Patents by Inventor Catherine Keefauver Laws

Catherine Keefauver Laws 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).

  • Patent number: 8028226
    Abstract: The present invention provides for analyzing document content for display with reduced cognitive load assists those who are blind, have low vision, or cognitive problems. This present invention also aids those who prefer to receive condensed information orally. Document content is analyzed, a set of salient words and phrases are generated from the document content and the set of salient words and phrases are read.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Branimir Konstantinov Boguraev, Jani Gabriel Byrne, Catherine Keefauver Laws, Robert Bruce Mahaffey, Mary Susan Neff
  • Publication number: 20080215969
    Abstract: The present invention provides for analyzing document content for display with reduced cognitive load assists those who are blind, have low vision, or cognitive problems. This present invention also aids those who prefer to receive condensed information orally. Document content is analyzed, a set of salient words and phrases are generated from the document content and the set of salient words and phrases are read.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2008
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Inventors: Branimir Konstantinov Boguraev, Jani Gabriel Byrne, Catherine Keefauver Laws, Robert Bruce Mahaffey, Mary Susan Neff
  • Patent number: 7389299
    Abstract: The present invention provides for analyzing document content for display with reduced cognitive load, and assists those who are blind, have low vision, or have cognitive problems. This present invention also aids those who prefer to receive condensed information orally. Document content is analyzed, a set of salient words and phrases are generated from the document content, the salient words and phrases are tagged, and the set of salient words and phrases are read.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Branimir Konstantinov Boguraev, Jani Gabriel Byrne, Catherine Keefauver Laws, Robert Bruce Mahaffey, Mary Susan Neff
  • Patent number: 5884263
    Abstract: A note facility which documents the progress of a student in producing human speech. The facility stores a set of notes in a note file in a computer memory. Each of the set of notes contains textual information generally descriptive of the human speech produced at a given time during the training. A set of speech samples is also stored and attached to selected ones of the set of notes. Each of the speech samples is a digitized version of the human speech produced. The facility analyzes the human speech produced at least one of the given times to produce speech statistics which are presented to the user interface. The speech statistics can be stored in a note and the statistics note attached to the set of notes containing the descriptive text. Navigation through the note file can review each of the notes for the subjective opinion of the student's progress, statistics of an objective acoustic analysis of the speech and listen to the speech file on which the opinion is based.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph David Aaron, Frances Ann Hayden, Catherine Keefauver Laws, Robert Bruce Mahaffey
  • Patent number: 5832441
    Abstract: Selecting human speech samples for a speech model of human speech is preformed. The system presents a graphic representing a human speech sample on a computer display, e.g., an amplitude vs. time graph of the speech sample. Through user input, the system marks a segment of the graphic. The marked segment of the graphic represents a portion of the human speech sample. The system plays the portion of the human speech sample represented by the marked segment back to the user to allow the user to determine its acceptability for inclusion in the speech model. If so indicated by the user, the portion of the human speech sample represented by the marked segment is selected for inclusion in the speech model. The system also analyzes the portion of the human speech sample represented by the marked segment for acoustic properties. These properties are presented to the user in a graphic of the analyzed portion representative of the acoustic properties, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph David Aaron, Peter Thomas Brunet, Catherine Keefauver Laws, Robert Bruce Mahaffey, Carlos Victor Pinera