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US7822822B2 | Instant messaging system configured to facilitate event plan management | An instant messaging service is operated in cooperation with an event plan manager system. Information is received regarding a planned event from an instant messaging client with which an event organizer is associated and, based thereon, information is provided indicative of the planned event to the event plan manager ... | 1. A computer-implemented method of operating an instant messaging service in cooperation with an online event plan manager system, wherein the online event plan manager system is configured to employ an email message format to send invitations to users of the online event plan manager system, the method comprising: re... | BACKGROUND Online event plan managers, such as provided by Evite.com, are becoming more commonly used. Typically, an event organizer provides details of a planned event to the online event plan manager, including time and place of the event, as well as e-mail addresses for the invitees. The online event manager causes ... | [
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"title": "Instant messaging system that creates, sends and tracks event invitations on behalf of an online event planner",
"problem": "Traditional online event planners (e.g., Evite-style services) rely on email invitations and web-based RSVP pages. Email is slow, easy to miss, and often ignored; invitees must le... |
US9836114B1 | Event-based trigger for managing battery consumption | Systems and methods are provided for optimizing battery life in an electronic device. The device is configured to make periodic assessments of battery capacity by measuring the DC resistance value of the battery cell during the execution of a power-consuming operation. If the measured DC resistance value reaches a thre... | What is claimed is: 1. A method of operating an electronic book (e-book) reader device having a display, a processing component, and a battery cell having a capacity of less than about 400 mAh, the method comprising: displaying a first page of an e-book on the display at a first brightness level; receiving a page-turn ... | BACKGROUND Portable electronic devices, such as electronic book (âe-bookâ) readers, smartphones, or tablet computers, have become increasingly popular. One constraint on usability for portable electronic devices is their limited battery life, due to smaller battery sizes, which requires users recharge the device af... | [
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"title": "Battery-aware, event-triggered power saving for small portable devices",
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US9710851B2 | System and method for generating graphical user interface | An automated method for generating Graphical User Interfaces (GUI's) is illustrated in the context of a system for processing financial applications. In one embodiment, the GUI generator converts domain data representing over one thousand application types into an equal number of corresponding user screens. The interfa... | What is claimed is: 1. A computer-implemented method for processing applicant input information from a client device, the method implementing an application processing system for use in creating and processing an application and routing a decision for one or more selected financial services products, the method compris... | CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/691,898, filed Jan. 22, 2010, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/889,176, filed on Jul. 13, 2004, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,676,751, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application ... | [
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"title": "Unified application processing with automatic web-like screens (GUI generator) for financial product requests",
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US11074903B1 | Audio device with adaptive equalization | A system and method includes an audio device, such as an earbud or headphones, that includes one or more loudspeakers for outputting audio. The audio device further in includes one or more microphones that are positioned near an ear of a user. An acoustic barrier may be formed between a surface of the device and the ea... | What is claimed is: 1. A method for compensating, using a wireless earbud having an inner-lobe insert, for audio distortion within an ear canal of a user, the method comprising: during a first time period, receiving, at the wireless earbud from a user device, first output audio data; processing, using an infinite-impul... | BACKGROUND Audio input/output devices, such as earbuds, headphones, cellular phones, and/or other devices having a microphone and loudspeaker, may be used to output audio using the loudspeaker and/or capture audio using the microphone. The audio device may be configured to communicate via a network connection with a us... | [
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"title": "Earbuds that automatically tune playback to your ear using the earbud's own internal microphone",
"problem": "In-ear earphones and earbuds sit in different people's ear canals and seal differently, so the sound that actually reaches each user's eardrum varies a lot—especially at low frequencies. Physica... |
US10031556B2 | User experience adaptation | User experience adaptation techniques are described. In one or more implementations, an apparatus includes a connection portion configured to be removably physically and communicatively with a computing device, a housing physically connected to the connection portion and providing an outer surface having one or more ch... | What is claimed is: 1. An apparatus comprising: a connection portion configured to be removably physically and communicatively connected with a computing device; a housing physically connected to the connection portion and providing an outer surface having one or more physical characteristics that are viewable by a use... | RELATED APPLICATIONS This application incorporates the following applications by reference in their entirety: U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/470,633, filed May 14, 2012, and titled âFlexible Hinge and Removable Attachment;â and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/471,186, filed May 14, 2012, and titled âInpu... | [
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US10623315B1 | Extending virtual routing and forwarding | In one embodiment of the disclosure, packets are routed according to a VRF (Virtual Routing and Forwarding) domain that is represented by a VRF identifier in a VRF-identifier (ID) field of packet headers. In one embodiment of the disclosure, a VRF identifier may be added to a VRF-ID field of a packet header so that the... | What is claimed is: 1. A network device comprising: a memory for storing routing tables each associated with a Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) domain; and processing logic operable to access the memory and configured to: determine, using a VRF identifier included in an options field of an Internet Protocol version... | BACKGROUND Consumers and businesses depend on networks for communication, data storage, and information gathering, for example. Internet Protocol (IP) is a communication protocol that is generally used to route packets from a source through different networks to the intended destination. An IP packet typically includes... | [
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US9426719B2 | Anchoring services of a mobile station attached to a first service domain at a home agent in a second service domain | A first node receives information associated with a mobile station to allow for establishment of a session for the mobile station that is attached to a first wireless access network in a first service domain. In response to the received information, the first node sends messaging to a home agent in a second service dom... | What is claimed is: 1. A method to enable a mobile station operating in a first service domain to access one or more services anchored in a second service domain, the method performed by a packet data network (PDN) gateway associated with the first service domain, the method comprising: sending, to a home agent, messag... | RELATED APPLICATIONS This application is a continuation of and claims priority to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/055,260 filed Jan. 21, 2011, published as US 2011-0122824 on May 26, 2011 and issued as U.S. Pat. No. 9,042,297 on May 26, 2015, which is a National Stage Entry and claims priority to PCT Application No... | [
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US10950040B2 | Labeling for three-dimensional occluded shapes | Systems and methods for displaying labels in conjunction with geographic imagery provided, for instance, by a geographic information system, such as a mapping service or a virtual globe application are provided. Candidate positions for displaying labels in conjunction with geographic imagery can be determined based at ... | What is claimed is: 1. A computer-implemented method for displaying a label in a three-dimensional view of a geographic area, the method comprising: identifying, by a computing system comprising one or more computing devices, geographic imagery of the geographic area from a perspective of a virtual camera viewpoint, wh... | CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15/722,679, filed on Oct. 2, 2017, which, in turn, is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/580,291, filed on Dec. 23, 2014 and issued as U.S. Pat. No. 9,779,544, the disclosures of both of whi... | [
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US9298709B2 | Computer system to visualize data from an IP rights database | A system ( 10 ) to visualize data from an IP rights database as a geographic map having a viewable area. A map display change monitor ( 23 ) receives a map change message in relation to a change in the viewable area of the geographic map and generates a display change notification, which includes the geographic coordin... | The invention claimed is: 1. A data processing system to visualise data from an IP rights database comprising: a geographic map display interface to display a geographic map having a viewable area; a map display change monitor to: receive and store at least recent geographic co-ordinates of the viewable area of the geo... | CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS This application is a national phase of International Application No. PCT/AU2012/000971, filed Aug. 17, 2012, which claims the benefit of Australian Application No. 2011903310, filed Aug. 18, 2011, in the Australian Patent Office. All disclosures of the BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIO... | [
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"title": "Interactive map-driven dashboard for exploring intellectual‑property (IP) data",
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US9014663B2 | Sponsored data plan management | A method for managing a Sponsored Data Plan (SDP) is provided in a mobile telecommunications network. The method includes: receiving a first request for an initial charging policy report in response to a detection of a user's data session with an Application Server (AS) ( 14 ) of a content provider; sending, in respons... | What is claimed is: 1. In a mobile telecommunications network, a method for managing a Sponsored Data Plan (SDP) comprising: receiving a first request, at an Online Charging System (OCS), for an initial charging policy report in response to a detection of a user's data session with an Application Server (AS) of a conte... | BACKGROUND The present inventive subject matter relates generally to the art of mobile and/or wireless telecommunications. Particular but not exclusive relevance is found in connection with 3G (3 rd Generation) and LTE (Long Term Evolution) wireless networks, and accordingly the present specification makes specific ref... | [
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"title": "Sponsored data plan management — letting a content provider sign a user up for sponsored mobile data in real time",
"problem": "Mobile operators, content providers and users want arrangements where the content provider (or sponsor) pays for some or all of a user's mobile data for a particular service. C... |
US8509827B2 | Methods and apparatus of context-data acquisition and ranking | Disclosed are a system, method, and article of manufacture of a context-data acquisition and ranking. A context-data type is determined from a query. At least one context-data source that provides the context-data type is identified. A request for a context data of the context-data type is generated from the at least o... | What is claimed is: 1. A method comprising: receiving a short message from a mobile device with a server; algorithmically determining a context-data type, wherein the context-data type is determined by a meaning of a term of the short message, and wherein the context-data type provides information about an environment ... | CLAIM OF PRIORITY This application is a continuation-in-part of and claims priority to patent application Ser. No. 12/422,313 filed on Apr. 13, 2009 which claims priority from provisional application 61/161,763 filed on Mar. 19, 2009, patent application Ser. No. 12/422,313 is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 11/519,6... | [
