Patents Examined by Anne L Thomas-Homescu
  • Patent number: 9946511
    Abstract: Provided is a method for user training of an information dialog system. The method may include activating a user input subsystem, receiving a training request entered by the user, converting the training request into text by the user input subsystem, sending the text of the training request obtained as a result of the conversion to a dialog module, processing the text of the training request by the dialog module, forming a response to the training request by the dialog module, and sending the response to the training request to the user. The response to the training request may be formed in a form of one or more of the following: a voice cue, a text, and an action performed by the information dialog system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Ilya Genadevich Gelfenbeyn, Olga Aleksandrovna Gelfenbeyn, Artem Goncharuk, Ilya Andreevich Platonov, Pavel Aleksandrovich Sirotin
  • Patent number: 9947315
    Abstract: A method and system for an onboard reporting system capable of detecting keywords in voice data and considering the keywords in combination with respective predefined instructions is provided. The provided system uses, for each keyword, predefined instructions to validate the keyword prior to sending a report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Homey Du, Bin Zhang
  • Patent number: 9942396
    Abstract: Workflows are provided that enable documents to be distributed, assented to, and otherwise interacted with on an aural and/or oral basis. Such workflows can be implemented so as to allow a recipient to receive, understand, and interact with a document using conventional components such as the microphone and speaker provided by a telephone. For instance, in one embodiment a document originator may send a document to a recipient with a request for an electronic signature. The document may include an audio version of the document terms. The recipient can listen to the audio version of the document terms and record an electronic signature that represents assent to such terms. An electronic signature server can record the recipient's electronic signature and incorporate it into the document, such that it forms part of the electronic document just as a traditional handwritten signature forms part of a signed paper document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventor: Benjamin D. Follis
  • Patent number: 9922651
    Abstract: A method includes detecting an initiation command to begin outputting text data received from a voice recognition system to a text buffer of an aircraft. The method includes recognizing user speech as the text data and outputting the text data to the text buffer for presentation to a user. The method further includes detecting an end command to end outputting the text data received from the voice recognition system to the text buffer. The method also includes receiving a confirmation input from the user, the confirmation input indicating that the user has confirmed accuracy of the text data of the text buffer. The method additionally includes receiving a destination selection from the user, the destination selection indicating a destination selected by the user for the text data of the text buffer. The method further includes outputting the text data of the text buffer to the destination selected by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Brent J. Nelson, David A. Gribble
  • Patent number: 9916835
    Abstract: A digital wireless audio transmission system having a wireless receiving unit for wirelessly receiving a high-frequency signal. An HF analysis unit analyzes the received high-frequency data, detects errors in the transmission within a time window, and outputs the received data and first items of information in respect of the detected errors. A decoding unit converts/decodes the received high-frequency data into audio data. An error detection unit checks errors in the conversion of the decoding unit within a previously established time window and outputs second items of information in respect of errors during decoding of the received high-frequency data. An error rate is determined based on the first and second items of information. If the error rate exceeds a first threshold value then no audio signal is outputted. Only if the error rate falls below a second value, lower than the first value, is an audio output is then again effected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Tom-Fabian Frey, Satheesh Sukumar, Sven Wachtendorf