365 results about "Frequent use" patented technology

A system for automatically providing foreign language abbreviation translation in an instant messaging system that identifies a foreign language abbreviation translation database based on a user indicated source culture. The foreign abbreviation translation database stores abbreviation translations for foreign language abbreviations frequently used by people from the user indicated source culture. The system locates a candidate term in an instant message and compares the candidate term to the foreign language abbreviations in the foreign language abbreviation translation database. In the event that the candidate term matches one of the foreign language abbreviations in the identified foreign language abbreviation translation database, the corresponding translation is retrieved and displayed. The comparison of the candidate term with the foreign language abbreviations may include automatically obtaining a transliteration of the candidate term. The disclosed system advantageously enables translation of foreign language abbreviations to be performed in real-time.

A system is provided that allows a photographer to take images for a customer and provide those images to order servicing equipment with which the images are placed on-line for the customer to view. The customer may place orders for the images and products and services related to the images. The order servicing equipment may credit the photographer when the customer orders images, products, or services. Images may be manipulated before images, products, or services are ordered. Images may be taken using film-based cameras or digital image acquisition equipment. Image presentation options may be selected. Content may be appended to the images. Web sites and digital albums may be created using the images. The photographer may check the status of assignments that have been submitted to the order servicing equipment and may check on account status. Different rights levels may be established for different parties. Loyalty rewards may be awarded for frequent use of the system.

A system and related techniques provide a seamless, peer-to-peer file synchronization capability for sharing files, folders, directories or other stored content between machines. According to embodiments of the invention in one regard, a sync engine or other file management logic may be integrated into the operating system or other resources of a user's desktop, laptop, network-enabled cellular device or other computer, client, machine or other hardware. The sync engine may accept user designations of files, folders, directories or other contents which they wish to share, sync or roam between two or more selected machines, on an automatically consistent basis. The sync engine or other control logic may maintain a file system log to record the state of files which have been designated for sharing, to indicate for example whether a transmission of the file has been made, to which target machine or machines it has been transmitted, and other variables regarding the state of file or other content. According to embodiments of the invention in one regard, the sync engine may apply version management logic when files located on a target or destination machine, may, for example, reflect newer or more complete content than the file which is designated for roaming to that machine, or other under conditions. A user may therefore readily and with a comparative minimum of configuration effort select and effectuate the sharing of a set of frequently used or otherwise desired files to an arbitrary set of machines which they own or use, without a need to invoke a remote server or other control or storage to back up and synchronize that content.

A sensing threshold of a touch sensing surface may be specified based on a user interface context. For example, inadvertent touches may be more likely in a map application that is often used in a car where a user experiences constant jostling. Accordingly, a high sensing threshold can be associated with the map application, and other applications can be associated with a lower sensing threshold.

The apparatus according to the current invention, referred herein as “Rescue Cell” is an AED integrated into a handheld device such as mobile phone; pocket PCs, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), etc. Rescue Cell device according to embodiments of the present invention is portable; it is integrated into a device that is in regular use by most people. A user of a Rescue Cell is likely to carry his Rescue Cell device with him during his daily routine and to have the device at hand most of the time. Thus, there is high likelihood of the Rescue Cell to be available to him in case of cardiac emergency to himself or to someone near him.

A method and system of providing listing recommendations to users of a network-based commerce system including a plurality of listings arranged in a plurality of divisions is described. The method includes identifying a division of the plurality of divisions based on user interaction with the network-based commerce system, and identifying at least one frequently used search term associated with the division. A link is provided to the user to listings associated with the frequently used search term. The search terms may be ranked by retrieving frequently used search terms from a first memory location and determining a number of listings in each division associated with each frequently used search term. Each frequently used search term may then be ranked based on the number of listings in each division.

The method for managing menu functions in a mobile station includes the steps of executing menu edition, selecting menu items the user uses frequently in the executed menu edition, to set up a menu, executing the menu, and displaying the menu of the selected menu items at first. The basic menu inclusive of all menu items the mobile station provides is selected as a last menu item of the mode menu displayed at first so that the user can access to menu items other than the menu items of preference. By providing easy mode menu with menu items the user or manufacturer of the mobile station uses frequently in advance, and displaying on a display window at first, the user is permitted a quick and easy access to a desired menu item without going through many steps of submenus before reaching the desired menu item.

