Patents Examined by Vijay B. Chawan
  • Patent number: 11914925
    Abstract: A computer-implemented input-method editor process includes receiving a request from a user for an application-independent input method editor having written and spoken input capabilities, identifying that the user is about to provide spoken input to the application-independent input method editor, and receiving a spoken input from the user. The spoken input corresponds to input to an application and is converted to text that represents the spoken input. The text is provided as input to the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Brandon M. Ballinger, Johan Schalkwyk, Michael H. Cohen, William J. Byrne, Gudmundur Hafsteinsson, Michael J. Lebeau
  • Patent number: 11915699
    Abstract: Systems and methods for account data association with voice interface devices are disclosed. For example, when a host user/primary user and guest user have consented for account data to be associated with the primary user's devices, a request to associate the account data may be received. Voice and device-based authentication may be performed to confirm the identity of the guest user and the guest user's account data may be associated with the primary user's devices. During a guest session, voice recognition may be utilized to determine if a given user utterance is from the guest user or the primary user, and actions may be performed by the voice interface device accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Szymon Grzegorz Trapp, Martin Patrick Butler, Manikanta Babu Karanam, Nicholas Jeffrey Anderson, Boya Hu, Zhengyang Wu, Fnu Palak, James Marlotte
  • Patent number: 11900935
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include security systems and methods for securing an electronic device. In some embodiments, the security system may include an electronic device including surveillance components, including a microphone and a camera. The security device may be secured to the electronic device in a way that blocks or interferes with one or more of these surveillance components. Additionally, the security device may be placed near or on the electronic device. The security device may also include security components to distort sounds from a sound source to be detected by the microphone. As a result, this may prevent third parties from at least remotely streaming or recording live audio and/or video from various audio and video recording components present on the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Insight Holding Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Kimberly Christopher, James Christopher, Ken Tirman
  • Patent number: 11900936
    Abstract: An electronic device may capture a voice command from a user. The electronic device may store contextual information about the state of the electronic device when the voice command is received. The electronic device may transmit the voice command and the contextual information to computing equipment such as a desktop computer or a remote server. The computing equipment may perform a speech recognition operation on the voice command and may process the contextual information. The computing equipment may respond to the voice command. The computing equipment may also transmit information to the electronic device that allows the electronic device to respond to the voice command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Aram M. Lindahl
  • Patent number: 11900944
    Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate to a system that employs an automated assistant to further interactions between a user and another application, which can provide the automated assistant with permission to initialize relevant application actions simultaneous to the user interacting with the other application. Furthermore, the system can allow the automated assistant to initialize actions of different applications, despite being actively operating a particular application. Available actions can be gleaned by the automated assistant using various application-specific schemas, which can be compared with incoming requests from a user to the automated assistant. Additional data, such as context and historical interactions, can also be used to rank and identify a suitable application action to be initialized via the automated assistant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Denis Burakov, Behshad Behzadi, Mario Bertschler, Bohdan Vlasyuk, Daniel Cotting, Michael Golikov, Lucas Mirelmann, Steve Cheng, Sergey Nazarov, Zaheed Sabur, Marcin Nowak-Przygodzki, Mugurel Ionut Andreica, Radu Voroneanu
  • Patent number: 11893988
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a speech control method, a speech control apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring target audio data sent by a client, the target audio data including audio data collected by the client within a target duration before wake-up and audio data collected by the client after wake-up; performing speech recognition on the target audio data; and controlling the client based on an instruction recognized from a second audio segment of the target audio data in response to recognizing a wake-up word from a first audio segment at beginning of the target audio data; in which, the second audio segment is later than the first audio segment or has an overlapping portion with the first audio segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Song Yang, Saisai Zou, Jieyi Cao, Junyao Shao
  • Patent number: 11887601
    Abstract: System and method for providing presence of modifications in user dictation are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain primary audio information representing sound, including speech from a recording user, captured by a client computing platform; perform speech recognition on the primary audio information to generate a textual transcript; effectuate presentation of the transcript to the recording user; receive user input from the recording user; alter, based on the received user input from the recording user, a portion of the transcript to generate an altered transcript; effectuate presentation of the altered transcript in conjunction with audio playback of at least some of the primary audio information in a reviewing interface on a client computing platform; receive user input from the reviewing user; alter, based on the received user input from the reviewing user, portions of the altered transcript to generate a reviewed transcript; and store the reviewed transcript in electronic storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Suki AI, Inc.
