1281 results about "User experience design" patented technology

An integrated multimedia, entertainment, communications and control system. The system is based on a general purpose computer and is capable of interfacing with, controlling or managing a wide variety of audio, video, telecommunications, data communications or other devices. The system includes a programming environment for creating services or user experiences that may incorporate features or functionalities of several devices that are conventionally operated as separate, standalone devices.

A network performance monitoring system uses a plurality of user modules, each user operating on a unique user machine coupled to one or more provider servers and an experience test server for collecting data from the plurality of user modules. The collected data includes at least one performance datum relating to user experience with a link from the user machine to the provider server. The system also cleanses the collected data to account for variable user configurations, user errors and the like.

Methods and systems for background uploading of media files are presented. Background uploading improves efficiency and user-experience in creating media-based projects online. In one embodiment, a user selects original media files at a user-device for an upload. The user-device at first resizes the original files to resized files and uploads them to a server along with meta-data, and at second the original files start uploading in the background computer process. The user is provided the resized images to create a project. The server converts each resized media file into compressed media files, and provides the compressed files to the user to continue or finish building the project, during which the user-device renders to the user an illusionary impression of a completed upload of the original files when the original files are still uploading. Finally, the user-device completes the upload of the original files to the server.

A recommendation method based on collaborative filtering includes: acquiring target user identification, searching user group identification corresponding to the target user identification, acquiringsimilarity between items confirmed according to user-item grade matrix corresponding to the user group identification; and recommending item to the target user according to the similarity between items. By adopting the recommendation method provided by the invention, accuracy of item recommendation can be improved, and user experience can be improved. The invention also provides a recommendation system based on collaborative filtering.

The present invention includes various embodiments of a mobile app remote virtualization system and process that enables users of remote client devices to control mobile apps running in a host server environment. The resulting user experience is practically equivalent to running native mobile apps, even when such mobile apps require access to local client device resources, as well as when native versions of such mobile apps do not exist for the user's client device. The functionality afforded by the mobile app remote virtualization system and process of the present invention enables a variety of novel scenarios and “use cases” that have not previously been available to mobile device users.

A system and method for creating an ad-hoc network is described. A user may navigate a number of options to create an ad-hoc network and / or join an ad-hoc network using the described system.

The invention relates to a commodity recommendation method in electronic commerce and a system using the same. The method comprises the steps of firstly, collecting historical behavior data in an electronic commerce website of a user; secondly, performing commodity feature calculation according to the historical behavior data of the user and outputting commodity purchase probability prediction feature vectors of the user; thirdly, placing the output commodity purchase probability prediction feature vectors of the user in a statistical function according to feature and classification and calculating a user purchase probability prediction model to obtain a purchase probability prediction model; fourthly, performing commodity recommendation according to the purchase probability prediction model for the user and user login information. According to the invention, commodities meeting the requirements of users are recommended, personalized recommendation is realized, the customer satisfaction is improved and the user experience is improved.

A data processing system includes components for providing a pleasant user experience. Those components may include a family interaction engine that provides a family channel. The family interaction engine may provide for creation of a user group. The family channel may present content of interest to multiple users in the user group. When a user is detected near the data processing system, the family interaction engine may automatically present content of interest to that user. When used for presenting media content, the data processing system may also cause supplemental data to automatically be presented, wherein the supplemental data is relevant to the media content and to a predetermined interest of the user. The data processing system may also provide a ranked list of applications for potential activation by the user. The applications may be ordered based on the current context. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

A method and system employing a mobile device for soliciting user experience sharing is disclosed. The method and system electronically solicit a user's experience relating to a product or service purchased from a merchant or service provider. A financial transaction notification message is sent by a financial institution to a user's mobile device following a purchase of the product or service from the merchant or service provider. The financial transaction notification message is related to the financial transaction performed by the user to purchase the product or service and serves to prompt the user to share their experience related to the product or service purchased. The user provides a response using the mobile device that includes an experience annotation reflecting the user's experience. The experience annotation may be provided to the merchant or service provider and / or published to an online service.

