Patents by Inventor Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong
Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong 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: 20240070150Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, devices, apparatus, media, design structures, and other implementations, including a method that includes receiving a source document, applying one or more pre-processes to the source document to produce contextual information representative of the structure and content of the source document, and transforming the source document, based on the contextual information, to generate a question-and-answer searchable document.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: David Nahamoo, Igor Roditis Jablokov, Vaibhava Goel, Etienne Marcheret, Ellen Eide Kislal, Steven John Rennie, Marie Wenzel Meteer, Neil Rohit Mallinar, Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong, Joseph Allen Pruitt, John Michael Pruitt, Bryan Dempsey, Chul Sung
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Patent number: 11734268Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, devices, apparatus, media, design structures, and other implementations, including a method that includes receiving a source document, applying one or more pre-processes to the source document to produce contextual information representative of the structure and content of the source document, and transforming the source document, based on the contextual information, to generate a question-and-answer searchable document.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Pryon IncorporatedInventors: David Nahamoo, Igor Roditis Jablokov, Vaibhava Goel, Etienne Marcheret, Ellen Eide Kislal, Steven John Rennie, Marie Wenzel Meteer, Neil Rohit Mallinar, Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong, Joseph Allen Pruitt, John Pruitt, Bryan Dempsey, Chui Sung
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Patent number: 11593364Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, devices, apparatus, media, design structures, and other implementations, including a method that includes receiving, at a local device from a remote device, query data representative of a question relating to source content of a source document, and determining whether one or more pre-determined questions stored in a question-answer cache maintained at the local device matches the query data according to one or more matching criteria. The method further includes obtaining from the question-answer cache, in response to a determination that at least one of the pre-determined questions matches the query data received from the remote device, at least one answer data item, associated with at least one pre-determined question, corresponding to an answer to the question relating to the source content.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Pryon IncorporatedInventors: David Nahamoo, Igor Roditis Jablokov, Vaibhava Goel, Etienne Marcheret, Ellen Eide Kislal, Steven John Rennie, Marie Wenzel Meteer, Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong, Joseph Allen Pruitt, John Pruitt, Bryan Dempsey, Gregory Pelton, Lucas Siler
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Publication number: 20210406320Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, devices, apparatus, media, design structures, and other implementations, including a method that includes receiving, at a local device from a remote device, query data representative of a question relating to source content of a source document of a repository of a plurality of source documents, with the source content being associated with transformed content accessible from the local device. The method further includes generating, in response to determination, at the local device, of a match between the query data and at least one portion of the transformed content, output data comprising one or more of a pointer to access, in the source document accessible from the remote device, at least one portion of the source document corresponding to the at least one portion of the transformed content, or a copy of the at least one portion of the source document.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: David Nahamoo, Igor Roditis Jablokov, Vaibhava Goel, Etienne Marcheret, Ellen Eide Kislal, Steven John Rennie, Marie Wenzel Meteer, Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong, Joseph Allen Pruitt, John Pruitt, Bryan Dempsey, Rangachari Anand, Meghan Hickey, Ajinkya Zadbuke, Neil Rohit Mallinar, Lucas Siler, Gregory Pelton, Chul Sung, Matthew Brian Cobb, Carmi Joseph Rothberg
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Publication number: 20210406264Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, devices, apparatus, media, design structures, and other implementations, including a method that includes receiving a source document, applying one or more pre-processes to the source document to produce contextual information representative of the structure and content of the source document, and transforming the source document, based on the contextual information, to generate a question-and-answer searchable document.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: David Nahamoo, Igor Roditis Jablokov, Vaibhava Goel, Etienne Marcheret, Ellen Eide Kislal, Steven John Rennie, Marie Wenzel Meteer, Neil Rohit Mallinar, Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong, Joseph Allen Pruitt, John Pruitt, Bryan Dempsey, Chul Sung
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Publication number: 20210406735Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, devices, apparatus, media, design structures, and other implementations, including a method that includes receiving, at a local device from a remote device, query data representative of a question relating to source content of a source document, and determining whether one or more pre-determined questions stored in a question-answer cache maintained at the local device matches the query data according to one or more matching criteria. The method further includes obtaining from the question-answer cache, in response to a determination that at least one of the pre-determined questions matches the query data received from the remote device, at least one answer data item, associated with at least one pre-determined question, corresponding to an answer to the question relating to the source content.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: David Nahamoo, Igor Roditis Jablokov, Vaibhava Goel, Etienne Marcheret, Ellen Eide Kislal, Steven John Rennie, Marie Wenzel Meteer, Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong, Joseph Allen Pruitt, John Pruitt, Bryan Dempsey, Gregory Pelton, Lucas Siler