    Inventor: Matt Pallakoff
  • Patent number: 11887595
    Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to allowing users to employ voice-based human-to-computer dialog to program automated assistants with customized routines, or “dialog routines,” that can later be invoked to accomplish task(s). In various implementations, a first free form natural language input—that identifies a command to be mapped to a task and slot(s) required to be filled with values to fulfill the task—may be received from a user. A dialog routine may be stored that includes a mapping between the command and the task, and which accepts, as input, value(s) to fill the slot(s). Subsequent free form natural language input may be received from the user to (i) invoke the dialog routine based on the mapping, and/or (ii) to identify value(s) to fill the slot(s). Data indicative of at least the value(s) may be transmitted to a remote computing device for fulfillment of the task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Mihai Danila, Albry Smither
  • Patent number: 11880652
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for identifying hypocrisy in text. A computer system creates, from fragments of text, a syntactic tree that represents syntactic relationships between words in the fragments. The system identifies, in the syntactic tree, a first entity and a second entity. The system further determines that the first entity is opposite to the second entity. The system further determines a first sentiment score for a first fragment comprising the first entity and a second sentiment score for a second fragment comprising the second entity. The system, responsive to determining that the first sentiment score and the second sentiment score indicate opposite emotions, identifies the text as comprising hypocrisy and providing the text to an external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventor: Boris Galitsky
  • Patent number: 11869536
    Abstract: Techniques for automatically muting or unmuting an acoustic transducer include receiving a signal representing an output by a voice accelerometer of a device, determining whether the signal is indicative of a presence or absence of voice activity by a user of the device, and generating a control signal that causes an acoustic transducer to be muted responsive to determining that the signal is indicative of an absence of voice activity by the user, or that causes the acoustic transducer to be unmuted response to determining that the signal is indicative of a presence of voice activity by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Roberto Condorelli, Lorenzo Ponzanelli, Shin Nagpal
  • Patent number: 11862163
    Abstract: A method of controlling a battery-powered remote controller to decrease a duty cycle to allow continued operations despite the quantity of the battery is bad determines a drop in voltage of the battery in standby mode as voltage of the battery is being read. When receiving a command to activate a voice function, determining whether the drop in voltage in standby mode is greater than or equal to a preset value. If yes, the method then determines whether the drop in voltage falls in a preset range. If yes, the method regulates a duty cycle of the pulse signal activating the voice function, and activates the voice function as required. A remote controller and a non-transitory storage medium are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Nanning FuLian FuGui Precision Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huang-Yu Chiang, Chung-Chih Yeh
  • Patent number: 11830498
    Abstract: A voice recognition method includes the following steps. An audio and a correct result are received. The audio is recognized, and a text file corresponding to the audio is output. The word error rate is determined by comparing the text file to the correct result. The word error rate is adjusted according to the weight of at least one important word, in order to calculate a professional score that corresponds to the text file. A determination is made as to whether the professional score is higher than a score threshold. In response to the professional score is higher than the score threshold, the text file, the audio, or the correct result corresponding to the professional score is sent to an engine training module for training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Wistron Corp.
