Patents Examined by Richemond Dorvil
  • Patent number: 9892723
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described herein for generating an audible presentation of a communication received from a remote server. A presentation of a media asset on a user equipment device is generated for a first user. A textual-based communication is received, at the user equipment device from the remote server. The textual-based communication is transmitted to the remote server by a second user and the remote server transmits the textual-based communication to the user equipment device responsive to determining that the second user is on a list of users associated with the first user. An engagement level of the first user with the user equipment device is determined. Responsive to determining that the engagement level does not exceed a threshold value, a presentation of the textual-based communication is generated in audible form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventor: William Korbecki
  • Patent number: 9881009
    Abstract: Techniques are described for identifying book title sets. The techniques may include a first-pass comparison with other books to identify other candidate title sets. A second-pass comparison may then be performed with respect to the candidate title sets. The first-pass comparison may be based on book metadata such as titles and authorship. The second-pass comparison may include a more comprehensive content comparison, such as comparing the body text of the books.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher F. Weight, Andrew D. Birkett, Janna Hamaker, Tom Killalea, Alexander William Robb Nelson
  • Patent number: 9871916
    Abstract: A system and methods is provided for providing SIP based voice transcription services. A computer implemented method includes: transcribing a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) based conversation between one or more users from voice to text transcription; identifying each of the one or more users that are speaking using a device SIP_ID of the one or more users; marking the identity of the one or more users that are speaking in the text transcription; and providing the text transcription of the speaking user to non-speaking users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John R. Dingler, Sri Ramanathan, Matthew A. Terry, Matthew B. Trevathan
  • Patent number: 9872066
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a data rate in a data client for a digital audio broadcasting system includes a buffer for storing data, a codec for coding data, and a control module for controlling a bit rate of the codec in response to a level of the data in the buffer. A method performed by the apparatus is also included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Ibiquity Digital Corporation
    Inventor: Russell Iannuzzelli
  • Patent number: 9830314
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for performing tabular data correction in a document. The mechanisms receive a natural language document comprising a portion of content and analyze the portion of content within the natural language document to identify an erroneous sub-portion comprising an erroneous or missing item of information. The mechanisms generate a semantic signature for the erroneous sub-portion and generate a query based on the semantic signature. The mechanisms apply the query to a knowledge base to identify a candidate sub-portion of content. The mechanisms correct the erroneous sub-portion using the identified candidate sub-portion of content to generate a corrected natural language document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donna K. Byron, Alexander Pikovsky, Abhishek Shivkumar, Timothy P. Winkler
  • Patent number: 9817809
    Abstract: A system and method for homonym treatment in a speech recognition system and method are provided. The system and method for homonym treatment in a speech recognition system may be used in a mobile wireless communication devices that are voice operated after their initial activation. The system may use a voice command interpreter to identify a correct interpretation for a received word that has one or more homonyms based on the received word and the one or more pieces of grammar for the word includes the inserted information about the one or more homonyms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: VOCERA COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Robert E. Shostak
  • Patent number: 9798720
    Abstract: A system and method for hybrid machine translation approach is based on a statistical transfer approach using statistical and linguistic features. The system and method may be used to translate from one language into another. The system may include at least one database, a rule based translation module, a statistical translation module and a hybrid machine translation engine. The database(s) store source and target text and rule based language models and statistical language models. The rule based translation module translates source text based on the rule based language models. The statistical translation module translates source text based on the statistical language models. A hybrid machine translation engine, having a maximum entropy algorithm, is coupled to the rule based translation module and the statistical translation module and is capable of translating source text into target text based on the rule based and statistical language models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Hassan Sawaf, Mohammad Shihadah, Mudar Yaghi
  • Patent number: 9792283
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for presenting statistical analysis in a natural language textual output comprising: receiving data to be analyzed by the processor; processing the data according to at least one of a plurality of pre-established statistical analysis types, thereby providing processed data; interpreting the processed data by analyzing the processed data to provide a pre-determined natural language text, thereby providing interpreted data; and generating a natural language textual output for the interpreted data according to at least one pre-established rule for converting the interpreted data to a natural language textual output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: INTELLECTUS STATISTICS, LLC
    Inventors: James A. Lani, Melissa Moran
  • Patent number: 9786296
    Abstract: A method, performed in an electronic device, for assigning a target keyword to a function is disclosed. In this method, a list of a plurality of target keywords is received at the electronic device via a communication network, and a particular target keyword is selected from the list of target keywords. Further, the method may include receiving a keyword model for the particular target keyword via the communication network. In this method, the particular target keyword is assigned to a function of the electronic device such that the function is performed in response to detecting the particular target keyword based on the keyword model in an input sound received at the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Taesu Kim, Minsub Lee
  • Patent number: 9779731
    Abstract: An audio processing system configured to generate, based at least in part on captured sound, an audio signal that includes a speech component corresponding to a user's speech utterance and an audio component corresponding to audio output of another device is described herein. The audio processing system is also configured to receive a reference signal that corresponds to the audio output of the other device. The reference signal may be received as ultrasonic audio output of the other device or from a remote server. The audio processing device then processes the generated audio signal to remove at least a part of the generated audio signal that corresponds to the reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Menashe Haskin, Kavitha Velusamy
  • Patent number: 9779079
    Abstract: A method for supervising text includes receiving input text in a natural language, the input text including at least one source sentence. The input text is analyzed, which includes, for a source sentence in the input text, generating a syntacetic representation. A target sentence is generated in the same natural language, based on the syntacetic representation. The source sentence is compared with the target sentence to determine whether there is a match. A decision is output, based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Claude Roux, Jean-Yves Vion-Dury
  • Patent number: 9755770
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method, a device and a system of generation of a modified digital media file based on encoding of a digital media file with decodable data such that the decodable data is indistinguishable through a human ear from a primary audio stream. In one embodiment, a method includes validating a user as a publisher, associating a response action to a message of the user, using a processor and a memory, generating a unique identifier through a hash function applied to the response action, encoding a digital media file with a decodable data using the unique identifier such that the decodable data is indistinguishable from a primary audio stream through a human ear, and generating a modified digital media file based on the encoding of the message with the decodable data such that the decodable data is indistinguishable from a primary audio stream through the human ear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: MYMINFO PTY LTD.
