Patents by Inventor Cliff Strohofer

Cliff Strohofer 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: 20150255067
    Abstract: Various embodiments include methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable media for generating a transcription of audio data using automatic speech recognition and applying a transcription filter to a character string in the transcription (e.g., a transcribed character string) to replace the transcribed character string with another character string (e.g., a replacement character string). In some embodiments, the transcription filter applied to the transcribed character string may be ordered first in a plurality of transcription filters. In some embodiments, the transcription filter may include a finite grammar that is applied to the transcribed character string to generate the replacement character string. In some embodiments, the transcription filter may include a plurality of known character strings, and the replacement character string may be a known character string that is determined to be associated with the transcribed character filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Marc White, Cliff Strohofer
  • Patent number: 8781827
    Abstract: A method for facilitating mobile phone messaging, such as text messaging and instant messaging, includes receiving audio data communicated from the mobile communication device, the audio data representing an utterance that is intended to be at least a portion of the text of the message that is to be sent from the mobile phone to a recipient; transcribing the utterance to text based on the received audio data to generate a transcription; and applying a filter to the transcribed text to generate a filtered transcription, the text of which is intended to mimic language patterns of mobile device messaging that is performed manually by users. The method may also be applied to the audio data of a voicemail, with the filtered, transcribed text being communicated to a mobile phone as, for example, an SMS text message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Canyon IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Marc White, Cliff Strohofer
  • Patent number: 8498872
    Abstract: Audio data that includes speech may be transcribed by a speech recognition engine to generate speech recognition results, such as a transcription. One or more filters may be selected and applied to the speech recognition results to generate filtered speech recognition results. The one or more filters may be selected based at least in part on a characteristic of the speech recognition results, a characteristic of the audio data, or any other characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Canyon IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Marc White, Cliff Strohofer
  • Publication number: 20130018656
    Abstract: A method for facilitating mobile phone messaging, such as text messaging and instant messaging, includes receiving audio data communicated from the mobile communication device, the audio data representing an utterance that is intended to be at least a portion of the text of the message that is to be sent from the mobile phone to a recipient; transcribing the utterance to text based on the received audio data to generate a transcription; and applying a filter to the transcribed text to generate a filtered transcription, the text of which is intended to mimic language patterns of mobile device messaging that is performed manually by users. The method may also be applied to the audio data of a voicemail, with the filtered, transcribed text being communicated to a mobile phone as, for example, an SMS text message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Inventors: Marc White, Cliff Strohofer
  • Publication number: 20090124272
    Abstract: A method for facilitating mobile phone messaging, such as text messaging and instant messaging, includes receiving audio data communicated from the mobile communication device, the audio data representing an utterance that is intended to be at least a portion of the text of the message that is to be sent from the mobile phone to a recipient; transcribing the utterance to text based on the received audio data to generate a transcription; and applying a filter to the transcribed text to generate a filtered transcription, the text of which is intended to mimic language patterns of mobile device messaging that is performed manually by users. The method may also be applied to the audio data of a voicemail, with the filtered, transcribed text being communicated to a mobile phone as, for example, an SMS text message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2008
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Inventors: Marc WHITE, Cliff Strohofer