Abstract: The invention is directed to techniques for accessing a data storage system having both a filesystem and directory system. In one arrangement, an apparatus has memory that stores an application, and a controller coupled to the memory. The controller operates in accordance with the application stored in the memory to access a data storage system. In particular, the application configures the controller to obtain an access instruction which identifies a portion of the data storage system, and determine, in response to the obtained access instruction, whether the identified portion of the data storage system is a file of the filesystem or a directory entry of the directory system.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for indexing or retrieving materials accessible through computer networks.

Abstract: A method using symbols to gather, store, retrieve, manipulate and report information, with attendant improvements in communication, efficiency and efficacy. A customer communication received by an organization is assigned a symbol on the basis of key words within the communication and/or a record of transaction between the customer and the organization. The communication is directed to a communication handler appropriate to the assigned symbol. Using symbols, the customer can provide inputs to the organization regarding satisfaction with the transaction; the organization can then compare these symbols with internally reported symbols to ascertain an accuracy level of the organization's perception of the transaction.

Abstract: A method and system for facilitating a keyword search request initiated at a client station within a multilevel data network, wherein the multilevel data network includes multiple local sites each containing multiple data pages. Multiple keywords from each of the data pages within the local sites of the multilevel data network are stored locally and indexed such that each of the keywords points to one or more of the data pages in which the keywords are contained. The keywords and their index associations are locally updated. A central database is utilized to compile and index the locally indexed keywords from each of the local sites, such that each of the keywords in the central database points to one or more local sites from which those keywords came in response to a keyword search initiated at the client station.

Abstract: A system providing intelligent, integrated external backup and restore for databases and DBMS (data base management systems) which are stored on data storage systems. An interface between the data storage system backup system and the DBMS allows the backup system to work with the DBMS for greatly enhanced backup and restore. External backup and restore frees up the host systems from having to pipeline the data from the data storage system to the backup system. The backup system is able to determine which files stored in the data storage system should be backed up, based on querying the DBMS. This invention is useful for systems including RAID data storage system storing databases (including relational and object oriented), and provides for partial as well as complete backup and restore options.

Abstract: A sequence of word filters are used to eliminate terms in the database which do not discriminate document content, resulting in a filtered word set and a topic word set whose members are highly predictive of content. These two word sets are then formed into a two dimensional matrix with matrix entries calculated as the conditional probability that a document will contain a word in a row given that it contains the word in a column. The matrix representation allows the resultant vectors to be utilized to interpret document contents.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for publishing part datasheets. A part characterization database is created, and the technical characteristics of parts in the database are ascertained. In addition to parts, part groups are created based on common technical characteristics of parts, and a database tree is created based on the technical characteristics of parts and part groups. A publishing interface coupled to the part characterization database is provided for coupling a publishing tool to the part characterization database so as to provide context to the technical characteristics of one or more parts characterized within the part characterization database. A computer program product also is provided for publishing part datasheets. The computer program product comprises means for creating the part characterization database, means for ascertaining the technical characteristics of parts in the database and means for creating part groups based on common technical characteristics of parts.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for optimizing accesses to a database. This process allows client applications to request a CMIS-DB server, via an online configuration, to customize the generic representation for the object classes for which the access times must be optimized in order to reduce the search times for the object instances selected, by performing a step for configuring the physical storage of an object class to be optimized, which consists in the creation of an object instance of the storage definition class (mocStorageDefinition), in which are declared the attribute or attributes of the class to be optimized, which will be indexed when physically stored on a disk.

Abstract: A retrieval apparatus allows keywords to be attached simply and automatically. A feature quantity extractor 15 extracts feature quantities of a registration-target image to obtain a p-dimensional feature vector. A vector converter 16 multiplies the p-dimensional feature vector with a canonical correlation coefficient matrix A2 so as to convert the feature vector into a k-dimensional feature composite variable vector, thus making a scale change. A keyword auto-setting processor 14 obtains q neighboring images based on distances between the feature composite variable vector of the registration-target image and coordinate composite variable vectors of r pre-registered images stored in a vector conversion coefficient storage 10. Then, based on distances between positions of the resulting q neighboring images on the image space and positions of the pre-registered keywords on the keyword space, h neighboring keywords are obtained for each of the neighboring images.

Abstract: A bookmark display method executable in a computer system having a processor, a display and a browser. The display method begins by associating a rating with a given bookmark entry (e.g., a bookmark or bookmark set) and then storing the bookmark entry with the rating. Upon a subsequent request to display the browser's bookmarks, the given bookmark entry is displayed with a user-selectable visual cue. Moreover, access to the given bookmark entry may be selectively inhibited if the bookmark rating has a given property. Bookmark rating values defined at a server also may be selectively displayed, modified and managed.

