Patents by Inventor Timothy P. Stonehocker

Timothy P. Stonehocker 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).

  • Publication number: 20230082955
    Abstract: A system for performing automated speech recognition (ASR) on audio data includes a queue manager to receive a request to perform ASR on audio data, add the request to a queue of incoming requests, and determine a queue depth representing a number of requests in the queue at a given time. The system also includes a load supervisor to receive the request and the queue depth from the queue manager and assign a service level for the request based on the queue depth. In addition, the system includes a speech-to-text converter to receive the assigned service level for the request from the load supervisor, select an ASR model for the request based on the received service level, receive the audio data associated with the request, and perform ASR on the audio data using the selected ASR model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: SoundHound, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy P. STONEHOCKER, Zizu GOWAYYED, Matthias EICHSTAEDT, Seyed Majid EMAMI, Evelyn JIANG, Ryan BERRYHILL, Mathieu RAMONA, Neil VEIRA
  • Patent number: 11539920
    Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed that enable sidebar conversations between two or more attendees that are participating in a primary or main meeting. The sidebar conversation occurs in conjunction or concurrently with the primary meeting. A first attendee provides commands to indicate a desire to initiate a sidebar conversation and information about a targeted attendee. The commands are analyzed to determine if a trigger phrase is included. The commands are analyzed to determine if there is an identification of a second (targeted) attendee, who is currently participating in the main meeting. If the second attendee is available, then the sidebar conversation is initiated. Additional attendees can be added to the sidebar conversation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SoundHound, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy P Stonehocker
  • Publication number: 20220408059
    Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed that enable sidebar conversations between two or more attendees that are participating in a primary or main meeting. The sidebar conversation occurs in conjunction or concurrently with the primary meeting. A first attendee provides commands to indicate a desire to initiate a sidebar conversation and information about a targeted attendee. The commands are analyzed to determine if a trigger phrase is included. The commands are analyzed to determine if there is an identification of a second (targeted) attendee, who is currently participating in the main meeting. If the second attendee is available, then the sidebar conversation is initiated. Additional attendees can be added to the sidebar conversation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: SoundHound, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy P STONEHOCKER
  • Patent number: 11393463
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for setting up a communication link between a device or application and a system with a controller. The controller can collect and send information to the application. A user interfaces with the controller to access the functionality of the application through providing commands to the controller. The system allows the user to interface with multiple applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SoundHound, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy P. Stonehocker, Kathleen Worthington McMahon
  • Publication number: 20200335101
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for setting up a communication link between a device or application and a system with a controller. The controller can collect and send information to the application. A user interfaces with the controller to access the functionality of the application through providing commands to the controller. The system allows the user to interface with multiple applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: SoundHound, Inc.
    Inventors: Kathleen Worthington McMahon, Timothy P. Stonehocker
  • Publication number: 20160292266
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the continuous monitoring of an audio signal and identification of audio items within an audio signal. The technology disclosed utilizes predictive caching of fingerprints to improve efficiency. Fingerprints are cached for tracking an audio signal with known alignment and for watching an audio signal without known alignment, based on already identified fingerprints extracted from the audio signal. Software running on a smart phone or other battery-powered device cooperates with software running on an audio identification server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: SoundHound, Inc.
    Inventors: Bernard Mont-Reynaud, Aaron Master, Timothy P. Stonehocker, Keyvan Mohajer
  • Publication number: 20160275184
    Abstract: Systems and methods for recognizing sounds are provided herein. User input relating to one or more sounds is received from a computing device. Instructions, which are stored in memory, are executed by a processor to discriminate the one or more sounds, extract music features from the one or more sounds, analyze the music features using one or more databases, and obtain information regarding the music features based on the analysis. Further, information regarding the music features of the one or more sounds may be transmitted to display on the computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Aaron Steven Master, Timothy P. Stonehocker, Benjamin John Levitt, Jun Huang, Keyvan Mohajer
  • Patent number: 9390167
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the continuous monitoring of an audio signal and identification of audio items within an audio signal. The technology disclosed utilizes predictive caching of fingerprints to improve efficiency. Fingerprints are cached for tracking an audio signal with known alignment and for watching an audio signal without known alignment, based on already identified fingerprints extracted from the audio signal. Software running on a smart phone or other battery-powered device cooperates with software running on an audio identification server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: SoundHound, Inc.
    Inventors: Bernard Mont-Reynaud, Aaron Master, Timothy P. Stonehocker, Keyvan Mohajer
  • Patent number: 9330669
    Abstract: A system and method is presented for performing dual mode speech recognition, employing a local recognition module on a mobile device and a remote recognition engine on a server device. The system accepts a spoken query from a user, and both the local recognition module and the remote recognition engine perform speech recognition operations on the query, returning a transcription and confidence score, subject to a latency cutoff time. If both sources successfully transcribe the query, then the system accepts the result having the higher confidence score. If only one source succeeds, then that result is accepted. In either case, if the remote recognition engine does succeed in transcribing the query, then a client vocabulary is updated if the remote system result includes information not present in the client vocabulary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: SoundHound, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy P. Stonehocker, Keyvan Mohajer, Bernard Mont-Reynaud
  • Patent number: 9280598
    Abstract: Systems and methods for recognizing sounds are provided herein. User input relating to one or more sounds is received from a computing device. Instructions, which are stored in memory, are executed by a processor to discriminate the one or more sounds, extract music features from the one or more sounds, analyze the music features using one or more databases, and obtain information regarding the music features based on the analysis. Further, information regarding the music features of the one or more sounds may be transmitted to display on the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Soundhound, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Steven Master, Timothy P. Stonehocker, Benjamin John Levitt, Jun Huang, Keyvan Mohajer
  • Publication number: 20150154959
    Abstract: A system and method is presented for performing dual mode speech recognition, employing a local recognition module on a mobile device and a remote recognition engine on a server device. The system accepts a spoken query from a user, and both the local recognition module and the remote recognition engine perform speech recognition operations on the query, returning a transcription and confidence score, subject to a latency cutoff time. If both sources successfully transcribe the query, then the system accepts the result having the higher confidence score. If only one source succeeds, then that result is accepted. In either case, if the remote recognition engine does succeed in transcribing the query, then a client vocabulary is updated if the remote system result includes information not present in the client vocabulary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: SOUNDHOUND, INC.
