International Business Machines Corporation

Richard Dale Hoffman

Maria Azua Himmel

Lance Christopher Amundsen

Raymond Morris Bryant

Verlyn Mark Johnson

Douglas Warren McDavid

Dorothy Irene Mazina

Samuel Kahn

Robert Edward Bachman

Viktors Berstis

Robert J Bestgen

Jerry Walter Malcolm

George Prentice Copeland

Michael Gerard Mall

Marc Gregory Smith

Timothy R Malkemus

Daniel Virgil Toft

A system for generating and retrieving relevant electronic information required by a user initiating an electronic search on the system. The system comprise a user-interactive search engine and a knowledge database, which stores knowledge information that is formatted. Additionally, the system includes a plurality of functional software modules that enables a user to complete an interactive search and find a solution to a task based on entered context information and keywords. A list of keywords are displayed to the user and the user selects those keywords that are relevant to the solution desired. The search engine looks for the articles containing the identified keywords. If no article is found with the search terms, the search is expanded to the Internet. The user may then modify the information returned from the Internet, format the information and save the information as a new recipe.

Search engine facility with automated knowledge retrieval, generation and maintenance

A method for real-time automated maintenance of an electronic database. A value parameter is associated with each data component. The use history of each of the individual data components is tracked using the value parameter. A set number of points is assigned to each data component each time the component is retrieved in response to a user-entered search request. The set number of points is added to the value parameter. A minimum threshold value is established and at pre-determine time intervals a check is made to determine if any data component within the database fails to accumulate at least a minimum threshold number of points. Data components that have not accumulated the minimum number of points are removed from the database. When a new data component is added to the database, a default point value is assigned to the value parameter of the new component.

Automated maintenance of an electronic database via a point system implementation

A method and apparatus in a computer for processing a document retrieved from a server connected to the computer by a communications link. A document is retrieved from the server over the communications link. The document is parsed. A determination is made as to whether a command to open a window is present within the document. The window is opened selectively based on a setting.

Method and apparatus for processing documents in a browser

Query results and statistics regarding them are generated using a novel representation of an n-attribute relation as an order n relational tensor. Orders of the relational tensor respectively correspond to each of the attributes, and each coordinate along an order relates to a key value of the corresponding attribute. Numeric values are stored in the relational tensor, each numeric value representing a count of tuples having the attribute key values that correspond to the coordinate of the numeric value along the orders of the relational tensor. This storage representation is useful in a variety of contexts for enhancing the performance of a RDBMS system. Specifically, a data-representing relational tensor can be used to produce results for tuple grouping operations such as the SQL operations COUNT . . . GROUP BY, SUM . . . GROUP BY, AVG . . . GROUP BY, MIN . . . GROUP BY and MAX . . . GROUP BY.

Generating grouping queries using tensor representations

Query results and statistics regarding them are generated using a novel representation of an n-attribute relation as an order n relational tensor. Orders of the relational tensor respectively correspond to each of the attributes, and each coordinate along an order relates to a key value of the corresponding attribute. Numeric values are stored in the relational tensor, each numeric value representing a count of tuples having the attribute key values that correspond to the coordinate of the numeric value along the orders of the relational tensor. This storage representation is useful in a variety of contexts for enhancing the performance of a RDBMS system. Specifically, in a first aspect of the invention, a tensor representation can be used to generate statistics for a user query so that the relational database system can determine, from among two candidate approaches, an approach to use in processing the user query based on the statistic. Also, a a data-representing relational tensor can be used to produce results for a restrict operation such as the SQL operations DISTINCT, PROJECTION, EQUALS, LESS THAN, LESS THAN OR EQUAL, GREATER THAN, GREATER THAN OR EQUAL and LIKE.

Generating restriction queries using tensor representations

A system and method for maintaining application state information in a stateless environment. State data of arbitrary length is stored in a storage area at a location referenced by a storage handle. The storage handle is recorded by the application and is used to reaccess the data as required. The storage handle is defined as a short fixed length field enabling compact reference and use regardless of the amount of data stored. Storage space is periodically reclaimed and reused after being freed by the application.

System and method for managing client application state in a stateless web browser environment

A method of determining Internet delays associated with requests from a Web client connectable to a Web server. The method begins at the Web server in response to a first HTTP request. In particular, the Web server serves a response to the first HTTP request and logs a server processing time associated with serving that response. After the response is delivered back to the Web client that initiated the request, an end user response time associated with the first HTTP request is calculated at the Web client. Upon a new HTTP request (typically the next one), the end user response time associated with the first HTTP request is then passed from the Web client to the Web server in a cookie. The Internet delay associated with the first HTTP request is then calculated by subtracting the server processing time from the end user response time.

