Abstract: A system is provided for presenting users with relevant personalized and/or customized information whenever a visitor visits a website or performs an internet search. The described system described herein advantageously provides for the saving (clipping) of website information as an integrated part of a visitor's browsing experience. The content of the website information that is clipped may be advantageously controlled by a website owner/publisher. Using website clips, identified as “notes,” previously stored by a visitor, currently displayed website content may be accordingly modified in connection with identified relevant notes and/or a notification may be displayed on the current website for a particular visitor identifying stored relevant notes of the visitor.

Abstract: Presenting database items includes providing a plurality of clusters, where each of the clusters is formed by grouping database items according to location information associated therewith, creating a plurality of geographic elements based on the clusters, and presenting the geographic elements to a user using a note atlas that represents all of the geographic elements corresponding to a set of the database items, where indicators of corresponding clusters are provided with each of the geographic elements. A quantity of database items may be provided with each of the corresponding clusters. The note atlas may show at least two levels of detail corresponding to a world level of detail, a points of interest level of detail and a city level of detail. Points of interest may be determined by having a user provide points of interest on a map.

Abstract: Mitigating glare in connection with photographing a document using a camera includes assessing a first amount of glare that would result if a user were to take a snapshot at a first camera position and lighting conditions, if the first amount of glare is below a predetermined threshold, taking a snapshot with the camera, and, if the first amount of glare is above the predetermined threshold, continuously prompting the user to adjust a position of the camera and taking the snapshot when the camera is in a second position and a second amount of glare, different from the first amount of glare, is below the predetermined threshold. The lighting conditions may include effects of external lighting sources. The user may adjust the external lighting sources before taking the snapshot. The lighting conditions may include effects of an internal light source of the camera.

Abstract: Providing analytics information from a cloud service includes maintaining an analytics database that is separate from data and servers accessed by users of the cloud service, selectively pushing information from the cloud service to the analytics database, where data and servers accessed by users of the cloud service are inaccessible for direct access by the analytics database, and allowing users limited access to the analytics database, where users of the analytics information that are accessing the analytics database are restricted from accessing data and servers of the cloud service. The analytics database may include a first database of adapted database records and a second database of dynamic logs of service related events. The adapted database records may be initially formed using the data and servers accessed by users of the cloud service prior to being pushed to the analytics database.

Abstract: Facilitating date selection by a user includes presenting the user with a single timeline band, causing the band to change granularity of date increments in response to the user zooming in and zooming out on the band, causing the band to present different dates based on band positioning initiated by the user, and allowing selection by the user of a date that is presented on the band to the user. The band may show less granular date increments in response to the user zooming in on the band and the band may show more granular date increments in response to the user zooming out on the band. In response to zooming in, a date presented to the user in connection with a less granular view of the band may become part of the date selected by the user.

Abstract: Presenting items in a two-dimensional access pane includes presenting a first set of icons arranged contiguously and in two dimensions of the access pane, where each of the icons corresponds to an item and at least some of the items are container icons that represent containers that contain other items and expanding at least one of the container icons to show a first container pane having icons corresponding to items contained in a corresponding container, where icons in the first container pane are arranged contiguously and in two dimensions of the first container pane. At least some of the icons in the first container pane may be container icons that represent containers that contain other items. The items may be files in a file system provided in connection with a personal computer that runs Macintosh OS, MS Windows, and Linux. The items may be data in a database system.

Abstract: Handling data for a photographic image, includes detecting a reference pattern in the data, detecting at least one sticker in the data, determining an action associated with the at least one sticker, and performing the action on the data. The reference pattern may be a uniform grid pattern of dots preprinted on paper. A paper type may be determined according to the reference image. Determining an action associated with the at least one sticker may depend, at least in part, on the paper type. Detecting a particular one of the stickers may cause data for the photographic image to be stored in a particular location. Detecting a particular one of the stickers may cause data for the photographic images to be assigned particular tags used for organizing and searching.

Abstract: Identifying at least one object in data for photographed images includes detecting a reference pattern in the data, locating the reference pattern in a table of patterns, and identifying the at least one object according to the reference pattern. The pattern may be located on the at least one object. The at least one object may be a greeting card. The pattern may categorize the greeting card by season and/or occasion. The pattern may identify a sender of the greeting card. The pattern may be provided on an item that is separate from the at least one object. The table of patterns may include a record for at least some of the patterns and the record may include additional information associated with the pattern. The additional information may include tasks that are performed in connection with the pattern. The additional information may include geometric and color parameters of the pattern.

Abstract: Sharing data between applications includes a first application converting data from a first format useable by the first application to a second format useable by a second application and the first application providing editing restrictions to restrict the second application from editing at least some of the data in the second format. At least some of the editing restrictions may prohibit editing at least some of the data by the second application. The user may receive a notification in connection with attempting to edit at least some of the data indicating that editing is prohibited. At least some of the restrictions may provide a warning to a user of the second application. The user may choose to edit the restricted data after receiving the warning.

