396 results about "Content retrieval" patented technology

Priority-based content retrieval mechanisms for digital entertainment devices are provided. In various embodiments, the download prioritizations may be interrupt-based, sequence-based, or a combination of the two. In interrupt-based prioritizations, a higher priority download request will interrupt a lower-priority download that is already in progress. In sequence-based prioritizations, a plurality of file download requests may be ordered in a download queue depending on the priority of the request, with higher priority requests being positioned towards the top of the queue and lower priority requests being positioned towards the bottom of the queue.

The invention provides for a system, method, and computer readable medium storing instructions related to controlling a presentation in a multimodal system. The method embodiment of the invention is a method for the retrieval of information on the basis of its content for incorporation into an electronic presentation. The method comprises receiving from a user a content-based request for at least one segment from a first plurality of segments within a media presentation preprocessed to enable natural language content searchability; in response to the request, presenting a subset of the first plurality of segments to the user; receiving a selection indication from the user associated with at least one segment of the subset of the first plurality of segments and adding the selected at least one segment to a deck for use in a presentation.

A method, system and computer program product for providing location-specific content to a personal computing device (PCD) connected to a distributed server network (such as the Internet) without requiring an access control gateway to provide such content. Location-specific (and user-specific) content / services are provided by a client-server architecture utilizing a location database and a location look-up utility of a location identifier and content retrieval (LICR) server. Specifically, a utility executing on the PCD provides PCD location parameters to the LICR server, which is equipped with a location look up engine / functionality and a location content retrieval engine / functionality (both within a LICR utility) that responds by providing location-specific and user-specific content to the PCD.

The invention discloses a multimedia resource processing method based on speech recognition and an online teaching system thereof. The method comprises the steps: audio and video frequencies are collected simultaneously and data are processed to process audio documents into a speech recognizable format; the audio documents are imposed with the speech recognition to generate script documents and with automatic generation and synchronization of Chinese captions with the video documents; and a content retrieval is imposed on the video documents, an automatic story segmentation based on the content is imposed on the script documents of the audio documents which are stored into the video database after being matched and labeled. The multimedia resource processing method based on the speech recognition and the online teaching system thereof are applied with the automatic processing technology of the multimedia resources, greatly increase the processing speed of such information as captions and the like by the use of high-performance computation of the computer, and reduce the participation degree of manual processing, thus accelerating the video manufacturing process and improving the work efficiency.

Techniques are disclosed for improving the serving of large objects (equivalently, large files) in distributed computing networks which include network-attached storage ("NAS"). Existing features of Hypertext Transfer Protocol ("HTTP") and of Web server implementations are leveraged to achieve performance improvements in a novel way, and thereby greatly facilitate introduction of the present invention into existing networking environments. In particular, objects meeting certain criteria may be served using "redirect files" in which a redirect status code is used to cause content retrieval requests to be automatically redirected from the requesting client device to the NAS, such that the requested content is served from the NAS rather than through a Web server from a Web server farm.

The ivnention discloses a multi-media real time control lessons giving system based on IP network, it is made up of lessons giving end, listening end, class service center and multipoint control unit(MCU); it realize a live telecast of teaching through multi-media transcribing the teaching spot and network transmission, through multi-media and multi-mode intercommunication network the teachers and the students natural blackboard-writing teaching by the teacher, teaching content retrieving, share of applied procedure, teaching software skimming, electronic white board, real time control teaching software and the class management function, it broads the teaching scale.

A control unit of a remote service terminal, for which a contract for using services is still valid, compares data of a vehicle inspection certificate with data in a user database to detect if an owner of a vehicle has changed. When the owner has changed, the control unit notifies the change of data to a management center through a cellular communication unit. The management center retrieves a contractor database based on the notified content to confirm if the owner of the vehicle has changed. When the owner change is confirmed, processing is executed through the remote service terminal to inquire if the contract for using services is canceled or the name of the contractor is changed. The contract is cancelled or the name of the contractor is changed based on a response by the user.

