Abstract: In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for delivery of content on a mobile media platform, providing an automated tag processing facility, and delivering content to a mobile device, wherein content delivery is based at least in part on the automated tag processing.

Abstract: Computationally implemented methods, devices and systems that are designed for transmitting a request for one or more identities of a transportation vehicle unit for transporting a first end user; receiving the one or more identities of the transportation vehicle unit for transporting the first end user, the transportation vehicle unit currently en route to or is currently transporting a second end user and having been identified based, at least in part, on a determination that the transportation vehicle unit is able to accommodate transport of the first end user while transporting the second end user; and directing the identified transportation vehicle unit to rendezvous with the first end user in order to transport the first end user.

Abstract: Example distributed storage systems, file system interfaces, and methods provide duplicate request checking. A file interface manages a plurality of file data requests from client systems using a file system protocol. A metadata store acts as a cross-reference between file data references and storage data references. A request data store in the metadata store includes request entries with transaction identifiers for corresponding file data requests. A duplicate checker searches the request data store and excludes incoming file data requests when it finds a matching request entry.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to managing augmented reality content created on a first electronic device and viewed at a second electronic device. In some embodiments, the first electronic device determines its physical location, receives input representing user-generated augmented reality content, displays an augmented reality environment including the user-generated augmented reality content overlaid on a live view of the physical location, and sends the user-generated augmented reality content to an external storage repository. The second electronic device can then receive the user-generated augmented reality content, determine whether it is at the physical location, and display the user-generated augmented reality content when it is at the physical location.

Abstract: A computer-implemented technique is described herein that receives captured stroke information when a user enters a handwritten note using an input capture device. The technique then analyzes the captured stroke information to produce output analysis information. Based on the output analysis information, the technique modifies the captured stroke information into an actionable form that contains one or more actionable content items, while otherwise preserving the original form of the captured stroke information. The technique then presents the modified stroke information on a canvas display device. The user may subsequently activate one or more actionable content items in the modified stroke information to perform various supplemental tasks that pertain to the handwritten note. In one case, for example, the technique can recognize the presence of entity items and/or list items in the note and then reproduce them in an actionable form.

Abstract: Example techniques and systems may obtain one or more search types associated with a geographic location of a computing device. In one example, a technique may include determining, by a mobile computing device, a geographic location of the mobile computing device and obtaining one or more search types associated with the geographic location. Responsive to obtaining the one or more search types, the technique may also include outputting, by the mobile computing device and for display, a graphical user interface comprising at least an indication of the one or more search types associated with the geographic location.

Abstract: Information relating to at least one of a user and a user environment is acquired. A user cognitive state is determined based on the acquired information. A graphical control element is automatically configured based on the user cognitive state. The graphical control element is automatically presented on a display interface of a user device to control viewing of content displayed on the user device.

Abstract: Systems and methods for displaying a visualizable results list in response to an electronic search request are disclosed. A method includes accessing metadata for each of a plurality of search results that result from a search query, annotating one or more locations in each search result with first and second indicators for each of one or more grouped search terms in first and second units based on the metadata, and displaying a visualizable results list that includes the plurality of search results and a corresponding hit pattern for each search result. The hit pattern includes the first indicator and the second indicator.

Abstract: In some embodiments, a configuration management application accesses configuration data for a multi-target website. The configuration management application provides the user interface including a timeline area and a page display area. The timeline area is configured to display timeline entries corresponding to configurations of the multi-target website. Based on a selection of a timeline entry, the page display area is configured to display a webpage configuration corresponding to the selected timeline entry. In addition, the page display area is configured to display graphical annotations indicating interaction metrics for the configured page regions. In some cases, the timeline entries, configurations, and interaction metrics are determined based on a selection of a target segment for the multi-target website.

