International Business Machines Corporation

Glenn T Puchtel

Mark Edward Epstein

Martin Doston Carberry

Susan M Wingate

Barry Alan Feigenbaum

Jonathan Mark Wagner

Tatchi Placido Lay

Allen M Gilbert

Colin Victor Powell

Mark Allen Fiechtner

Ivan Lomelli

David Andrews Kerr

Darren Mark Miclette

Jeffrey Thomas Galea

John Monroe Blackmon

Paul R King

A system and method for servicing natural language requests with a plurality of remote host systems. The system utilizes a computer program that comprises: (1) an input system for inputting an NL command; (2) a translation system that extracts a request from the NL command and stores the request in a host-independent format; and (3) a routing system for servicing the request, wherein the routing system comprises a mechanism for selecting a host, for converting the request into a host dependent directive, and for forwarding the directive to the selected host. The system may further include a speech recognition system, a local data source for servicing the NL command, templates for converting the request into the host dependent directive, a heuristic for selecting the host, and an output system for obtaining and outputting the response.

Bi-directional natural language system for interfacing with multiple back-end applications

A method and system are disclosed which may be utilized to generate a simultaneous presentation within a data processing system of video data within multiple windows supported by different graphic user interfaces. Each graphic user interface is coupled to a separate display device driver. Window movements including: creation; deletion; resizing; movement; minimization; maximization; activation; enablement; or an alteration in relative background/foreground order are detected for each graphic user interface and that information and the associated display device driver for each graphic user interface are coupled to a virtual device driver which facilitates interprocess communication between two or more graphic user interfaces, wherein the portion of the video display which is managed by each graphic user interface may be ascertained. Each separate display device driver is then coupled to a single display device, wherein multiple windows supported by different graphic user interfaces may be simultaneously presented.

Method and system for simultaneous presentation of multiple windows

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Glenn T Puchtel