Daniel M. Coffman

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an advertising system and methods, including an ad service that one of generates, presents and receives information pertaining to an ad presentation, an ad display output device that outputs the ad presentation at a presentation location, a user response receiver at the ad service, which receives a response transmitted from a mobile device based on the ad display at the presentation location and a ad service transmitter that transmits an executable object to a target device specified in the user response.

TL;DR: In this article, a system and method for determining and maintaining dialog focus in a conversational speech system includes presenting a command associated with an application to a dialog manager The application associated with the command is unknown to the dialog manager at the time it is made The dialog manager determines a current context of the command by reviewing a multi-modal history of events.

TL;DR: A tool for mapping an event includes a map generator for generating an event map, an annotating unit for annotating the event map based on a user input, a view generator and a display device for displaying the zoomable and pannable view of the annotated event map as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, a DMAF (dialog manager and arbitrator facade) comprises a hierarchical DMA architecture that enables arbitration across a plurality of applications and within the same application between various sub-dialogs.