公开(公告)号：US20130182892A1

公开(公告)日：2013-07-18

申请号：US13352487

申请日：2012-01-18

申请人： Eric Horvitz ,  Kenneth P. Hinckley ,  Hrvoje Benko

发明人： Eric Horvitz ,  Kenneth P. Hinckley ,  Hrvoje Benko

IPC分类号： G06K9/00

CPC分类号： G06K9/00771 ,  G06K9/00335

摘要： Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for establishing an ad hoc network of devices that can be used to interpret gestures. Embodiments of the invention use a network of sensors with an ad hoc spatial configuration to observe physical objects in a performance area. The performance area may be a room or other area within range of the sensors. Initially, devices within the performance area, or with a view of the performance area, are indentified. Once identified, the sensors go through a discovery phase to locate devices within an area. Once the discovery phase is complete and the devices within the ad hoc network are located, the combined signals received from the devices may be used to interpret gestures made within the performance area.

摘要翻译： 用于建立可用于解释手势的设备的自组织网络的方法，系统和计算机可读介质。 本发明的实施例使用具有自组织空间配置的传感器网络来观察性能区域中的物理对象。 性能区域可以是传感器范围内的房间或其他区域。 最初，表现区域内的设备或者表现区域的设备都被识别。 一旦识别，传感器就会经过一个发现阶段来定位一个区域内的设备。 一旦发现阶段完成并且自组织网络中的设备被定位，则从设备接收的组合信号可以用于解释在性能区域内做出的手势。

公开(公告)号：US20130006748A1

公开(公告)日：2013-01-03

申请号：US13171951

申请日：2011-06-29

申请人： Eric Horvitz ,  Lili Cheng

发明人： Eric Horvitz ,  Lili Cheng

IPC分类号： G06Q30/00 ,  G06F21/00

CPC分类号： G06Q30/02

摘要： Various embodiments are described for systems and methods for facilitating data sharing between a user of a client device and an online service. The system may include a module configured to display a graphical display of data sharing specifications on the client device. The graphical display may include one or more user-adjustable privacy setting selectors configured to receive input of user-selected privacy level selections. Each of the privacy level selections may be associated with a report of the probability that data attributes will be captured and used and/or with other measures such as the size of the set of people that are identifiable from the revelation. Data attributes may include a data type, a data use purpose, a data use timeframe, and a data storage timeframe. The graphical display may further include a consent selector configured to receive consent from the user.

摘要翻译： 描述了用于促进客户端设备的用户和在线服务之间的数据共享的系统和方法的各种实施例。 该系统可以包括被配置为在客户端设备上显示数据共享规范的图形显示的模块。 图形显示可以包括被配置为接收用户选择的隐私级别选择的输入的一个或多个用户可调整的隐私设置选择器。 每个隐私级别选择可以与数据属性被捕获和使用的可能性的报告和/或其他措施相关联，例如可以从启示中识别的人的一组的大小。 数据属性可以包括数据类型，数据使用目的，数据使用时间帧和数据存储时间帧。 图形显示还可以包括被配置为从用户接收同意的同意选择器。

公开(公告)号：US20130006739A1

公开(公告)日：2013-01-03

申请号：US13174309

申请日：2011-06-30

申请人： Eric Horvitz ,  Gur Kimchi ,  Lili Cheng ,  Doug Burger ,  Stelios Paparizos ,  Marc Davis

发明人： Eric Horvitz ,  Gur Kimchi ,  Lili Cheng ,  Doug Burger ,  Stelios Paparizos ,  Marc Davis

