168 results about "Computerized databases" patented technology

The present invention provides a data processing system and a method of assessing the data value of a data assets inventory which comprises:a) preparing a data map on a computer database comprising inputting data types and data subtypes into said database, connecting a data storing location to the data subtypes and recording the data subtype occurrences in said database;b) assigning a weighting to each data subtype occurrence in said database to provide a data assets inventory and recording the data assets inventory in said database;c) preparing evaluation types on said database wherein the evaluation type has a calculation type attribute and wherein the evaluation type is either quantity independent or quantity dependent;d) connecting at least one evaluation type to each data subtype with a reference value and recording the reference value in said database;e) determining the data value of the data assets inventory and recording the data value in said database wherein when the evaluation type is quantity dependent then the value is the product of the weighting, the reference value and the quantity at the data storing location for each data subtype occurrence or wherein when the evaluation type is quantity independent then the value is the product of the weighting and the reference value for each data subtype occurrence.

This invention involves an electronic catalog system which employs the knowledge and experience of a "Sales Agent", which is provided to a computer data base, and used with an inference engine to assist and guide actual customers to products that they will most likely be interested in purchasing. This system is employs hypothetical questions and answers, based on the sales agents experience with generic customers, as well as criteria and constraints provided by both the Sales Agent and the electronic catalog content.

A computer implemented method of processing data containing information about relationships between contacts and a community of contact owners, comprises: collecting data including contact information, contact owner information and one or more values related to strength of a relationship between the contact and the contact owner; evaluating the strength of the relationship based on the one or more values; and storing the collected data and evaluated strength in a computer database. A method of keying a database, comprises: building a database of records, each containing information about an entity, and each of which include a domain name field; and setting the domain name field as a key field; whereby a record for an entity is found by reference to a domain name. A method of keying a database, comprises: building a database of records, each containing information about an entity, and each of which include an email address field; and setting the email address field as a key field; whereby a record for an entity is found by reference to an email address. A method of keying a database, comprising: building a database of records, each containing information about an entity, and each of which includes a field holding an identifier uniquely associated with an entity by a convention of computer networking; and setting the field holding the identifier as a key field; whereby a record for an entity is found by reference to an identifier. A method of sharing relationship information, comprising: maintaining a database of relationship information records; selecting contact information according to a selection criterion; and returning selected relationship information also complying with restrictions set in a set of hierarchical privacy policies.

A computerized "smart card" which has a read / write memory and formatted data storage blocks is used to track the life history of one or more associated machine(s) (e.g., vehicles, medical instrumentation and apparatus, business and copying machines, etc.). The smart card can store a variety of information including machine identification, hardware / software specifications, debit / credit, regulated performance, warranty / insurance, maintenance / service and operational transactions that might impact the hardware, software or the intended operation or performance of the machine. The smart card will be equipped to interact with any of a plurality of autonomous reader / writer smart card units and computer-based reader / writer smart card units that may be equipped to interact with any of the plurality of computer databases through the utilization of land or wireless communications links. Preferably, each smart card will be associated with one or more specific machines at the time of sale of the machines, and will be periodically updated at each transaction (e.g., repair, scheduled maintenance, transfer of title, etc.) using reader / writer units operated by service technicians, repair shops, insurance agents, or the like. The stored life history can be used for valuation, maintenance scheduling, problem trouble shooting, and other applications.

A method for grouping computer subscribers by common preferences to establish non-intimate relationships. The method of the present invention provides a subscriber access to a computerized database having stored non-intimate profile information from fellow subscribers. The user registers and stores non-intimate profile information into a database. The present invention groups the user with at least two of the fellow subscribers to form at least one group based on similarities between the subscriber's profile information and the fellow subscriber's profile information. The present invention utilizes an algorithm to determine a level of similarity between the subscriber's profile information and the fellow subscribers' profile information, wherein preferences are assigned integer values concatenated to form a lookup key and used to access an entry in a table containing the corresponding similarity value between two preferences. The similarity values between all profile preferences are added to create a final similarity total for the subscribers. Multi-way matching is also employed to ensure that similarity values for each subscriber in the group and all other subscribers in said group exceeds a threshold value. The list of subscribers in the group as well as similarities between the subscribers in the group are displayed for viewing and for editing by the subscriber.

