Patents by Inventor Pierre Berkaloff

Pierre Berkaloff 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).

  • Methods and apparatus to help users of a natural language system formulate queries
    Patent number: 8548799
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide the capability of receiving at least a portion of a message in natural language format from a user prior to submission of the message to an automated agent for a response, analyzing the at least the portion of the message, and providing a suggestion to the user, based upon the analyzed at least the portion of the message, for altering the message to improve ability of the automated agent to respond to the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Gray Salmon Norton, Francois Huet, Pierre Berkaloff
  • METHODS AND APPARATUS TO HELP USERS OF A NATURAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM FORMULATE QUERIES
    Publication number: 20070038619
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide the capability of receiving at least a portion of a message in natural language format from a user prior to submission of the message to an automated agent for a response, analyzing the at least the portion of the message, and providing a suggestion to the user, based upon the analyzed at least the portion of the message, for altering the message to improve ability of the automated agent to respond to the message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2006
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Inventors: Gray Norton, Francois Huet, Pierre Berkaloff
  • Method and system for displaying a representation of a three-dimensional object with surface features that conform to the surface of the three-dimensional object
    Patent number: 5673377
    Abstract: Disclosed are a system and method for providing a three-dimensional graphic-user interface operator experience real-time feedback to modification to three-dimensional objects projected onto a computer display screen. Three-dimensional data is modified in surface space and then transformed from surface space to object space and then transformed again so that it can be projected to screen space. In transforming from surface space to object space, the data is characterized so that appropriate steps can be taken to cause the transformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1997
    Assignee: Ray Dream, Inc.
    Inventor: Pierre Berkaloff