Sri International

Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.

Brooks Automation Gmbh

Apple Inc.

Nuance Communications, Inc.

Discern Communications, Inc.

David L Martin

Adam John Cheyer

Bruce M Schena

Thomas G Cooper

Roman L Devengenzo

Thomas W Brown

Scott Osborne Luke

Ulysses Gilchrist

Robert T Caveney

Harry Joseph Saddler

William Scott Mark

James Frederick Arnold

David Israel

Douglas B Moran

Peter Frederick Patel-Schneider

Peter Zei-Chan Yeh

Douglas E Appelt

William Mabry Tyson

John S Bear

Mark Edward Stickel

Megumi Kameyama

Gopalan Ravichandran

Jerry Robert Hobbs

Jan Noessner

Andrew J Roberts

Karen Louise Myers

A robotic surgery system includes an orienting platform, a support linkage movably supporting the orienting platform, a plurality of surgical instrument manipulators, and a plurality of set-up linkages. Each of the manipulators includes an instrument holder and is operable to rotate the instrument holder around a remote center of manipulation (RC). At least one of the manipulators includes a reorientation mechanism that when actuated moves the attached manipulator through a motion that maintains the associated RC in a fixed position.

Multi-port surgical robotic system architecture

According to some aspects, a method for aligning a first data source and a second data source during a plurality of iterations comprising a current iteration and a previous iteration is provided. The method comprises generating at least one property alignment hypothesis between at least one first property of the first data source and at least one second property of the second data source; generating a plurality of instance alignment hypotheses between a respective first plurality of instances of the first data source and a respective second plurality of instances of the second data source; and verifying at least one property alignment hypothesis and/or at least one of the plurality of instance alignment hypotheses. Generating the at least one property alignment hypothesis and/or generating the plurality of instance alignment hypotheses is based, at least in part, on at least one property alignment hypothesis and/or at least one instance alignment hypothesis verified during the previous iteration.

Methods and system for iteratively aligning data sources

A substrate transport apparatus comprising a drive section, a controller, an upper arm, forearm and substrate holder. A proximate end of the upper arm being rotatably mounted to the drive section at a shoulder joint. A proximate end of the forearm being rotatably mounted to a distal end of the upper arm at an elbow joint. The substrate holder being rotatably mounted to a distal end of the forearm at a wrist joint. The upper arm and the forearm being unequal in length from joint center to joint center. The substrate transport arm is adapted to transport substrate to and from at least two substrate holding areas with the drive section of the transport apparatus remaining in a fixed position relative to the holding areas. Each of the upper arm, forearm and substrate holder being independently rotatable with respect to each other.

Unequal link SCARA arm

A method of operating a digital assistant to provide emergency call functionality is provided. In some embodiments, the method is performed at a device including one or more processors and memory storing instructions for execution by the one or more processors. The method includes receiving a speech input from a user, determining whether the speech input expresses a user request for making an emergency call, and determining a local emergency dispatcher telephone number based on a geographic location of the device. The method also includes, in response to determining or obtaining a determination that the speech input expresses a user request for making an emergency call, calling the local emergency dispatcher telephone number using the emergency call functionality.

System and method for emergency calls initiated by voice command

A highly flexible, software-based architecture is disclosed for supporting cooperative task completion by flexible, dynamic configurations of autonomous electronic agents. Communications and cooperation between agents are brokered by one or more facilitators. The facilitators employ strategic reasoning for generating a goal satisfaction plan to fulfill arbitrarily complex goals by users and service requesting agents.

Highly scalable software-based architecture for communication and cooperation among distributed electronic agents

A distributed agent community is able to dynamically interact with alternative sofware technologies that manage distributed objects. The leveraging of capabilities of distributed object systems greatly expands the flexibility and capabilites of the distributed agent community. Through access to distributed object systems, the distributed agent community can draw on the capabilites of all the objects managed by the distributed object systems. The access to distributed systems by the distributed agent community allows for collaboration and intelligent planning that the distributed object systems do not themsleves provide.

Extensible software-based architecture for communication and cooperation within and between communities of distributed agents and distributed objects

A highly flexible, software-based architecture is disclosed for constructing distributed systems. The architecture supports cooperative task completion by flexible and autonomous electronic agents. One or more facilitators are used to broker communication and cooperation among the agents. The architecture provides for the construction of arbitrarily complex goals by users and service-requesting agents. Additional features include agent-based provision of multi modal interfaces, including natural language.

Software-based architecture for communication and cooperation among distributed electronic agents

The present invention provides a Unified Messaging system with an emphasis on ubiquitous access and dynamic presentation of the information and services supported by an agent community. The present invention allows queries across dynamically changing, complex information; shared context and reference resolution among applications; and flexible translation of multimedia data. Utilizing an Open Agent Architecture, the present invention allows a user to receive multiple information types, such as email, voicemail, and multimedia data, utilizing a single user interface, such as a phone. Communication and cooperation between agents are brokered by one or more facilitators, which are responsible for matching requests, from users and agents, with descriptions of the capabilities of other agents. It is not generally required that a user or agent know the identities, locations, or number of other agents involved in satisfying a request, and relatively minimal effort is involved in incorporating new agents and &ldquo;wrapping&rdquo; legacy applications. Extreme flexibility is achieved through an architecture organized around the declaration of capabilities by service-providing agents, the construction of arbitrarily complex goals by users and service-requesting agents, and the role of facilitators in delegating and coordinating the satisfaction of these goals, subject to advice and constraints that may accompany them.

Unified messaging methods and systems for communication and cooperation among distributed agents in a computing environment

A natural language information querying system includes an indexing facility configured to automatically generate indices of updated textual sources based on one or more predefined grammars and a database coupled to the indexing facility to store the indices for subsequent searching.

Information retrieval by natural language querying

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David L Martin