International Business Machines Corporation

Apple Inc.

George Rhoten

Nicholas K Treadgold

Systems and processes for identifying relevant domains for user inputs that include one or more ambiguous words are disclosed. The ambiguous words include words that may or may not refer to a named entity, such as a song, movie, book, etc. In one example, a textual representation of user speech can be received and processed to identify a candidate named entity. The possible parts of speech of the candidate named entity can be determined and compared to a predetermined set of parts of speech. In response to determining that the possible parts of speech of the candidate named entity do not include one or more of the predetermined set of parts of speech, a saliency score associated with the candidate named entity can be lowered. A domain for processing the textual representation of user speech can then be identified using the saliency score associated with the candidate named entity.

Determining domain salience ranking from ambiguous words in natural speech

Exemplary method, system, and computer program embodiments for establishing an applicable local time zone of a web browser in a computing environment are provided. In one such embodiment, a plurality of time zone offsets is queried over a predetermined period of time to obtain a listing of possible time zones. Ones of the listing of possible time zones matching a polled absolute coordinated universal time (UTC) offset are selected. A plurality of weights are assigned to the selected ones of the listing of possible time zones based on at least one of the matching polled absolute UTC offset, a matching daylight savings observance type, a matching Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) accept-language header and a human population size. The listing of possible time zones is sorted based on the plurality of assigned weights.

Determination of applicable time zone of a web browser

The invention relates to a method and apparatus of simulating memory allocation errors in a software application. The method includes: determining a range of memory block sizes in a memory allocation function which results in a memory allocation failure, the range of memory block sizes defined by a first simulation criteria and including all memory block sizes between a minimum threshold and a maximum threshold; initializing an application, and simultaneously executing the memory allocation function; triggering a memory allocation failure if the application requires a memory value within the range of memory block sizes; and varying the range of memory block sizes based on a second simulation criteria, wherein the first simulation criteria and second simulation criteria are determined by a pre-determined range of memory block sizes for a memory failure simulation.

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George Rhoten