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US-6,381,598 System for providing cross-lingual information retrieval
An information retrieval system providing for cross-lingual information retrieval. The method as implemented in the system causes elementary words to be...
US-6,381,597 Electronic shopping agent which is capable of operating with vendor sites which have disparate formats
A shopping bot uses real time agents that automatically contact disparate web pages representing vast variety of different categories and merchants and retrieve...
US-6,381,596 Database system and method for operating a database system
The invention relates to a database system comprising a computing unit, a main memory and a, in particular a peripheral memory storing at least one ...
US-6,381,595 System and method for compensation of functional differences between heterogeneous database management systems
A system and method for compensating for functional differences between heterogeneous database management systems, wherein data associated with a client is...
US-6,381,594 System and method for personalized information filtering and alert generation
A search engine that forms a compact representation of a plurality of user queries to efficiently find desired information in an information network. The search...
US-6,381,593 Document information management system
A document information management system in which a search-engine-compatible interface unit makes a word in a document displayed on the screen to be specified,...
US-6,381,592 Candidate chaser
The Candidate Chaser machine and method automatically locates Internet site pages and web postings which contain operator specified keywords or Boolean...
US-6,381,591 Method for transformation of fuzzy logic, which is used to simulate a technical process, into a neural network
A method for transformation of fuzzy logic (FS) into a neural network (NN), in which, in order to form a defuzzified output value (y2) from normalized ...
US-6,381,590 Remote postage meter resetting system having alternate postage funding sources
A remote postage meter resetting system includes apparatus for sending a request to recharge the postage meter by the postage recharge amount together with first...
US-6,381,589 Method and apparatus for performing secure processing of postal data
A postal system includes a local computer having a user interface and an associated storage unit for storing a secure data file that contains postal (e.g.,...
US-6,381,588 Optical disk recordable using both a cipher key and disk identification information for encryption
The operating and other procedures of an optical disk application system of the type for which a network is used are simplified. Optical disks have auxiliary...
US-6,381,587 Method and system for standardizing and reconciling invoices from vendors
A system for managing requests for services from vendors including a database having contract information for vendors, entitlement information for users and...
US-6,381,586 Pricing of options using importance sampling and stratification/ Quasi-Monte Carlo
A computer implemented method prices derivative securities (for example, options) by selecting an importance sampling (IS) distribution and combining the chosen...
US-6,381,585 Method and apparatus for administering a share bond
A method and apparatus for enhancing the stock of a business entity by joining the shares of stock to non-investment bonds at no cost, no loss financially to any...
US-6,381,584 Computers in a financial system
An automated payment system particularly suited for purchases over a distributed computer network such as the Internet. In such a distributed computer network, a...
US-6,381,583 Interactive electronic shopping system and method
An interactive electronic shopping system and method create a virtual shopping facility from an actual shopping facility, such as a grocery store, restaurant, or...
US-6,381,582 Method and system for processing payments for remotely purchased goods
Systems and methods are provided whereby goods can be purchased from a remote seller such as a catalog marketer, and paid for at a local register, such as that...
US-6,381,580 Automatic planning and cueing system and method
A system and method for automatic planning and cueing includes a computer system having an input module, a storage module, a planning module and an output...
US-6,381,579 System and method to provide secure navigation to resources on the internet
Provide an electronic-business-to-electronic-business portal that organizes the access to extended business applications. A method allows end users to access a...
US-6,381,578 Factored representation of a set of priceable units
An airline travel planning system is described. The system includes a server computer executing a server process including a search process to search for set of...
US-6,381,577 Multi-user remote health monitoring system
The invention presents a networked system for identifying an individual, communicating information to the individual, and remotely monitoring the individual. The...
US-6,381,576 Method, apparatus, and data structure for capturing and representing diagnostic, treatment, costs, and outcomes...
A diagnostic and treatment information data structure encapsulates, with or without identifying a specific patient, information regarding a particular ...
US-6,381,575 Computer jukebox and computer jukebox management system
A central management system manages a plurality of computer jukeboxes and communicates compressed digital data with each jukebox via a transmission link. The...
US-6,381,574 Device for reproducing information or executing functions
A device for reproducing information or executing functions in which first data, which represent information to be reproduced or functions to be executed, and...
US-6,381,573 Method for producing remotely a display device storing one or more audio messages
A picture frame and accompanying audio message circuit is provided such that one or more desired audio messages stored in the audio message circuit associated...
US-6,381,572 Method of modifying feature parameter for speech recognition, method of speech recognition and speech...
A method of modifying feature parameters for a speech recognition is provided. This method is provided with: a process of extracting the feature parameter from...
