International Business Machines Corporation

Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Snap Inc.

Awemane Ltd.

Travis M Grigsby

Lisa A Seacat

Steven Michael Miller

Michael Negley Abernethy, Jr

Lisa Seacat DeLuca

Frank Lawrence Jania

Jana Helton Jenkins

Pamela Ann Nesbitt

Christopher S Alkov

Michael A Paolini

Kulvir Singh Bhogal

Ruthie D Lyle

Gabriel Aaron Cohen

Denise Bell

Lydia Mai Do

Thomas Alexander Bellwood

Daniel E Morris

Lloyd W Allen, Jr

Trevor Livingston

Christie Marie Heikkinen

William Alexander Strand

Benjamin Ralph Hollis

Alexandre Polozoff

Jacob Daniel Eisinger

Robert Bryant Chumbley

Bobby Lo

Nazgol Sedghi

Robert Ross Peterson

Frank Anthony Nuzzi

Matthew Francis Rutkowski

Viswanath Srikanth

Lee Michael Surprenant

Thomas J Freund

Christopher M Laffoon

Kevin Alexander Lee

Sunil Kumar Mishra

Syed-Muasir Khalil

Albert Andrus Lamb

Truong-An Hoan Thai

Harshal Pandya

Pranoti Pimpalkhute

Andrew J Ivory

Aaron Kyle Shook

Howard Neil Anglin

Ronald Eugene Craig

Lakshmi Potluri

Michael Sean Mayo

Kenneth King-Fung Lee

Brian S Farrell

Kathryn Jane Lemanski

Chen H Leo

Bucky A Jordan

Michael N Abernethy

Craig W Chaney

Christopher J Hardee

James Allan Kahle

Erik John Burckart

Soobaek Jang

Thomas R Haynes

Michael Pierre Carlson

Cristi Nesbitt Ullmann

Andrew Douglas Hately

Rohan U Mandrekar

Mark E Peters

Bryan Eric Aupperle

Jacob Lorien Moilanen

Darren Mark Shaw

Jeremy Brand Sussman

Michael D Facemire

Renee Marie St Amant

Ravi Mani

Abhishek Dubey

Vandana Mallempati

Timothy J Eby

Brian Daniel Bauman

Tyler S Lacock

Amanda Jane Burton

Mark R Hufnagel

William Wood Harter, Jr

David Warren Zysk

Margaret Beth Morgan

Rama Ajit Karve

Johnathan A Christena

Theodore Spencer Tederoff

Michael N Aberethy, Jr

Robert Norris-Lance Krentler

Srinivasa R Borusu

Justin Kai-yuen Hong

Justin K Hong

Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for displaying widgets. In some aspects, criteria for ranking widgets may be dynamically evaluated based on conditions associated with each widget. In some aspects, the conditions may consider a time or location of an event a social network user is scheduled to attend, and a relation to that time and location to a current time and/or current user location. Evaluation of the conditions may contribute to the determination of weights for each of the respective widgets, with the ranking based on the weights. Widgets with the highest rank may be invoked, and selectively displayed on an electronic display. Multiple possible parameter values for the displayed widgets may also be dynamically ranked and selected values applied when invoking the widget.

Context sensitive presentation of content

This disclosure describes techniques for utilizing sensor data to automatically determine the results of events within a system. Upon receiving sensor data indicative of an event, the techniques may analyze the sensor data to determine a result of the event, such as that a particular user associated with a user identifier selected a particular item associated with an item identifier. Contents of a virtual shopping cart of the user may be maintained based on this automated analysis of sensor data. In some instances, when a confidence level associated with a result is less than a threshold, the sensor data may be sent to a client computing device for analysis by a human user. Further, when the result of an event changes from a first result to a second result, other events already processed may be reprocessed to ensure accuracy of the results.

Updating cart state using auto-generated sensor data

A computer-implemented method of interlacing responses within an instant messaging (IM) system can include, responsive to a request from a user in an IM session, storing an IM message fragment input by the user and associating the IM message fragment with a message selected from an IM session transcript. The method can include recalling the IM message fragment and outputting, at least in part, the IM message fragment in response to the message.

Interlacing responses within an instant messaging system

A mechanism for determining a chat distance associated with an environmental chat based on the chat amount within an area of a virtual universe associated with the environmental chat. An environmental chat distance may be determined based on the number of words or characters in a text chat or voice chat between avatars within the area of the virtual universe. The environmental chat distance may be inversely proportional to the detected words or characters in the environmental chat.

