Antonio Gulli

Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that provide contextual services are provided. Embodiments of the present invention allow an input mechanism to provide contextual services. Exemplary input mechanisms include a keyboard, a gesture interface, and a speech interface. These inputs may be used to provide user input into one or more applications running on a computer. The contextual services provided include composition assistance,… Mehr anzeigen

Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that provide contextual services are provided. Embodiments of the present invention allow an input mechanism to provide contextual services. Exemplary input mechanisms include a keyboard, a gesture interface, and a speech interface. These inputs may be used to provide user input into one or more applications running on a computer. The contextual services provided include composition assistance, grammatical assistance, communication-context assistance, and research assistance. In one embodiment, an input mechanism ("IME") program provides the contextual service. The IME program may work with a remote contextual-service provider. The IME program communicates user input and contextual information to the contextual-service provider. The contextual-service provider analyzes the input and contextual information to determine whether one or more contextual services should be provided. Weniger anzeigen

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for populating and/or animating a spatial visualization, such as a map, a timeline, and/or other 2D and/or 3D visual representations of locations.

The present invention relates to a system and method for monitoring and reducing consumption of electricity with a network of smart sensors connected to either electrical devices and/or lights.

Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that provide contextual services are provided. Embodiments of the present invention allow an input mechanism to provide contextual services. Exemplary input mechanisms include a keyboard, a gesture interface, and a speech interface. These inputs may be used to provide user input into one or more applications running on a computer. The contextual services provided include composition assistance,… Mehr anzeigen

Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that provide contextual services are provided. Embodiments of the present invention allow an input mechanism to provide contextual services. Exemplary input mechanisms include a keyboard, a gesture interface, and a speech interface. These inputs may be used to provide user input into one or more applications running on a computer. The contextual services provided include composition assistance, grammatical assistance, communication-context assistance, and research assistance. In one embodiment, an input mechanism ("IME") program provides the contextual service. The IME program may work with a remote contextual-service provider. The IME program communicates user input and contextual information to the contextual-service provider. The contextual-service provider analyzes the input and contextual information to determine whether one or more contextual services should be provided. Weniger anzeigen

Various embodiments of the disclosed subject matter include computer-implemented methods, computer-readable media, and computer systems configured to respond to a search query from a computer user. In response to receiving a search query from the computer user, search results are obtained. A plurality of user intents are identified according to the obtained search results. The obtained search results are then grouped according to the subject matter of the search results, where each group… Mehr anzeigen

Various embodiments of the disclosed subject matter include computer-implemented methods, computer-readable media, and computer systems configured to respond to a search query from a computer user. In response to receiving a search query from the computer user, search results are obtained. A plurality of user intents are identified according to the obtained search results. The obtained search results are then grouped according to the subject matter of the search results, where each group corresponds to one of the plurality of user intents. A first user intent (with the corresponding group of search results) is selected. A search results page is generated from the search results of the group the search results corresponding to the selected first user intent and the generated search results page is returned to the computer user in response to the search query. Weniger anzeigen

The invention provides a computer system, including a memory, a plurality of answers stored in the memory, and a classifier for matching each one of the answers with a category among a plurality of categories.

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for populating and/or animating a spatial visualization, such as a map, a timeline, and/or other 2D and/or 3D visual representations of locations. The spatial visualization may be populated with events extracted from a data source (e.g., real-time events, news events, social network events, etc.), and may include relationships between events (e.g., based upon time, location, contextual similarity (e.g., social network check-in events at a… Mehr anzeigen

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for populating and/or animating a spatial visualization, such as a map, a timeline, and/or other 2D and/or 3D visual representations of locations. The spatial visualization may be populated with events extracted from a data source (e.g., real-time events, news events, social network events, etc.), and may include relationships between events (e.g., based upon time, location, contextual similarity (e.g., social network check-in events at a restaurant), events referencing one another (e.g., an article describing a first event may comprise a hyperlink to an article describing a second event) etc.). Filter criteria (e.g., date, event type, location, etc.) may be applied to events and/or relationships when populating the spatial visualization. A sequence of events and corresponding relationships may be animated within the spatial visualization (e.g., as the events unfold over a (user) designated period of time). Weniger anzeigen

Methods, systems and apparatus for improving the freshness, the coverage, the ranking and the clustering of search engine results are described. According to one aspect of the invention, a method includes monitoring network activity on a communications network, generating a near real-time map of the network activity and integrating the near real-time map of the network activity with a search engine.

A system and method for determining if a set of images in a large collection of images are near duplicates allows for improved management and retrieval of images. Images are processed, image signatures are generated for each image in the set of images, and the generated image signatures are compared. Detecting similarity between images can be used to cluster and rank images.

A method and system to preview video content. The system comprises an access component to receive a search request and a loader to simultaneously stream a plurality of videos associated with the search request. The system may further comprise a trigger to detect a pointer positioned over a first video and a mode selector to provide the first video in a preview mode

Systems and methods for presenting news information and personalizing presentation of news information are disclosed. Users are presented with a selectable, visual representation of the news information. Users can access additional news information and/or a personalized newspaper by selecting a visual representation of the news information. Systems and methods for monitoring user selection and modifying the personalized newspaper are also disclosed.

