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7617103

11509980

1. A method of training an acoustic model in a speech recognition system, comprising: accessing a training corpus; using the training corpus to calculate model parameter values for an initial form of an acoustic model; a processor iteratively updating model parameter values for the acoustic model, each iteration comprising: calculating a plurality of scores for each token with regard to a correct class and a plurality of competing classes from a set of model parameter values determined for the acoustic model before the iteration; determining a value for a loss function based on the calculated scores and a margin wherein the loss function is computed as: l r ⁡ ( d r ⁡ ( X r , Λ ) ) = 1 1 + ⅇ - ad ⁡ ( X r , Λ ) + β ⁡ ( I ) ; where l r (d r (X r ,Λ)) is the value for the loss function, d r (X r , Λ) is a misclassification measure for a token X r determined from the plurality of scores for the token X r , Λ represents the set of model parameter values for the acoustic model, α is a constant, β(I) is the margin, and I is an iteration argument, wherein for at least two different iterations that form part of iteratively updating model parameter values for a same acoustic model, the value of β(I) is different; updating the set of model parameter values to create a revised set of model parameter values based upon the value of the loss function; and outputting the a final revised set of model parameter values for the acoustic model.

20040135774

10331408

1. A keypad system comprising: a capacitive touchpad for detecting movement within a region; a driver device electrically coupled to the capacitive touchpad, wherein the driver device is for generating a touchpad data signal corresponding to the movement detected by the capacitive touchpad; and a controller electrically coupled to the driver device for receiving the touchpad data signal generated by the driver device and for resolving the touchpad data signal as one of a plurality of character values corresponding to the region.

8255383

11777505

1. A method, comprising: ranking a plurality of categories of a keyword detected in a query submitted by a user; ranking a category based on a frequency of selection by human search assistants; choosing a human search assistant based on association of the human search assistant with the category and the keyword; providing content identifying the query, the keyword and the category to the human search assistant when determining that the category is ranked highest; and qualifying the query based on the category and an action received when the human search assistant is performing a search for a response to the query.

9544254

14597450

1. A system, comprising: a one or more computing servers; a one or more network interfaces; non-transitory computer readable memory storing program code that when executed by the one or more computing servers is configured to cause the system to at least: provide a software program for download to a first computing device associated with a user; receive a verified phone address associated with the user, wherein the verification of the phone address comprises verification that a received set of digits is a valid phone address; based at least in part on the receipt of the verified phone address, create a user account wherein the verified phone address is associated with the user account; enable delivery of a voice message directed to the user to the first computing device associated with the user, wherein the delivered voice message is playable to the user via a user interface of the software program; enable the user to play the voice message via a web browser of a second computing device associated with the user; and in response to a voice message deletion instruction received via the web browser of the second computing device associated with the user, enable at least in part, synchronization of the deletion of the voice message stored on the first computing device associated with the user in cooperation with the software program on the first computing device associated with of the user.

20080172222

11652814

1. A very low bit rate communication system comprising at a first location and at a second location: A) a voice-to-text module including a microphone adapted to convert a speaker's voice to text, B) a first processor programmed with: 1) software to separate the text into individual words, 2) a first dictionary which providing a pre-assigned a specific multi-bit numeric value for each of a large number of individual words, 3) software to create a numeric stream from multi-bit numeric values, C) a transmitter adapted to transmit the numeric stream to a receiver; D) a receiver adapted to receive the numeric stream, E) a second processor programmed with: 1) a second dictionary identical or substantially identical to the first dictionary, 2) software to convert the numeric stream to text stream utilizing the second dictionary, and F) a text-to-speech module for converting the text stream to speech including a speaker to broadcast the speech.

20150006149

13930660

1. A method of language enhancement, the method comprising: automatically gathering source text from a plurality of text sources, the plurality of text sources including at least one social media website, and storing the source text to a thesaurus data infrastructure; receiving subject text being exposed to thesaurus processing; identifying a context of the subject text; accessing the thesaurus data infrastructure to identify source text having context similar to the context of the subject text; analyzing, using a processor, the identified source text to identify at least one candidate word or phrase contained in the source text to recommend as a replacement for at least one word or phrase contained in the subject text; and recommending the identified at least one candidate word or phrase as the replacement for the at least one word or phrase contained in the subject text.

