Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

David Michael Hilbert

Laurent Denoue

Jonathan James Trevor

John E Adcock

Jonathan T Foote

Matthew L Cooper

Kandha Sankarapandian

Lynn D Wilcox

William Noah Schilit

Scott Carter

Gene Golovchinsky

Giovanni Lorenzo Thione

Eleanor Rieffel

Christopher D Culy

Daniel Billsus

Steven Cebertowicz

Ram Sriram

Daniel-Alexander Billsus

Patrick Chiu

Francine R Chen

Elizabeth F Churchill

Andreas Girgensohn

David Ayman Shamma

Tohru Fuse

Yukiyo Uehori

Pernilla Qvarfordt

Shinji Onishi

Chidansh Amitkumar Bhatt

Hiroshi Sakaida

Les Nelson

Zachary Gianos

Yasha Spong

Venkat Ram Sriram

A computer-implemented method, comprising receiving one or more inputs associated with a master services agreement (MSA), and generating an output that includes smart contract information; performing a simulation and receiving user input to interactively adjust the smart contract information and implement a smart purchase agreement (SPA) in blockchain and in a state engine; and automatically generating a smart purchase order (SPO) under the MSA, wherein the SPO is automatically validated for a conflict against the MSA in real-time, and for the case of a conflict, a conflict warning is provided.

System for simulating and creating smart purchase agreements from master service agreements

A method of managing a low-power wide area blockchain network having multifunction printers (MFPs) as nodes in a radio frequency (RF) mesh is provided. The method includes configuring the RF mesh based on MFP characteristics including RF reception, compute, storage and uplink, for each of the MFPs. The method also includes operating the RF mesh to dynamically determine a role of the MFPs based on the MFP characteristics, current power save and processing state, for each of the MFPs and its neighboring MFPs, based on a function that minimizes delay, balances load and/or transitions MFPs between a sleep mode and a wake mode.

System and method for creating and operating low-power wide area network for internet of things (IoT)

Embodiments of the present invention enable the extraction, classification, storage, and supplementation of presentation video. A media system receives a video signal carrying presentation video. The media system processes the video signal and generates images for slides of the presentation. The media system then extracts text from the images and uses the text and other characteristics to classify the images and store them in a database. Additionally, the system enables viewers of the presentation to provide feedback on the presentation, which can be used to supplement the presentation.

Capturing and storing elements from a video presentation for later retrieval in response to queries

Capturing a sequence of images of a multi-page printed document is performed by a handheld device, such as a Smartphone. The device has one or more processors, memory, and a digital image sensor. The device monitors preview images of a first printed page of the multi-page printed document, where the preview images are generated by the digital image sensor. Without user indication of when to capture an image, the device captures a still image of the first printed page when a first quality metric of the preview images exceeds a first quality threshold. The device repeats the monitoring and capturing of additional pages until receiving indication from the user that capturing images is complete. In response to receiving indication from the user that capturing images is complete, the device concatenates the captured still images into a single digital document and stores the single digital document.

Systems and methods for efficiently capturing high-quality scans of multi-page documents with hand-held devices

Example embodiments described herein are directed to utilizing image matching technology to allow people to use their mobile device to setup scan workflows (or 'Scan Flows') in advance of a future scanning operation. Using an application on a mobile device, the user takes a photo of the first page of a document that he/she will scan at some later time and associates the image of the document with a simple workflow (e.g., where to store the document once the document has been scanned). Additional workflow actions may include automatic document sharing and notification, automatic document segmentation, and automatic document cropping.

Mobile scan setup and context capture prior to scanning

An automated test to tell computers and humans apart is disclosed, comprising displaying on a computer screen an animation comprising of a foreground and a background, one of the foreground comprising a plurality of typographical characters and the other comprising partial obstruction of the typographical characters, and wherein the animation comprises relative motion between the background and foreground. The automated test may comprise displaying on a computer screen an image, and requiring the user to perform operation on the image to resolve an encoded solution. The test may also comprise displaying on a computer screen a video clip, and requiring a user to provide an input corresponding to subject matter presented in the video clip.

