Patents by Inventor Stephen Polansky

Stephen Polansky 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).

  • Generation and maintenance of language model
    Patent number: 9620111
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for the generation and maintenance of language models. Language models are developed based at least in part on transaction data from one or more users. These transactions may include purchases and other interactions between one or more users and one or more online merchants. The language models may be associated with a particular user or group of users. Ongoing transactions may modify the language models. The language models may be used to recognize spoken input from the one or more users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew P. Bell, Stephen Polansky, Yuzo Watanabe
  • Signal processing based on audio context
    Patent number: 8886524
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods, and apparatus for determining audio context between an audio source and an audio sink and selecting signal profiles based at least in part on that audio context. The signal profiles may include noise cancellation which is configured to facilitate operation within the audio context. Audio context may include user-to-user and user-to-device communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuzo Watanabe, Stephen Polansky, Matthew P. Bell