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MultiLanguage Machine Translation Speech Corrector, Polar Bear Ratinov, Dimitri Kanevsky
MultiLanguage Machine Translation Speech Corrector, Polar Bear Ratinov, Dimitri Kanevsky
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A system and method are proposed that will leverage language models from multiple language machine translations (MT) for better speech recognition. Wherever ambiguity exists in interpreting speech, the system identifies each transcribed option of homophones for interpretation through translation. The system then translates each sentence corresponding to the options of homophones into multiple languages. The method comprises a scoring system that is used by the machine translation system for assessing translations whereby the translation which makes less sense is given a lower score. The system combines the scores assigned to each translated homophone in the various languages and selects the …
Transparently Sharing Human Interface Devices Between Local And Remote Desktops, Shakeel Butt, Sharjeel Qureshi
Transparently Sharing Human Interface Devices Between Local And Remote Desktops, Shakeel Butt, Sharjeel Qureshi
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Using First-Party Website Identity For Remarketing Attribution And Optimization, Chao Cai
Using First-Party Website Identity For Remarketing Attribution And Optimization, Chao Cai
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An improved method of evaluating and optimizing marketing campaigns utilizes first-party cookies to facilitate split testing. Users are assigned to control or treatment groups to assess the relative effectiveness of two different approaches. Marketers can produce precise, granular estimates of the ROI of a particular campaign by combining content optimization and marketing optimization in the context of evaluating campaign strategy.
Content Control Management, Adam Glazier, Michael Jon Sundermeyer
Content Control Management, Adam Glazier, Michael Jon Sundermeyer
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A content control system can be used to control media content that is being played at one or more client devices. The system receives an instruction from a first user’s client device to play media content. The system provides complete control of the playing media content at the first user’s client device. The system provides limited control of the playing media content at the second user’s client device.
Code Security With Variable-Length Instruction Encoding, Bruno De Backer, Ondrej Sykora
Code Security With Variable-Length Instruction Encoding, Bruno De Backer, Ondrej Sykora
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Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing code security with variable-length instruction encoding. An aspect may include encoding instructions according to a set of rules. Such encoding may delimit the beginning of instructions using a specific bit, delimit the beginning of a basic block using another specific bit, enable handling of variable length constants that code size, and make code validation decidable and deterministic. Accordingly, code may be scanned once to verify that the code can be decoded into actual instruction, non-computed branches can be validated, and computed branches may trap if …
Google Votes: A Liquid Democracy Experiment On A Corporate Social Network, Steve Hardt, Lia C. R. Lopes
Google Votes: A Liquid Democracy Experiment On A Corporate Social Network, Steve Hardt, Lia C. R. Lopes
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This paper introduces Google Votes, an experiment in liquid democracy built on Google's internal corporate Google+ social network. Liquid democracy decision-making systems can scale to cover large groups by enabling voters to delegate their votes to other voters. This approach is in contrast to direct democracy systems where voters vote directly on issues, and representative democracy systems where voters elect representatives to vote on issues for them. Liquid democracy systems can provide many of the benefits of both direct and representative democracy systems with few of the weaknesses. Thus far, high implementation complexity and infrastructure costs have prevented widespread adoption. …
Frictioned Micromotion Input For Touch Sensitive Devices, Samuel Huang
Frictioned Micromotion Input For Touch Sensitive Devices, Samuel Huang
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Techniques are provided for securing devices using wiggles, which can include small finger motions made on a touch screen associated with a device. The wiggles can be made by one or multiple fingers and can be made without lifting a finger from the touch screen or sliding the finger along the touch screen, which makes wiggles difficult to observe and therefore difficult to reproduce by another person. Wiggles can include directional motions, rotational motions, and multi-touch motions. For applications in device unlocking, a user can register a “wiggle path” and then later execute an input wiggle path discreetly. The device …
Automatic Selection Of Noise Abatement Parameters For Touch Controllers, Milton Ribeiro
Automatic Selection Of Noise Abatement Parameters For Touch Controllers, Milton Ribeiro
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When a power adapter is connected to a computing device (e.g., a notebook, a laptop, a tablet, a smartphone, etc.), the power adapter identifies itself by sending identifier information such as, for example, manufacturer, part number, revision, manufacturing date, etc. The computing device queries a locally-stored table of known power adapters to obtain related touch controller data (e.g., list of hopping frequencies, frequency hopping strategy, filtering strategy and parameters, etc.) to be used by a touch controller in the computing device for noise abatement. If the power adapter is not on the locally-stored table, the computing device queries a remotely-stored …
