Patents by Inventor Dan Melamed

Dan Melamed 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).

  • Publication number: 20160085858
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, methods, and media for filtering a data stream are provided. The data stream is analyzed based on an acoustic parameter to determine extraneous portions in which a first predetermined condition is satisfied. When a first extraneous portion is separated from a second extraneous portion by a non-extraneous portion in which the first predetermined condition is not satisfied, it is determined whether the first extraneous portion being separated from the second extraneous portion by the non-extraneous portion satisfies a second predetermined condition. At least one of the first extraneous portion and the second extraneous portion is deleted from the data stream to produce a filtered data stream in response to determining the second predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yeon-Jun KIM, I. Dan MELAMED, Bernard S. RENGER, Steven Neil TISCHER
  • Publication number: 20160078360
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for performing trend analysis of speech. A system practicing the method receives a speech trend analysis request having candidate feature constraints, an objective function with respect to a speech trend to be analyzed, and a set of speech record constraints. The system selects a subset of speech records from the group of speech records based on the set of speech record constraints to yield selected speech records, identifies features in the selected speech records based on the set of candidate feature constraints to yield identified features, and assigns a weight to each of the identified features based on the objective function. Then the system ranks the identified features by their respective weights to yield ranked identified features, and outputs at least one of the ranked identified features associated with a speech-based trend in response to the speech trend analysis request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: ILYA Dan MELAMED, Mazin GILBERT
  • Patent number: 9213978
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for performing trend analysis of speech. A system practicing the method receives a speech trend analysis request having candidate feature constraints, an objective function with respect to a speech trend to be analyzed, and a set of speech record constraints. The system selects a subset of speech records from the group of speech records based on the set of speech record constraints to yield selected speech records, identifies features in the selected speech records based on the set of candidate feature constraints to yield identified features, and assigns a weight to each of the identified features based on the objective function. Then the system ranks the identified features by their respective weights to yield ranked identified features, and outputs at least one of the ranked identified features associated with a speech-based trend in response to the speech trend analysis request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ilya Dan Melamed, Mazin Gilbert
  • Patent number: 9183177
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and media for filtering a data stream are provided. The data stream is partitioned into a plurality of data stream segments. An acoustic parameter of each of the data stream segments is measured, and it is determined whether the acoustic parameter of each of the data stream segments satisfies a predetermined condition. Extraneous segments of the data stream segments are identified in which the predetermined condition is satisfied, and it is determined whether the extraneous segments have a predetermined relationship in the data stream. The extraneous segments are deleted from the data stream to produce a filtered data stream in response to the extraneous segments having the predetermined relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yeon-Jun Kim, I. Dan Melamed, Steven Neil Tischer, Bernard S. Renger
  • Publication number: 20150279361
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for improving speech recognition accuracy using textual context. The method includes retrieving a recorded utterance, capturing text from a device display associated with the spoken dialog and viewed by one party to the recorded utterance, and identifying words in the captured text that are relevant to the recorded utterance. The method further includes adding the identified words to a dynamic language model, and recognizing the recorded utterance using the dynamic language model. The recorded utterance can be a spoken dialog. A time stamp can be assigned to each identified word. The method can include adding identified words to and/or removing identified words from the dynamic language model based on their respective time stamps. A screen scraper can capture text from the device display associated with the recorded utterance. The device display can contain customer service data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Dan Melamed, Srinivas Bangalore, Michael Johnston
  • Publication number: 20150220870
    Abstract: A method of detecting pre-determined phrases to determine compliance quality includes determining whether a precursor event has occurred based on a comparison between stored pre-determined phrases and a received communication, and determining a compliance rating based on a presence of a pre-determined phrase associated with the precursor event in the communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: I. Dan MELAMED, Andrej LJOLJE, Bernard RENGER, Yeon-Jun KIM, David J. SMITH
  • Publication number: 20150199342
    Abstract: For fast creation of a gfs2 file system, a master metadata image of a master file system is used for generating a small file systems identical in structure in the gfs2 file system containing a large sequential file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shachar ADIV, Liran LOYA, Dan MELAMED, Yossi YAMIN
  • Publication number: 20150186204
    Abstract: In a computer storage system, crash dump files are secured without power fencing in a cluster of a plurality of nodes connected to a storage system. Upon an occurrence of a panic of a crashing node and prior to receiving a panic message of the crashing node by a surviving node loading, in the cluster, a capturing node to become active, prior to a totem token being declared lost by the surviving node, for capturing the crash dump files of the crashing node, while restricting the capturing node from gaining access to the storage system for preventing unsynchronized access to the storage system in order to prevent data corruption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shay AKIRAV, Roman BARSKY, Rafael BUCHBINDER, Dan MELAMED
  • Patent number: 9071631
    Abstract: A distributed node service management system utilizes multiple existing processor nodes of a distributed computing system, in support of the primary data processing functions of the distributed computing system. The distributed node service management system coordinates and manages service functions on behalf of processor nodes of the distributed computing system. Other features and aspects may be realized, depending upon the particular application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joseph W. Dain, Stefan Lehmann, Dan Melamed
  • Patent number: 9071632
    Abstract: A distributed node service management system utilizes multiple existing processor nodes of a distributed computing system, in support of the primary data processing functions of the distributed computing system. The distributed node service management system coordinates and manages service functions on behalf of processor nodes of the distributed computing system. Other features and aspects may be realized, depending upon the particular application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joseph W. Dain, Stefan Lehmann, Dan Melamed
