Patents by Inventor Mary S. Neff

Mary S. Neff 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: 9014363
    Abstract: A system and method for providing an adaptive Interaction Logging functionality to help agents reduce the time spent documenting contact center interactions. In a preferred embodiment the system uses a pipeline comprising audio capture of a telephone conversation, automatic speech transcription, text normalization, transcript generation and candidate call log generation based on Real-time and Global Models. The contact center agent edits the candidate call log to create the final call log. The models are updated based on analysis of user feedback in the form of the editing of the candidate call log done by the contact center agents or supervisors. The pipeline yields a candidate call log which the agents can edit in less time than it would take them to generate a call log manually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Roy Jefferson Byrd, Stephen C. Gates, Mary S. Neff, Youngja Park, Wilfried Teiken
  • Publication number: 20140153709
    Abstract: A system and method for providing an adaptive Interaction Logging functionality to help agents reduce the time spent documenting contact center interactions. In a preferred embodiment the system uses a pipeline comprising audio capture of a telephone conversation, automatic speech transcription, text normalization, transcript generation and candidate call log generation based on Real-time and Global Models. The contact center agent edits the candidate call log to create the final call log. The models are updated based on analysis of user feedback in the form of the editing of the candidate call log done by the contact center agents or supervisors. The pipeline yields a candidate call log which the agents can edit in less time than it would take them to generate a call log manually.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Roy Jefferson Byrd, Stephen C. Gates, Mary S. Neff, Youngja Park, Wilfried Teiken
  • Patent number: 8644488
    Abstract: A system and method for providing an adaptive Interaction Logging functionality to help agents reduce the time spent documenting contact center interactions. In a preferred embodiment the system uses a pipeline comprising audio capture of a telephone conversation, automatic speech transcription, text normalization, transcript generation and candidate call log generation based on Real-time and Global Models. The contact center agent edits the candidate call log to create the final call log. The models are updated based on analysis of user feedback in the form of the editing of the candidate call log done by the contact center agents or supervisors. The pipeline yields a candidate call log which the agents can edit in less time than it would take them to generate a call log manually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Roy J. Byrd, Stephen Carl Gates, Mary S. Neff, Youngja Park, Wilfried Teiken
  • Patent number: 8370155
    Abstract: A real-time method and system are described for automatically extracting text from the customer-agent interaction at a contact center, analyzing the extracted text to automatically identify one or more customer issues, and performing processing by contact-center agent buddies (CABs) to generate at least one response to the customer issues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Roy J. Byrd, Keh-Shin Cheng, Stephen Carl Gates, Mary S. Neff, Youngja Park, Wilfried Teiken
  • Publication number: 20100274618
    Abstract: A real-time method and system are described for automatically extracting text from the customer-agent interaction at a contact center, analyzing the extracted text to automatically identify one or more customer issues, and performing processing by contact-center agent buddies (CABs) to generate at least one response to the customer issues.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Roy J. Byrd, Keh-Shin F. Cheng, Stephen Carl Gates, Mary S. Neff, Youngja Park, Wilfried Teiken
  • Publication number: 20100104087
    Abstract: A system and method for providing an adaptive Interaction Logging functionality to help agents reduce the time spent documenting contact center interactions. In a preferred embodiment the system uses a pipeline comprising audio capture of a telephone conversation, automatic speech transcription, text normalization, transcript generation and candidate call log generation based on Real-time and Global Models. The contact center agent edits the candidate call log to create the final call log. The models are updated based on analysis of user feedback in the form of the editing of the candidate call log done by the contact center agents or supervisors. The pipeline yields a candidate call log which the agents can edit in less time than it would take them to generate a call log manually.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Roy J. Byrd, Stephen Carl Gates, Mary S. Neff, Youngja Park, Wilfried Teiken
  • Patent number: 4701851
    Abstract: A compound word spelling verification technique is described for use with a dictionary which does not include all verifiable compounds. During attempted verfication of a text word, all initial substrings of the word found in the dictionary are saved in a list. If the entire word is not found in the dictionary, the longest substring in the substring list is subtracted from the entire word to be verified to yield a "remainder" portion of the input text word. The dictionary words are then compared with this remainder portion to determine if a match occurs. If so, then both portions of the word are found in the dictionary and spelling of the word is considered correct. If the remainder is not found in the dictionary, successively shorter initial substrings are accessed to yield successively longer remainders. The word is considered correctly spelled if both a substring and a remainder are found in the dictionary. This techinque is applied recursively so that multiple-piece compounds can also be found.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1987
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vance R. Bass, Veronica A. Bonebrake, David A. Garrison, James K. Landis, Mary S. Neff, Robert J. Urquhart, Susan C. Williams
  • Patent number: 4672571
    Abstract: A compound word spelling verification technique is described for use with a dictionary which does not include all verifiable compounds. During verification of a text word, an attempt is made to find a pair of words in the dictionary of which the text word consists. A table associated with the dictionary includes compound class information relative to each of the words stored therein. The compound class of each of the pair of words of which the input text word consists are tested for compatibility to determine if each of the pair of words may acceptably be used in a compound word in the physical position in which it is found in the input text word.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1987
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vance R. Bass, Veronica A. Bonebrake, David A. Garrison, James K. Landis, Mary S. Neff, Robert J. Urquhart, Susan C. Williams