| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7529675 |
Conversational networking via transport, coding and control conversational protocols |
May 5, 2009 |
| A system and method for implementing conversational protocols for distributed conversational networking architectures and/or distributed conversational applications, as well as real-time conversational computing between network-connected pervasive computing devices and/or servers ove |
| 7519536 |
System and method for providing network coordinated conversational services |
April 14, 2009 |
| A system and method for providing automatic and coordinated sharing of conversational resources, e.g., functions and arguments, between network-connected servers and devices and their corresponding applications. In one aspect, a system for providing automatic and coordinated sharing |
| 7487440 |
Reusable voiceXML dialog components, subdialogs and beans |
February 3, 2009 |
| Systems and methods for building speech-based applications using reusable dialog components based on VoiceXML (Voice eXtensible Markup Language). VoiceXML reusable dialog components can be used for building a voice interface for use with multi-modal, multi-channel and conversational |
| 7437289 |
Methods and apparatus for the systematic adaptation of classification systems from sparse adapta |
October 14, 2008 |
| Methods and apparatus for the rapid adaptation of classification systems using small amounts of adaptation data. Improvements in classification accuracy are attainable when conditions similar to those that present in adaptation are observed. The attendant methods and apparatus are suitab |
| 7418382 |
Structure skeletons for efficient voice navigation through generic hierarchical objects |
August 26, 2008 |
| A system and method for providing fast and efficient conversation navigation via a hierarchical structure (structure skeleton) which fully describes functions and services supported by a dialog (conversational) system. In one aspect, a conversational system and method is provided to |
| 7415537 |
Conversational portal for providing conversational browsing and multimedia broadcast on demand |
August 19, 2008 |
| A system and method for providing conversational (multi-modal) access to information over a communications network from any location, at any time, utilizing any type of client/access, through a conversational (multi-modal) portal. In one aspect, a conversational portal comprises a co |
| 7318032 |
Speaker recognition method based on structured speaker modeling and a "Pickmax" scoring techniqu |
January 8, 2008 |
| A technique for improved score calculation and normalization in a framework of recognition with phonetically structured speaker models. The technique involves determining, for each frame and each level of phonetic detail of a target speaker model, a non-interpolated likelihood value, |
| 7216351 |
Systems and methods for synchronizing multi-modal interactions |
May 8, 2007 |
| System and methods for synchronizing interactions between mono-mode applications, different modes of a multi-modal application, and devices having different UI modalities. In one aspect, a multi-modal shell coordinates multiple mode processes (i.e. modalities) of the same application |
| 7162641 |
Weight based background discriminant functions in authentication systems |
January 9, 2007 |
| Methods and apparatus for providing speech-based authentication, including the determination of a target discriminant based on an identity claim and on at least one target voiceprint model relating to a target speaker, of a background discriminant based on the identity claim and on at le |
| 7137126 |
Conversational computing via conversational virtual machine |
November 14, 2006 |
| A conversational computing system that provides a universal coordinated multi-modal conversational user interface (CUI) (10) across a plurality of conversationally aware applications (11) (i.e., applications that "speak" conversational protocols) and conventional applications (12). The |
| 7100000 |
System and methods for processing audio using multiple speech technologies |
August 29, 2006 |
| An audio splitting system for sharing speech data associated with the same utterance between multiple speech technologies (consumers). In one aspect, the system comprises one or more queues for storing data, a plurality of consumers each sharing the data stored in the one or more que |
| 7031923 |
Verbal utterance rejection using a labeller with grammatical constraints |
April 18, 2006 |
| Methods and apparatus for verifying spoken passwords and sentences with small decoder complexity requirements. A proposed method permits the verbal verification of a spoken password sentence without computationally extensive large-vocabulary decoding. A decoder preferably uses target |
| 7028306 |
Systems and methods for implementing modular DOM (Document Object Model)-based multi-modal brows |
April 11, 2006 |
| Systems and methods for building multi-modal browsers applications and, in particular, to systems and methods for building modular multi-modal browsers using a DOM (Document Object Model) and MVC (Model-View-Controller) framework that enables a user to interact in parallel with the s |
| 7003497 |
System and method for confirming electronic transactions |
February 21, 2006 |
| Systems and methods for providing user-confirmation of an electronic transaction and in particular, protocols for enabling electronic signatures and confirmation of electronic documents and transactions such as electronic financial transactions and credit card payment. In one aspect, |
| 7003463 |
System and method for providing network coordinated conversational services |
February 21, 2006 |
| A system and method for providing automatic and coordinated sharing of conversational resources, e.g., functions and arguments, between network-connected servers and devices and their corresponding applications. In one aspect, a system for providing automatic and coordinated sharing |
| 6996800 |
MVC (model-view-controller) based multi-modal authoring tool and development environment |
February 7, 2006 |
| Application development tools and method for building multi-channel, multi-device and multi-modal applications, and in particular, to systems and methods for developing applications whereby a user can interact in parallel with the same information via a multiplicity of channels and u |
| 6970935 |
Conversational networking via transport, coding and control conversational protocols |
November 29, 2005 |
| Conversational protocols for implementing distributed conversational networking architectures and/or distributed conversational applications, as well as real-time conversational computing between network-connected pervasive computing devices and/or servers over a computer network. In one |
| 6934756 |
Conversational networking via transport, coding and control conversational protocols |
August 23, 2005 |
| A system and method for implementing conversational protocols for distributed conversational networking architectures and/or distributed conversational applications, as well as real-time conversational computing between network-connected pervasive computing devices and/or servers over |
| 6839896 |
System and method for providing dialog management and arbitration in a multi-modal environment |
