Patents by Inventor Robert William Morris

Robert William Morris 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: 20230252486
    Abstract: A computer based system and method for identifying complaint interactions, including: detecting appearances of linguistic structures related to complaints in an interaction; calculating at least one sentiment metric of the interaction; and classifying the interaction as being or not being a complaint interaction based on the detected linguistic structures and the at least one sentiment metric, for example using a trained supervised learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: Nice Ltd.
    Inventors: Steven Richard ARNOLD, Katie TRUONG, Robert William MORRIS
  • Patent number: 11687946
    Abstract: A computer based system and method for identifying complaint interactions, including: detecting appearances of linguistic structures related to complaints in an interaction; calculating at least one sentiment metric of the interaction; and classifying the interaction as being or not being a complaint interaction based on the detected linguistic structures and the at least one sentiment metric, for example using a trained supervised learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Nice Ltd.
    Inventors: Steven Richard Arnold, Katie Truong, Robert William Morris
  • Patent number: 11605373
    Abstract: A text search query including one or more words may be received. An ASR index created for an audio recording may be searched over using the query to produce ASR search results including words, each word associated with a confidence score. For each of the words in the ASR search results associated with a confidence score below a threshold (and in some cases having one or more preceding words in the ASR index and one or more subsequent words in the ASR index), a phonetic representation of the audio recording may be searched for the word having the confidence score below the threshold, where it occurs in the audio recording, possibly after the one or more preceding words and in the audio recording before the one or more subsequent words, to produce phonetic search results. Search results may be returned include ASR and phonetic results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Nice Ltd.
    Inventors: William Mark Finlay, Robert William Morris, Peter S. Cardillo, Maria Kunin
  • Patent number: 11587549
    Abstract: A text search query including one or more words may be received. An ASR index created for an audio recording may be searched over using the query to produce ASR search results including words, each word associated with a confidence score. For each of the words in the ASR search results associated with a confidence score below a threshold (and in some cases having one or more preceding words in the ASR index and one or more subsequent words in the ASR index), a phonetic representation of the audio recording may be searched for the word having the confidence score below the threshold, where it occurs in the audio recording, possibly after the one or more preceding words and in the audio recording before the one or more subsequent words, to produce phonetic search results. Search results may be returned include ASR and phonetic results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Nice Ltd.
    Inventors: William Mark Finlay, Robert William Morris, Peter S. Cardillo, Maria Kunin
  • Patent number: 11556572
    Abstract: A computer based system and method for assigning queries to topics and/or visualizing or analyzing query coverage may include, using a computer processor, searching, using a set of queries, over a set of text documents, to produce for each query a set of search results for the query. Each search result may include a subset of text from a text document of the set of text documents. For each query, a query vector may be calculated based on the set of search results for the query, and for each of a set of topics describing the set of text documents, a topic vector may be calculated. A report or visualization may be generated including the set of queries and the set of topics using the topic vectors and the query vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: NICE LTD.
    Inventor: Robert William Morris
  • Publication number: 20220366891
    Abstract: A text search query including one or more words may be received. An ASR index created for an audio recording may be searched over using the query to produce ASR search results including words, each word associated with a confidence score. For each of the words in the ASR search results associated with a confidence score below a threshold (and in some cases having one or more preceding words in the ASR index and one or more subsequent words in the ASR index), a phonetic representation of the audio recording may be searched for the word having the confidence score below the threshold, where it occurs in the audio recording, possibly after the one or more preceding words and in the audio recording before the one or more subsequent words, to produce phonetic search results. Search results may be returned include ASR and phonetic results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: Nice Ltd.
    Inventors: William Mark FINLAY, Robert William MORRIS, Peter S. CARDILLO, Maria KUNIN
  • Publication number: 20220366892
    Abstract: A text search query including one or more words may be received. An ASR index created for an audio recording may be searched over using the query to produce ASR search results including words, each word associated with a confidence score. For each of the words in the ASR search results associated with a confidence score below a threshold (and in some cases having one or more preceding words in the ASR index and one or more subsequent words in the ASR index), a phonetic representation of the audio recording may be searched for the word having the confidence score below the threshold, where it occurs in the audio recording, possibly after the one or more preceding words and in the audio recording before the one or more subsequent words, to produce phonetic search results. Search results may be returned include ASR and phonetic results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: Nice Ltd.
    Inventors: William Mark FINLAY, Robert William MORRIS, Peter S. CARDILLO, Maria KUNIN
  • Patent number: 11443734
    Abstract: A text search query including one or more words may be received. An ASR index created for an audio recording may be searched over using the query to produce ASR search results including words, each word associated with a confidence score. For each of the words in the ASR search results associated with a confidence score below a threshold (and in some cases having one or more preceding words in the ASR index and one or more subsequent words in the ASR index), a phonetic representation of the audio recording may be searched for the word having the confidence score below the threshold, where it occurs in the audio recording, possibly after the one or more preceding words and in the audio recording before the one or more subsequent words, to produce phonetic search results. Search results may be returned include ASR and phonetic results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: NICE LTD.
    Inventors: William Mark Finlay, Robert William Morris, Peter S. Cardillo, Maria Michaela Kunin
  • Patent number: 11310363
    Abstract: A method for providing coachable events for agents within a call center is provided. Behavior score waveforms for interactions and behaviors can be determined. Events can be identified in the behavior score waveforms within identified durations, and a relevancy of one or more events to one or more behaviors can be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Nice Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert William Morris, Jon Augustus Arrowood, Brett Victor Forman
  • Publication number: 20220005052
    Abstract: A computer based system and method for identifying complaint interactions, including: detecting appearances of linguistic structures related to complaints in an interaction; calculating at least one sentiment metric of the interaction; and classifying the interaction as being or not being a complaint interaction based on the detected linguistic structures and the at least one sentiment metric, for example using a trained supervised learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: NICE Ltd.
