公开(公告)号：US07603436B2

公开(公告)日：2009-10-13

申请号：US11561376

申请日：2006-11-17

申请人： Ruston John David Panabaker ,  Eric Horvitz ,  Gregory Baribault ,  Miller Thomas Abel ,  Feng Zhao

发明人： Ruston John David Panabaker ,  Eric Horvitz ,  Gregory Baribault ,  Miller Thomas Abel ,  Feng Zhao

IPC分类号： G06F15/16 ,  G06F13/14

CPC分类号： G06F17/30241 ,  G06F17/30265 ,  G06Q30/08 ,  H04L67/12 ,  H04L67/18 ,  H04W4/02

摘要： A method and system is provided for capturing data from a population of device users with network access. A requestor may request a data capture. The requested data may include, for example, a geographical location or a desired subject matter. Devices capable of providing the requested data capture are identified and requested to provide the data. The devices may be identified based on location, capabilities, availability, etc. The data capture from the identified federated devices may be sent to the requestor. The data may be exchanged for a fee, determined by prearrangement or via an economic model such as a competitive auction.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于从具有网络访问的设备用户群体捕获数据的方法和系统。 请求者可以请求数据捕获。 所请求的数据可以包括例如地理位置或期望的主题。 识别并请求能够提供所请求的数据捕获的设备来提供数据。 可以基于位置，能力，可用性等来识别设备。来自所标识的联合设备的数据捕获可以被发送到请求者。 可以通过预先安排或通过诸如竞争性拍卖的经济模型来确定数据。

公开(公告)号：US20080109867A1

公开(公告)日：2008-05-08

申请号：US11557461

申请日：2006-11-07

申请人： Ruston John David Panabaker ,  Eric Horvitz ,  Alexander Frank ,  Scott C. Forbes

发明人： Ruston John David Panabaker ,  Eric Horvitz ,  Alexander Frank ,  Scott C. Forbes

IPC分类号： G06F21/00

CPC分类号： H04W12/08 ,  H04L63/102 ,  H04W4/029 ,  H04W4/12 ,  H04W12/00503 ,  H04W12/06

摘要： A method and apparatus is provided for coordinating devices in a federated network of devices. A server may determine policies for coordinating the devices and may send messages to devices in the federated network for providing a service. The policies for providing the service among the federated devices may be based on properties of the devices or relative locations of the devices. For example, the federated devices may provide media data and control of the media data to a user. Provision of the media data and/or control of the media data may change from one device to another in the federated network based on policies from the server.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于协调设备联合网络中的设备的方法和装置。 服务器可以确定用于协调设备的策略，并且可以向联合网络中的设备发送消息以提供服务。 在联合设备之间提供服务的策略可以基于设备的属性或设备的相对位置。 例如，联合设备可以向用户提供媒体数据和媒体数据的控制。 基于来自服务器的策略，提供媒体数据和/或媒体数据的控制可以在联合网络中从一个设备改变到另一个设备。

公开(公告)号：US07337181B2

公开(公告)日：2008-02-26

申请号：US10620116

申请日：2003-07-15

申请人： Eric Horvitz

发明人： Eric Horvitz

IPC分类号： G06F17/00

CPC分类号： G06F17/30707 ,  G06Q10/107 ,  H04L51/14 ,  H04L51/24 ,  H04L51/26 ,  Y10S707/99936 ,  Y10S707/99939 ,  Y10S707/99942 ,  Y10S707/99943 ,  Y10S707/99944 ,  Y10S707/99945

摘要： The routing of prioritized documents such as email messages is disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method first receives a text. The method assigns a priority to the document, based on a text classifier such as a Bayesian classifier or a support-vector machine classifier. The method then routes the text based on a routing criteria. In one embodiment the routing is directed by a measure of priority that reflects the expected cost of delayed review of the document.

摘要翻译： 披露诸如电子邮件消息等优先权文件的路由。 在一个实施例中，计算机实现的方法首先接收文本。 该方法基于文本分类器（如贝叶斯分类器或支持向量机分类器）为文档分配优先级。 然后，该方法基于路由条件路由文本。 在一个实施例中，路由由反映文档的延迟审阅的预期成本的优先级的度量指导。

公开(公告)号：US20070288932A1

公开(公告)日：2007-12-13

申请号：US11737247

申请日：2007-04-19

申请人： Eric Horvitz ,  David Hovel ,  Andrew Jacobs ,  Carl Kadie

发明人： Eric Horvitz ,  David Hovel ,  Andrew Jacobs ,  Carl Kadie

IPC分类号： G06F13/00

CPC分类号： G06Q10/107

摘要： The present invention relates to a system and methodology to enable a variety of information associated with one or more notification sources to be directed to one or more notification sinks via a notification platform architecture. The architecture includes a context analyzer for determining a user's state such as location and attentional focus, wherein the user's state is employed by a notification manager to make decisions regarding what, when and how information generated by the notification sources should be forwarded to the notification sinks, for example. These decisions can include a cost benefit analysis wherein considerations are given as to whether the benefits of notifying the user are outweighed by the costs of disrupting the user. Decision-theoretic policies and/or somewhat less formal heuristic policies can be employed to enable the decision-making process within the notification manager.