US-6,381,571 Sequential determination of utterance log-spectral mean by maximum a posteriori probability estimation
Utterance-based mean removal in log-domain, or in any linear transformation of log-domain, e.g., cepstral domain, is known to improve substantially a ...
US-6,381,570 Adaptive two-threshold method for discriminating noise from speech in a communication signal
A method of discriminating noise and voice energy in a communication signal. A signal is measured in a plurality of block periods, which are sampled to obtain a...
US-6,381,569 Noise-compensated speech recognition templates
The speech recognition training unit is modified to store digitized speech samples into a speech database that can be accessed at recognition time. The improved...
US-6,381,568 Method of transmitting speech using discontinuous transmission and comfort noise
Speech transmission method by initializing silence, transmit, and blank-period counters; receiving frame; determining frame is speech; if transmit counter is...
US-6,381,567 Method and system for providing real-time personalization for web-browser-based applications
A method and system for personalizing standard data-processing applications for utilization by diverse data-processing application users. Initially, data which...
US-6,381,565 Functional logic circuit verification device
A device for verifying the operation of a functional logic circuit such as a VLSI implements a circuit fictionally equivalent to the functional circuit, and...
US-6,381,564 Method and system for using response-surface methodologies to determine optimal tuning parameters for complex...
A method and system for providing optimal tuning for complex simulators. The method and system include initially building at least one RSM model having input and...
US-6,381,563 System and method for simulating circuits using inline subcircuits
A system and method for generating inline subcircuits that enable a circuit designer to model and simulate circuits that when compared to conventional system and...
US-6,381,562 Configurable bio-transport system simulator
A method of simulating a bio-transport system comprising: (a) characterizing one or more elements to represent a bio-transport system of an organism or a portion...
US-6,381,561 System and method for estimating post-collision vehicular velocity changes
A system and method that utilizes information relating to vehicle damage information including damaged vehicle area information, crush depth of the damaged areas...
US-6,381,560 Methods of modeling erbium doped fiber amplifiers
A method of modeling erbium doped fiber ("EDF") for use in erbium doped fiber amplifiers ("EDFA"). The EDF has a length and a fractional population density of...
US-6,381,559 Empirical mode decomposition apparatus, method and article of manufacture for analyzing biological signals and...
A computer implemented physical signal analysis method includes four basic steps and the associated presentation techniques of the results. The first step is a...
US-6,381,558 Alternative profiling methodology and tool for analyzing competitive benchmarks
Understanding a third-party vendor's benchmark can be difficult when its source code is proprietary. In particular, the factors on which the benchmark's score...
US-6,381,557 Medical imaging system service evaluation method and apparatus
A technique is provided for evaluation of an operative state of a medical diagnostic system. The technique is particularly adapted to evaluating image data from...
US-6,381,556 Data analyzer system and method for manufacturing control environment
A system and method analyze raw data derived from a manufacturing control facility, the manufacturing control facility for manufacturing at least one device by...
US-6,381,555 Measurement system
The invention concerns measurement apparatus for obtaining measurements relating to an attributes or attributes .theta. of a succession of events in which an...
US-6,381,554 Method of prediction time-series continuous data and a control method using the prediction method
There is disclosed a method of prediction time-series continuous data in which the data is accurately predicted based on measuring points and measured values at...
US-6,381,553 Methods and systems for determining a ball-grid array seating plane
The ball-grid array ball measuring system measures the distances between a reference plane and points on the surface of a small crown area of each of a plurality...
US-6,381,552 Method for the test of a testing platform
A method for the test of a testing platform comprises a series of steps performed by a computer. Wherein the computer software structure includes a tested object...
US-6,381,551 Method for providing an output signal having a desired value of a characteristic quantity at the output of a...
The present invention relates to a method for providing an output signal (U.sub.a) having a desired value of a characteristic quantity (U.sub.arms) at the output...
US-6,381,550 Method of utilizing fast chip erase to screen endurance rejects
A method of utilizing Fast Chip Erase to screen endurance rejects. Multiple sectors in a device are selected and a time necessary to program all cells in the...
US-6,381,549 System and method using digital filters and neural networks to determine fluid flow
An ultrasonic flowmeter using ultrasonic pulses transmitted within a pipe containing flowing fluid determines values, including flow rate or fluid velocity of...
US-6,381,548 Method and device for measuring fluid flow
Method for measuring a fluid flow, in particular an air flow (L), flowing in a flow canal to an engine (VM) or from an engine (VM), by means of a fluid mass...
US-6,381,547 Tire defect detection system and method
A tire defect detection system including a support structure for receiving a tire; an actuator disposed proximate the tire for impacting the tire; a microphone...
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