IPC分类号： G06Q30/00

CPC分类号： G06Q30/0222 ,  G06Q10/0832 ,  G06Q10/08355 ,  G06Q30/06

摘要： A marketplace server and method for facilitating purchase transactions are provided. A marketplace server may include a routing engine configured to receive an order for goods from a first computing device associated with a first customer, with the order including a first delivery address of the customer. The routing engine also calculates a delivery route to the first delivery address. An offer engine is configured to create an offer for other goods. The offer includes a shipping incentive associated with a second delivery address of a second customer. The offer may be targeted to the second customer based on a proximity of the second delivery address to the delivery route. The offer engine sends the offer to a second computing device associated with the second customer. Upon receiving an acceptance of the offer from the computing device, the offer engine processes a purchase transaction for the offer.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于促进采购交易的市场服务器和方法。 市场服务器可以包括路由引擎，路由引擎被配置为从与第一客户相关联的第一计算设备接收货物的订单，该订单包括客户的第一传送地址。 路由引擎还计算到第一个传送地址的传输路由。 优惠引擎被配置为为其他商品创建报价。 该优惠包括与第二客户的第二送货地址相关联的运送激励。 基于第二递送地址与递送路线的接近度，该优惠可以针对第二客户。 报价引擎将报价发送给与第二客户相关联的第二计算设备。 在接收到来自计算设备的报价的接收之后，报价引擎处理该报价的购买交易。

公开(公告)号：US08166392B2

公开(公告)日：2012-04-24

申请号：US10442546

申请日：2003-05-21

申请人： Eric Horvitz

发明人： Eric Horvitz

IPC分类号： G06F17/20

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：US20110258153A1

公开(公告)日：2011-10-20

申请号：US13172405

申请日：2011-06-29

申请人： Semiha Ece Kamar ,  Eric Horvitz

发明人： Semiha Ece Kamar ,  Eric Horvitz

IPC分类号： G06N5/02 ,  G06F15/18

CPC分类号： G06Q10/109

摘要： The claimed matter provides systems and/or techniques that develop or use predictive models of human forgetting to effectuate automated reminding. The system includes the use of predictive models that infer the probability that aspects of items will be forgotten, models that evaluate the relevance of recalling aspects of items in different settings, based on contextual information related to user attributes associated with the items, and models of the context-sensitive cost of interrupting users with reminders. The system can combine the probability of users forgetting aspects of an item with an assessed cost of forgetting those aspects to ascertain expected costs for not being reminded about events, compare expected costs for not being reminded with expected costs for interrupting users, and based on comparisons between expected costs for being reminded and expected costs for interrupting users regarding events, generate and deliver reminder notifications to users about items.

摘要翻译： 所要求保护的内容提供开发或使用人类遗忘预测模型以实现自动提醒的系统和/或技术。 该系统包括使用预测模型来推断项目的各个方面将被遗忘的概率，基于与项目相关联的用户属性相关的上下文信息来评估在不同设置中的项目的召回方面的相关性的模型，以及模型 中断用户提醒的上下文敏感成本。 该系统可以将用户遗忘项目方面的概率与忘记这些方面的评估成本相结合，以确定不被提醒的事件的预期成本，将预期成本与提醒用户的预期成本进行比较，并根据比较进行比较 在提醒的预期成本和中断用户关于事件的预期成本之间，生成并向用户发送关于项目的提醒通知。

公开(公告)号：US08020111B2

公开(公告)日：2011-09-13

申请号：US11190405

申请日：2005-07-27

申请人： Eric Horvitz ,  Corin Ross Anderson

发明人： Eric Horvitz ,  Corin Ross Anderson

IPC分类号： G06F3/048

CPC分类号： G06F17/30873 ,  G06F17/30867 ,  G06Q30/0256 ,  Y10S707/99948

摘要： The present invention relates to a system and methodology to assist users with data access activities and that includes such activities as routine web browsing and/or data access applications. A coalesced display or montage of aggregated information is provided that is focused from a plurality of sources to achieve substantially one-button access to user's desired web or data source information/destinations in order to mitigate efforts in retrieving and viewing such information. Past web or other type data access patterns can be mined to predict future browsing sites or desired access locations. A system is provided that builds personalized web portals for associated users based on models mined from past data access patterns. The portals can provide links to web resources as well as embed content from distal (remote) pages or sites producing a montage of web or other type data content. Automated topic classification is employed to create multiple topic-centric views that can be invoked by a user.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及一种系统和方法，用于帮助用户进行数据访问活动，并且包括例如网页浏览和/或数据访问应用等活动。 提供聚合信息的合并显示或蒙太奇，其聚焦于多个源，以实现基本上一键访问用户期望的网络或数据源信息/目的地，以便减轻检索和查看此类信息的努力。 可以开采过去的网络或其他类型的数据访问模式来预测未来的浏览站点或所需的访问位置。 提供了一种系统，其基于从过去的数据访问模式开始的模型，为相关联的用户构建个性化的门户网站。 门户网站可以提供链接到网页资源，以及嵌入远程（远程）页面或网站产生网页或其他类型数据内容蒙太奇的内容。 使用自动主题分类来创建可由用户调用的多个以主题为中心的视图。

