398 results about "User expectations" patented technology

In one embodiment, an indication of information desired by a user is received, and a list of candidates for the desired information is provided for presentation on a mobile device of the user.

An automatic playback overshoot correction system predicts the position in the program material where the user expects to be when the user stops the fast forward or reverse progression of the program material. The invention determines the position where the program material was stopped. The media controller transitions to the new mode that the user selected, starting at the stopped position with an overshoot correction factor added or subtracted from it. The invention adapts to the user by remembering how much the user corrects after he stops the fast forward or reverse mode. Correction factors are calculated using the user's corrections and adjusting the correction factors if the user continues to make corrections. The invention also uses a prediction method to correctly place the user within the program upon transition out of either mode and determines if the speed of the fast forward or reverse modes and then automatically subtracts or adds, respectively, a time multiple to the frame where the transition was detected and positions the user at the correct frame. The time multiple is fine tuned if the user is consistently correcting after the fast forward or rewind mode stops. Another method initially tests the user's reaction time using a test video and asks the user to press the fast forward or reverse button on his control device during the test video and then asks the user to position the video to the place that he expected the system to have been. This time span is then used whenever the user uses the fast forward or reverse modes and is adjusted with a multiple for each speed. A final method allows the user to simply set a sensitivity setting that the system will use as a correction factor and a multiple is subtracted or added to the release frame whenever the user uses the fast forward or reverse modes, respectively.

In response to characters entered within a Find dialog box, a minifind window is dynamically updated to provide corresponding search strategies and quick matches from content search data that are being searched. The search strategies and quick matches that are listed are dynamically updated as the user inputs additional characters in the Find dialog box. At any time, the user can initiate a full text search to populate a search results pane, based upon the characters input, by selecting a Go control or pressing the Enter key. Alternatively, the user can select one of the quick matches or search strategies, to populate the search results pane with corresponding items obtained from the content search data, which are most likely to relate to the information desired by the user. This approach is applicable to finding information in almost any data accessed locally, or over a network.

Methods and systems for biometrically securing access to electronic systems. A user prompted to input to the electronic system at least one biometric attribute randomly selected from a user profile containing biometric attributes of the user. A user may be prompted to input such a biometric sample through a user interface integrated with the electronic system. A user may be permitted to perform a user-desired activity, such as accessing an ATM machine, particular data, or entry to a secure area, if at least one biometric attribute input by the user to the electronic system matches at least one biometric attribute randomly selected from the user profile. A user profile may be generally accessible from a server through the electronic system. A user profile may also be accessible from a biometric broker through the electronic system over a secure network connection. A user profile may also be accessible from a hand held device, such as a smart card, wireless PDA or wireless communication device.

A system and method are provided for matching participants in a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) recommendation network that is loosely coupled to a subscription music service. In general, the system includes a central server and a number of peer devices. For each of the peer devices, an associated user is either a subscriber to the subscription music service or a non-subscriber. When a user of a peer device desires to identify new friends with which to exchange recommendations in the P2P recommendation network, a friend recommendation function of the central server identifies new friends for the user of the peer device based on the user's status as either a subscriber or a non-subscriber to the subscription music service.

The user receiving a World Wide Web (Web) page is provided with an implementation for predetermining subject matter, terms and words for which the user desires to have hyperlinks in a received web document. It further provides for displaying in the received web document multiple hyperlinks for each predetermined term of interest to thereby substantially reduce the user browsing through several levels of web documents in pursuit of topics of interest. Search engines for locating web documents related to the defined words are provided together with implementations for creating hyperlinks from the received web document to at least some of the located web documents. The system may be implemented by highlighting the defined words in the received web document, and responsive to a user interactive selection of a highlighted defined word in the received document, displaying a menu of a plurality of hyperlinks to the located web documents related to the selected highlighted defined word. The located predefined words may be highlighted in the form of word buttons. Also, the menu, of the plurality of hyperlinks, is to the most relevant of the located web documents related to the selected highlighted defined word.

