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US-6,615,208 Automatic recommendation of products using latent semantic indexing of content
Techniques for using latent semantic structure of textual content ascribed to the items to provide automatic recommendations to the user. A user inputs a...
US-6,615,207 Method of formulating and presenting search queries to a tabular database through a user-interactive computer...
In a computer controlled user-interactive display system interface through which the user may easily access stored search queries to database via a displayed...
US-6,615,206 Techniques for eliminating database table joins based on a join index
Techniques for processing, in a database management system, a query referencing a plurality of tables of a database include determining whether a join should be...
US-6,615,205 Horizontal implementation of expectation-maximization algorithm in SQL for performing clustering in very large...
A method for performing cluster analysis inside a relational database management system. The method defines a plurality of tables for the storage of data points...
US-6,615,204 Method and system for hybrid mapping of objects into a relational data base to provide high-speed performance...
A clock edge placement circuit for implementing source synchronous communication between integrated circuit devices. The clock edge placement circuit includes a...
US-6,615,203 Method, computer program product, and system for pushdown analysis during query plan generation
A method, computer product, and system for pushdown analysis during query plan generation is provided. Rather than do pushdown analysis for portions of a query...
US-6,615,202 Method for specifying a database import/export operation through a graphical user interface
There is provided a method for specifying an operation via a graphical interface. The method comprises the steps of examining an image to distinguish a first...
US-6,615,201 Computer network management
A computer network management arrangement employs enhanced network elements that include database technology. This, in turn, allows such enhanced network...
US-6,615,200 INFORMATION-RETRIEVAL-PERFORMANCE EVALUATING METHOD, INFORMATION-RETRIEVAL-PERFORMANCE EVALUATING APPARATUS,...
The invention concerns quantitatively evaluating retrieval performance of retrieving systems that allow information retrieval when natural sentences are input as...
US-6,615,199 Abstraction factory in a base services pattern environment
An abstraction factory pattern in a client/server architecture receives and transforms data into a plurality of concrete objects. Each of the concrete objects is...
US-6,615,198 System and method for creating performance solution tools and performance solutions
A system and method for creating solution tools has components listed for any potential solution to a solution tool, a set of questions outlining requirements...
US-6,615,197 Brain programmer for increasing human information processing capacity
The present invention is a signaling system for the improvement of cognitive performance and intelligence, including: a) a method for improving the human...
US-6,615,196 Method for data input into a postage computer and arrangement for the implementation of the method
In a method and apparatus for data input into a postage computer loading and updating of rate table data in the postage computer, take place with two operations...
US-6,615,195 Method and system for evaluating technology transfer value
A Method and computer implemented system may be used to value knowledge-based property such as documents, databases, spreadsheets or research and development...
US-6,615,194 System for secure execution of credit based point of sale purchases
The present system for the secure execution of credit based point of sale purchases uses a credit card that is devoid of any human readable customer account...
US-6,615,193 Monitoring system and method
This invention provides a system and method for electronic value payment in which a practical and secure means for auditing and accounting electronic value is...
US-6,615,192 Contents copying system, copying method, computer-readable recording medium and disc drive copying contents but...
A content copying system is formed from a host computer and connected disc drive, a removable recording medium being loaded into the latter. When the removable...
US-6,615,191 Software licensing and distribution systems and methods employing biometric sample authentication
Software validation and distribution methods and apparatus are disclosed. These can include storing biometric identification information received from a customer...
US-6,615,190 Sponsor funded stored value card
A method and system for issuing a sponsor funded stored value card. A sponsor company funds an account associated with the stored value card. The stored value...
US-6,615,189 Debit purchasing of stored value card for use by and/or delivery to others
A method of issuing a purchase card is provided. The method includes the steps of presenting a purchaser with the opportunity to buy the purchase card,...
US-6,615,188 Online trade aggregating system
A trading server collects orders from a plurality of order terminals. Orders are aggregated by transaction type, such as buy or sell types, and by issuer. The...
US-6,615,187 Method of securitizing and trading real estate brokerage options
The present invention relates to a method of creating, purchasing and selling the real estate brokerage commissions typically collected upon the sale of real...
US-6,615,186 Communicating interactive digital content between vehicles and internet based data processing resources for the...
An in-vehicle device data communicates with data processing resources for the purpose of transacting e-commerce and e-business. The in-vehicle device and the...
US-6,615,185 Method for the purchase of used removable media over the internet without disclosing individual prices
A system and method for the purchase of used compact disks and other mass market removable media over the Internet is disclosed, in which the potential seller...
US-6,615,184 System and method for providing customers seeking a product or service at a specified discount in a specified...
A server receives supplier information from a supplier including a product/service that the supplier is offering along with a discount for the product/service....
