Previewing an assembled document
The present invention addresses the foregoing problems by allowing a user to preview a document prior to assembly. Thus, in one aspect, the invention enables a user to preview a document by providing ... Read More
Inventors: Tonkin, Robert;, Assignee: Kinko's Ventures, Inc. (Ventura, CA) |
Manufacturing process modeling techniques
The present invention provides a solution to the scheduling problem described above. Briefly, a model that integrates one or more bills of materials with one or more routings for a manufacturing envir... Read More
Inventors: Smirnov, Yuri V.; Nelson, Phillip C.; Winner, Jeffrey B.; Soung, Yuh-Wen; Flight, John L.;, Assignee: printCafe System, Inc. (Pittsburg, PA) |
Apparatus for printing information automatically combined from two different sources
The present invention provides a system and method for extracting information from one or more corporate databases and automatically generating print production orders using such information. In one e... Read More
Inventors: Klatt, Cory; Krum, Brent;, Assignee: ImageX, Inc. (Bellevue, WA) |
System for performing a cooperative operation on common data
The present invention aims at eliminating the above problems found in the conventional systems. Accordingly, it is an object of the invention to provide a cooperative operation system which can notify... Read More
Inventors: Katsurabayashi, Hiroshi;, Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Computer program product and apparatus for retrieval of OLE enabled BLOBs from an RDBMS server
To address the requirements described above, the present invention discloses a computer-implemented method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for accessing database objects. A server computer exec... Read More
Inventors: Tan, Shih-Shan; Nishimura, Jenny Yukkoo;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Approach for accessing large objects
According to one aspect of the invention, a method is provided for accessing data that belongs to a particular snapshot. According to the method, an index is used to locate an index entry associated w... Read More
Inventors: Klein, Jonathan; Himatsingka, Bhaskar;, Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Redwood Shores, CA) |
Method and system for associating events
The present invention provides a method for associating events, comprising the steps of: providing an event dataset that includes a plurality of events occurring in each of N successive time intervals... Read More
Inventors: Doganata, Yurdaer N.; Drissi, Youssef; Fin, Tong-Haing; Jeng, Jun-Jang; Kim, Moon J.; Kozakov, Lev;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
System and method for referencing a user-generated copy of a catalog
The present invention solves the foregoing problems by providing a system, method, and article of manufacture for referencing a user-generated copy of a catalog in a database system. In one aspect of ... Read More
Inventors: Couch, Tanya; Drummond, Catherine Elizabeth Wuebker; Hughes, Jr., Virginia Walbridge; Lai, Theresa Hsing; Lea, III, Joseph Davis; Oberstadt, David Harold;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Method and apparatus for providing relative-evaluations of commodities to user by using commodity-comparison map
An object of the present invention is to provide a method for providing commodity information to a user by using a computer so that the user can easily obtain information on relative evaluations of co... Read More
Inventors: Hatakama, Hiroshi; Misue, Kazuo; Watanabe, Isamu; Kato, Hiromi; Wako, Junichi;, Assignee: Fujitsu Limited (Kawasaki, JP) |
Method and apparatus for surveying music listener opinion about songs
It is an object of the present invention to provide an inexpensive method of surveying and reporting listener opinion of a list of songs. It is another object to provide an accurate method of determin... Read More
Inventors: Kelly, Thomas L.;, Assignee: |
Interactive multimedia tour guide
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide an interactive multimedia tour guide which provides a user an experience equivalent to having a personal tour guide. It is another object ... Read More
Inventors: Whitham, Charles Lamont;, Assignee: |
Method and mechanism for implementing and accessing virtual database table structures
The present invention is directed to a method and mechanism for encoding multiple virtual tables into one or more source tables. An aspect of the invention is directed to the access of a virtual table... Read More
Inventors: Guzman, Raymond; Kulkarni, Goutam D.; Kundu, Joydip;, Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Redwood Shores, CA) |
Binary tree for complex supervised learning
As interest in complex human disease increases, there are increasing needs for methodologies that address issues such as gene-gene and gene-environment interactions in a robust fashion. The present i... Read More
Inventors: Huang, Jing; Olshen, Richard A.;, Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, CA) |
Interface and method of designing an interface
Accordingly, the present invention is directed to a method for designing a user interface and taking into consideration the user's input in mapping the specific tasks to the interface. It is an object... Read More
Inventors: Bushey, Robert R.; Liddell, Gregory W.; Martin, John M.; Pasquale, Theodore;, Assignee: SBC Technology Resources, Inc. (Austin, TX) |
Method and system for establishing voice communications using a computer network
This need is met by the method and system of the present invention for establishing voice communications between a computer user and an agent wherein the computer user sends a call request over a comp... Read More
Inventors: Dezonno, Anthony J.; Quayle, William R.;, Assignee: Rockwell Electronic Commerce Technologies, LLC (Wood Dale, IL) |
Distributed database configuration with graphical representations having prelinked parameters for devices within a networked control system
While this invention is susceptible of embodiments in many different forms, there is shown in the drawings and will herein be described in detail, a preferred embodiment of the invention with the und... Read More
