Patents by Inventor Kevin Colwell
Kevin Colwell 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).
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Patent number: 7319740Abstract: An arrangement for providing captioned telephone service is provided which permits persons who are hard of hearing to receive captioning of their telephone communications as they need it. A personal interpreter/captioned telephone device can dial a relay on a second telephone line while the assisted user if conversing with a hearing user over a first telephone line. The second telephone line connects to a relay which provides voice to text translation service and returns a text stream to the captioned telephone device.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2005Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Ultratec, Inc.Inventors: Robert M. Engelke, Kevin Colwell
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Publication number: 20070036282Abstract: Text captioned telephony, in which a telephone conversation is accompanied by text captions to aid in hard-of-hearing users, is implemented without the use of specialized text captioned telephone terminals by using a combination of an Internet appliance such as a computer and a telephone or by generalized voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) telephones.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2006Publication date: February 15, 2007Inventors: Robert Engelke, Kevin Colwell, Troy Vitek, Kurt Gritner
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Publication number: 20060039542Abstract: An arrangement for providing captioned telephone service is provided which permits persons who are hard of hearing to receive captioning of their telephone communications as they need it. A personal interpreter/captioned telephone device can dial a relay on a second telephone line while the assisted user if conversing with a hearing user over a first telephone line. The second telephone line connects to a relay which provides voice to text translation service and returns a text stream to the captioned telephone device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2005Publication date: February 23, 2006Inventors: Robert Engelke, Kevin Colwell
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Patent number: 7003082Abstract: An arrangement for providing captioned telephone service is provided which permits persons who are hard of hearing to receive captioning of their telephone communications as they need it. A personal interpreter/captioned telephone device can dial a relay on a second telephone line while the assisted user if conversing with a hearing user over a first telephone line. The second telephone line connects to a relay which provides voice to text translation service and returns a text stream to the captioned telephone device.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2003Date of Patent: February 21, 2006Assignee: Ultratec, Inc.Inventors: Robert M. Engelke, Kevin Colwell
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Publication number: 20050226394Abstract: Captioned telephone are devices intended to provide text captions to persons needing assistance with telephone communications. Captioned telephones provide text by using the services of a relay interposed between the assisted user and the hearing user, the relay providing the captioning for the assisted user. While captioned telephone service can be delivered over a single telephone line, if the assisted user has two telephone lines available for the captioning service, additional features and advantages are possible in the delivery of captioned telephone service to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2005Publication date: October 13, 2005Inventors: Robert Engelke, Kevin Colwell, Troy Vitek
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Patent number: 6934366Abstract: A relay is described to facilitate communication through the telephone system between hearing users and users who need or desire assistance in understanding voice communications. To overcome the speed limitations inherent in typing, the call assistant at the relay does not type most words but, instead, re-voices the words spoken by the hearing user into a computer operating a voice recognition software package trained to the voice of that call assistant. The text stream created by the computer and the voice of the hearing user are both sent to the assisted user so that the assisted user can be supplied with a visual text stream to supplement the voice communications. A time delay in the transmission of the voice of the hearing user through the relay is of assistance in the assisted user comprehending the communications session.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2002Date of Patent: August 23, 2005Assignee: Ultratec, Inc.Inventors: Robert M. Engelke, Kevin Colwell, Troy D. Vitek, Kurt M. Gritner
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Patent number: 6885731Abstract: Captioned telephone are devices intended to provide text captions to persons needing assistance with telephone communications. Captioned telephones provide text by using the services of a relay interposed between the assisted user and the hearing user, the relay providing the captioning for the assisted user. In normal operation, when the assisted user dials a number, the captioned telephone dials the relay which in turn dials the other party to the call. Here a method for operating a captioned telephone is disclosed where the captioned telephone monitors the number being called by the assisted user and, if the user is dialing emergency services (9-1-1 in the U.S.), the call to the relay is terminated and a direct connection to emergency services is initiated. This method is intended to provide the quickest and most error-free connection of the user to emergency services.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2003Date of Patent: April 26, 2005Inventors: Robert M. Engelke, Kevin Colwell, Christopher Engelke
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Patent number: 6748053Abstract: A relay is described to facilitate communication through the telephone system between deaf people and hearing people. To overcome the speed limitations inherent in typing, the call assistant at the relay does not type most words but, instead, re-voices the words spoken by the hearing person into a computer operating a voice recognition software package trained to the voice of that call assistant. The conversation-type flow of communications achieved by this type of relay enables the design of a new class of interpreters for the deaf.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2003Date of Patent: June 8, 2004Inventors: Robert M. Engelke, Kevin Colwell
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Publication number: 20040076269Abstract: Captioned telephone are devices intended to provide text captions to persons needing assistance with telephone communications. Captioned telephones provide text by using the services of a relay interposed between the assisted user and the hearing user, the relay providing the captioning for the assisted user. In normal operation, when the assisted user dials a number, the captioned telephone dials the relay which in turn dials the other party to the call. Here a method for operating a captioned telephone is disclosed where the captioned telephone monitors the number being called by the assisted user and, if the user is dialing emergency services (9-1-1 in the U.S.), the call to the relay is terminated and a direct connection to emergency services is initiated. This method is intended to provide the quickest and most error-free connection of the user to emergency services.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2003Publication date: April 22, 2004Inventors: Robert M. Engelke, Kevin Colwell, Christopher Engelke
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Publication number: 20040028191Abstract: An arrangement for providing captioned telephone service is provided which permits persons who are hard of hearing to receive captioning of their telephone communications as they need it. A personal interpreter/captioned telephone device can dial a relay on a second telephone line while the assisted user if conversing with a hearing user over a first telephone line. The second telephone line connects to a relay which provides voice to text translation service and returns a text stream to the captioned telephone device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Robert M. Engelke, Kevin Colwell
