Abstract: The present invention provides solutions to the potential undesirable effects the insertion and removal of information elements and documents may have on axes of elements using a collation function and collation units and further allows for displaying the elements with a first layout until the number of elements to be displayed in the collation unit exceeds a maximum number of elements displayable with the first layout, the elements displayed in the collation unit being displayed with a second layout when the number of elements to be displayed in the collation unit exceeds the number of elements displayable with the first layout. The invention can be effectuated as a method, a device and an apparatus carrying out the method described herein.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes an adaptive tile framework. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising sending an access request from a mobile application operating on a mobile device to one or more remote systems, receiving a plurality of interactive features available on the remote systems, associating the plurality interactive features with a plurality of tiles, where particular interactive features are associated with particular tiles, and where the tiles are user interface elements for interfacing with one or more specific interactive features of the remote systems, and displaying the tiles.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods to obtain feedback descriptive of autonomous vehicle failures. In particular, the systems and methods of the present disclosure can detect that a vehicle failure event occurred at an autonomous vehicle and, in response, provide an interactive user interface that enables a human located within the autonomous vehicle to enter feedback that describes the vehicle failure event. Thus, the systems and methods of the present disclosure can actively prompt and/or enable entry of feedback in response to a particular instance of a vehicle failure event, thereby enabling improved and streamlined collection of information about autonomous vehicle failures.

Abstract: Manipulation of a Web page displayed through a first device as a function of user interaction with a second device is contemplated. The manipulation may include operating the second device as a touchscreen or other gesture-based controllable device and automatically providing corresponding navigation within the Web page as a function of interactions registered through the second device.

Abstract: Example embodiments relate to measuring user interface (UI) responsiveness related to a UI of an application running on a computing device. An example method may include accessing a list of actionable controls, where the list indicates at least one UI control of the UI as being actionable. The method may include detecting a user interaction when a user interacts with a UI control of the UI. The method may include determining a list of change controls. The change controls are UI controls that change, refresh or load in response to the user interaction, which will ultimately be displayed on a next screen of the UI after the user interaction, and which are also on the list of actionable controls. The method may include determining a UI responsive time based on the list of change controls.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for in-line document tagging and object-based synchronization. An exemplary system may comprise one or more processors and a non-transitory computer-readable memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform a method. The method may comprise: receiving, via an in-line tagging interface, user input, the user input being associated with one or more fields of a document; applying one or more first document tags to the document, the one or more first document tags being applied in-line with the received user input; and generating a data object from the document based on the one or more documents tags, the data object being associated with an object-based data modeling framework.

Abstract: A database system may generate a new case associated with a customer support query. The database system may initiate a search for other cases related to the new case and identify articles linked to the related cases. The database system may identify more relevant articles by finding the related cases that use a similar vocabulary for describing similar customer problems. The database system then identifies the articles used for resolving the prior problems. Thus, the database system may bridge the gap between vocabularies used by customers to describe problems and vocabularies used in articles to describe solutions to those problems.

Abstract: This specification discloses techniques for communicating data between a first execution context on a computing system and a second execution context on the computing system. The first execution context can execute content from a first origin, the second execution context can execute content from a second origin that is different from the first origin, and the first execution context and the second execution context can each be restricted from accessing data of the other as a result of a same-origin policy implemented by the computing system. The method can include establishing a bi-directional communication channel between the first execution context and the second execution context.

Abstract: A system and method for augmenting a graphical user interface by filtering options within a text message displayed within the graphical user interface includes determining that a content of the text message includes a plurality of options, receiving a location information of the sending device, the location information of the sending device being used to determine a venue corresponding to a physical location of the sending device, determining that the venue corresponding to the physical location of the sending device is relevant to the plurality of options, retrieving a contextual information from the venue about the plurality of choices, and augmenting the graphical user interface of the sending device by appending the contextual information to the plurality of options of the text message, such that the graphical user interface of the sending device simultaneously displays both the contextual information and the plurality of options.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and other embodiments facilitate discovering and serializing metadata for a file system. After initializing or accessing a serialization data structure, recursive search threads that begin at a selected location in the file system are spawned. The threads analyzes the selected location in the file system, acquire metadata associated with the selected location in the file system, serialize the metadata associated with the selected location in the file system into the serialization data structure, and then selectively spawn additional recursive search threads. Additional recursive search threads may be spawned upon determining that the current recursive search thread has reached a branch point in a hierarchy of the file system. Different threads may perform different types of searches (e.g., depth-first breadth-first) and may operate in parallel. The serialization data structure may be persisted and surfaced in an object (e.g., JSON object) that can be queried or searched.

