Abstract: The psycho/physiological deception detection (PDDS) is a system and method employing PDDS tools to ensure patient truthfulness while conducting a patient interview to assess the severity of pain suffered by the patient and to assess the risk that the patient will divert controlled substances prescribed for the patient to an illicit use. The patient is monitored using the PDDS tool while making an oral response (either live or off-site) to each question in the interview, and a response and a measure of truthfulness of the patient generated from the PDDS monitoring is correlated with each question. Deceptive responses may be probed by asking refining questions to explore possible innocent explanation for a deceptive response. Based on the patient's responses and the indication of truthfulness for each response, a report is generated from which the patient's risk for diverting prescribed medication and the patient's severity of pain may be assessed.

Abstract: A system and methods enable switching between a plurality of online media services from within an application, such as a media player application. A user can switch to any one of a number of online services made available in a services menu and thereby make that service the active service. The active service has customization opportunities that permit the service to customize parts of the media player or other application. Advantages include providing online media services with an ability to control the way in which customers discover and purchase media from within the feature rich environment of various user applications such as a PC-based media player application. From a user's perspective, the advantages include an uninterrupted media experience that can involve the entire process of discovering, purchasing and using of a wide variety of media content all from within the feature rich environment of a media player application.

Abstract: Various embodiments enable dynamic control of input sources for producing live (and/or archivable) streaming media broadcasts. A user interface can conveniently enable a single individual to produce a streaming media broadcast using a variety of input sources that can be conveniently grouped, selected, and modified on the fly if so desired. User-defined source groups enable an individual to select and arrange source inputs for the streaming media broadcast. In some embodiments, source groups can have properties and behaviors that can be defined by the individual before and even during a broadcast session.