Patents by Inventor Jose L. Elizondo-Cecenas

Jose L. Elizondo-Cecenas 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).

  • System and method for developing interactive speech applications
    Patent number: 6173266
    Abstract: Dialogue modules are provided, with each dialogue module includes computer readable instructions for accomplishing a predefined interactive dialogue task in an interactive speech application. In response to user input, a subset of the plurality of dialogue modules are selected to accomplish their respective interactive dialogue tasks in the interactive speech application and are interconnected in an order defining the call flow of the application, and the application is generated. A graphical user interface represents the stored plurality of dialogue modules as icons in a graphical display in which icons for the subset of dialogue modules are selected in the graphical display in response to user input, the icons for the subset of dialogue modules are graphically interconnected into a graphical representation of the call flow of the interactive speech application, and the interactive speech application is generated based upon the graphical representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: SpeechWorks International, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew T. Marx, Jerry K. Carter, Michael S. Phillips, Mark A. Holthouse, Stephen D. Seabury, Jose L. Elizondo-Cecenas, Brett D. Phaneuf