公开(公告)号：US07194681B1

公开(公告)日：2007-03-20

申请号：US09364527

申请日：1999-07-30

申请人： Eric Horvitz

发明人： Eric Horvitz

IPC分类号： G06F17/00

CPC分类号： G06Q10/107 ,  Y10S707/99937

摘要： Methods for prioritizing documents, such as email messages, is disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method first receives a document. The method assigns a measure of priority to the document, by employing a text classifier such as a Bayesian classifier or a support-vector machine classifier. The method then outputs the priority. In one embodiment, the method includes alerting the user about a document, such as an email message, based on the expected loss associated with delays expected in reviewing the document as compared to the expected cost of distraction and transmission incurred with alerting the user about the document.

摘要翻译： 公开了诸如电子邮件消息之类的优先权文件的方法。 在一个实施例中，计算机实现的方法首先接收文档。 该方法通过采用文本分类器（如贝叶斯分类器或支持向量机分类器）为文档分配优先级的度量。 然后该方法输出优先级。 在一个实施例中，该方法包括基于与在审查文档期间预期的延迟相关联的预期损失来提醒用户关于文档（例如电子邮件消息），与预期的分心和传输成本相比，该预期成本与用户有关 文件。

公开(公告)号：US20070011109A1

公开(公告)日：2007-01-11

申请号：US11159626

申请日：2005-06-23

申请人： Andrew Wilson ,  Eric Horvitz ,  Dimitris Achlioptas

发明人： Andrew Wilson ,  Eric Horvitz ,  Dimitris Achlioptas

IPC分类号： G06F17/00

CPC分类号： G06Q90/00

摘要： Immortal information storage is leveraged to provide an interactive means to retrieve information associated with a physical artifact. The information persists for a substantial portion of the life of the artifact. This allows users to interact with an artifact that symbolically represents an entity, where the entity can be an organic and/or non-organic entity. A physical artifact that symbolically represents a person, animal, or a structure can be utilized. The storage system can contain easy to discover information about building a decoder or providing power and interpreting the information stored therein. A personalized interaction model can also be utilized to facilitate in providing an interactive model that responds to user queries in a fashion characteristic of the entity. Access to the immortalized information can be controlled by identity of entity seeking access, the amount of time that has passed, or events that have occurred. Power for facilitating retrieval of the information can be from thermal, induction, acoustical, and/or light-based sources. A separate User Interface (UI)/Reader can also be employed to inductively provide power to interact with the immortal information and to provide an interface for the user.

摘要翻译： 不朽的信息存储被用来提供一种交互式的方法来检索与物理工件相关联的信息。 这些信息在人造物的大部分时间里仍然存在。 这允许用户与符号表示实体的工件交互，其中实体可以是有机和/或非有机实体。 可以利用象征性地代表人，动物或结构的物理工件。 存储系统可以容易地发现关于构建解码器或提供电力并解释存储在其中的信息的信息。 还可以利用个性化交互模型来促进提供以实体的时尚特征响应用户查询的交互模型。 访问永生化信息可以通过寻求访问的实体的身份，已经过去的时间量或发生的事件来控制。 用于促进信息检索的功能可以来自热，感应，声学和/或光源。 还可以使用单独的用户界面（UI）/阅读器来感应地提供与不朽信息交互的能力并为用户提供接口。

公开(公告)号：US20070006098A1

公开(公告)日：2007-01-04

申请号：US11172474

申请日：2005-06-30

申请人： John Krumm ,  Eric Horvitz ,  Ramaswamy Hariharan

发明人： John Krumm ,  Eric Horvitz ,  Ramaswamy Hariharan

IPC分类号： H04M1/56

CPC分类号： G06F17/30522 ,  G06F17/3087 ,  H04L67/18 ,  H04W4/02 ,  H04W4/029 ,  H04W4/18

摘要： Described are methods that utilize a geographic location technology (e.g., GPS) to determine user location data, and existing network-based websites (e.g., Internet websites) for searching and accessing data related to the location data such that the user context can be developed and stored. A location component is provided that determines location data of a wireless communications device of a user. A context component is provided that accesses context data based on the location data to define a context in which the device is located. Activities, goals, and overall context of a user can be inferred through statistical fusion of multiple sources of evidence. The context data is presented to the user via the wireless device such that the user can make decisions as to where to go, for example. User preferences can be accessed and applied to filter context data according to what the user desires to see and access.

