Richard J Guyon Deceased1977 Heimgartner Ln UNIT 21, San Jose, CA 95124

2012004, Feb 16, 2012

Aug 4, 2011

13/198001

Richard Guyon - Mountain View CA, US
Zaydoon Jawadi - Los Altos Hills CA, US

G06F 3/048

715780

Method of and system for evaluating and annotating live or prerecorded activities, such as live or prerecorded public speaking. Evaluations and annotations may be generated in real-time while the activity is taking place or afterwards without the need for a video or audio recording, or may be generated while recording or watching a recording. The technique comprises a hierarchical multi-level menu of canned and/or custom comments, canned and/or custom detailed descriptions of comments, custom notes, supplemental informational content, and community-contributed content. The technique also comprises selecting, in response to user input, canned and/or custom comments from the menu, generating timestamped, color-coded annotations corresponding to the comments, and storing the annotations in a database without modifying the prerecorded activity file if any was played while evaluating. Annotations are displayed in real-time during the evaluation and can also be displayed during playback at a later time. An evaluation report may be generated from annotations of an activity, whereby the evaluation report can be organized in chronological order of annotations or by comment category. Evaluations and annotations of live speeches are saved and may later be synchronized with recordings of the speeches. Statistical and trend analysis may be performed comparing a particular evaluation with other evaluations by the same evaluator or by other evaluators.

4875159, Oct 17, 1989

Dec 22, 1987

7/136859

Richard W. Cary - Los Gatos CA
Richard D. Guyon - Mountain View CA

Amdahl Corporation - Sunnyvale CA

G06F 1342
G06F 946
G06F 1516
G06F 1540

364200

In a data processing system that stores a first and second version of a given data set, a method for synchronizing the first and second versions comprises steps of maintaining a sync-complete control field and a sync-in-progress control field in the inode of each of the first and second versions. Write accesses to the versions are modified so that the sync-complete control field and the sync-in-progress control field are cleared in response to any change in the associated version. The sync-complete control bits for the first and second versions are tested, and if either or both are cleared, then the sync-in-progress control field associated with a select source version is set. Next, a copy of the source version is transferred to a temporary file. After the transfer is complete, the sync-in-progress control field in the source version is tested, and if it is set when the temporary version is complete, then the sync-complete control field is set and the sync-in-progress control field is cleared in the source versions. Next, the sync-complete control field is set in the temporary version.