Patents by Inventor Gregory P. Defouw
Gregory P. Defouw 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).
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Publication number: 20240029707Abstract: A personalized news service provides personalized news programs for its users by generating personalized combinations of audible versions of news stories derived from text-based versions of the news stories. The audible versions may be generated from the text-based version by a text-to-speech system, or may by recording a person reading aloud the text-based version. To acquire recordings, the personalized news service can make a determination that a particular news story has a threshold extent of popularity. The news service can then transmit a request to a remote recording station for a recording of a verbal reading of the particular news story. The news service can then receive the requested recording from the remote recording station.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Venkatarama Anilkumar Panguluri, Venkata Sunil Kumar Yarram, Lalit Kumar, Gregory P. Defouw
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Patent number: 11763800Abstract: A personalized news service provides personalized news programs for its users by generating personalized combinations of audible versions of news stories derived from text-based versions of the news stories. The audible versions may be generated from the text-based version by a text-to-speech system, or may by recording a person reading aloud the text-based version. To acquire recordings, the personalized news service can make a determination that a particular news story has a threshold extent of popularity. The news service can then transmit a request to a remote recording station for a recording of a verbal reading of the particular news story. The news service can then receive the requested recording from the remote recording station.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLCInventors: Venkatarama Anilkumar Panguluri, Venkata Sunil Kumar Yarram, Lalit Kumar, Gregory P. Defouw
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Publication number: 20230109783Abstract: An example method involves (i) accessing first data defining multiple portions of a content item, wherein at least a plurality of the portions represent text; (ii) selecting, from the plurality of portions representing text, a subset of the portions representing text, wherein the selecting is based on each portion of the selected subset having a particular characteristic; (iii) based on the text represented by the portions of the selected subset, generating second data that represents a concatenation of the text represented by the portions of the selected subset; and (iv) providing output based on the generated second data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Inventors: Venkatarama Anilkumar Panguluri, Gregory P. Defouw
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Patent number: 11593550Abstract: An example method involves (i) accessing first data defining multiple portions of a content item, wherein at least a plurality of the portions represent text; (ii) selecting, from the plurality of portions representing text, a subset of the portions representing text, wherein the selecting is based on each portion of the selected subset having a particular characteristic; (iii) based on the text represented by the portions of the selected subset, generating second data that represents a concatenation of the text represented by the portions of the selected subset; and (iv) providing output based on the generated second data.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLCInventors: Venkatarama Anilkumar Panguluri, Gregory P. Defouw
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Publication number: 20230043879Abstract: A personalized news service provides personalized news programs for its users by generating personalized combinations of audible versions of news stories derived from text-based versions of the news stories. The audible versions may be generated from the text-based version by a text-to-speech system, or may by recording a person reading aloud the text-based version. To acquire recordings, the personalized news service can make a determination that a particular news story has a threshold extent of popularity. The news service can then transmit a request to a remote recording station for a recording of a verbal reading of the particular news story. The news service can then receive the requested recording from the remote recording station.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: Venkatarama Anilkumar Panguluri, Venkata Sunil Kumar Yarram, Lalit Kumar, Gregory P. Defouw
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Patent number: 11508353Abstract: A personalized news service provides personalized news programs for its users by generating personalized combinations of audible versions of news stories derived from text-based based versions of the news stories. The audible versions may be generated from the text-based version by a text-to-speech system, or may by recording a person reading aloud the text-based version. To acquire recordings, the personalized news service can make a determination that a particular news story has a threshold extent of popularity. The news service can then transmit a request to a remote recording station for a recording of a verbal reading of the particular news story. The news service can then receive the requested recording from the remote recording station.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLCInventors: Venkatarama Anilkumar Panguluri, Venkata Sunil Kumar Yarram, Lalit Kumar, Gregory P. Defouw
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Publication number: 20210327408Abstract: A personalized news service provides personalized news programs for its users by generating personalized combinations of audible versions of news stories derived from text-based based versions of the news stories. The audible versions may be generated from the text-based version by a text-to-speech system, or may by recording a person reading aloud the text-based version. To acquire recordings, the personalized news service can make a determination that a particular news story has a threshold extent of popularity. The news service can then transmit a request to a remote recording station for a recording of a verbal reading of the particular news story. The news service can then receive the requested recording from the remote recording station.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Venkatarama Anilkumar Panguluri, Venkata Sunil Kumar Yarram, Lalit Kumar, Gregory P. Defouw
