans-Juergen; Schindler, Hans-Georg;, Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft (Leverkusen, DE) |
Hardware simulator for a transaction processing system
What is claimed is: 1. A hardware simulator for a transaction processing system, said transaction processing system being responsive to transaction requests from an application, said simulator compris... Read More
Inventors: Currie, Stuart; Flenley, John Martin;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Method, system and computer program product for dynamic delivery of human language translations during software operation
It is therefore one object of the present invention to provide an improved method, system and computer program product for multilingual support for data processing system software. It is another objec... Read More
Inventors: Hetherington, David James; Kumhyr, David Bruce;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Method and system for generating materials for presentation on a non-frame capable web browser
The present invention is directed to solving the above problems. That is, the present invention is directed to presenting information over the World Wide Web in a manner such that information from dif... Read More
Inventors: Nakamura, Lee Evan; Tate, Stewart Eugene;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Information retrieval and text mining using distributed latent semantic indexing
Referring to FIG. 1 the inventive method of the document collection processing of the present invention is set forth. At step 110 the method of the present invention generates a frequency count for e... Read More
Inventors: Behrens, Clifford A.; Bassu, Devasis;, Assignee: Telcordia Technologies, Inc. (Piscataway, NJ) |
Method for providing a reverse star schema data model
According to the invention, techniques for organizing information from a variety of sources, including legacy systems, in a data warehousing environment are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, the i... Read More
Inventors: Chen, Li-Wen; Ortiz, Juan J.;, Assignee: MetaEdge Corporation (Sunnyvale, CA) |
Interaction protocol for managing cross company processes among network-distributed applications
The present invention is premised on the observation that there are at least two basic constituent parts in any e-commerce business model. These are commerce services, such as shopping carts, catalogs... Read More
Inventors: Ankireddipally, Lakshmi Narasimha; Yeh, Ryh-Wei;, Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) |
Static and dynamic assessment procedures
The invention, as summarized above and as claimed in the appended claims, corresponds most closely to a second embodiment of the invention which is described below in the section of this detailed des... Read More
Inventors: Holland, Paul Edward; McDowell, Mark William; Dineen, Paul Laurence; Le, Vu An Minh;, Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, TX) |
Method and apparatus for configuring massively parallel systems
To address the requirements described above, the present invention discloses a simplified method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for configuring a parallel processing system. The present invent... Read More
Inventors: Denman, Robert W.; Merritt, John E.;, Assignee: NCR Corporation (Dayton, OH) |
Reduced memory row hash match scan join for a partitioned database system
The partitioned table storage technique disclosed herein has particular application, but is not limited, to large databases that might contain many millions or billions of records managed by a databa... Read More
Inventors: Sinclair, Paul Laurence; Chiang, Kuorong;, Assignee: NCR Corporation (Dayton, OH) |
Method and apparatus for partitioning data for storage in a database
In the following description, numerous details are set forth to provide an understanding of the present invention. However, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present inventio... Read More
Inventors: Watson, M. Cameron; Colin, Pierre Y.;, Assignee: NCR Corp. (Dayton, OH) |
Apparatus for generating sales probability
The present invention is a method and apparatus for generating accurate sales probabilities. The apparatus, a sales probability generator, comprises a general purpose computer having a central process... Read More
Inventors: Eisner, Jack;, Assignee: |
Method for managing concurrent access to virtual memory data structures
Broadly speaking, the present invention fills these needs by providing methods for managing concurrent access to the kernel data structures for a virtual page in memory. It should be appreciated that ... Read More
Inventors: Schimmel, Curt F.;, Assignee: Silicon Graphics, Inc. (Mountain View, CA) |
Pledge-based resource allocation system
A pledge-based resource allocation system for a client/server environment is provided. In this system, resources, such as database objects, are allocated to clients for a limited time period. Allocati... Read More
Inventors: Pal, Shankar; Bennett, John G.;, Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) |
Performance of table insertion by using multiple tables or multiple threads
To overcome the limitations in the prior art described above, and to overcome other limitations that will become apparent upon reading and understanding the present specification, the present inventio... Read More
