Abstract: A financial processing system that accesses account, event and organization attributes from a relational database management database, wherein: (1) the account attributes comprise data about accounts being measured, (2) the event attributes comprise data about account-related transactions, and (3) the organization attributes comprise data about the organization's financial status. Profitability calculations are performed in the computer using the account, event and organization attributes accessed from the relational database management system, as well as one or more profit factors and one or more rules. The profitability calculations comprise the following: Profit (ai) = Net Interest Revenue (NIR) (ai) + Other Revenue (OR) (ai) ? Direct Expense (DE) (ai) ? Indirect Expense (IE) (ai) ? Risk Provision (RP) (ai) for an account ai.

Abstract: A financial processing system that accesses account, event and organization attributes from a relational database management database, wherein: (1) the account attributes comprise data about accounts being measured, (2) the event attributes comprise data about account-related transactions, and (3) the organization attributes comprise data about the organization's financial status. Profitability calculations are performed using the account, event and organization attributes accessed from the relational database management system, as well as one or more profit factors and one or more rules.

Abstract: A financial processing system that accesses account, event and organization attributes from a relational database management database, wherein: (1) the account attributes comprise data about accounts being measured, (2) the event attributes comprise data about account-related transactions, and (3) the organization attributes comprise data about the organization's financial status. Profitability calculations are performed in the computer using the account, event and organization attributes accessed from the relational database management system, as well as one or more profit factors and one or more rules. The profitability calculations comprise the following: Profit (ai) = Net Interest Revenue (NIR) (ai) + Other Revenue (OR) (ai) ? Direct Expense (DE) (ai) ? Indirect Expense (IE) (ai) ? Risk Provision (RP) (ai) for an account ai.

Abstract: A financial processing system that accesses account, event and organization attributes from a relational database management database, wherein: (1) the account attributes comprise data about accounts being measured, (2) the event attributes comprise data about account-related transactions, and (3) the organization attributes comprise data about the organization's financial status. Profitability calculations are performed using the account, event and organization attributes accessed from the relational database management system, as well as one or more profit factors and one or more rules.

Abstract: A financial processing system that accesses account, event and organization attributes from a relational database management database, wherein: (1) the account attributes comprise data about accounts being measured, (2) the event attributes comprise data about account-related transactions, and (3) the organization attributes comprise data about the organization's financial status. Profitability calculations are performed in the computer using the account, event and organization attributes accessed from the relational database management system, as well as one or more profit factors and one or more rules. The profitability calculations comprise the following: Profit (ai) = Net Interest Revenue (NIR) (ai) + Other Revenue (OR) (ai) ? Direct Expense (DE) (ai) ? Indirect Expense (IE) (ai) ? Risk Provision (RP) (ai) for an account ai.

Abstract: A Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system includes a CRM Client, CRM Engine, and Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). The CRM Client, CRM Engine, and RDBMS integrate a suite of services that allow users to plan, manage, and execute promotional or marketing campaigns, build customer segments, score customers, and analyze customer behavior, product purchases, and response to promotional campaigns. The services include an automated Analytic Data Set Creation service, which simplifies and automates the process of creating analytic data sets useful for modeling and analysis out of operational data stored in the relational database, and a Response Modeling service, which automatically creates promotion response models to score individual customers based on that model in order to predict which customers are most likely to respond to a future promotional campaign.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for displaying multiple window applets on a computer. The applet is written using the frame class and intercepts the methods by which an applet is started and started by the computer to allow more than one applet, or more than one applet window, to be open at any given time. By intelligently intercepting the start and stop methods, and tracking which applets are open, multiple applets can be open at any given time within the system.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for performing data mining applications in a relational database management system (114). Scalable Data Mining Functions (202) are performed directly against a relational database (116) by executing queries dynamically generated by an application programming interface (204) according to requested parameters.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and a memory structure for generating reconfigurable beams is disclosed herein. The apparatus comprises a stationary feed array having a plurality of selectably activatable feed array elements, the feed array having a feed array sensitive axis; a reflector, illuminated by the selectably activatable feed array elements; a first mechanism, coupled to the reflector, for varying a position of the reflector along the feed array axis; wherein a desired beam size of the antenna system is selected by varying the reflector position along the feed array sensitive axis and by selectably activating the feed array elements.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for performing data mining applications in a relational database management system. A relational database management system, executed by the computer, manages a relational database stored on data storage devices of the computer. At least one analytic algorithm is performed by the computer, wherein the analytic algorithm includes SQL statements performed by the relational database management system directly against the relational database and optional programmatic iteration, and the analytic algorithm creates at least one analytic model within an analytic logical data model from the data residing in the relational database. A parallel deployer is executed by the computer for managing parallel invocations of the analytic models.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for directly manipulating a query for a relational database management system (RDBMS). The query is transformed into an operator tree that is displayed on a monitor, wherein the operator tree includes nodes for data sources and operators referenced in the query, and lines between the nodes. The RDBMS alters an execution plan for the query in response to one or more manipulations made to the displayed operator tree by the user. Generally, these manipulations comprise hints for an optimizer function of the RDBMS that an efficient execution plan to be generated for the query. Specifically, the hints influence the optimizer to choose one execution plan over another when there is insufficient information for the optimizer function to make a choice on its own.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and a memory structure for providing access to abstract data types using an index providing a tuple. The method comprises the steps of accepting a database query; generating an index predicate from the database query; and determining a tuple from an index using the index predicate. The tuple is associated with an abstract or complex data type responsive to the database query. A data stream is initialized with the index predicate; and the tuple is returned in the data stream. The apparatus comprises means for performing the above method steps, and the article of manufacture comprises a medium tangibly embodying computer instructions for performing these method steps.