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Patent number: 11081101Abstract: A personalized news service provides personalized news programs for its users by generating personalized combinations of audible versions of news stories derived from text-based based versions of the news stories. The audible versions may be generated from the text-based version by a text-to-speech system, or may by recording a person reading aloud the text-based version. To acquire recordings, the personalized news service can make a determination that a particular news story has a threshold extent of popularity. The news service can then transmit a request to a remote recording station for a recording of a verbal reading of the particular news story. The news service can then receive the requested recording from the remote recording station.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLCInventors: Venkatarama Anilkumar Panguluri, Venkata Sunil Kumar Yarram, Lalit Kumar, Gregory P. Defouw
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Publication number: 20210200933Abstract: An example method involves (i) accessing first data defining multiple portions of a content item, wherein at least a plurality of the portions represent text; (ii) selecting, from the plurality of portions representing text, a subset of the portions representing text, wherein the selecting is based on each portion of the selected subset having a particular characteristic; (iii) based on the text represented by the portions of the selected subset, generating second data that represents a concatenation of the text represented by the portions of the selected subset; and (iv) providing output based on the generated second data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2021Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Venkatarama Anilkumar Panguluri, Gregory P. Defouw, JR.
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Patent number: 10977424Abstract: An example method involves (i) accessing first data defining multiple portions of a content item, wherein at least a plurality of the portions represent text; (ii) selecting, from the plurality of portions representing text, a subset of the portions representing text, wherein the selecting is based on each portion of the selected subset having a particular characteristic; (iii) based on the text represented by the portions of the selected subset, generating second data that represents a concatenation of the text represented by the portions of the selected subset; and (iv) providing output based on the generated second data.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLCInventors: Venkatarama Anilkumar Panguluri, Gregory P. Defouw
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Publication number: 20210034660Abstract: Disclosed computer-based systems and methods for analyzing a plurality of audio files corresponding to text-based news stories and received from a plurality of audio file creators are configured to (i) compare quality and/or accuracy metrics of individual audio files against corresponding quality and/or accuracy thresholds, and (ii) based on the comparison: (a) accept audio files meeting the quality and/or accuracy thresholds for distribution to a plurality of subscribers for playback, (b) reject audio files failing to meet one or more certain quality and/or accuracy thresholds, (c) remediate audio files failing to meet certain quality thresholds, and (d) designate for human review, audio files failing to meet one or more certain quality and/or accuracy thresholds by a predetermined margin.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2020Publication date: February 4, 2021Applicant: Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLCInventors: Gregory P. Defouw, Venkatarama Anilkumar Panguluri
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Patent number: 10776419Abstract: Disclosed computer-based systems and methods for analyzing a plurality of audio files corresponding to text-based news stories and received from a plurality of audio file creators are configured to (i) compare quality and/or accuracy metrics of individual audio files against corresponding quality and/or accuracy thresholds, and (ii) based on the comparison: (a) accept audio files meeting the quality and/or accuracy thresholds for distribution to a plurality of subscribers for playback, (b) reject audio files failing to meet one or more certain quality and/or accuracy thresholds, (c) remediate audio files failing to meet certain quality thresholds, and (d) designate for human review, audio files failing to meet one or more certain quality and/or accuracy thresholds by a predetermined margin.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2014Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: GRACENOTE DIGITAL VENTURES, LLCInventors: Gregory P. Defouw, Venkatarama Anilkumar Panguluri
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Patent number: 10762889Abstract: A personalized news service provides personalized news programs for its users by generating personalized combinations of audible versions of news stories derived from text-based based versions of the news stories. The audible versions may be generated from the text-based version by a text-to-speech system, or may by recording a person reading aloud the text-based version. To acquire recordings, the personalized news service can make a determination that a particular news story has a threshold extent of popularity. The news service can then transmit a request to a remote recording station for a recording of a verbal reading of the particular news story. The news service can then receive the requested recording from the remote recording station.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLCInventors: Venkatarama Anilkumar Panguluri, Venkata Sunil Kumar Yarram, Lalit Kumar, Gregory P. Defouw
