VIRTUAL COOPERATIVE NETWORK FORMED BY LOCAL CLIENTS IN ZONESWITHOUT CELLULAR SERVICES

    公开(公告)号:CA2443090A1

    公开(公告)日:2002-10-17

    申请号:CA2443090

    申请日:2001-12-12

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A method and system for forming a virtual network. The method comprises the steps of providing each of a plurality of mobile objects (102, 105) with a transceiver (104), and transmitting a cellular/radio signals from a source (101). At least a first (105) of the mobile objects is located in an area (100) where the transceiver (104) of the first mobile object (105) does not receive the signal directly from the source (101), while a second (102) of t he mobile objects is in a position where the transceiver (104) of the second mobile object (102) receives the signal directly from the source (101). The transceiver (104) of the second mobile object (102) is used to receive the signal directly from the source (101) and to transmit the signal to the transceiver (104) of the first mobile object (105).

    CONVERSATIONAL DATA MINING
    32.
    发明专利

    公开(公告)号:CA2311439A1

    公开(公告)日:2001-02-10

    申请号:CA2311439

    申请日:2000-06-13

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A method for collecting data associated with the voice of a voice system use r includes conducting a conversation with the user, capturing and digitizing a speech waveform of the user, extracting at least one acoustic feature from the digitized speech waveform and storing attribute data corresponding to the acoustic feature, together with an identifying indicia, in the data warehouse in a form to facilitate subsequent data mining. User attributes can include gender, age, accent, native language, dialect, socioeconomic classification, educational level and emotional state. Data gathering can be repeated for a large number of users, until sufficient data is present. The attribute data to be stored can include raw acoustic features, or processed features, such as the user's emotional state, age, gender, socioeconomic group, and the like. In an alternative form of method, the user attribute can be used to real-time modify behavior of the voice system, with or without storage of data for subsequent data mining. An apparatus for collecting data associated with a voice of a user includes a dialog management unit, an audio capture module, an acoustic front end, a processing module and a data warehouse. The acoustic front end receives and digitizes a speech waveform from the user and extracts at leastone acoustic feature from the digitized speech waveform. The feature is correlated with at least one user attribute. The processing module analyzes the acoustic feature to determine the user attribute, which can then be stor ed in the data warehouse. The dialog management unit can include, for example, a telephone interactive voice response system. The processor can be an application specific circuit, a separate general purpose computer with appropriate software, or a processor portion of the IVR. The processing module can include an emotional state classifier, a speaker clusterer and classifier, a speech recognizer, and/or an accent identifier. Alternatively, the apparatus can be configured as a real-time- modifiable voice system for interaction with a user, which can be used to practice the method for tailoring a voice system response.

    Computer device separable into multiple sub-computers

    公开(公告)号:GB2498623B

    公开(公告)日:2014-10-15

    申请号:GB201221585

    申请日:2012-11-30

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A method for separating a dividable computer device into multiple sub-computers may include receiving, by the dividable computer device, a command to separate a sub-computer from the dividable computer device. The method may also include detecting by the dividable computer device separation of the sub-computer and reconfiguring the dividable computer device for operation without the separated sub-computer in response to each sub-computer being separated.

    Dividable Computing Device That May Split into Multiple Sub-Computers

    公开(公告)号:GB2498623A

    公开(公告)日:2013-07-24

    申请号:GB201221585

    申请日:2012-11-30

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A method for separating a dividable computer device into multiple sub-computers comprises receiving a command to separate a sub-computer from the dividable computer; the dividable computer detecting the separation of the sub-computer; and reconfiguring the dividable computer for operation without the sub-computer. Preferably, options for selection for association with the sub-computer to be separated are presented to the user. Predetermined features/functionalities may be loaded onto the sub-computer based on options related to entered characteristics of the user and/or a list of users. There may be a notification that the sub-computer is configured and ready for separation, whilst the reconfiguring may involve adjusting the display to minimize an effect of the separated computer. The sub-computer may be provided with a virtual operating system and/or may operate independently from the dividable computer. Separated sub-computers may be wirelessly connected to share resources. Each sub-computer may have processing unit, memory and interface connector.

    38.
    发明专利
    未知

    公开(公告)号:DE19721198C2

    公开(公告)日:2002-01-10

    申请号:DE19721198

    申请日:1997-05-21

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A statistical language model for inflected languages, having very large vocabularies, is generated by splitting words into stems, prefixes and endings, and deriving trigrams for the stems, ending and prefixes. The statistical dependence of endings and prefixes from each stem is also obtained, and the resulting language model is a weighted sum of these scores.

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