Abstract: Systems and methods include a payer user device including a near field communication transceiver configured to facilitate communications with devices within a threshold range from the payer user device, and a digital payment application that detects a payer user device, receives a first user input regarding a selection of the payee user device and a second user input regarding an amount of funds to provide a user of the payee user device, causes a transaction request to be received by the payee user device that includes a tokenized identifier that provides a provider computing system information to identify an account associated with a user of the payer user device, and receives an indication from the provider computing system indicating that the transaction has been completed or is in process of being completed.

Abstract: A first cluster of servers maintains a shared database that stores, for each of a plurality of cloud service consumers, user interface data for the cloud service consumer, wherein each server in the first cluster can read and write to the shared database. The first cluster further receives, from a customer computer, a request to access services of an identified cloud service consumer among the plurality of cloud service consumers, wherein the customer computer is associated with a customer of the identified cloud service consumer. Still further, the first cluster retrieves the user interface data of the identified cloud service consumer from the shared database; retrieves, from a second cluster of servers maintained by the identified cloud service consumer, user data required in response to the request; and provides the user interface data of the identified cloud service consumer and the user data to the customer computer.

Abstract: Media, method and system are described for creating and operating software capable of performing steps to provide a user with an estimated amount of time until a tax return application may be completed. Embodiments of the invention consider the availability of documents in physical or electronic form. Embodiments of the invention further display the time estimation to enable a user to reserve enough time for completion of the application.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for communications between applications in a mobile operating system. A first application may receive a request for data from a second application. The first application may generate a first URL to the second application, a parameter of the first URL comprising an identifier of the first application. A mobile operating system may access the first URL to open the second application. The second application may validate credentials for an account and initiate a server on a port. The second application may generate a second URL to the first application, a parameter of the second URL comprising the port. The operating system may access the second URL to open the first application. The first application may establish a connection with the server using the port specified in the second URL and receive data from the second application via the connection with the server.

Abstract: Automatic finding of online profiles of an entity location is disclosed. Reference location data for location attributes of an entity location are obtained. A search for a profile of the entity location on a source is performed using at least some of the obtained reference location data. One or more search results are obtained. A search result includes a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and corresponding search result location data. The search result is evaluated. Evaluating the search result includes normalizing the search result location data included with the search result and comparing the normalized search result location data against the reference location data. Based at least in part on the evaluation, it is determined whether the search result matches to a profile of the entity location on the source. In the event that the search result matches to a profile of the entity location on the source, the search result is provided as output.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a computer system for managing medical research data. The computer system may include a network interface connecting the computer system a plurality of data providers. The computer system may include a plurality of data adaptors, each data adaptor configured to communicate with one or more of the data providers to obtain data in a respective data format. The computer system may include a data processor configured to control processing resources based on a volume of data obtained from the plurality of data providers. The computer system may include a plurality of data converters executed by the processing resources, each data converter configured to convert the obtained data from a corresponding data adaptor in the respective data format to a common data format including first metadata based on the obtained data. The computer system may include a data repository for storing data in the common data format.

Abstract: The systems, methods, and apparatuses described herein provide integrated weather forecast products designed to assist operations managers with operational decision-making related to a designated event or set of events. The present disclosure provides a way to process weather data from various sources and in diverse data formats containing varying spatial resolutions and temporal resolutions, in order to generate an integrated and cohesive weather projection product such that the weather projection product is continuous in both spatial and temporal domains, subject to data availability, relative to a designated event or set of events.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for placing content in and applying layers to an extended reality environment. An extended reality (XR) system determines an identifier that is associated with an object viewable within an extended reality environment. The XR system determines a plurality of data structures associated with the identifier, each data structure including a workspace and a dashboard. The XR system generates, using the plurality of data structures, a plurality of extended reality objects for display in the extended reality environment, each extended reality object including a dashboard from the plurality of data structures, where, in the extended reality environment, a first dashboard is visible. The XR system receives an input associated with the extended reality environment. The XR system causes, in response to the input, the second dashboard to be visible.

