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| 7076428 | Method and apparatus for selective distributed speech recognition An apparatus and method for selective distributed speech recognition includes a dialog manager (104) that is capable of receiving a grammar type indicator (170). The dialog manager (104) is capable of being coupled to an external speech recognit... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7074128 | Method and system for enhancing memorization by using a mnemonic display A method and system is disclosed for enhancing a memorization process by using a mnemonic display implemented. First, the mnemonic display is implemented on a predetermined display area of a display device with one or more border sections, the border sections contai... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7076049 | Method of designing a telecommunications call center interface A method is provided for designing an interface system. The method includes receiving a call from a customer at a call center, and logging a reason the customer is calling the call center. Subsequently, reasons from multiple customers are collected and categorized i... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7072827 | Morphological disambiguation A method for morphological disambiguation includes receiving an input string and morphologically analyzing the string to generate a list of candidate analyses of the string, each candidate analysis including a respective word and a linguistic pattern of the word. Th... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7072942 | Email filtering methods and systems Various embodiments of the invention address two critical problems that current email service providers face. First, there is the problem of maintaining high levels of customer service when email server systems are inundated with spam. Second, there is the problem o... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7069110 | System and method for tracking inventory An RFID enabled paper roll includes a tubular core, a paper stock wound around the core, and a radio frequency integrated circuit electrically coupled to an antenna and positioned on the core. A system for reading a radio frequency integrated circuit positioned on a... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7069207 | Linguistically intelligent text compression A text processor processes text in a message. The text processor generates a plurality of compressed forms of components of the message. The processor performs a linguistic analysis on the body of text to obtain a linguistic output indicative of linguistic component... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7069221 | Non-target barge-in detection A speech recognition system plays prompts to a user in order to obtain information from the user. If the user begins to speak, the prompt should stop. However, the system may receive sounds other than speech from the user while playing a prompt, in which case the pr... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7062428 | Natural language machine interface A user interface is provided for use with a machine which can use a number of natural language instructions to reach one of a plurality of possible machine states. In order to provide information to a user to enable them to more efficiently achieve the current machi... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7060886 | Music playback unit and method for correcting musical score data A music playback unit corrects the frequency characteristics of a speaker installed in a portable telephone, without using an equalizer. The musical score data is stored in a first memory, and data for correcting the velocity of musical score data for each velocity ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7058652 | Method and system for event phrase identification The invention provides a system and method for identifying text in a word set. The method may include retrieving a target term set including a plurality of target terms; retrieving the word set including a plurality of text words; normalizing target terms in the tar... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058575 | Integrating keyword spotting with graph decoder to improve the robustness of speech recognition An arrangement is provided for integrating graph decoder with keyword spotting to improve the robustness of speech recognition. When a graph decoder based speech recognition mechanism fails to recognize a word sequence from input speech data, a keyword based speech ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058567 | Natural language parser The present invention provides a method and a parser for syntactically analyzing an input string. The parser applies a plurality of rules which describe syntactic properties of the language of the input strings. The plurality of rules comprise two types of rules. A ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058573 | Speech recognition system to selectively utilize different speech recognition techniques over multiple speech recognition passes Method and apparatus for multi-pass speech recognition. An input device receives spoken input. A processor performs a first pass speech recognition technique on the spoken input and forms first pass results. The first pass results include a number of alternative spe... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058564 | Method of finding answers to questions A method and a system for automatically finding one or more answers to a natural language question in a computer stored natural language text database is disclosed. The natural language text database has been analyzed with respect to syntactic functions of constitue... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054812 | Database annotation and retrieval A system is provided for determining a sequence of sub-word units representative of at least two words output by a word recognition unit in response to an input word to be recognized. In a preferred embodiment, the word alternatives output by the recognition unit ar... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054708 | Sheet material cutting system and methods regarding same A system and/or method for cutting designs of text and/or shapes out of sheet material, such as paper, vellum, and other materials used in, for example, the scrapbooking and card making industries. ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054813 | Automatic generation of efficient grammar for heading selection A method of generating a grammar for recognizing headings in a speech recognition system can include identifying, within a data store, at least one heading selection associated with a content item. At least a first word from the identified heading selections can be ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054827 | Method and apparatus for validating a survey database A method and apparatus for validating a survey database, preferably before any user requests are submitted to the survey database. This may be accomplished by analyzing the survey database and identifying those portions of the survey database that are potentially pr... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054754 | Method, system, and software for deriving chemical structural information A method and a system are provided for deriving chemical structures from chemical names. Chemical name fragments are grouped into a number of classifications. The method and the system handle new and old chemical names, including names for organic and inorganic subs... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050964 | Scaleable machine translation system A computer implemented method translates a textual input in a first language to a textual output in a second language. An input logical form is generated based on the textual input. When a plurality of transfer mappings in a transfer mapping database match the input... