Abstract: A heat exchanger capable of automatically defrosting or deicing includes row tubes and fins. A refrigerating medium can be led into the row tubes. The fins are arranged on an outer wall of the row tube. And heights of the fins extend in a radial direction of the row tube. Each of the fins include a first heat conducting part and a second heat conducting part that are connected with the row tube in sequence. A thermal conductivity of the second heat conducting part is smaller than a thermal conductivity of the first heat conducting part and a thermal conductivity of the row tube. An outer surface of the first heat conducting part and an outer surface of the row tube are both coated with a micron or nanometer hydrophobic layer, which is a hydrophobic coating or a hydrophobic oil film.

Abstract: In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for selecting text using a touchscreen display of a computing device. A computing device identifies physical contact between multiple fingers and the touchscreen display at a starting location, wherein the identifying is in distinction to identifying physical contact between a single finger and the touchscreen display. The computing device determines that the physical contact persists during movement of the physical contact from the starting location to an ending location. The computing device determines that the physical contact was interrupted at the ending location. The computing device identifies that text displayed between the starting location and the ending location is text that has been selected by a user of the computing device.

Abstract: The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for personalized media program recommendations. In one aspect, a method is performed at a server system having processors and memory. The server system: (1) receives, from a client device, a user request for a media program event recommendation; (2) prior to receiving the user request, collects and stores user search history data associated with media program events; (3) creates a search query in accordance with the user request based on the user search history and a portion of the user request; (4) executes the search query against databases to generate media program event recommendations; (5) ranks the generated media program event recommendations; and (6) sends automatically to a calendar associated with the user, a calendar event corresponding to a respective media program event recommendation.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a device for reminding a user. The method includes: detecting whether a preset number of terminals in an area have performed a designated operation within a preset time period; inquiring a terminal in the area that has not performed the designated operation if it is detected that the preset number of terminals in the area have performed the designated operation within the preset time period; and sending a reminder to the terminal in the area that has not performed the designated operation, the reminder reminding a user of the terminal to perform the designated operation.

Abstract: The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for personalized media program recommendations. In one aspect, a method is performed at a server system having processors and memory. The server system: (1) receives, from a client device, a user request for a media program event recommendation; (2) prior to receiving the user request, collects and stores user search history data associated with media program events; (3) creates a search query in accordance with the user request based on the user search history and a portion of the user request; (4) executes the search query against databases to generate media program event recommendations; (5) ranks the generated media program event recommendations; and (6) sends automatically to a calendar associated with the user, a calendar event corresponding to a respective media program event recommendation.

Abstract: A system and method for searching and/or subscribing to media programs and notifying the user before a recommended program starts in response to a user's request for recommendation. A server receives a user request for a media program event recommendation from a client device. The user request comprises user media program recommendation setting. The server generates a search query in accordance with the user request. The server runs the search query against one or more databases to generate a recommendation containing one or more media program events. At least one of the databases consists of scheduled media program events. The server sends automatically, without user interaction, to one or more user-designated calendar programs, a calendar event corresponding to a recommended media program event. The calendar event includes a respective date, time and duration.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a device for reminding a user. The method includes: detecting whether a preset number of terminals in an area have performed a designated operation within a preset time period; inquiring a terminal in the area that has not performed the designated operation if it is detected that the preset number of terminals in the area have performed the designated operation within the preset time period; and sending a reminder to the terminal in the area that has not performed the designated operation, the reminder reminding a user of the terminal to perform the designated operation.

Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus, including computer program products, for generating search query suggestions. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a first textual input in a first form; automatically sending, before a user submits a request for a search and after waiting a predetermined amount of time after receiving each token of the first textual input, the first textual input to a suggestion service; receiving a set of first input suggestions in the first form, where each first input suggestion is textually different from the first textual input and selectable as an alternative to the first textual input; receiving a set of second input suggestions, where each second input suggestion is a representation of a first input suggestion in a different, second form and selectable as an alternative to the first textual input; and providing the first input suggestions and the second input suggestions for display in a user interface.

Abstract: In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for selecting text using a touchscreen display of a computing device. A computing device identifies physical contact between multiple fingers and the touchscreen display at a starting location, wherein the identifying is in distinction to identifying physical contact between a single finger and the touchscreen display. The computing device determines that the physical contact persists during movement of the physical contact from the starting location to an ending location. The computing device determines that the physical contact was interrupted at the ending location. The computing device identifies that text displayed between the starting location and the ending location is text that has been selected by a user of the computing device.

Abstract: A method and a system for distributing content are provided. In the method, an input regarding an advertising keyword is received from a user. The advertising keyword is associated with one or more advertisements. Related keywords are identified from among candidate keywords based on a determined relationship of the related keywords to the advertising keyword received from the user. Reference information associated with each of the related keywords is identified. The related keywords and the reference information associated with the related keywords to the user are automatically provided. A selection of at least one of the related keywords is received from the user. The at least one selected related keywords are associated with the one or more advertisements for distribution.