  • Patent number: 9058808
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for improving speech recognition accuracy using textual context. The method includes retrieving a recorded utterance, capturing text from a device display associated with the spoken dialog and viewed by one party to the recorded utterance, and identifying words in the captured text that are relevant to the recorded utterance. The method further includes adding the identified words to a dynamic language model, and recognizing the recorded utterance using the dynamic language model. The recorded utterance can be a spoken dialog. A time stamp can be assigned to each identified word. The method can include adding identified words to and/or removing identified words from the dynamic language model based on their respective time stamps. A screen scraper can capture text from the device display associated with the recorded utterance. The device display can contain customer service data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Dan Melamed, Srinivas Bangalore, Michael Johnston
  • Publication number: 20150149162
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices for performing per-channel automatic speech recognition. An example system configured to practice the method combines a first audio signal of a first speaker in a communication session and a second audio signal from a second speaker in the communication session as a first audio channel and a second audio channel. The system can recognize speech in the first audio channel of the recording using a first model associated with the first speaker, and recognize speech in the second audio channel of the recording using a second model associated with the second speaker, wherein the first model is different from the second model. The system can generate recognized speech as an output from the communication session. The system can identify the models based on identifiers of the speakers, such as a telephone number, an IP address, a customer number, or account number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ilya Dan MELAMED, Andrej LJOLJE
  • Publication number: 20150149168
    Abstract: Voice enabled dialog with web pages is provided. An Internet address of a web page is received including an area with which a user of a client device can specify information. The web page is loaded using the received Internet address of the web page. A task structure of the web page is then extracted. An abstract representation of the web is then generated. A dialog script, based on the abstract representation of the web page is then provided. Spoken information received from the user is converted into text and the converted text is inserted into the area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Amanda Joy STENT, Hyuckchul JUNG, I. Dan MELAMED, Nobal Bikram NIRAULA
  • Patent number: 9043656
    Abstract: In a computer storage system, crash dump files are secured without power fencing in a cluster of a plurality of nodes connected to a storage system. Upon an occurrence of a panic of a crashing node and prior to receiving a panic message of the crashing node by a surviving node loading, in the cluster, a capturing node to become active, prior to a totem token being declared lost by the surviving node, for capturing the crash dump files of the crashing node, while manipulating the surviving node to continue to operate under the assumption the power fencing was performed on the crashing node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shay Akirav, Roman Barsky, Rafael Buchbinder, Dan Melamed
  • Patent number: 9037465
    Abstract: A method of detecting pre-determined phrases to determine compliance quality is provided. The method includes determining whether at least one of an event or a precursor event has occurred based on a comparison between pre-determined phrases and a communication between a sender and a recipient in a communications network, and rating the recipient based on the presence of the pre-determined phrases associated with the event or the presence of the pre-determined phrases associated with the precursor event in the communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: I. Dan Melamed, Andrej Ljolje, Bernard Renger, Yeon-Jun Kim, David J. Smith
  • Patent number: 9026860
    Abstract: In a computer storage system, crash dump files are secured without power fencing in a cluster of a plurality of nodes connected to a storage system. Upon an occurrence of a panic of a crashing node and prior to receiving a panic message of the crashing node by a surviving node loading, in the cluster, a capturing node to become active, prior to a totem token being declared lost by the surviving node, for capturing the crash dump files of the crashing node, while manipulating the surviving node to continue to operate under the assumption the power fencing was performed on the crashing node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corpoation
    Inventors: Shay Haim Akirav, Roman Barsky, Rafael Buchbinder, Dan Melamed
  • Patent number: 8918605
    Abstract: A deduplication storage capacity is estimated as a function of an expected deduplication ratio, the expected deduplication ratio being a combined average of a current deduplication ratio and a configured deduplication ratio, the current deduplication ratio depending on the data currently stored in the deduplication storage, and the configured deduplication ratio being an estimate made at a configuration stage of the deduplication computing storage environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lior Aronovich, Shira Ben-Dor, Aviv Caro, Elena Drobchenko, Samuel Krikler, Ofer Leneman, Asaf Levy, Liran Loya, Dan Melamed, Tzafrir Z. Taub
  • Publication number: 20140325052
    Abstract: A distributed node service management system utilizes multiple existing processor nodes of a distributed computing system, in support of the primary data processing functions of the distributed computing system. The distributed node service management system coordinates and manages service functions on behalf of processor nodes of the distributed computing system. Other features and aspects may be realized, depending upon the particular application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Joseph W. Dain, Stefan Lehmann, Dan Melamed
  • Publication number: 20140324940
    Abstract: A distributed node service management system utilizes multiple existing processor nodes of a distributed computing system, in support of the primary data processing functions of the distributed computing system. The distributed node service management system coordinates and manages service functions on behalf of processor nodes of the distributed computing system. Other features and aspects may be realized, depending upon the particular application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Joseph W. Dain, Stefan Lehmann, Dan Melamed
  • Patent number: 8756065
    Abstract: A method of correlating received communication data with operational communication characteristics is provided. The method includes receiving audible input from a source in a communication over a communications network, recording the received audible input, and transcribing the recorded audible input into a transcript. The method further includes outputting the transcript, specifying features of the transcript to be analyzed, specifying and recording operational communication characteristics particular to the communication, analyzing the transcript for the specified features to identify patterns associated with the audible input, computing statistical correlations of the identified patterns with the operational communication characteristics, and outputting results of the computed statistical correlations on a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: I. Dan Melamed, Yeon-Jun Kim, Bernard S. Renger, Andrej Ljolje, David J. Smith