Kenneth R Robbins

US Patent:

7796285, Sep 14, 2010

Filed:

Oct 18, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/252818

Inventors:

Kenneth L. Robbins - Sudbury MA, US

Assignee:

Dialogic Corporation - Montreal, Quebec

International Classification:

G06F 3/12

US Classification:

358 115, 358400, 358402, 358442, 37910011, 379 8821

Abstract:

The present disclosure provides supplemental data for facsimile image data representing an image of a document for transmission. The supplemental data can describe an aspect of the document, such as by uniquely identifying the document that the facsimile image data represents. The supplemental data can be provided with the image of the document, in a manner that will not essentially obscure the image of the document. The supplemental data can be in a machine readable form that identifies the document and that can be separate from the image of the document. The supplemental data permits facsimile transmitted documents to be processed automatically by facsimile connected systems.

US Patent:

20060247927, Nov 2, 2006

Filed:

Apr 29, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/118910

Inventors:

Kenneth Robbins - Sudbury MA, US
Eric Burger - Amherst NH, US

International Classification:

G10L 21/00

US Classification:

704225000

Abstract:

While an output is presented to a user, an audio input that can include spoken input from the user is monitored. Presentation of the output is controlled while monitoring the audio input based on the monitoring. In the case of an audio output, the presentation can be controlled by attenuating the audio output according to the monitoring of the audio input. For example, a level of the audio output is reduced for continued presentation to the user after a desired signal is detected in the audio input. The output can include a prompt soliciting an input from a user, and the monitoring can include detecting the user's spoken input in the input audio, for example, estimating a certainty that the audio input includes the user's spoken input, or that such spoken input is in a desired grammar, such as in a desired list of commands or phrases. The approach is also applicable to video outputs.

US Patent:

20140236982, Aug 21, 2014

Filed:

Feb 18, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/769521

Inventors:

- Armonk NY, US
Kenneth L. Robbins - Sudbury MA, US

Assignee:

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707769

Abstract:

Methods and systems may provide for identifying a first set of recipients associated with an away status. Additionally, the first set of recipients may be removed from a second set of recipients associated with a bulk communications campaign to obtain a third set of recipients, wherein a first message may be sent to the third set of recipients. In one example, it may be determined that the away status has ceased for one or more of the first set of recipients, wherein a second message may be sent to the one or more of the first set of recipients for which the away status has ceased. The second message may reference the away status. Methods and systems may also provide for a brokering system to enable the transfer of away status information between different collectors of away status information and senders of messages.

US Patent:

20140236985, Aug 21, 2014

Filed:

Nov 15, 2013

Appl. No.:

14/081898

Inventors:

- Armonk NY, US
Kenneth L. Robbins - Sudbury MA, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707769

Abstract:

Methods and systems may provide for identifying a first set of recipients associated with an away status. Additionally, the first set of recipients may be removed from a second set of recipients associated with a bulk communications campaign to obtain a third set of recipients, wherein a first message may be sent to the third set of recipients. In one example, it may be determined that the away status has ceased for one or more of the first set of recipients, wherein a second message may be sent to the one or more of the first set of recipients for which the away status has ceased. The second message may reference the away status. Methods and systems may also provide for a brokering system to enable the transfer of away status information between different collectors of away status information and senders of messages.