A system for supplying network content to a device. The system includes a first interface for communicating with a network content source for retrieving the network content. The system also includes a second interface for communicating with the device for delivering processed network content to the device. The system includes an agent framework operatively connected to the first interface and the second interface and which operates a plurality of autonomous agents including a content retrieval agent, a content personalization agent, and a content delivery agent. The content retrieval agent is for retrieving the network content from the network content source via the first interface. The content personalization agent is for processing the network content thereby producing the processed network content. The content delivery agent is for delivering the processed network content to the device via the second interface.

The invention discloses a multimedia resource retrieval method based on audio content retrieval, comprising the following steps: 1) a pretreatment server converts video and audio into standard voice to be recognized; 2) a voice recognition server trains training corpus into an acoustical model, and matches the voice to be recognized with the acoustical model to obtain semantic text indexes; (3) an index server stores and recognizes keyword indexes, and matches the indexes with a retrieval condition to get a retrieval result. By using keyword retrieval technology in audio, the internal semantic information of audio / video resource can be obtained, the text type semantic information is indexed, therefore, the method provides more comprehensive and reliable audio / video resource information indexes, such that a retrieval system can get matched multimedia resource more accurately, and locate the precise position of retrieval keywords in audio / video.

In a content retrieval system where an update frequency of content is extremely high, based on a content reference request from a client which generates the content reference request including unique information and an attribute of a desired content, a cache server checks a presence / absence of a cache of the content, caches the content from a content server to transmit the content to the client in the absence of the cache of the content, or transmits the content held to the client in the presence of the cache of the content. Then, the cache server performs synchronization mirroring with the content server based on the attribute.

A method and system which enable a user to query a multimedia archive in one media modality and automatically retrieve correlating data in another media modality without the need for manually associating the data items through a data structure. The correlation method finds the maximum correlation between the data items without being affected by the distribution of the data in the respective subspace of each modality. Once the direction of correlation is disclosed, extracted features can be transferred from one subspace to another.

In a wireless portal system having a wireless server, a client aware Extensible Markup Language (XML) content integration and transformation method and system. The client aware XML content integration and transformation system includes logic for identifying wireless client devices connecting to the wireless server by using particular characteristics of the client in presenting XML content formatted in response to connection requests from the client to the server. In one embodiment of the present invention, the client aware XML content transformation system receives an indication of a client type and uses this information to automatically search for XML content from a plurality of back-end resource servers on the Internet and transforms the content into a format suitable for delivery to the client. The means of formatting the XML content uses a style sheet such as an Extensible Style sheet Language (XSL) specific to the client type of the client requesting the XML content to transform the XML content into an appropriate markup to the client.

A method, system and communication device for enabling voice-to-voice searching and ordered content retrieval via audio tags assigned to individual content, which tags generate uniterms that are matched against components of a voice query. The method includes storing content and tagging at least one of the content with an audio tag. The method further includes receiving a voice query to retrieve content stored on the device. When the voice query is received, the method completes a voice-to-voice search utilizing uniterms of the audio tag, scored against the phoneme latent lattice model generated by the voice query to identify matching terms within the audio tags and corresponding stored content. The retrieved content(s) associated with the identified audio tags having uniterms that score within the phoneme lattice model are outputted in an order corresponding to an order in which the uniterms are structured within the voice query.

A network client such as a WWW browser configured to facilitate a windowed content manifestation environment (CME) which is configured to operate within a data processing system and to receive content from a remote server system to facilitate a windowed content manifestation environment. In particular, the customized WWW browser application includes a content retrieval module configured to receive content from a network server system via an electronic data network, and a processing engine coupled to the content retrieval module. The processing engine is configured to provide a content manifestation environment within the data processing system, and to process the content to produce at least one corresponding window object within the content manifestation environment. The corresponding window object(s) are configured to manifest at least a portion of the content therein.

A method is described comprising: receiving a request for content stored on a network site from a data processing device, the request including and address for the content and first version information usable to identify a version of the content previously-downloaded to the data processing device; transmitting a first request to the network site on behalf of the data processing device, the first request including the address of the content but requesting only second version information related to the content, the second version information identifying a current version of the content stored on the network site; comparing the first version information with the second version information to determine whether the current version of the content stored on the data processing device is the latest version; transmitting an indication to the client that the client has the latest version of the content if the first version information matches the second version information; if the first version information does not match the second version information, then transmitting a second request to the network site requesting the latest version of the content and forwarding the latest version of the content to the data processing device.

