Data mining techniques are provided which are effective and efficient for discovering useful information from an amorphous collection or data set of records. For example, the present invention provides for the mining of data, e.g., of several or many records, to discover interesting associations between...http://www.google.de/patents/US20040073534?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20040073534 - Method and apparatus for data mining to discover associations and covariances associated with data