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| US-6,243,716 |
Methods and systems for distributed failure detection and recovery using
leasing A system for using a lease to detect a failure and to perform failure recovery is provided. In using this system, a client requests a lease from a server to... |
| US-6,243,715 |
Replicated database synchronization method whereby primary database is
selected queries to secondary databases... A database system comprises a plurality of replicated databases and a database provisioning system such that when a record needs to be updated, the database... |
| US-6,243,714 |
Co-presence data retrieval system A data retrieval system is described. The system includes a data server, at least one data retrieval client, a co-presence server and at elast one downloadable... |
| US-6,243,713 |
Multimedia document retrieval by application of multimedia queries to a
unified index of multimedia data for a... A system, method and software product provides for true multimedia document retrieval by receiving multimedia queries containing various types of data, such as... |
| US-6,243,712 |
Method for creating and modifying similar and dissimilar databases for use
in operator services configurations... This invention uses a computer program to mine preexisting operator services configuration data located in a variety of preexisting source operator services... |
| US-6,243,711 |
Scripting language for distributed database programming A system for providing a form description language for a networked database program is disclosed. In one embodiment of the present invention, a database form is... |
| US-6,243,710 |
Methods and apparatus for efficiently splitting query execution across
client and server in an... A process receives an object-based query and creates a logical tree that contains nodes representing operations that are required for the query to be completed.... |
| US-6,243,709 |
Method and apparatus for loading stored procedures in a database
corresponding to object-oriented data dependencies An improved object-database mapping tool is provided that stores a series of stored procedures associated with a database and an object-oriented application. The... |
| US-6,243,708 |
Technique for accessing an item of interest within a stored representation
of data A method for locating a particularly relevant position within a multimedia steam includes identifying a multimedia stream based upon a query. The locations... |
| US-6,243,707 |
Method and apparatus for creating home network macros A method and system for commanding and controlling diverse home devices connected to a home network is provided. According to the method, sequences of commands... |
| US-6,243,706 |
System and method for managing the creation and production of computer
generated works A system and method for managing the creation and production of computer generated works permits two or more users to create a work by a collaborative process.... |
| US-6,243,705 |
Method and apparatus for synchronizing information on two different
computer systems Many users of handheld computing devices or "palmtops" also own personal computers (PCs) running applications that manage data similar to the data carried in the... |
| US-6,243,704 |
Business nonstandard character processing apparatus and system, and
computer readable storage medium A business nonstandard character processing apparatus includes a plurality of work processing parts for carrying out processes using nonstandard character data... |
| US-6,243,703 |
Method of accessing and displaying subsystem parameters including graphical
plan table data A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for a computer implemented database interpreter. A main window is displayed that provides selection of subsystem... |
| US-6,243,702 |
Method and apparatus for propagating commit times between a plurality of
database servers A method and system for removing propagation delays between a plurality of database servers that have access to a common database is provided. According to the... |
| US-6,243,701 |
System and method for sorting character strings containing accented and
unaccented characters A system and method for sorting accented character strings involves creating an expanded character string containing the characters in their base form (without... |
| US-6,243,700 |
Method and apparatus for generating a hypertext-based content menu using an
open hierarchical data structure A menu authoring system is disclosed that uses an open hierarchical data structure to generate source code for hypertext list menus that constitute a content... |
| US-6,243,699 |
Systems and methods of indexing and retrieving data A self-evolving generic index for storing marketplace information for multiple types of items allows users to add new parameters, values and possibly new... |
| US-6,243,698 |
Extensible database retrieval and viewing architecture One embodiment of the invention includes an architecture for extending the data requesting and data viewing capabilities of a database system. Data from the... |
| US-6,243,697 |
Detecting service interactions in a telecommunications network A system for detecting interaction between different services on a telecommunications network includes a computer expert system. A data store in the expert... |
| US-6,243,696 |
Automated method for building a model A method for building a model of a system includes first extracting data from a historical database (310). Once the data is extracted, a dataset is then created,... |
| US-6,243,695 |
Access control system and method therefor A TCS (200) and procedure (400) for identifying an unidentified class as a class of a group of classes includes a new tree-structured classifier (208) and... |
| US-6,243,694 |
System and method for generating a fuel-optimal reference velocity profile
for a rail-based transportation... In this invention there is disclosed a system and method for generating a fuel-optimal reference velocity profile for a rail-based transportation handling... |
| US-6,243,693 |
Token-operated apparatus for communal prepayment water management A system and apparatus for controlling and measuring the flow of water delivered per transaction of a community water management arrangement, the apparatus... |
| US-6,243,692 |
Secure electronic software packaging using setup-external unlocking module The present invention, generally speaking, provides for secure electronic software packaging using a setup-external unlocking module. As a result, a software... |
