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20140081715 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF COACHING USERS IN AN ON-DEMAND SYSTEM - The technology disclosed relates to tracking performance and initiatives of employees and automatically and proactively providing personalized coaching based on each employee's performance. In particular, it relates to automatically issuing personalized performance enhancement insights to an employee by evaluating the employee's current performance against progress features and exception features through timely performance checks. The progress features indicate a progression of an individual across a work cycle and exception features indicate low or high performance of the individual during the work cycle. Thus the personalized performance enhancement insights are automatically awarded when the current performance of the employee evidences lags in progress, regression, or low or high performance. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081882 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF CONNECTING USERS WITH ATTENDEES AT A MEGA ATTENDANCE EVENT - The technology disclosed relates to identifying and notifying a user of nearby attendees at a mega attendance event who are in user's social graph by comparing the user's social graph to a list of event attendees. The identified attendees can be stratified into social graph tags that annotate, categorize and prioritize other users in the user's social graph. The technology disclosed also relates to identifying and notifying the user of nearby attendees of sessions at the event who meet introduction preferences of the user by finding matches between introduction preference attributes specified by the user and attributes of the attendees provided by the list of event attendees. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081884 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF PROVIDING A STREAMLINED REFERRAL FLOW - The technology disclosed further relates to efficiently referring recruiting candidates. In particular, it relates to providing a streamlined referral flow that enables a user to instantly refer a person whom the user has opportunistically met. The streamlined referral flow creates referral profiles of recruiting candidates based on commentary provided by a referrer and social data of the recruiting candidates assembled from one or more person-related data sources. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081913 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ENRICHING CRM DATA WITH SOCIAL DATA - The technology disclosed relates to incorporating social data in CRM systems by a single social syn action. In particular, it relates to appending social data to prospect or contact objects of CRM systems by finding multiple social handles for the prospect or contact objects. The multiple social handles identify social profiles of the corresponding prospects or contacts on various social network platforms. | 03-20-2014 |
20140095634 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF REDACTIVE MESSAGING - The technology disclosed relates to embedding private comments in public messages. In particular, it relates to customizing public messages by including private comments that are directed to specific recipients. The private comments are included in the context of the public messages sent to their intended recipients but excluded from the public message when it is sent to other recipients. The private comments can be viewable only to their intended recipients and in the context of the public response. The public response as seen by recipients not intended to receive private comments does not include the private comments. This enables a sender of a private comment to efficiently communicate selected information to specific recipients without burdening all recipients with information which may not be relevant for them. Furthermore, it preserves the overall context of the original message. | 04-03-2014 |
20150142530 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMANCE SUMMARY CITATIONS - Some embodiments of the present invention include a method for creating, via a first user interface, at least one link in a performance summary to link to supporting information of an employee's work associated with the performance summary. The performance summary including the at least one link is then displayed via the first user interface. The method then detects, via the first user interface, when the at least one link in the performance summary is selected. Responsive to the at least one link being selected, the supporting information of the employee's work associated with the performance summary is displayed via the first user interface. | 05-21-2015 |
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20090070597 | Method and Apparatus for Store and Replay Functions in a Digital Radio Broadcasting Receiver - A method includes: receiving a plurality of audio frames, assembling groups of the audio frames into logical recording units, storing a plurality of the logical recording units, retrieving the stored logical recording units, and decoding the retrieved logical recording units. An apparatus that performs the method is also provided. | 03-12-2009 |
20100027719 | Systems and methods for fine alignment of analog and digital signal pathways - Methods and systems for temporally aligning audio samples of a digital portion of a radio broadcast signal with audio samples of an analog portion of the radio broadcast signal are disclosed. The methods and systems comprise the steps of receiving a radio broadcast signal having an analog portion and a digital portion; separating the analog portion of the radio broadcast signal from the digital portion of the radio broadcast signal; producing a first plurality of audio samples representative of the analog portion of the radio broadcast signal; retrieving from a memory a stored first time interval corresponding to an approximate time for data representing a first sample of the digital portion to travel through a digital signal path in a receiver, wherein the digital signal path includes a digital demodulator; measuring a second time for data representing the first sample of the digital portion to travel from an input of the digital signal path to an input of the digital demodulator; generating a delay amount for delaying a second plurality of audio samples relative to the first plurality of audio samples such that the second plurality of audio samples is temporally aligned with the first plurality of audio samples by adding the first time to the second time; producing the second plurality of audio samples representative of the digital portion of the radio broadcast signal; delaying the second plurality of audio samples by the delay amount such that the second plurality of audio samples is temporally aligned to within a predetermined amount with the first plurality of audio samples; and digitally combining the first plurality of audio samples with the second plurality of audio samples to produce a combined audio output. | 02-04-2010 |