Abstract: A system and method of contextually converting a media file into an electronic document allows the user to generate an interactive transcription from the audio portion of a provided media file, which subsequently connects to the media file such that the user can play the media file from a selected transcribed word. Screenshots from video files may also be appended to the electronic document at transitions in video content and subsequently matched to appropriate transcribed words within the generated document. The system implementing the method includes a user account managed by at least one remote server, wherein the user account is associated with a corresponding personal computing (PC) device. This arrangement enables each user to interact with the at least one remote server using the corresponding PC device. The method follows an overall process in order to generate an electronic document with timestamped transcriptions.

Abstract: A computer-aided design system enables physical articles to be customized via printing or embroidering and enables digital content to be customized and electronically shared. A user interface may be generated that includes an image of a model of an article of manufacture and user customizable design areas. Customization permissions associated with a selected design area are accessed. User provided content to be used in customizing a design area may be analyzed in real time using a trained engine to determine if it complies with one or more rules. If the user provided content satisfies a corresponding rule, manufacturing instructions and a design file may be transmitted to a printing system.

Abstract: In response to receiving a request for visiting a first web task associated with a website, a first task node is generated at a breadcrumb root node in a tree structure. In response to sequentially receiving requests for multiple subtasks of the first web task, multiple subtask nodes of the first task node are sequentially established in the tree structure. The subtask nodes of the multiple subtask nodes of the first task node are sequentially connected to the first task node according to a sequential order of the sequentially received requests for the multiple subtasks of the first web task. The multiple subtask nodes of the first task node are processed based a policy of the first web task, which includes dynamically reconfiguring the multiple subtask nodes of the first task node in response to the user's visitation of one or more subtask nodes of the multiple subtask nodes.

Abstract: A web browser can be run on a back-end server to execute serverless functions. A request is received to execute a function, for example, on-demand. The request is forwarded to a web browser running as an execution engine on the back-end server. The function is executed inside the web browser running on the back-end server. A result of the function executed inside the web browser can be returned.

Abstract: The described technology relates to rendering a client-side user interface using a server-side cache for providing the displayed data. In an example implementation, in response to a user interface (e.g., dashboard with multiple widgets in a web application) being launched on the client device, the server initiates a refresh of the cache for the widgets; and transmits a first set of data obtained from the cache for widgets in the user interface before the cache is updated in response to the initiated refresh. The first set of data is followed by a second set of data obtained from the cache for at least some of the widgets after the cache is updated in response to the initiated refresh. The client displays the user interface using the second set of data while overwriting, for one or more of the widgets, information previously displayed using the first set of data.

Abstract: A server includes a unit obtaining a position of a registered vehicle, a unit obtaining a vehicle dispatch position, a unit determining a candidate vehicle based on the vehicle dispatch position and the position of the registered vehicle, a unit transmitting information regarding an autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle to a user device, a unit receiving information for identifying a dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting a vehicle dispatch position to the dispatch vehicle. The user device includes a unit receiving the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, a unit displaying the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, an unit accepting a user operation for selecting the dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting the information for identifying the dispatch vehicle to the server.

Abstract: To present one or more content to users of an online system, the online system identifies a content evaluation pipeline including an order of a plurality of stages having one or more computer models for evaluating a likelihood of user interaction with a content item. The content evaluation pipeline selects a decreasing number of content items, from each stage of the order, according to the order of the stages in the order. The online system identifies a set of candidate modifications to one or more operational parameters of the content evaluation pipeline. For each candidate modification, the online system determines a compute time value and a content selection value. For a given amount of compute time, the online system optimizes the one or more operational parameters based on the determined content time value and the determined content selection value to increase the content selection value of the content evaluation pipeline.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for a distributed trading system. The preferred invention offer solutions to problems that arise with High-Frequency Trading and the future of stock market regulation. The use of a distributed object brokered interface to facilitate transactions not only makes the trading faster but also more secure.

