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Viraj B Mody

Atul Adya

Abolade Gbadegesin

William Michael Zintel

Bruce Wayne Copeland

David C Steere

Thomas W Kleinpeter

Thomas Kleinpeter

Bernhard Kohlmeier

David Ahs

Jan Anders Nelson

Jordi Mola Marti

Cameron B Lerum

Jason Kepner

Ramakrishna Pamarthi

Francois Liger

Jan Roelof Falkena

Byung Kun Lee

Michael 'Saad Merhej

Clients may subscribe to resources for the purpose of receiving notifications of changes in the resource (e.g., a file is added to a shared folder). Storing subscriptions within persistent storage provides data security in the event of a service failure, at the cost of high latency in accessing subscription data. An efficient method for tracking a resource is provided herein. A subscription service creates subscriptions and monitors resources for a client. Upon a subscribed resource change, a notification service stores a notification of the change into a queue associated with the client. Efficient resource tracking is achieved because notification and subscription data is stored in low latency soft memory. The notification service is configured to detect a failure in the notification service and/or subscription service. In the event a service fails, the client provides a recovery mechanism by resubscribing to resources with which the client has an interest.

Resource tracking

Methods and systems that utilize fingerprints or metadata to identify digital audio files are disclosed. In particular, in certain embodiments a fingerprint of a digital audio file may be utilized to find a set of fingerprints that are related to the fingerprint of the digital audio file it is desired to identify. Using the metadata associated with each of the set of related fingerprints a song, artist or album can be identified and assigned to the digital audio file it was desired to identify. Additionally, the identified song, artist or album name may be associated with the digital audio files corresponding to each of the identified related acoustic fingerprints. In this manner, not only can digital audio files be identified but additionally, data associated with previously identified digital audio files may be iteratively refined by associating updated metadata with previously labeled digital audio files.

System and method for identifying digital files

Clients may subscribe to resources for the purpose of receiving notifications of changes in the resource (e.g., a file is added to a shared folder). Storing subscriptions within persistent storage provides data security in the event of a service failure, at the cost of high latency in accessing subscription data. An efficient method for tracking a resource is provided herein. A subscription service creates subscriptions and monitors resources for a client. Upon a subscribed resource change, a notification service stores a notification of the change into a queue associated with the client. Efficient resource tracking is achieved because notification and subscription data is stored in low latency soft memory. The notification service is configured to detect a failure in the notification service and/or subscription service. In the event a service fails, the client provides a recovery mechanism by resubscribing to resources the client is interested in.

A user interface and associated methods for machine aided authoring and translation is provided. The user interface can display strings and associated metadata to assist with authoring and translations. The metadata can be used to mark the strings. The metadata can include one or more constraints which correspond to evaluation criteria and one or more anchor points operable to project the constraints against a string.

User interface for machine aided authoring and translation

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