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20120212342

13463180

1. A method comprising: periodically sampling a user environment via a set of environmental sensors integrated into a communication device; deriving a set of environmental circumstances based at least partially on an output of the set of environmental sensors by an analysis module in communication with the set of environmental sensors; and comparing, via the analysis module, the derived set of environmental circumstances to a set of templates to determine whether there is a matching template, wherein if there is a matching template, an action script is executed.

20100198599

12758136

1. A mobile display apparatus serving as a client device of an external host apparatus, the mobile display apparatus comprising: a display section; a voice output section; a video signal input section arranged to receive an input video signal from the external host apparatus; a display control section arranged to display in the display section an image based on the input video signal; a text recognizing section arranged to extract a text image from the input video signal and convert the text image into a text code; and a voice output control section arranged to output voice sounds corresponding to the text code through the voice output section; wherein the video signal input section outputs the input video signal supplied from the external host apparatus to the display control section and the text recognizing section; and the text recognizing section converts a text image of the input video signal supplied from the video signal input section into a text code and outputs the text code to the voice output control section so that an image corresponding to the input video signal is displayed in the display section, and the voice sounds corresponding to the text code are outputted from the voice output section.

20120065960

13231015

1. A computer-implemented method for generating a parser combination by combining at least two language processing parsers, the method comprising a step of: generating a parser combination by combining parsers each associated with at least one grammar description, wherein the step is carried out using (i) at least one grammar description means and (ii) a computer device.

20050028077

10628766

1. A method of identifying one or more portions of a document, the method comprising: identifying a plurality of visual blocks in the document; detecting one or more separators between the visual blocks of the plurality of visual blocks; and constructing, based at least in part on the plurality of visual blocks and the one or more separators, a content structure for the document, wherein the content structure identifies the different visual blocks as different portions of semantic content of the document.

8374865

13456671

1. A method comprising: classifying, at a computing system, a set of benchmark text strings to provide a set of benchmark classifications, wherein the benchmark text strings correspond to a benchmark corpus of benchmark utterances; determining a respective classification for multiple text strings in a corpus of text strings; sampling text strings from the corpus of text strings to form a training corpus of training text strings, such that particular classifications of the sampled text strings occur in proportion to occurrences of the particular classifications for the benchmark text strings; and training an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system with the training corpus of training text strings.

20040158722

10772991

1. In a client system that includes various client system components, and that is configured to receive one or more scripts from one or more script sources, the client system also including one or more objects that are configured to control properties and features of the client system components, a method of selectively granting or denying a script access to one or more of the objects, comprising acts of: receiving, at the client system, a script from a script source, the script requesting access to a particular system object; accessing an access control data structure that is independent of the script and making a determination that the script is authorized to access the particular system object based on one or more permissions that are associated with the script source and the particular system within the access control data structure; selectively granting the script access to the particular system object based on the determination.

6088709

08530510

1. A document processing unit for displaying a comment written at an arbitrary position in a document together with the document, comprising: document storing means for storing a plurality of document files, each document file having a same document and at least one comment independently written at any position in the document; layout means for combining and laying out the comments in positions where the respective comments correspond to said plurality of document files; display means for displaying the document and the laid out comments; wherein said layout means changes the positions of the comments so that the comments do not overlap with each other; and wherein said layout means obtains a first distance d1 and a second distance d2 by dividing a distance D of an overlapped portion of a first comment and a second comment in a predetermined direction in accordance with the largeness of the first comment and the largeness of the second comment, and moves the positions of the first comment and the second comment by the first distance d1 and the second distance d2.

8145582

12135972

1. A computer implemented method comprising: receiving a first set of data; receiving a second set of data different than the first set of data, wherein directly comparing the first set of data to the second set of data would be computationally explosive; organizing the first set of data into a first cohort; organizing the second set of data into a second cohort; processing the first cohort and the second cohort to generate a first synthetic event, wherein the first synthetic event comprises a third set of data representing a result of a mathematical computation defined by the operation S(p 1 )==>F(p 2 ), wherein S comprises a set of input facts with probability p 1 , wherein the set of input facts comprise the first cohort and the second cohort, wherein F comprises an inferred event with probability p 2 , wherein the term “event” means a particular set of data that represents, encodes, or records at least one of a thing or happening, and wherein each of the first set of data, the second set of data, the first cohort, the second cohort, and the first synthetic event all comprise different events; receiving a third set of data; organizing the third set of data into a third cohort; organizing the synthetic event into a fourth cohort; processing the first cohort, the second cohort, the third cohort, and the fourth cohort to generate a second synthetic event; processing the first synthetic event and the second synthetic event to generate a third synthetic event; and storing the first synthetic event, the second synthetic event, and the third synthetic event.

20150127818

14486525

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: monitoring a user interacting with the virtual environment through an avatar; in response to detecting a triggering event, determining one or more characteristics of a situational context of the avatar within the virtual environment, wherein the one or more characteristics comprise at least one of: (i) a location of the avatar within the virtual environment, (ii) one or more interactions performed by the avatar with respect to other virtual objects within the virtual environment, and (iii) one or more avatar companions of the user within the virtual environment, wherein the determining is performed by a playlist engine configured to determine at least two of the characteristics of the situational context; based on the determined one or more characteristics and by operation of one or more computer processors, generating a playlist by the playlist engine; and providing the user with one or more songs included in the playlist.

20040181427

10806307

1. A computer-implemented patent portfolio analysis method comprising: retrieving a corpus of patent information from a database, said information including the claim text of at least one claim; analyzing the claim text of said at least one claim to generate a claim breadth metric; associating said claim breadth metric with said claim text and storing said associated metric in a computer-readable dataset.