Abstract: Systems and methods for ticket-based provisioning of cloud infrastructure from one or more cloud providers to build one or more computing workspaces of an enterprise. A provisioning platform provides a module catalog having one or more infrastructure-as-code (IAC) modules, each including code that is executable to provision cloud computing resources for the cloud infrastructure from the cloud providers to build the computing workspaces of the enterprise. A service catalog has one or more electronic entries mapped to and corresponding with the IAC modules of the module catalog. The service catalog receives one or more tickets that each specify at least one of the electronic entries in the service catalog, to bind each specified electronic entry with a corresponding IAC module, causing the provisioning platform to instantiate on the more cloud providers the computing resources for the cloud infrastructure corresponding to the ticket.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for a case join. In one aspect, there is provided method, which may include receiving a query for a predefined view that is configured to inhibit modification; detecting whether the predefined view includes a database table extended to include an additional column; and generating, in response to the query, a view based on a case join, when the predefined view includes the database table extended to include the additional column. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.

Abstract: A system includes a display device and a control circuit. The control circuit generates an interface including a visual representation of a component of a platform, a status of the component indicated by a plurality of sensors associated with the platform, and one or more user interface elements corresponding to the component of the platform and one or more locations on the interface. The control circuit receives an indication of one or more gestures identifying at least one user interface element; selects an interaction guard from a plurality of interaction guards each corresponding to a respective authorization process identifying at least one authorization gesture; initiates, responsive to the selected interaction guard, the authorization process corresponding to the interaction guard; and causes, responsive to receiving the at least one authorization gesture, an operation of the component corresponding to the identified at least one user interface element.

Abstract: A method and system for changing content of a window of an application program is provided. A contextual window system displays a window with content based on a current context of the window. The contextual window system receives from a user a context string for a new context for the window. When the context string includes a command, the contextual window system performs a function of the application program that implements the command to change from the current context of the window to the new context of the window. When the context string does not specify a command, the contextual window system submits the context string as a query for data of the application program to change from the current context of the window to the new context of the window. The contextual window system then modifies the content of the window to reflect the new context of the window.

Abstract: Embodiments are provided for importing contacts. A contact importer leverages the various contacts associated with a user of a content management service to find potential new users and/or customers. A contact importer may run on one or more devices of a user associated with an account on a content management system, and import various contacts of that user to a contact list. The list may be culled to weed out non-human contacts, and processed so as to assign an affinity score to each contact, expressing a degree of affinity to the user. Incentives may be offered to the user for either sending or approving an invitation to a contact to register with the content management system, paid upon the invitee successfully registering. Different incentives may be offered for an accepted invitation from various contacts or classes thereof.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for recommending shared electronic content via an online service. In some embodiments, a server can identify a first subscriber and a second subscriber to an online service that have access via the online service to an application for using or editing electronic content. The server can also determine a correspondence between usages of the application by the first and second subscribers via the online service with respect to at least one attribute of the application. The server can also identify an electronic content item generated with the application by the first subscriber. The server can also provide, via the online service, a recommendation for the electronic content item to the second subscriber based on the correspondence between the first usage and the second usage with respect to one or more attributes of the application.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to system, method, and computer program for providing a wish-list user interface within a web browser, for tracking “fully-stacked prices” for items in the wish list, and for alerting users to a drop in a fully-stacked price of an item in the wish list. A browser extension provides a wish list user interface within a user's web browser. Via the user interface, a user is able to add products from different merchant websites to the wish list. As each item is added to the wish list, an initial multifactor-based price (i.e., the fully-stacked price) is calculated for the item. While an item remains in the wish list, a backend server continues to track the multifactor-based price for the item. In response to detecting a drop in a multifactor-based price for an item in the wish list, the browser extension alerts the user to the price drop.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for identifying and rendering content relevant to a user's current mental state and context. In an aspect, a system includes a state component that determines a state of a user during a current session of the user with the media system based on navigation of the media system by the user during the current session, media items provided by the media system that are played for watching by the user during the current session, and a manner via which the user interacts with or reacts to the played media items. In an aspect, the state of the user includes a mood of the user. A selection component then selects a media item provided by the media provider based on the state of the user, and a rendering component effectuates rendering of the media item to the user during the current session.

