Abstract: Techniques for detecting interactions with a utility meter. In an example, a method transitions from a locked user input state into an unlocked user input state. While in the unlocked user input state, the method performs operations, including displaying, on a display of the utility meter, a menu that includes objects. The operations further include receiving, from an accelerometer, an acceleration measurement that represents three-dimensional movement. The operations further include comparing the acceleration measurement to an expected user input. The expected user input is associated with an interaction with a selected surface of the utility meter and is based on the displayed menu. The operations can further include when the acceleration measurement corresponds to the expected user input, updating the displayed menu to indicate a user selection of a selected object on the displayed menu and updating the display by navigating the menu to indicate the selected object.

Abstract: A product training and demonstration tool includes a computer system. The tool also includes a demonstration creation interface in the computer system, wherein the demonstration creation interface is configured to create a demonstration responsive to user input. The tool also includes an upload tool configured to upload a plurality of images to the demonstration. The tool also includes an image editing tool configured to create a clickable hotspot on a first one of the images in response to user input and to create a data entry display on a second one of the images in response to user input. The clickable hotspot includes a data entry field. The tool is configured to populate the display with data entered into the data entry field such that when the user is navigating through the demonstration, data entered into the data entry field will also be displayed in the data entry display.

Abstract: Roughly described, the technology disclosed provides a so-called machine learned conversion optimization (MLCO) system that uses evolutionary computations to efficiently identify most successful webpage designs in a search space without testing all possible webpage designs in the search space. The search space is defined based on webpage designs provided by marketers. Website funnels with a single webpage or multiple webpages are represented as genomes. Genomes identify different dimensions and dimension values of the funnels. The genomes are subjected to evolutionary operations like initialization, testing, competition, and procreation to identify parent genomes that perform well and offspring genomes that are likely to perform well. Each webpage is tested only to the extent that it is possible to decide whether it is promising, i.e., whether it should serve as a parent for the next generation, or should be discarded.

Abstract: Systems and methods for amplifying the intelligence of networked human populations, maximizing the accuracy of collaborative forecasts and group insights. This includes systems and methods for sending and presenting a forecasting query for a future event to a plurality of participants, each using a networked computing device, the forecasting query describing a future event to be collaboratively predicted by the population of human participants. An initial forecast response is collected from each participant and analyzed by a central server. A plurality of unique overlapping subsets of responses are determined by the server. Unique overlapping subsets of unique initial forecast responses are then displayed, at substantially the same time, on each computing device. A second forecast response is collected from each participant and a final forecast is determined.

Abstract: Systems and methods for amplifying the collective intelligence of networked human groups engaged in collaborative forecasting of future events having two possible outcomes. During a real-time session a computing device for each user displays a forecasting prompt and a dynamic user interface which includes a user-manipulatable marker moved by the user between a first limit and a second limit, where the position of the marker defines a forecasted probability of each possible outcome. The display also includes a first reward value and a second reward value, both of which are interactively responsive to the marker position. During a first time period, users manipulate the markers. After the first time period, a perturbation stimulus is displayed. During a second time period, users again manipulate the markers. After the second time period, a final group forecast is calculated based on the data collected during the first and second time periods.

Abstract: A method for personalizing resource strings within a user interface of a computing device. The method includes accessing a personalization editor via the computing device, and receiving a user modification to a resource string associated with one or more applications. The method also includes storing an original unmodified resource string associated with the resource string, the modified resource string, and the associated applications. The method also includes receiving a request from a first application for a first resource string associated with a specified resource identifier. The method also includes determining if the first resource string has an associated modified resource string stored in the personalized resource string database, and displaying the modified resource string based on the first resource string being determined to be associated with the modified resource string stored in the personalized resource string database.

Abstract: According to a present invention embodiment, items are transferred between source and destination nodes. A search is performed for one or more source nodes and one or more destination nodes based on search criteria. Graphical representations of the source and destination nodes resulting from the search are generated and presented on a user interface. A graphical connector is manipulated to connect a first quantity of source nodes to a second quantity of destination nodes on the user interface, wherein at least one from a group of the first quantity and the second quantity represent a plurality of nodes from the user interface. One or more items are transferred from the first quantity of source nodes to the second quantity of destination nodes based on connections indicated by the graphical connector.

Abstract: Systems and methods for electron flow rendering and visualization correction are disclosed. According to an aspect, a method includes detecting two or more entities connected in a computing network. The method also includes acquiring data attributes from the entities connected to each other within the computing network. Further, the method includes rendering a graphical depiction of the entities connected to each other in the form of a graphical object and graphical line curvature. The method also includes generating a graphical line curvature correction scheme based on a relationship between the graphical line curvatures and graphical objects. Further, the method includes applying the graphical line curvature correction scheme to the acquired data attributes from the entities connected to each other in the form of graphical objects and graphical line curvatures to produce a corrected electron flow expression of the entities.

Abstract: A method for aggregating information whereby a user input provided to an input area within a graphical user interface is analyzed to determine an external application corresponding to a content portion of the user input. Analyzed content portions of the user input are used as an element in a search within the determined external application. As a result of the search within the determined external application, external content is obtained. The obtained external content is then categorized and organized into application portals displayed within the graphical user interface.