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US8701155B2 | Communicating using a cloud infrastructure | A cloud infrastructure that communicates with computing devices is provided. The computing devices install filters on other computing devices that they wish to receive items from including pictures, messages, and documents. The filters include criteria that are evaluated on the computing devices, rather than at a serve... | What is claimed: 1. A method comprising: receiving a filter from a cloud infrastructure by a first computing device, wherein the filter has a criteria and is associated with a second computing device; installing the received filter at the first computing device; generating an item by the first computing device; determi... | CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 61/306,987, filed on Feb. 23, 2010, the contents of which are hereby incorporated in their entirety. BACKGROUND Mobile devices connected to 3G networks are enabling new and diverse applications. One ... | [
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US8615605B2 | Automatic identification of travel and non-travel network addresses | A system to automatically classify types of IP addresses associated with a user. Information, such as user names, machine information, IP address, etc., may be obtained from logs. For each user or host in the logs, home IP addresses are identified from IP addresses where the user or host shows a predetermined level of ... | What is claimed is: 1. A method for classifying network addresses, comprising: collecting and analyzing user event data in logs in response to user activity; determining non-travel network addresses as a first type of location information from the user event data; determining travel network addresses as a second type o... | BACKGROUND Designers of Internet services increasingly seek to specialize their behavior and content to reflect contextual differences among their users to exploit location, differences in connection bandwidth, browser capabilities, whether a user is known, etc. Internet services increasingly are using geolocation to s... | [
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US9560037B2 | Integrated APIs and UIs for consuming services across different distributed networks | User interface integration across multiple clouds is achieved by hosting UI extensions for different services in the same browser window. The UI extensions are initialized by a shell with any necessary security context for the corresponding cloud. The shell provides versioning so that the newest version of the UI is pr... | What is claimed is: 1. A computing system, comprising: a processor and a memory containing instructions executable by the processor to cause the processor to perform a process comprising: receiving, at a private cloud, log-on information from a user; and in response to and based on the received log-on information, prov... | BACKGROUND Cloud computing services in which users run applications on virtual machines hosted a distributed network of servers are available from a number of different service providers. The cloud computing services may be hosted on a public cloud, such as a remote datacenter that host numerous tenant users. Cloud com... | [
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US9952761B1 | System and method for processing touch actions | A system and method for processing touch actions are provided. A plurality of sequentially performed touch actions including a first touch action and a second touch action are determined on a touch interface of an electronic device. An initiation location and a completion location of each of the first and second touch ... | What is claimed is: 1. A computer-implemented method for processing to actions, the method comprising: detecting, on a touch interface of an electronic device, a first touch action and a subsequent second touch action; determining an initiation location and a completion location on the touch interface for each of the f... | CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/839,806, entitled âSYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING TOUCH ACTIONS,â filed on Mar. 15, 2013, which claims the benefit of priority under 35 U.S.C § 119 from U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 6... | [
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US11265676B2 | System and method for requesting an updated user location | A system and method is disclosed for requesting an updated location, including a point of interest, from a user for display on an interactive map. On receiving from an interested user a request for a point of interest associated with a subscribed user's current location, a request is transmitted to the subscribed user ... | What is claimed is: 1. A computer-implemented method for sharing location information, the method comprising: obtaining a current geographic location associated with a first user of a first computing device; automatically performing an internet search to retrieve supplemental details about the current geographic locati... | CROSS-REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS AND PRIORITY CLAIMS This application is a continuation of and claims priority to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15/854,081, filed Dec. 26, 2017, and entitled âSYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REQUESTING AN UPDATED USER LOCATIONâ which is a continuation of and claims priority to U.S. ... | [
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US11404135B1 | Runtime identification of bad memory cells based on difference between data pattern and read data | Technologies are provided for runtime identification of bad memory cells. An uncorrectable error can be detected in data stored in a plurality of memory cells of a memory device. Patterned data can be written to the plurality of memory cells that stored the data in which the uncorrectable error was detected. The data s... | What is claimed is: 1. A random access memory device comprising: a plurality of memory cells, organized in one or more logical data units, configured to store bits of data; and a memory controller configured to: detect an uncorrectable error in data stored in a plurality of memory cells of a first logical data unit of ... | BACKGROUND At least some computer memory devices contain memory cells (such as transistors) that store bits of data. Examples of such memory devices include dynamic random access memory (DRAM) modules. It is possible for the hardware components of memory cells of a memory device to fail. This can result in errors in da... | [
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US10964315B1 | Monophone-based background modeling for wakeword detection | An approach to wakeword detection uses an explicit representation of non-wakeword speech in the form of subword (e.g., phonetic monophone) units that do not necessarily occur in the wakeword and that broadly represent general speech. These subword units are arranged in a âbackgroundâ model, which at runtime essenti... | What is claimed is: 1. A method for processing an audio signal, the method comprising: receiving input data representing an audio signal acquired by a microphone in an acoustic environment, the audio signal including a speech signal; processing the input data in a first stage of processing to identify a possible occurr... | BACKGROUND This invention relates to use of a monophone background model for wakeword detection. One approach to providing a speech-based user interface for a speech-enabled system is to use a device that monitors an acoustic environment waiting for a user to speak a command that can be interpreted by the system. The s... | [
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US8010651B2 | Executing programs based on user-specified constraints | Techniques are described for managing execution of programs on multiple computing systems, such as based at least in part of user-specified constraints. For example, constraints related to execution of a program may be based on a desired relative location of a host computing system to execute a copy of the program with... | 1. A computer-implemented method for executing programs for users in accordance with user-specified constraints, the method comprising: receiving a request from a user to execute one or more copies of a program specified by the user, the request including an indication of one or more execution constraints for use in se... | CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 11/851,345, filed Sep. 6, 2007, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,792,944 entitled âExecuting Programs Based on User-Specified Constraints,â which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. U.S. application Ser. No. ... | [
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US10854067B1 | Connected door hinge | A computer-implemented method includes receiving a disarm code, comparing, the received disarm code to a stored disarm code, determining that the received disarm code matches the stored disarm code, determining a property access pattern that corresponds to the stored disarm code, that identifies a first group of doors ... | The invention claimed is: 1. A monitoring system that is configured to monitor a property, the monitoring system comprising: a sensor that is configured to generate sensor data that reflects an attribute of the property; a first door hinge that is configured to open and close a first door of the property; a second door... | CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 15/978,665, filed May 14, 2018, now allowed, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 62/505,191, filed May 12, 2017, and titled âConnected Door hinge.â Both of these prior applications are in... | [
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US10652345B2 | Implicit geolocation of social networking users | In one embodiment, one or more computing systems receive a request for a location prediction for a user from a service. The computing systems access one or more real-time location signals and one or more aggregated location signals. The aggregated location signals may comprise one or more previous location signals. The... | What is claimed is: 1. A method comprising, by one or more computing systems: receiving a request for a location prediction for a user from a requesting application; generating a current location prediction from a plurality of previous location signals, wherein each previous location signal comprises an indication of t... | PRIORITY This application is a continuation under 35 U.S.C. § 120 of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15/646,655 filed 11 Jul. 2017, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/594,895 filed 12 Jan. 2015, now U.S. Pat. No. 9,762,689 B2 issued on 12 Sep. 2017, which is a continuation of U.S. patent a... | [
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US9514753B2 | Speaker identification using hash-based indexing | Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for performing speaker identification. In some implementations, an utterance vector that is derived from an utterance is obtained. Hash values are determined for the utterance vector according to multiple different hash f... | What is claimed is: 1. A method comprising: obtaining an utterance vector that is derived from an utterance; determining hash values for the utterance vector according to multiple different hash functions; determining a set of speaker vectors from a plurality of hash tables using the hash values, each speaker vector be... | CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 61/899,434, filed Nov. 4, 2013. The entire contents of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 61/899,434 are hereby incorporated by reference. TECHNICAL FIELD This specification generally rel... | [
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US9304738B1 | Systems and methods for selecting content using weighted terms | Systems and methods for evaluating information via a computer network using weighted terms are provided. A data processing system can detect an indication of user interest in subject matter of an information resource, and can identify a plurality of keywords associated with the subject matter. The data processing syste... | What is claimed is: 1. A computer implemented method of evaluating information via a computer network, comprising: receiving, by a data processing system via the computer network, an indication of user interest of a first user in a first advertisement displayed on a parked domain web page having a unique identifier, th... | BACKGROUND In a networked environment such as the internet, entities such as people or companies provide information for public display on web pages or other documents. The web pages can include text, video, or audio information provided by the entities via a web page server for display on the internet. Additional cont... | [
