Patents by Inventor Robert L. Chambers
Robert L. Chambers 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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Publication number: 20090228270Abstract: Semantically distinct items are extracted from a single utterance by repeatedly recognizing the same utterance using constraints provided by semantic items already recognized. User feedback for selection or correction of partially recognized utterance may be used in a hierarchical, multi-modal, or single step manner. An accuracy of recognition is preserved while the less structured and more natural single utterance recognition form is allowed to be used.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2008Publication date: September 10, 2009Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Julian J. Odell, Robert L. Chambers, Oliver Scholz
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Patent number: 7584169Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 11, 2005Date of Patent: September 1, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Ralph Lipe, Robert L. Chambers, Edward W. Connell, Abhijit Sarkar
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Publication number: 20090150776Abstract: An object is associated with one or more controls in a software application. An object associated with a control determines the operation of the data entry user interface when the data entry user interface is being employed to enter data into the control. More particularly, the object may communicate interface e characteristics to a component that is responsible for providing the user interface to the user. Such a component may be, for example, a shared software module that renders the user interface on a display, receives input data from the user through the user interface, and routes the entered data to a designated destination. Alternately, the object itself may create a user interface having the specified characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2009Publication date: June 11, 2009Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Kyril Feldman, Robert L. Chambers, Steve Dodge, Takanobu Murayama, Tobias Zielinski, Todd A. Torset, Thomas R. Wick, Adrian J. Garside
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Publication number: 20090150777Abstract: An object is associated with one or more controls in a software application. An object associated with a control determines the operation of the data entry user interface when the data entry user interface is being employed to enter data into the control. More particularly, the object may communicate interface e characteristics to a component that is responsible for providing the user interface to the user. Such a component may be, for example, a shared software module that renders the user interface on a display, receives input data from the user through the user interface, and routes the entered data to a designated destination. Alternately, the object itself may create a user interface having the specified characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2009Publication date: June 11, 2009Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Kyril Feldman, Robert L. Chambers, Steve Dodge, Takanobu Murayama, Tobias Zielinski, Todd A. Torset, Thomas R. Wick, Adrian J. Garside
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Publication number: 20090132951Abstract: An object is associated with one or more controls in a software application. An object associated with a control determines the operation of the data entry user interface when the data entry user interface is being employed to enter data into the control. More particularly, the object may communicate interface e characteristics to a component that is responsible for providing the user interface to the user. Such a component may be, for example, a shared software module that renders the user interface on a display, receives input data from the user through the user interface, and routes the entered data to a designated destination. Alternately, the object itself may create a user interface having the specified characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2009Publication date: May 21, 2009Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Kyril Feldman, Robert L Chambers, STEVE DODGE, TAKANOBU MURAYAMA, TOBIAS ZIELINSKI, TODD A TORSET, Thomas R Wick, Adrian J Garside
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Patent number: 7490296Abstract: An object is associated with one or more controls in a software application. An object associated with a control determines the operation of the data entry user interface when the data entry user interface is being employed to enter data into that control. More particularly, the object may communicate interface characteristics to a component that is responsible for providing the user interface to the user. Such a component may be, for example, a shared software module that renders the user interface on a display, receives input data from the user through the user interface, and routes the entered data to a designated destination. Alternately, the object itself may create a user interface having the specified characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2003Date of Patent: February 10, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Kyril Feldman, Robert L Chambers, Steve Dodge, Takanobu Murayama, Tobiasz Zielinski, Todd A Torset, Thomas R Wick, Adrian J Garside
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Patent number: 7457821Abstract: 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: July 13, 2005Date of Patent: November 25, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Ralph Lipe, Robert L. Chambers, Edward W. Connell, Abhijit Sarkar