8602789

12579154

1. A method for obtaining eye-fixation duration data or eye-fixation duration and location data for assessing a patient's linguistic comprehension using an eyetracking system comprising at least one video camera and at least one computer that is configured to measure and record the patient's eye-fixation data, the method comprising: a. presenting the patient with a verbal stimulus; b. presenting the patient with a visual stimulus comprising a plurality of images wherein one of the images is a target image that corresponds to the verbal stimulus; c. measuring and recording eye-fixation duration data during steps a and b, wherein an eye fixation is a relatively stable position of the eye for a minimum duration of at least about 40 milliseconds with some slight tolerance in the vertical and horizontal dimensions; and d. analyzing the eye-fixation duration data to assess the patient's linguistic comprehension.

9229927

14462282

1. A method of creating a macro for a natural language (NL) query answering system by the one or more computing devices having one or more memories, the method comprising: obtaining, by the one or more computing devices and via at least one of i) a communication network or ii) a user interface device, a first term or phrase in imprecise syntax, wherein the first term or phrase is to serve as a macro for use with the NL query answering system such that, when the first term or phrase is provided as input to the NL query answering system, which is implemented by one or more computing devices, the NL query answering system will interpret the first term or phrase as representing another term or phrase; obtaining, by the one or more computing devices, a second term or phrase in imprecise syntax; generating, by the one or more computing devices, an association between the first term or phrase and the second term or phrase so that the first term or phrase represents the second term or phrase; storing, by the one or more computing devices, the association as a natural language (NL) macro in the one or more memories so that the NL query answering system can recognize, when the NL query answering system subsequently receives the first term or phrase in an NL input, that the first term or phrase represents the second term or phrase; and determining, by the one or more computing devices implementing NL processing techniques, whether a mismatch between a context of the first term or phrase and a context of the second term or phrase exists, including: determining, by the one or more computing devices implementing NL processing techniques, a meaning of the second term or phrase, comparing, by the one or more computing devices, i) the meaning of the second term or phrase with ii) a meaning of the first term or phrase, and determining, by the one or more computing devices, whether a mismatch exists based on the act of comparing.

7739116

11338100

1. An apparatus for recognizing speech in a presentation to generate a subtitle corresponding to the speech, said apparatus comprising: a text extraction unit that receives presentation text and its attributes from a presentation document, and stores said text and attributes in the text attribute database on a page-by-page basis, wherein the attributes comprise a title, character size, character underlining, or boldface character; a morphological analysis unit that morphologically analyzes the presentation text stored in the text attribute database, decomposes said presentation text into words, and stores the words in a word attribute database; a common keyword generation unit that extracts the words and their attributes from the word attribute database, determines whether or not a word has been successfully extracted, initializes attribute weights of the words and extracts the attribute weights from an attribute weight database and sums them if it is determined that the word extraction is successful, extracts keywords that are found in the presentation document and assigns weights to the keywords, then selects as an additional keyword to add to the keyword database any word that has been determined, based on time and attribute weight, to represent a high level of importance among the words contained in the presentation; a dictionary registration unit that adds the keywords registered in a keyword database to a dictionary database that is consulted at time of speech recognition; a voice recognition unit that recognizes the speech in the presentation in consultation with the dictionary database by: acquiring correspondence between a lapse of time from a start of the presentation and a result of voice recognition every moment, stores a correspondence between the time and the result of voice recognition in a subtitle database; a page-time recording unit that detects a page-changing event and stores the events as timestamps in a page-time database; a common keyword regeneration unit that initializes the keyword database, extracts a word, an attribute of the word and information about the page where the word appeared from the word attribute database, and further assigns weight depending on a number of times the keyword appeared as the voice in the presentation; a display control unit that reads a correspondence between the time and the result of speech recognition from the subtitle database, and displays said correspondence on a subtitle candidate display region, causes keywords stored in the keyword database, presentation text stored in the text attribute database, and a master subtitle stored in a master subtitle database to cooperate together for display as a subtitle to the presentation, and accesses the page-time database and specifies the page corresponding to the result of voice recognition on the basis of the time information; a display unit comprising: the subtitle candidate display region, a common keyword list display region, a presentation text display region, and a master subtitle display region; a speaker note generation unit that generates speaker notes from subtitles stored in the subtitle database and embeds them in presentation documents; the text attribute database; the word attribute database that stores the words obtained as a result of the decomposition performed by the morphological analysis unit, and their attributes; the attribute weight database that stores presentation word attributes and their assigned weights; the keyword database that stores the weighted words as keywords; the dictionary database; the subtitle database that stores, together with the time, the result of speech-recognition as the subtitle; the page-time database that records a time that the page is turned and a time when the next page is turned, and calculates the weight of the keywords in the page based on a duration during which the page in question is displayed in the presentation, when it is determined that extraction of the word has been successful; and a master subtitle database that stores master subtitles on a page-by-page basis.