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7051014 | Utilizing information redundancy to improve text searches Architecture for improving text searches using information redundancy. A search component is coupled with an analysis component to rerank documents returned in a search according to a redundancy values. Each returned document is used to develop a corresponding word ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7047196 | System and method of voice recognition near a wireline node of a network supporting cable television and/or video delivery A method and system of speech recognition presented by a back channel from multiple user sites within a network supporting cable television and/or video delivery is disclosed. The preferred embodiment of the invention comprises ans system and method of using a back ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046847 | Document processing method, system and medium A technique for extracting a meaningful text block from a document where a table, an itemized list, a multiple column, etc., are arbitrarily laid out. A document is input which is laid out using blanks or the like, then a symbol is acquired which is associated with ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047211 | Information translation communication protocol An inventive procurement system includes a requisition system for special item purchases that are not found when searching a catalog database. Using the requisition system the buyer is provided with the desired item while the information associated with the requisit... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7043435 | System and method for optimizing prompts for speech-enabled applications A computer-implemented method is described for optimizing prompts for a speech-enabled application. The speech-enabled application is operable to receive communications from a number of users and communicate one or more prompts to each user to illicit a response fro... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7041893 | Electronic musical instrument with customization of auxiliary capability An electronic musical instrument is operable to provide a music play and an associated capability utilized by users in association with the music play under different modes customized to the respective users. In the electronic musical instrument, an ID setting secti... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7043094 | Process for the automatic creation of a database of images accessible by semantic features An initial image is subjected to a plurality of segmentations into uniform components by using various criteria to identify and isolate several series of objects constituted by segmented thumbnail images associated with geometrical descriptors for boxes that cover s... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7043194 | Learning system A learning system including a server and a user terminal is provided for providing a lecture to a user and for evaluating the user. The present systems has the server and the user terminal, the server has a storage unit for storing at least one educational material ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7039636 | Document retrieval method and document retrieval system Word boundary identification operations such as morpheme analysis is performed on documents to be registered, and the top positions and the end positions of words are identified. Word boundary information is obtained based on these identification results. Search ind... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039637 | System and method for evaluating characters in an inputted search string against a character table bank comprising a predetermined number of columns that correspond to a plurality of pre-determined candidate character sets in order to provide enhanced full text search An evaluator system accepts input textual messages in unknown languages and assesses which character sets, corresponding to languages, matches that message. Textual messages whose individual characters are encoded in 16 bit Unicode or other universal format are pars... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039856 | Automatic document classification using text and images A method and apparatus for automatic document classification using text and images. The present invention provides a method and apparatus for automatic document classification based on text and image. A new document is analyzed based on textual content as well as vi... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039579 | Monte Carlo method for natural language understanding and speech recognition language models A Monte Carlo method for use with natural language understanding and speech recognition language models can include a series of steps. The steps can include identifying at least one phrase embedded in a body of text wherein the phrase can belong to a phrase class. A... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7035788 | Language model sharing The sharing of language models is disclosed. In one embodiment, a language model service is provided that is shareable among handlers for input devices. The service includes a pre-processing mode of operation, and a correction mode of operation. In the former mode, ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035800 | Method for entering characters The invention concerns a voice-activated data input signal representing a character, means for processing the received speech signal and for comparing the processed speech signal with a stored library of characters in order to allot a character from the library to t... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035837 | Document component management and publishing system A document component management system for automatically generating customized documents for a number of individuals or entities based upon rules. Each customized document is customized for one of the individuals or entities based upon the applicable set of business... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7036080 | Method and apparatus for implementing a speech interface for a GUI A method and apparatus for providing speech control to a graphical user interface (GUI) divide a GUI into a plurality of screen areas; assign the screen areas priorities; receive a first audio input relating to the selection of one of the objects in the interface; d... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035789 | Supervised automatic text generation based on word classes for language modeling A system and method is provided that randomly generates text with a given structure. The structure is taken from a number of learning examples. The structure of training examples is captured by word classification and the definition of the relationships between word... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035394 | Tone detector judging a detection of a predetermined tone signal by comparing a characteristic quantity of the tone signal with characteristic quantities of other signals A tone transmission part transmits a tone signal. A tone signal detection part detects data representing an echo signal of the tone signal transmitted by the tone transmission part, and detects data representing a predetermined tone signal targeted to be detected. T... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035742 | Apparatus and method for characterizing an information signal For characterizing an information signal having an amplitude-time waveform with local extreme values, at first the local extreme values of the information signal are determined, wherein a local extreme value is defined by a time instant and an amplitude. Furthermore... | 04/25/2006 |