Abstract: A method and device for identifying junk picture files, which are used for a server side to identify junk picture files in cached network data. The method comprises: obtaining a directory to be detected; determining whether the number of files in the directory is greater than or equal to a first preset value; if so, determining whether file names of the files in the directory contain keywords which represent the cached network data; if the keywords are contained, determining that the files in the directory are the cached network data, and then, determining whether keywords which represent useless picture files exist in the cached network data, so as to find out whether junk picture files exist; if the junk picture files exist, identifying the found picture files as cached junk picture files; and recording a directory path where the cached junk picture files are located. By means of the above solution, the cached network junk picture files can be accurately identified.

Abstract: A system and method of analyzing traffic across multiple media channels via encoded links is disclosed herein. The method may include receiving, by a server of a media channel analysis system, identification of a plurality of media channels for which to generate encoded links to a resource, generating, by the server, different links encoded by the server and linked to the resource, assigning, by the server, a respective encoded link of the generated encoded links to each of the identified media channels, determining, by the server, for each of the identified media channels, statistics related to traffic corresponding to the respective encoded link and providing, by the server, an output comprising at least a portion of the statistics.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a spreadsheet application with an enhanced understanding of mathematical equations using a mathematical engine and a calculation engine. The disclosed spreadsheet application has many enhanced features, such as, but not limited to: analyzing complex equations, identifying dependencies, converting mathematical notation to spreadsheet notation, connecting variables in an equation to other cells of the spreadsheet, solving or simplifying equations, recommending different display representations of data, and a providing a math display mode.

Abstract: Adding an instance to a series in a fashion that preserves the series for both modern and legacy systems, even when the addition would not ordinarily be compatible with the legacy system. A method includes identifying a master message. The master message includes default values for events in the series. The method further includes identifying user input for a new event in the series. The user input identifies exceptions to the default values. The method further includes creating an instance message that includes default values from the master message for which there are no exceptions identified in the user input and includes the exceptions from the user input.

Abstract: An apparatus, method, and system using techniques to partially refresh a display page. A navigation URL generated by an application in response to a user interaction is received, the navigation URL indicating a place within a page hierarchy at which a partial refresh of a page with which the navigation URL is associated is to be performed and the navigation URL including one or more URL portions usable to retrieve page content data to be used to partially refresh the page. The navigation URL is processed to determine the place within the page hierarchy at which the partial refresh is to be performed. The navigation URL is used to retrieve the page content data.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for controlling a screen display in a portable terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a display unit, an input unit, a memory unit, a magnification identifying unit, and a controller. The display unit displays a screen display having a controlled magnification level. The input unit sets a zoom-in or zoom-out point on the screen display. The memory unit stores reference information for determining a zoom-in or zoom-out magnification level of the screen display. The magnification identifying unit measures a tilt of the portable terminal, and determines control or non-control of a magnification level of the screen display using the measured tilt. The controller controls the screen display according to the identified magnification level.

Abstract: A system and method providing a multi-party document revision capability. A master electronic document (MED) may be established on a central computer platform. The MED is embedded with an unalterable document identification code (DIC) which clearly identifies the single instance of the MED. Parties having permission to access, modify, and approve the MED on the central computer platform are each provided with a unique identifier code (UIC) which is associated with the DIC and, therefore, the MED. Any permitted party having an assigned UIC may access the MED and enter proposed changes to the MED on the central computer platform. However, each party associated with the MED has to approve any proposed change before the proposed change is automatically entered as a formally accepted change into the MED.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a presentation unit that, when each user is assigned at least one tag indicating characteristics of the user and a tag is in common between a viewing user and a viewed user, presents the tag in common of the viewing user in more detail than a tag which is not in common.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for inserting content into an application from an online synchronized content management system are disclosed. The system can receive text input into an application at a client device associated with the content management system. The text input can be, for example, keystrokes performed at the client device by a user, and the application can be, for example, an email client. The system can identify, within the text input, a predefined text string, such as an escape sequence, that is followed by a partial or full string that represents an identifier. The identifier may be associated with a content item that is stored in the online synchronized content management system. The system can then insert inside the application a link that points to the content item. The system can also insert code that is designed to render the content item as a dynamically updated preview.