Abstract: An On-Line Analytic Processing (OLAP) system converts queries into an operator tree comprised of a plurality of operators, wherein each of the operators is independently executed. When an exception is detected in one or more of the independently executed operators, the exception is propagated to the remaining operators of the operator tree by recycling empty data pages, piggybacking the detected exceptions on the recycled data pages, and sending the recycled data pages both upstream and downstream in the operator tree to the remaining operators of the operator tree. The propagated exceptions are delivered to the remaining operators, without interrupting the operators, at one or more points at which the operator normally reads or writes data from its input stream. Finally, the operators are terminated using a depth-first traversal of the operator tree.

Abstract: The invention concerns using multiple computers to hold a conference. Under the invention, an application program can run on a single computer, yet remote participants can issue commands to the program. Remote participants can watch the program operate, because the invention replicates the display window of the running program onto the displays of the remote computers. Any participant can make annotations on the participant's own computer display. The invention copies the annotations to the displays of the other participants.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing object data stored in a database management system to a receiving client. The method comprises the steps of receiving a database query from the client on a first communication path, transforming the database query into database management system commands, transmitting the database management system commands to the database management system, receiving a response from the database management system, the response comprising an object locator identifying data responsive to the database query, compiling an answer set comprising the database management system response, transmitting the answer set to the client on the first communications path, receiving a data request from the client comprising the media object locator, establishing a transport session with the client on a second communication path, and transmitting data identified by the media object locator to the client on the second communication path.

Abstract: The gene for Streptococcus pyogenes DNase B has been cloned and vectors incorporating the cloned DNA have been used to transform Escherichia coli, allowing efficient and rapid production of the DNase in E. coli without the necessity of growing large quantities of S. pyogenes. The enzyme can be produced with a leader peptide at its amino terminus. An improved method for the purification of naturally occurring S. pyogenes DNase B enzyme is also provided. The DNase B enzyme produced, either by purification of naturally occurring enzyme or by recombinant DNA techniques, can be used to generate antibodies and can also be used in immunochemical assays to detect the presence of anti-DNase B antibodies in serum as a marker of infection by S. pyogenes.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for providing a description of logic used in determining an outcome based on automatic processing of data is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of hierarchically applying a series of decision criteria to the data to arrive at the outcome, while recording a rule determined from application of each decision criteria to the data, and retrieving the recorded rules. The article of manufacture comprises a data storage device tangibly embodying instructions to perform the method steps outlined above, and the apparatus for performing the method steps.

Abstract: The retrieval of data from a database in a computerized database management system is optimized through the use of a plurality of join indexed. The join indexes are defined for a table stored in the database. The join indexes are updated to reflect any updated records stored in the table, wherein one or more common joins are identified among the join indexes, each of the common joins are materialized only once in a common spool file, and the common spool file is used to materialize one or more rows for updating the join indexes.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for performing data mining applications in a relational database management system. An analytic algorithm for association is performed by the relational database management system to measure one or more associations between a plurality of items in a stream of transaction data stored in the relational database, wherein the analytic algorithm for association creates at least one analytic model within an analytic logical data model from data residing in the relational database.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and a memory structure for providing access to an array-based data object to a client is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of receiving a database query from a client; generating a first execution plan from the database query; transmitting at least a portion of the first execution plan to a data server; compiling a query result from the execution of the first execution plan; and transmitting the query result to the client on a first communication path wherein the query result comprises an identification for a master data object responsive to the database query and the master data object comprises an identification for a plurality of array-based objects associated with the master data object. Further, the method comprises the establishment of a second communication path between the data server and the client and the transmission of the master data object to the client via this second communication path.