Sri International

Kdd R&d Laboratories, Inc.

Grit Denker

Rukman Senanayake

Patrick Denis Lincoln

Karen L Myers

Steven S Weiner

William Scott Mark

Kenneth C Nitz

Norman D Winarsky

Hung H Bui

Roy D Kornbluh

Joseph S Eckerle

Harsha Prahlad

Richard P Heydt

John Murray

Yutaka Miyake

Melinda Gervasio

Thomas J Lee

Daniel McConnell Aukes

Daniel Elenius

Karsten Martiny

Jonathan Millen

Sierra J Lincoln

Karl D Van Dyk

Geoffrey A Mangus

In general, techniques for data access control are described, in which a policy engine implements and applies a declarative policy framework that can represent and reason about complex privacy policies. By using a common data model together with a formal shareability theory, this declarative policy framework enables the specification of expressive policies in a concise way without burdening the user with technical details of the underlying formalism of a data querying application or other knowledge representation scheme. The policy engine may be deployed as the policy decision point in a data access control system that also includes a policy enforcement point. The policy engine includes user interfaces for the creation, validation, and management of privacy policies. The policy engine may interface with systems that manage data requests and replies by coordinating policy engine decisions and access to databases.

Data access control system with a declarative policy framework

A device, method and system for automatically inferring a mobile user's current context includes applying a user activity knowledge base to real-time inputs and stored user-specific information to determine a current situation. Automated reasoning is used to infer a user-specific context of the current situation. Automated candidate actions may be generated and performed in accordance with the current situation and user-specific context.

Method, system and device for inferring a mobile user's current context and proactively providing assistance

The present invention relates to an adaptable input/output device. One embodiment of a hardware device for facilitating an interaction between a computing system and a user includes: an interaction surface for supporting the interaction, a single actuator capable of driving a first region of the interaction surface, and a first selective clamping mechanism capable of restricting movement of one or more second regions of the interaction surface that partly intersect the first region, wherein a displacement of one or more desired portions of the interaction surface is dynamically controllable.

Adaptable input/output device

A method, apparatus, and system for modeling interactions of a group of users with a computing system includes monitoring passive and active interaction data of multiple users and discovering common interests among the users based on the interaction data. Collective contextual user models may be dynamically formed based on the common interests. Such models have many useful applications that can benefit the group or the individual members of the group.

Method, apparatus, and system for modeling interactions of a group of users with a computing system

A method, apparatus, and system for facilitating cross-application searching and retrieval of computer-stored content using a contextual user model includes using passive and/or active interaction data to formulate a user-specific search query. In some embodiments, inferences relating to the user's current interaction context may be used to automatically retrieve relevant information for the user.

Method, apparatus, and system for facilitating cross-application searching and retrieval of content using a contextual user model

A method, apparatus, and system for modeling user interactions with a computer system associates semantic descriptions of passive and active user interactions, which are meaningful at a user level, with application events and user interaction data as a user interacts with one or multiple software applications with a computing device, and uses those associations to build and maintain a user-specific contextual model. In some embodiments, the contextual models of multiple users are leveraged to form one or more collective contextual user models. Such models are useful in many different applications.

Method, apparatus, and system for modeling passive and active user interactions with a computer system

A device, method and system for monitoring, predicting, and accelerating interactions with a computing device includes determining a current interaction context at a computing device based on interactions occurring at the computing device, predicting a number of potential subsequent interactions, speculatively executing at least some of the potential subsequent interactions, and presenting interactive representations of the speculatively-executed interactions at the computing device.

Device, method and system for monitoring, predicting, and accelerating interactions with a computing device

Methods are disclosed to support adaptive interaction with legacy software applications, without a need for rewriting those applications. The methods are for use with an interactive electronic system including a processor, a display, and an input device with user-manipulated controls. When the legacy application is executed, a supplemental software program, such as a plugin, is also executed and is utilized in order to identify currently relevant interactive features of the legacy application during execution. Functionality is dynamically assigned to the various user-manipulated controls based on the identified features. In one embodiment, detection of objects (particularly the user's hands) proximate to the input controls is also employed in determining the assignment of functionality and/or in displaying a visual representation to the user of the available interactive choices. In another embodiment, the user-manipulated input controls are dynamically and physically reconfigured under control of the processor based on the identified features.

Method for adaptive interaction with a legacy software application

The present invention provides systems and methods of cross-domain access control in which a client node () sends a request () for a resource to a resource server (). In response, a local proxy server () automatically obtains a ticket having a revocation status () and forwards the ticket () to an authorization server () that communicates with the resource server () regarding access.

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Grit Denker