Pre-Fetching Batched Advertisements On Mobile Devices, Russell Quong, Steve Osborn
Pre-Fetching Batched Advertisements On Mobile Devices, Russell Quong, Steve Osborn
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A mobile device may include an advertisement subsystem that can transmit ad requests to an advertisement network to receive batched advertisements to be stored in an ad cache. When an application executing on the mobile device requests an advertisement from the advertisement subsystem, the advertisement subsystem can select and serve the prefetched advertisement even if the mobile device is offline. Impression and/or performance data may be transmitted to the advertisement network once the mobile device is online. In some implementations, the advertisement subsystem can combine signal data from multiple applications having differing permissions to create a more comprehensive ad request. …
Smart Refrigerator For Grocery Management, Emily Moin
Smart Refrigerator For Grocery Management, Emily Moin
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The invention discloses a grocery management system. The grocery management system resolves an identity of food products in a refrigerator. The system further determines a status, e.g., expiration dates, weights, freshness, quantity, or any other measure, of the food products shelved in the refrigerator. The system compares the status of the food products with one or more predetermined criterias, e.g., whether the food product is within a threshold number of days of its expiry date, whether the food product is below a threshold quantity, e.g., by weight, volume, count, etc. Accordingly, the system provides customized notifications to a user of …
Mobile Integrated Software Testing System, Chris Sosa, Preeyanka Shah
Mobile Integrated Software Testing System, Chris Sosa, Preeyanka Shah
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A mobile integrated software testing system may be a general computing device configured to provide an infrastructure to run automated tests. The mobile integrated software testing system may be a test system loaded with a customized operating system designed to support testing 20-30 devices. A user may able to connect a test device to the mobile integrated software testing system. The user may designate the test that the user wishes to run and the image that the user wants to test against through an interface provided by the mobile integrated software testing system. The mobile integrated software testing system may …
Dynamic Computational Workload-Based Co-Processing, David Zeuthen, Alejandro Deymonnaz
Dynamic Computational Workload-Based Co-Processing, David Zeuthen, Alejandro Deymonnaz
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A computing device may dynamically determine a strong coprocessor to perform peerto-peer updates. The computing device may advertise its hardware capabilities as services to enable co-processing and peer-to-peer updates. Based on the information provided by other devices in the local network, the computing device may automatically send work to some devices with more processing capabilities. The computing device may be configured to automatically offload computation from less powerful devices (e.g., mobile phones) to other more powerful devices (e.g., personal computers) in a local network. The computing device may also receive at least a portion of one or more files from …
Detection Of A Vehicle Occupant’S Dropped Items After Vehicle Entry Or Exit, Jonathan Dowdal, Jiajun Zhu
Detection Of A Vehicle Occupant’S Dropped Items After Vehicle Entry Or Exit, Jonathan Dowdal, Jiajun Zhu
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A sensor system detects any items dropped on the ground near a vehicle using a lidar or other sensor. A sensor system takes a reference scan, or other data collection, of the ground before a passenger enters or exits the vehicle. The system takes a comparative scan, or other data collection, shortly after the passenger has entered or exited the vehicle. If a change is detected by the system, an alert could be activated.
Wireless Keyboard Without Need For Battery, Vijay Asrani, James Tanner
Wireless Keyboard Without Need For Battery, Vijay Asrani, James Tanner
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To obviate the need for a battery or other power source, a keyboard may transmit keystroke signals to a tablet computer via a passive antenna, such as a passive Near Field Communication (NFC) antenna and/or radio-frequency identification (RFID) antenna. The tablet computer may transmit signals to the keyboard via an active antenna such as an active NFC antenna and/or RFID antenna. When the user presses a key on the keyboard, the passive antenna may modulate the signal received from the tablet computer. The modulation of the signal may include completing and/or closing a circuit in response to the user pressing …
Caching Image Thumbnails As Compressed Video Bitstreams, Andrew Lewis
Caching Image Thumbnails As Compressed Video Bitstreams, Andrew Lewis
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An image thumbnail caching system combines image thumbnails into one or more sets of video frames. The system then encodes the one or more sets of video frames to generate corresponding encoded video bitstreams. Then, the system stores the encoded video bitstreams. The system sends metadata associated with the encoded video bitstreams. Further, a specific thumbnail can be retrieved, for preview at a device, by decoding one or more of the encoded video bitstreams based on the metadata.