Method, apparatus and system for improving navigation using mobile devices by adding previously captured media to navigation maps provided by mobile device. Added media include still images and video clips. Media captured at the same location using various camera orientations are available in an image database. Images in database include metadata indicating location, orientation and other parameters associated with each image. User location and pose are matched against metadata indicating location and camera orientation of captured images. User motion may also be matched to metadata indicating camera motion of stored video clips. Other parameters like lighting, seasonal factors, and tasks of walking, biking or driving may also be matched. User pose may be derived from an accelerometer embedded in the mobile device. Some or all of user parameters desired by user may be directly input to mobile device by user instead of being automatically detected by mobile device.

Based on a user profile, content that is predicted to be desired by the user, including past episodes of a series that may have been missed by the user, is downloaded to the user's home system during periods of low bandwidth usage in the home system. A determination is made dynamically as to whether to provide the content from a server or a peer-to-peer network based on network attributes, file size, etc.

Disclosed herein is a load balancing method and apparatus which can efficiently distribute load to a plurality of servers providing a software streaming service where a bandwidth-on-demand is different depending on sending times, and a software streaming system using the same. Sessions established between the servers and clients are classified into first sessions which send data for initial execution and second sessions which send data desired by users after the initial execution is completed, and the resulting session information of each of the servers is collected. A total load amount of each of the servers is calculated under the condition that different load weights are applied to the first and second sessions. A server with a minimum one of the total load amounts is selected from among the servers by comparing the total load amounts of the servers with one another, and the selected server is allocated to a new client requesting the software streaming service.

The present invention is a system and method that monitors upgrade availability for computer information on a user's computer and allows the user to determine which of the available upgrades will be downloaded to the user's computer and installed. The upgrade availability for computer information on the user's computer is monitored in the background, without user-intervention when the user connects to a network, such as the Internet. If any such upgrades are available, a flag is set to notify the user of such upgrades. The user is notified of any available upgrades when computer information is accessed for which an upgrade is available, and given a choice of whether or not to download the available upgrade(s). The downloaded upgrade(s) may then be installed by an installation means. In this manner, the present invention allows for the user to download only those upgrades desired by the user.

Based on a user's own basic selection tastes, the priority order of the information is determined, so that an information retrieval method and the apparatus which can retrieve the information desired by the user easily among from a huge amount of programs can be realized.

An automatic playback overshoot correction system predicts the position in the program material where the user expects to be when the user stops the fast forward or reverse progression of the program material. The system determines the position where the program material was stopped and transitions to the new mode that the user selected, starting at the stopped position with an overshoot correction factor added or subtracted from it. The system uses a prediction method to correctly place the user within the program upon transition out of fast forward or reverse mode and determines if the speed of the fast forward or reverse modes and then automatically subtracts or adds, respectively, a time multiple to the frame where the transition was detected and positions the user at the correct frame. The time multiple is fine tuned if the user is consistently correcting after the fast forward or rewind mode stops.

An embodiment of the invention discloses an interface display method, an interface display device and a terminal, and belongs to the field of human-computer interaction. The method includes the steps:displaying at least one display control in a folding display screen when a posture of the terminal changes; receiving selection signals for the display controls; displaying a user interface on the folding display screen according to display modes indicated by the selected display controls. The display controls comprise at least one of a full-screen display control, a split-screen display control,a single-screen display control and a keyboard display control. Compared with a fact that the terminal displays the user interface in the folding display screen by the aid of a default display mode,the terminal can adaptively provide a plurality of suitable display modes for users according to change conditions of the posture of the terminal, so that display modes of the folding display screen meet user expectation, and the display modes of the folding display screen are enriched.

This is a method for limiting access to selected features of a freely distributed multimedia file, by disabling selected features of the file (using encryption, compression, or other access denial), distributing the file with some enabled features as an inducement to new users, and offering to enable more features when a new user attempts to use a disabled feature. A licensing system then receives a request from the user's system, identifying a specific operating context and one or more features desired by the corresponding user. Accounting is done and an authorization is sent to the user or the user's system to enable the features. However, the authorization is uniquely associated with the measured operating context of the user and the features remain enabled only for said operating context, thus limiting full operation to authorized users, while permitting new users access to limited operations.

