Patents by Inventor Gary Thwing

Gary Thwing 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: 7526429
    Abstract: Caller interface systems and methods are described. In one aspect, a sequence of recognized characters beginning with a first recognized character and ending with a last recognized character is received. Successive characters are selected one at a time from the recognized character sequence in order beginning with the first recognized character. For each selected character, a current potential match set of potential character string matches is constructed by: appending characters selected from a set of misrecognized characters including the selected character to each potential character string match in a prior potential match set constructed for a preceding selected character, if any; and deleting from the current potential match set potential character string matches missing from a list of reference character strings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Siemens Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Gary Thwing
  • Publication number: 20050203741
    Abstract: Caller interface systems and methods are described. In one aspect, a sequence of recognized characters beginning with a first recognized character and ending with a last recognized character is received. Successive characters are selected one at a time from the recognized character sequence in order beginning with the first recognized character. For each selected character, a current potential match set of potential character string matches is constructed by: appending characters selected from a set of misrecognized characters including the selected character to each potential character string match in a prior potential match set constructed for a preceding selected character, if any; and deleting from the current potential match set potential character string matches missing from a list of reference character strings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Publication date: September 15, 2005
    Inventor: Gary Thwing