Patents by Inventor Hans-Ulrich Block

Hans-Ulrich Block 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: 8583441
    Abstract: A server for producing at least one speech dialogue application stores a formal description of a speech dialogue programmed into the description language and speech models for dialogue steps of the speech dialogue. A broadcasting transmitter digitally transmits produced speech dialogue applications to a radio set of mobile end terminals which are arranged in the transmission area thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: André Berton, Hans-Ulrich Block, Manfred Gehrke, Peter Regel-Brietzmann, Stefanie Schachtl, Friedrich Schön
  • Patent number: 8494862
    Abstract: At least one transaction and at least one transaction parameter that is allocated thereto are determined based on at least one user statement in order to trigger at least one first and second background application via a universal language dialogue system, first transactions and first transaction parameters being assigned to the first background application and second transactions and second transaction parameters being associated with the second background application. The first and second transactions as well as the first and second transaction parameters are linked together via a universal dialogue specification which is evaluated to determine the at least one transaction and at least on associated transaction parameter in order to trigger at least one of the background application via the universal language dialogue system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Hans-Ulrich Block, Rudolph Caspari, Dongyi Song, Jürgen Totzke
  • Patent number: 8190439
    Abstract: In many application environments, it is desirable to provide voice access to tables on Internet pages, where the user asks a subject-related question in a natural language and receives an adequate answer from the table read out to him in a natural language. A method is disclosed for preparing information presented in a tabular form for a speech dialogue system so that the information of the table can be consulted in a user dialogue in a targeted manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Svox AG
    Inventors: Hans-Ulrich Block, Manfred Gehrke, Stefanie Schachtl
  • Publication number: 20100267345
    Abstract: A server for producing at least one speech dialogue application stores a formal description of a speech dialogue programmed into the description language and speech models for dialogue steps of the speech dialogue. A broadcasting transmitter digitally transmits produced speech dialogue applications to a radio set of mobile end terminals which are arranged in the transmission area thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: André Berton, Hans-Ulrich Block, Manfred Gehrke, Peter Regel-Brietzmann, Stefanie Schachtl, Friedrich Schön
  • Publication number: 20100161331
    Abstract: In many application environments, it is desirable to provide voice access to tables on Internet pages, where the user asks a subject-related question in a natural language and receives an adequate answer from the table read out to him in a natural language. A method is disclosed for preparing information presented in a tabular form for a speech dialogue system so that the information of the table can be consulted in a user dialogue in a targeted manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans-Ulrich Block, Manfred Gehrke, Stefanie Schachchti
  • Publication number: 20100042400
    Abstract: At least one transaction and at least one transaction parameter that is allocated thereto are determined based on at least one user statement in order to trigger at least one first and second background application via a universal language dialogue system, first transactions and first transaction parameters being assigned to the first background application and second transactions and second transaction parameters being associated with the second background application. The first and second transactions as well as the first and second transaction parameters are linked together via a universal dialogue specification which is evaluated to determine the at least one transaction and at least on associated transaction parameter in order to trigger at least one of the background application via the universal language dialogue system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2006
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Inventors: Hans-Ulrich Block, Rudolph Caspari, Dongyi Song, Jürgen Totzke
  • Publication number: 20080033724
    Abstract: The user friendliness of voice dialog systems is increased by drawing the user's attention in a context-based manner to additional themes modeled in the system during the dialog, so this additional information has a content-related connection with the instantaneous actions of the user. A conversation character which, to a certain extent, can suggest intelligent, easy conversation with different threads, can thus be imitated in the voice dialog system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans-Ulrich Block, Stefanle Schachtl
  • Patent number: 7299179
    Abstract: In a three-stage speech recognition process, a phoneme sequence is first assigned to a speech unit, then those vocabulary entries which are most similar to the phoneme sequence are sought in a selection vocabulary, and finally the speech unit is recognized using a speech unit recognizer which uses, as its vocabulary, the selected vocabulary entries which are most like the phoneme sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans-Ulrich Block, Stefanie Schachtl
  • Publication number: 20060074662
    Abstract: In a three-stage speech recognition process, a phoneme sequence is first assigned to a speech unit, then those vocabulary entries which are most similar to the phoneme sequence are sought in a selection vocabulary, and finally the speech unit is recognized using a speech unit recognizer which uses, as its vocabulary, the selected vocabulary entries which are most like the phoneme sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2004
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Hans-Ulrich Block, Stefanie Schachtl
  • Patent number: 6295543
    Abstract: The text to be classified is compared with the contents of a relevance lexicon in which the significant words of the texts to be classified per text class and their relevance to the text classes is stored. The fuzzy set is calculated which specifies for the significant words of the text to be classified, their occurrence per text class and their relevance to the text class. A probability calculation is used for determining the probability with which the fuzzy set occurs per class for the corresponding class. The class having the highest probability is selected and the text is allocated to this class.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellshaft
    Inventors: Hans-Ulrich Block, Thomas Brückner
  • Patent number: 6073102
    Abstract: Proceeding from a command or request that a user (B) gives a speech recognition system, an action is first determined from a prescribable plurality of actions upon employment of action indicators that the action information pertains to. A first set of actions is thereby determined and stored wherein all action indicators coincide with the key concepts. Further, a second set of actions is determined and stored wherein at least a part of the action indicators coincide with the key concepts. The first set of actions and/or the second set of actions is employed as a basis for the unambiguous determination of the action. For the at least one determined action, the action parameters respectfully allocated to the action are determined upon employment of a parameter parser (PP). The sought action is implemented in a last step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Hans-Ulrich Block