Patents by Inventor Ralph A. Lipe
Ralph A. Lipe 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: 7155392Abstract: The present invention includes a context-free grammar (CFG) engine which communicates through an exposed interface with a speech recognition engine. The context-free grammar engine, in one illustrative embodiment, handles loading and unloading of grammars, as well as maintaining a desired activation state of the grammars which are loaded. Further, the CFG engine represents all loaded grammars, and their corresponding activation states, as a single grammar to the speech recognition engine.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2005Date of Patent: December 26, 2006Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Philipp Heinz Schmid, Ralph Lipe
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Patent number: 7139709Abstract: The present invention provides an application-independent and engine-independent middleware layer between applications and engines. The middleware provides speech-related services to both applications and engines, thereby making it far easier for application vendors and engine vendors to bring their technology to consumers.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2000Date of Patent: November 21, 2006Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Philipp Heinz Schmid, Ralph Lipe, Robert Chambers, Edward Connell
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Patent number: 7099886Abstract: The present invention provides a method and computer-readable medium for searching for programming objects on a computer system. Under one aspect of the invention, optional search attributes are used to order a list of references to found programming objects. Under a second aspect of the invention, object attributes that are stored outside of a static attribute storage area are inspected during the search for programming objects. Under a third aspect of the invention, different sets of object data are allowed to reference the same programming object class, and different objects of a single programming object class may be initialized in different ways so that they exhibit different attributes.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2001Date of Patent: August 29, 2006Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Ralph Lipe, Robert L. Chambers, Edward W. Connell, Abhijit Sarkar
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Patent number: 7089189Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system and method of notifying a speech related application of events generated by a speech related engine. A middleware layer receives a notification selection from the application. The notification selection is indicative of a selected notification mechanism for notifying the application of the events. The middleware component receives an event indication from the engine. The event indication is indicative of an event generated by the engine. The event indication is transferred to the application according to the selected notification mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2004Date of Patent: August 8, 2006Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Ralph Lipe, Philipp H. Schmid
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Publication number: 20060085193Abstract: The present invention includes a context-free grammar (CFG) engine which communicates through an exposed interface with a speech recognition engine. The context-free grammar engine, in one illustrative embodiment, handles loading and unloading of grammars, as well as maintaining a desired activation state of the grammars which are loaded. Further, the CFG engine represents all loaded grammars, and their corresponding activation states, as a single grammar to the speech recognition engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2005Publication date: April 20, 2006Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Philipp Schmid, Ralph Lipe
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Patent number: 7024350Abstract: A computer-loadable data structure is provided that represents a state-and-transition-based description of a speech grammar. The data structure includes first and second transition entries that both represent transitions from a first state. The second transition entry is contiguous with the first transition entry in the data structure and includes a last-transition value. The last-transition value indicating that the second transition is the last transition from the first state in the data structure. A method is also provided for retrieving information from a binary grammar. The method includes receiving an index into a set of transition entries and converting the index into a memory offset relative to the beginning of the binary grammar, where the offset is based on a memory offset to the beginning of the set of transition entries, the fixed size of each transition entry and the index.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2001Date of Patent: April 4, 2006Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Philipp H. Schmid, Ralph Lipe
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Publication number: 20060026141Abstract: Data associated with a function instance corresponding to a resource on one computer system is published for use on another computer system. A function instance is created on the other computer system using the published data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2005Publication date: February 2, 2006Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Douglas Brubacher, Dale Sather, John Gehlsen, Kenneth Cooper, Kosar Jaff, Gary Raden, Ralph Lipe, Roland Ayala, Shannon Chan
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Publication number: 20050262137Abstract: The present invention provides a method and computer-readable medium for searching for programming objects on a computer system. Under one aspect of the invention, optional search attributes are used to order a list of references to found programming objects. Under a second aspect of the invention, object attributes that are stored outside of a static attribute storage area are inspected during the search for programming objects. Under a third aspect of the invention, different sets of object data are allowed to reference the same programming object class, and different objects of a single programming object class may be initialized in different ways so that they exhibit different attributes.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2005Publication date: November 24, 2005Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Ralph Lipe, Robert Chambers, Edward Connell, Abhijit Sarkar
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Publication number: 20050251391Abstract: A computer-loadable data structure is provided that represents a state-and-transition-based description of a speech grammar. The data structure includes first and second transition entries that both represent transitions from a first state. The second transition entry is contiguous with the first transition entry in the data structure and includes a last-transition value. The last-transition value indicating that the second transition is the last transition from the first state in the data structure. A method is also provided for retrieving information from a binary grammar. The method includes receiving an index into a set of transition entries and converting the index into a memory offset relative to the beginning of the binary grammar, where the offset is based on a memory offset to the beginning of the set of transition entries, the fixed size of each transition entry and the index.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2005Publication date: November 10, 2005Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Philipp Schmid, Ralph Lipe