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Patent number: 10521186Abstract: A method for prompting user input for a multimodal interface including the steps of providing a multimodal interface to a user, where the interface includes a visual interface having a plurality of input regions, each having at least one input field; selecting an input region and processing a multi-token speech input provided by the user, where the processed speech input includes at least one value for at least one input field of the selected input region; and storing at least one value in at least one input field.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2013Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Ciprian Agapi, Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong, Leslie R. Wilson
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Patent number: 9208783Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for altering behavior of a multimodal application based on location. The multimodal application operates on a multimodal device supporting multiple modes of user interaction with the multimodal application, including a voice mode and one or more non-voice modes. The voice mode of user interaction with the multimodal application is supported by a voice interpreter.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2007Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong, Charles W. Cross, Jr., Igor R. Jablokov, Gerald M. McCobb
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Patent number: 8862475Abstract: Speech-enabled content navigation and control of a distributed multimodal browser is disclosed, the browser providing an execution environment for a multimodal application, the browser including a graphical user agent (‘GUA’) and a voice user agent (‘VUA’), the GUA operating on a multimodal device, the VUA operating on a voice server, that includes: transmitting, by the GUA, a link message to the VUA, the link message specifying voice commands that control the browser and an event corresponding to each voice command; receiving, by the GUA, a voice utterance from a user, the voice utterance specifying a particular voice command; transmitting, by the GUA, the voice utterance to the VUA for speech recognition by the VUA; receiving, by the GUA, an event message from the VUA, the event message specifying a particular event corresponding to the particular voice command; and controlling, by the GUA, the browser in dependence upon the particular event.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2007Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong, Charles W. Cross, Jr., Gerald M. McCobb
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Patent number: 8788620Abstract: Web service support for a multimodal client processing a multimodal application, the multimodal client providing an execution environment for the application and operating on a multimodal device supporting multiple modes of user interaction including a voice mode and one or more non-voice modes, the application stored on an application server, includes: receiving, by the server, an application request from the client that specifies the application and device characteristics; determining, by a multimodal adapter of the server, modality requirements for the application; selecting, by the adapter, a modality web service in dependence upon the modality requirements and the characteristics for the device; determining, by the adapter, whether the device supports VoIP in dependence upon the characteristics; providing, by the server, the application to the client; and providing, by the adapter to the client in dependence upon whether the device supports VoIP, access to the modality web service for processing the applType: GrantFiled: April 4, 2007Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong, Charles W. Cross, Jr., Gerald M. McCobb
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Patent number: 8768711Abstract: A method of voice-enabling an application for command and control and content navigation can include the application dynamically generating a markup language fragment specifying a command and control and content navigation grammar for the application, instantiating an interpreter from a voice library, and providing the markup language fragment to the interpreter. The method also can include the interpreter processing a speech input using the command and control and content navigation grammar specified by the markup language fragment and providing an event to the application indicating an instruction representative of the speech input.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2004Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong, Charles W. Cross, Jr., Brien H. Muschett
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Patent number: 8744861Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are described for invoking tapered prompts in a multimodal application implemented with a multimodal browser and a multimodal application operating on a multimodal device supporting multiple modes of user interaction with the multimodal application, the modes of user interaction including a voice mode and one or more non-voice modes. Embodiments include identifying, by a multimodal browser, a prompt element in a multimodal application; identifying, by the multimodal browser, one or more attributes associated with the prompt element; and playing a speech prompt according to the one or more attributes associated with the prompt element.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2012Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong, Charles W. Cross, Jr., Gerald M. McCobb
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Patent number: 8713542Abstract: Pausing a VoiceXML dialog of a multimodal application, including generating by the multimodal application a pause event; responsive to the pause event, temporarily pausing the dialogue by the VoiceXML interpreter; generating by the multimodal application a resume event; and responsive to the resume event, resuming the dialog. Embodiments are implemented with the multimodal application operating on a multimodal device supporting multiple modes of interaction including a voice mode and one or more non-voice modes, the multimodal application is operatively coupled to a VoiceXML interpreter, and the VoiceXML interpreter is interpreting the VoiceXML dialog to be paused.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2007Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong, Charles W. Cross, Jr., David Jaramillo, Gerald M. McCobb