9607279

14686929

1. A method of detecting pre-determined phrases to determine compliance quality, comprising: storing a plurality of pre-determined phrases in association with a precursor event; receiving an audible input, from communication devices of a caller and an agent, in a communication over a communications network; determining, by a processor of a computer facilitating the communication, an occurrence of the precursor event based on the communication; determining, by the processor, whether a pre-determined phrase of the plurality of pre-determined phrases associated with the precursor event is present in the audible input received; and determining, by the processor, a compliance rating of the agent, based on a presence of the pre-determined phrase associated with the precursor event in the communication, for evaluating the agent.

9865268

15068967

1. A method comprising; determining, based at least in part on a first audio signal, a request from a user; causing, based at least in part on the request, output of a first question that is associated with a first predefined response; determining, based at least in part on a second audio signal, that a first utterance of the user corresponds to the first predefined response based at least in part on a contextual representation associated with the first utterance; causing, based at least in part on the first utterance, output of a second question that is associated with a second predefined response; determining, based at least in part on a third audio signal, that a second utterance of the user corresponds to the second predefined response; and causing, based at least in part on the second utterance, audible output of data.

20060230378

11093518

1. A method for constructing syntax-directed search and modifications in program transformation systems, comprising: compiling a language specified by a grammar into an executable, the language including commands for specifying searching, matching, and modifying operations on a source code representation using a syntax structure specification; performing a search based on the syntax structure specification and match criteria by matching every occurrence of a syntax name, when only the syntax name is specified in the syntax structure specification; and optionally providing a reference to a matched structure.

20090177300

12080523

1. A method for producing altered audio output signals, comprising: providing an audio data file having a first frequency content; processing an audio input having a second frequency content; changing the first frequency content of the audio data file to the second frequency content; and playing the altered audio file to produce altered audio output signals.

6141644

09148911

1. A method for assessing speech with respect to a predetermined client speaker, comprising: training a set of speech models upon the speech from a plurality of training speakers, the plurality of training speakers including at least one client speaker; constructing an eigenspace to represent said plurality of training speakers by performing dimensionality reduction upon said set of models to generate a set of basis vectors that define said eigenspace; representing said client speaker as a first location in said eigenspace; processing new speaker input data by training a new speech model upon said input data and by performing dimensionality reduction upon said new speech model to generate a representation of said new speaker as a second location in eigenspace; assessing the proximity between said first and second locations and using said assessment as an indication of whether the new speaker is the client speaker.

8595176

12639182

1. A method for predicting a sequence of cyber events comprising: collecting baseline cyber event patterns and storing the baseline cyber event patterns in a cyber event repository; searching the baseline cyber event patterns for sequential patterns and storing the sequential patterns in a pattern repository; translating the sequential patterns into a probabilistic graphical model; wherein the probabilistic graphical model is a Dynamic Bayesian Network prediction model; and using a temporal reasoning engine to feed the probabilistic graphical model with current cyber event sequences and predict future cyber events and the probability the future events will happen in a next time window.

