Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

Eamonn O'Brien-Strain

James Allely Rowson

Simon Widdowson

Yuhong Xiong

Prakash D Reddy

Robert Nelson Mayo

Suk Hwan Lim

Jerry J Liu

Tong Zhang

Peter G Hwang

Daniel R Tretter

Niranjan Damera-Venkata

Luciano Lavagno

Georgia Koutrika

Christopher Edward Hoover

Clayton Atkins

Neeti Khullar Bhatnagar

James L McCullough

Qizhang Chao

Massimiliano L Chiodo

John C Schettino, Jr

Jennifer Marie McCord Brister

Sherry Solden

Fred Zuill

Edwin A Harcourt

Aaron Beverly

Michael D Sholes

Sanjay Chakravarty

Terence C Ngai

Yuhon Xiong

Parkesh Reddy

Gary E Herman

William W La Rue, Jr

Douglas D Dunlop

Poonam Agrawal

Soumya Desai

Hungming Chou

A method, system, and computer program product for selecting web page content based on user permission for collecting user-selected content within web pages (FIG.) may comprise accessing web page data associated with a currently viewed web page (FIG.), the web page data comprising a popular selection of content on the currently viewed web page (FIG.) (), with an electronic client device, presenting the popular selection of content of the currently viewed web page (FIG.) to a user (), and prompting the user to agree to the use of the user's selected content within a number of web pages in exchange for use of the popular selection of content on the web page (FIG.). The web page content is selected, based on the user's response.

Selecting web page content based on user permission for collecting user-selected content

A request for print content is received at a network server system. The request includes variable user input. Webpage content is obtained based at least in part on the variable user input. A subset of the webpage content is identified as print content. A print-ready layout of the print content is formed and the print content in the print-ready layout is provided, via network connection, to a client in response to the request.

Method and system for providing print content to a client

A computer-implemented method of automatically determining a name of a person appearing in an image includes receiving a collection of web pages containing a plurality of images. For each of the images, a set of names associated with the image is identified based on a text analysis of at least one of the web pages. Face detection and clustering is performed on the plurality of images to generate a plurality of face clusters. For each of the face clusters, a label for the face cluster is identified based on the set of names associated with each image in the face cluster. A name of a first person appearing in at least one of the images is determined based on the identified label for one of the face clusters associated with the first person.

Automatically determining a name of a person appearing in an image

A method for formatting website content for printing includes providing a web widget to a user's computer. Content from a website viewable on the user's computer can be analyzed and extracted via an application server engaged by the web widget. The extracted content can be transformed into a desired format on the application server.

Web widget fir formatting web content

A determinate spatiotemporal layout specification () automatically is generated in accordance with a relative spatiotemporal layout specification (). The relative spatiotemporal layout specification () describes relative spatial positions and temporal order of media object types. The determinate spatiotemporal layout specification () describes a layout of media objects () in a display area () over time. The process of generating the determinate spatiotemporal layout specification () includes determining for each of the media objects () a respective spatiotemporal slot corresponding to a respective window in the display area () over a respective rendering period in which the media object () is scheduled to be rendered. The determinate spatiotemporal layout specification () is outputted.

Spatiotemporal media object layouts

A system and method are provided for determining a color palette model from an image of a document. Pixel values of the image of the document are clustered to provide image clusters. Color layers of the image are determined, each color layer corresponding to an image cluster. Aspects of the color palette model can be determined using the color layers. Aspects of the color palette model include a foreground-background color pair for a content block in the document and a background-area color of the document.

Extraction of a color palette model from an image of a document

A concurrent presentation of video segments of a video file enables rapid comprehension of the video file. A video file is segmented into video segments and a condensed representation of the video file is generated. The condensed representation corresponds to a concurrent presentation of the video segments in respective windows in a display area over repeating cycles of a loop period. The concurrent presentation may be processed to concurrently present video segments corresponding to contiguous sections of the video file in respective windows in a display area over repeating cycles of a loop period.

Concurrent presentation of video segments enabling rapid video file comprehension

A system for creating an album is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes an image input configured to receive related images, an image memory coupled to image input, an image processor coupled to image memory, and an album output coupled to image processor. The image processor is configured to use game play with users to assign metadata labels to the related images and assign album layout rules based upon the story schema and metadata labels.

Creating an album

Techniques for performing an incremental update to a set of hierarchically structured information that do not expose the structure and content of the hierarchically structured information to unauthorized parties. The present techniques include encrypting the hierarchically structured information such that an arrangement of nodes and corresponding data of the hierarchically structured information is not exposed and each node includes a corresponding node identifier that is not encrypted and updating the hierarchically structured information by referring to the nodes using the node identifiers.

Secure incremental updates to hierarchicaly structured information

A data-dependent overlay network includes a plurality of data clouds. Each data cloud includes related data stored in a plurality of nodes in the data cloud. A peer list is maintained by each node in the data cloud. A peer list update process is used by each node in the data cloud for adding or removing nodes from peer lists for nodes in the data cloud.

Data-dependent overlay network

In a method of evaluating compositional quality of a layout orientation of an image, image saliency data is received for an image to be presented in a viewing region. A layout orientation for presenting the image in the viewing region is received. A composition template embodying an image composition rule is received. The image saliency data and the composition template are utilized to determine a weighted occlusion cost for the layout orientation. The weighted occlusion cost is utilized to determine a composition score indicating quality of the layout orientation with respect to the image composition rule.

Image composition evaluation

Recursive data naming is disclosed. A name is provided corresponding to a desired data item. A get procedure is defined, and is used upon the name. The get procedure recursively uses itself upon the metadata name, to retrieve a metadata item associated with the desired data item. The get procedure retrieves the desired data item.

Recursive data naming

In a method of evaluating an image for a dominant line, warped mesh information regarding saliency of the image is received. Displacements of components of the warped mesh information are determined relative to corresponding components in un-warped mesh information. Statistical representations of the displacements are utilized to evaluate the image for a dominant line.

Image dominant line determination and use

The invention provides for encryption of hierarchically structured information. In one embodiment, a method is provided for encrypting hierarchically structured information. The hierarchically structured information includes a particular node and zero or more descendent nodes, each node having a name and zero or more additional data for the node. The name of the particular node is encrypted and the encrypted name is stored. The one or more descendent nodes are stored with the parent-child relationships of the one or more descendent nodes exposed. Additional data for the particular node may be encrypted. Further, some, none or all of the data for the descendent nodes may be encrypted.

Encryption of hierarchically structured information

In a method for generating a dimensionally tractable set of image layout constraints, a selected constraint is applied to limit a dimension of a highly dimensional solution space. Through random selection one or more unconstrained dimensions of the highly dimensional solution space are identified which, when constrained, will further limit the highly dimensional solution space to a dimensionally tractable solution space. The tractability of the dimensionally tractable solution space is associated with a capability of a computational resource.

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San Mateo, CA, United States of America

Eamonn O'Brien-Strain