Patents by Inventor Neal A. Bernstein

Neal A. Bernstein 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).

  • Voice aware demographic personalization
    Patent number: 7949526
    Abstract: A voice interaction system is configured to analyze an utterance and identify inherent attributes that are indicative of a demographic characteristic of the system user that spoke the utterance. The system then selects and presents a personalized response to the user, the response being selected based at least in part on the identified demographic characteristic. In one embodiment, the demographic characteristic is one or more of the caller's age, gender, ethnicity, education level, emotional state, health status and geographic group. In another embodiment, the selection of the response is further based on consideration of corroborative caller data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Yun-Cheng Ju, Alejandro Acero, Neal Bernstein, Geoffrey Zweig
  • Method and system for obtaining personal aliases through voice recognition
    Patent number: 7428491
    Abstract: Methods and systems for recognizing a spoken alias are disclosed. The present invention includes generating a plurality of alias variations based on a discoverable name and creating a phonetic representation for each of the alias variations. The present invention also includes capturing a phonetic pronunciation of the spoken alias. At least one of the created alias variations that has a phonetic representation that corresponds to the captured phonetic pronunciation is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kuansan Wang, Neal A. Bernstein, Xuedong David Huang
  • Method and system for obtaining personal aliases through voice recognition
    Publication number: 20060129398
    Abstract: Methods and systems for recognizing a spoken alias are disclosed. The present invention includes generating a plurality of alias variations based on a discoverable name and creating a phonetic representation for each of the alias variations. The present invention also includes capturing a phonetic pronunciation of the spoken alias. At least one of the created alias variations that has a phonetic representation that corresponds to the captured phonetic pronunciation is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2004
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kuansan Wang, Neal Bernstein, Xuedong Huang