Patents by Inventor Robert Jim Firby

Robert Jim Firby 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).

  • Publication number: 20180358021
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes providing a biometric signal as an input to a dialog system. A biometric signal processor can derive contextual biometric information about the biometric signal based on stored information and received, user-provided information. The dialog system can be used to interface with a user to receive contextual data about the user's status or activities, and can be used to interact with the user to request information and provide the contextualized biometric information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Meladel Mistica, Martin Henk Van Den Berg, Guillermo Perez, Robert Jim Firby, Beth Ann Hockey
  • Publication number: 20180247644
    Abstract: Various systems and methods for queueing spoken dialogue output are provided herein. A system for queueing spoken dialogue output includes a memory device including a queue, and an output manager to: determine a relation between a first utterance and a second utterance in the queue; assign a revision strategy based on the relation; and apply the revision strategy to the queue, the queue used to provide spoken dialogue output to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Robert Jim Firby, Lavinia Andreea Danielescu, Blake D. Ward, Beth Ann Hockey, Jessica Gwen Christian
  • Patent number: 9818404
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to receiving a speech signal representative of audible speech, processing the speech signal to interpret the speech signal by a dialog system implemented at least partially in hardware, determining, by the dialog system, that the speech signal cannot be correctly interpreted, receiving a noise signal representative of audible background noise, identifying a noise level from the noise signal, determining, by the dialog system, that the noise level is too high for the speech signal to be correctly interpreted, and providing, by the dialog system, a message indicating that the noise level is too high for the speech signal to be correctly interpreted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Jim Firby, Peter Graff
  • Publication number: 20170178627
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to receiving a speech signal representative of audible speech, processing the speech signal to interpret the speech signal by a dialog system implemented at least partially in hardware, determining, by the dialog system, that the speech signal cannot be correctly interpreted, receiving a noise signal representative of audible background noise, identifying a noise level from the noise signal, determining, by the dialog system, that the noise level is too high for the speech signal to be correctly interpreted, and providing, by the dialog system, a message indicating that the noise level is too high for the speech signal to be correctly interpreted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Robert Jim Firby, Peter Graff