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US9800416B2 | Distributed validation of digitally signed electronic documents | Systems and methods are presented for distributed validation of a digitally signed electronic document. A computing device accesses both a representation of the electronic document and a digital signature for the electronic document that includes a digest generated by the digital signature's creator by applying a one-w... | What is claimed is: 1. A method to validate a digital signature for an electronic document, comprising: receiving, at a validation server and from a computing device, a request including the digital signature and a second digest, the digital signature including a first digest of the electronic document, the second dige... | This Application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. Section 120 as a continuation of U.S. Patent Application No. 13/562,532, filed Jul. 31, 2012, and titled âDistributed Validation of Digitally Signed Electronic Documents,â the entire disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference. BACKGROUND Distribution of ... | [
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US7567973B1 | Storing a sparse table using locality groups | Each of a plurality of data items is stored in a table data structure. The table structure includes a plurality of columns. Each of the columns is associated with one of a plurality of locality groups. Each locality group is stored as one or more corresponding locality group files that include the data items in the col... | 1. A computer-implemented method of storing data, comprising: in a distributed computer system comprising a plurality of data servers: identifying a table data structure, the table data structure comprising tablets and groups of columns to store data, wherein the groups of columns are non-overlapping, and the tablets e... | RELATED APPLICATIONS This application is related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/197,925, âLarge Scale Data Storage in Sparse Tablesâ, filed Aug. 5, 2005, which application is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety. This application is related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/197,923, âData... | [
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US9118735B1 | Finding people using social networks | Embodiments are described for assisting a first person in finding a second person using a social network. A person may send a request to a server that identifies that person, the person he or she is looking for, and the requestor's location. The server may then traverse that person's social network to identify someone ... | What is claimed is: 1. A system for assisting a requesting person in finding a target person using social networks, comprising: a memory bearing instructions that, upon execution by a processor, cause the system to at least: receive an identification associated with the requesting person, an identification associated w... | BACKGROUND A social network is a structure that represents people and relationships between those people. A social network for a given person may be thought of as that person, and those people to whom that person is connected via relationships. Two people may be directly connected where there is a relationship between ... | [
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US10652094B2 | Network traffic management for virtualized graphics devices | A determination is made that network access between a virtualized graphics device and a compute instance of a client is to be enabled. A source network address for graphics-related traffic of the compute instance is identified. From a range of source port numbers associated with the source network address, a particular... | What is claimed is: 1. A system, comprising: a network configuration manager executing on one or more computing devices of a provider network, wherein the network configuration manager includes instructions that upon execution on a processor cause the one or more computing devices to: re-establish accessibility, respon... | This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15/374,509, filed Dec. 9, 2016, which is hereby incorporated by reference herein in its entirety. BACKGROUND Many companies and other organizations operate computer networks that interconnect numerous computing systems to support their operations, s... | [
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US8875285B2 | Executable code validation in a web browser | An active filter monitors a web browser session to identify executable code transmitted in the session. The executable code may be analyzed to determine if the code is digitally signed. When the code is digitally signed by the web server or by another trusted source, the code may be executed. When the code is neither d... | What is claimed is: 1. At a computer system, the computer system including a processor and system memory, the computer system connected to a Wide Area Network (WAN), the computer system including a Web browser for browsing content offered by other computer systems connected to the Wide Area Network (WAN), a method perf... | BACKGROUND Executable code is a potential attack vector for malicious attacks on either server devices running web services or on client devices running a web browser. One form of such attacks may be Cross Site Scripting or XSS attacks. According to one source, XSS attacks were roughly 70% of all security vulnerabiliti... | [
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US8095432B1 | Recommendation engine for social networks | A method for making a recommendation, comprising obtaining a plurality of recommendations for a plurality of items from a plurality of members of a social networking utility, ranking the plurality of recommendations based on a relationship proximity of the plurality of members to an inquiring member within the social n... | 1. A method for generating a recommendation list for an item, comprising: obtaining a first recommendation for the item from a first member of a social networking utility, wherein the first member of the social networking utility is a friend of an inquiring member within the social networking utility; obtaining a secon... | BACKGROUND The Internet has redefined how consumers and businesses interact with each other, providing instant access for consumers to online purchasing, and creating a unique marketing and distribution channel for businesses to reach their audiences. Businesses have been able to increase the effectiveness of targeting... | [
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US8880423B2 | Inventory estimation for search retargeting | Techniques for estimating advertisement inventory for search retargeting segments are provided. A total inventory for each cluster of a plurality of clusters is estimated based on a history of previously viewed pages and previously used search keywords that were submitted by users is searches performed prior to accessi... | What is claimed is: 1. A method for estimating advertisement inventory, comprising: clustering, using a processor, a plurality of viewed pages into a plurality of clusters to generate a plurality of page view probability vectors that includes a page view probability vector for each viewed page, said clustering based on... | BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to online advertising, and in particular, to search retargeting. 2. Background Art A search engine is an information retrieval system used to locate documents and other information stored on a computer system. Search engines are useful ... | [
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US7814125B2 | Methods for facilitating application development | Application development is facilitated by initializing a page token in response to receiving a request. The page token comprises an abstract model component containing a specification for obtaining data designated to be sent in a response to the request or a specification for updating data obtained from the request, an... | 1. A computer program product extending functionality of a model-view-controller architecture, said computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium storing components of a modified model-view controller architecture, the components of the modified model-view controller architecture including: a u... | CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/942,530 filed on Sep. 15, 2004, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein in its entirety. FIELD OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates generally to application development, ... | [
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US7786952B2 | Auxiliary display unit for a computer system | A host computer is provided with a main display unit and an auxiliary display unit. The host computer can free up screen space on the main display screen by routing certain types of display information to the auxiliary display unit for display. Display information can range from notification of events such as receipt o... | 1. In a computer system having a host computer, and a first display unit and second display unit coupled to the host computer, a method for controlling the display of information associated with a first active application and a second active application, said method comprising: configuring the first display unit to rec... | CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION This application is a continuation of prior U.S. application Ser. No. 09/556,982, filed Apr. 24, 2000, the entire contents of which is incorporated herein by reference. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION A. Technical Field The disclosure generally relates to employing a secondary or auxi... | [
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US8458010B1 | Monitoring and enforcing price parity | Systems and methods are provided for monitoring and enforcing price parity. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method monitors price parity. The method includes generating, by a server, a task related to pricing of an item. The server receives, in response to the task, a first price and a second price of the... | What is claimed is: 1. A computer-implemented method for monitoring price parity, comprising: selecting, by a configured server computer, a first product from a catalog comprising a plurality of products available for sale; selecting, by the configured server computer, a third party-seller who offers the first product ... | BACKGROUND A retailer who sells items over the Internet may offer hundreds, thousands, or even millions of items for sale. The retailer's item listings, which include information identifying the items and prices of the items, are accessible over the Internet by customers through the retailer's site. In addition to offe... | [
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US8972967B2 | Application packages using block maps | Deploying applications to a device often involves generating an application package for installing the application anew, and application patches for updating the application from a specific first version to a specific second version. Presented herein are alternative techniques for deploying the application to devices u... | What is claimed is: 1. A method of providing a second application variant of an application stored as a first application variant on a device having a processor, wherein the application is hosted as a second application variant and is associated with a block map for the second application variant, the method comprising... | BACKGROUND Within the field of computing, many scenarios involve the deployment of an application to one or more devices. The application may be packaged in various ways (e.g., as one or more objects, as a compressed archive, or as an installer package); may be retrieved by the device and/or pushed to the device by an ... | [
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US9471784B1 | Automated firmware settings verification | Systems and methods are described for managing computing resources. In one embodiment, data representative of an abstracted firmware framework is maintained. The data may comprise computing firmware settings and determined based on standardized associations between vendor-specific firmware settings and abstracted firmw... | What is claimed is: 1. A computing system comprising at least one computing node and at least one data store in communication with the at least one computing node, the at least one data store having stored therein computer instructions, that upon execution by the at least one computing node, cause at least: forming gro... | BACKGROUND A data center is a facility that houses computer systems and various networking, storage, and other related components. Many organizations and businesses operate and maintain data centers to provide computing and information services to support their day-to-day operations. Data centers may also provide compu... | [