Abstract: A server device and method are provided for use in predictive server-side rendering of scenes based on client-side user input. The server device may include a processor and a storage device holding instructions for an application program executable by the processor to receive, at the application program, a current navigation input in a stream of navigation inputs from a client device over a network, calculate a predicted future navigation input based on the current navigation input and a current application state of the application program, render a future scene based on the predicted future navigation input to a rendering surface, and send the rendering surface to the client device over the network.

Abstract: A system for modular image mining and search, comprising a plurality of image capture devices, a search engine, an indexing engine, a database, and user interface software. A plurality of image capture devices capture images and store them to a database. The indexing engine indexes images to create image data for each image with associated metadata and stores the information to the database. The interface software is used to request search queries via a search engine. The search engine accesses the image data to find images or parts of images that satisfy the search query.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for causing display of a first set of representations of a first set of hyperlinks. In operation, a first input from a user is received indicating a selection of one of the first set of hyperlink representations and causes, in response to receiving the first input, display of a second set of representations of a second set of hyperlinks. Further, a second input from the user is received indicating a selection of one of the second set of hyperlink representations, and causes, in response to receiving the second input, navigation to a destination specified by the selected one of the second set of hyperlink representations.

Abstract: An interactive, multi-user media delivery system having a number of media storage mediums, each of containing a particular media selection, and a number of media players structured to selectively deliver the media selection to users. Each of the media players includes a control assembly structured to selectively control and regulate delivery of the media selection to the user, and at least one of the media players is selectively designatable as a slave unit. A master control assembly is further provided and is operatively associated with the media players, a connectivity assembly being included to establish a communicative link at least between the slave unit(s) and the master control assembly. The master control assembly is further structured to receive synchronization data from each of the media players, and to simultaneously and uniformly control the delivery of the media selection by the media players.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a display control unit configured to scroll a plurality of pieces of content data, a prediction unit configured to predict which content data among the plurality of pieces of content data moves from a hidden area to a display area according to a scroll display control condition controlled by the display control unit, and a decoding unit configured to decode the content data predicted by the prediction unit before the predicted content data moves to the display area.

Abstract: Users may post issues and questions on public social media websites and other public forums. A business or product of the business may be the subject of the post. With a properly trained system the business can determined if another community member is likely provide and accurate, sufficient, and timely response to the post. If so, the business can avoid allocating resources to respond to such posts. However, if it is determined that an appropriate response is not likely, or not likely within an acceptable timeframe, the business may notify an agent to provide an appropriate response. As a benefit, the business may leverage a community of knowledgeable users to provide assistance to other users and thereby not expend resources unnecessarily.

Abstract: A method for handling a cloud hosted multimedia file on mobile devices includes receiving a message with a link to multimedia file, extracting the link and determining an address of multimedia server, contacting the multimedia server to determine a file type and determining whether the file type is supported.

Abstract: A user interface, in accordance with the teachings described herein, is provided for integrating applications on a mobile communication device. An instant messaging user interface may be included for displaying an instant messaging communication that includes an instant messaging contact. An instant messaging user interface menu may be included for displaying a list of commands, one or more of the commands being specific to the displayed instant messaging contact, and the list of commands including a command associated with a calendar application. The user interface may be operable to automatically launch the calendar application in response to a user selecting the command associated with the calendar application. A field in the calendar application may be automatically populated with the instant messaging contact.

Abstract: Techniques are described that provide a reading pane for reading one or more content portions of a work and a guide pane that displays a structured overview of additional information from the corpus that is focused by an analysis of information from the currently-visible content portion of the work. The contents of the currently-visible content portion displayed within the reading page are used to derive dynamic representations of the user's immediate interests. At the user's request, a structured persistent context-aware guide is computed and displayed. The persistent context-aware guide provides a framework for accessing other parts of the corpus having the most-related information. The elements in the persistent context-aware guide are other content portions or other organizations such as sections, chapters, or articles in the corpus. The persistent context-aware guide may also incorporate additional closely-related information elements from outside the corpus including advertisements.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems, methods, and computer-readable media for orchestrating and managing configuration data of network devices and services. In one aspect, a device includes one or more processors and memory. The memory is configured to store computer-readable instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to obtain configuration parameters of services and devices of a network infrastructure, the configuration parameters having a tree representation, create a copy of the tree representation of the configuration parameters and generate a template having a plurality of matched pattern instances based on the copy of the tree presentation of the configuration parameters, each of the plurality of matched pattern instances being a single representation of configuration parameters for at least two different services or devices of the network infrastructure.