20020035469

09950434

1. A method for determining a descriptive feature of a speech signal, which comprises: training a first speech model with a first time pattern; training a second speech model with a second time pattern; and initializing the second speech model with the first speech model.

6029171

08798522

1. A method of collaborating on projects, using a first instance of a messaging system and a second instance of the messaging system, the method comprising the computer implemented steps of: permitting entry of a message in the first instance of the messaging system; parsing the message to identify a keyword; linking the message to an information object based on the keyword identified in the message; creating a header for the message based on the keywords; sending the message, using the header, to the second instance of the messaging system; receiving the message at the second instance of the messaging system; displaying a selection of reply options; generating a reply including an automatic reply content based on the selection; creating a reply header for the reply based on the message content; and sending the reply, using the reply header, to the first instance of the messaging system; and entering an entry into a first calendar and a first list based on the message in the first instance of the messaging system; wherein the selection of reply options include an affirmative, a negative, and an other.

20110161793

12651348

1. A method performed by one or more server devices, comprising: receiving, by at least one of the one or more server devices, modular topics, where each of the modular topics includes a machine-readable and machine-storable work product that includes information related to a single, stand-alone topic; storing the modular topics in a content repository as a topic library; receiving selection of topics from the topic library to generate one or more customized pathway pages, where each of the customized pathway pages includes a plurality of links to ones of the stored modular topics; and enabling access to the modular topics stored in the content repository via the generated one or more customized pathway pages.

8694385

13175754

1. A computer-implemented method for identifying items in response to a query, comprising: under control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions, receiving a first query from a first user, the first query including one or more query terms; generating a first query result including one or more items corresponding to the first query; for each respective item in the first query result, determining a ranking value using one or more rating scores, each rating score corresponding to a respective query term and depending at least in part on a first frequency with which selection actions are performed by previous users with respect to the respective item, the selection actions being performed against previous query results generated in response to previous queries that include the respective query term; and presenting at least a portion of the first query result for display to the first user according to the ranking values.

20140040720

13052829

1. A computer-system comprising: a page description language document, including at least one packaged file therein, stored in at least one memory device, the page description language document including: at least one packaged file presentation shell including a graphical layout of standardized graphical elements having properties and presentation nodes for presenting representations of the at least one packaged file; metadata associating each of the at least one packaged files with a presentation node of the at least one packaged file presentation shell, and at least one presentation overlay including at least one standardized graphical element, which, when applied to the packaged file presentation shell, overrides respective standardized graphical element properties and presentation nodes; a page description language document application stored in the at least one memory device and executable on at least one processor to present a view of at least a portion of the page description language document according to the metadata and the at least one packaged file presentation shell as modified by the at least one presentation overlay.

20040078192

10367228

1. An apparatus for identifying and/or analyzing potential patent infringement, comprising: an input device for inputting information regarding a patent; a processing device for processing the information regarding the patent, wherein the processing device identifies at least one independent claim of the patent, wherein the processing device formulates a search or a search query containing information corresponding to the at least one independent claim, wherein the processing device searches information regarding at least one of a product, products, a service, and services, wherein the processing device obtains and processes information regarding at least one of a product, products, a service, and services, relevant to the at least one independent claim in conjunction with information contained in the at least one independent claim, and further wherein the processing device generates claim chart information containing information regarding the at least one of a product, products, a service, and services; and at least one of a display device for displaying information contained in the claim chart information and an output device for outputting information contained in the claim chart information.

20010034748

09769887

1. A method for managing web content for a company website on a global basis, comprising the steps of: creating at least one web content page having objects defining said content, said objects comprised of elements; defining relationships between said objects on said content page and elements comprising said objects; generating a scripting language incorporating said relationship definitions; and so storing said scripting language file in a single data base globally accessible by a user.

20080162482

11617305

1. A method of administering online communities within an online community management system comprising: declaratively specifying a taxonomy of online community types; declaratively specifying a plurality of roles for members of online communities; declaratively specifying a security policy that associates permissions with roles and online community types; maintaining a plurality of online community profiles, wherein each online community profile represents an online community, specifies an online community type from the taxonomy, and specifies a list of members of the online community and an associated role for each member; and providing access to a selected online community according to the online community type of the selected online community, a role within the selected online community associated with a user attempting to access the selected online community, and the security policy.

20030163314

10083839

1. A method for generating synthesized speech, comprising: receiving input text; determining a topic for the input text; determining a speaking style based on the identified topic, where the speaking style correlates to prosodic parameters; and converting the input text to audible speech using the prosodic parameters.

7839510

10352076

1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a generation unit for generating an electronic document file including document data based on application data and a print instruction document; and a receiving unit for receiving the electronic document file including the document data and the print-instruction document including page layout information, wherein the page layout information is set to a document which includes a plurality of pages, and wherein the layout information includes identification information to identify a sheet number for each page and double-side information to identify on which side of a sheet, a front side or a reverse side, each page is to be printed; a determination unit for determining whether or not a specified printer is capable of double-sided printing; a changing unit for performing a changing process, wherein the changing process changes the print-instruction document by changing a description for the reverse side of the double-side information of the page layout information included in the print-instruction document to a description for the front side of the double-side information and changing a sheet number of the identification information of the page layout information included in the print-instruction document, and wherein the changing unit performs the changing process for the page in a case that the determination unit determines that the specified printer is not capable of double-sided printing; a transmission unit for transmitting printing data based on the print-instruction document changed by the changing unit through a printer driver; a storing unit for storing the electronic document file including the document data and the print-instruction document changed by the changing unit when storage of the print-instruction document is instructed; and a reusing unit for reading the electronic document file including the document data and the print-instruction document stored by the storing unit and executing printing when the printing of the stored print-instruction document is instructed.

