International Business Machines Corporation

Rovi Technologies Corporation

Neil A Katz

Victor S Moore

Thomas Edward Creamer

Rick A Hamilton, Ii

Bill H Hilf

Brian M O'Connell

James W Seaman

Peeyush Jaiswal

Peter George Finn

Boas Betzler

Edith H Stern

Barry Edward Willner

Meng Ye

Zi Yu Zhu

Michael H Mirt

George R Dolbier

Keith R Walker

Bruce P Semple

Christopher C Couper

Joseph Celi, Jr

Francis James Canova, Jr

Sheng Lu

Xing X Fang

Richard F Pollitt

David Jaramillo

Paul Brian Moody

Thomas Edward Cook

Adam Robert Snopek

Shaun Astarabadi

Richard Young

Robert S Smart

Igor Gershfang

Dong Jun Lan

Leopoldo L Suarez

C William Frank

Gregory J Boss

Christopher J Dawson

William Kress Bodin

Scott Lee Winters

Joseph Herbert McIntyre

Gang Wang

Hunter T Foy

Craig Ardner Swearingen

Zygmunt A Lozinski

Pnina A Vortman

Suzanne Carol Deffeyes

William Stephen Carter

Ernest D Baker

Hernando Ovies

Justyna M Nowak

Ilan Paleiov

Roni Ram

Robert H Farrell

Edward F Bonkowski

Adarsh Gupta

Mark Chen-Quee

Carlos Alberto Alvarez

Lepoldo Lino Suarez

Marni S Ehrlich

Leonardo C Massarini

Lawrence P O'Connell

Yu Hui Wu

Viney A Ugave

Robert L Horton

James McConnell

A method of caching data at a processing node within a communication network can include predicting a future location of a user. A processing node within the communication network can be selected according to the future location. Data to be sent to the selected processing node can be selected. The selected data can be sent to the selected processing node.

Caching data at network processing nodes based on device location

Disclosed herein is a system for compensating for dialects and accents comprising an automatic speech recognition system comprising an automatic speech recognition device that is operative to receive an utterance in an acoustic format from a user with a user interface; a speech to text conversion engine that is operative to receive the utterance from the automatic speech recognition device and to prepare a textual statement of the utterance; and a correction database that is operative to store textual statements of all utterances; where the correction database is operative to secure a corrected transcript of the textual statement of the utterance from the speech to text conversion engine and adds it to the corrections database if the corrected transcript of the textual statement of the utterance is not available.

System and method for supporting automatic speech recognition of regional accents based on statistical information and user corrections

A method for providing virtual world functionality to a user of a base virtual world having base virtual world functionality and a base world list of base virtual world users, includes providing a virtual world layer, communicating to the base virtual world that the virtual world layer will overlay the base virtual world and adding the virtual world layer to the base world list in order to register the virtual world layer with the base virtual world.

Method for extending a virtual environment through registration

A method of identifying incidents using mobile devices can include receiving a communication from each of a plurality of mobile devices. Each communication can specify information about a detected sound. Spatial and temporal information can be identified from each communication as well as an indication of a sound signature matching the detected sound. The communications can be compared with a policy specifying spatial and temporal requirements relating to the sound signature indicated by the communications. A notification can be selectively sent according to the comparison.

Audio detection using distributed mobile computing

The present invention provides various approaches for disseminating emergency broadcasting messages or other messages of importance (hereinafter 'alerts') within virtual world environments such that interested virtual world residents can be made aware of matters of importance based on their physical world locations (e.g., without respect to the locale of their current virtual world presence).

Informing users of a virtual universe of real world events

A method for providing virtual world functionality to a user of a base virtual world having base virtual world functionality, including providing a virtual world layer having virtual world layer functionality beyond the base virtual world functionality, coupling the virtual world layer to the base virtual world and coupling the virtual world layer to the user. User access to the base virtual world functionality and to the virtual world layer functionality by the virtual world layer is provided.

Method for providing a virtual world layer

Aspects of this invention are directed toward determining the effectiveness of advertising in a virtual universe. Specifically, under the present invention, a visit by an avatar to a region of the VU that includes targeted advertising content is registered. Then, the following avatar attributes are determined: a proximity to the target advertising content by the avatar; an avatar directionality of the avatar with respect to the target advertising content; a camera directionality of a camera object associated with the avatar; and a time with respect to which the avatar may be exposed to the target advertising content in the region. Thereafter, at least one score is assigned to the visit, the proximity, the directionality, and the time. An effectiveness score is then calculated based on the at least one score. The overall effectiveness of the target advertising content is then calculated based on the at least one score.

Evaluating advertising effectiveness in a virtual universe

A method and system applies a rating adjustment to ratings by avatars in a virtual universe. The rating adjustment offsets mutual rating collusion between avatars. The ratings may be adjusted based on a weighted value of indicia of association, and may also be adjusted based on rating frequencies between the same avatars. In a rating system having a fee structure, the ratings may be adjusted by scaling the rating/fee payoff to favor higher fees. Where indicia of association are weighted, the weightings are mapped to discrete levels of association between avatars, from no association to close association, with greater reduction of ratings for closer association.

Method and system for accurate rating of avatars in a virtual environment

A mobile device accepts a selection of a file for opening or editing or both. The file is associated with a file type. A mobile application on the mobile device identifies the file type associated with the file. A request message is constructed that is indicative of the file type and one or more user credentials. The request message is sent to a cloud server. The mobile device receives an address for a selected cloud image from the cloud server and, in response thereto, connects to a remote processing environment in the selected cloud image.

Methods and apparatuses for generating desktop cloud instances based upon mobile device user file selections

A method for providing configurable access to media in a media-on-demand system also can include delivering the media to a first client device in a format compatible with the first client device; interrupting the delivery of the media; recording a bookmark specifying a position in the media where the interruption occurred; and resuming delivery of the media to a second client device, the resumed delivery beginning at a position in the media specified by the recorded bookmark. The method further can include identifying device properties for each of the first and second client devices; delivering the media to the first client device in a format compatible with the identified device properties for the first client device; and, delivering the media to the second client device in a format compatible with the identified device properties for the second client device.

User controlled multi-device media-on-demand system

Within an electronic messaging system, a method of backing up data can include storing attributes for a plurality of message attachments exchanged through the electronic messaging system. Responsive to a request for a message attachment from a requestor, the request can be compared with attributes of the plurality of message attachments to select at least one message attachment matching the request. The method further can include determining whether the requested message attachment is available within the electronic messaging system and performing a programmatic action according to at least the determining step.

Electronic messaging backup catalog

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