Abstract: A technique for controlling objects includes a handheld controller that provides output for generating a virtual ray. The virtual ray has a location and a direction. The location of the virtual ray is measured as a location of the handheld controller, based on input from sensors in the surrounding space. As a user moves and/or rotates the handheld controller, the virtual ray sweeps through space, intersecting various objects. When the virtual ray intersects with the location of a controllable object whose identity and location are known, the handheld controller identifies the object and accepts remote-control input from the user for controlling that object. Using the handheld controller, the user may control any controllable object having a known identity and location in space, and may control virtual as well as physical objects.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a memory and a hardware processor. The processor receives a voice signal associated with an element of a website. Navigating to the element includes performing a user interaction with a browser configured to display the website. In response to receiving the voice signal, the processor converts the voice signal to an input command that simulates the user interaction and executes the input command. The processor then monitors a behavior of the browser and applies a machine learning algorithm to the behavior to determine whether the website is compliant with a set of rules. The machine learning algorithm determines whether the website is compliant based at least in part on the voice signal and the browser behavior. In response to determining that the website is not compliant with the set of rules, the processor records a violation in an error log.

Abstract: A method, computer program product, and a system where a processor(s) obtains, from a client, permission to access computing device(s) utilized by the client to monitor the client and interact with the client and an identification of each interface of the device(s). The processor(s) obtains a computer-initiated interaction, from a host communicatively coupled to the processor(s), requesting delivery to the client and a response from the client. The processor(s) monitors, via the accessing the computing device(s), activities performed by the client. The processor(s) determines a real-time environmental context of the client at a point in time of receiving the computer-initiated interaction. The processor(s) cognitively analyzes data and metadata of the computer-initiated interaction to determine attributes. The processor(s) designates an interface of a computing device to receive the delivery and to obtain the response.

Abstract: A method, computer program product, and a system where a processor(s) obtains, from a client, permission to access computing device(s) utilized by the client to monitor the client and interact with the client and an identification of each interface of the device(s). The processor(s) obtains a computer-initiated interaction, from a host communicatively coupled to the processor(s), requesting delivery to the client and a response from the client. The processor(s) monitors, via the accessing the computing device(s), activities performed by the client. The processor(s) determines a real-time environmental context of the client at a point in time of receiving the computer-initiated interaction. The processor(s) cognitively analyzes data and metadata of the computer-initiated interaction to determine attributes. The processor(s) designates an interface of a computing device to receive the delivery and to obtain the response.

Abstract: Embodiments described include systems and methods for generating and displaying live tiles for network applications. A small icon or thumbnail-like visual, referred to generally as a “live tile” or “tile”, may be provided via a user interface to a user, with the tile displaying key relevant information from the application or network resource, without the user having to launch the complete application or manually access the resource. The contents of the live tile may be periodically and automatically updated, including performing authentication processes necessary to access the application or resource.

Abstract: A computing device associated with a user obtains contextual data associated with the user. The contextual data includes information indicating a current location of the user relative to the computing device. The computing device selects one or more applications provided by the computing device based on results of an analysis of the contextual data, and projects one or more holographic objects representing the one or more applications into a viewable area located a predetermined distance from the user.

Abstract: A portable terminal device has enclosures with a movable portion, a display section that displays visible information showing an operation target area, and a touch sensor that detects a position on a display screen of the display section touched by a user's finger, or the like. A shape detection section detects a change in the shape of the enclosure; an input operation management section manages a position detected by the touch sensor and an operation target area of each of pieces of visible information displayed on the display section in an associated manner; and a display control section automatically makes a change to at least display positions of the respective pieces of visible information about the operation target displayed on the display section in accordance with a change in shape of the enclosure detected by the shape detection section.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for quickly switching between multiple dashboards of an application. An embodiment operates by tracking changes made to a first dashboard of an application. The embodiment receives a selection for a second dashboard of the application. The embodiment stores a first data set and a first data state of the first dashboard in a cache. The embodiment removes the first dashboard from memory. The embodiment loads a second dashboard of the application into memory based on the selection. The embodiment then updates the second dashboard in the memory based on a second data set associated with the second dashboard and the shared data associated with a plurality of dashboards.

Abstract: Described herein are frameworks, devices and methods configured for enabling display for facility information and content, in some cases via touch/gesture controlled interfaces. Embodiments of the invention have been particularly developed for allowing an operator to conveniently access a wide range of information relating to a facility via, for example, one or more wall mounted displays. While some embodiments will be described herein with particular reference to that application, it will be appreciated that the invention is not limited to such a field of use, and is applicable in broader contexts.

Abstract: A method for managing notifications in an electronic device is provided. The method may include displaying at least one notification message, associated with a first application, in a notification area of the electronic device; detecting a first user input performed on the at least one notification message displayed in the notification area; and displaying a graphical element including at least one data item corresponding to the at least one notification message within the notification area, where the at least one data item is associated with a second application.

Abstract: A method to improve a user's experience operating within a multiple monitor configuration; the method for assigning a first color to a first display screen within a first monitor and a second color to a second display screen within a second monitor; partitioning a first shared border edge of the first display screen; determining that a mouse pointer satisfies a threshold of the first partitioned shared border edge on the first display screen; modifying, in response to the mouse pointer satisfying the threshold, the first partitioned shared border edge with the second color; and highlighting, in response to the mouse pointer moving to the second display screen, a second border boundary of the second monitor display screen.