A device obtains a signal representative of objects on a touch surface of a multi-touch sensing apparatus and executes a method for extracting touch data from the signal. The method operates in a sequence of detection frames. Each detection frame comprises the steps of: obtaining (300) the signal; processing (301) the signal for identifying touches; determining (302) a set of identified touches and touch data for the set of identified touches; and outputting (303) the touch data. At least one of the steps of processing (301) and determining (302) includes a prioritization that actively favors certain touches to be identified and included in the set of identified touches, respectively. Temporal prioritization favors a touch that corresponds to a previous touch, which is identified in one or more preceding detection frames. Spatial prioritization favors a touch that is located within at least one predefined subarea on the touch surface. The and prioritization enables the touch data to be generated in way that is predictable, consistent and in accordance with user expectations within a general or specific context.

A system and method are provided for creating social networks, such as text, video, or audio chat sessions, around recorded media. More specifically, a social network server operates to logically divide the recorded media into a number of time slices, which may be thought of as sliding time windows. When a user within a time slice desires to join a social network during playback of the recorded media, the social network server operates to either add the user to a pre-existing social network associated with the time slice or establish a new social network between the user and additional users within the time slice. As a result, the user may have meaningful social interactions with other users that are at similar points during playback of the recorded media.

A portable terminal and a method for managing items on a clipboard of the portable terminal are provided for a user to copy text and data items simultaneously onto the clipboard and paste the copied items individually where the user desires. The portable terminal of the present invention includes a touchscreen and a control unit which controls presenting a display region showing a screen corresponding to user command on the touchscreen in response to an execution of at least one application, presenting a clipboard region at a part of the touchscreen in response to a user command, and displaying clip data selected by the user among at least one clip data appearing in the clipboard region on the display region.

The invention provides an information releasing pretreatment method and device, which can solve the technical problem that service objects are recommended through accurate positioning, and then resource waste can be prevented. The method includes: determining feature information of a user based on a current visited webpage and historical behavior information of the user when the user visits a website; determining classification labels and user groups thereof according to the feature information, and establishing a service object group for each classification label; calculating group value information of the user groups corresponding to the classification labels to which the feature information belongs; and setting value feature information of a service object group according to the group value information, wherein the value feature information is used for determining the service object group displayed in a webpage display position. The features of the user can be fully and accurately positioned, the classification label to which the user belongs can be accurately analyzed and the corresponding service object group and the value feature information thereof can be determined before advertisement releasing, and then subsequent released service objects can be positioned accurately and can meet the expectation and demands of the user.

The invention relates to a character input device based on eye tracking and P300 electrical potential of the brain electricity, which comprises a video camera array, an eye tracking module, a keyboard module, a brain electricity signal analyzing module and a system control module. The device combines the high spatial resolution of the eye tracking and the high time resolution of the P300 electrical potential detection of the brain electricity, firstly, determines an area where the keyboard is according to visual lines of a user, and then controls random flickers of all character keys in the area, arouses the P300 electrical potential of the brain electricity of the user, determines the character keys which the user wants to select according to the generation time of the electrical potential and the visual line location, thus realizing the input operation of characters. The invention provides a new human-machine interaction technique which does not need manpower to be involved and is not affected by the noise of the environment for use.

The invention discloses a fitting method for block chains, namely service resources, based on Kubernetes. The method provides a problem solving idea for reasonably configuring network cloud computingresources and deploying multi-scene application of the block chain in a personalized manner, the Kubernetes has the core characteristic that a container can be independently managed and thus the condition that the container in a cloud platform operates according to user expectation is ensured, and the method utilizes the characteristic to build a kubernetes cluster on a server, and thus the functions of managing the user block chain node container and distributing the computing resources needed by a block chain node to a user can be achieved. According to the successful application of the method provided by the invention, on the one hand, efficient configuration and utilization of the computing resources of a cloud service provider can be achieved, and on the other hand, convenient accessof the multi-scene application of the third-party user can be achieved.

A biometric apparatus for biometrically securing access to an electronic system is disclosed. Such an apparatus can be configured to include a hardware unit having an input area integrated therein for inputting at least one biometric attribute. The hardware unit can communicate with an electronic system, such as, for example, a building, a computer, a computer network, wireless network, ATM machine, electronic database, etc. A display area can be integrated with the hardware unit, wherein the display area displays data which prompts a user to input to the input area one or more biometric attributes randomly selected from a user profile containing biometric attributes of the user. A biometric module can also be associated with the hardware unit, wherein the biometric module permits the user to perform a user-desired activity, if one or more biometric attributes input by the user via the input area matches at least one biometric attribute randomly selected from the user profile.