Abstract: Systems and methods for creating and maintaining virtual cubes are disclosed. A virtual cube is a logical representation of a subset of the dimensions and measures of at least one physical cube maintained by an OLAP server. Metadata defines the mappings from the dimensions and measures of the virtual cube to the dimensions and measures of the physical cube. Client applications can manipulate the virtual cube as if it were a physical cube.

Abstract: Information stored in a corporate database is monitored and used to determine when certain business-related events have occurred. Event information is transmitted over the Internet to a print production facility, where it is used to fire one or more event rules, which in turn automatically generate print requisitions or print production orders. In one variation, print requisitions are routed through an existing and commercially available procurement system before a print production order is generated. The system can monitor and handle events from multiple corporations, each having its own business-related event rules, and each potentially having its own procurement approval system.

Abstract: Presented is a system and method for creating, extending, or otherwise modifying an application program suite. Specifically, by writing setup database files for each individual application to be included in a suite in accordance with the data structure required by the Suite Integration Toolkit (SIT), these applications may be combined to form, or added to, a suite. Components for a suite are listed in several sections of the setup database file. Since this list is not set to any fixed number of components, the list can be changed at any time before setup.exe is run. Once setup.exe is run, the file is parsed for the information in the relevant sections. The data in these fields is used without any understanding of the specifics of the suite, which allows the SIT engine/technology to be ignorant of the specifics of the suite. As a result, the suite owner/writer is afforded the maximum flexibility in creating or modifying a suite of applications.

Abstract: A computer system includes a computation process. The computation process includes a client process to produce a computation request with the computation request being invoked by a command line executable. The system also includes a server process to process the computation request. The server process includes a remote computation manager process to manage computations and a dispatcher process responsive to the computation request, to invoke the remote computation manager process.

Abstract: A database system providing a methodology for optimized page allocation is described. During page allocation in the system, once an allocation page with free space has been located in the system's global allocation map or GAM (i.e., using routine page allocation steps), the page identifier for that allocation page is stored in a hint array, as part of that object's (i.e., table's) object descriptor or des. For a table undergoing a lot of splits (i.e., insert-intensive object), the system may store an array of allocation page “hints” (allocation page identifiers) in the des for that object (e.g., table). The array itself comprises a cache of slots (e.g., eight slots), each of which stores an allocation page identifier (“hint”) obtained from the GAM (from a GAM traversal occurring during the page allocation process) or is empty (i.e., has not been filled from the GAM and is therefore set to the initial value of null).

Abstract: The present invention provides a document retrieval apparatus that performs full text retrieval search on the documents by using an index of relatively smaller capacity for not only Indo-European documents but also Japanese documents in which the breakpoints of words are not clearly articulated. Every word contained in documents with the redundancy eliminated is stored in an index along with the information concerning the adjacent words adjoining to the words in the documents. When retrieving, based on the retrieval search criteria containing plural words and the sequential order thereof, word search parts determine whether plural words stored in the index matches the retrieval search criteria to identify if a document matches the criteria. Also the sequence of words may be restored from the index to output the appropriate full text of document.

Abstract: A document search device searches for a keyword in a recognition result obtained by character recognition performed on a document image. The keyword includes at least one first character, and a character code is assigned to each of the at least one first character. The recognition result includes at least one second character, and a character code and a partial area of the document image are assigned to each of the at least one second character.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method and apparatus for information organization, wherein atomic information can be both static and dynamic, but the compound information (e.g., associations, groupings, sets, etc.) of such atoms always remain dynamic. Unless otherwise directed, a compound information entity is always dynamically determined and generated. This determination is based on the processing of a defined condition, wherein all atoms qualifying the condition are included in the compound. This dynamic determination eliminates the need to “update” the compound, when atoms and/or compounds common to two or more compounds are changed. Further, each information compound can be dynamically generated based on an existing definition for that compound.

Abstract: The invention includes computer instructions that receive an indication of a manipulation of one or more graphical icons by a user, where the graphical icons are interrelated to one another representing a hierarchical relationship among multiple objects of one or more sheets, and the sheets are included within a drawing by a computer aided design (CAD) application program. The computer instructions operate to automatically modify at least sheet order information included within the objects of the one or more sheets reflecting the hierarchical relationship among the multiple objects of one or more sheets based, at least in part, upon the received indication.

Abstract: A new method is provided to enter data into a computer controlled equipment control system. The data that are entered into the system by human intervention are validated against a reference or golden database. The golden database contains only data that is certified and correct. Any errors that may have been created as part of the process of human entry of the data will therefore be identified and can be eliminated.