    Inventors: Steven Richard ARNOLD, Katie Truong, Robert William Morris
  • Publication number: 20210360107
    Abstract: A method for providing coachable events for agents within a call center is provided. Behavior score waveforms for interactions and behaviors can be determined. Events can be identified in the behavior score waveforms within identified durations, and a relevancy of one or more events to one or more behaviors can be determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: Nice Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert William Morris, Jon Augustus Arrowood, Brett Victor Forman
  • Patent number: 11157916
    Abstract: A computer based system and method for identifying complaint interactions, including: detecting appearances of linguistic structures related to complaints in an interaction; calculating at least one sentiment metric of the interaction; and classifying the interaction as being or not being a complaint interaction based on the detected linguistic structures and the at least one sentiment metric, for example using a trained supervised learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: NICE LTD.
    Inventors: Steven Richard Arnold, Katie Truong, Robert William Morris
  • Publication number: 20210158366
    Abstract: A computer based system and method for identifying complaint interactions, including: detecting appearances of linguistic structures related to complaints in an interaction; calculating at least one sentiment metric of the interaction; and classifying the interaction as being or not being a complaint interaction based on the detected linguistic structures and the at least one sentiment metric, for example using a trained supervised learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: Nice Ltd.
    Inventors: Steven Richard ARNOLD, Katie TRUONG, Robert William MORRIS
  • Patent number: 11005994
    Abstract: A method for providing coachable events for agents within a call center is provided. Behavior score waveforms for interactions and behaviors can be determined. Events can be identified in the behavior score waveforms within identified durations, and a relevancy of one or more events to one or more behaviors can be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Nice Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert William Morris, Jon Augustus Arrowood, Brett Victor Forman
  • Publication number: 20210065679
    Abstract: A text search query including one or more words may be received. An ASR index created for an audio recording may be searched over using the query to produce ASR search results including words, each word associated with a confidence score. For each of the words in the ASR search results associated with a confidence score below a threshold (and in some cases having one or more preceding words in the ASR index and one or more subsequent words in the ASR index), a phonetic representation of the audio recording may be searched for the word having the confidence score below the threshold, where it occurs in the audio recording, possibly after the one or more preceding words and in the audio recording before the one or more subsequent words, to produce phonetic search results. Search results may be returned include ASR and phonetic results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: NICE LTD.
    Inventors: William Mark FINLAY, Robert William MORRIS, Peter S. CARDILLO, Maria Michaela KUNIN
  • Publication number: 20200342016
    Abstract: A computer based system and method for assigning queries to topics and/or visualizing or analyzing query coverage may include, using a computer processor, searching, using a set of queries, over a set of text documents, to produce for each query a set of search results for the query. Each search result may include a subset of text from a text document of the set of text documents. For each query, a query vector may be calculated based on the set of search results for the query, and for each of a set of topics describing the set of text documents, a topic vector may be calculated. A report or visualization may be generated including the set of queries and the set of topics using the topic vectors and the query vectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: Nice Ltd.
    Inventor: Robert William Morris
  • Patent number: 10630680
    Abstract: Systems and methods for optimizing matched voice biometric passphrases may generate a set of k candidate passphrases; calculate a phonetic content of each candidate passphrase of the set of k candidate passphrases; at least one of during and after a voice biometric enrollment of a user, calculate a user phonetic content of a text-independent voiceprint of the user, wherein the text-independent voiceprint of the user was captured during the voice biometric enrollment; identify a subset of j passphrases from the set of k candidate passphrases, wherein each of the subset of j passphrases meets a match threshold in phonetic content with the voiceprint of the user; one of prior to and during a user authentication, select a first one of the subset of j passphrases; and present the selected first one of the subset of j passphrases to the user for use in the user authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Nice Ltd.
    Inventors: Jon A. Arrowood, Peter S. Cardillo, Robert William Morris
  • Patent number: 10269352
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting phonetically similar imposter phrases may include using automatic speech recognition (ASR) to search for a first phrase in a set of objects; producing a list of references by searching for the first phrase in the set of objects using phonetic search; using output produced by the ASR to determine whether or not a reference in the list points to a phrase that is the same as the first phrase; and if it is determined that the reference points to a second phrase that is different from the first phrase then marking the second phrase as a potential cause for a phrase search false positive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: NICE Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert William Morris, Neeraj Singh Verma
  • Publication number: 20190104120
    Abstract: Systems and methods for optimizing matched voice biometric passphrases may generate a set of k candidate passphrases; calculate a phonetic content of each candidate passphrase of the set of k candidate passphrases; at least one of during and after a voice biometric enrollment of a user, calculate a user phonetic content of a text-independent voiceprint of the user, wherein the text-independent voiceprint of the user was captured during the voice biometric enrollment; identify a subset of j passphrases from the set of k candidate passphrases, wherein each of the subset of j passphrases meets a match threshold in phonetic content with the voiceprint of the user; one of prior to and during a user authentication, select a first one of the subset of j passphrases; and present the selected first one of the subset of j passphrases to the user for use in the user authentication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Applicant: Nice Ltd.
    Inventors: Jon A. ARROWOOD, Peter S. CARDILLO, Robert William MORRIS
  • Publication number: 20180182378
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting phonetically similar imposter phrases may include using automatic speech recognition (ASR) to search for a first phrase in a set of objects; producing a list of references by searching for the first phrase in the set of objects using phonetic search; using output produced by the ASR to determine whether or not a reference in the list points to a phrase that is the same as the first phrase; and if it is determined that the reference points to a second phrase that is different from the first phrase then marking the second phrase as a potential cause for a phrase search false positive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Robert William MORRIS, Neeraj Singh VERMA