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US6873952B1 | Coarticulated concatenated speech | Described are methods and systems for reducing the audible gap in concatenated recorded speech, resulting in more natural sounding speech in voice applications. The sound of concatenated, recorded speech is improved by also coarticulating the recorded speech. The resulting message is smooth, natural sounding and lifeli... | 1. A method of rendering an audio signal comprising: identifying a first word; identifying a first phoneme corresponding to said first word; based on said first phoneme, selecting a first voice segment of a plurality of stored and pre-recorded voice segments wherein said first voice segment corresponds to said first ph... | RELATED U.S. APPLICATIONS This application claims priority to the copending provisional patent application Ser. No. 60/383,155, entitled âCoarticulated Concatenated Speech,â with filing date May 23, 2002, assigned to the assignee of the present application, and hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. The ... | [
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US9312200B1 | Solid structures for thermal management | Solid structures for thermal management are provided. In one aspect, the solid structures can comprise a metal-ceramic composite member assembled to be in thermal contact with a heat source. The metal-ceramic composite member can be mechanically coupled to an assembly (e.g., an electronic assembly) containing the heat ... | What is claimed is: 1. A solid structure for thermal management, comprising: a metal-ceramic composite member comprising a spreader plate coupled to a housing of an electronic assembly and assembled to be in thermal contact with a heat source contained in the electronic assembly, the metal-ceramic composite member has ... | BACKGROUND Electronic circuitry in assemblies can dissipate a substantial amount of heat during operations. Such heat dissipation generally is exacerbated in scenarios in which the electronic circuitry is densely packaged. In user equipment, such as a portable electronic device, the device's electronic circuitry can di... | [
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US10621576B1 | Mobile payments using payment tokens | A user may request a payment token from a host. The payment token may be a unique one-time use identifier linked to one or more payment accounts associated with the user. The payment token may be subject to conditions of use. To redeem the payment token, the user device may generate an image code to visually present th... | What is claimed is: 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, by one or more computing devices, a request for a one-time use payment token that is redeemable with a plurality of recipients, the request specifying at least a user account, an amount, and an expiration of the one-time use payment token, the ... | RELATED APPLICATIONS This Application claims priority to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/292,423, filed on Nov. 9, 2011, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. BACKGROUND Traditional methods of conducting financial transactions commonly consist of an exchange of money using paper currency, check... | [
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US11050847B1 | Replication of control plane metadata | Techniques for replicating control plane metadata across regions are described. A method for replicating control plane metadata across regions may include receiving a request in a home region of a provider network to make a change to a cross-region service, receiving an event stream by a cross-region replication servic... | What is claimed is: 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a request in a home region of a provider network to change a setting of a cross-region directory service; storing the setting change to a data store in the home region, wherein the data store outputs a changelog including the setting change and ... | BACKGROUND Many companies and other organizations operate computer networks that interconnect numerous computing systems to support their operations, such as with the computing systems being co-located (e.g., as part of a local network) or instead located in multiple distinct geographical locations (e.g., connected via... | [
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US10049382B2 | Systems and methods for predicting and pricing of gross rating point scores by modeling viewer data | Systems and methods are disclosed for characterizing websites and viewers, for predicting GRPs (Gross Rating Points) for online advertising media campaigns, and for pricing media campaigns according to GRPs delivered as opposed to impressions delivered. To predict GRPs for a campaign, systems and methods are disclosed ... | What is claimed is: 1. In a digital medium environment of real-time bidding and selection of advertising opportunities corresponding to viewers simultaneously accessing websites via computing devices, a computerized method for efficiently providing bid responses and advertising over an online network, comprising: estab... | CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61/779,231 filed Mar. 13, 2013. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates generally to systems and methods for rating the success of online advertising campaig... | [
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US8533860B1 | Personalized digital media access systemâPDMAS part II | The invention is an apparatus that facilitates access to a data source to accept verification and authentication from an enabler using at least one token and at least one reference. The at least one reference could be a device serial number, a networking MAC address, or a membership ID reference from a web service. Acc... | What is claimed is: 1. A method for authorizing access to digital content using a cloud system, the cloud system comprising connected modules in operation as one or more of a cloud computing or a cloud storage in connection with devices and users, wherein the digital content is at least one of encrypted or not encrypte... | CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS This application is a continuation of and claims the priority benefit of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/397,517 filed Feb. 15, 2012, now pending, which is a continuation of Ser. No. 12/985,351 filed Jan. 6, 2011, now abandoned, which is a continuation of Ser. No. 12/728,218 ... | [
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US9931069B2 | Systems and methods for measuring reactions of head, eyes, eyelids and pupils | Systems and methods are provided to measure reaction times and/or responses for head, eye, eyelid movements, and/or changes in pupil geometry. The system includes eyewear or headwear including one or more eye-tracking cameras for monitoring the position and geometry of at least one eye and its components of the user, o... | What is claimed is: 1. A system for determining responses of a subject, comprising: a device configured to be worn on a wearer's head; an eye-tracking camera mounted on the device oriented towards a first eye of the wearer for capturing eye-tracking images of the first eye; a scene camera mounted on the device oriented... | RELATED APPLICATION DATA The present application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 13/113,006, filed May 20, 2011, issuing as U.S. Pat. No. 8,911,087, the entire disclosure of which is expressly incorporated by reference herein. STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT The U.S. Governmen... | [
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US10070244B1 | Automatic loudspeaker configuration | An audio system has multiple loudspeaker devices to produce sound corresponding to different channels of a multi-channel audio signal such as a surround sound audio signal. The loudspeaker devices may have speech recognition capabilities. In response to a command spoken by a user, the loudspeaker devices automatically ... | What is claimed is: 1. An audio system comprising: multiple loudspeaker devices, each loudspeaker device comprising: a loudspeaker; multiple microphones, each microphone producing an input audio signal representing received sound; and one or more processors; a first loudspeaker device comprising one or more first compu... | BACKGROUND Home theater systems and music playback systems often use multiple loudspeakers that are positioned around a user to enrich the perception of sound. Each loudspeaker receives a signal of a multi-channel audio signal that is intended to be produced from a specific direction relative to the listener. The assig... | [
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US10331501B2 | USB device redirection for remote systems | The present disclosure provides systems and method for redirecting control of a client side connected USB device from the client to the server in a remote system. Specifically, the present disclosure creates a simulated USB device at the server. The simulated USB device is treated as a proxy for a redirected USB device... | What is claimed is: 1. A computer implemented method for redirecting isochronous requests for a local device connected to a local computing device to a remote computing device in communication with the local computing device, wherein the remote computing device hosts a simulated device associated with the local device,... | RELATED MATTERS This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/970,660, filed Dec. 16, 2010, entitled âUSB DEVICE REDIRECTION FOR REMOTE SYSTEMS,â now U.S. Pat. No. 9,858,126, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. BACKGROUND Remote systems, such as Terminal Serviceâ¢... | [
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US8392853B2 | Transparent interface used to independently manipulate and interrogate N-dimensional focus objects in virtual and real visualization systems | Method, system, and software for performing independent operations with and upon N-Dimensional spatial and temporal objects displayed in virtual and real visualization systems. The technique applies user selected points or regions of interest in the visualization system to identify corresponding points or regions on tr... | 1. A method for superimposing a representation of displayed data on a visualization system, the method comprising: acquiring at least one focus object described in the visualization system; using focus object information to display the focus object; subdividing each focus object into a plurality of object components; u... | RELATED APPLICATIONS The present Patent Application claims priority to Provisional Patent Application No. 61/213,808 filed Jul. 17, 2009, which is assigned to the assignee hereof and filed by the inventor hereof and which is incorporated by reference herein. BACKGROUND 1. Field This disclosure relates to the three-dime... | [
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US9378729B1 | Maximum likelihood channel normalization | Features are disclosed for applying maximum likelihood methods to channel normalization in automatic speech recognition (âASRâ). Feature vectors computed from an audio input of a user utterance can be compared to a Gaussian mixture model. The Gaussian that corresponds to each feature vector can be determined, and s... | What is claimed is: 1. A system comprising: a computer-readable memory storing executable instructions; and one or more processors in communication with the computer-readable memory, wherein the one or more processors are programmed by the executable instructions to at least: receive a stream of audio data regarding an... | BACKGROUND Computing devices can be used to process a user's spoken commands, requests, and other utterances into written transcriptions. In a common application, a user can speak into a microphone of a computing device, and an automated speech recognition module executing on the computing device can process the audio ... | [
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US11277298B2 | Displaying content items based on device status | Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting content items. In one aspect, a method includes identifying an opportunity to present a content item at a device and in a manner that precludes a user from accessing content of one or more applications exec... | What is claimed is: 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: by one or more computing devices: identifying an opportunity to serve a content item to an application that is (i) executing at a client device, and (ii) presenting a video; determining characteristics of a display of the client device; selecting, based ... | CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS This application is a continuation application of, and claims priority to, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15/966,319, titled âDISPLAYING CONTENT ITEMS BASED ON DEVICE STATUS,â filed on Apr. 30, 2018, which is a continuation application of, and claims priority to, U.S. paten... | [
