International Business Machines Corporation

Google Inc.

Stephen Paul Farrell

Shumin Zhai

Paul Brian Moody

Richard Scott Schwerdtfeger

David James Beymer

Peter Gustav Fairweather

Samuel Roy Detweiler

Lucian Florin Cionca

Beth Rush Tibbitts

Frances C Brown

Susan Crayne

Vicki Lynne Hanson

Christopher S Campbell

Rowan Nairn

Rudolf Michael Galfi

In one aspect, a method includes retrieving terms associated with a topic and analyzing the terms based on search results of user queries for content relating to the topic. The method includes selecting one or more terms from the terms based on the analysis. The method includes generating a label from the selected one or more terms and applying the label to a content item relating to the topic. Other aspects can be embodied in corresponding systems and apparatus, including computer program products.

Generating content labels according to user search queries

The disclosure includes a system and method for providing an association recommendation to a user. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that when executed cause the system to: receive a request to disassociate with a first topic from a first user; identify one or more labels and one or more refined topics associated with the first topic; determine a second user that shares one or more second topics in common with the first user; retrieve social graph data describing a social graph associated with the second user; and determine, based on the social graph data associated with the second user, an association recommendation relevant to the first user from the one or more labels and the one or more refined topics.

Providing association recommendations to users

A pointing method uses eye-gaze as an implicit control channel. A user looks in a natural fashion at a target object as a button on a graphical user interface and then presses a manual selection key. Once the selection key is pressed, the present method uses probability analysis to determine a most probable target object and to highlight it. If the highlighted object is the target object, the user can select it by pressing a key such as the selection key once again. If the highlighted object is not the target object, the user can select another target object using additional keys to navigate to the intended target object.

System and method for selecting and activating a target object using a combination of eye gaze and key presses

A first communication channel is established between a first entity and at least one second entity and a second communication channel is established between the first entity and at least one third entity over the network. Then, data associated with the first and second communication channels are recorded. Next, first, second, and third entities are dynamically monitored to identify if first, second, or third entities is in an active or inactive state, and based upon such monitoring, recorded data are either synchronously rendering to entities in an active state or asynchronously rendered to entities in an inactive state upon the entities in the inactive state transitioning from an inactive state to an active state.

Method and system for managing simultaneous electronic communications

A method and system using for establishing an intermediary connection between a client device and a secure website using a web proxy machine. In the preferred embodiment, a secure connection is established between the web proxy and the secure content server. A response from the content server, typically in HTML format, is sent to the proxy machine through a secure connection. The proxy machine is then able to manipulate the secure response from the secure server, in ways such as transcoding the response to a format readable by the user device, storing sensitive financial data in cookies in the proxy machine, and to return a response from the content provider to the client device with or preferably without cookies.

System and method for transcoding support of web content over secure connections

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