20020042794

09945677

1. A keyword extracting device comprising: text data input means for inputting a text, pattern processing means for carrying out matching and replacement of a character string based on a pattern in regular expression or its equivalent, pattern storage means having at least a keyword component pattern representing a character string capable of being a component of a keyword, keyword component extracting means for extracting, as keyword components, all character strings which are matched with the keyword component pattern and are not overlapped with each other by using the pattern processing means for the text, keyword candidate set generating means for generating a keyword candidate set from each keyword component, and keyword output means for outputting each keyword candidate of the keyword candidate set as a keyword.

9569728

14664166

1. A computerized method for suggesting web pages to users comprising: receiving, at a first suggestion assistant executing on a first client computer, a first request from a first user to create a first folder; creating, in response to the first request, a first folder ID in a content repository on a server computer, wherein the first folder ID represents the first folder; receiving, at the first suggestion assistant, a second request from the first user to save a first web page to the first folder; creating, in response to the second request, a first link ID that represents the first web page, and a first folder association between the first link ID and the first folder ID in the content repository; receiving, at the first suggestion assistant, a third request from the first user to save a second web page to the first folder; creating, in response to the third request, a second link ID that represents the second web page, and a second folder association between the second link ID and the first folder ID in the content repository; automatically, based on the first folder association and the second folder association: associating the second link ID with the first link ID by adding the second link ID to a first set of related link IDs in the content repository, wherein each link ID in the first set of related link IDs is associated with the first link ID, and associating the first link ID with the second link ID by adding the first link ID to a second set of related link IDs in the content repository, wherein each link ID in the second set of related link IDs is associated with the second link ID; receiving, at a second suggestion assistant executing on a second client computer, a fourth request from a second user to create a second folder; creating, in response to the fourth request, a second folder ID in the content repository, wherein the second folder ID represents the second folder; receiving, at the second suggestion assistant, a fifth request from the second user to save the first web page to the second folder; creating, in response to the fifth request, a third folder association between the first link ID and the second folder ID in the content repository; receiving, at the second suggestion assistant, a sixth request from the second user to save a third web page to the second folder; creating, in response to the sixth request, a third link ID that represents the third web page, and a fourth folder association between the third link ID and the second folder in the content repository; automatically, based on the third folder association and the fourth folder association: associating the third link ID with the first link ID by adding the third link ID to the first set of related link IDs in the content repository, and associating the first link ID with the third link ID by adding the first link ID to a third set of related link IDs in the content repository, wherein each link ID in the third set of related link IDs is associated with the third link ID; receiving, at a third suggestion assistant executing on a third client computer, a suggestion request from a third user based on the first web page; providing, at the third suggestion assistant in response to the suggestion request, the second web page and the third web page as suggestions based on the presence of the second link ID and the third link ID in the first set of related link IDs.

7681194

11043384

1. A wireless mechanism comprising: resources including user interface facilities supporting a display of task-associated objects, communication facilities enabling wireless communication with at least one of a plurality of environmental devices, display facilities enabling display of task associated objects, and input facilities enabling user selection of task-associated objects; a tasking software system including a state tracking subsystem, a cluster formulation subsystem, and a cluster presentation subsystem, wherein the state tracking subsystem supports context determination; the cluster formulation subsystem formulates clusters, each cluster comprising selected objects, said cluster formulation being responsive to said context, and the cluster formulation subsystem reformulates said clusters based on changes in said context; the cluster presentation subsystem supports the formatting and presentation of task-associated objects of an active cluster based on changes in said context; and the tasking software system operating in coordination with the resources to display via the display facilities and responsive to said context, clusters of task associated objects and, by selection of any said task-associated object, to enable a user to active a task respecting at least one of said plurality of environmental devices.

20120158781

13406331

1. A computer system comprising: means for receiving a query from agents of a law firm; means, responsive to the received query, for searching at least first and second physical or logical databases for content related to the query, with the first database including work-product documents of the law firm and the second database including non-work-product documents of the law firm.

20170153914

15431573

1. An apparatus comprising a processor and a storage to store instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising: retrieve, from a node device, node data descriptive of at least one characteristic of an execution environment of the node device; generate a current data set model descriptive of at least one characteristic of a current data set; compare the current data set model to at least one previously generated data set model of at least one previously analyzed data set to detect a match in the at least one characteristic that meets a similarity threshold, wherein the at least one previously generated data set model is descriptive of the at least one characteristic of the at least one previously analyzed data set; in response to detection of a match that meets a similarity threshold between the at least one characteristic described in the current data set model and the at least one characteristic described in the at least one previously generated data set model: retrieve an indication from a correlation database of at least one previously performed action previously performed on the at least one previously analyzed data set, wherein the at least one previously performed action comprises at least one of normalization, a transform or a task performed on the at least one previously analyzed data set; select a computer language based on the node data; generate node instructions, in the selected computer language and based on at least the current data set model, to cause the node device to perform the at least one previously performed action on at least a portion of the current data set; and transmit the node instructions to the node device; and in response to detection of a lack of a match that meets the similarity threshold between the at least one characteristic described in the current data set model and the at least one characteristic described in the at least one previously generated data set model, present a request for input indicative of a current action to perform on the current data set, wherein the current action comprises at least one of normalization, a transform or a task to be performed on the current data set.

9268694

14038225

1. A circuit comprising: a first cache configured to store translations between address domains, the first cache including first and second logical portions, the first logical portion configured to store translations between a first address domain and a second address domain, the second logical portion configured to store translations between the second address domain and a third address domain; a second cache configured to store translations between the first address domain and the third address domain based on entries in the first cache; a third cache configured to store tags associated with the translations of the first and second cache; and a processor configured to 1) write an entry to the third cache, the entry including a subset of fields populated from a corresponding translation stored at the second cache, and 2) detect a deleted entry in at least one of the first logical portion and the second logical portion and invalidate corresponding entries in the second and third caches; wherein the processor is further configured, in response to detecting an absence of a matching entry in the second cache, to match the address request against the first cache, the address result corresponding to an entry in the first cache.

