Patents Examined by Lamont Spooner
  • Patent number: 9304786
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display apparatus that is provided with a button that can be used by users of different native language-types with names that are registered as character strings in language-types displayable on the display apparatus. Accordingly, when a user switches language-types to be displayed, the button is displayed with a name as a character string in the switched language-type among the registered character strings, which allows users of different native language-types to understand the button name, thus enhancing the usability of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideshi Ichimi
  • Patent number: 9298704
    Abstract: The present translation system translates visual input and/or audio input from one language into another language. Some implementations incorporate a context-based translation that uses information obtained from visual input or audio input to aid in the translation of the other input. Other implementations combine the visual and audio translation. The translation system includes visual components and/or audio components. The visual components analyze visual input to identify a textual element and translate the textual element into a translated textual element. The visual image represents a captured image of a target scene. The visual components may further substitute the translated textual element for the textual element in the captured image. The audio components convert audio input into translated audio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan J. Boyd, Binay K. Pathak
  • Patent number: 9268770
    Abstract: Systems and methods may provide proactive news analytics based on integrated prediction statements. Users may extract and collect conditional statements from research reports. A compiled list based on the processing/linking of statements for signal generation may then be created. Similarly, a list of counter statements that are assigned a conflict rating that specifies how much agreement/disagreement on a specific topic exists for the counter statement and the statement itself may be created. The custom library may have semantic capabilities to justify conditional statements in order to capture meaning and identify supporting news related to the statement. When a relevant event is detected that relates to a conditional statement, expected conclusions are linked, and customized indexes are calculated to allow for analysis of the relevant event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
  • Patent number: 9263060
    Abstract: A system for classification of the emotional content of music is provided. An encoder receives a digital audio recording of a piece of music, and encodes it using musical notes and associated amplitudes. The artificial neural network is configured to take a plurality of encoded time slices and provide output indicative of the emotional content of the music.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: MARIAN MASON PUBLISHING COMPANY, LLC
    Inventor: David A. Sharp
  • Patent number: 9240021
    Abstract: Technologies involving portable devices, such as smartphones and tablet computers, are disclosed. One arrangement enables a creator of content to select software with which that creator's content should be rendered—assuring Continuity between artistic intention and delivery. Another uses the camera of a smartphone to identify nearby subjects, and take actions based thereon. Others rely on near field chip (RFID) identification of objects, or on identification of audio streams (e.g., music, voice). Some technologies concern improvements to the user interfaces associated with such devices. Others involve use of these devices in shopping, text entry, sign language interpretation, and vision-based discovery. Still other improvements are architectural in nature, e.g., relating to evidence-based state machines, and blackboard systems. Yet other technologies concern use of linked data in portable devices—some of which exploit GPU capabilities. Still other technologies concern computational photography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Digimarc Corporation
    Inventor: Tony F. Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 9235562
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for transparent data loss prevention classifications may include 1) identifying a document that received a classification by a machine learning classifier for data loss prevention, 2) identifying at least one linguistic constituent within the document that contributed to the classification, 3) identifying a relevant passage of the document that contextualizes the linguistic constituent, and 4) displaying a user interface including the linguistic constituent in context of the relevant passage. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventor: Michael Hart
  • Patent number: 9218341
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods and systems for translating a first language text entered into a computer application to a second language text. The method comprises intercepting the first language text during a display time by a processor. Subsequently, the first language text is translated to the second language text by the processor by performing a language dictionary look-up and/or a phonetic transliteration on the first language text. Thereafter, the second language text is displayed on a display device and the first language text is stored in ANSI format in a memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Lingua Next Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
    Inventor: Rajeevlochan Phadke
  • Patent number: 9213686
    Abstract: Certain embodiments provide systems and methods for managing a form completion process. The method includes providing a user form in the selected language to a user interface. The method further includes receiving the user form with associated form answers and determining whether the selected language of the user form matches a service provider language. The method also includes queuing a work item associated with the user form with associated form answers if the selected language of the user form does not match the service provider language, and dequeuing the work item when the user form with associated form answers is provided to a translation specialist. The method includes receiving a translation of the user form with associated form answers and generating a provider form based on one or more of the user form with associated form answers and the translation of the user form with associated form answers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: WFH PROPERTIES LLC
    Inventors: Raymond Arias, Jeffery L. Wilgus, Nilmini Sunethra Wickramasinghe
  • Patent number: 9208148
    Abstract: A computer obtains a word from a word list and searches for position codes corresponding to the obtained word in a file. The computer saves remaining position codes corresponding to the obtained word into the word list. The computer converts the file according to the position codes of each word in the word list between simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese, in response to a determination that all of the words in the word list have been obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignees: Patentcloud Corporation, Patentcloud Co. Limited
    Inventors: Chung-I Lee, De-Yi Xie, Hai-Yun Chen, Zhi-Qiang Yi
  • Patent number: 9208140
    Abstract: A rule based apparatus and method for modifying word annotations in an annotated text base, the apparatus comprising: an index creator component for creating an index of word annotations; an annotations modifying component for modifying word annotations; and a retriggering component, responsive to said annotations modifying component, for retriggering a rules engine to modify all occurrences of a matching word annotation in said annotated text base and updating the index of word annotations with the modified occurrences of a matching word annotation in said annotated text base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: James Steven Luke
  • Patent number: 9201871
