Oracle International Corporation

Alan Ai, Inc.

Skype Limited

Synqq, Inc.

Ramu V Sunkara

Andrey Ryabov

Jeffrey R Doering

Michael J Cusson

Anindo Roy

Xuxia Kuang

Damodar R Prabhu

Sowmya Subramanian

Paul F Mackin

Kunal Kapur

Luk S Ho

David E Rowlands

Anthony Lai

Alexander Markov

Xiaoli Zheng

Marcos G Almeida

Anil J D'Silva

Sarim Siddiqui

James Shelburne

Sergey Yuryev

Sunny Wong

Hyun-Sik Byun

The disclosed computer-implemented method may include receiving input voice data synchronous with a visual state of a user interface of the third-party application, generating multiple sentence alternatives for the received input voice data, identifying a best sentence of the multiple sentence alternatives, executing a dialog script for the third-party application using the best sentence, the dialog script generating a response to the received voice data comprising output voice data and a corresponding visual response, and providing the visual response and the output voice data to the third-party application, the third-party application playing the output voice data synchronous with updating the user interface based on the visual response. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Systems and methods for integrating voice controls into applications

A mobile device includes a plurality of physical buttons for providing programmable control inputs to the mobile device. A processor within the mobile device is programmed with instructions to cause the mobile device to respond to a first input via a first of the plurality of physical buttons by activating voice recognition by the mobile device and providing an indication on a status bar on a screen of the mobile device. The mobile device accepts voice inputs and processes the voice inputs locally and via interactions with a remote server to provide contextualized information within an application executing on the mobile device.

Voice assistant with user data context

A cloud information service provides information delivery substantially in real-time to in-network users and out-of-network users. Information delivered is formatted to appear visually as a card (a 'smartcard') for both in-network and out-of-network users. Real-time communication by way of messaging is enabled with any user whether they are in-network or out-of-network. Users of the cloud information service may employ mobile devices or desktop or laptop computers. Updates in substantially real-time are provided to the smartcards as the data sources change. The data sources may include enterprise and Internet data. The information is provided in a manner to remain current for mobile users and is efficient for mobile networks that can often experience poor connectivity and limited bandwidth.

Method and system for real-time data updates

A computer-implemented system and method are described for improving the QoE of real-time video sessions between mobile users. For example, a method according to one embodiment of the invention comprises: configuring one or more servers on the perimeter of a service provider network; receiving a request from a first mobile device to establish a real-time communication session with a second mobile device; providing the first and second mobile devices with networking information for connecting to the servers; and establishing the real-time communication session through the server.

Communication system

A system and method for prefabricating information pages is disclosed, in which the necessary steps to retrieve and package information requested by a user are preemptively performed by the computer system. When the user later makes an explicit request for information, the desired information can be immediately displayed to the user without the delays associated with contemporaneous retrieval and packaging of the information. The prefabrication system of the invention can be configured to automatically tune its processing to the changing conditions that exist in the computer system, which can be used to maximize use of available system resources. The present invention can be scalably deployed to perform coordinated prefabrication services on multiple, distributed computing nodes. In an embodiment, the invention is completely non-intrusive, in which no changes to existing application are required to implement prefabrication of pages.

Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for prefabricating an information page

A middle-tier Web server with a queryable cache that contains items from one or more data sources. Items are included in the cache on the basis of the probability of future hits on the items. When the data source determines that an item that has been included in the cache has changed, it sends an update message to the server, which updates the item if it is still included in the cache. As disclosed, the data source is a database system and triggers in the database system are used to generate update messages. The data access layer determines whether a data item required by an application program is in the cache. If it is, the data access layer obtains the data item from the cache; otherwise, it obtains it from the data source. The Web application programs use global data set identifiers to identify data sets, while the cached data sets are identified by local data set identifiers. The cache receives a query context of global data set identifiers, determines whether the data sets of the query context are cached, and if they are, provides the local data set identifiers for the query context to the access layer, which then uses the local data set identifiers to query the cache.

