公开(公告)号：US20070022075A1

公开(公告)日：2007-01-25

申请号：US11172016

申请日：2005-06-29

申请人： Eric Horvitz ,  Paul Koch ,  Raman Sarin

发明人： Eric Horvitz ,  Paul Koch ,  Raman Sarin

IPC分类号： G06N7/02 ,  G06F9/44 ,  G06N7/06

CPC分类号： G06N7/005 ,  G06F8/35 ,  G06F8/36

摘要： Learning, inference, and decision making with probabilistic user models, including considerations of preferences about outcomes under uncertainty, may be infeasible on portable devices. The subject invention provides systems and methods for pre-computing and storing policies based on offline preference assessment, learning, and reasoning about ideal actions and interactions, given a consideration of uncertainties, preferences, and/or future states of the world. Actions include ideal real-time inquiries about a state, using pre-computed value-of-information analyses. In one specific example, such pre-computation can be applied to automatically generate and distribute call-handling policies for cell phones. The methods can employ learning of Bayesian network user models for predicting whether users will attend meetings on their calendar and the cost of being interrupted by incoming calls should a meeting be attended.

摘要翻译： 使用概率用户模型进行学习，推理和决策，包括对不确定性下的结果的偏好的考虑，在便携式设备上可能是不可行的。 本发明提供了在考虑到世界的不确定性，偏好和/或未来状态的情况下，基于离线偏好评估，学习和关于理想动作和交互的推理来预先计算和存储策略的系统和方法。 行动包括使用预先计算的信息价值分析的理想实时查询状态。 在一个具体示例中，可以应用这种预计算来自动生成和分发用于蜂窝电话的呼叫处理策略。 这些方法可以利用贝叶斯网络用户模型的学习来预测用户是否参加会议，以及如果出席会议，将会有来电打扰的成本。

公开(公告)号：US20060129606A1

公开(公告)日：2006-06-15

申请号：US11348018

申请日：2006-02-06

申请人： Eric Horvitz ,  Susan Dumais ,  Meredith Ringel ,  Edward Cutrell ,  Paul Koch

发明人： Eric Horvitz ,  Susan Dumais ,  Meredith Ringel ,  Edward Cutrell ,  Paul Koch

IPC分类号： G06F17/00

CPC分类号： G06F16/40 ,  G06F16/148 ,  G06F16/48 ,  G16H10/20

摘要： One or more models of memorability are provided that facilitate various computer-based applications including those centering on the storage, retrieval, and processing of information, applications that remind people about items they risk not recalling or overlooking, and facilitating communications of reminders. In one application, the models are used to help compose and navigate large personal stores of information about a user's activities, communications, images, and other content. In another application, views of files in directories are extended with the addition of memory landmarks, and a means for controlling the number of landmarks provided via changing a threshold on inferred memorability. Another application centers on the use of models of memorability to select subsets of images from larger sets representing events, for display in a slide show or ambient photo display. In another application, a system is provided that facilitates computer-based searching for information by providing for the design and analysis of timeline visualizations in connection with displaying results to queries based at least in part on an index of content. A query is received by a query component (which can be part of search engine that provides a unified index of information a user has been exposed to). The query component parses the query into portions relevant to effecting a meaningful search in accordance with the subject invention. The query component can access and populate a data store which may include information searched for. A landmark component receives and/or accesses information from the query component as well as the data store, and anchors public and/or personal landmark events to search results-related information.

