Abstract: A system for providing management of contact records includes a contact record that is associated with an initiator and is indexed by a phone number of the originator. To initiate delivery of some part of the contact record of the originator, the originator enters a phone number of a recipient into an application and some part of the fields of the contact record are transmitted to a device of the recipient where they are stored in the recipient's contact list. In some embodiments, the part of the fields sent is determined by a relationship between the initiator and the recipient such as family, co-worker, acquaintance, friend, stranger, etc. When changes are made to the contact record, the recipient device will receive updated information. Features are provided for automatic deletion of the subset of fields from the recipient device upon request or after a specified time period.

Abstract: A system for providing management of contact records includes a contact record that is associated with an initiator and is indexed by a phone number of the originator. To initiate delivery of some part of the contact record of the originator, the originator enters a phone number of a recipient into an application and some part of the fields of the contact record are transmitted to a device of the recipient where they are stored in the recipient's contact list. In some embodiments, the part of the fields sent is determined by a relationship between the initiator and the recipient such as family, co-worker, acquaintance, friend, stranger, etc. When changes are made to the contact record, the recipient device will receive updated information. Features are provided for automatic deletion of the subset of fields from the recipient device upon request or after a specified time period.

Abstract: A system for providing management of contact records includes a contact record that is associated with an initiator and is indexed by a phone number of the originator. To initiate delivery of some part of the contact record of the originator, the originator enters a phone number of a recipient into an application and some part of the fields of the contact record are transmitted to a device of the recipient where they are stored in the recipient's contact list. In some embodiments, the part of the fields sent is determined by a relationship between the initiator and the recipient such as family, co-worker, acquaintance, friend, stranger, etc. When changes are made to the contact record, the recipient device will receive updated information. Features are provided for automatic deletion of the subset of fields from the recipient device upon request or after a specified time period.

Abstract: A system for providing management of contact records includes a contact record that is associated with an initiator and is indexed by a phone number of the originator. To initiate delivery of the contact record of the originator, the originator enters a phone number of a recipient and a subset of the fields of the contact record are transmitted to a device of the recipient where they are stored in the recipient's contact list. When changes are made to the contact record, the recipient device will receive updated information. Features are provided for automatic deletion of the subset of fields from the recipient device upon request or after a specified time period. Features are provided for selecting the subset of fields based upon a restriction such as family, co-worker, acquaintance, friend, stranger, etc.

Abstract: A system for providing management of contact records includes a contact record that is associated with an initiator and is indexed by a phone number of the originator. To initiate delivery of the contact record of the originator, the originator enters a phone number of a recipient and a subset of the fields of the contact record are transmitted to a device of the recipient where they are stored in the recipient's contact list. When changes are made to the contact record, the recipient device will receive updated information. Features are provided for automatic deletion of the subset of fields from the recipient device upon request or after a specified time period. Features are provided for selecting the subset of fields based upon a restriction such as family, co-worker, acquaintance, friend, stranger, etc.

Abstract: A system for targeted reviews includes a review server that hosts the reviews. When review data is requested by a requester, the review server requests a list of contacts of the requester. The review server then creates and presents a subset of the reviews that relate to the request and were written by those on the list of contacts. The list of contacts is extracted from a contact list of the requester, either stored locally on the requesting device or at a server. In this way, the requester is able to see reviews that were written by those in the requestor's contact list. In some embodiments in which the system has access to contacts of each of the contacts, a second level list is envisioned including reviews of contacts and reviews of contact of the contacts.

Abstract: A system for providing management of contact records includes a single record that is primarily indexed by phone number. The contact records are network accessed through any of various cellular and data networks by various devices and cached locally on such devices by way of permission from the owner of each record. In this way, the owner of each record has the ability to later deny access for any other user to some or all of the information stored in the contact record. As changes are made to a contact record, all others users having access to that contact record receive updated information. Duplicates are eliminated as no two individuals or establishments share the same phone number.

