Abstract: In one embodiment, a system provides for end-user control over the automatic recognition of communication situations by detection of unique telecommunication event characteristics and the consequential responses to those situations by invocation of related programmatic responses. The system allows an end user to specify various patterns of telecommunication event characteristics that describe various situational aspects of incoming communications, such as the timing and originator of voice calls, the content of, timing of, and author of chat messages, etc., as well as appropriate sets of programmatic response actions to be performed in response to those communications, such as initiating conference calls, sending chat messages, routing calls to other users, etc.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a mobile device application automatically identifies and annotates auditory signals from one or more parties.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a secure client-server socket-based Internet communication system uses socket hopping to distribute communication channels per session to a large number of randomly-selected socket ports.

Abstract: A system is described which provides the capability for high-level extensible scripting language interpreters to incorporate and employ Web browser plug-ins as components within script-based programs. A script interpreter extension is described which simulates the plug-in API interface of a Web browser, from the point of view of the browser plug-in, to allow program scripts to cause browser plug-ins to be launched and manipulated, in a manner similar to the scripting platform's native widgets, from within the executing program script. This system allows embedded external program objects to be used to display and enable interactive processing of embedded data objects.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method of serving information to a distributed hypermedia browser comprises receiving a request from the browser at an Internet server to locate information, transmitting a message from the Internet server to a database server in response to receiving the request to locate information, searching a database on the database server for descriptive information for at least one feature in a multi-dimensional image having more than two dimensions and having a plurality of features, providing location information from the database server to indicate the location of the feature, receiving a response comprising the location information at the Internet server from the database server, and transmitting at least a portion of the response from the database server to the browser.

Abstract: A method and apparatus that utilizes coordinates of a “hot spot” selected in an image map to index a location in a secondary image. An object table is indexed using data stored in the indexed location of the secondary image to link a program action to the “hot spot”.

Abstract: A system is described which provides the capability for high-level extensible scripting language interpreters to incorporate and employ Web browser plug-ins as components within script-based programs. A script interpreter extension is described which simulates the plug-in API interface of a Web browser, from the point of view of the browser plug-in, to allow program scripts to cause browser plug-ins to be launched and manipulated, in a manner similar to the scripting platform's native widgets, from within the executing program script. This system allows embedded external program objects to be used to display and enable interactive processing of embedded data objects.

Abstract: A system is described which provides the capability for high-level extensible scripting language interpreters to incorporate and employ Web browser plug-ins as components within script-based programs. A script interpreter extension is described which simulates the plug-in API interface of a Web browser, from the point of view of the browser plug-in, to allow program scripts to cause browser plug-ins to be launched and manipulated, in a manner similar to the scripting platform's native widgets, from within the executing program script. This system allows embedded external program objects to be used to display and enable interactive processing of embedded data objects.

Abstract: In a method and apparatus for identifying features of multidimensional image data in hypermedia systems a multidimensional image, secondary image map and object index associate a program action with each object defined in an image.