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    Frost Brown Todd (Legal)
    Cincinnati, OH
    United States of America

    www.frostbrowntodd.com
    Lawyer/Legal Professional, 11 years

    Job Experience
    Patent Prep/Proc for computer-related technology.

    Secondary Affiliation
    Speech Technology Consortium, Secretary, Computer: Software
    Education
    University of Dayton School of Law, J.D., Intellectual Property
    Northern Kentucky University, B.S., Computer Science
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    Sign Up DateJuly 07, 2010
     
    Last LoginSunday Feb 06 2011 05:02 PM
     
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    Patent Applications
    Feature compensation approach to robust speech recognition
     
    Adaptive pattern learning for bilingual data mining
     
    System and method for selecting and presenting advertisements based on natural language processing of voice-based input
     
    Transcription, archiving and threading of voice communications
     
    Maximum entropy model with continuous features
     
    Detecting and communicating biometrics of recorded voice during transcription process
     
    Real-time transcription of conference calls
     
    Prior Art
    TypeTitle
     
    BookSpeech Is the Cure for Medical Records
     
    PatentVirtual Assistant with Real-Time Emotions
     
    BookW3C Incubator Group Report 10 July 2007
     
    BookEvaluation of Voice Stress Analysis Technology
     
    Subscriptions
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    Feature compensation approach to robust speech recognitionPrior Art
     
    Feature compensation approach to robust speech recognitionComment
     
    Feature compensation approach to robust speech recognitionExpiration Reminder
     
    DATA PROCESSING: SPEECH SIGNAL PROCESSING, LINGUISTICS, LANGUAGE TRANSLATION, AND AUDIO COMPRESSION/DECOMPRESSIONPatent Class
     
    Storage or retrieval of dataPatent Class
     
    Natural languagePatent Class
     
    Detect speech in noisePatent Class
     
    Speech to imagePatent Class
     
    ProbabilityPatent Class
     
    Voice recognitionPatent Class
     
    Natural languagePatent Class
     
    SPEECH RECOGNITION (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Feature extraction for speech recognition; selection of recognition unit (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Adaptive pattern learning for bilingual data miningPrior Art
     
    Adaptive pattern learning for bilingual data miningComment
     
    Adaptive pattern learning for bilingual data miningExpiration Reminder
     
    System and method for selecting and presenting advertisements based on natural language processing of voice-based inputPrior Art
     
    System and method for selecting and presenting advertisements based on natural language processing of voice-based inputComment
     
    System and method for selecting and presenting advertisements based on natural language processing of voice-based inputExpiration Reminder
     
    Transcription, archiving and threading of voice communicationsPrior Art
     
    Transcription, archiving and threading of voice communicationsComment
     
    Transcription, archiving and threading of voice communicationsExpiration Reminder
     