Systems, methods, and readable memory for providing recommendations are disclosed. A method includes receiving data corresponding to one or more user interactions with a user interface, where the one or more user interactions indicate a research topic, searching one or more databases for references relating to the research topic, extracting a plurality of names from the references, the plurality of names corresponding to a plurality of potential collaborators, placing the plurality of names… Mehr anzeigen

Systems, methods, and readable memory for providing recommendations are disclosed. A method includes receiving data corresponding to one or more user interactions with a user interface, where the one or more user interactions indicate a research topic, searching one or more databases for references relating to the research topic, extracting a plurality of names from the references, the plurality of names corresponding to a plurality of potential collaborators, placing the plurality of names into a ranked list, where the plurality of names are arranged in the ranked list according to a predicted relevance to a user, and providing the ranked list via the user interface to the user. Weniger anzeigen

Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for mining web content for synonyms for selected words and/or phrases and presenting such web-based synonyms in the context of applications that permit text editing. As the synonyms are mined from web content, they have potentially more expansive and accurate coverage than a fixed, and often dated, thesaurus. Web content for synonyms of selected words and/or phrases may be mined taking into account at least a portion of the… Mehr anzeigen

Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for mining web content for synonyms for selected words and/or phrases and presenting such web-based synonyms in the context of applications that permit text editing. As the synonyms are mined from web content, they have potentially more expansive and accurate coverage than a fixed, and often dated, thesaurus. Web content for synonyms of selected words and/or phrases may be mined taking into account at least a portion of the surrounding context in which the selected words and/or phrases appear. Further, web content for synonyms of selected words and/or phrases may be mined taking into account user behaviors that might provide clues as to the intended meaning of the selected words and/or phrases. Weniger anzeigen

Digital content can be annotated with a query. Upon selection of the query, a search can be initiated on a search engine with the query and search results relevant to the query are returned. Suggestions can be provided automatically in conjunction with query insertion. Suggestions can be supplied as a function of an input fragment and past search engine queries, among other things.

Digital content can be annotated with a search annotation. A user can specify or otherwise identify one or more terms, comprising a query, in conjunction with an annotation signal, for example. Suggestions can be provided automatically to aid a user in specifying the terms, among other things. Furthermore, a hyperlink can be generated that targets a search engine with the query or some other resource. Subsequently, the one or more terms are replaced with the hyperlink.

Systems and methods for clarifying a computer user's intent with regard to one or more query terms of a search query are presented. Often, one or more query terms of a search query are ambiguous and/or unclear. As presented herein, upon identifying a query term in the search query that is unclear, clarification data is obtained and presented to the computer user by way of a clarification user interface. The computer user is able to identify one or more aspects of the computer user's intent… Mehr anzeigen

Systems and methods for clarifying a computer user's intent with regard to one or more query terms of a search query are presented. Often, one or more query terms of a search query are ambiguous and/or unclear. As presented herein, upon identifying a query term in the search query that is unclear, clarification data is obtained and presented to the computer user by way of a clarification user interface. The computer user is able to identify one or more aspects of the computer user's intent, intent clarifications, with regard to the query term through the clarification user interface. Upon instruction by the computer user, the search query, along with the intent clarifications, is submitted to a search engine and the search results obtained from the search engine are presented to the computer user.
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One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for constructing a storyline visualization. The storyline visualization may be constructed from one or more temporal documents (e.g., news stories having publication dates). The temporal documents may be organized into chapters, subchapters, and/or various storylines interconnected by branches. In this way, the storyline visualization may relate to a main story, which may branch into various storylines that respectively comprise one or more… Mehr anzeigen

One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for constructing a storyline visualization. The storyline visualization may be constructed from one or more temporal documents (e.g., news stories having publication dates). The temporal documents may be organized into chapters, subchapters, and/or various storylines interconnected by branches. In this way, the storyline visualization may relate to a main story, which may branch into various storylines that respectively comprise one or more chapters. A user may be able to interactively explore the storyline visualization to understand the evolution of the main story (e.g., how a first storyline may have developed and/or be related to a second (developing) storyline). The storyline visualization may provide access to the underlying temporal documents. The storyline visualization may be presented as a timeline, a virtual storybook, a photo album, and/or other various visualizations. Weniger anzeigen

Systems and methods for clustering news information are disclosed. The news information is clustered to form clusters to include one or more of articles, blogs, images, videos and the like. The news information is organized according to topic and/or temporal information. The clustered news information can be presented to a user who can browse or search the clustered news information.

Systems and methods for presenting information are disclosed. Users are presented with a selectable representation of the information on a webpage. Users can access additional information and/or another web page by mousing over the selectable representation. The mouse over includes pointing the mouse pointer over the selectable representation for a predetermined amount of time.

A method and a system to receive temporal content from many sources over a transmission line, store the temporal content in at least one storage device, extract entity content from the temporal content, analyze entity occurrences to determine temporal content trends, receive a search query from a user, and render personalized temporal content to the user based on the temporal content trends.

A method and system to preview video content. The system includes a loader to present one or more objects associated with video content, responsive to a search request; a trigger to detect a pointer positioned over a first object from the one or more objects; and a mode selector to provide the first object in a preview mode.

A method and system to provide targeted advertisements with video search results is provided. The system comprises a query component to detect a request for a search and an advertisement selector to present one or more video advertisements to a user according to characteristics associated with the search.

Systems and methods for organizing related news information is disclosed herein. The systems and methods include clustering a stream of news information according to the topic of each news information and according to temporal information of the news information. Systems and methods for presenting information to users are also disclosed herein. The systems and methods include receiving a search for news information from a user and presenting the news information according to the topic of the… Mehr anzeigen

Systems and methods for organizing related news information is disclosed herein. The systems and methods include clustering a stream of news information according to the topic of each news information and according to temporal information of the news information. Systems and methods for presenting information to users are also disclosed herein. The systems and methods include receiving a search for news information from a user and presenting the news information according to the topic of the news information and the temporal information. Weniger anzeigen