A television content provider can reserve and use a television channel can be used to provide interactive content to a user device. Unlike conventional broadcast channels, a user at the user device may view content to an extent (length, depth, or both) that the user desires. The user can pick and choose content to view, may drill down to whatever level of detail that the user desires, contact an originating source of the content, interact with the content in another manner, or the like. Unlike the Internet, the content can be customized for transmission over a television channel, which may allow higher quality and potentially a larger array of content than may otherwise be provided over the Internet. The transmission may be performed over a private network, so that security concerns are reduced.

A user preference information structure having a multiple hierarchical structure in which an information is provided to a user according to a user preference in a multi-media environment consisting of an information provider and an information user, comprising user use information by using information desired by the user; user preference information of information desired by the user; and individual user preference information that is differently set depending on situations in which the user is put and positioned in a sub-tree of the user preference information. The hierarchical data structure is able to provide the user preference for providing information desired by the user is provided depending on the environment, based on which various information can be provided. The hierarchical data structure constructing the user preference makes it possible for the user to receive information fitting the situation in which he or she is put by using a proper individual user preference information, automatically or according to user's selection.

A user preference information structure having a multiple hierarchical structure in which an information is provided to a user according to a user preference in a multi-media environment having an information provider and an information user, that can include user use information by using information desired by the user; user preference information of information desired by the user; and individual user preference information that is differently set depending on situations in which the user is put and positioned in a sub-tree of the user preference information. The hierarchical data structure is able to provide the user preference for providing information desired by the user is provided depending on the environment, based on which various information can be provided.

The invention relates to a group positioning method and terminal equipment for group positioning. The group comprises at least two terminals in communication linkage with a server. The method comprises the following steps: at least one terminal which logs in a group sends a request which obtains the position information of other terminals logging in the group to a server at a preset time interval M; at least one of other terminals logging in the group is selected, the position information is positioned and displayed on an electronic map according to an input checking order and the position information of a selected terminal, which is sent by the server; the position information of the selected terminal is sent by the selected terminal to the server at preset time interval T. The technical scheme of the invention ensures that group members can mutually query position information and realize quick positioning and navigation and can obtain and update continuously changed position information of a certain or a plurality of members, which is expected to know by users in time, and thus, the invention has convenient operation, increases user personalized experience and shortens positioning and checking time.

A robot cleaner having a network function is capable of informing information on its internal and external states, through a network service, on a time desired by a user, or periodically, or whenever an event occurs. A remote monitoring system and method of a robot cleaner are capable of allowing a network service user to check state information of the robot cleaner real-time or when necessary, under a configuration that a robot cleaner provides state information such as a cleaning state, the occurrence of an unexpected accident, and an internal state of the robot cleaner, through a network service, by accessing a network server.

A call admission control technique is described which is well-suited for wireless systems providing real-time services over a shared downlink. The call admission control technique considers both multiplexing and multi-user diversity gain. The technique accurately determines the multi-user diversity gain by measuring per-user resource allocation and advantageously maximizes user accommodations under quality-of-service (QoS) as well as location-dependent resource availability constraints. In a further aspect, the call admission control technique is combined with delay-based scheduling, which effectively balances between system efficiency (channel exploitation) and user expectation (e.g., QoS). A system embodying the described call admission control and scheduling techniques can advantageously deliver efficient real-time services and remain robust to different load scenarios that vary according to system dynamics and / or user mobility.

A method for providing a user-adaptive digest stream provides a digest stream of a multimedia stream having a user-desired length and reflecting the user's preference / non-preference. The method for providing a user-adaptive multi-level digest stream can dynamically provide the user-adaptive digest stream according to user preference information. The method can include searching user preference information having user preference / non-preference level by categories for a multimedia stream, and reconstructing a multi-level digest stream information on a multimedia stream as a multi-level digest stream information according to the user preference information, using both the searched user preference information and a content-based data of a multimedia stream. Thereby, it is possible to quickly, accurately and conveniently provide a multi-level digest stream corresponding to the user's preference without inputting an additional query condition.