Patents by Inventor Elizabeth HALPER

Elizabeth HALPER 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: 11699360
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods that aid users with hearing and/or speech impediments to have a conversation with a remote phone number without human assistance. In one aspect, an application residing on a user's device, such as a smartphone, tablet computer, laptop, etc., may be used to initiate a phone call to a recipient. Upon initiating the phone call locally, a service residing on the server may receive a request to initiate a connection to the recipient. Once the recipient answers, the user may converse with the recipient by providing text input to their local app. The text input may be transmitted to the service. The service may use a text to speech converter to translate the received text to speech that can be delivered to the recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Anirudh Koul, Meher Kasam, Michael Johnston, Swetha Machanavajhala, Elizabeth Halper
  • Publication number: 20210082315
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods that aid users with hearing and/or speech impediments to have a conversation with a remote phone number without human assistance. In one aspect, an application residing on a user's device, such as a smartphone, tablet computer, laptop, etc., may be used to initiate a phone call to a recipient. Upon initiating the phone call locally, a service residing on the server may receive a request to initiate a connection to the recipient. Once the recipient answers, the user may converse with the recipient by providing text input to their local app. The text input may be transmitted to the service. The service may use a text to speech converter to translate the received text to speech that can be delivered to the recipient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Anirudh KOUL, Meher KASAM, Michael JOHNSTON, Swetha MACHANAVAJHALA, Elizabeth HALPER
  • Patent number: 10854110
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods that aid users with hearing and/or speech impediments to have a conversation with a remote phone number without human assistance. In one aspect, an application residing on a user's device, such as a smartphone, tablet computer, laptop, etc., may be used to initiate a phone call to a recipient. Upon initiating the phone call locally, a service residing on the server may receive a request to initiate a connection to the recipient. Once the recipient answers, the user may converse with the recipient by providing text input to their local app. The text input may be transmitted to the service. The service may use a text to speech converter to translate the received text to speech that can be delivered to the recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Anirudh Koul, Meher Kasam, Michael Johnston, Swetha Machanavajhala, Elizabeth Halper
  • Publication number: 20180253992
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods that aid users with hearing and/or speech impediments to have a conversation with a remote phone number without human assistance. In one aspect, an application residing on a user's device, such as a smartphone, tablet computer, laptop, etc., may be used to initiate a phone call to a recipient. Upon initiating the phone call locally, a service residing on the server may receive a request to initiate a connection to the recipient. Once the recipient answers, the user may converse with the recipient by providing text input to their local app. The text input may be transmitted to the service. The service may use a text to speech converter to translate the received text to speech that can be delivered to the recipient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Anirudh KOUL, Meher KASAM, Michael JOHNSTON, Swetha MACHANAVAJHALA, Elizabeth HALPER