Abstract: Methods and terminals for processing e-tickets are provided. The terminal can include a saving module, a parsing module, and a voice reading module. The e-ticket can be obtained by a terminal. The terminal can parse contents of the e-ticket to generate ticket information of the e-ticket by triggering a reading button to call an internal program. The ticket information can be converted by the terminal into a voice message corresponding to the e-ticket. The voice message can be played by the terminal to read the ticket information of the e-ticket.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are provided for identifying duplicate data items. A method is provided that include the actions of identifying a file to be downloaded; determining that the size of the file exceeds a threshold value; in response to determining that the size of the file exceeds the threshold value, requesting one or more portions of the file, the one or more portions being less than the entire file; upon receiving the requested one or more portions of the file, constructing a file signature for the file based on the one or more portions of the file; determining whether the constructed signature exists in a file signature repository; if a matching file signature exists in the file signature repository, recording location information for the file to be downloaded as associated with the matching file signature.

Abstract: An active touch system is provided, in which sensing electroding units in an array and two groups of intersecting control electrodes and detecting lines are disposed on a touch substrate, and the detecting lines are connected to sensing electrodings through active devices. The control electrodes are used to control on and off of the active devices, and the detecting lines are used to apply touch excitation signals to the sensing electrodings, and detect a leakage current of a sensing electroding to a finger or other touch object. A position of the finger or other touch object on the touch substrate is found by determining a sensing electroding unit generating the leakage current. The method of obtaining touch signals is improved in the hardware sensing stage, so that the judgment procedure after detection is greatly simplified, and the judgment of multi-point touch becomes easy and natural.

Abstract: A system and method for searching and/or subscribing to media programs and notifying the user before a recommended program starts in response to a user's request for recommendation. A server receives a user request for a media program event recommendation from a client device. The user request comprises user media program recommendation setting. The server generates a search query in accordance with the user request. The server runs the search query against one or more databases to generate a recommendation containing one or more media program events. At least one of the databases consists of scheduled media program events. The server sends automatically, without user interaction, to one or more user-designated calendar programs, a calendar event corresponding to a recommended media program event. The calendar event includes a respective date, time and duration.

Abstract: A touch screen flat panel display (FPD) is provided, which includes a display screen, a display driving circuit, a touch system circuit, and the like. Related circuits in the touch screen FPD enable electrodes of the display screen to transmit display driving signals as well as touch signals, that is to say, the display driving and the touch detection multiplex the electrodes of the display screen, such that the FPD is not only used for normal display but also used for realizing touch detection. By applying the touch signal simultaneously to detecting lines and non-detecting lines, the flow of the touch signal between the detecting lines and between the detecting line and the non-detecting line is reduced, thus controlling the flow direction of the touch signal, and increasing the accuracy of determining touched electrodes.

Abstract: Computer-implemented methods, systems, computer program products for generating cross-language query suggestions are described. A pair of machine-generated translations are obtained for a primary-language query suggestion. A first machine-generated translation of the pair is generated by machine-translation from a first language to a second language, while the second machine-generated translation is generated by machine-translation from the second language to the first language. A respective difference measure is determined for each machine-generated translation based on the number of n-grams the machine-generated translation has in common with the primary-language query suggestion. The machine-generated translation that has a smaller number of n-grams in common with the primary-language query suggestion is identified as a preferred choice as a cross-language query suggestion for the primary-language query suggestion.

Abstract: Computer-implemented methods, systems, computer program products for generating cross-language query suggestions are described. For each query suggestion written in a first natural language, candidate segmentations are generated from the query suggestion, and candidate translations are generated from each candidate segmentation. The candidate translations are evaluated based on a measure of segmentation quality associated with the respective candidate segmentation from which each candidate translation is derived, and a frequency of occurrence of the candidate translation in a target language query log. The measure of segmentation quality associated with each candidate segmentation is further based on a frequency of occurrence of the candidate segmentation in a source language query log. A candidate translation is provided as a cross-language query suggestion for the primary language query suggestion based on the result of the evaluation.

Abstract: Computer-implemented methods, systems, computer program products for automatic language-detection for search queries are described. A character-to-language mapping is stored on a client device. The client device can process each query character of a search query to determine a number of candidate “language-writing system” pairs in which the query character can exist according to the character-to-language mapping. A respective sub-score can be generated for each candidate “language-writing system” pair in the context of each query character that is associated with the candidate “language-writing system” pair. A final score can be calculated for each candidate “language-writing system” pair by aggregating all the sub-scores that have been generated for the candidate “language-writing system” pair. A source language of the search query can be determined based on the respective final scores of all the candidate “language-writing system” pairs identified for the search query.

Abstract: In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for selecting text using a touchscreen display of a computing device. A computing device identifies physical contact between multiple fingers and the touchscreen display at a starting location, wherein the identifying is in distinction to identifying physical contact between a single finger and the touchscreen display. The computing device determines that the physical contact persists during movement of the physical contact from the starting location to an ending location. The computing device determines that the physical contact was interrupted at the ending location. The computing device identifies that text displayed between the starting location and the ending location is text that has been selected by a user of the computing device.

Abstract: A touch display includes an active display screen, a display driving circuit, a touch system circuit, and a display/touch signal gating-switch and output circuit or display/touch signal loading and merge circuit. A vertical blanking time exists between each two display times of a display screen electrode, during the time, the display screen does not execute display driving, and stops scanning the row electrodes, the column electrodes and the COM electrode maintain an original output state or a certain preset output signal, and a part or all of active devices of the display screen are in an off state; during a time of transmitting a display signal by the display screen electrode, due to a transient potential difference of an applied touch signal between the electrodes, the active devices of the display screen are enabled to maintain the off state.