A method and system for matching an unknown facial image of an individual with an image of a celebrity using facial recognition techniques and human perception is disclosed herein. The invention provides a internet hosted system to find, compare, contrast and identify similar characteristics among two or more individuals using a digital camera, cellular telephone camera, wireless device for the purpose of returning information regarding similar faces to the user The system features classification of unknown facial images from a variety of internet accessible sources, including mobile phones, wireless camera-enabled devices, images obtained from digital cameras or scanners that are uploaded from PCs, third-party applications and databases. Once classified, the matching person's name, image and associated meta-data is sent back to the user. The method and system uses human perception techniques to weight the feature vectors.

Systems and methods for managing electronic data are disclosed. Various data management operations can be performed based on a metabase formed from metadata. Such metadata can be identified from an index of data interactions generated by a journaling module, and obtained from their associated data objects stored in one or more storage devices. In various embodiments, such processing of the index and storing of the metadata can facilitate, for example, enhanced data management operations, enhanced data identification operations, enhanced storage operations, data classification for organizing and storing the metadata, cataloging of metadata for the stored metadata, and/or user interfaces for managing data. In various embodiments, the metabase can be configured in different ways. For example, the metabase can be stored separately from the data objects so as to allow obtaining of information about the data objects without accessing the data objects or a data structure used by a file system.

A system and method for compatibility-based clustering of multimedia content elements. The method includes generating at least one signature for the multimedia content element; analyzing, by at least one compatibility engine, the generated at least one signature to determine at least one compatibility score, wherein each compatibility engine is associated with at least one cluster of multimedia content elements, wherein each compatibility engine is configured to compare the generated at least one signature to signatures of the associated at least one cluster, wherein the at least one compatibility score is determined based on the comparison; determining, based on the at least one compatibility score, at least one compatible cluster; and adding, to each compatible cluster, the multimedia content element.

Controllers and methods are disclosed for aiding a user in programming a schedule of a programmable controller. In an illustrative embodiment, a guided programming routine can be activated by a user, which then guides a user through two or more screens that are designed to collect sufficient information from the user to generate and/or update at least some of the schedule parameters of the controller.

Embodiments of the invention include a system and set of processes for organizing image collections. The system detects individuals in each image uploaded into the system using facial recognition or similar methods. The user and viewers of the images may then view dynamic albums based on the interrelationships of individuals in images. Users and viewers may browse all images with an individual or see albums of images with two selected individuals or similar combinations based on the relationships between users.

A system and method for generating personalized multimedia content element clusters. The method includes determining, based on at least one interest, at least one personalized concept, wherein each personalized concept represents one of the at least one user interest; obtaining at least one multimedia content element related to a user; generating at least one signature for the at least one multimedia content element, each generated signature representing at least a portion of the at least one multimedia content element; determining, based on the generated at least one signature, at least one multimedia content element cluster, wherein each cluster includes a plurality of multimedia content elements sharing a common concept of the at least one personalized concept; and creating at least one personalized multimedia content element cluster by adding, to each determined cluster, at least one of the at least one multimedia content element sharing the common concept of the cluster.

An end-to-end situation awareness system to monitor, track, and improve a customer experience in service delivery includes network interfaces communicatively coupled to a plurality of devices distributed throughout a service location; one or more processors; and memory comprising computer-executable instructions, the computer-executable instructions include: design bots adapted to automatically build process maps for any process in the service delivery to give each operations role and each customer notification about the state of the process, wherein the design bots automatically categorize each process into operations excellence categories and the design bots communicate with the sensors, wearable devices, and mobile devices; and delivery bots adapted to automatically build process priorities for any process and notify each operations role, team and customer as needed for action, wherein the priorities are automatically categorized on different dimensions of operations efficiency and wherein the delivery bots communicate with the sensors, wearable devices, and mobile devices.

A method for detecting abnormality identifiers based on multimedia content element signatures. The method includes causing generation of at least one signature for at least one input multimedia content element, wherein each signature represents a concept, wherein each concept is a collection of signatures and metadata representing the concept; comparing the generated at least one signature to a plurality of signatures of a plurality of reference multimedia content elements to determine at least one matching reference multimedia content element; and detecting, based on the comparison, at least one abnormality identifier for the at least one input multimedia content element.

A method for customizing an image. The method includes causing generation of at least one signature for an input image, wherein each signature represents a concept, wherein each concept is a collection of signatures and metadata representing the concept; comparing the generated at least one signature to at least one signature representing at least one common visual attribute among a plurality of reference images; determining, based on the comparison, whether to customize the input image; and customizing the input image with respect to at least one of the at least one common visual attribute, when it is determined to customize the input image.

An apparatus, including a memory device for storing work schedule information or scheduling information for an individual, a transmitter for transmitting a job search request to a computer, wherein the computer is specially programmed for processing the job search request, for generating a message containing information regarding a job opening, a position, an assignment, a contract, or a project, and for transmitting the message to the apparatus in response to the job search request; a receiver for receiving the message; and a display for displaying at least some of the information contained in the message.