January 4, 2005 |
| A system and method for providing conversational computing via a protocol for automatic dialog management and arbitration between a plurality of conversational applications, and a framework for supporting such protocol, in a multi-modal and/or multi-channel environment. A DMAF (dialog ma |
| 6801604 |
Universal IP-based and scalable architectures across conversational applications using web servi |
October 5, 2004 |
| Systems and methods for conversational computing and, in particular, to systems and methods for building distributed conversational applications using a Web services-based model wherein speech engines (e.g., speech recognition) and audio I/O systems are programmable services that can be |
| 6754628 |
Speaker recognition using cohort-specific feature transforms |
June 22, 2004 |
| Methods and apparatus for facilitating speaker recognition, wherein, from target data that is provided relating to a target speaker and background data that is provided relating to at least one background speaker, a set of cohort data is selected from the background data that has at leas |
| 6684186 |
Speaker recognition using a hierarchical speaker model tree |
January 27, 2004 |
| In an illustrative embodiment, a speaker model is generated for each of a number of speakers from which speech samples have been obtained. Each speaker model contains a collection of distributions of audio feature data derived from the speech sample of the associated speaker. A hierarchi |
| 6603921 |
Audio/video archive system and method for automatic indexing and searching |
August 5, 2003 |
| An archive system for records with an audio component, which uses automated speech recognition to create a multi-layered archive pyramid. The archive pyramid includes successive layers of data stored at varying data rates such as original video data, compressed video data, original audio |
| 6580814 |
System and method for compressing biometric models |
June 17, 2003 |
| A system and method for building compressed biometric models and performing biometric identification using such models. The use of the compressed biometric models results in a significant decrease in the storage requirements for biometric models in conventional biometric systems. A g |
| 6434520 |
System and method for indexing and querying audio archives |
August 13, 2002 |
| A system and method for indexing segments of audio/multimedia files and data streams for storage in a database according to audio information such as speaker identity, the background environment and channel (music, street noise, car noise, telephone, studio noise, speech plus music, spee |
| 6421453 |
Apparatus and methods for user recognition employing behavioral passwords |
July 16, 2002 |
| A method for controlling access of an individual to one of a computer and a service and a facility comprises the steps of: pre-storing a predefined sequence of intentional gestures performed by the individual during an enrollment session; extracting the predefined sequence of intentional |
| 6333703 |
Automated traffic mapping using sampling and analysis |
December 25, 2001 |
| A system of mobile units are installed in multiple vehicles in traffic, the vehicles with mobile units being a sample of all vehicles in traffic. These mobile units include both wireless communications devices and apparatus that determines the location of each vehicle. Monitoring a v |
| 6332122 |
Transcription system for multiple speakers, using and establishing identification |
December 18, 2001 |
| A method and apparatus for transcribing text from multiple speakers in a computer system having a speech recognition application. The system receives speech from one of a plurality of speakers through a single channel, assigns a speaker ID to the speaker, transcribes the speech into |
| 6285777 |
Internet assisted mail |
September 4, 2001 |
| A communication system that transmits and receives combinations of paper mail and electronic mail. The communication system permits a user of the system to send an internet message via post mail including the mailing address for delivery. The post mail office forwards the internet messag |
| 6253179 |
Method and apparatus for multi-environment speaker verification |
June 26, 2001 |
| A method for unsupervised environmental normalization for speaker verification using hierarchical clustering is disclosed. Training data (speech samples) are taken from T enrolled (registered) speakers over any one of M channels, e.g., different microphones, communication links, etc. |
| 6253175 |
Wavelet-based energy binning cepstal features for automatic speech recognition |
June 26, 2001 |
| Systems and methods for processing acoustic speech signals which utilize the wavelet transform (and alternatively, the Fourier transform) as a fundamental tool. The method essentially involves "synchrosqueezing" spectral component data obtained by performing a wavelet transform (or F |
| 6246985 |
Method and apparatus for automatic segregation and routing of signals of different origins by us |
June 12, 2001 |
| A method and apparatus is disclosed for automatic segregation of signals of different origin, using models that statistically characterize a wave signal, more particularly including feature vectors consisting of a plurality of parameters extracted from a data stream of a known type for |
| 6246982 |
Method for measuring distance between collections of distributions |
June 12, 2001 |
| A method for computing a distance between collections of distributions or finite mixture models of features. Data is processed so as to define at least first and second collections of distributions of features. For each distribution of the first collection, the distance to each distribut |
| 6192337 |
Apparatus and methods for rejecting confusible words during training associated with a speech re |
February 20, 2001 |
| A method of training at least one new word for addition to a vocabulary of a speech recognition engine containing existing words comprises the steps of: a user uttering the at least one new word; computing respective measures between the at least one newly uttered word and at least a |
| 6185530 |
Apparatus and methods for identifying potential acoustic confusibility among words in a speech r |
February 6, 2001 |
| A method of determining potential acoustic confusion between at least one new word and at least a portion of existing words of a vocabulary of a speech recognition engine comprises the steps of: a user inputting the at least one new word; computing respective measures between the at leas |
| 6150961 |
Automated traffic mapping |
November 21, 2000 |
| A system of mobile units are installed in multiple vehicles in traffic. These mobile units include both wireless communications devices and apparatus that determines the location of each vehicle. Monitoring a vehicle's position as a function of time also reveals the velocity of the v |
| 6119086 |
Speech coding via speech recognition and synthesis based on pre-enrolled phonetic tokens |
September 12, 2000 |
| A speech coding system, responsive to an input speech signal provided by a system user, comprises: a speech coding portion including a speech recognition system responsive to the input speech signal and having a word vocabulary associated therewith, the speech recognition system recogniz |