An improved method and system for verifying the correctness of data entered from document images. Images are sorted according to their entered values, and are then presented to an adjudication operator, who verifies that the values shown in the images are correctly ordered. Images violating the sorted order are marked for correction. The marking of images is ergonomically advantageous in requiring only a simple pointing device used infrequently. Input can be by voice command. In one preferred embodiment, images are presented in rows and columns upon a video screen, and the operator uses controls similar to the "forward" and "back" buttons of a web browser to navigate through a set of images. In another preferred embodiment, images scroll automatically upwards through an attention zone, within which the operator verifies correct pairwise ordering. The adjudication method can operate with or without information used in previous systems, such as target values, recognition confidence, balancing information, and the like. Variants are described using such information to disambiguate mis-ordered pairs of images; to select images to participate in amount order adjudication; to determine when to accept a second-choice recognition result; and to bypass initial data entry altogether. The method provides for non-intrusive monitoring of its own performance and of the accuracy of the initial data entry module, by measuring results on items whose ordering has been intentionally manipulated.

A method and system for preventing the exploitation of email messages in attacks on computer systems. Invalid formatting is often used by attackers to introduce undesirable content into email, because email handling applications and utilities are often insensitive to deviations from the standards, and invalid formatting can allow undesirable content to go undetected. According to the present invention, an original email message is decomposed into component parts, which are formatted according to email message standards. Format-compliant components are inspected for undesirable content and reassembled into a replacement email message that is sent to the destination of the original email message. Components with undesirable content are sanitized.

A system is provided for reading and writing sectors which may be realized as either a disk device to the local operating system, or as a virtual disk device to a virtual machine. A user's computing environment is stored in the network in the form of a disk image, which may be a virtual disk image, for example. The virtual disk is realized on host computers through host-resident virtual machine monitors such as MICROSOFT VIRTUAL PC®. Portable memory devices, such as flash devices, buffer virtual disk writes and cache reads, greatly reducing the performance degradation associated with remote disk access. The cache is mobile so that it can be travel with the user. The flash device remembers commonly used virtual disk content fingerprints so that the host machine's local disk can be used to satisfy many common disk reads when ubiquitous static content is involved. Standard, frequently used software images might be distributed in advance to host machines. Flash disk contents are trickled back into the networked parent disk image in order to provide an automatic backup facility, adding the benefit of ensuring that the flash drive doesn't overflow.

An apparatus and method for automatic translation of patent documents are provided. Translation knowledge customized for the patent domain is extracted and used. The method includes the steps of: extracting a number of technical terms from a patent document and assigning translated terms for the extracted technical terms; extracting expressions frequently used in patent documents, not in a document in a general domain, and constructing translated expressions; using the translation knowledge constructed in this way, applying a sentence pattern to extraordinarily long sentences in a patent document, dividing the sentence by recognition of parallel structure and syntax clues; and extracting translation units available for parsing and performing structure analysis.

An apparatus and method for automatic translation of patent documents are provided. Translation knowledge customized for the patent domain is extracted and used. The method includes the steps of: extracting a number of technical terms from a patent document and assigning translated terms for the extracted technical terms; extracting expressions frequently used in patent documents, not in a document in a general domain, and constructing translated expressions; using the translation knowledge constructed in this way, applying a sentence pattern to extraordinarily long sentences in a patent document, dividing the sentence by recognition of parallel structure and syntax clues; and extracting translation units available for parsing and performing structure analysis.

The invention relates to the field of an intelligent device operation management technology, in particular to a method for intelligently freezing long-term unused applications. According to the method, the unused time length of each application is detected, and meanwhile, the applications with the unused time length which exceeds threshold values are automatically frozen; a freezing process comprises limiting the starting up permission of the applications, and the long-term unused applications installed by a user can not be automatically started and can not run commands in the background when the user starts up, so that the electric quantity and the waste of data traffic can be reduced; and the frequently used applications can be guaranteed to usually start up, so that the usage experiment of the applications cannot be influenced; in addition, the method is automatically finished by a mobile intelligent device, so that the trouble of the user operation can be reduced. The method is finished by establishing a functional module framework and controlling a computer system by a computer procedure command.