    Inventor: Roland Storti
  • Patent number: 9740681
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, program product, and system, for extracting pieces of text from a plurality of pieces of text. The method includes: primarily evaluating a measure of positive expressions and a measure of negative expressions included in each of pieces of text; secondarily evaluating each of the pieces of text on the basis of a plurality of evaluation functions, where certain evaluation functions among the plurality of evaluation functions include, as variables, the measure of positive expressions and the measure of negative expressions; and extracting a piece of text having an evaluation result with a higher rating in preference to a piece of text having an evaluation result with a lower rating, where the individual evaluation results are based on the same evaluation function among the plurality of evaluation functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kanayama, Takuma Murakami, Daisuke Takuma
  • Patent number: 9741342
    Abstract: A dictation device includes: an audio input device configured to receive a voice utterance including a plurality of words; a video input device configured to receive video of lip motion during the voice utterance; a memory portion; a controller configured according to instructions in the memory portion to generate first data packets including an audio stream representative of the voice utterance and a video stream representative of the lip motion; and a transceiver for sending the first data packets to a server end device and receiving second data packets including combined dictation based upon the audio stream and the video stream from the server end device. In the combined dictation, first dictation generated based upon the audio stream has been corrected by second dictation generated based upon the video stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yuichiro Takayanagi, Masashi Kusaka
  • Patent number: 9740685
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a method, apparatus and program product and for generating a natural language processing model for an information domain. The method derives a skeleton of a natural language lexicon from a source model and uses it to form a dictionary. It also applies a set of syntactical rules defining concepts and relationships to the dictionary and expands the skeleton of the natural language lexicon based on a plurality of reference documents from the information domain. Using the expanded skeleton of the natural language lexicon, it also provides a natural language processing model for the information domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Beaurpere, David Kearns, Daniel McCloskey
  • Patent number: 9734820
    Abstract: A system, method and computer-readable storage device which balance latency and accuracy of machine translations by segmenting the speech upon locating a conjunction. The system, upon receiving speech, will buffer speech until a conjunction is detected. Upon detecting a conjunction, the speech received until that point is segmented. The system then continues performing speech recognition on the segment, searching for the next conjunction, while simultaneously initiating translation of the segment. Upon translating the segment, the system converts the translation to a speech output, allowing a user to hear an audible translation of the speech originally heard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Srinivas Bangalore, John Chen
  • Patent number: 9721585
    Abstract: A processing buffer unit stores an audio signal. A pitch calculation unit and a pitch cycle correction unit calculate a multiple of N as the number of samples in a pitch cycle of the audio signal, in which N is an integer equal to or more than 1. A processing control unit and a start-position movement amount correction unit sequentially determine, as a sample in a start position of a compression process in a time axis domain of the audio signal, a (multiple of N)-th sample from a start position immediately before the start position. An operation unit compresses samples in a predetermined number times the pitch cycle from the sample in the start position in a time axis domain, and sets the number of samples after the compression to be the multiple of N. The present technology, for example, may be applied to an audio signal processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Inoue, Akihiro Mukai
  • Patent number: 9721563
    Abstract: A speech recognition system uses, in one embodiment, an extended phonetic dictionary that is obtained by processing words in a user's set of databases, such as a user's contacts database, with a set of pronunciation guessers. The speech recognition system can use a conventional phonetic dictionary and the extended phonetic dictionary to recognize speech inputs that are user requests to use the contacts database, for example, to make a phone call, etc. The extended phonetic dictionary can be updated in response to changes in the contacts database, and the set of pronunciation guessers can include pronunciation guessers for a plurality of locales, each locale having its own pronunciation guesser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Devang K. Naik
  • Patent number: 9711148
    Abstract: A processing system receives an audio signal encoding an utterance and determines that a first portion of the audio signal corresponds to a predefined phrase. The processing system accesses one or more text-dependent models associated with the predefined phrase and determines a first confidence based on the one or more text-dependent models associated with the predefined phrase, the first confidence corresponding to a first likelihood that a particular speaker spoke the utterance. The processing system determines a second confidence for a second portion of the audio signal using one or more text-independent models, the second confidence corresponding to a second likelihood that the particular speaker spoke the utterance. The processing system then determines that the particular speaker spoke the utterance based at least in part on the first confidence and the second confidence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Dominik Roblek
  • Patent number: 9704486
    Abstract: Power consumption for a computing device may be managed by one or more keywords. For example, if an audio input obtained by the computing device includes a keyword, a network interface module and/or an application processing module of the computing device may be activated. The audio input may then be transmitted via the network interface module to a remote computing device, such as a speech recognition server. Alternately, the computing device may be provided with a speech recognition engine configured to process the audio input for on-device speech recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth John Basye, Hugh Evan Secker-Walker, Tony David, Reinhard Kneser, Jeffrey Penrod Adams, Stan Weidner Salvador, Mahesh Krishnamoorthy