It is envisioned that the present invention may be utilized as a system for transferring data across a network by means of a multi-window based GUI. The system comprises a remote server, having at least one window module, .NET application, .NET framework, .NET development tools, an HTML beginning tag, an HTML ending tag and at least one ASPX tag. The server translates classes and objects into HTML / DHTML code by taking the tag and embedding code to fit within the beginning and ending tag, then transferring the code across an electronic data network. The system includes at least one client system coupled to the server. The client has a content retrieval module in communication with the server and a web browser further comprising at least one window module and interactive menu module. The interactive menu module reacts to activation and posts back to the server through a raised event.

The invention provides a staged content auditing system, able to automatically audit not only characters but also video files, audio files, realtime TV streams, and realtime network streaming media. And it can make auditing at both server end and client end. And it comprises content auditing server end and content auditing client end, where the content auditing server end comprises an auditing management and scheduling unit, a video analysis server cluster, a prohibited content searching cluther, an auditing policy unit, and a content auditing monitoring unit; and the staged contents auditing client end comprises a client end unit and a client end centralized management unit.

The invention provides proximity based content retrieval. A proximity element is provided for each of a plurality of components associated with a primary device. Identification information of each proximity element for an associated particular proximity space is communicated to a mobile wireless device. Upon the mobile wireless device being located within the associated particular proximity space of a particular proximity element, the mobile device receives associated identification information of the particular proximity element. The mobile device retrieves video content based on the associated identification information.

A system and method for the retrieval of electronic information, comprising a remote device for inputting information requests, and for receiving and displaying received information; a communication network for establishing a communication link between the remote device and an information network; a protocol stack for receiving and decoding information requests from the remote device; an RTP dispatcher for sending audio visual content to the protocol stack; a video encoder for encoding video content in a format suitable for display on the remote device; a DTMF decoder for determining what DTMF information was conveyed by the remote device; a rendering engine to render on the screen of the remote device possible matches to the data entries being made by the user, and to start delivering content to the user.

A method for retrieving confidential information of a file and judging and marking the security classification based on content correlation is mainly characterized by comprising the following steps of: selecting corresponding confidential keywords and a matched rule base according to the range to which a document belongs; accurately and comprehensively searching confidential information in the document by carrying out word segmenting operation on the document contents and constructing a semantic correlation network; carrying out security classification judgment and encryption processing on each confidential information point according to a secret-level setting rule in a secret-level setting rule base; then giving out corresponding security classifications by integrating the security classifications of various confidential information points; and finally, marking related confidential information in the documents. According to the method, the confidential information in the document can be efficiently searched and the security classification of the document is accurately judged, so that the workload of manual secret-level setting is reduced, the efficiencies of secret-level setting work and the security classification appraisal work are increased, the random secret-level setting phenomenon in the secret-level setting process is effectively prevented and new confidential keywords and matching rules can be automatically learned, and further the precision of retrieval and security classification judgment is continuously improved.

A push-to-transfer session server (200) including a content sharing request receiving entity for sharing request receiving entity for receiving a content sharing request from a push-to transfer session participating terminal, a content retrieval entity (220) that obtains content from a location other than from the terminal from which the content sharing request was received, and an entity (250) for sharing the content obtained with a push-to-transfer session participating terminal other than the terminal from which the sharing request was received. In some embodiments the server includes a content storage entity for storing content to be shared with push-to-transfer session participating terminals.

The invention belongs to computer visual pattern recognition and a video picture processing method. The computer visual pattern recognition and the video picture processing method comprise the steps that establishing a three-dimensional space-time sub-frame cube in a video human action reorganization model, establishing a human action characteristic space, conducting the clustering processing, updating labels, extracting the three-dimensional space-time sub-frame cube in the video human action reorganization model and the human action reorganization from monitoring video, extracting human action characteristic, confirming category of human sub-action in each video and classifying and merging on videos with sub-category labels. According to the computer visual pattern recognition and the video picture processing method, the highest identification accuracy is improved by 16.5% compared with the current international Hollywood2 human action database. Thus, the video human action reorganization method has the advantages that human action characteristic with higher distinguishing ability, adaptability, universality and invariance property can be extracted automatically, the overfitting phenomenon and the gradient diffusion problem in the neural network are lowered, and the accuracy of human action reorganization in a complex environment is improved effectively; the computer visual pattern recognition and the video picture processing method can be applied to the on-site video surveillance and video content retrieval widely.