20060193450

11066743

1. A computer implemented method comprising: accepting a user command to select a desired profile from a group of available profiles, the group including a first profile and a second profile; activating the desired profile; if the desired profile is the first profile, and an incoming communication having a textual component is received while the first profile is active, then: converting the textual component to an audio format; and reciting the textual component; and if the desired profile is the second profile, and an incoming communication having an audio component is received while the second profile is active, then: converting the audio component to a textual format; and displaying the audio component as text.

8108389

11273568

1. A method for identifying knowledge comprising: using an input device coupled to a processor and associated memory for permitting inputting at least one term to be explored for additional knowledge; using the processor and the associated memory coupled to the input device for searching one or more sources of information to identify resources comprising information associated with the at least one term; using the processor and the associated memory for decomposing the resources into a plurality of nodes using natural language parsing to perform word classification based upon parts of speech and so that each node comprises a data structure sufficient to independently convey meaning and including a subject, an attribute, and a word based relational bond therebetween; using the processor and the memory for storing the plurality of nodes in a node pool; and using the processor and the associated memory for constructing and storing correlations of linked together nodes of the node pool representing knowledge associated with the at least one term to be explored by at least iteratively adding nodes from the node pool onto an end of a chain of nodes by searching the node pool for a match between an attribute of a chained node and a subject of another unchained node in the node pool.

8412801

10909109

1. A network AV system comprising a plurality of servers connected with each other and a client connected to one of said plurality of servers, each said server comprising: a content storage device for storing a plurality of contents; a local list storage device storing an internal local list of contents stored thereby and an external local list of contents stored by the other server; a local list updater updating the internal local list in said local list storage device when the plurality of contents are updated in said content storage device and updating the external local list in said local list storage device upon receipt of the updated external local list from the other server; and a global list transmitter transmitting a global list that includes the internal local list and the external local list stored in said local list storage device to said client.

20020156618

09781823

1. In a computer system having access to a text message that contains a plurality of semantic components that may include, for example, one or more headers or a message body, a method for compressing the text message on a per semantic component basis to form a compressed message while maintaining a degree of human readability, the method comprising the following: an act of accessing the text message; an act of parsing the text message into the plurality of semantic components; and for at least some of the plurality of semantic components, performing the following: an act of identifying a compression method, if any, to be used when compressing the semantic component for inclusion in the compressed message; and an act of including the compressed semantic component in the compressed message.

20070075731

11163015

1. An integrated circuit device, comprising: functional logic; an anti-noise machine; and state monitoring points providing the anti-noise machine with an interface to the functional logic for monitoring states of the functional logic, wherein the anti-noise machine includes: i) indicia defining noise precursor states for the functional logic, and ii) recognition logic coupled to the state monitor points, the anti-noise machine being operable to generate anti-noise responsive to the recognition logic detecting noise precursor states in the functional logic via the state monitor points, wherein the noise precursor states match the indicia.

20130142393

13407570

1. A method for enhancing ability in a transportation-related context, the method comprising: receiving image data, at least some of which represents an image of a first vehicle; determining vehicular threat information based at least in part on the image data; and presenting the vehicular threat information via a wearable device of the user.

