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).
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Publication number: 20230082955Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2021Publication date: March 16, 2023Applicant: SoundHound, Inc.Inventors: Timothy P. STONEHOCKER, Zizu GOWAYYED, Matthias EICHSTAEDT, Seyed Majid EMAMI, Evelyn JIANG, Ryan BERRYHILL, Mathieu RAMONA, Neil VEIRA
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Patent number: 11539920Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: SoundHound, Inc.Inventor: Timothy P Stonehocker
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Publication number: 20220408059Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2021Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: SoundHound, Inc.Inventor: Timothy P STONEHOCKER
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Patent number: 11393463Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 19, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: SoundHound, Inc.Inventors: Timothy P. Stonehocker, Kathleen Worthington McMahon
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Publication number: 20200335101Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2019Publication date: October 22, 2020Applicant: SoundHound, Inc.Inventors: Kathleen Worthington McMahon, Timothy P. Stonehocker
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Publication number: 20160292266Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: SoundHound, Inc.Inventors: Bernard Mont-Reynaud, Aaron Master, Timothy P. Stonehocker, Keyvan Mohajer
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Publication number: 20160275184Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Inventors: Aaron Steven Master, Timothy P. Stonehocker, Benjamin John Levitt, Jun Huang, Keyvan Mohajer
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Patent number: 9390167Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 28, 2011Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: SoundHound, Inc.Inventors: Bernard Mont-Reynaud, Aaron Master, Timothy P. Stonehocker, Keyvan Mohajer
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Patent number: 9330669Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 12, 2015Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: SoundHound, Inc.Inventors: Timothy P. Stonehocker, Keyvan Mohajer, Bernard Mont-Reynaud
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Patent number: 9280598Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 4, 2010Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: Soundhound, Inc.Inventors: Aaron Steven Master, Timothy P. Stonehocker, Benjamin John Levitt, Jun Huang, Keyvan Mohajer
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Publication number: 20150154959Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2015Publication date: June 4, 2015Applicant: SOUNDHOUND, INC.Inventors: Timothy P. Stonehocker, Keyvan Mohajer, Bernard Mont-Reynaud
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Patent number: 8972263Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 21, 2012Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Soundhound, Inc.Inventors: Timothy P. Stonehocker, Keyvan Mohajer, Bernard Mont-Reynaud
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Patent number: 8688253Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 24, 2012Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: SoundHound, Inc.Inventors: Aaron Steven Master, Timothy P. Stonehocker, Benjamin John Levitt, Jun Huang, Keyvan Mohajer
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Publication number: 20130254422Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2010Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: SoundHound, Inc.Inventors: Aaron Steven Master, Timothy P. Stonehocker, Benjamin John Levitt, Jun Huang, Keyvan Mohajer
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Patent number: 8452586Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 2, 2009Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Soundhound, Inc.Inventors: Aaron Master, Timothy P. Stonehocker
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Patent number: 8433431Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 13, 2012Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Soundhound, Inc.Inventors: Aaron Master, Kamyar Mohajer, Keyvan Mohajer, Timothy P. Stonehocker, Bernard Mont-Reynaud
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Publication number: 20130044885Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2012Publication date: February 21, 2013Applicant: SoundHound, Inc.Inventors: Aaron Master, Timothy P. Stonehocker
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Publication number: 20120232683Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2012Publication date: September 13, 2012Inventors: Aaron Steven Master, Timothy P. Stonehocker, Benjamin John Levitt, Jun Huang, Keyvan Mohajer
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Publication number: 20120029670Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: SoundHound, Inc.Inventors: Bernard Mont-Reynaud, Aaron Master, Timothy P. Stonehocker, Keyvan Mohajer
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Patent number: 7899818Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 29, 2006Date of Patent: March 1, 2011Assignee: A9.Com, Inc.Inventors: Timothy P. Stonehocker, Su-Lin Wu