    Maximum entropy model with continuous featuresPrior Art
     
    Maximum entropy model with continuous featuresComment
     
    Maximum entropy model with continuous featuresExpiration Reminder
     
    LINGUISTICSPatent Class
     
    Translation machinePatent Class
     
    Having particular Input/Output devicePatent Class
     
    Based on phrase, clause, or idiomPatent Class
     
    For partial translationPatent Class
     
    PunctuationPatent Class
     
    Multilingual or national language supportPatent Class
     
    Dictionary building, modification, or prioritizationPatent Class
     
    SPEECH SIGNAL PROCESSINGPatent Class
     
    PsychoacousticPatent Class
     
    For storage or transmissionPatent Class
     
    Neural networkPatent Class
     
    TransformationPatent Class
     
    Orthogonal functionsPatent Class
     
    FrequencyPatent Class
     
    Specialized informationPatent Class
     
    PitchPatent Class
     
    Voiced or unvoicedPatent Class
     
    FormantPatent Class
     
    Silence decisionPatent Class
     
    TimePatent Class
     
    Pulse code modulation (PCM)Patent Class
     
    Zero crossingPatent Class
     
    Voiced or unvoicedPatent Class
     
    Silence decisionPatent Class
     
    Correlation functionPatent Class
     
    AutocorrelationPatent Class
     
    Cross-correlationPatent Class
     
    Linear predictionPatent Class
     
    Analysis by synthesisPatent Class
     
    Pattern matching vocodersPatent Class
     
    Vector quantizationPatent Class
     
    Excitation patternsPatent Class
     
    NormalizingPatent Class
     
    Gain controlPatent Class
     
    NoisePatent Class
     
    PretransmissionPatent Class
     
    Post-transmissionPatent Class
     
    Adaptive bit allocationPatent Class
     
    QuantizationPatent Class
     
    RecognitionPatent Class
     
    Neural networkPatent Class
     
    NormalizingPatent Class
     
    Specialized equations or comparisonsPatent Class
     
    CorrelationPatent Class
     
    DistancePatent Class
     
    SimilarityPatent Class
     
    Dynamic time warpingPatent Class
     
    Viterbi trellisPatent Class
     
    Creating patterns for matchingPatent Class
     
    Update patternsPatent Class
     
    ClusteringPatent Class
     
    Preliminary matchingPatent Class
     
    Endpoint detectionPatent Class
     
    SubportionsPatent Class
     
    Specialized modelsPatent Class
     
    Word recognitionPatent Class
     
    Preliminary matchingPatent Class
     
    Endpoint detectionPatent Class
     
    SubportionsPatent Class
     
    Specialized modelsPatent Class
     
    MarkovPatent Class
     
    Hidden Markov Model (HMM) (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Training of HMM (EPO)Patent Class
     
    With insufficient amount of training data, e.g., state sharing, tying, deleted interpolation (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Duration modeling in HMM, e.g., semi HMM, segmental models, transition probabilities (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Hidden Markov (HM) network (EPO)Patent Class
     
    State emission probability (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Continuous density, e.g, Gaussian distribution, Lapalce (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Discrete density, e.g., Vector Quantization preprocessor, look up tables (EPO)Patent Class
     
    SynthesisPatent Class
     
    Neural networkPatent Class
     
    Image to speechPatent Class
     
    Vocal tract modelPatent Class
     
    Linear predictionPatent Class
     
    CorrelationPatent Class
     
    ExcitationPatent Class
     
    InterpolationPatent Class
     
    Specialized modelPatent Class
     
    Time elementPatent Class
     
    Frequency elementPatent Class
     
    TransformationPatent Class
     
    ApplicationPatent Class
     
    Speech assisted networkPatent Class
     
    Handicap aidPatent Class
     
    Novelty itemPatent Class
     
    Security systemPatent Class
     
    Warning/alarm systemPatent Class
     
    Speech controlled systemPatent Class
     
    Pattern displayPatent Class
     
    TranslationPatent Class
     
    Sound editingPatent Class
     
    AUDIO SIGNAL BANDWIDTH COMPRESSION OR EXPANSIONPatent Class
     
    With content reduction encodingPatent Class
     
    Delay linePatent Class
     
    AUDIO SIGNAL TIME COMPRESSION OR EXPANSION (E.G., RUN LENGTH CODING)Patent Class
     
    With content reduction encodingPatent Class
     
    SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION OR VERIFICATION (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Recognition of special voice characteristics, e.g., for use in a lie detector; recognition of animal voices, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Systems using speaker recognizers (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Details (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Preprocessing operations, e.g., segment selection, etc., pattern representation or modeling, e.g., based on linear discriminant analysis (LDA), principal components, etc.; feature selection or extraction (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Training, model building, enrollment (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Decision making techniques, pattern matching strategies (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Use of particular distance or distortion metric between probe pattern and reference templates (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Multimodal systems, i.e., based on the integration of multiple recognition engines or experts fusion (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Score normalization (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Use of phonemic categorization or speech recognition prior to speaker recognition or verification (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Artificial neural networks, connectionist approaches (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Pattern transformations and operations aimed at increasing system robustness, e.g., against channel noise, different working conditions, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Interactive procedures, man-machine interface (EPO)Patent Class
     
    User prompted to utter a password or predefined text (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Assessment or evaluation of speech recognition systems (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Language recognition (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Segmentation or word limit detection (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Word boundary detection (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Creation of reference templates; training of speech recognition systems, e.g., adaption to the characteristics of the speaker's voice, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Training (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Adaptation (EPO)Patent Class
     