9978396

15071772

1. A method for analyzing mobile device usage, the method comprising: creating, by one or more processors, a graph display which is depicting a conversation between at least two parties, wherein the graph display contains: a first set of nodes which represent the at least two or more parties of the conversation, wherein: a node, among the first set of nodes, is associated with a first party of the at least two or more parties of the conversation, and another node, among the first set of nodes, is associated with a second party of the at least two or more parties of the conversation, and a second set of nodes which represent contents of the conversation, wherein: one or more nodes, among the second set of nodes, are associated with a first party of the at least two or more parties of the conversation, and one or more nodes, among the second set of nodes, are associated with a second party of the at least two or more parties of the conversation; receiving, by one or more processors, voice data from the first party and the second party of the at least two parties and encoding the voice data into the second set of nodes of the graph display associated with the first party and the second party, wherein the first party and the second party are represented by the first set of nodes; sending, by the first party the one or more nodes, among the second set of nodes, associated with the first party, to the second party over a virtualized boundary in the graph display, wherein the virtualized boundary separates the first party from the second party; receiving, by the second party, content associated with the sent one or more nodes, among the second set of nodes, over the virtual boundary in the graph display; determining, by one or more processors, whether a plurality of event types have occurred during the conversation by performing analytics on the encoded voice data in the second set of nodes, and wherein the plurality of event types consist of: a first type of event, wherein the first type of event are one or more instances of negative emotional sentiments expressed between the first party and the second party, a second type of event, wherein the second type of event are one or more search queries, wherein the one or more search queries are received by the second party from the first party or the first party from the second party, and a third type of event, wherein the third type of event are one or more divergences from a first topic in the conversation to a second topic in the conversation; in response to determining that the plurality of event types has occurred, generating, by one or more processors, a third set of nodes associated with the plurality of event types, wherein the third set of nodes are transposable across the virtualized boundary; incorporating, by one or more processors, the third set of nodes into the graph display, wherein the third set of nodes consist of: generated text which reduces negative emotional sentiments expressed between the first party and second party responsive to determining the first type of event has occurred, generated text which answers the one or more search queries responsive to determining the second type of event has occurred, and generated text which brings back the conversation back to the first topic from the second topic responsive to determining the third type of event has occurred; and generating, by one or more processors, an automated response system in a call center based on the third set of nodes, wherein the automated response system addresses the negative emotional sentiments and the divergences in the conversations between the at least two parties.

8798287

12706657

1. A vehicle sound simulation system comprising: a vehicle input interface component for obtaining vehicle operation information generated by a vehicle in operation, the vehicle operation information including a measure of vehicle velocity information and vehicle throttle position information; a processing component, executed on a processing component, the processing component for: determining whether a vehicle velocity state corresponds to a stationary state based on a determination whether the vehicle operation information exceeds a velocity threshold; if so, selecting sound signals based on the vehicle throttle position information; determining whether a vehicle velocity state corresponds to a non-stationary state; and if so, determining an applicable category of vehicle velocity state, wherein the applicable category of vehicle velocity state corresponds to one or more predefined states; selecting a sound signal based on a category of vehicle velocity state; and an external interface component for causing the generation of selected sound signals.

20120004907

13161937

1. A communication device for generating enhanced audio signals, the communication device comprising: at least one microphone configured to acquire an audio signal, wherein the audio signal comprises at least one speech signal and at least one noise signal; and a noise processor configured to: detect a pitch estimation of the audio signal; initialize a plurality of processing parameters for the audio signal; and process the audio signal based on the pitch estimation and the processing parameters, wherein the audio signal is processed to reduce the at least one noise signal and generate an enhanced audio signal.

10095685

15104856

1. A phrase pair collecting apparatus for collecting hypotheses of phrase pairs based on one or more seed pairs each consisting of first and second phrases representing a cause and a result, respectively, each of said phrase pairs consisting of two phrases assumed to represent causality, each of said first and second phrases including a combination of a noun and a predicate template; said apparatus comprising: a storage medium configured to: store said one or more seed pairs; store semantic relation patterns each representing a semantic relation pattern between words; store word pairs each related to any of the stored semantic relation patterns; a processor configured to: determine a semantic relation pattern that matches a noun pair consisting of the nouns in said first and second phrases in each stored seed pair, wherein the determined semantic relation pattern is related to at least one of the stored word pairs; and generate a new hypothesis by replacing a noun pair of a given seed pair of the one or more seed pairs with each of the stored word pairs related to the semantic relation pattern determined to be matching said noun pair; wherein the generation of the new hypothesis improves information extraction from electronically available documents.

