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An improved human user computer interface system, wherein a user characteristic or set of characteristics, such as demographic profile or societal “role”, is employed to define a scope or domain of operation. The operation itself may be a database search, to interactively define a taxonomic context for the operation, a business negotiation, or other activity. After retrieval of results, a scoring or ranking may be applied according to user define criteria, which are, for example, commensurate with the relevance to the context, but may be, for example, by date, source, or other secondary criteria. A user profile is preferably stored in a computer accessible form, and may be used to provide a history of use, persistent customization, collaborative filtering and demographic information for the user. Advantageously, user privacy and anonymity is maintained by physical and algorithmic controls over access to the personal profiles, and releasing only aggregate data without personally identifying information or of small groups.

The invention provides a system and a method for data input that can be used with or incorporated into electronic, computer, and portable devices. The interface includes a small set of control buttons or keys that are used to provide access to an associated set of secondary keys, from which the user can select a character for input into the device. Intelligent ordering and grouping of the control and secondary keys allows the user to input information in a manner conducive to speed, accuracy, and ease of use, while the interface can be minimized to require less real estate than traditional keyboards. In accordance with one embodiment, a set of characters or symbols is divided into subsets, each subset being represented by a control button. Selecting a control button displays a secondary set of buttons representing actual characters or symbols that can be selected, stored, or displayed.

An automated banking apparatus is operative to carry out banking transactions commonly required by merchants. The apparatus includes an item accepting depository for accepting deposit items, such as deposit bags, currency, and checks. The apparatus further includes an input device that is operative to interrogate an RFID tag to obtain merchant deposit information therefrom. The information can include data representative of the deposit, such as an account number and the deposit amount. The RFID tag may be located on an item being deposited.

A “Constrained Predictive Interface” uses predictive constraints to improve accuracy in user interfaces such as soft keyboards, pen interfaces, multi-touch interfaces, 3D gesture interfaces, EMG based interfaces, etc. In various embodiments, the Constrained Predictive Interface allows users to take any desired action at any time by taking into account a likelihood of possible user actions in different contexts to determine intended user actions. For example, to enable a virtual keyboard interface, various embodiments of the Constrained Predictive Interface provide key “sweet spots” as predictive constraints that allow the user to select particular keys regardless of any probability associated with the selected or neighboring keys. In further embodiments, the Constrained Predictive Interface provides hit target resizing via various piecewise constant touch models in combination with various predictive constraints. In general, hit target resizing provides dynamic real-time virtual resizing of one or more particular keys based on various probabilistic criteria.

A test system comprises a test processor which is arranged to perform hardware level tests on a unit under test. A voice interface interfaces to an external voice communication link coupled to a remote voice communication unit. A test controller is coupled to the test processor and the voice interface and comprises a script processor for executing a test control script. The test control script is in accordance with a voice scripting language standard, such as the Voice extensible Markup Language, VXML, standard. The script processor comprises a first interface for interfacing with the test processor in response to the test control script and a second interface for interfacing with the voice interface in response to the test control script. The invention may allow a user friendly speech interface to a hardware level test system.

A method for operating a sleep phase actigraphy synchronized alarm clock that communicates with a remote sleep database, such as an internet server database, and compares user physiological parameters, sleep settings, and actigraphy data with a large database that may include data collected from a large number of other users with similar physiological parameters, sleep settings, and actigraphy data. The remote server may use “black box” analysis approach by running supervised learning algorithms to analyze the database, producing sleep phase correction data which can be uploaded to the alarm clock, and be used by the alarm clock to further improve its REM sleep phase prediction accuracy.

A method of operating an automated banking machine is provided. The method comprises sending a configuration XML message to an ATM from an application server, wherein the configuration XML data includes configuration data targeted to the ATM. The method also includes sending with the application server an application XML message to the ATM, wherein the application XML message includes application data. In addition, the method includes mapping the application data to at least one corresponding resource on the ATM responsive to the configuration data. In addition, the method includes performing a banking transaction using the at least one resource on the ATM responsive to the application XML message.

An apparatus for adapting media content in one or more networks includes a controller module, one or more network interface modules, and one or more protocol interface modules coupled to the controller module. The apparatus also includes a script interpretation module coupled to the controller module and one or more media adaptation modules coupled to the controller module. The one or more media adaptation modules may support audio, video, or meta data. The apparatus further includes a management interface module coupled to the controller module. Media may be received at the apparatus as streaming media and be provided from the apparatus as a download or a progressive download. Additionally, media may be received at the apparatus as a download or progressive download and be provided from the apparatus as streaming media.

A system and method for automatically creating a surgical team schedule is herein provided with enhanced user interfaces with optional biometric recognition apparatus. Typical surgical team participants may include nurses, vendor representatives, administrative and technical staff, doctors and other specialists such as anesthesiologists and surgeons. Optimal participation criteria may include individual staff location, workload, vacation schedules, levels of skill, cost, etc. In addition, automatically managing and optimizing the supplies and medicines utilized in surgical procedures may be achieved to insure and monitor quality and cost control. This is achieved by insuring that all the correct supplies and personnel are timely and locally assembled and available at the correct precise surgical site, that the correct surgical procedure has been specified, and that the correct patient is verified as present on site prior to commencement of the procedure. Image and audible sensors may track personnel, medical supplies and pharmaceutical products.

