153 results about "Context object" patented technology

An apparatus and method for displaying a plurality of icons on the display of a mobile terminal are provided. Icons are displayed in at least two different sections. The first section includes icons having sizes determined by comparing characteristics of associated messages to one or more context values, such as time of day, geographic area, or user profile characteristics. The second section includes icons having sizes determined by the proximities of the message sources to the mobile terminal.

The present invention relates to methods and system for providing telecommunications services, such as call waiting, three-way call, and automatic recall, utilizing a plurality of state machines. Logic specifications define a set of states for each state machine. Each state in turn defines at least one action to be performed in response to a signal received by the state machine. The logic specification for each state machine can be stored, for example, in a textual format in a mark up language, such as HTML, XML, or or other markup language. A compiled representation of the logic specification is generated. Further, a context object tracks a current state of the telecommunication service. The context object accesses the compiled representation in response to an event, e.g., a call progress event, in order to effect a state transition and/or perform an action with respect to the telecommunication service.

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for context-aware and real-time tracking of articles. In one aspect, a method includes: receiving multiple instances of tag-read-data, each instance including information read automatically from a tag bound to an article, each instance also including status information including a location of the tag and article; receiving one or more instances of context information, each instance describing an associated non-taggable physical circumstance, the context information indicating a status including a location of the circumstance, the multiple instances of context information collectively including information describing multiple circumstances; using the received tag-read-data and context information to maintain physical objects and context objects in a virtual world, the physical objects representing the articles and the context objects representing the circumstances; and detecting interactions in the virtual world between the circumstances and the articles.

The invention discloses an automatic segmentation method for a lung-area CT sequence. The method is characterized by comprising the steps of 1) an image I of the lung-area CT sequence is input; 2) the image I is segmented via interactive region growth; 3) according to a segmentation result, an initial contour is obtained, and seed-point coordinates of adjacent images are calculated; 4) based on the seed-point coordinates of the image I, a present image II in the sequence is segmented via the interactive region growth in step 2; and 5) step 2, 3, 4 are repeated to determine whether all images in the CT sequence are segmented, and if no, the step 3 is turned to. The automatic segmentation method automatically calculates mapping of the seed-point areas by combining the image context object characteristic continuity of the sequence to realize sequence segmentation, thereby obtaining complete three-dimensional area data of the lung, and providing basis for VOI extraction and classification of a suspected lung tubercle for a CAD system.

This disclosure in part describes systems, devices, and methods for implementing a unification mechanism that enables the unification of various data sets, which can permit greater collaboration between users of a data management platform. For example, a system can be configured to enable a user to add or associate a contextual object with a data measure. In associating the contextual object with the data measure, the system can store the contextual object with a parameter indicative of the unique dimension coordinates that are associated with the data measure. Other users of the system may, in turn, access the data measure and be shown the contextual object associated with the data measure.

A method and apparatus for use in a computer system comprising at least two software applications sharing context in accordance with a Clinical Context Object Workgroup (CCOW) standard, wherein a context change may be requested by a user of at least one of the at least two software applications. In response to the user requesting a change from a first context to a second context, at least one business rule is applied to at least a portion of the first context and/or to at least a portion of the second context to obtain at least one result from the application of the business rule. In response to the at least one result, at least one act is performed selected from the group consisting of: denying the request to change from the first context to the second context; requesting the user to provide information relating to the requested change; and requesting the user to affirm information relating to the requested change.

Methods and systems for seamless context transfers include receiving a context object from one or more applications, where the context object including updated context information for a user having an associated timestamp; entering the updated context information into a context information database; determining entries of the context information database for the user having a timestamp older than a predetermined threshold using a processor; purging the determined entries from the context information database; and sending an updated context object to one or more applications that reflects a current state of the context information for the user.

The invention discloses an energy model based image semantic annotation method. A full energy function of an original image under different regional image and semantic tag corresponding relationships is built according to regional image and semantic tag corresponding potentials and interaction potentials between semantic tags and the infusion is performed on the context information and the exterior information of the image through the full energy function. Compared with context object classification models in the prior art, wherein only the co-occurrence information between objects are utilized or only the fixed spatial relations and the simple frequency count methods are utilized in the context object classification models, the spatial structure information between the objects is fully utilized through the fuzzy spatial relations due to the full energy function and accordingly the semantic chaos is effectively avoided and the accuracy of the semantic annotation is improved.

