Abstract: Determining an application user as a source of database activity is disclosed. A communication is received. A thread that is configured to handle the communication is associated with an application user with which the communication is associated. The application user is associated with a database query generated by the thread.

Abstract: A protocol for automatically fixing broken hypertext links is described that can save countless hours wasted by World-Wide Web surfers trying to navigate using a broken link or web authors trying to fix broken links to their web pages. A link correction service checks hypertext links in a document by sending messages according to a hyperlink verification protocol (HLVP) to a remote web server indicated by the link. A link checking service at the remote web server, in response to receiving an HLVP message for a link, consults a mapping table to determine if the link is valid, has changed, has been removed, or is unknown. A response code indicating the status of the link is returned to the link correction service to modify the page accordingly.

Abstract: Determining an application user as a source of database activity is disclosed. A communication is received. A thread that is configured to handle the communication is associated with an application user with which the communication is associated. The application user is associated with a database query generated by the thread.

Abstract: An apparatus, article of manufacture and computer-based markup serialization method is provided for transferring data contained in a markup based document, such as an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document, into a relational database stored in an electronic storage device having a database management system. They are used for easy subsequent retrieval of data from the database in the XML format and reconstruction of the XML document. The method decomposes the document according to basic markup types of the documents' data components and stores the decomposed document in a set of markup tables created in the database, one markup table for each basic markup type, thereby preserving the hierarchical tree structure, parent-child order, and components of the document. For querying the database markup tables the method uses SQL queries to retrieve the XML document components in the XML format.

Abstract: A method and system for associating location specific data with data in a database is disclosed. According to the method and system of the present invention, the system includes a database management system coupled to the database, a memory value in the database management system for obtaining location specific data, and a datatype for the memory value for storing the location specific data. In a preferred embodiment, location specific data is obtained from a navigation system coupled to the database management system. In another preferred embodiment, the method and system of the present invention further includes a plurality of functions for performing database calculations based on the stored location specific data.

Abstract: A method and system for conducting a search on a network is disclosed. The network has a plurality of sites. One or more of the sites has a plurality of documents wherein at least one of the documents comprises a plurality of tags. The method and system comprises identifying at least one of the plurality of tags, receiving a query, parsing the query, and matching the parsed query with at least one of the plurality of tags of the at least one of the plurality of documents. Accordingly, through the use of a method and system in accordance with the present invention, the extraction of information from networks comprising XML documents is done in a more precise fashion.

Abstract: An apparatus, article of manufacture and computer-based markup serialization method is provided for transferring data contained in a markup based document, such as an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document, into a relational database stored in an electronic storage device having a database management system. They are used for easy subsequent retrieval of data from the database in the XML format and reconstruction of the XML document. The method decomposes the document according to basic markup types of the documents' data components and stores the decomposed document in a set of markup tables created in the database, one markup table for each basic markup type, thereby preserving the hierarchical tree structure, parent-child order, and components of the document. For querying the database markup tables the method uses SQL queries to retrieve the XML document components in the XML format.

Abstract: A protocol for automatically fixing broken hypertext links is described that can save countless hours wasted by World-Wide Web surfers trying to navigate using a broken link or web authors trying to fix broken links to their web pages. A link correction service checks hypertext links in a document by sending messages according to a hyperlink verification protocol (HLVP) to a remote web server indicated by the link. A link checking service at the remote web server, in response to receiving an HLVP message for a link, consults a mapping table to determine if the link is valid, has changed, has been removed, or is unknown. A response code indicating the status of the link is returned to the link correction service to modify the page accordingly.