公开(公告)号：US07706964B2

公开(公告)日：2010-04-27

申请号：US11428175

申请日：2006-06-30

申请人： Eric J. Horvitz ,  Sridhar Srinivasan ,  Murugesan S. Subramani ,  Paul B. Koch

发明人： Eric J. Horvitz ,  Sridhar Srinivasan ,  Murugesan S. Subramani ,  Paul B. Koch

IPC分类号： G08G1/09

CPC分类号： G08G1/0104 ,  G01C21/3492 ,  G08G1/096811

摘要： Sensing, learning, inference, and route analysis methods are described that center on the development and use of models that predict road speeds. In use, the system includes a receiver component that receives a traffic system representation, the traffic system representation includes velocities for a plurality of road segments over different contexts. A predictive component analyzes the traffic system representation and automatically assigns velocities to road segments within the traffic system representation, thereby providing more realistic velocities for different contexts where only statistics and/or posted speed limits were available before. The predictive component makes predictions about velocities for road segments at a current time or at specified times in the future by considering available velocity information as well as such information as the properties of roads, geometric relationships among roads of different types, proximal terrain and businesses, and other resources near road segments, and/or contextual information.

摘要翻译： 描述了感知，学习，推理和路线分析方法，其中以开发和使用预测道路速度的模型为基础。 在使用中，系统包括接收业务系统表示的接收机组件，业务系统表示包括在不同上下文中的多个道路段的速度。 预测组件分析交通系统表示，并自动将流量分配给交通系统表示中的路段，从而为仅在之前仅提供统计信息和/或发布速度限制的不同上下文提供更逼真的速度。 预测性组件通过考虑可用的速度信息以及诸如道路性质，不同类型的道路，近地域和企业之间的几何关系等信息，对当前时间或未来特定时间的道路段的速度进行预测， 和路段附近的其他资源，和/或上下文信息。

公开(公告)号：US07693817B2

公开(公告)日：2010-04-06

申请号：US11172121

申请日：2005-06-29

申请人： Susan T. Dumais ,  Eric J. Horvitz

发明人： Susan T. Dumais ,  Eric J. Horvitz

IPC分类号： G06F7/00 ,  G06F17/30

CPC分类号： H04L51/34 ,  H04L67/22 ,  Y10S707/99932

摘要： Various components and processes are provided to enable data processing on multiple data types where aspects of the history of user activity, attention, interest, location, or other interaction with data is determined and employed to enhance information storage and access. In one particular aspect, a data manipulation system is provided. The system includes one or more data items that are associated with one or more tags and indicate at least one user's interaction or activity with the data items. A manipulation tool that processes the data items to determine a subset of data items based at least in part on the user's interaction with the data items. Methods are described for using the manipulation tool to weight terms in an index, to compress indexes, to influence the rank of items returned in a search, to generate additional queries for data items either automatically or with user direction, or for improved presentation of data items.

摘要翻译： 提供了各种组件和过程，以便能够确定多种数据类型的数据处理，其中确定用户活动，注意力，兴趣，位置或其他与数据的交互的历史的方面以增强信息存储和访问。 在一个特定方面，提供了数据操纵系统。 系统包括与一个或多个标签相关联的一个或多个数据项，并指示至少一个用户与数据项的交互或活动。 操纵工具，其至少部分地基于用户与数据项的交互来处理数据项以确定数据项的子集。 描述了使用操纵工具对索引中的权重进行加权，压缩索引，影响搜索中返回的项目的等级的方法，以自动地或与用户方向生成对数据项的附加查询，或用于改进数据呈现 物品。