Methods and systems are provided for discriminating ambiguous expressions to enhance user experience. For example, a natural language expression may be received by a speech recognition component. The natural language expression may include at least one of words, terms, and phrases of text. A dialog hypothesis set from the natural language expression may be created by using contextual information. In some cases, the dialog hypothesis set has at least two dialog hypotheses. A plurality of dialog responses may be generated for the dialog hypothesis set. The dialog hypothesis set may be ranked based on an analysis of the plurality of the dialog responses. An action may be performed based on ranking the dialog hypothesis set.

The invention discloses an analysis method and system for a website user access path, and aims to solve the problem of using a website user access path to analyze under the big data environment to optimize the website. According to the analysis method and system for the website user access path, which is provided by the invention, an access path tree generation and frequent access digging method is provided. The user access path analysis is to analyze the information of access sites so as to analyze user behavior and analyze the source, the conversion and the exiting of each link; then, defects and bottlenecks in the website structure and the page content can be found and are improved from the user actual requirement; finally, the user browsing conversion rate is improved; the user experience and the satisfaction degree are improved.

Digital mapping techniques are disclosed that provide visually-oriented information to the user, such as driving directions that include visual data points along the way of the driving route, thereby improving the user experience. The user may preview the route associated with the driving directions, where the preview is based on, for example, at least one of satellite images, storefront images, and heuristics and / or business listings. The visually-oriented information can be presented to the user in a textual, graphical, or verbal format, or some combination thereof.

Adding relevant metadata to downstream media broadcasts to devices such as smart phones, MP3 music players, tablet computers, etc. equipped with media broadcast receivers such as IBOC, DAB etc will enable enhanced user-experience such as easy and faster content access, content format customization, content storage, integration with social networking sites etc. The host devices having the broadcast receivers on board have a full time or part time internet connection to provide an independent upstream and downstream digital data communication path for the functionality of the broadcast receiver. This will enable new possibilities in media-broadcast-receivers, which are normally limited with only downstream data channel. The possibilities include enhanced content access browsing, podcast access, exploring more information about the program content, easy integration with social networking sites etc. The devices are controlled to display or playback advertisements, images etc. in the metadata, detect click events indicating interest by a user in something and communicate that click event upstream over a full time or part time internet or an SMS data path connection. The transmitters have structure to insert metadata in band or out of band with the media broadcast program content.

The invention relates to the technical field of mobile terminals and discloses an eyesight protection control method for a mobile terminal. The method includes synchronizing using habit information of a user; according to the using habit information, acquiring illuminance of a current environment through a light sensor and current motion state data through a gyroscope and / or acceleration sensor respectively; according to the motion state data, judging current fatigability degree of the user; according to the illuminance and the fatigability degree, adjusting screen brightness and color display themes of the mobile terminal, and sending rest prompting information to the user to prompt the user to rest when continuous using time of the user is larger than a preset time upper limit corresponding to the fatigability degree. By the method, the user can share personal eye protection schemes on different mobile equipment, so that repeated operation is reduced, external environment can be adjusted timely and dynamically, the user can be timely prompted to allow eyes to rest, eyesight of the user is effectively protected, and user experience is improved.

A schedule and recommendations associated with one or more points of interest can be identified. The points of interest can be associated with a geographical region. Telemetry associated with a one or more computing devices can be received. The computing devices (e.g., mobile phone with sensors) can be associated with one or more points of interest. Telemetry data can be evaluated against a recommendation criteria and the user preference. A schedule and recommendations can be determined based on the evaluating telemetry information, historic data, criteria and preferences. The schedule and recommendation(s) enhance visits to points of interest.

