International Business Machines Corporation

Purdue Research Foundation

Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.

Abbott Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.

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Blackberry Corporation

Abbott Medical Optics Inc.

Amo Manufacturing Usa, LLC

Kolo Technologies, Inc.

Ebay, Incorporated

Amo Development, LLC

Loop Now Technologies, Inc.

Li Fu Chen

Yongcheng Li

Lun Xiao

Syed F A Hossainy

John Raithel Hind

Lin Sun

Huawei Zhao

Henri Fouotsop Meli

Steven Z Wu

George T Tsao

Randolf Von Oepen

Yu Cheng Chen

Daniel A Castro

Mengchu Cai

Kwai Hing Man

Yonghua Ding

Kurt W Scheinpflug

Eric N Katayama

Kevin L Woolbright

Rong-Hoang Chang

Al Chakra

Yongli Huang

Dimitri A Chernyak

Charles E Campbell

Guangming Dai

Govindaraj Sampathkumar

Ankur Aggarwal

Cheng S Gong

Jun Wei Zhang

Thomas R Haynes

Lei Chen

David Michael Stecher

Travis Richard Yribarren

Xiaoyang Yang

James P Eberwein

Ryan Urquhart

Daniel P Julin

Edward C Flickinger

Che-Ming Yang

Jacqueline Ghio

Keif M Fitzgerald

Boris Anukhin

Pamela A Kramer-Brown

William E Webler, Jr

David A Mackiewicz

Gregory E Robinson

Paul K Bullis

Sameer Harish

Deborra Sanders-Millare

Karim Said Osman

Bala Ramachandran

John R Hind

Yang-Cheng Fan

Larry G Baughman

Carolyn Haibt Norton

Ryan John Santos

Nicholas T Rimedio

Ting Kwan Luk

Yu-Chun Ku

Corey Demarco

Xinshuo Zhang

Neil Burkhart

Suzanne Abellera

Michael C Flickinger

Parakkat Seethanathan

Jessie Babiarz

David Anthony Basilio

Adam Jacobson

Matthew Losch

WuHsi Li

Exaud Hugho

Michael Toma

Duane M DeMorre

Gregory W Johnson

Z C Lin

Cipson Jose Chiriyankandath

Technologies relating to system and method of real-time video overlaying or superimposing display from multiple mutually synchronous cameras are disclosed. An example method of real-time video overlaying includes the steps of: synchronizing frame rates of a depth data, a face meta data, and a video data of a first camera video output captured by a first camera; determining a first depth between a user face and the first camera; using a cutoff depth to determine a user body contour; generating a binary mask of the user body contour based on the first depth and the cutoff depth; smoothing an edge of the binary mask; merging the binary mask with the first camera video output and generating a merged first camera video output; and overlaying the merged first camera video output onto a second camera video output.

System and method of real-time video overlaying or superimposing display

A device and method for reusing user-specified content is provided. After generation of a query comprising parameters explicitly set by the user, the explicitly set parameters are stored in a parameter store. If a subsequent query is generated without any explicitly set parameters, the stored parameters are automatically applied to the subsequent query, and the modified query is then transmitted to an online service, such as an e-commerce site or search engine. User query preference history may be stored for use in modifying a subsequent theory. In addition, the user may navigate to specially designated content on a page, and when the content is in focus, the user may optionally copy the content for reuse in generating a further query or for publication.

Automatic reuse of user-specified content in queries

A method, computer program product, and computer system for disk management in a distributed storage system. The distributed storage system comprises a plurality of disks within a main disk ring, where the disks store target data. In one embodiment, the method comprises dividing the target data into cold target data and hot target data, and grouping one or more disks within the main disk ring into a cold data disk ring and the remaining one or more disks within the main disk ring into a hot data disk ring. The method further comprises migrating the cold target data on disks not within the cold data disk ring onto disks within the cold data disk ring while migrating the hot target data on disks not within the hot data disk ring onto disks within the hot data disk ring, and reducing a spinning rate of disks within the cold data disk ring.

