Hewlett-Packard

About: Hewlett-Packard is a company organization based out in Palo Alto, California, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Signal & Layer (electronics). The organization has 34663 authors who have published 59808 publications receiving 1467218 citations. The organization is also known as: Hewlett Packard & Hewlett-Packard Company.

Method and apparatus for accessing a contacts database and telephone services

Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a method and technique for operating a computing device. An interface is displayed for enabling the computing device to control a voicemail system. The interface includes one or more display objects, wherein each display object is selectable by a user to enter a command input assigned to that display object. A selection is detected of any one of the one or more display objects, and the command input assigned to the display object is identified. A signal tone is generated corresponding to the command input. The signal input may be transmitted across a network to the voicemail system to communicate a command to the voicemail system.

Towards a generic model of configuraton tasks

Abstract: A precise definition is provided for general configuration tasks. Two important assumptions are identified: (i) functional architecture and (ii) key component per function. A domain-independent model is presented based on these assumptions. These assumptions are shown to be both useful and tenable in real domains. They are useful because they limit the complexity of the general configuration task, determine the basic knowledge needed for solving a configuration task, and enable more efficient problem solving methods. Ideas are presented both for representing the knowledge and controlling the search. Some of these ideas were originally implemented in the Cossack expert system.

Robust Design and Analysis for Quality Engineering

Abstract: Quality engineering. Analysis of quality information and quality improvement effort. Fundamentals of designing experiments. Orthogonal array experiments I. Orthogonal array experiments II. Parameter design for continuous data. Parameter design for discrete data. Alternative parameter design and other considerations. Parameter design for dynamic characteristics. Tolerance design. Response surface design and analysis.

Keyword search and oblivious pseudorandom functions

Abstract: We study the problem of privacy-preserving access to a database. Particularly, we consider the problem of privacy-preserving keyword search (KS), where records in the database are accessed according to their associated keywords and where we care for the privacy of both the client and the server. We provide efficient solutions for various settings of KS, based either on specific assumptions or on general primitives (mainly oblivious transfer). Our general solutions rely on a new connection between KS and the oblivious evaluation of pseudorandom functions (OPRFs). We therefore study both the definition and construction of OPRFs and, as a corollary, give improved constructions of OPRFs that may be of independent interest.

Personalized search

Abstract: A contextual computing approach may prove a breakthrough in personalized search efficiency.