TRACKING AND NOTIFICATION OF FULFILLMENT EVENTS
Granted: May 26, 2016
Application Number:
20160149707
An electronic signature system is used to procure one or more electronic signatures on a document. The electronic signature system not only facilitates communication between the document originator and the document recipient, but it also tracks the document status through states such as sent, viewed, executed, and fulfilled. For example, at some point the electronic signature system may receive an incoming notification that an obligation set forth in the signed document has been…
DEPTH OF FIELD SYNTHESIS USING RAY TRACING APPROXIMATION
Granted: May 26, 2016
Application Number:
20160148415
Techniques are disclosed for synthesizing depth of field effects in a digital image using ray tracing approximation. For each target pixel in the image, an aperture-shaped kernel is centered about a reference pixel. A cone of rays is traced through the aperture toward the image scene. The trajectory of the rays and the intersections between the rays and objects in the scene are approximated for a given scene depth, focal depth and aperture shape. The color of the pixel lying at the…
CONTENT AWARE FILL BASED ON SIMILAR IMAGES
Granted: May 26, 2016
Application Number:
20160148362
A user identifies an unwanted object in a source image. Related images are identified on the basis of timestamp and/or geolocation metadata. Matching masks are identified in the source image, wherein each of the matching masks is adjacent to the selection mask. Features in the selection and matching masks which also appear in one of the related images are identified. The related image having a maximum of features which are tracked to a source image matching mask, but also a minimum of…
AUTOMATIC AGGREGATION OF ONLINE USER PROFILES
Granted: May 26, 2016
Application Number:
20160147758
Techniques are disclosed for identifying the same online user across different communication networks, and further creating a unified profile for that user. The unified profile is an aggregation of publicly available user profile attributes across the different networks. In an embodiment, the techniques are implemented as a computer implemented methodology, including: (1) feature space analysis to identify relevant user features that allows for clusterization of the given target…
NON-COMMITTAL VISITOR STITCHING
Granted: May 19, 2016
Application Number:
20160142272
Techniques are provided for transforming information about unique visits to a website or interactions with a mobile application by a single individual on different devices into unified analytical data representing these visits. One or more visitor stitching models can be used to quantify unique visits as belonging to the same person with a certain level of confidence. In addition to maintaining separate records for each unique visit, a unified record is generated, which represents a…
FAST HIGH-FIDELITY FLOOD-FILLING ON VECTOR ARTWORK
Granted: May 19, 2016
Application Number:
20160140741
Techniques are disclosed for performing flood-fill operations on vector artwork. In one embodiment, a region under a point of interest (POI) of vector artwork is rasterized and flood-filled, and an initial bounding shape around that area is used as a first guess as to the area to be filled. In other cases, the initial bounding shape is created around some initial area that includes the POI (no rasterization). In any such case, vector objects having bounding shapes that intersect the…
DOCUMENT DISTRIBUTION AND INTERACTION
Granted: May 12, 2016
Application Number:
20160132693
An electronic signature comprises an authenticated audio and/or visual recording of a spoken assent that conforms to a pre-established phrase. Alternatively, an electronic signature comprises an authenticated visual recording of a series of physical gestures that conforms to a pre-established sequence. Rules are established with respect to how the assent is to be recorded and authenticated. These rules, as well as the document itself, are provided to a document recipient. If the document…
MULTIMEDIA CONTENT DURATION MANIPULATION
Granted: May 12, 2016
Application Number:
20160133296
Average pixel luminosity is calculated for each frame comprising a content item. For each pair of adjacent frames, an IFD is calculated. The IFD represents the difference between a baseline pixel luminosity associated with each of the two frames. An initial set of cut frames is selected based on IFD values that are less than a minimum value IFDmin, or that are greater than a maximum value IFDmax. The positions of these initial cut frames are optimized using a numerical optimization…
COLOR SELECTOR FOR DESKTOP PUBLISHING
Granted: May 12, 2016
Application Number:
20160133030
Techniques are disclosed for color selection in a desktop publishing application. A color selection technique includes receiving a selection of an image, automatically sampling a color from a pixel of the selected image, and adding the sampled color to a color swatch in a graphical user interface. The sampled color may be the predominant color in the image (e.g., the color that appears in the greatest number of pixels), or the sampled color may be the darkest or lightest color in the…
LOCAL FEATURE REPRESENTATION FOR IMAGE RECOGNITION
Granted: May 12, 2016
Application Number:
20160132750
Techniques are disclosed for image feature representation. The techniques exhibit discriminative power that can be used in any number of classification tasks, and are particularly effective with respect to fine-grained image classification tasks. In an embodiment, a given image to be classified is divided into image patches. A vector is generated for each image patch. Each image patch vector is compared to the Gaussian mixture components (each mixture component is also a vector) of a…
MULTIPLE DISPLAY RENDERING OF DIGITAL CONTENT
Granted: May 5, 2016
Application Number:
