Abstract: Certain examples described herein relate to systems and methods for estimating energy consumption data for a building. A system (600) for estimating an energy use of a building uses a dilated convolutional neural network architecture (610) to receive time-series data (620) for the building and to predict one or more time-series data points (650) representing an estimated energy consumption for the building. A method for estimating an energy use of a building includes obtaining time-series data for the building, providing the time-series data as input to a dilated convolutional neural network architecture, and predicting one or more time-series data points representing an estimated energy consumption for the building using the dilated convolutional neural network architecture. The systems and methods may be used to help users and building controllers reduce energy use within a building.

Abstract: Certain examples described herein provide a system and a method for disaggregating energy load data for a building.

Abstract: Certain examples described herein provide a system and a method for the determination of energy consumption patterns for a building. The system (410) may have an energy load data interface (414) to receive energy load data (412) originating from energy use sensors for the building; a data partition engine (416) to apply a clustering model to the energy load data to determine one or more partitions (418) within the energy load data; a temporal processing engine (420) to segment and aggregate the energy load data over a set of predefined time periods, wherein the temporal processing engine is independently applied to the partitions determined by the data partition engine; a visualisation engine (424) to generate visualisation data from the output of the temporal processing engine, the visualisation data comprising respective sets of data for the partitions determined by the data partition engine; and an output interface (426) to output the visualisation data (428) for display.

Abstract: Provided is a system and method for providing an information retrieval service on a mobile computing device such as a wireless computer or cellular telephone. The user of a mobile computing device provides vocal, visual or textual data to the service provider. The service scans a transmitted data to convert the data into a digital form and the data is converted into a text file. The service provider performs analytical computations on the data in the text file and, using context and preference rules, produces and transmits information of value to the user. In addition, the service may request additional information from the user for the purpose of better servicing the query. A query to the claimed service may be modified based upon configuration information stored with respect to a particular user or based upon previous queries from the particular user.

Abstract: A system and method of controlling copying of documents. The method includes optically capturing a document. At least one object of the captured document is recognized. A content output is determined based on the recognized object and at least one output rule. The content output is provided based on the determination.

Abstract: A method, system, and program for distributing messaging session logs to users entering an already ongoing messaging session are provided. When, first and second user are participating in an ongoing instant messaging session and an additional user enters the instant messaging session, the additional user can only see those entries in the instant messaging session that occur after the additional user enters the messaging session. A logging controller, however, automatically records a log of all the entries in the messaging session when the logging controller detects the entrance of an additional user to an ongoing messaging session. Then, the logging controller provides a selectable option for the first or second user, the selection of which triggers the logging controller to pass the log of previous entries to the additional user.

Abstract: A method, system, and program for enabling a user to store a messaging session entry for delivery when an intended recipient is next available are provided. A messaging agent stores a message entry by a user, wherein the message entry is intended for communication in a messaging session with an intended recipient who is unavailable to receive the message entry when the message entry is entered by the user. The messaging agent then monitors the presence of the intended recipient and responsive to detecting a change in presence from “unavailable” to “available”, the messaging agent prompts the user to select whether to send the message entry to the intended recipient in a new messaging session. In addition, a user may select additional actions for the messaging agent to perform in distributing the message entry, where the additional actions are conditioned on the presence of the intended recipient and at least one non-presence based requirement.