Modifying environmental chat distance based on chat density of an area in a virtual world

This disclosure describes techniques for utilizing sensor data to automatically determine the results of events within a system. Upon receiving sensor data indicative of an event, the techniques may analyze the sensor data to determine a result of the event, such as that a particular user associated with a user identifier selected a particular item associated with an item identifier. Contents of a virtual shopping cart of the user may be maintained based on this automated analysis of sensor data. In some instances, when a confidence level associated with a result is less than a threshold, the sensor data may be sent to a client computing device for analysis by a human user.

A first selectable slide presentation priority level assigned to a slide presentation is determined responsive to detecting an indication from a user using an input device to start the slide presentation. Individual slides of the slide presentation determined to include an assigned individual slide priority level equal to or higher than the assigned first selectable slide presentation priority level are selectively presented. For each presented slide, any additional content-dependent slides with assigned individual slide priority levels lower than the assigned first selectable slide presentation priority level that are determined, according to inter-slide content dependency data, to include a user-assigned inter-slide content dependency upon content of the presented slide are selectively presented.

Automated dynamic reprioritization of presentation materials

In V2V or other networks in which multiple video feeds are available to a participant, the participant's ability to select a particular video feed for display can be eased through the use of guided scanning. A guided scanning strategy is built based on operator inputs and used to select a particular set of video feeds that are initially shown as a video 'slideshow' on the display used by the participant. Each video feed appears only for a limited period of time to enable easy participant review. Once the participant sees a particular video feed of interest, that video feed to can be selected for persisted presentation on the display.

Guided video feed selection in a vehicle-to-vehicle network

A method for providing relationship-centric resources includes establishing a communication session between a first device and a second device, determining, during the communication session between the first and second devices, an intersection of mutual topics of interest between users of the first and second devices by cross-referencing sets of interests for the users, retrieving content based on a determination that the content meets a content descriptor, and simultaneously displaying the retrieved content. The content descriptor describes a nature of the communication session. The retrieving is further based on a determination that the content is related to a mutual topic of interest from the intersection of mutual topics of interest between the users of the first and second devices. The determination of relatedness is based on a cross-reference between the content and the mutual topic of interest. The cross-reference is stored in a lookup table.

Relationship-centric portals for communication sessions

A method, system and computer program product for enhancing customer's satisfaction with his/her shopping experience. Facial motion measurements defined in a model for facial expression recognition are utilized. Features from a magnitude of the facial motion measurements defined in the model are identified. A Bayes classifier is utilized to capture dependences among the features used to recommend a better sales approach to the sales professional, or, alternatively, assign a better sales professional to approach the customer thereby enhancing the customer's shopping experience by reducing the possibility of an unpleasant shopping experience.

Assessing personality and mood characteristics of a customer to enhance customer satisfaction and improve chances of a sale

Updating contact information for a first communication device according to metadata associated with a virtual world is provided. In response to an avatar of a first user interacting with an avatar of a second user in the virtual world, information comprising a name of the avatar of the second user and metadata associated with the avatar of the second user is sent to the first user. In response to receiving the information, contact information associated with the name of the avatar of the second user is determined. The contact information is organized based on the metadata. The organized contact information is prioritized according to the metadata. A speed dial setting corresponding to the prioritized contact information is assigned. The assigned speed dial setting is assigned to the first communication device. The assigned speed dial setting is stored in the first communication device.

Dynamic update of contact information and speed dial settings based on a virtual world interaction

A device for providing spatially-oriented traversal animations during web navigation. The device is configured to perform operations that include receiving a destination Internet address for a destination web page into a graphical web browser that is displaying a current web page having a current Internet address on an electronic display. The operations can further include determining, via electronic analysis of the destination Internet address and the current Internet address, a relationship between the destination Internet address and the current Internet address. The operations can further include determining a spatially-oriented traversal animation based on the relationship. The spatially-oriented traversal animation is from a plurality of different types of animations associated with different hierarchical relationships between Internet pages within the Internet domain. The operations can further include animating bringing the destination web page onto the electronic display using the spatially-oriented traversal animation and, afterwards, displaying the destination web page.

Spatially-oriented traversal animations for network address transitions

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Travis M Grigsby