Patents by Inventor Timothy Krein

Timothy Krein 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: 10957304
    Abstract: Devices and methods are provided for extracting content from audio files. The device may determine starting and ending quotation marks in a text file, and a string between the starting and ending quotation marks. The device may determine that a verb is near the starting quotation mark or the ending quotation mark. The device may determine, based on the verb, that the string is attributed to a character name in the text file. The device may determine a first time in a first audio file including an audio representation of the text file, and may determine a second time in the first audio file, wherein the first time is before the first word and the second time is after the second word. The device may generate a second audio file by extracting audio from the first audio file based on the first and second times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Audible, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Krein, Pooja Chitrakar, Yiming Zhao
  • Publication number: 20050149934
    Abstract: Deadlock situations within a computing environment are avoided by properly managing pools of threads used to service requests of the computing environment. When a server of the computing environment receives a request to be processed and that request is waiting on a response from a client of the computing environment, the set of eligible thread pools for the response is dynamically altered. This dynamic altering allows the response to be serviced by a thread pool different from the thread pool servicing the request, thereby avoiding a deadlock situation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2005
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gregory Doolittle, Timothy Krein, Scott Marcotte