Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Intel Corporation

Looksmart, Ltd.

Michael H Kim

John Michael Thornton

Robert L Chambers

Karthik G Anbalagan

Chunkit Jacky Chan

Michael Bodell

Scott Robert Ramsby

Alexander Sabo Brodie

Karen M Cross

Edward Mark Tecot

Timothy R O'Connor

Nick Gedge

Bryan P Ferguson

Kunal Patel

John Bain

Jeremy C Waltmunson

Daniel Frederick Penn

Gyorgy K Schadt

Samuel J Pinson

Aanand Narayanan Pisharathu

Michael Jay Gilmore

Raman Kumar Sarin

Elango Ganesan

Thomas M Soemo

William David Sproule

Amit Kumar

Neil Cueto

David R Parlin

Rodger William Benson

Dax H Hawkins

Robert L C Parker

Barn-Wan Li

Matthew James Schoenholz

Eric W Richards

Eric Wayne Doerr

Ke-Cheng Huang

Ashley L Morgan

Ryan A Kabir

Chad R Heinemann

Shanjeef Satchithanantham

Mindy C King

Shawn Lee Morrissey

Brian S Kim

Sudong Chung

Bo Rohlfsen

Anurag Dod

Leo Soong

Arif I Khan

Samuel James Pinson

Yeogiri Yun

Sissie Ling-le

Aanand Narayanan Pulamanthole Pisharathu

Eric Voreis

Input context for a statistical dialog manager may be provided. Upon receiving a spoken query from a user, the query may be categorized according to at least one context clue. The spoken query may then be converted to text according to a statistical dialog manager associated with the category of the query and a response to the spoken query may be provided to the user.

Using multiple modality input to feedback context for natural language understanding

An image to be shared with other users based on input from a first user is received. A second user is identified from a tag of the image, and information is provided, based at least in part on the tag, to one or both of the first user and the second user. Additionally, after editing of an image a determination can be made as to whether a region of the image having an associated tag has been affected by the editing. The tag associated with the region is altered if the region has been affected by the editing, otherwise the tag associated with the region is left unaltered. Furthermore, the tag can include a first portion storing data identifying a region of the image to which the tag corresponds, and a second portion storing data identifying a person shown in the region.

Tagging images with labels

Embodiments are disclosed that relate to facilitating navigation through a predefined list of websites, such as a list of favorite websites. One embodiment provides a method of operating a web browser. The method comprises receiving a user input corresponding to a web address list navigation command, and sending to the display device a representation of a navigational overlay that illustrates a change of a current location within a predefined list of web addresses responsive to the user input. The method further comprises, after sending the representation of the navigational overlay, ceasing sending of the representation of the navigational overlay to the display device, and sending to the display device a representation of website content obtained from a web address at the current location within the predefined list of web addresses.

Website list navigation

A global tag for an image is received identifies one or more objects in the image, and a region-specific tag for the image identifies one or more objects in a region of the image. The global tag and the region-specific tag are stored with the image. Displayed, along with the image, is an identifier for each of the one or more objects identified in the global tag, and an identifier for each of the one or more objects identified in the region-specific tag. Different users are able to maintain different names for the same person, allowing the same tag of the image to be used as the basis for displaying the image with different names for the different users. Additionally, the tags can be used as a basis for generating a credits list of people that are included in a compilation of images.

Image tagging user interface

A system for integrating local speech recognition with cloud-based speech recognition in order to provide an efficient natural user interface is described. In some embodiments, a computing device determines a direction associated with a particular person within an environment and generates an audio recording associated with the direction. The computing device then performs local speech recognition on the audio recording in order to detect a first utterance spoken by the particular person and to detect one or more keywords within the first utterance. The first utterance may be detected by applying voice activity detection techniques to the audio recording. The first utterance and the one or more keywords are subsequently transferred to a server which may identify speech sounds within the first utterance associated with the one or more keywords and adapt one or more speech recognition techniques based on the identified speech sounds.

Integrated local and cloud based speech recognition

The present invention provides systems and methods of retrieving the pages according to the quality of the individual pages. The rank of a page for a keyword is a combination of intrinsic and extrinsic ranks. Intrinsic rank is the measure of the relevancy of a page to a given keyword as claimed by the author of the page while extrinsic rank is a measure of the relevancy of a page on a given keyword as indicated by other pages. The former is obtained from the analysis of the keyword matching in various parts of the page while the latter is obtained from the context-sensitive connectivity analysis of the links connecting the entire Web. The present invention also provides the methods to solve the self-consistent equation satisfied by the page weights iteratively in a very efficient way. The ranking mechanism for multi-word query is also described. Finally, the present invention provides a method to obtain the more relevant page weights by dividing the entire hypertext pages into distinct number of groups.

Systems and methods of retrieving relevant information

A graphical object is generated according to a first application in a document of a second application. The graphical object is constructed as a composite, data-driven object. The graphical object's data is organized so that the semantic data (e.g., relationship among individuals on an organizational chart) is persisted separately from presentation data (e.g., the layout and style of shapes and connectors for visualizing the organizational chart). The semantic data and presentation data are combined to provide the rendered view of the graphical object within the document. The graphical object displays and functions equivalently to when the graphical object is rendered by the first application.

Integration of composite objects in host applications

A method for applying localized image effects to digital images is provided. The method includes receiving a selection representing a location in proximity to a region in the digital image requiring one or more correction. The region requiring correction is processed by an image processing engine to determine the boundaries of the region. The image processing engine applies one or more image effects to the region and varies an intensity level associated with each image effect according to the number clicks received at the location in proximity to the region requiring the correction.

Applying localized image effects of varying intensity

The present invention is a method and apparatus for converting a first tag word into a second tag word which correspond to a set of registers. Adjacent bits in the first tag word are determined which correspond to different registers in the set of registers. The determined adjacent bits in the first tag word are extracted and deposited into corresponding adjacent bit positions in the second tag word.

Fast conversion of encoded tag bits

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Issaquah, WA, United States of America

Michael H Kim