International Business Machines Corporation

Nuance Communications, Inc.

Neal J Alewine

James Campbell Colson

Rick A Hamilton, Ii

James W Seaman

Robert Allen Hood

Eric William Janke

Paul Sharp

Stephane Herman Maes

Paul Andrew Moskowitz

David Ward

Hao-Ting Shih

Abraham P Ittycheriah

Roberto Sicconi

Anthony William Wrobel, Jr

Joseph Gary Rusnak

Jonathan Louis Gabel

Ying-Kai Wang

Charles Willard Cross, Jr

Sandeep Kishan Singhal

Chih-Hsiung Liu

Jeffrey C H Liu

Peder Andreas Olsen

Srinivasan Muralidharan

Barry Mosakowski

Jeffrey Ch Liu

Daniel E Badt

David C Loose

John W Eckhart

Kenneth D White

Johnson Y S Chiang

Johnson Ys Chiang

Robert Sicconi

Lubos Ures

Shiu-Fun Poon

The described herein relates to a method executed by a passport service executed by at least one processor coupled to at least one memory. The method includes creating a passport on a cloud application that comprises connectivity details for a tunnel and activating an on-premise appliance of an on-premise system by delivering the passport to the on-premise appliance to build the tunnel. The method further includes generating a passport token via the passport, wherein the passport token comprises dynamically generated connectivity properties. The method also includes binding the cloud application and the on-premise appliance based on the dynamically generated connectivity properties of the passport token and the connectivity details of the passport.

Dynamic and secure cloud to on-premise interaction and connection management

A system for detecting inappropriate content in a virtual world environment has, and a corresponding method utilizes, a rating unit for rating each of one or more virtual objects based upon its content. The system has, and the method utilizes, a tagging unit for tagging each of the one or more virtual objects with its respective rating, an object tagging database for storing ratings of the one or more virtual objects, and a policy database for storing policies associated with the ratings and the regions. Further, the system has, and the method utilizes, an object monitor for monitoring the movement of each of the one or more virtual objects, a security scanner for scanning each of the one or more virtual objects to determine the rating of each of the one or more virtual objects, and an enforcement module to enforce the policies of the policy database based upon the rating and the respective region.

System and method for detecting inappropriate content in virtual worlds

A method executes a preempt by a standby database appliance in a high-availability active/active appliance cluster. The appliance cluster includes a transaction processing standby group and a persistent storing standby group. The transaction processing standby group includes a primary active appliance and a standby appliance. One or more processors receive a Hello message from the primary DB appliance. The processor(s) examine a priority field in the Hello message, in order to determine a priority of the standby database appliance according to the persistent state to thereby determine whether the standby database appliance requests a preempt, where the persistent state includes a state of an application and a database of the primary DB appliance. The processor(s) implement a failover in response to the preempt request to thereby take over a duty of the primary DB appliance.

Providing high availability in an active/active appliance cluster

Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for a common secure cloud appliance image and deployment. In some embodiments, a request for a target node may be received. The appliance image may be obtained in response to receiving the request, wherein the appliance image is a common image that is deployed on different platform types in a cloud management system. The target node may be generated using the appliance image.

Common secure cloud appliance image and deployment

A system for detecting inappropriate content in a virtual world environment has, and a corresponding method utilizes, a rating unit for rating each of one or more virtual objects based upon its content. The system has, and the method utilizes, a tagging unit for tagging each of the one or more virtual objects with its respective rating, an object tagging database for storing ratings of the one or more virtual objects, and a policy database for storing policies associated with the ratings and the regions. Further the system has, and the method utilizes, an object monitor for monitoring the movement of each of the one or more virtual objects, a security scanner for scanning each of the one or more virtual objects to determine the rating of each of the one or more virtual objects, and an enforcement module to enforce the policies of the policy database based upon the rating and the respective region.

A method routes data to an appliance in a high-availability active/active appliance cluster. Messages received by appliances are assigned by a self-balancing module to balance a load of appliances in the appliance cluster, which includes a persistent storing standby group and a transaction processing standby group. Persistent storing data, which is generated by processing the messages, are stored in a virtual persistent storage, which provides an interface between a persistent storage of a primary database appliance and an application for processing the messages. The virtual persistent storage is linked to the persistent storage of the primary database appliance in response to an appliance that receives the messages not being the primary database appliance, thereby sending persistent storing data to the persistent storage of the primary database appliance.