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US9514120B1 | Classification of a string as a typographical error based on feedback | A computing device hosting a server identifies one or more potential typographical errors in a work using an initial reference. The computing device sends data indicative of the presence of the potential typographical errors to users. The computing device collects feedback for the work from the users. The feedback for ... | What is claimed is: 1. A method comprising: identifying, by a processing device, a potential typographical error in a work using an initial reference, wherein the work comprises a plurality of words; sending, by the processing device, data indicative of presence of the potential typographical error in the work to a plu... | BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Publishing can include distribution of printed works, such as books, newspapers, magazines, journals, etc. and the electronic distribution of a work to electronic resources, such as electronic books (e-books), websites, blogs, etc. Typically, in the publishing industry, a publisher corrects ... | [
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US7991757B2 | System for obtaining recommendations from multiple recommenders | A personalization network service enables developers to develop recommenders that can be made available to content site operators for providing recommendations to end users. The personalization network service may also be capable of optimizing the use and selection of the recommenders for different end users, groups or... | 1. A system for providing a network service to one or more content sites, the system comprising: a computer system comprising computer hardware programmed to implement at least: a network service interface operative to: receive a first request from a content site to store event data descriptive of user-generated events... | BACKGROUND Relatively large and sophisticated web sites commonly implement some form of personalization system to provide personalized content, such as personalized item recommendations, to their users. To illustrate, some personalization systems can monitor and record one or more types of item-related user activity su... | [
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US11405370B1 | Secure file transfer | The present disclosure describes techniques for storing encrypted files in a secure file repository and transferring those encrypted files to one or more recipients. A user selects a file to upload to a secure file repository. A secure collaboration app on the user's device generates a first encryption key that is used... | What is claimed is: 1. A system, comprising: a processor configured to: receive an encrypted communication comprising a header and a payload, wherein the header includes a first ephemeral public key; decrypt a second encryption key using the first ephemeral public key and a second ephemeral private key; decrypt the pay... | CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS This application is a continuation of co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15/190,142, entitled SECURE FILE TRANSFER filed Jun. 22, 2016, which is incorporated herein by reference for all purposes, which claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application No. 62/322,664, entit... | [
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US8069128B2 | Real-time ad-hoc spam filtering of email | Embodiments are directed towards employing a multi-pass ad-hoc spam message filtering approach that dynamically generates a temporary classifier during a first pass based on a result of a previously applied message filter that sorts messages into various folders for a user. The first pass scans messages in a user's mai... | 1. A network device to manage a delivery of a message over a network, comprising: a transceiver to send and receive data over a network; and a processor that is operative to perform actions, comprising: performing a first pass analysis on a plurality of messages, which have been previously sorted into a plurality of di... | TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates generally to managing messages over a network and, more particularly, but not exclusively to performing a multi-pass ad-hoc analysis upon previously filtered messages to retrospectively inspect sorted messages and present a user with a list of messages that might be misclas... | [
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US9002887B1 | Advertisement generator based on external traffic | An external traffic advertisement system is provided that generates advertisement sets based on analysis of visits to a web site that were referred by an external source. The advertisement system aggregates the referral information for each referral type. A referral type may be defined by one or more of keyword text de... | At least the following is claimed: 1. A computer-implemented method for generating advertisement sets based on analysis of external referrals to a web site, the method comprising: under control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions, collecting information from one or more referring sou... | TECHNICAL FIELD The described technology relates generally to generating advertisements that are keyword-targeted. BACKGROUND Many search engine services, such as Google, Yahoo! and MSN, provide for searching for information that is accessible via the Internet. These search engine services allow users to search for web... | [
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US9374411B1 | Content recommendations using deep data | Disclosed are various embodiments for recommending content for users. A user is associated with a user preferred character that is represented in a first network content. A library is referenced to identify a recommended character based at least upon the user preferred character, the recommended character being represe... | Therefore, the following is claimed: 1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having a plurality of computer instructions executable by at least one computing device, wherein, upon execution, the plurality of computer instructions cause the at least one computing device to: stream a first video content feature from... | BACKGROUND People may want to access media content such as audio/video, electronic books (e-books), and/or audio books over a network. To find such content, people may search for content and make selections based on search results. The content may include a variety of characters that progress the storyline or plot of t... | [
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US8913088B2 | Adjusting displayed content length as a function of map scale | A system for adjusting displayed content length as a function of map scale may include one or more computing devices and a memory. The one or more computing devices may receive a query, retrieve a content item based at least in part on the query. The one or more computing devices may further determine a first amount of... | What is claimed is: 1. A computer-implemented method for adjusting displayed content length as a function of map scale, the method comprising: receiving, using one or more computing devices, a query from a user device; retrieving, using the one or more computing devices, a content item based at least in part on the que... | TECHNICAL FIELD The present description relates generally to adjusting displayed content length, and more particularly, but not exclusively, to adjusting displayed content length as a function of map scale. BACKGROUND In online advertising systems, advertisements are presented to users on web pages, such as on geograph... | [
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US9319783B1 | Attenuation of output audio based on residual echo | Residual echo that remains after an echo cancellation process may interfere with speech recognition. If near-end speech is detected in an audio input signal, a controller may attenuate the audio playback signal. Too much attenuation may disturb playback, whereas too little attenuation may not improve speech recognition... | What is claimed is: 1. A system comprising: a speaker configured to produce sound based on an audio playback signal; a microphone configured to detect the produced sound as an audio input signal; one or more processors in communication with the speaker and the microphone, the one or more processors configured to: perfo... | BACKGROUND A device for audio-based communication, including a voice-controlled audio playback system, typically includes both a loudspeaker and a microphone. The loudspeaker may used to play back audio signals received from a remote (âfar-endâ) source, while the microphone is used to capture audio signals from a l... | [
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US9600308B2 | Virtual machine monitoring in cloud infrastructures | A computer implemented method monitors resource usage of a virtual machine. When a virtual machine is instantiated, resource usage of the virtual machine is monitored to form monitoring data. The monitoring is performed externally from the virtual machine. When the virtual machine is later suspended, the monitoring dat... | What is claimed is: 1. A computer implemented method for monitoring resource usage of a virtual machine, the method comprising: instantiating, by a processor unit, the virtual machine; monitoring, by the processor unit, resource usage of the virtual machine to form monitoring data, wherein the monitoring is performed e... | This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/606,577 filed Sep. 7, 2012, status pending. This invention was made with Government support under Contract No. 60NANB10D003 awarded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The Government has certain rights in the invention. BACKGROU... | [
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US7778629B2 | Method and system for handling potentially contentious situations upon receipt of an automatically connecting SMS message | The invention enhances mobile device software such that upon receipt of a specially formatted SMS message, the software can automatically dial a telephone number that was specified in the message after a configurable timed interval. A further enhancement comprises improvements to the integration between collaboration s... | 1. A method for handling potentially contentious situations upon receipt of a Short Message System (SMS) message when connecting users to conference calls, said method comprising: a network server machine receiving user meeting notification parameters from a mobile electronic device of a user, said user meeting notific... | FIELD OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to a method and system for conveying messages to a user related to previously scheduled events and in particular to a method and system for transmitting text messages to a user who is not using or in close proximity to a stationary or semi-stationary computing device. More ... | [
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US11036385B2 | Hiding portions of display content | A computer-implemented method includes generating code for displaying a two-dimensional media programming schedule grid, receiving a command to compress the grid at a first location along a first dimension, and generating code for displaying the grid with visible graphical fold marks defining a fold area near the first... | What is claimed is: 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: outputting multi-dimensional graphical information for display in a touch screen; receiving, from a user, a two point touch input that comprises the user concurrently (a) touching a first location and a second location on the touch screen and (b) while c... | RELATED APPLICATIONS This application is a continuation application of U.S. Ser. No. 13/288,490 filed Nov. 3, 2011, which is a continuation application of U.S. Ser. No. 11/742,142 filed Apr. 30, 2007. The entire disclosure of this prior application is hereby incorporated by reference. TECHNICAL FIELD This document disc... | [
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US9218390B2 | Query parser derivation computing device and method for making a query parser for parsing unstructured search queries | A system and method is provided which may comprise parsing an unstructured geographic web-search query into a field-based format, by utilizing conditional random fields, learned by semi-supervised automated learning, to parse structured information from the unstructured geographic web-search query. The system and metho... | What is claimed is: 1. A method comprising: deriving, via a query parser derivation computing device, a query parser for parsing an unstructured geographic web-search query into a field-based format, the deriving of the query parser comprising: receiving an input query, wherein the input query comprises a series of tok... | FIELD The present application relates to parsing unstructured web-based queries and particularly geographic queries for query formulation for general web searches and local web searches involving geographic search query terms. BACKGROUND Parsing unstructured local web queries is often tackled using simple syntactic rul... | [