公开(公告)号：US20100332513A1

公开(公告)日：2010-12-30

申请号：US12492916

申请日：2009-06-26

申请人： Joseph Yossi Azar ,  Eric Horvitz ,  Eyal Lubetzky ,  Dafna Shahaf

发明人： Joseph Yossi Azar ,  Eric Horvitz ,  Eyal Lubetzky ,  Dafna Shahaf

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30902 ,  G06F17/30469

摘要： Many computing scenarios involve an item cache or index, comprising items corresponding to source items that may change without notice, rendering the item in the item cache or index stale. It may not be possible to guarantee the freshness of the items, but it may be desirable to reduce staleness in an efficient manner. Therefore, the refreshing of items may be prioritized by first predicting the query frequency of respective item representing the rate at which an item is retrieved from the item cache (e.g., by monitoring queries for the item), predicting an update frequency representing the rate at which the source item is updated by the source item host (e.g., by classifying the source item type), and computing a refresh utility representing the improvement in cache freshness achieved by refreshing the item. Respective items may then be prioritized for refreshing according to the computed refresh utilities.

摘要翻译： 许多计算场景涉及物品高速缓存或索引，其包括与源项目相对应的项目，其可以在没有通知的情况下改变，将物品呈现在物品高速缓存或索引陈旧中。 可能不可能保证物品的新鲜度，但是可能希望以有效的方式减少陈旧。 因此，可以通过首先预测表示从项目高速缓存检索项目的速率的各个项目的查询频率（例如，通过监视项目的查询）来预测项目的刷新，预测表示该项目的速率的更新频率 源项目由源项目主机更新（例如，通过对源项目类型进行分类），以及计算刷新实用程序的刷新实用程序，该刷新实用程序代表通过刷新项目实现的缓存新鲜度的改进。 然后可以根据所计算的刷新实用程序将各项目优先进行刷新。

公开(公告)号：US20080319975A1

公开(公告)日：2008-12-25

申请号：US11767142

申请日：2007-06-22

申请人： Daniel Scott Morris ,  Meredith June Morris ,  Gina Danielle Venolia ,  Ryen William White ,  Eric Horvitz ,  Steven M. Drucker

发明人： Daniel Scott Morris ,  Meredith June Morris ,  Gina Danielle Venolia ,  Ryen William White ,  Eric Horvitz ,  Steven M. Drucker

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F3/048 ,  G06F16/951 ,  G06F2203/04803

摘要： A technique for the creation of synthesized results from multi-query searches to provide more relevant information to the user in a more useful format and to discard or reduce in relevancy information that is not so useful. It allows a user to define the boundaries of the exploratory search before it starts or retroactively define which queries belong to the search. It can imply which queries belong to the search based on parameters in the queries or results. It also provides mechanisms for supporting exploratory searches including: saving/restoring search context; search-specific query history; a “keepers” bin for storing useful results; elimination of redundant results; re-ranking of common search results; integration of searching with navigation; pivoting on search results; collaboration among multiple searchers; user-generated content; generation of hypotheses; re-executing queries and executing standing queries; multi-monitor searching and automatic preparation of search summaries. User interfaces for conducting multi-query searches are also provided.

