Patents by Inventor Catherine Pham

Catherine Pham 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).

  • Media item selection using user-specific grammar
    Patent number: 10430024
    Abstract: A storage machine holds instructions executable by a logic machine to receive a digital representation of a spoken command. The digital representation is provided to a speech recognizer trained with a user-specific grammar library. The logic machine then receives from the speech recognizer a confidence rating for each of a plurality of different media items. The confidence rating indicates the likelihood that the media item is named in the spoken command. The logic machine then automatically plays back the media item with a greatest confidence rating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Vignesh Sachidanandam, Joe Downing, Cory Cirrincione, Catherine Pham
  • MEDIA ITEM SELECTION USING USER-SPECIFIC GRAMMAR
    Publication number: 20150134334
    Abstract: A storage machine holds instructions executable by a logic machine to receive a digital representation of a spoken command. The digital representation is provided to a speech recognizer trained with a user-specific grammar library. The logic machine then receives from the speech recognizer a confidence rating for each of a plurality of different media items. The confidence rating indicates the likelihood that the media item is named in the spoken command. The logic machine then automatically plays back the media item with a greatest confidence rating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Vignesh Sachidanandam, Joe Downing, Cory Cirrincione, Catherine Pham