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Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface

An intelligent automated assistant system engages with the user in an integrated, conversational manner using natural language dialog, and invokes external services when appropriate to obtain information or perform various actions. The system can be implemented using any of a number of different platforms, such as the web, email, smartphone, and the like, or any combination thereof. In one embodiment, the system is based on sets of interrelated domains and tasks, and employs additional functionally powered by external services with which the system can interact.

Intelligent Automated Assistant

A data storage system which automatically provides and maintains identical secondary data on a preferably geographically remote secondary data storage device. The system includes a primary host computer located in the first geographic location which is coupled to a primary data storage system also located in the first geographic location. The primary data storage system includes at least one primary data storage device on which primary data is to be stored, and a primary data storage system controller which receives data from the primary host computer and controls the storing of the primary data on the primary data storage device. The primary data storage controller is coupled by high speed communication link to a secondary data storage system controller of a secondary data storage system, and coordinates the copying of the primary data to the secondary data storing system, and is responsive to an acknowledgement from the secondary data storage system controller of at least successful receipt of the primary data for updating the maintained list of the primary data to indicate that the copied primary data has been received by the secondary data storage system to be copied to the secondary data storage device.

Remote data mirroring

An adaptive interface for a programmable system, for predicting a desired user function, based on user history, as well as machine internal status and context. The apparatus receives an input from the user and other data. A predicted input is presented for confirmation by the user, and the predictive mechanism is updated based on this feedback. Also provided is a pattern recognition system for a multimedia device, wherein a user input is matched to a video stream on a conceptual basis, allowing inexact programming of a multimedia device. The system analyzes a data stream for correspondence with a data pattern for processing and storage. The data stream is subjected to adaptive pattern recognition to extract features of interest to provide a highly compressed representation that may be efficiently processed to determine correspondence. Applications of the interface and system include a video cassette recorder (VCR), medical device, vehicle control system, audio device, environmental control system, securities trading terminal, and smart house. The system optionally includes an actuator for effecting the environment of operation, allowing closed-loop feedback operation and automated learning.

Adaptive pattern recognition based control system and method

Systems and methods are provided for receiving speech and non-speech communications of natural language questions and/or commands, transcribing the speech and non-speech communications to textual messages, and executing the questions and/or commands. The invention applies context, prior information, domain knowledge, and user specific profile data to achieve a natural environment for one or more users presenting questions or commands across multiple domains. The systems and methods creates, stores and uses extensive personal profile information for each user, thereby improving the reliability of determining the context of the speech and non-speech communications and presenting the expected results for a particular question or command.

Systems and methods for responding to natural language speech utterance

In order to provide a speech input system for having access from a mobile terminal such as a PDA or a portable phone, or a stationary terminal such as a home telephone, a TV set, or a PC to a network through speech, and receiving a service from a provider for providing map information, music information, broadcast program information, and telephone information, the speech input system comprises speech input terminals 10, 30 provided with a speech input/output mean, and an access status display mean, a speech portal server 50 provided with a speech recognizing mean for receiving a speech to recognize it as a text, a command converting mean for checking the recognized text with a command text dictionary, and separating it into a command text and an object text, and a conversation control mean for having an access to, and receiving a service from a provider which provides different information based on the separated texts, and providing the speech input terminal with the service, and a provider 60 for searching information based on the command text and the object text received from the speech portal server, and serves the speech portal server with a search result.

Speech input system, speech portal server, and speech input terminal

To provide a large scale multiprocessor system capable of executing an area limited cache coherency control implementing a high speed operation while substantially reducing the amount of processor-to-processor communications there is provided a translation lookaside buffer which retains cache coherency attribute information defining a limitable cache coherent area to maintain data consistency among caches, and a processor memory interface unit includes a cache coherency control which identifies whether cache coherency is required only within a particular cluster of processors or is required for every one of the cache memories in every one of the clusters throughout the system, on the basis of the contents of the cache coherency attribute information. Further, in another version of large scale multiprocessor system, each cluster may be provided with an export directory which registers an identifier of data whose copy is cached in cache memories in other clusters. Thereby, latency in cache coherency procedures can be reduced greatly, since a cache coherent area can be limited in dependence on various characteristics of data. Further, it is also possible to greatly reduce inter-cluster communication quantities, since it is no longer necessary to broadcast to all processors in the system upon every occasion of a memory read/write.

Multiprocessor system having controller for controlling the number of processors for which cache coherency must be guaranteed

An image and data display method includes the steps of: determining a display condition (18) having display and non-display of relative data on the basis of a previously determined user identifier and utilization condition (17); displaying a picture and a character string indicative of contents of a least one relative data determined to be able to be displayed in the previous step on the basis of the display condition together with the image during display of a specific scene; displaying, when at least one of pictures and character strings is selected, relative data corresponding to the selected picture and character string on the basis of the display condition; and displaying, when a command for displaying a list is inputted, a list of picture and character strings displayed until now and, when at least one in the list is selected, displaying relative data corresponding to the selected picture and character string on the basis of the display condition.

Image and data display method and apparatus

A communication type navigation system representing information for helping a user to select a route when selecting a leading path from a plurality of advised routes searched. According to a route search request from a navigation terminal (60), a navigation information providing server (10) performs route search and selects a plurality of advised routes. Moreover, evaluation information is created for the plurality of advised routes selected by using information (traffic information, meteorological information, facility information, user profile information) managed/held by the navigation information providing server (10). The valuation information is referenced by the user of the navigation terminal (60) so that the user can select a desired advised route from the plurality of advised routes.

Communication type navigation system and navigation method

In a communication-type navigation system for downloading map data according to the present invention, a reduction in the amount of map information to be transferred, correction of a position measured by a GPS, and delivery of advertisements are effected. In this system, a terminal 5 stores rough map data in advance. Then, when detailed map data is required, it is downloaded from a map data delivery center to the terminal 5 . Further, together with the map data, GPS correction information is delivered to the terminal 5 from the map data delivery center 80 . Still further, coupon information associated with an advertisement is displayed and an electronic mail on the coupon information is issued, by the map data delivery center.

Michio Morioka

Papers

Speech input system, speech portal server, and speech input terminal

Multiprocessor system having controller for controlling the number of processors for which cache coherency must be guaranteed

Image and data display method and apparatus

Communication type navigation system and navigation method

Navigation apparatus for receiving delivered information