British Telecommunications Public Limited Company

Kwok Ching Tsui

Behnam Azvine

David Djian

Wayne Raymond Wobcke

John G Taylor

Christos Voudouris

Benham Azvine

Neill R Taylor

Nicholas J Webb

Samuel W D Steel

Anne N De Roeck

Paul D Scott

Udo Kruschwitz

Raymond Turner

A method and apparatus for generating an index entry for a record in a semi-structured database involves analysing each field to identify an entry within each field and to identify a sequence of characters having a format corresponding to a predetermined format. Thereafter, the method and apparatus operate to generate an index entry for the identified entry, and for at least one field, define any characters not identified as an entry as a free text entry.

Index to a semi-structured database

Apparatus for generating sequences of elements including at least one task unit, each of which has an upper and a lower neural network connected in a hierarchical relationship and is operable to output a sequence of elements. Each of the upper and lower neural networks is a class of temporal neural networks having an infinite number of internal states.

Sequence generator

Communications received by a user over a communications link include identification information and are processed by:

Apparatus for processing communications

In a multi-modal user interface, user inputs may be made in various different ways. For instance, the user might use a keyboard, a speech system, a vision system, a mouse or pen. Different inputs made by the user may be related and may have different significance. A processing system detects and resolves ambiguities and/or conflicts in inputs made by the user using the different input modes available.

Multimodal user interface

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