Patents by Inventor Shaun E. Williams

Shaun E. Williams 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).

  • Patent number: 10186254
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to context-based endpoint detection in user speech input. A method for identifying an endpoint of a spoken request by a user may include receiving user input of natural language speech including one or more words; identifying at least one context associated with the user input; generating a probability, based on the at least one context associated with the user input, that a location in the user input is an endpoint; determining whether the probability is greater than a threshold; and in accordance with a determination that the probability is greater than the threshold, identifying the location in the user input as the endpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shaun E. Williams, Henry G. Mason, Mahesh Krishnamoorthy, Matthias Paulik, Neha Agrawal, Sachin S. Kajarekar, Selen Uguroglu, Ali S. Mohamed
  • Publication number: 20160358598
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to context-based endpoint detection in user speech input. A method for identifying an endpoint of a spoken request by a user may include receiving user input of natural language speech including one or more words; identifying at least one context associated with the user input; generating a probability, based on the at least one context associated with the user input, that a location in the user input is an endpoint; determining whether the probability is greater than a threshold; and in accordance with a determination that the probability is greater than the threshold, identifying the location in the user input as the endpoint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Shaun E. WILLIAMS, Henry G. MASON, Mahesh KRISHNAMOORTHY, Matthias PAULIK, Neha AGRAWAL, Sachin S. KAJAREKAR, Selen UGUROGLU, Ali S. MOHAMED
  • Publication number: 20160042481
    Abstract: Method and system for a consentee to obtain consent from a consenter. The consentee accesses a consentee profile having a primary photograph of the consentee to identify the consentee to the consenter. The consentee creates a new event record for obtaining and storing the consent from the consenter in a non-transitory computer readable medium. The consenter records a non-editable video of himself or herself for a predetermined length of time. A unique code is displayed on a screen viewable by the consenter during the recording step. The consenter is prompted to identify the unique code during the recording step to verify the consenter was alive and cognizant. A digital video consent signature is generated from the non-editable video; and the non-editable video and the digital video consent signature are stored in the new event record to be used as evidence to verify the consentee had consent from the consenter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Shaun E. Williams, Javiera Franscisa Williams