公开(公告)号：US20060190440A1

公开(公告)日：2006-08-24

申请号：US11348096

申请日：2006-02-06

申请人： Eric Horvitz ,  Susan Dumais ,  Meredith Ringel ,  Edward Cutrell ,  Paul Koch

发明人： Eric Horvitz ,  Susan Dumais ,  Meredith Ringel ,  Edward Cutrell ,  Paul Koch

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F16/40 ,  G06F16/148 ,  G06F16/48 ,  G16H10/20

摘要： One or more models of memorability are provided that facilitate various computer-based applications including those centering on the storage, retrieval, and processing of information, applications that remind people about items they risk not recalling or overlooking, and facilitating communications of reminders. In one application, the models are used to help compose and navigate large personal stores of information about a user's activities, communications, images, and other content. In another application, views of files in directories are extended with the addition of memory landmarks, and a means for controlling the number of landmarks provided via changing a threshold on inferred memorability. Another application centers on the use of models of memorability to select subsets of images from larger sets representing events, for display in a slide show or ambient photo display. In another application, a system is provided that facilitates computer-based searching for information by providing for the design and analysis of timeline visualizations in connection with displaying results to queries based at least in part on an index of content. A query is received by a query component (which can be part of search engine that provides a unified index of information a user has been exposed to). The query component parses the query into portions relevant to effecting a meaningful search in accordance with the subject invention. The query component can access and populate a data store which may include information searched for. A landmark component receives and/or accesses information from the query component as well as the data store, and anchors public and/or personal landmark events to search results-related information.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种或多种可记忆模式，便于各种基于计算机的应用程序，包括以信息的存储，检索和处理为中心的应用程序，提醒人们有关他们不会召回或忽略的项目以及促进提醒通信的应用程序。 在一个应用程序中，这些模型用于帮助组织和浏览大型个人商店，了解有关用户的活动，通信，图像和其他内容的信息。 在另一个应用中，目录中的文件的视图通过添加内存标记而被扩展，以及用于通过改变推定的可记忆性的阈值来控制提供的地标数量的手段。 另一个应用程序集中在使用可记忆模型来选择代表事件的较大集合的图像子集，以便在幻灯片放映或环境照片显示中显示。 在另一应用中，提供了一种系统，其通过至少部分地基于内容索引来提供对结果进行查询的结果提供对时间线可视化的设计和分析，从而促进基于计算机的信息搜索。 查询组件（可以是搜索引擎的一部分，它提供用户已经暴露的统一的信息索引）接收到查询。 查询组件根据本发明解析查询到与实现有意义的搜索有关的部分。 查询组件可以访问和填充可能包括搜索到的信息的数据存储。 地标组件从查询组件和数据存储接收和/或访问信息，并且锚定公共和/或个人地标事件以搜索结果相关信息。

公开(公告)号：US20070071209A1

公开(公告)日：2007-03-29

申请号：US11469148

申请日：2006-08-31

申请人： Eric Horvitz ,  Paul Koch ,  Johnson Apacible ,  Carl Kadie

发明人： Eric Horvitz ,  Paul Koch ,  Johnson Apacible ,  Carl Kadie

IPC分类号： H04M3/42

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 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的存在和可用性的一个或多个方面的预测的预测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：US20050084082A1

公开(公告)日：2005-04-21

申请号：US10881061

申请日：2004-06-30

申请人： Eric Horvitz ,  Murugesan Subramani ,  Paul Koch ,  Johnson Apacible

发明人： Eric Horvitz ,  Murugesan Subramani ,  Paul Koch ,  Johnson Apacible

IPC分类号： H04M3/22 ,  G06F15/163 ,  G06Q10/10 ,  H04L12/28 ,  H04M3/00 ,  H04M3/42 ,  H04M3/436 ,  H04W8/18 ,  H04W40/02 ,  H04M15/00

CPC分类号： H04M3/436 ,  H04M3/42059 ,  H04M3/42093 ,  H04M3/42102 ,  H04M3/4211 ,  H04M2201/60 ,  H04M2203/2072 ,  H04M2242/22

