Patents by Inventor Michele B. Gammel

Michele B. Gammel 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).

  • Patent number: 7272156
    Abstract: A Phased Transmit Architecture that allows the embedded processor of an IEEE 802.11e wireless communication device to have a significant number of additional cycles between decoding of a QoS frame and the deadlines for generating a response transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Matthew B. Shoemake, Harshal S. Chhaya, Michele B. Gammel, Khaled Turki
  • Publication number: 20030231650
    Abstract: A Phased Transmit Architecture that allows the embedded processor of an IEEE 802.11e wireless communication device to have a significant number of additional cycles between decoding of a QoS frame and the deadlines for generating a response transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2002
    Publication date: December 18, 2003
    Inventors: Matthew B. Shoemake, Harshal S. Chhaya, Michele B. Gammel, Khaled Turki
  • Patent number: 5832429
    Abstract: A method and system for enrolling speed dial names includes providing speaker dependent templates and associated telephone numbers and providing a penalized garbage model for unrecognized speech. When a request for a new template is received it is determined if the list of speed dial names is full (Step 201) and is not it is determined if that name is too similar (Step 205) to a name already on the speed dial list. If so, that name is rejected but if not it is determined if the speed dial name is too short (Step 302), and if not; too short or if the user wants to enter the short name the system asks the user to repeat the speed dial name and if a match it is entered. If not a match the system will swap the first and second utterance and compare to see if a match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Michele B. Gammel, Thomas Drew Fisher
  • Patent number: 5752231
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for performing speaker verification on a spoken utterance. The present invention includes a verification template generator (40) which generates speaker-dependent verification templates for each possible spoken item that may be in the spoken utterance. A speech recognizer (42) performs speech recognition functions on the spoken utterance. A frame mapper (44) marks the beginning and ending of each spoken item within the spoken utterance. Verification module (46) generates a verification signal in response to verifying a minimum number of the spoken items within the spoken utterance being matched with the speaker dependent verification templates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1998
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Michele B. Gammel, Joseph A. Adamo
  • Patent number: 5717738
    Abstract: A voice recognition telephone system (10) allows a user to generate a plurality of directories (76). Each directory has a corresponding entry list containing a plurality of entry names and corresponding phone numbers. The user can add (172) or remove (170) entry names as desired. The user can enter phone numbers (192) for each entry name and modify phone numbers as desired. The user can also place a call (158) through a generated entry name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1998
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventor: Michele B. Gammel
  • Patent number: 5461666
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for configuring a telephone (10). A connection (20) is formed between the telephone (10) and a telephone environment (60). A list of services offerable through at least one type of telephone environment is generated (100). A list of candidate procedures for establishing each listed service through the telephone environment is generated (102). Ones of the listed procedures are executed (104) to determine whether each listed service is supported by the connection (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1995
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael L. McMahan, Michele B. Gammel
  • Patent number: 5402477
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for configuring a telephone (10). A connection (20) is formed between the telephone (10) and a telephone environment (60). A list of services offerable through the telephone environment is generated (100). A list of candidate procedures for establishing each listed service through the telephone environment is generated (102). At least one of the listed procedures is executed (104) for each listed service to determine whether the listed service is supported by the connection (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Inventors: Michael L. McMahan, Michele B. Gammel