Patents by Inventor Roger S. Zimmerman
Roger S. Zimmerman 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: 9632992Abstract: A computer program product for use with text transcribed from audio information, the computer program product residing on a computer-readable medium, includes computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to: enable defined keystroke combinations for use in editing the text transcribed from audio, the defined keystroke combinations corresponding to formatting functions identified as frequently-used functions during editing of a transcribed text; and respond to an activated keystroke combination by replacing a first format in the text document with a second format corresponding to the chosen keystroke combination.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2011Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventor: Roger S. Zimmerman
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Patent number: 9576498Abstract: According to one embodiment, a system for training transcription system trainees is provided. The system includes a memory, at least one processor coupled to the memory, and a training component executable by the at least one processor. The training component is configured to evaluate performance of at least one transcription system trainee.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: 3Play Media, Inc.Inventors: Roger S. Zimmerman, Christopher S. Antunes, Jeremy E. Barron, Sharon Lee Tomasulo, Claudia W. Fiore, Christopher E. Johnson, Anatole Khesin, Joshua Miller
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Patent number: 9460719Abstract: A system for delivering transcription products is provided. The system includes a memory, a processor coupled to the memory, a customer interface component, an automatic speech recognition component, an editor interface component, and a delivery agent component. The customer interface component is configured to receive transcription request information identifying at least one media file, the at least one media file including content. The automatic speech recognition component is configured to generate draft transcription information that represents a draft transcription of the content. The editor interface component is configured to generate edited transcription information that represents an edited transcription of the content. The delivery agent component is configured to evaluate delivery criteria to determine whether to deliver a transcription product and transmit the transcription product in response to determining that the delivery criteria is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2014Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: 3Play Media, Inc.Inventors: Christopher S. Antunes, Roger S. Zimmerman, Christopher E. Johnson, Anatole Khesin, Jeremy E. Barron, Joshua Miller, Harriet Ruth Owers-Bradley
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Patent number: 9456170Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a system for positioning captions upon video images of a media file is provided. The system includes a memory storing at least one caption frame associated with at least one video frame, at least one processor in data communication with the memory, and a caption engine component executable by the at least one processor. The caption engine component is configured to determine that at least one region of the at least one video frame is free of identified content and position the at least one caption frame within the at least one region.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2014Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: 3Play Media, Inc.Inventors: Joshua Miller, Anatole Khesin, Christopher E. Johnson, Roger S. Zimmerman, Christopher S. Antunes, Jeremy E. Barron, Andrew H. Schwartz
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Patent number: 8930308Abstract: A system for associating metadata with at least one media file is provided. The system includes a memory storing transcription information associated with the at least one media file, at least one processor coupled to the memory, and a component executed by the at least one processor and configured to associate metadata with the at least one media file by storing an association between the transcription information and the metadata within the memory. In the system, the transcription information may be synchronized with the at least one media file and the association engine may be further configured to associate the metadata with a portion of the at least one media file by storing an association between a portion of the transcription information and the metadata.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2012Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: 3Play Media, Inc.Inventors: Christopher E. Johnson, Harriet Ruth Owers-Bradley, Anatole Khesin, Roger S. Zimmerman, Joshua Miller, Jeremy E. Barron, Christopher S. Antunes
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Patent number: 8918311Abstract: According to at least one embodiment, a system for generating a plurality of caption frames is provided. The system comprises a memory storing a plurality of elements generated from transcription information, at least one processor coupled to the memory, and a caption engine component executed by the at least one processor. The caption engine component is configured to identify at least one element sequence as meeting predetermined criteria specifying a plurality of caption characteristics, the at least one element sequence including at least one element of the plurality of elements, and store the at least one element sequence within at least one caption frame. The at least one element sequence may correspond to at least one sentence. The transcription information may be time-coded.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2012Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: 3Play Media, Inc.Inventors: Christopher E. Johnson, Christopher S. Antunes, Roger S. Zimmerman, Jeremy E. Barron, Joshua Miller, Anatole Khesin
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Publication number: 20140207491Abstract: A computer program product for use with dictated medical patient information resides on a computer-readable medium and comprises computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to analyze the dictated information, identify likely confidential information in the dictated medical patient information, and treat the likely confidential information disparately from likely non-confidential information in the dictated medical patient information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Roger S. Zimmerman, Paul Egerman, Benjamin Chigier
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Patent number: 8745693Abstract: A computer program product for use with dictated medical patient information resides on a computer-readable medium and comprises computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to analyze the dictated information, identify likely confidential information in the dictated medical patient information, and treat the likely confidential information disparately from likely non-confidential information in the dictated medical patient information.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2010Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Roger S. Zimmerman, Paul Egerman, Benjamin Chigier
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Patent number: 8700395Abstract: A computer program product, for performing data determination from medical record transcriptions, resides on a computer-readable medium and includes computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to obtain a medical transcription of a dictation, the dictation being from medical personnel and concerning a patient, analyze the transcription for an indicating phrase associated with a type of data desired to be determined from the transcription, the type of desired data being relevant to medical records, determine whether data indicated by text disposed proximately to the indicating phrase is of the desired type, and store an indication of the data if the data is of the desired type.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Roger S. Zimmerman, Paul Egerman, George Zavaliagkos
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Publication number: 20130298016Abstract: A device, for use by a transcriptionist in a transcription editing system for editing transcriptions dictated by speakers, includes, in combination, a monitor configured to display visual text of transcribed dictations, an audio mechanism configured to cause playback of portions of an audio file associated with a dictation, and a cursor-control module coupled to the audio mechanism and to the monitor and configured to cause the monitor to display multiple cursors in the text.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Inventors: Benjamin Chigier, Edward A. Brody, Daniel Edward Chernin, Roger S. Zimmerman
