Abstract: A method and system for providing targeted applications within an electronic message interface. The method comprises retrieving content from a user's electronic message in the electronic message interface, parsing and interpreting the user's context from the content, and accepting bidding on the user's interpreted context from one or more applications, the one or more applications including triggering conditions related to the user's interpreted context. The one or more applications are ranked based on the bidding. The method further comprises loading the one or more applications into the electronic message interface based on the ranking, and providing one or more follow-up transactions associated with the one or more loaded applications based on the user's interpreted context.

Abstract: Face-containing images within web pages are automatically annotated to identify the people having those faces. The annotation is based on faces detected in the images and named entities detected in text associated with the images. Each candidate named entity may be scored by the prominence of the named entity in the text relative to the other extracted named entities. Queries are sent to a search engine based on the extracted candidate named entities. Sample images are returned. Face similarity calculations may be computed based on the featured faces and sample faces detected in the search engine-returned sample images to associate a probability score between each featured face and each candidate named entity. A bipartite matching instance may be solved to arrive at a maximum likelihood assignment of named entities to featured faces.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for providing targeted applications within a search engine results page. The method and system includes receiving a search query from a user and interpreting the search query. The method and system then first maps the interpreted query to one or more action templates, wherein mapping the interpreted query to one or more action templates comprises selecting one or more actions associated with the interpreted query. The method and system then maps the selected one or more actions associated with the interpreted query to a plurality of applications and selecting one or more applications associated with the one or more actions. Finally, the method and system displays the one or more applications within a search results page.

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method for performing conflict resolution when refreshing a materialized view. The system may comprise a logging mechanism that maintains a refresh log, the refresh log may contain a first range and a second range that at least partially overlap, the first range and the second range each having a timestamp associated therewith. The system may also include a refresh manager that resolves conflicts between the first range and the second range that at least partially overlap by selecting portions of the first range and the second range that have the more recent timestamp and applying the selected portions of the first range and the second range to the materialized view. In another embodiment, the system may comprise a logging mechanism that maintains a refresh log, the refresh log containing a range and a single-row entry, the range and the single row entry each having a timestamp associated therewith.

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method for refreshing a materialized view that is at least in part derived from a table. The system may be adapted to provide availability of the table and the materialized view while the materialized view is being refreshed. The system may include a refresh log that contains a plurality of entries, each of the plurality of entries corresponding to a change in the table, each of the plurality of entries comprising an epoch identifier.