摘要翻译： 一种用于从多查询搜索创建合成结果的技术，以更有用的格式向用户提供更多的相关信息，并丢弃或减少不那么有用的相关性信息。 它允许用户在开始之前定义探索性搜索的边界，或者追溯地定义哪些查询属于搜索。 它可以暗示哪些查询属于基于查询或结果中的参数的搜索。 它还提供支持探索性搜索的机制，包括：保存/恢复搜索环境; 搜索专用查询记录; 用于存储有用结果的“管理员”仓; 消除冗余结果; 共同搜索结果重新排序; 搜索与导航的整合; 在搜索结果上转动; 多个搜索者之间的协作; 用户生成内容; 一代假设; 重新执行查询并执行常规查询; 多监视搜索和自动准备搜索摘要。 还提供了用于进行多查询搜索的用户界面。

公开(公告)号：US07444384B2

公开(公告)日：2008-10-28

申请号：US10795695

申请日：2004-03-08

申请人： Eric Horvitz

发明人： Eric Horvitz

IPC分类号： G06F15/16

CPC分类号： H04L51/24 ,  G06Q10/107 ,  H04L51/12 ,  H04L51/26 ,  H04L51/34 ,  H04W4/025 ,  H04W4/12

摘要： Methods for integrating mobile electronic devices with computational methods for assigning priorities to documents are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method first receives a new document such as an electronic mail message. 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 alerts a user on an electronic device, such as a pager or a cellular phone, based on an alert criteria that can be made sensitive to information about the location, inferred task, and focus of attention of the user. Such information can be inferred under uncertainty or can be accessed directly from online information sources. One embodiment makes use of information from an online calendar to control the criteria used to make decisions about relaying information to a mobile device.

摘要翻译： 公开了将移动电子设备与用于为文档分配优先级的计算方法集成的方法。 在一个实施例中，计算机实现的方法首先接收诸如电子邮件消息的新文档。 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。 该方法然后基于可以对关于用户的位置，推断的任务和关注焦点的信息敏感的警报标准来向诸如寻呼机或蜂窝电话的电子设备上的用户发出警报。 这种信息可以在不确定性下推断，或者可以直接从在线信息来源访问。 一个实施例利用来自在线日历的信息来控制用于对移动设备进行中继信息的决定。

公开(公告)号：US20080155429A1

公开(公告)日：2008-06-26

申请号：US11613943

申请日：2006-12-20

申请人： Alexander Frank ,  Amit Mital ,  Eric Horvitz ,  Dawson Yee ,  Miller T. Abel ,  Shai Guday ,  Alexander S. Stojanovic ,  Michael J. Sinclair

发明人： Alexander Frank ,  Amit Mital ,  Eric Horvitz ,  Dawson Yee ,  Miller T. Abel ,  Shai Guday ,  Alexander S. Stojanovic ,  Michael J. Sinclair

IPC分类号： G06F3/048

CPC分类号： H04L12/2829

摘要： Technologies for transient personal preference customization of environments, devices and systems based on user preference data. Such technologies enable users to maintain personal preference data on mobile or other devices, such as cell phones, personal data assistants (“PDA”), or the like, such that the data can be transferred to devices and systems capable of conforming parameters under their control to the preferences expressed in the data. For example, a frequent traveler may define preferences regarding room temperature, ambient lighting, music style, and the like and maintain these preferences in a mobile device such as a cell phone. Upon arrival at a hotel room, for example, the systems of the hotel may access the preference data and adjust the parameters of the room, and the devices and systems in the room, to conform to the user's preferences while the user is in the room or checked into the hotel. Such customization may be transient in that parameters may be returned to a default or other setting once a user is no longer present, or when another user is present.

摘要翻译： 基于用户偏好数据的环境，设备和系统的临时个人偏好定制技术。 这样的技术使得用户能够在诸如蜂窝电话，个人数据助理（PDA）等的移动或其他设备上保持个人偏好数据，使得数据可以被传送到能够使其符合他们的参数的设备和系统 控制数据中表达的偏好。 例如，频繁旅行者可以定义关于室温，环境照明，音乐风格等的偏好，并且将这些偏好保持在诸如手机的移动设备中。 例如，在到达酒店房间时，酒店的系统可以访问偏好数据并调整房间的参数以及房间中的设备和系统，以在用户在房间中符合用户的偏好 或入住酒店。 这样的定制可能是短暂的，因为一旦用户不再存在或者当另一个用户存在时，参数可以返回到默认或其他设置。