Abstract: Calendar entries provide for a wealth of information. For example, for a meeting, information such as the start date, subject, attendees, and location are provided. Yet, when writing a follow up e-mail, that's exactly the information a user has to copy/or cut and paste from the calendar entries to the e-mail. Significant time is saved by automatically finding the relevant calendar entry(ies), extracting the known information, and augmenting that information into the e-mail and sending it via a server.

Abstract: An optical character recognition (OCR) system is provided, in which syntactical and semantic rules, provided along with an input image to be scanned and applicable to the contents of the scanned image, are used in connection with the results of the OCR scan to identify the scanned characters. As a result, the recognition rate and confidence are enhanced. By providing the checking based on syntactical and semantic rules within the OCR system, application programs which would receive and use the OCR results are freed from the added burden of having to perform their own syntactical and/or semantic checking on the OCR results the application programs receive from the OCR system.

Abstract: Private user data is securely entered from a public location in a way that the private user data cannot be ascertained by observers. A voice agent generates vocal instructions for a user, instructing the user to enter response data. The vocal instructions are communicated to the user with a telephonic link, in a manner that is secure from observers of entry of the response data. The instructions implement an encryption function, which causes the private user data to be encrypted within the response data. The response data is entered by the user vocally into a telephone, or by pressing buttons on a telephone keypad, or by pressing keys on a computer keyboard. The response data entered by the user is received by a security agent, which ascertains the private user data from the response data, and which also determines the validity of the data.

Abstract: A semiconductor wafer carrier for holding a wafer is provided, where the wafer has edge portions and central portions. The carrier has a fixed permanent magnet having portions defining a cavity and a first coil slidably disposed within the cavity of the fixed permanent magnet. Also provided is a speaker cone having a conical portion and a diaphragm portion. The conical portion has a first end of a first diameter and a second end of a second diameter larger than the first diameter. The first end is fixed to the first coil. The diaphragm covers the second end and has edge portions constrained from movement and central portions free to deflect. A backing film is sealingly affixed to the diaphragm for isolating the speaker from the outside environment. Lastly, a wafer retaining means is provided for retaining the wafer against the backing film along its edge portions.