Disk management in distributed storage system including grouping disks into cold and hot data disk rings and reducing a spinning rate of disks storing cold data

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a system displays initial search results based on a query and enables selection by a user of an item within the search results. The system determines refined search results based on behavior of the user with respect to the initial search results. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for presenting revised search results based on user behavior while examining the results in substantially the same manners described above.

Automatically providing relevant search results based on user behavior

Methods and apparatus for providing updated content in a user interface are disclosed. An example method for providing a user interface includes receiving at a portable electronic device an icon configuration file, installing an icon associated with the configuration file in an icon repository on a portable electronic device, displaying the icon with first content in a user interface on the portable electronic device, receiving second content based on the configuration file, and displaying the icon with the second content in the user interface.

Methods and apparatus for providing updated content in a user interface

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for threshold activation of an audio teleconference. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for threshold activation of an audio teleconference is provided. The method includes receiving calls into a conference bridge for an audio conference and determining whether or not a threshold number of calls from corresponding callers have been received for the audio conference. The method also includes initiating the audio conference responsive to a threshold number of callers having called into the audio conference, but prohibiting initiation of the audio conference until the threshold number of callers have called into the audio conference.

Threshold activated teleconferencing

In some examples, a capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) apparatus includes one or more CMUTs formed on a CMUT substrate to have an operational direction facing away from the CMUT substrate. A first layer of a first material is disposed over the one or more CMUTs for passing acoustic energy to or from the one or more CMUTs in the operational direction. The first layer may be a solid, liquid, gel, or colloid. Further, a second layer of a second material may be disposed over the first layer and may be a different material from the first material. In some cases, the second layer may be a solid with an inner surface having a curvature facing the first layer. Additionally, or alternatively, in some cases, the acoustic impedance of the first material and the second material may be between 1 and 2 MRayl.

CMUT assembly with acoustic window

Optimizing update instructions in hierarchically structured documents is provided. A pending update list including a first plurality of items is received. Each item of the first plurality of items describes an update to a hierarchically structured document. Each of one or more items of the first plurality of items is added to a subsumed update list having a second plurality of items. The subsumed update list is ordered based, at least in part, on a document order and on a target node of each of the second plurality of items. Subsume logic is applied to each of the one or more items based, at least in part, on the second plurality of items. Responsive to determining that subsume logic has been applied to each item of the first plurality of items, each of the second plurality of items of the subsumed update list is executed.

Optimizing update operations in hierarchically structured documents

A method, computer program product, and computer system are disclosed for disk management in a distributed storage system, wherein the distributed storage system comprises a plurality of disks within a main disk ring, and the disks store target data. In one embodiment, the method comprises dividing the target data into cold target data and hot target data, and grouping one or more disks within the main disk ring into a cold data disk ring and the remaining one or more disks within the main disk ring into a hot data disk ring, based on the cold target data's and the hot target data's positions on disks. The method further comprises migrating the cold target data on disks not within the cold data disk ring onto disks within the cold data disk ring while migrating the hot target data on disks not within the hot data disk ring onto disks within the hot data disk ring, and reducing a spinning rate of disks within the cold data disk ring.

A system to apply persona styles to written communications. The system includes a communication analyzer and a modification engine. The communication analyzer receives an element of original content of a written communication. The communication analyzer also receives a selection of a persona style. The selected persona style defines a communication style. The modification engine presents a substitute element to a user in response to a determination that the element of the original content of the written communication is incompatible with the selected persona style. The substitute element is compatible with the selected persona style.

Persona management system for communications

Systems and methods of confirming an addressee of an email message include receiving an email message addressed to one or more forwarding addresses. At least one email address associated with each of the one or more forwarding addresses is obtained. A potential discrepancy in the email message is detected in response to the at least one obtained email address. Before sending the email message, an alert is issued to a sender of the email message. The alert provides a recommendation regarding whether to continue with sending the email message and identifies content associated with the email message that led to detecting the potential discrepancy.

Electronic mail messaging system and method

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