Abstract: A method for identifying, filtering, ranking and cataloging information elements; as for example, World Wide Web pages, of the Internet in whole, part, or in combination. The method is preferably implemented in computer software and features steps for enabling a user to interactively create an information database including preferred information elements such as preferred World Wide Web pages in whole, part, or in combination. The method includes steps for enabling a user to interactively create a frame-based, hierarchical organizational structure for the information elements, and steps for identifying and automatically filtering and ranking by relevance, information elements, such as World Wide Web pages for populating the structure, to form; for example, a searchable, World Wide Web page database.

Abstract: A method for cataloging, filtering and ranking information, as for example, World Wide Web pages of the Internet. The method is preferably implemented in computer software and features steps for enabling a user to interactively create an information database including preferred information elements such as preferred-authority World Wide Web pages. The method includes steps for enabling a user to interactively create a frame-based, hierarchical organizational structure for the information elements, and steps for identifying and automatically filtering and ranking by relevance, information elements, such as World Wide Web pages for populating the structure, to form, for example, a searchable, World Wide Web page database.

Abstract: A method for cataloging, filtering and ranking information, as for example, World Wide Web pages of the Internet. The method is preferably implemented in computer software and features steps for enabling a user to interactively create an information database including preferred information elements such as preferred-authority World Wide Web pages. The method includes steps for enabling a user to interactively create a frame-based, hierarchical organizational structure for the information elements, and steps for identifying and automatically filtering and ranking by relevance, information elements, such as World Wide Web pages for populating the structure, to form, for example, a searchable, World Wide Web page database.

Abstract: A method for cataloging, filtering and ranking information; as for example, World Wide Web pages of the Internet. The method is preferably implemented in computer software and features steps for enabling a user to interactively create an information database including preferred information elements such as preferred-authority World Wide Web pages. The method including steps for enabling a user to interactively creating a frame-based, hierarchical organizational structure for the information elements, and steps for identifying and automatically filtering and ranking by relevance, information elements, such as World Wide Web pages for populating the structure, to form; for example, a searchable, World Wide Web page database.

Abstract: A system, process, and article of manufacture for organizing a large text database into a hierarchy of topics and for maintaining this organization as documents are added and deleted and as the topic hierarchy changes. Given sample documents belonging to various nodes in the topic hierarchy, the tokens (terms. phrases, dates, or other usable feature in the document) that are most useful at each internal decision node for the purpose of routing new documents to the children of that node are automatically detected. Using feature terms, statistical models are constructed for each topic node. The models are used in an estimation technique to assign topic paths to new unlabeled documents. The hierarchical technique, in which feature terms can be very different at different nodes, leads to an efficient context-sensitive classification technique. The hierarchical technique can handle millions of documents and tens of thousands of topics.

Abstract: A method for cataloging, filtering and ranking information; as for example, World Wide Web pages of the Internet. The method is preferably implemented in computer software and features steps for enabling a user to interactively create an information database including preferred information elements such as preferred-authority World Wide Web pages. The method including steps for enabling a user to interactively creating a frame-based, hierarchical organizational structure for the information elements, and steps for identifying and automatically filtering and ranking by relevance, information elements, such as World Wide Web pages for populating the structure, to form; for example, a searchable, World Wide Web page database.

Abstract: A system, process, and article of manufacture for organizing a large text database into a hierarchy of topics and for maintaining this organization as documents are added and deleted and as the topic hierarchy changes. Given sample documents belonging to various nodes in the topic hierarchy, the tokens (terms, phrases, dates, or other usable feature in the document) that are most useful at each internal decision node for the purpose of routing new documents to the children of that node are automatically detected. Using feature terms, statistical models are constructed for each topic node. The models are used in an estimation technique to assign topic paths to new unlabeled documents. The hierarchical technique, in which feature terms can be very different at different nodes, leads to an efficient context-sensitive classification technique. The hierarchical technique can handle millions of documents and tens of thousands of topics.

Abstract: A method for finding clusters of units in high-dimensional data having the steps of determining dense units in selected subspaces within a data space of the high-dimensional data, determining each cluster of dense units that are connected to other dense units in the selected subspaces within the data space, determining maximal regions covering each cluster of connected dense units, determining a minimal cover for each cluster of connected dense units, and identifying the minimal cover for each cluster of connected dense units.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for performing the process known as "data mining" on a database of raw data records having common data elements, to obtain categorical cluster rules as to what elements of the data tend to occur in common in multiple records. Initial values are assigned to the elements. In an iterative process, the associated value for each given one of the elements is recalculated based on the values of other elements which occur in records together with the given element. Thus, the associated values will tend to grow for elements occurring together in multiple records. Those common occurrences of elements in multiple records represent categorical cluster rules the owner of the data is likely to want to know about. Thus, these rules may be identified based on the growth of the associated values for the records.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are disclosed for encoding and transferring data from a transmitter to a receiver, using the human body as a transmission medium. The transmitter includes an electric field generator, a data encoder which operates by modulating the electric field, and electrodes to couple the electric field through the human body. The receiver includes electrodes, in physical contact with, or close proximity to, a part of the human body, for detecting an electric field carried through the body, and a demodulator for extracting the data from the modulated electric field. An authenticator, connected to the receiver, processes the encoded data and validates the authenticity of the transmission. The apparatus and method are used to identify and authorize a possessor of the transmitter. The possessor then has secure access to, and can obtain delivery of, goods and services such as the distribution of money, phone privileges, building access, and commodities.