| US-6,243,691 |
Method and system for processing and transmitting electronic auction
information A system and method for conducting a multi-person, interactive auction, in a variety of formats, without using a human auctioneer to conduct the auction. The... |
| US-6,243,690 |
Electronic price label including a plurality of separately addressable
displays An electronic price label (EPL) which includes a plurality of separately-addressable displays. The EPL includes a housing, a first display identified by a first... |
| US-6,243,689 |
System and method for authorizing electronic funds transfer at a point of
sale A system and method for a payee to initiate at a point of sale an electronic funds transfer from an account of a payor to the account of the payee, comprising... |
| US-6,243,688 |
Internet-based credit interchange system of converting purchase credit
awards through credit exchange system... An Internet-based purchase credit award interchange center is described which interfaces with a credit award exchange center for conversion of any form of... |
| US-6,243,687 |
Kiosk systems and methods for issuing a card storing electronic coupons,
after receiving data about a customer A system for dispensing and redeeming electronic discount coupons in a store. A card-dispensing kiosk collects information from a customer and subsequently... |
| US-6,243,686 |
Flash memory card adapter for stereo systems The present invention provides an adapter for replaceable flash memory cards which can be used in existing stereo systems having a standard cassette player... |
| US-6,243,685 |
Voice operated interactive message display system for vehicles A voice-operated, interactive message display system designed for inter-vehicle and extra-vehicle communications. The system includes one or more display units... |
| US-6,243,684 |
Directory assistance system and method utilizing a speech recognition
system and a live operator A method and apparatus utilizes a personal speech recognition system to enable directory assistance operators to retrieve customer requested information from a... |
| US-6,243,683 |
Video control of speech recognition Method and apparatus for using video input to control speech recognition systems is disclosed. In one embodiment, gestures of a user of a speech recognition... |
| US-6,243,682 |
Universal access photocopier This invention is a system that enables handicapped and disabled individuals to control and use office photocopiers. The foregoing is accomplished by coupling a... |
| US-6,243,681 |
Multiple language speech synthesizer In a speech synthesizer for converting text data to speech data, it is possible to realize high quality speech output even if the text data to be converted is in... |
| US-6,243,680 |
Method and apparatus for obtaining a transcription of phrases through text
and spoken utterances A method and an apparatus for adding a new entry to a speech recognition dictionary, and more particularly a system and method for generating transcriptions from... |
| US-6,243,679 |
Systems and methods for determinization and minimization a finite state
transducer for speech recognition A pattern recognition system and method for optimal reduction of redundancy and size of a weighted and labeled graph presents receiving speech signals,... |
| US-6,243,678 |
Method and system for dynamic speech recognition using free-phone scoring A system performing a speech recognition process requests and receives a claim of identity. The system accesses a customer database and generates a subword... |
| US-6,243,677 |
Method of out of vocabulary word rejection An improved method of providing out-of-vocabulary word rejection is achieved by adapting an initial garbage model (23) using received incoming enrollment speech... |
| US-6,243,676 |
Searching and retrieving multimedia information A method retrieves a multi-media segment from a signal stream having an audio component and a closed caption component. This includes separating the audio... |
| US-6,243,675 |
System and method capable of automatically switching information output
format In an information processing system such as a navigation system or a portable information terminal unit, information output mode of a display unit to a user is... |
| US-6,243,674 |
Adaptively compressing sound with multiple codebooks A sound compression system adaptively switches codebooks in and out based on a calculation carried out with the output of the codebook. The system uses three... |
| US-6,243,673 |
Speech coding apparatus and pitch prediction method of input speech signal The speech coding apparatus comprises a memory to store the convolution data of a pitch reproduced excitation pulse sequence extracted from an excitation pulse... |
| US-6,243,672 |
Speech encoding/decoding method and apparatus using a pitch reliability
measure A pitch detection method and apparatus capable of realizing high-precision pitch detection even for speech signals in which half-pitch or double-pitch exhibits... |
| US-6,243,671 |
Device and method for analysis and filtration of sound A device for analysis and filtration of sound which comprises at least one frequency-linear filter, at least one frequency-logarithmic filter and a weighting... |
| US-6,243,670 |
Method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for performing semantic
analysis and generating a semantic... A method for performing a semantic analysis process on a computer system including a storage unit and an interface includes the steps of: receiving a syntactic... |
| US-6,243,669 |
Method and apparatus for providing syntactic analysis and data structure
for translation knowledge in... Syntactic analysis is performed on an input and on entries of a bilingual example database using at least one parse tree. The parse trees, formed using a... |
| US-6,243,668 |
Instruction set interpreter which uses a register stack to efficiently map
an application register state A method of executing a program compiled for a base instruction set architecture different than a native instruction set architecture, on a native machine by... |
| US-6,243,667 |
Network flow switching and flow data export The invention provides a method and system for switching in networks responsive to message flow patterns. A message "flow" is defined to comprise a set of... |
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