Abstract: A system for providing management of contact records includes a single record that is primarily indexed by phone number. The contact records are network accessed through any of various cellular and data networks by various devices and cached locally on such devices by way of permission from the owner of each record. In this way, the owner of each record has the ability to later deny access for any other user to some or all of the information stored in the contact record. As changes are made to a contact record, all others users having access to that contact record receive updated information. Duplicates are eliminated as no two individuals or establishments share the same phone number.

Abstract: A system for targeted reviews includes a web site that hosts the reviews. When review data is requested by a requester, the web site requests a list of contacts of the requester. The web site then creates and presents a subset of the reviews that relate to the request and were reviewed by those on the list of contacts. The list of contacts is extracted from a contact list of the requester, either stored locally on the requesting device or at a server. In this way, the requester is able to see reviews that were written by those in the requester's contact list. In some embodiments in which the system has access to contacts of each of the contacts, a second level list is envisioned including reviews of contacts and reviews of contact of the contacts.

Abstract: An accessory for a device includes an actuator that is configured to be activated to operate a switch on the device when the accessory is physically engaged with the device. The switch is operable to cause the device to switch between on and off modes in which the device is configured to function. The off mode is a mode in which the device consumes less energy than when in the on mode. A controller is communicatively coupled with the actuator and is configured to activate the actuator to operate the switch when power is applied to the actuator.

Abstract: A multi-burner system includes a horizontally elongated body structure having burner heads extending along an axis. Each burner head has a length along the axis greater than a width or height thereof and includes an inner chamber, a housing surrounding the inner chamber and holes formed on the housing to disperse gas externally from the inner chamber. The multi-burner system further includes a plurality of conduits connected to the body structure to convey the gas to the inner chamber of each burner head.

Abstract: A method and system for retrieving information from an electronic dictionary. The system stores all information about words that have the same normalized form into a single entry within the electronic dictionary. The normalized form of a word has all lower case letters and no diacritical marks. When information is to be retrieved from the dictionary for a word, the word is first normalized and then the dictionary is searched for the entry corresponding to that normalized word. The entry that is found contains the information for that word.

Abstract: A method and system that uses a chunking technique to guide the parsing. A chunk is a portion of the input for which the system has determined that a sufficient number of syntax rules have been applied such that further application of syntax rules to that chunk is unlikely to produce a more accurate sub-parse for that chunk. When using the chunking technique, the system selects a syntax rule to apply to the current partial parse (sub-trees) of the input sentence. The selected syntax rule has a high probability relative to other syntax rules that can be applied to the one or more potential sub-trees of the input sentence. The system then applies the selected syntax rule to the potential sub-trees of the input sentence to form a new potential sub-trees of the input sentence. When the system determines that syntax rules with low probabilities have recently been applied, the system disables application of syntax rules to a portion of parse of the input sentence (i.e.

Abstract: A method and system for retrieving information from an electronic dictionary. The system stores all information about words that have the same normalized form into a single entry within the electronic dictionary. The normalized form of a word has all lower case letters and no diacritical marks. When information is to be retrieved from the dictionary for a word, the word is first normalized and then the dictionary is searched for the entry corresponding to that normalized word. The entry that is found contains the information for that word.

Abstract: A method and system for determining the likelihood that a certain syntax rule when applied to a partial parse of an input will produce a node that will be part of the correct parse for the input. Each syntax rule indicates a higher-level syntactic construct that can be formed from one or more lower-level syntactic constructs. Each syntax rule has a probability which indicates the likelihood that the syntax rule will succeed and produce a node in the resulting parse tree. Each syntax rule also has a heuristic score formula indicating how to calculate a heuristically derived score for the higher-level syntactic construct created when the syntax rule is successfully applied. When a syntax rule is successfully applied while parsing the input sentence, the system calculates a probability for the higher-level syntactic construct produced by the syntax rule.