Patents by Inventor Malcolm Macallum

Malcolm Macallum 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: 11822701
    Abstract: The system is used by both Producer and Consumer of digital evidence, which use the system to provide a secure and irrefutable record of a transaction involving the use of the digital evidence to produce new protected digital evidentiary content, e.g. transcription, according to a set of rules and limitations on the use of the digital evidence over a specific period of time which expires after a certain time. The newly create evidentiary content along with security and metadata are evaluated, and results used to confirm that the evidence has been maintained according to the terms and conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: VIQ Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Malcolm Macallum, Gilles-Andre Morin
  • Publication number: 20220327239
    Abstract: A system for the assembly, packaging and encryption of evidentiary content and supporting metadata, and the associated disassembly, decryption unpackaging of evidentiary content to a proprietary and offline device managed by others. The system is used by both Producer and Consumer of digital evidence, which use the system to provide a secure and irrefutable record of a transaction involving the use of the digital evidence to produce new protected digital evidentiary content, e.g. transcription, according to a set of rules and limitations on the use of the digital evidence over a specific period of time which expires after a certain time. The newly create evidentiary content along with security and metadata are evaluated, and results used to confirm that the evidence has been maintained according to the terms and conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Malcolm Macallum, Gilles-Andre Morin
  • Patent number: 11152005
    Abstract: A method of converting speech to text comprises receiving an audio recording from an input device comprising speech of a plurality of speakers. Extracting from the audio recording, a speaker audio recording comprising recorded audio of an individual speaker. Selecting, based on a characteristic of the speaker audio recording, a speech to text engine and a dictionary. Configuring the speech to text engine with the dictionary and executing a first conversion process to convert a first portion of the speaker audio recording to produce a first transcript. Evaluating a performance metric of the conversion process against a quality metric to reconfigure the speech to text engine and execute a second conversion process to convert a second portion of the speaker audio recording to produce a second transcript. Combining the first transcript and the second transcript to produce a transcript of the speaker audio recording.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: VIQ Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Malcolm Macallum
  • Publication number: 20210074300
    Abstract: A method of converting speech to text comprises receiving an audio recording from an input device comprising speech of a plurality of speakers. Extracting from the audio recording, a speaker audio recording comprising recorded audio of an individual speaker. Selecting, based on a characteristic of the speaker audio recording, a speech to text engine and a dictionary. Configuring the speech to text engine with the dictionary and executing a first conversion process to convert a first portion of the speaker audio recording to produce a first transcript. Evaluating a performance metric of the conversion process against a quality metric to reconfigure the speech to text engine and execute a second conversion process to convert a second portion of the speaker audio recording to produce a second transcript. Combining the first transcript and the second transcript to produce a transcript of the speaker audio recording.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventor: Malcolm Macallum