International Business Machines Corporation

Stanley Philip Cason

Rosemary DeSantis Paradis

John Irving Munson

Adam S Biener

Sunil Joshi

Krishnarajan Arunachalam

Keith K Ho

Debra Lynn Zeggert

Michael Wayne Gearing

Karen Marie D'Andria

Merwin John Barrett

Hope Eleanor Miller

Ira H Cohen

Eric Woisard

A method and computer program product for conducting a weighted keyword search and a method for displaying search results. A computer determines respective weights of respective keywords, based on proximity of a user interaction position to the respective keywords on a graphical presentation. The computer conducts a weighted keyword search of documents based on the keywords and the respective weights of the keywords. In a method of displaying search results, based on the respective weights, a computer displays the search results associated with the respective keywords.

Graphical user interface in keyword search

This is a system to assist shoppers through a handheld wireless communications device which is Bluetooth-enabled (as an example) (a registered trademark), connected to a barcode reader to scan Universal Product Code (UPC) barcodes on items in the store. The shopper is required to login to the store's shopping system using this device once a personal account has created. While shopping, scan the items, view their prices and running total and finally complete the purchase. This system is also capable of (as an example) consolidating a personal shopping list created remotely through vendor's web site or stored on the personal communication device and the shopping cart to help and enhance the shopping experience.

Method for shopping using wireless communication

An enterprise provides procurement services to a plurality of companies organized in company groups, each company group including those companies using the same accounting rules. These services are accessed by customer company employees, or users. The creation and maintenance of user profile for each user authorized by a customer company is accomplished according company groupings. Company name is passed to the enterprise in a human resource file or interface, to which a company grouping code is added. That data is loaded into employee staging tables from which an application builds a user profile table which, for new users, does not include company code and location code. These codes will be populated to the profile the first time the user logs in for service and selects from a drop down list describing all work locations for his company group a line item including a description of his work location.

System and method for generating a company group user profile

A hybird Notes/DB2 environment provides a requisition catalog on the Web. Client browsers are connected to a GWA infrastructure including a first network dispatcher and a virtual cluster of Domino.Go servers. The network dispatcher sprays out browser requests among configured .nsf servers in virtual server cluster. Communications from this virtual server cluster are, in turn, dispatched by a second network dispatcher in a Domino cluster. External objects, primarily for a GUI, are served in a .dfs and include graphic files, Java files, HTML images and net.data macros. The catalog is built from supplier provided flat files. A front end is provided for business logic and validation, as also is a relation database backend. HTML forms are populated using relational database agents. A role table is used for controlling access both to Notes code and DB2 data. Large amounts of data are quickly transferred using an intermediate agent and window.

System and method for providing an application navigator client menu side bar

A hybird Notes/DB environment provides a requisition catalog on the Web. Client browsers are connected to a GWA infrastructure including a first network dispatcher and a virtual cluster of Domino.Go servers. The network dispatcher sprays out browser requests among configured .nsf servers in virtual server cluster. Communications from this virtual server cluster are, in turn, dispatched by a second network dispatcher servers in a Domino cluster. External objects, primarily for a GUI, are served in a .dfs and include graphic files, Java files, HTML images and net.data macros. The catalog is built from supplier provided flat files. A front end is provided for business logic and validation, as also is a relation database backend. HTML forms are populated using relational database agents. A role table is used for controlling access both to Notes code and DB data. Large amounts of data is quickly transferred using an intermediate agent and window.

System and method for providing a relational database backend

Occurrences of data records in a non-relational database are counted by first selecting rows of data records. A counter field is created and appended to the selected rows. The counter field is weighted with a fixed value which may be different for different selected rows. A summation is performed on the weighted counter fields to count and subsequently display occurrences of data records. Various counts may be dynamically displayed in response to selection of sort columns in a view of the selected rows of data records.

Counting and displaying occurrences of data records

According to the present invention, a system and method for checking expense entries for compliance with policy rules and detecting the possibility of fraud is provided. The preferred embodiment includes a policy checker comprising a knowledge based system designed to determine expense entries' compliance with policy rules and detect a possibility of fraud. The preferred embodiment also includes an auditor workflow system that works with the policy checker to guide manual audits of those expense entries that are not in compliance with the policy rules. The preferred embodiment also includes a data pattern analyzer that detects patterns of behavior that can be indicative of fraud. The preferred embodiment also includes a prioritizer for ranking detected policy violations. These systems work together to provide an automated system for checking expense entries for compliance with company rules, detecting instances where fraud is likely, and generating the appropriate reports.

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Johnson City, NY, United States of America

Stanley Philip Cason