Facebook, Inc.

George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc.

Aol Inc.

Venkatesh Ramanathan

Andrew Lee Wick

Brian Heikes

Deborah Ruth Yurow

Kristine Amber Krantz

Russell Scott Medeiros

Richard W Robinson, Jr

Edward L Sears

Kelly Monroe Mathews

Perry E Miranda Roman

Harry Wechsler

Kelly Matthews

Perry E Roman

Hung Lai

Managing instant messages may include receiving instant messages created by or on behalf of one or more message sources for delivery to an intended recipient. From among the received instant messages, qualifying instant messages may be identified that satisfy a capture rule, and two or more of the qualifying instant messages may be captured. The intended recipient may be informed of the captured instant messages unobtrusively, and also may be enabled to manage the captured instant messages.

Methods for controlling display of electronic messages captured based on community rankings

Methods for capturing electronic messages based on capture rules relating to user actions regarding received electronic messages

Methods for capturing electronic messages based on capture rules relating to online contexts of users

Methods and systems for capturing and managing instant messages

A new robust human authentication system, device, and instructions, embeddable in a physical and tangible computer readable medium, for determining if at least one test image obtained using an imaging device matches at least one training image in an enrollment database, are disclosed. This invention applies the concepts of appearance (PCA or PCA+LDA) and holistic anthropometrics that include head, face, neck, and shoulder linear and non-linear geometric measurements. The appearance ('eigen') coefficients and holistic anthropometric measurements selected may be used as feature vectors. A boosting algorithm ranks features as 'weak learners' and combines their outputs for &#x201c;strong&#x201d; recognition.

Robust human authentication using holistic anthropometric and appearance-based features and boosting

A recognition-by-parts authentication system for determining if a physical test target represented in test image(s) obtained using an imaging device matches a physical training target represented in training image(s). The system includes a multitude of adaptive and robust correlation filters. Each of the adaptive and robust correlation filters is configured to generate correlation-peak-strength and distance-from-origin data using a multitude of related images. Each of the multitude of related images representing a similar part of a larger image. The related images originate from the test image(s) and training image(s).

Recognition by parts using adaptive and robust correlation filters

Method and system for capturing instant messages

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Herndon, VA, United States of America

Venkatesh Ramanathan