Patents by Inventor Samuel Karns

Samuel Karns 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: 20050114791
    Abstract: A method for indicating that a content page is scrollable can include the step of displaying a content page within a display area. A determination can be made that at least a portion of the displayed content page is scrollable. Responsive to the determination, a flyover can be displayed to indicate that the content page is scrollable, where the flyover can be a graphical user interface (GUI) object independent of the content page. The flyover can be a fixed object that appears on top of other windows in the GUI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2003
    Publication date: May 26, 2005
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rick Bollenbacher, Patrick Commarford, Samuel Karns, Richard Miranti, Rodrigo Pastrana
  • Publication number: 20050108013
    Abstract: A phonetic coverage interactive tool is provided to improving the phonetic coverage of a user adaptation script to be used with speech recognition systems. The tool reads a given script for a given language. The tool analyzes the script to produce a set of statistics indicating the coverage of phonemes in the particular language by the phonemes contained in the words in the script. An interactive mode allows users to add or remove words to the script to modify the phoneme coverage as quantified in the statistics. A user can also query the tool to produce a set of words have a desired set of phonemes, which can then be added to the script to produce a more uniform phoneme coverage for the script.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2003
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Samuel Karns