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Thomas J Lee

William Scott Mark

Necip Fazil Ayan

Michael John Wolverton

Dayne B Freitag

Karen L Myers

Edgar Kalns

Melinda Gervasio

Hugh J Kirkpatrick

Patrick Denis Lincoln

James M Lee

Grit Denker

Rukman Senanayake

Bart Peintner

Neil Yorke-Smith

Steven Mark Eker

Hung H Bui

Mei Marker

Eric Yeh

Daniel Elenius

Janet Murdock

Shahin Saadati

David Morley

A platform for developing a virtual personal assistant ('VPA') application includes an ontology that defines a computerized structure for representing knowledge relating to one or more domains. A domain may refer to a category of information and/or activities in relation to which the VPA application may engage in a conversational natural language dialog with a computing device user. Re-usable VPA components may be linked to or included in the ontology. An ontology populating agent may at least partially automate the process of populating the ontology with domain-specific information. The re-usable VPA components may be linked with the domain-specific information through the ontology. A VPA application created with the platform may include domain-adapted re-usable VPA components that may be called upon by an executable VPA engine to determine a likely intended meaning of conversational natural language input of the user and/or initiate an appropriate system response to the input.

Rapid development of virtual personal assistant applications

A device, method and system for monitoring, predicting, and accelerating interactions with a computing device includes determining a current interaction context at a computing device based on interactions occurring at the computing device, predicting a number of potential subsequent interactions, speculatively executing at least some of the potential subsequent interactions, and presenting interactive representations of the speculatively-executed interactions at the computing device.

Device, method and system for monitoring, predicting, and accelerating interactions with a computing device

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for assisting with automated task management. In one embodiment, an apparatus for assisting a user in the execution of a task, where the task includes one or more workflows required to accomplish a goal defined by the user, includes a task learner for creating new workflows from user demonstrations, a workflow tracker for identifying and tracking the progress of a current workflow executing on a machine used by the user, a task assistance processor coupled to the workflow tracker, for generating a suggestion based on the progress of the current workflow, and a task executor coupled to the task assistance processor, for manipulating an application on the machine used by the user to carry out the suggestion.

Method and apparatus for automated assistance with task management

Dry wall cutter

A drywall cutting tool having an elongated handle portion and an elongated blade portion, the handle portion being of cylindrical configuration over most of its length and having a tapered end and a rounded edge, and a closed loop finger guard projecting laterally from the tapered end portion of the handle. The blade portion has an inner end captured in the handle and a pointed tip, and is of substantially uniform width and thickness along its length. The tip end has a pair of inclined sharpened edges converging to form a point, and the blade has a sharpened upper longitudinal blade edge along a portion of its length and a lower longitudinal edge of the blade formed with a row of saw teeth along its entire length.

Drywall Cutting tool

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Thomas J Lee