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Publication number: 20040013242Abstract: A system is described for assisting the hard of hearing in the use of the telephone, the system termed here text enhanced telephony or TET. The hard of hearing user uses a TET device or appliance which permits the user to speak and to hear the words spoken by the other party, the TET device also supplying to the user a text character stream of the words spoken by the other party. The TET system uses the system of voice-to-text relays, already in existence to assist the deaf community communicate with hearing persons over the telephone, to translate the spoken voice into a text stream. The TET relay and TET device are capable of separating voice and digital communications frequencies carrying text so that voice and a text communications stream of the words spoken by the voice can be carried over a common telephone line. The devices can also be capable of automated capabilities such that the devices can automatically configure a three-party relay call without the need for the user's instructions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2003Publication date: January 22, 2004Inventors: Robert M. Engelke, Kevin Colwell
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Publication number: 20030198320Abstract: A relay is described to facilitate communication through the telephone system between hearing users and users who need or desire assistance in understanding voice communications. To overcome the speed limitations inherent in typing, the call assistant at the relay does not type most words but, instead, re-voices the words spoken by the hearing user into a computer operating a voice recognition software package trained to the voice of that call assistant. The text stream created by the computer and the voice of the hearing user are both sent to the assisted user so that the assisted user can be supplied with a visual text stream to supplement the voice communications. A time delay in the transmission of the voice of the hearing user through the relay is of assistance in the assisted user comprehending the communications session.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2002Publication date: October 23, 2003Inventors: Robert M. Engelke, Kevin Colwell, Troy D. Vitek, Kurt M. Gritner
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Patent number: 6603835Abstract: An arrangement for providing captioned telephone service is provided which permits persons who are hard of hearing to receive captioning of their telephone communications as they need it. A personal interpreter/captioned telephone device can dial a relay on a second telephone line while the assisted user if conversing with a hearing user over a first telephone line. The second telephone line connects to a relay which provides voice to text translation service and returns a text stream to the captioned telephone device.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2001Date of Patent: August 5, 2003Assignee: Ultratec, Inc.Inventors: Robert M. Engelke, Kevin Colwell
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Publication number: 20030125952Abstract: A communication system and format is described for use in assisted telephonic communications, intended to help users who are hearing impaired use the telephone system. A relay connects a hearing user with the assisted user. The relay creates a text message stream containing the words spoken by the hearing user. The relay then combines the digital characters of the text message with packets of digitized voice spoken by the hearing user and sends the combined digital data packets to the station of the assisted user. The station of the assisted user is capable of separating the voice from the text and displaying the text for reading by the assisted user.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2003Publication date: July 3, 2003Inventors: Robert Engelke, Kevin Colwell, Troy Vitex, Jeffrey Havens, Kurt Grittner, Dean Hofstetter, Mathew McCulley
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Publication number: 20030108165Abstract: A relay is described to facilitate communication through the telephone system between deaf people and hearing people. To overcome the speed limitations inherent in typing, the call assistant at the relay does not type most words but, instead, re-voices the words spoken by the hearing person into a computer operating a voice recognition software package trained to the voice of that call assistant. The conversation-type flow of communications achieved by this type of relay enables the design of a new class of interpreters for the deaf.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2003Publication date: June 12, 2003Inventors: Robert M. Engelke, Kevin Colwell
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Patent number: 6549611Abstract: A system is described for assisting the hard of hearing in the use of the telephone, the system termed here text enhanced telephony or TET. The hard of hearing user uses a TET device or appliance which permits the user to speak and to hear the words spoken by the other party, the TET device also supplying to the user a text character stream of the words spoken by the other party. The TET system uses the system of voice-to-text relays, already in existence to assist the deaf community communicate with hearing persons over the telephone, to translate the spoken voice into a text stream. The TET relay and TET device are capable of separating voice and digital communications frequencies carrying text so that voice and a text communications stream of the words spoken by the voice can be carried over a common telephone line. The devices can also be capable of automated capabilities such that the devices can automatically configure a three-party relay call without the need for the user's instructions.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2001Date of Patent: April 15, 2003Assignee: Ultratec, Inc.Inventors: Robert M. Engelke, Kevin Colwell
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Patent number: 6510206Abstract: A relay is described to facilitate communication through the telephone system between deaf people and hearing people. To overcome the speed limitations inherent in typing, the call assistant at the relay does not type most words but, instead, re-voices the words spoken by the hearing person into a computer operating a voice recognition software package trained to the voice of that call assistant. The conversation-type flow of communications achieved by this type of relay enables the design of a new class of interpreters for the deaf.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2001Date of Patent: January 21, 2003Assignee: Ultratec, Inc.Inventors: Robert M. Engelke, Kevin Colwell
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Patent number: 6504910Abstract: A communication system and format is described for use in assisted telephonic communications, intended to help users who are hearing impaired use the telephone system. A relay connects a hearing user with the assisted user. The relay creates a text message stream containing the words spoken by the hearing user. The relay then combines the digital characters of the text message with packets of digitized voice spoken by the hearing user and sends the combined digital data packets to the station of the assisted user. The station of the assisted user is capable of separating the voice from the text and displaying the text for reading by the assisted user.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2001Date of Patent: January 7, 2003Inventors: Robert Engelke, Kevin Colwell, Troy Vitek, Jeffrey Havens, Kurt Grittner, Dean Hofstetter, Mathew McCulley
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Patent number: D763219Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Ultratec, Inc.Inventors: Robert M Engelke, Kevin Colwell, Troy Vitek, Peter Kirschhoffer
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Patent number: D772836Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2016Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Inventors: Robert M. Engelke, Kevin Colwell, Troy Vitek, Peter Kirschhoffer