Removable Computer Data Storage Medium With Visible MutableBulkProperty Indication, Dave Chess
Removable Computer Data Storage Medium With Visible MutableBulkProperty Indication, Dave Chess
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A system and method is provided wherein a data storage medium, such as a magnetic tape cartridge, includes visual indicia that reflects a changeable property of the medium, such as whether and how much data has been written to the medium.
Mood Advisor Based On A User's Online And Device Activity, Javier Maria Gomez Beltran
Mood Advisor Based On A User's Online And Device Activity, Javier Maria Gomez Beltran
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A system can determine correlations between user moods and user activities performed with devices, and can provide advice affecting user moods based on such correlations. For example, the system records moods of a user, such as by requesting that the user input his or her current moods periodically to devices. The system also determines and records activities and conditions that are engaged in by the user over time, based on the user's usage of devices for physical and online activity and based on detection of user activity using devices and device data. The system correlates moods of the user to …
Behavior-Triggered Answer Reconfirmation For Spam Detection In Online Surveys, Kang Li
Behavior-Triggered Answer Reconfirmation For Spam Detection In Online Surveys, Kang Li
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This paper describes a survey system that can validate responses received in an online survey. The survey system can deem an answer to a survey in progress as likely unreliable and dynamically add a verification question. The survey system can deem an answer as likely unreliable in several ways, including receiving the answer too quickly or receiving an answer inconsistent with what is known about the user. A spammy answer can come from a user clicking through the survey without considering the question, or by a web robot configured to click through the survey to access an online document or …
Associating Image Metadata With Steganography Or Lazy Hashes Of The Image, Alex Faaborg
Associating Image Metadata With Steganography Or Lazy Hashes Of The Image, Alex Faaborg
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By storing the annotation metadata on a centralized server, content creators and advertisers can reduce the risk that annotations will be lost when an annotated image file is recompressed or slightly altered. The system first associates the annotations with the image file by performing a lazy hash or by using image steganography (for example, a digital watermark) and stores that information in a centralized server. When the system renders a second image file, it checks the server for a matching hash value or watermark. The system then retrieves the associated annotation data and displays the annotations over the image.
Ranking Content Suggestions Based On Calendar Data, Mauro Cherubini
Ranking Content Suggestions Based On Calendar Data, Mauro Cherubini
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Content suggestions can be ranked by using calendar data in addition to, for example, travel and map data. First, the system receives calendar data input from the user containing information such as business, leisure, and other activities scheduled to occur on certain dates and times. Then, the system receives travel data from the user. For example, the user might book a round trip flight to and from a certain city scheduled to occur on specific dates and times. The system then uses calendar data in addition to, for example, travel and map data to identify suggestions for lodging, dining, or …
Absolute Attribution Using Frequency Extrapolation, Robert Marsa
Absolute Attribution Using Frequency Extrapolation, Robert Marsa
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Systems and methods pertaining to attribution are provided. In some implementations, a method enables assigning accurate credit to known factors by quantifying the effects of unknown factors in influencing behavior. The method may include examining a lift of being exposed to additional advertising to quantify the effect of the additional advertising. The method may further include measuring the lift directly for the non-zero events and using extrapolation to determine a baseline for the zero event.
