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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

Location sharing and tracking using mobile phones or other wireless devices

A virtual assistant uses context information to supplement natural language or gestural input from a user. Context helps to clarify the user's intent and to reduce the number of candidate interpretations of the user's input, and reduces the need for the user to provide excessive clarification input. Context can include any available information that is usable by the assistant to supplement explicit user input to constrain an information-processing problem and/or to personalize results. Context can be used to constrain solutions during various phases of processing, including, for example, speech recognition, natural language processing, task flow processing, and dialog generation.

Using context information to facilitate processing of commands in a virtual assistant

An enhanced text entry system using word-level analysis to automatically correct inaccuracies in user keystroke entries on reduced keyboards. The keyboard (105) may be a part of a touch-sensitive panel or display screen (100) or on a mechanical keyboard system. A method and system are defined which determine one or more alternative textual interpretations of each sequence of inputs detected within a designated auto-correcting keyboard region (106). The actual contact locations for the keystrokes may occur outside the boundaries of the specific keyboard key regions, where the distance from each contact location to each corresponding intended character may in general increase with the expected frequency of the intended word in the language or in a particular context. The user can easily select the intended word from among the generated interpretations.

Keyboard system with automatic correction

A schema-based service for Internet access to per-user services data, wherein access to data is based on each user's identity. The service includes a schema that defines rules and a structure for each user's data, and also includes methods that provide access to the data in a defined way. The services schema thus corresponds to a logical document containing the data for each user. The user manipulates (e.g., reads or writes) data in the logical document by data access requests through defined methods. In one implementation, the services schemas are arranged as XML documents, and the services provide methods that control access to the data based on the requesting user's identification, defined role and scope for that role. In this way, data can be accessed by its owner, and shared to an extent determined by the owner.

Schema-based services for identity-based data access

Spell checking of a document in a network browser based application is performed automatically. Spell checking may be performed in a content page in response to user editing of the document text. Text entered into a document through a browser application interface is divided into nodes. The nodes may be associated with a section, line or word of text. Each node may be assigned one or more parameters which may indicate whether the node has been spell checked or not. Selected nodes are sent to a spell check service for spell checking. Correction information is received in response to the spell check request. Once a client device receives the correction information, words within the text range of the document that match identified misspelled words are processed. In one embodiment, matching words are highlighted with a visual indicator to indicate that they may be incorrectly spelled.

Spell checking in network browser based applications

A method and protocol for communication between a first computer and a second computer is disclosed, along with a system providing a networked application in a client-server environment. A protocol includes a request from the first computer to the second computer including a function identifier for a function on the second computer and an argument for the function. The argument may be defined by a type for a function called by the function identifier. The protocol also includes a reply from the second computer to the first computer including the results of the function, with the reply defined as a script input for the first computer. A system providing a networked application in a client-server environment includes a set of application functions on the server, the application functions including a data type definition, and a set of client functions defining a scripting environment. The client functions are defined to include types matching each of the application functions on the server.

Web application architecture

A method and protocol for communication between a first computer and a second computer. The protocol includes a request from the first computer to the second computer including a function identifier for a function on the second computer and an argument for the function. The argument may be defined by a type for a function called by the function identifier. The protocol also includes a reply from the second computer to the first computer including the results of the function, with the reply defined as a script input for the first computer.

Web application communication protocol

Errors are captured, packaged, and reported in a client application and sent to a server computer for logging and diagnosis in a distributed computing environment. Client applications may package pertinent information about the client system configuration, the state of the client application at the time of the error, and other useful information, and send the packaged information to a server computer so that developers may identify and diagnose problems and monitor an application's performance. One example includes error capturing and reporting of various scripts that are operable within a client browser application.

Walter C. Hsueh

Papers

Schema-based services for identity-based data access

Spell checking in network browser based applications

Web application architecture

Web application communication protocol

Error capture and reporting in a distributed computing environment