Inventors: Benton, Allen D.; Hochstedler, Leon J.; Hughes, Kevin A.; Knapke, Paul H.; Monteiro, Michael J.; Protopapas, Christopher J.; Eijk, Fred Van; Donnelly, Frank J.; Hale, Jr., A. Donald; Sarbaugh, Keith E.; Worcester, Winthrop G.;, Assignee: Square D Company (Palatine, IL) |
Identifying, processing and caching object fragments in a web environment
FIG. 1 depicts an example of an Internet environment adaptable to the present invention. As depicted, a client (60 . . . 63 ) may be connected through a network (25) to access proxy servers (30 . . .... Read More
Inventors: Schloss, Robert Jeffrey; Yu, Philip Shi-lung;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
In-memory database system
The above-mentioned shortcomings, disadvantages and problems are addressed by the present invention, which will be understood by reading and studying the following specification. An in-memory database... Read More
Inventors: Berkowitz, Brian T.; Simhadri, Sreenivas; Christofferson, Peter A.; Mein, Gunnar;, Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) |
Internet database system
The present invention addresses the foregoing desires by providing an incrementally-scalable database system and method. The system architecture implements a netstore as a set of cooperating server ma... Read More
Inventors: Hickman, Robert C.; Bobbitt, Jared E.; Tanner, Jeffrey C.; Lau, Patrick Wing Sang; Friedman, Marc T.; Mullally, Joseph P.;, Assignee: Dantz Development Corporation (Orinda, CA) |
System for using a dialog session context to process electronic forms data on the world wide web
The present invention is a processing system and method for electronic fill-out forms, wherein forms information is repeatedly exchanged between two nodes on a communications network. More particularl... Read More
Inventors: Diener, Glendon;, Assignee: U S West Advanced Technologies, Inc. (Boulder, CO) |
Document management system
The present invention is a document management system that provides secure document collaboration, sharing and archiving with context indexing, digital document notarization, electronic document filin... Read More
Inventors: Hajmiragha, Mir;, Assignee: Astus Corporation (Seattle, WA) |
Probabilistic record linkage model derived from training data
Computers keep and store information about each of us in databases. For example, a computer may maintain a list of a company's customers in a customer database. When the company does business with a n... Read More
Inventors: Borthwick, Andrew E.;, Assignee: Choicemaker Technologies, Inc. (New York, NY) |
Multimedia search apparatus and method for searching multimedia content using speaker detection by audio data
This invention provides multimedia search apparatus and methods for searching multimedia content using speaker detection to segment the multimedia content. The multimedia search apparatus and methods ... Read More
Inventors: Huang, Qian; Magrin-Chagnolleau, Ivan; Parthasarathy, Sarangarajan; Rosenberg, Aaron Edward;, Assignee: AT&T Corp. (New York, NY) |
Systems and methods for the automatic segmentation and clustering of ordered information
The systems and methods according to this invention provide for automatic segmentation and clustering of ordered data. The systems and methods according to this invention also provide for automatic se... Read More
Inventors: Foote, Jonathan T.; Cooper, Matthew;, Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Method for boosting the performance of machine-learning classifiers
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS In the following description of the preferred embodiments of the present invention, reference is made to the accompanying drawings that form a part hereof, and in which i... Read More
Inventors: Li, ZiQing; Zhang, ZhenQiu; Zhu, Long;, Assignee: Microsoft Corp. (Redmond, WA) |
Method and system for data management perform the functions of automatically propagating changes in information related to product being designed or manufactured from a central location to remote and disparate user information systems having varying data
A data management system is provided that is designed to automatically propagate changes in information related to a product being designed or manufactured. The product information may be stored in a ... Read More
Inventors: Majjasie, Michelle; Wise, Dorothy O.; Hein, Raymond; Lin, Raymond; Fazio, Joseph L.; Teh, Jin T.;, Assignee: Agile Software Corporation (San Jose, CA) |
Methods, systems and computer program products for monitoring interrelated tasks executing on a computer using queues
Embodiments of the present invention monitor a task executing on a computer that utilizes a work in process queue and a work pending queue. A watchdog task monitors an executing task to determine if a... Read More
Inventors: Tsun, William; Chandra, Vikas; Wood, John Lee; Schwaller, Peter James;, Assignee: NetIQ Corporation (Santa Clara, CA) |
Document display apparatus for displaying a plurality of multimedia documents
Accordingly, It Is a n object of the present invention to provide a document display apparatus capable of highly visibly display ing a plurality of documents related to each other as a whole without d... Read More
Inventors: Uchida, Shinichiro;, Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Osaka, JP) |
Processing system for storing related information without modifying selected basic data or stored relational data if previous storage detected
What is claim is: 1. A data processing device comprising: display means; basic data input means for inputting a basic data including a desired character string; relational data input means for inputti... Read More
Inventors: Hirata, Keiichi; Kawakami, Yasushi; Kawasumi, Atsuko; Sato, Miyuki; Morimoto, Yoshinari; Furukawa, Akihiro;, Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Aichi, JP) |
Geographic information indicator, method for displaying geographic information and storage medium for storing program for executing the same
Accordingly, one object of this invention is to provide a geographic information indicator, a method for displaying geographic information and a storage medium for storing program for executing the sa... Read More
Inventors: Wada, Kiyoshi; Nagai, Yasuo;, Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Kawasaki, JP) |
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