Web servers with queryable dynamic caches

A system and method for facilitating annotation of a document co-browsed by multiple attendees of a collaboration session. A co-browsed page is served to the attendees by a collaboration server. An attendee (e.g., the host) annotates the page by highlighting a portion, placing or moving a pointer, scrolling the page within a window, or taking some other action. A collaboration applet operating in conjunction with the attendee's browser notes the position of the annotation (and size of annotation if it involves highlighting) and normalizes that position relative to the page. The collaboration applet then transmits an annotation event to the collaboration server, with the normalized position. The event is forwarded to other attendees, where the annotation is recreated.

System and method for real-time annotation of a co-browsed document

A system and method for facilitating the collaborative co-browsing of a document or web page. A collaboration server retrieves content of a page on behalf of a collaboration participant or attendee. Each attendee operates or views the content with a browser that is augmented with a collaboration applet. Tags, links, script code and other references that may cause a different page to be accessed or loaded fro the current page are transformed or replaced on the server before the page is distributed to the attendees. In particular, events and redirections that may cause the attendee browser to directly navigate to another page are transformed on the server. Pre-determined rules may be applied to prevent some attendees from viewing certain content (e.g., financial or personal data). A page may be further transformed at a client browser, to redirect a hyperlink to the collaboration server or to trap some other event.

System and method for real-time co-browsing

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that speeds up an application by allowing database tables associated with the application to be partitioned across N read-only slave database servers. In this way, each slave database server can process 1/Nth of the workload of the application. Since this processing can take place in parallel, the system can potentially speed up the application by a factor of N. The system includes a master-slave database hierarchy, which includes a plurality of read-only database servers for servicing read operations and a master database server for servicing both read operations and write operations. This master database server contains an entire database and the plurality of read-only database servers contain local read-only copies of portions of the database. The system operates by receiving a database request from an application server at a read-only database server.

Servicing database requests using read-only database servers coupled to a master database server

A middle-tier Web server with a queryable cache that contains items from one or more data sources. Items are included in the cache on the basis of the probability of future hits on the items. When the data source determines that an item that has been included in the cache has changed, it sends an update message to the server, which updates the item if it is still included in the cache. In a preferred embodiment, the data source is a database system and triggers in the database system are used to generate update messages. In a preferred embodiment, the data access layer determines whether a data item required by an application program is in the cache. If it is, the data access layer obtains the item from the cache; otherwise, it obtains the item from the data source. The queryable cache includes a miss table that accelerates the determination of whether a data item is in the cache. The miss table is made up of miss table entries that relate the status of a data item to the query used to access the data item. There are three statuses: miss, indicating that the item is not in the cache, hit, indicating that it is, and unknown, indicating that it is not known whether the item is in the cache. When an item is referenced, the query used to access it is presented to the table. If the entry for the query has the status miss, the data access layer obtains the item from the data source instead of attempting to obtain it from the cache. If the entry has the status unknown, the data access layer attempts to obtain it from the cache and the miss table entry for the item is updated in accordance with the result. When a copy of an item is added to the cache, miss table entries with the status miss are set to indicate unknown.

Dynamic caches with miss tables

A method and apparatus for configuring a software application on a cluster is provided. A configuration coordinator executing on a configuration manager communicates with one or more configuration slaves executing on a set of nodes that are operating as a cluster. The configuration coordinator sends messages to the one or more configuration slaves to initiate a configuration operation for a software application. Each configuration slave automatically performs a series of actions to configure the node on which it resides. When all the nodes complete the configuration operation for the software, the process is complete. While performing the series of actions, the configuration slaves generate logs that reflect their progress in performing the series of actions. If a problem occurs during performance of the series of actions, the configuration slave that encounters the problem indicates to the configuration coordinator that an error occurred. The configuration coordinator responds to the error by causing the configuration slaves to roll back changes made during performance of the series of actions. The configuration slaves that have begun but not completed the series of actions inspect their logs to determine which changes to roll back. By automatically configuring software on a cluster, and automatically rolling back changes on all cluster nodes in the event of an error during the configuration process, the cluster configuration process is made atomic, automatic, and significantly faster and less error-prone than manual cluster-wide configuration operations.

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Ramu V Sunkara