Patents by Inventor Eric A. Weymueller

Eric A. Weymueller 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).

  • Method and apparatus for conducting synthesized, semi-scripted, improvisational conversations
    Patent number: 9318113
    Abstract: Simulating an improvisational conversation between two or more people (or between a person and himself at a later time) by recording an original conversation involving some of the people and annotating the recording to produce an interview source database, then receiving a statement from another of the people, matching the statement against the interview source database to obtain a suitable audio response in the voice of a participant in the original conversation, and playing the audio response for the speaker or sender of the statement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Timestream LLC
    Inventors: Michael C. Westby, Eric A. Weymueller
  • Method and Apparatus for Conducting Synthesized, Semi-Scripted, Improvisational Conversations
    Publication number: 20150006171
    Abstract: Simulating an improvisational conversation between two or more people (or between a person and himself at a later time) by recording an original conversation involving some of the people and annotating the recording to produce an interview source database, then receiving a statement from another of the people, matching the statement against the interview source database to obtain a suitable audio response in the voice of a participant in the original conversation, and playing the audio response for the speaker or sender of the statement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Michael C. Westby, Eric A. Weymueller