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Patent number: 8504369Abstract: A device, for use by a transcriptionist in a transcription editing system for editing transcriptions dictated by speakers, includes, in combination, a monitor configured to display visual text of transcribed dictations, an audio mechanism configured to cause playback of portions of an audio file associated with a dictation, and a cursor-control module coupled to the audio mechanism and to the monitor and configured to cause the monitor to display multiple cursors in the text.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2004Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Chigier, Edward A. Brody, Daniel Edward Chernin, Roger S. Zimmerman
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Publication number: 20130013306Abstract: A computer program product, for performing data determination from medical record transcriptions, resides on a computer-readable medium and includes computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to obtain a medical transcription of a dictation, the dictation being from medical personnel and concerning a patient, analyze the transcription for an indicating phrase associated with a type of data desired to be determined from the transcription, the type of desired data being relevant to medical records, determine whether data indicated by text disposed proximately to the indicating phrase is of the desired type, and store an indication of the data if the data is of the desired type.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2012Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: eScription Inc.Inventors: Roger S. Zimmerman, Paul Egerman, George Zavaliagkos
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Publication number: 20120310644Abstract: A computer program product, for automatically editing a medical record transcription, resides on a computer-readable medium and includes computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to obtain a first medical transcription of a dictation, the dictation being from medical personnel and concerning a patient, analyze the first medical transcription for presence of a first trigger phrase associated with a first standard text block, determine that the first trigger phrase is present in the first medical transcription if an actual phrase in the first medical transcription corresponds with the first trigger phrase, and insert the first standard text block into the first medical transcription.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: eScription Inc.Inventors: Roger S. Zimmerman, Paul Egerman, Robert G. Titemore, George Zavaliagkos
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Patent number: 8286071Abstract: A computer program product, for automatically editing a medical record transcription, resides on a computer-readable medium and includes computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to obtain a first medical transcription of a dictation, the dictation being from medical personnel and concerning a patient, analyze the first medical transcription for presence of a first trigger phrase associated with a first standard text block, determine that the first trigger phrase is present in the first medical transcription if an actual phrase in the first medical transcription corresponds with the first trigger phrase, and insert the first standard text block into the first medical transcription.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2006Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: eScription, Inc.Inventors: Roger S. Zimmerman, Paul Egerman, Robert G. Titemore, George Zavaliagkos
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Patent number: 8280735Abstract: A computer program product, for performing data determination from medical record transcriptions, resides on a computer-readable medium and includes computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to obtain a medical transcription of a dictation, the dictation being from medical personnel and concerning a patient, analyze the transcription for an indicating phrase associated with a type of data desired to be determined from the transcription, the type of desired data being relevant to medical records, determine whether data indicated by text disposed proximately to the indicating phrase is of the desired type, and store an indication of the data if the data is of the desired type.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: eScription Inc.Inventors: Roger S. Zimmerman, Paul Egerman, George Zavaliagkos
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Patent number: 8229742Abstract: A computer program product for use with dictated medical patient information resides on a computer-readable medium and comprises computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to analyze the dictated information, identify likely confidential information in the dictated medical patient information, and treat the likely confidential information disparately from likely non-confidential information in the dictated medical patient information.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2010Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: eScription Inc.Inventors: Roger S. Zimmerman, Paul Egerman, Benjamin Chigier
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Publication number: 20120010883Abstract: A computer program product, for performing data determination from medical record transcriptions, resides on a computer-readable medium and includes computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to obtain a medical transcription of a dictation, the dictation being from medical personnel and concerning a patient, analyze the transcription for an indicating phrase associated with a type of data desired to be determined from the transcription, the type of desired data being relevant to medical records, determine whether data indicated by text disposed proximately to the indicating phrase is of the desired type, and store an indication of the data if the data is of the desired type.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Applicant: eScription, Inc.Inventors: Roger S. Zimmerman, Paul Egerman, George Zavaliagkos
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Publication number: 20110302489Abstract: A computer program product for use with text transcribed from audio information, the computer program product residing on a computer-readable medium, includes computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to: enable defined keystroke combinations for use in editing the text transcribed from audio, the defined keystroke combinations corresponding to formatting functions identified as frequently-used functions during editing of a transcribed text; and respond to an activated keystroke combination by replacing a first format in the text document with a second format corresponding to the chosen keystroke combination.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2011Publication date: December 8, 2011Inventor: ROGER S. ZIMMERMAN
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Patent number: 8028248Abstract: A computer program product for use with text transcribed from audio information, the computer program product residing on a computer-readable medium, includes computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to: enable defined keystroke combinations for use in editing the text transcribed from audio, the defined keystroke combinations corresponding to formatting functions identified as frequently-used functions during editing of a transcribed text; and respond to an activated keystroke combination by replacing a first format in the text document with a second format corresponding to the chosen keystroke combination.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2008Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: Escription, Inc.Inventor: Roger S. Zimmerman
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Patent number: 7899670Abstract: A computer program product for transcribing a medical dictation in real-time includes instructions for causing a computer to obtain a user identification from a user at a client via a computer network, the user identification being associated with medical personnel that provides a dictation concerning a patient, load models associated with the user identification, the models being configured to assist in developing a draft transcription of the dictation, receive an audio feed of the dictation from the client, process the audio feed using the models to create a segment of the draft transcription of the dictation, and transmit the segment of the draft transcription to the client.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2006Date of Patent: March 1, 2011Assignee: eScription Inc.Inventors: Jonathan Hood Young, Roger S. Zimmerman