Patents by Inventor Ann Marie G. Maynard

Ann Marie G. Maynard 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).

  • Multilingual asynchronous communications of speech messages recorded in digital media files
    Patent number: 8594995
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided multilingual for asynchronous communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: William K. Bodin, David Jaramillo, Ann Marie G. Maynard
  • Multilingual administration of enterprise data with user selected target language translation
    Patent number: 8249857
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided multilingual administration of enterprise data. Embodiments include retrieving enterprise data; extracting text from the enterprise data for rendering from a digital media file, the extracted text being in a source language; prompting a user to select a target language; receiving from the user a selection of a target language; translating the extracted text in the source language to translated text in the target language; converting the translated text to synthesized speech in the target language; and recording the synthesized speech in the target language in a digital media file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William K. Bodin, David Jaramillo, Ann Marie G. Maynard
  • Multilingual administration of enterprise data with default target languages
    Patent number: 8249858
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for multilingual administration of enterprise data. Embodiments include retrieving enterprise data; extracting text from the enterprise data for rendering from digital media file, the extracted text being in a source language; identifying that the source language is not a predetermined default target language for rendering the enterprise data; translating the extracted text in the source language to translated text in the default target language; converting the translated text to synthesized speech in the default target language; and storing the synthesized speech in the default target language in a digital media file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William K. Bodin, David Jaramillo, Ann Marie G. Maynard