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US11159835B1 | Shadow impressions for storage and delivery of streaming video | Devices and methods are provided for using shadow impressions to control storage and delivery of streaming video content. The device may receive a request, the request associated with determining a group of streaming video advertisements for streaming video at a device. The device may determine, based on the request, a... | What is claimed is: 1. A method, comprising: sending, by at least one processor, a first group of streaming video advertisements, the first group of streaming video advertisements including a first advertisement, wherein the first advertisement is associated with a first shadow impression, wherein the first shadow impr... | BACKGROUND Video streaming services may provide live streaming video content to devices. During a popular live event, many devices may request video programming from the streaming service. After streaming video services send video programming to devices for playback, the streaming services may determine the next video ... | [
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US10848545B2 | Managing cloud storage of block-based and file-based data | A technique for managing cloud storage provides a unified framework that supports both block-type data, such as LUNs (Logical UNits) and volumes, and file-type data, such as files, and expresses both types of data in the form of objects, which form a common base for both types of data. The framework includes a single A... | What is claimed is: 1. A method of managing cloud-based data storage, the method comprising: operating an FTO (file-to-object) component on a computing machine, the FTO component configured to convert between files hosted by a data storage system and cloud-based objects that store contents of the files, the cloud-based... | BACKGROUND Data storage systems are arrangements of hardware and software that include storage processors coupled to arrays of non-volatile storage devices, such as magnetic disk drives, electronic flash drives, and/or optical drives, for example. The storage processors service storage requests, arriving from host mach... | [
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US9825945B2 | Preserving data protection with policy | Data files are encrypted based on a key associated with an entity that sets a data protection policy controlling access to the data files. The data protection policy identifies various restrictions on how the plaintext data of the encrypted data in the data files can be used. The data files have corresponding metadata ... | What is claimed is: 1. A method implemented in a computing device, the method comprising: identifying an entity-trusted application on the computing device, the entity-trusted application configured to access data that is associated with an identifier of an entity that sets a data protection policy controlling access t... | BACKGROUND As computing technology has advanced, computers have become increasingly commonplace in our lives. People oftentimes have multiple different computers, including laptops, tablets, smartphones, and so forth, and frequently share data across multiple computers. This has resulted in situations where it is desir... | [
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US8433127B1 | Systems and methods for real-time validation of check image quality | Systems and methods for real-time validation of check image quality and readability of MICR line data are provided. A check image received by a financial institution can be assessed during a customer on-line session, so that the customer is informed in real-time whether the image is acceptable. Received check images ar... | What is claimed is: 1. A processor-implemented method for validating that a digital image of a check can be used in a deposit transaction, comprising: producing, via a processor, from a digital image of a check in a first format, a digital image of said check in a second format; performing a first digital image analysi... | CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS This application is related by subject matter to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/747,219 and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/747,223, both filed on even date herewith. BACKGROUND A variety of high-speed, special purpose check deposit systems for commercial use are availab... | [
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US10185823B1 | Examining memory of execution environments to identify potential anomalies | Technologies are described herein for examining memory data of execution environments to identify potential anomalies. An execution environment is identified as having a potential anomaly. The memory data associated with the execution environment is identified as having a potential anomaly. Checksums may be generated f... | What is claimed is: 1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to: receive an indication that a first virtual machine instance executing in a service provider network is a potential security risk; iden... | BACKGROUND In some cases, a software application may become infected with a virus or some other type of malicious software (e.g., malware). In other cases, a software application might not be properly configured or might have some other problem that prevents the application from executing properly. In these cases, exec... | [
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US8738952B1 | Device controller low power mode | A device controller, such as a universal serial bus (âUSBâ) device controller, that is unattached to an external device is placed into a low power mode. During low power mode, interface components of the device controller are gated or placed into a reduced power state. For example, components such as a USB gadget P... | What is claimed is: 1. A method for placing a universal serial bus (USB) device controller associated with a USB into a low power mode, the method comprising: performing, by a handheld electronic device that is peripheral to a host device: receiving a disconnect event indicating that the host device has been disconnect... | BACKGROUND Electronic devices such as electronic book reader devices (âeBook reader devicesâ), cellular telephones, portable media players, desktop computers, laptops, tablet computers, netbooks, personal digital assistants, and the like, rely on electrical power to function. Within these electronic devices, severa... | [
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US10042695B1 | Program exception recovery | A technology is described for recovering from a program exception. An example method may include detecting an occurrence of a program exception while rendering electronic content using an application that results in the application to stop rendering the electronic content. An execution history associated with the rende... | What is claimed is: 1. A non-transitory machine readable storage medium including instructions embodied thereon for a browser application, the instructions when executed by a processor: detect an occurrence of a program exception while rendering an electronic page using the browser application, the program exception ca... | BACKGROUND Software applications that are executed on a computing device may stop functioning as a result of an error encountered during execution of the software application. An error may be the result of a process or a process thread that may be executing incorrectly. Some common examples of errors may include an att... | [
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US8514266B2 | Orthorectifying stitched oblique imagery to a nadir view, and applications thereof | Embodiments of this invention relates to orthorectifying oblique imagery to a nadir view. In an embodiment, a method orthorectifies oblique photographic imagery. An oblique photographic image is projected onto a three-dimensional model of terrain. Points are sampled from the projected photographic image at the intersec... | What is claimed is: 1. A computer-implemented method for orthorectifying oblique photographic imagery, comprising: (a) for respective points in a nadir viewport, determining a point on a three-dimensional model of terrain located at the intersection of a normal ray extended from the respective point on the nadir viewpo... | This application is a continuation application of copending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/591,113 filed Nov. 9, 2009. BACKGROUND 1. Field of the Invention Embodiments of this invention generally relate to displaying oblique imagery. 2. Related Art Photographers often take images of the Earth from altitude, such a... | [
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US7756837B2 | Methods and apparatus for searching backup data based on content and attributes | Methods and apparatus are disclosed that permit the transparent bridging of a broad range of backup storage devices, such that backup software will identify an intermediate device as a one of those storage devices and will transparently send their backup data-stream thereto as part of the existing standard backup proce... | 1. A method, comprising: receiving at least one data-stream intended for archiving on a backup storage device; extracting management data from the data-stream, the management data including: (i) an identifier of a source of the data-stream; (ii) volume information concerning where the data of the data-stream were store... | CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS This application is based on and claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/535,732, filed Jan. 9, 2004, the entire disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to methods and apparatus fo... | [
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US11435845B2 | Gesture recognition based on skeletal model vectors | A system for recognizing gestures generates a skeletal model from video data of a subject. A defined subset of attributes of the skeletal model are mapped to defined positions of a vector. A gesture is recognized by evaluating a neural network using the vector as input. The neural network, trained using training vector... | What is claimed is: 1. A system, comprising: at least one processor; and a memory comprising instructions that, in response to execution by the at least one processor, cause the system to at least: obtain image data of a subject; generate a skeletal model based at least in part on the image data, the skeletal model com... | CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 62/837,666, filed Apr. 23, 2019, the disclosure of which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety. BACKGROUND Increasingly, human-computer interaction is being driven by new forms of user in... | [
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US8922487B2 | Switching between a first operational mode and a second operational mode using a natural motion gesture | A mobile device is operative to change from a first operational mode to a second or third operational mode based on a user's natural motion gesture. The first operational mode may include a voice input mode in which a user provides a voice input to the mobile device. After providing the voice input to the mobile device... | What is claimed is: 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a processor and from an orientation sensor, a first set of orientation data representative of a mobile computing device being in a first orientation; receiving, by the processor and from the orientation sensor, a second set of orientation data representative of ... | This Application is a continuation application claiming priority under 35 U.S.C. §120 to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/821,422, filed 23 Jun. 2010, the entire contents and substance of which is incorporated by reference as if fully set out below. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Augmented reality is an intuitive and ... | [
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US8719408B2 | Automated digital media content filtration based on relationship monitoring | Automated digital media content filtration is performed by establishing automatically, according to a tolerance parameter, a plurality of user relationships, each user relationship based on monitoring an online association between a user and a content producer. Filtration is also performed by monitoring determined user... | What is claimed is: 1. A method for automated digital media content filtration based on relationship monitoring, the method comprising: establishing automatically, by a processor, according to a tolerance parameter, a plurality of user relationships, each user relationship based on monitoring an online association betw... | CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/134,859, entitled AUTOMATED DIGITAL MEDIA CONTENT FILTRATION BASED ON RELATIONSHIP MONITORINGâ, filed Jun. 6, 2008, now allowed, the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference herein. BACKGROUND This... | [