A method and apparatus is described for multiple-party data attribute management system and interface structure which permits different categories of users to contribute and control different types of source data, while adding informational value to data contributed by other users. The system provides a secure repository for verified and authenticated data, and provides a system of controlled access to the repository. The preferred embodiment of the invention comprises a data verification and certification system which in a principal embodiment is useful to create a data bank to match job seekers with potential employers based on verified resume data and employer specified search criteria. The interface structure The system of the invention preferably includes computer databases and interactive Internet based server systems.

A system, apparatus, and program storage device implementing a method of optimizing queries used for searching a computerized database, wherein the method comprises providing a query comprising a sequence of inner joins and outerjoins; and rewriting the query by producing a sequence of outer Cartesian products for the query; producing a sequence of nullification operations on the query; and producing a sequence of best match operations on the query. The method further comprises optimizing the query using a query execution plan for processing the rewritten query, wherein the query execution plan expands a search space in the database for which the rewritten query may be run.

A system for filing applications with an institution from a plurality of remote sites, and for automatically processing said applications in response to each applicant's credit rating obtained from a credit reporting service comprising a series of self-service terminals remotely linked via a telephone line to a first computer at the institution and to a second computer at the credit reporting service headquarters. Each remote terminal comprises a video screen and a video memory which holds image-and-sound-generating information arranged to simulate the aspect and speech of an application loan officer on the video screen. The simulated loan officer is used to acquire loan request data from the applicant by guiding him through an interactive sequence of inquiries and answers. The system may be utilized as a trading network whereby stations are used by sellers and buyers to place and accept offers for securities, the central installation acting as a central computerized database where all transactions are processed and the various data items stored and automatically updated.

Novel methods for delivering a drug to a patient while preventing the exposure of a foetus or other contraindicated individual to the drug. Embodiments are provided in which the involved prescribers, pharmacies and patients are registered in one or more computer databases. Embodiments are also provided in which registered patients receive counseling information concerning the risks attendant to foetal exposure to the drug. Male patients and female patients who are not pregnant may, in certain circumstances, receive the drug.

A method for monitoring and protecting a designated real estate Title (Deed / Transfer) against title theft, fraudulent transaction, mortgage fraud includes process and steps of compiling selected data records associated with a designated real estate Title from plurality of predefined sources and storing the compiled data into an associated file within a computer database, number referencing stored selected data to further facilitate confirmation and authentication of the data records, execute monitoring process for an authenticated Title by preparing and registering security Charge / Mortgage on the Title, Issue transaction permit code, registering with local and national lender data base, Mortgage default insurers and Title insurance companies as protected Title, protect an authenticated Title from fraudulent transaction, mortgage fraud and illegal activity by further verifying transactional data of the requesting party with the stored authenticated data, stop transaction on detection of data discrepancies, issue transaction completion permit and discharge registered security charge by obtaining consistency in obtained data records. A system comprising of confirmation, authentication and verification algorithm and ID validation hardware components. The system further includes a computer database for storing data records, computer software to validate ID cards, reference number data records, execute confirmation, authentication and verification algorithm and issue transaction completion permit / Termination warning and security charge / discharge documents.

Methods and systems for managing relationships and assisting relationship stewards in allocating resources among a plurality of steward-entity relationships. The methods and systems include allowing users to define steward-entity relationships and relationship tiers. Additionally, users assign relationship objectives to each relationship tier together with accommodation limits. The users then assign each of the steward-entity relationships to a relationship tier. This data and optionally data regarding interactions between entities and / or additional relationship data may be received by a computerized database and analyzed in a computerized system to produce one or more computerized relationship maps. The relationship maps may be used in whole or in part to provide feedback to one or more users regarding the steward-entity relationships.

The present invention provides a system and method of automating and streamlining real estate transactions by automatically submitting or transmitting required detailed information to companies providing real estate related services. The information is auto-populated from an electronic real estate form, a computer database, or a software application or internet application used by real estate professionals into an auto-submission screen. Preferably the information contained within an auto-submission screen or screens is electronically transmitted to the service provider through a computer network.

A method of predicting the search needs of a computerized database search user. The present invention uses a topical database comprising a plurality of categories. Each category is referenced and / or related to other categories. The present invention also uses a document database and an anticipated search term database wherein documents and anticipated search terms are correspondingly assigned to a respective topical category. Upon receiving an initial search term, the present invention locates the initial search term within the anticipated search term database and assigns the topical category of the matched anticipated search term to the initial search term. The present invention then retrieves document information for assigned documents of the topical category assigned to the initial search term as well as retrieves document information for assigned documents of any referenced and / or related topical categories to the initial search term topical category.

