Techniques for predictive predownload of templates with delta caching are used to substantially minimize the time needed to send objects from a server to a client. A template builder generates templates for each web page. A prediction engine maintains a prediction map, responsive to web pages and other objects, the objects including the templates for web pages. The prediction engine selects objects likely to be requested by the client making the particular request, such as a next page or an obje...

A View Template allows a template author to create an attractive HTML view template, and flow an arbitrary HTML content document into a series of containers defined in the view template. A content document author creates a standard HTML markup language document that can be displayed in a browser in the bottom-less page model. A view template author designs an HTML view template document that changes how that content document is displayed in the browser or printed. The HTML content document is "f...

The configuration of servers using profile templates is disclosed. A profile template for configuring one or more servers is loaded. The profile template includes abstracted server configuration parameters and server configuration rules, and can be abstracted from parent profile templates. The parameters are for abstractly configuring a server type of which the servers are, whereas the rules specify how values of the parameters translate to direct server values for directly configuring the serve...

A sacrificial cantilever is used as a template for making cantilevers of non-standard materials for use in an atomic force microscope. The desired metal is deposited onto the sacrificial cantilever, followed by removal of the sacrificial cantilever.

A software tool is provided for use with a computer system for simplifying the creation of Web sites. The tool comprises a plurality of pre-stored templates, comprising HTML formatting code, text, fields and formulas. The templates preferably correspond to different types of Web pages and other features commonly found on or available to Web sites. Each feature may have various options. To create a web site, a Web site creator (the person using the tool to create a web site) is prompted by the to...

A method and apparatus for processing IP packets is disclosed. The method comprises defining sets of packet fields referred to as templates (in method steps 1101-1102), storing the templates in a memory, determining (in a step 1104) if a current IP packet is intended to be processed, identifying (in the step 1104) the process to be applied to the current IP packet, selecting, depending on an attribute of the identified process, at least one of the stored templates, and operating (in a step 1107)...

A pattern recognition method and apparatus using dynamic programming in which an input sequence of labels is matched to a set of candidate templates (candidate reference label sequences). The set of candidate reference label sequences is grouped into subsets, where each reference label sequence in a subset has a common root reference label subsequence. Using this set organization, a depth-first search is performed to identify a local optimum template and its local optimum match score with the in...

A method and apparatus for adapting reference templates is provided. The method includes adapting one or more reference templates using a stored test utterance by replacing data within at the reference templates with a weighted interpolation of that data and corresponding data within the test utterance.

In a speaker recognition and verification arrangement, acoustic feature templates are stored for predetermined reference words. Each template is a standardized set of acoustic features for one word, formed for example by averaging the values of acoustic features from a plurality of speakers. Responsive to the utterances of identified speakers, a set of signals representative of the correspondence of the identified speaker's features with said feature templates of said reference words is generate...

A rotatable and reciprocating device for supplying material workpieces to be shaped to a shaping tool comprises a platform to which the workpieces are attached, a template disposed adjacent the platform, a guide member abutting the template, and a biasing means cooperating with the platform for constantly maintaining the template and guide member in abutment. In one embodiment, the guide member or template are attached to an axle for the rotatable platform while the other of these members is sec...