20090055424

11842241

1. A method for eXtensible Markup Language (XML) based object-relationship mapping for different object types in a computer system, comprising: creating a database schema in a database layer comprised of a single table with specific database columns for storing known properties as well as customizable database columns for storing extended properties; creating an object in an object layer that has specific methods for known properties and dynamic methods for extended properties, wherein the object types are variations of the object, the object includes fields for the properties, and the object supports reading and writing the properties to corresponding database columns in the table; creating an XML file containing definitions for new object types and new properties, wherein the property definitions include database column names, and the XML file contains display information for graphical user interface (GUI) management; and outputting display information associated with the object types and the properties to a GUI.

7693552

12314382

1. An apparatus, comprising: a processor configured to control a display device to display thereon one or more ideogrammatic representations of a phonetic input according to a language, and configured to provide further information in the language according to which the ideogrammatic representations are each selectable by a user for incorporation into a text message, wherein the further information comprises information other than an indication of the phonetic input.

20050273614

10863311

1. A method for generating a plurality of signatures over a document, the method comprising: extracting content from the document; normalizing the extracted content; and generating the plurality of signatures using the normalized content.

20100211601

12378327

1. A system for managing and disseminating educational credentials and related data, said system comprising: an applicant web portal; a server; said server configured to receive identifiable information from said applicant; said server in communication with document sources and document recipients; said server receiving documents from said document sources; said server storing said received documents in a centralized database; and said document recipients accessing the said documents from the said server centralized database.

20050177558

10989982

1. A method for searching a database for data satisfying a property specified by a query, the database containing data within an application domain and encoded in a group theory representation, comprising: formulating the query in terms of the group theory representation; executing the query on the data in the database within the application domain and encoded in the group theory representation to identify zero or more database elements and group elements in the group theory representation satisfying the query; and outputting the zero or more database elements and group elements satisfying the query.

20080046456

11507637

1. A method for integrating a secondary object model into a programming environment containing a primary object model comprising: identifying a secondary object model to support in a programming environment; incorporating the secondary object model into the programming environment such that member access to an object may be made according to either the primary or secondary object model; and generating a syntax for member access according to the secondary object model that is distinct from the syntax used for member access according to the primary object model.

7509301

10854169

1. A computer implemented method comprising: providing a data model having a set of entity types and a set of attributes for each entity type for the set of entity types; providing customizing data for the data model, the customizing data indicating data sources for the attributes and describing data structures being provided by the data sources; receiving a query from an application program, the query requesting attribute data for at least a first attribute of the set of attributes of one of the entity types; processing the query by a query processing module that determines whether data sources and data structures are available based on the customizing data in the data model; determining, from the customizing data, if a single data source for the first attribute data of the one of the entity types is available; if a single data source is available, providing a query result from the single data source; if a single data source is not available, determining at least first and second ones of the data sources, which in combination, comprise the first attribute data of the one of the entity types; generating a sub-query for each one of the at least first and second data sources, a first sub-query being generated to obtain a first tabular data from the first data source and a second sub-query being generated to obtain a second tabular data from the second data source; and combining the results of the sub-queries from the at least first and second data sources to provide a query result; wherein the determination of the at least first and second data sources is made by a data source descriptor, the data source descriptor allowing replacement of a data source without making any modifications to the data source descriptor.

8543565

11851817

1. A method comprising: training a lexical association model between a question and a first set of possible answers; training a semantic association model between the question and a second set of possible answers; receiving a user question containing query words; parsing the user question syntactically and semantically, to yield a parsed user question; expanding the query words based on the lexical association model and the semantic association model, to yield expanded query words; weighting the expanded query words according to importance when answering the user question, to yield a weighted expanded query words; and returning an answer based on a score calculated based on the following equation: score ⁡ ( q , a ) = ∑ w ∈ q , a ⁢ docf ⁡ ( w , q , a ) * qf ⁡ ( w ) + ∑ ne ∈ NE ⁡ ( qp ) , qp ∈ q ⁢ docf ⁡ ( ne , q , a ) * λ sem ⁡ ( qp , ne ) + ∑ v ∈ Exp ⁡ ( w ) , w ∈ q , v ∈ a ⁢ docf ⁡ ( v , q , a ) * λ lex ⁡ ( w , v ) wherein docf represents a normalized frequency distribution function, w represents individual query words, q represents individual questions, a represents individual answers, NE represents a set of named entity tags, ne represents individual named entity tags, qp represents a question phrase, v represents an answer word, w represents a query word, λsem represents a semantic association parameter, λlex represents a lexical association parameter, and qf represents the weighted expanded query words.

20100119137

12604495

1. A method for detecting a plurality of anatomical landmarks in an image comprising: detecting a first landmark of the plurality of anatomical landmarks in the image using marginal space learning (MSL); estimating locations of remaining landmarks of the plurality of anatomical landmarks in the image based on the detected first landmark using a learned geometric model relating the plurality of anatomical landmarks; and detecting each of said remaining landmarks using MSL in a portion of the image constrained based on the estimated location of each of said remaining landmarks.

20060184925

11281240

1. A system comprising: a back-end computing system comprising a library that contains objects for use with a computer programming language; and a front-end computing system that executes a development environment, the development environment comprising a plug-in that supports the computer programming language, the plug-in enabling access to the library.