US-6,615,183 Method of warehousing user data entered at an electronic commerce terminal
The present invention relates to a processing method for conducting e-mail, e-commerce, and e-business by way of an electronic commerce terminal. An electronic...
US-6,615,182 System and method for defining the organizational structure of an enterprise in a performance evaluation system
An organizational structure of an enterprise is defined in a performance evaluation system by storing a plurality of user-defined levels. A user-defined...
US-6,615,181 Digital electrical computer system for determining a premium structure for insurance coverage including for...
A computer system for supporting a plan of counterclaim insurance provided to professionals, optionally along with professional liability insurance, deters...
US-6,615,180 Process and apparatus for the derivation of annuity rates
A process and apparatus for determining premium tables to produce annuity rates, where the annuity rates reflect client data pertaining to age, sex, medical...
US-6,615,179 Data distribution network and method of use
A data distribution network for distributing data stores up-to-date or even real-time data in a central computer and disseminates the data through a plurality of...
US-6,615,178 Speech translator, speech translating method, and recorded medium on which speech translation control program...
The learning history memory 9 controls, based on the accumulated learning history, the word dictionary memory 6, semantic/syntactic analysis grammar memory 7,...
US-6,615,177 Merging of speech interfaces from concurrent use of devices and applications
According to the present invention network devices that can be controlled via a speech unit included in the network can send a device-document describing its...
US-6,615,176 Speech enabling labeless controls in an existing graphical user interface
A method for speech enabling labeless controls in an existing graphical user interface can comprise the steps of: identifying controls in a window contained in...
US-6,615,175 "Smart" elevator system and method
An information and control system for personnel transport devices. In one embodiment, the information and control system is coupled to the elevator system of a...
US-6,615,174 Voice conversion system and methodology
A voice conversion system employs a codebook mapping approach to transforming a source voice to sound like a target voice. Each speech frame is represented by a...
US-6,615,173 Real time audio transmission system supporting asynchronous input from a text-to-speech (TTS) engine
A system for real time transmission of speech audio received from a text-to-speech (TTS) engine can include a TTS engine and a real time speech audio producer...
US-6,615,172 Intelligent query engine for processing voice based queries
An intelligent query system for processing voiced-based queries is disclosed. This distributed client-server system, typically implemented on an intranet or over...
US-6,615,171 Portable acoustic interface for remote access to automatic speech/speaker recognition server
A portable speech signal preprocessing (SSP) device having a microphone for receiving spoken speech and background noise, a digital signal processor (DSP) for...
US-6,615,170 Model-based voice activity detection system and method using a log-likelihood ratio and pitch
A system and method for voice activity detection, in accordance with the invention includes the steps of inputting data including frames of speech and noise, and...
US-6,615,169 High frequency enhancement layer coding in wideband speech codec
A speech coding method and device for encoding and decoding an input signal and providing synthesized speech, wherein the higher frequency components of the...
US-6,615,168 Multilingual agent for use in computer systems
A multilingual agent of the present invention assists clients and users of clients in locating, accessing, and understanding documents on servers and also...
US-6,615,167 Processor-independent system-on-chip verification for embedded processor systems
A method for efficiently changing the embedded processor type in verification of system-on-chip (SOC) integrated circuit designs containing embedded processors....
US-6,615,166 Prioritizing components of a network framework required for implementation of technology
A system and method are provided for prioritizing components of an existing network framework. First, a plurality of components required for implementation of a...
US-6,615,165 Cable connections between an unmanned aircraft and a detachable data handling module
A power and communications connection arrangement for a miniature, unmanned aircraft having data handling capability. The aircraft has a microprocessor for...
US-6,615,164 Method and apparatus for representing integrated circuit device characteristics using polynomial equations
An approach for representing integrated circuit device characteristics using polynomial equations involves analyzing integrated circuit device characterization...
US-6,615,163 System and method for developing testing configurations
A method for developing testing configurations and a computer system operable to implement the same. The method includes the steps of identifying factors to be...
US-6,615,162 Noise reducing/resolution enhancing signal processing method and system
A noise reduction/resolution enhancement signal processing method and system is disclosed, wherein the influence of noise spikes and gaps is substantially...
US-6,615,161 Method and apparatus for adjusting an interval of polling a peripheral device in response to changes in the...
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for adjusting an interval of polling a peripheral device (e.g., printer) for status information, as based...
US-6,615,160 Methods and apparatus for engine diagnostics
Methods and apparatus for testing operation and diagnosing faults in an engine including an electronic control unit. A diagnostic computer is coupled to the...
US-6,615,159 Method and system for supporting maintenance for a molding system
A method and system is provided to determine or estimate components that may have to be maintained before a molding system that has those components is caused to...
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