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Robert S Smart

Graham White

Andrew S Feltham

Neil A Katz

Kevin Christopher Brown

Bharat Veer Bedi

Edward G Jellard

Helen Samantha Bowyer

David Jaramillo

Martin J Gale

Thomas Edward Cook

Stephen D Pipes

William Stephen Carter

David P George

Edward F Bonkowski

Andy J Stanford-Clark

Chiok Leong

Benjamin J Hardill

Viney A Ugave

Optimizing the rendering of objects in a Web browser view is described. A Web browser system includes: a processor, a computer readable memory, and a computer readable storage medium associated with a computer device; program instructions of an object model configured to organize objects in layers including a lower layer and one or more higher layers; program instructions of a rendering engine for loading two or more objects from a server into the layers of the object model and for rendering selected objects in a Web browser view; program instructions of an object selection engine configured to select two or more loaded objects in the object model for display in the client browser view; and program instructions of an object deselection engine configured to deselect one or more selected objects in a lower layer that are occluded by one or more objects in a higher layer or above.

Optimized browser object rendering

Phase or amplitude compensation for beam-former Apparatus for an antenna with a plurality of antenna elements, the antenna providing a radiation pattern including one or more beams and the apparatus comprising: a digital beam-former for digitally weighting component signals corresponding to the one or more beams with respective beam-forming weights to provide each component signals of a beam with a phase relationship and amplitude relationship to other component signals of the same beam; and a processing arrangement for processing signal for the beam-former or for processing signals received from the beam-former; the apparatus further comprising compensation means for compensating for at least one out of phase and amplitude distortions between component signals associated with the same frequency channel and related to the same beam arising in the processing arrangement.

Phase or amplitude compensation for beam-former

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

An approach is described for authenticating a user. An associated method includes displaying a dynamic image on a display screen, detecting a user interaction with the displayed image, and detecting a duration of the detected user interaction. The method further includes comparing the detected user interaction and the detected duration with a stored user interaction and a stored duration. The method further includes authenticating the user upon determining that the detected user interaction matches the stored user interaction and the detected duration matches the stored duration. In an embodiment, the method further includes transmitting the detected user interaction and the detected duration to a remote device. In such embodiment, the method step of comparing the detected user interaction and the detected duration with the stored user interaction and the stored duration is performed by the remote device.

User authentication using temporal knowledge of dynamic images

A method and associated system and computer program product. A sample of speech, for which a source of the sample of speech is to be classified, is received. A frequency clip level of the sample of speech is determined. A higher frequency clip level indicates the source is human and a lower frequency clip level indicates the source is machine generated. A dynamic range of the sample of speech is determined. A lower dynamic range indicates the source is human and a higher dynamic range indicates the source is machine generated. The frequency clip level and the dynamic range are weighted by a respective weighting factor as to whether the source is human or the source is machine generated. The source is classified as human generated or machine generated. The classifying of the source is based on the frequency clip level, the dynamic range, and the respective weighting factors thereof.

Speech source classification

A first message published by a first publisher, including a message header and payload data, is received. The payload data within the first received message is identified, extracted, and stored. A second message published by a second publisher, including function data that provides a function to modify the payload data, is received. The function data within the second received message is identified, extracted, and stored. The extracted and stored payload data is modified using the stored function. A third message, including the modified payload data, is created for distribution to a subscriber configured to process the modified payload in the third message.

Subscriber message payload handling

Message routing in a publish/subscribe system where messages are routed from one or more publishers to one or more subscribers according to respective defined paths through a topic tree. A pseudo-topic tree path comprised of a partial path definition and a selection function is specified by a subscriber or publisher. When executed, the selection function searches the topic tree to identify one or more path definition segments, which segments replace the selection function in the pseudo-topic tree path to generate one or more complete path definitions that are then usable for routing messages.

Publish/subscribe message routing

Mechanisms are provided for conference call communication in a virtual world environment. The mechanisms establish a hybrid conference call by establishing a hybrid conference call communication connection between a data based communication conference call server, that handles data based communications with client computing devices, and a telephone conference call server, that handles telephone protocol communications with telephone devices external to the virtual world environment. Communications between client computing devices and telephone devices are converted from data based communications to telephone protocol communications and vice versa using a data based communication conference call server and a telephone conference call server.

Conferencing that bridges virtual world and real-world meeting places

Provided are method, apparatus and computer program product for managing persistence in a messaging network. A determination of whether to save data relating to a message-based communication to persistent storage at a message server is made with reference to characteristics of at least one messaging client involved in the message-based communication. The characteristics may include, for example, connection reliability information for the client's previous connections to the message server, such as numbers of disconnections within a defined period or average connection duration, for a messaging client to which at least one message is to be transmitted by the message server. The characteristics may represent a number of matching subscribers per publication. These and/or other example characteristics may be captured in a database at the message server and may be evaluated (for example by SQL queries applied to the database) to determine whether a persistent save operation is required or can be omitted.

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Chandlers Ford, United Kingdom

Robert S Smart