Patents by Inventor Tanveer Fathima Syeda-Mahood

Tanveer Fathima Syeda-Mahood 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).

  • System and method for linking an audio stream with accompanying text material
    Patent number: 6636238
    Abstract: A system enables a user to query for key words and phrases a text document, such as a presentation slide file, and an associated audio stream, such as can be derived from an audio-video recording that is made of a presenter contemporaneously with the showing of the slides to an audience. A graphical user interface is presented in which query results for both the text document and the audio stream are displayed in a time-aligned format, to enable a user to easily and conveniently browse the text document and accompanying time-aligned audio stream based on the key words/phrases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Arnon Amir, Carlton Wayne Niblack, Norman Jerome Pass, Dragutin Petkovic, Dulce Beatriz Ponceleon, Savitha Srinivasan, Tanveer Fathima Syeda-Mahood