Abstract: A control platform generates commands for coordinating use of network resources between a plurality of vehicles within a geographic region. In an embodiment, game-theoretical modelling is employed to determine allocation of resources in a manner that provides an optimal solution for a given allocation strategy. This model may reward controllers of vehicles that comply with a coordination policy while penalizing controllers of vehicles that defect from compliance.

Abstract: An augmented reality (AR) overlay augments traditional menu items with corresponding photos, thereby facilitating a decision-making process of a user ordering from the menu. In addition to providing imagery of the menu items listed, other information may also be supplied, such as ratings, reviews etc. In this regard, users can visualize what to expect before ordering, and can order with a greater degree of confidence that they will enjoy the menu item they select.

Abstract: Applying visual treatments to business intelligence dashboards is provided. A user comment in a dashboard of a business intelligence tool is analyzed. A context of the user comment is identified. A visual treatment is applied to a data visualization on the dashboard based on the context of the user comment.

Abstract: Biases in search and retrieval (i.e., situations where searchers seek or are presented with information that significantly deviates from the truth) may be detected by comparison to one or more authoritative sources. Once bias or potential bias is detected, techniques may be applied to indicate and/or compensate for the bias. Such techniques may allow users to more easily assess the veracity of search results, and increase the chances that users will locate accurate answers to their questions.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium, including authoring and consolidating a semantic layer universe and at least one semantic layer extension (e.g., a collection of semantic layer entities) created on top of the objects of the semantic layer universe, the semantic layer universe and the one or more semantic layer extensions being linked via a repository relationship; and dynamically presenting a consolidated view of relevant objects from the semantic layer universe and possibly entities of the at least one semantic layer extension to provide a user with additional querying metadata.

Abstract: A method of and system for accommodating non-responsiveness of an online charging node in a networked system. A request is received from a subscriber. An online charging node is identified to be non-responsive. A default quota is assigned to the subscriber, defining a service usage threshold for the subscriber. Service is provided to the subscriber based on the default quota.

Abstract: A method for presenting network connectivity data is provided. The method comprises: testing a plurality of communications components and communications links of a network, wherein each of the plurality of components and communications links is communicatively coupled to a computing device, where the plurality of communications components and communications links is configured to provide the computing device access to a ground network; determining operational capability of each of the plurality of components and communications links; and presenting an indication of the operational capability for each of the plurality of components and communications links based upon results of the testing.

Abstract: This disclosure is related to determining an item push list for a user based on a reinforcement learning model. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining M first item lists that have been predetermined for a first user. Each first item list includes i?1 items. For each first item list, an ith state feature vector is obtained. The ith state feature vector includes a static feature and a dynamic feature. The ith state feature vector is provided as input to the reinforcement machine learning model. The reinforcement model outputs a weight vector including weights of sorting features. A sorting feature vector of each item in a candidate item set corresponding to the first item list is obtained. The sorting feature vector includes feature values of sorting features. M updated item lists are determined for the first item lists based on a score for each item in M candidate item sets.

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include a method performed by a computer system. The method includes receiving user input defining attributes of a threat rule, the attributes including a type of computer network entity and an anomaly pattern associated with the type of computer network entity. The method further includes generating the threat rule based on the user input, wherein the threat rule identifies a security threat to the computer network that satisfies the attributes of the threat rule based on one or more detected anomalies on the computer network.

