International Business Machines Corporation

Ge Aviation Systems Limited

Lucas William Partridge

Bharat Veer Bedi

Marc Stanley Carter

Martin J Gale

Andrew James Stanford-Clark

Fiona M Crowther

William Bittles

Ian G Holden

Jonathan S Tilt

Richard Mark Appleby

Christopher P Arnold

James Colin Brady

Zheng Li

Doina Liliana Klinger

Graham Derek Wallis

Jian Qiang Liu

Qian Jin

David John Clark

Oliver M Deakin

Stephen J Haskey

William Smith

Neil R Hardman

Ji Ma

Iain David Lewis

Russell Heald

Wendy-Ann Haskey

Jonathon David Penberthy

A cable for transmitting a transmissible element, such as power or data, from a source to a device, the cable includes at least a first plug configured to mate with at least one of the source and the device, and an audio player for playing back audio recording.

Cable having audio recording and play back

A method for determining mappings for application integration. The method includes identifying a plurality of integration templates that each contains a mapping of a first data field to another data field, wherein at least two of the plurality of integration templates map the first data field to different other data fields. The method includes receiving a ranking of each of the plurality of integration templates. The method includes determining a preferred mapping of the first data field to a second data field, based, at least in part, on the received ranking.

Determining mappings for application integration based on user contributions

A digital device having an image-handling function, adapted to be held at a level between a user's shoulder level and the user's hip level and directed toward a scene, comprising: a display located on a first surface of the device; an image capture component comprising a lens locatable adjacent a second surface, the lens being adapted to capture a field of view having a center lying on an axis substantially parallel to the first surface; a spatial attitude detector for detecting a current attitude of the device relative to a baseline attitude; a selector for selecting a portion of the field of view according to the baseline attitude; a distortion corrector for correcting distortion of the view caused by an angular difference between the current attitude and the baseline attitude; and a renderer for rendering a corrected image by the distortion corrector on the display.

Adapted digital device and adapter for a digital device

An apparatus for use in a verbal communication between a speaker and at least one listener, where the speaker and the at least one listener are spatially separate from each other, the apparatus provides the listener with a sensory output associated with the identity of the speaker, the apparatus including an identification device including a vibration sensor for detecting vibrations associated with speech of the speaker, is configured to store identification data representative of the identity of the speaker or the identification device, is associable with the identity of the speaker, and, in response to detecting vibrations, transmits an identification signal comprising or generated from the stored identification data, and a display device operable to receive the identification signal and to generate from the received identification signal a sensory output indicating the identity of either or both of the speaker and the identification device.

Unknown speaker identification system

According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system dynamically schedules performance of tasks, and comprises a computer system including at least one processor. The system determines resources required or utilized by each task for performance of that task on a target system, and compares the determined resources of the tasks to identify tasks with similar resource requirements. The identified tasks with similar resource requirements are scheduled to be successively performed on the target system. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for dynamically scheduling performance of tasks in substantially the same manner described above.

Dynamic test scheduling by ordering tasks for performance based on similarities between the tasks

A computer receives broadcast content through a receiver and receives a request from a user to record a segment of broadcast content. The computer determines whether metadata associated with the segment of broadcast content includes a location from which the segment can be retrieved at a subsequent time. Responsive to determining that the metadata includes the location from which the segment can be retrieved, the computer records a first portion of the segment of broadcast content, the computer storing the first portion of the segment of broadcast content in a database. Responsive to a request to play the segment of broadcast content, the computer retrieves the first portion of the segment of broadcast content from the database and plays the first portion of the segment of broadcast content. The computer retrieves a remaining portion of the segment of broadcast content not previously recorded through a network connection.

Content retrieval for digital media recorder devices

An index of data elements is stored with a file. The file encodes the data elements. The index indicates memory locations of the data elements within the file. The index and the file are stored in a storage device. A parser or decoder accesses the index to identify data elements. At least one of the storing and accessing are performed by a computing device.

Processing encoded data elements using an index stored in a file

A method of processing a message in a messaging service client device that has a user interface device includes with the messaging service client device, ascertaining a proposed recipient for a message entered by a user with the user interface device; determining a set of potential recipients for the message with the messaging service client device, the set of potential recipients including the proposed recipient; determining whether, among the set of potential recipients, the proposed recipient is a most likely recipient of the message; and responsive to a determination that the proposed recipient is not the most likely recipient, providing a notification to the user through the user interface device that the proposed recipient is not the most likely recipient.

Message processing in a messaging service client device

A method comprises identifying, by a computing device, a current context of a computer program; identifying, by the computing device, any related contexts of the computer program that are related to the current context; determining, by the computing device, association relationships between the current context and the related contexts; determining, by the computing device, a user history of menu choice selection with respect to the current context; updating, by the computing device, the user history based on a user menu choice selection and the association relationships; determining, by the computing device, weighted menu choices for a second context of the computer program based on the user history; and presenting, by the graphic user interface, the weighted menu choices for selection by the user in the second context.

Prioritization of choices based on context and user history

A method, system and a program product for processing data is disclosed. The method, system and program product disclosed herein comprises processing data encoded as one or more data elements in a data format. The data format is further processed by a parser to extract the encoded data elements. The data is encoded as multiple data elements in accordance with the first data format and saved to a file in the memory. An unique index is created to each data element indicating the locations of data elements in the file. The index is associated with the file and index is arranged to enable the extraction of data elements directly from the file in memory. The index is embedded in a art of the file and is not used by the parser for extracting the data elements from the file.

Method, apparatus and software for processing data encoded as one or more data elements in a data format

Method and apparatus for determining an alternative character string, in response to an invalid character string being received by a consumer application, wherein the invalid character string is derived from the selection of a series of keyboard keys in combination with a modifier key and wherein each key is associated with at least one glyph. An embodiment includes: a converter component for converting each glyph of the invalid character string into a first format; a converter component for parsing each of the converted first formats into a second format; an alternatives engine for determining from each of the second formats a third format which can be derived from a combination of a selection of the key and an alternative modifier key; and a converter component for converting each of the determined third formats into their associated glyphs for compiling into a list of alternative character strings.

Determining an alternative character string

A method for generating an update status alert at a receiving device, the receiving device operating in a network of participating devices, each participating device broadcasting status information about a monitored entity associated with a respective participating device, the method comprising the steps of: receiving broadcast status information from each of the participating devices; aggregating the received status information to derive a consensus of the status information received from each of the participating devices; comparing the derived consensus with the status of the monitored entity of the receiving device; detecting a difference between the derived consensus and the status of the monitored entity; and in dependence of a difference being determined, generating an update status alert at the receiving device.

Generating an update status alert in a device

Disclosed is a method, apparatus and computer program for a first client to facilitate collaborative editing of a document with a second client. The document contains data of a first data type and is accessible by a first application for processing the first data type. The first application is used to identify a portion of the document for review, The identified portion is extracted and provided to an application for processing data of a second type at the first client. This application is a messaging application. A second client is identified for performing the review and the identified portion is sent via the messaging application to the identified second client. Comments are received back from the identified second client and these comments conform to the messaging application's protocol. The comments are then interpreted back at the first client and the document is updated if appropriate.

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Southampton, United Kingdom

Lucas William Partridge