A system and method for context and community based customization for a user experience is disclosed. The apparatus in an example embodiment includes a user experience customizer to gather context information, automatically produce user experience customization selections based on the context information, collect user activity feedback from a community of users, and use the user activity feedback to adjust the user experience customizer to automatically produce user experience customization selections likely favored by a user based on a correlation of the user activity feedback with the context information.

A computer user interface may be used to create and maintain semantic relationships between data objects on a computer system. Multiple sets of data objects identified by user selections, queries, searches, or other criteria may be presented in display panes on the user interface. Users may then select data objects via the user interface in order to view or create new relationships between the data objects. Based on the selection of the data objects and a determination of the associated data object types, a set of semantic relationships applicable to the selected data object or objects may be retrieved and displayed in the user interface. A user may subsequently select and create an appropriate semantic relationship between data objects, thereby not only establishing an association between the objects, but providing a specific and useful meaning to the association.

The embodiments of the present invention fill the need of avoiding the display of advertisements that are strongly disliked by users. Displaying advertisements that are strongly disliked (or offend), web sites stand the chance of driving users away or losing users. By allowing users to identify advertisements that offend or annoy (or are strongly disliked by them), web sites can configure the systems so that offensive or annoying advertisements are not displayed to the users in the future. In addition, when a user is seriously turned off by an advertisement, the user is more likely to indicate his / her dislike toward the advertisement (ad). The user is also likely to give a reason as to why he / she does not like the ad, and could be willing to provide further information on what types of ads are also liked or disliked by the user. User input can then be collected, enabling custom application of the user's preference for certain types of advertisements.

Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that executes an application. During operation, the system physiologically monitors a user of the application with a set of sensors as the application executes. Next, the system assesses a mental state of the user based on physiological data collected from the sensors. Finally, the system changes the behavior of the application based on the assessed mental state to facilitate use of the application by the user.

The invention provides a log-in control method based on a two-dimension code. The log-in control method based on the two-dimension code comprises the steps that a network service provider cloud server receives a log-in request sent through a first client-end by a user, the cloud server generates a two-dimension code, sends the two-dimension code to the first client-end and displays the two-dimension code through the first client-end, a second client-end obtains an identification string and an address message in the two-dimension code, the second client-end logs in and sends an agency log-in request according to the address message, the cloud server carries out identity authentication of the user according to the agency log-in request, and the cloud server receives a polling request or a long connection request of the first client-end and returns a user log-in conversation message to the first client-end after the identity authentication of the user is carried out. According to the log-in control method based on the two-dimension code, inconvenience brought by a large amount of input during a user log-in process is avoided, safety of a user account is improved, operating cost is low, and user experience is good. Further disclosed is a log-in control system based on the two-dimension code.

The invention discloses a task unloading method based on user experience in an edge computing network. The method comprises the following steps: a scheduler receives a task unloading request submittedby a user; a task unloading strategy model is jointly optimized based on time and energy expenditure; the model is solved and calculated based on a branch and bound algorithm of linear reconstruction; the task unloading strategy model is optimized based on time and energy expenditure. Based on the results of the calculation, the decision is made whether the task is unloaded to the edge server, and the tasks unloaded to the edge server are communicated and the computational resources are allocated. The invention combines two key indexes of optimization time delay and energy consumption, and solves the problem by branch and bound algorithm based on linear reconstruction technology, which can reduce the energy consumption of mobile intelligent device under the condition of ensuring the completion of the task, reduce the task processing time delay, and achieve the purpose of maximizing the optimization of user experience.

The invention provides a cloud intelligent cooking method, a cloud intelligent cooking device and a cloud server. The cloud intelligent cooking method includes the steps of receiving a cooking instruction and sending the cooking instruction to the cloud sever; receiving a cooking method, sent by the cloud server, of food materials to be cooked; informing a user of the cooking method; obtaining information of the food materials to be cooked after the food materials to be cooked are detected; sending the information of the food materials to be cooked to the cloud server; receiving a heating control instruction sent by the cloud server; cooking the food materials to be cooked according to the heating control instruction and the cooking method selected by the user. After the cooking instruction is received, the cloud intelligent cooking device can interacts with the cloud server automatically according to the cooking instruction, the food materials placed in the cloud intelligent cooking device are cooked, operation is easy and convenient, and the user experience degree is high.