20100166122 | Systems and methods for fast seek and scan functions in a digital radio broadcast receiver - Methods and systems for advancing to another service from a plurality of services in a digital radio broadcast receiver are described. The methods and systems include the steps of receiving an instruction to advance to another service from a man-machine interface of the digital radio broadcast receiver, selecting an entry from a set of entries stored in a memory of the digital radio broadcast receiver responsive to the instruction, wherein each entry identifies a service, and wherein at least some of said services correspond to services identified as receivable, tuning to a first service identified by the selected entry, rendering content received on the first service at the digital radio broadcast receiver, and updating the set of entries stored in the memory of the digital radio broadcast receiver based on at least one criteria. | 07-01-2010 |
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20130343547 | Adaptive Bandwidth Management of IBOC Audio Signals During Blending - A method and apparatus are provided for smoothly blending analog and digital portions of a composite digital audio broadcast signal by using look ahead metrics computed from previously received audio frames to dynamically adjust either stereo separation or bandwidth or both of the digital audio portion of the digital audio broadcast signal to produce an adjusted digital audio portion that is blended with the analog audio portion. | 12-26-2013 |
20130343576 | Look Ahead Metrics to Improve Blending Decision - A method and apparatus are provided for blending analog and digital portions of a composite digital audio broadcast signal by using look ahead metrics computed from previously received audio frames to guide the blending process and prevent unnecessary blending back and forth between analog and digital if the look ahead metrics indicate that future digital signal quality is degraded or impaired. | 12-26-2013 |
20140056227 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STORE AND REPLAY FUNCTIONS IN A DIGITAL RADIO BROADCASTING RECEIVER - A method for receiving and processing a digital radio broadcasting signal includes: receiving a digital radio broadcasting signal including encoded content in a first format; processing the encoded content to convert the encoded content into a second format; storing the encoded content in a second format; and decoding the stored encoded content to recover decoded content. A receiver that implements the method is also provided. | 02-27-2014 |
20140270252 | Signal Artifact Detection and Elimination for Audio Output - A method and apparatus are provided for processing a received digital radio broadcast signal to efficiently remove signal interference artifacts from digital and/or analog signals by using signal quality information extracted from audio samples in one or more buffered audio frames to detect audio frames containing clipped noise artifacts and weaker noise artifacts and to selectively apply anti-interference processing to remove the signal interference artifacts. | 09-18-2014 |
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20100111504 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECORDING AND DISTRIBUTING MEDIA CONTENT - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a digital video recording (DVR) system having a controller to record video content supplied by an interactive television (iTV) communication system as directed by a plurality of users of the iTV communication system, receive from a communication device of one of the plurality of users a request for a portion of the recorded video content, identify a need to transcode the requested portion of the recorded video content according to one or more operating characteristics of the communication device, transcode the requested portion of the recorded video content to conform with the one or more operating characteristics of the communication device, and transmit to the communication device the transcoded video content. The DVR system can be located outside of the premises of each of the plurality of users. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 05-06-2010 |
20100115575 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECORDING AND DISTRIBUTING MEDIA CONTENT - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a digital video recording (DVR) system having a controller to record video content supplied by an interactive television (iTV) communication system, receive from a communication device of one of said users a request for a portion of the recorded video content, identify a need to transcode the requested portion of the recorded video content according to one or more operating characteristics of the communication device, transcode the requested portion of the recorded video content to conform with the one or more operating characteristics of the communication device, partition the transcoded video content into a plurality of transcoded portions, and transmit to the communication device the plurality of transcoded portions. The communication device can begin a presentation of the transcoded video content before all of the plurality of transcoded portions have been received. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 05-06-2010 |
20120143612 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIO COMMUNICATION OF INFORMATION - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a controller configured to obtain information associated with media content, to generate a first group of tones representative of the information associated with the media content, and to generate a media stream comprising the media content and the first group of tones; and a communication interface configured to transmit the media stream to a media device whereby the media device presents the media content and a sequence of tones, where the sequence of tones is generated based at least in part on the first group of tones, where the first group of tones comprises high frequency tones and low frequency tones, and where one of the high and low frequency tones represents a binary one and the other of the high and low frequency tones represents a binary zero. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 06-07-2012 |