    Abstract: A joint optimization strategy is employed for combining translation hypotheses from multiple machine-translation systems. Decisions on word alignment, between the hypotheses, ordering, and selection of a combined translation output are made jointly in accordance with a set of features. Additional features that model alignment and ordering behavior are also provided and utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Xiaodong He, Kristina Toutanova
  • Patent number: 9201862
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include methods and systems for symbolic correction in human-machine interfaces that comprise (a) implementing a language model; (b) implementing a hypothesis model; (c) implementing an error model; and (d) processing a symbolic input message based on weighted finite-state transducers to encode 1) a set of input hypothesis using the hypothesis model, 2) the language model, and 3) the error model to perform correction on the sequential pre-segmented symbolic input message in the human-machine interface. According to a particular embodiment, the processing step comprises a combination of the language model, the hypothesis model, and the error model performed without parsing by employing a composition operation between the transducers and a lowest cost path search, exact or approximate, on the composed transducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: ASOCIACION INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DE INFORMATICA
    Inventors: Juan Carlos Pérez Cortés, Rafael Llobet Azpitarte, José Ramón Navarro Cerdán, Joaquim Francesc Arlandis Navaro
  • Patent number: 9202467
    Abstract: A method for processing a voice request for data specifying a web page, the request including a rule-based grammar statement, the method comprising identifying a grammar associated with the rule-based grammar statement, determining whether a first connection identified as being associated with the grammar is specified in a data structure identifying one or more connections, and processing the request in at least a portion of a window capable of presenting the web page and associated with the first connection if a first connection identified as being associated with the grammar is specified in the data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Michael L. Charney, Justin Starren
  • Patent number: 9195648
    Abstract: Mechanisms and methods for enabling customers to manage multi-lingual knowledge bases, so that end users can access articles based on a language the end user chooses, while also providing publishers with tools to manage articles in different languages and to translate them, either using an external vendor or leveraging in house translators, and providing administrators (knowledge managers) with the ability to setup or choose which languages are available in the knowledge base, as well as default language assignments for translations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Etienne Giraudy, Gene Rivera, Jill Blue Lin, Nicolas Paymal, Orjan Kjellberg, Natalie Doan, Mark A. Fischer, Francois Lopitaux
  • Patent number: 9189568
    Abstract: A method to facilitate a language independent search includes displaying a search attribute, including an attribute name and a selection of attribute values, to a user and receiving from the user a search attribute value selection corresponding to the attribute name. Then, the attribute name and attribute value selection are translated into language independent symbols, such as numbers. The numbers are used in a search of a sellers item listings table to select item listings with attribute values that match the search attribute values selected by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: W. Barton Munro, Jr., Dan Pritchett, Louis Monier
  • Patent number: 9189462
    Abstract: Methods and systems for checking bidirectional text in text content, such as in a web page, are provided. A method for checking bidirectional text may include determining intrinsic and declared text directions of text content. The method may also include generating a bidirectional text error based on a mismatch between the intrinsic text direction and the declared text direction. Bidirectional text errors may be reported. A system may include a walker, a bidirectional text checker and a bidirectional error reporter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Aharon Lanin, Jason Elbaum, Amir Fish
  • Patent number: 9189465
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and computer program product to document system analysis procedures. The method includes a computer receiving text in a text editor and determining that the received text is a command relevant to a system under analysis. The method further includes the computer receiving a request to execute the command, and then requesting, from the system under analysis, the output data from the executed command. The output data is then inserted into the text editor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Adam J. Pilkington
  • Patent number: 9183192
    Abstract: The translator allows input of text entries into an input box and displays the translated text in an output box. The user enters text to be translated into an input box. The translator displays the translated text in the output box. The translator utilizes a dictionary to translate the entered text. The user may personalize the dictionary by adding, removing, and/or editing entries and dictionaries into a customizable dictionary. The user may add, remove, and/or edit entries and meanings of the dictionary. The user may also merge multiple dictionaries to create a single customized dictionary. The translator enables the user to save the dictionary for later use, delete a dictionary, and print a dictionary. The user may also send a dictionary to others to assist with translation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Ruby Investments Properties LLC
    Inventors: Ralph Ruby, Jr., Paula D. Ruby
  • Patent number: 9176946
    Abstract: A clausifier and method of extracting clauses for spoken language understanding are disclosed. The method relates to generating a set of clauses from speech utterance text and comprises inserting at least one boundary tag in speech utterance text related to sentence boundaries, inserting at least one edit tag indicating a portion of the speech utterance text to remove, and inserting at least one conjunction tag within the speech utterance text. The result is a set of clauses that may be identified within the speech utterance text according to the inserted at least one boundary tag, at least one edit tag and at least one conjunction tag. The disclosed clausifier comprises a sentence boundary classifier, an edit detector classifier, and a conjunction detector classifier. The clausifier may comprise a single classifier or a plurality of classifiers to perform the steps of identifying sentence boundaries, editing text, and identifying conjunctions within the text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Srinivas Bangalore, Narendra K. Gupta, Mazin G. Rahim
  • Patent number: 9176936
    Abstract: Feature sequences are extracted, as individual letters separated by spaces, from a digital representation of a proper name in a first language to obtain a first orthographic feature sequence set; and from a digital representation of a proper name in a second language to obtain a second orthographic feature sequence set. The first and second orthographic feature sequence sets (a transliteration pair) are compared to determine a similarity score, based on a similarity model including a plurality of conditional probabilities of known orthographic feature sequences in the first language given known orthographic feature sequences in the second language and a plurality of conditional probabilities of known orthographic feature sequences in the second language given known orthographic feature sequences in the first language. Based on at least one threshold value, it is determined whether the transliteration pair belong to an identical actual proper name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ea-Ee Jan, Niyu Ge