摘要： The present invention relates to utilizing identity and context-sensitive decision-making for handling communications, including, channel selection, routing, and rescheduling operations. The systems and methods provide a service that allows users to assess preferences regarding real-time call handling and performs dynamic decision-making about the best timing and channel for interpersonal communication. This service can be based on various cost-benefit analyses (e.g., basic and extended) that consider cost of interruption and preferences of contactors and contactees to guide communications, and/or on decision-making under uncertainty. Statistical models that are learned from data are joined with user preferences to generate expected costs of interruption for office activity and over time, based on a user's activities, locations, calendar information and preference assessments. In addition, statistical forecasting provides presence and availability predictions. The foregoing can provide an enhanced interpersonal communication system that can maximize the value and minimize the cost of communication among people.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及利用身份和上下文敏感的决策来处理通信，包括信道选择，路由和重新调度操作。 系统和方法提供一种服务，允许用户评估有关实时呼叫处理的偏好，并对人际沟通的最佳时机和频道进行动态决策。 该服务可以基于考虑成本中断的各种成本效益分析（例如基本和扩展），接触者和联系人指导通信的成本和/或不确定性下的决策。 从数据中学习的统计模型与用户偏好相结合，以根据用户的活动，位置，日历信息和偏好评估，为办公室活动和随着时间的推移产生中断的预期成本。 此外，统计预测提供了存在和可用性预测。 前述内容可以提供增强的人际沟通系统，其可以使价值最大化并最小化人之间的通信成本。

公开(公告)号：US20060173842A1

公开(公告)日：2006-08-03

申请号：US11394774

申请日：2006-03-31

申请人： Eric Horvitz ,  Paul Koch

发明人： Eric Horvitz ,  Paul Koch

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30067 ,  Y10S707/99945

摘要： A system and methodology is provided for improving directory operations within a system providing an electronic hierarchical directory of items. The system includes a component which analyzes probabilities and utilities associated with determining potential target directories for storing and accessing data, and a component for building a subset of the potential target directories that are predicted to be the target directory. The probabilities and/or utilities are functions of expected navigation costs associated with traversing from a displayed directory to at least one of the potential target directories. Methods in accordance with the present invention can be coupled with displays of substructures that format the substructures into a coherent hierarchical view.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于改进提供物品的电子分级目录的系统内的目录操作的系统和方法。 该系统包括分析与确定用于存储和访问数据的潜在目标目录相关联的概率和实用程序的组件，以及用于构建预测为目标目录的潜在目标目录的子集的组件。 概率和/或实用程序是与从显示的目录到潜在目标目录中的至少一个相关联的预期导航成本的功能。 根据本发明的方法可以与将子结构格式化成相干层次视图的子结构的显示器相结合。

公开(公告)号：US20060247767A1

公开(公告)日：2006-11-02

申请号：US11119655

申请日：2005-05-02

申请人： Paul Koch

发明人： Paul Koch

IPC分类号： A61F2/16

CPC分类号： A61F2/1629 ,  A61F2002/1683

摘要： An accommodating intraocular lens implant for implantation in a human eye, including an optic adapted for coaxial alignment with a vision axis of the human eye, and at least one haptic. The haptic includes an anchor portion for receipt in one of a periphery of a capsular bag of the human eye, a cilairy sulcus of the human eye, and an angle of the anterior chamber of the human eye, and a sinuous portion extending radially from the optic and including a proximal end connected to the optic, a distal end spaced from the optic and connected to the anchor portion, and at least four curves successively connected between the proximal end and the distal end. The sinuous portion is adapted to flex upon ciliary muscle action to move the optic along the vision axis and allow the intraocular lens implant to automatically accommodate.

摘要翻译： 一种用于植入人眼的适应性眼内透镜植入体，包括适于与人眼的视轴同轴对准的光学元件，以及至少一个触觉件。 触觉包括用于接收在人眼的囊袋的周围之一的锚定部分，人眼的睫状沟和人眼的前房的角度，以及从所述人眼的径向延伸的弯曲部分 并且包括连接到光学元件的近端，与光学元件间隔开并连接到锚固部分的远端以及连续地连接在近端和远端之间的至少四条曲线。 弯曲部分适于弯曲睫状肌动作，以沿着视觉轴线移动光学元件，并允许眼内透镜植入物自动适应。