A system and process for tagging electronic documents or other electronic content with concepts mentioned, contained, or otherwise described in that content. Once tagged, the content may be searchable, indexable, and retrievable in order to provide that content to an end user or another recipient. The system may be configured to handle a considerable number of asset files and a large number of users, workflows, and access applications simultaneously. The system may auto-tag the content and also may include a user interface for confirming and updating those tags and for manually creating new or additional tags. Content may include documents such as medical documents relating to procedures, diagnoses, medications or other domains. Alternatively, the content may include information about various care providers, in order to allow a user to locate a physician meeting one or more desired criteria.

A method and apparatus in a data processing system for data content retrieval comprises steps and methods for receiving a user request; generating a first query according to the user request; querying a first database using the first query to generate a first query request; generating a second query according to the first query request; querying a second database using the second query to generate a second query request; and responding to the user request with a response according to the second query request. The method and apparatus further comprises steps and methods for filtering the second query request to generate the response, where the filtering of the second query request is according to relevance to the intent of the user request and where the second query request is filtered according to a device type.

A contents retrieval system of the invention includes: a contents database constructed by a plurality of contents groups classified in accordance with classification criteria; a relation information setting unit which sets relation information indicative of relation among contents included in the plurality of contents groups; a relation information database for storing the relation information; and a control unit which selects a plurality of contents having high relation to each other from the plurality of contents stored in the contents database on the basis of the relation information in the relation information database and simultaneously reproducing the selected plurality of contents.

Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for providing access to network content. Certain embodiments provide a proxy system for providing access to network content. The system includes a content retriever for retrieving a first content on a network. The content retriever is configured to pre-fetch additional content linked or connected to the first content. The system also includes a content analyzer for analyzing the first content and the pre-fetched additional content according to a content policy and allowing access to the first content and the pre-fetched additional content in accordance with the content policy. The system further includes a content renderer for rendering allowed content for provision to a user upon user request. The renderer can also modify links to content based on a status of the linked content.

The invention relates to a video content retrieval method based on moving objects. The method comprises the following steps of: analyzing and processing initial image sequences of all video files in a video library to obtain the positions of the moving objects, calculating the visual statistical characteristics of the moving objects, and storing the visual statistical characteristics in a video index database; inputting objects to be retrieved by a user, selecting moving objects to be retrieved from the objects, and calculating the visual statistical characteristics of the moving objects to be retrieved; looking up the video index record most similar to the moving objects to be retrieved; and selecting and displaying the corresponding video segment from the video library according to the retrieved video index record. The invention also discloses a video content retrieval system based on the moving objects. According to the invention, by detecting and tracking the moving objects in all video files in the video library,,automatic retrieving can be rapidly carried out on the video contents, thus the high efficiency of video content retrieval is improved, and the adaptability of the video retrieval system is improved.

A computer performed method models a spatial index having n spatial regions defined in a multidimensional space using a tree-based model representing an infinite number of arrangements of n spatial regions in the multidimensional space allowable by the spatial index using a finite number of tree representations, computes an average retrieval complexity measure for content retrieval using the spatial index based on the tree based model, and provides a spatial index recommendation based on the average retrieval complexity measure. In some embodiments a spatial index selection module selects the spatial index based on average retrieval complexity measures for candidate spatial indices that are functionally dependent upon a number of spatial regions to be defined by the spatial index.

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system including a mobile device and a content-retrieving agent for facilitating energy-efficient content retrieval. During operation, the mobile device receives a request for a piece of content from a user. In response to the request, the mobile device forwards the request to the content-retrieving agent which is configured to obtain the requested content from a remote device on behalf of the mobile device. The system allows the mobile device's receiver to be placed in an energy-saving sleep mode when the content-retrieving agent is obtaining the requested content for the mobile device and is not transmitting the content to the mobile device. The system allows the mobile device's receiver to wake up when the content-retrieving agent is transmitting the content to the mobile device. The mobile device receives the content from the content-retrieving agent.