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Publication number: 20080288259Abstract: The disclosed speech recognition system enables users to define personalized, context-aware voice commands without extensive software development. Command sets may be defined in a user-friendly language and stored in an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) file. Each command object within the command set may include one or more user configurable actions, one or more configurable rules, and one or more configurable conditions The command sets may be managed by a command set loader, that loads and processes each command set into computer executable code. The command set loader may enable and disable command sets. A macro processing component may provide a speech recognition grammar to an API of the speech recognition engine based on currently enabled commands. When the speech recognition engine recognizes user speech consistent with the grammar, the macro processing component may initiate the one or more computer executable actions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2008Publication date: November 20, 2008Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Robert L. Chambers, Brian King
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Patent number: 7451159Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 11, 2005Date of Patent: November 11, 2008Assignee: Micosoft CorporationInventors: Ralph Lipe, Robert L. Chambers, Edward W. Connell, Abhijit Sarkar
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Publication number: 20080243483Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus that utilize a context-free grammar written in a markup language format. The markup language format provides a hierarchical format in which grammar structures are delimited within and defined by a set of tags. The markup language format also provides grammar switch tags that indicate a transitions from the context-free grammar to a dictation grammar or a text buffer grammar. In addition, the markup language format provides for the designation of code to be executed when particular grammar structures are recognized from a speech signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Philipp H. Schmid, Ralph Lipe, Erik C. Ellerman, Robert L. Chambers
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Patent number: 7389234Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus that utilize a context-free grammar written in a markup language format. The markup language format provides a hierarchical format in which grammar structures are delimited within and defined by a set of tags. The markup language format also provides grammar switch tags that indicate a transitions from the context-free grammar to a dictation grammar or a text buffer grammar. In addition, the markup language format provides for the designation of code to be executed when particular grammar structures are recognized from a speech signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2001Date of Patent: June 17, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Philipp H. Schmid, Ralph Lipe, Erik C. Ellerman, Robert L. Chambers
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Patent number: 7240012Abstract: A user interface is described that informs the user as to the status of the operation of a voice recognition application. The user interface displays an indicator, such as a volume bar, each time that the voice recognition application records and identifies a volume event. The user interface also displays an indicator when the voice recognition application recognizes a volume event corresponding to a displayed volume event indicator. The interface thus confirms to a user that the voice recognition application is both recording and recognizing the words being spoken by the user. It also graphically informs the user of the delay the application is currently experiencing in recognizing the words that the user is speaking.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2006Date of Patent: July 3, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Philipp H Schmid, Marieke Iwema, Robert L Chambers, Adrian Garside
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Patent number: 7218779Abstract: Methods for communicating between an application and an ink divider object (which stores ink strokes to be divided into groups) may include: (a) issuing a divide request to the ink divider object, optionally by the application; (b) in response to the divide request, calling a divide method, which groups the stored ink strokes into one or more groupings of strokes having a first predetermined granularity (e.g., words, lines, paragraphs, sentences, drawings, etc.); and (c) making information regarding the one or more groupings of strokes available to the application. This “information” made available to the application may include, for example, the actual groupings of the strokes, the number of stroke groupings having the first predetermined granularity, machine generated text corresponding to the stroke groupings, or the like. The results of the divide method may be stored in an ink division result object.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2003Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Steve Dodge, Alexander Gounares, Arin J Goldberg, Bodin Dresevic, Jerome J Turner, Matthew Paul Rhoten, Robert L Chambers, Sashi Raghupathy, Timothy H Kannapel, Tobiasz Zielinski, Zoltan C Szilagyi
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Patent number: 7167585Abstract: The present invention relates to interfacing with electronic ink. Ink is stored in a data structure that permits later retrieval by applications. The ink includes stroke information and may include property information. Through various programming interfaces, one may interact with the ink through methods and setting or retrieving properties. Other objects and collections may be used as well in conjunction with the ink objects.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2005Date of Patent: January 23, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Alexander Gounares, Steve Dodge, Timothy H. Kannapel, Rudolph Balaz, Subha Bhattacharyay, Manoj K. Biswas, Robert L. Chambers, Bodin Dresevic, Stephen A. Fisher, Arin J. Goldberg, Gregory Hullender, Brigette E. Krantz, Todd A. Torset, Jerome J. Turner, Andrew Silverman, Shiraz M. Somji
