Patents by Inventor Helmut Jost

Helmut Jost 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: 12260866
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for processing audio information associated with a speech processing system and encoding a watermark in a non-disruptive portion of the audio information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Aubrey Naylor, Dushyant Sharma, William Francis Ganong, III, Uwe Helmut Jost, Ljubomir Milanovic
  • Patent number: 12242643
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving an input speech signal. A transcription of the input speech signal may be received. One or more sensitive content portions may be identified from the transcription of the input speech signal. The one or more sensitive content portions from the transcription of the input speech signal may be obscured, thus defining an obscured transcription of the input speech signal. An obscured speech signal may be generated based upon, at least in part, the input speech signal, the transcription of the input speech signal, and the obscured transcription of the input speech signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: William F. Ganong, III, Uwe Helmut Jost
  • Patent number: 12230407
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for: monitoring a meeting between a patient and a medical entity during a medical encounter; gathering information during the medical encounter, thus generating gathered encounter information, wherein the gathered encounter information includes video-based content of the patient; generating video-based content information via artificial intelligence, wherein the video-based content information is based at least in part upon the video-based content and/or the gathered encounter information and is configured to provide guidance to the medical entity concerning the video-based content; and providing the video-based content information to the medical entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Martin Jancsary, Joel Praveen Pinto, Uwe Helmut Jost, William F. Ganong, III
  • Patent number: 12224073
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for: monitoring a meeting between a patient and a medical entity during a telehealth medical encounter; gathering information during the telehealth medical encounter, thus generating gathered encounter information; and rendering an informational window concerning the telehealth medical encounter for review by the patient and/or the medical entity, wherein the informational window is configured to provide supplemental information based, at least in part, upon the gathered encounter information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Martin Jancsary, Joel Praveen Pinto, Uwe Helmut Jost, William F. Ganong, III
  • Patent number: 12211626
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for: monitoring a meeting between a patient and a medical entity during a medical encounter; gathering information during the medical encounter, thus generating gathered encounter information; generating medical encounter topical information via artificial intelligence, wherein the medical encounter topical information is based at least in part upon the gathered encounter information and is configured to provide guidance to the medical entity concerning one or more topics to be discussed during the medical encounter; and providing the medical encounter topical information to the medical entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Martin Jancsary, Joel Praveen Pinto, Uwe Helmut Jost, William F. Ganong, III
  • Patent number: 12176080
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for obtaining, by a computing device, encounter information of a patient encounter, wherein the encounter information may include audio encounter information obtained from at least a first encounter participant. The audio encounter information obtained from at least the first encounter participant may be processed. A user interface may be generated displaying a plurality of layers associated with the audio encounter information obtained from at least the first encounter participant. A user input may be received from a peripheral device to navigate through each of the plurality of layers associated with the audio encounter information displayed on the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Joseph Vozila, Guido Remi Marcel Gallopyn, Uwe Helmut Jost, Matthias Helletzgruber, Jeremy Martin Jancsary, Kumar Abhinav, Joel Praveen Pinto, Donald E. Owen, Mehmet Mert Öz
  • Patent number: 12149914
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for obtaining machine vision encounter information using one or more machine vision systems. Audio encounter information may be obtained using a plurality of audio acquisition devices of an audio recording system. The audio encounter information may be encoded using an audio codec. The encoding of the audio encounter information by the audio codec may be adapted based upon, at least in part, the machine vision encounter information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor, Uwe Helmut Jost
  • Patent number: 12143798
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for generating a plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions associated with a plurality of audio acquisition devices of an audio recording system deployed in an acoustic environment. At least a pair of the plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions from time frames may be compared. A change in the acoustic environment may be detected based upon, at least in part, the comparison of the plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions from at least the pair of time frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor, Uwe Helmut Jost
  • Patent number: 12112741
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for defining a model representative of a plurality of acoustic variations to a speech signal, thus defining a plurality of time-varying spectral modifications. The plurality of time-varying spectral modifications may be applied to a reference signal using a filtering operation, thus generating a time-varying spectrally-augmented signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Patrick A. Naylor, Dushyant Sharma, Uwe Helmut Jost, William F Ganong, III
  • Patent number: 12114147
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for generating a plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions between a plurality of audio acquisition devices of an audio recording system based upon, at least in part, one or more of a predefined speech processing application and a predefined acoustic environment. An acoustic relative transfer function codebook may be generated using the plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions. One or more channels from the plurality of audio acquisition devices of the audio recording system may be encoded using the acoustic relative transfer function codebook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor, Uwe Helmut Jost