    Inventor: Zheng-De Liu
  • Patent number: 11823678
    Abstract: Techniques for determining a command or intent likely to be subsequently invoked by a user of a system are described. A user inputs a command (either via a spoken utterance or textual input) to a system. The system determines content responsive to the command. The system also determines a second command or corresponding intent likely to be invoked by the user subsequent to the previous command. Such determination may involve analyzing pairs of intents, with each pair being associated with a probability that one intent of the pair will be invoked by a user subsequent to a second intent of the pair. The system then outputs first content responsive to the first command and second content soliciting the user as to whether the system to execute the second command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Anjishnu Kumar, Xing Fan, Arpit Gupta, Ruhi Sarikaya
  • Patent number: 11823675
    Abstract: The present disclosure is generally related to a data processing system to process data packets in a voice activated computer network environment. The data processing system can improve the efficiency of the network by generating non-video data responses to voice commands received from a client device if a display associated with a client device is in an OFF state. A digital assistant application executed on the client device can send to the data processing system client device configuration data, which includes the state of the display device, among status data of other components of the client device. The data processing system can receive a current volume of speakers associated with the client device, and set a volume level for the client device based on the current volume level and a minimum response volume level at the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Jian Wei Leong
  • Patent number: 11823676
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for resuming a partially completed action that is to be performed by an automated assistant. The action can require the automated assistant to prompt the user to provide information that the automated assistant can use to complete the action. During a dialog session in which the user is providing the information, an event can occur that interferes with the completion of the action. In response, the automated assistant can cause any information obtained during the dialog session to be stored locally, in order that the automated assistant can resume completing the action at a later time. For instance, the user can be prompted by the automated assistant to complete the action, or the user can independently invoke the automated assistant to complete the action at a time that is convenient for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Vikram Aggarwal, Moises Morgenstern Gali
  • Patent number: 11790178
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the disclosure are directed to context aggregation in a data communications network. According to a specific example, user-data communications between a client-specific endpoint device and the other participating endpoint device during a first time period can be retrieved from a plurality of interconnected data communications systems. The client station can be configured and arranged to interface with a data communications server providing data communications services on a subscription basis. Context information for each respective user-data communication between the client station and the participating station during the first time period can be aggregated, such that subsequent user-data communications received from the participating station and intended for the client entity, can be routed based on the aggregated context information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: 8x8, Inc.
    Inventors: Ali Arsanjani, Bryan R. Martin, Manu Mukerji, Venkat Nagaswamy, Marshall Lincoln
  • Patent number: 11790180
    Abstract: A system for determining context and intent in a conversation using machine learning (ML) based artificial intelligence (AI) in omni channel data communications is disclosed. The system may comprise a data store to store and manage data within a network, a server to facilitate operations using information from the one or more data stores, and a ML-based AI subsystem to communicate with the server and the data store in the network. The ML-based AI subsystem may comprise a data access interface to receive data associated with a conversation with a user via a communication channel. The ML-based AI subsystem may comprise a processor to provide a proactive, adaptive, and intelligent conversation by applying hierarchical multi-intent data labeling framework, training at least one model with training data, and generating and deploying a production-ready model based on the trained and retained at least one model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: CONTACTENGINE LIMITED
    Inventors: Andrew Mark Ayers, Giles Bryan, Mark Kingsley Smith
  • Patent number: 11783835
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing product recommendations to a user may include receiving audio data from a user device. The audio data may include human speech from a user associated with the user device. The method may further include: performing a speech-to-text process on the audio data to determine text; segmenting the text into discrete conceptual units; identifying keywords that correspond words in the text; associating keywords with the conceptual units having the corresponding words; performing a first analysis process on the conceptual units to determine a first score; performing a second analysis process portions of the human speech correlated with the conceptual units to determine a second score; determining a keyword score for each keyword based on the first and second scores of the conceptual units; determining a product recommendation based on the keywords associated with conceptual units and the corresponding keyword scores; and causing the user device to output the recommendation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Chih-Hsiang Chow, Steven Dang, Elizabeth Furlan
  • Patent number: 11783826
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving one or more inputs indicative of at least one of: a relative location of a speaker and a microphone array, and a relative orientation of the speaker and the microphone array. One or more reference signals may be received. A speech processing system may be trained using the one or more inputs and the one or more reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick A. Naylor, Dushyant Sharma, Uwe Helmut Jost, William F. Ganong, III
  • Patent number: 11776556
    Abstract: A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for an all-deep-learning based AEC system by recurrent neural networks. The model consists of two stages, echo estimation stage and echo suppression stage, respectively. Two different schemes for echo estimation are presented herein: linear echo estimation by multi-tap filtering on far-end reference signal and non-linear echo estimation by single-tap masking on microphone signal. A microphone signal waveform and a far-end reference signal waveform are received. An echo signal waveform is estimated based on the microphone signal waveform and a far-end reference signal waveform. A near-end speech signal waveform is output based on subtracting the estimated echo signal waveform from the microphone signal waveform, and echoes are suppressed within the near-end speech signal waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Meng Yu, Dong Yu