Patents by Inventor Laurent Simoneau

Laurent Simoneau 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).

  • Method to train the language model of a speech recognition system to convert and index voicemails on a search engine
    Patent number: 7415409
    Abstract: A method and a related system to index voicemail documents by training a language model for a speaker or group of speakers by using existing emails and contact information on available repositories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Coveo Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Laurent Simoneau, Pascal Soucy
  • METHOD TO TRAIN THE LANGUAGE MODEL OF A SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM TO CONVERT AND INDEX VOICEMAILS ON A SEARCH ENGINE
    Publication number: 20080133235
    Abstract: A method and a related system to index voicemail documents by training a language model for a speaker or group of speakers by using existing emails and contact information on available repositories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Inventors: Laurent SIMONEAU, Pascal Soucy
  • PERSONALIZING SEARCH RESULTS FROM SEARCH ENGINES
    Publication number: 20070233672
    Abstract: A personalized search engine system and corresponding method which is used by an identified user for retrieving documents on a corporate network or intranet. The identified user being related to a unique personalization identifier (UPID) and to a list of group personalization identifiers (GPIDs). The system comprises a search engine interface for obtaining a query from the identified user; a search engine for finding documents matching the query; and a ranking engine for ranking the documents matching the query in order of relevancy, where the ranking is partly based on a previously calculated document rating for the UPID of the identified user, where the ranking is further based on a previously calculated document ratings for each of the GPIDs of the identified user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: COVEO INC.
    Inventors: Marc SANFACON, Pascal SOUCY, Laurent SIMONEAU, Daniel LAVOIE, Michel LEMAY
  • Speech recognition training method for audio and video file indexing on a search engine
    Patent number: 7272558
    Abstract: A method and a related system to index audio and video documents and to automatically train the language model of a speech recognition system according to the context of the documents being indexed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Coveo Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Pascal Soucy, Laurent Simoneau, Richard Tessier