International Business Machines Corporation

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Google Inc.

David R Bell

Philip L Norton

Chris Bygrave

Darren J Sullivan

Oliver Dineen

John Brian Pickering

John William Duffell

Peter John Cullen

Christopher S Bygrave

Phillip Norton

Christopher Phillips

Alex Gerhard Fehners

Ronald L Wright

David P Roe

Robert Watts

Chris Phillips

An aspect of auto-completion of text entered by a user includes configurable data collection components that collect from software applications text data and metadata representing an initial state of each of the applications and text data and metadata representing changes to the state of one or more of the applications. A central text matching component receives and stores the text data and metadata. A sending component sends text entered by the user in a text-entry field and any metadata associated with it to the central text matching component. A comparison component compares the entered text and associated metadata to the stored text data and metadata and locates matching text strings. A weighted ordering component ranks the matching text strings using the metadata and its configuration settings. A completion component completes the entered text at the text-entry field based on a selection of one of the located matching text strings.

Context-based text auto completion

A method, apparatus, and/or computer program product control how an application window of a graphical user interface will open. A computing device defines a time period immediately after an application launch selection action by a user and before an on-screen drawing of the application window. A gesture input hardware sensing device senses a gesture input during the time period. A gesture recognition engine recognizes the gesture input. Based on at least one of a type and location of a recognized gesture input, the computing device selects the window location and window dimensions of the application window. The computing device draws the application window on-screen using a selected window location and selected window dimensions for the application window.

Controlling application launch

Errors are predicted in a user interface interaction. User interactions in a user interaction session are recorded. The user interactions form a recorded user interaction pattern. The recorded user interaction pattern is checked for a similar match against a set of error patterns, in which each error pattern is an historical user interaction pattern associated with an historical error status. A user is notified that the recorded user interaction pattern is an error risk, based on the recorded user interaction pattern being similar to an error pattern that has generated an historical error.

User interface error prediction

Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising receiving a request to create a clip of a media file, wherein the request specifies a time duration for the clip, computing a metric value for each of a plurality of segments of the media file, identifying, based on the plurality of metric values, a first segment of the plurality of segments of the media file, wherein the metric value for the first segment of the media file exceeds a threshold metric value, and generating the clip of the media file, wherein the clip of the media file includes at least the first segment of the media file.

Prioritized playback of media content clips

A method for destination and duration of stay determination in a geographically bounded area such as a smart home includes detecting movement by an identified individual in an origination location of a geographically bounded area and retrieving a contemporaneously generated pattern of movement for the individual. The method additionally includes comparing the pattern for the identified individual to a set of patterns in a pattern data store and predicting from a matching pattern both a destination location in the geographically bounded area and a duration of time at which the identified individual is to remain at the destination location. Finally, the method includes directing activation of a fixture at the destination location responsive to predicting the destination location, and directing deactivation of a fixture at the origination location responsive to predicting a duration of time that exceeds a threshold value.

Destination and duration of stay determination in a geographically bounded area

In a method for identifying a location of an incident, a computer receives data from a plurality of navigation devices. The computer determines a portion of a determined route between a first point and a second point of at least one navigation device of the plurality of navigation devices, wherein the at least one navigation devices deviated from the determined route. The computer determines that two or more portions contain a sub-portion. The computer identifies a location of an incident, wherein the location is a location of the sub-portion.

Determining the location of an incident affecting traffic

A method, apparatus and software is disclosed for identifying dependencies between components for a given build of a componentised product in which the results of testing of combinations of existing and new components that comprise the product are used to identify dependencies between new components.

Method, apparatus or software for identifying dependencies between components for a given build of a componentised product

A data processing method comprises maintaining a source code repository, checking out a component from the source code repository, checking in a modified version of the component to the source code repository, identifying the changes between the modified version of the component and the original component, applying one or more pattern matching techniques to the identified changes, storing the output of the pattern matching techniques, and displaying the output.

Identifying changes in source code

Systems and methods for automatically generating pattern keys based on models of user travel patterns and behavior, wherein the pattern keys may be used in automated navigation systems for fast and efficient prediction of user destinations.

Generating and using pattern keys in navigation systems to predict user destinations

A method and system for processing a free format short message service (SMS) text message for alerting a mobile phone's user to significant information in the message received by the mobile phone from a sender. Program code stored in memory on the mobile phone executes the method on a processor. A theme, a rheme, at least one structural component, and a sentence type of the normalized message are generated from which a FEATURE FACTOR priority is determined. Semantic content of the normalized message is determined from which an EMOTIONAL FACTOR priority is determined. A TOTAL PRIORITY computed as a sum of the FEATURE FACTOR priority and the EMOTIONAL FACTOR priority is determined to exceed a predetermined threshold, from which it is determined that the received message is significant, which triggers overriding default handset settings of the mobile phone and alerting the user that the received message is significant.

Alerts based on significance of free format text messages

Disclosed are embodiments of a vehicle-to-vehicle traffic queue information communication system, a traffic queue information communication device, and method. The system and method embodiments incorporate the use of multiple vehicles. Each vehicle is equipped with a traffic queue information communication device. Each traffic queue information communication device can be used to determine if its corresponding vehicle has entered or exited a queue in a single lane of traffic. When the vehicle is in a queue, the device can communicate with the immediately adjacent vehicles in front and behind. Specifically, it can receive data from the preceding vehicle in the queue and use the received data to determine its position in the queue as well as the estimated time it will take to travel through the queue. Revised data can then be transmitted by the device to the next vehicle in the queue for making the same determinations.

Vehicle-to-vehicle traffic queue information communication system and method

A method, system and computer program product for automatically alerting one or more recipients of the arrival of an individual to a known destination via a global positioning system (GPS) navigation device. To issue an accurate alert of arrival time and or distance, the device enables: (1) pre-selection of two or more locations from a plurality of mapped locations; (2) pre-selection of one or more devices to which an alert is to be sent when the GPS device passes through the pre-selected locations; and (3) pre-selection of a time during which the alert should be triggered. The device automatically sends an alert to one or more devices when the GPS device passes through the pre-selected locations during the pre-selected time period, wherein the alert informs the user of the one or more recipient devices that the individual (corresponding to the GPS device) has commenced a journey to the destination.

Combining time and GPS locations to trigger message alerts

A method and system for processing a fixed format short message service (SMS) text message for alerting a user of a mobile phone to significant information in the message received by the mobile phone. Program code stored in memory on the mobile phone executes the method on a processor. A value of each preset variable of at least two preset variables is retrieved from the memory on the mobile phone. The mobile phone receives the message from a sender. The message is ascertained to be significant by ascertaining that the received message passes at least one test. Each test utilizes at least one aspect of the received message and the retrieved value of at least one preset variable. Responsive to the ascertaining, default handset settings of the mobile phone are overridden and the user is alerted by an audio tone or vibration that the received message is significant.

Alerts based on significance of fixed format SMS text messages

The present disclosure is a method for alerting road users to the presence of an emergency vehicle. The method for alerting road user to the presence of an emergency vehicle may include receiving a short range signal, the signal including information regarding an emergency vehicle, decoding the signal, notifying a user, and transmitting the information regarding an emergency vehicle via a short range wireless signal. Each vehicle may include a short range wireless signal transceiver which could create a daisy chain distribution mechanism to distribute the information regarding an emergency vehicle to a first vehicle than to a second vehicle quickly and efficiently.

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Southampton, United Kingdom

David R Bell