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US8655901B1 | Translation-based query pattern mining | This specification describes technologies relating to search systems. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of receiving a query pattern, the query pattern identifying a particular rule to interpret a particular type of query, th... | What is claimed: 1. A method comprising: receiving a first query pattern, the query pattern identifying a particular rule to interpret a particular type of query, the query pattern being in a first language; identifying, with a system comprising one or more computing devices, a collection of queries in the first langua... | BACKGROUND This instant specification relates to search systems. Internet search engines aim to identify resources (e.g., web pages, images, text documents, multimedia context) that are relevant to a user's needs and to present information about the resources in a manner that is most useful to the user. Internet search... | [
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US10972467B2 | Certificate based profile confirmation | Disclosed are various embodiments for controlling access to resources in a network environment. Methods may include installing a profile on the device and installing a certificate included in or otherwise associated with the profile on the device. A request to execute an application, and/or access a resource using a pa... | The invention claimed is: 1. A method for managing a device, the method comprising: sending, to a device from a remote server, a profile and a certificate that is unique to the profile, the profile specifying mandatory settings for the device, and installation of the profile by the device causing the certificate to be ... | This application claims priority as a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15/800,224 entitled âCERTIFICATE BASED PROFILE CONFIRMATION,â filed Nov. 1, 2017, which claims priority as a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/835,542 entitled âCERTIFICATE BASED PROFILE CONFIRMATION,â filed... | [
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US10126482B2 | Lightguide device with outcoupling structures | A lightguide assembly including structures to provide for outcoupling of light from an internal reflection structure. In an embodiment, a lightguide assembly includes light transmissive bodies forming respective corrugations which are coupled to one another. Optical coatings are variously disposed between the respectiv... | What is claimed is: 1. A method comprising: bonding a first body for a lightguide assembly to a second body for the lightguide assembly, the first body including a first light transmissive material which forms a first corrugation comprising a first plurality of facets, the second body including a second light transmiss... | CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION This application is a divisional of U.S. application Ser. No. 14/188,411, filed Feb. 24, 2014, still pending, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference. BACKGROUND 1. Technical Field This disclosure relates generally to the field of optics, and in particula... | [
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US10867122B1 | Contextually relevant knowledge panels in an application environment | From the content of a document, a factual entity that relates to the content of the document is determined. Content for a knowledge panel is requested. A knowledge panel is a user interface element that provides a collection of content related to the factual entity. The contents of the knowledge panel is received for c... | What is claimed is: 1. A method performed by a data processing apparatus, the method comprising: receiving content displayed within a display environment that is displayed on a user device as the content is being typed into the display environment by a user; determining, while receiving a first portion of the content b... | CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 14/656,295, filed Mar. 12, 2015, the contents of which are incorporated by reference herein. ENVIRONMENT The present document relates to user interfaces of computer application. BACKGROUND Many computer applications ... | [
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US7860754B2 | System and method for optimizing the reserve price and allocation of web page placements in an online keyword auction using generalized trade reduction | An improved system and method is provided for optimizing the reserve price and allocation of web page placements in an online keyword auction using generalized trade reduction. To do so, a generalized trade reduction engine may be provided to convert an implementation of an online keyword auction into a double-sided au... | 1. A computer-implemented method for an online keyword auction, comprising: dividing, by one or more computing devices, a plurality of bidders for a keyword into a plurality of procurement sets of at least one pair of a bidder and a web page placement; obtaining, by the one or more computing devices, a procurement set ... | FIELD OF THE INVENTION The invention relates generally to computer systems, and more particularly to an improved system and method for optimizing the reserve price and allocation of web page placements in an online keyword auction using generalized trade reduction. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION An online auction is a wid... | [
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US7944812B2 | Redundant intermediary switch solution for detecting and managing fibre channel over ethernet FCoE switch failures | A method for detecting a switch failure and managing switch failover in a Fiber Channel over Ethernet network. The plurality of Fiber Channel over Ethernet switches are connected to an intermediary Ethernet switch and to each other via an Ethernet connection. The intermediary Ethernet switch is different from the plura... | 1. A computer implemented method for detecting a switch failure and managing switch failover in a Fibre Channel over Ethernet network, the computer implemented method comprising: establishing an Ethernet connection between a plurality of Fibre Channel over Ethernet switches in the Fibre Channel over Ethernet network, w... | BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates generally to a data processing system and more specifically to methods and systems for configuring a redundant switch for Fibre Channel over Ethernet switch failures. 2. Description of the Related Art Fibre Channel (PC) is a high-speed ... | [
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US10645349B2 | Systems and methods for configuring baby monitor cameras to provide uniform data sets for analysis and to provide an advantageous view point of babies | Systems and methods for monitoring babies with cameras using a centralized computation and storage center that allows using visual output signals for computer vision and machine learning analysis and high-level reasoning of baby movements. The system comprises a camera located at a predefined working point above a baby... | What is claimed is: 1. A method for monitoring children while in cribs or on mattresses, the method performed in a system including a plurality of child monitor cameras configured to operate from a predefined working point with respect to the cribs or mattresses to thereby capture substantially uniform fields of view o... | CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION This application claims benefit to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15/361,702, entitled, âSYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURING BABY MONITOR CAMERAS TO PROVIDE UNIFORM DATA SETS FOR ANALYSIS AND TO PROVIDE AN ADVANTAGEOUS VIEW POINT OF BABIES,â filed on Nov. 28, 2016, which cla... | [
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US9560037B2 | Integrated APIs and UIs for consuming services across different distributed networks | User interface integration across multiple clouds is achieved by hosting UI extensions for different services in the same browser window. The UI extensions are initialized by a shell with any necessary security context for the corresponding cloud. The shell provides versioning so that the newest version of the UI is pr... | What is claimed is: 1. A computing system, comprising: a processor and a memory containing instructions executable by the processor to cause the processor to perform a process comprising: receiving, at a private cloud, log-on information from a user; and in response to and based on the received log-on information, prov... | BACKGROUND Cloud computing services in which users run applications on virtual machines hosted a distributed network of servers are available from a number of different service providers. The cloud computing services may be hosted on a public cloud, such as a remote datacenter that host numerous tenant users. Cloud com... | [
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US9203875B2 | Method and system for managing meeting resources in a network environment | In one example embodiment, a method is provided and includes monitoring a display status associated with a client device that is participating in a meeting being conducted over a network (wired, wireless, etc.). The method also includes reporting the display status to a server associated with the meeting. For example, ... | What is claimed is: 1. A method, comprising: monitoring a display status associated with a client device that is participating, using a meeting client program, in a meeting being conducted over a network, wherein the monitoring comprises: generating an image corresponding to a first portion of a meeting client program ... | TECHNICAL FIELD This disclosure relates in general to the field of communications and, more particularly, to managing meeting resources in a network environment. BACKGROUND Online meeting application software offers participants the opportunity to communicate and collaborate at reduced costs when compared to face-to-fa... | [
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US11423041B2 | Maintaining data lineage to detect data events | History for data objects may be maintained to detect data events. An indication of an Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) process applied to one or more source data objects to generate one or more transformed data objects may be received. History for the source data objects may be updated to include the transformed data obj... | What is claimed is: 1. A system, comprising: at least one processor; and a memory, storing program instructions that when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to implement a data catalog for an Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) service, the data catalog configured to: receive, at the da... | This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15/385,789, filed Dec. 20, 2016, which is hereby incorporated by reference herein in its entirety. BACKGROUND As the technological capacity for organizations to create, track, and retain information continues to grow, a variety of different technolo... | [
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US10778629B2 | Systems and methods for collation, translation, and analysis of passively created digital interaction and relationship data | A method of modeling relationships between e-mail users. The method includes extracting a record of e-mail exchanges between the users. The record is extracted from at least one of an e-mail server and an e-mail transfer agent. The data is extracted through a direct internet access protocol. The method includes filteri... | What is claimed is: 1. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing executable instructions that when executed perform a method of modeling relationships between a plurality of e-mail users comprising: extracting a record of e-mail exchanges between the plurality of users, wherein the record is extracted from a... | CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION This application is a divisional patent application and claims the benefit and priority to the U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/606,990, which was filed on Jan. 27, 2015 and set to issue on Mar. 20, 2018 as U.S. Pat. No. 9,923,852. The U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/606,99... | [
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US10346072B1 | Dislocated power loss protection charge storage | Aspects of dislocated charge storage for power loss protection in non-volatile memory systems are described. A system includes a power supply having an output power stage with bulk capacitance to supply power for a period of time after a power supply failure. The system also includes a network storage interface device ... | Therefore, at least the following is claimed: 1. A system, comprising: a power supply comprising a power supply controller and an output power stage having a bulk capacitance to supply power for at least a period of time after a power supply failure; a network storage interface device coupled to the power supply for po... | BACKGROUND Storage devices, servers, and other systems can provide data storage for various types of data files. Such storage systems can include specially-designed hardware and/or software components for certain storage requirements or applications, such as long-term data backup, data redundancy, remote file sharing, ... | [
