International Business Machines Corporation

Telesector Resources Group, Inc.

Joaquin Manuel Marques

Michael E Moran

Jeffrey S Schaffer

Thomas V Frauenhofer

Purushottam Yeluripati

Jonathan Mark Nicholas Leigh

Subhas Palchowdhury

The disclosure is directed to a new software component, an enterprise application server component such as an enterprise bean, called a 'functional bean,' which models a business method, and accords transactional persistence. The functional bean can be developed as a derived object from an enterprise bean class, and can call other beans to execute a transaction. A client initiates a transaction by requesting a container using an EJBObject of an appropriate functional bean type. A Service Manager bean handles an appropriate instance of a functional bean. After the Service Manager creates and returns the requested handle to the client, the client thereafter can access the functional bean directly. In this way, transactional awareness to the client is achieved. In a second embodiment, the Service Manager is implemented as a stateless session bean, and other functional beans are implemented as entity beans.

Functional enterprise bean

A system for collecting and categorizing metadata about content provided via the internet or intranet, regardless of the language of generation of the content. The content of each document is assigned token IDs, which token IDs are the same for any given topic irrespective of the language in which the document is written. Filtering of single language documents will generate a single output; whereas, multilingual documents will be divided into language segments with each segment being filtered by the appropriate language filter.

Content filtering for electronic documents generated in multiple foreign languages

A system for collecting, categorizing and searching metadata about content provided on the internet and/or intranet for delivery in accordance with customized user profiles. The system collects internet information and categorizes same for provision at a customer's intranet server. The system is additionally adapted to either passively receive or actively collect and categorize internally-provided content for delivery with the externally gathered and categorized content and for matching to user profiles.

Method and system for providing access for categorized information from online internet and intranet sources

A system for tailoring user queries and for categorizing and searching metadata about content provided on the internet and/or intranet for delivery in accordance with customized user profiles. The method and system categorizes query content and document content to facilitate the collection, storage and usage of same. Query content and document content are tokenized, vectorized, and provided for comparison processing by the inventive method.

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Greenwich, CT, United States of America

Joaquin Manuel Marques