Patents by Inventor Bridges Smith

Bridges Smith has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20200410991
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, by a computing device, speech from a user. A next word following a current word in the speech from the user may be predicted. The next word that is predicted following the current word recognized in the speech from the user may be presented to the user in real time. Feedback from the user may be received whether to one of accept and reject the next word that is predicted. The speech from the user may be processed to convert the speech to text, wherein the text may include the next word when the feedback from the user is to accept the next word that is predicted and wherein the text may exclude the next word when the feedback from the user is to reject the next word that is predicted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Uwe Helmut JOST, Bridges SMITH
  • Patent number: 8762939
    Abstract: A system and method enable a designer to design an application using a design tool, deploy the application for execution, and subsequently view statistics related to the execution within the design tool. The designer uses the design tool to create an application flow for the application, and the design tool then generates software code for such application. In generating software code, the design tool inserts markers in the application code that demarks the boundaries between nodes in the application flow. When the application is executed, a log is created in accordance with the markers such that data is logged for nodes traversed during the execution of the application. Using the logged data, statistics are calculated for one or more of the nodes. These statistics are provided to the design tool and, in the preferred embodiment, displayed in conjunction with the application flow in the user interface of the design tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Amy E. Ulug, Suresh K. Panganamala, Stephen R. Springer, Rakesh Ramadas, William Bridges Smith, Jr., Vijay R. Raman, Deepali Pathak
  • Patent number: 8700398
    Abstract: An interactive user interface is described for setting confidence score thresholds in a language processing system. There is a display of a first system confidence score curve characterizing system recognition performance associated with a high confidence threshold, a first user control for adjusting the high confidence threshold and an associated visual display highlighting a point on the first system confidence score curve representing the selected high confidence threshold, a display of a second system confidence score curve characterizing system recognition performance associated with a low confidence threshold, and a second user control for adjusting the low confidence threshold and an associated visual display highlighting a point on the second system confidence score curve representing the selected low confidence threshold. The operation of the second user control is constrained to require that the low confidence threshold must be less than or equal to the high confidence threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey N. Marcus, Amy E. Ulug, William Bridges Smith, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20130138439
    Abstract: An interactive user interface is described for setting confidence score thresholds in a language processing system. There is a display of a first system confidence score curve characterizing system recognition performance associated with a high confidence threshold, a first user control for adjusting the high confidence threshold and an associated visual display highlighting a point on the first system confidence score curve representing the selected high confidence threshold, a display of a second system confidence score curve characterizing system recognition performance associated with a low confidence threshold, and a second user control for adjusting the low confidence threshold and an associated visual display highlighting a point on the second system confidence score curve representing the selected low confidence threshold. The operation of the second user control is constrained to require that the low confidence threshold must be less than or equal to the high confidence threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey N. Marcus, Amy E. Ulug, William Bridges Smith, JR.
  • Publication number: 20080055170
    Abstract: A mobile satellite communication trailer comprising a frame, an antenna assembly coupled to the frame comprising a feed boom, a reflector dish coupled to the feed boom, and at least one bumper coupled to the feed boom intermediate the feed boom and the reflector dish. A shock isolator is positioned intermediate the frame and the feed boom. The mobile satellite system further comprises at least three adjustable stabilizing legs providing rigid support for said antenna assembly when said antenna assembly is in a transmission position, said stabilizing legs being convertible between said transmission position and said transport position, wherein one of said at least three adjustable stabilizing legs is moveably connected to said trailer front portion and at least two of said at least three adjustable stabilizing legs are moveably connected to at least one of said satellite antenna assembly and said trailer frame proximate said satellite antenna assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Inventors: W. Madden, Bridges Smith, Trent Davis, Dean Mullin, Joe Brown