A medical information system receives patient data and information from various sources and displays such information in a variety of formats for use by member of a medical team in a hospital, clinic, or office. The system receives patient information from doctors, pharmacists, patient monitoring equipment, testing laboratories, and / or computer databases. Access to selected subsets of patient information is provided by user selection of specific data sets identified by job function selection icons. A member of the medical team can record observations about a patient using key words and phrases which can be supplemented with additional text for customized notation. Multiple types of patient data are selectively displayed si- multaneously, and to multiple remote users. The system can access stored data according to user-specified formula to compute a score or metric which reflects a relationship between various factors, each factor being weighted appropriately according to its significance as defined in the formula. A user can selectively display data in graphic form by “clicking” on a row of tabular data in a tabular region of the display and “dragging and dropping” that row to a graphic display region of the display.

A change definition language (CDL) serves as an extension of (and in the general format of) the structured query language known as SQL. The change definition language allows all important alterations to be described, as changes to an existing definition, for example, and may be used by all phases of the development cycle. The CDL statements do not make the changes directly in the catalog, but instead work through SQL and another intermediate mechanism such as DB2 ALTER tailored to make changes using SQL. The changes expressed in CDL may be migrated to downstream phases and fed back to earlier phases by use of a batch of change statements expressed in CDL.

A method of measuring hand hygiene compliance includes the steps of maintaining a computer database, and determining whether any person entered a first area independent of whether the any person includes a sensor. The method also includes the steps of determining whether the any person left the first area and entered a second area, and determining whether the any person performed hand hygiene before leaving the first area. Moreover, the method includes the step of sending information associated with whether the any person performed hand hygiene before leaving the first area to the computer database.

An apparatus, program product and method integrate virus checking functionality into a computer database search environment to assist in protecting a user computer from contracting a computer virus when accessing search results. The generation of a display representation of a result set generated in response to a search request may be based at least in part upon virus status information associated with at least a portion of a plurality of result records identified in the generated result set. Moreover, an apparatus, program product, and method configure a first computer to receive virus status information generated by a plurality of computers, with such received virus status information stored in a virus database that is accessible by the first computer.

A method for generating a title report for a target real estate parcel includes the steps of gathering data records pertaining to real estate parcels from a plurality of disparate sources, storing the gathered data records in a common format within a computer database, indexing the commonly formatted data records within the computer database to facilitate searching, searching the indexed data records within the computer database for data records pertaining to a target real estate parcel, selecting at least one record of data pertaining to the target real estate parcel, electronically abstracting pre-selected data directly into an associated file while simultaneously viewing said record and generating a title report containing the pre-selected data in a predefined format. A system for generating a title report for a target real estate parcel includes a computer database containing data records from a plurality of disparate sources, wherein the data records pertain to real estate parcels and are commonly formatted within the database. The system further includes a search algorithm for searching the computer database for data records pertaining to a target real estate parcel and a report building algorithm for electronically abstracting pre-selected data directly into an associated file and generating a title report containing said pre-selected data.

This application discloses a system for recording medical image data for production on a portable digital recording medium such as CDs and DVDs. This system includes a receiving module, a processing module and an output module, with viewing program for viewing medical image data stored on the portable digital recording medium. It also discloses a method of storing medical image data on a portable digital recording medium, including the steps of receiving the medical image data, processing the data and storing the data on the portable digital recording medium, with a viewing program for viewing medical image data stored on the portable digital recording medium. It further discloses a method of selecting medical image data for recording on a portable digital recording medium, including the steps of connecting a browsing terminal to a computer database that stores the medical image data, selecting a first set of the medical image data from the computer database, and recording the selected first set of medical image data on the portable digital medium, with a viewing program for viewing the medical image data stored on the portable digital recording medium. It also discloses the method and system of retrieving medical image data that are related to the received / selected original medical image data, and recording the original and related medical image data on a portable digital recording medium.

Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for storing, organizing and / or manipulating cohort based information associated with a research study. Project information associated with a first project is received at an interface of a computer database environment. The project information associated with the first project includes cohort information associated with one or more cohorts of the first project and patient information associated with members of the one or more cohorts of the first project. A first virtual project drawer is generated associated with the first project to be stored in the computer database environment. The first virtual project drawer includes the project information associated with the first project, at least one cohort file and / or at least two cohort member files.