8903802

12398959

1. A method for managing a new continuous query that includes folding a new continuous query into a shared continuous query plan (SCP) associated with a global range table, the method comprising: receiving via a computer readable storage medium a new continuous query; compiling the new continuous query to generate an iterator model plan (IMP) and an associated local range table that includes a list of range variables, each of which uniquely identifies an object in the new continuous query, and wherein the IMP corresponds to an execution plan generated for the new continuous query and comprises one or more IMP operators, each of which includes one or more expressions whose variables are associated with the local range table; analyzing the one or more IMP operators of the IMP and one or more SCP operators of the SCP to produce one or more variable transforms and one or more plan items; wherein the one or more variable transforms modify the one or more expressions of the one or more IMP operators by associating the one or more IMP operators with variables of a global range table; wherein the one or more plan items comprise one or more groups of the one or more IMP operators; applying the variable transforms to modify the variables of the one or more iterator model plan IMP operators; generating a continuous query operator based on each plan item included in the one or more plan items; and providing the generated continuous query operator to a shared continuous query plan.

7565304

10176505

1. A method, comprising operating a computer processor to perform operations comprising: accessing process execution data derived from audit logs generated during execution of instances of an automated business process comprising business process entities and defined by a directed graph of interconnected nodes representing respective activities, wherein the business process entities comprise services and resources, and each of the activities is defined by a respective service and is performed by a respective set of one or more resources; classifying the instances of the business process in accordance with a quality taxonomy defined by a set of quality categories each of which is associated with a respective condition on the process execution data and a respective quality score value, wherein the classifying comprises assigning the business process instances to respective ones of the quality categories based on application of the respective conditions to the accessed process execution data; building a predictive model comprising a respective set of predictive rules for each of multiple logical partitions of the directed graph defining the business process based upon the assignment of the business process instances to respective ones of the categories, wherein each of the predictive rules assigns a respective probability to each of the quality categories of the quality taxonomy for each of the business process entities that are invocable at the respective logical partitions of the directed graph, and each of the probabilities represents a likelihood that a given business process instance that invokes the respective business process entity at the respective logical partition of the directed graph will have an outcome corresponding to the respective quality category; and executing an active instance of the business process based on the predictive model.

8438011

12957305

1. A computer-implemented process for creating a personal name directory which can be queried to suggest spelling corrections for personal names, comprising: using a computer comprising a processing unit and a memory to perform the following process actions: computing a hash function that maps any personal name in a particular language and misspellings thereof to similar binary codewords; and for each personal name in a directory of personal names in said particular language, using said hash function to produce one or more binary codewords and associating the said codeword or codewords with the personal name.

9646512

14522940

1. A computer-implemented method for automated teaching of languages, comprising: receiving, by a hardware processor, a text content in a natural language; parsing, by the hardware processor, the received text content into one or more sentences, wherein the parsing includes: partitioning the received text content into one or more tokens; partitioning the one or more tokens into the one or more sentences; and determining a lemma to correspond to each token of each sentence; determining, by the hardware processor, a syntactic model of each sentence and saving a link associating information of each sentence with a corresponding syntactic model; determining, by the hardware processor, a frequency of occurrence for each syntactic model based on a number of sentences associated with each syntactic model in the text content; sorting, by the hardware processor, the one or more syntactic models based on each respective frequency; and generating, by the hardware processor, one or more language teaching exercises, wherein an exercise includes one or more sentences selected based on the frequency of associated syntactic model.

8650317

13230239

1. A system, comprising: an intellectual property (IP) marketplace processor, a tangible, non-transitory memory configured to communicate with the processor, the tangible, non-transitory memory having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising: determining, by the processor, a channel rating for a first channel, wherein the first channel is one of a plurality of channels comprising at least one of an IP asset distribution channel, a product distribution channel, an IP asset marketing channel, a service provider tool and an IP analysis tool; determining, by the processor and based on input from a user, a channel rating threshold; determining, by the processor, that the channel rating for the first channel is greater than the channel rating threshold; including, by the processor and based on the first channel rating and the channel rating threshold, the first channel in a channel guide interface; analyzing, by the processor, the channel to determine a first channel relevancy; and providing, by the processor, the channel guide interface to the user, wherein the channel guide interface presents the first channel based on the first channel rating and the first channel relevancy.

20070288231

11449354

1. A method for content sensing a user's communication, the method comprising: generating at least one hypothesis for a first component of the user's communication; generating a first certainty value for a first content word of at least one hypothesis for the first component of the user's communication; generating a first uncertainty value for the first content word; generating at least one hypothesis for a second component of the user's communication; generating a second certainty value for the first content word wherein the first content word is also a content word of at least one hypothesis for the second component of the user's communication; generating a second uncertainty value for the first content word based on the first uncertainty value for the first content word and the second certainty value for the first content word; comparing the second uncertainty value for the first content word to an established confidence threshold; and using the first content word to provide user information if the second uncertainty value of the first content word has a defined relationship to the established confidence threshold.

20110307356

12938592

1. A method comprising: receiving item information that describes an item for sale on a network-based marketplace; analyzing the item information to generate application information that identifies a plurality of applications that include a first application that includes the item as a first component of the first application; storing a listing in a database, the listing including the application information and the item information, the storing being performed through the use of at least one processor; and publishing the listing on the network-based marketplace to sell the item via the network-based marketplace.

20030121008

09944131

1. A system for producing a distributed document having an ordered compilation of information, the system comprising multiple fragment editor executables that function cooperatively as one implemented document type declaration (DTD) wherein said multiple fragment editor executables are distributed among multiple sites of a computer network and operate in a peer-to-peer environment without need for a central server, the system allowing multiple authors to edit the distributed document contemporaneously while allowing each of the multiple authors to view edits made by others of the multiple authors.