The purpose of this invention is to provide computer or smartphone users with a self-adapting user interface and shortcuts to most frequently used actions (visual or audio).The invention may be applied to menus and to search queries. User has a choice of recent, most frequently used, group, regional or global configuration for either menu or search query defaults. These configurations can be accessed either locally on a disconnected device, synchronized between devices directly or indirectly through a third device such as a local or remote server.The search query can be visually configured to interact with any search engine. The uniqueness of this invention is in access to the last or most frequent uses. The resulting queries can extend from single-term to complex multi-term, multi-range combinations of inclusions and exclusions. The balancing of included search terms with excluded ones helps to eliminate unwanted finds in any database.

A braking device with a hidden hydraulic cylinder has a hydraulic cylinder hidden inside a body of the braking device and further protected by a casing made of plastics, rubber or light alloy. Thereby, the space can be saved and any leakage due to unexpected collision. A tube is mounted to the hydraulic cylinder at any angle, preventing any wear or breaks due to frequent use. Therefore, the braking device of this invention is particularly suitable to the road bicycle.

The present invention is directed to methods of monitoring logic circuits for failures. In particular, the methods are directed toward establishing parallel logic cores where failures are detected by comparing the parallel paths for equivalence at key locations by a redundancy checker. Any mismatch will result in a predetermined failsafe operational mode. In addition, important techniques are applied to periodically exercise individual parallel paths to ensure that logic cores are verified in a way that does not disturb any process being monitored or controlled. This feature is important in some industries, such as the nuclear power industry, where safety critical operations require a high state of reliability on logic circuit blocks which may be infrequently utilized.

The invention provides a function icon display method for application programs. The method comprises the following steps of: step 102, counting the user utilization frequency of the application programs; step 104, changing chassis colors of function icons corresponding to the application programs according to the counted utilization frequency of the application programs; and step 106, updating and displaying the function icons of which the chassis colors are changed. The invention also provides a function icon display device for the application programs and a mobile terminal. The technical scheme can change the chassis colors of the function icons of the application programs so as to differentiate commonly used application programs from uncommonly used application programs of a user, for example, the chassis colors of the function icons of the commonly used application programs can be changed into warm colors so that the user is convenient to search; therefore, the user has a pleasant use experience.

A device or computer implemented program for accurately and automatically obtaining general-purpose information regarding the usage difference between a plurality of synonyms and quasi-synonyms, such as the types of words with which the synonyms and quasi-synonyms are often used, is provided with: means for receiving the input of a plurality of words; means for extracting sentence data including an inputted word from a corpus; means for analyzing the sentence structure of the sentence data and extracting nouns that are in a grammatical relationship with the inputted word included in the sentence data; means for extracting the nodes representing the nouns and the nodes representing the semantic category of the noun from a thesaurus and forming a directional graph for each inputted word; means for comparing a plurality of directional graphs and extracting the difference nodes; and means for outputting the extracted difference nodes as information relating to the usage difference of the inputted words.

In an MFP, use history information collecting functions frequently used user by user and combination information collecting combinations of functions set by users are received from a server and stored in a use history management table and a function combination management table. When a mode is selected by a logged-in user, the use history management table is read and a function highly frequently used by the user is displayed on a touch-panel. When the selected function is established, the function combination management table is read, and a function or functions frequently combined with the established function are displayed on the touch-panel. When a job ends, the selected combination of functions is transmitted to the server.

A head cover for a golf club that is relatively simple use is provided. The head cover includes a cover body formed essentially of flexible, nonrigid material and a magnetic fastener. More particularly, the cover body defines an inner compartment for receiving at least the head of the golf club having an adjustable opening sized to provide easy access thereto. The magnetic fastener is disposed about the opening to at least partially shut the opening, thereby maintaining the head cover on the club head, once installed. As the fastener is operable via magnetic force, engagement and disengagement of the fastener is achieved without undue manipulation, thereby promoting frequent use of the head cover.

