Abstract: A method and apparatus for enabling a mixed initiative dialog to be carried out between a user and a machine are described. A speech-enabled processing system receives an utterance from the user, and the utterance is recognized by an automatic speech recognizer using a set of statistical language models. Prior to parsing the utterance, a dialog manager uses a semantic frame to identify the set of all slots potentially associated with the current task and then retrieves a corresponding grammar for each of the identified slots from an associated reusable dialog component. A natural language parser then parses the utterance using the recognized speech and all of the retrieved grammars. The dialog manager then identifies any slot which remains unfilled after parsing and causes a prompt to be played to the user for information to fill the unfilled slot. Dependencies and constraints may be associated with particular slots.

Abstract: A machine-readable storage medium containing a program element for execution by a computing device for performing spike and artifact detection in EG data. The program element comprises a spike detection module for processing EG data to detect spikes. Each spike is a candidate having a likelihood of being related to a physiological event of interest. The program element further comprises an artifact detection module. The artifact detection module is operative to compute respective models of events manifested by the respective spikes detected by the spike detection module, to use the computed models to determine which spikes among the spikes detected by the spike detection module have a high likelihood of being artifacts, to filter the spikes detected by the spike detection module on the basis of the computed models to produce filtered data and to output the filtered data.

Abstract: A machine-readable storage medium containing a program element for execution by a computing device for performing spike and artifact detection in EG data. The program element comprises a spike detection module for processing EG data to detect spikes. Each spike is a candidate having a likelihood of being related to a physiological event of interest. The program element further comprises an artifact detection module. The artifact detection module is operative to compute respective models of events manifested by the respective spikes detected by the spike detection module, to use the computed models to determine which spikes among the spikes detected by the spike detection module have a high likelihood of being artifacts, to filter the spikes detected by the spike detection module on the basis of the computed models to produce filtered data and to output the filtered data.

Abstract: A method of performing packet level transmission scheduling in a communications systems including a plurality of cells,each cell including a base station and plurarity of mobile stations. The method performs scheduling while considering radio resource allocation at the wireless access node. In a schedule plan phase of the method, average power and average effective data rate are determined for all mobile stations in the system. In addition, the planned fractions of frames &rgr; that each mobile in the system will transmit is determined so that resources are allocated fairly. In the actual schedule phase of the method, current power and effective data rate values are compared to the average power values. This information along with the &rgr; values is used to determine the actual schedule of packet transmissions for all mobiles in a particular cell.

Abstract: A time division multiple access protocol that prevents data collisions and that maximizes bandwidth utilization in a long distance communications network by performing implicit ranging and dynamic assignment of time slots. The propagation delay that would result when data travels from an end station to the hub is determined using an implicit ranging method. Time slots in a synchronization signal are assigned to end stations based upon the requests from end stations and the availability of time slots. Each end station is notified of its assigned time slot(s) and propagation delay and is provided with a timing signal which is the synchronization signal delayed by its propagation delay. Each end station then starts to transmit its data at the beginning of a time duration that is twice its propagation delay before the start of its assigned time slot(s) in its timing signal. Each end station transmits its data for the duration of its assigned time slot(s).