Abstract: A method for providing real time service of huge and high quality digital image on internet is disclosed, wherein data relevant to a general life such as a general photo, an advertising leaflet, and a pamphlet and professional image data exhibited in an art gallery, exhibition grounds, a pavilion are made into huge and high quality digital image or scanned and photographed to be digital, thereby processing real time service as an interactive browsing form. In the present invention, data are directly made, edited, constructed, and uploaded on internet, thereby providing various additional information with image through hyperlink and processing high quality digital image service on network without speed delay for huge image.

Abstract: In various embodiments, subject matter for improving discussions in connection with an educational resource is identified and summarized by analyzing annotations made by students assigned to a discussion group to identify high-quality annotations likely to generate responses and stimulate discussion threads, identifying clusters of high-quality annotations relating to the same portion or related portions of the educational resource, extracting and summarizing text from the annotations, and combining, in an electronically represented document, the extracted and summarized text and (i) at least some of the annotations and the portion or portions of the educational resource or (ii) clickable links thereto.

Abstract: As may be implemented in accordance with one or more embodiments, respective sets of media content data, having disparate formats, are received from disparate content providers. The content is reformatted into a common format type and restructured into renditions having an article-oriented structure. Reformatted assets are generated for each rendition based upon characteristics of devices by which the renditions are to be accessed. Device-indeterminate ID linking data is generated for linking portions of each rendition with the media content data received from the content providers.

Abstract: Activating an extension includes opening a first compose application by a first computing device. A composed document is received, and an extension is activated in response to the document. The extension may be activated as the document is being composed.

Abstract: An automated extensible scraping script is generated for web scraping that is extensible to a plurality of domains. Web sites are classified based on common extracted domain data, further clustering the data based on common navigation structures, and using such commonalities to automate the generation of scraping code based on predefined and reusable code snippets for specific parts of the web sites. Scraping services include a mapper module and a script generator module. Building blocks include a data model updater, a navigation model generator and a navigation model matcher. An administrative module includes domain clustering and configuration file maintenance.

Abstract: In general, this disclosure describes techniques that employ user-defined values of properties of sections of an electronic presentation. As described herein, a user may configure a presentation to include a plurality of sections. Each of the sections includes zero or more slides of the electronic slide presentation. In addition to the slides associated with each section, each of the sections is associated with one or more properties having values that can be defined by an author of the presentation. Because the values of the properties of the sections are user-definable, these properties may, in some implementations of these techniques, enable the author of the presentation to use the sections in ways not possible in presentation applications that merely use sections as a means of grouping thumbnail images of slides for navigation among slides in an authoring interface.

Abstract: A communications management apparatus comprises a plurality of clients and a remote server. The server includes a competency data file for storing competencies to be measured for users, a query data file for storing queries associated with competencies, a query engine for selecting queries, and a communications interface for providing the queries for display in succession to message providers, wherein query responses are grouped and feedback is provided to the communications interface for display as a single record by a message recipient.

Abstract: A method relating to providing a program embedded in an online store user interface (UI) displaying content provided by an online store server, transmitting a first instruction to the program to generate a first display of a first form in one of an inline frame element or a pop-up element in the online store UI to collect data associated with a loan application, determining to approve a loan in view of the data associated with the loan application, determining to approve a loan in view of the data associated with the loan application, transmitting a second instruction to the program to generate a second display of a second form in the one of the inline frame element or the pop-up element in the online store UI to present a term of the loan, identifying a token associated with the loan, and transmitting the token to the online store server.

Abstract: An annotation apparatus includes an annotation DB, a screen state acquisition monitor unit, and an external collaboration program call unit. The annotation DB stores therein an annotation object and an annotation rule applicable to each of windows of the annotation object in an associated manner. The screen state acquisition monitor unit identifies an active window from among the windows. The external collaboration program call unit calls, when an annotation rule associated with the active window that has been identified by the screen state acquisition monitor unit is present in the annotation DB and when the annotation object is selected, an external program in accordance with the annotation rule.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for automatically fixing inaccessible widgets during mobile application execution are provided herein. A method includes identifying an image element from a set of one or more user interface elements of an application that are inaccessible to a given set of users; generating a text description associated with the image element; extracting a portion of the text description related to an accessibility property of the image element; and adjusting the accessibility property of the image element to render the image element accessible to the given set of users.

Abstract: An electronic communications method includes receiving, by a device, electronic information associated with a two-dimensional image. The electronic communications method also includes analyzing, by the device, the electronic information. The electronic communications method includes generating, by the device, a three-dimensional electronic image based on the electronic information.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system, method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium for predicting future messages. A processor receives a message sent to a user operating a client device, analyzes the message in light of previously identified patterns and scores assigned to scanned messages, determines a future message that should be received by the client device based on the received message, and transmits an item of information based on the determined future message.