9621619

13772399

1. A computer-implemented method for providing a notification to a user, the method comprising: determining a topic and context information of content included in an active window of one or more open windows displayed by a computing device based on an analysis of the content included in the active window; selecting a first topic and context information of the content included in the active window from a plurality of possible topics and context information of content included in the active window, based on a probability determined for each of the plurality of possible topics and context information of content included in the active window, wherein the first topic and context information has a highest probability of probabilities for the plurality of possible topics and context information of the content included in the active window; receiving a communication; determining a topic and context information of the communication based on an analysis of content included in the communication that is received; selecting a second topic and context information of the content included in the communication that is received, from a plurality of possible topics and context information of the communication that is received, based on a probability determined for each of the plurality of possible topics and context information of the content included in the communication that is received, wherein the second topic and context information has a highest probability of probabilities for the plurality of possible topics and context information of the content included in the communication that is received; determining the second topic and context information as the topic and context information of the content included in the communication that is received, and the first topic and context information as the topic and context information of the content included in the active window; determining a level of relevance between the topic and the context information of the content included in the communication that is received, and the topic and the context information of the content included in the active window, based on a comparison of the topic and the context information of the content included in the active window and the topic and the context information of the content included in the communication that is received; determining whether the level of relevance exceeds a predefined threshold; and in response to determining that the level of relevance exceeds the predefined threshold, providing a notification to the user, wherein a greater level of relevance of the topic and the context information of the content included in the active window to the topic and the context information of the content included in the communication that is received, results in a greater severity level of the notification.

9183493

13660923

1. Computerized spiking neuron apparatus comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, the storage medium comprising a plurality of executable instructions configured to, adjust an efficacy of an interface of the neuron, the plurality of executable instructions are configured to. when executed, cause the computerized spiking neuron apparatus to: adjust a neuron excitability based on one or more pre-synaptic inputs; store one or more pre-synaptic times associated with the one or more pre-synaptic inputs; and when the neuron excitability is above a threshold: generate a post-synaptic output; determine a similarity measure between a neuron output signal, comprising a response, and the one or more pre-synaptic inputs; determine a long term potentiation (LTP) component of an adaptive plasticity based on the determined similarity measure; and determine a long term depression (LTD) component of the adaptive plasticity based on a parameter associated with the LTP; wherein the post-synaptic output comprises a response generated by the neuron based on the one or more pre-synaptic inputs.

20150215590

14163851

1. A method of image demosaicing comprising: receiving a digital mosaiced image; and calculating a demosaiced image from the received image using a trained machine learning system, the demosaiced image being in a linear light-space of a color image processing pipeline; wherein a linear light-space is a stage of a color image processing pipeline at which a digital image has been linear color-scaled and black-level adjusted but at which a color transform and Gamma correction have not been applied to the digital image.

20160092752

14869698

1. An image recognition apparatus, comprising: a storage unit which stores a plurality of pieces of identical recognition reference data which are used as references for recognizing a specific object from an image; an image recognition unit which recognizes the specific object by alternately making a switch between the plurality of pieces of recognition reference data, on a frame basis, stored in the storage unit, for consecutive frames of the image acquired by an image acquisition unit; and a recognition determining unit which, on condition that recognition results obtained by the image recognition unit by using the plurality of pieces of recognition reference data meet a predetermined matching condition, outputs the recognition results as effective recognition results.

