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Derral C. Thorson
Researcher at IBM
Publications - 113
Citations - 4024
Derral C. Thorson is an academic researcher from IBM. The author has contributed to research in topics: Rendering (computer graphics) & Disparate system. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 113 publications receiving 4024 citations. Previous affiliations of Derral C. Thorson include Nuance Communications.
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Audio menus describing media contents of media players
TL;DR: In this paper, methods, systems, and computer program products are described for creating an audio menu describing media content of a media player, including metadata describing the media files managed by the media player and converting at least a portion of the metadata to speech.
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RSS content administration for rendering RSS content on a digital audio player
TL;DR: In this article, methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for RSS content administration for rendering RSS content on a digital audio player, including extracting text from the RSS content, creating a media file, and storing the extracted text as metadata associated with the media file.
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Navigating a uav with obstacle avoidance algorithms
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a system for navigating a UAV that includes piloting the UAV under control of a navigation computer, in accordance with a navigation algorithm, while reading from the GPS receiver a sequence of GPS data and identifying an obstacle in dependence upon the future position.
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Management and rendering of calendar data
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present methods, systems, and products for managing and rendering of calendar data, including receiving aggregated calendar data in native form, synthesizing the aggregated native form calendar data into a synthesized calendar document, and presenting at least one calendar event.
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Supplemental diagnostic and services resource planning for mobile systems
TL;DR: In this article, diagnostic codes from a vehicle or other system in transit are transmitted to an opportunity server, which forwards the diagnostic codes to a supplemental diagnostic service provider, who determines if supplemental diagnostics software functions are available and if so, downloads them to the vehicle.