Abstract: An interruption-handling setting for a category of interactions of an application is determined via a programmatic interface. A set of user-generated input is obtained while presentation to a user of a set of output of the category is in progress. A response to the set of user-generated input is prepared based at least in part on the interruption-handling setting.

Abstract: A checkpoint containing identifiers of input blocks of an utterance directed to a dialog-driven application from a client-side component is generated at a dialog-driven application management service. After a connectivity failure and subsequent connectivity re-establishment between the client-side component and the service, a plurality if input blocks including at least some re-transmitted blocks is received at the service. The checkpoint is used to identify at least one input block for which further processing is not performed.

Abstract: In a multiresolution image processing system images are stored in files that contain thumbnail data as well as a full image data structure. The image data is preferably wavelet or wavelet-like transform coefficients, generated by applying a wavelet or wavelet-like transform to an image multiple times. Data representing mid-level resolution images are generated on the fly by extracting from the full image data structure only the data needed for the user or application selected resolution level. If the user has selected a subset of the image for viewing at a higher resolution level, a corresponding mid-level resolution image is constructed by extracting from the full image data structure the data needed for the user specified image portion at the user or application selected resolution level. The full image data structure is preferably encoded and stored in a manner allowing the image data for mid-level resolution images to be efficiently extracted without having to compute or recompute any image coefficients.