Abstract: One or more personal article holders and/or mobile structures to which personal article holders can be attached or are integrated into are provided. A personal article holder comprises an elongated body comprising a hollow interior and a first open end configured for allowing a personal article to be inserted into the hollow interior. The personal article holder comprises an attachment means configured to attach the personal article holder to a mobile device.

Abstract: One or more personal article holders and/or mobile structures to which personal article holders can be attached or are integrated into are provided. A personal article holder comprises an elongated body comprising a hollow interior and a first open end configured for allowing a personal article to be inserted into the hollow interior. The personal article holder comprises an attachment means configured to attach the personal article holder to a mobile device.

Abstract: One or more personal article holders and/or mobile structures to which personal article holders can be attached or are integrated into are provided. A personal article holder comprises an elongated body comprising a hollow interior and a first open end configured for allowing a personal article to be inserted into the hollow interior. The personal article holder comprises an attachment means configured to attach the personal article holder to a mobile device.

Abstract: The present invention includes methods and compositions relating to a hot melt adhesive that includes ethylene methyl methacrylate and a tackifying resin.

Abstract: Means and method are for sending a wireless message (620) by a personal messaging device (2000) using a message template (305, 400, 500) that is formed by user input. A static component (405), dynamic component (410, 510), and trigger condition (415) of a message template are specified by user input and stored in the personal messaging device. When satisfied, the trigger condition causes one or more wireless messages to be transmitted using the message template. The dynamic component of the message template may include a set of dynamic information (411) obtained from a set of information sources at the occurrence of one or more dynamic events. The one or more dynamic events (412, 512) may be the same as the trigger condition.

Abstract: The present invention includes compositions relating to a hot melt adhesive that includes a copolymer of butene-1, a wax, and a tackifying resin. The present invention further relates to adhesives initially exhibiting adhesion properties and subsequently non-adhesion qualities. Methods of using these adhesives are also part of the claimed invention.

Abstract: In a speech synthesis technique used in a network (110, 115), a set of text words is accepted by a speech engine software function (210) in a client device (105). From the set of text words, an invalid subset of text words is determined for which the text words are not in a word synthesis dictionary of the client device. The invalid subset of text words is transmitted over the network to a server device (120), which generates a set of word pronunciations including at least a portion of the text words of the invalid subset of text words and pronunciations associated with each of the text words. The client device uses the pronunciations for speech synthesis and may store them in a local word synthesis dictionary (220) stored in a memory (150) of the client device.

Abstract: The present invention includes methods and compositions relating to a hot melt adhesive that includes ethylene methyl methacrylate and a tackifying resin.

Abstract: To address the need for a method and apparatus for preventing speech dropout in a low-latency text-to-speech system, a method and apparatus for preventing such speech dropout is described herein. In accordance with the preferred embodiment of the present invention the rate of speech is allowed to vary based on an amount of data existing within the buffer. More particularly, as the buffer empties, the rate of speech slows, reducing the chances that the output buffer will empty.

Abstract: A method of testing a new vocabulary word is performed using any set of enrollment utterances provided by the user or from an available database. The present method preferably does not use separate training and similarity test utterances. This allows any or all available repetitions of a vocabulary word being enrolled to be used for training (204), therefore improving the robustness of the trained models. Likewise, any or all training repetitions can also be utilized for similarity analysis (212), providing additional test samples which should further improve the detection of acoustically similar words. Additionally, the similarity analysis progresses incrementally and does not need to continue if a confusable word is found. Finally, first and second thresholds could be employed (212, 302) to provide greater flexibility for a user training a speech recognition system.