International Business Machines Corporation

Nuance Communications, Inc.

Airbnb, Inc.

Daisuke Tomoda

Hiroki Yoshinaga

Yuka Nomura

Koichi Takahashi

Takashi Takahashi

Yoshinori Tahara

Hiroaki Kashima

Shigeki Takeuchi

Norikazu Ichikawa

Seiji Abe

Mitsuru Shioya

Masami Tada

Hayato Uenohara

Yoshinori Atake

Tetsuya Uda

Yuhko Yamauchi

Kikuo Mitsubo

Tohru Tabara

Yohichiroh Matsuyama

Masao Hagino

A computer-implemented method of posting content to a social medium comprises receiving content posted by a user along with an associated posting time which indicates when the user selected an option to post the content to the social medium; determining that publication of the content posted by the user is dependent on a trigger; and in response to determining that publication of the content is dependent on the trigger, storing the content with the associated posting time and suspending publication of the content until the trigger is satisfied such that the posting time published with the content indicates a time prior to transmission of the content from an electronic device to a server for publishing.

Posting content to social medium

A webpage from a network server is received. The content of the received webpage is parsed. A first set of contextual data from one or more sources is collected. A first relationship between the collected first set of contextual data and the parsed content is identified. The identified relationship is determined to satisfy a first threshold. The parsed content is stored in a database for future display in response to the identified relationship satisfying the first threshold. At least a portion of the parsed content not stored in the database is displayed.

Displaying content based on a user's status

Confidential information included in image and voice data is filtered in an apparatus that includes an extraction unit for extracting a character string from an image frame, and a conversion unit for converting audio data to a character string. The apparatus also includes a determination unit for determining, in response to contents of a database, whether at least one of the image frame and the audio data include confidential information. The apparatus also includes a masking unit for concealing contents of the image frame by masking the image frame in response to determining that the image frame includes confidential information, and for making the audio data inaudible by masking the audio data in response to determining that the audio data includes confidential information. The playback unit included in the apparatus is for playing back the image frame and the audio data.

Filtering confidential information in voice and image data

A method for delivering an instant message in a server connected to two or more computers via a network is provided. The two or more computers include groupware clients in which a user can perform login at the same time, using the same user ID, and for which status that may be different from each other can be set. Embodiments of the method includes authenticating a user of a groupware client who attempts to perform login using a user ID, recording the user ID and status information in association with an instant messaging user ID, receiving an instant message addressed to the user ID, and determining, on the basis of the status information, which of two or more client computers the instant message is sent to.

Instant messagings

The present invention discourages effective illegal use of compromised biometric information in biometric authentication and allows biometric authentication to be securely continued even when some biometric information is compromised. A user authentication system compares extracted user features with a previously registered combination of features and authenticates the user on the basis of the result of the comparison. If the authentication is successful, the previously registered combination is replaced with a new combination of features that are registered for use in the subsequent authentication of the authentication object.

Technique for authenticating an object on basis of features extracted from the object

Embodiments of the present invention include a specific sentence generator for generating a piece of sentence data specific to an application from a grammar stored in a grammar storing unit and correction information stored in a correction information storing unit and then storing the piece of data in specific sentence storing unit, a topic shift unit for shifting a general topic stored in a general topic storing unit to a topic specific to an application on the basis of the piece of sentence data and then storing the topic in a shifted topic storing unit, a natural speech recognition unit for recognizing speech by dictation with a shifted topic and then storing the recognition result in a recognition result storing unit, a candidate sentence generator for generating candidate sentences from a grammar and then storing the sentences in a candidate sentence storing unit, and a matching unit for determining a final recognition result by matching candidate sentences with a recognition result.

Speech recognition device using statistical language model

The present invention includes specific sentence generatorfor generating a piece of sentence data specific to an application from a grammar stored in grammar storing unitand correction information stored in correction information storing unitand then storing the piece of data in specific sentence storing unit, topic shift unitfor shifting a general topic stored in general topic storing unitto a topic specific to an application on the basis of the piece of sentence data and then storing the topic in shifted topic storing unit, natural speech recognition unitfor recognizing speech by dictation with a shifted topic and then storing the recognition result in recognition result storing unit, candidate sentence generatorfor generating candidate sentences from a grammar and then storing the sentences in candidate sentence storing unit, and matching unitfor determining a final recognition result by matching candidate sentences with a recognition result.

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Yokohama, Japan

Daisuke Tomoda