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US7698347B2 | System and method for shortening click URLS | The present invention is directed to a system and method for reducing the size of one or more keys encoded into a link to a target resource. The method of one embodiment comprises receiving a request for a target resource, encoding a link to the target resource with one or more key/value pairs and selecting a given key... | 1. A method for reducing a size of one or more keys encoded into a link to a target resource, the method comprising: receiving, in an affiliate server, from an affiliate, a request for a target resource, where the target resource includes content information associated with an advertisement; selecting the target resour... | The present application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/710,036, entitled âSYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHORTENING CLICK URLS,â filed Aug. 18, 2005, the disclosure of which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety. COPYRIGHT NOTICE A portion of the disclosure of this patent docu... | [
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US9589231B2 | Social medical network for diagnosis assistance | A method for diagnosis assistance exploits similarity between a new medical case and existing medical cases and experts when embedded in a common embedding space. Different types of queries are provided for, including a query-by-cases and a query-by-experts. These may be associated with different cost structures that e... | What is claimed is: 1. A method for diagnosis assistance comprising: receiving a request for a query from a requester, the query request including a new medical case; embedding the new medical case in an embedding space in which a set of existing medical cases and a set of experts are embedded; providing for the reques... | BACKGROUND The exemplary embodiment relates to medical diagnosis and finds particular application in connection with a system and method for providing different levels of assistance to healthcare workers for medical diagnosis. Many people suffer from a variety of preventable and treatable medical conditions, such as di... | [
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US10733738B1 | Image alignment correction for imaging processing during operation of an unmanned aerial vehicle | Described is an, such as an unmanned aerial vehicle (âUAVâ), that includes stereo pairs of imaging element, each imaging element including a region of interest controller. The region of interest controller for an imaging element of the stereo pair receives movement information affecting the imaging element and sele... | What is claimed is: 1. An aerial vehicle comprising: a frame; a first imaging element, including: a first image sensor that generates a first pixel array representative of at least a portion of a scene; and a first movement sensor configured to measure a first movement of the first imaging element; and a second imaging... | This application is a continuation of and claims priority to U.S. application Ser. No. 15/173,378, filed Jun. 3, 2016, allowed and now U.S. Pat. No. 10,074,183, entitled âImage Alignment Correction for imaging Processing During Operation of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle,â which is incorporated herein by reference in i... | [
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US10447678B2 | Automated secret renegotiation | Secret information, such as seeds, codes, and keys, can be automatically renegotiated between at least one sender and at least one recipient. Various mechanisms, such as counters, events, or challenges, can be used to trigger automatic renegotiations through various requests or communications. These changes can cause t... | What is claimed is: 1. A computer-implemented method for renegotiating a shared secret, comprising: receiving a first request from a client electronic device; sending a first challenge question to the client electronic device; receiving a first response, to the first challenge question, from the client electronic devic... | CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/292,404 filed May 30, 2014, entitled âAUTOMATED SECRET RENEGOTIATION,â which is a continuation of U.S. patent Ser. No. 13/532,245, now U.S. Pat. No. 8,745,710 filed Jun. 25, 2012, entitled âAUTOMATED ... | [
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US9639125B2 | Centrifugal fan with integrated thermal transfer unit | Disclosed herein are computing devices, and methods of manufacturing computing devices, that have a cooling fan and integrated thermal transfer unit. A centrifugal fan unit includes a rotatable hub, a plurality of blades disposed on the rotatable hub, and a motor coupled to the rotatable hub. The motor causes the rotat... | What is claimed is: 1. An apparatus comprising: one or more heat sources; a centrifugal fan unit having a hub, a plurality of blades disposed on the hub, and a motor coupled to the hub, the motor to cause the hub to rotate about an axis such that airflow proceeds outward from the centrifugal fan unit along trajectories... | BACKGROUND A computing device includes various electronic components that produce heat during operation, such as central processing units, graphical processing units, and so forth. Since such devices can be damaged by overheating, the computing device may include a cooling mechanism. One such mechanism includes a centr... | [
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US10558767B1 | Analytical derivative-based ARMA model estimation | Systems are provided to estimate autoregressive moving average (ARMA) models using maximum likelihood estimation and analytical derivatives, and to use such models for forecasting. The evaluation of the analytical derivatives during estimation of the model parameters may be performed using a state space representation ... | What is claimed is: 1. A system comprising: a computer-readable memory storing executable instructions; and one or more processors programmed by the executable instructions to at least: obtain time series data representing values observed for an event over a first period of time; initialize first model parameters of an... | BACKGROUND Models representing data relationships and patterns, such as functions, algorithms, systems, and the like, may be used to generate output that corresponds to input in some way. In a common scenario, a set of data may be obtained, and a model of a theoretical function that generated the set of data may be sou... | [
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US9195306B2 | Virtual window in head-mountable display | Methods and systems involving a virtual window in a head-mounted display (HMD) are disclosed herein. An exemplary system may be configured to: (i) receive head-movement data that is indicative of head movement; (ii) cause an HMD to operate in a first mode in which the HMD is configured to: (a) simultaneously provide a ... | I claim: 1. A head-mountable device comprising: a see-through display; a non-transitory computer-readable medium; and program instructions stored on the non-transitory computer-readable medium and executable by at least one processor to: receive head-movement data that is indicative of head movement; cause the head-mou... | CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS This application is a continuation of co-owned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/429,072, filed on Mar. 23, 2012, which claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/507,874, filed on Jul. 14, 2011, both of which are herein incorporated by reference for all purposes. B... | [
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US8818033B1 | System and method for detecting equations | A system and method of extracting formulas in an electronic image of a document using optical character recognition (OCR) is disclosed. In one example, the method comprises analyzing the electronic image, including a plurality of text lines, to generate a plurality of bounding blocks, each bounding block associated wit... | What is claimed is: 1. A computer implemented method of extracting formulas in an electronic image of a document using optical character recognition (OCR), the method comprising: analyzing, by one or more computing devices, the electronic image, including a plurality of text lines, to generate a plurality of bounding b... | BACKGROUND Optical character recognition (OCR) uses computer software (or an OCR engine), to process digital images of printed, typewritten, handwritten, or other written text, whether originally on paper, microfilm, or other medium, and to produce machine recognizable and editable text from the images. The digital ima... | [
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US8908516B2 | Maintaining stability of a wireless network by adjusting transmitting period | An enhanced mobile communication device communicates directly with other enhanced mobile communication devices in an ad-hoc mode over a wireless medium. The device transmits and receives packets of digital data. The packets of digital data are such that when transmitted, the probability that they will be received by th... | What is claimed is: 1. A method comprising the steps of: initializing a transmitting frequency timer with a transmitting period; checking number of incoming traffic congestion packets received at a first vehicle during the transmitting period; adjusting the transmitting period according to the number of incoming traffi... | CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS This application is a divisional application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/272,039 filed on Oct. 15, 2002, now abandoned said application is expressly incorporated by reference herein in its entirety. BACKGROUND Ad-hoc wireless networks are networks that are formed and d... | [
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US10380528B2 | Interactive approach for managing risk and transparency | A network interface accesses project data, wherein the project data comprises a metric for a project. A processor determines a project completeness based on the project data. The network interface receives a project assessment and also accesses updated project data, wherein the updated project data comprises an updated... | What is claimed is: 1. The system, comprising: a storage module configured to access project data related to one or more projects; and a map module including a processor operably connected to the storage module to access the project data related to one or more projects; wherein the processor is configured to: access pr... | TECHNICAL FIELD This invention relates generally to generating a display containing metrics regarding a project, and more particularly to generating a project heat map that contains visual representations of metrics regarding a project. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION An organization may view metrics related to a project. ... | [
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US11102398B2 | Distributing processing for imaging processing | Approaches are described for managing the processing of images or video on a computing device. A portable computing device can include one or more dedicated components, such as an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) or other dedicated processor component, to be integrated into the computing device to perform... | What is claimed is: 1. A handheld computing device, comprising: at least one microphone; a display positioned on a first face of the handheld computing device; a first image capture component; a second image capture component; a first processor component in communication with the first image capture component, the firs... | CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION This application is a continuation of, and claims the benefit of priority to, U.S. Non-provisional patent application Ser. No. 15/206,665, filed Jul. 11, 2016 and entitled âDISTRIBUTING PROCESSING FOR IMAGING PROCESSINGâ, which is a continuation of, and claims the benefit of p... | [
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US9474043B1 | Third party action triggers | Methods, systems, and apparatus, for providing notifications based on third party data. In an aspect, a method includes receiving data responsive to a selection of an action trigger prompt at a user device, wherein: the action trigger prompt is rendered at the user device with a resource and displayed with the resource... | The invention claimed is: 1. A method, comprising: receiving, at a user device, first instructions that cause the user device to render a resource that includes a first parameter value of a first parameter and display the first resource; receiving, at the user device, second instructions at the user device cause the us... | CLAIM OF PRIORITY This Application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 14/752,369, filed Jun. 26, 2015, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 62/167,726, filed on May 28, 2015. The entire contents of each of the foregoing applications are incorporated herein by reference. BACKGROU... | [
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