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Publication number: 20190340222Abstract: An example method involves (i) accessing first data defining multiple portions of a content item, wherein at least a plurality of the portions represent text; (ii) selecting, from the plurality of portions representing text, a subset of the portions representing text, wherein the selecting is based on each portion of the selected subset having a particular characteristic; (iii) based on the text represented by the portions of the selected subset, generating second data that represents a concatenation of the text represented by the portions of the selected subset; and (iv) providing output based on the generated second data.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Inventors: Venkatarama Anilkumar Panguluri, Gregory P. Defouw
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Patent number: 10402476Abstract: An example method involves (i) accessing first data defining multiple portions of a content item, wherein at least a plurality of the portions represent text; (ii) selecting, from the plurality of portions representing text, a subset of the portions representing text, wherein the selecting is based on each portion of the selected subset having a particular characteristic; (iii) based on the text represented by the portions of the selected subset, generating second data that represents a concatenation of the text represented by the portions of the selected subset; and (iv) providing output based on the generated second data.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2018Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLCInventors: Venkatarama Anilkumar Panguluri, Gregory P. Defouw
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Patent number: 10339219Abstract: An example method involves (i) accessing first data representing text, wherein the text defines at least one position representing a particular type of grammatical break between two portions of the text; (ii) identifying, from among the at least one position, a position that is closest to a target position within the text; (iii) based on the identified position within the text, generating second data that represents a proper subset of the text, wherein the proper subset extends from an initial position within the text to the identified position within the text; and (iv) providing output based on the generated second data.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2017Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLCInventors: Venkatarama Anilkumar Panguluri, Gregory P. Defouw
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Patent number: 10290298Abstract: A personalized news service provides personalized news programs for its users by generating personalized combinations of audible versions of news stories derived from text-based based versions of the news stories. The audible versions may be generated from the text-based version by a text-to-speech system, or may by recording a person reading aloud the text-based version. To acquire recordings, the personalized news service can make a determination that a particular news story has a threshold extent of popularity. The news service can then transmit a request to a remote recording station for a recording of a verbal reading of the particular news story. The news service can then receive the requested recording from the remote recording station.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2016Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLCInventors: Venkatarama Anilkumar Panguluri, Venkata Sunil Kumar Yarram, Lalit Kumar, Gregory P. Defouw
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Publication number: 20180276186Abstract: An example method involves (i) accessing first data defining multiple portions of a content item, wherein at least a plurality of the portions represent text; (ii) selecting, from the plurality of portions representing text, a subset of the portions representing text, wherein the selecting is based on each portion of the selected subset having a particular characteristic; (iii) based on the text represented by the portions of the selected subset, generating second data that represents a concatenation of the text represented by the portions of the selected subset; and (iv) providing output based on the generated second data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2018Publication date: September 27, 2018Inventors: Venkatarama Anilkumar Panguluri, Gregory P. Defouw
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Patent number: 10031899Abstract: An example method involves (i) accessing first data representing text; (ii) identifying a term within the represented text; (iii) using the identified term as a basis to select a text-editing rule from among a set of text-editing rules; (iv) generating second data that represents the represented text edited in accordance with the selected text-editing rule; and (v) providing output based on the generated second data.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2014Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLCInventors: Venkatarama Anilkumar Panguluri, Gregory P. Defouw
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Patent number: 10019416Abstract: An example method involves (i) accessing first data defining multiple portions of a content item, wherein at least a plurality of the portions represent text; (ii) selecting, from the plurality of portions representing text, a subset of the portions representing text, wherein the selecting is based on each portion of the selected subset having a particular characteristic; (iii) based on the text represented by the portions of the selected subset, generating second data that represents a concatenation of the text represented by the portions of the selected subset; and (iv) providing output based on the generated second data.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2014Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLCInventors: Venkatarama Anilkumar Panguluri, Gregory P. Defouw