    In the frequency domain (EPO)Patent Class
     
    To speaker (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Supervised, i.e., under machine guidance (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Unsupervised (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Speech classification or search (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Using distance or distortion measures between unknown speech and reference templates (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Using dynamic programming techniques, e.g., Dynamic Time Warping (DTW), etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Using artificial neural networks (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Using natural language modeling (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Using context dependencies, e.g., language models, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Phonemic context, e.g., pronunciation rules, phonotactical constraints, phoneme n-grams, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Grammatical context, e.g., disambiguation of the recognition hypotheses based on word sequence rules, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Formal grammars, e.g., finite state automata, context free grammars, word networks, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Probabilistic grammars, e.g., word n-grams, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Semantic context, e.g., disambiguation of the recognition hypotheses based on word meaning, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Using prosody or stress (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Parsing for meaning understanding (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Using statistical models, e.g., Hidden Markov Models (HMMs), etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Training of Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) (EPO)Patent Class
     
    With insufficient amount of training data, e.g., state sharing, tying, deleted interpolation, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Duration modeling in Hidden Markov Models (HMMs), e.g., semi-HMM, segmental models, transition probabilities, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) network (EPO)Patent Class
     
    State emission probabilities (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Continuous densities, e.g., Gaussian distribution, Laplace, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Discrete densities, e.g., Vector Quantization preprocessor, look-up tables, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Neural Network (NN) as output probability estimator, e.g., hybrid HMM/NN, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Non-hidden Markov Model (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Recognition networks (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Speech recognition techniques for robustness in adverse environments, e.g., in noise, of stress induced speech, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g., man-machine dialogue, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Speech recognition using nonacoustical features, e.g., position of the lips, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Using position of the lips, movement of the lips, or face analysis (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Speech to text systems (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Speech recognition depending on application context, e.g., in a computer, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Systems using speech recognizers (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Constructional details of speech recognition systems (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Distributed recognition, e.g., in client-server systems for mobile phones or network applications, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Memory allocation or algorithm optimization to reduce hardware requirements (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Multiple recognizers used in sequence or in parallel; corresponding voting or score combination systems (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Recognizers for parallel processing (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Perceptual measures for quality assessment (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Correction of errors induced by the transmission channel, if related to the coding (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Lossless audio signal coding; perfect reconstruction of coded audio signal by transmission of coding error (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Multichannel audio signal coding and decoding, i.e., using interchannel correlation to reduce redundancies, e.g., joint-stereo, intensity-coding, matrixing, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    SPEECH OR AUDIO SIGNAL ANALYSIS-SYNTHESIS TECHNIQUES FOR REDUNDANCY REDUCTION, E.G., IN VOCODERS, ETC.; CODING OR DECODING OF SPEECH OR AUDIO SIGNALS; COMPRESSION OR EXPANSION OF SPEECH OR AUDIO SIGNALS, E.G., SOURCE-FILTER MODELS, PSYCHOACOUSTIC ANALYSIS, ETC. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Comfort noise, silence coding (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Speech coding using phonetic or linguistical decoding of the source; reconstruction using text-to-speech synthesis (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Systems using vocoders (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Audio watermarking, i.e., embedding inaudible data in the audio signal (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Using spectral analysis, e.g., transform vocoders, subband vocoders, perceptual audio coders, psychoacoustically based lossy encoding, etc., e.g., MPEG audio, Dolby AC-3, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Blocking, i.e., grouping of samples in time, choice of analysis window, overlap factor (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Detection of transients and attacks for time/frequency resolution switching (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Noise substitution, i.e., substituting nontonal spectral components by noisy source (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Spectral prediction for pre-echo prevention; temporal noise shaping (TNS), e.g., in MPEG2 or MPEG4, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Quantization or dequantization of spectral components (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Scalar quantization (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Vector quantization, e.g., Twin-VQ audio, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Using subband decomposition (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Subband vocoders (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Using orthogonal transformation (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Dynamic bit allocation (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Using predictive techniques; codecs based on source-filter modelization (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Determination or coding of the spectral characteristics, e.g., of the short-term prediction coefficients, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Line spectrum pair (LSP) vocoders (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Determination or coding of the excitation function; determination or coding of the long-term prediction characteristics (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Determination or coding of an excitation gain (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Using mixed excitation model, e.g., MELP, MBE, Split band LPC, HVXC, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Long-term prediction, i.e., removing periodical redundancies, e.g., adaptive codebook, pitch predictor, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Using sinusoidal excitation model (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Using prototype waveform decomposition or waveform interpolative coders (PWI) (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Determination or coding of a multipulse excitation (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Algebraic codebook; sparse pulse excitation (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Regular pulse excitation (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Determination or coding of a code excitation; code excited linear prediction (CELP) vocoders (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Pitch excitation, e.g., PSI-CELP (pitch synchronous innovation CELP), etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Residual excited linear prediction (RELP) (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Vector sum excited linear prediction (VSELP) (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Details of speech and audio coders (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Vocoder architecture (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Using sound class specific coding, hybrid encoders, object-based coding (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Vocoders using multiple modes (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Mode decision, i.e., based on audio signal content versus external parameter (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Variable rate or variable quality codecs, e.g., scalable representation encoding, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Pre- or post-filtering (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Pre-filtering, e.g., high frequency emphasis prior to encoding, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Post-filtering, e.g., pitch enhancement, formant emphasis for decoder, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Audio streaming, i.e., formatting and decoding of an encoded audio signal (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Transcoding, i.e., converting between two coded representations avoiding cascaded coding-decoding (EPO)Patent Class
     