摘要翻译： 描述的是利用地理位置技术（例如，GPS）来确定用户位置数据的方法以及用于搜索和访问与位置数据相关的数据的现有的基于网络的网站（例如，因特网网站），使得可以开发用户上下文 并存储。 提供了确定用户的无线通信设备的位置数据的位置组件。 提供了基于位置数据访问上下文数据以定义设备所在的上下文的上下文组件。 可以通过统计融合多种证据来推断用户的活动，目标和总体情境。 上下文数据经由无线设备呈现给用户，使得用户可以做出关于例如去哪里的决定。 用户偏好可以被访问并应用于根据用户期望查看和访问的内容来过滤上下文数据。

公开(公告)号：US07110062B1

公开(公告)日：2006-09-19

申请号：US09299522

申请日：1999-04-26

申请人： J. Turner Whitted ,  Eric Horvitz ,  Michael J. Sinclair

发明人： J. Turner Whitted ,  Eric Horvitz ,  Michael J. Sinclair

IPC分类号： G02F1/1335

CPC分类号： G02F1/1336 ,  G02F1/13318 ,  G02F2001/133618 ,  G02F2001/133626 ,  G02F2201/58 ,  G09G2320/0606 ,  G09G2320/0626 ,  G09G2360/144

摘要： Energy efficient transmissive and transreflective display devices use ambient light from a natural or artificial source to supplement light supplied by a backlight. Ambient light passes through a transmissive diffuser to a rear surface of a transmissive display panel. Additional energy efficiency is achieved by using one or more photo-sensors to detect the amount of ambient light and automatically adjusting the backlight intensity as a function of photo-sensor output. As a result, backlight intensity and power usage can be minimized while maintaining the viewability of images shown on the display.

摘要翻译： 能量效率透射和透反射显示装置使用来自天然或人造源的环境光来补充由背光提供的光。 环境光通过透射扩散器到透射显示面板的后表面。 通过使用一个或多个光电传感器来检测环境光的量并且根据光电传感器输出自动调节背光强度来实现额外的能量效率。 结果，可以在保持显示器上显示的图像的可视性的同时最小化背光强度和功率使用。

公开(公告)号：US20060206337A1

公开(公告)日：2006-09-14

申请号：US11170999

申请日：2005-06-29

申请人： Timothy Paek ,  David Chickering ,  Eric Horvitz

发明人： Timothy Paek ,  David Chickering ,  Eric Horvitz

IPC分类号： G10L21/00

CPC分类号： G10L15/065

摘要： An online dialog system and method are provided. The dialog system receives speech input and outputs an action according to its models. After executing the action, the system receives feedback from the environment or user. The system immediately utilizes the feedback to update its models in an online fashion.

摘要翻译： 提供在线对话系统和方法。 对话系统接收语音输入，并根据其模型输出动作。 执行该操作后，系统会收到来自环境或用户的反馈。 系统立即利用反馈以在线方式更新其模型。

公开(公告)号：US20060206333A1

公开(公告)日：2006-09-14

申请号：US11170998

申请日：2005-06-29

申请人： Timothy Paek ,  David Chickering ,  Eric Horvitz

发明人： Timothy Paek ,  David Chickering ,  Eric Horvitz

IPC分类号： G10L13/00

CPC分类号： G10L15/22 ,  G10L15/07

摘要： A simulation environment for adapting a speech model (e.g., baseline model) to a user is provided. The user can interact with a base parametric speech model (e.g., statistical model with learnable parameters such as a Bayesian network) and give positive and/or negative feedback when the dialog system has performed what the user considers to be appropriate and/or inappropriate action(s). From the user feedback, the dialog system learns to take actions customized for the particular user. Speaker-dependent adaptation can be extended to the dialog level by performing maximum likelihood linear regression (MLLR) adaptation simultaneously with dialog personalization. Users are immediately able to observe how their feedback has caused the dialog system to adapt, and can quit training whenever they feel that the dialog system has adapted enough for current purposes.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于将语音模型（例如，基准模型）适配到用户的模拟环境。 用户可以与基本参数语音模型（例如，具有诸如贝叶斯网络的可学习参数的统计模型）交互，并且当对话系统执行用户认为是适当的和/或不适当的动作时给出正和负反馈 （s）。 从用户反馈中，对话系统学习采取针对特定用户定制的动作。 通过与对话个性化同时执行最大似然线性回归（MLLR）适应，可以将扬声器依赖的适应扩展到对话级。 用户可以立即观察他们的反馈如何使对话系统适应，并且只要他们觉得对话系统已经足够适应当前的目的，就可以退出训练。