6047256

08077506

1. A reference pattern generating device including: a feature analyzer, responsive to a speech signal representative of an input pattern, for producing a time sequence of feature vectors representative of said input pattern; a table storing a plurality of code vectors of known vocabulary and a plurality of feature codes respectively corresponding to said plurality of code vectors; converting means, connected to said feature analyzer and said table, for converting a plurality of time sequences of feature vectors to a plurality of time sequences of feature codes with reference to said table, said plurality of time sequences of feature vectors being produced in response to a plurality of speech signals; and first forming means for forming, in response to said plurality of time sequences of feature codes, a state transition probability in a state transition network and a probability distribution of occurrence of the feature codes in each state in said state transition network; where the improvement comprises: function generating means, connected to said table and said first forming means, for generating an approximate continuous probability density function, said approximate continuous probability density function approximating said probability distribution of occurrence of the feature codes in each state in said state transition network, said code vectors being used as parameters in said approximate continuous probability density function; and second forming means, connected to said first forming means and said function generating means, for forming as a reference pattern for said plurality of speech signals a combination of said state transition probability distribution and said approximate continuous probability density function.

8756229

12496199

1. An apparatus for information retrieval, comprising: a computer system including a computer processor being programmed to receive a query from a remotely located user system via a network, the query specifying one or more numerical data constraints, and contextual constraints; said computer system including a memory storing a computer-searchable electronic index, the index comprising a plurality of entries, each of the index entries representing an item of numerical data extracted from at least one of a plurality of electronic source documents including one or more natural language documents, wherein the item of numerical data comprises a numerical value, a prefix corresponding to a degree of significant digits, and a unit of measure; said computer system processor being further programmed to determine the relevancy of the query to each of one or more of the index entries based at least partly on a comparison between the numerical data constraint and the index entry's item of numerical data, at least partly on a comparison between the contextual constraint and contextual information extracted from the corresponding source document from which the index entry's item of numerical data was extracted, and at least partly on an evaluation of at least one positional relationship between the index entry's item of numerical data and the contextual information within a given source document, and generate a response to the query based on the relevancy.

4877404

07140404

1. An interactive computer software system permitting a user to take a pre-selected computer course or access a pictorial data base, comprising: (a) a host computer sub-system including CPU means for executing computer programs, means for entering the data into the system, and display means for displaying the input data; (b) means for loading said pre-selected computer course in said host computer sub-system; (c) a graphics computer sub-system operatively connected to said host computer sub-system, said graphics computer sub-system executing said course upon interrogation by said host computer sub-system wherein said course includes a series of interrelated pictures displayed by said graphics computer sub-system, said series of pictures defining a course responsive to input data from the user and interactively dialoguing with the user as the user progresses through said pre-selected course or data base; and (d) wherein said pre-selected computer course comprises a distributed program embedded in said series of interrelated pictures.

20050075878

10676524

1. In a natural language, mixed-initiative system, a method of processing user dialogue comprising the steps of: receiving a user input; determining whether the user input specifies an action to be performed or a token of an action; and selectively routing the user input to an action interpreter or a token interpreter according to said determining step.

8953772

13411947

1. A method for assisting a person with an interactive voice response (IVR) session, the method comprising: a contact center server receiving a voice call from a person; the contact center server queuing the voice call in a contact center queue; an IVR unit presenting the person with an IVR script in an IVR session; determining that the person is having difficulty with the IVR script; and if the person is having difficulty with the IVR script, an agent IVR conference system conferencing the person with a human agent and the IVR unit, wherein the human agent directs the person in interacting with the IVR script during the conference between the person, the human agent, and the IVR unit.

8819659

13074103

1. A mobile communication facility having a computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions, which, when executed by one or more processors of the mobile communication facility, causes the one or more processors to activate a mobile search service on the mobile communication facility by performing the step of: providing a user interface associated with a display of the mobile communication facility that simultaneously presents and activates a search box concurrently with activating the mobile communication facility by a user thereof, wherein activation of the search box does not require any button selection beyond that associated with activating the mobile communication facility, wherein the mobile communication facility is a cellular phone.