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Patent number: 8612230Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are described for automatic speech recognition (‘ASR’) that include accepting by the multimodal application speech input and visual input for selecting or deselecting items in a selection list, the speech input enabled by a speech recognition grammar; providing, from the multimodal application to the grammar interpreter, the speech input and the speech recognition grammar; receiving, by the multimodal application from the grammar interpreter, interpretation results including matched words from the grammar that correspond to items in the selection list and a semantic interpretation token that specifies whether to select or deselect items in the selection list; and determining, by the multimodal application in dependence upon the value of the semantic interpretation token, whether to select or deselect items in the selection list that correspond to the matched words.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2007Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Ciprian Agapi, Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong, Charles W. Cross, Jr., Gerald M. McCobb
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Publication number: 20130227417Abstract: A method for prompting user input for a multimodal interface including the steps of providing a multimodal interface to a user, where the interface includes a visual interface having a plurality of input regions, each having at least one input field; selecting an input region and processing a multi-token speech input provided by the user, where the processed speech input includes at least one value for at least one input field of the selected input region; and storing at least one value in at least one input field.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2013Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Ciprian Agapi, Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong, Leslie R. Wilson
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Patent number: 8417529Abstract: A method for prompting user input for a multimodal interface including the steps of providing a multimodal interface to a user, where the interface includes a visual interface having a plurality of input regions, each having at least one input field; selecting an input region and processing a multi-token speech input provided by the user, where the processed speech input includes at least one value for at least one input field of the selected input region; and storing at least one value in at least one input field.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2006Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Ciprian Agapi, Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong, Leslie R. Wilson
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Patent number: 8311836Abstract: A method for providing help to voice-enabled applications, including multimodal applications, can include a step of identifying at least one speech grammar associated with a voice-enabled application. Help fields can be defined within the speech grammar. The help fields can include available speech commands for the voice enabled application. When the speech grammar is activated for use by the voice-enabled application, the available speech commands can be presented to a user of the voice-enabled application. The presented speech commands can be obtained from the help fields.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2006Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong, David Jaramillo, Gerald M. McCobb
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Patent number: 8229745Abstract: A method of building a mixed-initiative grammar can include receiving one or more conjoin phrases, wherein each conjoin phrase is associated with a selected one of the plurality of directed dialog grammars, and receiving a user input specifying a selected grammar generation technique. The mixed-initiative grammar can be automatically generated, in accordance with the selected grammar generation technique, such that the mixed-initiative grammar specifies an allowable ordering of sets when interpreting a user spoken utterance and whether duplicative phrases are allowable within the user spoken utterance.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2005Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong, David Jaramillo, Gerald M. McCobb
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Publication number: 20120166201Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are described for invoking tapered prompts in a multimodal application implemented with a multimodal browser and a multimodal application operating on a multimodal device supporting multiple modes of user interaction with the multimodal application, the modes of user interaction including a voice mode and one or more non-voice modes. Embodiments include identifying, by a multimodal browser, a prompt element in a multimodal application; identifying, by the multimodal browser, one or more attributes associated with the prompt element; and playing a speech prompt according to the one or more attributes associated with the prompt element.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2012Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong, Charles W. Cross, JR., Gerald M. McCobb
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Patent number: 8150698Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are described for invoking tapered prompts in a multimodal application implemented with a multimodal browser and a multimodal application operating on a multimodal device supporting multiple modes of user interaction with the multimodal application, the modes of user interaction including a voice mode and one or more non-voice modes. Embodiments include identifying, by a multimodal browser, a prompt element in a multimodal application; identifying, by the multimodal browser, one or more attributes associated with the prompt element; and playing a speech prompt according to the one or more attributes associated with the prompt element.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2007Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong, Charles W. Cross, Jr., Gerald M. McCobb