The present System For Highlighting A Dynamic Personalized Object Placed In A Multi-Media Program functions to manage the delivery of Object (product) placements in a Multi-Media Program. The multi-media object highlighting system controls the retrieval of Object data that comprises a product representation and the integration of this Object data into a corresponding selected one of the predetermined Multi-Media Object Locations which are components of the Multi-Media Program. In addition, the multi-media object highlighting system produces a representation of the object that highlights the object in the scenes in which it appears. The highlighting can be any human sensible characteristic, such as, but not limited to: flashing, changes in brightness, movement, change in representation, and the like. The highlighting can also include the use of an anomaly, such as a color representation in a black and white multi-media program or vice versa, or out-of-context object.

A web application framework is described for implementing a web server of a type capable of assuming a plurality of states and being arranged to process a received event from among a predeterminable set of events to change from one state to another, with each state having associated with it one or more model objects for providing the server with business logic and/or access to persistent data, the application framework comprising a context object class for creating objects containing data relating to each state, the context object class providing for an entry method for execution upon entry of the state, and an exit method for execution upon exit of the state.

A method and apparatus for bootstrapping an object client system with an object server system in a distributed system is provided. The method and apparatus are particularly applicable to use over the internet with web servers and web browsers. The method allows the use of a “zero install” web client to operate on remote objects through the web server, and can thus facilitate a host of distributed object operations. An object reference server is used to distribute an object reference for a naming context object to an object request broker on the web browser. In the preferred embodiment, the object reference server comprises a web server with access to the object reference and the object reference comprises a stringified object reference. By delivering the stringified object reference to the web browsers, interaction between the web browser and remote server objects over the internet is facilitated.

This disclosure in part describes systems, devices, and methods for implementing a unification mechanism that enables the unification of various data sets, which can permit greater collaboration between users of a data management platform. For example, a system can be configured to enable a user to add or associate a contextual object with a data measure. In associating the contextual object with the data measure, the system can store the contextual object with the unique dimension coordinates that are associated with data measure. Other users of the system may, in turn, access the data measure and be shown the contextual object associated with the data measure.

An ontology-based framework model of a context perception application platform, which is characterized in that a context information acquisition layer collects signals from a sensor to require original context information; a context information amalgamation layer requires the original context information from the context information acquisition layer and requires inferior context information by preliminary abstracting and processing; a context information management layer requires the inferior context information from the context information amalgamation layer and requires advanced context information by using Ontology and an inference mechanism; and a context application layer unifies each context item and each context abstract status into modeling context objects on the application layer surface and offers an applied view which is attributes and the correlated operations of a group of service levels. The model enables context perception application developers to embedding the service operations in to the application thereof to realize the acquisition and the logical judgment of context or status by utilizing a group of general service operations which are applicable to all the context or status information to screen specific context isomerism.

The invention discloses a real-time screen fusion method for a live broadcast video and a presentation file. The method comprises the following steps: creating an HTML5 page; adding a live broadcast video display window on the page; adding a file presentation window on the page; adding a Canvas area on the page; adding a JavaScript monitor to monitor loading states of resources of the live broadcast video display window and the file presentation window; adding a JavaScript timer, and respectively capturing screen images of the live broadcast video display window and the file presentation window at a preset time interval; processing the captured screen images of the live broadcast video display window and the file presentation window by a context object of Canvas one by one; and drawing a video screen on a Canvas layer by a drawImage method of the Canvas, wherein the video screen comprises contents in the live broadcast video display window and the file presentation window.

Single port initial context access to an Enterprise Java Bean (“EJB”) including providing EJBs, including an EJB used by a client of a Java application; deploying the Java application, including deploying, at a fixed node and port, an application server for initial context lookup; selecting through the application server a home object for the EJB used by the client; and instantiating through the home object the EJB used by the client. Providing EJBs typically includes providing database records representing EJBs, each of which includes data describing the name of an EJB, a version of the EJB, and a node and port where an instance of the EJB may be deployed. Selecting a home object typically includes creating a context object, where the context object includes a providerURL, and the providerURL includes the node and port of the application server.

An information system engages in a communications session with a client to process a workflow. A context object stores information describing the session. Transfer objects store data utilized to process the workflow. A client action causes the information system to provide the transfer objects to a workflow engine. The workflow engine processes actions in the workflow utilizing the transfer objects. The information system selects among multiple screen definitions for the client based in part on the context. A transformation module filters the data in the transfer objects to isolate the data that are utilized by the screen definition. The screen definition and filtered data are provided to the client.