Cisco Technology, Inc.

Avaya Inc.

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Pryon Incorporated

Gregory Pelton

Wen-hsiung Chen

Fang Wu

John Albert Toebes

Shmuel Shaffer

Labhesh Patel

Ramanathan T Jagadeesan

Bich Nguyen

Billy Gayle Moon

Dov Rosenfeld

Philip Roland Graham

Bryan C Turner

Rifaat Shekh-Yusef

David R Oran

David Nahamoo

Dana Lynn Blair

Vaibhava Goel

Igor Roditis Jablokov

Malcolm M Smith

Kwan Kin Truong

Etienne Marcheret

Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong

Douglas Jay Walker

Steven John Rennie

Marie Wenzel Meteer

Lisa Louise Bobbitt

Ellen Eide Kislal

Blane A Eisenberg

Jonathan Gregory Rossie, Jr

William Henry Morrison, Iv

John Pruitt

Bryan Dempsey

Cody Schnacker

Joseph Allen Pruitt

Joseph C Gehman

Lucas Siler

A method includes obtaining, at a first conference endpoint device, spoken command data representing a spoken command detected by the first conference endpoint device during a teleconference between the first conference endpoint device and a second conference endpoint device. The method further includes generating modified spoken command data by inserting a spoken phrase into the spoken command. The method further includes transmitting the modified spoken command data to a natural language service.

Modifying spoken commands

Systems and methods for detecting misuse of devices comprising: receiving, from a device, a message comprising a first hash of device data that is indicative of a current device location and usage; generating a second hash of stored data, the stored data being based on an expected location and usage associated with the device; comparing the first and second hashes; and when the first and second hashes do not match, generating an alert.

Systems and methods for detecting device location and usage

Disclosed are methods, systems, devices, apparatus, media, design structures, and other implementations, including a method that includes receiving, at a local device from a remote device, query data representative of a question relating to source content of a source document, and determining whether one or more pre-determined questions stored in a question-answer cache maintained at the local device matches the query data according to one or more matching criteria. The method further includes obtaining from the question-answer cache, in response to a determination that at least one of the pre-determined questions matches the query data received from the remote device, at least one answer data item, associated with at least one pre-determined question, corresponding to an answer to the question relating to the source content.

Systems and methods for question-and-answer searching using a cache

Techniques for communicating with a user on a network include receiving acceleration data that indicates acceleration of a mobile network node associated with a user of a network. A communication state for the user is determined based at least in part on the acceleration data. The communication state indicates a type of network communication suitable for communicating with the user. Network communications with the user are based on the communication state. Among other uses, such techniques allow a network communicating with a human through a mobile node carried by the human to infer from stopped or unusual motions when the human's ability to receive or act on communications is impaired or otherwise affected.

Techniques for determining communication state using accelerometer data

In one embodiment, a system comprises a first mobile media player and a second mobile media player. The first mobile media player stores first media files, and the second mobile media player stores second media files. The first mobile media player and second mobile media player communicate with one another in a peer-to-peer network to generate a playlist and to play media files from the playlist.

System and method for using mobile media players in a peer-to-peer network

In one embodiment, providing an endpoint access to a locked target includes receiving a virtual key at a grantee endpoint through a wireless link. The virtual key results from a permission from a grantor endpoint, and is operable to unlock a physical lock of the target. The virtual key is wirelessly transmitted to a management system of the target to unlock the lock.

Providing an endpoint access to a locked target

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request message from a requesting endpoint, where the request message requests a communication session corresponding to an area. An area-based group comprising one or more endpoints associated with the area is identified. The area-based group allows the endpoints to communicate with each other in the communication session. The requesting endpoint is added to the area-based group to allow the requesting endpoint to communicate with the one or more endpoints in the communication session.

Supporting communication among endpoints in a geographical area

Disclosed are apparatuses, computer readable storage media with instructions that carry out methods, and methods of (a) coding quantized transform coefficients as occur in image compression to form codewords, and (b) decoding a bitstream comprising the codewords. The coding combines a position identifying method to identify the relative position of clusters of consecutive non-zero-valued quantized transform coefficients, an amplitude event identifying method to identify amplitude events in the clusters of non-zero-valued quantized transform coefficients, and a coding method to code the position events, amplitude events, and signs of the amplitudes in the clusters. The coding method is particularly applicable to an ordered series of quantized transform coefficients where clusters are likely-to-occur.

Variable length coding for clustered transform coefficients in video compression

A method includes receiving a request to determine a route between a starting location and a destination location. The method also includes determining a first route between the starting location and the destination location using predictive traffic data for at least one location between the starting location and the destination location. The method further includes providing the first route.

Traffic predictive directions

A method for communicating in a wireless communication network includes establishing a first direct communication link with a base transceiver station and communicating data associated with a communication session over the first direct communication link. The method also includes establishing a mesh connection to the base transceiver station. The mesh connection includes at least one mesh communication link with at least one intermediate communication device of a plurality of communication devices in the wireless network, the at least one intermediate communication device communicating with the base transceiver station over a second direct communication link with the base transceiver station. The method further includes switching between communicating data associated with the communication session over the first direct communication link and communicating data associated with the communication session over the mesh connection.

Mesh communication network and devices

A method includes determining a coverage area for each of a plurality of base stations. The method also includes receiving a first location parameter indicative of a mobile unit's location. The method further includes transitioning a first connection between the mobile unit and a first base station of the plurality of base stations to a second connection between the mobile unit and a second base station of the plurality of base stations. The transition is based on the coverage areas of the first base station and the second base station and the first location parameter.

Location based handoff

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