A shortcut is created that groups and sequences actions to perform a task. A user may record actions both within an application and outside of an application to perform the task. For example, a user may record launching an application, accessing an item within the application, and performing one or more actions that involve the item. An Application Programming Interface (API) may be used by one or more applications to specify recordable actions that are associated with the application. For example, an application may specify that configuration settings for the application are not recordable while other user actions are recordable. After recording the actions for the task, a shortcut is created. The shortcut may be accessible from a home display of a mobile device (e.g. a start screen of a smart phone) and / or some other accessible location.

The invention provides an application program management method, and belongs to the technical field of mobile communication. The application program management method comprises the following steps of: determining a first using frequency of each application program in a desktop folder; determining a first preset number of application programs with the highest first using frequency according to a high-to-low order of the first using frequencies; and on an icon of the desktop folder, displaying icons of the first preset number of application programs in a preset display manner. The application program management method can be used for solving the problem that folders where the frequently used to-be-started applications are located cannot be rapidly determined in the prior art. Through highlighting the icons of the application programs with the highest first using frequency on the icon of the desktop folder in the preset display manner, the folders where the frequently used to-be-started applications are located can be rapidly determined, and the user experience is improved at the same time.

A system and method for determining a similarity between a document and a query includes providing a frequently used dictionary and an infrequently used dictionary in storage memory. For each word or gram in the infrequently used dictionary, n words or grams are correlated from the frequently used dictionary based on a first score. Features for a vector of the infrequently used words or grams are replaced with features from a vector of the correlated words or grams from the frequently used dictionary when the features from a vector of the correlated words or grams meet a threshold value. A similarity score is determined between weight vectors of a query and one or more documents in a corpus by employing the features from the vector of the correlated words or grams that met the threshold value.

A method and system of providing listing recommendations to users of a network-based commerce system including a plurality of listings arranged in a plurality of divisions is described. The method includes identifying a division of the plurality of divisions based on user interaction with the network-based commerce system, and identifying at least one frequently used search term associated with the division. A link is provided to the user to listings associated with the frequently used search term. The search terms may be ranked by retrieving frequently used search terms from a first memory location and determining a number of listings in each division associated with each frequently used search term. Each frequently used search term may then be ranked based on the number of listings in each division.

A tool box includes a base, a button, a cover and two hinges. The button is located in a recessed area of the base and connected to a fixing member that is connected to the recessed area. The button has a resilient arm extending from each of two ends thereof, and each resilient arm has a protrusion which is engaged with the positioning hole of the fixing member. Two resilient piece extending toward each other from the top edge thereof and a flange extends from one side of the button. The cover is pivotably connected to the base by the two hinges. The cover has a locking member so as to be engaged with the flange of the button. The two resilient piece push the cover upward when the cover is unlocked from the base. The hinges are not loosened after frequent use.

In a packet based (typically IP) network, network address translation is frequently used to overcome the problem of dwindling address spaces. However, network address translation prevents the operation of many of the complex protocols used for transmission of media streams for example, data such as voice over IP or video over IP. Accordingly, media proxy devices are used to allow such data to traverse NAT boundaries. However, media proxy devices are expensive and therefore scarce and the selection of an optimum media proxy is important to obtain optimum functionality and cost effectiveness within the network. By providing a call agent in the network with a simple model of the network and providing information concerning optimum media proxies for different parts of the network, the problem of selecting an optimum media proxy during path set up is overcome.

As file systems reach the petabytes scale, users and administrators are increasingly interested in acquiring high-level analytical information for file management and analysis. Two particularly important tasks are the processing of aggregate and top-k queries which, unfortunately, cannot be quickly answered by hierarchical file systems such as ext3 and NTFS. Existing pre-processing based solutions, e.g., file system crawling and index building, consume a significant amount of time and space (for generating and maintaining the indexes) which in many cases cannot be justified by the infrequent usage of such solutions. User interests can often be sufficiently satisfied by approximate (i.e., statistically accurate) answers. A just-in-time sampling-based system can, after consuming a small number of disk accesses, produce extremely accurate answers for a broad class of aggregate and top-k queries over a file system without the requirement of any prior knowledge. The system is efficient, accurate and scalable.