    MODIFICATION OF AT LEAST ONE CHARACTERISTIC OF SPEECH WAVES (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Speech enhancement, e.g., noise reduction, echo cancellation, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Applications (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Speech corrupted by noise (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Periodic noise (EPO)Patent Class
     
    The noise being separate speech (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Speech corrupted by echo-reverberation (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Speech corrupted by stress-Lombard effect (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Enhancement of intelligibility of clean or coded speech (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Enhancement of diverse speech (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Bandwidth extension taking place at the receiving side, e.g., generation of low- or high-frequency components, regeneration of spectral holes, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Separate reconstruction of interference and of speech signal (EPO)Patent Class
     
    The interference being a separate speaker (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Active noise canceling (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Public address system (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Suppression or repetition of time signal segments (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Time compression or expansion (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Suppression or repetition of time signal segments (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Transformation of speech into a nonaudible representation, e.g., speech visualization, speech processing for tactile aids, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Synchronization of speech with image or synthesis of the lips movement from speech, e.g., for "talking heads," etc.(EPO)Patent Class
     
    MISCELLANEOUS ANALYSIS OR DETECTION OF SPEECH CHARACTERISTICS (EPO)Patent Class
     
    General speech analysis without concrete application (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Detection of presence or absence of speech signals (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Voice/data decision (EPO)Patent Class
     
    End point detection (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Pitch determination of speech signals (EPO)Patent Class
     
    SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TEXT TO SPEECH SYSTEMS (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Voiced-unvoiced decision (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Methods for producing synthetic speech; speech synthesizers (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Concept-to-speech synthesizers; generation of natural phrases not from text but from machine-based concepts (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Sound editing, manipulating voice of the synthesizer (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Details of speech synthesis systems, e.g., synthesizer architecture, memory management, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Architecture of speech synthesizers (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Excitation (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Systems using speech synthesizers (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Elementary speech units used in speech synthesizers; concatenation rules (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Concatenation (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Text analysis, generation of parameters for speech synthesis out of text, e.g., grapheme to phoneme translation, prosody generation, stress, or intonation determination, etc. (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Grapheme to phoneme, detection of language (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Prosody rules derived from text (EPO)Patent Class
     
    Stress or intonation (EPO)Patent Class
     
    CLASS-RELATED FOREIGN DOCUMENTSPatent Class
     
    Detecting and communicating biometrics of recorded voice during transcription processPrior Art
     
    Detecting and communicating biometrics of recorded voice during transcription processComment
     
    Detecting and communicating biometrics of recorded voice during transcription processExpiration Reminder
     
    Real-time transcription of conference callsPrior Art
     
    Real-time transcription of conference callsComment
     
    Real-time transcription of conference callsExpiration Reminder
     
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