An improved user interface is provided for displaying selectable software functionality controls and for presenting logical groupings of particular functionality controls associated with a selected top-level functionality. Underneath a row of top-level functionality tabs, functionalities controls associated with a given top-level functionality tab are presented in logical groupings. Selection of a particular tab switches modes of the user interface to present controls for functionalities associated with the selected tab.

An automated financial transaction apparatus (10) includes a touch screen interface (14) and a plurality of transaction function devices (22, 34, 36, 42, 46, 50, 54, 58) which operate to carry out financial transactions for users. A reading device (18, 78) senses characteristic features of users who operate the machine. Data stored in at least one data store associated with at least one computer (62, 118, 120) includes data representative of the characteristic features associated with a plurality of users and for each user, at least one interface parameter. The apparatus operates so that when the characteristic feature associated with a particular user is sensed by the reading device, the display screen and other input and output devices are changed in position or operation to accommodate the stature, disabilities, desires or other special requirements of the user.

A method for displaying a message on an electronic device. The device has a display screen to display one or more menu items, allowing a user to highlight the menu items by scrolling the menu. When a menu item is highlighted, a text message is displayed on a designated area in a scrolling motion if the text message exceeds the designated area. When the text message is short, it is possible to display the message at once or as a time sequence. The text message reflects updated information if the information pertaining to the highlighted menu item includes a current status, current events, or future events. Information pertaining to the layer lying below the displayed menu is shown without requiring the user to select an item on the displayed menu. If an icon associated with a menu item is also displayed, the icon may be animated when the menu item is highlighted.

The invention relates to a mobile communication terminal comprising a user interface with a display and a keypad for supporting various functions. According to the invention, the orientation of the content of a hard label or a soft label of at least one of the keys can changed so that the key can be used with the terminal in different orientations. The content of the display may also be readable in different orientations by changing the display direction. The mobile terminal may be provided with an orientation sensor allowing automatic changing of the display direction of the soft labels and the rest of the display content. The labeling of the hard keys may be changeable by operating a handle or by mechanical arrangements or optical effects.

The invention discloses a design method for a distributed hydrological model by using a grid as an analog unit, which is called as ESSI for short. The design method comprises the following steps of: obtainment of a distributed parameter: converting vector data into grid data; generalization of a watershed hydrological process: establishing a universal runoff generating type for the grid; design of a runoff generating process: respectively computing the water-quantity distributing condition of each part according to different prior-period soil water conditions; design of a flow collecting process: respectively designing a Muskingum-Cunge method, a delay algorithm and a riverway segmentation Muskingum method for the flow collecting process computation of the model under different conditions; and model development and integration. The invention not only can finish the watershed hydrological process simulation at an arid region and a humid region, but also can realize the short-term flood forecast and the long-term rainfall-runoff process simulation and prediction of a watershed by using modularization and integration ideas as means, thereby providing scientific reference bases for deeply learning about the physical mechanism of water circulation by people, reducing the drought and water-logging disasters and reasonably developing and utilizing water resources.

A system, methods, and user interface for automatically extracting important terms from a document content as terms representing the important information in the content, and using the extracted term or terms to label the document, either as a tag or a summary or category, or for renaming the document. Methods for determining the terms as important include content analysis methods based on grammatical, semantic, contextual, positional, frequency, and other attributes associated with the terms. Documents can include any type of document containing text, including personal or company documents, Web pages, emails, reviews and comments, etc. In some embodiments, a document can also be a collection of documents.

An automated banking machine (12) is operative to conduct transactions in response to HTML documents and TCP/IP messages exchanged with a local computer system (14) through an intranet (16), as well as in response to messages exchanged with foreign servers (20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 96) in a wide area network (18). The banking machine includes a computer (34) having an HTML document handling portion (76, 80, 82). The HTML document handling portion is operative to communicate through a proxy server (88), with a home HTTP server (90) in the intranet or the foreign servers in the wide area network. The computer further includes a device application portion (84) which interfaces with the HTML document handling portion and dispatches messages to operate devices (36) in the automated banking machine. The devices include a sheet dispenser mechanism (42) which dispenses currency as well as other transaction devices. The device application portion communicates with a device interfacing software portion (64) in the banking machine through a device server (92) in the intranet. The device server maintains local control over the devices in the banking machine including the sheet dispenser. The banking machine operates to read indicia on the user's card corresponding to a system address. The computer is operative to connect the banking machine to the home or foreign server corresponding to the system address, which connected server operates the banking machine until the completion of transactions by the user.

An implementation, which is described herein, facilitates a presentation of multiple miniaturized video feeds to a multimedia receiver. It further facilitates a user-interface employing multiple miniaturized video feeds to a multimedia receiver. This abstract itself is not intended to limit the scope of this patent. The scope of the present invention is pointed out in the appending claims.

A method of executing multiple applications in an apparatus including a touch screen is provided. The method includes displaying a first window in which a first application is executed on the touch screen, detecting a division screen display event of the first application and a second application, and decreasing a size of the first window on the touch screen when the division screen display event is detected and displaying, together with the first window, a second window in which the second application is executed on the touch screen.

Mobile apparatus with transaction information is disclosed. The mobile apparatus receives, from an electronic service, with the wireless transceiver, a plurality of packets relating to transactions of an account linked with a payment card, transforms the received plurality of packets into transaction information, and displays, with the user interface, the transaction information such that transactions in relation to each other are represented by geometric objects.