Morphism LLC

Empire Technology Development LLC

Comcast Cable Communications, LLC

Tandberg Telecom as

Other

Forgent Networks, Inc.

Frederick Monocacy LLC

Cisco Technology, Inc.

Aeromee Development L.l.c.

James Howard Stephens, Jr

Gordon H Matthews

Robert D Sheldon

Derek Russell McGowan

A primary internet connection via a gateway or router located at a premises may be used to route internet traffic from devices located at the premises. A change in the primary internet connection, such as a loss or a degradation of the connection, may occur. Based on the change in the primary internet connection, metrics of alternative internet connections, such as cellular or hotspot connections, may be used to select one of the alternative internet connections. Internet traffic may be routed via the selected alternative internet connection until the primary internet connection is reestablished or improves.

Intelligent internet traffic routing

Methods and systems for processing, analyzing, and managing information are disclosed. An example method can comprise receiving at least two data groups. Each of the at least two data groups can comprise one or more values. An example method can also comprise associating the at least two data groups based on a first value being in each of the at least two data groups. Associating the at least two data groups can comprise iteratively performing a union operation on the at least two data groups. An example method can further comprise providing a suggestion to add a second value from one data group of the at least two data groups to another data group of the at least two data groups.

Information association and suggestion

Provided are methods and systems whereby a user device can monitor the attributes of content presented to a plurality of users. The user device can monitor interaction between each of the plurality of users and one or more of the content and the user device. The user device can generate a plurality of profile clusters based on one or more of the monitored attributes and the monitored interactions over a time period. The user device can generate a plurality of user profiles based on the plurality of profile clusters.

Systems and methods for creating and managing user profiles

Technologies are generally described for systems and methods for requesting a reservation between a first and a second processor. In some examples, the method includes receiving a reservation request at the second processor from the first processor. The reservation request may include an identification of a resource in communication with the second processor, a time range, first key information relating to the first processor, and a first signature of the first processor based on the first key information. In some examples, the method includes verifying, by the second processor, the reservation request based on the first key information and the first signature. In some examples, the method includes determining, by the second processor, whether to accept the reservation request.

Resource reservation from two or more resources effective to process a reservation request

Techniques for providing automated media commentary are provided. A user agent requests audio commentary for media. In response, a service searches data sources to identify the specified media, finds information related to those entities, generates text that represents those information, combines the text into a textual monologue, and synthesizes speech audio from that textual monologue. The service selects relevant information to be likely unknown to the user while also being desired by the user.

Systems and methods for automated media commentary

An event processor accepts event representations that comprise perdurance and epistemological relationships among entities or entity references, and the event processor stores information derived from event representations in a datastore. A search component searches entities based on local epistemological and perdurance properties, and a perdurance engine traverses the perdurance relationships obtained from the datastore. An epistemological propagator generates derived epistemological relationships using the perdurance engine and local epistemological data obtained from the datastore.

Propagation through perdurance

Techniques for training and applying prosody models for speech synthesis are provided. A speech recognition engine processes audible speech to produce text annotated with prosody information. A prosody model is trained with this annotated text. After initial training, the model is applied during speech synthesis to generate speech with non-standard prosody from input text. Multiple prosody models can be used to represent different prosody styles.

Training and applying prosody models

Techniques for verifying work performed by untrusted computing nodes are provided. A central computing system determines a first computation that is to be performed, at least in part, by a first untrusted computing node. The central computing system also determines a transformation function that is applied to the first computation to produce an equivalent second computation that is to be performed, at least in part, by a second untrusted computing node. The central computing system assigns the first computation to the first untrusted computing node and the second computation to the second untrusted computing node while keeping the transformation function secret. The central computing system receives a first result for the first computation and a second result for the second computation. The central computing system analyzes the first and second results to verify the work performed by the first and second untrusted computing nodes.

Verifying work performed by untrusted computing nodes

Methods evaluating propositions about timeseries are provided. A service accepts a proposition about one or more timeseries, and the service monitors those timeseries. A proposition can reference multiple timeseries with different time intervals and different units. When new data is available, the service evaluates the proposition to determine if the proposition is true, false, or neither. The service automatically performs unit conversions and selects relevant, previously observed values before evaluating a proposition when new data is available.

General market prediction using position specification language

Methods and systems for providing a network-accessible text-to-speech synthesis service are provided. The service accepts content as input. After extracting textual content from the input content, the service transforms the content into a format suitable for high-quality speech synthesis. Additionally, the service produces audible advertisements, which are combined with the synthesized speech. The audible advertisements themselves can be generated from textual advertisement content.

Content and advertising service using one server for the content, sending it to another for advertisement and text-to-speech synthesis before presenting to user

Various implementations for contextual keyword-based access control are disclosed comprising one or more methods, systems, computer-readable media comprising instructions, and devices for annotating content with keywords, assigning a user to a group, associating the group with the keywords in a context and determining a privilege for the user to access the content based on the keywords, the context and the group.

Contextual keyword-based access control

Technologies described herein generally relate to allocating annunciators to provide annunciations in response to annunciation requests in a computing device. The computing device may include a platform application, which may be configured to receive annunciation requests from applications for providing annunciations. The platform application may discover annunciators capable of providing the at least one annunciation. The platform application may schedule the annunciation request with one of the discovered annunciators and upon scheduling the annunciation request with one of the discovered annunciator, may cause the scheduled annunciator to provide the annunciation in response to the annunciation request. The technologies presented herein can allocate annunciators according to the demands of a user by determining a prioritization level of an annunciation request and an attention limit of the computing device such that the computing device can manage multiple annunciation requests without inundating a user with extraneous annunciations.

Growing community of inventors

Austin, TX, United States of America

James Howard Stephens, Jr