Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.p.

Entit Software LLC

Marianne Hickey

Claudio Bartolini

Paul St John Brittan

Andrew Robert Byde

Maher Rahmouni

David Trastour

Ruth Bergman

Omer Barkol

Lawrence Wilcock

Sagi Schein

Andrew D Thomas

Stephen John Hinde

Ayelet Pnueli

Roger Cecil Ferry Tucker

Guillaume Alexandre Belrose

Michael Pogrebisky

Inbal Tadeski

Alexei Lenedev

A project-comparator subsystem generates a similarity metric for input electronically-represented projects input to the project-comparator subsystem. A project search engine receives data that represents a first electronically-represented project, identifies, by pairwise comparison of the stored electronically-represented projects with the first electronically-represented project using the project-comparator subsystem, a stored electronically-represented project with greatest similarity to the first electronically-represented project, and outputs an indication of the identified stored electronically-represented project.

Comparing projects

Information relating to project metric data and occurrence of events in a plurality of projects is received (). Uncertainty data is determined () based on the received information, where the uncertainty data represents a probability distribution of at least one metric associated with the active project. Input relating to a scenario to perform what-if analysis is received (), and based on the input, what-if analysis is performed ().

Performing what-if analysis

One embodiment of the present invention is directed to a project search system, implemented on one or more computer systems, comprising two or more stored projects represented by electronically stored, computer-accessible data that are stored in a project-database component; a project-comparator subsystem, executed on the one or more computer systems, that generates a similarity metric for two electronically-represented projects input to the project-comparator subsystem; and a project search engine, executed on the one or more computer systems, that receives data that represents an input project, identifies, by pairwise comparison of the stored projects with the input project using the project-comparator subsystem, one or more stored projects with greatest similarity to the input project, and outputs, to a graphical interface displayed on a computer display or to an application program, indications of the one or more stored projects with greatest similarity to the input project.

Method and system for comparing and locating projects

A computer can display a graphical user interface (GUI) that includes a control. The GUI can receive text instructions in a natural language that describe a location of the control on the GUI. The text instructions can instruct an application to perform a user interface (UI) event on the control.

Natural language text instructions

A speech synthesiser is provided with a dialog-style selection arrangement responsive to a factor affecting intelligibility of speech output by the apparatus to select a dialog style intended to provide at least a minimum level of intelligibility of speech output by the synthesiser. The selected dialog style is used by a speech-application text provider when generating text-form utterances for a current speech application, these text-form utterances then being converted into speech form by a text-to-speech converter. The factor affecting intelligibility may be a measure of the intelligibility of the speech-form output or an environmental factor such as background noise in the user's environment.

Speech synthesis apparatus and method

A local entity without its own means of voice communication is provided with the semblance of having a voice interaction capability. This is done by providing a beacon device at or near the entity, the beacon device transmitting, over a short-range communication link, contact data identifying a voice service associated with, but hosted separately from, the entity. The transmitted contact data is picked up by equipment carried by a nearby person and used to contact the voice service over a wireless network. The person then interacts with the voice service, the latter acting as a voice proxy for the local entity. The contact data can be presented to the user in other ways, for example, by being inscribed on the local entity for scanning or user input into the equipment.

Voice communication concerning a local entity

Items are represented to a user through a user interface with each item having a respective perceivable range value and associated label by which the item can be addressed. To address a particular item, the user speaks its label at a loudness indicative of its perceived range. A loudness-to-range function of the interface determines on the basis of the loudness of the user input, a range gate expected to encompass the range value of the addressed item. A speech recogniser is used to recognise the spoken label and thus the addressed item, the label search space of the recogniser being restricted to exclude the labels of items having a range value outside of the determined range gate. In one embodiment, the user interface is an audio interface in which the items are represented in an audio field through corresponding synthesized sound sources, the depth at which each sound source is rendered in the audio field being the range value associated with the corresponding item.

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Marianne Hickey