Patents by Inventor Barbara Buda
Barbara Buda 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).
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Patent number: 10346878Abstract: A system, method and computer-readable medium are disclosed for presenting an advertisement message associated with a multi-media message. The multi-media message is prepared by a sender using text and sender inserted emoticons in the text, and delivered audibly by an animated entity. The method uses a plurality of stored advertising messages from which to choose and advertising message to display. The method includes performing an emoticon analysis of the emoticons inserted by the sender, choosing an advertising message from the plurality of stored advertising messages according to the emoticon analysis and displaying the chosen advertising message.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2008Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.Inventors: Joern Ostermann, Mehmet Reha Civanlar, Barbara Buda, Thomas M. Isaacson
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Patent number: 9536544Abstract: A system and method of creating a customized multi-media message to a recipient is disclosed. The multi-media message is created by a sender and contains an animated entity that delivers an audible message. The sender chooses the animated entity from a plurality of animated entities. The system receives a text message from the sender and receives a sender audio message associated with the text message. The sender audio message is associated with the chosen animated entity to create the multi-media message. The multi-media message is delivered by the animated entity using as the voice the sender audio message wherein the mouth movements of the animated entity conform to the sender audio message.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2015Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Joern Ostermann, Mehmet Reha Civanlar, Barbara Buda, Claudio Lande
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Publication number: 20160086620Abstract: A system and method of creating a customized multi-media message to a recipient is disclosed. The multi-media message is created by a sender and contains an animated entity that delivers an audible message. The sender chooses the animated entity from a plurality of animated entities. The system receives a text message from the sender and receives a sender audio message associated with the text message. The sender audio message is associated with the chosen animated entity to create the multi-media message. The multi-media message is delivered by the animated entity using as the voice the sender audio message wherein the mouth movements of the animated entity conform to the sender audio message.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2015Publication date: March 24, 2016Inventors: Joern OSTERMANN, Mehmet Reha CIVANLAR, Barbara BUDA, Claudio LANDE
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Patent number: 9230561Abstract: A system and method of creating a customized multi-media message to a recipient is disclosed. The multi-media message is created by a sender and contains an animated entity that delivers an audible message. The sender chooses the animated entity from a plurality of animated entities. The system receives a text message from the sender and receives a sender audio message associated with the text message. The sender audio message is associated with the chosen animated entity to create the multi-media message. The multi-media message is delivered by the animated entity using as the voice the sender audio message wherein the mouth movements of the animated entity conform to the sender audio message.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2013Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Joern Ostermann, Mehmet Reha Civanlar, Barbara Buda, Claudio Lande
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Publication number: 20140172425Abstract: A system and method of creating a customized multi-media message to a recipient is disclosed. The multi-media message is created by a sender and contains an animated entity that delivers an audible message. The sender chooses the animated entity from a plurality of animated entities. The system receives a text message from the sender and receives a sender audio message associated with the text message. The sender audio message is associated with the chosen animated entity to create the multi-media message. The multi-media message is delivered by the animated entity using as the voice the sender audio message wherein the mouth movements of the animated entity conform to the sender audio message.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2013Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Joern OSTERMANN, Mehmet Reha CIVANLAR, Barbara Buda, Claudio Lande
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Patent number: 8521533Abstract: A system and method of creating a customized multi-media message to a recipient is disclosed. The multi-media message is created by a sender and contains an animated entity that delivers an audible message. The sender chooses the animated entity from a plurality of animated entities. The system receives a text message from the sender and receives a sender audio message associated with the text message. The sender audio message is associated with the chosen animated entity to create the multi-media message. The multi-media message is delivered by the animated entity using as the voice the sender audio message wherein the mouth movements of the animated entity conform to the sender audio message.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2007Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Joern Ostermann, Mehmet Reha Civanlar, Barbara Buda, Claudio Lande
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Publication number: 20080040227Abstract: A system method of advertising using a multi-media application system is disclosed. The multi-media application relates to the delivery of multi-media messages using animated entities that audibly deliver messages created by a sender using text-to-speech technologies. The method provides targeted advertising based on information learned about both the sender of a multi-media message and the recipient of the multi-media message. The information may relate to an analysis of a text message created by the sender, emoticons chosen by the sender and inserted into the text of the message, the choice by the sender of an animated entity, or other parameters such as background music chosen for which template is chosen by the sender. Advertising messages may be delivered before the recipient receives the multi-media message, during the reception by the recipient of the multi-media message or following the reception of the multi-media message.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2007Publication date: February 14, 2008Applicant: AT&T Corp.Inventors: Joern Ostermann, Mehmet Civanlar, Barbara Buda, Thomas Isaacson
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Patent number: 7203648Abstract: A system and method of creating a customized multi-media message to a recipient is disclosed. The multi-media message is created by a sender and contains an animated entity that delivers an audible message. The sender chooses the animated entity from a plurality of animated entities. The system receives a text message from the sender and receives a sender audio message associated with the text message. The sender audio message is associated with the chosen animated entity to create the multi-media message. The multi-media message is delivered by the animated entity using as the voice the sender audio message wherein the mouth movements of the animated entity conform to the sender audio message.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2001Date of Patent: April 10, 2007Assignee: AT&T Corp.Inventors: Joern Ostermann, Mehmet Reha Civanlar, Barbara Buda, Claudio Lande
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Patent number: 7177811Abstract: A method is provided for customizing a multi-media message created by a sender for a recipient, in which the multi-media message includes an animated entity audibly presenting speech converted from text by the sender. At least one image is received from the sender. Each of the at least one image is associated with a tag. The sender is presented with options to insert the tag associated with one of the at least one image into the sender text.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2006Date of Patent: February 13, 2007Assignee: AT&T Corp.Inventors: Joern Ostermann, Barbara Buda, Mehmet Reha Civanlar, Eric Cosatto, Hans Peter Graf, Thomas M. Isaacson, Yann Andre LeCun
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Patent number: 7035803Abstract: A system and method of providing sender customization of multi-media messages through the use of inserted images or video. The images or video may be sender-created or predefined and available to the sender via a web server. The method relates to customizing a multi-media message created by a sender for a recipient, the multi-media message having an animated entity audibly presenting speech converted from text created by the sender. The method comprises receiving at least one image from the sender, associating each at least one image with a tag, presenting the sender with options to insert the tag associated with one of the at least one image into the sender text, and after the sender inserts the tag associated with one of the at least one images into the sender text, delivering the multi-media message with the at least one image presented as background to the animated entity according to a position of the tag associated with the at least one image in the sender text.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2001Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: AT&T Corp.Inventors: Joern Ostermann, Barbara Buda, Mehmet Reha Civanlar, Eric Cosatto, Hans Peter Graf, Thomas M. Isaacson, Yann Andre LeCun