Patents by Inventor David Jon Kay

David Jon Kay 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: 8676779
    Abstract: A computer readable storage medium tangibly embodying machine-readable digital data arranged to facilitate expedited searching. The data includes a plurality of words residing in a table having rows and columns, each word residing in a different row and each letter of the word occupying a different column in that row. Each continuous run of same letters in a column forms an interval. The words are positioned relative to each other to maximize lengths of the intervals, and/or optimize efficiency of compression of the columns by run length encoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Tegic Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Erland Unruh, David Jon Kay
  • Publication number: 20120259888
    Abstract: A computer readable storage medium tangibly embodying machine-readable digital data arranged to facilitate expedited searching. The data includes a plurality of words residing in a table having rows and columns, each word residing in a different row and each letter of the word occupying a different column in that row. Each continuous run of same letters in a column forms an interval. The words are positioned relative to each other to maximize lengths of the intervals, and/or optimize efficiency of compression of the columns by run length encoding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Inventors: Erland UNRUH, David Jon KAY
  • Patent number: 8204921
    Abstract: A computer readable storage medium tangibly embodying machine-readable digital data arranged to facilitate expedited searching. The data includes a plurality of words residing in a table having rows and columns, each word residing in a different row and each letter of the word occupying a different column in that row. Each continuous run of same letters in a column forms an interval. The words are positioned relative to each other to maximize lengths of the intervals, and/or optimize efficiency of compression of the columns by run length encoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Tegic Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Erland Unruh, David Jon Kay
  • Patent number: 7880730
    Abstract: There is disclosed an enhanced text entry system which determines one or more alternate textual interpretations of each sequence of inputs detected within a designated auto-correcting keyboard region. The actual contact locations for the keystrokes may occur outside the boundaries of the specific keyboard key regions associated with the actual characters of the word interpretations proposed or offered for selection, where the distance from each contact location to each corresponding intended character may in general increase with the expected frequency of the intended word in the language or in a particular context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Tegic Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: B. Alex Robinson, Michael R. Longe, David Jon Kay, Gordon Robert Waddell
  • Patent number: 7720682
    Abstract: From a text entry tool, a digital data processing device receives inherently ambiguous user input. Independent of any other user input, the device interprets the received user input against a vocabulary to yield candidates such as words (of which the user input forms the entire word or part such as a root, stem, syllable, affix), or phrases having the user input as one word. The device displays the candidates and applies speech recognition to spoken user input. If the recognized speech comprises one of the candidates, that candidate is selected. If the recognized speech forms an extension of a candidate, the extended candidate is selected. If the recognized speech comprises other input, various other actions are taken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Tegic Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: James Stephanick, Richard Eyraud, David Jon Kay, Pim Van Meurs, Ethan Bradford, Michael R. Longe
  • Publication number: 20100122164
    Abstract: The invention concerns user entry of information into a system with an input device. A scheme is provided in which an entire word that a user wants to enter is predicted after the user enters a specific symbol, such as a space character. If the user presses an ambiguous key thereafter, rather than accept the prediction, the selection list is reordered. For example, a user enters the phrase “Lets run to school. Better yet, lets drive to “.””” After the user presses the space, after first entering the second occurrence of the word “to,” the system predicts that the user is going to enter the word “school” based on the context in which the user has entered that word in the past. Should the user enter an ambiguous key after the space, then a word list which contains the word “school” is reordered and other options are made available to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: TEGIC COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: David Jon Kay, Ethan R. Bradford, Pim van Meurs, Peter C. Peddie
  • Patent number: 7679534
    Abstract: The invention concerns user entry of information into a system with an input device. A scheme is provided in which an entire word that a user wants to enter is predicted after the user enters a specific symbol, such as a space character. If the user presses an ambiguous key thereafter, rather than accept the prediction, the selection list is reordered. For example, a user enters the phrase “Lets run to school. Better yet, lets drive to “.””” After the user presses the space, after first entering the second occurrence of the word “to,” the system predicts that the user is going to enter the word “school” based on the context in which the user has entered that word in the past. Should the user enter an ambiguous key after the space, then a word list which contains the word “school” is reordered and other options are made available to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Tegic Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: David Jon Kay, Ethan R. Bradford, Pim van Meurs, Peter C. Peddie
  • Patent number: 7610194
    Abstract: A dynamic database reordering system provides a linguistics database that contains words that are ordered according to a linguistics model that dictates the order in which words are presented to a user. While a user enters keystrokes on a keypad of a communications device is pressing keys, the invention predicts the words, letters, numbers, or word stubs that the user is trying to enter. The invention reorders the linguistics model order based on the user's usage of the system by tracking the user's word selections. Once a word has been selected as a result of a next key selection (the nexted word), a frequency value is applied to the selected word and the word ordered first by the linguistics model in the linguistics database for that key sequence. The frequency value of the nexted word will become greater than the frequency value of the first displayed word upon repeated nexting to the same word.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Tegic Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Ethan R. Bradford, David Jon Kay
  • Patent number: 7580925
    Abstract: A computer readable storage medium tangibly embodying machine-readable digital data arranged to facilitate expedited searching. The data includes a plurality of words residing in a table having rows and columns, each word residing in a different row and each letter of the word occupying a different column in that row. Each continuous run of same letters in a column forms an interval. The words are positioned relative to each other to maximize lengths of the intervals, and/or optimize efficiency of compression of the columns by run length encoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Tegic Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Erland Unruh, David Jon Kay
  • Publication number: 20090037371
    Abstract: A computer readable storage medium tangibly embodying machine-readable digital data arranged to facilitate expedited searching. The data includes a plurality of words residing in a table having rows and columns, each word residing in a different row and each letter of the word occupying a different column in that row. Each continuous run of same letters in a column forms an interval. The words are positioned relative to each other to maximize lengths of the intervals, and/or optimize efficiency of compression of the columns by run length encoding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Applicant: TEGIC Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Erland UNRUH, David Jon Kay
  • Publication number: 20040083198
    Abstract: A dynamic database reordering system provides a linguistics database that contains words that are ordered according to a linguistics model that dictates the order in which words are presented to a user. While a user enters keystrokes on a keypad of a communications device is pressing keys, the invention predicts the words, letters, numbers, or word stubs that the user is trying to enter. The invention reorders the linguistics model order based on the user's usage of the system by tracking the user's word selections. Once a word has been selected as a result of a next key selection (the nexted word), a frequency value is applied to the selected word and the word ordered first by the linguistics model in the linguistics database for that key sequence. The frequency value of the nexted word will become greater than the frequency value of the first displayed word upon repeated nexting to the same word.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2003
    Publication date: April 29, 2004
    Inventors: Ethan R. Bradford, David Jon Kay