Inventors: DeKimpe, Daniel Martin; Malloy, William Earl; Moore, Simon Edward; Robinson, Gary;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Replaceable classes and virtual constructors for object-oriented programming languages
In view of the foregoing, the present invention provides a new approach and language extension to object-oriented programming that uses replaceable classes and virtual constructors to enable the reuse... Read More
Inventors: Chkodrov, Gueorgui B.; Green, Jared M.; Kaur, Narinder;, Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) |
String predicate selectivity estimation
Exemplary Operating Environment FIG. 1 and the following discussion are intended to provide a brief, general description of a suitable computing environment in which the invention may be implemented.... Read More
Inventors: Chaudhuri, Surajit; Ganti, Venkatesh; Gravano, Luis;, Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) |
Dynamic generation of user interface components
An embodiment of the invention is discussed in detail below. While specific implementations of the invention are discussed, it should be understood that this is done for illustration purposes only. A... Read More
Inventors: Cheng, Kit Man; Levin, Issac Stephen; Ju, Wei-De;, Assignee: Siebel Systems, Inc. (San Mateo, CA) |
System for allocating resources in a computer system
Problems associated with the manual installation and configuration of adapter boards and peripheral devices for computers are solved by the principles of the present invention. The present invention p... Read More
Inventors: Wilson, Marc D.; Lipe, Ralph A.; Santerre, Pierre-Yves;, Assignee: Microsoft Corp. (Redmond, WA) |
High speed data transfer between mainframe storage systems
The present invention relates to a method and associated systems for transferring data between mainframe storage devices. While the invention is suitable for remote dual copy functions, the invention ... Read More
Inventors: Yamamoto, Akira;, Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Method, system, and article of manufacture for transferring structured data between different data stores
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS In the following description, reference is made to the accompanying drawings which form a part hereof and which illustrate several implementations. It is understood that ... Read More
Inventors: Krishnamurthy, Saileshwar; Lau, Leo;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Method and apparatus for reformatting of content for display on interactive television
The present invention addresses the needs of the interactive television environment discussed above. The present invention provides a method and apparatus comprising software and hardware for acceptin... Read More
Inventors: Su, Dongmin;, Assignee: OpenTV, Inc. (San Francisco, CA) |
Method and system for accessing a collection of images in a database
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIGS. 1, 2 and 3 are flowcharts illustrating the steps carried out for accessing a collection of images in a database in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the pr... Read More
Inventors: Lin, Qian; Gargi, Ullas; Lee, Hojohn;, Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, TX) |
Method and apparatus for evaluating relevancy of messages to users
In one aspect, a system is provided for evaluating the relevancy of an incoming message to a plurality of users. The system includes a message feature database including records descriptive of feature... Read More
Inventors: Pollack, Jordan; Cutts, Shaun; Rodriguez, Andres;, Assignee: Abuzz Technologies, Inc. (Cambridge, MA) |
System and method for implementing a transaction log
The present invention satisfies the above-described needs by using a chronological list superimposed on an indexed list to implement transaction ID logging. The chronological list expedites maintainin... Read More
Inventors: Velamuri, Syama S.; Torbert, Julia; Nimmagadda, Prasad;, Assignee: BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation (Wilmington, DE) |
Method and apparatus for transforming data
Systems implementing the invention provide users with a set of tools for transforming data from databases. When transforming data from a data source into a destination, the challenge resides in conver... Read More
Inventors: Weinberg, Paul N.; Lo, Wenphing; Liu, Zheng; Hazi, Ariel;, Assignee: SAP Aktiengesellschaft (Waldorf, DE) |
Providing access to user interface elements of legacy application programs
An architecture is provided that enables an accessibility aid to directly access and manipulate user interface elements of an application program programmatically. Moreover, such access and manipulati... Read More
Inventors: Oppermann, Charles; Butler, Laura J.; Donie, Steven M.; Wong, Peter Kam-Ho;, Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) |
Translation of object queries involving inheritence
Join expressions, expressed in terms of objects, are translated into a relational database join statement by generating a parse tree based on the join expression. The parse tree is traversed to build ... Read More
Inventors: Anonsen, Steven P.; Trappen, Anthony R.; Thalman, Matthew Aaron;, Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) |
Databases 