A system for detecting inappropriate content in a virtual world environment has and a corresponding method utilizes a rating unit for rating each of one or more virtual objects based upon its content. The system has and the method utilizes a tagging unit for tagging each of the one or more virtual objects with its respective rating, an object tagging database for storing ratings of the one or more virtual objects, and a policy database for storing policies associated with the ratings and the regions. Further the system has and the method utilizes an object monitor for monitoring the movement of each of the one or more virtual objects, a security scanner for scanning each of the one or more virtual objects to determine the rating of each of the one or more virtual objects, and an enforcement module to enforce the policies of the policy database based upon the rating and the respective region.

A computer implemented method, system and/or computer program product confirm an orally entered address to a mobile navigation device. The mobile navigation device receives a global positioning system (GPS) root address component from a GPS. The GPS root address component is a text name of a root location at which a mobile navigation device is currently located. The mobile navigation device receives an orally entered address that comprises an oral root address component and an oral subunit component of the oral root address component. In response to the converted root address component matching the GPS root address component, the orally entered address is partitioned into the oral subunit component and the oral root address component, and any additional speech-to-text conversion of the orally entered address after the oral root address component is terminated.

Location based full address entry via speech recognition

Systems and methods are provided for automatically building a native phonetic lexicon for a speech-based application trained to process a native (base) language, wherein the native phonetic lexicon includes native phonetic transcriptions (base forms) for non-native (foreign) words which are automatically derived from non-native phonetic transcriptions of the non-native words.

Determining text to speech pronunciation based on an utterance from a user

The present invention discloses a solution for providing a phonetic representation for a content item along with a content item delivered to a speech enabled computing device. The phonetic representation can be specified in a manner that enables it to be added to a speech recognition grammar of the speech enabled computing device. Thus, the device can recognize speech commands using the newly added phonetic representation that involve the content item. Current implementations of speech recognition systems of this type rely internal generation of speech recognition data that is added to the speech recognition grammar. Generation of speech recognition data can, however, be resource intensive, which can be particularly problematic when the speech enabled device is resource limited. The disclosed solution offloads the task of providing the speech recognition data to an external device, such as a relatively resource rich server or a desktop device.

Providing speech recognition data to a speech enabled device when providing a new entry that is selectable via a speech recognition interface of the device

Systems and methods for building a native language phoneme lexicon having native pronunciations of non-native words derived from non-native pronunciatons

A system for communicating between networked applications and vehicles that includes a vehicle response server and a vehicle response agent. The vehicle response server can manage communications between at least one vehicle and at least one application remotely located from the vehicle, wherein the application can provide activation contexts to the vehicle. The vehicle response agent can be disposed in the vehicle. The vehicle response agent can receive the activation contexts and determine event occurrences based in part upon the activation contexts and in part upon a location of the vehicle relative to previously defined geographical boundaries specified by the vehicle response server.

Method and system for performing programmatic actions based upon vehicle approximate locations

Systems and methods for building a native language phoneme lexicon having native pronunciations of non-native words derived from non-native pronunciations

A system for permitting remotely located applications to obtain information about vehicle conditions and responsively perform programmatic actions based upon the vehicle conditions. The system can include a vehicle response server and a vehicle response agent. The vehicle response server can manage communications between one or more vehicles and at least one application remotely located from the vehicles. The application can automatically execute at least one context-dependent programmatic action based upon an event occurrence triggered by vehicle sensor input. The vehicle response agent, which resides within the vehicle can receive an activation context that specifies conditions for the event occurrence. The vehicle response agent can then monitor the vehicle for the event occurrence and, when appropriate, wirelessly convey an indication of the event occurrence to the vehicle response server. The indication can result in the automatic execution of the at least one context-dependent programmatic action.

Obtaining contextual vehicle information

A method and apparatus in a vehicle computer system for providing location based services. A path is defined along which the vehicle is to travel. Responsive to receiving a request for a location, the path is used as a filter to identify the location. The position and/or directions of the vehicle also may be used to identify the location.

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Neal J Alewine