公开(公告)号：US07689521B2

公开(公告)日：2010-03-30

申请号：US10882068

申请日：2004-06-30

申请人： Uri D. Nodelman ,  Eric J. Horvitz

发明人： Uri D. Nodelman ,  Eric J. Horvitz

IPC分类号： G06E1/00 ,  G06E3/00 ,  G06F15/18 ,  G06G7/00

CPC分类号： G06Q10/109

摘要： The present invention relates to a system and methodology to facilitate collaboration and communications between entities such as between automated applications, parties to a communication and/or combinations thereof. The systems and methods of the present invention include a service that supports collaboration and communication by learning predictive continuous time Bayesian models that provide forecasts of one or more aspects of a users' presence and availability. Presence forecasts include a user's current or future locations at different levels of location precision and usage of different devices or applications. Availability assessments include inferences about the cost of interrupting a user in different ways and a user's current or future access to one or more communication channels. The predictive models are constructed from data collected by considering user activity and proximity from multiple devices, in addition to analysis of the content of users' calendars, the time of day, and day of week, for example. Various applications are provided that employ the presence and availability information supplied by the models in order to facilitate collaboration and communications between entities.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及促进实体之间的协作和通信的系统和方法，例如在自动应用，通信方和/或其组合之间。 本发明的系统和方法包括通过学习提供用户存在和可用性的一个或多个方面的预测的预测连续时间贝叶斯模型来支持协作和通信的服务。 存在预测包括用户在不同级别的位置精度和不同设备或应用的使用的当前或将来的位置。 可用性评估包括关于以不同方式中断用户的成本以及用户当前或未来访问一个或多个通信信道的推论。 除了分析用户日历的内容，一天中的一天和一周中的一天之外，还通过考虑用户活动和多个设备的邻近度来收集的数据构建预测模型。 提供了各种应用，其使用由模型提供的存在和可用性信息，以便于实体之间的协作和通信。

公开(公告)号：US20100075639A1

公开(公告)日：2010-03-25

申请号：US12565834

申请日：2009-09-24

申请人： Eric J. Horvitz ,  Murugesan S. Subramani ,  Johnson T. Apacible

发明人： Eric J. Horvitz ,  Murugesan S. Subramani ,  Johnson T. Apacible

IPC分类号： H04M1/663 ,  H04B1/38

CPC分类号： H04W4/027 ,  G08G1/01

摘要： An information delivery system comprises a receiver component that receives information about the movement, velocity, acceleration, and/or locations over time of a user. A computation component using a predictive model generates a probability distribution relating to one or more of when the user will next be stopped, how long the user will be stopped, how long a pattern of motion, such as walking, driving in stop and go traffic, and smooth highway motion will last, based at least in part upon signals about motion over time. The system can further comprise an alerting component that determines when to provide the user with information based at least in part upon the probability distribution over some aspect of motion or cessation of motion, and optionally the content, or tagged or inferred urgency or importance, of a message or communication.

摘要翻译： 信息传递系统包括接收器组件，其接收关于用户随时间的移动，速度，加速度和/或位置的信息。 使用预测模型的计算部件生成与下一个用户何时停止的时间，用户将被停止多长时间，运动模式（例如步行，停止和行驶）中的一个或多个的概率分布 ，并且平稳的公路运动将持续至少部分地基于关于运动随时间的信号。 该系统还可以包括警报组件，其确定何时至少部分地基于在运动或停止运动的某些方面的可能性分布以及可选地内容或标记或推断的紧急性或重要性来向用户提供信息 消息或通信。

公开(公告)号：US07644144B1

公开(公告)日：2010-01-05

申请号：US10036566

申请日：2001-12-21

申请人： Eric J. Horvitz ,  Carl M. Kadie ,  Sean Blagsvedt

发明人： Eric J. Horvitz ,  Carl M. Kadie ,  Sean Blagsvedt

IPC分类号： G06F15/173

CPC分类号： G06Q10/10

摘要： A system for optimizing the value of communications between communicating parties is provided. The system includes a communication group manager that facilitates specifying policies, preferences and/or automated analysis of ideal communication channels, routing and/or scheduling in terms of communicating party groups that can be pre-populated clusters of communicating parties, assembled based on relationships (e.g., organizational), and/or assembled based on satisfying inclusion criteria (e.g., age, location, competence, communication history, meeting history). The communication group manager maps communicating parties into predefined and/or dynamically created groups that facilitate specifying and/or automatically computing ideal communication actions like selecting a channel, displaying lists of potential channels sorted by communicating party preferences, and (re)scheduling communications to different channels and/or times. Ideal communication actions can be identified by maximizing a measure of expected communication utility, where groups provide simplifying abstractions to facilitate assessment of outcome utilities. The method can employ representations of preferences of the contactor and contactee that allow for group-specific preference considerations that weight differentially contactor and/or contactee preference considerations in communication action optimization. The system includes a group wise communication coordinator that identifies optimal group communication sets. The method facilitates a recipient communicating with a group member where the communication utility is optimized based on a preference, and a context associated with the group to which the member belongs.