Tracking the process of a client activity via an electronic system involves the provision of user interfaces by which data are communicated to user. Optimizing the generation of these user interfaces in a cloud-based system reduces processing resources required by the cloud-based portion, improves the user experience on the local portions, and improves the data collected by users. Using, as described herein, historical data known to the cloud-based portion related to both the user and the client, the user interfaces are updated to show progress of the activity and to organize the tasks for the given user in an optimal arrangement. Reports may also be generated regarding the efficacy of the users in shepherding the activity to completion in a more efficient manner. Various user interface elements are integrated into the cloud-based system for quick provision of activity and task statuses to the user.

A data processing system includes components for providing a pleasant user experience. Those components may include a family interaction engine that provides a family channel. The family interaction engine may provide for creation of a user group. The family channel may present content of interest to multiple users in the user group. When a user is detected near the data processing system, the family interaction engine may automatically present content of interest to that user. When used for presenting media content, the data processing system may also cause supplemental data to automatically be presented, wherein the supplemental data is relevant to the media content and to a predetermined interest of the user. The data processing system may also provide a ranked list of applications for potential activation by the user. The applications may be ordered based on the current context. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Tags, such as XML tags, are inserted into email to separate email content from signature blocks, privacy notices and confidentiality notices, and to separate original email messages from replies and replies from further replies. The tags are detected by a system that renders email as speech, such as voice command platform or network-based virtual assistant or message center. For example, the system can detect the signature block or privacy notice tags and not render the signature block or privacy notice as speech. The system can render an original email message in one voice mode and the reply in a different voice mode. The tags can be inserted to identify a voice memo in which a user responds to a particular portion of an email message. Preferably, an email server that receives and stored the email message inserts the tags into the email. Alternatively, the tags could be inserted by an email client application. The tags are detected by an email parser, which can be incorporated into the system rendering email as speech, or, alternatively implemented in a separate logical entity.

Methods and systems for background uploading of media files are presented. Background uploading improves efficiency and user-experience in creating media-based projects online. In one embodiment, a user selects original media files at a user-device for an upload. The user-device at first resizes the original files to resized files and uploads them to a server along with meta-data, and at second the original files start uploading in the background computer process. The user is provided the resized images to create a project. The server converts each resized media file into compressed media files, and provides the compressed files to the user to continue or finish building the project, during which the user-device renders to the user an illusionary impression of a completed upload of the original files when the original files are still uploading. Finally, the user-device completes the upload of the original files to the server.

The invention relates to a user identity identification method and system. Through basic information, comprising user ID, user name, Email, telephone number, computer IP and the like, formed by user registration, and carrying out extraction on website user behavior data, and by combining information, such as user ID, user name, Email, telephone number, Cookie, computer IP and the like, related in the behavior data, a user information relevance relationship between the two is established and an unique identification identity is given, unified identity identification of users in a B2B website at present can be carried out, identity characteristic relation is established, old and new users can be identified, and user behaviors can be effectively tracked, and thus a series of applications can be established for the users, and user experience is improved.

The invention discloses an input method for a mobile terminal. The method comprises the following steps of: detecting the input operation of a user under a current application program; when the input operation of the user includes a trigger instruction which is matched with a predetermined semantic model, displaying a starting entrance of an application program which corresponds to the trigger instruction in a candidate window of the current application program; and starting the application program which corresponds to the trigger instruction under the current application program according to the activation of the user on the starting entrance. Correspondingly, the invention also discloses an input device for the mobile terminal. By the invention, the interaction of the application programs can be supported, the operation steps of the user are reduced, operation smoothness is improved, and user experience is improved.