Patents by Inventor Mark Finlay
Mark Finlay 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: 11743384Abstract: A method of assisting an agent in real-time includes receiving a call interaction between a customer and an agent; identifying words spoken in the call interaction; providing the words to a behavioral models module; computing a score for a plurality of behavioral metrics; providing a phrase formed by the words to a knowledge article selection module; providing each score for the plurality of behavioral metrics to the knowledge article selection module; providing a plurality of knowledge selection rules to the knowledge article selection module; evaluating a combination of the phrase and the scores of the plurality of behavioral metrics against each of the plurality of knowledge selection rules; matching a knowledge selection rule to the combination; selecting a knowledge article associated with the matched knowledge selection rule; generating a visual representation of the selected knowledge article; and presenting in real-time the visual representation on a graphical user interface.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: NICE LTD.Inventors: Gordon Scott Edwards, Jon A. Arrowood, Mark Finlay
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Publication number: 20230124342Abstract: A method of assisting an agent in real-time includes receiving a call interaction between a customer and an agent; identifying words spoken in the call interaction; providing the words to a behavioral models module; computing a score for a plurality of behavioral metrics; providing a phrase formed by the words to a knowledge article selection module; providing each score for the plurality of behavioral metrics to the knowledge article selection module; providing a plurality of knowledge selection rules to the knowledge article selection module; evaluating a combination of the phrase and the scores of the plurality of behavioral metrics against each of the plurality of knowledge selection rules; matching a knowledge selection rule to the combination; selecting a knowledge article associated with the matched knowledge selection rule; generating a visual representation of the selected knowledge article; and presenting in real-time the visual representation on a graphical user interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventors: Gordon Scott EDWARDS, Jon A. ARROWOOD, Mark FINLAY
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Patent number: 11539841Abstract: A method of assisting an agent in real-time includes receiving a call interaction between a customer and an agent; identifying words spoken in the call interaction; providing the words to a behavioral models module; computing a score for a plurality of behavioral metrics; providing a phrase formed by the words to a knowledge article selection module; providing each score for the plurality of behavioral metrics to the knowledge article selection module; providing a plurality of knowledge selection rules to the knowledge article selection module; evaluating a combination of the phrase and the scores of the plurality of behavioral metrics against each of the plurality of knowledge selection rules; matching a knowledge selection rule to the combination; selecting a knowledge article associated with the matched knowledge selection rule; generating a visual representation of the selected knowledge article; and presenting in real-time the visual representation on a graphical user interface.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2022Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: NICE LTD.Inventors: Gordon Scott Edwards, Jon A. Arrowood, Mark Finlay
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Patent number: 11283928Abstract: A method of assisting an agent in real-time includes includes receiving a call interaction between a customer and an agent; identifying words spoken in the call interaction; providing the words to a behavioral models module; computing a score for a plurality of behavioral metrics; providing a phrase formed by the words to a knowledge article selection module; providing each score for the plurality of behavioral metrics to the knowledge article selection module; providing a plurality of knowledge selection rules to the knowledge article selection module; evaluating a combination of the phrase and the scores of the plurality of behavioral metrics against each of the plurality of knowledge selection rules; matching a knowledge selection rule to the combination; selecting a knowledge article associated with the matched knowledge selection rule; generating a visual representation of the selected knowledge article; and presenting in real-time the visual representation on a graphical user interface.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: NICE LTD.Inventors: Gordon Scott Edwards, Jon A. Arrowood, Mark Finlay
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Patent number: 9536567Abstract: In an aspect, in general, method for aligning an audio recording and a transcript includes receiving a transcript including a plurality of terms, each term of the plurality of terms associated with a time location within a different version of the audio recording, forming a plurality of search terms from the terms of the transcript, determining possible time locations of the search terms in the audio recording, determining a correspondence between time locations within the different version of the audio recording associated with the search terms and the possible time locations of the search terms in the audio recording, and aligning the audio recording and the transcript including updating the time location associated with terms of the transcript based on the determined correspondence.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2012Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: NEXIDIA INC.Inventors: Jacob B. Garland, Drew Lanham, Daryl Kip Watters, Marsal Gavalda, Mark Finlay, Kenneth K. Griggs
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Publication number: 20130060572Abstract: In an aspect, in general, method for aligning an audio recording and a transcript includes receiving a transcript including a plurality of terms, each term of the plurality of terms associated with a time location within a different version of the audio recording, forming a plurality of search terms from the terms of the transcript, determining possible time locations of the search terms in the audio recording, determining a correspondence between time locations within the different version of the audio recording associated with the search terms and the possible time locations of the search terms in the audio recording, and aligning the audio recording and the transcript including updating the time location associated with terms of the transcript based on the determined correspondence.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2012Publication date: March 7, 2013Applicant: Nexidia Inc.Inventors: Jacob B. Garland, Drew Lanham, Daryl Kip Watters, Marsal Gavalda, Mark Finlay, Kenneth K. Griggs
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Patent number: 8311828Abstract: In some aspects, a wordspotter is used to locate occurrences in an audio corpus of each of a set of predetermined subword units, which may be phoneme sequences. To locate a query (e.g., a keyword or phrase) in the audio corpus, constituent subword units in the query are indentified and then locations of those subwords are determined based on the locations of those subword units determined earlier by the wordspotter, for example, using a pre-built inverted index that maps subword units to their locations.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2008Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Nexidia Inc.Inventors: Jon A. Arrowood, Robert W. Morris, Mark Finlay, Scott A. Judy
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Publication number: 20110216905Abstract: Techniques implemented as systems, methods, and apparatuses, including computer program products, for logging multi-channel audio signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2010Publication date: September 8, 2011Applicant: Nexidia Inc.Inventors: Marsal Gavalda, Mark Finlay
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Patent number: 7640161Abstract: An approach to improving the performance of a wordspotting system includes providing an interface for interactive improvement of a phonetic representation of a query based on an operator identifying true detections and false alarms in a data set.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2007Date of Patent: December 29, 2009Assignee: Nexidia Inc.Inventors: Robert W. Morris, Jon A. Arrowood, Marsal Gavalda, Peter S. Cardillo, Mark Finlay, Zahi Karam
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Publication number: 20090063151Abstract: In some aspects, a wordspotter is used to locate occurrences in an audio corpus of each of a set of predetermined subword units, which may be phoneme sequences. To locate a query (e.g., a keyword or phrase) in the audio corpus, constituent subword units in the query are indentified and then locations of those subwords are determined based on the locations of those subword units determined earlier by the wordspotter, for example, using a pre-built inverted index that maps subword units to their locations.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2008Publication date: March 5, 2009Applicant: NEXIDIA INC.Inventors: Jon A. Arrowood, Robert W. Morris, Mark Finlay, Scott A. Judy
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Publication number: 20070271241Abstract: An approach to improving the performance of a wordspotting system includes providing an interface for interactive improvement of a phonetic representation of a query based on an operator identifying true detections and false alarms in a data set.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2007Publication date: November 22, 2007Inventors: Robert Morris, Jon Arrowood, Marsal Gavalda, Peter Cardillo, Mark Finlay, Zahi Karam