Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Oracle America, Inc.

Peter Alex Korn

William D Walker

Michael C Albers

Hania Gajewska

Richard N Burridge

David P Mendenhall

Oliver Braun

Lynn Monsanto

A system and method for navigating secondary content. The system may monitor for gestures input to the system by an input device and may detect an arc gesture. The arc gesture may travel along both a horizontal axis and a vertical axis from a first point to a second point and may be delineated from a horizontal or a vertical motion. The system may identify secondary content corresponding to the arc gesture in response to the arc gesture and output data corresponding to the secondary content. The system may identify supplemental text associated with the secondary content and synthesize supplemental speech corresponding to the supplemental text. The output data may include audio including the synthesized supplemental speech.

Audibly indicating secondary content with spoken text

A method of creating a free-form visual user interface element includes receiving a command to associate a visual representation of at least one of a set of graphical user interface controller attributes with a free-form visual element, generating instructions defining the at least one of the set of graphical user interface controller attributes, and adapting the instructions to a data structure embodying the free-form visual element. The method also includes attaching the adapted instructions to the data structure to form a free-form visual user interface element.

Method and system for creating a free-form visual user interface element

A system and method for adding audio indicators, such as an audio tone, to audio data corresponding to text. The audio indicator corresponds to secondary content in text, such as a footnote. The system will insert and/or modify a textual indicator at a location in the text corresponding to the secondary content. The system will then process the textual indicator during text-to-speech processing of the text so that an audio tone is output at a moment in speech data corresponding to the location of the secondary content in the text. A speech synthesis markup language may be used to create and/or modify the textual indicator.

A system and method for adding speech recognition to graphics user interface based applications for a computer system is described. The speech recognition system provides a profile generation module that enables users to create editable profiles of grammar and corresponding actions that may be used by a speech agent and in combination with an accessibility framework to drive that application based on the user's spoken commands.

System and method for adding speech recognition to GUI applications

A method for keyboard navigation in a graphical user interface, including defining a key event dispatcher for focus ordering of at least one non-focusable component, configured to recognize a special mode entry character and a special mode exit character, upon entry of the special mode entry character by a user, entering a special mode wherein subsequent key events are manipulated by the key event dispatcher to navigate the focus ordering of the at least one non-focusable component while a current focus owner is maintained, and exiting the special mode upon entry of the special mode exit character by the user, wherein the special mode is at least one of the group consisting of an input method mode, an accessible navigation mode and a window navigation mode.

Keyboard navigation of non-focusable components

An event aggregator allows an application program to receive notification of events generated by selected objects without registering as a listener for events with each object. The event aggregator has a registration list module that receives a registration request from the application program indicating from which object types the application program wants to receive notification of events, an object monitor that continually checks the computer system for objects and registers a listener with each object; and an event monitor that that notifies the application program if any listener receives notification of an event generated by an object type indicated by the registration request.

System and method for aggregating registration of entities for notifications of events

A program loading arrangement is used in connection with a virtual machine for loading programs for processing in the virtual machine. The program loading arrangement includes a program/class loader and a dependency list. The dependency list identifies, for each program for which one or more classes are to be instantiated in the virtual machine for use during processing of the respective program, the class or classes that are to be so instanitated. In response to a request to load a program for processing in the virtual machine, the program/class loader initiates loading of the program. In addition, the program/class loader determines from the dependency list whether any classes are to be instantiated for use during processing of the program being loaded and, if so, instantiates the respective classes. The information in the dependency list as to which class or classes are to be instantiated in the virtual machine when the respective programs are loaded can be provided by an operator, thereby to permit the operator to enable classes to be instantiated in the virtual machine which might not otherwise be instantiated for use during processing of the program.

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Peter Alex Korn