Patents by Inventor Robert Don Strong

Robert Don Strong 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).

  • Assigning meanings to utterances in a speech recognition system
    Patent number: 7478037
    Abstract: Assigning meanings to spoken utterances in a speech recognition system. A plurality of speech rules is generated, each of the speech rules comprising a language model and an expression associated with the language model. At one interval (e.g. upon the detection of speech in the system), a current language model is generated from each language model in the speech rules for use by a recognizer. When a sequence of words is received from the recognizer, a set of speech rules which match the sequence of words received from the recognizer is determined. Each expression associated with the language model in each of the set of speech rules is evaluated, and actions are performed in the system according to the expressions associated with each language model in the set of speech rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Don Strong
  • Assigning meanings to utterances in a speech recognition system
    Patent number: 7127394
    Abstract: Assigning meanings to spoken utterances in a speech recognition system. A plurality of speech rules is generated, each of the of speech rules comprising a language model and an expression associated with the language model. At one interval (e.g. upon the detection of speech in the system), a current language model is generated from each language model in the speech rules for use by a recognizer. When a sequence of words is received from the recognizer, a set of speech rules which match the sequence of words received from the recognizer is determined. Each expression associated with the language model in each of the set of speech rules is evaluated, and actions are performed in the system according to the expressions associated with each language model in the set of speech rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: Apple Computer, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Don Strong
  • Assigning meanings to utterances in a speech recognition system
    Publication number: 20040162729
    Abstract: Assigning meanings to spoken utterances in a speech recognition system. A plurality of speech rules is generated, each of the of speech rules comprising a language model and an expression associated with the language model. At one interval (e.g. upon the detection of speech in the system), a current language model is generated from each language model in the speech rules for use by a recognizer. When a sequence of words is received from the recognizer, a set of speech rules which match the sequence of words received from the recognizer is determined. Each expression associated with the language model in each of the set of speech rules is evaluated, and actions are performed in the system according to the expressions associated with each language model in the set of speech rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2004
    Publication date: August 19, 2004
    Inventor: Robert Don Strong
  • Assigning meanings to utterances in a speech recognition system
    Patent number: 6704710
    Abstract: Assigning meanings to spoken utterances in a speech recognition system. A plurality of speech rules is generated, each of the of speech rules comprising a language model and an expression associated with the language model. At one interval (e.g. upon the detection of speech in the system), a current language model is generated from each language model in the speech rules for use by a recognizer. When a sequence of words is received from the recognizer, a set of speech rules which match the sequence of words received from the recognizer is determined. Each expression associated with the language model in each of the set of speech rules is evaluated, and actions are performed in the system according to the expressions associated with each language model in the set of speech rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Apple Computer, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Don Strong
  • Assigning meanings to utterances in a speech recognition system
    Publication number: 20020016710
    Abstract: Assigning meanings to spoken utterances in a speech recognition system. A plurality of speech rules is generated, each of the of speech rules comprising a language model and an expression associated with the language model. At one interval (e.g. upon the detection of speech in the system), a current language model is generated from each language model in the speech rules for use by a recognizer. When a sequence of words is received from the recognizer, a set of speech rules which match the sequence of words received from the recognizer is determined. Each expression associated with the language model in each of the set of speech rules is evaluated, and actions are performed in the system according to the expressions associated with each language model in the set of speech rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2001
    Publication date: February 7, 2002
    Inventor: Robert Don Strong
  • Assigning meanings to utterances in a speech recognition system
    Patent number: 6311157
    Abstract: Assigning meanings to spoken utterances in a speech recognition system. A plurality of speech rules is generated, each of the of speech rules comprising a language model and an expression associated with the language model. At one interval (e.g. upon the detection of speech in the system), a current language model is generated from each language model in the speech rules for use by a recognizer. When a sequence of words is received from the recognizer, a set of speech rules which match the sequence of words received from the recognizer is determined. Each expression associated with the language model in each of the set of speech rules is evaluated, and actions are performed in the system according to the expressions associated with each language model in the set of speech rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Apple Computer, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Don Strong