Abstract: Approaches are described for an interface element that displays progressively more information about a search result in a listing of search results. In an embodiment, a user interacts with a search result, for example by utilizing a gesture on a touch-sensitive display, and a supplemental content item is generated and displayed using, in one example, a subset of available supplemental information associated with the search result. The display of the supplemental content item is accompanied by an animation is some embodiments whereby the supplemental content item visually “slides” over to replace the search result.

Abstract: The present application provides internet browsing especially a three dimensional webpage browsing methods and systems by using the movement of a computing device with a display. By moving the computing device, a user changes the location and the orientation of the computing device, and thus interacts with at least one information item in a first web page. The computing device measures the location difference and the orientation difference between the computing device and the information item, and determines whether each of the location difference and the orientation difference is within a threshold, respectively. If both the location and orientation differences are within the threshold for a predetermined time, the user is directed to a second web page.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display device, a touch panel, and a control device. The control device functions as a controller. The controller causes the display device to display one portion of a first image including a plurality of items arrayed along a first direction. The controller calculates, upon receiving scroll operation in the first direction via the touch panel, a speed of the scroll operation, causes the display device to scroll the first image when the calculated speed is equal to or less than a first speed, and causes the display device to scroll a second image including the plurality of items arrayed along a second direction when the calculated speed exceeds the first speed.

Abstract: System and method for delivering seamless continuous play of personalized or customized media and browser screen sharing for social shopping. The system is for seamlessly and continuously playing a media file over various web browser windows from different web domains. For browser screen sharing between a first device and a second device, the system includes a front end within a first web browser application of the first device that is displaying the third-party webpage on a first web browser window. The system includes a backend configured to send code to the second device to display the same third-party webpage with the same relative webpage view settings on a second web browser window of the second device as the first web browser window. Any changes to the current webpage or any of the webpage view settings first web browser window of the first device are reflected in the second web browser window of the second device.

Abstract: Methods and systems for managing content related to Sustainable Development Strategies (SDS) may include a processor for receiving content comprising standardized data. The standardized data may include monetary valuations. The processor may be configured to store the received content in a storage device, and communicate with a content publication module and the storage device to publish the SDS content. In an embodiment, the processor may be configured to allow for searching of the published content by criteria based on the standardized SDS content. In an embodiment, the publication of submitted contents may be limited to a first predetermined number. The publication limit may be increased from the first predetermined number to a second predetermined number when a first predetermined threshold is reached. To encourage new quality content, additional increase in the number of contents that may be published may be allowed if additional predetermined thresholds are met.

Abstract: A list of command entries is displayed in a search interface, each of the command entries representing one or more commands of a plurality of commands of a search query. The list of command entries are displayed in a sequence corresponding to the plurality of commands of the search query. Based on a user interaction with a designated command entry in the displayed list of command entries, the displayed list of command entries is modified with respect to the designated command. Furthermore, the search query is automatically modified with respect to the corresponding one or more commands represented by the designated command entry. The modification can include causing the designated command entry to be removed from or reordered in the displayed list of command entries and the automatic modification cam include causing the corresponding one or more commands to be removed from or reordered in the search query.

Abstract: Techniques for performing outputting additional content associated with but nonresponsive to an input command are described. A system receives input data from a device. The system determines an intent representing the input data and receives first output data responsive to the input data. The system determines, based on context data, that additional content associated with the first output data but nonresponsive to the input data should be output. The system receives second output data associated with but nonresponsive to the input data thereafter. The system then presents first content corresponding to the first output data and second content corresponding to the second output data.

Abstract: Improved techniques are presented for generating stereoscopic image of 2D web pages. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, a stereo-enhancing annotation tool is provided and used to generate intermediate HTML source code. The intermediate HTML source code—together with the normal HTML code that is served when a user's browser makes a URL call—are used by a computer processing unit to generate stereoscopic images. Algorithms optimize the look and feel of stereoscopically-imaged web-page content using a number of known presentation optimized parameters that are automatically determined based on a priori assumptions of depth cues.