9208441

14147008

1. An information processing apparatus comprising: an evaluation information extracting section configured to extract evaluation information including an object targeted to be evaluated by a first user of interest; and an identification section configured to identify whether said evaluation information is of a first type regarding content or of a second type regarding a second user targeted to be evaluated; and an evaluation prediction section configured to predict the evaluation by said first user of interest regarding said content, based on the evaluation information of said first type by said first user of interest and on the evaluation information by said second user targeted to be evaluated in the evaluation information of said second type by said first user of interest; and a content presentation section configured to present one or more contents based on the predicted evaluation.

8051067

12346118

1. A method for providing a search result, comprising: receiving at a server device of a vendor a request to search a hardware database device of the vendor in which is stored a representation of a product catalog, the request specifying a query term; causing the server device of the vendor to use the received query term to initiate a search of a hardware database device associated with a server device of a third party; using a software algorithm at the server device of the vendor to parse the results obtained by searching the database associated with the server device of the third party to uncover a keyword recognized by a search engine associated with the hardware database device of the vendor; causing the search engine associated with the hardware database device of the vendor to use the uncovered keyword to search for one or more items in the hardware database device of the vendor; and causing the items in the hardware database device of the vendor that were located as a result of using the uncovered keyword as input to the search engine associated with the hardware database device of the vendor to be displayed on a hardware display device as the search result responsive to the query term.

7941784

11078331

1. A computing device for generating a deployable form of a client application configured to communicate over a network between an electronic device and a data source having a schema-based interface, the computing device comprising memory for storing instructions and a processor for executing the instructions such that when the instructions are executed the computing device provides: a data model for providing a persistent state of the client application, the client application including application components comprising one or more of at least one of a data component, a message component or a screen component having corresponding component definitions and a workflow component having a series of instructions; a code module for obtaining the application components from the data model and for generating a first application element including code representing the component definitions, expressed in a structured definition language, and the series of instructions; a mappings module for obtaining data source mapping information from the data model and for generating a second application element including mapping file descriptors corresponding to the data source mapping information, the mapping file descriptors for use by a server to mediate communication of the messages between the electronic device and the data source; and a resource module for collecting application resources of the client application and for generating a third application element including the application resources; wherein the first, second and third application elements are subsequently packaged as the deployable form of the client application.

20180190286

15858874

1. (canceled)

20160224619

14611026

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: executing with a search system on one or more computing devices, the executing comprising: causing display of a search interface in a table format that includes: one or more columns, each column comprising data items of an event attribute, the data items being of a set of events; and a plurality of rows forming cells with the one or more columns, each cell displaying a textual representation of at least one of the data items of the event attribute of a corresponding column, the textual representation being selectable by a user; based on the user selecting a portion of the textual representation in a corresponding cell: causing display of a list of options corresponding to the selected portion of the textual representation in the corresponding cell; and causing one or more commands to be added to a search query that corresponds to the set of events, the one or more commands being based on at least an option that is selected from the list of options and the selected portion of the textual representation in the corresponding cell.

20030046087

10216390

1. A method for representing gestures made by a user, comprising: recognizing a gesture; converting the recognized gesture into at least one recognition result, each recognition result comprising a sequence of symbols, wherein each symbol identifies an attribute of the recognized gesture; and outputting the recognition result.

7593927

11373319

1. A data mining tool that facilitates directly and internally processing unstructured data, comprising: a processor coupled to memory that retains: a receiving component that receives a command in a declarative language during data mining that identifies a portion of unstructured data stored in a database residing within the data mining tool, the portion of unstructured data is a portion of data without a specific definition in regards to a type related thereto; an unstructured data processing component that analyzes the portion of unstructured data to identify at least one of a key term, a key phrase, or a key portion of descriptive data, the unstructured data processing component converts the portion of unstructured data to a format that is compatible with a data mining algorithm based at least in part upon the analysis of the portion of unstructured data; the unstructured data processing component analyzes and converts the portion of unstructured data during data mining; and the data mining algorithm operates on the converted portion of the unstructured data to enable direct and internal data mining within the unstructured data processing component on at least one of the portion of unstructured data, a portion of structured data, or a combination of the portion of unstructured data and a portion of structured data.

8237954

11302539

1. A print system comprising: a print instruction unit that outputs an electronic document for printing and a tentative ID associated with the electronic document to a print apparatus, the print apparatus includes: an identification unit that generates a formal ID uniquely specifying the electronic document or a print medium of the electronic document when printed; a code unit that generates code information which contains the formal ID; a print unit that prints the electronic document together with the code information onto the print medium, wherein the formal ID is generated at a time when the print unit prints the electronic document and includes information indicating a printout time at which the print unit prints the electronic document and the code information onto the print medium; and an output unit that outputs the formal ID and the tentative ID associated with the formal ID to a document management unit, where the document management unit discards information of the tentative ID after the document management unit determines, based on the tentative ID, a correspondence between the formal ID and the electronic document.

8180778

12701444

1. A method executed by a computer, the method comprising: receiving a content access history of a user, the content access history including one or more user actions, each user action being associated with a content item upon which the user action is performed; identifying one or more action trails from the content access history, each action trail including a sequence of user actions corresponding to content items relating to a topic, wherein identifying a particular action trail includes: clustering the user actions into a series of segments using one or more temporal criteria; splitting a segment of the series of segments into multiple segments when a topical coherence value of the segment satisfies a threshold coherence value, wherein the topical coherence value of the segment measures a similarity between content items corresponding to user actions in the segment; calculating semantic similarities between the content items, wherein the semantic similarities change as a function of the series of segments; and adding one or more segments of the series of segments to the action trail, when the semantic similarities between content items corresponding to the user actions in the one or more segments and content items corresponding to the user actions in another segment satisfy a similarity threshold; and providing the action trails for display on a display device.