Motion and interaction based CAPTCHA

An interactive system provides for increasing retrieval performance of images depicting text by allowing users to provide relevance feedback on words contained in the images. The system includes a user interface through which the user queries the system with query terms for images contained in the system. Word image suggestions are displayed to the user through the user interface, where each word image suggestion contains the same or slightly variant text as recognized from the word image by the system than the particular query terms. Word image suggestions can be included in the system by the user to increase system recall of images for the one or more query terms and can be excluded from the system by the user to increase precision of image retrieval results for particular query terms.

Increasing retrieval performance of images by providing relevance feedback on word images contained in the images

Embodiments of the present invention include a video server that can detect and track the image of a pointing indicator in an input video stream representation of a computer display. The video server checks ordered frames of the video signal and determines movements for a pointing indicator such as a mouse arrow. Certain motions by the pointing indicator, such as lingering over a button or menu item or circling a button or menu item can provoke a control action on the server.

System and method for detecting user actions in a video stream

Blogs (and other information sources) are recommended to a user based history of user's online activities. The system: (1) processes the user's web history, (2) identifies blog posts (and web pages) that link to pages read by the user, (3) generates multiple relevance scores for each identified post/page, and (4) produces multiple rankings of the corresponding source blogs (and web sites) by aggregating individual relevance scores (or combinations of relevance scores), according to users' preferences. The system allows the discovery of information sources that are likely to be interesting to the user and allows sources lost in the 'long tail' to be seamlessly discovered.

System and method for recommending information resources to user based on history of user's online activity

An element, such as a plug on a VGA cable, can communicate with a media storage unit to enable or disable media storage.

Smart cable for controlling video capture device

User behavior while interacting with one or more first representations of digital content can be monitored. Interaction information can be determined by monitoring the user behavior while interacting. Interaction information can include information identifying interaction areas of the first representation, degree of interaction information, and sequence of interaction information. The interaction information can be maintained and used to deform a second representation of digital content. The first and second representations can be of the same or different digital content.

Systems and methods for using interaction information to deform representations of digital content

Systems and methods for processing automatically generated recommendations. In various exemplary embodiments, a method of producing a recommendation digest for a user includes (a) generating a recommendation log for the user by storing a plurality of recommendations, one or more of the plurality of recommendations relating to a representation of a context that led to the creation of the one or more recommendations for the user, and (b) determining a subset of recommendations by using one or more statistics obtained from processing the plurality of recommendations stored in the log.

Recommendation aggregation for digest generation

A system for providing a dynamic audio-visual environment using an eSurface situated in a room environment; a projector situated for projecting images onto the eSurface; a camera situated to picture the room environment; a central processor coupled to the eSurface, the projector and the camera. The processor receives pictures from the camera for detecting the location of the eSurface; and controls the projector to aim its projection beam onto the eSurface. The eSurface is a sheet-like surface having the property of accepting optically projected image when powered, and retaining the projected image after the power is turned off.

System and method for operating photo-addressable ePaper environment

A physical key is used to propose an association between a guest device and user information and services. Contact-based or contact-less connectors are used to establish the proposed association between the physical key and the guest device. The proposed association then communicated to the dynamic authentication system over a first communication channel. The dynamic authentication system determines a user confirmation over a second communications channel based on a user device and previously determined associations between users, user devices and the physical key. The guest device is then authenticated for access to information and/or services associated with the user. The information retrieved from and/or transmitted to the user's personal information repository is optionally protected using various transformations. Optional session identifiers supported on the physical key and/or the user device, ensure the protected information is inaccessible when the physical key is removed and/or the predetermined association with the user device is deleted.

Systems and methods for dynamic authentication using physical keys

An access server allows secure access to commonly used files stored on multiple file sources from a variety of client devices. The access server extracts a list of file sources associated with the user, and accesses each of those sources. The server is then configured to extract a list of most recently used files by the current user as well as information associated with those files. The access server also processes electronic mail attachments. The access server intercepts electronic mail messages containing attachments, and transmits the attachments to a file server.

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Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

David Michael Hilbert