公开(公告)号：US20090326981A1

公开(公告)日：2009-12-31

申请号：US12147655

申请日：2008-06-27

申请人： Chris Demetrios Karkanias ,  Eric J. Horvitz

发明人： Chris Demetrios Karkanias ,  Eric J. Horvitz

IPC分类号： G06Q50/00

CPC分类号： G06Q50/22 ,  G06Q10/10 ,  G06Q50/24

摘要： The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates collecting a portion of health data from a collection of users. An interface component can receive health data communicated from a collection of users, wherein each user within the collection is associated with a respective portion of health data. A verification component can authenticate at least one of a transmission source of the portion of health data, an ownership between a portion of health data and a user, an integrity level associated with the portion of health data, or a user submitting the portion of health data. A collection component can aggregate authenticated health data into a semantic data store in which the health data is indicative of a raw and unmolested source of health information from the collection of users. The collection component can further organize the health data to facilitate identification of a medical related trend.

摘要翻译： 所要求保护的主题提供了一种有助于从用户集合中收集健康数据的一部分的系统和/或方法。 接口组件可以接收从用户集合传递的健康数据，其中集合内的每个用户与健康数据的相应部分相关联。 验证组件可以验证健康数据的一部分的传输源，健康数据的一部分与用户之间的所有权，与健康数据的一部分相关联的完整性级别或者提交健康部分的用户中的至少一个 数据。 收集组件可以将身份验证的健康数据聚合到语义数据存储中，在该语义数据存储中，健康数据表示来自用户集合的原始和未受损害的健康信息来源。 收集组件可以进一步组织健康数据，以便于识别医疗相关趋势。

公开(公告)号：US20090313235A1

公开(公告)日：2009-12-17

申请号：US12137665

申请日：2008-06-12

申请人： Alexander G. Gounares ,  Eric J. Horvitz ,  Kenneth D. Ray ,  Oren Rosenbloom ,  Hubert Van Hoof ,  Chris Demetrios Karkanias

发明人： Alexander G. Gounares ,  Eric J. Horvitz ,  Kenneth D. Ray ,  Oren Rosenbloom ,  Hubert Van Hoof ,  Chris Demetrios Karkanias

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06Q30/02

摘要： A social network service provides trusted, timely and managed communications between a querying individual and an informed individual by optimizing distribution of queries to reflect a requisite amount of expertise necessary (i.e., interest, background, education, demographic attribute, etc.). Those candidate recipients with a rare level of expertise or specialization can specify a desired level of participation, which is respected. In order not to exhaust their availability, those who are less qualified or part of a larger demographic category appropriate for the query are selected to handle queries of lesser difficulty or less specialization. Anonymity if desired by the recipient party can be supported by increasing the pool of candidate recipients so that the querying party cannot reasonably ascertain who is responding. Timeliness of response, as well as satisfaction in the response, is tracked in order to affect redirection of a query.

摘要翻译： 社交网络服务通过优化查询的分发来提供查询个人和知情人士之间的信任，及时和管理的通信，以反映必要的专业知识（即兴趣，背景，教育，人口特征等）。 那些具有罕见的专业知识或专业能力的候选人可以指定所期望的参与程度，这是值得尊重的。 为了不耗尽其可用性，选择较少资格的人员或适合查询的较大人口学类别的一部分来处理难度较小或较少专业化的查询。 可以通过增加候选接收者池来支持匿名，如果接收方需要，可以通过增加候选接收方的池来支持，以便查询方无法合理地确定谁在响应。 跟踪响应的及时性以及响应中的满意度，以便影响查询的重定向。

公开(公告)号：US20090299934A1

公开(公告)日：2009-12-03

申请号：US12476195

申请日：2009-06-01

申请人： Eric J. Horvitz ,  Johnson T. Apacible

发明人： Eric J. Horvitz ,  Johnson T. Apacible

IPC分类号： G06N5/00 ,  G06F15/16 ,  G06F15/173 ,  G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G05B19/404 ,  G06Q10/10 ,  G06Q10/107 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L51/043 ,  H04L51/14 ,  H04L51/24 ,  H04L51/26 ,  H04L67/12 ,  H04L67/18 ,  H04L67/22 ,  H04L67/26 ,  H04L67/306 ,  H04L67/36 ,  H04L69/329 ,  H04W4/02