8645248

13282822

1. An integrated customer communications computer system, comprising: at least one computer database; and a communications computer system, in communication with said at least one database and at least one component of an account opening system, and configured to provide outbound customer communications, wherein the communications computer system generates documents associated with the communications in a predefined format, in real-time or in batch, by merging templates comprising static data received from a template repository, dynamic data received from said at least one component of the account opening system, and static content for the templates received from a content repository, and wherein the communications computer system includes: a communication manager, comprising: a communication controller receiving, recording, sending, and processing at least one of communication requests and history requests from the at least one component of the account opening system, and transmitting communications responsive thereto; a document manager managing documents associated with the communications; and a communication history component maintaining a record of the communications transmitted, including at least one of date, time, channel, and content, and saving the record to a communication history database; a plurality of transmission channels for transmitting the communications; an interface for managing the templates and the content; and a document repository storing, retrieving, and managing storage of the documents wherein the interface for managing the templates is configured to provide a user functionality to create, preview, edit, maintain and delete communication templates for different channels, define what data items are included in the communication, insert dynamic variables that vary by at least one of channel and communication type, define a source of the dynamic data for the communication, and make deployments to various environments for validation.

9063744

11426396

1. A method for modifying a file written in a formal language, comprising: parsing, based on code of a parser, an input file written in a formal language to generate by the parser a data structure of the input file, the parser implemented using a formal language specification for the formal language of the input file; issuing, at an intermediate point in generation of the data structure of the input file by the parser and according to one or more query triggers in the code of the parser, one or more queries to a rule engine for evaluation of a first plurality of rules for modifying the input file, wherein the one or more queries include a subset of terminal symbols used to make up the data structure, wherein modifying the input file comprises altering the functionality of the input file by altering computer code of the input file according to the first plurality of rules; the first plurality of rules comprising at least one rule distinct from the formal language specification used to implement the parser, the rule engine configured to analyze the one or more queries, determine whether the one or more queries trigger any of the first plurality of rules for modifying the input file, and communicate a query result to the parser, the query result instructing the parser to take an action in accordance with any of the triggered first plurality of rules as determined by the rule engine; generating, by the parser at the intermediate point, the data structure by executing the action indicated by the query result; and reusing the parser with a second plurality of rules distinct from the first plurality of rules.

7734621

11134048

1. A method comprising: receiving one or more input search terms; in response to the receiving the one or more input search terms: retrieving a plurality of coupons from a database based on a search conducted based on the received one or more input search terms, wherein the database maps at least one search term to at least one coupon; filtering the retrieved plurality of coupons to select which coupons in the plurality of coupons to return as one or more search results for the one or more input search terms, wherein the filtering is based at least partially upon a first criterion, wherein the first criterion is one of: a number of times a given coupon in the plurality of coupons has been previously both returned as a search result and printed in response to the same one or more input search terms, or a number of times a given coupon in the plurality of coupons has been previously both returned as a search result and redeemed in response to the same one or more input search terms; wherein the filtering produces a filtered set of coupons comprising coupons selected as a result of the filtering, assigning a priority to each coupon in the filtered set of one or more coupons, based at least partially upon one or more of: a number of times a particular coupon of the filtered set of one or more coupons has been previously printed in response to the same one or more input search terms, or a number of times a particular coupon of the filtered set of one or more coupons has been previously redeemed in response to the same one or more input search terms; and returning, as the one or more search results for the one or more input search terms, only the filtered set of one or more coupons; wherein the filtered set of one or more coupons is returned in a list organized by the assigned priorities of the filtered set of one or more coupons; wherein the filtered set of one or more coupons that is returned as the one or more search results is smaller than the plurality of coupons retrieved from the database based on the one or more input search terms; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.

9679005

14955212

1. A client computer for updating a database stored on a server, the server being coupled to the client computer via the network, wherein the database comprises first data items and suffix items, wherein each suffix item describes a suffix of at least one first data item of the first data items, wherein for each suffix item a first referential connection exists in the database assigning said suffix item to the at least one first data item comprising the suffix of said suffix item, wherein each suffix item is encrypted with a suffix cryptographic key in the database, wherein each first data item is encrypted with a first cryptographic key in the database, wherein the client computer has installed thereon an application program, the application program being operational to perform the steps of a) receiving an update first data item, the update first data item comprising a set of successional symbols, b) creating an update suffix item by removing a number of the successional symbols from the left side of the update first data item, the update suffix item being the residual part of the update first data item without the removed symbols, c) encrypting the update suffix item with the suffix cryptographic key for obtaining an encrypted update suffix item and encrypting the update first data item with a first cryptographic key for obtaining an encrypted update first data item, d) providing a storage request to the database, the storage request comprising instructions to store in the database the encrypted update suffix item, the encrypted update first data item and a first referential connection assigning said encrypted update suffix item to the encrypted update first data item, e) repeating steps b)-d) with different numbers of the successional removed symbols, the numbers being in between a minimum and a maximum, wherein the maximum is given by the total number of symbols of the update first data item minus a predefined minimal word length.

20110153646

12646846

1. A system for triaging information feeds, comprising: a feed module to receive a plurality of information feeds; a topic identification module to identify at least one topic from each information feed; a presentation module to present the at least one topic to a user in topic facet comprising a plurality of identified topics; a topic selection module to receive a selection of one of the plurality of topics from the user; and an update module to update the user interface to display only the feeds that contain the selected topic.

20050075881

10677174

1. A media capture device, comprising: a media capture mechanism; an audio input receptive of user speech relating to a media capture activity in close temporal relation to the media capture activity; a plurality of focused speech recognition lexica respectively relating to media capture activities; a speech recognizer adapted to recognize the user speech based on a selected one of the focused speech recognition lexica; a media tagger adapted to tag captured media with text generated by said speech recognizer based on close temporal relation between receipt of recognized user speech and capture of the captured media; and a media annotator adapted to annotate the captured media with a sample of the user speech that is suitable for input to a speech recognizer based on close temporal relation between receipt of the user speech and capture of the captured media.