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Patent number: 7158675Abstract: The present invention relates to interfacing with electronic ink. Ink is stored in a data structure that permits later retrieval by applications. The ink includes stroke information and may include property information. Through various programming interfaces, one may interact with the ink through methods and setting or retrieving properties. Other objects and collections may be used as well in conjunction with the ink objects.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2002Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Alexander Gounares, Steve Dodge, Timothy H. Kannapel, Rudolph Balaz, Subha Bhattacharyay, Manoj K. Biswas, Robert L. Chambers, Bodin Dresevic, Stephen A. Fisher, Arin J. Goldberg, Gregory Hullender, Brigette E. Krantz, Todd A. Torset, Jerome J. Turner, Andrew Silverman, Shiraz M. Somji
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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: 7047200Abstract: A user interface is described that informs the user as to the status of the operation of a voice recognition application. The user interface displays an indicator, such as a volume bar, each time that the voice recognition application records and identifies a volume event. The user interface also displays an indicator when the voice recognition application recognizes a volume event corresponding to a displayed volume event indicator. The interface thus confirms to a user that the voice recognition application is both recording and recognizing the words being spoken by the user. It also graphically informs the user of the delay the application is currently experiencing in recognizing the words that the user is speaking.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2002Date of Patent: May 16, 2006Assignee: Microsoft, CorporationInventors: Philipp H Schmid, Marieke Iwema, Robert L Chambers, Adrian Garside
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Publication number: 20040150670Abstract: An object is associated with one or more controls in a software application. An object associated with a control determincs the operation of the data entry user interface when the data entry user interface is being employed to enter data into that control. More particularly, the object may communicate interface characteristics to a component that is responsible for providing the user interface to the user. Such a component may be, for example, a shared software module that renders the user interface on a display, receives input data from the user through the user interface, and routes the entered data to a designated destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2003Publication date: August 5, 2004Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Kyril Feldman, Robert L. Chambers, Steve Dodge, Takanobu Murayama, Tobias Zielinski, Todd A. Torset, Thomas R. Wick, Adrian J. Garside
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Publication number: 20040141648Abstract: Methods for communicating between an application and an ink divider object (which stores ink strokes to be divided into groups) may include: (a) issuing a divide request to the ink divider object, optionally by the application; (b) in response to the divide request, calling a divide method, which groups the stored ink strokes into one or more groupings of strokes having a first predetermined granularity (e.g., words, lines, paragraphs, sentences, drawings, etc.); and (c) making information regarding the one or more groupings of strokes available to the application. This “information” made available to the application may include, for example, the actual groupings of the strokes, the number of stroke groupings having the first predetermined granularity, machine generated text corresponding to the stroke groupings, or the like. The results of the divide method may be stored in an ink division result object.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2003Publication date: July 22, 2004Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Steve Dodge, Alexander Gounares, Arin J. Goldberg, Bodin Dresevic, Jerome J. Turner, Matthew Paul Rhoten, Robert L. Chambers, Sashi Raghupathy, Timothy H. Kannapel, Tobiasz Zielinski, Zoltan C. Szilagyi
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Publication number: 20030233237Abstract: A user interface that accepts input data through both speech and the use of a pen or stylus. With the interface, a user can employ voice recognition to enter a large volume of data, and subsequently employ a stylus input to modify the input data. A user can also employ stylus input, such as data from a handwriting or character recognition operation, to control how subsequently spoken words are recognized by a voice recognition operation. Further, a user may input data using a stylus, and then modify the input data using a voice recognition operation. A user may also employ a voice recognition operation to control how handwriting or character data input through a stylus is recognized by a handwriting recognition operation or a character recognition operation. In addition to a user interface, a technique is disclosed for inputting data into a computer where information is shared between a speech input operation and a handwriting input operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2002Publication date: December 18, 2003Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Adrian J. Garside, Robert L. Chambers, Leroy B. Keely, Charlton E. Lui, Philipp H. Schmid, Kirsten Wiley, Marieke Iwema, Ravipal Soin, Tobiasz A. Zielinski, Erik Geidl, William H. Vong