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Publication number: 20050235338Abstract: A DVD jukebox or the like is integrated with a home network and serves as a centralized storage of multiple video/audio titles that can be selected and played on display devices, such as televisions, at different locations in the home. The jukebox is connected to a media server on the home network. The media server controls the jukebox and functions as its proxy to allow discovery and control of the jukebox by other devices on the home network. The media server generates a directory of the titles stored in the jukebox, which is sent via the home network to a media client connected to the display device. The media client presents an interactive user interface to allow the user to navigate the titles in the jukebox and select a title for viewing on the display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2005Publication date: October 20, 2005Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Salim AbiEzzi, Ralph Lipe
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Patent number: 6957184Abstract: The present invention includes a context-free grammar (CFG) engine which communicates through an exposed interface with a speech recognition engine. The context-free grammar engine, in one illustrative embodiment, handles loading and unloading of grammars, as well as maintaining a desired activation state of the grammars which are loaded. Further, the CFG engine represents all loaded grammars, and their corresponding activation states, as a single grammar to the speech recognition engine.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2000Date of Patent: October 18, 2005Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Philipp Heinz Schmid, Ralph Lipe
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Publication number: 20050192927Abstract: A function instance associated with a resource specifies one or more interfaces for accessing the resource. The function instance further includes functionality to return an entity operable to implement the specified interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2005Publication date: September 1, 2005Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Douglas Brubacher, Dale Sather, Ralph Lipe, Roland Ayala
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Publication number: 20050187924Abstract: A request is received for one or more function instances. The request specifies a resource category. A resource provider is selected from a plurality of resource providers based on the resource category. One or more function instances are created by the selected resource provider to satisfy the request. Each of the created function instance is associated with a resource and specifies resource metadata and activation data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2005Publication date: August 25, 2005Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Douglas Brubacher, Dale Sather, Ralph Lipe, Roland Ayala
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Publication number: 20050187922Abstract: In response to receiving a request for function instances, underlying function instances are identified using API layer data. The requested function instances are then created based on the underlying function instances.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2005Publication date: August 25, 2005Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Douglas Brubacher, Dale Sather, Ralph Lipe, Roland Ayala
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Publication number: 20050187921Abstract: An input including information specifying criteria for selecting computer resources is processed to produce an output comprising one or more function instances associated with computer resources satisfying the criteria. Included in each of the one or more function instances are metadata and information that specifies a mechanism for accessing a computer resource associated with the function instance.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2005Publication date: August 25, 2005Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Douglas Brubacher, Dale Sather, Ralph Lipe, Roland Ayala
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Patent number: 6931376Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system and method of notifying a speech related application of events generated by a speech related engine. A middleware layer receives a notification selection from the application. The notification selection is indicative of a selected notification mechanism for notifying the application of the events. The middleware component receives an event indication from the engine. The event indication is indicative of an event generated by the engine. The event indication is transferred to the application according to the selected notification mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2001Date of Patent: August 16, 2005Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Ralph Lipe, Philipp Heinz Schmid
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Publication number: 20050165767Abstract: The present invention provides a method and computer-readable medium for searching for programming objects on a computer system. Under one aspect of the invention, optional search attributes are used to order a list of references to found programming objects. Under a second aspect of the invention, object attributes that are stored outside of a static attribute storage area are inspected during the search for programming objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2005Publication date: July 28, 2005Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Ralph Lipe, Robert Chambers, Edward Connell, Abhijit Sarkar
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Publication number: 20050159960Abstract: The present invention includes a context-free grammar (CFG) engine which communicates through an exposed interface with a speech recognition engine. The context-free grammar engine, in one illustrative embodiment, handles loading and unloading of grammars, as well as maintaining a desired activation state of the grammars which are loaded. Further, the CFG engine represents all loaded grammars, and their corresponding activation states, as a single grammar to the speech recognition engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2005Publication date: July 21, 2005Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Philipp Schmid, Ralph Lipe
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Publication number: 20050154724Abstract: The present invention provides a method and computer-readable medium for searching for programming objects on a computer system. Under the invention, object attributes that are stored outside of a static attribute storage area are inspected during the search for programming objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2005Publication date: July 14, 2005Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Ralph Lipe, Robert Chambers, Edward Connell, Abhijit Sarkar
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Publication number: 20050132405Abstract: A DVD jukebox or the like is integrated with a home network and serves as a centralized storage of multiple video/audio titles that can be selected and played on display devices, such as televisions, at different locations in the home. The jukebox is connected to a media server on the home network. The media server controls the jukebox and functions as its proxy to allow discovery and control of the jukebox by other devices on the home network. The media server generates a directory of the titles stored in the jukebox, which is sent via the home network to a media client connected to the display device. The media client presents an interactive user interface to allow the user to navigate the titles in the jukebox and select a title for viewing on the display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2003Publication date: June 16, 2005Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Salim AbiEzzi, Ralph Lipe