Abstract: An interaction tracking system tracks user interactions with an application. The tracked interactions may be stored in a data structure along with information describing an application state of the tracked application resulting from the tracked interactions. The interaction tracking system stores the data structure in a database for subsequent search and retrieval, which allows different users to activate the stored data structure and initiate the application in application state described in the data structure. The interaction tracking system also transmits the data structure to other communication devices, where the data structure is activated on the receiving communication device.

Abstract: Provided is a method of adjusting a display area of electronic book contents. The electronic book contents include tags that divide texts of the electronic book contents into sentence or paragraph units. The touch input of a user includes at least one of touch region, gesture type, and gesture direction. The processor wholly adjusts the display area of the electronic book contents such that a previous or next page is displayed in accordance with a first touch value, and partially adjusts the display area of the electronic book contents using the tags of the electronic book contents such that a sentence at an upper end or at a lower end or a paragraph including the sentence is fully displayed in accordance with a second touch value.

Abstract: The present application relates to a A method for processing text information is provided, the method including: obtaining text information and extracting text characters contained in the text information; extracting, from the text characters, target characters satisfying a predetermined rule; calculating a filtering index of the text information according to the target characters; and when the filtering index meets a predetermined condition, executing an operation corresponding to the predetermined condition on the text information. In addition, an apparatus for processing text information is further provided. The method and apparatus for processing text information can improve the accuracy and efficiency of filtering out junk text information.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating charts within a document generation application is provided. The method comprises, within a document generation application, tabular data; associating, for each column and each row of the tabular data, the labels and the numerical data contained therein with one of a plurality of data types; determining, without user input, that the tabular data is one of column-oriented or row-oriented; selecting the first column or the first row as corresponding to an x-axis, respectively; applying a heuristic model resulting in a selection of a chart type of a plurality of chart types, the selection made without user input; automatically generating a chart of the selected chart type depicting a graphical representation of the labels and the numerical data.

Abstract: A technique to provide runtime output sanitization filtering of web application content that contains multiple contexts in which dynamic output is included. To facilitate this operation, dynamically-generated content is prepared for sanitization in advance, preferably by being “marked” by the web application itself (or by middleware). Preferably, given dynamically-generated content is marked by enclosing it between dynamic content indicators. After the document generation is completed but before it is output, the application-generated content is processed by a content sanitization filter. The filter uses the dynamic content identifiers to identify and locate the content that needs output escaping. The filter detects the appropriate context within which the dynamically-generated content has been placed and applies escaping. The output content is prepared for escaping in advance even if assembled from multiple sources that do not operate in the same runtime environment.

Abstract: At least one XML document to be validated is parsed, and XML data in the at least one XML document is represented as data objects in at least one data object model in a memory. At least one rule document is parsed and a rule object model that includes rule objects is created in the memory. At least part of the data objects are extracted from the at least one data object model and at least part of rule objects are extracted from the rule object model. Partial validation is performed in a corresponding execution context that validates the extracted at least part of the data objects based upon the extracted at least part of the rule objects.

Abstract: Various embodiments provide a frequent sites module which is designed to generate frequent sites for a user that include websites that are relevant to the user based on browsing patterns of the user. In one or more embodiments, the frequent sites are generated from user-engagement data that indicates engagement by the user with websites identified in the user's browsing history. A web platform, e.g., a web browser, can display the frequent sites for the user in a frequent sites user interface container to enable the user to efficiently navigate to the websites that are relevant to the user by selection of websites from the frequent sites user interface container. Various embodiments describe other aspects of frequent sites based on browsing patterns, including multiple-device frequent sites, device-specific frequent sites, domain-specific frequent sites, URL-specific frequent sites, decaying of frequent sites, recent frequent sites, and contextual frequent sites.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for causing display of a first set of representations of a first set of hyperlinks. In operation, a first input from a user is received indicating a selection of one of the first set of hyperlink representations and causes, in response to receiving the first input, display of a second set of representations of a second set of hyperlinks. Further, a second input from the user is received indicating a selection of one of the second set of hyperlink representations, and causes, in response to receiving the second input, navigation to a destination specified by the selected one of the second set of hyperlink representations.

Abstract: A method of summarizing data files includes implementing, at a server, a storage event for a data file, analyzing the data file and creating a summary of the data file, and storing the summary linked to the data file.