摘要： A system and method is provided to facilitate communication and collaboration by considering the timing of a user's activities on one or more clients via accessing, from a centralized server, information about the user's client-server interactions. The systems and methods can harness existing protocols and data exchange used in legacy client-server applications for email, making available to one or more client-side message routing applications, information about a user's interactions with email across multiple clients. Applications include considering the time since the last client-server interaction to guide decisions about if, when, and how to route messages so as to limit the mobile relay of information a user has already seen, providing information to colleagues about a user's current or past “inbox presence,” and forecasting the time until a user will have access to a device or communication channel.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种系统和方法，以通过从中央服务器访问关于用户的客户 - 服务器交互的信息考虑用户在一个或多个客户端上的活动的时间来促进通信和协作。 系统和方法可以利用传统客户端 - 服务器应用程序中用于电子邮件的现有协议和数据交换，使一个或多个客户端消息路由应用程序可用，关于用户与多个客户端之间的电子邮件交互的信息。 应用程序包括考虑自上次客户端 - 服务器交互以来的时间，以指导关于消息的路由，何时以及如何路由的决策，以限制用户已经看到的信息的移动中继，向同事提供关于用户当前或过去的信息 “收件箱存在”，并预测直到用户访问设备或通信通道的时间。

公开(公告)号：US07627502B2

公开(公告)日：2009-12-01

申请号：US11868752

申请日：2007-10-08

申请人： Lili Cheng ,  Kamal Jain ,  Michael Connolly ,  Alexander G. Gounares ,  Gary W. Flake ,  Eric J. Horvitz

发明人： Lili Cheng ,  Kamal Jain ,  Michael Connolly ,  Alexander G. Gounares ,  Gary W. Flake ,  Eric J. Horvitz

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06Q30/02 ,  G06Q30/0603 ,  G06Q30/0633 ,  G06Q30/0643

摘要： Wish list creation and population is provided where users can associate one or more images as items in a wish list. To this end, an image can be provided, such as a photograph taken by the user, and analyzed to locate matching items and information related thereto. In this regard, the user can observe and desire to purchase an item without knowledge of specifics about the item. The user can then take a picture of the item and tag the picture for upload to their wish list. Matching can be provided to identify one or more items in the picture to facilitate retrieval of information related to the items. Also, items can be selected based on discerned characteristics of the picture in a design/fashion consultant context.

摘要翻译： 提供心愿单创建和人口，用户可以将一个或多个图像作为愿望清单中的项目。 为此，可以提供诸如用户拍摄的照片的图像，并进行分析以定位与之相关的匹配项目和信息。 在这方面，用户可以观察并希望在不知道关于该物品的细节的情况下购买物品。 然后，用户可以拍摄该项目的图片，并将图片标记为上传到他们的愿望清单。 可以提供匹配以识别图片中的一个或多个项目，以便于检索与该项目有关的信息。 此外，可以基于设计/时尚咨询者背景中图片的辨别特征来选择项目。

公开(公告)号：US20090265242A1

公开(公告)日：2009-10-22

申请号：US12492569

申请日：2009-06-26

申请人： Eric J. Horvitz ,  Brett D. Brewer ,  Mary P. Czerwinski ,  Melissa W. Dunn ,  Karim T. Farouki ,  Jason Garms ,  Alexander G. Gounares ,  Milind V. Mahajan ,  Jayaram NM. Nanduri ,  Timothy D. Sharpe ,  Darrell Leroy Blegen

发明人： Eric J. Horvitz ,  Brett D. Brewer ,  Mary P. Czerwinski ,  Melissa W. Dunn ,  Karim T. Farouki ,  Jason Garms ,  Alexander G. Gounares ,  Milind V. Mahajan ,  Jayaram NM. Nanduri ,  Timothy D. Sharpe ,  Darrell Leroy Blegen

IPC分类号： G06Q30/00 ,  G06F21/24

CPC分类号： H04L63/104 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  G06Q30/0254 ,  G06Q30/0277 ,  H04L67/22 ,  H04L67/306

摘要： The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can mitigate privacy concerns in connection with ad targeting or data collection. In particular, architecture can be included in a personal mobile communication device such as a cell phone. During communication transactions between the host device and a peer device, shared information can be extracted either from content included in the communication or from metadata. Based upon the shared information, a social graph maintained on the host device can be updated. In addition, the host device can receive a large set of ads and select or tailor a custom ad from the set based upon the social graph.

摘要翻译： 所要求保护的主题涉及可以减轻与广告定向或数据收集有关的隐私问题的架构。 特别地，架构可以包括在诸如手机的个人移动通信设备中。 在主机设备和对等设备之间的通信交易期间，可以从通信中包含的内容或从元数据中提取共享信息。 基于共享信息，可以更新在主机设备上维护的社交图。 此外，主机设备可以接收大量广告，并根据社交图表从该集合中选择或定制自定义广告。