A method of generating a moving thumbnail is disclosed. The method includes sampling video frames of a video item. The method further includes determining frame-level quality scores for the sampled video frames. The method also includes determining multiple group-level quality scores for multiple groups of the sampled video frames using the frame-level quality scores of the sampled video frames. The method further includes selecting one of the groups of the sampled video frames based on the multiple group-level quality scores. The method includes creating a moving thumbnail using a subset of the video frames that have timestamps within a range from the start timestamp to the end timestamp.

The present invention relates to methods for evaluating and/or predicting the outcome of a clinical condition, such as cancer, metastasis, AIDS, autism, Alzheimer's, and/or Parkinson's disorder. The methods can also be used to monitor and track changes in a patient's DNA and/or RNA during and following a clinical treatment regime. The methods may also be used to evaluate protein and/or metabolite levels that correlate with such clinical conditions. The methods are also of use to ascertain the probability outcome for a patient's particular prognosis.

A method and apparatus for sharing presentation data, interactions, and annotation information between devices. The method includes: converting the presentation data into at least one image; transmitting the at least one image to the second device; displaying an image from among the at least one image on a screen of the first device, and transmitting image identification information about the displayed image to the second device; adding annotation data to the displayed image, based on a user input; and transmitting annotation information about the annotation data to the second device. The second device displays an image corresponding to the image identification information on a screen of the second device based on the image identification information, and the second device displays the annotation information on the image displayed on the screen of the second device the annotation information.

Systems and methods for managing and processing building plan documents. An electronic building plan document including a plurality of plan sheets is received. A first plan sheet is provided for display. A user interface is provided via which a user can select or enter a first comment associated with the first plan sheet. A user interface is provided via which the user can associate metadata, including a project type or discipline, with the first comment. A first plurality of comments, including the first comment, is stored in association with respective metadata. A user interface via which the user can select, by category and/or subcategory a plurality of comments to be included in a plan correction list, and a correction list is generated including a plurality of comments specified by a plurality of users.

A method includes providing a server having a system email address for receiving emails and including a processor and a memory coupled to the processor and defining a database organized to store data for a plurality of customer matters, respective matters having matter numbers, and, for each matter, the database including a notes location associated with the matter; providing a graphical user interface using which a user can review information relating to matters, including notes; determining, in response to receiving an email having a subject line and body, if the email contains a matter number matching a database matter number and, if not, rejecting the email; and if the email is not rejected, routing at least a portion of the non-rejected email to the notes location of the matter. Other systems and methods are provided.

A method includes providing a server having a system email address for receiving emails and including a processor and a memory coupled to the processor and defining a database organized to store data for a plurality of customer matters, respective matters having matter numbers, and, for each matter, the database including a notes location associated with the matter; providing a graphical user interface using which a user can review information relating to matters, including notes; determining, in response to receiving an email having a subject line and body, if the email contains a matter number matching a database matter number and, if not, rejecting the email; and if the email is not rejected, routing at least a portion of the non-rejected email to the notes location of the matter. Other systems and methods are provided.

annotation data generation assisting system includes: an input/output device receiving an input through an interactive process; morphological analysis system and dependency parsing system performing morphological and dependency parsing on text data in text archive; first to fourth candidate generating units detecting a zero anaphor or a referring expression in the dependency relation of a predicate in a sequence of morphemes, identifying a position as an object of annotation and estimating candidates of expressions to be inserted by using language knowledge; a candidate DB storing estimated candidates; and an interactive annotation device reading candidates of annotation from candidate DB and annotate a candidate selected by an interactive process by input/output device.

A method for conducting a communications session comprising: displaying, by a client device, a communications interface including a first canvas, a second canvas, and a content browser, wherein: the first canvas is arranged to display a media stream, the second canvas is arranged to display a sequence of content items provided by a communications system, and the content browser is arranged to display identifiers for one or more document files that are associated with the communications session; detecting a first input that selects a document file from the content browser; in response to the first input, transmitting, from the client device to the communications system, an instruction to provide a new sequence of content items that corresponds to the document file; and displaying the new sequence of content items in the second canvas, wherein each content item in the new sequence is generated by converting a different portion of the document file from a document format to another format, wherein at least one of the document files identified in the content browser is associated with the communications session before the communications session is started, and the content browser is displayed during the communications session.

The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods for recommending multimedia segments in multimedia content associated with online educational courses for annotation via a user interface. The method includes extracting one or more features associated with the multimedia content, wherein a feature of the one or more features corresponds to at least a requirement of an exemplary instance. The method further includes selecting a set of multimedia segments from one or more multimedia segments in the multimedia content, based on historical data that corresponds to interaction of one or more users with the multimedia content and the extracted one or more features associated with the multimedia content. Further, the method includes recommending the selected set of multimedia segments in the multimedia content through the user interface displayed on the user-computing device associated with a user, wherein the user annotates the recommended set of multimedia segments in the multimedia content.

A data processing apparatus includes a display controller, a first acquisition unit, a second acquisition unit, and a combining unit. The display controller displays, on a display, an operation screen for a process performed in a different device connected via a network. The first acquisition unit acquires an image of the operation screen. The second acquisition unit acquires plural pieces of information received on the operation screen. The combining unit combines an annotation image that represents each of the acquired pieces of information with the image that represents the operation screen.