Patents

• Awarded Patents
  1. "E-Mail Signature Block Analysis" (with H. Chen and J. Hu)
     April 16, 2002, U.S. Pat. Num. 6,373,985.
  2. "E-Mail Signature Block Segmentation" (with H. Chen and J. Hu),
     March 19, 2002, U.S. Pat. Num. 6,360,010.
  3. "A Method and Apparatus for Measuring the Degree of Polysemy in Polysemous Words" (with J. van Santen),
     July 3, 2001, U.S. Pat. Num. 6,256,629.
  4. "Compilation of Weighted Finite-State Transducers from Decision Trees",
     September 8, 1998, U.S. Pat. Num. 5,806,032.
  5. "Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion of digit strings using weighted finite state transducers to apply grammar to powers of a number basis" (with F. Pereira and M. Riley),
     July 14, 1998, U.S. Pat. Num. 5,781,884.
  6. "Method for conversion of phonetic Chinese to character Chinese,"
     December 14, 1993, U.S. Pat. Num. 5,270,927.
  7. "Text to Scene Conversion" (with B. Coyne).
     March 21, 2006, U.S. Pat. Num. 7,016,828
  8. "Text to Scene Conversion" (with B. Coyne).
     May 13, 2008, U.S. Pat. Num. 7,373,292
  9. "Text to Scene Conversion" (with B. Coyne).
     February 16, 2010, U.S. Pat. Num. 7,664,313
  10. "Text to Scene Conversion" (with B. Coyne).
      June 14, 2011, U.S. Pat. Num. 7,962,329
  11. "Text to Scene Conversion" (with B. Coyne).
      December 27, 2011, U.S. Pat. Num. 8,086,028
  12. "System and method of using meta-data in speech processing" (with M. Bacchiani, S. Maskey, B. Roark).
      August 9, 2011, U.S. Pat. Num. 7,996,224

• Pending Patents
  1. "A System and Method Using Meta-Data for Spoken Dialog Systems" (with Michiel Bacchiani, Sameer Maskey and Brian Roark), U. S. Prov. Application No: 60/515,896.
  2. "Inferring the Environment in a Text-to-Scene Conversion System", provisional filing 5/2001.
  3. "A Method for Orthography-Phoneme Aligment", filed 8/2000.