A method of selling custom prefabricated houses which allows the user to add various options to a house while presenting an image of the house that is updated as the user adds options. The method includes the steps of providing a computer database which includes data representing price charts and images, the price data and images representing various components of the prefabricated house, allowing the user to access the database via a computer and a communications medium, displaying an image of a prefabricated house and an associated price along with a means to allow the user to select options to the house, allowing the user to select optional components to the house, displaying an image of the house with the user selected options included in the image displaying a price associated with the house with user selected options, and storing the user selection for later retrieval.

A system for quoting vehicle accessories includes an internet accessible computer database having information regarding vehicle accessories including a suggested price; and application software including a routine permitting a user to generate a user profile to select accessories of interest from the database and enter a price adjustment for the accessories of interest to create a filtered database based on the information regarding vehicle accessories and filtered to include information on the accessories which is user specific. A method for quoting an installed price for a vehicle accessory, including: providing an internet accessible computer database including information regarding a plurality of accessories, including an accessory identifier and price for each of the plurality of accessories; providing a user profile for a user, the user profile including a selection of accessories of interest, and an installation cost adjustment and being populated with the price for each of the plurality of accessories from the computer database; and querying the user profile to output an installed price for an accessory of interest based on the installation cost adjustment and the price for each of the plurality of accessories from the computer database. The system and method can facilitate the sale of vehicle accessories, for dealerships, mechanics, vehicle parts installers, etc. When used for insurance settlement applications, the database can facilitate the acquisition of information relating to the installed costs of accessories when assessing part replacement in an insurance claim.

A system for coding and decoding languages that includes a first set of computerized databases and each of database storing a predetermined number of indexed information elements (such as words) and a second set of computerized databases wherein each database includes a predetermined number of structural arrangements for using the information elements. The indexed information elements are classified by the component class of a sentence or phrase. They may be classified as verbs, adjectives, etc. and this holds true for the same indexed entry for the different databases for a particular information element. The system decodes the information elements in a sentence, or phrase and matches a corresponding structural arrangement in a given language which holds for the other language.

Computer implemented speech processing generates one or more pronunciations of an input word in a first language by a non-native speaker of the first language who is a native speaker of a second language. The input word is converted into one or more pronunciations. Each pronunciation includes one or more phonemes selected from a set of phonemes associated with the second language. Each pronunciation is associated with the input word in an entry in a computer database. Each pronunciation in the database is associated with information identifying a pronunciation language and / or a phoneme language.

System and method for using automated 3D scans to diagnose the mechanical status of substantially intact vehicles. One or more processor controlled 3D scanners utilize optical and other methods to assess the exposed surfaces of various vehicle components. Computer vision and other computerized pattern recognition techniques then compare the 3D scanner output versus a reference computer database of these various vehicle components in various normal and malfunctioning states. Those components judged to be aberrant are flagged. These flagged components can be reported to the vehicle users, as well as various insurance or repair entities. In some embodiments, the 3D scans can be performed using time-of-flight cameras, and optionally infrared, stereoscopic, and even audio sensors attached to the processor controlled arm of a mobile robot. Much of the subsequent data analysis and management can be done using remote Internet servers.

A tradable investment index and method for weather futures, comprised of weather data transformed using the steps of extracting historical weather data, including weather measures such as precipitation, wind speed, temperature and sunshine hours, providing the weather data to a computer database, operating on the values in the database using a computer and software program, and transforming the resulting set into an index, which is tradable in the financial, weather derivative or insurance markets.

An automated computer-based data integrity auditing system is provided for use in the healthcare industry, financial industry, academic and educational fields, or any other field in which a need exists for monitoring data integrity. Coded data received from a service organization are checked for proper coding and completeness. The coded data are stored in a computer database together with indicators specifying bad data found during the checking step. At least one data integrity test is applied to a portion of the data which does not have any bad data specified by an indicator. Any data validity problems located by the data integrity test(s) are identified. Reports may be generated to identify a score assigned to the tested portion of the data, the data validity problems, or suggestions for resolving the data validity problems.

A process and system for updating desired inter- or intra-net addresses at a client computer. There is provided a plurality of client computers, a database accessible by each of the client computers, a network server through which the client computers may access files on a network, and a database accessible by the network server. The client computer database includes a list of addresses for accessing desired files on the network. The network server database includes a list of addresses for the desired files on the network and addresses of the client computers that have accessed the desired files on the network. The process comprises updating in the network server database at least one of the addresses for the desired files on the network and transferring from the network server database to the database of the client computers having addresses in the network server database the updated at least one of the addresses for the desired files on the network.