Local Content Caching, Eldridge Alexander
Local Content Caching, Eldridge Alexander
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A content caching system caches content, predicted to be streamed in the future, locally at a device, thereby, enabling faster access to the content for a user of the device. The system indexes metadata describing content being offered by a media streaming application. Further, the system receives information about past content previously accessed by a user on the media streaming application. Based on the indexed metadata and the received information, the system determines content that will be accessed by the user in the future. Then, the system sends information about the determined content to be cached at the media streaming …
Systems And Methods For Injecting Ads Into Content Streams Played By Consumer Electronics Devices, Jason Kinner
Systems And Methods For Injecting Ads Into Content Streams Played By Consumer Electronics Devices, Jason Kinner
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This paper describes an automated system for injecting advertisements into audiovisual content streams played on physical digital media, such as DVDs and Blu-Ray Discs. The system can include a display, audio/visual receiver, and a playback device. By controlling the playback device, the system can (i) replace existing advertisements with new advertisements; (ii) add new advertisement content to the content stream by pausing the content stream; (ii) add new advertisements to the content stream by buffering the content stream; and (iv) remove the existing advertisements by automatically skipping through the existing advertisements.
Cross-Platform Styling Of Native Input Widgets On Mobile Browsers, Ben Greenwood, Joey Scarr
Cross-Platform Styling Of Native Input Widgets On Mobile Browsers, Ben Greenwood, Joey Scarr
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The subject disclosure relates to modifying or “stylizing” the graphical display of a native input widget (also referred to as “standard input widgets”, “native semantic input types”, or “pickers”) in a web page displayed in a web browser, particularly a mobile web browser, so that the native input widget can be configured, for example, to appear to a user to match the visual style (e.g., font size, color, localization format) of the rest of the web page. Specifically, the graphical display of the native input widget appears to the user to be modified by layering a stylized façade element (“façade …
Event Relevant Reminders, Daniel Klein, Dean Jackson
Event Relevant Reminders, Daniel Klein, Dean Jackson
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An event preparation reminder system reminds a user to prepare for an upcoming event. The system analyzes data associated with the user from multiple sources. Further, the system identifies an event from the data associated with the user. Then, the system identifies information that is relevant to the identified event. Further, the system provides the information to the user before the event.
Calendar Event Management, Alexander Faaborg
Calendar Event Management, Alexander Faaborg
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A calendar event management system provides additional and improved functionalities to a user of a calendar application. In one embodiment, the calendar event management system calculates a probability of invitees attending an event and displays this calculated probability to all the other invitees. In a second embodiment, the system manages a presentation of notification for calendar events to an event organizer as well as the invitees. In a third embodiment, the system provides a notification for calendar events to a user based on a virtual location of the user.
Managing Events Based On Space And Time Relationship, Matteo Corea, Lorenzo Blanco
Managing Events Based On Space And Time Relationship, Matteo Corea, Lorenzo Blanco
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A space-aware event management system manages spatially conflicting calendar events. The system analyzes events scheduled on a calendar. The system determines an optimized route between the events based on a spatial and time relationship of the events. Further, the system provides the optimized route to the user.
Advertising Based On Determined Intent Along Conversion Path, Neil Hoyne
Advertising Based On Determined Intent Along Conversion Path, Neil Hoyne
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An advertisement targeting system manages content and advertisements on a website. The system receives a request to place measurement units on a publisher website from a publisher. The system receives a request to purchase an inventory of measurement units from an advertiser to target content or advertisements on the advertiser’s destination website. Further, the system identifies an inventory of measurement units based on an association between the publisher websites with the measurement units and the destination website. Upon identifying the inventory of the measurement units, the system captures user behavior at the publisher websites with the inventory of the measurement …
Determination Of A Primary Window, Marcel Gordon
Determination Of A Primary Window, Marcel Gordon
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A primary window management system can be used to determine a primary window from a multitude of windows opened in one or more applications. Applications may include web browsers, text editors, raster graphics editors, word processors, etc. The system determines the primary window from the multitude of windows based on user input. Then, the system modifies user interfaces of the one or more applications to provide easy navigation to the primary window from other windows.
Virtual Door Knock Notifications, Daniel Klein, Dean Jackson
Virtual Door Knock Notifications, Daniel Klein, Dean Jackson
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A virtual door knock notification system notifies a user when a visitor arrives at a user’s address or a person associated with a service arrives at the user’s address to deliver the service. The service may include, e.g., a meter reading service or a package delivery service. The virtual door knock notification system first determines a location of the visitor or the service person. The system then retrieves an address of the user. Accordingly, the system provides a notification to the user when the determined location of the visitor or the service person is in close proximity to the address …