World wide web internet delay monitor

Initially, the user sets a series for select search preferences, which defines a select search tool. The preferences relate to the type of search tool being defined by the user, such as a select search engine search, a universal resource locator (URL) extension search or suffix, or a user defined search string. Once created, the select search tool may be placed on the browser button bar as a search button, or it may be incorporated in an existing search button as a search tool in a drop down menu. By selecting a term the user effectively creates pseudo links to the selected term by simultaneously or sequentially searching a term using the predefined select search preferences, thus allowing the user to access resources related to the term in much the same manner as a conventional link.

Method and apparatus for implementing a search selection tool on a browser

A system and method for controlling duplicate transaction submission in a web browser/web server environment. The client web browser is modified to include a process duplicate action select (e.g. duplicate mouse &ldquo;clicks&rdquo;) detection. This process establishes a variable for an action indicating whether the action has been previously selected. Upon selection, the process tests the action variable and passes the transaction request if not previously submitted and returns an error otherwise. The server process has been augmented with a duplicate transaction process. The server software inserts a _tranid parameter into each of a plurality of selected pages returned to a browser for transaction processing. The server maintains a record of the last used jranid. The server compares a tranid returned in a user request to the recorded value. If previously processed, an error is returned to the requester. If not previously processed, the recorded &ldquo;last transaction id&rdquo; is updated and the request fulfilled.

System and method for preventing duplicate transactions in an internet browser/internet server environment

To facilitate automatic code generation for Java and JavaScript applications executed over the Internet, complex nested data structures resulting from non-unique naming of data fields are flattened. Fully-qualified names for each data field are created. The fully-qualified names include the names of all nodes within a nesting path for a given data field. Where fully-qualified names become overly cumbersome, aliases may be utilized and mapped to the fully-qualified names within a correlation table. The object hierarchy for an application is thus simplified.

Flattening complex data structures in Java/Javascript objects

A data processing system connected to and controlling an infrared emitter may be utilized to control remote control devices such as video cassette recorders and cassette recorders, allowing the data processing system to program recording by such devices. The data processing system may, for example, be a set-top box located in proximity to remote controlled record/playback devices, relying on line-of-sight or reflected infrared signal transmission, or may be utilized in connection with suitably placed infrared repeaters. The data processing system may also be employed in conjunction with the &ldquo;server push&rdquo; network technique, in which a data stream is transmitted to a subscribing client without intervention by the client. The data stream is monitored for user-defined data items. When detected, the data processing automatically controls the appropriate record/playback device to record a broadcast associated with the detected data item.

Controlling record/playback devices with a computer

A data processing system and methodology simulate &ldquo;include&rdquo; function in the JavaScript programming language. The include function is utilized to more efficiently use a set of instructions that are repeated during execution of a program. By setting those instructions in a single file that is then called through the use of a JavaScript subroutine calling protocol, sets of instructions may be repeatedly accessed and executed in a manner that simulates the include function provided by other programming languages.

Data processing system and method for simulating &ldquo;include&rdquo; files in javascript

A method of logging information in a computer network having a Web client connectable to a Web server. In response to the HTTP request (and as a result of receiving a response to that request), a response time associated with that first HTTP request is calculated. Thereafter, the response time calculated is passed from the Web client on a subsequent HTTP request to that Web server, where the information is logged for later use. In a preferred embodiment, the response time associated with the first HTTP request is passed in a cookie of the second HTTP request.

World wide web end user response time monitor

An efficient mechanism for debugging JavaScript programs is implemented to provide functions that allow a software developer to gain more information and to have more control when debugging a software program. Debugging tools are implemented to allow the software developer to control the contents of a JavaScript client object directly during the debugging operation and, therefore, to have greater control over and to know the contents of the client object at a specific point in time during execution of the program. Additionally, a data processing system and methodology are implemented to allow debugging functions and results generated therefrom to be output to a temporary file based on a current client's Internet Protocol address, rather than to a display screen or a current applet device of the client. An additional variable is utilized to indicate whether the information obtained during a debug procedure should be displayed on a current page or should be output to a temporary file based on the current client's Internet Protocol address to obtain information about errors within a software program, even when printing such information during program execution is not possible. Furthermore, a data processing and methodology are implemented to selectively enable and disable debug statements and software code. By providing such selective enablement, the use of debugging statements in the software code may be selectively enabled and disabled without modifying previously compiled code.

Data processing system and method for debugging a JavaScript program

A method, system and process for providing an improved database blocking technique for updatable and scrollable cursors is disclosed. The invention is facilitated by the operation of a process in the memory of a processor. The processor, under the control of the process, builds a reserved area in the memory of the computer. The reserved area in the memory contains an image of a portion of the information residing on disk in the database. When an application opens a cursor to a database, the type of blocking is specified for that cursor. The application issues a fetch request, and if the row is not in the block in the reserved area in the memory, then a remote procedure call is performed to get the required next block of rows and return the block containing the rows back to the application. Various lock data structures are employed to manage and control the processing.

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Richard Dale Hoffman