Disney Enterprises, Inc.

Blab, Inc.

Other

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

David Aaron Snelling

Adam T Fritz

Randolph Browning

Stefan Nicholas Papp

Bernhard G Zimmermann

Scott Thompson

Oliver B Downs

James Robert Young, Jr

Benjamin Ralph Bressler

Joe F Heck, Ii

Trinity Alana Harrison

Brian Grutzius

Matt Estes

Lance Galey

Eric Benjamin Watson

Saurab Nog

Steven Yao

There is provided a system and method for human verification by a contextually iconic visual public Turing test. There is provided a method comprising receiving a request to verify whether a client is human controlled, selecting, by contextual criteria, a plurality of images each having one or more associated tags from a database, generating a challenge question and a corresponding answer set based on associated tags of a subset of the plurality of images, presenting the plurality of images and the challenge question to the client, receiving a submission to the challenge question from the client, and responding to the request by verifying whether the submission is contained in the answer set to determine whether the client is human controlled. The contextual criteria may comprise subject matter, branding, or intended audience of a content provider sending the request, thereby facilitating human responses while deterring automated systems.

Human verification by contextually iconic visual public turing test

Techniques are described for analyzing user-supplied information, including in at least some situations to predict future aspects of additional related information that will be supplied by users. The user-supplied information that is analyzed may, for example, include distributed group discussions that involve numerous users and occur via user comments made to one or more social networking sites and/or other computer-accessible sites. The analysis of user-supplied information may, for example, include determining particular topics that are of interest for a specified category during one or more periods of time, quantifying an amount of user interest in particular topics and the category during the period of time, predicting future amounts of user interest in the particular topics and the category during one or more future period of times, and taking one or more further actions based on the predicted information.

Analyzing distributed group discussions

Techniques are described for analyzing user-supplied information, including to predict future aspects of additional information that will be supplied by users. The analyzed information may include distributed group discussions involving numerous users and occurring via user comments and other content items supplied to social networking site(s) and/or other computer-accessible sites. The techniques further include displaying information to users about analyzed and/or predicted information for one or more categories and/or topics or other attributes, to reflect corresponding constituent content items for those categories/topics/attributes for one or more time periods&#x2014;the information display may further occur in a real-time or near-real-time manner with respect to corresponding events or activities to which the information corresponds (such as within seconds, minutes or hours), and may display information about total quantity of constituent content items, rate of change in total quantity, aggregate sentiment, etc.

Displaying information about distributed group discussions

Techniques are described for analyzing user-supplied information, including to predict future aspects of additional related information that will be supplied by users. The user-supplied information may include distributed group discussions that involve numerous users and occur via user comments and other content items supplied to one or more social networking sites and/or other computer-accessible sites. The analysis of user-supplied information may, for example, include determining particular topics that are of interest for a specified category during one or more periods of time, summarizing and encoding information about multiple selected factors for comments supplied for particular topics or a category during each period of time (such as to quantify an amount of user interest), predicting future values for the selected factors for the topics and category during one or more future period of times, and taking one or more further actions based on the predicted information.

Encoding and using information about distributed group discussions

One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a cloud computing environment that includes a service cloud and one or more services accessing the service cloud. The service cloud includes multiple resources of different types that support the execution of the services accessing the service cloud. Each resource and service in the cloud computing environment is configured via a centralized configuration service. In addition, resource allocation and predictive performance monitoring engines allocate resources and monitor the resources allocated to the services accessing the service cloud.

Systems and methods for configuring and managing computing resources to provide highly-scalable services

A search engine receives a search query from a user and forwards the received query to a partner by way of a call to a generic proxy with the query for the partner. The generic proxy receives and processes the query, forwards the processed query to the partner, receives search results responsive to the forwarded query from the partner, and processes the received search results, all according to the configuration information corresponding to the partner. The generic proxy then forwards the processed search results to the search engine for further forwarding to the querying user. Accordingly, each of several partners has corresponding configuration information unique thereto and only the generic proxy need be developed for all of the several partners.

Generic proxy for representing search engine partner

An automatic dispenser for providing animals with cool fresh liquid (e.g., water). The feeder has self-cleaning and self-refilling features that provide periodic replacement of hot, stale or dirty fluid with cool fresh refills. Solenoid valves are controlled by one or more liquid sensors, a time delay relay, timer and optional thermostat to provide flexibility and customizing of drain/refill cycles as desired in order to reflect varying ambient conditions in which the equipment is operated. Provision is also made for remote actuation of drain and refill cycles.

Automatic liquid dispenser for animals

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Bellevue, WA, United States of America

David Aaron Snelling