Patents by Inventor Willard Van Tuyl Rusch, II

Willard Van Tuyl Rusch, II 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: 8694313
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for disambiguating contact information. A method includes receiving an audio signal, generating an affinity score based on a frequency with which a user has previously communicated with a contact associated with an item of contact information, and further based on a recency of one or more past interactions between the user and the contact associated with the item of contact information, inferring a probability that the user intends to initiate a communication using the item of contact information based on the affinity score generated for the item of contact information, and generating a communication initiation grammar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew I. Lloyd, Willard Van Tuyl Rusch, II
  • Patent number: 8688450
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for disambiguating contact information are described. A method includes determining, for each of multiple communications that were initiated by a user of a mobile device, a time when the communication was initiated or received; determining, for each of multiple contacts associated with the user, a probability associated with the contact based at least on the times when the communications were initiated or received; weighting a contact disambiguation grammar according to the probabilities; and processing audio data using the contact disambiguation grammar to select a particular contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew I. Lloyd, Willard Van Tuyl Rusch, II
  • Patent number: 8386250
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for disambiguating contact information. A method includes receiving an audio signal, generating an affinity score based on a frequency with which a user has previously communicated with a contact associated with an item of contact information, and further based on a recency of one or more past interactions between the user and the contact associated with the item of contact information, inferring a probability that the user intends to initiate a communication using the item of contact information based on the affinity score generated for the item of contact information, and generating a communication initiation grammar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew I. Lloyd, Willard Van Tuyl Rusch, II
  • Publication number: 20120278076
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for disambiguating contact information are described. A method includes determining, for each of multiple communications that were initiated by a user of a mobile device, a time when the communication was initiated or received; determining, for each of multiple contacts associated with the user, a probability associated with the contact based at least on the times when the communications were initiated or received; weighting a contact disambiguation grammar according to the probabilities; and processing audio data using the contact disambiguation grammar to select a particular contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Matthew I. Lloyd, Willard Van Tuyl Rusch, II
  • Publication number: 20120022874
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for disambiguating contact information. A method includes receiving an audio signal, generating an affinity score based on a frequency with which a user has previously communicated with a contact associated with an item of contact information, and further based on a recency of one or more past interactions between the user and the contact associated with the item of contact information, inferring a probability that the user intends to initiate a communication using the item of contact information based on the affinity score generated for the item of contact information, and generating a communication initiation grammar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew I. Lloyd, Willard Van Tuyl Rusch, II
  • Publication number: 20110288868
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for disambiguating contact information. A method includes receiving an audio signal, generating an affinity score based on a frequency with which a user has previously communicated with a contact associated with an item of contact information, and further based on a recency of one or more past interactions between the user and the contact associated with the item of contact information, inferring a probability that the user intends to initiate a communication using the item of contact information based on the affinity score generated for the item of contact information, and generating a communication initiation grammar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2010
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Inventors: Matthew I. Lloyd, Willard Van Tuyl Rusch, II