Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a more efficient and new interval indexing method. SOLUTION: This invention introduces a new concept called virtual construct intervals (VCI), where each predicate interval is decomposed into one or more of these construct intervals. These VCIs strictly cover the predicate interval. Namely, every attribute value covered by the predicate interval is also covered by at least one of the decomposed VCIs, and vice versa. Each construct interval has a unique ID or interval coordinate and a set of endpoints. A construct interval is considered activated when a predicate interval using it in its decomposition is added to the system. The predicate ID is then inserted into the ID lists associated with the decomposed VCIs. To facilitate fast search, a bitmap vector is used to indicate the activation of VCIs that cover an event value. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for translucent online interaction. SOLUTION: A user defines an environmental parameter for controlling user interaction to define the user expression parameter of user data within the environment. The user is fetched from the user to construct the abstractive graphical display of the environment. Then, user expression within the abstractive graphical display can be constructed by each piece of data of each user.