9357098

13330492

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving an image of at least a portion of a document from a user of a capture device; transmitting for display on the capture device a representation of the document received as a result of a match between the received image and a stored document data structure, the stored document data structure comprising: the representation of the document, at least one media, and at least one hotspot that links the at least one media to a location in the representation of the document, wherein the at least one hotspot is a selectable portion of the representation of the document, the selectable portion associated with a predetermined location in the document and visually indicated by a bounding region in the representation of the document; receiving via the capture device a selection from the user of a hotspot displayed on the representation of the document; receiving via the capture device a payment authorization from the user for retrieving a list of categories for the at least one media associated with the selected hotspot displayed on the representation of the document; responsive to receiving the payment authorization from the user, transmitting for display on the capture device the list of categories for the at least one media associated with the selected hotspot displayed on the representation of the document; receiving via the capture device a selection from the user of a category from the list of categories for the at least one media associated with the selected hotspot displayed on the representation of the document; retrieving, with one or more processors, the at least one media matching the selected category from the list of categories; and transmitting for presentation on the capture device the at least one media matching the selected category from the list of categories.

20130024440

13189048

1. A method of displaying search results on a computing device, the method comprising: receiving search results in response to a search query; displaying on the computing device a list of search results in a search engine interface; and displaying a plurality of semantic facets in the search engine interface, each of the facets comprising faceted search results, each of the faceted search results being displayed in association with user interface elements for including or excluding the faceted search result as additional search terms to subsequently refine the search query.

20090097677

11870808

1. A method comprising: determining characteristics of noise for a listener end device engaged in a conversation with a speaker end device; determining characteristics of a voice signature associated with the speaker end device; analyzing the characteristics of the noise and the characteristics of the voice signature; and performing an action to enhance comprehension of voice signals received from the speaker end device based on the analysis of the characteristics of the noise and the characteristics of the voice signature associated with the speaker end device.

8805711

12644875

1. A reservation management information processing system, comprising: at least one processing node comprising a memory and a processor, wherein the at least one processing node further comprises a set of reservation processing and transaction modules that manage and process reservation requests and inquiries; at least one general purpose database communicatively coupled to the at least one processing node, wherein the at least one general purpose database comprises a set of pre-allocated tables of fixed length records, wherein the set of pre-allocated tables are pre-populated with fixed length records prior to being populated with data, wherein the fixed length records are independently accessible by the set of reservation processing and transaction modules and are independently lockable by the general purpose database, wherein the general purpose database is configured to store reservation related information within one or more of the fixed length records based on receiving a record update operation from the set of reservation processing and transaction modules, and wherein the set of reservation processing and transaction modules are configured to track which of the fixed length records are being utilized to store reservation related information; and at least one persistent storage device communicatively coupled to the at least one processing node, wherein the general purpose database persistently stores the set of pre-allocated tables of fixed length records on the at least one persistent storage device, wherein the at least one processing node is configured to perform a method comprising determining that at least one user is interacting with at least one reservation inventory resource stored in a first fixed length record of at least a first of the set of pre-allocated tables; identifying at least a second fixed length record in at least a second of the set of pre-allocated tables that is available for use, wherein the second fixed length record is absent reservation related information; and temporarily moving, via an update record transaction, the at least one reservation inventory resource from the first fixed length record to the second fixed length record for a given amount of time, wherein at least one of a set of reservation processing and transaction modules prevents the second fixed length record from being associated with another user.

20120005134

13227355

1. A processing node in a computing device, comprising: a spatial pooler configured to: detect spatial patterns in an input signal, the spatial patterns in the input signal changing over time; and generate a series of spatial pooler outputs in sparse distributed representation, each spatial pooler output indicating the detected spatial patterns at a time; and a temporal pooler configured to: associate temporal sequences of the detected spatial patterns by storing temporal relationships between the series of spatial pooler outputs; and generate a temporal pooler output based on the stored temporal relationships between the series of spatial pooler outputs.

20120212337

13030959

1. A method comprising: receiving an original text that is a representation of a narration of a patient encounter provided by a clinician; re-formatting the original text, using at least one processor, to produce a formatted text; extracting one or more clinical facts from the formatted text, wherein a first fact of the one or more clinical facts is extracted from a first portion of the formatted text, wherein the first portion of the formatted text is a formatted version of a first portion of the original text; and maintaining a linkage between the first fact and the first portion of the original text.