  • Publication number: 20240330495
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving input content that may include sensitive information for processing by a machine learning model; processing the input content with the machine learning model to generate output content; processing the output content to determine if the output content includes any sensitive information; and if the output content includes any sensitive information, scrutinizing the input content to determine if the input content supports the inclusion of the sensitive information in the output content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Uwe Helmut Jost, Patrick A. Naylor, Dushyant Sharma, Ljubomir Milanovic, William F. Ganong, III
  • Publication number: 20240323630
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for encoding audio encounter information of a reference audio acquisition device of a plurality of audio acquisition devices of an audio recording system, thus defining encoded reference audio encounter information. Location information may be estimated, via a machine vision system, for an acoustic source within an acoustic environment. One or more acoustic relative transfer functions may be selected from a plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions for the plurality of audio acquisition devices of the audio recording system based upon, at least in part, the location information. The encoded reference audio encounter information and a representation of the selected one or more acoustic relative transfer function may be transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor, Uwe Helmut Jost
  • Patent number: 12062016
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for obtaining encounter information of a patient encounter, wherein the encounter information includes machine vision encounter information; and processing the encounter information to generate an encounter transcript.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Paulino Almendro Barreda, Dushyant Sharma, Joel Praveen Pinto, Uwe Helmut Jost, Patrick A. Naylor
  • Publication number: 20240257811
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for processing, using a speech processing system, an input speech signal associated with a user. Context information for the input speech signal is determined from an external reference associated with the verbal communication using an artificial intelligence-based prediction system. The input speech signal is monitored for a predefined intervention pattern. In response to identifying the predefined intervention pattern in the input speech signal, one or more speech recommendations are generated for the user based upon, at least in part, the context using an artificial intelligence-based prediction system and the speech processing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Sharmistha Sarkar Gray, Uwe Helmut Jost, Neeraj Deshmukh
  • Publication number: 20240214404
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for executing a plurality of requests to process data using a trained machine learning model. An anomalous pattern of requests including at least a threshold amount of out-of-domain data is identified from the plurality of requests. A potential model inversion attack is detected based upon, at least in part, identifying the anomalous pattern of requests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Dushyant SHARMA, Patrick Aubrey NAYLOR, William Francis GANONG, III, Uwe Helmut JOST, Ljubomir MILANOVIC
  • Patent number: 11997469
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for encoding audio encounter information of a reference audio acquisition device of a plurality of audio acquisition devices of an audio recording system, thus defining encoded reference audio encounter information. Location information may be estimated, via a machine vision system, for an acoustic source within an acoustic environment. One or more acoustic relative transfer functions may be selected from a plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions for the plurality of audio acquisition devices of the audio recording system based upon, at least in part, the location information. The encoded reference audio encounter information and a representation of the selected one or more acoustic relative transfer function may be transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor, Uwe Helmut Jost
  • Patent number: 11950081
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for generating a plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions for a plurality of audio acquisition devices of an audio recording system deployed in an acoustic environment. The plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions may be encoded into a first embedding of acoustic relative transfer functions and at least a second embedding of acoustic relative transfer functions. Information may be extracted from at least the first embedding of acoustic relative transfer functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor, Uwe Helmut Jost
  • Publication number: 20240087593
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for determining a plurality of transfer functions for a plurality of corresponding segments from a reference recording and a suspect recording. A delta transfer function between the plurality of transfer functions of a pair of corresponding segments of the plurality of corresponding segments is determined. A recording comparison confidence score is generated for the pair of corresponding segments based upon, at least in part, the delta transfer function. The suspect recording is verified based upon, at least in part, the plurality of recording comparison confidence scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Uwe Helmut JOST, Patrick Aubrey NAYLOR, Ljubomir MILANOVIC, William Francis GANONG, III
  • Publication number: 20240086759
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for identifying a target output token associated with an output of a machine learning model. A portion of training data corresponding to the target output token is modified with a watermark feature, thus defining watermarked training data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Ljubomir MILANOVIC, Patrick Aubrey NAYLOR, Uwe Helmut JOST, William Francis GANONG, III
  • Patent number: 11924624
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for selecting a reference audio acquisition device from a plurality of audio acquisition devices of an audio recording system. Audio encounter information of the reference microphone may be encoded, thus defining encoded reference audio encounter information. A plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions between the reference microphone and the plurality of audio acquisition devices of the audio recording system may be generated. The encoded reference audio encounter information and a representation of the plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions may be transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor, Uwe Helmut Jost