Gary L Thwing

US Patent:

20050203741, Sep 15, 2005

Filed:

Mar 12, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/800123

Inventors:

Gary Thwing - Watsonville CA, US

International Classification:

G10L015/00

US Classification:

704254000

Abstract:

Caller interface systems and methods are described. In one aspect, a sequence of recognized characters beginning with a first recognized character and ending with a last recognized character is received. Successive characters are selected one at a time from the recognized character sequence in order beginning with the first recognized character. For each selected character, a current potential match set of potential character string matches is constructed by: appending characters selected from a set of misrecognized characters including the selected character to each potential character string match in a prior potential match set constructed for a preceding selected character, if any; and deleting from the current potential match set potential character string matches missing from a list of reference character strings. A reference data item corresponding to the potential character string match in a current potential match set containing one a single potential character string match is transmitted for presentation to a caller after non-matching potential character string matches have been deleted.

US Patent:

20080184248, Jul 31, 2008

Filed:

Jan 29, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/668441

Inventors:

Ankur Barua - Sunnyvale CA, US
Gary Lee Thwing - Watsonville CA, US

Assignee:

Yahoo! Inc. - Sunnyvale CA

International Classification:

G06F 9/50

US Classification:

718104

Abstract:

A user is enabled to reserve computer resources using a calendaring graphical user interface (GUI). The calendaring GUI enables viewing of resources currently in use and/or reserved for future use, and/or available for scheduling, that is stored within a scheduling data store. The user may employ the calendaring GUI to visually identify available timeslots to reserve resources, and/or modify, or delete a scheduled job. When the user schedules a job, a reservation identifier (RID) may be provided, which may then be submitted with the job to a distinct scheduler program. Each scheduler program may employ the RID and scheduling data store to determine whether to execute the job, or place the job in a sleep mode. If a job uses more or less than a reserved time, the scheduling data store may be revised to reserve additional time, or to relinquish unused resources.