Patents by Inventor Harris Drucker
Harris Drucker 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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Patent number: 9769232Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server having a controller to monitor for media content from a first source that is distributable where the media content is adjusted for distribution to a plurality of communication devices that are associated with a user and a portion of the plurality of communication devices use different communication protocols from another portion of the plurality of communication devices, obtain content metadata from the media content, receive a request for information associated with the media content from a first communication device of the plurality of communication devices of the user, compile the information from the content metadata based at least in part on a user profile associated with the user, and transmit the information to the first communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2015Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Zhu Liu, Andrea Basso, David Crawford Gibbon, Harris Drucker
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Publication number: 20150229691Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server having a controller to monitor for media content from a first source that is distributable where the media content is adjusted for distribution to a plurality of communication devices that are associated with a user and a portion of the plurality of communication devices use different communication protocols from another portion of the plurality of communication devices, obtain content metadata from the media content, receive a request for information associated with the media content from a first communication device of the plurality of communication devices of the user, compile the information from the content metadata based at least in part on a user profile associated with the user, and transmit the information to the first communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2015Publication date: August 13, 2015Inventors: Zhu Liu, Andrea Basso, David Crawford Gibbon, Harris Drucker
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Patent number: 9049477Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server having a controller to monitor for media content from a first source that is distributable where the media content is adjusted for distribution to a plurality of communication devices that are associated with a user and a portion of the plurality of communication devices use different communication protocols from another portion of the plurality of communication devices, obtain content metadata from the media content, receive a request for information associated with the media content from a first communication device of the plurality of communication devices of the user, compile the information from the content metadata based at least in part on a user profile associated with the user, and transmit the information to the first communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2008Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, LPInventors: Zhu Liu, Andrea Basso, David Crawford Gibbon, Harris Drucker
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Patent number: 8170880Abstract: Systems and methods herein use an annotation guide to label utterances and speech data with a call type. A system practicing the method embodiment monitors labelers of speech data by presenting via a processor a test utterance to a labeler, receiving input from the labeler that selects a particular call type from a list of call types and determining via the processor if the labeler labeled the test utterance correctly. Based on the determining step, the system revises the annotation guide, retrains the labeler, and/or alters the test utterance.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2010Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Lee Begeja, Richard Vandervoort Cox, Harris Drucker, David Crawford Gibbon, Allen Louis Gorin, Patrick Guy Haffner, Steven H. Lewis, Zhu Liu, Mazin G. Rahim, Bernard S. Renger, Behzad Shahraray
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Patent number: 7933774Abstract: A system and method is provided for rapidly generating a new spoken dialog application. In one embodiment, a user experience person labels the transcribed data (e.g., 3000 utterances) using a set of interactive tools. The labeled data is then stored in a processed data database. During the labeling process, the user experience person not only groups utterances in various call type categories, but also flags (e.g., 100-200) specific utterances as positive and negative examples for use in an annotation guide. The labeled data in the processed data database can also be used to generate an initial natural language understanding (NLU) model.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2004Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Lee Begeja, Mazin G. Rahim, Allen Louis Gorin, Behzad Shahraray, David Crawford Gibbon, Zhu Liu, Bernard S. Renger, Patrick Guy Haffner, Harris Drucker, Steven Hart Lewis
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Publication number: 20100217597Abstract: Systems and methods for using an annotation guide to label utterances and speech data with a call type are disclosed. A method embodiment monitors labelers of speech data by presenting via a processor a test utterance to a labeler, receiving input from the labeler that selects a particular call type from a list of call types and determining via the processor if the labeler labeled the test utterance correctly. Based on the determining step, the method performs at least one of the following: revising the annotation guide, retraining the labeler or altering the test utterance.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2010Publication date: August 26, 2010Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property II, LP via a transfer from AT&T Corp.Inventors: Lee Begeja, Richard Vandervoort Cox, Harris Drucker, David Crawford Gibbon, Allen Louis Gorin, Patrick Guy Haffner, Steven H. Lewis, Zhu Liu, Mazin G. Rahim, Bernard S. Renger, Behzad Shahraray
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Publication number: 20100121936Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server having a controller to monitor for media content from a first source that is distributable where the media content is adjusted for distribution to a plurality of communication devices that are associated with a user and a portion of the plurality of communication devices use different communication protocols from another portion of the plurality of communication devices, obtain content metadata from the media content, receive a request for information associated with the media content from a first communication device of the plurality of communication devices of the user, compile the information from the content metadata based at least in part on a user profile associated with the user, and transmit the information to the first communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2008Publication date: May 13, 2010Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Zhu Liu, David Gibbon, Andrea Basso, Harris Drucker
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Patent number: 7711566Abstract: Systems and methods for using an annotation guide to label utterances and speech data with a call type. A method embodiment monitors labelers of speech data by presenting via a processor a test utterance to a labeler, receiving input from the labeler that selects a particular call type from a list of call types and determining via the processor if the labeler labeled the test utterance correctly. Based on the determining step, the method performs at least one of the following: revising the annotation guide, retraining the labeler or altering the test utterance.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2007Date of Patent: May 4, 2010Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, LPInventors: Lee Begeja, Richard Vandervoort Cox, Harris Drucker, David Crawford Gibbon, Allen Louis Gorin, Patrick Guy Haffner, Steven H. Lewis, Zhu Liu, Mazin G. Rahim, Bernard S. Renger, Behzad Shahraray
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Patent number: 7567906Abstract: Systems and methods for generating an annotation guide. Speech data is organized and presented to a user. After the user selects some of the utterances in the speech data, the selected utterances are included in a class and/or call type. Additional utterances that belong to the class and/or call type can be found in the speech data using relevance feedback, data mining, data clustering, support vector machines, and the like. After a call type is complete, it is committed to the annotation guide. After all call types are completed, the annotation guide is generated.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2007Date of Patent: July 28, 2009Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Lee Begeja, Harris Drucker, David Crawford Gibbon, Allen Louis Gorin, Patrick Guy Haffner, Steven H Lewis, Zhu Liu, Mazin G Rahim, Bernard S. Renger, Behzad Shahraray
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Patent number: 7280965Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring labelers of speech data. To test or train labelers, a labeler is presented with utterances that have already been identified as belonging to a particular class or call type. The labeler is asked to assign a call type to the utterances. The performance of the labeler is measured by comparing the call types assigned by the labeler with the existing call types of the utterances. The performance of a labeler can also be monitored as the labeler labels speech data by occasionally having the labeler label an utterance that is already labeled and by storing the results.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2003Date of Patent: October 9, 2007Assignee: AT&T Corp.Inventors: Lee Begeja, Richard Vandervoort Cox, Harris Drucker, David Crawford Gibbon, Allen Louis Gorin, Patrick Guy Haffner, Steven H. Lewis, Zhu Liu, Mazin G. Rahim, Bernard S. Renger, Behzad Shahraray
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Patent number: 7219054Abstract: Systems and methods for generating an annotation guide. Speech data is organized and presented to a user. After the user selects some of the utterances in the speech data, the selected utterances are included in a class and/or call type. Additional utterances that belong to the class and/or call type can be found in the speech data using relevance feedback, data mining, data clustering, support vector machines, and the like. After a call type is complete, it is committed to the annotation guide. After all call types are completed, the annotation guide is generated.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2003Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: AT&T Corp.Inventors: Lee Begeja, Harris Drucker, David Crawford Gibbon, Allen Louis Gorin, Patrick Guy Haffner, Steven H Lewis, Zhu Liu, Mazin G Rahim, Bernard S. Renger, Behzad Shahraray