Patents by Inventor Stephen Carl Gates

Stephen Carl Gates 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: 8644488
    Abstract: A system and method for providing an adaptive Interaction Logging functionality to help agents reduce the time spent documenting contact center interactions. In a preferred embodiment the system uses a pipeline comprising audio capture of a telephone conversation, automatic speech transcription, text normalization, transcript generation and candidate call log generation based on Real-time and Global Models. The contact center agent edits the candidate call log to create the final call log. The models are updated based on analysis of user feedback in the form of the editing of the candidate call log done by the contact center agents or supervisors. The pipeline yields a candidate call log which the agents can edit in less time than it would take them to generate a call log manually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Roy J. Byrd, Stephen Carl Gates, Mary S. Neff, Youngja Park, Wilfried Teiken
  • Patent number: 8560722
    Abstract: Techniques for limiting the risk of loss of sensitive data from a mobile device are provided. In one aspect, a method for managing sensitive data on a mobile device is provided. The method includes the following steps. A sensitivity of a data item to be transferred to the mobile device is determined. It is determined whether an aggregate sensitivity of data items already present on the mobile device plus the data item to be transferred exceeds a current threshold sensitivity value for the mobile device. If the aggregate sensitivity exceeds the current threshold sensitivity value, measures are employed to ensure the aggregate sensitivity remains below the current threshold sensitivity value for the mobile device. Otherwise the data item is transferred to the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen Carl Gates, Youngja Park, Josyula R. Rao, Wilfried Teiken
  • Patent number: 8370155
    Abstract: A real-time method and system are described for automatically extracting text from the customer-agent interaction at a contact center, analyzing the extracted text to automatically identify one or more customer issues, and performing processing by contact-center agent buddies (CABs) to generate at least one response to the customer issues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Roy J. Byrd, Keh-Shin Cheng, Stephen Carl Gates, Mary S. Neff, Youngja Park, Wilfried Teiken
  • Publication number: 20120240238
    Abstract: Techniques for limiting the risk of loss of sensitive data from a mobile device are provided. In one aspect, a method for managing sensitive data on a mobile device is provided. The method includes the following steps. A sensitivity of a data item to be transferred to the mobile device is determined. It is determined whether an aggregate sensitivity of data items already present on the mobile device plus the data item to be transferred exceeds a current threshold sensitivity value for the mobile device. If the aggregate sensitivity exceeds the current threshold sensitivity value, measures are employed to ensure the aggregate sensitivity remains below the current threshold sensitivity value for the mobile device. Otherwise the data item is transferred to the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen Carl Gates, Youngja Park, Josyula R. Rao, Wilfried Teiken
  • Publication number: 20120101870
    Abstract: A method for evaluating data includes defining a list of data categories, determining a relative sensitivity to each data category, determining one or more classifiers for each of the data categories, receiving a plurality of data items to be valued, determining one of the data categories for each of said plurality of data items according to the one or more classifiers, and determining a respective sensitivity for each of said plurality of data items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen Carl Gates, Youngja Park, Josyula R. Rao, Wilfried Teiken
  • Publication number: 20100274618
    Abstract: A real-time method and system are described for automatically extracting text from the customer-agent interaction at a contact center, analyzing the extracted text to automatically identify one or more customer issues, and performing processing by contact-center agent buddies (CABs) to generate at least one response to the customer issues.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Roy J. Byrd, Keh-Shin F. Cheng, Stephen Carl Gates, Mary S. Neff, Youngja Park, Wilfried Teiken
  • Publication number: 20100104087
    Abstract: A system and method for providing an adaptive Interaction Logging functionality to help agents reduce the time spent documenting contact center interactions. In a preferred embodiment the system uses a pipeline comprising audio capture of a telephone conversation, automatic speech transcription, text normalization, transcript generation and candidate call log generation based on Real-time and Global Models. The contact center agent edits the candidate call log to create the final call log. The models are updated based on analysis of user feedback in the form of the editing of the candidate call log done by the contact center agents or supervisors. The pipeline yields a candidate call log which the agents can edit in less time than it would take them to generate a call log manually.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Roy J. Byrd, Stephen Carl Gates, Mary S. Neff, Youngja Park, Wilfried Teiken