Patents by Inventor Jeffrey A. Stern

Jeffrey A. Stern 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).

  • Publication number: 20070106685
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for reindexing media content for search applications that includes steps and structure for providing a speech recognition database that include entries defining acoustical representations for a plurality of words; providing a searchable database containing a plurality of metadata documents descriptive of a plurality of media resources, each of the plurality of metadata documents including a sequence of speech recognized text indexed using the speech recognition database; updating the speech recognition database with at least one word candidate; and reindexing the sequence of speech recognized text for a subset of the plurality of metadata documents using the updated speech recognition database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2006
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Applicant: Podzinger Corp.
    Inventors: Henry Houh, Jeffrey Stern, Nina Zinovieva, Marie Meteer
  • Patent number: 6098238
    Abstract: The floor treating device includes a tubular sheepskin sleeve telescoped over a single-piece rectangular wooden block having a bottom side and top side. A handle is threaded into an opening on the top side and passed through an opening in the sleeve. The sleeve is formed from a sheepskin blank or a fur including a base fabric and a dense woven pile of soft fibers to define the outer nap. The inner opening of the sleeve is slightly greater than the block. A top thin member a bottom member with the dense woven pile is superimposed and have the longitudinal edges which are sewn together to form the sleeve. A pair of scrap sheepskin blanks cover on the bottom of the head having the opposed longitudinal edges sewn together to form the sleeve. The sewn seam extends outwardly or inwardly into engagement with the head. One end of the sleeve edges may have the end sewn together to again form a closed end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: Stern Tanning Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey A. Stern
  • Patent number: 5852842
    Abstract: The floor treating device includes a tubular sheepskin sleeve telescoped over a single piece wooden head having a bottom side and a top side. A handle is threaded into an opening on the top side and passed through an opening in the sleeve. The sleeve is formed from sheepskin blanks of a length of the head length and is formed from a sheepskin blank having a width greater than the bottom side of the head. A single blank has opposed longitudinal edges which are sewn together to form the sleeve. A pair of scrap sheepskin blanks cover on the bottom of the head have the opposed longitudinal edges sewn together to form the sleeve. The sewn seam extends outwardly or inwardly into engagement with the head. One end of the sleeve edges may have the end sewn together to again form a closed end. The sleeve is formed of a tanned sheepskin with the nap exposed for engagement with the floor, and the skin engaging the head, and has a reasonably firm fit to the head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1998
    Assignee: Stern Tanning Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey A. Stern