公开(公告)号：US20200367581A1

公开(公告)日：2020-11-26

申请号：US16422964

申请日：2019-05-25

申请人： Jason Robarts ,  Paul Koch

发明人： Jason Robarts ,  Paul Koch

IPC分类号： A41D13/005

摘要： The system comprises a cooling garment that is intended to cool the user of the garment. In one embodiment, the cooling garment is worn under a body armor. In one embodiment, the cooling garment is worn under any other garment or in any situation or environment where the user desires a cooling effect. In one embodiment the cooling garment comprises an outer layer and an inner layer. The inner layer has a plurality of perforations that allow air to flow therethrough. The outer layer is solid, so that air is urged toward the perforations and does not exit the garment away from the user, but instead towards the user. A flexible hose is coupled between the first and second layer and extends outward from the garment. The hose terminates in a quick release coupling that allows it to be removably attached to an air source, such as from a pump or other cooling system. In one embodiment, the quick release coupling is magnetic and is detached by pulling on the coupling or by the user of the cooling garment stepping away from the connection. In one embodiment, the system is used in a vehicle with a pump coupled to the electrical system of the vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US20200367580A1

公开(公告)日：2020-11-26

申请号：US16422885

申请日：2019-05-24

申请人： Jason Robarts ,  Paul Koch

发明人： Jason Robarts ,  Paul Koch

IPC分类号： A41D13/002 ,  A41D13/005 ,  A41D1/04 ,  B32B3/26 ,  B32B5/02 ,  B32B5/26

摘要： The system comprises a cooling garment that is intended to cool the user of the garment. In one embodiment, the cooling garment is worn under a tactical vest. In one embodiment, the cooling garment is worn under any other garment or in any situation or environment where the user desires a cooling effect. In one embodiment the cooling garment comprises an outer layer and an inner layer. The inner layer has a plurality of perforations that allow air to flow therethrough. The outer layer is solid, so that air is urged toward the perforations and does not exit the garment away from the user, but instead towards the user. A flexible hose is coupled between the first and second layer and extends outward from the garment. The hose terminates in a quick release coupling that allows it to be removably attached to an air source, such as from a pump or other cooling system. In one embodiment, the quick release coupling is magnetic and is detached by pulling on the coupling or by the user of the cooling garment stepping away from the connection. In one embodiment, the system is used in a vehicle with a pump coupled to the electrical system of the vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US07986983B2

公开(公告)日：2011-07-26

申请号：US11965887

申请日：2007-12-28

申请人： Roger W Harmon ,  Paul Koch

发明人： Roger W Harmon ,  Paul Koch

IPC分类号： H04M1/00

CPC分类号： H04M1/0237 ,  H04M1/0216

摘要： Disclosed are methods and devices of a slider form factor device including two housings. The top surface of a lower housing may include a QWERTY keypad, or a display screen of any type. The top surface of an upper housing may include a display screen. The device is configured to allow the bottom face of the upper housing to slide with respect to the top face of the lower housing until a limit of travel is reached. At the end of travel, the lower housing and the upper housing do not overlap. The upper housing drops down so that its top face is contiguous with the top face of the lower housing. Moreover, the upper housing is tilted with respect to the lower housing by a predetermined angle. In this way, the upper housing and the lower housing may abut to form substantially contiguous surfaces.

摘要翻译： 公开了包括两个壳体的滑块形状因子装置的方法和装置。 下壳体的顶表面可以包括QWERTY键盘或任何类型的显示屏。 上壳体的顶表面可以包括显示屏。 该装置构造成允许上壳体的底面相对于下壳体的顶面滑动，直到达到行程限制。 在行程结束时，下壳体和上壳体不重叠。 上壳体下降，使得其顶面与下壳体的顶面邻接。 此外，上壳体相对于下壳体倾斜预定角度。 以这种方式，上壳体和下壳体可以邻接以形成基本上邻接的表面。