Motorola Corporation

Google Inc.

Motorola Mobility LLC

Harry M Bliss

Larry C Puhl

Changxue Ma

Nitya Narasimhan

Joseph F Wodka

William K Thompson

Stephen N Levine

Dale William Russell

Orhan Karaali

Yan Ming Cheng

Gerald Edward Corrigan

Thomas Eric Hayosh

Richard John Peterson

Guido A Minnen

Methods and systems for facilitating distribution of content are disclosed. In one example embodiment, a method of facilitating demand-driven population and management of online content within a video-on-demand (VOD) service includes receiving trend information and a link reference at one or more input ports, the reference being at least indirectly indicative of a location at which the content is available, and obtaining and normalizing, by way of one or more processing devices, metadata pertaining to the content. The method further includes determining business rule information pertaining to the content based at least indirectly upon the trend information, content provider policy information, and the normalized metadata, via the processing device(s), and outputting via one or more output ports the business rule information for receipt by the VOD service, whereby availability and prioritization of the content at the VOD service is based at least in part upon the output business rule information.

Method and system for facilitating demand-driven distribution of content

A method and apparatus for enabling multimodal tags in a communication device is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a first training signal and receiving a second training signal in conjunction with the first training signal. A multimodal tag is created by discarding redundant or non-discriminative information associated with each of the first and second training signals to represent a combination of the first training signal and the second training signal and a function is associated with the created multimodal tag.

Method and apparatus for enabling multimodal tags in a communication device by discarding redundant information in the tags training signals

A frame definition for use by dialog system during an interaction with a user, the frame definition includes at least one data field and at least one goal comprising a Boolean function of one or more filled predicates, each of which takes a reference to a field of the frame as its argument. A goal is satisfied during a dialog if the Boolean function evaluates to true. A goal may be used to control the focus of the interaction.

Frame goals for dialog system

A method, a system and a computer program product for interpreting a verbal input in a multimodal dialog system are provided. The method includes assigning () a confidence value to at least one word generated by a verbal recognition component. The method further includes generating () a semantic unit confidence score for the verbal input. The generation of a semantic unit confidence score is based on the confidence value of at least one word and at least one semantic confidence operator.

Method and system for interpreting verbal inputs in multimodal dialog system

A chart parser and a method for generating a parse chart for a sequence of input symbols in accordance with an abbreviated representation of a grammar. According to the method, an abbreviated representation of a grammar is stored as a set of finite-state automata, each finite-state automaton corresponding to a rule of the grammar. Chart edges are derived chart edges from the sequence of input symbols in accordance with the set of finite-state automata and are stored in the parse chart. Each chart edge spans a portion of the sequence of input symbols and may include a left input vertex index corresponding to the start of the span of the chart edge, a right input vertex index corresponding to the end of the span of the chart edge, a rule number, indicating which finite-state automaton of the plurality of finite-state automata has been used to generate the chart edge, a left state index, indicating the left most state of the finite-state automaton that has been matched and a right state index, indicating the right most state of the finite-state automaton that has been matched, the left-hand side of the rule and a path through the finite state comprising the right-hand side of the rule or so-called backpointers to the edges used to derive the current edge. The chart parser includes a chart controller and an agenda controller, together with associated memory.

Chart parsing using compacted grammar representations

A method (,), device (,) and system (,) provide, in response to text/linguistic input, one of a set of pre-determined meanings which is the most likely intended meaning of that input. A trained meaning discriminator is generated from an annotated training corpus and a meaning discriminator trainer. The trained meaning discriminator generates a meaning vector from an input utterance. The intended meaning encoder analyzes the meaning vector to determine the most likely intended meaning and confidence measures.

Method, device and system for noise-tolerant language understanding

A navigation system having a destination selection input mechanism that can be readily and rapidly used by an inexperienced user. The display (103) and user input (102) are physically configured and controllably intercoupled to support the conveyance of an impression to the inexperienced user that the information displayed can be selectively altered one field at a time in a precessing manner through appropriate use of the input unit (102). In one embodiment, selection of information for one field as pertains to a particular desired location destination will limit the information values that can be selected for remaining unselected information fields.

Navigation system with easily learned destination selection interface

A method and means for maintaining continuous bit synchronization of data transmitted from a remote unit through a base unit to a landline unit is disclosed. An input data stream at a first bit rate, such as digitized or encrypted speech, is interleaved with a plurality of signalling words, and transmitted over an RF channel at a second bit rate. The base site recovers the clock of the received data, strips off the signalling word, modifies the bit rate of the received data, and adjusts the recovered clock rate to provide an output data stream which is in bit synchronization with the input data stream and within a predetermined modem specification. The encrypted data is then sent over landlines to a decryption unit which requires bit synchronization.

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Harry M Bliss