20160125778
Techniques are provided for segmenting digital content into a plurality of tiles which can be displayed across multiple application windows. For example, in one specific implementation, the methods disclosed herein can be used to segment a webpage into a plurality of tiles, wherein each of the tiles can be displayed in a separate web browser that displays a portion of the original webpage. In general, each content browser identifies which tile it displays based on a configuration that…
ASSET SUGGESTIONS FOR ELECTRONIC POSTS
Granted: May 5, 2016
Application Number:
20160125451
Techniques are disclosed for improving electronic communications or so-called posts prior to publication by automatically providing asset suggestions. The techniques generally leverage known historical performance data of rich media “assets” such as image content, graphics content, video content, and audio content. In operation, an asset repository is searched to identify a set of candidate assets that match keywords extracted from a proposed post. The identified candidate assets are…
RESTORATION OF MODIFIED DOCUMENT TO ORIGINAL STATE
Granted: May 5, 2016
Application Number:
20160124813
Techniques are disclosed for restoring a modified document to an original state. The modified document is scanned into a digital form using an optical scanning device. The content of the modified digital document including one or more annotations is then grouped into several components, including text, images, form fields and text boxes, and marked shapes, based on corresponding component specifications. Each component is then categorized as being structured or unstructured. Structured…
CONVERSION OF STEREOLITHOGRAPHIC MODEL INTO LOGICAL SUBCOMPONENTS
Granted: April 21, 2016
Application Number:
20160107388
Techniques are disclosed for converting a stereolithographic model into an STL data file that defines logically related components and subcomponents of an object. A user can categorize elements of an object to form logically related components and subcomponents of the object. Each element is represented by a triangle. All triangles representing each of these components and subcomponents are then reordered and listed sequentially within the STL. Each list is delimited at the beginning and…
AUTOMATIC ANOMALY ALERTS FOR SCHEDULED POSTS
Granted: April 14, 2016
Application Number:
20160104069
Techniques are disclosed for automatically detecting anomalies in the content of a scheduled social media post, alerting a user to the presence of such anomalies before the content is posted and recommending a course of action when an anomaly is detected. A set of keywords is extracted from a scheduled post using an ontological classification technique. At predetermined time intervals, the keywords are compared with information obtained from one or more data sources to determine if an…
DETECTING HOMOLOGIES IN ENCRYPTED AND UNENCRYPTED DOCUMENTS USING FUZZY HASHING
Granted: April 14, 2016
Application Number:
20160103831
Techniques are provided for automatically detecting homologies between documents based on structural characteristics. Various statistics relating to the COS structure of a PDF document are compiled. The statistics are input into a rolling hash function to generate a digital fingerprint of the document. Fingerprints from two similar documents will have small edit distances between them, and can therefore be classified similarly or provided as results to a fingerprint-based search. For…
NATURAL LANGUAGE CONSUMER SEGMENTATION
Granted: April 14, 2016
Application Number:
20160103822
Techniques are disclosed for using natural language processing techniques to define, manipulate, and interact with consumer segmentations. In such embodiments a content consumption analytics engine can be configured to receive and process a natural language segmentation query. The query may comprise, for example, a command that defines a new segmentation, a command that manipulates existing segmentations, or a command that solicits information relating to existing consumer segmentations.…
IDENTIFYING SELECTED DYNAMIC CONTENT REGIONS
Granted: April 7, 2016
Application Number:
20160098178
Selected regions in dynamic content may be identified. Analytics data may be received that may include a region identifier corresponding to a region from which a selectable element was selected from the content. It may be determined that the analytics data corresponds to a current region of a current version of the network content. Analytics data, which may include a region identifier, may be generated in response to a selection of a selectable element of content located within a region…
AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION VIA CONTENT ANALYSIS AT STORAGE TIME
Granted: April 7, 2016
Application Number:
20160098483
Techniques are disclosed for efficiently and automatically classifying textual documents or files. In some embodiments, the classification process is integrated into or otherwise made part of the storage function, such that when the user initiates a save process for a given file, the file is processed through a classifier prior to (or contemporaneously with) completing the save function. In some such embodiments, textual content of the file is analyzed using natural language processing…
DYNAMIC MEMORY ESTIMATIONS FOR MEMORY BOUNDED APPLICATIONS
Granted: April 7, 2016
Application Number:
20160098348
Techniques are disclosed for improving application responsiveness, and particularly applications used to present rich media content, by precaching nearby but not-yet-displayed content, so that content can be immediately ready to display. A precache window can be used to determine what undisplayed content is precached, in accordance with an embodiment. The size of the precache window, and hence the amount of content that can be precached for later display, is dynamic in nature and is…