    Inventors: Timothy P. Stonehocker, Keyvan Mohajer, Bernard Mont-Reynaud
  • Patent number: 8972263
    Abstract: A system and method for performing dual mode speech recognition, employing a local recognition module on a mobile device and a remote recognition engine on a server device. The system accepts a spoken query from a user, and both the local recognition module and the remote recognition engine perform speech recognition operations on the query, returning a transcription and confidence score, subject to a latency cutoff time. If both sources successfully transcribe the query, then the system accepts the result having the higher confidence score. If only one source succeeds, then that result is accepted. In either case, if the remote recognition engine does succeed in transcribing the query, then a client vocabulary is updated if the remote system result includes information not present in the client vocabulary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Soundhound, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy P. Stonehocker, Keyvan Mohajer, Bernard Mont-Reynaud
  • Patent number: 8688253
    Abstract: Systems and methods for recognizing sounds are provided herein. User input relating to a sound is received from a computing device. Instructions, which are stored in memory, are executed by a processor to discriminate the sound, analyze one or more databases using data included in the discriminated sound, the one or more databases being selected based upon the discrimination of the sound. Additionally, the processor may be executed to obtain information regarding the discriminated sound, from the one or more databases, based on the analysis, and in response to the search query, transmitting for display the information regarding the discriminated sound to the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: SoundHound, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Steven Master, Timothy P. Stonehocker, Benjamin John Levitt, Jun Huang, Keyvan Mohajer
  • Publication number: 20130254422
    Abstract: Systems and methods for recognizing sounds are provided herein. User input relating to one or more sounds is received from a computing device. Instructions, which are stored in memory, are executed by a processor to discriminate the one or more sounds, extract music features from the one or more sounds, analyze the music features using one or more databases, and obtain information regarding the music features based on the analysis. Further, information regarding the music features of the one or more sounds may be transmitted to display on the computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: SoundHound, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Steven Master, Timothy P. Stonehocker, Benjamin John Levitt, Jun Huang, Keyvan Mohajer
  • Patent number: 8452586
    Abstract: Components of a method and system that allow identification of music from the song or sound using only the sound of the audio being played. A system built using the method and device components disclosed processes inputs sent from a mobile phone over a telephone or data connection, though inputs might be sent through any variety of computers, communications equipment, or consumer audio devices over any of their associated audio or data networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Soundhound, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Master, Timothy P. Stonehocker
  • Patent number: 8433431
    Abstract: Technologies described relate to coordination between audio and tracking of the corresponding text in an audio recognition mode and an audio playback mode. Optionally, audio recognition includes receiving a signal corresponding to an audio track; determining an identity of the audio track and a current audio position within the audio track; displaying on a display a portion of a text that is linked and synchronized to the audio track identified and automatically scrolling the portion of the text displayed in pace with the audio track playing; and displaying a current text indicator that emphasizes current text, wherein the current text indicator is visually synchronized on the display to current audio playing from the audio track. Optionally include redetermining the current audio position in the audio track from the signal received and updating synchronization of the current text indicator with the current audio playing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Soundhound, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Master, Kamyar Mohajer, Keyvan Mohajer, Timothy P. Stonehocker, Bernard Mont-Reynaud
  • Publication number: 20130044885
    Abstract: We disclose useful components of a method and system that allow identification of music from the song or sound using only the sound of the audio being played. A system built using the method and device components disclosed processes inputs sent from a mobile phone over a telephone or data connection, though inputs might be sent through any variety of computers, communications equipment, or consumer audio devices over any of their associated audio or data networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Applicant: SoundHound, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Master, Timothy P. Stonehocker
  • Publication number: 20120232683
    Abstract: Systems and methods for recognizing sounds are provided herein. User input relating to a sound is received from a computing device. Instructions, which are stored in memory, are executed by a processor to discriminate the sound, analyze one or more databases using data included in the discriminated sound, the one or more databases being selected based upon the discrimination of the sound. Additionally, the processor may be executed to obtain information regarding the discriminated sound, from the one or more databases, based on the analysis, and in response to the search query, transmitting for display the information regarding the discriminated sound to the computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Inventors: Aaron Steven Master, Timothy P. Stonehocker, Benjamin John Levitt, Jun Huang, Keyvan Mohajer
  • Publication number: 20120029670
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the continuous monitoring of an audio signal and identification of audio items within an audio signal. The technology disclosed utilizes predictive caching of fingerprints to improve efficiency. Fingerprints are cached for tracking an audio signal with known alignment and for watching an audio signal without known alignment, based on already identified fingerprints extracted from the audio signal. Software running on a smart phone or other battery-powered device cooperates with software running on an audio identification server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: SoundHound, Inc.
    Inventors: Bernard Mont-Reynaud, Aaron Master, Timothy P. Stonehocker, Keyvan Mohajer
  • Patent number: 7899818
    Abstract: A method of providing search results includes performing a search in response to a search request, providing a first list of results responsive to the search request, providing a list of selectable terms based on content included in the first list of results, receiving a user-selected term from the list of selectable terms, and providing a second list of results. The second list of results excludes results having content related to the user-selected term.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: A9.Com, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy P. Stonehocker, Su-Lin Wu