Abstract: Communicating using sound includes choosing a musical genre, encoding data by selecting musical chords from a chord alphabet, where different musical chords from the chord alphabet represent different symbols from the data alphabet decodable by a receiver and wherein musical chords that are used for the chord alphabet are provided according to the musical genre that is chosen, constructing a tune using the musical chords selected in connection with encoding data, and playing the tune to a receiver. A transmitter may play the tune to the receiver and one of: the receiver and the transmitter may be a mobile device. A receiver may require authentication to decode received data. Constructing the tune may include adding filler chords that do not encode any data and cause the tune to be more aesthetically pleasing.

Abstract: A graphical drawing includes maintaining recently drawn strokes in a wet state after the strokes are drawn, causing strokes in a wet state to transition to a dry state based on passage of time, proximity of other recently drawn strokes, and/or explicit user input directing that at least some wet strokes be transitioned to the dry state, and grouping strokes in the dry state for future user manipulation based at least in part on how the strokes transitioned from the wet state to the dry state. Wet ink strokes may transition from the wet state to the dry state in response to not adding any new wet ink strokes for a predetermined amount of time. The predetermined amount of time may be twelve hundred milliseconds.

Abstract: Providing access to digitally published data includes creating a note having at least a portion that is handwritten by a first user, converting handwriting of the note into a content access identifier that varies according to the portion that is handwritten by the first user, associating the content access identifier with the digitally published data, and making the digitally published data available to a second user by making the note available to the second user. The digitally published data may be written to a public database and/or a private database. A portion of the note may be pre-printed. A pre-printed distinguishing pattern on the note may indicate that handwritten content corresponds to a content access identifier. The pre-printed portion may be a regular dotted pattern. The note may have a known identifiable color and size.

Abstract: A method and system for on-the-run processing of source data is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes an input device to trace the moving object, such as a pen, an on-the-run filter, coupled to the input device, to perform denoising of the source data without noticeable shrinkage of the trace using recursive reparameterization filtering, and a storage device, coupled to the on-the-run filter, to compress and store the data.

Abstract: Adjusting data for photographed images includes detecting a reference image in the data, where the reference image contains a detectable uniformity and adjusting the data according to the reference image. The reference image may be a uniform grid pattern of dots preprinted on paper. A paper type may be determined prior to adjusting the data according to the reference image. The paper type may be determined according to spacing and/or patterns of the dots, and/or layout of page areas covered with dots. Adjusting the data may include removing effects corresponding to a folded corner, a removed corner, an obstructed corner, lens flare spots, and/or a shadow. Positional coordinates of the data may be adjusted by normalizing the grid through a non-linear transformation that eliminates curvature of the grid and/or distortions based on perspective.

Abstract: An electronic note management system is provides that includes a storage component, a user-interface, and one or more navigation features. The storage component maintains a plurality of records, and the user-interface component renders a plurality of electronic notes from the plurality of records. The user-interface is configured to display a given group of two or more notes in the plurality of notes as a sequenced series while the two or more notes are in a rendered state. One or more navigation features provided with the user-interface to enable a user to navigate (i) from a first note in the group to a next note in the group that is adjacent to the first note in the sequenced series (ii) while the first note and the next note are in the rendered state.

Abstract: Extracting principal content from Web pages includes identifying and classifying items on the Web page, building a list of candidates, calculating candidate scores, selecting a top score candidate, performing clean up processing for the top score candidate, and performing final page processing for the top score candidate. Candidate scores may vary according to a number of paragraphs and images grouped according to size. A word length of CJK (Chinese-Japanese-Korean) text may be determined according to punctuation therein. Candidate scores may be modified according to a number of containers and pieces and wherein a container is a Web page element that is associated with tags ‘body’, ‘div’, ‘td’, ‘li’, ‘article/section’ and pieces are candidates that do not include other candidates. Candidate scores may be modified according to a number of ratios corresponding to text and link density.

Abstract: Extracting an optimal subset of facial photographs includes obtaining an initial set of facial photographs, removing from the initial set photographs any photographs that are of unacceptable quality, grouping a remaining set of photographs according to view angle, removing from the remaining set of photographs any photographs having an undesirable facial expression to provide a limited set of representative facial photographs, and, selecting, from the limited set of facial photographs, an optimal subset of facial photographs. Obtaining the initial set of photographs may include using a video camera while diversifying view angles and controlling recording quality. Obtaining the initial set of photographs may include obtaining a series of still images. The still images may be self-recorded by a person with a smartphone front-facing camera.

Abstract: Providing incremental search suggestions from a content database include accessing the content database to determine possible candidates for the search suggestions, scoring each of the candidates based at least partially on a non-monotonic document frequency function, where candidates that appear a first amount corresponding to a relatively frequent occurrence in the content database and candidates that appear a second amount corresponding to a relatively infrequent occurrence in the content database both score lower than candidates that appear in the content database with a frequency that is between the first amount and the second amount, and ordering the possible candidates based on at least the scoring. Possible candidates may include named entities and n-grams. The n-grams may only be unigrams and bigrams. Stop words may be filtered out of the n-grams. Scoring may include taking into account term frequency.