9405779

13657045

1. A system, comprising: a memory operable to store a search index associated with an ontology, wherein the ontology comprises at least one instance and the instance has a name; and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and operable to: query the search index and the ontology in parallel, wherein the search index is generated based at least in part upon an unstructured data element by streaming and normalizing received data terms from a data source and the ontology is generated based at least in part upon an structured data element at least one data mitigation and classification rule; receive a first search request relating to information stored in an ontology; parse the first search request to determine if the first search request is an instance based search that comprises all or part of a name of at least a first instance in the ontology; perform a first query of the search index in response to determining that the first search request is an instance based search; receive a second search request relating to information stored in the ontology; parse the second search request to determine if the second search request is an instance based search that comprises all or part of a name of at least a second instance in the ontology; and perform a second query of at least the ontology in response to determining that the second search request is not an instance based search receive a third search request relating to information not stored in the ontology; parse the third search request to determine that the third search request is an instance based search that comprises all or part of a name of at least one instance in the ontology; perform a third query of the search index and retrieve metadata associated with the third instance from the search index, wherein the metadata comprises information about a data source associated with the third instance; and retrieve information from the data source that are not stored in the ontology.

7895611

11756278

1. A method of constructing one or more message parsing rules in accordance with a user and a machine, comprising the steps of: obtaining message data representing past messages, wherein the past messages contain management information for at least one of a network, an application, and a system being analyzed; and the machine generating one or more message parsing rules by a process based on the obtained message data, and at least one of one or more existing rule templates and demonstrative classification of at least a portion of a message, wherein the one or more parsing rules are storable for use by a rule-based parsing system to translate at least a portion of the obtained message data into a common format; the method further comprising the step of establishing a message structure prior to the generating step; wherein the demonstrative classification comprises the user marking the at least a portion of the message as one of a positive example and a negative example; wherein when one or more existing rule templates are available, the step of establishing a message structure comprises the steps of: creating a message skeleton; matching the one or more rule templates against the message skeleton; and providing potential matches to the user for validation and choice of a proper message structure; wherein when the message structure is found to be insufficient, templates are built by an iterative process between the user and the machine; and wherein the message skeleton comprises information relating to one or more of a message start, a message end, and a separator between fields.

7716199

11202383

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving multiple context files from one or more third-party content providers, wherein each context file contains one or more commands for controlling an operation of the search engine in processing a search query input and in presenting search results, each context file is one of a plurality of predefined context files; receiving in a search engine the search query input, the search query input received from an interface provided by one of the third party content providers; aggregating the commands in the multiple context files into a set of aggregated commands; using the aggregated commands to control an organization and a presentation of the search results resulting from the processing of the search query input, including: processing the search query input using the aggregated commands to produce a context processed search query; generating context processed search results responsive to the context processed search query; storing the context processed search results on a memory; and providing the context processed search results in accordance with the aggregated commands.

20140236596

13773348

1. A method for use with a voicemail transcription system that processes a voicemail message and generates a textual representation of at least a portion of the voicemail message, the method comprising: determining at least one emotion expressed in the voicemail message, wherein the determining comprises applying at least one emotion classifier to the voicemail message; and providing an indication of the determined at least one emotion in a manner associated with the textual representation of the at least a portion of the voicemail message.

20090089060

12327784

1. A computer-implemented method for classifying an end-of-line hyphen as either a soft-hyphen that has been inserted into the word for typesetting purposes or a hard-hyphen that belongs in the word, comprising: performing in a computer programmed to perform particular functions pursuant to instructions from program software operations comprising: searching a document for a word that contains an end-of-line hyphen; creating a solution set for the word containing the end-of-line hyphen, wherein each solution in the solution set is obtained by identifying the end-of-line hyphen as either a soft-hyphen that has been inserted into the word for typesetting purposes or a hard-hyphen that belongs in the word, wherein the solution set is stored in memory of a computer system; searching a dictionary for each solution in the solution set; and using the results from the dictionary search to identify the end-of-line hyphen as either a soft-hyphen or a hard-hyphen.

20140188856

13733858

1. A method for translation of a medical database query from a first language into a second language, the method executed by one or more computer processors programmed to perform the method, the method comprising: receiving, at a processor from a user via a network, a query for a medical database, wherein the query is in the first language; transmitting, by a processor, the received query to a plurality of translation engines; receiving, at a processor, a plurality of translations for the query from the first language into the second language, wherein a respective translation is received from each translation engine in the plurality of translation engines; determining, by the processor, a respective ranking score for each received translation of the plurality of received translations; selecting, by the processor and based on the determined ranking scores, a translation from the plurality of translations; and performing one or both of: (i) transmitting, by a processor and via the network, the selected translation to the user, and (ii) utilizing, by a processor, the selected translation to search the medical database to obtain search results for the query, and transmitting, by a processor and via the network, the obtained search results to the user.

8886645

12251876

1. A method, comprising: receiving a search request from a source; associating the search request with a value of a characteristic of a human assistant obtained from profiles of human assistants comprising at least one of demographic, geographic, personality and interest area information; selecting a human searcher based on a ranking of the human searcher for the characteristic; the human searcher performing a search based on a query; recording a result of the search in a database in association with the query; providing the result responsive to the search request when the search request is submitted subsequent to the human searcher performing the search; ranking the result based on a match of the query to the search request; providing the result based on the ranking and a rating of the human searcher for the value and the characteristic; assigning to an item a profile of a human guide when the human guide takes an action indicating the item; rating, by a processor, the item based on the search request and the query; ranking the item based on a match of the profile assigned to the item to the value and the characteristic associated with the search request; and selecting the item responsive to the search request based on the rating of the item and the ranking of the item.